None of which is relevant. The point is, Tepco technicians used a 0-100 mSv instrument in an 1800 mSv area, then claimed that it was just a mistake. Not credible.
And endless crime. If people can't find a legal way to make a decent living, they will find an illegal way. Which is great news for the for-profit prison industry.
That will never happen in Ameraica. The top 1% wealthiest provide 75% of all of the campaign contributions, and 1/3 of that comes from the 1% of the 1%.
You seem to think that labor is the only cost involved in manufacturing goods. Every thing that is manufactured requires resources: metals, plastics, glass etc. And the big one:energy. Somebody in the 1% owns all of these resources. Do you think that they are going to just give it away?
And what about the robots themselves? They will have to be engineered, with revised designs every few months to incorporate the latest technology. They will also wear out and be replaced with the latest models. Do you think some generous group of people are going to do this for free? Why should they?
Such a system will collapse because the top 1% needs the rest of the population to buy the products they make. So if everyone is unemployed, there's no way the top 1% can run a profitable business
Tell that the owners of Prado, Rolex, Ferrari and Bentley.
There's plenty of money to be made by rich people in selling luxuries to other rich people. Such as, for instance, the very latest household robots.
"Oh my god, did you hear that Pamela is still using last year's robots? The poor thing must be so embarrassed!"
The most sane position to take, in my mind, is assuming that there is no god, no afterlife, and no soul.
Why do you feel the need to assume anything? Carl Sagan said it best:"The absence of evidence does not constitute evidence of absence". As OP said, who the hell cares?
In case you hadn't noticed, the glaciers are retreating at an ever-accelerating rate. When they will be gone is a matter of conjecture - that they will disappear is not.
If that were the case, then non-identical siblings raised apart would show the same degree of correlation. They don't, not even close. Heritability of IQ
So some texting jerk cuts off the lead car, causing a unpredicted collision. All of the road train cars end up in a massive pileup. None of the road train experiments that I have heard of were held in realistic conditions (i.e. in presence of idiots).
All made use of a technique called âoeprimingâ in which participants are exposed to words relevant to a particular category in order to increase its cognitive accessibility.
Unfortunately, the use of this priming technique is about as "scientific" as a ouija board.
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None of which is relevant.
The point is, Tepco technicians used a 0-100 mSv instrument in an 1800 mSv area, then claimed that it was just a mistake.
Not credible.
Which is exactly what they didn't do, Mr. Tepco.
So you prefer appeals to non-authorities ("3% of scientists").
If Scientology can scare /. into submission (Scientology v.s. Slashdot), the NSA sure as hell can.
How about having a separate computer, not on the internet, that does the encryption?
You can. It's called killing them.
Dry?
Sigh?
Try?
I give up.
Bingo.
Uh, so they can afford to live above poverty? With decent housing and medical care?
More specifically, we are stuck in the idea that:
1. we need a job so we can pay for a living, and
2. capitalism will provide that job.
And endless crime.
If people can't find a legal way to make a decent living, they will find an illegal way.
Which is great news for the for-profit prison industry.
Of course, that's why unemployment is such a non-issue.
Well that accounts for 1 out of several millions of truck drivers. Hey, it's a start!
That will never happen in Ameraica.
The top 1% wealthiest provide 75% of all of the campaign contributions, and 1/3 of that comes from the 1% of the 1%.
You seem to think that labor is the only cost involved in manufacturing goods.
Every thing that is manufactured requires resources: metals, plastics, glass etc. And the big one:energy.
Somebody in the 1% owns all of these resources. Do you think that they are going to just give it away?
And what about the robots themselves?
They will have to be engineered, with revised designs every few months to incorporate the latest technology.
They will also wear out and be replaced with the latest models.
Do you think some generous group of people are going to do this for free? Why should they?
Tell that the owners of Prado, Rolex, Ferrari and Bentley.
There's plenty of money to be made by rich people in selling luxuries to other rich people.
Such as, for instance, the very latest household robots.
"Oh my god, did you hear that Pamela is still using last year's robots? The poor thing must be so embarrassed!"
Shades of Elysium?
No, we won't preserve the current model indefinitely. We are rapidly going back to an older model: feudalism.
Why do you feel the need to assume anything?
Carl Sagan said it best:"The absence of evidence does not constitute evidence of absence".
As OP said, who the hell cares?
In case you hadn't noticed, the glaciers are retreating at an ever-accelerating rate. When they will be gone is a matter of conjecture - that they will disappear is not.
If that were the case, then non-identical siblings raised apart would show the same degree of correlation.
They don't, not even close.
Heritability of IQ
Like stand in an unemployment line? Or cook meth?
If there was ever a city filled with deficient humans...
So some texting jerk cuts off the lead car, causing a unpredicted collision. All of the road train cars end up in a massive pileup.
None of the road train experiments that I have heard of were held in realistic conditions (i.e. in presence of idiots).
Unfortunately, the use of this priming technique is about as "scientific" as a ouija board.