There will come a time when you go to a store as a drive thru, and you wave a Fob key at a scanner with your shopping list and a robot will start handing you bags to put in your back seat.
Then you drive off from the almost 100% robotic store, or it will be delivered by said robotic truck to your house.
Once 90% of jobs are done by robots, then it will be well past the tipping point.
A lot of ppl say there will be new jobs, but at some point any job you can think of can be done by a very well programmed robot.
Its kinda like the ppl that think that the illegals that mow your yard are too dumb to do any other job, then they show up in construction and other jobs and ppl say hey wait !
The illegals can do any job here that they do in their home country, and the robots will be doing the jobs at some point as well.
Asimo can already serve drinks, soon he will do other human tasks with no problem.
when Mount Pinatubo erupted, it released enough ash to lower (bear in mind, this is with global warming working against it) the average planetary temperature by one degree Celsius for two years.
When one of these babies goes off, it is gonna get DAMN chilly:
A few martyrs wont get the job accomplished when most of the people are sheep.
I wish the population was sheep, they are more like vultures that will eat their own dead.
My example is the feeding frenzy on foreclosed homes, and the tent cities springing up around central California.
When you hear about the past riots in major cities and what happened, you know these ppl are not sheep they are predators.
They do not do anything about the government because they simply know they are out numbered and out gunned and will lose badly and so it will remain for a long while.
The Bohemian Grovers want to throw a party for everyone, and I am thinking it will be soon.
Now if they only tested non abusive and special needs children like most other countries the school districts will change. American schools are not that bad. Its just the bad apples and special needs gets lower the testing average by a very large margin which with no child left behind cuts funding for teh school.
This is my point exactly, give 3 chances to join the well mannered ppl or you are out of the school system and can go get a job or play gang banger.
If you are picked up 3 times for drug dealing or violence off you go to a work camp, or you can chose exile.
I have old ladies being raped in my neighborhood by these thugs, we have them hanging out at the high school after they have graduated scaring the young girls and handing out free samples to get them hooked so they can ruin their lives.
It needs to end...and until a better solution can be designed this will work better than the bullshit we have right now.
So total segregation is the answer, huh? I'd love to see the fucked up world that would produce. Kids need to socialize with different kinds of people, not get isolated in places where everybody is the same. This would just lead to societal civil war or class warfare.
Well in case you have just been spending your time watching TV you might realize the wealthy have taken their kids out of public schools and put them in private schools.
What I am saying is already taking place in many states with schools for the gifted, ie. very intelligent.
They already segregate the special needs kids, ie. The Short Bus.
So we are already headed down the road, might as well do it right, and I see no reason to subject the good kids to the whims of a few brats that want to sell drugs and do violence on the good ppl of the world.
If you have an issue with that then I ask what is your personal bias to continue exposing the well mannered kids to violence and drug dealers ?
I suspect the oncoming economic shitstorm may finally get corporations to really tighten their belts
You are wise to see this, but I do not think the full magnitude of what is coming has struck home even with you unless you follow the Peak Oil movement and Putin's statements since the attempt on his life.
The World is poised on the edge of a paradigm shift.
World wide imports of oil dropped for the first time in modern history by 100 million barrels in 2007, the decline began in 2005.
Keep in mind the kh-55 is an older design and rumor has it that it was modified with stealth tech from the downed F117 during the war in Serbia.
I found some caves in a low fallout zone west of the major metro area, and when it looks like it is all going to go haywire I am going camping...near that area.
Some home school kids have done well even in poor homes.
Mostly it is an issue of the IQ of the child and the parents.
If the parents not too sharp, and the kids not too sharp, odds are they are not going to be the next Einstein.
If the parents are fairly sharp, and setup a good self study environment for their kid their kid can use free online learning tools to do VERY well.
Neighborhood organized home schools could stomp the dogshit out of public education system if it was well organized by the brightest ppl in the community.
#11 is a 2 way street in regards to the fact that we live in a money motivated society and if ppl can do better by leaving then it is a likely they will.
Alot of these moron HR types think that because the person has a degree they will stick around at least a few years, guess again.
Across the IT industry the average stay is 18 months for various reasons.
Right now an IT job is deemed a BAD career choice by most US citizens starting college.
No kidding. Windows 95 wasn't an operating system. It was a crime against humanity.
Like all MS OS's they don't get it right til after they patch it several times.
Win 95 OSR 2.5 was not too bad, just like Win 98 SE was better than Win 98 first release, especially after you ran 98-lite.
98 lite would strip out IE if you wanted, and you could then just run Netscape 4.72, it worked well for me for years, and dozens of other ppl I built machines for.
You just had to have it behind a good firewall of some kind or you got Ownzered...
Who owns the plant, The Corp. or the Country is not the issue.
The issue is the total disregard for safety procedures, and the refusal to help those harmed by the chemicals the plant released under Union Carbide policy.
You OBVIOUSLY did not read it, and are just trolling.
Slashdot Mirror
It's funny how USA centric slashdot is.
You crack me up.
There are literally thousands of farmers that are paid to
grow nothing here.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=116&sid=1391350
An excerpt (paragraph 4):
An additional $40 billion is for farm subsidies while almost $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land and to other environmental programs.
Bio fuel can be grown in the desert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hioZ7C6HLs
At a rate of 100,000 gal per acre due to vertical hydroponics.
Another start up here, Coskata can make Ethanol for about
$1/gal from waste.
http://www.wired.com/cars/energy/news/2008/01/ethanol23
Some race cars run on methanol which is made from wood chips:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol#Automotive_fuel
We know how to convert most of the world to biofuels, and
some ppl are making good progress in that direction.
We can do it on non-arable land too.
If the workers don't deserve more of the profits, why don't you try getting on without them.
Oh yes, that is the eventual plan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
My bug out bag is packed, and I am ready to head to an
extreme rural area when they "enact" their guidestone plans
for us all.
Yeah, with Wal-mart as the #1 US retailer this statement is very accurate, even our food is harvested largely by illegal migrant labor.
Well there is a tipping point at some point.
There will come a time when you go to a store as a drive thru,
and you wave a Fob key at a scanner with your shopping list
and a robot will start handing you bags to put in your back seat.
Then you drive off from the almost 100% robotic store,
or it will be delivered by said robotic truck to your house.
Your car will be built by robots.
Your house will be built by robots.
Your food will be grown and harvested by robots.
FBI at langley already have 'Electric sheep'
http://www.friendlyrobotics.com/about/news/
Once 90% of jobs are done by robots, then it will be well past
the tipping point.
A lot of ppl say there will be new jobs, but at some point any
job you can think of can be done by a very well programmed robot.
Its kinda like the ppl that think that the illegals that mow
your yard are too dumb to do any other job, then they show
up in construction and other jobs and ppl say hey wait !
The illegals can do any job here that they do in their home country,
and the robots will be doing the jobs at some point as well.
Asimo can already serve drinks, soon he will do other human
tasks with no problem.
http://asimo.honda.com/asimotv/
Then it just becomes about getting the price down.
When the robot can build and repair other robots then they
will not even need the factory workers.
when Mount Pinatubo erupted, it released enough ash to lower (bear in mind, this is with global warming working against it) the average planetary temperature by one degree Celsius for two years.
When one of these babies goes off, it is gonna get DAMN chilly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano#Known_super_eruptions
A few martyrs wont get the job accomplished when most of the people are sheep.
I wish the population was sheep, they are more like vultures
that will eat their own dead.
My example is the feeding frenzy on foreclosed homes, and the
tent cities springing up around central California.
When you hear about the past riots in major cities and what
happened, you know these ppl are not sheep they are predators.
They do not do anything about the government because they
simply know they are out numbered and out gunned and will
lose badly and so it will remain for a long while.
The Bohemian Grovers want to throw a party for everyone,
and I am thinking it will be soon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_grove
Ted Turner's comments on how the world population needs
to drop sounded so much like the guide stones.
Prince Philip of England, also sounds much like the
guidestones, and his former admiration for hitler is
noteworthy as well.
Yeah, it won't be long, and I am heading for a cave in
the mountains via farm roads.
It's been fun !
The key thing is to make sure that power is not and can not be consolidated by any one group or person.
It is a little late for that.
We now have Presidential Directive 51.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlB966zQIZ4&NR=1
So that pesky Judiciary, Congress, and Constitution is optional.
My personal FAVORITE is Executive order 11,000.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/jfkeo/eo/11000.htm
You will be picked up and sent to work camps as the needs
of the Homeland are paramount.
You will be assigned to what work is "important" to the state
by the Director of the Selective Service.
Yeah, the Selective Service, same one used in times of war for
the draft.
I am feeling a "Superbad" moment here.
It's Mc Lovin' time, and Shrub in Chief thinks we are all cute.
Gun control worked pretty well for Germany and Russia. :)
Yes !
Gun control worked VERY well for the Nazi's !
LOL
todays teens are called soon will be able to express their opinions at the poles.
I think you meant polls, but to be honest the old corporate
whore puppets in Washington only care who comes with the cash.
I am for it, if it works, but where are you going to find the people to make this scale?
The parents are already begging for vouchers to get their kids
out of the public school system.
Take the vouchers and setup a community based online school
with some in person classroom work for things like lab work
for sciences, etc etc.
Some classes do just fine online, like math, and some will
need some person to person interaction and lab work.
It is doable though.
In the linux realm ppl all over the world are already using
moodle for this now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle
Now if they only tested non abusive and special needs children like most other countries the school districts will change. American schools are not that bad. Its just the bad apples and special needs gets lower the testing average by a very large margin which with no child left behind cuts funding for teh school.
This is my point exactly, give 3 chances to join the well mannered ppl or you are out of the school system and can go get a job or play gang banger.
If you are picked up 3 times for drug dealing or violence off you go
to a work camp, or you can chose exile.
I have old ladies being raped in my neighborhood by these thugs,
we have them hanging out at the high school after they have graduated
scaring the young girls and handing out free samples to get them
hooked so they can ruin their lives.
It needs to end...and until a better solution can be designed
this will work better than the bullshit we have right now.
So total segregation is the answer, huh? I'd love to see the fucked up world that would produce. Kids need to socialize with different kinds of people, not get isolated in places where everybody is the same. This would just lead to societal civil war or class warfare.
Well in case you have just been spending your time watching TV
you might realize the wealthy have taken their kids out of public
schools and put them in private schools.
What I am saying is already taking place in many states with
schools for the gifted, ie. very intelligent.
They already segregate the special needs kids, ie. The Short Bus.
So we are already headed down the road, might as well do it right,
and I see no reason to subject the good kids to the whims of
a few brats that want to sell drugs and do violence on the
good ppl of the world.
If you have an issue with that then I ask what is your personal
bias to continue exposing the well mannered kids to violence
and drug dealers ?
Set up a colony in shark infested waters in the south pacific
and surround it with mines.
Much like Devil's island of old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Island
I suspect the oncoming economic shitstorm may finally get corporations to really tighten their belts
You are wise to see this, but I do not think the full magnitude
of what is coming has struck home even with you unless you
follow the Peak Oil movement and Putin's statements since
the attempt on his life.
The World is poised on the edge of a paradigm shift.
World wide imports of oil dropped for the first time in
modern history by 100 million barrels in 2007, the decline
began in 2005.
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_a.htm
This is not due to lack of usage, but lack of supply.
Go to google video and watch the 80+ min. copy of Crude Awakening
and you will see most of what is coming.
The part about Putin being upset takes a little imagination:
http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/03/15/putin-assassination-attempt-foiled/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-55
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tercom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Keep in mind the kh-55 is an older design and rumor has it
that it was modified with stealth tech from the downed F117
during the war in Serbia.
I found some caves in a low fallout zone west of the major
metro area, and when it looks like it is all going to go
haywire I am going camping...near that area.
Good Luck !
This is true.
That is why I believe in 4 schools.
#1 for the special needs kids
#2 for the average but well behaved kids
#3 for the brilliant kids
#4 for the jack asses
As for teacher pay we pay more than any other civilized nation
but we are not even in the top 10 academically world wide.
Like congress, throwing money at a problem is not ALWAYS
the solution.
Some home school kids have done well even in poor homes.
Mostly it is an issue of the IQ of the child and the parents.
If the parents not too sharp, and the kids not too sharp,
odds are they are not going to be the next Einstein.
If the parents are fairly sharp, and setup a good self study
environment for their kid their kid can use free online
learning tools to do VERY well.
Neighborhood organized home schools could stomp the dogshit
out of public education system if it was well organized by
the brightest ppl in the community.
The kids that are special needs need to be taught separately.
The normal kids that coexist peacefully need their own school.
The brilliant kids need their own schools because they are
our best hope of fixing most of the gigantic messes we have made.
The hell raising violent drug dealing bastards need a boot camp
type school that can get them to pull their collective
heads out of their asses.
The Three strikes rule would work well here.
3 strikes you go to the hell raisers school, 3 strikes in their
and you are out.
3 strikes on crime on the outside they are sent to labor camps
or can volunteer for EXILE and leave this country FOREVER.
I am tired of paying for ppl to sit in jail and watch cable TV
and eat food and not work and I get to pay for it all.
If they go to jail at a minimum they work a farm to feed all
the prisoners.
If they don't want that they can leave the US for all time.
Society is about working together, not anarchy.
If they want to be a jack ass that is fine, but not here.
Whoever modded this redundant is prolly some shill
working for public education.
jcr is right, most private schools do better.
1. Reading
2. Riting
3. Rithmetic
4. Relationships
5. Reviewing
6. Responsibility
7. Reflecting
8. Researching
9. Reporting
10. Reasoning
11. Retention
12. Resolve
#11 is a 2 way street in regards to the fact that we live in
a money motivated society and if ppl can do better by leaving
then it is a likely they will.
Alot of these moron HR types think that because the person
has a degree they will stick around at least a few years,
guess again.
Across the IT industry the average stay is 18 months for
various reasons.
Right now an IT job is deemed a BAD career choice by most
US citizens starting college.
End of story.
alternatively, it's the quickest way to a fat raise.
Some bitter management types follow this little gambit:
1) I cannot get them more money.
2) If I can make the ppl calling think they sucks then he stays
3) I can brag to my boss how I saved the company and move up !
Thus my dim view of management most of the time.
No kidding. Windows 95 wasn't an operating system. It was a crime against humanity.
Like all MS OS's they don't get it right til after they patch it
several times.
Win 95 OSR 2.5 was not too bad, just like Win 98 SE was better
than Win 98 first release, especially after you ran 98-lite.
98 lite would strip out IE if you wanted, and you could then
just run Netscape 4.72, it worked well for me for years,
and dozens of other ppl I built machines for.
You just had to have it behind a good firewall of some kind
or you got Ownzered...
According to these ppl it is suppose to kill more like 6 billion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Who owns the plant, The Corp. or the Country is not the issue.
The issue is the total disregard for safety procedures,
and the refusal to help those harmed by the chemicals
the plant released under Union Carbide policy.
You OBVIOUSLY did not read it, and are just trolling.
Well troll on little troll.
Def 1)'I want money'
Def 2)'Fuck everyone else I want MORE money then I need by any means.'
Yeah, this is exactly the stark difference, this hits the
nail on the head.
Wanting to make a good living off honest work I do not
have a big problem with.
if you give something to the world that will make billions
of ppls lives better you deserve to be well paid.
So called businessman like the Enron folks, are shell game
shit heads.
They shuffle paper and create shadow corporations offshore.
They are just thieves, they only contribute misery and
take money thru trickery.
Edison was an inventor and somewhat a scientist, I prefer Tesla
in regard to the scientific realm.
Edison did a lot of lying and cheating and character
assassination against Telsa to try to stop AC current.
Tesla invented the AC generator and setup the initial
Hydo power station at Niagra.
Edison was a jack ass, and he was a ruthless businessman.
Ford was a business man, and was not the inventor of the
"Horseless Carriage" , his claim to fame was the automotive
assembly line.
He was very efficiency minded.
The automobile was in truth invented decades before he was born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile#History