They'll have more robots (because they're already wealthy and in charge), and despite Asimov's stories, robots don't require the three laws to function.
Did you read my next sentence where I said it was slightly less normal for the Carolinas? But Hurricanes and tornadoes are not unheard of there (like in Europe).
So... they did not happen? Where have you been hiding when Cathrina happend? What did you do the last 4 days? Even *I* in the backyard of europe where we still live in the stone age have heard about the catastrophe in the USA happening the last 4 days. How many are dead and how many are homeless?
This is normal weather in "Tornado Alley". Slightly less usual for the Carolinas, but still within normal range. Europeans have no idea what strong weather is like, and you're getting suckered by US news media with its "OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE: coming up after this commercial break" style of marketing.
Electrically stimulating your five foot tall, doe-eyed, sacks of human waste by taping a 9-volt battery to their newly shaved heads won't have the same effect.
the very best of the British should be sent out to spread enlightenment, and that this should continue even when "heathen waste and folly" brought it to nothing. Kipling believed this, not because he saw Hindus, Moslems and Buddhists as inferior, but because he saw them as equals who had lacked opportunity.
How very politically correct of you. I assume by "heathen", he meant non-Christian, like Gentile means non-Jew? Because he certainly wasn't claiming they followed lesser, unenlightened religions; that would be offensive.
Sooner or later there has to be a way to live a dignified life even if the society does not need your work effort.
Assuming that even star drives will be automated, we won't be able to automate the anal probing of lesser alien species on their home planets. That will take a human who can tell the difference between orafices (if there are differences, or even orifices).
When robots get that good, it will be time to, and necessary to give up on the "everyone must slave their life away in jobs ttat 98% would rather not be doing"just in order to eat. It'll be time to sit back, enjoy that mint julip by the pool while robots maintain it, bring us the drinks, while we finally can take it easy. IOW, we can give up the idea that the purpose of life is for human beings, each and every one, is to change things. We will be able to let our robots do that for us.
You're forgetting about the sociopaths. Since they are in positions of power, things won't be as idyllic as you suggest. When robots get that good, why keep "excess" humans around who use up spaces around the pool and drink too many mint juleps? The leaders of the world will start killing off unproductive humans because they'll want the resources for themselves, and they'll have more (military) robots at their disposal.
getting rid of corporate income taxes completely is viewed as somehow favoring "the rich" when doing so would be exactly the opposite.
As they have proved by moving manufacturing, "the rich will find a way". Squeeze the big guys, and they'll defer the pain lower down the foodchain. It's the dark side of trickle-down.
First, I always think it's remarkably arrogant that we label manufacturing jobs "low-skill". My grandfather was a toolmaker in an aeroplane factory in World War 2. Imagine a job swap between us and see think which would be the bigger disaster: him trying to do some academic research and put a paper into a conference, or me trying to actually physically build an aeroplane good enough that your life could depend on it while the luftwaffe try to shoot you down. But for some reason it's his job that would be classified as "blue collar" and "low-skill".
Unless he's designing the airplanes, it is a lower creativity (low skill) job. Someone else gives him the designs and he reproduces them exactly. Now, computerized tool and die systems reproduce things more exactly and faster. But for the moment, we still need people to load raw material into the machines and remove the product.
Sure, I could scp example.com:/dev/urandom/dev/null and let it sit, but in terms of useful transfers, I only download an OS ISO once every 6 months at most, and since this is Comcast service we're talking about, Comcast assumes you'll be watching their content, not downloading pirated videos. If you download the top five Linux distros, even assuming they're DVD ISOs, that's just 20GB.
Let's look at the more realistic transfer problem: Let's say someone has paid for one of those online backup services, and the have 251GB of data (compressed) on their drive. When they start the backup service, they'll need to upload 250GB or less the first month, then start their incremental backups to catch the rest (and any changes from the previous month).
"Hey officer, wouldn't your hands like to feel all over a nice, sensual terrorist!?"
Intimate you're a terrorist like that, and he'll be required to put his hands inside you in a private room. Just you, him, and his coworker for backup in case you like it rough.
We are now okay with six year old girls getting patted down? Where does that fot in profiling?
I believe people who pat down six year olds are profiled as pedophiles. Speaking of that incident, did you hear that poor girl was crying and felt bad for "what she did wrong" after the pat down?
There's a reason we use/bin/sh (Bourne) to write scripts, and it's the same reason we use vi to edit them - mainly it's available on ALL UNIX systems. Despite widespread adoption, bash is not universally available - sorta like EMACS.
But not all GNU/Linux systems. Gentoo is a prime example. Nano instead of vi. And as sibling stated: almost no GNU/Linux system has true sh, they symlink sh to bash.
Oh, and don't stick things in a crontab on Mac OS X systems. Mac OS X prefers XML plist files for scheduling and startup.
Speaking of csh on solaris, I had a devil of a time figuring out why my csh scripts never worked until I realized that I needed to always put a newline character on the last line (the system wouldn't parse the last line without it). I slowly learned to hate csh's oddities as I learned tcsh (and later, [ba]sh).
All money* comes from someone other than the government.
*well, wealth. Actual money is created by governments, but has no value until people start trading with it.
What home users haven't moved on to XP SP3 (or for that matter, Vista or Win7)? What big businesses (only place you find XPSP2) would be caught dead using something named GIMP (especially since the default image comment is "Created with GIMP").
I started using Photoshop several years before I started using the GNU Image Manipulation Program, but I also had MS Paint, Corel Draw, xv, Paintshop Pro, and other graphic viewing/editing program experience, so GNU Image Manipulation Program was actually easy to get used to. OP needs to vary his digital diet.
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They'll have more robots (because they're already wealthy and in charge), and despite Asimov's stories, robots don't require the three laws to function.
Did you read my next sentence where I said it was slightly less normal for the Carolinas? But Hurricanes and tornadoes are not unheard of there (like in Europe).
True or false: If I roll a fair die 36 times
Perhaps the problem lies in a misinterpretation of "fair" on their part.
So ... they did not happen? Where have you been hiding when Cathrina happend? What did you do the last 4 days? Even *I* in the backyard of europe where we still live in the stone age have heard about the catastrophe in the USA happening the last 4 days. How many are dead and how many are homeless?
This is normal weather in "Tornado Alley". Slightly less usual for the Carolinas, but still within normal range. Europeans have no idea what strong weather is like, and you're getting suckered by US news media with its "OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE: coming up after this commercial break" style of marketing.
The actual projection was not even about global warming
What was it about, then? Regular political/religious refugees?
Electrically stimulating your five foot tall, doe-eyed, sacks of human waste by taping a 9-volt battery to their newly shaved heads won't have the same effect.
the very best of the British should be sent out to spread enlightenment, and that this should continue even when "heathen waste and folly" brought it to nothing. Kipling believed this, not because he saw Hindus, Moslems and Buddhists as inferior, but because he saw them as equals who had lacked opportunity.
How very politically correct of you. I assume by "heathen", he meant non-Christian, like Gentile means non-Jew? Because he certainly wasn't claiming they followed lesser, unenlightened religions; that would be offensive.
Sooner or later there has to be a way to live a dignified life even if the society does not need your work effort.
Assuming that even star drives will be automated, we won't be able to automate the anal probing of lesser alien species on their home planets. That will take a human who can tell the difference between orafices (if there are differences, or even orifices).
Anything except hard science/engineering at a doctorate level is stupid.
PhDs? Doctors of Philosophy in hard science/engineering?
When robots get that good, it will be time to, and necessary to give up on the "everyone must slave their life away in jobs ttat 98% would rather not be doing"just in order to eat. It'll be time to sit back, enjoy that mint julip by the pool while robots maintain it, bring us the drinks, while we finally can take it easy. IOW, we can give up the idea that the purpose of life is for human beings, each and every one, is to change things. We will be able to let our robots do that for us.
You're forgetting about the sociopaths. Since they are in positions of power, things won't be as idyllic as you suggest. When robots get that good, why keep "excess" humans around who use up spaces around the pool and drink too many mint juleps? The leaders of the world will start killing off unproductive humans because they'll want the resources for themselves, and they'll have more (military) robots at their disposal.
getting rid of corporate income taxes completely is viewed as somehow favoring "the rich" when doing so would be exactly the opposite.
As they have proved by moving manufacturing, "the rich will find a way". Squeeze the big guys, and they'll defer the pain lower down the foodchain. It's the dark side of trickle-down.
First, I always think it's remarkably arrogant that we label manufacturing jobs "low-skill". My grandfather was a toolmaker in an aeroplane factory in World War 2. Imagine a job swap between us and see think which would be the bigger disaster: him trying to do some academic research and put a paper into a conference, or me trying to actually physically build an aeroplane good enough that your life could depend on it while the luftwaffe try to shoot you down. But for some reason it's his job that would be classified as "blue collar" and "low-skill".
Unless he's designing the airplanes, it is a lower creativity (low skill) job. Someone else gives him the designs and he reproduces them exactly. Now, computerized tool and die systems reproduce things more exactly and faster. But for the moment, we still need people to load raw material into the machines and remove the product.
You're retarded if you can't cap it out.
Sure, I could scp example.com:/dev/urandom /dev/null and let it sit, but in terms of useful transfers, I only download an OS ISO once every 6 months at most, and since this is Comcast service we're talking about, Comcast assumes you'll be watching their content, not downloading pirated videos. If you download the top five Linux distros, even assuming they're DVD ISOs, that's just 20GB.
Let's look at the more realistic transfer problem: Let's say someone has paid for one of those online backup services, and the have 251GB of data (compressed) on their drive. When they start the backup service, they'll need to upload 250GB or less the first month, then start their incremental backups to catch the rest (and any changes from the previous month).
All you have to do is remain firm
That's what she said.
no command line HTTP file transfer clients ever sprang up
Let me introduce you to wget [gnu.org] and curl [curl.haxx.se].
"sprang up" is the key phase
Okay, introduce wget or curl to a website of ill-repute.
"Hey officer, wouldn't your hands like to feel all over a nice, sensual terrorist!?"
Intimate you're a terrorist like that, and he'll be required to put his hands inside you in a private room. Just you, him, and his coworker for backup in case you like it rough.
I boot up with a rescue CD or thumb drive. If I'm in single user mode, I assume I have physical access.
We are now okay with six year old girls getting patted down? Where does that fot in profiling?
I believe people who pat down six year olds are profiled as pedophiles. Speaking of that incident, did you hear that poor girl was crying and felt bad for "what she did wrong" after the pat down?
It's not named LibreOffice.org.
There's a reason we use /bin/sh (Bourne) to write scripts, and it's the same reason we use vi to edit them - mainly it's available on ALL UNIX systems. Despite widespread adoption, bash is not universally available - sorta like EMACS.
But not all GNU/Linux systems. Gentoo is a prime example. Nano instead of vi. And as sibling stated: almost no GNU/Linux system has true sh, they symlink sh to bash.
Oh, and don't stick things in a crontab on Mac OS X systems. Mac OS X prefers XML plist files for scheduling and startup.
A longstanding pet peeve of mine are systems that symlink /bin/bash to /bin/sh
Doesn't bash emulate sh if it's called as sh?
csh if on solaris
Speaking of csh on solaris, I had a devil of a time figuring out why my csh scripts never worked until I realized that I needed to always put a newline character on the last line (the system wouldn't parse the last line without it). I slowly learned to hate csh's oddities as I learned tcsh (and later, [ba]sh).
All money* comes from someone other than the government.
*well, wealth. Actual money is created by governments, but has no value until people start trading with it.
What home users haven't moved on to XP SP3 (or for that matter, Vista or Win7)? What big businesses (only place you find XPSP2) would be caught dead using something named GIMP (especially since the default image comment is "Created with GIMP").
I started using Photoshop several years before I started using the GNU Image Manipulation Program, but I also had MS Paint, Corel Draw, xv, Paintshop Pro, and other graphic viewing/editing program experience, so GNU Image Manipulation Program was actually easy to get used to. OP needs to vary his digital diet.