Did anybody else read that in Troy McClure's voice? "Hi, I'm Troy Hunt. You may remember me from such hits as "MicroSoft: You Must Obey" and "How the Grinch Stole Updates".
If it did, the wealthy would actually start to lose wealth because the masses would be underemployed and no longer able to buy the products being produced in automated factories.
How much would McDonnell-Douglas lose if the unemployed masses couldn't afford to buy jet fighters? Or how much would Gucci or Bentley or Rolex lose if the masses couldn't afford $5000 handbags, $300000 limos or $600000 watches?
Answer: nothing. There will always be a healthy business selling over-priced goods to the military or the very rich, no matter how poor the "masses" are.
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Sudden, radical change is usually not a really good thing.
Although most of this change has occurred on university campuses, with little effect elsewhere.
this particular piece was, as i stated above, merely a rant and has no place on a news aggregate.
Even a rant can be interesting, as the numerous posts in this thread demonstrate.
by Roger W Moore
RIP.
For-profit firefighting also exists. There have been cases of them refusing to assist a non-subscriber; that's one way to deal with free riders.
Letting their families burn to death? You mindless, vicious fuck.
Private police forces exist in many contexts
Yeah, they are called death squads.
Rural condo associations have their own sewer systems.
And when those private sewer systems flow shit into someone else's drinking water, then what?
Of all the mindless clowns on this thread, you take the cake. As you always do.
And all of that pharma progress was based on basic research in chemistry and biology, all of which was paid for by government-funded labs.
The initial work was done by Robert Goddard, and government involvement was minimal. His work was not expensive.
A laughably minuscule part of the overall effort that lead to satellites and the moon landing.
Hell, I'd argue that as a mostly-single-task device it did that one task very well and didn't do very well things that made it easy to cheat on tests.
Yes, it did, at an outrageous price.
I don't think you know what the fuck you mean.
(and snoop around your house while they're there).
And ever after.
Did anybody else read that in Troy McClure's voice?
"Hi, I'm Troy Hunt. You may remember me from such hits as "MicroSoft: You Must Obey" and "How the Grinch Stole Updates".
You can do that with every version of windows 10: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/turn-off-windows-update-in-windows-10
That's a good question, and one you should answer before making grand conclusions like, "we are running out of jobs."
In other words, you have no fucking idea.
You can make a lot of money painting houses, driving a tow-truck, or swinging a hammer.
All activities with high unemployment now, and which will be performed by robots in the near future.
If the current unemployment trend continues (and it should)
Do you mean more people losing full-time high wage jobs with benefits, while gaining low-wage part-time jobs with no benefits?
Right now, jobs are being automated, every day.
Yeah, full-time jobs with benefits.
Those people are finding new jobs.
Yeah, ones that involve the phrase "Want fries with that?"
If it did, the wealthy would actually start to lose wealth because the masses would be underemployed and no longer able to buy the products being produced in automated factories.
How much would McDonnell-Douglas lose if the unemployed masses couldn't afford to buy jet fighters?
Or how much would Gucci or Bentley or Rolex lose if the masses couldn't afford $5000 handbags, $300000 limos or $600000 watches?
Answer: nothing.
There will always be a healthy business selling over-priced goods to the military or the very rich, no matter how poor the "masses" are.
Politicians have small hands.
You can't reason with an anthill.
And that anthill will absolutely not stop until you are dead!
Gweiher is a notorious "superstition is just as good as science" troll.
At this time, it is entirely unclear whether "something that is entirely undefined" is even possible in this universe.
FTFY.
And no, you have to define something (sans hand-waving generalities) before you can even consider whether it will ever exist.
Can you translate that into English?
I will also have a much larger number of failed predictions. That does not invalidate the correct predictions.
It sure as hell does.
It's the ratio of correct to incorrect predictions that determines predictive ability.
But will the Mexicans pay for them?
Why do you think a robot will cost $90k?
Because people will always want the latest and greatest.
Robots are built by other robots, and require very little maintenance.