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  1. Re:ask the Luddites on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    no, the norm will have been near zero unemployment, compounded record high domestic spending power and equally high GDP. Instead we have record unemployment, record low spending power (reflected in the fact that the consumer price index has NEVER fallen and in fact has always outpaced both inflation and the wage index) and stagnant or falling GDP DESPITE the steadily increasing and aging population.

    Google the terms I've used, they're pretty self explanatory.

  2. Re:Does the job still get done? on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    This. So much, this.

    *getting away from dependence on currency is hard, particularly if you rent, but learning to let go of unnecessary bulk might be an important step in letting go of that square box cave that someone else owns anyway. Maybe to move forward, we need to take a step backward and shun fancy things like debt economy and go back to that quaint little thing called barter where the real value in a thing was entirely dependent on how much value you as an individual placed in it using whatever you use as currency, be that apples, planks, gold or an hour of your time, not what some corporate nobody places on it for the sake of imaginary profit.

    **Will work for a hot meal.

  3. Re:Does the job still get done? on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    it's probably less about the nature of the job and more about reconnecting with other meatbags on a basic level, without the antiseptic radio interface.

  4. Re:Sandbox before browsing on Over 9,000 PCs In Australia Infected By TorrentLocker Ransomware · · Score: 1

    I'm running a browser in a VM. Everything that happens happens inside the VM. Shit goes south, kill the VM, start it up again from a read only image. What malware?

  5. ask the Luddites on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    Those were the people who actually had the balls and the guts to go and destroy the machinery that put them out of work - because they were literally redundant as soon as those machines were switched on.

  6. Re:This is not the problem on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    you don't want to destroy the redundant people, they're what really makes your economy. What you want to end up with is a compliant population which accepts a barely survivable standard of living. Those who work (ie haul bricks and shovel shit) get a little more. Only a little though, but enough that they think their aching backs and calloused hands are worth it. Enter, stage left: zero hours contracts, minimum wage, and a deliberately broken welfare system which forces people to start relying on food banks (as is happening in Britain right now, on a scale not seen since 1943) and the few who know how to forage and what to forage for (as this is NOT taught in school and hasn't been for at least thirty years). The UMC and the State do not give a fuck about the "99%", who as far as they're concerned can actually fucking starve, but as long as they don't leave their corpses rotting in the streets - notwithstanding the fact that homelessness is at an all time high as well.

  7. Re:And this is why there's traffic... on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    wouldn't that be illegal on a motorcycle? It's certainly illegal to ride a motor down the shoulder in England, though the police are much more forgiving of pushbikes on A-road shoulders*.

    *Rode from Nottingham to London down the A1/A1[M] and *then* up to Newcastle, back to Nottingham in six days - 840 miles all in. I miss I-Don't-Care trips.

  8. Re:And this is why there's traffic... on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    I've used bikes since I could walk. Not motos, pushbikes. I've had the option of a car or ten, but I just fucking hate driving (been there, didn't like it). I hate public transit as well. Hell, I'll take a trip to London (from where I'm at that's a 260 mile round trip) on my bike, that's Monday out, Wednesday back and I'm ready to go again Friday. Commuting? I can piss 20 miles each way in an hour, even in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

  9. Re:this is something Google does a bit better on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    well, it's slightly more sensible than canoeing across the Pacific or swimming the South China Sea...

  10. solution on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    install physical obstacles such as chicanes and speed humps to slow traffic down. These are surface streets, so getting planning clearance should be a local issue. Once the permanent slowdowns are in place, the app should soon catch up and stop directing traffic from the interstate to roads that should be fucking slower anyway!

  11. so BT sell Cellnet, then buy it back? on BT To Buy UK 4G Leader EE For £12.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    Let me run the numbers, in 1999 Cellnet was worth around £7bn - right around the time that BT bought out Securicor's stake, giving Securicor a return of many thousands of times its original capital injection of £4million in 1983. In 2002 Cellnet demerged from BT and relaunched as O2. Year on year, Cellnet/O2/EE has consistently compounded its profit margin.

    Makes perfect sense.

    Fuck me...

  12. fuck off bennett haselton on Why Didn't Sidecar's Flex Pricing Work? · · Score: -1, Troll

    you waste of fucking space

  13. Re:Check your math. on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 2

    yes, he absolutely did.

    "George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month." (emphasis mine - I mean, Blues Brothers much?) http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

    "President Bush's reference to a "crusade" against terrorism, which passed almost unnoticed by Americans, rang alarm bells in Europe. It raised fears that the terrorist attacks could spark a 'clash of civilizations' between Christians and Muslims, sowing fresh winds of hatred and mistrust." http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/...

    Non-Christian Presidents of the United States:

    (Unitarian)
    W. H. Taft
    M. Filmore
    J. Q. Adams
    J. Adams

    (No formal affiliations)
    A. Johnson
    A. Lincoln
    T. Jefferson

    (Source: Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)

  14. uh... can you say "false flag"? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    someone tried claiming it's Islamic State, problem is it's not the IS flag and it's the wrong colour to be the Saudi flag.

      So pardon the previous pun, but this is either a flase flag or just a nutjob with a shotgun.

  15. Re:Anything that's OS independent? on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 2

    LAMP it with a Mediawiki service (go cloud or local). No need to back-n-forth with any usb key, just drop a shortcut on her desktop and make her an account, it's just a case then of upload the picture, create a page for it with the metadata on it, job done.

    My images are organised on a mediawiki stack, paged by date. it works fucking brilliantly. Text search on what I type on the page next to each image, boom motherfucker.

  16. Re:Google Plus on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    sure, until they pull it.

    Have you heard they're planning on pulling the plug on GMail and putting up something called Inbox that's supposed to integrate with the desktop??

    The fuck?? I've used GMail for fucking years, I think I better start thinking about buying my own domain and running my own email server... the whole point of GMail was that I didn't have to run my own mail server!

  17. Re:What the old farts did... on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    motherfucker... scammed again.

  18. Re:Image Organization on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    6D even. Hard to see these keys in near total darkness.

  19. Re:Image Organization on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 2

    short answer: yes, it does.

    source: I process my brother's 5D cards.

  20. Re:Image Organization on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 0

    uh... solutions exist, and you don't need to be a Whiz Kid to use it.

    I have pointed one out: WAMP, in the form of a wiki (Bitnami Mediawiki, which comes *with* Imagemagick, do I have to do fucking *everything*??)

  21. Oh, woe is me! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    That I no longer have Google with which to access my porn!

    I mean, what did they do back in the heady days of JaNET and dialup BBS, yanno, like "Before Google"??

  22. Re:Image Organization on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    as long as you have the relevant filters in place, you should be fine. I run everything through a WAMP stack, including RAW format, for thumbnailing (via Imagemagick) etc on a wiki-type interface. So what you see on that is basically png tiles which link to metadata (kept in a mysql table) and the full resolution originals. Shit works. :)

  23. Re:Benny Hill? on Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display · · Score: 1

    uh...

    Crown Court
    The Bill
    Sapphire And Steel
    anything made by Gerry Anderson
    Peppa Pig
    Parade's End
    Coronation Street
    The Price Is Right
    Come Dine With Me
    Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
    BGT/X Factor

  24. Re:Intellectual Property? on Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display · · Score: 1

    the BBC produces its own content, I think you're thinking of Channel 4 (which doesn't actually produce *anything* - and about 20% of its commission funding comes from the National Lottery).

  25. Re:Yewtree on Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display · · Score: 1

    mod up. A BBC themed park would be to a padophile like locking a sugar junkie in a candy store.

    hell, they'll even have locks on the inside of the Teletubbie Land houses.