Jesus. You can't turn off your gizmo without pressing extra buttons? Stop, everyone. We're going to have to alter the course of civilisation for a problem of this magnitude.
Every day, while going about my daily life, I am directly affected by this mythical shoddy programming. Oh, wait. No, I'm not. Sorry, but your opinion is not worth more than the market's.
Common sense, really. You can't have economic growth without capitalism, can't have capitalism without secure property rights, can't have secure property rights without a trustworthy government, can't have a trustworthy government without some human rights and a dose of liberal democracy.
You can pretty much guarantee that if it made financial sense, Amazon would be doing it. I reckon you'll find that the seasonal nature of the work combined with the specificity of the tasks involved mean that robots arren't an attractive solution. Speaking as someone who used robotic packers for a while, you need very high volume work that is not error-prone in order to make them cost effective running 24/7. Tooling up to run flat out for a couple of weeks a year cannot possibly make sense.
Hello, fox hunter here. It's been tried, they can be bred and trained, but they are naturally extremely energetic and generally naughty - imagine a two-year old child stuffed with Smarties and given claws and a pair of sharp teeth.
Half a million people bought RATM. The electorate is about ~45 million, and more than half that vote at general elections. By contrast, there were about 10 million votes cast for the X Factor finals, with voting open to anyone that could manage to press the red button now.
As for Simon Cowell producing a political program, what's the harm? It's stupid: the prize is five hundred quid for your deposit and (presumably) the services of an election agent. And they are pretty unlikely to be elected under FPTP.
Meh. My MP is Alistair Darling. I've been trying to get a constituency interview with him for the last two years. However, his majority is only 7000 - we might see him out yet...
Fucking your foster-daughters because they trust you and don't know any better doesn't seem particularly excuseable to me. Most murder has some sort of mitigating circumstances attached: rape has precisely none. As for your assertions on trauma, I'm curious to know how many rape victims you are sufficiently familiar with to make that judgement? It certainly seems to me to be a bit of a leap to suggest that the most traumatic thing about being raped is the "societal stigma" (whatever that means). Lastly, can I point out that if you repeatedly murdered people over a number of years, you wouldn't be getting a typical 15-year murder sentence either.
In the UK, the card transaction can't start until the physical transaction is complete, and require a PIN and two-way authentication. Some tills even lock up when you put your card in too early.
Having now exposed my current email publicly for ~6 years now, I have come to the conclusion that spammers don't, mostly, screenscrape or trade addresses. I used to post a fair bit on Usenet and I am fairly sure most of the spam I get is from spammers who picked up my email address there. I now typically get about 3-400 spam per month, which is a pretty reasonable trade-off for transparency.
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One of my few remaining desires in life is to see Taco print that story out, stick it in a blender with a little water, and eat his words.
Sheesh. Epic comprehension of nature and scale of problem fail.
Jesus. You can't turn off your gizmo without pressing extra buttons? Stop, everyone. We're going to have to alter the course of civilisation for a problem of this magnitude.
Every day, while going about my daily life, I am directly affected by this mythical shoddy programming. Oh, wait. No, I'm not. Sorry, but your opinion is not worth more than the market's.
Common sense, really. You can't have economic growth without capitalism, can't have capitalism without secure property rights, can't have secure property rights without a trustworthy government, can't have a trustworthy government without some human rights and a dose of liberal democracy.
Qui bono?
You can pretty much guarantee that if it made financial sense, Amazon would be doing it. I reckon you'll find that the seasonal nature of the work combined with the specificity of the tasks involved mean that robots arren't an attractive solution. Speaking as someone who used robotic packers for a while, you need very high volume work that is not error-prone in order to make them cost effective running 24/7. Tooling up to run flat out for a couple of weeks a year cannot possibly make sense.
This is what bugs me about the whole thing. Nobody complains about newspaper shops profiting from the sale of newspapers.
Hello, fox hunter here. It's been tried, they can be bred and trained, but they are naturally extremely energetic and generally naughty - imagine a two-year old child stuffed with Smarties and given claws and a pair of sharp teeth.
That's because it is not the fanatics that build them.
Music psychology textbook. Read one. Renders these debates tedious. I recommend "The Child As Musician", Gary MacPherson (ed.).
As for Simon Cowell producing a political program, what's the harm? It's stupid: the prize is five hundred quid for your deposit and (presumably) the services of an election agent. And they are pretty unlikely to be elected under FPTP.
Sony don't bear the cost, their retailers do (play.com, or whoever).
I've read several of his punditisations in the past. The leopard does not change his spots.
Am I alone in thinking that whoever Bennett is, I have no interest in his vague ramblings?
Meh. My MP is Alistair Darling. I've been trying to get a constituency interview with him for the last two years. However, his majority is only 7000 - we might see him out yet...
The British Constitution is pretty damned simple, in fact. Go too far and we'll chop your head off. Don't believe it? We've done it before.
Fucking your foster-daughters because they trust you and don't know any better doesn't seem particularly excuseable to me. Most murder has some sort of mitigating circumstances attached: rape has precisely none. As for your assertions on trauma, I'm curious to know how many rape victims you are sufficiently familiar with to make that judgement? It certainly seems to me to be a bit of a leap to suggest that the most traumatic thing about being raped is the "societal stigma" (whatever that means). Lastly, can I point out that if you repeatedly murdered people over a number of years, you wouldn't be getting a typical 15-year murder sentence either.
Wow. Sir, in my seven years on Slashdot, you are the first spammer I have *ever* seen. I remove my hat to you. Good day.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
In the UK, the card transaction can't start until the physical transaction is complete, and require a PIN and two-way authentication. Some tills even lock up when you put your card in too early.
Having now exposed my current email publicly for ~6 years now, I have come to the conclusion that spammers don't, mostly, screenscrape or trade addresses. I used to post a fair bit on Usenet and I am fairly sure most of the spam I get is from spammers who picked up my email address there. I now typically get about 3-400 spam per month, which is a pretty reasonable trade-off for transparency.
That's his fan page, not his personal profile page. His own username is zuck, IIRC.
Exactly. In practice, this law will just be a stimulus plan for decent headphone manufacturers.
I'm sure Steve Jobs is on the case.