For rent-a-cop, and and any other simple, "mindless" job. Security, manufacturing, anything, really.
As soon as a robot is capable, the humans involved will be replaced, and the cost savings will go into the pockets of the executives and investors, as always.
I know it's a cultural thing in some places to hold generations-long grudges against people for the "sins of their fathers". But I've never understood it. And I'll never accept it. And if that's one area where I'm just culturally-insensitive, that's one insensitivity I can live with.
Hear, hear. I agree 100%, and wish I had mod points.
>>>For my neighbor to have no insurance indeed picks my pocket. Do you think ERs are free?
Don't cost us anything..
Are you serious? The Corp pays for nothing: they raise their prices to cover unpaid ER bills, and customers pay handsomely, i.e. our pockets are picked, in the Jeffersonian sense, for healthcare delivered to the uninsured in the most costly and inefficient way.
And I take Jefferson's quote from your post and modify it. If he were alive today he'd probably say, "It does me no injury for my neighbor to have insurance or no insurance. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
Incorrect. For my neighbor to have no insurance indeed picks my pocket. Do you think ERs are free?
You eat three meals a day, for a month, on that $200?
This figure alone causes me to suspect that you are unusually frugal, i.e. never eating out, always brown-bagging lunch, no pre-prepared food, lots of very simple, home-cooked fare, etc. Not an impossible lifestyle, but an usual one these days, in this country.
I bought a factory unlocked iPhone, at full price, and now can use whatever GSM prepaid "plan" I want (I use a six-year-old T-Mo To Go account), no contract, no BS. There's also no access to phone network data, but I find WiFi to be more than adequate for me.
I now have a phone that costs me as much as I want to spend on phone minutes (and no more) that is also a handheld WiFi computer.
I'm severely pissed off at Obama for all the campaign promises he reneged on (Gitmo, the wars, campaign reform, regulatory reform...I could go on and on and on)
It's not really fair to be "severely pissed off" at Obama over those issues, none of which he can do much about with a congress that opposes and obstructs his efforts to do anything at all.
Anyone else remember all the hype 15 years ago about how we'd all be running Java thin client machines by the year 2000? Pundits have been calling for the PC to die for the past 15 years, half the platform's life!
Yes, I do. I remember Larry Ellison (I think) trying to push diskless "Net PCs" back in the late 90's. No-one wanted them then, and I don't think they'll really do that much better (re: storing all of everyone's data) now.
I just don't get it. Here we have the teabaggers trying to RUIN the credit rating of this country, which will cause rampant inflation, yet I still hear poor folks saying "It is Obama's fault".
Because the Fox News crowd has convinced poor conservatives that to vote democrat is to support the evil Socialist, Gay, Junkie, non-White, non-male, Atheist, etc. etc. etc. Lib'rals. And supporting the Lib'rals would be the end of the world for these folks...
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Whenever they come, I wonder why. Circa 1996 they mattered, a little. Less and less ever since.
The worst thing... is the effing pedants.
Fixed that for you.
On any new Mac (and NeXT) since the 90's. I've seldom launched an app any other way in years.
Comparing today's HP to the HP of the 80s, I'm inclined to side with Schiller.
Agreed. Of course, /. being /., the pedants are having a field day with Phil's offhand remark, but c'est la vie.
For rent-a-cop, and and any other simple, "mindless" job. Security, manufacturing, anything, really. As soon as a robot is capable, the humans involved will be replaced, and the cost savings will go into the pockets of the executives and investors, as always.
Benghazi outrage is not happening GOP, it's never gonna happen.
This. Talk about clutching at straws! Hey, GOP, your desperation is showing.
I have a YouTube channel on my Roku, which I added long ago, when I was on a v1 Roku, IIRC. Still works with a newer model.
Is that where, e.g. someone inserts a candy bar and $0.75 is dispensed?
I know it's a cultural thing in some places to hold generations-long grudges against people for the "sins of their fathers". But I've never understood it. And I'll never accept it. And if that's one area where I'm just culturally-insensitive, that's one insensitivity I can live with.
Hear, hear. I agree 100%, and wish I had mod points.
Does the House GOP caucus have a minimum stupidity requirement?
No surprise FoxConn would invest - discreet wearable cameras are very popular items on the factory floor there.
Wow, welcome to 2008.
More like, welcome to 2003.
It would be prohibitively expensive for anyone outside of the first world though.
Yes, at first. Eventually...
>>>For my neighbor to have no insurance indeed picks my pocket. Do you think ERs are free?
Don't cost us anything..
Are you serious? The Corp pays for nothing: they raise their prices to cover unpaid ER bills, and customers pay handsomely, i.e. our pockets are picked, in the Jeffersonian sense, for healthcare delivered to the uninsured in the most costly and inefficient way.
And I take Jefferson's quote from your post and modify it. If he were alive today he'd probably say, "It does me no injury for my neighbor to have insurance or no insurance. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
Incorrect. For my neighbor to have no insurance indeed picks my pocket. Do you think ERs are free?
Groceries: $200/month
You eat three meals a day, for a month, on that $200? This figure alone causes me to suspect that you are unusually frugal, i.e. never eating out, always brown-bagging lunch, no pre-prepared food, lots of very simple, home-cooked fare, etc. Not an impossible lifestyle, but an usual one these days, in this country.
Yeah, because rich MILFs are attracted to low-paid retail clerks..
I'm sure it depends. How hot is the clerk? How bored and/or neglected is the MILF?
The street car systems were failing and unsustainable.
Do you have a citation for that?
But what does it taste like?
I bought a factory unlocked iPhone, at full price, and now can use whatever GSM prepaid "plan" I want (I use a six-year-old T-Mo To Go account), no contract, no BS. There's also no access to phone network data, but I find WiFi to be more than adequate for me. I now have a phone that costs me as much as I want to spend on phone minutes (and no more) that is also a handheld WiFi computer.
I'm severely pissed off at Obama for all the campaign promises he reneged on (Gitmo, the wars, campaign reform, regulatory reform...I could go on and on and on)
It's not really fair to be "severely pissed off" at Obama over those issues, none of which he can do much about with a congress that opposes and obstructs his efforts to do anything at all.
People are bitching about solar power too? No wonder conservatives say that environmentalists want to turn back the clock on civilization.
I think a lot of people on /. (and elsewhere) just live to complain. Some things never change....
Anyone else remember all the hype 15 years ago about how we'd all be running Java thin client machines by the year 2000? Pundits have been calling for the PC to die for the past 15 years, half the platform's life!
Yes, I do. I remember Larry Ellison (I think) trying to push diskless "Net PCs" back in the late 90's. No-one wanted them then, and I don't think they'll really do that much better (re: storing all of everyone's data) now.
Or if the Republican party is down to just religious psychopaths and undereducated xenophobes.
I think you've got it!
I just don't get it. Here we have the teabaggers trying to RUIN the credit rating of this country, which will cause rampant inflation, yet I still hear poor folks saying "It is Obama's fault".
Because the Fox News crowd has convinced poor conservatives that to vote democrat is to support the evil Socialist, Gay, Junkie, non-White, non-male, Atheist, etc. etc. etc. Lib'rals. And supporting the Lib'rals would be the end of the world for these folks...