Talk to me about "VR" when we have holodecks or at least holographic projectors, wearing a smartphone on my face is not a "VR" that I'm interested in.....
"I work for one and ONLY ONE reason, to make money to support the style of life I enjoy when not working. Period, cut dried simple. If I had enough money to never have to work again, I would not. I have PLENTY of things I'd rather be doing with my time. I have lots of hobbies"
THIS.
I loved computers before I joined the IT field. When I worked for a small company, I still loved computers and working with lots of different businesses and people and their computers. Then the econ crash caught up to the small company I worked and at almost everyone who wasn't blood relation/spouse to the two brothers who owned the business was let go.
From there I joined corporate IT, and over the years, I hate it more and more, but I have a house to pay for, car payments, a wife and child. Medical costs are insane so medical insurance is a must, and even with the company I work for paying a ton of my insurance premium, I still shell out a couple hundred a month for a plan to cover my family.
I've never been the kind who "lives to work". I work to pay for my life. If I were to hit the lottery, I'd be ready to retire the moment I collected my winnings, the only reason I'd even give notice at work is to give my boss and co-workers a chance to find and train a replacement, NOT because I feel any loyalty to "company".
Apart from not driving 30 miles each way to anf from work each day, and wasting 8 hours of my day at work, my lifestyle wouldn't change much, except for getting out more for more exercise and family and friends time...
Also depends on your lifestyle and how much waste you have in it.
You don't need a new iPhone/Galaxy every year. You don't need $100+ dollar a month cell/smartphone plans. You don't need cable subscriptions to every channel in the universe... a lot of "How much do I need to retire?" questions need to be scrutinized through the lens of "What kind of lifestyle do you expect to have?"
"The fact that agencies like the FTC don't levy meaningful fines is just more evidence of the ever-increasing levels of control that corporations exert over the government."
Nice to see see people are finally waking up to this simple truth.
We're just Cybernetic implants away from cyberpunk....
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I volunteer Washington DC with all of congress and the pres and vice-pres in town when it happens
I voted for "Extinction Event Asteroid" in 2016....
and THAT is the problem
And I'm sure you believe it when the government is there to serve the people, not the other way around.
There's more than just "firmware" in there
It has software now, you can't return it anymore!
Amen, my stove, refridgerator, washer and dryer (oh, and microwave) don't NEED Wi-Fi.
This is just stupid crap that has no real use
It's OK, I'll wait for your ignorance to pass...
Too bad housing and food and clothing cost money and not a sense of self-satisfaction and personal well-being....
Talk to me about "VR" when we have holodecks or at least holographic projectors, wearing a smartphone on my face is not a "VR" that I'm interested in.....
Back in the 80's, KITT didn't have this problem....
Whether this has any real meaning (besides being a "lottery") really depends on when is the Cost of Living?
What is the cost of rent/mortgage on average in Finland? What does food generally cost compared to this amount, etc?
"Seriously, this whole "find bullshit reasons to justify a bad design" thing seems to be honed to a fine art among Apple apologists."
It's only a "bad design" for the consumer. For Apple it's just another way of raping their fans, who love being raped repeatedly by Apple....
That's not an insult to a Trumpette...
"I work for one and ONLY ONE reason, to make money to support the style of life I enjoy when not working. Period, cut dried simple.
If I had enough money to never have to work again, I would not. I have PLENTY of things I'd rather be doing with my time. I have lots of hobbies"
THIS.
I loved computers before I joined the IT field. When I worked for a small company, I still loved computers and working with lots of different businesses and people and their computers. Then the econ crash caught up to the small company I worked and at almost everyone who wasn't blood relation/spouse to the two brothers who owned the business was let go.
From there I joined corporate IT, and over the years, I hate it more and more, but I have a house to pay for, car payments, a wife and child. Medical costs are insane so medical insurance is a must, and even with the company I work for paying a ton of my insurance premium, I still shell out a couple hundred a month for a plan to cover my family.
I've never been the kind who "lives to work". I work to pay for my life. If I were to hit the lottery, I'd be ready to retire the moment I collected my winnings, the only reason I'd even give notice at work is to give my boss and co-workers a chance to find and train a replacement, NOT because I feel any loyalty to "company".
Apart from not driving 30 miles each way to anf from work each day, and wasting 8 hours of my day at work, my lifestyle wouldn't change much, except for getting out more for more exercise and family and friends time...
Also depends on your lifestyle and how much waste you have in it.
You don't need a new iPhone/Galaxy every year. You don't need $100+ dollar a month cell/smartphone plans. You don't need cable subscriptions to every channel in the universe... a lot of "How much do I need to retire?" questions need to be scrutinized through the lens of "What kind of lifestyle do you expect to have?"
This guy just keeps spouting this pie-in-the-sky/Star Trekian economic "plan" in pretty much every thread...
The answer is a slow, torturous, painful, publicly televised death for the perpetrators of such actions...
Right.............
First Law: Robots will make the corporation the most profit at the least cost
Well, less people driving means fewer jobs... again. MI can't really afford to rest all it's eggs in the Automotive basket...
No, you just haven;t seen some of the really stupid things humans do :)
Ah, that's cool.
Buy why would an automated car/truck stop to pick up a hitchhiker? That sounds like a liability suit waiting to happen...
And MI is a great state for automated driving systems to test again bad weather road conditions and construction re-routing....
Considering the stupid things people do, it will be harder to prove than you think....
Actually I think he was kidding.
Isn't hitchhiking illegal in most states?
"The fact that agencies like the FTC don't levy meaningful fines is just more evidence of the ever-increasing levels of control that corporations exert over the government."
Nice to see see people are finally waking up to this simple truth.
We're just Cybernetic implants away from cyberpunk....