When that day comes, in whomever's lifetime, when nobody has to work anymore, where will people get food from? Where will people get energy from? Where will people get entertainment from?
Where do you take your food from? Agriculture today is already automated to a great degree. Where do you get your energy from? You employ Chinese guys to run in treadmills to light your house? Entertainment will continue to employ people, of course. I don't imagine robots as being very creative in any meaningful time frame.
Oh, you mean in the future when we have a two tier system where the top 1% don't have to work, but the rest of us have menial jobs because technology has replaced all of the formerly middle class jobs that one could raise a family on.
You don't make any sense. Menial jobs will be replaced by machines, they won't be needed any more.
Now, seriously, what the fuck are you talking about?
In my country, kids cannot attend public schools if their vaccine record is not up to date. Every year, when it's school enrolment time, parents have to show the vaccine booklet together with the usual enrolment documents.
Private schools, I'm not so sure. But I know one couple of anti-vaccine nuts, and their kids are at school. I guess there's nothing money can't buy. I wonder if the other parents are aware of this particular perk provided at this particular school. I strongly suspect not.
Not only that, I would love to have a car that leaves me at the door and then goes park itself wherever places are available. I'm not entitled to a parking place in my company (this is Europe, by the way), and the free places are quite far.
Nobody has to buy Microsoft Office to communicate with governments in the European Union. We have open standards laws forbidding governments from doing that kind of shit. Much to the dismay of Microsoft lobbyists and the officials in their pockets.
So we should never, ever change anything, because the adaptation period is too expensive. If everybody had the same mindset as you, we'd still be living in caves.
They need to do that, because of rampant terrorism and crime. Everybody knows New Zealand is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. If the government is not allowed to spy on their citizens, how can they make the country one of the most peaceful and developed in the world?
I had a manager to whom all problems could be solved with "a function that receives a string and returns another" and "can be done in 10 minutes".
He kept accepting project over project over project, and change over change over change. When I told him that we were already busy with one project or feature, he used to tell us "no problem, you can fit this one in your idle time, when you're slacking off". And I used to ask "which idle time?". With no answer, of course.
Fortunately, someone higher up noticed the insanity and ended it. Our team was assigned to other manager and everything started working fine. It was great to be able to work 8 hours a day instead of 12, but get stuff done and delivered on time and schedule, instead of permanently delivering horribly buggy software, way beyond deadline.
It's not about working more, is about working better. Behind an overworked team lies a lazy and incompetent manager.
What a strange position to take, given the widening of the income gap over the previous 40 years. You're probably too young to remember what it was like in the 1970's, before Reagan and Thatcher began the trend of cutting taxes into the bone and dismantling the social safety net.
And what has that got to do with science? They did that to benefit a specific group and used prejudice to justify their actions. It has shit to to with science. Many of the stupid ideas that are in vogue today in Politics and Economics contradict science, but are applied anyway.
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When that day comes, in whomever's lifetime, when nobody has to work anymore, where will people get food from? Where will people get energy from? Where will people get entertainment from?
Where do you take your food from? Agriculture today is already automated to a great degree. Where do you get your energy from? You employ Chinese guys to run in treadmills to light your house? Entertainment will continue to employ people, of course. I don't imagine robots as being very creative in any meaningful time frame.
Oh, you mean in the future when we have a two tier system where the top 1% don't have to work, but the rest of us have menial jobs because technology has replaced all of the formerly middle class jobs that one could raise a family on.
You don't make any sense. Menial jobs will be replaced by machines, they won't be needed any more.
Now, seriously, what the fuck are you talking about?
Yeah, fuck that Nature shit! My car is more important! Ugh!
I heard the full-body scanners are great for that.
In my country, kids cannot attend public schools if their vaccine record is not up to date. Every year, when it's school enrolment time, parents have to show the vaccine booklet together with the usual enrolment documents.
Private schools, I'm not so sure. But I know one couple of anti-vaccine nuts, and their kids are at school. I guess there's nothing money can't buy. I wonder if the other parents are aware of this particular perk provided at this particular school. I strongly suspect not.
Not only that, I would love to have a car that leaves me at the door and then goes park itself wherever places are available. I'm not entitled to a parking place in my company (this is Europe, by the way), and the free places are quite far.
Nobody has to buy Microsoft Office to communicate with governments in the European Union. We have open standards laws forbidding governments from doing that kind of shit. Much to the dismay of Microsoft lobbyists and the officials in their pockets.
So we should never, ever change anything, because the adaptation period is too expensive. If everybody had the same mindset as you, we'd still be living in caves.
Whoooooooosh!
I think this is absurd. Why would anyone wear RFID tags on their feet? And who has three feet, anyway?
They need to do that, because of rampant terrorism and crime. Everybody knows New Zealand is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. If the government is not allowed to spy on their citizens, how can they make the country one of the most peaceful and developed in the world?
Is this valid for vampires too? Fortunately, I love garlic.
I had a manager to whom all problems could be solved with "a function that receives a string and returns another" and "can be done in 10 minutes".
He kept accepting project over project over project, and change over change over change. When I told him that we were already busy with one project or feature, he used to tell us "no problem, you can fit this one in your idle time, when you're slacking off". And I used to ask "which idle time?". With no answer, of course.
Fortunately, someone higher up noticed the insanity and ended it. Our team was assigned to other manager and everything started working fine. It was great to be able to work 8 hours a day instead of 12, but get stuff done and delivered on time and schedule, instead of permanently delivering horribly buggy software, way beyond deadline.
It's not about working more, is about working better. Behind an overworked team lies a lazy and incompetent manager.
No problem, the Sun will have already died by that time, turning into a red giant and vaporising our whole planet.
Half of my home electricity comes from renewable sources, most of it is wind.
I love that naysayer attitude, was that the way you conquered the West?
What the fuck is this about? I can't parse the summary!
By your reasoning we should ban science too, it correlates terribly fine with social unequalty!
Would you care to back your utter bullshit with some data?
Some people die due to excessive consumption of water. Let's ban water, then!
What a strange position to take, given the widening of the income gap over the previous 40 years. You're probably too young to remember what it was like in the 1970's, before Reagan and Thatcher began the trend of cutting taxes into the bone and dismantling the social safety net.
And what has that got to do with science? They did that to benefit a specific group and used prejudice to justify their actions. It has shit to to with science. Many of the stupid ideas that are in vogue today in Politics and Economics contradict science, but are applied anyway.
Wrong. Employees are there to power the machines, Matrix style.
Ideally it would require vacations as well.
It does, here. And most of the civilised world, I believe.
It's actually happened...
Now Chinese are outsourcing to us
[Insert "In Soviet Russia" joke here]
build 2,750 feet into the air
And who decides what "that much" is?
India is a democracy, so the answer is "the Indian people".
Who said I am American, douchebag?
I see we could actually agree about a few subjects, but your aggressive attitude just spoiled everything.
Go fuck yourself.
What logic says that India should stop worrying about its defence till all Indians are shitting in toilets?
They should consider defence, maybe not that much.
Yours is just another predictable response that shows up whenever anything like this is reported on /.
I'm glad not to disappoint.