RFID tags are available in active and passive types.
The passive variety requires no battery on the item being tracked, but its range is limited at 10' to 600', depending on the type of reader.
Active RFID tags broadcast their signal at predetermined intervals, but require an onboard battery. Some manufacturers are using lithium-thionyl chloride batteries, which may skirt the new regulations.
Money's value is in being able to store the wealth you incur selling the wood you've upgraded into furniture. The barter system, as old as it may be, was inefficient enough thousands of years ago to inspire people to look for ways to improve the exchange process.
Something else we owe to the Mongol Hordes:
Upon establishing the unified Mongol Empire, Chinggis Khan introduced gold and silver coins called Sukhes and later, in the year of 1227, introduced the world's first paper money/banknote/ into circulation.
A good example would be lawyers. Seems like an easy one to replace, the law is just a set of rules that are applied, right? Except that much of the work is actually dealing with people, understanding how things work in the real world with timing and banks and people behaving inconsistently or lying.
Appealing to a human judge and jury while representing a human defendant would seem to favor human lawyers, although the job of jury duty might well be one we voluntarily abandon to the machines. Perhaps like migrant workers, robotics and artificial intelligence will gain a foothold by performing those tasks we find the least attractive.
There will be a tipping point when enough human jobs are replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence whereby it'll be in the interest of companies to get behind a Universal Basic Income... otherwise, to whom will they sell their wares?
It's virtually always perspective regarding the replacement of jobs with technological innovation. The owner of the textile manufacturing facility would be in very real jeopardy of losing his business to competitors if he does not employ the labor-saving punch-card looms, yet understandably, the worker who specializes in the trade being rendered obsolete is resentful to the point of outrage over the technology's implementation.
Enough printers were employed – 670 in all – to produce the same number of papers that it took 6,800 men to print at the old shop. The efficiency was obvious and frightened the union into holding out an entire year.
The role of labor unions has diminished, in part, because their function as protectors of dues-paying members has placed them on the side of clinging to the established, less efficient methods of production.
Just think about how much sense it makes to work in a job which is by it's nature going to make you first up against the wall.
The first human job(s) replaced by robots, or AI depending on your definition, are already lost. Automotive industry welders and assemblers, stockroom workers at Amazon, soldiers in the field, farm workers, bomb squad technicians, astronauts, and so on...
I have conducted an informal survey of humans occupying jobs across the employment spectrum, and the vast majority are of the opinion their job will be one of the last replaced, or never replaced, by robotic workers or Artificial intelligence.
I'm a little shocked, I went in with skepticism and "heard" it too. I'm intelligent enough to know I'm not really hearing anything, but... my brain certainly thinks I am.
I'm reluctant to speak of my brain in the 3rd person, since I am he and he is me, and we're (I'm) wondering what it's going to take to get a vehicle upgrade from this deteriorating bipedal system we're stuck in now.
FWIW, I also fabricated a thrumming sound for the whirling electrical cables doubling as a jump rope. All I know for certain is if there was no one here to see this gif, it would not make a sound.
Entertainment options such as movies are handicapped from the outset by predetermined outcomes. "Humans watch other humans playing sports" do so, because it's one of the the few things you can watch in which the outcome has yet to be determined.
"Oh, "for the teams", you say? That's tribalism, meaning you have the same brain processes as cavemen."
We are the descendants of a long line of tribal people, fighting the instinct to team up or die. For a factual, current example, consider political alignment.
Early reporting of disasters is always rife with inaccuracy, and someone may have wanted to jump the facts with some speculation about the malfunction.
The rocket was programmed to orient from the old spaceport in Baikonur, rather than it's launch from the new Vostochny cosmodrome. Some poor fellow's wearing a massive face palm right now.
Look at your current 12 volt automotive battery: It's worth some scrap value when you can no longer use it in the vehicle. Recycling batteries shouldn't cost anything, since it typically saves over the mining of replacement materials.
Preppers will gladly take old automotive battery packs off your hands, and you can bet there will be a "core" charge when you have to purchase a new one.
Think of it as another way to subsidize new technology that may improve our future lives. Currently, there's not enough drivers using the free charging stations to create a taxing imbalance. When tax revenue is ultimately an issue for highway maintenance, one thing you can count on your local, state, and federal governors to do is figure out a way to tax electric vehicle usage.
Advantages:
The delivery logistics alone for petroleum-based fuels cannot economically compare to the efficiency of the national electrical grid.
Electric vehicles can be charged during off-peak generation hours.
Environmental savings alone by reducing/eliminating ICE emissions would more than offset electrical general pollution even if all new power was provided by the dirtiest coal buring plants.
Battery technology is currently in its infancy, and whatever current efficiency projections are, it seems a safe gambit future electric vehicles will improve in efficiency dramatically.
A recent analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance suggested that electric vehicles could account for half of all new cars sold by 2040. While electric vehicles consume electricity, they can also export power to the grid as mobile energy storage units. An increase in electric vehicle adoption may mean more flexibility for the grid to respond to supply and demand.
If an auto-driving auto gets into an accident, whose insurance covers the cost?
In an accident involving two+ vehicles, where it is impractical to discern blame, insurers would probably split claims. More interestingly, would all autonomous autos in the future have required insurance or be remotely disabled from operating?
What if you are drunk?
Then we'd much rather see you in an autonomous vehicle, so there will be no penalty for that.
Though commandeering an autonomous Chevy Bolt in the near future to murder you is an outlier possibility, someone so motivated could just navigate a suitably equipped autonomous aerial vehicle into your home or current vehicle right now.
While the Internet's a beautiful thing overall, the fact that - more or less - it operates at the whim of the USA is not a great feature for anyone but the USA.
Every nation should have its own DNS infrastructure, total control over wired connections that cross their borders, and dedicated state heavily-encrypted VPN tunnels to allied states (especially whenever the connections are accessible to American subs).
Sure, those are the same things you'd expect from a totalitarian regime trying to control the flow of information to aide in oppressing their own population, but they're ALSO what you should expect of a nation acting in the best interests of its population.
Which outcome is more likely? A benevolent use of the alternate internet or an eventual splintering of internet access at borders drawn in the dirt?
It's very easy to criticize the imperfect system we have in place now, but worldwide connectivity is one giant, current benefit.
Poster is unaware of the existence of a larger world outside of the United States.
Though we sometimes may appear larger than life, in both our accomplishments and our embarrassments, fewer of us believe we're actually a planet than are members of the Flat Earth Society... although to be fair, any membership in those particular clubs is a bit of a black eye.
Everyone else please take care to only discuss the outside world elsewhere lest poster is be shocked by the sudden revelation.
Indeed sir, or madam... although the venue might indicate a predisposition to the former.
The mere fact that a League of Nations could even survive our propensity for tribal warfare between countries, derived of little more than political lines in the earth, it is encouraging.
Diplomacy must remain at arm's length from armed combat, and even if the exercise at times feels toothless, men playing at peace is infinitely an improvement over men playing at war.
Does anyone really feel strongly that these advances in autonomous robotics will not be exploited militarily for the extracurricular shortening of human life?
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The application of God's will to a particular event is rather arbitrary. He gets credit for a lot of touchdowns, yet blamed for very few fumbles.
"What we don’t have every single year is an ignition during a wind event. And we’ve had several."
Whether by foolish acts or (pyro)maniacal disposition, people are the blight on this land.
RFID tags are available in active and passive types.
The passive variety requires no battery on the item being tracked, but its range is limited at 10' to 600', depending on the type of reader.
Active RFID tags broadcast their signal at predetermined intervals, but require an onboard battery. Some manufacturers are using lithium-thionyl chloride batteries, which may skirt the new regulations.
Money's value is in being able to store the wealth you incur selling the wood you've upgraded into furniture. The barter system, as old as it may be, was inefficient enough thousands of years ago to inspire people to look for ways to improve the exchange process.
Something else we owe to the Mongol Hordes:
Upon establishing the unified Mongol Empire, Chinggis Khan introduced gold and silver coins called Sukhes and later, in the year of 1227, introduced the world's first paper money /banknote/ into circulation.
A good example would be lawyers. Seems like an easy one to replace, the law is just a set of rules that are applied, right? Except that much of the work is actually dealing with people, understanding how things work in the real world with timing and banks and people behaving inconsistently or lying.
Appealing to a human judge and jury while representing a human defendant would seem to favor human lawyers, although the job of jury duty might well be one we voluntarily abandon to the machines. Perhaps like migrant workers, robotics and artificial intelligence will gain a foothold by performing those tasks we find the least attractive.
There will be a tipping point when enough human jobs are replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence whereby it'll be in the interest of companies to get behind a Universal Basic Income... otherwise, to whom will they sell their wares?
It's virtually always perspective regarding the replacement of jobs with technological innovation. The owner of the textile manufacturing facility would be in very real jeopardy of losing his business to competitors if he does not employ the labor-saving punch-card looms, yet understandably, the worker who specializes in the trade being rendered obsolete is resentful to the point of outrage over the technology's implementation.
Enough printers were employed – 670 in all – to produce the same number of papers that it took 6,800 men to print at the old shop. The efficiency was obvious and frightened the union into holding out an entire year.
The role of labor unions has diminished, in part, because their function as protectors of dues-paying members has placed them on the side of clinging to the established, less efficient methods of production.
First job to be taken over by AI.
Just think about how much sense it makes to work in a job which is by it's nature going to make you first up against the wall.
The first human job(s) replaced by robots, or AI depending on your definition, are already lost. Automotive industry welders and assemblers, stockroom workers at Amazon, soldiers in the field, farm workers, bomb squad technicians, astronauts, and so on...
I have conducted an informal survey of humans occupying jobs across the employment spectrum, and the vast majority are of the opinion their job will be one of the last replaced, or never replaced, by robotic workers or Artificial intelligence.
I'm pretty sure it's a coping mechanism.
I'm a little shocked, I went in with skepticism and "heard" it too. I'm intelligent enough to know I'm not really hearing anything, but... my brain certainly thinks I am.
I'm reluctant to speak of my brain in the 3rd person, since I am he and he is me, and we're (I'm) wondering what it's going to take to get a vehicle upgrade from this deteriorating bipedal system we're stuck in now.
FWIW, I also fabricated a thrumming sound for the whirling electrical cables doubling as a jump rope. All I know for certain is if there was no one here to see this gif, it would not make a sound.
Entertainment options such as movies are handicapped from the outset by predetermined outcomes. "Humans watch other humans playing sports" do so, because it's one of the the few things you can watch in which the outcome has yet to be determined.
"Oh, "for the teams", you say? That's tribalism, meaning you have the same brain processes as cavemen."
We are the descendants of a long line of tribal people, fighting the instinct to team up or die. For a factual, current example, consider political alignment.
Amazon?
They've begun to understand the value of sometimes the lowest price, with a mix of hype, bewilderment, and advertisement. Prime Day, my ass.
Remove the unwieldy constraints of oversight from these poor businesses, you say?
Couple examples where less oversight didn't pan out:
1)Appalachia with the coal mines.
2)Wall Street with Glass-Steagall.
3)Nearly every child or proft-minded company with almost any activity.
Early reporting of disasters is always rife with inaccuracy, and someone may have wanted to jump the facts with some speculation about the malfunction.
The rocket was programmed to orient from the old spaceport in Baikonur, rather than it's launch from the new Vostochny cosmodrome. Some poor fellow's wearing a massive face palm right now.
Look at your current 12 volt automotive battery: It's worth some scrap value when you can no longer use it in the vehicle. Recycling batteries shouldn't cost anything, since it typically saves over the mining of replacement materials.
Preppers will gladly take old automotive battery packs off your hands, and you can bet there will be a "core" charge when you have to purchase a new one.
Think of it as another way to subsidize new technology that may improve our future lives. Currently, there's not enough drivers using the free charging stations to create a taxing imbalance. When tax revenue is ultimately an issue for highway maintenance, one thing you can count on your local, state, and federal governors to do is figure out a way to tax electric vehicle usage.
Advantages:
The delivery logistics alone for petroleum-based fuels cannot economically compare to the efficiency of the national electrical grid.
Electric vehicles can be charged during off-peak generation hours.
Environmental savings alone by reducing/eliminating ICE emissions would more than offset electrical general pollution even if all new power was provided by the dirtiest coal buring plants.
Battery technology is currently in its infancy, and whatever current efficiency projections are, it seems a safe gambit future electric vehicles will improve in efficiency dramatically.
A recent analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance suggested that electric vehicles could account for half of all new cars sold by 2040. While electric vehicles consume electricity, they can also export power to the grid as mobile energy storage units. An increase in electric vehicle adoption may mean more flexibility for the grid to respond to supply and demand.
If an auto-driving auto gets into an accident, whose insurance covers the cost?
In an accident involving two+ vehicles, where it is impractical to discern blame, insurers would probably split claims. More interestingly, would all autonomous autos in the future have required insurance or be remotely disabled from operating?
What if you are drunk?
Then we'd much rather see you in an autonomous vehicle, so there will be no penalty for that.
Though commandeering an autonomous Chevy Bolt in the near future to murder you is an outlier possibility, someone so motivated could just navigate a suitably equipped autonomous aerial vehicle into your home or current vehicle right now.
While the Internet's a beautiful thing overall, the fact that - more or less - it operates at the whim of the USA is not a great feature for anyone but the USA.
Every nation should have its own DNS infrastructure, total control over wired connections that cross their borders, and dedicated state heavily-encrypted VPN tunnels to allied states (especially whenever the connections are accessible to American subs).
Sure, those are the same things you'd expect from a totalitarian regime trying to control the flow of information to aide in oppressing their own population, but they're ALSO what you should expect of a nation acting in the best interests of its population.
Which outcome is more likely? A benevolent use of the alternate internet or an eventual splintering of internet access at borders drawn in the dirt?
It's very easy to criticize the imperfect system we have in place now, but worldwide connectivity is one giant, current benefit.
Poster is unaware of the existence of a larger world outside of the United States.
Though we sometimes may appear larger than life, in both our accomplishments and our embarrassments, fewer of us believe we're actually a planet than are members of the Flat Earth Society... although to be fair, any membership in those particular clubs is a bit of a black eye.
Everyone else please take care to only discuss the outside world elsewhere lest poster is be shocked by the sudden revelation.
Neither irony nor sarcasm is clever argument.
No, this company did what most companies due... fire an employee who is egregiously breaking the rules for cause.
Right. Calling Cheetos "Twisties"... What's next? Kleenex is just folded shit tickets in a pretty cardboard dispenser?
Yet, all war is in some form, resource depletion... it'll simply last longer if the resources are alternatives to human death.
Indeed sir, or madam... although the venue might indicate a predisposition to the former.
The mere fact that a League of Nations could even survive our propensity for tribal warfare between countries, derived of little more than political lines in the earth, it is encouraging.
Diplomacy must remain at arm's length from armed combat, and even if the exercise at times feels toothless, men playing at peace is infinitely an improvement over men playing at war.
lethal autonomous weapons systems)
Does anyone really feel strongly that these advances in autonomous robotics will not be exploited militarily for the extracurricular shortening of human life?