Artistic talent and, more importantly looks, are both very very common. You get paid minimum wage to flip burgers. the ability to be a modern musician is not much more rare, and it is altogether a more desired job. There have to be [hundreds of] millions of potential Justin Beibers, and every one of them would accept less than the current one to take his place.
In my opinion, they are lucky that they are paid at all.
If you built a robot to replace 50 people. it will always take 50 people to build, maintain, and misc that robot (probably while producing a worse product)?
So basically, the moral of this article is that tech is mostly useless, and does not solve any problems?
I think it is all about perspective. From another perspective, I could say that the casinos sell a dream; You can go to a casino and for a few hours imagine that you are going to walk out a millionaire, all your financial troubles solved.
And yes, they do such a good job that some people get obsessed and ruin their lives, but the majority get exactly what they paid for.
OK, so now the Ipads are more useful, now with FB the kids can better collaborate with their classmates. the whole idea of Ipads or any type of tablet was stupid and counter productive to begin with, but the ability to "hack them" does not change that.
But the problem was not that Scotty could break into this secret facility, but that he kindof just strolled over to Jupiter, spotted this gigantic contraction facility, and then a door just randomly opens and he decides to go inside. So he is not even trying to break in, apparently this military base does not even have sensors. A farengi shuttle on the way to trade with Earth could just commender the largest and most powerful warship of the time.
The problem was not the overall direction. But the little things. Like plot holes, and how nothing that anyone did every made any sense, or those really stupid hats.
Casinos and gambling are not that bad. Ever one I know who has ever gone to one either broke-even, won some, or got quite a lot of entertainment for their small investment. By your logic the movie theatre is 1000% worse, as they have far lower chance of winning money or breaking even, specifically their is a 100% chance of losing money there (while some games at the casino are only like 5% in the favour of the house).
Uncrackable for the average joe, not in my opinion a multi billion dollar government organization.
Even if we assume they do not have some sort of decryption quantum computer, which should make all encryption useless, you could theoretically do the same thing with custom built hardware designed to by massively parallel and do division really fast.
Possibly, if you and whoever you contact built their/your computer your and them-selves from transistors/resistors/and the like. And you know enough about security to spot when the NSA has weakened or otherwise compromised encryption standards/implementation. And you know enough about security in general to know that they have not compromised your OS.
And you know that the NSA does not already have a quantum computer (or just custom, massive parallel, hardware) to easily decrypt anything they like.
So your solution is to sell cold coffee? Coffee, at the temperature people like it at, can cause significant burns. Unless you are suggesting some anti-spill cup I really do not think people are likely to go for the only other possible solution.
For the cops/ambulance people who have to clean up those bodies. At least most other drugs leave decent corpses (not necessarily any worse than the typical accidental death corpse).
But there are loads of legal drugs available. These people either choose to take the illegal ones, or were forced too because of cost. But there is not much the government can do about that. Drugs that are easy to make at home will always be cheaper than buying the legal alternative. Have you see how much they charge for legal pot? I do not know why anyone would pay that much for a drug that is so readily available and easy to grow yourself for cheap.
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Worked for Michael Jackson.
Because height and strength are not influenced by nurture.
No, I cannot speak for Sexism, but Racism is very clearly defined as believing that the Races have differences, or that "The Races" exist at all.
I do not believe that is a very good definition, but that is what many people use and what you will find on Wikipedia, for example (and many others).
I think it is mostly a European thing, I think I might have something to do with overcompensating for the Nazis.
Artistic talent and, more importantly looks, are both very very common. You get paid minimum wage to flip burgers.
the ability to be a modern musician is not much more rare, and it is altogether a more desired job. There have to be [hundreds of] millions of potential Justin Beibers, and every one of them would accept less than the current one to take his place.
In my opinion, they are lucky that they are paid at all.
Is that tech and automation is just useless?
If you built a robot to replace 50 people. it will always take 50 people to build, maintain, and misc that robot (probably while producing a worse product)?
So basically, the moral of this article is that tech is mostly useless, and does not solve any problems?
I think it is all about perspective. From another perspective, I could say that the casinos sell a dream; You can go to a casino and for a few hours imagine that you are going to walk out a millionaire, all your financial troubles solved.
And yes, they do such a good job that some people get obsessed and ruin their lives, but the majority get exactly what they paid for.
So we are guaranteed patents, but not justice?
They do not, but any scientist does have a scientific obligation to not try to repress dissent. Science thrives on dissent.
It was a Korean professional Starcraft player.
Our new radioactive, immortal jellyfish overlords.
And I assume it is really really easy to hack the commercial ones.
OK, so now the Ipads are more useful, now with FB the kids can better collaborate with their classmates.
the whole idea of Ipads or any type of tablet was stupid and counter productive to begin with, but the ability to "hack them" does not change that.
Maybe they cannot beam large powerful weaponry and equipment? You you cannot blow stuff up at your destination, what is the point in going?
But the problem was not that Scotty could break into this secret facility, but that he kindof just strolled over to Jupiter, spotted this gigantic contraction facility, and then a door just randomly opens and he decides to go inside. So he is not even trying to break in, apparently this military base does not even have sensors. A farengi shuttle on the way to trade with Earth could just commender the largest and most powerful warship of the time.
The problem was not the overall direction. But the little things. Like plot holes, and how nothing that anyone did every made any sense, or those really stupid hats.
What I do not understand is poker. they have poker at casinos, but how does the house have an advantage at poker?
Casinos and gambling are not that bad.
Ever one I know who has ever gone to one either broke-even, won some, or got quite a lot of entertainment for their small investment.
By your logic the movie theatre is 1000% worse, as they have far lower chance of winning money or breaking even, specifically their is a 100% chance of losing money there (while some games at the casino are only like 5% in the favour of the house).
But there is a huge huge huge gap between 96% and 100%
That last percentage point is a bigger gap than pretty much all previous 99 percentage points.
Uncrackable for the average joe, not in my opinion a multi billion dollar government organization.
Even if we assume they do not have some sort of decryption quantum computer, which should make all encryption useless, you could theoretically do the same thing with custom built hardware designed to by massively parallel and do division really fast.
Possibly, if you and whoever you contact built their/your computer your and them-selves from transistors/resistors/and the like.
And you know enough about security to spot when the NSA has weakened or otherwise compromised encryption standards/implementation. And you know enough about security in general to know that they have not compromised your OS.
And you know that the NSA does not already have a quantum computer (or just custom, massive parallel, hardware) to easily decrypt anything they like.
So no girlfriends or wives then?
So your solution is to sell cold coffee?
Coffee, at the temperature people like it at, can cause significant burns. Unless you are suggesting some anti-spill cup I really do not think people are likely to go for the only other possible solution.
For the cops/ambulance people who have to clean up those bodies. At least most other drugs leave decent corpses (not necessarily any worse than the typical accidental death corpse).
You must be new to the Internet.
But there are loads of legal drugs available.
These people either choose to take the illegal ones, or were forced too because of cost.
But there is not much the government can do about that. Drugs that are easy to make at home will always be cheaper than buying the legal alternative. Have you see how much they charge for legal pot? I do not know why anyone would pay that much for a drug that is so readily available and easy to grow yourself for cheap.