Many people believe that only low- skilled workers will be replaced by machines. Doctors and lawyers being put out of work should be an eye opener for what is quickly heading our way. Yet absolutely no one is speaking about steps to alter society to accommodate the replacement of human workers.
The old notions about retraining are obviously a joke. What is a doctor or lawyer supposed to retrain to do? Management positions are also in great danger.
Apparently the government has asked Apple to undertake a very exhaustive and expensive effort to develop new software to enable breaking the encryption. In essence, the government wants this done gratis and the programmers would be paid by Apple and not the government. It might also mean hiring some very special engineers and perhaps mathematicians to do this work. Since when can the US government point a finger and demand work? It does strike me as being fascist.
Further Apple would lose a great deal of business with people in other nations as they really don't want their phones wide open to US spy agencies.
It has come to the point that many people now believe that only "certain people" are arrestable in the US. For example, find just one federal conviction last year for a man sleeping with an under- age prostitute. Yet twelve- year- olds do get arrested for prostitution but not the Johns.
First a lot of fraud could be stopped if it was a crime to ask for a charge card for age verification. That being said, just how can age be verified at this point in time? Our world is awash in fraud. One dangerous fraud is the so-called safety sites for online dating. How easily can a violent person use another person's credentials to lure a girl to her death? When those supposed background checks take place all it takes is exposure to a stolen wallet to provide credentials. Those sites collect and sell information to businesses or they suddenly use those credentials to rob you blind.
And who the heck decided that porn was so bad for kids anyway. Would any 13- year- old be healthy if they did not want to see some porn at times? Running about with starry- eyed innocence is not a blessing. It is a prescription for disaster.
Keeping sailors and soldiers and airmen out of harms way, while providing national defense, is a blessing for all in the US. Yet it is also an example of how human employment will decrease and points to the need to change fundamentals of society and economics.
First, I am glad that Scalia is gone. His decisions were often a moral outrage.
Next, the right wing is about to screw up big time. They intend to stop Obama from seating a new justice on the court. That is a really lousy idea for them. They have not looked forward. Bernie Sanders may well be the next president. So if they block Obama's candidate who would be somewhat conservative they will end up seating President Sanders candidate who will be far more liberal than Obama's candidate. In other words, no matter what, the right will end up with a new justice who is more liberal than what they want.
They could get a hoard of people listening in who would be paid for every sales call, or charity call or pervert call. With enough paid hunters the negative calls could quickly vanish.
Yes, machines will displace a lot more than half of all human employment rather soon. No, it will not cause harm to the economies of nations unless they want it to. Yes, people who do not get paid do not support businesses nor do they pay any taxes.
Here is what must occur. ASll economic systems will be forced to drop their traditional economic and social beliefs. Socialism is the only possible form of government that can exist. People must receive paychecks from the government and they must be decent sized paychecks. Taxes will be paid by businesses and by the wealthy only.
The real and absolute tipping point is when a company exists without any employees or human management or ownership. Profits from the business would simply be plowed back into the business to enable it to produce more or better products. Society can actually improve rather than decline through AI and advanced technology. But that qualifier is an acceptance of socialism as a fundamental requirement for
human survival.
The US does not have a population large enough to fight a traditional war against nations like China who can arm many millions of soldiers. We would be in the position of having to go to nuclear, germ or gas warfare in a land war with China and some other nations as well. The very nature of that kind of war would mean the death of many millions of noncombatants. It would also mean the slaughter of vast numbers of American troops and a devastation of our economy.
But autonomous and drone types of weapons can take out specific targets with far less slaughter of innocents. They can also be quite intelligent and do things like only respond to people carrying a weapon. They can also give us ways of avoiding the limits of foreign powers. For example, there are nations that will not allow any armed ship to dock in their ports. Drones could transfer to a vessel standing near- by and thus allow our ships to dock and still have vast protection, such that any enemy attack would result in a high- speed attack with immediate consequences, for any enemy attacks upon our ships in port.
I would think that the IRS, as well as Homeland Security, would both find it quite useful to follow money over the BitCoin universe. What's a criminal to do?
We should not allow any action which impedes any individual from telling the truth, far and wide. It is important that the public can see for itself, the morals and ethics of any company allowed to have a business license.
It seems like easter Island would be a great spot as there is no light pollution to worry about and all that land with nobody on it for any size telescope.
Imagine if the folks on Facebook bind together and decide to correct local injustices. For example, a restaurant owner is known to be rude and cruel to his employees. Imagine people on Facebook deciding that the restaurant would never be used by them, nor would any of their family members ever work there or even deliver supplies to that address.
United social power can be a real scum squasher.
People are entitled to have an opinion and share that opinion even if a party suffers loss due to that opinion. For example, I do not like Smith and Wesson pistols. They do not feel right in my hand and they almost feel like junk to me. I prefer Taurus or Colt pistols. If I just happen to own stock in Colt does that make me liable? Heck, I also dislike the republican party. Crimes by the republican party define it as an ongoing criminal enterprise in my opinion. So can they sue me?
This could be a wonderful technology but I'll bet the bloopers will be something else at times. It could be sort of like Baby Bush invading the wrong nation.
Terrorism may be the last reason we need deep surveillance. Look at what happens when we have video of cops in action. Suddenly it becomes evident that much of the negative information that we have had in the past was true about cops activities. Surveillance can increase our freedoms. I shudder to think how much crime can be detected if we really start applying technology to our daily lives. For example, people lie to get medical and life insurance and they even lie to their doctors. What if your doctor could easily view all the groceries you or your family purchases. The dope industry could also take a huge hit if electronic money becomes the standard. It becomes hard to buy dope as it shows as a strange expense on your debit or credit card, Tax evasion could be eliminated. Also, salaries could be scanned as a public service as some employers cheat on payrolls. And imagine car insurance if your actions while driving are recorded and automatically notify your insurance agency of speeding, running red lights, or mileage other than what you report at purchase time.
Technology could eliminate most of the crime in America if we encourage surveillance and data mining for law enforcement. Even a requirement to carry a good, national ID that would trigger alerts if a person did not have a valid identity or failed to have their card with them at all times. How about auto facial recognition at ATM machines? The wrong person could never make a withdrawal.
This issue is not a one- way issue. Our freedom could actually increase due to surveillance and data analysis. Perhaps we should embrace rather than resist it.
What's a criminal to do! Technology is just making it so difficult to get away with crimes. But you can be that burglars and armed robbers will like it. When crooks have no way to transfer or hold money they tend to resort to either hiding it in a suitcase of burying it in the ground. There are certain motels in Florida that have always catered to guys with money in suitcases. You know how it is. You get rich in New Jersey and when it gets too hot with the cops you head for Florida and try to live in a motel that has extra security as that million bucks in your suitcase does make you a target. And there are also people with suitcases full of cash waiting for their dope to be delivered as well. Making it more difficult to hide money or wealth is a pretty wonderful goal.
Morgan is not post war. It is prewar as is the design of their cars. And we are not even talking about WW2. Morgan was around prior to Henry Ford's cars so we are talking about pre WW1, visual design.
Despite recent, nonsense, court decisions Uber drivers are in fact employees. If they were independent contractors there can be no acts of supervision. The IRS has defined independent contractors for decades and Uber drivers meet every inch of what an employee is compared to actually being an iDC.
If he goes to the PD and files a complaint with the recorded evidence the PD has no choice other than writing a ticket for every violation. It is handy for bicyclists to know this as with a cam mounted on the handlebars, one can get the plate number of every car that tries to pass you in the same lane or in a no passing zone.
What a misuse of government power and tax dollars. Give the man a freedom award, not an arrest.
This is why secrecy is such a mess. We need a government that is wide open with a total release of all information to our public. In regard to Snowden, the US government is the terrorist.
I also experienced crawl speeds on the Pi. I do have a high- speed connection so that wasn't the limiting factor. I haven't tried the Pi2 yet. Perhaps it surfs faster.
The circumstance appears to be that we can advance technology faster than we can advance technology to secure the products of progress. So how do we get security out front, instead of releasing devices and then trying to figure out how to secure them? I suggest that part of the problem rests in having that human link to the drones. If we used technology similar to what exists in the Cruise missiles it becomes a launch it and leave it alone type of device instead of needing humans to continue its mission.
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Many people believe that only low- skilled workers will be replaced by machines. Doctors and lawyers being put out of work should be an eye opener for what is quickly heading our way. Yet absolutely no one is speaking about steps to alter society to accommodate the replacement of human workers. The old notions about retraining are obviously a joke. What is a doctor or lawyer supposed to retrain to do? Management positions are also in great danger.
Apparently the government has asked Apple to undertake a very exhaustive and expensive effort to develop new software to enable breaking the encryption. In essence, the government wants this done gratis and the programmers would be paid by Apple and not the government. It might also mean hiring some very special engineers and perhaps mathematicians to do this work. Since when can the US government point a finger and demand work? It does strike me as being fascist. Further Apple would lose a great deal of business with people in other nations as they really don't want their phones wide open to US spy agencies.
It has come to the point that many people now believe that only "certain people" are arrestable in the US. For example, find just one federal conviction last year for a man sleeping with an under- age prostitute. Yet twelve- year- olds do get arrested for prostitution but not the Johns.
First a lot of fraud could be stopped if it was a crime to ask for a charge card for age verification. That being said, just how can age be verified at this point in time? Our world is awash in fraud. One dangerous fraud is the so-called safety sites for online dating. How easily can a violent person use another person's credentials to lure a girl to her death? When those supposed background checks take place all it takes is exposure to a stolen wallet to provide credentials. Those sites collect and sell information to businesses or they suddenly use those credentials to rob you blind. And who the heck decided that porn was so bad for kids anyway. Would any 13- year- old be healthy if they did not want to see some porn at times? Running about with starry- eyed innocence is not a blessing. It is a prescription for disaster.
Keeping sailors and soldiers and airmen out of harms way, while providing national defense, is a blessing for all in the US. Yet it is also an example of how human employment will decrease and points to the need to change fundamentals of society and economics.
First, I am glad that Scalia is gone. His decisions were often a moral outrage. Next, the right wing is about to screw up big time. They intend to stop Obama from seating a new justice on the court. That is a really lousy idea for them. They have not looked forward. Bernie Sanders may well be the next president. So if they block Obama's candidate who would be somewhat conservative they will end up seating President Sanders candidate who will be far more liberal than Obama's candidate. In other words, no matter what, the right will end up with a new justice who is more liberal than what they want.
They could get a hoard of people listening in who would be paid for every sales call, or charity call or pervert call. With enough paid hunters the negative calls could quickly vanish.
Yes, machines will displace a lot more than half of all human employment rather soon. No, it will not cause harm to the economies of nations unless they want it to. Yes, people who do not get paid do not support businesses nor do they pay any taxes. Here is what must occur. ASll economic systems will be forced to drop their traditional economic and social beliefs. Socialism is the only possible form of government that can exist. People must receive paychecks from the government and they must be decent sized paychecks. Taxes will be paid by businesses and by the wealthy only. The real and absolute tipping point is when a company exists without any employees or human management or ownership. Profits from the business would simply be plowed back into the business to enable it to produce more or better products. Society can actually improve rather than decline through AI and advanced technology. But that qualifier is an acceptance of socialism as a fundamental requirement for human survival.
The US does not have a population large enough to fight a traditional war against nations like China who can arm many millions of soldiers. We would be in the position of having to go to nuclear, germ or gas warfare in a land war with China and some other nations as well. The very nature of that kind of war would mean the death of many millions of noncombatants. It would also mean the slaughter of vast numbers of American troops and a devastation of our economy. But autonomous and drone types of weapons can take out specific targets with far less slaughter of innocents. They can also be quite intelligent and do things like only respond to people carrying a weapon. They can also give us ways of avoiding the limits of foreign powers. For example, there are nations that will not allow any armed ship to dock in their ports. Drones could transfer to a vessel standing near- by and thus allow our ships to dock and still have vast protection, such that any enemy attack would result in a high- speed attack with immediate consequences, for any enemy attacks upon our ships in port.
I would think that the IRS, as well as Homeland Security, would both find it quite useful to follow money over the BitCoin universe. What's a criminal to do?
It sounds wonderful but will it cook my turkey if I leave it on the window sill?
We should not allow any action which impedes any individual from telling the truth, far and wide. It is important that the public can see for itself, the morals and ethics of any company allowed to have a business license.
It seems like easter Island would be a great spot as there is no light pollution to worry about and all that land with nobody on it for any size telescope.
Imagine if the folks on Facebook bind together and decide to correct local injustices. For example, a restaurant owner is known to be rude and cruel to his employees. Imagine people on Facebook deciding that the restaurant would never be used by them, nor would any of their family members ever work there or even deliver supplies to that address. United social power can be a real scum squasher.
People are entitled to have an opinion and share that opinion even if a party suffers loss due to that opinion. For example, I do not like Smith and Wesson pistols. They do not feel right in my hand and they almost feel like junk to me. I prefer Taurus or Colt pistols. If I just happen to own stock in Colt does that make me liable? Heck, I also dislike the republican party. Crimes by the republican party define it as an ongoing criminal enterprise in my opinion. So can they sue me?
This could be a wonderful technology but I'll bet the bloopers will be something else at times. It could be sort of like Baby Bush invading the wrong nation.
Terrorism may be the last reason we need deep surveillance. Look at what happens when we have video of cops in action. Suddenly it becomes evident that much of the negative information that we have had in the past was true about cops activities. Surveillance can increase our freedoms. I shudder to think how much crime can be detected if we really start applying technology to our daily lives. For example, people lie to get medical and life insurance and they even lie to their doctors. What if your doctor could easily view all the groceries you or your family purchases. The dope industry could also take a huge hit if electronic money becomes the standard. It becomes hard to buy dope as it shows as a strange expense on your debit or credit card, Tax evasion could be eliminated. Also, salaries could be scanned as a public service as some employers cheat on payrolls. And imagine car insurance if your actions while driving are recorded and automatically notify your insurance agency of speeding, running red lights, or mileage other than what you report at purchase time. Technology could eliminate most of the crime in America if we encourage surveillance and data mining for law enforcement. Even a requirement to carry a good, national ID that would trigger alerts if a person did not have a valid identity or failed to have their card with them at all times. How about auto facial recognition at ATM machines? The wrong person could never make a withdrawal. This issue is not a one- way issue. Our freedom could actually increase due to surveillance and data analysis. Perhaps we should embrace rather than resist it.
My feeling is that the Us government will eat you alive if you surrender. Please stay inside the embassy. You are a hero to millions of people.
What's a criminal to do! Technology is just making it so difficult to get away with crimes. But you can be that burglars and armed robbers will like it. When crooks have no way to transfer or hold money they tend to resort to either hiding it in a suitcase of burying it in the ground. There are certain motels in Florida that have always catered to guys with money in suitcases. You know how it is. You get rich in New Jersey and when it gets too hot with the cops you head for Florida and try to live in a motel that has extra security as that million bucks in your suitcase does make you a target. And there are also people with suitcases full of cash waiting for their dope to be delivered as well. Making it more difficult to hide money or wealth is a pretty wonderful goal.
Morgan is not post war. It is prewar as is the design of their cars. And we are not even talking about WW2. Morgan was around prior to Henry Ford's cars so we are talking about pre WW1, visual design.
Despite recent, nonsense, court decisions Uber drivers are in fact employees. If they were independent contractors there can be no acts of supervision. The IRS has defined independent contractors for decades and Uber drivers meet every inch of what an employee is compared to actually being an iDC.
If he goes to the PD and files a complaint with the recorded evidence the PD has no choice other than writing a ticket for every violation. It is handy for bicyclists to know this as with a cam mounted on the handlebars, one can get the plate number of every car that tries to pass you in the same lane or in a no passing zone.
What a misuse of government power and tax dollars. Give the man a freedom award, not an arrest. This is why secrecy is such a mess. We need a government that is wide open with a total release of all information to our public. In regard to Snowden, the US government is the terrorist.
I also experienced crawl speeds on the Pi. I do have a high- speed connection so that wasn't the limiting factor. I haven't tried the Pi2 yet. Perhaps it surfs faster.
The circumstance appears to be that we can advance technology faster than we can advance technology to secure the products of progress. So how do we get security out front, instead of releasing devices and then trying to figure out how to secure them? I suggest that part of the problem rests in having that human link to the drones. If we used technology similar to what exists in the Cruise missiles it becomes a launch it and leave it alone type of device instead of needing humans to continue its mission.