Re:I want to see a machine as fast as this lady
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Ever seen an episode of Unwrapped on the food channel? Just add some pre-recorded "thank you" clips to one of those machines and you'd get a friendly machine that gets the work done ten times as fast, and it wouldn't keep dropping the cakes.
the prospect of doing an honest days work picking fruit is not superior to receiving a government check.
Just think, with devices such as the kinect accelerating 3D spatial recognition research, machines that can pluck entire trees bare in seconds are not that far off.
Removing that threshold would allow the market to find the spot where the full employment occurs, eg $8
The point of the article is that eventually, that work will be done at 15 cents per KwH. Humans operate in the range of 2 watt-hours (2000 calories) per day, so a robot capable of operating at half the efficiency of a human will cost about 0.0075 cents per day to operate.
Good luck with your quest to find that sweet spot.
Aren't you supposed to be protesting? What are the other protesters going to think if you're slacking off posting on/. and not holding up your placard?
Only if it can drop pkcs11.txt into the default directory. Otherwise, it goes back to hoping that the user doesn't go to any ssl sites until after they've disabled google search and saved a file in the malware-controlled directory.
As near as I can tell, it's not making fun of anything but the original song's lyrics. The only difference between this and Weird Al, is that Weird Al makes awesome music videos, while this is just scribbling on the original video.
"Reports indicate that the modified version replaced the "Idiot Defense" button (which normally wipes all records of having read the various incriminating documents and was a key selling point of the software) with a button that would email the documents to all 50 states' attorneys general."
Nah, it probably just copied everything and sent it all to China.
Yes, yes, very good. I do note that none of the videos addressed Bush's Blueprint for the American Dream.
Nor did they address the fact that when Bush killed the Blueprint for the American Dream in 2005, he cancelled Clinton's CRA regulations, while the banks continued to invent new ways to give away money with Alt-A and NINJA loans.
Even so, let's say that ACORN was behind every last subprime and alt-a mortgage written by banks. That amounts to 50% of the crisis.
Who single handedly forced GM to get into the subprime market with ditech.com (remember, they're not a bank, you can't deposit money there, the CRA and ACORN never had any power over them)? And what about the rest of the investment firms and mortgage brokers and non-bank institutions that made up the other 50% of the crisis?
Who single handedly forced S&P to rate the shit AAA?
Who single handedly forced AIG to insure the shit?
Liberals aren't blameless, but pretending that it's all Jimmys fault what with his CRA forcing banks to make billions of dollars is just plain ignorant.
No business or businessman would work towards maximizing income from customers, to the point it impoverishes them and also run down their business, just to make a personal profit
The man who pretty much SINGLE HANDEDLY caused the real estate fiasco three years ago?
Good thing he didn't use both hands, since 50% of the subprime mortgages were created by investment firms and mortgage brokers who weren't banks and weren't regulated. Like General Motors (ditech.com).
No matter what I say, though, I'm sure you'll keep on pretending that Barney Franks personally held a gun to their head and forced them to get filthy rich.
Are you saying that all of these things are impossible without the Federal Government paying for them?
Yes. You can pretend that capitalism can provide exactly what the government provides now, but capitalism cannot magically make non-profitable things profitable. If it isn't profitable, it won't happen.
I've only ever had three cars, but all three took longer to reach 1/2 than it did to reach E, though now that I've had the chance to sleep on it, it's possible that the issue is that the "reserve" past the bottom of E would make the distance from 1/2 to E shorter than the distance from F to 1/2.
For people looking for work and needing flexibility to interview, this could be the perfect fill in job
Nobody wants a fill in employee. This isn't new. Back in the 90's when I graduated from high school I tried to apply for some "summer jobs" but was flat out told to my face by a regional manager (after the store manager thought I did pretty good at the interview) that I wouldn't be hired because they weren't willing to train me then watch me move off to college in three months. I did eventually get a job after I stopped insinuating I was leaving in September (funny, it was at a grocery that originally told me they had no openings and they hire on a quarterly basis when I asked the manager for a summer job, but they were happy to have a manager (fortunately from a different shift) interview me once I dropped my application in the mail).
You're right though, he is an itty-bitty tiny $54 part of the problem.
then shouldn't the government give me a free home too?
Your argument boils down to "people get away with X therefore I'm being ripped off because I'm not doing X at all". Congratulations on obeying your contract. Here's a cookie. Satisfied?
If not, break the contract and hope the bank destroyed your mortgage documents and can't present them in court.
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Ever seen an episode of Unwrapped on the food channel? Just add some pre-recorded "thank you" clips to one of those machines and you'd get a friendly machine that gets the work done ten times as fast, and it wouldn't keep dropping the cakes.
the prospect of doing an honest days work picking fruit is not superior to receiving a government check.
Just think, with devices such as the kinect accelerating 3D spatial recognition research, machines that can pluck entire trees bare in seconds are not that far off.
Well, there's always toilet scrubbing...
in many cases humans would actually be more preferable and less expensive than the alternatives - machines
2000 calories is roughly 2 watt-hours. If robotics ever comes even close to human efficiency, your days are numbered, meatbag.
Are you telling me you give better head than Fembot 9000?
What about people who simply are not and will not be skilled beyond basic gruntwork?
We stop decanting Deltas and Epsilons, duh.
Removing that threshold would allow the market to find the spot where the full employment occurs, eg $8
The point of the article is that eventually, that work will be done at 15 cents per KwH. Humans operate in the range of 2 watt-hours (2000 calories) per day, so a robot capable of operating at half the efficiency of a human will cost about 0.0075 cents per day to operate.
Good luck with your quest to find that sweet spot.
Aren't you supposed to be protesting? What are the other protesters going to think if you're slacking off posting on /. and not holding up your placard?
I've got a robot to do that for me!
The robots are one step ahead, they're programmed not to make wooden shoes!
B61 Mod 11
Doesn't that make it the B6?
Only if it can drop pkcs11.txt into the default directory. Otherwise, it goes back to hoping that the user doesn't go to any ssl sites until after they've disabled google search and saved a file in the malware-controlled directory.
make a joke about other things
As near as I can tell, it's not making fun of anything but the original song's lyrics. The only difference between this and Weird Al, is that Weird Al makes awesome music videos, while this is just scribbling on the original video.
And if you are accused of a crime
Violating copyright isn't a criminal case in most cases. And you don't get a free lawyer for civil court cases.
This next dialog will ask you if you would like to release deadly neurotoxins. 38.2% of all test subjects clicked Yes.
"Reports indicate that the modified version replaced the "Idiot Defense" button (which normally wipes all records of having read the various incriminating documents and was a key selling point of the software) with a button that would email the documents to all 50 states' attorneys general."
Nah, it probably just copied everything and sent it all to China.
Yes, yes, very good. I do note that none of the videos addressed Bush's Blueprint for the American Dream.
Nor did they address the fact that when Bush killed the Blueprint for the American Dream in 2005, he cancelled Clinton's CRA regulations, while the banks continued to invent new ways to give away money with Alt-A and NINJA loans.
Even so, let's say that ACORN was behind every last subprime and alt-a mortgage written by banks. That amounts to 50% of the crisis.
Who single handedly forced GM to get into the subprime market with ditech.com (remember, they're not a bank, you can't deposit money there, the CRA and ACORN never had any power over them)? And what about the rest of the investment firms and mortgage brokers and non-bank institutions that made up the other 50% of the crisis?
Who single handedly forced S&P to rate the shit AAA?
Who single handedly forced AIG to insure the shit?
Liberals aren't blameless, but pretending that it's all Jimmys fault what with his CRA forcing banks to make billions of dollars is just plain ignorant.
No business or businessman would work towards maximizing income from customers, to the point it impoverishes them and also run down their business, just to make a personal profit
Too much work. Embezzling is faster.
The man who pretty much SINGLE HANDEDLY caused the real estate fiasco three years ago?
Good thing he didn't use both hands, since 50% of the subprime mortgages were created by investment firms and mortgage brokers who weren't banks and weren't regulated. Like General Motors (ditech.com).
No matter what I say, though, I'm sure you'll keep on pretending that Barney Franks personally held a gun to their head and forced them to get filthy rich.
Are you saying that all of these things are impossible without the Federal Government paying for them?
Yes. You can pretend that capitalism can provide exactly what the government provides now, but capitalism cannot magically make non-profitable things profitable. If it isn't profitable, it won't happen.
Maybe not, but clicking on the bookmark opens that site on the current tab, so then again, maybe so.
I think the bit about not inspiring our next generation is also an answer to the one about kids these days not getting to blow stuff up.
The repetitive thing about his one man show across Canada is the answer to "will you ever tour", even if it's not going to Argentina.
I've only ever had three cars, but all three took longer to reach 1/2 than it did to reach E, though now that I've had the chance to sleep on it, it's possible that the issue is that the "reserve" past the bottom of E would make the distance from 1/2 to E shorter than the distance from F to 1/2.
Because to allow the large banks, etc to fail would do serious damage to whom? The f*ing unions that is who
Like the Manager's Union at AIG?
There are plenty of jobs available, just not what you want to do.
Three million job openings are plenty. Thirteen million unemployed are plenty more.
the list of demands from the OWS movement
You mean the list of the demands from some guy posting on a forum.
It represents the OWS movement about as much as the people demanding that the government keep its hands out of their Medicare represent the tea party.
For people looking for work and needing flexibility to interview, this could be the perfect fill in job
Nobody wants a fill in employee. This isn't new. Back in the 90's when I graduated from high school I tried to apply for some "summer jobs" but was flat out told to my face by a regional manager (after the store manager thought I did pretty good at the interview) that I wouldn't be hired because they weren't willing to train me then watch me move off to college in three months. I did eventually get a job after I stopped insinuating I was leaving in September (funny, it was at a grocery that originally told me they had no openings and they hire on a quarterly basis when I asked the manager for a summer job, but they were happy to have a manager (fortunately from a different shift) interview me once I dropped my application in the mail).
You're right though, he is an itty-bitty tiny $54 part of the problem.
then shouldn't the government give me a free home too?
Your argument boils down to "people get away with X therefore I'm being ripped off because I'm not doing X at all". Congratulations on obeying your contract. Here's a cookie. Satisfied?
If not, break the contract and hope the bank destroyed your mortgage documents and can't present them in court.