U.S. Schools were set up to squelch entrepreneurship so that people would work in factories at the start of the Industrial revolution. Seems the big wigs couldn't get enough investment to buy big mass production machinery without some guarantee that small-scale production wouldn't overly interfere.
Emerging as a CONDUIT?!? Sense when do we go after the conduit. Speech is a conduit for unsavory ideas as are the radio, magazines, books, our minds. Shall we outlaw those too?
Give them time. They have control over the media, you can bet your bottom dollar they want to control your eyes, ears, mouth, and brain too.
If we keep heading down this road, eventually they'll be nobody left but laywers and 'victims'
And this is exactly how (most of) the lawyers want it. The bad lawyers don't care about what's morally right, they just care about what lines their wallets. And they will even bend the laws themselves to further their own gain.
The most creative thing happening on the huge black and green X is...Linux.
Why is porting Linux to this machine "Creative"? It's a port of a desktop operating system to cheap, low end hardware. It's not creatve, it is boring and pointless.
I think that's his point. Mind you, I'm still waiting for Fable to come out...
It will be ugly when that happens too because not all the robots or money in the world will stop several billion people from revolting in anger if they are left to suffer while the rich live off of the robots doing what was once their jobs.
Two thoughts: Heavy robots with miniguns, and high-flying stealth bombers. Once the riots start in earnest, the rioters will be mown down like blades of grass, and their carnage will be shown worldwide as an example of what happens if the masses get "uppity". If you don't think that even the U.S. will bomb its own people if things get bad enough, then you are higher than those stealth smart bombers.
And while some of those will keep what manual labor jobs and left, others will go back to school for a higher education.
And where the fsck are they going to get money for education? They definitely can't get a job - it's been taken by all those robots. The Gov't sure as hell won't give them money - they can barely run public schooling now, much less run cheap community colleges in the future, and the private student loan banks won't touch these people because by then, they've maxed out their credit cards buying food to sustain themselves. Lost of people want to go the college, but only a priveleged few can. It is fairly true now, and it will definitely be true in the future.
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1. I don't have the capital; and I can't get the capital because the only people with enough capital are the people I'd be competing against.
2. Eh, true enough. I try to shop at mom&pop stores when I can.
3. The Ultimate problem with U.S. business is that each company is an "artifical person" with all the rights of a person, but none of the penalties, i.e. being mortal, etc. This gives them too loose of a leash to run wild all over anything they wish.
4. I invest with hopes that the company won't screw up my country and my society in order to make a profit. Needless to say, I own few shares - not because I can't afford them, but because I can't find many companies that satisfy my ethical requirements.
"..the game seems to offer a few more jump puzzles than we'd prefer for a first-person action game..." ...also includes a lightcycle racing section, "..still shows promise"
If the jumping puzzles invlove jumping the light cycles, maybe we can forgive them...;)
If you want the same job for ever, fine. Do it forever, never pay a low price for goods, never take a pay rise. Fine.
Number one, low value jobs? I lost a $40K salary. Do you consider this to be low value? What do you do for a living?
Now, what makes you think these cost savings will ever be passed on to the rest of the world? What makes you think the shareholders won't simply horde all that extra money - spend the minimum required to develop shiny new product X and just keep the rest so they can buy yachts, drugs, prostitutes, and politicians*?
Yes, we could do more valuable jobs, but unfortunately very few "more valuable jobs" exist. When those are all filled, what are the rest of the fully qualified and trained people supposed to do? Work at Lard Burger, eat out of dumpsters, and live in a cardboard box? All because some near-sighted CEO can't figure out that their sales are slumping because the same people who they have cheated out of a salary are the same people who used to buy their product?
I, for one, am sick of being a toy for the enjoyment of some Caligula-wannabes who are so short-sighted that they make Mr. Magoo look like a visionary.
Your point would be valid if our corporations were headed by fair and just people, but the plain fact is that they're not - most are headed by extremely greedy old-money types and what few aren't are being hamstringed by stockholders who are the same. They have had any sense of fairness and justice generationally squeezed out of them by parents upon parents who systematically spoiled their children. They want their XYZ, and they want it NOW - regarless of who they inconvenience, crush, or even kill - we're not even people to them anyway.
If my job was shipped overseas because they were actually more skilled than I was, fine - it instigates me to get my butt back into training and my nose on the grindstone - but the only real difference is short-term cost. It is not about getting the best worker for the job - it is about depressing a subeconomy that was once felt to be too expensive and too out of corporate control.
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U.S. Schools were set up to squelch entrepreneurship so that people would work in factories at the start of the Industrial revolution. Seems the big wigs couldn't get enough investment to buy big mass production machinery without some guarantee that small-scale production wouldn't overly interfere.
Emerging as a CONDUIT?!? Sense when do we go after the conduit. Speech is a conduit for unsavory ideas as are the radio, magazines, books, our minds. Shall we outlaw those too?
Give them time. They have control over the media, you can bet your bottom dollar they want to control your eyes, ears, mouth, and brain too.
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If we keep heading down this road, eventually they'll be nobody left but laywers and 'victims'
And this is exactly how (most of) the lawyers want it. The bad lawyers don't care about what's morally right, they just care about what lines their wallets. And they will even bend the laws themselves to further their own gain.
The most creative thing happening on the huge black and green X is...Linux.
Why is porting Linux to this machine "Creative"? It's a port of a desktop operating system to cheap, low end hardware. It's not creatve, it is boring and pointless.
I think that's his point. Mind you, I'm still waiting for Fable to come out...
Two words: Slave Labor. Robots don't threaten to walk out if working conditions are dangerous.
Um, actually... (AtariEric slowly raises his hand...)
Just wait a few months, it will happen.
They're not - and best of all, idiot computer people can screw up a computer far worse than normal idiots.
It will be ugly when that happens too because not all the robots or money in the world will stop several billion people from revolting in anger if they are left to suffer while the rich live off of the robots doing what was once their jobs.
Two thoughts: Heavy robots with miniguns, and high-flying stealth bombers. Once the riots start in earnest, the rioters will be mown down like blades of grass, and their carnage will be shown worldwide as an example of what happens if the masses get "uppity". If you don't think that even the U.S. will bomb its own people if things get bad enough, then you are higher than those stealth smart bombers.
And while some of those will keep what manual labor jobs and left, others will go back to school for a higher education.
And where the fsck are they going to get money for education? They definitely can't get a job - it's been taken by all those robots. The Gov't sure as hell won't give them money - they can barely run public schooling now, much less run cheap community colleges in the future, and the private student loan banks won't touch these people because by then, they've maxed out their credit cards buying food to sustain themselves. Lost of people want to go the college, but only a priveleged few can. It is fairly true now, and it will definitely be true in the future.
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RIAA, soon to be owned by [sic] lawers.
Funny, I thought they were already owned by lawyers. Or perhaps, just made up of them.
1. I don't have the capital; and I can't get the capital because the only people with enough capital are the people I'd be competing against.
2. Eh, true enough. I try to shop at mom&pop stores when I can.
3. The Ultimate problem with U.S. business is that each company is an "artifical person" with all the rights of a person, but none of the penalties, i.e. being mortal, etc. This gives them too loose of a leash to run wild all over anything they wish.
4. I invest with hopes that the company won't screw up my country and my society in order to make a profit. Needless to say, I own few shares - not because I can't afford them, but because I can't find many companies that satisfy my ethical requirements.
"..the game seems to offer a few more jump puzzles than we'd prefer for a first-person action game..."
...also includes a lightcycle racing section, "..still shows promise"
;)
If the jumping puzzles invlove jumping the light cycles, maybe we can forgive them...
Are you sure it won't be 4CHRI STMAS ?
Or, for that matter, SANTA CLAUS? 10 letters, in two groups of five; looks like they fit perfectly.
> Imagine the course of a canoe paddled by Microsoft and SCO.
Uh, I believe that would be straight down.
Yeah, but you don't have to wait six weeks after riding a roller coaster for your bones to heal.
If you want the same job for ever, fine. Do it forever, never pay a low price for goods, never take a pay rise. Fine.
Number one, low value jobs? I lost a $40K salary. Do you consider this to be low value? What do you do for a living?
Now, what makes you think these cost savings will ever be passed on to the rest of the world? What makes you think the shareholders won't simply horde all that extra money - spend the minimum required to develop shiny new product X and just keep the rest so they can buy yachts, drugs, prostitutes, and politicians*?
Yes, we could do more valuable jobs, but unfortunately very few "more valuable jobs" exist. When those are all filled, what are the rest of the fully qualified and trained people supposed to do? Work at Lard Burger, eat out of dumpsters, and live in a cardboard box? All because some near-sighted CEO can't figure out that their sales are slumping because the same people who they have cheated out of a salary are the same people who used to buy their product?
I, for one, am sick of being a toy for the enjoyment of some Caligula-wannabes who are so short-sighted that they make Mr. Magoo look like a visionary.
Your point would be valid if our corporations were headed by fair and just people, but the plain fact is that they're not - most are headed by extremely greedy old-money types and what few aren't are being hamstringed by stockholders who are the same. They have had any sense of fairness and justice generationally squeezed out of them by parents upon parents who systematically spoiled their children. They want their XYZ, and they want it NOW - regarless of who they inconvenience, crush, or even kill - we're not even people to them anyway.
If my job was shipped overseas because they were actually more skilled than I was, fine - it instigates me to get my butt back into training and my nose on the grindstone - but the only real difference is short-term cost. It is not about getting the best worker for the job - it is about depressing a subeconomy that was once felt to be too expensive and too out of corporate control.
*Yeah, redundant. Sue me.
You'd think it would be the other way around. Give priority to existing customers who have already demonstrated their buying power.
Of course, they could always switch tactics once critical mass has been reached...
By the time your kids can get their hands around these magnets, your cathode-ray TV will be replace with a plasma/OLED/whichever set.
Though, granted, whatever comes next may be more susceptible to magnets...
Nah, just build a worse mouse.
And saddest of all? People who risk heart attacks and declare "jihads" on people who try to encourage their fellow human beings.
What, do you kick pets that meow/bark/etc. for attention as well?
PULL! (boom)
BZAAAP!
Good show, good show!
Oh, man, thanks for the warning!
Crossdressing should be left to professionals, like RuPaul, or J. Edgar Hoover...