250K isn't even enough to populate earth in a reasonable way while ensuring well-varied procreation, let alone exploring the galaxy. In a non-resource-constrained society, why should population growth be limited? The more people we have, the more likely one or more of them will make important advancements.
There won't be a whole lot of taxpayers left once automation has run its course. Most likely the few jobs left will be electrician, plumber, and appliance repair man; of course, no one will have the money to hire them.
The roobts that will be taking a lot of jobs don't exist in meat-space; they are things like Amazon's software, medical diagnosis software, design assistance software, etc. These things are in some cases human labor multipliers, in other cases they are outright replacements. When a mechanical engineer using CAD software can now do the job of 8 engineers, there are now 7 engineers that are hitting the bricks. Same with software, but worse because software is going to write itself in the not-to-distant future, it is already here in the sense that any silly goose with an idea can go to a website that lets him/her create a website that does any number of things (shopping cart, inventory, shipping, etc). This means that a number of people who used to make websites for a living, now won't be doing that job. Eventually a large preponderance of the jobs will be done by robots, and by then we're going to have to have a nice, generous UBI or a revolution or mass-slaughter of the vast majority of the now useless human population (as special as you think you are, you'll be in this group along with me).
You can add engineering, doctoring, housebuilding, programming, and general design and marketing to your list. All of the jobs will be done better by AI in the near and not-too-distant future.
Germany also protects its industrial base as they are not slavishly following the globalization agenda. Mainly because their corporations are not the psychopathic entities that US corporations are.
Most young guys (what you're interested based on your handle) aren't interested in such work. Women too but that wouldn't be a concern for you, of course.
I doubt that, it sounds about $100 too high. Initial discount is always reset with a phone call, I doubt the OP wouldn't know that. OP is probably paying for several premium channel tiers including a sports package.
before drumpft happened, I would have agreed. Now that drumpft has exceeded by far all my expectations of malignancy and incompetence, I'm pretty sure Hillary Clinton would have been better. I didn't vote for HRC, I voted for the Green Party lady (Stein).
Why do you pay them $250/month? Aren't you strongly enabling their bad behavior by directly funding them? I think you are teaching them that their approach works damn well, to the tune of $250 per month in your particular case.
Yeah. With the caveat that the thermal efficiency of a typical gasoline engine is 20%. You'll make use of a small fraction of the 80% waste heat to warm the passenger compartment but most of it will go into the surrounding environment. So yeah, practically free. So of $3.00 spent on a gallon of gas, $2.40 went to warm up the environment. That's just thermal efficiency though, it doesn't account for losses through the transmission, etc.
a _bit_ less dirty while being used? Really? Do explain yourself AC. Also, production is definitely quite another matter, isn't that one of the key reasons for moving to renewables? Are you a paid lobbyist for, or just a rank-and-file employee of the non-renewables energy industry?
Most families can't afford that, not with rent going up (home ownership is at low levels compared to recent history). When I went to school it was $12 per unit, books were still expensive but closer to $60 each so $300 for 4 classes worth of books, sometimes more, sometimes less. Thus about $450 per semester. It was so cheap I'd take a PE class or two just because... why not. Community College used to be free in CA when education was seen as an investment in the future of the state rather than a wealth extraction method from the poor and working classes. CA needs to roll back to the way it used to be or we're going to continue on a downward spiral which benefits only the wealthy and obscenely wealthy.
Community college used to be cheap. It is still cheap if you have a nice engineering job but not if you have a McJob and are working for minimum wage. Here is California (yeah, The People's Republic of Kalifornia) community college costs $52/unit. Per unit! That means that a full load of classes will run you $600 per semester! Books, parking, bus passes, etc will cost about that again. So now it is $1,000 per semester. That is not cheap. It is fucking insane. Apply for scholarships while holding down a job or two and carrying a full load (or more) of classes is a luxury that some don't have time for. Because people want to sleep and eat and even rest at times. Not all humans are diabolical machines like Archangel Michael.
I don't know. But maybe your nephew will get off his ass and go outside and play dirt-clod fight with the other kids. Maybe he'll play marbles or find out that girls exist outside the internet (whatever is age appropriate). Something, anything.
Why wouldn't he get it treated in India, Germany, Australia, or any other country? Why, do you think there is an advantage to getting treated in the US because he is a US citizen? Hint: there is no advantage.
If you get one of the no-shit bad-ass keyboards, they come with replaceable key-switches. You could then replace your F5 key-switch whenever it wears out. These keyboards are in the $200 range from what I remember, and probably more.
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250K isn't even enough to populate earth in a reasonable way while ensuring well-varied procreation, let alone exploring the galaxy. In a non-resource-constrained society, why should population growth be limited? The more people we have, the more likely one or more of them will make important advancements.
There won't be a whole lot of taxpayers left once automation has run its course. Most likely the few jobs left will be electrician, plumber, and appliance repair man; of course, no one will have the money to hire them.
The roobts that will be taking a lot of jobs don't exist in meat-space; they are things like Amazon's software, medical diagnosis software, design assistance software, etc. These things are in some cases human labor multipliers, in other cases they are outright replacements. When a mechanical engineer using CAD software can now do the job of 8 engineers, there are now 7 engineers that are hitting the bricks. Same with software, but worse because software is going to write itself in the not-to-distant future, it is already here in the sense that any silly goose with an idea can go to a website that lets him/her create a website that does any number of things (shopping cart, inventory, shipping, etc). This means that a number of people who used to make websites for a living, now won't be doing that job. Eventually a large preponderance of the jobs will be done by robots, and by then we're going to have to have a nice, generous UBI or a revolution or mass-slaughter of the vast majority of the now useless human population (as special as you think you are, you'll be in this group along with me).
Unfortunately one of those unsuited ones is currently occupying the WH with his illegal immigrant of a wife.
You can add engineering, doctoring, housebuilding, programming, and general design and marketing to your list. All of the jobs will be done better by AI in the near and not-too-distant future.
Germany also protects its industrial base as they are not slavishly following the globalization agenda. Mainly because their corporations are not the psychopathic entities that US corporations are.
Most young guys (what you're interested based on your handle) aren't interested in such work. Women too but that wouldn't be a concern for you, of course.
I doubt that, it sounds about $100 too high. Initial discount is always reset with a phone call, I doubt the OP wouldn't know that. OP is probably paying for several premium channel tiers including a sports package.
Sure. However, $250 seems pretty high-end, thus my focus on the amount and not merely the fact of having cable.
before drumpft happened, I would have agreed. Now that drumpft has exceeded by far all my expectations of malignancy and incompetence, I'm pretty sure Hillary Clinton would have been better. I didn't vote for HRC, I voted for the Green Party lady (Stein).
Why do you pay them $250/month? Aren't you strongly enabling their bad behavior by directly funding them? I think you are teaching them that their approach works damn well, to the tune of $250 per month in your particular case.
Yeah. With the caveat that the thermal efficiency of a typical gasoline engine is 20%. You'll make use of a small fraction of the 80% waste heat to warm the passenger compartment but most of it will go into the surrounding environment. So yeah, practically free. So of $3.00 spent on a gallon of gas, $2.40 went to warm up the environment. That's just thermal efficiency though, it doesn't account for losses through the transmission, etc.
a _bit_ less dirty while being used? Really? Do explain yourself AC.
Also, production is definitely quite another matter, isn't that one of the key reasons for moving to renewables?
Are you a paid lobbyist for, or just a rank-and-file employee of the non-renewables energy industry?
For the same reason that it's ok to say "clean coal".
For the same reason that it's ok for dRumpf to lie/open his maw.
Most families can't afford that, not with rent going up (home ownership is at low levels compared to recent history). When I went to school it was $12 per unit, books were still expensive but closer to $60 each so $300 for 4 classes worth of books, sometimes more, sometimes less. Thus about $450 per semester. It was so cheap I'd take a PE class or two just because... why not.
Community College used to be free in CA when education was seen as an investment in the future of the state rather than a wealth extraction method from the poor and working classes. CA needs to roll back to the way it used to be or we're going to continue on a downward spiral which benefits only the wealthy and obscenely wealthy.
$1,200
Community college used to be cheap. It is still cheap if you have a nice engineering job but not if you have a McJob and are working for minimum wage. Here is California (yeah, The People's Republic of Kalifornia) community college costs $52/unit. Per unit! That means that a full load of classes will run you $600 per semester! Books, parking, bus passes, etc will cost about that again. So now it is $1,000 per semester. That is not cheap. It is fucking insane.
Apply for scholarships while holding down a job or two and carrying a full load (or more) of classes is a luxury that some don't have time for. Because people want to sleep and eat and even rest at times. Not all humans are diabolical machines like Archangel Michael.
You make me want to go buy a gun. Not for defense. For offense.
Out -> Our
Out own money?
The 1% have most of the money. We need to take it from them.
I don't know. But maybe your nephew will get off his ass and go outside and play dirt-clod fight with the other kids. Maybe he'll play marbles or find out that girls exist outside the internet (whatever is age appropriate). Something, anything.
I give a shit. I unhappily keep giving away my money. What choice have I got?
Why wouldn't he get it treated in India, Germany, Australia, or any other country? Why, do you think there is an advantage to getting treated in the US because he is a US citizen? Hint: there is no advantage.
If you get one of the no-shit bad-ass keyboards, they come with replaceable key-switches. You could then replace your F5 key-switch whenever it wears out. These keyboards are in the $200 range from what I remember, and probably more.
Please please please keep them out of Los Angeles! We already don't have housing for the people that live here.