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  1. Re: Honestly, I think Bill was a bit misguided th on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they could continue to 'work' and read about them whilst standing around the coffee machine, in-between bouts of chit-chat ? multi-tasking for the win :D

  2. Re: Be careful what you do on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, as you put it like that, probably not but as I'm not in "the land of the free (muhahaha off to the side, discreetly)", it's not in the forefront of my mind that everything is indirectly related to *parp*.

  3. Re: Be careful what you do on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    *slow motion double-take*
    lol what?

  4. Re: Honestly, I think Bill was a bit misguided th on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, so efficiency should be taxed too because it puts people out of 'work.'

  5. Re: Honestly, I think Bill was a bit misguided th on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    and if they collude and decide to keep the profits for themselves ?

  6. Re: Honestly, I think Bill was a bit misguided th on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    As you've been so kind - I'll do the same.

    One form of taxation is as good as another. Measured as the net cash flowing from a business, it matters little what the nominal reason for taking the cash were.

  7. Re: Honestly, I think Bill was a bit misguided th on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well spotted. What else isn't it the same as?

  8. Re: Offsite backups become more and more important on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you expect the same system that permitted this injustice to correct it? Not only that, you expect that same system to outlaw the injustice it committed?

    What to do when everyone else suffering from the same issue is being used as a tool to persist this same system?

  9. Re: Offsite backups become more and more important on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, his golf swing would be awful - how would that look?

  10. Re: Offsite backups become more and more importan on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    It's almost as if the terms are nothing but a distraction from the issues deployed by those with an interest in the issues being free from scrutiny.

  11. Re: Offsite backups become more and more importan on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly the kind of thing a liberal would say! :P

  12. Re: yeah, tax the robots on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    It's just as right as stealing part of the reward someone receives when exchanging their time for money.

    Or when, on their deathbed, transfer ownership of their assets to their children, after part is stolen in tax.

    Or when a company shows great creativity and generates profits in the same economic climate in which others are failing - to have an increased portion stolen in taxation.

    I don't see the problem, in a climate where EVERY aspect of a non-super-rich individual's life is taxed, for a tiny portion of that mindset to be trickled upwards.

    Unless you're saying that feeding off've others' efforts is somehow wrong?

  13. Re: I don't know the answer on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer is to fund it all with ad revenue from the ads below the five-pixel close bar on this page.

  14. Re: Be careful what you do on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's not forget that a large portion of those workers are in an occupation whose sole purpose is to prevent expression of legitimate grievance against those creating the situation.

    Divide and conquer and reward those who work against their own interests in favour of ours with toroidal sugar treats.

  15. Re: Honestly, I think Bill was a bit misguided the on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes? Presumably the increased profits were taxed.

  16. Re: On H1Bs too? on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can introduce derogatory terms for the hard-working foreign robots which satisfy a demand that American robots cannot fill due to low battery capacity, processing power and and an expectation to recover artificially high development costs.

  17. Re: I don't know the answer on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And so they should be applauded to have shown us the way?

  18. Show don't tell on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    So if we're not going to tax robots, then how should society handle the next great wave of automated labor?

    Anyone who's serious about competing for their jobs against robots should have robotic implants to help level the playing field? :P

  19. Please do go on a little more - we're entering useful-tip territory.


  20. if (javaScript === python) {
        console.log ('my bad');
    }
    else {
        console.log ('huh?');
    }

  21. It's just so pointless;


    if (customersWantOurProducts) {
        while (true) {
            waitForNewOrder();
            processCustomerOrder();
        }
    } else {
        for (var c in customers) {
            for (var p in products) {
                sendEmail (c.email, "Although we recognise that this is a longshot, do you " + c.name + ", at this exact instant in time, require our product '" + p.name + "', for the currently reduced price of " + (0.9 * (p.price * 12 - 20)) + "?\r\nKind regards, spammer.-corp");
            }
        }
    }

  22. by signing up, you've agreed to receive the newsletter

    the ability to remove yourself from their list, after agreeing to receive their emails, is why they don't get fined

    Agreed, because it was likely clearly stated in a document linked ten levels deep, right near the middle in white-on-white text, "by purchasing products from xyz store, you agree to receive spam; that our unsubscribe link goes to a page which will crash in a manner which appears accidental and that we will not respond to your emails relating to our broken unsubscribe page."

  23. Re: Tim can go and fuck himself. on Free Software Foundation Challenges Tim Berners-Lee On DRM (defectivebydesign.org) · · Score: 1

    Attacks the man not the ideas.

  24. Re: DRM and Netflix on Free Software Foundation Challenges Tim Berners-Lee On DRM (defectivebydesign.org) · · Score: 1

    Because their windows store app is unstable?

  25. Disclaimer: I've not read the standard.

    Does the move also standardise a platform for DeCSS-type unlocking of content?