Because they correctly reasoned that they would be far better off starting from scratch in an economy that actually works and lets them accumulate wealth.
They didn't escape to the West to accumulate wealth... They escaped so they could live free lives without the fear of their neighbors or government. Money is probably one of the last reasons they'd leave. In fact, they'd be deemed "economic refugees" and refused access to most of the Western world.
In any other nation throughout the course of human history, this level of wealth unbalance has instigated violent revolt and revolution among the masses.
From watching the news in the past couple weeks, I can't help but wonder if violent revolt and revolution aren't just around the corner.
Police are viewed as the front line agents of the government. The government is viewed as an agent of the rich. An attack on the Police is an attack on the government and therefore on the rich. We're being led to believe its racially motivated, and it is to some extent. But if everyone was able to put food on the table and their kids in higher education, we would be much less likely to have disaffected individuals from marginalized groups(**) getting so angry and losing all hope that they lash out.
** with universal basic income and access to education one might argue that no one is marginalized!
Blame your local unions for lack of qualified plumbers and electricians. They restrict the number of Master trades and the number of apprentices and journeymen that they can take on and train. It's essentially a monopoly asserting its power for the good of its establishment and to the detriment of everyone else. My cousin's son is a fantastic plumber, but one of the old guys in the guild needs to die to free up spot
Regardless, those jobs are on the chopping block too. Most of the work is pretty simple. Wiring a junction box or soldering a pipe will eventually be done by something that is immune to heat and insulated from electric shocks... Even the design of those systems will probably be done by an expert system soon. Heck, if a program can auto-route and optimize my 10M gate FPGA it sure as hell can do a better job than the idiots who designed the HVAC, water and wiring in my current house.
Menial labor jobs could be completely eliminated within a 50 years. UBI might be a way to start that transition.
Construction, manufacturing, garbage collection, maintenance and similar are all on the chopping block. There is even talk of automation of many software development activities and high-knowledge professions like medicine and engineering. When I look at my role as a coder, data modelling, product design and requirements analysis are the only bits that I think might be very difficult for a non-sentient entity to do. Everything else could be done more efficiently by a machine. That's a probably 80% of today's jobs, gone or totally changed. The only activities that I don't anticipate being replaced are the truly human ones that harness our innate curiosity and creativity: art, music, law, research and exploration.
As a society we need to figure out how to keep the everyone engaged and interested in life. They need to be doing productive things or boredom will give rise to unrest and revolution will follow. The Romans knew this, "Bread and Circuses" kept their citizen populace occupied, while the menial labor tasks were 'automated' by slaves (who were treated as robotic minions essentially). We have the power to move the entire world population past the work required as part of the struggle to survive. What will they do next?
I think, we need to start transitioning to a cultural Renascence. A focus on art, music and creativity instead of work may very well be needed as the 'work' part is going to be hard to come by. If interplanetary and interstellar travel becomes viable, the focus could be on exploration and colonization. We need something to work at together to achieve, otherwise we will start to work against each other.
This hurts poor people and small businesses the most, you blithering fucking "progressive" idiot.
Baloney. Nothing the Kock bros do is for the Greater Good(tm), they are in it for themselves alone. If the Kock empire were to vaporize overnight, I would be shocked if a statistically measurable number of "the poor" or "small businesses" had any negative change in their lives.
FYI, BlackBerry did NOT use low cost manufacturing houses at any point until John Chen came along. At that point the low cost manufacturers were already cleaning up their act after the Foxconn suicide nets hit the news.
Why does Apple get a pass when everyone raked BlackBerry over the coals when they tried and for a while succeeded in blocking foreign Govs demands for access to BBM servers in their territories?
I don't get it. Unless this is some sort of perverse American rationalization of the pursuit of the almighty dollar trumping non-American's rights to privacy.
The crucial element here is the use of waves (in this case sound).
The basic physics likely points to the possibility of using modulated light waves (or x-ray, gamma ray waves). Those propagate quite well in a vacuum. The question will be how much energy is needed to achieve the necessary wave density to manipulate objects.
Its an issue because Samsung's voice recognition wasn't done on the TV. They shipped the captured audio to servers in their back office, unencrypted iirc. So your intimate small-talk with your partner is recorded live and sent out to some nameless destination free for all to listen to.
I don't know about you, but I consider that an incredible invasion of privacy.
Unless you're a factory worker making less than the Canadian average income, they'll likely fund their spending on cash from your wallet. As you're on slashdot, can format your posts to be readable and don't have any egregious spelling errors, I suspect you will end up in the payer's pile.
We once again have a overflowing cup of political leadershiT. Czar Harper, Comrade Mulcair and Untested Trudeau. The wheel of fate is broken and stuck pointing at, "Here thar be Dragons."
I thought 'Rising to the level of your incompetence' meant the more the opposite. Dumb-as-a-post employees either get fired or they possess, "soft skills valued in management" and get promoted. The more 'soft skills' (ability to bullshit, take credit for others' work, brown-nose, etc) the higher you rise.
This article seem to imply that promotions are based on technical skill and that you get promoted until your skill matches your employment level. In my experience, that is almost never the case.
While I agree from a story perspective that the pod-racer stuff was fluff, I still pull that scene out to show off what a properly tuned home theatre surround sound system can do. Other movies might more effectively use the multi-channel audio, but aliens racing vehicles trumps mass splatter-fests when you have a mixed-age audience.
I already override my ISP's advertised DNS settings to point to something that doesn't redirect to their advertising pages when I typo a URL. I can easily point it at something that doesn't listen to MPAA's bizarre demands.
It'd be like having Ford control traffic flow on the Interstates. "All Express lanes are only open to Ford vehicles and the 'partners' who've bought premium service for their customers."
The worst (by far) driving I've seen in person has been police working on their in-car computers while buzzing down the road at 30km above the posted limit. No sirens, no lights. Just a whole lot of drifting/swerving and general inattention.
The treatment is purely supportive. As with all virii, the body needs to clear it out on its own. It will do so, if the organs don't fail before the immune system builds the necessary antibodies. The 'cures' being worked are anti-retrovirals that inhibit the viral replication, so the body can get the upper hand more quickly.
The problem with modern unions is that they don't self-police the rubbers who inevitably get in.
If Willy is a caught watching kiddie porn on the corp's equipment, the company shouldn't have to fight the union to get him axed. Modern unions for the most part will defend their members regardless of the infraction, including a criminal offense like this...
If Steve is slacking and not getting his work done, Steve's coworkers should actively work with him to get him productive and if he isn't, give him da boot. Negative contributors drag everyone down.
I think it might be a sales incentive! The new owner gets the joy of deleting every one of those auditory atrocities, knowing the world has just become a better place to live!
Expert Systems have been one of the most successful and longest used AI models in industry. FPGA routing and layout programs have relied on this form of AI since the early/mid 90's.
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Because they correctly reasoned that they would be far better off starting from scratch in an economy that actually works and lets them accumulate wealth.
They didn't escape to the West to accumulate wealth... They escaped so they could live free lives without the fear of their neighbors or government. Money is probably one of the last reasons they'd leave. In fact, they'd be deemed "economic refugees" and refused access to most of the Western world.
In any other nation throughout the course of human history, this level of wealth unbalance has instigated violent revolt and revolution among the masses.
From watching the news in the past couple weeks, I can't help but wonder if violent revolt and revolution aren't just around the corner.
Police are viewed as the front line agents of the government. The government is viewed as an agent of the rich. An attack on the Police is an attack on the government and therefore on the rich. We're being led to believe its racially motivated, and it is to some extent. But if everyone was able to put food on the table and their kids in higher education, we would be much less likely to have disaffected individuals from marginalized groups(**) getting so angry and losing all hope that they lash out.
** with universal basic income and access to education one might argue that no one is marginalized!
Blame your local unions for lack of qualified plumbers and electricians. They restrict the number of Master trades and the number of apprentices and journeymen that they can take on and train. It's essentially a monopoly asserting its power for the good of its establishment and to the detriment of everyone else. My cousin's son is a fantastic plumber, but one of the old guys in the guild needs to die to free up spot
Regardless, those jobs are on the chopping block too. Most of the work is pretty simple. Wiring a junction box or soldering a pipe will eventually be done by something that is immune to heat and insulated from electric shocks... Even the design of those systems will probably be done by an expert system soon. Heck, if a program can auto-route and optimize my 10M gate FPGA it sure as hell can do a better job than the idiots who designed the HVAC, water and wiring in my current house.
Menial labor jobs could be completely eliminated within a 50 years. UBI might be a way to start that transition.
Construction, manufacturing, garbage collection, maintenance and similar are all on the chopping block. There is even talk of automation of many software development activities and high-knowledge professions like medicine and engineering. When I look at my role as a coder, data modelling, product design and requirements analysis are the only bits that I think might be very difficult for a non-sentient entity to do. Everything else could be done more efficiently by a machine. That's a probably 80% of today's jobs, gone or totally changed. The only activities that I don't anticipate being replaced are the truly human ones that harness our innate curiosity and creativity: art, music, law, research and exploration.
As a society we need to figure out how to keep the everyone engaged and interested in life. They need to be doing productive things or boredom will give rise to unrest and revolution will follow. The Romans knew this, "Bread and Circuses" kept their citizen populace occupied, while the menial labor tasks were 'automated' by slaves (who were treated as robotic minions essentially). We have the power to move the entire world population past the work required as part of the struggle to survive. What will they do next?
I think, we need to start transitioning to a cultural Renascence. A focus on art, music and creativity instead of work may very well be needed as the 'work' part is going to be hard to come by. If interplanetary and interstellar travel becomes viable, the focus could be on exploration and colonization. We need something to work at together to achieve, otherwise we will start to work against each other.
This hurts poor people and small businesses the most, you blithering fucking "progressive" idiot.
Baloney. Nothing the Kock bros do is for the Greater Good(tm), they are in it for themselves alone. If the Kock empire were to vaporize overnight, I would be shocked if a statistically measurable number of "the poor" or "small businesses" had any negative change in their lives.
FYI, BlackBerry did NOT use low cost manufacturing houses at any point until John Chen came along. At that point the low cost manufacturers were already cleaning up their act after the Foxconn suicide nets hit the news.
Why does Apple get a pass when everyone raked BlackBerry over the coals when they tried and for a while succeeded in blocking foreign Govs demands for access to BBM servers in their territories?
I don't get it. Unless this is some sort of perverse American rationalization of the pursuit of the almighty dollar trumping non-American's rights to privacy.
The number of shit guzzling apologists here is truly shocking.
Hipster-capocalypse!
Seriously! Ahhmmmm-nom-nom-nom.
The crucial element here is the use of waves (in this case sound).
The basic physics likely points to the possibility of using modulated light waves (or x-ray, gamma ray waves). Those propagate quite well in a vacuum. The question will be how much energy is needed to achieve the necessary wave density to manipulate objects.
This is a pretty cool, imho.
Its an issue because Samsung's voice recognition wasn't done on the TV. They shipped the captured audio to servers in their back office, unencrypted iirc. So your intimate small-talk with your partner is recorded live and sent out to some nameless destination free for all to listen to. I don't know about you, but I consider that an incredible invasion of privacy.
Don't let the NDP's smooth talking fool you.
Unless you're a factory worker making less than the Canadian average income, they'll likely fund their spending on cash from your wallet. As you're on slashdot, can format your posts to be readable and don't have any egregious spelling errors, I suspect you will end up in the payer's pile.
We once again have a overflowing cup of political leadershiT. Czar Harper, Comrade Mulcair and Untested Trudeau. The wheel of fate is broken and stuck pointing at, "Here thar be Dragons."
I thought 'Rising to the level of your incompetence' meant the more the opposite. Dumb-as-a-post employees either get fired or they possess, "soft skills valued in management" and get promoted. The more 'soft skills' (ability to bullshit, take credit for others' work, brown-nose, etc) the higher you rise. This article seem to imply that promotions are based on technical skill and that you get promoted until your skill matches your employment level. In my experience, that is almost never the case.
... has begun, eeeexcelllllent.
While I agree from a story perspective that the pod-racer stuff was fluff, I still pull that scene out to show off what a properly tuned home theatre surround sound system can do. Other movies might more effectively use the multi-channel audio, but aliens racing vehicles trumps mass splatter-fests when you have a mixed-age audience.
I already override my ISP's advertised DNS settings to point to something that doesn't redirect to their advertising pages when I typo a URL. I can easily point it at something that doesn't listen to MPAA's bizarre demands.
It'd be like having Ford control traffic flow on the Interstates. "All Express lanes are only open to Ford vehicles and the 'partners' who've bought premium service for their customers."
The worst (by far) driving I've seen in person has been police working on their in-car computers while buzzing down the road at 30km above the posted limit. No sirens, no lights. Just a whole lot of drifting/swerving and general inattention.
"He knows just enough to be dangerous."
Most sw/dev managers I know fall in this category.
The treatment is purely supportive. As with all virii, the body needs to clear it out on its own. It will do so, if the organs don't fail before the immune system builds the necessary antibodies. The 'cures' being worked are anti-retrovirals that inhibit the viral replication, so the body can get the upper hand more quickly.
The problem with modern unions is that they don't self-police the rubbers who inevitably get in. If Willy is a caught watching kiddie porn on the corp's equipment, the company shouldn't have to fight the union to get him axed. Modern unions for the most part will defend their members regardless of the infraction, including a criminal offense like this... If Steve is slacking and not getting his work done, Steve's coworkers should actively work with him to get him productive and if he isn't, give him da boot. Negative contributors drag everyone down.
I think it might be a sales incentive! The new owner gets the joy of deleting every one of those auditory atrocities, knowing the world has just become a better place to live!
This is a perfect example of an Expert System.
Expert Systems have been one of the most successful and longest used AI models in industry. FPGA routing and layout programs have relied on this form of AI since the early/mid 90's.
Waze is available on BB, fantastic app and free. Look for "Waze" in the BB World app store.