The only cure for ignorance is education. Therefore, I recommend you find out first hand what it's like to be laid off and hunt for a job for months on end before passing judgement on others.
Most universities would kill for the chance to hire Higgs just for the name recognition. It attracts students and their tuition money. Hire him, give him tenure & a decent office, and have him teach Physics 105 and host a few nice public seminars.
According to the latest news, South Africa is burying Nelson Mandela on Dec 15th. Let us hope that someday a more enlightened society will be better prepared for the demise of its heroes and preserve them cryonically.
The job of being a lookout just got easier, if a bit more technical. In addition to a portable scanner, they'd need a smartphone or some other gadget to watch the red dots on the map.
You can't just subtract hundreds of thousands of federal employees from the economy without there being effects. The government wasn't paying its employees, so they and the whole host of services, products, food, car & house payments, etc went unpaid. The local businesses they supported suffered slowdowns and likely resulted in secondary short-term layoffs.
I think the workers will be paid retroactively, but now they're all in "catch-up" mode.
The gov't wasn't delivering services such as economic reports so merchants got to fly blind into the all-important holiday season. And who knows how many ticking time bombs in the form of disease outbreaks, toxic waste dumps, etc went uninvestigated or underinvestigated. I guess we'll find out in the coming months.
The loss of faith in government to sort out its problems rationally has also had economic effects and will continue to do so. People are less willing to make long-term investments when the gov't is shaky.
Unless they can invent their own crypto hardware and software from scratch guaranteed to have no backdoors, I am skeptical about the prospects for success.
Employees are free to sell their labor elsewhere. They have the right to order their affairs and sell their time as they see fit, finding the most advantageous deal they can. The employer can decide if the labor provided is worth it. The employee can decide if the pay is worth it.
In some magic fairyland, maybe. But when you're on your 200th interview for a 20-percent-pay-cut job and prospects aren't so rosy, what then?
BTW: China stole the plans for the most advanced US nuclear warhead, the W88.
Big deal. The Chinese have had nukes for decades. Like any big country, they can't use them without risking MAD. Also, China's become so urbanized, they now have many thermonuclear targets.
Anyway, why do people want jobs that are replaceable by machines?
The list of jobs, especially blue collar, in which people cannot be replaced by machines is exceedingly short. Sure, you'll lose some desirable quality, such as when you talk to an automated phone system versus a human being, but guess where organizations will run to on the race to the bottom?
Slashdot Mirror
1. No mirror is perfectly reflective; they all absorb some light. 2. Any crud on your mirror makes it even less reflective.
Yes, Snodown's kicked off the biggest institutional reform since the invention of the telephone.
Reform? No idea what you're talking about.
The only cure for ignorance is education. Therefore, I recommend you find out first hand what it's like to be laid off and hunt for a job for months on end before passing judgement on others.
As soon as gays and lesbians can have children without scientific intervention
So the hetero couples who need IVF to get pregnant can go fish?
Most universities would kill for the chance to hire Higgs just for the name recognition. It attracts students and their tuition money. Hire him, give him tenure & a decent office, and have him teach Physics 105 and host a few nice public seminars.
According to the latest news, South Africa is burying Nelson Mandela on Dec 15th. Let us hope that someday a more enlightened society will be better prepared for the demise of its heroes and preserve them cryonically.
Knock out those annoying squad cars on your tail.
*Shrug*
The job of being a lookout just got easier, if a bit more technical. In addition to a portable scanner, they'd need a smartphone or some other gadget to watch the red dots on the map.
Ever heard of it?
So what are states and towns supposed to do to plug the revenue hole once automated driving kills their ticket funds?
You can't just subtract hundreds of thousands of federal employees from the economy without there being effects. The government wasn't paying its employees, so they and the whole host of services, products, food, car & house payments, etc went unpaid. The local businesses they supported suffered slowdowns and likely resulted in secondary short-term layoffs.
I think the workers will be paid retroactively, but now they're all in "catch-up" mode.
The gov't wasn't delivering services such as economic reports so merchants got to fly blind into the all-important holiday season. And who knows how many ticking time bombs in the form of disease outbreaks, toxic waste dumps, etc went uninvestigated or underinvestigated. I guess we'll find out in the coming months.
The loss of faith in government to sort out its problems rationally has also had economic effects and will continue to do so. People are less willing to make long-term investments when the gov't is shaky.
Unless they can invent their own crypto hardware and software from scratch guaranteed to have no backdoors, I am skeptical about the prospects for success.
Why didn't I get a piece of that action?
It can avoid the currently-open handicap spot? Reserved parking areas? Permit parking?
Employees are free to sell their labor elsewhere. They have the right to order their affairs and sell their time as they see fit, finding the most advantageous deal they can. The employer can decide if the labor provided is worth it. The employee can decide if the pay is worth it.
In some magic fairyland, maybe. But when you're on your 200th interview for a 20-percent-pay-cut job and prospects aren't so rosy, what then?
Get a load of my Higgs Field Nullifier gun!
BTW: China stole the plans for the most advanced US nuclear warhead, the W88.
Big deal. The Chinese have had nukes for decades. Like any big country, they can't use them without risking MAD. Also, China's become so urbanized, they now have many thermonuclear targets.
And in Brunei, Muslims objected to Yokohama tires with a tread pattern that looked like a Koran verse
Drama queens...
I take a lichen to that idea...
If you have your iPhone locked with the fingerprint thing, and the cops want to see what's on your phone, can they compel you to press the button?
You Have Thirty Seconds To Comply.
Anyway, why do people want jobs that are replaceable by machines?
The list of jobs, especially blue collar, in which people cannot be replaced by machines is exceedingly short. Sure, you'll lose some desirable quality, such as when you talk to an automated phone system versus a human being, but guess where organizations will run to on the race to the bottom?
Animal House.