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  1. Who, other than NASA, cares about efficiency, when you can buy panels for $0.28/watt?

  2. Re:The corps are in danger as well here on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    But people with some land might be able to enjoy a modern high tech life style and produce most of what they want and need independently.

    This is my goal and something that I started about five years ago. Land is very cheap in many places.

    I currently produce about 10% of my own food, but in a position to go up to 100% if I dropped other interests. I received a flyer from a company I bought my solar from yesterday advertising panels for sale at $0.28/watt. I do live in moderate high tech comfort for almost no money. I'm building a machine and wood shop by buying old tools for scrap and rebuilding them. I'm doing this mostly for fun, but wonder why other people aren't if they're truly worried. And this was all done on less than a minimum wage budget.

  3. Re: Robots create jobs on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    You ca buy a stethoscope for $0.27 on ebay right now, but I don't imagine too many doctors do.

  4. Re:commentsubjectsaredumb on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    Why don't the 99% work for the other 99%? Maybe it's just me, but I'd barter before I starved.

  5. Re:So? on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1
  6. Re:If your job can be described by an algorithm... on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    Almost never has a waiter delivered beyond my expectations. I that like the time I ordered a salad and got two by mistake and she let me keep the second one for free?

  7. Re:Also, who does not separate drive control? on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be simpler for the valet to cut the brake line like they used to do?

  8. Re:Not surprised at all on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 1

    When amazon puts all other retailers out f business and starts raising prices, suppliers will go to direct sales.

  9. Re:Not surprised at all on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 1

    capitalism works but it has to be heavily regulated

    Just like freedom.

    The restraints on men as well as their liberties, are to be reconed among their rights

  10. Re:Why car info tech is so thoroughly at risk .. on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 1

    Engineering interns are not unpaid. In my experience, they were so well paid that people dropped out of college and continued on as engineering aides.

  11. Re:Why car info tech is so thoroughly at risk .. on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 1

    When building something physical, you have to look at it from a systems perspective like the aerospace industry does. The FAA doesn't certify software, the certify a system as a whole. When you do this, security (or safety in safety critical systems) becomes much simpler. Don't want a bug in your SDR based entertainment system crashing your ABS? Then don't have a physical path between them.

  12. Re:Why car info tech is so thoroughly at risk .. on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 1

    Uh...mechanical is tech. Sometime high tech. Suspensions don't just magically pop out of the ground.

  13. "All complex systems have bugs." on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a simpler solution be to make it not so complex?

  14. Re:how about none? on Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either · · Score: 0

    no one wants to submit a sealed bid to buy a banana or a bar of soap.

    Why not, especially if you have some piece of software negotiating for you?

  15. Re:Why do they hate capitalism? on Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either · · Score: 1

    The Age of Reason made the west great. The Enlightenment was followed by an opposing intellectual movement known as Romanticism. This war will bring it down.

  16. Re:NASA on The Real NASA Technologies In 'The Martian' · · Score: 1

    I've personally met some of these people. There's nothing quasi about it.

  17. Re:NASA on The Real NASA Technologies In 'The Martian' · · Score: 0

    We can go back to the moon, there is just no reason. Other than beating the soviets, there was no reason to go the first time. Science on the first landings was prohibited in fears that something might accidentally break pushing anything beyond the stated goal of landing on the moon and returning safely. NASA geologists were prohibited from even speaking with the astronauts Science was an afterthought. We're here, now what?

  18. Re:in the US, we have a right to all weapons on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Well, more technically correct, they are protecting the airline industry. People would stop flying if they thought it were dangerous and that anyone could easily blow up a plane. That would result in people flying less which in the end would result in more deaths because air travel is the safest known form of transportation.

  19. Re:4th amendment on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    I think you mean the second amendment. And read The Federalist Papers. I don't remember which section, but they're all good. It will explain it in glorious detail.

  20. Re:Firearms? on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Why not? WD40 and matches are legal

  21. Re:Exclusivity on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Do you think it might be possible to do it in stages, disarming all the African Americans first, then the Hispanics, then everybody of English and German decent? I think even the KKK might support that.

  22. Re:Exclusivity on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly why the Swiss are completely retarded in their ideas of military thought.

  23. Re:Right To Bear Arms on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Which constitutional right would that be? Are you capable of forming your own thoughts, or do you just parrot others?

  24. Re:Well-regulated militia on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    requires only basic reading comprehension, a 5th grade understanding of American history

    You greatly overestimate people's abilities.

  25. Re:Yes on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1
    Would the constitution have been ratified if it disallowed slavery?

    This is what you get when you let the ends justify the means.