Apple tried once, in the mid '90s Apple licensed some companies to make Mac clones. However Apple found out they lost more in lost hardware sales than they made in MacOS licenses. So when they brought Steve Jobs back he put a stop to licensing. While I'd like to see OSX be able to run on most any PC I don't see how Apple could survive as a business AND make sure OSX just works. Apple is able to make sure it "just works" because they control both hardware and the OS. MS isn't able to do this so Windows may work fine on one PC but crashs on another.
Couldn't MS just limit their software to running on Non-Macs, just as Apple has limited their software to running on only macs. It would be a dirty trick, but If Apple can do it, why not MS. Sure MS is a monopoly, but if Apple wants to play the game of what software can run on which hardware, then I don't see why MS shouldn't have the same priviledge.
Ah but there's a big difference between Apple and Microsoft. MS is a software business whereas Apple is a systems business. Apple designs and makes hardware as well as software and makes sure they play well together.
Mac users (and I'm one of them) understand that most of the time Apple thinks like you do. If you think a button should do "x", then most likely the button does "x".
While this may be true in most cases, it's definately not true for the maximize button. The sizing of windows is the one thing that bothers me about the MacOS, earlier OSes as well as OSX. The only way to truly have a window take up all of the available space on a monitor is to put the upper left corner of the window in the upper left corner of the monitor then drag the lower right corner to the lower right of the monitor.
Core 2 Duos have the 64 bit extensions. Don't believe what people in the Apple Store tell you. Even though they call them geniuses, they're just techs with a knowledge born from proprietary manuals.
Oh, I knew she didn't know what she was talking about. I went in and asked because I knew C2Ds were 64 bit. She wasn't one of the geniuses though, just a "sales clerk".
And I doubt you know what "64-bit" even means, but the MBPs are 64bit machines with 64bit processors and they can run 64bit apps in with access to 64bit memory address space in OSX today.
While I disagree with much of what the GP said I also had to make a comment of this statement. Unfortunately it's not only Windows users who have the wrong info on Mactels. A few months ago I went into an Apple store and asked one of the employees there if the version of Leopard for Intel based Macs will be 32 or 64 bit. She said Core 2 Duos were only 32 not 64 bit cpus.
I've never had Windows fail to come out of hibernation or sleep (with the exception of once when the battery died halfway through the hibernation process). Besides, in the event you do need to boot, doesn't Windows boot faster than Mac/Linux?
Almost since I first got and used this Windows PC the hybernation hasn't worked properly. I've had to do a full reinstall of Windows several tymes and everytime I have I set the power options to hypernate after 15 minutes inactivity. Then the first tyme it tries to go into hybernation it crashs. So when I have to reboot I get an err message saying hybernation isn't working and do I want to disable it. As for whether it boots up faster than Macs, I don't know, but hopefully I will learn soon as I plan on getting a Macbook Pro. But my Linux box doesn't take up more tyme booting up than my Windows PC.
They don't suffer embarassing BSODs on waking from sleep, or during their presentations.
Maybe should invest in a laptop that isn't a piece of crap. This argument has been outdated since Win2000 came out
I haven't used Vista yet but the first tyme I used XP it didn't fully bootup when I started it the first tyme I used XP. It was on a brand new Dell the college I was attending had just got. I went into class on the first day, sat down, and pushed the power button. After a few minutes it stopped responding, the only thing I could do was push in and hold the power button then reboot. As a first impression it didn't go over well. Actually I've used versions of Windows since 3.x and the only version I have used I have not had a problem with is NT 4.0. I have not had it crash, freeze, or give me the BSOD whereas every other version I've used have done these, including XP as stated above.
The Age of Enlightment "occurred solely in Germany, France, Britain, and Spain
Don't forget the Netherlands. We might not have as many big names as other countries, only Hugo de Groot and Spinoza come to mind.
I didn't forget the Netherlands, I didn't know this. All I did was copy and paste the wiki article, but thanks for the info. Since you know something about the Netherlands and the Age of Enlightenment maybe you can assist in editing the article.
WalMart has been doing this for years; sneeze at the wrong moment and you're gone. One at a time. The churn keeps the payroll cheap.
Actually turnover, your "churn", is a major expense for businesses. Everytime a new employee is hired there's all of the paperwork to be filled out, the new employee has to be trained, and there's other expenses to be paid. All of these expenses in fact means payroll is higher for high turnover than for low turnover businesses.
Words you mention in your post lead me to think that you do not understand what free market capitalism is. The United States does not have and for the most part, never has had, a free market.
For a short tyme the USA had a freemarket. Though it was being whittled away by the Corporate Aristocracy Thomas Jefferson warned of there still was a freemmarket when Alexis de Tocqueville toured the USA in the 1820's. Unfortunately it has been gone a long tyme though.
I'm half Irish. Do you know why so many people died in the potato famine (did you know there was a potato famine in Ireland? Just ask a Boston cop...) Anyway, Ireland had enough arable land to be self sufficient. it's just that the people who *owned* that land...lived in England. And They wanted cash crops. So guess what didn't get planted.
Somethng puzzles me about the Irish Potate Famine, why was there a famine caused by a shortage of potatos in Eire? Potatos were imported into Eirland, Ireland, from the Americas. So did Irish farmers stop farming indeginous crops then forgot how to grow them?
(an interesting line from "We're No Angles", a classic Bogie movie)
Ump, I don't recall that movie. I've got two of his movies, "African Queen" and "Casablanca" and I'd like to get "Key Largo". Key Largo offers some terrific scuba diving.
Except that when you make money the motivating factor for why you do things, the things that SHOULD motivate you as a human being in a human culture - cease to function. The RIAA's recent behavior (suing a 10 year old girl.. come on) eloquently demonstrates this assertion.
Though this is true with some businesses it's not true with all. Take Whole Foods Market, thier corporate philosophy is such that they support their employees and the communities they operate in. That was the idea when the business started, they kept it when they had their IPO, and they still have it. And it is one of the fastest growing grocery store chains in the USA.
Also, small companies are not necessarily better at innovation. A one storefront company would probably go out of business in the face of outside disruptive innovations, E-Commerce in this case. Those that survive probably didn't need to adapt, e.g. boutique shops whose original formula stressed customer service, etc.
But if they're innovative or think outside the box small one storefront businesses can increase their sales as well as survivability by using disruptive technologies. I knew someone who owned a small bookstore that did this. Actually two who owned two different bookstores. The first one started making more money from the net than the physical store made so she ended up selling it, the physical store. The other one also saw her sales increase when she went online. Whereas before they only sold locally, on the net they both were able to sale nationally. And the one who kept the physical store also saw more people coming into the store, some driving 100 miles or more to go there after finding the store online.
Circuit City is, IMO, doing the only thing they can to try to compete with Amazon, NewEgg, etc
There's one more thing they could of done, reduce the amount the CEO took home. If a business isn't doing well then everyone from the CEO on down should share in it. Afterall isn't the captian of the ship supposed to go down with the ship? But as with Enron it's probably the executives who will walk away with their pockets stuffed.
There comes a time where you have to decide whether it's better to save $5 for yourself, or spend it so that somebody else has a job.
Even though I'm on disability and don't work I am a member of two coops in my area. At first I joined because they have better selections of organic food than any other stores but I also like that they support local businesses as well, so I'm willing to pay a little more there than I would pay big box chain stores. Supporting locally owned and operated businesses keep more money circulating in the area which benefits everyone here.
Yea, you can fire productive employees or you can reduce the millions the executives take home. The question is which is better for the business's bottom line, keeping productive workers or firing them?
You make an interesting point. On one hand, even the poorest of Americans have at least one of these: cable TV, cell phone, internet access.
Not quiet. I've worked with some who didn't even have roof to sleep under, they most certainly didn't have tv, cell phones, or internet access. The last two, cell phones and net access could most certainly have helped them improve their socioeconomic circumstance though, net acces could help find a job and the phone would make it easier to be in contact with prospective employers. While tv may not be needed or is an extravagance, cellphones and net access can be put to good use.
I have no doubt that the income gap statistics are true, but the point that keeps getting lost is that each person can choose their own future. Nothing prevents a person from making more money if that's what they want to do. We keep trying to make low income the same as victim, when that's rarely the case. Everyone has control over that and there's plenty of room at the top for anyone who wants to go there.
I think, no I know, you're wrong. Not everyone can improve their socioeconomic future. My background is low income but I went into the army to save money to go to college and once out I started working on a degree in Computer Engineering. Unfortunately as a college student I was hit by a moving van while riding my bike after class. When I came out of the coma I was in I had to move into a rehab house, then spent almost a year in therapy. As a survivor of a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, I quickly found I would not be about to get the CE degree and it's doubtful I'll be able to get any degree though I did go back to college. Work hard? My life is hard work and I have very little energy for fulltime manual labor. However even if I did I've been repeatedly warned that if I get hit in the head again it could kill me.
I'll pay the same price or slightly higher for an item if it's delivered to my door than visit a retail store unless I 'need it now'.
You might, but I want a local brick and mortor store I can return something I bought back to to get a refund or to have it repaired. Expecially for a big ticket item.
I HOPE AND PRAY that we slam back a 50% tax on everyone making over $300 grand a year and similarly lower the taxes on anyone earning under $44,000 a year (the "average" wage + 10%). I think business CEO's and so on should be taxed at 90% for everything over 20x the average salary (so currently about 800,000).
I am all for abolishing taxes on personal earned income period! If you work you should be able to keep the money you make from your labor. This includes privately owned businesses. But because corporations offer stockholders limited liability, the only thing a stockhold can loose is the amount they paid for the stocks they own, corporate profits should be taxed. I might also go along with a tax on corporations that pay executives more than an income X over the lowest paid employee, say X=1000 or something. So if a CEO were paid more than $26,000,000, say $52,000,000 and the lowest fulltime employee earned $26,000 the CEO's income over $26,000,000 would be taxed. However it woudn't be the CEO who was taxed but the corporation. Done this way the corp would have an incentive to increase the pay of the lowest paid employee. And because the corp doesn't collect employee income taxes to be remitted to the government they would be able to pay employees more.
Despite the stock price going up, this is going to prove to be disastrous for them
Actually while the stock price went up some it closed lower.
Hopefully people will remember this so that if the mere idea ever creeps into another CEO's head he'll forget about it instantly or risk losing his company.
Unlikely to ever happen, this wasn't the first tyme this happened and it won't be the last.
First off, I agree that US car manufactures are also poorly run. Second, it's been my understanding that the Japanese and Euro manufactures who have moved here have gone to right to work states in order to be union free. I know the local Honda plant here doesn't have unions.
But how does the wages paid and the cost of living compare to Detroit? I'd bet they compare favorably.
Enjoy taking you car to the dealer to get the spark plugs changed or the transmission fluid topped off.
Haha, funny. It's not just VWs you have to take into the dealer or other service center to have fluid level checked or tuneups done. Cars made by US manufacturers are the same today. As a "shade tree mechanic" I have worked on my own as well as others' cars. I've even rebuilt the engine and tranmission in one of my cars, the only thing I had to take something into a shop for was when I rebuilt the engine for a '78 Monte Carlo I had to take the engine block into a machineshop to have the cylinders bored out. However I have to take my 2000 Saturn, a GM company, in for tuneups and fluid changes. Special tools are required are needed to do this and there's only one use for the tool, which costs a lot if you can find one. Then you have to have the right diagnostic computer as well. On serviceability that old Monte Carlo puts to shame any Detroit car made today.
That's a great idea. Let unions milk another industry and run it into the ground like what happened to the automotive industry.
If Japanese and European auto manfacturers can build factories and autos in the US profitably, it's not unions responsible for the decline in US car companies, it's there own fault. I don't know how old you are but I still recall Detroit calling for sanctions against the Japanese in the 1970s because Detroit was loosing to Mazda, Toyota, and others Japanese businesses because they were producing fuel efficient vehicles while Detroit was only producing gas goozlers. The unions had nothing to do with that. Detroit continues to fight raising CAFE standards while Japan delivers efficient models. And within a few years I fully expect Chinese businesses to setup manufacturing in the US as well, taking more business from Detroit.
When you have a machine do the job of a human, you take away somethng from the human.
So the pinnacle of humanity was when we were living in caves? From the printing press to industrial robots, machines have eliminated countless jobs that humans used to do. And yet, the human race survives.
That's not what I meant, afterall I'm using a computer. People need to work, even if not for money. Here saying "work" I mean people need to be active. Preferably at something they love to do. I used to say I'll never retire, as I always wanted to keep working, even if I didn't need to for the income. Unfortunately it might as well be said I am retired though not of my own choice, I am disabled and collect disability. I am hoping to start working this year though, as a photographer and developing websites for other photographers.
This is pretty much like some people not realizing the difference between equal opportunity and equal outcome. Unfortunately not everyone has the same opportunities depending on where they live and their socioeconomic background.
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Why not also make money on software?
Apple tried once, in the mid '90s Apple licensed some companies to make Mac clones. However Apple found out they lost more in lost hardware sales than they made in MacOS licenses. So when they brought Steve Jobs back he put a stop to licensing. While I'd like to see OSX be able to run on most any PC I don't see how Apple could survive as a business AND make sure OSX just works. Apple is able to make sure it "just works" because they control both hardware and the OS. MS isn't able to do this so Windows may work fine on one PC but crashs on another.
FalconCouldn't MS just limit their software to running on Non-Macs, just as Apple has limited their software to running on only macs. It would be a dirty trick, but If Apple can do it, why not MS. Sure MS is a monopoly, but if Apple wants to play the game of what software can run on which hardware, then I don't see why MS shouldn't have the same priviledge.
Ah but there's a big difference between Apple and Microsoft. MS is a software business whereas Apple is a systems business. Apple designs and makes hardware as well as software and makes sure they play well together.
FalconMac users (and I'm one of them) understand that most of the time Apple thinks like you do. If you think a button should do "x", then most likely the button does "x".
While this may be true in most cases, it's definately not true for the maximize button. The sizing of windows is the one thing that bothers me about the MacOS, earlier OSes as well as OSX. The only way to truly have a window take up all of the available space on a monitor is to put the upper left corner of the window in the upper left corner of the monitor then drag the lower right corner to the lower right of the monitor.
FalconCore 2 Duos have the 64 bit extensions. Don't believe what people in the Apple Store tell you. Even though they call them geniuses, they're just techs with a knowledge born from proprietary manuals.
Oh, I knew she didn't know what she was talking about. I went in and asked because I knew C2Ds were 64 bit. She wasn't one of the geniuses though, just a "sales clerk".
FalconAnd I doubt you know what "64-bit" even means, but the MBPs are 64bit machines with 64bit processors and they can run 64bit apps in with access to 64bit memory address space in OSX today.
While I disagree with much of what the GP said I also had to make a comment of this statement. Unfortunately it's not only Windows users who have the wrong info on Mactels. A few months ago I went into an Apple store and asked one of the employees there if the version of Leopard for Intel based Macs will be 32 or 64 bit. She said Core 2 Duos were only 32 not 64 bit cpus.
FalconI've never had Windows fail to come out of hibernation or sleep (with the exception of once when the battery died halfway through the hibernation process). Besides, in the event you do need to boot, doesn't Windows boot faster than Mac/Linux?
Almost since I first got and used this Windows PC the hybernation hasn't worked properly. I've had to do a full reinstall of Windows several tymes and everytime I have I set the power options to hypernate after 15 minutes inactivity. Then the first tyme it tries to go into hybernation it crashs. So when I have to reboot I get an err message saying hybernation isn't working and do I want to disable it. As for whether it boots up faster than Macs, I don't know, but hopefully I will learn soon as I plan on getting a Macbook Pro. But my Linux box doesn't take up more tyme booting up than my Windows PC.
They don't suffer embarassing BSODs on waking from sleep, or during their presentations.
Maybe should invest in a laptop that isn't a piece of crap. This argument has been outdated since Win2000 came out
I haven't used Vista yet but the first tyme I used XP it didn't fully bootup when I started it the first tyme I used XP. It was on a brand new Dell the college I was attending had just got. I went into class on the first day, sat down, and pushed the power button. After a few minutes it stopped responding, the only thing I could do was push in and hold the power button then reboot. As a first impression it didn't go over well. Actually I've used versions of Windows since 3.x and the only version I have used I have not had a problem with is NT 4.0. I have not had it crash, freeze, or give me the BSOD whereas every other version I've used have done these, including XP as stated above.
FalconThe Age of Enlightment "occurred solely in Germany, France, Britain, and Spain
Don't forget the Netherlands. We might not have as many big names as other countries, only Hugo de Groot and Spinoza come to mind.
I didn't forget the Netherlands, I didn't know this. All I did was copy and paste the wiki article, but thanks for the info. Since you know something about the Netherlands and the Age of Enlightenment maybe you can assist in editing the article.
FalconWalMart has been doing this for years; sneeze at the wrong moment and you're gone. One at a time. The churn keeps the payroll cheap.
Actually turnover, your "churn", is a major expense for businesses. Everytime a new employee is hired there's all of the paperwork to be filled out, the new employee has to be trained, and there's other expenses to be paid. All of these expenses in fact means payroll is higher for high turnover than for low turnover businesses.
FalconWords you mention in your post lead me to think that you do not understand what free market capitalism is. The United States does not have and for the most part, never has had, a free market.
For a short tyme the USA had a freemarket. Though it was being whittled away by the Corporate Aristocracy Thomas Jefferson warned of there still was a freemmarket when Alexis de Tocqueville toured the USA in the 1820's. Unfortunately it has been gone a long tyme though.
FalconI'm half Irish. Do you know why so many people died in the potato famine (did you know there was a potato famine in Ireland? Just ask a Boston cop...) Anyway, Ireland had enough arable land to be self sufficient. it's just that the people who *owned* that land...lived in England. And They wanted cash crops. So guess what didn't get planted.
Somethng puzzles me about the Irish Potate Famine, why was there a famine caused by a shortage of potatos in Eire? Potatos were imported into Eirland, Ireland, from the Americas. So did Irish farmers stop farming indeginous crops then forgot how to grow them?
(an interesting line from "We're No Angles", a classic Bogie movie)
Ump, I don't recall that movie. I've got two of his movies, "African Queen" and "Casablanca" and I'd like to get "Key Largo". Key Largo offers some terrific scuba diving.
FalconExcept that when you make money the motivating factor for why you do things, the things that SHOULD motivate you as a human being in a human culture - cease to function. The RIAA's recent behavior (suing a 10 year old girl.. come on) eloquently demonstrates this assertion.
Though this is true with some businesses it's not true with all. Take Whole Foods Market, thier corporate philosophy is such that they support their employees and the communities they operate in. That was the idea when the business started, they kept it when they had their IPO, and they still have it. And it is one of the fastest growing grocery store chains in the USA.
FalconAlso, small companies are not necessarily better at innovation. A one storefront company would probably go out of business in the face of outside disruptive innovations, E-Commerce in this case. Those that survive probably didn't need to adapt, e.g. boutique shops whose original formula stressed customer service, etc.
But if they're innovative or think outside the box small one storefront businesses can increase their sales as well as survivability by using disruptive technologies. I knew someone who owned a small bookstore that did this. Actually two who owned two different bookstores. The first one started making more money from the net than the physical store made so she ended up selling it, the physical store. The other one also saw her sales increase when she went online. Whereas before they only sold locally, on the net they both were able to sale nationally. And the one who kept the physical store also saw more people coming into the store, some driving 100 miles or more to go there after finding the store online.
FalconCircuit City is, IMO, doing the only thing they can to try to compete with Amazon, NewEgg, etc
There's one more thing they could of done, reduce the amount the CEO took home. If a business isn't doing well then everyone from the CEO on down should share in it. Afterall isn't the captian of the ship supposed to go down with the ship? But as with Enron it's probably the executives who will walk away with their pockets stuffed.
There comes a time where you have to decide whether it's better to save $5 for yourself, or spend it so that somebody else has a job.
Even though I'm on disability and don't work I am a member of two coops in my area. At first I joined because they have better selections of organic food than any other stores but I also like that they support local businesses as well, so I'm willing to pay a little more there than I would pay big box chain stores. Supporting locally owned and operated businesses keep more money circulating in the area which benefits everyone here.
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Yea, you can fire productive employees or you can reduce the millions the executives take home. The question is which is better for the business's bottom line, keeping productive workers or firing them?
FalconYou make an interesting point. On one hand, even the poorest of Americans have at least one of these: cable TV, cell phone, internet access.
Not quiet. I've worked with some who didn't even have roof to sleep under, they most certainly didn't have tv, cell phones, or internet access. The last two, cell phones and net access could most certainly have helped them improve their socioeconomic circumstance though, net acces could help find a job and the phone would make it easier to be in contact with prospective employers. While tv may not be needed or is an extravagance, cellphones and net access can be put to good use.
FalconI have no doubt that the income gap statistics are true, but the point that keeps getting lost is that each person can choose their own future. Nothing prevents a person from making more money if that's what they want to do. We keep trying to make low income the same as victim, when that's rarely the case. Everyone has control over that and there's plenty of room at the top for anyone who wants to go there.
I think, no I know, you're wrong. Not everyone can improve their socioeconomic future. My background is low income but I went into the army to save money to go to college and once out I started working on a degree in Computer Engineering. Unfortunately as a college student I was hit by a moving van while riding my bike after class. When I came out of the coma I was in I had to move into a rehab house, then spent almost a year in therapy. As a survivor of a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, I quickly found I would not be about to get the CE degree and it's doubtful I'll be able to get any degree though I did go back to college. Work hard? My life is hard work and I have very little energy for fulltime manual labor. However even if I did I've been repeatedly warned that if I get hit in the head again it could kill me.
FalconI'll pay the same price or slightly higher for an item if it's delivered to my door than visit a retail store unless I 'need it now'.
You might, but I want a local brick and mortor store I can return something I bought back to to get a refund or to have it repaired. Expecially for a big ticket item.
FalconI HOPE AND PRAY that we slam back a 50% tax on everyone making over $300 grand a year and similarly lower the taxes on anyone earning under $44,000 a year (the "average" wage + 10%). I think business CEO's and so on should be taxed at 90% for everything over 20x the average salary (so currently about 800,000).
I am all for abolishing taxes on personal earned income period! If you work you should be able to keep the money you make from your labor. This includes privately owned businesses. But because corporations offer stockholders limited liability, the only thing a stockhold can loose is the amount they paid for the stocks they own, corporate profits should be taxed. I might also go along with a tax on corporations that pay executives more than an income X over the lowest paid employee, say X=1000 or something. So if a CEO were paid more than $26,000,000, say $52,000,000 and the lowest fulltime employee earned $26,000 the CEO's income over $26,000,000 would be taxed. However it woudn't be the CEO who was taxed but the corporation. Done this way the corp would have an incentive to increase the pay of the lowest paid employee. And because the corp doesn't collect employee income taxes to be remitted to the government they would be able to pay employees more.
FalconDespite the stock price going up, this is going to prove to be disastrous for them
Actually while the stock price went up some it closed lower.
Hopefully people will remember this so that if the mere idea ever creeps into another CEO's head he'll forget about it instantly or risk losing his company.
Unlikely to ever happen, this wasn't the first tyme this happened and it won't be the last.
FalconFirst off, I agree that US car manufactures are also poorly run. Second, it's been my understanding that the Japanese and Euro manufactures who have moved here have gone to right to work states in order to be union free. I know the local Honda plant here doesn't have unions.
But how does the wages paid and the cost of living compare to Detroit? I'd bet they compare favorably.
FalconEnjoy taking you car to the dealer to get the spark plugs changed or the transmission fluid topped off.
Haha, funny. It's not just VWs you have to take into the dealer or other service center to have fluid level checked or tuneups done. Cars made by US manufacturers are the same today. As a "shade tree mechanic" I have worked on my own as well as others' cars. I've even rebuilt the engine and tranmission in one of my cars, the only thing I had to take something into a shop for was when I rebuilt the engine for a '78 Monte Carlo I had to take the engine block into a machineshop to have the cylinders bored out. However I have to take my 2000 Saturn, a GM company, in for tuneups and fluid changes. Special tools are required are needed to do this and there's only one use for the tool, which costs a lot if you can find one. Then you have to have the right diagnostic computer as well. On serviceability that old Monte Carlo puts to shame any Detroit car made today.
FalconThat's a great idea. Let unions milk another industry and run it into the ground like what happened to the automotive industry.
If Japanese and European auto manfacturers can build factories and autos in the US profitably, it's not unions responsible for the decline in US car companies, it's there own fault. I don't know how old you are but I still recall Detroit calling for sanctions against the Japanese in the 1970s because Detroit was loosing to Mazda, Toyota, and others Japanese businesses because they were producing fuel efficient vehicles while Detroit was only producing gas goozlers. The unions had nothing to do with that. Detroit continues to fight raising CAFE standards while Japan delivers efficient models. And within a few years I fully expect Chinese businesses to setup manufacturing in the US as well, taking more business from Detroit.
FalconWhen you have a machine do the job of a human, you take away somethng from the human.
So the pinnacle of humanity was when we were living in caves? From the printing press to industrial robots, machines have eliminated countless jobs that humans used to do. And yet, the human race survives.
That's not what I meant, afterall I'm using a computer. People need to work, even if not for money. Here saying "work" I mean people need to be active. Preferably at something they love to do. I used to say I'll never retire, as I always wanted to keep working, even if I didn't need to for the income. Unfortunately it might as well be said I am retired though not of my own choice, I am disabled and collect disability. I am hoping to start working this year though, as a photographer and developing websites for other photographers.
FalconHell, in an ideal world, machines would do all the work and we'd just sit on our asses all day.
When you have a machine do the job of a human, you take away somethng from the human.
FalconThis is pretty much like some people not realizing the difference between equal opportunity and equal outcome. Unfortunately not everyone has the same opportunities depending on where they live and their socioeconomic background.
Falcon