and the answer has always been "yes: but there will be new jobs and more opportunities"
When resource production (primary) industrialized, there was manufacturing (secondary) to pick up the slack. When manufacturing automated, there was services (tertiary) to pick up the slack. When services automate, then what? There isn't another sector up and coming to pick up the slack like the last two times.
Which means we need to think about what we're going to do to deal with that.
As you say, trying to put the brakes on automation isn't a viable option, so what is? Spread the remaining jobs thinner by reducing each person's hours? Cast aside the idea of employment being necessary?
You could at least get your talking points from somewhere that at least updates them. Thiomersal is gone from all childhood vaccines except flu, and even then it's only in the multidose vials.
And guess what? The removal hasn't done anything to autism rates or anything else.
Only one disease has ever been completly eradicated from the wild.
Actually, two now. Rinderpest (a virus in the same genus as measles that infected cattle, buffalo, and such) was declared eradicated in 2011 and the last known case was in 2001.
We even now have a permanent Tetanus combo booster shot (TDAP) instead of the old every ten year one (that probably expired, don't step on a rusty nail!).
My biggest gripe are the small AC to DC wall warts. Try as they might with different orientations of their bulbus shapes, they always take up to much room on my power strips.
Try some short (30cm or shorter) extension cords to get the wart off the strip.
At this point, SpaceX is clearing its manifest, collecting so many customers that its manifest is continuing to grow with an ever longer back log of waiting time for new customers, and at this point plans to launch 15 rockets (according to their manifest) next year. Admittedly SpaceX claims that is only 15 rockets that will be delivered to the launch pads before January 2015, but that is incredibly ambitious. That is manufacturing over 150 new Merlin engines, or about 3-4 engines per week that need to be completed. In other words, a very real assembly line and mass production scales of efficiency.
I believe what the AC is saying is that the government should design, build, and launch its own rockets rather than contracting out (and presumably design and build the satellites in-house also) and that without Boeing/Lockheed/TRW/etc. lobbying Congress to buy "necessary" satellites and the rockets to hang them up, there would be substantially fewer launches.
What capabilities would a self-driving car really need to be acceptable, both to passengers and to the general public, that current prototypes lack?
Not requiring a $85,000 LIDAR unit, and about $40k worth of other equipment, plus the cost of the actual vehicle, is probably high on the list of requested features.
But then, this is the man who worked tirelessly to reintroduce circumcision to the US as a preemptive way discourage masturbation, so screw him.
Corn flakes were a variation on that theme. Kellogg was a follower of the ideas of Sylvester Graham (who also invented the "masturbation causes blindness" nuttery). He believed that spicy or sweet foods led to "passions" and "impure thoughts".
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Isn't "Global Catholic" somewhat redundant?
and the answer has always been "yes: but there will be new jobs and more opportunities"
When resource production (primary) industrialized, there was manufacturing (secondary) to pick up the slack.
When manufacturing automated, there was services (tertiary) to pick up the slack.
When services automate, then what? There isn't another sector up and coming to pick up the slack like the last two times.
Which means we need to think about what we're going to do to deal with that.
As you say, trying to put the brakes on automation isn't a viable option, so what is? Spread the remaining jobs thinner by reducing each person's hours? Cast aside the idea of employment being necessary?
Actual analysis says eating healthy costs about $550 more per person per year.
Your idea of thermodynamics doesn't include the concept of "efficiency"?
Re your first bit, pertussis (like tetanus and diphtheria) is actually caused by a bacterium, not a virus.
the study linking vaccines to autism was
a complete and total fabrication and the doctor who did it has lost his medical license because of that.
You could at least get your talking points from somewhere that at least updates them. Thiomersal is gone from all childhood vaccines except flu, and even then it's only in the multidose vials.
And guess what? The removal hasn't done anything to autism rates or anything else.
Only one disease has ever been completly eradicated from the wild.
Actually, two now. Rinderpest (a virus in the same genus as measles that infected cattle, buffalo, and such) was declared eradicated in 2011 and the last known case was in 2001.
We even now have a permanent Tetanus combo booster shot (TDAP) instead of the old every ten year one (that probably expired, don't step on a rusty nail!).
Where are you finding that its permanent?
It goes without saying that the moronic get what they deserve
The moronic parents aren't getting what they deserve, it's their children that are paying the price.
Nope. In the film continuity, he received a super serum, a la Captain America.
The Hulk is the result when you add expose a super serum recipient to gamma radiation rather than Vita rays.
My biggest gripe are the small AC to DC wall warts. Try as they might with different orientations of their bulbus shapes, they always take up to much room on my power strips.
Try some short (30cm or shorter) extension cords to get the wart off the strip.
Or alternatively, use a flexible power strip.
http://www.quirky.com/shop/44-Pivot-Power-Flexible-Power-Strip
At this point, SpaceX is clearing its manifest, collecting so many customers that its manifest is continuing to grow with an ever longer back log of waiting time for new customers, and at this point plans to launch 15 rockets (according to their manifest) next year. Admittedly SpaceX claims that is only 15 rockets that will be delivered to the launch pads before January 2015, but that is incredibly ambitious. That is manufacturing over 150 new Merlin engines, or about 3-4 engines per week that need to be completed. In other words, a very real assembly line and mass production scales of efficiency.
If I'm counting engines right (10 for each Falcon 9, and 28 for the Heavy), their manifest of future missions through to the end of 2014 will require 178 Merlin and Merlin Vacuum engines.
I believe what the AC is saying is that the government should design, build, and launch its own rockets rather than contracting out (and presumably design and build the satellites in-house also) and that without Boeing/Lockheed/TRW/etc. lobbying Congress to buy "necessary" satellites and the rockets to hang them up, there would be substantially fewer launches.
Or going to a local shop that aren't gouging pricks :
Cost of item : $4 Shipping : Nada. Sales Tax (10%) : $0.40 = Total : $4.40
What capabilities would a self-driving car really need to be acceptable, both to passengers and to the general public, that current prototypes lack?
Not requiring a $85,000 LIDAR unit, and about $40k worth of other equipment, plus the cost of the actual vehicle, is probably high on the list of requested features.
If it's just a little bit, using a DVD-R is perfectly adequate as a backup solution. Even BD-R for slightly larger amounts.
And you're not needing to back it up for very long. Writable optical media doesn't have a very long archival lifespan.
Just a bit disingenuous, no? The countries with the socialist bias are almost always about to run out of money, even with crazy tax rates (eg sweden).
I guess we know who Jobs willed his Reality Distortion Field to.
Sweden has, as a percentage of GDP, less than half as much debt as the USA.
Norway is very decidedly in the black with their pension fund.
put the right controls in place to insure that corporate interests align with the patients interests.
At which point is is no longer the American system.
But then, this is the man who worked tirelessly to reintroduce circumcision to the US as a preemptive way discourage masturbation, so screw him.
Corn flakes were a variation on that theme. Kellogg was a follower of the ideas of Sylvester Graham (who also invented the "masturbation causes blindness" nuttery). He believed that spicy or sweet foods led to "passions" and "impure thoughts".
There are no poisonous spiders here in the UK, or probably anywhere in Europe.
No native ones, but there have been a few cases of dangerous ones hitching rides on fruit shipments lately.
Meh. Canadian medical privacy is kind of ridiculously done--they put diagnosis (rather than just prescription) on the slips they give the pharmacist
I have never seen that here in Saskatchewan. OTOH, my prescriptions have been for fairly obvious things like pain or infections.
The only problem I have with BitCoin at the moment is that it isn't something you want to hold on to.
I find that amusing, given that another of the criticisms about bitcoin is that they think the deflationary nature of bitcoin would result in hording.
The Pre-OCZ designs were very solid power supplies. Would be a shame for that company to end as a result of OCZ's incompetence.
Maybe the US government is trying to buy all the Bitcoins
More like the Chinese government. There's a hell of a lot of trading volume coming out of that country lately.