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  1. Re: Is it a slowdown? on Tech Layoffs More Than Double In Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure it is, depending on pay.

  2. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 2

    First off, many executives salaries, combined with perks such as stock options, is a huge % of most companies labor costs. In a company like wendys, executive compensation is anywhere from 5-15%. Sadly, few general stock holders realize it.

  3. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, we need to kill off these kinds of jobs. They do not help America. Likewise, we should focus on preventing dumping, money manipulation, etc in higher paying jobs. For example , H1b needs to be killed off and instead add say 25,000 to green cards that are awarded on America's high tech needs. IOW, bring ppl here permanent that have needed skills while dumping low end jobs that require gov subsistence to live on.

  4. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why? Nearly all of those workers are illegals. Far better to automate those jobs.

  5. This is good to stop paying welfare on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right now, large number of ppl on Food stamps and other forms of gov subsistence are actually working 40 or more hours / week. Problem is, that America's minimum wage has not kept pace with inflation. So now, we already pay out to ppl who work at Target, McDonald's, burger King, Walmart Sam's club, and yes Wendy's. With this, many ppl will be laid off, but if they buy American made equipment, they can point to providing better jobs. And if America will deal with the illegal alien issue, and send home those that have no families here, or whose families are nothing but drains on society, then we open many lower end jobs.

  6. Good, about time we get back to automating on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, we need to automate many of the lower end jobs, and focus on building the automation instead. This is also the reason why we need to solve the illegal issue. Many of them simply send the money back home, which is effective outsourcing. As such, we need to send those back home.

  7. need a site in America for recycling on Where Does America's E-Waste End Up? GPS Tracker Tells All (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, we absolutely SHOULD be doing our own recycling. A lot of this can actually be burned, just in special incinerators. As to the elements that come out, we can either separate them and sell them off, OR, we could put them down inside of a deep mine, and save them for future uses, which we WILL need.

  8. Re:Obama continues doing everything that... on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why is it that most GOP have never served, are spineless and even here, will be ACs rather than admit who they are?
    You lie as much or more than Trump does, and then you wonder why Trump is a such a Piece of SHIT that you folks brought in.
    Hell, Trump and trash like you, have more in common with Hitler and the Nazis than the Republicans that made the GOP.

  9. If he visits, fine. on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No apology of any type should be issued.

  10. Re:pander to republicans?!?!?!?? on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry Kevin, but Historians judge it quite differently already.
    He solved the GOP's Great Recession, Cut CO2 emission from America by HUGE amounts (though to be fair, W's push on fracking/drilling producing low costs nat gas was equally, if not more, to credit for bringing it down), open trade with cuba again, provided a solution for medicine costs (still remains to be seen if any good, but is better than previous), cut the deficit in half, and only 1 supreme court loss (with all the rest being total wins even thought the GOP has pushed more fights than has EVER BEEN DONE). The list goes on and on. There is a REAL reason why Historians judge him quite a bit higher than you do

    For example, you claim that SCOTUS did a number of unanimous rulings against O. Other than his appointing a person during what should have been a congressional recession (but GOP was pulling a stupid action), what other unanimous SCOTUS rulings were there?

  11. Re:pander to republicans?!?!?!?? on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Historians have been ranking him, and unlike you, they are not so biased or idiotic.

    And Like Truman, his rating will almost certainly go up as ppl realize that you GOP/neo-cons/tea-bagger types were more destructive to America than AQ, ISIS, Putin, and China COMBINED.

  12. it was far far less than had we NOT dropped the bomb.
    Japan had no intention of surrendering and it was going to be a bloody battle all the way through Japan to make it happen.
    By dropping the bombs, it solved everything with a lot fewer loss of lives, esp. of Allied lives who were attacked by Germany and Japan.

  13. Tesla makes Volvo look bad on Tesla's Inherent Safety Saves Five Joyriding Teenagers In Germany (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, Tesla makes other car makers look bad. The question is , can they do it with model 3, as well as the coming $20k car?

  14. Re:Rail gun is better on Combat Lasers To Be Added To US Fighter Jets (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 1

    Recoil is dependent on 2 laws:
    1) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. i.e. you will have a recoil that equals the energy of the bullet or ammo.
    2) E=MC^2.

    So, if the rail gun kicks out at same energy, then same recoil. Issue solved.

    However, recoil is NOT a big deal for this. Look at chain guns on helicopters. The real issue is how much energy can be produced. a 1-16 MJ can mean a LOT of energy being used quickly.

  15. Rail gun is better on Combat Lasers To Be Added To US Fighter Jets (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Laser far too easy to counter. Smoke and larger air particles can counter for ground troops. For missiles, drones, and airplanes simply roll or make the exterior 'wiggle'. But a rail gun with say a varying 1-16 mj esp with smart ammo, is going to produce hits regardless of counter measures.

  16. human drivers should leave. now. on Lyft Plans Self-Driving Taxi Fleet By 2017 (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, they should leave NOW.

  17. Re: Cars, cars, cars on Tesla Plans To Produce 500,000 Electric Cars In 2018, 1 Million In 2020 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla is going to be building on I80 this year and into 2017. Because Nebraska us lightly populated and your gov will not allow them to sell there,ne is not a top priority. Besides, u have huskers there and nobody wants to see them :)

  18. Better if they quit taking colorado water on San Diego To Run 100 Percent On Renewable Energy By 2035 (outerplaces.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, San Diego and Los Angelos should be developing desalinating and quit taking so much from the colorado river. To do that, will require a great deal more energy, so, AE will not do the trick.

  19. and all we need to do is get thorium based reactors going. Issue solved.

  20. why the fuck would you want to clean up China? They are a developed nation and can figure out what they want.
    Besides the good news is that renewables do NOT make heavy use of rare earth. Only when it is designed into it, like china choses to do.

  21. Welcome to America on Snapchat Sued For Facilitating 107 MPH Car Crash (patch.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    One person pulls out in front of another, ILLEGALLY (the car sueing was ticketed for pulling out wrongly),
    In addition, we have an 18 y.o driver (2 years of experience), WITH A FRIEND, driving over 100 MPH in a 55, while using a phone illegally, and the car goes after snapchat.

    What our fascists does not destroy, lawyers will.

  22. Re: Google has the tech? on Google, Fiat Chrysler Plan Partnership On Self-Driving Minivans (androidheadlines.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, this is NOT Tesla's automation solution. THis is Tesla's solution on how to map all of the roads using a level 2 automation while getting data for a level 4 automation.
    Personally, I think that it is a good solution to obtain data for the next couple of years.

  23. Re: Why do we need self-driving cars? on Google, Fiat Chrysler Plan Partnership On Self-Driving Minivans (androidheadlines.com) · · Score: 1

    That is true. Today. But in less than 2 years time, that is not expected to be the case.

  24. Re: And what these morons will never understand.. on Google, Fiat Chrysler Plan Partnership On Self-Driving Minivans (androidheadlines.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget drunk, stoned, or wanting to read, talk, or simply relax on way to work or back.

  25. Re: And what these morons will never understand.. on Google, Fiat Chrysler Plan Partnership On Self-Driving Minivans (androidheadlines.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, everybody really wants to drive themselves 100% of the time. That is why Tesla's autopilot is used more often than 50% of time, for the cars equipped with such.