then we should limit major choices, not bury young people in debt, unable to contribute to the economy (buy a house, car, etc.: manufacturing, construction, etc.) and instead it all goes into some bank ceo's pocket. how does that help anyone, besides ones plutocrat class sucking up so much and more and more each day. that doesn't trickle down morons, it just stays in a bank, while a middle class flush with cash spends most of it, actually generating jobs and a healthy economy
i don't really understand people who view life choices as a one sided thing. the range of choices available to you also reflect your society's values
some of you idiots will say if a guy only had a choice between walking off a cliff and walking into a furnace he should be blamed for wrongly choosing to commit suicide, poor characters, etc. what choices a person has before them is a reflection of the values of a society. and obviously, our society sucks, and is getting worse. cue the morons who bark "american exceptionalism" without fucking noticing that on all of the measures of what they consider american excpetional about, the usa is actually falling behind and slipping further
for example, you have greater social mobility as a poor immigrant in a nordic countries, than you do in the usa. you know, those countries with evil socialist universal healthcare and free/ low cost higher education
Because those Bently, Caddies, Bimmers, Mercs, Cessnas, GulfStreams, and the like are all simply conjured from thin air and given to those people who reach the 1% club as tokens of of their success. Yeeeep. No trickling there. None at all.
Nobody owes you a career... Absolutely 100% agreed.
But I have an ethical objection to considering universities as jobs factories. They are not. They never have been. If you want job training, you can go to a VoTech and learn a marketable skill and that will give you a much better ROI, if that is all you are concerned with.
I don't buy it that we can't afford to educate our young people. It is absolutely an attainable goal. You handwave it away by saying the world isn't fair. I agree. But that does not mean we should lie down and accept things that are possible to change. University of California used to be free. Think about that. And the same generation that benefited from free or near free college is remarkably callous towards students that suddenly need to pay $100k for a four year degree in-state. It doesn't have to be this way.
Whose income would you count? The parents or the student? What if the parents could afford tuition, but refuse to? Should the child be further punished for having parents that don't care about him/her?
So.... "the parents are now responsible for their ADULT children's bad decision making."? That doesn't sound like a bad precedent at all...
The 10th amendment was specifically designed to help prevent overreach of the Federal government. While it doesn't fix the representation issue you have, it would limit the amount of power wielded by those who are on the hill significantly, if applied and followed in a different manner than it has been in the past.
Anyone in power to actually propose or advocate such ideas that are clearly, outright dangerous to our freedom and privacy rights should be treated as our worst enemy. Anyone who does that is clearly showing to be a dangerous inept several magnitudes worse than the worst terrorist. An enemy of the public that can only choose between exile or jail.
Yeah, it basically conflates parts of the picking, sorting and packing process into a single job.
Though, it lacks one aspect of the old process, clearly visible there in your video.
Old system allowed for quick and dirty picking during daytime, while sorting, packing and transport could be done as a separate process, 24/7.
That automated picker dictates that all work must be done in daytime if one is aiming for optimum efficiency.
Cause nobody's gonna do any sorting at night in the field with all those insects rushing at the light and all that nectar in the air.
Nothing states that the machine in question can't just pick and dump into a collector. If there's no problems with it, a farmer could even pick at night, assuming said farmer can work out what that looks like from a navigation standpoint. Autonomous driving is an option, human monitored autonomous, or just throw a shedload of lights on the implement and let someone drive are all options for this.
Don't get me wrong, it's still evolutionary, but with a handful of changes (autonomy, a cab with lighting (and optionally climate control), or both), this could help a commercial strawberry farm produce significantly more fruit, assuming land is available and picking at night becomes a viable option.
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There are high initial costs and if you think that maintenance of robotic pickers will come cheap then you haven't been paying attention.
But because there are now better jobs for unskilled workers out there due to which there is a lack of available workforce - that makes machines which cost around 100k a pop seem affordable.
And did you even look at what that picker does? It's turning fieldworkers into assembly line workers.
Sitting and sorting and packing sunrise-to-sunset is a lot easier than hunching down all that time.
BETTER JOBS. Not better paid jobs.
To be fair, sorting and packing strawberries is assembly line work already. YouTube has several examples of this. The fact is that strawberries require some judgement that the automation can't make yet. This moves that packaging from a dedicated building to on-site, which is an interesting idea.
This makes the machine being discussed here look like an evolution more than a revolution.
If you business model requires that you pay slave wages to your employees you need a new business model.
I also love when they say "Americans don't want to do this work", because they always leave off the "for the slave wages I'm willing to pay them".
And as we've seen over and over and over again, increasing the salary you pay to your workers has a negligible effect on the price of your goods that consumers pay.
When I was in high school I used to work on a farm over the summer, picking berries and other fruit. It was absolutely shitty work, but it paid more than McDonalds, which was also shitty work and at least I got to be outside. But to do that as an adult for minimum wage? Oh fuck no. You'd have to pay me upwards of $25 an hour + full health benefits + overtime + minimum 2 weeks vacation to do that kind of shit work. Offer a package like that and see how many American come running for that job they supposedly don't want to do.
And watch the price of that pound of strawberries rise accordingly. All agriculture competes on a world stage now, and competing with growers who pay much the same to their employees but said employees have a significantly lower cost of living is difficult at best. The global economy hasn't flattened out as many predicted it would. Reasons for this are probably many and varied.
A 20% pay cut is severe, but only over the minimum wage difference. Someone pulling 5 mil is still unable to spend it quicker than it comes in. It just isn't piling on as quickly as it was at 6mil.
I can EASILY see someone spending 6M a year on stuff. The collector car market is particularly expensive as this one (admittedly extreme) example indicates.
So when we're talking about net neutrality, taking a law from the 1930's and applying to today's technology is bad, but if we're talking about gun control doing the same thing with an 18th century amendment is somehow good? Pick one, conservatives.
If they want a real test, try Orlando, Florida. I found it the most trying city to drive in of any I've ever lived in, thanks to the joyous combination of people visiting from Ohio that expect a mile clear ahead of them and people from New York who think 6 inches is enough of a gap for someone to cut them off.
Yeah... my experience in working along side with those in Academia indicates to me that the requirements and culture are VASTLY different from working in the private sector. YMMV.
But it comes with "the latest Android 4.4 KitKat® operating system" even from the shop, so quite likely the OS will not be upgraded ever after. Why would anyone buy a $400 device, which is obsolete even at time of purchase and has a built in insecurity? What kind of uninstallable crapware does it have?
Lollipop by some reports is still somewhat broken, despite being in release.
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then we should limit major choices, not bury young people in debt, unable to contribute to the economy (buy a house, car, etc.: manufacturing, construction, etc.) and instead it all goes into some bank ceo's pocket. how does that help anyone, besides ones plutocrat class sucking up so much and more and more each day. that doesn't trickle down morons, it just stays in a bank, while a middle class flush with cash spends most of it, actually generating jobs and a healthy economy
i don't really understand people who view life choices as a one sided thing. the range of choices available to you also reflect your society's values
some of you idiots will say if a guy only had a choice between walking off a cliff and walking into a furnace he should be blamed for wrongly choosing to commit suicide, poor characters, etc. what choices a person has before them is a reflection of the values of a society. and obviously, our society sucks, and is getting worse. cue the morons who bark "american exceptionalism" without fucking noticing that on all of the measures of what they consider american excpetional about, the usa is actually falling behind and slipping further
for example, you have greater social mobility as a poor immigrant in a nordic countries, than you do in the usa. you know, those countries with evil socialist universal healthcare and free/ low cost higher education
Because those Bently, Caddies, Bimmers, Mercs, Cessnas, GulfStreams, and the like are all simply conjured from thin air and given to those people who reach the 1% club as tokens of of their success. Yeeeep. No trickling there. None at all.
Nobody owes you a career... Absolutely 100% agreed. But I have an ethical objection to considering universities as jobs factories. They are not. They never have been. If you want job training, you can go to a VoTech and learn a marketable skill and that will give you a much better ROI, if that is all you are concerned with. I don't buy it that we can't afford to educate our young people. It is absolutely an attainable goal. You handwave it away by saying the world isn't fair. I agree. But that does not mean we should lie down and accept things that are possible to change. University of California used to be free. Think about that. And the same generation that benefited from free or near free college is remarkably callous towards students that suddenly need to pay $100k for a four year degree in-state. It doesn't have to be this way.
And why isn't it free anymore?
Whose income would you count? The parents or the student? What if the parents could afford tuition, but refuse to? Should the child be further punished for having parents that don't care about him/her?
So.... "the parents are now responsible for their ADULT children's bad decision making."? That doesn't sound like a bad precedent at all...
I'm surprised no one's posted this yet.
I think the same about Java.
This needs to be +5 informative.
The 10th amendment was specifically designed to help prevent overreach of the Federal government. While it doesn't fix the representation issue you have, it would limit the amount of power wielded by those who are on the hill significantly, if applied and followed in a different manner than it has been in the past.
You Americans been slowly turning your republic into a democracy over the last 100 or so years. That's why you're headed down the shitter.
There's an uncomfortable amount of truth to this statement.
Grass is green, sky is blue, water is wet. More at 11.
Right now it is not a crime, BUT it should be.
Anyone in power to actually propose or advocate such ideas that are clearly, outright dangerous to our freedom and privacy rights should be treated as our worst enemy. Anyone who does that is clearly showing to be a dangerous inept several magnitudes worse than the worst terrorist. An enemy of the public that can only choose between exile or jail.
Yay freedom of speech?
Yeah, it basically conflates parts of the picking, sorting and packing process into a single job.
Though, it lacks one aspect of the old process, clearly visible there in your video. Old system allowed for quick and dirty picking during daytime, while sorting, packing and transport could be done as a separate process, 24/7. That automated picker dictates that all work must be done in daytime if one is aiming for optimum efficiency.
Cause nobody's gonna do any sorting at night in the field with all those insects rushing at the light and all that nectar in the air.
Nothing states that the machine in question can't just pick and dump into a collector. If there's no problems with it, a farmer could even pick at night, assuming said farmer can work out what that looks like from a navigation standpoint. Autonomous driving is an option, human monitored autonomous, or just throw a shedload of lights on the implement and let someone drive are all options for this.
Don't get me wrong, it's still evolutionary, but with a handful of changes (autonomy, a cab with lighting (and optionally climate control), or both), this could help a commercial strawberry farm produce significantly more fruit, assuming land is available and picking at night becomes a viable option.
- snip -
There are high initial costs and if you think that maintenance of robotic pickers will come cheap then you haven't been paying attention. But because there are now better jobs for unskilled workers out there due to which there is a lack of available workforce - that makes machines which cost around 100k a pop seem affordable.
And did you even look at what that picker does? It's turning fieldworkers into assembly line workers. Sitting and sorting and packing sunrise-to-sunset is a lot easier than hunching down all that time. BETTER JOBS. Not better paid jobs.
To be fair, sorting and packing strawberries is assembly line work already. YouTube has several examples of this. The fact is that strawberries require some judgement that the automation can't make yet. This moves that packaging from a dedicated building to on-site, which is an interesting idea.
This makes the machine being discussed here look like an evolution more than a revolution.
If you business model requires that you pay slave wages to your employees you need a new business model.
I also love when they say "Americans don't want to do this work", because they always leave off the "for the slave wages I'm willing to pay them".
And as we've seen over and over and over again, increasing the salary you pay to your workers has a negligible effect on the price of your goods that consumers pay.
When I was in high school I used to work on a farm over the summer, picking berries and other fruit. It was absolutely shitty work, but it paid more than McDonalds, which was also shitty work and at least I got to be outside. But to do that as an adult for minimum wage? Oh fuck no. You'd have to pay me upwards of $25 an hour + full health benefits + overtime + minimum 2 weeks vacation to do that kind of shit work. Offer a package like that and see how many American come running for that job they supposedly don't want to do.
And watch the price of that pound of strawberries rise accordingly. All agriculture competes on a world stage now, and competing with growers who pay much the same to their employees but said employees have a significantly lower cost of living is difficult at best. The global economy hasn't flattened out as many predicted it would. Reasons for this are probably many and varied.
I've read it many times. Still don't see it.
A 20% pay cut is severe, but only over the minimum wage difference. Someone pulling 5 mil is still unable to spend it quicker than it comes in. It just isn't piling on as quickly as it was at 6mil.
I can EASILY see someone spending 6M a year on stuff. The collector car market is particularly expensive as this one (admittedly extreme) example indicates.
She's going to merge the USA & Canada, keep the worst bits of both and the best bits of neither, then sell the resulting mess to Vanautu for a dollar.
Hawaii won't be part of the deal; she'll get that as her golden parachute.
IF this isn't +5 funny, please fix.
> All of a sudden, that piece of paper is so important because homosexuals are the ones with traditional views of marriage.
The marriage contract opens the doors to wide range of economic benefits. Denying those benefits is ultimately what's wrong.
Then perhaps the right path to that is to get the benefits divorced from what many believe to be a religious institution.
So when we're talking about net neutrality, taking a law from the 1930's and applying to today's technology is bad, but if we're talking about gun control doing the same thing with an 18th century amendment is somehow good? Pick one, conservatives.
Can you expand on this? I can't connect the dots.
destroy your cookie and log back in. I haven't sorted out what's going on, but it does seem to fix the problem for me.
In its glory days, Sun had on staff prominent people like Java founder James Gosling, Unix whiz Bill Joy, and XML co-inventor Tim Bray.
Java good, Unix good, XML DIAF!!!
It's my understanding that Java types love them some XML, so this post doesn't make a lot of sense to me...
Let's hope you don't find yourself forced to use an ultra-slow Internet connection: they removed the Load images by default checkbox a while ago now.
You have to screw around in about:config to get the same effect.
The thinking behind this: some nonsense about options being confusing.
Some would suggest that turning off images is a power user thing anyway... but I understand your point.
If they want a real test, try Orlando, Florida. I found it the most trying city to drive in of any I've ever lived in, thanks to the joyous combination of people visiting from Ohio that expect a mile clear ahead of them and people from New York who think 6 inches is enough of a gap for someone to cut them off.
Baby steps.
"The vehicles travel slower, set routes."
IOW Asian cars.
Well, yaknow... at least they can negotiate a corner.
Yeah... my experience in working along side with those in Academia indicates to me that the requirements and culture are VASTLY different from working in the private sector. YMMV.
The latest Icons largely are stellar looking with great usability.
But it comes with "the latest Android 4.4 KitKat® operating system" even from the shop, so quite likely the OS will not be upgraded ever after. Why would anyone buy a $400 device, which is obsolete even at time of purchase and has a built in insecurity? What kind of uninstallable crapware does it have?
Lollipop by some reports is still somewhat broken, despite being in release.