But medical care is some of the most expensive labor in the world.
Has anyone ever measured the true cost of health care? I am no expert, but there is a long line of people that have huge profits from the moment a drug is designed to the moment it is applied to patients. I am not convinced that health care is so expensive, as they say.
Why is there always a focus on the negative side of automation? It really means less work, same productivity. Humans no longer need to work as hard to produce the same quality of life.
So these humans are redundant, aren't they? perhaps we need to exterminate them somehow, since they are no longer useful?
until those owners redistribute the wealth again by investing the savings
Which never happens. Wealthy people "invest" their profit (and not savings, as you conveniently put it) in luxury items, which benefits a very small percentage of people, usually other wealthy people that are owners of companies producing said luxury items. The wealth is redistributed amongst the wealthy.
why would developed countries deliberately strip themselves of manufacturing capability in order to transfer their wealth to developing countries for the dubious benefit of poorly-made products and the loss of domestic jobs?
It's not developed countries, it's companies of developed countries. Developed countries have a free market, right? so companies of developed countries are free to move their businesses elsewhere to increase their profits. But this hurts the economies of developed countries, while it doesn't really help the countries the companies move into, since the wages are extremely low and the environmental impact is great.
All the above means that the 'free' market doesn't work, and that 'free' does not necessarily translate to 'unregulated'.
Now put that piece of news back in context : humanity is maybe about to give up on half its chances to secure a clean source of energy for the forseable future.
Not really. There is also HiPER, which is laser driven fusion.
America could do both welfare and the space programs, provided that they don't fund huge wars.
NASA's target should be to build a mothership in orbit; a ship that could host humans for interstellar travel, complete with artificial gravity (from rotation), hydroponic bays, electromagnetic shield, powered by nuclear reactors. It's feasible, all the technology is available, and it will make manned spaceflight to other planets of the solar system quite cheap in the long run.
It only punishes end users and admins in the short term. When these people are fed up with Microsoft, they will turn elsewhere, and then Microsoft will be hurt.
On a side note, the fact that he himself is an extremely religious man probably doesn't help a great deal, since it seems that too many politicians tend to "trust God about these things" when it's abundantly clear that God knows sweet F-A about the Tubes and how they work.
The religion card has been played a lot in most countries, including eastern ones and western ones. Let's not forget George "God told me to go to war with Iraq" Bush.
The religious politicians destroying democracy and civil liberties is the best example there is about the harm religion does.
It's pure horseshit and doesn't represent the will of the Australian people at all.
That's a problem in all "democratic" countries: they are not true democracies. Common folks cannot be elected because they lack the funds required for their promotion, and the private news networks won't present them because they are common folks, i.e. powerless people that have no power to promote bills in favor of the private news networks' owners.
It's about needing the two to three decades of research and development required to build an Internet capable of end to end encryption; development that simply has not been done.
Interesting. Why 2-3 decades of research is required? not that I doubt you; can you please elaborate on that?
Don't worry, it's not that Microsoft wouldn't like a similar model, it's just that the public outcry would be much worse than for Apple, because Microsoft products are essential(*) for everyday work, Apple's products are not. Microsoft started rumors a few years ago that it would turn to the rental model, but the reaction was hard from the majority of the online community.
(*)essential because most people are ignorant of open source alternatives.
Are you swearing off all Chinese made products? If not you are a hypocrite. Foxconn also makes non-Apple devices & products. Are you going to swear off buying these too?
I am swearing off everything that is not necessary for me to live. I don't have an iPod, iPad, iPhone, Intel-branded motherboard, Dell, HP, PS2, PS3, WII, XBox, Motorola phone, Kindle and Cisco. I will try to buy as few as possible products made in China.
I was shocked this morning to read that Foxconn employees are paid 113 euros per month.
It might seem irrelevant to this discussion, but it is not: the global elite is pushing for bigger profits, either through studies that claim loss from piracy or from other means.
I hope/. readers don't get the bait that the global elite ix losing any money. They don't; they are filthy rich as a result of exploiting people in 3rd world countries. Don't make them a favor and think that piracy hurts them; it does not. It simply doesn't make their wallets extra-ultra-humongously fat.
99% of time we use our computers on the internet, and most sites nowadays contain some sort of Flash video. Well, no mobile plays them all out of the box, as we speak. It's not the hardware that is the problem, it's the software.
There are lots of things that make Flash video necessary on mobile devices. For example, there are lots of video presentations about newest technologies. It's a shame that I have to sit in front of a PC for one hour to watch these, when the same thing could have been done on the way to work, saving valuable time.
Politicians are afraid that if video recording is proved successful at keeping the police from abusing citizens, then their turn is next: their every action and word will be recorded for the benefit of the people, and the people will realize their limitations.
For me, the logic is clear, but not like yours: any product that introduces a different UI experience to the user than what Apple intends to is removed.
I do see, in every day life, younger people being less empathic than my or older generations. They seem to be way more narcissistic than older people. Their conversations are usually limited to what they do, without taking into account what the other person says. They tend to participate in movements, as one poster says in this forum, but they do it more because it's the cool thing to do and less because they were moved by something and felt in their hearts that they need to do it. The young people's lack of empathy and apathy is directly reflected to the new music, which is totally apathetic like its audience.
The big question is not if kids are apathetic. The big question is who and what drove those kids to be apathetic? Could it be the society we, grown ups, are delivering to them? could it be that the society full of pain and greed is what drives them in apathy?
In my opinion, the answer is a big YES. We, adults and older people, are in a race for money and power. We have a big lack of morals (generally speaking). We are deeply corrupted, even if we have more empathy then these younger people. We are the owners of the media (we as in collectively us middle aged adults), we prefer to push artists that promote apathy, because it suits us, because it makes people apathetic, couch potatoes, unable to think for themselves. We are the ones that promote the blatant moral hypocrisy that is 'think about the children', we are the ones that we are doing endless wars, we are the ones that we have money as our god.
It's no surprise then that the young people are apathetic. They don't want to live in the inhuman world we have prepared for them. They don't have other weapons in their hands other than apathy, really. Because they need to survive in this dark and grim world of ours.
I don't get it why Microsoft should enter the Slate market. It's not that Microsoft is going to be irrelevant in the future. Desktop PCs will always be around to do serious work which can't be done on a Slate.
A Touch interface is good for browsing and playing some basic games, but it is no match for a real keyboard and mouse. Microsoft shouldn't have to be afraid of anything.
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But medical care is some of the most expensive labor in the world.
Has anyone ever measured the true cost of health care? I am no expert, but there is a long line of people that have huge profits from the moment a drug is designed to the moment it is applied to patients. I am not convinced that health care is so expensive, as they say.
Bill Gates also gave us relativity: Windows may or may not crash at any point in time, which is an absolutely relativistic effect.
Why is there always a focus on the negative side of automation? It really means less work, same productivity. Humans no longer need to work as hard to produce the same quality of life.
So these humans are redundant, aren't they? perhaps we need to exterminate them somehow, since they are no longer useful?
until those owners redistribute the wealth again by investing the savings
Which never happens. Wealthy people "invest" their profit (and not savings, as you conveniently put it) in luxury items, which benefits a very small percentage of people, usually other wealthy people that are owners of companies producing said luxury items. The wealth is redistributed amongst the wealthy.
why would developed countries deliberately strip themselves of manufacturing capability in order to transfer their wealth to developing countries for the dubious benefit of poorly-made products and the loss of domestic jobs?
It's not developed countries, it's companies of developed countries. Developed countries have a free market, right? so companies of developed countries are free to move their businesses elsewhere to increase their profits. But this hurts the economies of developed countries, while it doesn't really help the countries the companies move into, since the wages are extremely low and the environmental impact is great.
All the above means that the 'free' market doesn't work, and that 'free' does not necessarily translate to 'unregulated'.
Now put that piece of news back in context : humanity is maybe about to give up on half its chances to secure a clean source of energy for the forseable future.
Not really. There is also HiPER, which is laser driven fusion.
America could do both welfare and the space programs, provided that they don't fund huge wars.
NASA's target should be to build a mothership in orbit; a ship that could host humans for interstellar travel, complete with artificial gravity (from rotation), hydroponic bays, electromagnetic shield, powered by nuclear reactors. It's feasible, all the technology is available, and it will make manned spaceflight to other planets of the solar system quite cheap in the long run.
It only punishes end users and admins in the short term. When these people are fed up with Microsoft, they will turn elsewhere, and then Microsoft will be hurt.
On a side note, the fact that he himself is an extremely religious man probably doesn't help a great deal, since it seems that too many politicians tend to "trust God about these things" when it's abundantly clear that God knows sweet F-A about the Tubes and how they work.
The religion card has been played a lot in most countries, including eastern ones and western ones. Let's not forget George "God told me to go to war with Iraq" Bush.
The religious politicians destroying democracy and civil liberties is the best example there is about the harm religion does.
It's pure horseshit and doesn't represent the will of the Australian people at all.
That's a problem in all "democratic" countries: they are not true democracies. Common folks cannot be elected because they lack the funds required for their promotion, and the private news networks won't present them because they are common folks, i.e. powerless people that have no power to promote bills in favor of the private news networks' owners.
It's about needing the two to three decades of research and development required to build an Internet capable of end to end encryption; development that simply has not been done.
Interesting. Why 2-3 decades of research is required? not that I doubt you; can you please elaborate on that?
It's far worse than anything Microsoft ever did.
Don't worry, it's not that Microsoft wouldn't like a similar model, it's just that the public outcry would be much worse than for Apple, because Microsoft products are essential(*) for everyday work, Apple's products are not. Microsoft started rumors a few years ago that it would turn to the rental model, but the reaction was hard from the majority of the online community.
(*)essential because most people are ignorant of open source alternatives.
Where is the ethics of making a man a prison bitch just because he logged on remotely in an open network?
Are you swearing off all Chinese made products? If not you are a hypocrite. Foxconn also makes non-Apple devices & products. Are you going to swear off buying these too?
I am swearing off everything that is not necessary for me to live. I don't have an iPod, iPad, iPhone, Intel-branded motherboard, Dell, HP, PS2, PS3, WII, XBox, Motorola phone, Kindle and Cisco. I will try to buy as few as possible products made in China.
Let's also not forget that Turkey has a 35-year military occupation in Cyprus that nobody talks about.
It wasn't entirely clear at the time that democracy and capitalism were best.
And this is proven today how? by corporations milking the people out of existence?
While it sounds damn sexy, I don't want it. It is stained with blood from Foxconn employees that make Apple products.
Did you know that the average Foxconn employee is paid 113 euros per month?
I am so shocked, I can't believe it. I read it today in the local newspaper.
I deeply apologize for the offtopic comment;I am going back to the high-tech /. nirvana. It's just that I am so shocked about this.
I was shocked this morning to read that Foxconn employees are paid 113 euros per month.
It might seem irrelevant to this discussion, but it is not: the global elite is pushing for bigger profits, either through studies that claim loss from piracy or from other means.
I hope /. readers don't get the bait that the global elite ix losing any money. They don't; they are filthy rich as a result of exploiting people in 3rd world countries. Don't make them a favor and think that piracy hurts them; it does not. It simply doesn't make their wallets extra-ultra-humongously fat.
Exactly what Kim Jong-Il wanted.
99% of time we use our computers on the internet, and most sites nowadays contain some sort of Flash video. Well, no mobile plays them all out of the box, as we speak. It's not the hardware that is the problem, it's the software.
There are lots of things that make Flash video necessary on mobile devices. For example, there are lots of video presentations about newest technologies. It's a shame that I have to sit in front of a PC for one hour to watch these, when the same thing could have been done on the way to work, saving valuable time.
Politicians are afraid that if video recording is proved successful at keeping the police from abusing citizens, then their turn is next: their every action and word will be recorded for the benefit of the people, and the people will realize their limitations.
For me, the logic is clear, but not like yours: any product that introduces a different UI experience to the user than what Apple intends to is removed.
At warp 9, it would take about 144 days to reach Betelgeuse.
I do see, in every day life, younger people being less empathic than my or older generations. They seem to be way more narcissistic than older people. Their conversations are usually limited to what they do, without taking into account what the other person says. They tend to participate in movements, as one poster says in this forum, but they do it more because it's the cool thing to do and less because they were moved by something and felt in their hearts that they need to do it. The young people's lack of empathy and apathy is directly reflected to the new music, which is totally apathetic like its audience.
The big question is not if kids are apathetic. The big question is who and what drove those kids to be apathetic? Could it be the society we, grown ups, are delivering to them? could it be that the society full of pain and greed is what drives them in apathy?
In my opinion, the answer is a big YES. We, adults and older people, are in a race for money and power. We have a big lack of morals (generally speaking). We are deeply corrupted, even if we have more empathy then these younger people. We are the owners of the media (we as in collectively us middle aged adults), we prefer to push artists that promote apathy, because it suits us, because it makes people apathetic, couch potatoes, unable to think for themselves. We are the ones that promote the blatant moral hypocrisy that is 'think about the children', we are the ones that we are doing endless wars, we are the ones that we have money as our god.
It's no surprise then that the young people are apathetic. They don't want to live in the inhuman world we have prepared for them. They don't have other weapons in their hands other than apathy, really. Because they need to survive in this dark and grim world of ours.
Hasn't it ever crossed your mind that you don't belong there? you have no fcsking job being in Africa. Africa is black man's area.
If the natives want to exterminate themselves by endless wars, let them be. It's their land.
I don't get it why Microsoft should enter the Slate market. It's not that Microsoft is going to be irrelevant in the future. Desktop PCs will always be around to do serious work which can't be done on a Slate.
A Touch interface is good for browsing and playing some basic games, but it is no match for a real keyboard and mouse. Microsoft shouldn't have to be afraid of anything.