I'd pay that much for one that is worth that much. However, mowing a lawn can now be done with a Roomba type lawn mower that also fertilizes the yard at the same time.
Automation of creative process is next to impossible at this point. Everyone is unique, and yet more or less the same (on average). We are automating the "same" bits to robotics, and what is left is the "unique" bits. Find out what makes you.. unique and monetize it. If you can't, then your uniqueness isn't desirable and you better modify it so that it is.
Nothing has really changed over the last 150 years in this regard, it is just becoming closer to the point where being robotic isn't good enough anymore. And yet, we're teaching our kids in how to be a cog in a giant machine, when the world is moving as fast as it can away from that model. The parents that teach their kids to be REALLY good at what makes them unique will be the successful parents.
Yes, everyone pays taxes. The problem is, taxes tend to be regressive in nature from the beginning. The rich can avoid them, the poor do not pay them, and they suck the life out of the middle class. You want to fix the problem with the dwindling middle class? Fix the tax system that punishes people for earning a living.
Pendulum Swings both ways. Everyone loves a winner, everyone loves to jump on a loser. In this case, everyone loved Uber when it was viewed as "winning" and now that it is not "winning" they are piling on the loser.
I used to do the same. I don't any more. After being thrown under the bus for doing EXACTLY what the customer said, against my recommendations(documented no less), no thank you.
WHICH happens to be a great way to make your point even stronger. Telling a customer "no, I won't" gets them to think, perhaps a little. I've had a couple people ask me why I won't, and basically say, "When the shit hits the fan, I don't want to be involved, don't want to clean the mess up, and don't want to take the fall for anyone but me".
I now use a phrase that sums up everything perfectly. "Good IT is expensive, bad IT is costly".
I can believe it was the client's idea. As an IT guy, I would have walked away, after explaining that I wasn't going to be party to people too cheap or too stupid to do their job correctly, and risk the safety of everyone that uses that airport.
I would suggest that find work that robots can't do, because that is the value you have. There are things robots suck at, like being truly creative. Maybe one day, they will be creative.
Natural Diamonds and Artificial Diamonds are indistinguishable, except for the fact that an Artificial one is technically superior in just about every way one could judge a diamond. They are also VERY easy to produce, and in VERY large sizes that are nearly impossible to find naturally. This makes the whole Natural vs Artificial argument really stupid.
A diamond is a diamond. It takes special tools to find imperfections in the natural diamonds for even "experts" to tell the difference.
Yes, they do provide birth control. I never said they didn't. You can even get condoms there, does that mean they can claim they are a male health care provider like they claim they are a "women's healthcare provider" because they perform abortions and give out birth control?
To me, a woman's health center would be more concerned about actual health of women. Abortion is very hard on a woman's body, and there is plenty of documented studies that show this. Not that PP would ever tell you the long term risks of abortion on women.
While I agree with your conclusion, I would say that he wasn't "capable" because he was a manager, regardless of his previous status which could have been engineer. I am half convinced there is a secret to getting into management from an actual work position. Based on my own boss's progress, I am convinced that he went to an actual "Dilbert School of Management" and got his PhB degree. I turn to Dilbert every day to see what is his next plan.
technology gets more powerful it also gets more intrusive
Technology is invasive the moment it becomes pervasive.
You and I said the same thing. As a Libertarian, I would suggest to you a (singular) camera is invasive, but accepted. A thousand cameras owned by the state is in fact a violation of constitutional guarantees against UNREASONABLE searches. Is it really unreasonable to be free from observation in a "Free" society?
Think about it for a second, the very thing we made fun of in the USSR is happening today, and both liberals and conservatives are arguing for more of the same surveillance state.
The difference between a single picture from 1970 by my dad on a camera at Disneyland is clearly not the same thing as the government being able to watch me travel from my home to Disneyland on all the cameras lined all the way there and back. Once is inconvenience, a hundred thousand frames is observation. Somewhere along that long line, it stops being expectation of not being filmed and one of expectation of being filmed at any given moment.
It is better to keep ALL data, good and bad, so that it can be examined later. Tossing data that doesn't fit preconceived ideas isn't science, it is religion.
When insturment calibration is examined, both the unadjusted and adjusted values should be available as raw and "corrected" results. When the "raw" data is discarded, there is no ability to re-examine that data, and all we are left with is the "adjusted" data that is unproven. This is scientific heresy of the greatest kind.
In other words, it isn't science if the adulterated results cannot be replicated for the original data, because it no longer exists. I mean it isn't like scientists to fudge data to get the results they were looking for... ever. Never happens. Ever.
"records" in modern human terms. But failure to mention "other" records like the hurricane lull in the Atlantic is quickly forgotten. After all, "MORE EXTREME WEATHER" should have produced more and more extreme hurricanes.... but those simply haven't appeared.
I have no doubt carbon is increasing, I have plenty of doubt that it is actually "bad" for the planet. It might be bad for humans, but I am pretty sure plants love it. More plants = more life.
Oh, and Failing Dam Spillways is caused by AGW, and not by the government who was supposed to be doing maintenance but failed. Yes, Gov Brown said that the failed spillway was caused by Global Warming.
And now, you know why a lot of people do not take it seriously.
DeBeers has a monopoly on fiat gemstones, and not just any fiat gemstone, but only one specific kind. Let that sink in for a minute.
Once upon a time, Aluminium was considered rare and valuable. That was until someone figured a way to get the ore processed very inexpensively. Then all those fine (expensive) Aluminum dinnerware sets became almost worthless overnight. And so it will be with DeBeers, once people realize that a diamond is a diamond and you can have a custom diamond made for you very inexpensively. Then all those expensive necklaces worn by the starlets during the Oscars can be worn by anyone.
I can't wait to see all that jewelry become worth... less.
I'll give you one example of how "marketing" doesn't equal "services". Your linked page, regarding Prenatal care, can you show me where they announce they actually provide prenatal services? The page is nothing more than a wikipedia type page on Prenatal care. I could put the same page up on a personal blog, in its entirety, and would that mean I am actually providing prenatal care? NOPE.
Thanks for trying, but you're believing the hype and not the reality.
Its worst than that. Most of the "data" comes from a very limited set of instruments and is passed around as defacto "fact". Questioning the collection methods and the post collection data manipulation = Heresy!
1) Yeah, which is why I did it. Inflamatory subject using rational thought. Imagine that.
2) If you ran a Hamburger Restaurant and said that you're not a "Hamburger" place because only 33% of your business was "Hamburgers", would you be telling the truth, or telling a lie?
You sell Hamburger, fries, and a soda, and count that as 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 you'd technically be correct. But everyone in the world would understand that you're in the "hamburger" business. Right?
3) So, yeah, Abortion procedure itself is only 12%. Technically correct using the metric as applied by PP, which is VERY similar to how I explained above. How about you ask the question differently. How many people visiting PP are there to get an abortion vs "other" services they offer. BTW, those "other" services are fairly limited to.... being an abortion provider.
They claim to be "women's health" but they do not offer Prenatal anything... except abortion. They don't offer Mammograms like they continue to claim (as in NONE). They don't do.... a whole lot of things related to "women's health". (Fact Check article is technically correct: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics)
BUT I have an idea, I've suggested a number of times. Planned Parenthood can keep all the funding it gets now, if they stop providing abortion or referrals for abortion. Lets see how much of their Business is Abortion. I'll bet it is like a Hamburger shop not being able to actually sell burgers. Just fries, cokes.... And yes, this would settle the case, once and for all. Their primary business is abortion. They can't exist without it.
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The answer is obvious ... DISARM the Peasants!
I'd pay that much for one that is worth that much. However, mowing a lawn can now be done with a Roomba type lawn mower that also fertilizes the yard at the same time.
Automation of creative process is next to impossible at this point. Everyone is unique, and yet more or less the same (on average). We are automating the "same" bits to robotics, and what is left is the "unique" bits. Find out what makes you .. unique and monetize it. If you can't, then your uniqueness isn't desirable and you better modify it so that it is.
Nothing has really changed over the last 150 years in this regard, it is just becoming closer to the point where being robotic isn't good enough anymore. And yet, we're teaching our kids in how to be a cog in a giant machine, when the world is moving as fast as it can away from that model. The parents that teach their kids to be REALLY good at what makes them unique will be the successful parents.
Taxes are a necessary evil, and should be the last resort option. Not the go to solution for every liberal's wet dream.
Yes, everyone pays taxes. The problem is, taxes tend to be regressive in nature from the beginning. The rich can avoid them, the poor do not pay them, and they suck the life out of the middle class. You want to fix the problem with the dwindling middle class? Fix the tax system that punishes people for earning a living.
Or, it could have been preemptive in nature, securing the obvious so that someone ... say .. Microsoft or Google tried to patent the same.
Pendulum Swings both ways. Everyone loves a winner, everyone loves to jump on a loser. In this case, everyone loved Uber when it was viewed as "winning" and now that it is not "winning" they are piling on the loser.
I used to do the same. I don't any more. After being thrown under the bus for doing EXACTLY what the customer said, against my recommendations(documented no less), no thank you.
WHICH happens to be a great way to make your point even stronger. Telling a customer "no, I won't" gets them to think, perhaps a little. I've had a couple people ask me why I won't, and basically say, "When the shit hits the fan, I don't want to be involved, don't want to clean the mess up, and don't want to take the fall for anyone but me".
I now use a phrase that sums up everything perfectly. "Good IT is expensive, bad IT is costly".
I can believe it was the client's idea. As an IT guy, I would have walked away, after explaining that I wasn't going to be party to people too cheap or too stupid to do their job correctly, and risk the safety of everyone that uses that airport.
This is short for "My cousin Vinnie's 13 year old son. He's a whiz at these things"
I would suggest that find work that robots can't do, because that is the value you have. There are things robots suck at, like being truly creative. Maybe one day, they will be creative.
"Resembles Butterfly" - Johnny5 "Short Circuit"
Natural Diamonds and Artificial Diamonds are indistinguishable, except for the fact that an Artificial one is technically superior in just about every way one could judge a diamond. They are also VERY easy to produce, and in VERY large sizes that are nearly impossible to find naturally. This makes the whole Natural vs Artificial argument really stupid.
A diamond is a diamond. It takes special tools to find imperfections in the natural diamonds for even "experts" to tell the difference.
Yes, they do provide birth control. I never said they didn't. You can even get condoms there, does that mean they can claim they are a male health care provider like they claim they are a "women's healthcare provider" because they perform abortions and give out birth control?
To me, a woman's health center would be more concerned about actual health of women. Abortion is very hard on a woman's body, and there is plenty of documented studies that show this. Not that PP would ever tell you the long term risks of abortion on women.
While I agree with your conclusion, I would say that he wasn't "capable" because he was a manager, regardless of his previous status which could have been engineer. I am half convinced there is a secret to getting into management from an actual work position. Based on my own boss's progress, I am convinced that he went to an actual "Dilbert School of Management" and got his PhB degree. I turn to Dilbert every day to see what is his next plan.
technology gets more powerful it also gets more intrusive
Technology is invasive the moment it becomes pervasive.
You and I said the same thing. As a Libertarian, I would suggest to you a (singular) camera is invasive, but accepted. A thousand cameras owned by the state is in fact a violation of constitutional guarantees against UNREASONABLE searches. Is it really unreasonable to be free from observation in a "Free" society?
Think about it for a second, the very thing we made fun of in the USSR is happening today, and both liberals and conservatives are arguing for more of the same surveillance state.
The difference between a single picture from 1970 by my dad on a camera at Disneyland is clearly not the same thing as the government being able to watch me travel from my home to Disneyland on all the cameras lined all the way there and back. Once is inconvenience, a hundred thousand frames is observation. Somewhere along that long line, it stops being expectation of not being filmed and one of expectation of being filmed at any given moment.
It is better to keep ALL data, good and bad, so that it can be examined later. Tossing data that doesn't fit preconceived ideas isn't science, it is religion.
When insturment calibration is examined, both the unadjusted and adjusted values should be available as raw and "corrected" results. When the "raw" data is discarded, there is no ability to re-examine that data, and all we are left with is the "adjusted" data that is unproven. This is scientific heresy of the greatest kind.
In other words, it isn't science if the adulterated results cannot be replicated for the original data, because it no longer exists. I mean it isn't like scientists to fudge data to get the results they were looking for ... ever. Never happens. Ever.
"records" in modern human terms. But failure to mention "other" records like the hurricane lull in the Atlantic is quickly forgotten. After all, "MORE EXTREME WEATHER" should have produced more and more extreme hurricanes .... but those simply haven't appeared.
I have no doubt carbon is increasing, I have plenty of doubt that it is actually "bad" for the planet. It might be bad for humans, but I am pretty sure plants love it. More plants = more life.
Carbon Credits are how elitist liberals get around their overly large carbon footprints. "I bought Carbon Offsets from myself"
Unexpected extreme low temperatures = weather
Unexpected extreme high temperatures = AGW
Duh!
Oh, and Failing Dam Spillways is caused by AGW, and not by the government who was supposed to be doing maintenance but failed. Yes, Gov Brown said that the failed spillway was caused by Global Warming.
And now, you know why a lot of people do not take it seriously.
DeBeers has a monopoly on fiat gemstones, and not just any fiat gemstone, but only one specific kind. Let that sink in for a minute.
Once upon a time, Aluminium was considered rare and valuable. That was until someone figured a way to get the ore processed very inexpensively. Then all those fine (expensive) Aluminum dinnerware sets became almost worthless overnight. And so it will be with DeBeers, once people realize that a diamond is a diamond and you can have a custom diamond made for you very inexpensively. Then all those expensive necklaces worn by the starlets during the Oscars can be worn by anyone.
I can't wait to see all that jewelry become worth ... less.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"
I'll give you one example of how "marketing" doesn't equal "services". Your linked page, regarding Prenatal care, can you show me where they announce they actually provide prenatal services? The page is nothing more than a wikipedia type page on Prenatal care. I could put the same page up on a personal blog, in its entirety, and would that mean I am actually providing prenatal care? NOPE.
Thanks for trying, but you're believing the hype and not the reality.
Its worst than that. Most of the "data" comes from a very limited set of instruments and is passed around as defacto "fact". Questioning the collection methods and the post collection data manipulation = Heresy!
1) Yeah, which is why I did it. Inflamatory subject using rational thought. Imagine that.
2) If you ran a Hamburger Restaurant and said that you're not a "Hamburger" place because only 33% of your business was "Hamburgers", would you be telling the truth, or telling a lie?
You sell Hamburger, fries, and a soda, and count that as 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 you'd technically be correct. But everyone in the world would understand that you're in the "hamburger" business. Right?
3) So, yeah, Abortion procedure itself is only 12%. Technically correct using the metric as applied by PP, which is VERY similar to how I explained above. How about you ask the question differently. How many people visiting PP are there to get an abortion vs "other" services they offer. BTW, those "other" services are fairly limited to .... being an abortion provider.
They claim to be "women's health" but they do not offer Prenatal anything ... except abortion. They don't offer Mammograms like they continue to claim (as in NONE). They don't do .... a whole lot of things related to "women's health". (Fact Check article is technically correct: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics)
BUT I have an idea, I've suggested a number of times. Planned Parenthood can keep all the funding it gets now, if they stop providing abortion or referrals for abortion. Lets see how much of their Business is Abortion. I'll bet it is like a Hamburger shop not being able to actually sell burgers. Just fries, cokes .... And yes, this would settle the case, once and for all. Their primary business is abortion. They can't exist without it.