Have you ever seen a shuttle launch. It lights up the sky from 90 miles away. It is kind of impressive what humans kind can do when they are not fighting against each other.
Have you ever seen a nuke go off? That lights up the sky impressively too.
Have you ever seen a supernova? It lights up the sky from millions of miles away.
I sure hope there is no one ACTUALLY named Kim Dong-cheol then.
North Korean secret police: Are you Kim Dong-cheol?
KDC: Yes sir, but not the one who is in this article!
Police: Better safe than sorry, you get 12 years hard labor.
KDC: I'm not a driver for any corporation! I don't have any cameras!
Police: Well then 20 years for embarrassing dear leader!
KDC: But I haven't done anything to discredit our glorious leader or our glorious nation Police: BLAM! BLAM! All hail our glorious leader! Police: Are you Kim Dong-cheol?
Yeah calling ASIMO "the most advanced robot" is going to get a lot of laughs 50 years from now. Maybe some people played Atari 2600 and thought,"This is the most advanced video game console". They may have been technically right at the time, but don't act like it is not going to get much better.
The Japanese have a tendency to NOT share most cutting edge technology until after the fact, long after. Just as the US prohibits certain technologies from export, the Japanese do the same.
Let's see... "Engineers are hard at work on new monitors with half the DPI of current monitors." Yeah, I see what you mean!
Let me see... "Indian Engineers are hard at work on new Chinese monitors with half the DPI of current Mexican monitors." Yeah, I see what you mean!
There, fixed that for ya!
It's insensitive, but it's essentially how the Chinese economy works. Chinese companies can afford to pay substandard wages and ignore safety concerns because they have a basically limitless supply of labor as a continuous stream of Chinese peasants make their way from the farmland into the cities in search of a better life. If one worker drops or quits, there are fifty more waiting to take his or her place. It's analogous to the US during the Industrial Revolution, except on a much much larger scale.
With greater repercussions as well, when the workers finally, "Get It".
As for all AC's, F.O.! The true reason for offshoring has nothing to do with cheap products. It does have to do with greater profit margins. Most people pay what the sellers ask for, if this is not true then why does the price of consumables remain constant yet the cost of production drops. If the cost of production drops then the price of the product should drop as well. But it does not. The use of import tariffs artificially raise the price of imports comparable with American made products. To not use tariffs would force American manufacturers to drop prices in line with imports. How un-American would that be? American manufacturing executives state that they cannot drop the price since it would not be cost effective blah, blah, blah, yet these same executives still get bonuses in the range of million of dollars. Why is dat? For example, say an American made tennis shoe costs $35 to make, to be sold at $125. In China, the shoe is made at a cost of $10, yet still sells for $125. China as well as India are manufacturing products the way we did back is the 20's, before unions and the EPA as well as health care. Early in union history, the American worker was protected and as a result, gained a higher quality of life. Something happened within the unions and the workers became secondary to union longevity. As long as manufacturing executives continue to make record profits, this will not change. Eventually, one would hope, the workers in NAFTA, CAFTA and any other AFTA, will wise up and unionize. Unfortunately, manufacturing executives, worldwide, use the American model as a "how not to do it" model. These people will show their true colors in eliminating all attempts to organize the workers in the foreseeable future. They will also make the environment a non-issue.
Just think, Browncoats and the Aliance, Avatar and Custer's last stand, District 9 and the French and Indian wars rolled into one big ass reality show. Again I say, Hot Damn!
At one point, a van stopped to pick up hitchhikers.
I thought you were joking, so I checked TFA. This actually happened. Which is crazy. Horror movies start with stuff like this.
Robot vans picking up hitchhikers? In what twisted universe does a hitchhiker: 1) flag down a van 2) discover that it is driven by nobody and 3a) trust the van's occupants that they are "researchers" 3b) trust that "it's totally cool, nobody's going to steal your organs".
What happens when the Taliban, al queda, Palestinians, Chechens, or whom ever grabs one of these vehicles, loads it with explosives and sends it on its way. So much for symmetric warfare. Or better yet, slapped with national security papers thus preventing patenting (except for the military, of course).
Other than a lack of capital what is preventing you from doing the same?
I have morals and integrity, two of the most endangered species in the world. I do not plan on giving them up anytime soon. As for the users of HFT, a majority of them crashed with Enron and then were bailed out with taxpayer money, in decisions made by people I have/had no control over. These decision makers are the same people that have/had their hands in the pockets of those bailed out. Talk about tax dollars at work.
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Translation. The government wants to invade the privacy of every man, woman, and child. Gotta get those terrorists.
For the patriotic sake of the children whales.
first post...HA...how obvious is that?
Come on, people, this isn't brain surgery...
The proper term is rocket surgery. But that's ok, since government contractors can't do that either.
Have you ever seen a shuttle launch. It lights up the sky from 90 miles away. It is kind of impressive what humans kind can do when they are not fighting against each other.
Have you ever seen a nuke go off? That lights up the sky impressively too.
Have you ever seen a supernova? It lights up the sky from millions of miles away.
Nah. By starting out in Korean classrooms you can more or less guarantee that none of them will be named Sarah Connor.
Aren't there enough robots in N. Korea?
Nothing says "GAY" like a butt-plug sticking out of your ass. eh?
You have to be quick when the joke is this obvious...
I prefer liver with bacon and mashed potatoes...and beer.
The only physicists I've ever seen in lab coats were in angles and demons.
Angles? Were they so acute they were obtuse?
I sure hope there is no one ACTUALLY named Kim Dong-cheol then.
North Korean secret police: Are you Kim Dong-cheol? KDC: Yes sir, but not the one who is in this article! Police: Better safe than sorry, you get 12 years hard labor. KDC: I'm not a driver for any corporation! I don't have any cameras! Police: Well then 20 years for embarrassing dear leader!
KDC: But I haven't done anything to discredit our glorious leader or our glorious nation
Police: BLAM! BLAM! All hail our glorious leader!
Police: Are you Kim Dong-cheol?
Half the DPI? You think someone wants 40 DPI monitors? Hey, the 80s called and they want their 40 DPI monitors back!
Of course it does, twice the monitors at twice the price. $$$$$ $$$$$
Yeah calling ASIMO "the most advanced robot" is going to get a lot of laughs 50 years from now. Maybe some people played Atari 2600 and thought,"This is the most advanced video game console". They may have been technically right at the time, but don't act like it is not going to get much better.
The Japanese have a tendency to NOT share most cutting edge technology until after the fact, long after. Just as the US prohibits certain technologies from export, the Japanese do the same.
Go ahead.
You might want to have a think about who's really being humiliated in this situation though. I don't think it's me.
This is a necessary step to body cavity searches. Which are coming eventually.
No matter what nationalities you use, it doesn't make sense to work on monitors with half the DPI of current monitors, does it?
Of course it does. $$$$$
it's a trap!
Not only that, dead drops would be better protected by NOT disclosing their locations. Make it a game or puzzle, or riddle or something.
Let's see... "Engineers are hard at work on new monitors with half the DPI of current monitors." Yeah, I see what you mean!
Let me see... "Indian Engineers are hard at work on new Chinese monitors with half the DPI of current Mexican monitors." Yeah, I see what you mean!
There, fixed that for ya!
Don't worry, you'll see all that being "tested" in the next war they buy.
You mean in Iran or America?
The strategy shifted? Did it shift red or blue?
It's insensitive, but it's essentially how the Chinese economy works. Chinese companies can afford to pay substandard wages and ignore safety concerns because they have a basically limitless supply of labor as a continuous stream of Chinese peasants make their way from the farmland into the cities in search of a better life. If one worker drops or quits, there are fifty more waiting to take his or her place. It's analogous to the US during the Industrial Revolution, except on a much much larger scale.
With greater repercussions as well, when the workers finally, "Get It".
I think he/she is merely pointing out what the Chinese govt thinks
And when they run out, there's the rest of the world race.
There, fixed that for ya.
How incredibly insensitve, to say that an entire race is expendable. Shame on you.
Apparently, YOU are not of the ruling elite, which means you ARE cannon fodder, or soon will be.
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As for all AC's, F.O.!
The true reason for offshoring has nothing to do with cheap products. It does have to do with greater profit margins. Most people pay what the sellers ask for, if this is not true then why does the price of consumables remain constant yet the cost of production drops. If the cost of production drops then the price of the product should drop as well. But it does not. The use of import tariffs artificially raise the price of imports comparable with American made products. To not use tariffs would force American manufacturers to drop prices in line with imports. How un-American would that be? American manufacturing executives state that they cannot drop the price since it would not be cost effective blah, blah, blah, yet these same executives still get bonuses in the range of million of dollars. Why is dat?
For example, say an American made tennis shoe costs $35 to make, to be sold at $125. In China, the shoe is made at a cost of $10, yet still sells for $125.
China as well as India are manufacturing products the way we did back is the 20's, before unions and the EPA as well as health care. Early in union history, the American worker was protected and as a result, gained a higher quality of life. Something happened within the unions and the workers became secondary to union longevity. As long as manufacturing executives continue to make record profits, this will not change.
Eventually, one would hope, the workers in NAFTA, CAFTA and any other AFTA, will wise up and unionize. Unfortunately, manufacturing executives, worldwide, use the American model as a "how not to do it" model. These people will show their true colors in eliminating all attempts to organize the workers in the foreseeable future. They will also make the environment a non-issue.
I imagine one of these would be less effective at explosives delivery than a remote controlled vehicle would be.
Autonomous vs. remotely operated is different how?
Just think, Browncoats and the Aliance, Avatar and Custer's last stand, District 9 and the French and Indian wars rolled into one big ass reality show. Again I say, Hot Damn!
At one point, a van stopped to pick up hitchhikers.
I thought you were joking, so I checked TFA. This actually happened. Which is crazy. Horror movies start with stuff like this.
Robot vans picking up hitchhikers? In what twisted universe does a hitchhiker: 1) flag down a van 2) discover that it is driven by nobody and 3a) trust the van's occupants that they are "researchers" 3b) trust that "it's totally cool, nobody's going to steal your organs".
What happens when the Taliban, al queda, Palestinians, Chechens, or whom ever grabs one of these vehicles, loads it with explosives and sends it on its way. So much for symmetric warfare. Or better yet, slapped with national security papers thus preventing patenting (except for the military, of course).
Other than a lack of capital what is preventing you from doing the same?
I have morals and integrity, two of the most endangered species in the world. I do not plan on giving them up anytime soon. As for the users of HFT, a majority of them crashed with Enron and then were bailed out with taxpayer money, in decisions made by people I have/had no control over. These decision makers are the same people that have/had their hands in the pockets of those bailed out. Talk about tax dollars at work.