you don't want the slaves being told they have rights, do you?
Advantage to the employer of offering only part time/temporary employment through an agency:
No unions to deal with (there is no temp union anywhere) No pensions to contribute to (part timers don't get an employer-provided pension) No liability (for things like temps breaking their wrists - been there, worn the t-shirt, had to foot the fucking medical bill myself!) No employers rates (things like tax/NI which is a bloody headache if you're dealing with hundreds of employees all of whim pay tax/NI and since most of them will be on PAYE, it's all on your books which means that for every employee you have to garnish their pay by 20someodd% and send it to the Treasury, on top of which a recent additional tax which is scaled according to how many *full time* employees you have) No contracts (except with the agency, where it's pretty much a case of "I have this many spaces, I accept your rates, send me bodies.") No medical insurance (you're not employing the slave, you're employing the agency, *the agency* employs the slave and their employment contract more often than not has a specific medical disclaimer. See above) No employment tribunals (you're contracting with the agency, not the slave) Minimal wage bill (they may pay a premium for being able to hire through an agency, but it's still cheaper than employing someone full time who's not up to the task and not being able to fire them because they've technically done nothing wrong) Maximum profit per unit labour
Advantage to the employee:
None. I don't count being able to work to pay your rent an advantage, that is a basic need along with food, clothing and medical intervention when necessary.
They already use infrared LEDS in the auditorium to blind the cammers, let's complete the experience of going out to watch New Jack City on a forty foot screen without having to take your own gun, 'cos I swear if I see another fucking mobile screen in a theatre while the movie's on I'll be using the hand that's holding it for fucking TARGET PRACTISE!
I think a lot depends on the fuel efficiency of the flight - passenger miles per gallon, which is different on every flight. Other variables also affect the profit margin in real ways, such as tail winds/head winds, cargo weight, etc.
CNet respectfully disagrees. FTFA: Each robot will cost around three times the annual salary of a human worker at Foxconn to produce. So a robot that doesn't need time off, or paying, or a holiday, or medical insurance, or a lunch break, only has to last three years to be a viable replacement for a human worker who has to feed his family and keep the roof over their heads. Result: Foxconn develops a completely obedient workforce, human workforce which is prone to sabotage, strike, medical emergency, needs a break every now and again etc., is left in the gutter. QED.
Sleazyjet, RyanScare (have you ever been on a RyanScare into Luton?? It's like a fucking shuttle landing! Let's not even go there with Monarch into Gatport Airwick...)
the monorail at Gatwick doesn't have a driver, it is entirely automated. You can in fact, stand at either end and look out the front or rear window (either is changeable depending on the direction of travel). The control pod is under the deck at the North end of the car.
it takes 8 years to qualify for commercial jet right seat (navigator), and that's full-time and intensive from single engine prop VFR to qualifying on emergency landing in a 747 box simulator and everything in between. It isn't cheap, either. Probably a million or so a year for one pilot or navigator. Airlines part-subsidise this cost in a lot of cases with the proviso that the pilot then flies for that airline for the next twenty years.
no and no. The Apollo landers, for instance, had walls made from aluminium *foil*. Yup, that shit you wrap your Thanksgiving turkey in was about the same thickness as the one thing that prevented Armstrong and Aldrin from going "POP!". The landers were a one-shot deal, they only had to last a week. The space shuttles didn't need any kind of shielding against cosmic rays (it would have been too heavy to lift anyway) because they orbited inside the magnetosphere. Same goes for the ISS.
I did read somewhere that the helmets used by the Apollo walkers came back with microtubules punched through them by micrometeoroids. Not holes, tubules - because the particles were travelling that fast they plasmerised the helmet material and sealed behind them. The astronauts wouldn't have even felt anything as the particles embedded themselves in their skullbones.
commonly held, I'm not arsed with disproving any of it: Trek gave us microwave ovens, mobile phones, airjet hypodermic applicators, tricorders (yes they do exist!), portable medical scanners (those too!), particle beam weapons, active visual cloaking, RADAR stealth, decentralised and distributed computing/library systems, personal data access devices, mesh networking, wiki, freeze dried meals (ready to eat after hydration), and it made some early attempts to popularise genetically modified wheat (an experimental Canadian crop called triticale which is a high-yield wheat with three lobes rather than the usual two) which didn't quite go according to plan because it wiped out the tribbles with no plausible explanation as to just exactly how an enemy agent managed to poison an entire shipment without being detected.
Sandstone is surprisingly resilient. Giza, Stonehenge, Castle Rock in Nottingham (that has only lost around 6% of its mass under Nottingham Castle over the last 20-someodd years as a result of extreme weather conditions and one or two earthquakes, apart from that it's survived three castles being built on top of it, two massive fires and extensive tunneling)
stonehenge will last for as long as there are people willing to put in the work to maintain it - an ever increasing amount of the (highly porus) original sandstone work has been encased, set or replaced with concrete. They closed a road permanently last week (they're taking it up and grassing it over) that runs alongside it to try and stem vibration damage from heavy traffic.
that's easy. Look for a six sided regular polyhedron with edge length ratios of 1:4:9.
It's what I'd do.
There's no use overcomplicating the message. 1:4:9 is to me, the simplest message you can send It's so useful, yanno? The simplest tessellating shape. All hail the mighty Brick! Send it in a material that's a: resilient and b: chemically inert. Baked ceramic?
Forget Pi. I dunno, it just doesn't seem to make sense - what if a civilisation that hasn't even invented the wheel comes across this thing? They wouldn't have the first clue what 3.1415 is.
The Pioneers and the Voyagers, with their spinning gold discs (yeah, gold isn't inert, it spontaneously reacts with cyanide which is a primordial building block of life and is known to exist in interstellar space in massive quantities), carried entirely overcomplicated messages. A simple "Hello, we're a civilisation, by now probably long gone, which knew how to count on our fingers" rather than "Here are the first 104 elements in a periodic table we created to fit our understanding of the Universe which probably doesn't fit your understanding of the Universe in any way shape or form, and while we're at it here's what we call music played on things which you probably use as weapons and sounds that will probably hurt your ears" thank you very much.
great series. They also used Chernobyl and the surrounding area to demonstrate just how quickly Nature reclaims her own. I particularly enjoyed the episode with the cats in the tower blocks.
In their mini "Space Odyssey", the astronauts had magnetosphere generators built in to their suits to protect them while they were planetside on Venus, Mars and on Jupiter's moon Io; there was also one built in to the bell of their spacecraft to protect them during the close solar flyby.
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you don't want the slaves being told they have rights, do you?
Advantage to the employer of offering only part time/temporary employment through an agency:
No unions to deal with (there is no temp union anywhere)
No pensions to contribute to (part timers don't get an employer-provided pension)
No liability (for things like temps breaking their wrists - been there, worn the t-shirt, had to foot the fucking medical bill myself!)
No employers rates (things like tax/NI which is a bloody headache if you're dealing with hundreds of employees all of whim pay tax/NI and since most of them will be on PAYE, it's all on your books which means that for every employee you have to garnish their pay by 20someodd% and send it to the Treasury, on top of which a recent additional tax which is scaled according to how many *full time* employees you have)
No contracts (except with the agency, where it's pretty much a case of "I have this many spaces, I accept your rates, send me bodies.")
No medical insurance (you're not employing the slave, you're employing the agency, *the agency* employs the slave and their employment contract more often than not has a specific medical disclaimer. See above)
No employment tribunals (you're contracting with the agency, not the slave)
Minimal wage bill (they may pay a premium for being able to hire through an agency, but it's still cheaper than employing someone full time who's not up to the task and not being able to fire them because they've technically done nothing wrong)
Maximum profit per unit labour
Advantage to the employee:
None. I don't count being able to work to pay your rent an advantage, that is a basic need along with food, clothing and medical intervention when necessary.
you mean like birds? Sensors and a bloody loud horn.
SIGNAL JAMMERS.
They already use infrared LEDS in the auditorium to blind the cammers, let's complete the experience of going out to watch New Jack City on a forty foot screen without having to take your own gun, 'cos I swear if I see another fucking mobile screen in a theatre while the movie's on I'll be using the hand that's holding it for fucking TARGET PRACTISE!
I think a lot depends on the fuel efficiency of the flight - passenger miles per gallon, which is different on every flight. Other variables also affect the profit margin in real ways, such as tail winds/head winds, cargo weight, etc.
that single example alone disproves the Luddite Fallacy.
CNet respectfully disagrees. FTFA: Each robot will cost around three times the annual salary of a human worker at Foxconn to produce. So a robot that doesn't need time off, or paying, or a holiday, or medical insurance, or a lunch break, only has to last three years to be a viable replacement for a human worker who has to feed his family and keep the roof over their heads. Result: Foxconn develops a completely obedient workforce, human workforce which is prone to sabotage, strike, medical emergency, needs a break every now and again etc., is left in the gutter. QED.
Sleazyjet, RyanScare (have you ever been on a RyanScare into Luton?? It's like a fucking shuttle landing! Let's not even go there with Monarch into Gatport Airwick...)
because 20 packed airliners is 8,000 passengers.
And you want to put those lives into the hands of ONE fucking gamer geek who thinks he's playing MSFS?
No, you don't get to hit ESC and start over.
tell that to the father who can't feed his family or keep a roof over his family because his boss just replaced him with a fucking robot.
the Gatwick monorail stands about 50 feet off the ground.
the monorail at Gatwick doesn't have a driver, it is entirely automated. You can in fact, stand at either end and look out the front or rear window (either is changeable depending on the direction of travel). The control pod is under the deck at the North end of the car.
it takes 8 years to qualify for commercial jet right seat (navigator), and that's full-time and intensive from single engine prop VFR to qualifying on emergency landing in a 747 box simulator and everything in between. It isn't cheap, either. Probably a million or so a year for one pilot or navigator. Airlines part-subsidise this cost in a lot of cases with the proviso that the pilot then flies for that airline for the next twenty years.
hm, yes, let me think: Gatwick to Murcia one way, pilotless: £29 or with human at the yoke: £499.
It's a no-brainer. Unless of course, you don't fly.
I'd rather take the Tunnel and drive for 44 hours, actually.
you mean like now when the cockpit is hermetically sealed from the passenger cabin?
yeah and they get automatic exemption to any current or proposed facecovering bans else the fucking religion card gets played.
yeah, I think he meant superluminal.
no and no. The Apollo landers, for instance, had walls made from aluminium *foil*. Yup, that shit you wrap your Thanksgiving turkey in was about the same thickness as the one thing that prevented Armstrong and Aldrin from going "POP!". The landers were a one-shot deal, they only had to last a week. The space shuttles didn't need any kind of shielding against cosmic rays (it would have been too heavy to lift anyway) because they orbited inside the magnetosphere. Same goes for the ISS.
I did read somewhere that the helmets used by the Apollo walkers came back with microtubules punched through them by micrometeoroids. Not holes, tubules - because the particles were travelling that fast they plasmerised the helmet material and sealed behind them. The astronauts wouldn't have even felt anything as the particles embedded themselves in their skullbones.
actually, there are. They're detected and measured by muon probes.
Here's the source for my bold claim.
commonly held, I'm not arsed with disproving any of it: Trek gave us microwave ovens, mobile phones, airjet hypodermic applicators, tricorders (yes they do exist!), portable medical scanners (those too!), particle beam weapons, active visual cloaking, RADAR stealth, decentralised and distributed computing/library systems, personal data access devices, mesh networking, wiki, freeze dried meals (ready to eat after hydration), and it made some early attempts to popularise genetically modified wheat (an experimental Canadian crop called triticale which is a high-yield wheat with three lobes rather than the usual two) which didn't quite go according to plan because it wiped out the tribbles with no plausible explanation as to just exactly how an enemy agent managed to poison an entire shipment without being detected.
Sandstone is surprisingly resilient. Giza, Stonehenge, Castle Rock in Nottingham (that has only lost around 6% of its mass under Nottingham Castle over the last 20-someodd years as a result of extreme weather conditions and one or two earthquakes, apart from that it's survived three castles being built on top of it, two massive fires and extensive tunneling)
stonehenge will last for as long as there are people willing to put in the work to maintain it - an ever increasing amount of the (highly porus) original sandstone work has been encased, set or replaced with concrete. They closed a road permanently last week (they're taking it up and grassing it over) that runs alongside it to try and stem vibration damage from heavy traffic.
that's easy. Look for a six sided regular polyhedron with edge length ratios of 1:4:9.
It's what I'd do.
There's no use overcomplicating the message. 1:4:9 is to me, the simplest message you can send It's so useful, yanno? The simplest tessellating shape. All hail the mighty Brick! Send it in a material that's a: resilient and b: chemically inert. Baked ceramic?
Forget Pi. I dunno, it just doesn't seem to make sense - what if a civilisation that hasn't even invented the wheel comes across this thing? They wouldn't have the first clue what 3.1415 is.
The Pioneers and the Voyagers, with their spinning gold discs (yeah, gold isn't inert, it spontaneously reacts with cyanide which is a primordial building block of life and is known to exist in interstellar space in massive quantities), carried entirely overcomplicated messages. A simple "Hello, we're a civilisation, by now probably long gone, which knew how to count on our fingers" rather than "Here are the first 104 elements in a periodic table we created to fit our understanding of the Universe which probably doesn't fit your understanding of the Universe in any way shape or form, and while we're at it here's what we call music played on things which you probably use as weapons and sounds that will probably hurt your ears" thank you very much.
Clarke had the right idea.
great series. They also used Chernobyl and the surrounding area to demonstrate just how quickly Nature reclaims her own. I particularly enjoyed the episode with the cats in the tower blocks.
I have no idea. I'm a dumb Englishman. I live in England.
In their mini "Space Odyssey", the astronauts had magnetosphere generators built in to their suits to protect them while they were planetside on Venus, Mars and on Jupiter's moon Io; there was also one built in to the bell of their spacecraft to protect them during the close solar flyby.