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  1. Re: Machines replacing bank tellers? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides, Paul is clear that eunuchs are blessed. And what is a male-to-female transsexual if not a eunuch?

    Also, the bible makes it clear that humans are both male AND female, not one OR the other. It is written, "male and female made he them." Not "male or female made he them." That's what jeebus says. :-)

    BTW, not all transsexuals are gay either, so don't even go there - you guys have such big problems with that, but it just doesn't apply here. 50% of m2f are straight. What's even more interesting is that many of us were straight before transitioning, then our sexual orientation spontaneously changed during transition so we're STILL straight. Something you can't wrap your head around.

  2. Re:Incoming on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You did in fact say "drones". It was the very first few words of your post - "If you use drones/" First you quoted the poster, then repeated it. I never mentioned toys such as quadracopters, which are obviously not up to the job. But even military drones can't cope with all (or even most) weather.

  3. Re: Machines replacing bank tellers? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, so now you claim to be the one person in the whole world who is without sin and can cast the first stone. You make me laugh - and I need a good laugh - I'm having a text conversation with someone who has decided that today is the day they kill themselves, after spending years being hounded by judgmental bible thumpers who have absolutely no clue as to what transsexualism is (most of you confuse it with the sexual fetish of cross-dressing as opposed to a legitimate medical condition).

    Rejecting jeebus after wasting a decade as a true believer was one of the most liberating things I ever did. I have no regrets over it. But you obviously do, or you wouldn't feel the need to get others to conform to your ways as a reinforcement of your delusions.

  4. Re:Our Future. on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Which will never work, UBI will never work. Why because people will never be satisfied with what they have. They will always want more.

    Which is why UBI will work. People won't just sit back and be lazy - they will want more, and will work for it. The whole "UBI will just create lazy people" meme is a lie, because people always want more.

  5. Re:Incoming on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Drones can't handle dense wet snow any better than a car with summer tires can (or even winter tires, for that matter). Drones can't handle vandalism any better than a parked car can. Drones can't handle fraud any better than a car can.

  6. Re:Machines replacing bank tellers? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Even a nuclear armed Hitler couldn't stop the Singularity at this point.

    You clearly underestimate the power of fear, uncertainty, and greed.

  7. Re: Machines replacing bank tellers? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Food and water are needs that are not going to go away. There has to be some mechanism for people to acquire these basic needs. A basic income would be a logical name for such a scheme. I wonder if anyone's ever tried it before? Oh, wait - it was tried back in the 70s in Canada and was a success.

    The only reason it was canned was because, despite the evidence to the contrary, people thought it would make people lazy.

  8. One of the things to do to stave off mental rot is to try to take contrary positions and run with them. Turns out, it's also sound policy because the majority are wrong the majority of the time. Gotta stay ahead of the curve :-)

  9. You can't vote for something that the rich and powerful will never let get to the ballot box. Lobbies and graft - you really need campaign financing and other electoral reform.

  10. Your "left" is to the right of other country's right wing parties, such as Canada's Conservatives. If you think the dems are centrist you've been ignoring the last few decades.

  11. Of course you do - but mental handicaps such as your retardation don't count wrt bathroom access. You can use the regular toilets - just don't eat the mints in the urinals again.

  12. You don't "own" it if you have a mortgage on it.

  13. 1. This is the internet. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

    2. Being offended when corrected is a passive-aggressive defensive behavior that attempts to deflect justified criticism. So fuck off.

  14. The thing is a joke on Terrifying Anti-Riot Vehicle Created To Quash Any Urban Disturbance (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Anyone at the wheels of a Cat 966 would totally crush it. That "dozer blade" is a joke. And real bullets will just bounce off the loader's bucket. It's also extremely vulnerable to side and rear attacks. And the cat has far more maneuverability.

  15. My birth certificate says otherwise. I know that's a problem for some assholes, but if you have a problem with me using the woman's washroom, you can go in the handicapped single person stall. :-)

  16. He said he had a plan to defeat them within 30 days. No conditionals such as budgets included. And be honest, new spending takes time to work its way through the system - any weapons systems approved in the next budget won't see the light of day for years - and take even longer before they're actually deployable. Stupidity like this - a naval gun ship that can't actually fire shells because they would cost too much. A 22.5 billion dollar weapons system with no bullets. Oops.

  17. Every other OECD country has public health care. The US doesn't because of a corrupt government that sells out to the highest bidder, and where lobbyists buy votes and elections. As long as insurers are the gatekeepers to proper healthcare, your system will remain broken.

  18. Re:Why not? on Indiana's Inmates Could Soon Have Access To Tablets (abc57.com) · · Score: 1

    California, Connecticut, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York and Washington all allow conjugal visits. Maybe you should be the one to get a "fucking clue". Or learn to use the internet? Maybe we can send you to prison so you can get some practice on one of those tablets?

  19. Re: Trump has a plan to fix it quicker and more p on US Scientists Launch World's Biggest Solar Geoengineering Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    To say that they were started about the same time was factually REALLY incorrect. It betrays the ignorance of the poster of a basic fact. It's like the people who claim that Muslims have been killing people for thousands of years - physically impossible. Or saying that java and javascript are about the same because "java".

  20. So basically recruiters are just using stackoverflow as yet another source of names to pester, without any actual understanding. Like linkdin.

  21. The other problem is that people seem to forget that if they live long enough, they too will be making the most demands and being the least profitable, and probably having the least ability to pay on a fixed income.

  22. If he has a 30-day plan to defeat isis and hasn't released it he should be charged with treason. His failure to implement it is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

  23. Health care costs money. You have an aging population and increasingly expensive treatments. Every single payer healthcare system in the world is having to deal with this - and the US has the additional problem of insurance companies skimming their cut. First step is to, as Shakespeare wrote, is to kill all the lawyers (of the insurance companies). Get rid of the insurance company lobbyists, and go to full public single-payer healthcare. The money that's currently going into insurance company profits could save your life.

  24. Actually, the brown people already in the US scare him even more. Or did you miss the judgments against him for racism to black tenants, and his comments about how he hates it that black people are in HIS casinos counting HIS money when it should be counted by jews? Look it up - the truth is out there.

  25. People aren't going to start reading until you learn the difference between site and cite (hint - cite is short for citation, site is a place). You probably also write abominations such as "one of the only" instead of "the only" or "one of the few." Typical American English.