I know someone (first hand -- not "heard of someone" blah blah blah) who's name is actually 10^12. On the birth certificate just like that. Trillion.
Laws probably vary by state -- but it *is* apparently illegal for her name to be that in the state she lives in. She's been having trouble getting a driver's license.
Jobs have shifted as new technologies have been invented. Just think of what the population was doing before the Industrial Revolution. Think of how many people were required to product food for the US population or provide clothing for them. I'm sure that there were opponents of the steam engine that were saying. "You can thresh a whole field of grain with one machine...Think of all the people that will be out of work!". But do we even think of that anymore?
New jobs are always being created in places we can't image. Just think of how many tech jobs there are right now that didn't even exist 50 years ago. Tens of millions of jobs? What were ten million people doing 50 years ago. Probably doing computations by hand and things like that.
This is horseshit. First of all it is impossible, if most people in the economy were on welfare they would be no economy. Where would these companies get money to build and maintain the robots? I don't disagree that there will probably be a lot of automated systems in the near future, but this article is just stupid.
Actually this is the best argument I've seen against the article. It really does blow his argument apart. If there are no more jobs (i.e. no service jobs, no assembly jobs...) the 57% unemployment rate is going to destroy the world economy.
How are people going to work, the governments won't be able to provide aid to support the populations. Once the automatic robots take over, are we going to have to reduce the world population? Or are we going to have to disallow robots from taking all the job?
My bank (Comerica) has things called "Electronic Branches". They have one teller and a huge row of ATMs inside. The teller will only do things that can't be done with an ATM. If you request to cash a check, get a withdrawl, they'll tell you to use the ATM.
If that's not a complete replacement of tellers (at least to the point that they can according to the technology available, then I don't know what is.
I can completely see this happening. I think the article hits a lot of good points along the lines of automating the repetitive minimum wage tasks. Just think of the backlash with replacing assembly line workers with robotic machines, but they're basically performing the exact same task, and the robot can do it with much closer to 100% accuracy. (And the robot doesn't get union breaks).
If you clicked through the site a little more closely, you would have noticed that acknowledged that the S-Wing was pretty much exactly like the model you have pointed out. So I don't think this is new information to anyone.
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I couldn't find anything on Roosevelt's speech, but Eisenhower wrote an apology for the failure of D-day that was never needed. Eisenhower apology (the actual note is at the very bottom)
How is this bad news for Linux? If they are already using Windows, and after opening it up to competition choose to continue to use Windows, how does this affect Linux?
What this really does is show that governments/corporations are seeking to allowing themselves a chance to select from a number of options instead of just blindly choosing a Microsoft solution.
That is the blind zealotry you should be speaking of.
A few years ago Google came along with their new ranking algorithim and blew away all other competition. Now it's the only search engine I, and the vast majority of the people I know, use.
What is Google doing to keep itself on top? Do you think there is a lot of room for improvement? How do you think web searching can get better?
I seem to remember that the old camcorders (I mean pre 1984 old) had a camera attached to a separate vcr module that would do the recording on a full sized video tape.
So you would have a vcr over your shoulder and hold on to a video recorder attached to it with a wire.
It seems like they stopped making them this way because they were so darn hard to carry and annoying. I personaly wouldn't want to lug around any more equipment than I had to.
But the wireless idea does have potential, how about just sending back to your home computer to be written to disk there. That would save you have to transfer the video to edit it later...
The peopel and examples listed clearly showed that these people had indeed made a mistake in their past (drinking and driving, and being delinquint with BMG when he thought he was too young for it to matter)....
And Katz is saying that these people shouldn't be held reponsible for their actions, or that credit agencies and banks are somehow intruding on our privacy by finding this out? I can't beleive this!
Things like drunk driving will and should follow you around, you'll have to put it on all of your job applications, and employers and lenders can find out about it, and should be able to. Same with any sort of delinquency in the past. It will have an effect on the way that the banks will view you as a potential borrower whether or not you like it, it doesn't matter....
Iti s a matter of being responsible for one's own actions and not trying to hide under a "this is unfair" stance. I don't see the point of this artice.
I can see how there would be some "grey area" into the teacher's "challenge", and how the students would respond to it. I don't know if it is as cut-and-dry as you are making it.
Obviously, the above example of breaking into the principal's office extreme, but is that example similar enough to this case to copmare it in that way? Let say for instance that the teacher said that the student would get extra credit (a reward) for doing work above and beyond what was required in class (which he did).
Now does it sound like the student should have "seen it coming?"
This is just a bill, not a law. It will have to be signed by the president and pass through the senate before it becomes an actual law. So there isn't anything to worry about yet, I guess there will have to be more letters to congressmen about sorts of this like this.
But guess who will be president when this bill will probably come across the desk looking for a signature? You guessed it...someone who probably doesn't understand much about encryption anyways.
This sounds awfully unconstitutional to me, or at least worthy of a contest in court.
Not necessarily, it is hard for the people on the street corner to not hear you. However, all the people in their homes and cars have to do is not tune to your station (which they probably won't anyways).
So people on the street corner are more likely to hear you (for the few minutes they are within earshot)....
this is a good idea, kind of like public access cable. Music has been needing a medium like that for a while. Public access, if I'm not mistaken, gives a certain amount of time (equally) to groups that have something to broadcast. So music groups and talk programs could get their word out to anyone who would want to listen, they'd have their time, and someone else would get a turn. Sounds like a good idea.
There needs to be more freedom in the radio industry, we're bombarded by playlists, pop songs, and talk hosts with nothing new to say. Indie artists need a medium to be heard.
When someone reads this post they must remember that the holocaust, and the legacy left by World War II and Nazism has left a very different mark in the history books than it has here in America. Which would have an influence on decisions such as there. I'm not supporting or advocating this ruling, but I'm saying that people need to understand cultural context when criticizing other nations and their policies.
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I voted with a Touch Screen system. At my polling place there was system of about 8 touch screen lcds connected to a main box where the volunteers could press "next voter". On the screen it was completely obvious, press the name, click next screen, and click "end voting" when done. At any time, you could go back screens and change what you have selected before.
Seems a lot of what this post is describing. Were there any other people that voted this way, or was Westland, Michigan some weird test-bed for new systems?
And you thought the V-Chip was bad. What the heck is going on with TV? Macrovision copy protection... V-Chip... Now this...??? There just isn't any trust any more....
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I know someone (first hand -- not "heard of someone" blah blah blah) who's name is actually 10^12. On the birth certificate just like that. Trillion.
Laws probably vary by state -- but it *is* apparently illegal for her name to be that in the state she lives in. She's been having trouble getting a driver's license.
Jobs have shifted as new technologies have been invented. Just think of what the population was doing before the Industrial Revolution. Think of how many people were required to product food for the US population or provide clothing for them. I'm sure that there were opponents of the steam engine that were saying. "You can thresh a whole field of grain with one machine...Think of all the people that will be out of work!". But do we even think of that anymore?
New jobs are always being created in places we can't image. Just think of how many tech jobs there are right now that didn't even exist 50 years ago. Tens of millions of jobs? What were ten million people doing 50 years ago. Probably doing computations by hand and things like that.
This is horseshit. First of all it is impossible, if most people in the economy were on welfare they would be no economy. Where would these companies get money to build and maintain the robots? I don't disagree that there will probably be a lot of automated systems in the near future, but this article is just stupid.
Actually this is the best argument I've seen against the article. It really does blow his argument apart. If there are no more jobs (i.e. no service jobs, no assembly jobs...) the 57% unemployment rate is going to destroy the world economy.
How are people going to work, the governments won't be able to provide aid to support the populations. Once the automatic robots take over, are we going to have to reduce the world population? Or are we going to have to disallow robots from taking all the job?
If that's not a complete replacement of tellers (at least to the point that they can according to the technology available, then I don't know what is.
I can completely see this happening. I think the article hits a lot of good points along the lines of automating the repetitive minimum wage tasks. Just think of the backlash with replacing assembly line workers with robotic machines, but they're basically performing the exact same task, and the robot can do it with much closer to 100% accuracy. (And the robot doesn't get union breaks).
If you clicked through the site a little more closely, you would have noticed that acknowledged that the S-Wing was pretty much exactly like the model you have pointed out. So I don't think this is new information to anyone.
I couldn't find anything on Roosevelt's speech, but Eisenhower wrote an apology for the failure of D-day that was never needed.
Eisenhower apology
(the actual note is at the very bottom)
What this really does is show that governments/corporations are seeking to allowing themselves a chance to select from a number of options instead of just blindly choosing a Microsoft solution.
That is the blind zealotry you should be speaking of.
What is Google doing to keep itself on top? Do you think there is a lot of room for improvement? How do you think web searching can get better?
Huge freakin' phones that do way more than I want a phone to do. Video/pictures/color...etc.
Give me a phone that calls someone with great sound/voice quality, and can fit in my pocket without me knowing it's there. That's all I want.
The last two or three movies I've seen have had this very same trailer at the beginning. I doesn't show any of the movie either.
I tried that once many years ago, I sent a message to my friend in one of those envelopes. I remember that he got it.
Of course, then you'd really be screwing the PO.
So you would have a vcr over your shoulder and hold on to a video recorder attached to it with a wire.
It seems like they stopped making them this way because they were so darn hard to carry and annoying. I personaly wouldn't want to lug around any more equipment than I had to.
But the wireless idea does have potential, how about just sending back to your home computer to be written to disk there. That would save you have to transfer the video to edit it later...
And Katz is saying that these people shouldn't be held reponsible for their actions, or that credit agencies and banks are somehow intruding on our privacy by finding this out? I can't beleive this!
Things like drunk driving will and should follow you around, you'll have to put it on all of your job applications, and employers and lenders can find out about it, and should be able to. Same with any sort of delinquency in the past. It will have an effect on the way that the banks will view you as a potential borrower whether or not you like it, it doesn't matter....
Iti s a matter of being responsible for one's own actions and not trying to hide under a "this is unfair" stance. I don't see the point of this artice.
Is 2-3x faster than a phone line. Just having a special chair will make my downloads fast! oh boy.
But there is no fee to pay with TV, the programs come in to my television for free. I don't see how this has anything to do with this issue.
Obviously, the above example of breaking into the principal's office extreme, but is that example similar enough to this case to copmare it in that way? Let say for instance that the teacher said that the student would get extra credit (a reward) for doing work above and beyond what was required in class (which he did). Now does it sound like the student should have "seen it coming?"
But guess who will be president when this bill will probably come across the desk looking for a signature? You guessed it...someone who probably doesn't understand much about encryption anyways.
This sounds awfully unconstitutional to me, or at least worthy of a contest in court.
So people on the street corner are more likely to hear you (for the few minutes they are within earshot)....
There needs to be more freedom in the radio industry, we're bombarded by playlists, pop songs, and talk hosts with nothing new to say. Indie artists need a medium to be heard.
When someone reads this post they must remember that the holocaust, and the legacy left by World War II and Nazism has left a very different mark in the history books than it has here in America. Which would have an influence on decisions such as there. I'm not supporting or advocating this ruling, but I'm saying that people need to understand cultural context when criticizing other nations and their policies.
I voted with a Touch Screen system. At my polling place there was system of about 8 touch screen lcds connected to a main box where the volunteers could press "next voter". On the screen it was completely obvious, press the name, click next screen, and click "end voting" when done. At any time, you could go back screens and change what you have selected before.
Seems a lot of what this post is describing. Were there any other people that voted this way, or was Westland, Michigan some weird test-bed for new systems?
And you thought the V-Chip was bad. What the heck is going on with TV? Macrovision copy protection... V-Chip... Now this...??? There just isn't any trust any more....
I can't wait for the centrifuge episode! Bet that one will be a winner.
You will be greeted at Mir with: slow degeneration of your muscles, great tasting food, and fires in the living quarters. Great Prize.
that's the same amount of time in which the robocup people will play humans. it seems like anything can be done in 50 years....