Really? Do you have any conception of the scale of farming? Getting enough doofus hipsters into your fields so they can destroy the plants they are picking food off isn't exactly a bright concept. But I'll bet it works really well for a few acres a "farmer" doesn't care about.
Nope, there are too many people who are happy with the echo chambers they visit. They wouldn't recognize propaganda if it danced naked in front of them.
I think this is a good idea too. NYT's paywall is $15/mo. I presume Wash. Post is similar. That just two sites for $30. One quickly runs out of money to pay for a reasonable collection of different editorial stances and investigative journalism.
The current situation also means small sites that do not need much to spew their "contents" have an oversize influence. They do not have to pay for investigative journalism, or quality op-eds.
China is already investing heavily in automation. They fear that the rest of the world will automate and their large population will become a relative high cost way to manufacture.
Bullshit. The New York Times and Washington Post, just to name two, have been regularly running articles pointing out the fallacies of the new tax cuts. They even reported on an administration official who said it wasn't a tax system overhaul, but a giveaway. They have also widely reported that the big donors to the Republican Party will stop supporting it if they do not get their tax cuts. And they have reported this explains why a widely detested party with low poll approval is going along with an alleged President with a low poll approval to support a tax cut that few Americans will benefit from.
They have also reported how some administration dolt gave a speech in front of a group of big industry executives and asked how many were going to use their tax cuts to increase investment. Few raised their hands and he was disappointed.
Looking out at American business today, it is doing quite well and giving them more money won't cause them to chase new demand because there is no new demand. The mainline press has also reported that companies are likely to use any new money to spend on their investors, not their workers. And there is an unstated assumption that if business taxes are cut, miraculously these companies will bring their offshore money back to the U.S. Why would they do that? It isn't costing them anything to keep it where it is, and they already have enough cash. And the tax cut will give them more cash so they do not need to bring the off-shore money home.
Ah, the old argument: I don't need to cut down that tree because it has never fallen on my house before. There are black swan events. You are arguing there are no black swans in economics, but there clearly are.
Workers do not merely retrain for other jobs, it requires an entire infrastructure. And if the retraining is for more technically competent jobs, good luck getting most of America back in the classroom. This is the same classroom a good portion of them feel it is a badge of honor to disparage. That disparagement has become part of their reward system because all their friends reward them with similar shared attitudes; birds of a feather.
Also, (as mentioned above) in the past, workers could move sideways into similar jobs. Automation isn't offering any sideways jobs for most of the jobs on the chopping block. It is looking to do away with them wholesale, there won't be much sideways movement because all the sideways will have been automated as well.
So yeah, there will be new jobs created. But unless you are clairvoyant, you cannot tell us what they will be, or how many they will be, or what quality they will be. So we all we have to do is believe in we're back in Kansas again.
""Social" media appeals the most to narcissists, sycophants, conspiracy nuts, and the just flat out crazy." Yes, and Pai was appointed by which massive user of social media?
Ah, the old "the other guy is worse" excuse. Obama doesn't matter...except to that nutcase in the White House who is fixated on him because he's got no new ideas of his own. All of Trump's ego-deranged blather and bluster means nothing and the Norks know it.
China would immediately invade Taiwan before they got their first nuke, it is that important to the bastard regime in Beijing that they appear to have big dicks by non-allowing a free group of approx. 23 million free Chinese. It makes them look bad.
"Due to gross incompetence by multiple administrations". Really, which one of this administration should have dragged S. Korea and Japan into a war on their soil? The Norks have never been interested in negotiations. Their defectors say the Norks only think of negotiations has kicking the can down the road while they build up more arms. They think if they can just get enough arms, that S. Korea will be theirs, with or without its people.
And you are completely ignoring the bozo in the White House who will decide whether or not to honor a treaty obligation. If his current behavior is any precedent, you'd be nuts to rely on the U.S. and any defense treaty you think you have....at least until he and his alleged administration have been repudiated in an election....and not by some left-wing nutjob who similarly won't think it of worth to honor a defense treaty.
It is actually worse than that. Nork defectors claim that the Sawed-Off Dumpling believes if he hits Japan and the U.S. hard enough, they will cave and declare Victory with Honor. For you youngins, that's what Nixon declared after high-tailing it out of Vietnam.
Trump generally does not believe in treaties. Any country relying upon a defense treaty with that fellow in the White House needs to reassess their security.
Oh the fun we had carefully typing each card, one mistake and you had to go to a new one. You fed your cards into the reader and listened to the musical whirrr as it zipped through the cards. Then you carefully took them out and put them into your box because if you got one card misplaced, your program wouldn't work. Then about an hour later, your output would magically appear in a folder deposited by some computer gnome. Scan the oversized output which included a listing of your program and its output (if you didn't screw it up), fix card deck, rinse repeat. You had to really want to program back then.
A wad of local currency can come in handy. Once in Poland I had left my passport at the hotel, but I found this out on the train to Warsaw. I got off at the next stop and attempted to purchase a ticket back to the town of the hotel from the woman behind the glass at the station and promptly handed her my credit card. No good, I try a second card. Nope. A third card, nope. I didn't speak Polish and she didn't speak English. After much English and Polish back and forth, when I finally cottoned on she couldn't fix the problem, I slapped a wad of zlotys on the deck. Big smile, got ticket, went back, got passport, got ticket to Warsaw, deja vu for the half of the journey I recently experienced.
Won't do any good, Trump's loose mouth knows no boundaries. The Israelis are still pissed he compromised some of their "assets" in Syria to the Russians, his owners. That doofus cannot recall which information is security related and which isn't.
Miami already has a water problem. They have been battling it for some time now. All it will take is a direct hit from Hurricane Donald at a high tide and we'll be treated to legions of Conservatives saying how the climate has been changing for millenia and that nothing could have been done to save Miami...while they will claim a share of federal disaster aid for their time shares and condos.
Consumers weren't paying attention to Uncle Sam. They paid attention to their TVs which told them they could whizzy things now and pay for them in the future. Education loans were merely a large example.
Put the blame where it belongs, the American people are not saints who merely got screwed by government behavior. They were the ones who bought houses they couldn't afford, flipped house, bought stuff on credit.
They also refused to believe that character matters when electing politicians.
To put the matter in perspective, the total American debt is roughly $20 trillion. Foreign countries own about $3.2 trillion, the rest is owned by Americans or the American government.
A good portion of the government portion, about $5.3 trillion, is owned by Social Security, essentially IOUs. Those of you thinking that this is money stored in a mattress somewhere waiting to be spent, think again. SS is a pay as you go system. When the in-flows fall below outflows (as what is close to the situation now), then the money must come from the general fund. That fund is the same one that funds the discretionary spending (about $1.2 trillion now). Discretionary is the stuff that funds the military (about half of the $1.2 Trillion..but that will rise shortly). It also funds NiH, that asshole Pai, FAA, FDA, NSF, EPA, and a host of other bits and bobs that we have asked the government to fund.
Of the remaining 2/3s of the budget, SS, medicare, medicaid, etc., is the non-discretionary part. The non-discretionary means it is a part of U.S. law to fund those programs. Those are also the programs that are funding the Blue-Haired, we used to know them as the Baby-Boomers, then they became the Me-Generation, now they are the Give-it-to-Me-Now-and-Screw-Everyone-Else generation.
Before that generation goes tits-up, SS and Medicare will necessarily be cut, so you youngins need to start saving. The current tax give-away masquerading as tax reform is being driven by Republican donors who promised the party they'd stop their political donations if they didn't get their tax cut. That means the federal budget deficit will expand quite a bit. The Republicans will then use this as a cudgel to beat back all those things they think government shouldn't be doing.The Democrats will run against this by promising more government goodies, which won't be paid for and the deficit and debt will also go up. The total debt will crowd out other spending and cause interest rates to rise because buyers of that debt will require a higher payoff to take the risk the U.S. will not default.
The end result will be (1) the blue-haired get screwed, (2) the military will shrink, (3) the worlds' bad boys will cause more trouble with the U.S. in retreat, (4) the poor will get screwed...yet again, (5) Science won't get funded, (6) medical advances will slow down (no longer science allowed). Oh, and the Republican's current infatuation with closing the borders and no trade agreements mean the U.S. will lose its export markets. Mexico is already starting to buy S. American farm produce over the U.S.'s.
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Really? Do you have any conception of the scale of farming? Getting enough doofus hipsters into your fields so they can destroy the plants they are picking food off isn't exactly a bright concept. But I'll bet it works really well for a few acres a "farmer" doesn't care about.
Time is an important concept. The threat of robots and AI is in the future, which will be here sooner than you'd like.
Nope, there are too many people who are happy with the echo chambers they visit. They wouldn't recognize propaganda if it danced naked in front of them.
Readers holding their money from information carriers will sink the carriers. You'll be left with spew, everywhere.
I think this is a good idea too. NYT's paywall is $15/mo. I presume Wash. Post is similar. That just two sites for $30. One quickly runs out of money to pay for a reasonable collection of different editorial stances and investigative journalism.
The current situation also means small sites that do not need much to spew their "contents" have an oversize influence. They do not have to pay for investigative journalism, or quality op-eds.
China is already investing heavily in automation. They fear that the rest of the world will automate and their large population will become a relative high cost way to manufacture.
Bullshit. The New York Times and Washington Post, just to name two, have been regularly running articles pointing out the fallacies of the new tax cuts. They even reported on an administration official who said it wasn't a tax system overhaul, but a giveaway. They have also widely reported that the big donors to the Republican Party will stop supporting it if they do not get their tax cuts. And they have reported this explains why a widely detested party with low poll approval is going along with an alleged President with a low poll approval to support a tax cut that few Americans will benefit from.
They have also reported how some administration dolt gave a speech in front of a group of big industry executives and asked how many were going to use their tax cuts to increase investment. Few raised their hands and he was disappointed.
Looking out at American business today, it is doing quite well and giving them more money won't cause them to chase new demand because there is no new demand. The mainline press has also reported that companies are likely to use any new money to spend on their investors, not their workers. And there is an unstated assumption that if business taxes are cut, miraculously these companies will bring their offshore money back to the U.S. Why would they do that? It isn't costing them anything to keep it where it is, and they already have enough cash. And the tax cut will give them more cash so they do not need to bring the off-shore money home.
Ah, the old argument: I don't need to cut down that tree because it has never fallen on my house before. There are black swan events. You are arguing there are no black swans in economics, but there clearly are.
Workers do not merely retrain for other jobs, it requires an entire infrastructure. And if the retraining is for more technically competent jobs, good luck getting most of America back in the classroom. This is the same classroom a good portion of them feel it is a badge of honor to disparage. That disparagement has become part of their reward system because all their friends reward them with similar shared attitudes; birds of a feather.
Also, (as mentioned above) in the past, workers could move sideways into similar jobs. Automation isn't offering any sideways jobs for most of the jobs on the chopping block. It is looking to do away with them wholesale, there won't be much sideways movement because all the sideways will have been automated as well.
So yeah, there will be new jobs created. But unless you are clairvoyant, you cannot tell us what they will be, or how many they will be, or what quality they will be. So we all we have to do is believe in we're back in Kansas again.
Yep, you do sound like an MS shill. Stop it, it is embarrassing.
""Social" media appeals the most to narcissists, sycophants, conspiracy nuts, and the just flat out crazy." Yes, and Pai was appointed by which massive user of social media?
Ah, the old "the other guy is worse" excuse. Obama doesn't matter...except to that nutcase in the White House who is fixated on him because he's got no new ideas of his own. All of Trump's ego-deranged blather and bluster means nothing and the Norks know it.
China would immediately invade Taiwan before they got their first nuke, it is that important to the bastard regime in Beijing that they appear to have big dicks by non-allowing a free group of approx. 23 million free Chinese. It makes them look bad.
"Due to gross incompetence by multiple administrations". Really, which one of this administration should have dragged S. Korea and Japan into a war on their soil? The Norks have never been interested in negotiations. Their defectors say the Norks only think of negotiations has kicking the can down the road while they build up more arms. They think if they can just get enough arms, that S. Korea will be theirs, with or without its people.
And you are completely ignoring the bozo in the White House who will decide whether or not to honor a treaty obligation. If his current behavior is any precedent, you'd be nuts to rely on the U.S. and any defense treaty you think you have....at least until he and his alleged administration have been repudiated in an election....and not by some left-wing nutjob who similarly won't think it of worth to honor a defense treaty.
It is actually worse than that. Nork defectors claim that the Sawed-Off Dumpling believes if he hits Japan and the U.S. hard enough, they will cave and declare Victory with Honor. For you youngins, that's what Nixon declared after high-tailing it out of Vietnam.
Trump generally does not believe in treaties. Any country relying upon a defense treaty with that fellow in the White House needs to reassess their security.
Yeah, and everyone who believes this please stand on their head. What...no one?
Oh the fun we had carefully typing each card, one mistake and you had to go to a new one. You fed your cards into the reader and listened to the musical whirrr as it zipped through the cards. Then you carefully took them out and put them into your box because if you got one card misplaced, your program wouldn't work. Then about an hour later, your output would magically appear in a folder deposited by some computer gnome. Scan the oversized output which included a listing of your program and its output (if you didn't screw it up), fix card deck, rinse repeat. You had to really want to program back then.
A wad of local currency can come in handy. Once in Poland I had left my passport at the hotel, but I found this out on the train to Warsaw. I got off at the next stop and attempted to purchase a ticket back to the town of the hotel from the woman behind the glass at the station and promptly handed her my credit card. No good, I try a second card. Nope. A third card, nope. I didn't speak Polish and she didn't speak English. After much English and Polish back and forth, when I finally cottoned on she couldn't fix the problem, I slapped a wad of zlotys on the deck. Big smile, got ticket, went back, got passport, got ticket to Warsaw, deja vu for the half of the journey I recently experienced.
Won't do any good, Trump's loose mouth knows no boundaries. The Israelis are still pissed he compromised some of their "assets" in Syria to the Russians, his owners. That doofus cannot recall which information is security related and which isn't.
Miami already has a water problem. They have been battling it for some time now. All it will take is a direct hit from Hurricane Donald at a high tide and we'll be treated to legions of Conservatives saying how the climate has been changing for millenia and that nothing could have been done to save Miami...while they will claim a share of federal disaster aid for their time shares and condos.
Consumers weren't paying attention to Uncle Sam. They paid attention to their TVs which told them they could whizzy things now and pay for them in the future. Education loans were merely a large example.
Put the blame where it belongs, the American people are not saints who merely got screwed by government behavior. They were the ones who bought houses they couldn't afford, flipped house, bought stuff on credit.
They also refused to believe that character matters when electing politicians.
To put the matter in perspective, the total American debt is roughly $20 trillion. Foreign countries own about $3.2 trillion, the rest is owned by Americans or the American government.
A good portion of the government portion, about $5.3 trillion, is owned by Social Security, essentially IOUs. Those of you thinking that this is money stored in a mattress somewhere waiting to be spent, think again. SS is a pay as you go system. When the in-flows fall below outflows (as what is close to the situation now), then the money must come from the general fund. That fund is the same one that funds the discretionary spending (about $1.2 trillion now). Discretionary is the stuff that funds the military (about half of the $1.2 Trillion..but that will rise shortly). It also funds NiH, that asshole Pai, FAA, FDA, NSF, EPA, and a host of other bits and bobs that we have asked the government to fund.
Of the remaining 2/3s of the budget, SS, medicare, medicaid, etc., is the non-discretionary part. The non-discretionary means it is a part of U.S. law to fund those programs. Those are also the programs that are funding the Blue-Haired, we used to know them as the Baby-Boomers, then they became the Me-Generation, now they are the Give-it-to-Me-Now-and-Screw-Everyone-Else generation.
Before that generation goes tits-up, SS and Medicare will necessarily be cut, so you youngins need to start saving. The current tax give-away masquerading as tax reform is being driven by Republican donors who promised the party they'd stop their political donations if they didn't get their tax cut. That means the federal budget deficit will expand quite a bit. The Republicans will then use this as a cudgel to beat back all those things they think government shouldn't be doing.The Democrats will run against this by promising more government goodies, which won't be paid for and the deficit and debt will also go up. The total debt will crowd out other spending and cause interest rates to rise because buyers of that debt will require a higher payoff to take the risk the U.S. will not default.
The end result will be (1) the blue-haired get screwed, (2) the military will shrink, (3) the worlds' bad boys will cause more trouble with the U.S. in retreat, (4) the poor will get screwed...yet again, (5) Science won't get funded, (6) medical advances will slow down (no longer science allowed). Oh, and the Republican's current infatuation with closing the borders and no trade agreements mean the U.S. will lose its export markets. Mexico is already starting to buy S. American farm produce over the U.S.'s.
Try the little pink pills next time.