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  1. Re:Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    Yes, and it's very likely some people at the time WHERE paying for food, just not in money like we know it. I wouldn't be surprised if there where people who where exceptional with tools, so there addition to society was improve spears.

    What they couldn't imagine is that people would work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week year in and out.

  2. Re:Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    Except we are running out of jobs, as shown by an increase in GDP and a decrease in average income.

    I am sick and tired of idiots that claim everything will be fine even though the economics and data show otherwise.

    BTW: The Luddites were right. There jobs DID go away. I say this because you probably know as much about Luddites as you do about economics; which is to say nothing.

    Automation is getting so advanced, that you won't need anyone to make or bring ideas to reality. You will just order it.

    Where do people go when farming is automated? construction? burger flippers?

    People like you said the same thing about automotive robots. but a the end of the day a lot fewer people were needed to make cars.
    All this is a good thing, we just need to realize the current capitalist system will collapse under the new pressure.

    Most office workers do actual work for only 4 hours a day. This is a propped up system based on time in the seat and not actual work done.

  3. Re:C4 on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 2

    Except automation started replacing more jobs then it created at the end of the 90s.

    I wrote a piece of automation software that put 10,000+ people out of work in a year. Most the people where office workers approving loans. Most where 35+.

    What, exactly did they go off and create? What new jobs were created? Office around the country were closed, so what happened ti the urtiary markets? Oh, it fell apart and never recovered.

    You're examples are from a industrial age where there where a lot of open and variable resources, no global logistics, and mostly lead to MORE people being unemployed then employed based on volume of work.

    Average income is dropping, but GDP is rising.

    your example requires that an increase in consumerism to hold out, but that can not happen with income droppin, and debt climbing.

  4. That is why you pay OK, but have great benefits and retirement.

  5. Nope. You really should learn to understand what you link to and learn how to look up basic facts.

    1969 average salary: ~8600 adj. for inflation in 2014: ~55K

    2014 average teacher pay: $56,383

    http://nces.ed.gov/programs/di...

    From your link you didn't seem to understand:
    " Instruction expenditures include salaries and benefits of teachers and teaching assistants as well as costs for instructional materials and instructional services provided under contract."

    Look, you really need to stop looking at a graph and assume it proves your point because the bars are higher. YOu need to start UNDERSTANDING your links and what they say. You really look like a moron. I don't think you are a moron, I just think you haven't bothered to train yourself to think things through.

  6. "Free market capitalism builds competition for the sake of the consumer/client/user and it pushes prices down and you will not find teachers who would agree to that type of competition."
    nope.

    I suggewst you read some fucking history.
    What would happen would pretty much parrelly what privatization of the p[rison system has done.

    Profit:
    Get kids out as fast as you can from low income areas.
    Fail kids you know you can charge more for next year
    Put 100 students in a class room.

    WHat you, and fucktead of your thinking, fail to do is look where the berst schools are. Best school being areas with the highest level of education when kids graduate.

    It's not free market areas.

    Everybody should be forced to learn about corporate history before have to even mention the free market. SOMething even Smith said wouldn't work in practice.

    Twads.

  7. As a rule, it's almost impossible to determine 'bad teacher'. I say almost impossible but no one has been able to come up with a way to determine that.
    Yes, some are obvious, but those are tiny amount of teachers.

    Teacher do not need to get paid more i most places. Those funds need to go to getting more school and more teachers. Cut their workload in half.

    But thats cost money and taxes and people ahve becoime fucking morons regarding taxes.

    If it were up to me, I would put a 1 cent a Kw tax on electricity. Just for new schools and more teachers. Thats 40 billion a year, BTW.

  8. Re:^THIS-AND, most elementary teachers are women on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 1

    Nothing you said is true.

  9. EIther thats a lie, or you didn't care enough to follow up.

    I've had disciplinary action happen to 2 teachers through my kids learning career.

  10. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    We can build load following nuclear reactor, In fact, France uses them.

  11. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    They tried a way to help people.
    Abuse happened.
    They stopped the program..

    Yeah, that's just horrible.

  12. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    "cooperation across all governance scales" i is all about"

    Same thing it's always been about.
    Protip: It's not about a central government, and you look like a loon trying to twisted it into one, fuck wad.,

  13. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Some of the new 4.5 generation on the drawing board are so safe, that you could put it into a city and have no risk.

  14. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    If coal had to pay to recapture waste, NIMBYS would mostly go away when their energy cost go to 2 bucks a KW.

  15. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    WHich is why they all should be run by the feds, manned with engineers and experts in there fields.
    They should be run at cost +5%

    They should be open to the public. Both design and tours.

    Every problem with nuclear reactors has either been created by, and made worse, but companies trying to save money and delaying storage, maintenance, or putting non experts in charge.

    Fuck it, the private sector had it's chance.

  16. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    liquider sodium.

    It's really liquid sodium all the way down.

    That said, a good thermionic generator could use the heat for electricity.
    http://physicsworld.com/cws/ar...

  17. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    ANd it could still be running. Assuming you didn't just make it up.

  18. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    You know the 8 dollars a watt is spread out of 40 years, right?

  19. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    I like how you think the only way to store energy is with a battery. It's so gosh darn adorable.

  20. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Yes, it actually can, and no you don't even need batteries.

    You should read you own sig.

  21. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    We don't need better, we need more. If we can build a stadium that sits 100,000 people, then we can build a reservoir to use as gravity storage.

  22. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    And those are available for purchase? No? then it doesn't count.

  23. Re:Bitcoin and criminals on The Technologies That Betrayed Silk Road's Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Most paper money have a level of drug residue.

  24. ONce again, it'[s not anon. on The Technologies That Betrayed Silk Road's Anonymity · · Score: 1

    If you can get something from a to b on the internet, people can figure it out.

    It's only about increase the level of cost to figure it out.

    Just like anything encrypted that needs to become human readable at some point can be figured out. Not necessarily the way you are thinking.

  25. Re:Null hypothesis on WSJ Refused To Publish Lawrence Krauss' Response To "Science Proves Religion" · · Score: 1

    Atheism is what you call someone with no belief in a higher power,god. etc

    By definition atheism is not a belief. Stop trying to turn it into one.