I see one solution to increasing automation of our workforce: a combination of make-work and retraining programs. Everyone admits our infrastructure is old...
GOP will allow this only over their cold dead bodies. They will complain it increases the debt and creates "bloated socialistic government" that is allegedly biased against Christianity and Caucasians.
They have a point with regard to the debt, but we can take the money from our military budget. It's far larger than our top 3 enemies combined. And/or, tax the rich, which they are also against.
The potato disease was still the PRIMARY cause of the famine according to your source. If their society were well run perhaps they could have re-allocated quicker, but society rarely rapidly overhauls itself quickly and well at the same time. That's asking too much of humans.
Whether enough new jobs will open up to replace the quantity of jobs lost to automation and outsourcing, one thing is certain: many people will get displaced and hit hard times. Going from a $25/hr factory worker to a $10/hr Walmart greeter will NOT make for happy citizens, especially when they have a family and mortgage to take care of.
Most "new" jobs are given to young people, not to somebody who has been doing the same thing for 20+ years. Agism is real, even in IT; I've seen it myself.
Politicians ignored or downplayed the displaced and look what happened: they elected a human monkey-wrench in protest to shake things up. The lesson: ignoring the displaced will backfire. We may have only seen the first wave of rebellion; much more can happen.
Unfortunately, fear-mongering works politically, at least in the USA. It's why we have inflated and impractical incarceration durations. Painting demons for the masses is psychologically easy to do compared the intricacies and nuances of explaining and protecting rights.
Before you jump to conclusions about "racist software"...
What exactly are the accusations you are defending against?
I will add that bias is not necessarily conscious racism; it could be those who build the equipment and/or train staff on using the equipment are mostly used to dealing with people of a certain ethnic group. These are mistakes of familiarity, not "racism" per se. These kinds of mistakes have appeared in commercial enterprises before, such as manual photo processing labs.
confirms what I've found to be true for years. Force-fitting people together and making them build something in rapid-fire fashion with half-thought out ideas doesn't make for a good experience.
Imagine what would happen if somebody tried to run Washington DC that way...
Making a bad product is different than forcing an OS upgrade because the second one is intentional. Upgrading to another OS almost always carries some risk. If you force the upgrade, you are forcing that known risk onto consumers.
Ideally, the moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans would get together and come up with something
The ACA is already based on moderate ideas. It's mostly based on a Heritage Foundation paper, a right-wing think-tank. The far left wanted single payer (similar to what other industrialized countries have).
It just needs some tuning due to mistakes and GOP budget bullet holes. Let's hope moderates can do that much.
As a reminder, SQL is a query language and not a hardware technology. It doesn't dictate HOW to store data (assuming it meets certain minimum standards). You probably are referring to typical RDBMS.
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Just build a Great Firewall and make the mainland pay for it.
Until you invent a viable 3rd party, I'll select the least of two weevils ... I mean evils.
Only if it involves farm animals.
Nope, the engineering of them is being outsourced to Cheaplaborstan. Pick which end to get [bleeped] at.
GOP will allow this only over their cold dead bodies. They will complain it increases the debt and creates "bloated socialistic government" that is allegedly biased against Christianity and Caucasians.
They have a point with regard to the debt, but we can take the money from our military budget. It's far larger than our top 3 enemies combined. And/or, tax the rich, which they are also against.
Relax, they'll probably be Microsoft Terminators, and therefore not very effective in practice: bloated and full of holes.
I hope the Democrats' campaign ads pound home this evil deed during the next round of representative elections. Rub it in!
The potato disease was still the PRIMARY cause of the famine according to your source. If their society were well run perhaps they could have re-allocated quicker, but society rarely rapidly overhauls itself quickly and well at the same time. That's asking too much of humans.
Hmmm, I only see those when the server is failing.
Newfangled critter gets a fancy emoticon command prompt, and the rest of us are stuck with dollar signs or angle prompts.
Good, that means he's done with the Brolita look. Not his thing.
"In the hills we almost captured one for research, but a damned bigfoot came along and scared it away."
Whether enough new jobs will open up to replace the quantity of jobs lost to automation and outsourcing, one thing is certain: many people will get displaced and hit hard times. Going from a $25/hr factory worker to a $10/hr Walmart greeter will NOT make for happy citizens, especially when they have a family and mortgage to take care of.
Most "new" jobs are given to young people, not to somebody who has been doing the same thing for 20+ years. Agism is real, even in IT; I've seen it myself.
Politicians ignored or downplayed the displaced and look what happened: they elected a human monkey-wrench in protest to shake things up. The lesson: ignoring the displaced will backfire. We may have only seen the first wave of rebellion; much more can happen.
It matched him to various citrus fruits.
Unfortunately, fear-mongering works politically, at least in the USA. It's why we have inflated and impractical incarceration durations. Painting demons for the masses is psychologically easy to do compared the intricacies and nuances of explaining and protecting rights.
What exactly are the accusations you are defending against?
I will add that bias is not necessarily conscious racism; it could be those who build the equipment and/or train staff on using the equipment are mostly used to dealing with people of a certain ethnic group. These are mistakes of familiarity, not "racism" per se. These kinds of mistakes have appeared in commercial enterprises before, such as manual photo processing labs.
Imagine what would happen if somebody tried to run Washington DC that way...
Many of my best ideas come while driving home, taking a shower, 4am when I can't sleep, or when taking a crap.
Disasters 200 years apart on average sounds better to me than disasters 100 years apart.
Making a bad product is different than forcing an OS upgrade because the second one is intentional. Upgrading to another OS almost always carries some risk. If you force the upgrade, you are forcing that known risk onto consumers.
They might regret that in 4 years.
The ACA is already based on moderate ideas. It's mostly based on a Heritage Foundation paper, a right-wing think-tank. The far left wanted single payer (similar to what other industrialized countries have).
It just needs some tuning due to mistakes and GOP budget bullet holes. Let's hope moderates can do that much.
Sounds like a Catholic school punishment tool.
As a reminder, SQL is a query language and not a hardware technology. It doesn't dictate HOW to store data (assuming it meets certain minimum standards). You probably are referring to typical RDBMS.
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