If people have more free time a portion of those people will choose to create new and interesting things. While these may not be 'necessary' they may still be fascinating. The rest is chaff.
Aye, good point and one I've often thought of when I see fear mongering articles about worker replacement, especially in agriculture. You see, I farm - that's how we earn our living. I have always farmed just myself and my family. No hired help. We get everything done ourselves. Tools have let us work more efficiently. The tools didn't put us out of work but rather they allowed us to do more. They helped us accomplish what wasn't possible.
First there was the digging stick. This let us poke holes in the ground saving us from wearing out our fingers and hands. Now we were able to plant more efficiently. Believe me this was a huge improvement in Vermont's hard rocky soil!
Then there was the rake. Yes, the simple rake is a wonderful invention that lets us broadcast large amounts of seed quickly and then get it in contact with the dirt so it grows better. (Later I perfected techniques of using storm, frost and mob but that's another story.)
Next we had shovels, hay knives, pitchforks, plows and eventually tractors. We now have two tractors that are able to do the combined pulling work of over 300 horses plus they have articulated arms (backhoe), forks, grabbers, bucket loader (super shovel), seeders and other handy attachments.
This has let us raise far more food yet none of us are out of work. Rather we are more productive. In fact, we were so productive the wife and I had time to fool around a bit and have another child so now our family was able to expand! That's a good thing - my genes say so since that's their main goal. All this tool use has been the opposite of the doom and gloomers predictions.
On top of that we have electric fences, 1" and 2" black water pipe that saves us from lugging buckets of water to the livestock and plants. Heck, we even have buckets so we didn't have to carry everything in our hands for that matter - try carrying 5 gallons of water in your bare hands! Very messy. At least it's messy half the year... (A Vermont Joke)
Then at the end of the last millennium along came this thing called the Internet and Web (invented long before most of you youngsters were born) that let us communicate with other farmers to share ideas. This led to an explosion of farming as more and more people learned how to do it.
All of these simple improvements in technology have been a wonderful boon. We weren't put out of work but rather we became more efficient. Our standard of living increased. We work fewer hours. We are healthier. Everyone's getting to eat more good food. Starvation has been dramatically reduced so that it is more of a political issue than anything else.
Bravo for advancing technology and shorter work weeks!
One way to have more money available to do things with is the government could stop giving away our natural resources (mining, drilling, etc) from public lands. The charge to use that should be at or above the market rate and that income would provide income for everyone. It does work where this has been done and it is fair as well as sustainable.
Depending on the price of the item it may be deductible the first year even if bought. The threshold is pretty high. Look into it yourself before believing the leasing company propaganda. Remember, their objective is to get you to lease so they can charge you a higher price than if you bought. It may well (likely) be a bad deal.
I wonder how these companies are going to like that. I'm certainly not going to stop modding. These things are tools. I buy them to do jobs. I mod them to do the jobs the way I need them to do it.
But then, I keep my computers for ten years, my trucks for 15 even 20 years and tractors last 40 years. My house is designed to last 400 years, maybe longer. I'm not interested in a new model every year that I'm going to have to rehack. I need tools to do my work and rehacking is a waste of my time. I've got other things to hack.
Synthetic eggs are dumb. Synthetic meat is dumb. These are things we can easily grow out in our pastures using natural cycles that help to sequester carbon and produce nutrients for the vegetable part of the farming cycle.
When you make synthetic versions you're using Big Corp's Big Chemicals under their control with Big Petro to create an inferior, synthetic version that goes bad in Big Ways with Big Recalls. You are giving up control to the big guys. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Get a chicken. Get free eggs. Eat the chicken when you're done and get another chicken. Wow! Works!
Those are very scary words when ever someone utters them because they seem to fail to comprehend the fact that testing is not perfect. I have real work to do. When they F*sk my system with an update that fails and it loses my data or prevents me from working, just once, it can be a huge disaster for me. Multiply that times all the users. Not an issue for the developer. Completely worry-free updates. Not.
It is probably quite feasible since the Queen Conch Strombus gigas is farmed commercially, bred, raised and sold for their meat as well as the aquarium trade. They are very cool critters. I had two for pets for many years. They're a big low out on walk about though... (I'm serious.)
This/. article totally fails to cover the reality that the number of trees has gone up (entire planet covered) and down (almost no trees in ice ages) over the course of the Earth's life. That's how life is.
Flash is so bad that I run with it turned off by default. Anyone trying to Flash me must get my attention with the little FLASHED BLOCKED grey area which I then decide if it is worth it to trust them. Almost never.
What Google is doing is a good thing.
First they're demoting Flash and by inference saying it like GMOs is just plain bad.
Second they can use known bad sources, patterns and crowd voting to find the offenders and just kill their content.
Flash ads are awful. Perhaps this sort of vote against Flash will help kill Flash advertising while still allowing it for some useful content.
A journey outside the dome - which measures only 11 metres in diameter and is 6 metres tall - will require a spacesuit."
Sounds like winter in Vermont.
That sq-meterage of habitat is spacious at about 1,000 sq-ft for reference to a typical home.
Our house is 252 sq-ft for five people for a comparable. Smaller than usual but it gets us through the long Martin, er, I mean Vermont winters.
We spend much of each day in extravehicular activities in our space suites. We farm right through the cold northern mountain Vermont winters which would be much like them leaving their habitat and doing their daily work out on "Simulated Mars". Believe me, here on Vermont you dress up much like a space suit and you do not touch things with bare skin as the temperatures are routinely -25ÂF (-32ÂC) during the day and frequently dip to -40ÂF (-40ÂC)and that is all before the wind chill which drops it to -95ÂF (-71ÂC).
Simulating Mars might be more realistic on a Vermont mountain in some ways than in Hawaii although Hawaii might be more fun. South Pole could be good. Doing it while farming would make it even more realistic because you must go out and deal with the cold, the wind, the hostile environment and get real work done rather than just busy work in a simulation. You can die. Those who are dependent on you can die. Equipment really breaks down from the extreme weather. Bring two Tractors.
You miss the point. They're exaggerating. No need. Simply say 200 meter sea level rise. Don't say unlimited. Sticking with facts is better than exaggerating. Exaggeration comes back to haunt you because you end up losing credibility. People think, "ah, Roger exaggerated about A so he's probably exaggerating about B now too..."
The rise will stop. There is a finite amount of water on the planet that can end up in the oceans. Then the rise stops. Stick with science. Stick with facts. Don't exaggerate.
Tasers are lethal. There are many cases of police killing citizens using tasers. We have had two in our area and in both cases the police should not have been shooting anything. They justify the tasering by saying they think it is non-lethal but people are getting killed. They justify the tasering by saying they felt threatened but an officer with a drone is threatened in no way what so ever.
It is very bad to be giving police drones.
It is very bad to be giving police 'non-lethal' weapons that they're then killing people with because of the perceived non-lethality.
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If people have more free time a portion of those people will choose to create new and interesting things. While these may not be 'necessary' they may still be fascinating. The rest is chaff.
"I think it makes much more sense start using the stick approach to employers"
Science shows that positive reinforcement works far better than punishment.
Aye, good point and one I've often thought of when I see fear mongering articles about worker replacement, especially in agriculture. You see, I farm - that's how we earn our living. I have always farmed just myself and my family. No hired help. We get everything done ourselves. Tools have let us work more efficiently. The tools didn't put us out of work but rather they allowed us to do more. They helped us accomplish what wasn't possible.
First there was the digging stick. This let us poke holes in the ground saving us from wearing out our fingers and hands. Now we were able to plant more efficiently. Believe me this was a huge improvement in Vermont's hard rocky soil!
Then there was the rake. Yes, the simple rake is a wonderful invention that lets us broadcast large amounts of seed quickly and then get it in contact with the dirt so it grows better. (Later I perfected techniques of using storm, frost and mob but that's another story.)
Next we had shovels, hay knives, pitchforks, plows and eventually tractors. We now have two tractors that are able to do the combined pulling work of over 300 horses plus they have articulated arms (backhoe), forks, grabbers, bucket loader (super shovel), seeders and other handy attachments.
This has let us raise far more food yet none of us are out of work. Rather we are more productive. In fact, we were so productive the wife and I had time to fool around a bit and have another child so now our family was able to expand! That's a good thing - my genes say so since that's their main goal. All this tool use has been the opposite of the doom and gloomers predictions.
On top of that we have electric fences, 1" and 2" black water pipe that saves us from lugging buckets of water to the livestock and plants. Heck, we even have buckets so we didn't have to carry everything in our hands for that matter - try carrying 5 gallons of water in your bare hands! Very messy. At least it's messy half the year... (A Vermont Joke)
Then at the end of the last millennium along came this thing called the Internet and Web (invented long before most of you youngsters were born) that let us communicate with other farmers to share ideas. This led to an explosion of farming as more and more people learned how to do it.
All of these simple improvements in technology have been a wonderful boon. We weren't put out of work but rather we became more efficient. Our standard of living increased. We work fewer hours. We are healthier. Everyone's getting to eat more good food. Starvation has been dramatically reduced so that it is more of a political issue than anything else.
Bravo for advancing technology and shorter work weeks!
Walter
A real farmer
One way to have more money available to do things with is the government could stop giving away our natural resources (mining, drilling, etc) from public lands. The charge to use that should be at or above the market rate and that income would provide income for everyone. It does work where this has been done and it is fair as well as sustainable.
This post is like a blindman trying to hypothesize if elephants exist when he has never sensed one and has no information about what they're like.
Depending on the price of the item it may be deductible the first year even if bought. The threshold is pretty high. Look into it yourself before believing the leasing company propaganda. Remember, their objective is to get you to lease so they can charge you a higher price than if you bought. It may well (likely) be a bad deal.
This raises an interesting problem.
I hack my trucks to suit my needs.
Same for my tractors, I've customized them too.
Oops, and my computers too.
I wonder how these companies are going to like that. I'm certainly not going to stop modding. These things are tools. I buy them to do jobs. I mod them to do the jobs the way I need them to do it.
But then, I keep my computers for ten years, my trucks for 15 even 20 years and tractors last 40 years. My house is designed to last 400 years, maybe longer. I'm not interested in a new model every year that I'm going to have to rehack. I need tools to do my work and rehacking is a waste of my time. I've got other things to hack.
Synthetic eggs are dumb.
Synthetic meat is dumb.
These are things we can easily grow out in our pastures using natural cycles that help to sequester carbon and produce nutrients for the vegetable part of the farming cycle.
When you make synthetic versions you're using Big Corp's Big Chemicals under their control with Big Petro to create an inferior, synthetic version that goes bad in Big Ways with Big Recalls. You are giving up control to the big guys. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Get a chicken. Get free eggs. Eat the chicken when you're done and get another chicken. Wow! Works!
That's the theory. But when they say "Worry Free" it worries me.
"completely worry-free updates"
Those are very scary words when ever someone utters them because they seem to fail to comprehend the fact that testing is not perfect. I have real work to do. When they F*sk my system with an update that fails and it loses my data or prevents me from working, just once, it can be a huge disaster for me. Multiply that times all the users. Not an issue for the developer. Completely worry-free updates. Not.
It is probably quite feasible since the Queen Conch Strombus gigas is farmed commercially, bred, raised and sold for their meat as well as the aquarium trade. They are very cool critters. I had two for pets for many years. They're a big low out on walk about though... (I'm serious.)
This /. article totally fails to cover the reality that the number of trees has gone up (entire planet covered) and down (almost no trees in ice ages) over the course of the Earth's life. That's how life is.
"You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code"
But it certainly does help.
Hmm... and you're an Anonymous Coward. That's far worse.
And no, I'm not funny OR clever. I'm Funny AND Clever. Conventional English assumes the XOR while we geeks stick with the real OR.
Flash is so bad that I run with it turned off by default. Anyone trying to Flash me must get my attention with the little FLASHED BLOCKED grey area which I then decide if it is worth it to trust them. Almost never.
What Google is doing is a good thing.
First they're demoting Flash and by inference saying it like GMOs is just plain bad.
Second they can use known bad sources, patterns and crowd voting to find the offenders and just kill their content.
Flash ads are awful. Perhaps this sort of vote against Flash will help kill Flash advertising while still allowing it for some useful content.
In January we got Broadband! A whopping 5Mbps. It was amazing. We loved it.
Then the FCC took away our Broadband. They changed the definition to 25Mbps so now we have a paltry 5Mbps! Horrible.
Not.
USA homes are measured sq-ft. Catch up boyo.
A journey outside the dome - which measures only 11 metres in diameter and is 6 metres tall - will require a spacesuit."
Sounds like winter in Vermont.
That sq-meterage of habitat is spacious at about 1,000 sq-ft for reference to a typical home.
Our house is 252 sq-ft for five people for a comparable. Smaller than usual but it gets us through the long Martin, er, I mean Vermont winters.
We spend much of each day in extravehicular activities in our space suites. We farm right through the cold northern mountain Vermont winters which would be much like them leaving their habitat and doing their daily work out on "Simulated Mars". Believe me, here on Vermont you dress up much like a space suit and you do not touch things with bare skin as the temperatures are routinely -25ÂF (-32ÂC) during the day and frequently dip to -40ÂF (-40ÂC)and that is all before the wind chill which drops it to -95ÂF (-71ÂC).
Simulating Mars might be more realistic on a Vermont mountain in some ways than in Hawaii although Hawaii might be more fun. South Pole could be good. Doing it while farming would make it even more realistic because you must go out and deal with the cold, the wind, the hostile environment and get real work done rather than just busy work in a simulation. You can die. Those who are dependent on you can die. Equipment really breaks down from the extreme weather. Bring two Tractors.
Onward to Mars! Pig Farmers in Space!
Just because they are the men from WHO does not make them right. The foundation of science is to question.
You miss the point. They're exaggerating. No need. Simply say 200 meter sea level rise. Don't say unlimited. Sticking with facts is better than exaggerating. Exaggeration comes back to haunt you because you end up losing credibility. People think, "ah, Roger exaggerated about A so he's probably exaggerating about B now too..."
What amazes me is that the courts resort to non-scientific rulings when the case is so easily scientifically tested. Ignorance of rampant.
"It's not going to stop."
It is unfortunate when they exaggerate.
The rise will stop. There is a finite amount of water on the planet that can end up in the oceans. Then the rise stops. Stick with science. Stick with facts. Don't exaggerate.
Tasers are lethal. There are many cases of police killing citizens using tasers. We have had two in our area and in both cases the police should not have been shooting anything. They justify the tasering by saying they think it is non-lethal but people are getting killed. They justify the tasering by saying they felt threatened but an officer with a drone is threatened in no way what so ever.
It is very bad to be giving police drones.
It is very bad to be giving police 'non-lethal' weapons that they're then killing people with because of the perceived non-lethality.
Worst is to combine the two.
You have totally miss-understood.
Kickstart is not for investors.
Kickstart is about selling products and projects.
This should be very easy to test, and likely refute, with a little double blind science justice...