Other posters have pointed out that millions will be unemployed. That is likely what will happen unless we move out of our current paradigm of wealth-hoarding by the owners of capital. If this pattern continues indefinitely, all of the wealth on the planet will be concentrated into the hands of the few. The rest of us--including every last slashdot user--will be subject to their whim, at least until the machines take over.
Novelist & guerrilla ontologist Robert Anton Wilson has suggested that employees who design themselves out of their jobs be rewarded with a substantial portion of the labor saved by their innovation. He calls this concept R.I.C.H.: Rising Income through Cybernetic Homeostasis. This won't fend off the Machine Overlord problem, but will motivate workers to exercise their creativity, something that will have many positive yet un-quantifiable side effects.
Nobody (well, I assume nobody...) wakes up one morning and announces "Gee, I think I would like to get really really huge". What happens? In general, as you age your metabolism slows. You also quit riding your bike or playing ball or having sex or whatever helped you burn calories. If you continue to consume the same level of calories as your metabolism increases, voila, your ass gets bigger.
A calorie-reducing diet plan requires an extraordinary amount of discipline, so you should also work on the other half of the problem--your metabolism. Start taking some yoga classes. Don't expect quick results: keep doing it instead. After several months of regular practice, ask your instructor about specific asanas that increase internal heat. Also ask about pranayama.
I'm normally sized (6'1", 140#, 6% body fat, 18.2 B.M.I.) for a man of my vata frame, but since I started my advanced yoga/pranayama practice my caloric intake has had to increase nearly 20% for me to maintain my weight.
Anybody else besides me find it unusual that Mohammed Atta's partially seared passport photo was splashed all over the news on 9/12? He ran his plane in on the 80-something'th floor of the north tower, and somehow his passport landed on top of the rubble rather than under an extra twenty-something floors' worth of rubble. Come on! This building had an acre-sized footprint--that's a huge mess.
But back to the subject at hand: I'm sure the U.S. will move forward this plan despite the grumblings of civil liberties fanatics, and certain technology companies will benefit from millions of Americans paying beacoup bucks for this technology. Meanwhile America will savor its newfound false sense of security.
I think we should go with Plan B and start being nice to other countries.
It's been 29 years since Reagan announced the War On (Some) Drugs. In the meantime, millions of individuals involved in feeding America's rather large appetite have been absorbed into the world's largest prison/labor system. Many of these people have avoided prison by committing suicide, and many drug prisoners have died of AIDS (prison rape). Billions of dollars in assets have been siezed by police agencies with the result of militarization of police agencies of all sizes. Billions of taxpayer dollars are spent each year to ostensibly keep drugs out of America. And yet, drug use and drug availability are nearly unchanged after all this time. In other words, in spite of a very large, high-profile War On (Some) Drugs, the level of drug use in this country has not decreased.
What happened? Didn't we remove millions of drug dealers from general circulation? Didn't we pass enough Draconian laws to scare remaining drug dealers out of the business and steer aspiring drug dealers into other professions? Didn't we spend millions of dollars on an ad campaign designed to convince the average American that the horrible 9/11 attacks were paid for by drugs? Just how do drugs manage to keep flowing into this country? Somebody must be bringing them in, and not getting caught.
Additionally, we all know from experience that John Poindexter doesn't have any moral qualms with the selling of guns and/or drugs to finance extra-legal activity. Ergo, the TIA could (and likely will) fund itself by selling drugs. Civil Liberties activists will congratulate themselves for defeating the TIA as it goes underground and compiles information on YOU, using money from every bag you buy.
New bumpersticker idea: De-fund the TIA: Grow Your Own Drugs!
All races of voters make errors on paper ballots. But in white counties like Leon (Tallahassee), if you make a stray mark or other error, the vote machine rejects your ballot, and you get another ballot to vote again. But in black counties like Gadsden, you make a mistake and the machine quietly accepts and voids your ballot.
While we may look at hacking or intentional fraud as one of the only (or few) potential abuses WRT electronic voting, we might forget about structural abuse like we've seen in Florida. It makes me laugh when someone comments on a vote saying "the people have spoken". We should just roll dice instead...
I think that skills are enhanced by gaming, but only to a point. FPSs might be a problem, as an overstimulated employee would probably be too distracted to focus on a low-stimulation project. And besides, what do you do if someone quietly walks into your cubicle and surprises you--whip out a chaingun?
FWIW, I didn't bother to read the article before posting--I didn't want to decrease my productivity any further!
Re:Everything can be related to math.
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Think about it: domokun is already rectangular. All you need is some god-awful brown carpet and some colored fabric for the eyes and mouth. You could accessorize your domokun case with vomit piles if you're traditional, or a tabby kitten if you want everybody to please think of the kittens!
Remember too that a majority of his campaign funds were raised by Albert Hakim during the period of ten years after Hakim's Christmas Eve pardon of his conviction in the Iran-Contra scandal.
But to keep the Offtopic mod at bay, I wonder if the Pentagon h4x0rz have figured out how to selectively censor "offensive" news items passing through the same satellites? Think about it: if they make this war appear entirely sanitary, with the only dead body being that of Saddam Hussein, won't the next war be much easier to package, brand, and sell to the American sheeple?
Some beans make some people fart. This happens when the body does not have available certain enzymes necessary to digest some of the starches in the beans. This seems to be universal in the American continents (most of us know the "Beans, beans, good for your heart..." rhyme). This is because genewise nearly all of us are from somewhere else--Asia or Europe. We mostly eat the beans that grow in this hemisphere (kidney, navy, pinto, etc...). Our European ancestors killed off the indigenous peoples, and now we're stuck with the indigenous peoples' beans! The remaining indigenous people do not have any problems digesting the varieties of beans that exist in this hemisphere because long ago nature gave them the means to digest these beans.
If you are of European or Asian descent, your body can digest the beans that your ancestors have eaten for thousands of years: soy, garbanzo, lentil, fava, dal, adzuki, mung, etc... without significant gas problems. Some of these beans--garbanzo and dal--may cause a little bit of gas regardless, but this can be headed off by adding a slight amount of asafoetida to the dish just before serving. This pungent herbal resin contains an enzyme suitable for gas-free digestion. Interestingly, the science of Ayurveda made this discovery thousands of years ago, rendering baseless the perceived need for interkingdom transgenic manipulation of bean crops.
I thought this whole "New Economy" was dead & buried. They should have released this book last year, when marketroid expressions like "middleware", "b2b", "j2ee", yada were not yet the butt of jokes.
I couldn't sit still that long. Sure, some OS installations are more time-consuming than others, but in general I don't look forward to the interminable wait between prompts.
I'd also be curious to know how many reboots it took. I also want to know how come nobody cared enough to get William Shatner to go to this guy's house and say "What's wrong with you? Have you ever slept with a woman?".
HIGH SCHOOL MUST BE VERY TRAUMATIC FOR YOU
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You really are sheep. You're fighting and killing, but you don't even know who you're fighting, or why you're killing them!
Oh no! Someone is trying to distract us with...with...the TRUTH! Quick--somebody start waving the flag or something! The American Way of Life (TM) must be preserved! Won't someone please think of the economy?
Last post before IP ban kicks in...
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And thus America & England began their meddling in the middle east. One of the first missions of our CIA and England's MI-5 (6?), around the same time as the creation of Israel, was to "neutralize" Iran's democratically elected President. A movement was born, and 26 years the Islamic Fundamentalists took over Iran. We couldn't have that, so we armed Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile we were still arming and funding Israel, so Saddam turned on us. There's a similar story with bin Laden & other mujahadeen. What a fucking comedy of errors this has become.
But none of this can possibly be true, since Bush informed us that Arabs are just jealous of our freedoms. Keep driving your SUVs, you fucking sheep.
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Other posters have pointed out that millions will be unemployed. That is likely what will happen unless we move out of our current paradigm of wealth-hoarding by the owners of capital. If this pattern continues indefinitely, all of the wealth on the planet will be concentrated into the hands of the few. The rest of us--including every last slashdot user--will be subject to their whim, at least until the machines take over.
Novelist & guerrilla ontologist Robert Anton Wilson has suggested that employees who design themselves out of their jobs be rewarded with a substantial portion of the labor saved by their innovation. He calls this concept R.I.C.H.: Rising Income through Cybernetic Homeostasis. This won't fend off the Machine Overlord problem, but will motivate workers to exercise their creativity, something that will have many positive yet un-quantifiable side effects.
Nobody (well, I assume nobody...) wakes up one morning and announces "Gee, I think I would like to get really really huge". What happens? In general, as you age your metabolism slows. You also quit riding your bike or playing ball or having sex or whatever helped you burn calories. If you continue to consume the same level of calories as your metabolism increases, voila, your ass gets bigger.
A calorie-reducing diet plan requires an extraordinary amount of discipline, so you should also work on the other half of the problem--your metabolism. Start taking some yoga classes. Don't expect quick results: keep doing it instead. After several months of regular practice, ask your instructor about specific asanas that increase internal heat. Also ask about pranayama.
I'm normally sized (6'1", 140#, 6% body fat, 18.2 B.M.I.) for a man of my vata frame, but since I started my advanced yoga/pranayama practice my caloric intake has had to increase nearly 20% for me to maintain my weight.
Anybody else besides me find it unusual that Mohammed Atta's partially seared passport photo was splashed all over the news on 9/12? He ran his plane in on the 80-something'th floor of the north tower, and somehow his passport landed on top of the rubble rather than under an extra twenty-something floors' worth of rubble. Come on! This building had an acre-sized footprint--that's a huge mess.
But back to the subject at hand: I'm sure the U.S. will move forward this plan despite the grumblings of civil liberties fanatics, and certain technology companies will benefit from millions of Americans paying beacoup bucks for this technology. Meanwhile America will savor its newfound false sense of security.
I think we should go with Plan B and start being nice to other countries.
It's been 29 years since Reagan announced the War On (Some) Drugs. In the meantime, millions of individuals involved in feeding America's rather large appetite have been absorbed into the world's largest prison/labor system. Many of these people have avoided prison by committing suicide, and many drug prisoners have died of AIDS (prison rape). Billions of dollars in assets have been siezed by police agencies with the result of militarization of police agencies of all sizes. Billions of taxpayer dollars are spent each year to ostensibly keep drugs out of America. And yet, drug use and drug availability are nearly unchanged after all this time. In other words, in spite of a very large, high-profile War On (Some) Drugs, the level of drug use in this country has not decreased.
What happened? Didn't we remove millions of drug dealers from general circulation? Didn't we pass enough Draconian laws to scare remaining drug dealers out of the business and steer aspiring drug dealers into other professions? Didn't we spend millions of dollars on an ad campaign designed to convince the average American that the horrible 9/11 attacks were paid for by drugs? Just how do drugs manage to keep flowing into this country? Somebody must be bringing them in, and not getting caught.
Additionally, we all know from experience that John Poindexter doesn't have any moral qualms with the selling of guns and/or drugs to finance extra-legal activity. Ergo, the TIA could (and likely will) fund itself by selling drugs. Civil Liberties activists will congratulate themselves for defeating the TIA as it goes underground and compiles information on YOU, using money from every bag you buy.
New bumpersticker idea: De-fund the TIA: Grow Your Own Drugs!
I found this gem on alternet:
While we may look at hacking or intentional fraud as one of the only (or few) potential abuses WRT electronic voting, we might forget about structural abuse like we've seen in Florida. It makes me laugh when someone comments on a vote saying "the people have spoken". We should just roll dice instead...Apparently some people believe 1984 was a training manual.
I think that skills are enhanced by gaming, but only to a point. FPSs might be a problem, as an overstimulated employee would probably be too distracted to focus on a low-stimulation project. And besides, what do you do if someone quietly walks into your cubicle and surprises you--whip out a chaingun?
FWIW, I didn't bother to read the article before posting--I didn't want to decrease my productivity any further!
The 1, but I wouldn't say that it's in nature.
Notes:Think about it: domokun is already rectangular. All you need is some god-awful brown carpet and some colored fabric for the eyes and mouth. You could accessorize your domokun case with vomit piles if you're traditional, or a tabby kitten if you want everybody to please think of the kittens!
Remember too that a majority of his campaign funds were raised by Albert Hakim during the period of ten years after Hakim's Christmas Eve pardon of his conviction in the Iran-Contra scandal.
But to keep the Offtopic mod at bay, I wonder if the Pentagon h4x0rz have figured out how to selectively censor "offensive" news items passing through the same satellites? Think about it: if they make this war appear entirely sanitary, with the only dead body being that of Saddam Hussein, won't the next war be much easier to package, brand, and sell to the American sheeple?
That should be from the break-out-the-pringles-cans dept.
Mmmm...free 2GHz wireles...free...
What is /.'s new IP? My DNS sux. Can't post on brak. k tks bye.
www.pumpkinse.cx
Some beans make some people fart. This happens when the body does not have available certain enzymes necessary to digest some of the starches in the beans. This seems to be universal in the American continents (most of us know the "Beans, beans, good for your heart..." rhyme). This is because genewise nearly all of us are from somewhere else--Asia or Europe. We mostly eat the beans that grow in this hemisphere (kidney, navy, pinto, etc...). Our European ancestors killed off the indigenous peoples, and now we're stuck with the indigenous peoples' beans! The remaining indigenous people do not have any problems digesting the varieties of beans that exist in this hemisphere because long ago nature gave them the means to digest these beans.
If you are of European or Asian descent, your body can digest the beans that your ancestors have eaten for thousands of years: soy, garbanzo, lentil, fava, dal, adzuki, mung, etc... without significant gas problems. Some of these beans--garbanzo and dal--may cause a little bit of gas regardless, but this can be headed off by adding a slight amount of asafoetida to the dish just before serving. This pungent herbal resin contains an enzyme suitable for gas-free digestion. Interestingly, the science of Ayurveda made this discovery thousands of years ago, rendering baseless the perceived need for interkingdom transgenic manipulation of bean crops.
No more blue screens of de-eath.
Off the pigs!
Revolution has co-ome.
Make the switch!
[Note to mods: if you were born after 196x, you may not get the reference. Mod accordingly.]
Say you wear one of these shirts and someone hax0rz The Gap's image server with a goatse.cx redirect. Imagine trying to explain away that one!
I thought this whole "New Economy" was dead & buried. They should have released this book last year, when marketroid expressions like "middleware", "b2b", "j2ee", yada were not yet the butt of jokes.
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Did it cost less to fake the Mars landing than it cost to fake the moon landing?
That was a joke, but it won't prevent this post being modded to oblivion...
I couldn't sit still that long. Sure, some OS installations are more time-consuming than others, but in general I don't look forward to the interminable wait between prompts.
I'd also be curious to know how many reboots it took. I also want to know how come nobody cared enough to get William Shatner to go to this guy's house and say "What's wrong with you? Have you ever slept with a woman?".
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Oh no! Someone is trying to distract us with...with...the TRUTH! Quick--somebody start waving the flag or something! The American Way of Life (TM) must be preserved! Won't someone please think of the economy?
Two words: self defense.
And thus America & England began their meddling in the middle east. One of the first missions of our CIA and England's MI-5 (6?), around the same time as the creation of Israel, was to "neutralize" Iran's democratically elected President. A movement was born, and 26 years the Islamic Fundamentalists took over Iran. We couldn't have that, so we armed Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile we were still arming and funding Israel, so Saddam turned on us. There's a similar story with bin Laden & other mujahadeen. What a fucking comedy of errors this has become.
But none of this can possibly be true, since Bush informed us that Arabs are just jealous of our freedoms. Keep driving your SUVs, you fucking sheep.