OK, so we fool them into feeling like they are drinking a lot of straight vodka and observe them trying to drive home. Will they drive as if they are drunk? And then there could be virtual pot !
We are entering an era in which employment will be a quaint historical artifact. Obviously people who do not work will not be paying much in taxes at all. It is time to have new beliefs that fit the certain realities that are upon us.
The US pays wages that limit our ability to compete in world trade. Going to automation and robotics will be far more invasive than the article mentions. The second point in the article is deadly in error. The non working will simply not quietly starve to death or live in want. They will rebel. The root nature of our economy will change to support these folks or we will cease to exist. There are a few sociologist who are working on this issue but getting the public to change their views and beliefs will not be easy.
Naturally i dislike paying any tax for anything. I suspect that most people feel the same way. But survival of a nation depends upon taxes. So what form of tax is the least obnoxious. A fellow that works a lot of over time dislikes paying more taxes than a worker who works less hours in the same trade. The idea of taxing one's home is hugely offensive to me. It is absurd to be forced to pay taxes on one's home. How can that be just? That guy that works huge over time hours surely has a nicer and more highly taxed home than the worker that works only a few hours a week. Sales taxes are often offensive as well. And taxing the rich and the large companies is a constant chase for hidden money and crooked books. So just what form of tax do most people want to pay? One theory of mine is to tax those that do wrong. For example people that commit crimes, cause accidents, or drop out of school or have lousy grades might be taxed in order to raise behavioral standards. That includes businesses who sell lousy products or play games with their accounting methods.
First i fail to understand why any honest politician would not want broadband everywhere for all people to use.
Next make that pipe large enough so that numerous competing companies can offer broadband services thus causing competition and that should drive prices downward.
As far as free, municipal access that would be wonderful and bring many poor neighborhoods into the modern world.
The basic idea is to protect the public from wallet vampires who seek endless paths to extract money from the public.
Short hops on passenger planes might be perfect for batteries now in development. Less noise and less pollution and maybe quite a weight reduction due to not carrying fuel and engines might make quite a difference. I do wonder if a bad landing would be more lethal than in a liquid fueled craft.
Capitalism can become a kind of disease. Just like cancer, capitalism tries to expand its domain and take over everything that it touches. So here we have capitalism using patents to try to restrict the degree of ownership that a purchaser is allowed. The medical industry takes this sort of thing to new depths. The current Hep- C drug costs $80,000 in the US for the usual course of treatment. In India the identical drug costs $200... The fact that people in the US die for lack of that drug does not seem to bother the medical industry one bit. That is what patents and capitalism can do for you.
Human and dignity are not words that go well together. Human's are on the nasty side and tend to ruin all that surrounds them. A person has a natural right to expect that any device follows designs and safety rules that industry leaders use to keep people safe. no system will ever be perfect and anything meaningful will have built in error potential just like a brand new and expensive tire can explode and cause the death of numerous people. But when we allow insurance companies and other third party wallet vampires to get into any affair it tends to create more problems than it solves.
There is some basic flaw in an addict. If you tie a man to a tree and force feed him alcohol for months he will go through withdrawal when the alcohol is stopped but he will not be an alcoholic. I feel that addicts have some sort of serious depression that can not be easily seen or dealt with. Depressed people do not always want to get better. They may simply be marking time until death comes to them. Since they do not value anything about themselves they may also not give a hoot about any effects that befall you in relation to their substance abuse. And I will get hate mail for saying this but if a person wants to get high or feel high there is already a serious mental defect at work. They can not even imagine that a person could be really happy and never, ever get any kind of high.
If time is inconsistent according to location could we also say that physics is inconsistent according to location? That makes the entire observe and report method of study really shaky. If the laws of physics are indeed a variable we really know very little about what we observe in space. Try estimating the speed a star is traveling when you have no clue what time is doing in the area near that star.
Theater's were also exempted from paying minimum wage. It is true that theaters would have been put out of business if they were required to pay minimum wages for ushers, candy girls and cashiers. But we all exist in the same economic system. If a business can not pay then it should not exist. And it becomes even more perverted across industries. In the case under discussion we are considering truck drivers. Truck drivers are restrained by law for the hours they are allowed to drive or allowed to even be in a cab as a passenger or alternate driver. So getting paid much overtime pushes them into working a six or seven day week or they would be breaking one set of laws or another. What genius has decided that people pushed into working six days or seven days a week do not deserve over time pay? Matter of fact a driver working more than five days a week is a public hazard and also a hazard to their own health and well being. Being stuck in a chair bumping down a road for fifty hours a week surely must destroy one's health.
Obviously robotics and automation are about to accelerate at rates never before seen in industry and business. I am waiting for the first business that has no human intervention at all. Imagine a totally automated car factory with zero employees and zero human owners. Imagine if that company starts to take over the car market. The game is a foot.
Our system conspires by its very structure to allow crimes against the public. Exon does a great wrong. Exon pays a huge fine. Exon passes along the fine as an additional cost for the public to buy gasoline. The public is punished. OK, so we through some Exon executives in prison. The public pays for those prison sentences, trails etc.. If we really want to punish companies tactics such as shutting them down in a number of states for a few years might work. For example we could disallow Exon to sell any products east of the Mississippi river for a ten year period. They would feel that deeply.
Censorship is always dangerous and I wonder just how this will effect other nations. Since German nationals can visit foreign sites and see things that the German government may consider offensive or dangerous will that have any effect of sites outside of Germany? France has similar behaviors in banning the sale of war relics. If an American posts a Nazi helmet for sale on Ebay in the US will that have any effect upon Ebay offices that might exist in Germany?
Any company that places restrictions on what an employee can do in off work hours should be forced to pay the employee 24 hours a day. For example asking employees to stay on stand by in case they are needed should never be allowed unless the employees remain on the clock 24/7. For example "We may need you this weekend if things don't go well here so stay by your phone." was one pulled on me. My reply was I go fishing on weekends and will be offshore and whether you call me or not it might take a full day to get back to you. If an employer occupies my time they will pay or i will not respond. Then there is the other type of nonsense where a bank employee is told that they can not go to a horse race track or dog track as investors get nervous if they see bank employees in a situation where gambling is usually involved, I won't play that game one little bit.
A robotic arm has great mass and can move very quickly. Working around robots involves obeying safety rules and following procedures without exception. If a worker fails to follow the proper practices the effect of a robotic arm hitting a human head is about the same as a heavy golf club swatting the head at great speed. And workers do tend to disconnect safety systems to make working on the robots a bit easier. There are some trades in which one mistake is the last mistake one will ever make.
Dr. King was a victim of spying by the US government as well as efforts to ruin his reputation. Over fifty years later we have the FBI tracking people for supporting Black Lives Matter. Somehow a theme of we don't like black folks being converted into those black folks can not be trusted and must be watched. Maybe we simply must not ever have anything like the FBI in America.
A dozen years ago i was just searching the web at random and up popped a picture of a young boy that was clearly intended to be pornographic. I have no interest in nude boys at all but it shocks me that an image on a drive could be taken to mean that you desired to see it or have it in your possession. The panty raid hunters have gone over the edge. We need laws to protect innocent people from being harmed, put to trial etc. over this and many other things as well. Police must have proof before they make an arrest or even investigate a situation in my opinion. this is the oldest game in the world and bad people misuse such laws. In the past it was put a bag of dope under a car seat and call the cops and tell them the driver has dope in the car and sells drugs. The idea that someone possesses drugs simply because they are in his car or home should not justify an arrest.
Production engineers as well as mechanical engineers have been poorly paid for at least five decades as a norm. Most would be far better off working as school teachers. Worse yet of the working engineers who do earn good money many are paid according to their sales abilities rather than as engineers. On the other hand i do know of specialized engineers who are paid in the 5K per week range for long term consulting gigs.
I'm sorry but the human labor cost differential is vanishing. Today we must ask can my robots work better, faster and cheaper than your robots. By robots i mean automation. But look at what is really going on. Look at the old Ford or Chevy factories and the thousands of trades people reporting for work for every shift back in the 1930 era. Now we easily produce ten times the number of new vehicles with maybe 5% of the tradesmen working. There are still quite a few office jobs attached to a car factory to deal with a heavy burden of modern paper work but even those jobs are vanishing. But as far as production workers they simply play an ever smaller role in producing product. That is why Trump's nonsense about forcing companied back into the US is false. Yes you can cause a Chevy plant not to move to Mexico and that will help tax receipts for our government but it will not save meaningful numbers of jobs in the US.
Oddly due to China and India being the real market opportunity these days and our car companies realizing that many more sales can be made in those nations cars are no longer designed to be particularly pleasing to people in the US. You might also notice that sane sized motorcycles are not made in the US and rarely sold in the US. Yet smaller motorcycles dominate world demand. The big American brand gets less gas mileage than some cars for example. It also weighs over 800 lbs.. Whereas a 300 lb motorcycle with a 50 hp. engine might well give you 90mpg on the turnpike and still easily go over 100 mph.
Way back in the 1980s when companies complained of insurance rates for their workers the sales agents would casually mention that if a few of the older workers were laid off the insurance rates would go way down. Companies could create excuses for laying off or firing older workers and frequently did so. You can bet that with genetic testing any individuals will be laid off or prevented from advancement so that they are frustrated and quit their jobs. Companies need to be prohibited from gaining any knowledge of a worker's DNA.
There can be legitimate reasons for downloading files. One might want to be certain that patents are not about to be violated and make certain that different approaches to various items are taken. I saw this occur with an expensive electronic device. The patent holder did not understand the limit of the scope of his patent and sued. He ended up apologizing and paying both sides legal fees. One needs proof in hand before making a complaint or it can get quite expensive.
It is hard to believe that no one has mentioned that once something is on the net it is next to impossible to get rid of it. How many people copied various things and repost their information from time to time. You might have sent one email but it can be in thousands of hard drives around the world. Companies that go broke normally sell all the information that they hold.
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OK, so we fool them into feeling like they are drinking a lot of straight vodka and observe them trying to drive home. Will they drive as if they are drunk? And then there could be virtual pot !
We are entering an era in which employment will be a quaint historical artifact. Obviously people who do not work will not be paying much in taxes at all. It is time to have new beliefs that fit the certain realities that are upon us.
The US pays wages that limit our ability to compete in world trade. Going to automation and robotics will be far more invasive than the article mentions. The second point in the article is deadly in error. The non working will simply not quietly starve to death or live in want. They will rebel. The root nature of our economy will change to support these folks or we will cease to exist. There are a few sociologist who are working on this issue but getting the public to change their views and beliefs will not be easy.
The Trump administration could not take care of one soggy bottom with a 24 pack of Charmin tissues.
Naturally i dislike paying any tax for anything. I suspect that most people feel the same way. But survival of a nation depends upon taxes. So what form of tax is the least obnoxious. A fellow that works a lot of over time dislikes paying more taxes than a worker who works less hours in the same trade. The idea of taxing one's home is hugely offensive to me. It is absurd to be forced to pay taxes on one's home. How can that be just? That guy that works huge over time hours surely has a nicer and more highly taxed home than the worker that works only a few hours a week. Sales taxes are often offensive as well. And taxing the rich and the large companies is a constant chase for hidden money and crooked books. So just what form of tax do most people want to pay? One theory of mine is to tax those that do wrong. For example people that commit crimes, cause accidents, or drop out of school or have lousy grades might be taxed in order to raise behavioral standards. That includes businesses who sell lousy products or play games with their accounting methods.
First i fail to understand why any honest politician would not want broadband everywhere for all people to use. Next make that pipe large enough so that numerous competing companies can offer broadband services thus causing competition and that should drive prices downward. As far as free, municipal access that would be wonderful and bring many poor neighborhoods into the modern world. The basic idea is to protect the public from wallet vampires who seek endless paths to extract money from the public.
Short hops on passenger planes might be perfect for batteries now in development. Less noise and less pollution and maybe quite a weight reduction due to not carrying fuel and engines might make quite a difference. I do wonder if a bad landing would be more lethal than in a liquid fueled craft.
Capitalism can become a kind of disease. Just like cancer, capitalism tries to expand its domain and take over everything that it touches. So here we have capitalism using patents to try to restrict the degree of ownership that a purchaser is allowed. The medical industry takes this sort of thing to new depths. The current Hep- C drug costs $80,000 in the US for the usual course of treatment. In India the identical drug costs $200... The fact that people in the US die for lack of that drug does not seem to bother the medical industry one bit. That is what patents and capitalism can do for you.
Human and dignity are not words that go well together. Human's are on the nasty side and tend to ruin all that surrounds them. A person has a natural right to expect that any device follows designs and safety rules that industry leaders use to keep people safe. no system will ever be perfect and anything meaningful will have built in error potential just like a brand new and expensive tire can explode and cause the death of numerous people. But when we allow insurance companies and other third party wallet vampires to get into any affair it tends to create more problems than it solves.
There is some basic flaw in an addict. If you tie a man to a tree and force feed him alcohol for months he will go through withdrawal when the alcohol is stopped but he will not be an alcoholic. I feel that addicts have some sort of serious depression that can not be easily seen or dealt with. Depressed people do not always want to get better. They may simply be marking time until death comes to them. Since they do not value anything about themselves they may also not give a hoot about any effects that befall you in relation to their substance abuse. And I will get hate mail for saying this but if a person wants to get high or feel high there is already a serious mental defect at work. They can not even imagine that a person could be really happy and never, ever get any kind of high.
If time is inconsistent according to location could we also say that physics is inconsistent according to location? That makes the entire observe and report method of study really shaky. If the laws of physics are indeed a variable we really know very little about what we observe in space. Try estimating the speed a star is traveling when you have no clue what time is doing in the area near that star.
Theater's were also exempted from paying minimum wage. It is true that theaters would have been put out of business if they were required to pay minimum wages for ushers, candy girls and cashiers. But we all exist in the same economic system. If a business can not pay then it should not exist. And it becomes even more perverted across industries. In the case under discussion we are considering truck drivers. Truck drivers are restrained by law for the hours they are allowed to drive or allowed to even be in a cab as a passenger or alternate driver. So getting paid much overtime pushes them into working a six or seven day week or they would be breaking one set of laws or another. What genius has decided that people pushed into working six days or seven days a week do not deserve over time pay? Matter of fact a driver working more than five days a week is a public hazard and also a hazard to their own health and well being. Being stuck in a chair bumping down a road for fifty hours a week surely must destroy one's health.
Obviously robotics and automation are about to accelerate at rates never before seen in industry and business. I am waiting for the first business that has no human intervention at all. Imagine a totally automated car factory with zero employees and zero human owners. Imagine if that company starts to take over the car market. The game is a foot.
Our system conspires by its very structure to allow crimes against the public. Exon does a great wrong. Exon pays a huge fine. Exon passes along the fine as an additional cost for the public to buy gasoline. The public is punished. OK, so we through some Exon executives in prison. The public pays for those prison sentences, trails etc.. If we really want to punish companies tactics such as shutting them down in a number of states for a few years might work. For example we could disallow Exon to sell any products east of the Mississippi river for a ten year period. They would feel that deeply.
Censorship is always dangerous and I wonder just how this will effect other nations. Since German nationals can visit foreign sites and see things that the German government may consider offensive or dangerous will that have any effect of sites outside of Germany? France has similar behaviors in banning the sale of war relics. If an American posts a Nazi helmet for sale on Ebay in the US will that have any effect upon Ebay offices that might exist in Germany?
Any company that places restrictions on what an employee can do in off work hours should be forced to pay the employee 24 hours a day. For example asking employees to stay on stand by in case they are needed should never be allowed unless the employees remain on the clock 24/7. For example "We may need you this weekend if things don't go well here so stay by your phone." was one pulled on me. My reply was I go fishing on weekends and will be offshore and whether you call me or not it might take a full day to get back to you. If an employer occupies my time they will pay or i will not respond. Then there is the other type of nonsense where a bank employee is told that they can not go to a horse race track or dog track as investors get nervous if they see bank employees in a situation where gambling is usually involved, I won't play that game one little bit.
A robotic arm has great mass and can move very quickly. Working around robots involves obeying safety rules and following procedures without exception. If a worker fails to follow the proper practices the effect of a robotic arm hitting a human head is about the same as a heavy golf club swatting the head at great speed. And workers do tend to disconnect safety systems to make working on the robots a bit easier. There are some trades in which one mistake is the last mistake one will ever make.
Dr. King was a victim of spying by the US government as well as efforts to ruin his reputation. Over fifty years later we have the FBI tracking people for supporting Black Lives Matter. Somehow a theme of we don't like black folks being converted into those black folks can not be trusted and must be watched. Maybe we simply must not ever have anything like the FBI in America.
A dozen years ago i was just searching the web at random and up popped a picture of a young boy that was clearly intended to be pornographic. I have no interest in nude boys at all but it shocks me that an image on a drive could be taken to mean that you desired to see it or have it in your possession. The panty raid hunters have gone over the edge. We need laws to protect innocent people from being harmed, put to trial etc. over this and many other things as well. Police must have proof before they make an arrest or even investigate a situation in my opinion. this is the oldest game in the world and bad people misuse such laws. In the past it was put a bag of dope under a car seat and call the cops and tell them the driver has dope in the car and sells drugs. The idea that someone possesses drugs simply because they are in his car or home should not justify an arrest.
Production engineers as well as mechanical engineers have been poorly paid for at least five decades as a norm. Most would be far better off working as school teachers. Worse yet of the working engineers who do earn good money many are paid according to their sales abilities rather than as engineers. On the other hand i do know of specialized engineers who are paid in the 5K per week range for long term consulting gigs.
I'm sorry but the human labor cost differential is vanishing. Today we must ask can my robots work better, faster and cheaper than your robots. By robots i mean automation. But look at what is really going on. Look at the old Ford or Chevy factories and the thousands of trades people reporting for work for every shift back in the 1930 era. Now we easily produce ten times the number of new vehicles with maybe 5% of the tradesmen working. There are still quite a few office jobs attached to a car factory to deal with a heavy burden of modern paper work but even those jobs are vanishing. But as far as production workers they simply play an ever smaller role in producing product. That is why Trump's nonsense about forcing companied back into the US is false. Yes you can cause a Chevy plant not to move to Mexico and that will help tax receipts for our government but it will not save meaningful numbers of jobs in the US. Oddly due to China and India being the real market opportunity these days and our car companies realizing that many more sales can be made in those nations cars are no longer designed to be particularly pleasing to people in the US. You might also notice that sane sized motorcycles are not made in the US and rarely sold in the US. Yet smaller motorcycles dominate world demand. The big American brand gets less gas mileage than some cars for example. It also weighs over 800 lbs.. Whereas a 300 lb motorcycle with a 50 hp. engine might well give you 90mpg on the turnpike and still easily go over 100 mph.
Way back in the 1980s when companies complained of insurance rates for their workers the sales agents would casually mention that if a few of the older workers were laid off the insurance rates would go way down. Companies could create excuses for laying off or firing older workers and frequently did so. You can bet that with genetic testing any individuals will be laid off or prevented from advancement so that they are frustrated and quit their jobs. Companies need to be prohibited from gaining any knowledge of a worker's DNA.
There can be legitimate reasons for downloading files. One might want to be certain that patents are not about to be violated and make certain that different approaches to various items are taken. I saw this occur with an expensive electronic device. The patent holder did not understand the limit of the scope of his patent and sued. He ended up apologizing and paying both sides legal fees. One needs proof in hand before making a complaint or it can get quite expensive.
It is hard to believe that no one has mentioned that once something is on the net it is next to impossible to get rid of it. How many people copied various things and repost their information from time to time. You might have sent one email but it can be in thousands of hard drives around the world. Companies that go broke normally sell all the information that they hold.
Did time crystals just make entropy irrelevant?