A hundred years ago it was said miracles of science would feed the world with an unbelievable array of giant, hearty and delicious foods. We're almost there. And we'll get there a lot faster without you kneejerk "anything with altered genes must be bad for you" reactionary luddites.
Stop complaining and take a moment to marvel at all science has wrought.
>That is a good point, but it's the only thing better about using animals.
I disagree. I believe in most situations it's best to make US soldiers seem, to the extent possible, like technodemons summoned from the cauldrons of American science wizards.
The less known and the more presumed about a US soldier's abilities the easier it will be to fight.
Give them night vision and guns that can shoot around corners. Give them air conditioned self supporting strength enhancing armor. Give them networks that let every soldier know where every other soldier in his squad is. Give them flying death robots and laser guns. Emulate every desired superpower you can from ESP to precognizance to golems and X-ray vision.
Make every US soldier a nightmare for his enemies, inflating his capabilities beyond any enemy simulation and in the end we'll save money by not having to actually use these abilities.
>Most people are perfectly capable of building up a 6 month emergency fund
>Anyone is going to get a job should be able to get it in 3 months
I see you're from the "get into your job cannon and fire off into job land" persuasion.
In the real world it's quite common for a person to do nothing but apply for jobs online (a thousand candidates per application) and offline (fifty candidates per application) for months with no response from anyone, not even a "thank you for applying."
In Michigan a few years ago I applied at every gas station, fast food place, and grocery store in my town. I also sent a targeted application with a crafted resume and cover letter out every day and untargeted ones to hundreds of companies a week. not a single fucking bite. No my resume didn't suck, no I'm not insane, on drugs, or a felon.
Sometimes the jobs just aren't there.
There's nothing more humiliating and painful than offering yourself and being rejected ten times a day. Go through the same experience and you'll have a lot more understanding and compassion for the unemployed.
According to this article the TSA spent 80 million dollars on scanners. According to This article they're spending 245 million dollars more to test them. According to this article a human life is worth 7.4 million dollars. We've spend an extra 40 billion dollars since 9/11 on airport security. That means we need to have saved 34 lives by body scanner alone or 5405 lives by all airport security.
I'm curious about the scientific justification of another particle collider.
The data from the LHC, ATLAS, and so forth has been amazing and it's possible to collide almost any subatomic particle in them so why do we need another? I'm not making a point, I'm asking a question.
According to Wiki Answers one percent are heard. According to Wikipedia 5% of certiorari cases are heard. Note that granting certiorari would allow the **AA's to lobby the courts as "friends of the court" and that the **AA's can afford much better lawyers than you can.
No, your unsupported claim does not address my rhetorical question.
I've heard a lot of people spout this "poor people live like they're rich" line but I've been poor and I've seen poor people. in fact I'm poor now and I can tell you I'm not eligible for anything but the student loans that keep me alive at a sustenance level and VA health care because I was in the military and honorably discharged. My father is poor and all he gets is the social security he paid into. He's physically incapable of working and if he didn't keep a garden he would starve. My mother is poor and she's eligible for nothing. She works as a nursing assistant. One bad job and she'll literally be out on the street.
My friend is poor, she also physically cannot work. on a good day she manages to clean her house. She gets medicine, a CPAP machine, and 700 dollars per month.
I don 't know where all these poor people living like kings are but I'm pretty damn sure they only exist in the minds of conservatives.
How many cheap iphones can a jobless person purchase? You're being deliberately obtuse. What has happened in the past is no evidence of what will happen in the future. Automation drops prices. Comprehensive automation leaves everyone without a job. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I think our goal should be 0% employment. But that goal leaves us with no one buying things in this style of economy. So we need a new way. These charts show what productivity increases have done over the last four years. A trillion dollars more GDP, five million fewer workers. And this trend will continue. We need a change and we need it now.
The present economy is growing in leaps and bounds leaving workers in the dust. "economic growth" is a meaningless metric when productivity allows this.
If the reason it can be done in the US is automation there's very little difference in terms of employment -- The capital holders get to keep more of their capital, some Asians get fired, and very few Americans get hired.Sure the GDP will rise but that won't make the slightest difference for the unemployed.
Robots are replacing workers everywhere and we need a new economy to deal with the situation.
>It's not any different than subpoenaing human witnesses of the accident.
It's completely different: there's no law requiring a witness to sit in on my driving.
Those rules will change. For safety. Always for safety. First it will be unavailable. Then it will be logged for "simplicity and ease of access" but only by a court order. Then a court order will become easier to get. Then it will be rubber stamped. Then any police department will be able to access the data.
And don't say "slippery slope fallacy". It's only a fallacy when there's no clear way for it to progress that way. Just like security cameras, traffic cameras, and phone records are sliding that way black boxes will.
>You don't get to say it's a privacy concern if you go around driving over people and shoot them with a shotgun!
Oh bullshit. This has nothing to do with one guy that got caught in a lie. If true this is an extreme privacy concern. The government has no right to know where I've been or what I've been up to unless I want to tell them.
On the topic of North Korea I HIGHLY recommend Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick. This book will show you just how horrible things are over there. It's a very well written book.
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A hundred years ago it was said miracles of science would feed the world with an unbelievable array of giant, hearty and delicious foods. We're almost there. And we'll get there a lot faster without you kneejerk "anything with altered genes must be bad for you" reactionary luddites.
Stop complaining and take a moment to marvel at all science has wrought.
for the lazy
This is what happens when morons shriek about abuse of the system.
>It would make the US troops seem more human
>That is a good point, but it's the only thing better about using animals.
I disagree. I believe in most situations it's best to make US soldiers seem, to the extent possible, like technodemons summoned from the cauldrons of American science wizards.
The less known and the more presumed about a US soldier's abilities the easier it will be to fight. Give them night vision and guns that can shoot around corners. Give them air conditioned self supporting strength enhancing armor. Give them networks that let every soldier know where every other soldier in his squad is. Give them flying death robots and laser guns. Emulate every desired superpower you can from ESP to precognizance to golems and X-ray vision. Make every US soldier a nightmare for his enemies, inflating his capabilities beyond any enemy simulation and in the end we'll save money by not having to actually use these abilities.
>new trade with guaranteed job prospects
>Most people are perfectly capable of building up a 6 month emergency fund
>Anyone is going to get a job should be able to get it in 3 months
I see you're from the "get into your job cannon and fire off into job land" persuasion.
In the real world it's quite common for a person to do nothing but apply for jobs online (a thousand candidates per application) and offline (fifty candidates per application) for months with no response from anyone, not even a "thank you for applying."
In Michigan a few years ago I applied at every gas station, fast food place, and grocery store in my town. I also sent a targeted application with a crafted resume and cover letter out every day and untargeted ones to hundreds of companies a week. not a single fucking bite. No my resume didn't suck, no I'm not insane, on drugs, or a felon.
Sometimes the jobs just aren't there.
There's nothing more humiliating and painful than offering yourself and being rejected ten times a day. Go through the same experience and you'll have a lot more understanding and compassion for the unemployed.
When a bugler breaks into my house I should spend up to a minute fumbling with a safe?
>don't point a loaded gun at people EVER
Don't point any gun at people unless you want to shoot them. It is said that "unloaded" guns are what cause shooting accidents.
According to this article the TSA spent 80 million dollars on scanners. According to This article they're spending 245 million dollars more to test them. According to this article a human life is worth 7.4 million dollars. We've spend an extra 40 billion dollars since 9/11 on airport security. That means we need to have saved 34 lives by body scanner alone or 5405 lives by all airport security.
It doesn't add up.
I'm curious about the scientific justification of another particle collider. The data from the LHC, ATLAS, and so forth has been amazing and it's possible to collide almost any subatomic particle in them so why do we need another? I'm not making a point, I'm asking a question.
sell me your stuff for cheap, have more money!
Why would it be a good thing for us to work really hard so we can keep jobs by outpacing robot workers?
The goal should be 0% involuntary employment.
According to Wiki Answers one percent are heard. According to Wikipedia 5% of certiorari cases are heard. Note that granting certiorari would allow the **AA's to lobby the courts as "friends of the court" and that the **AA's can afford much better lawyers than you can.
Is scourge a legal term? How is it used?
Several secure banking apps allow the user to click screen icons to spell out PINs and passwords.
No, your unsupported claim does not address my rhetorical question.
I've heard a lot of people spout this "poor people live like they're rich" line but I've been poor and I've seen poor people. in fact I'm poor now and I can tell you I'm not eligible for anything but the student loans that keep me alive at a sustenance level and VA health care because I was in the military and honorably discharged. My father is poor and all he gets is the social security he paid into. He's physically incapable of working and if he didn't keep a garden he would starve. My mother is poor and she's eligible for nothing. She works as a nursing assistant. One bad job and she'll literally be out on the street.
My friend is poor, she also physically cannot work. on a good day she manages to clean her house. She gets medicine, a CPAP machine, and 700 dollars per month.
I don 't know where all these poor people living like kings are but I'm pretty damn sure they only exist in the minds of conservatives.
How many cheap iphones can a jobless person purchase?
You're being deliberately obtuse. What has happened in the past is no evidence of what will happen in the future. Automation drops prices. Comprehensive automation leaves everyone without a job. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I think our goal should be 0% employment. But that goal leaves us with no one buying things in this style of economy. So we need a new way. These charts show what productivity increases have done over the last four years. A trillion dollars more GDP, five million fewer workers. And this trend will continue. We need a change and we need it now.
The present economy is growing in leaps and bounds leaving workers in the dust. "economic growth" is a meaningless metric when productivity allows this.
If the reason it can be done in the US is automation there's very little difference in terms of employment -- The capital holders get to keep more of their capital, some Asians get fired, and very few Americans get hired.Sure the GDP will rise but that won't make the slightest difference for the unemployed.
Robots are replacing workers everywhere and we need a new economy to deal with the situation.
>It's not any different than subpoenaing human witnesses of the accident. It's completely different: there's no law requiring a witness to sit in on my driving.
Those rules will change. For safety. Always for safety. First it will be unavailable. Then it will be logged for "simplicity and ease of access" but only by a court order. Then a court order will become easier to get. Then it will be rubber stamped. Then any police department will be able to access the data.
And don't say "slippery slope fallacy". It's only a fallacy when there's no clear way for it to progress that way. Just like security cameras, traffic cameras, and phone records are sliding that way black boxes will.
>You don't get to say it's a privacy concern if you go around driving over people and shoot them with a shotgun!
Oh bullshit. This has nothing to do with one guy that got caught in a lie. If true this is an extreme privacy concern. The government has no right to know where I've been or what I've been up to unless I want to tell them.
send people
Making those lasers work is probably a project for a high school physics class at this point.
I have some idea.
On the topic of North Korea I HIGHLY recommend Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick. This book will show you just how horrible things are over there. It's a very well written book.