If they want to replace the taxpaying workers with robots, then municipalities should tax each robot at a rate commensurate with the wages they would have lost from employees living in the area.
There's nothing wrong with replacing people with robots?
But there is most *definitely* something wrong with doing so when it screws everyone but the elite few at the top.
"In local news tonight, two teenagers are in jail, awaiting questioning by Department of Homeland Security officials. Ryan Ng and Shaul Picker, both of Queens, were found to be obsessively documenting sensitive information on the city's 472 subway stations on the popular website, Wikipedia. When asked why the teens were being kept in jail pending questioning, DHS officials said that they were taking the actions 'out of an abundance of caution.' Neither the teens parents, nor Wikipedia representatives, have made any comment."
We've already been through this, here in the US and Europe. They don't have to repeat all of our mistakes, and our multiple environmental and regulatory agencies make everything freely accessible to anyone who wants them.
So it should be no surprise when they make rapid advances in cleaning up things, once they get the word from on high.
No, what IS a surprise, is the fact that the word came down from on high.
It's almost as if the wealthy and powerful within China realized, "Oh, shit! I don't have anywhere I can run to, if this all goes to Hell in a handbasket! We better make sure that doesn't happen!"
This is a realization which the rich and powerful of the US and Europe have yet to arrive at.
Since I stopped using anything with scents or dyes in it, I've become really aware of anything with perfumes. I started with dish soap, then laundry detergent, the shower soap.
My laundry detergent still has fluorescent dye in it for colors and whites, but no perfume or other dyes. My dish soap is Seventh Generation, and my shower soap is Dr. Bronner's. (I love those bottles! Reading material in the shower!)
It doesn't save me any money? Stuff without all the added crap is around 30% more expensive. But I've also become far more aware of my own body odors, and act accordingly.
The downside is when I visit friends or co-workers who use "air freshener", it's like having to endure a teargas attack. And going anywhere near the soap aisle in the grocery store is a total non-starter. X.X
I love that one. It's right up there with "trickle-down economics" and "tree pollution."
Here's how that works:
1. You work for MegaCorp in City A. You've lived here for 10 years. You're settled in, and around 40 on the age scale, with a wife and two kids.
2. You're told you're going to be laid off, but they have a job for you in City R, some 700 miles away. The job is yours, if you're willing to move. They'll even give you a moving incentive? But no raise.
3. You pull up stakes, pack up your family, put your house on the market, and move to City R. After a few months on the market, your house in City A sells for around the asking price. However, you didn't break even with the purchase in City R, so you're back in the hole for a mortgage.
4. You've been in City R for a year and a half, now. The economy is okay, things are doing well, and your department is doing well. But somebody in the upper echelons isn't happy with their profits, and decides to shut down all operations in City R.
5. Everyone in City R is offered a job in City X, which is only 500 miles away this time.
You now have a choice:
1. Take a chance on MegaCorp's offer of a job in City X. However, you aren't going to get a raise. But they *do* promise -verbally- that there won't be any layoffs for a year. And you have to repeat steps 2 and 3, with no guarantee that you won't have to repeat 4 and 5 in another year.
2. Take whatever severance package they offer, and bail. However, you're now at the high-end of where age discrimination gets serious, and your prospects are slim at best.
And the best part of this pretty little operation? The silver lining that only those at the top get to enjoy?
It completely eliminates three entire classes of workers.
1. It eliminates anyone with a family. 2. It eliminates anyone that can't move on 30 days notice. 3. It eliminates anyone who isn't willing to work for slave wages.
Moisevitch: "Here we have our quandary. We are going to get there first...yet you have the knowledge to make the trip work. How much more time do I have?"
Google is big enough that if they were to "black hole" enough of Russia's systems, they would be effectively booted off the Internet.
So long as it's not an actual government agency doing it, the various governments can just toss up their hands and say, "Hey, you pissed off a private company. Isn't capitalism great?"
People on the spectrum say and do all kinds of strange things. I heard of a guy who would pause eating, and suddenly start stabbing himself in the eyeball with his fork.
You know what used to happen to people like that? Bad things. Really BAD things, like involuntary incarceration in a nightmare institution where things like rape were tame in comparison to the other stuff that went on.
But despite all the truly horrible things that happened, something good did come out of it?
They didn't breed.
So while this person isn't likely to be going to a mental hospital any time soon, he has clearly demonstrated the inferiority of his genetic material through his behavior, and subsequent job loss. Which means he isn't likely to have children, and pass on his defective genetic material.
The premise of your argument is absurd. We're not talking about online services, we're talking about physical devices that exist in the real world. Things like your refrigerator, stove or desk lamp.
There is nothing on this planet that I need so badly, that I have to sacrifice it's ability to function if it cannot get on the Internet. If it cannot work on it's own, then it is of no use to me.
1. That NK can actually get a real missile off the launch pad. 2. That NK can actually produce a nuclear weapon that will work properly, and not "fizzle". 3. That NK can actually get the missile to the appropriate location.
That's difficult, because...
1. They're having a very difficult time with getting those missiles to leave the launch pad. It's almost as if something were swatting them down shortly after launch.
2. NK nukes are very good at shaking the earth in underground tests, but they seem to be weaker than they should be. It takes a real whopper of a nuke to generate a decent EMP.
3. Getting it over the US is a very, very long trip. And like I said, those missiles keep blowing up for some strange reason.
Still, KJU makes for a pretty good boogeyman for the rubes that sign the checks!
Which is why you got the TS clearance. That's how clearances work, after all?
When I got mine, and during the re-investigation after 7 years, I had friends I hadn't spoken to in years contact me and ask me what was going on. Turns out they don't pay much attention to the people you list? Those people only serve as a springboard for the people you didn't list.
Those are the folks who get the really juicy questions.
It's also how they weed out those who are likely to do bad things.
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If they want to replace the taxpaying workers with robots, then municipalities should tax each robot at a rate commensurate with the wages they would have lost from employees living in the area.
There's nothing wrong with replacing people with robots?
But there is most *definitely* something wrong with doing so when it screws everyone but the elite few at the top.
While this is technically legal, it would most certainly attract the attention of the officer behind the screen.
This is generally a Bad Idea, as it means they'll find a reason to pull you over, and make your life miserable from there.
Oh, hey!
It looks like you've dropped below 40 hours! That's great, it means we no longer have to offer you insurance, or a 401K, or matching?
Wow, this is a great idea!
--- Every CEO in America
Never forget what these people did to Aaron Swartz.
They have killed to protect their business model.
Never doubt they'll do it again.
Please remove Cortana. She's a good girl, but I really don't want her in my machine.
And then you get this little jobby.
The Soviets/Russians have the ability to find subs without sonar at all.
1. Take something black, preferably large, and place it on the copier. A t-shirt will work well, but no designs: just solid black.
2. Make four copies of the black.
3. Trim the sheets so they have no white edges or borders.
4. Assemble the 4 sheets together with Scotch tape. Trim off any excess.
5. Apply a strip of Scotch tape to the BACK of the topmost sheet, so it's half on, half off.
6. Dial the target fax machine, then feed the bottom-most sheet into the device.
7. When enough comes out of the bottom, bring it up and apply the bottom to the topmost strip of Scotch tape to create a loop out of the four sheets.
8. Go get some coffee, talk to some co-workers, maybe go to lunch.
Target fax will keep spitting out page after page of black nothing until it either runs out of paper, toner or the fuser burns out.
Australia: "Please work with us to create this software."
Company Programmers: "No."
Australia: "Well then, you won't be able to sell your products here."
Companies: "Okay. Bye."
Australia: "Wait..."
Bad idea, folks. Very bad idea.
"In local news tonight, two teenagers are in jail, awaiting questioning by Department of Homeland Security officials. Ryan Ng and Shaul Picker, both of Queens, were found to be obsessively documenting sensitive information on the city's 472 subway stations on the popular website, Wikipedia. When asked why the teens were being kept in jail pending questioning, DHS officials said that they were taking the actions 'out of an abundance of caution.' Neither the teens parents, nor Wikipedia representatives, have made any comment."
This is an executive who has a bottom line, and isn't afraid to tell it like it is.
Whether or not they REMAIN an executive remains to be seen.
We've already been through this, here in the US and Europe. They don't have to repeat all of our mistakes, and our multiple environmental and regulatory agencies make everything freely accessible to anyone who wants them.
So it should be no surprise when they make rapid advances in cleaning up things, once they get the word from on high.
No, what IS a surprise, is the fact that the word came down from on high.
It's almost as if the wealthy and powerful within China realized, "Oh, shit! I don't have anywhere I can run to, if this all goes to Hell in a handbasket! We better make sure that doesn't happen!"
This is a realization which the rich and powerful of the US and Europe have yet to arrive at.
Since I stopped using anything with scents or dyes in it, I've become really aware of anything with perfumes. I started with dish soap, then laundry detergent, the shower soap.
My laundry detergent still has fluorescent dye in it for colors and whites, but no perfume or other dyes. My dish soap is Seventh Generation, and my shower soap is Dr. Bronner's. (I love those bottles! Reading material in the shower!)
It doesn't save me any money? Stuff without all the added crap is around 30% more expensive. But I've also become far more aware of my own body odors, and act accordingly.
The downside is when I visit friends or co-workers who use "air freshener", it's like having to endure a teargas attack. And going anywhere near the soap aisle in the grocery store is a total non-starter. X.X
There is Donald J. Trump's personal account, and then the POTUS account.
Ban Trump's personal account, and force him to use the POTUS account.
I love that one. It's right up there with "trickle-down economics" and "tree pollution."
Here's how that works:
1. You work for MegaCorp in City A. You've lived here for 10 years. You're settled in, and around 40 on the age scale, with a wife and two kids.
2. You're told you're going to be laid off, but they have a job for you in City R, some 700 miles away. The job is yours, if you're willing to move. They'll even give you a moving incentive? But no raise.
3. You pull up stakes, pack up your family, put your house on the market, and move to City R. After a few months on the market, your house in City A sells for around the asking price. However, you didn't break even with the purchase in City R, so you're back in the hole for a mortgage.
4. You've been in City R for a year and a half, now. The economy is okay, things are doing well, and your department is doing well. But somebody in the upper echelons isn't happy with their profits, and decides to shut down all operations in City R.
5. Everyone in City R is offered a job in City X, which is only 500 miles away this time.
You now have a choice:
1. Take a chance on MegaCorp's offer of a job in City X. However, you aren't going to get a raise. But they *do* promise -verbally- that there won't be any layoffs for a year. And you have to repeat steps 2 and 3, with no guarantee that you won't have to repeat 4 and 5 in another year.
2. Take whatever severance package they offer, and bail. However, you're now at the high-end of where age discrimination gets serious, and your prospects are slim at best.
And the best part of this pretty little operation? The silver lining that only those at the top get to enjoy?
It completely eliminates three entire classes of workers.
1. It eliminates anyone with a family.
2. It eliminates anyone that can't move on 30 days notice.
3. It eliminates anyone who isn't willing to work for slave wages.
It's a formula that has worked every time.
Moisevitch: "Here we have our quandary. We are going to get there first...yet you have the knowledge to make the trip work. How much more time do I have?"
Floyd: "You just got yourself an extension."
- 2010: The Year We Return
Sooner than you think...
He could have used artillery...
"You don't say?"
People are acting like this isn't desirable in an economy that relies upon consumption of media for profit and control.
Google is big enough that if they were to "black hole" enough of Russia's systems, they would be effectively booted off the Internet.
So long as it's not an actual government agency doing it, the various governments can just toss up their hands and say, "Hey, you pissed off a private company. Isn't capitalism great?"
Okay, so he's on the spectrum. Yay.
People on the spectrum say and do all kinds of strange things. I heard of a guy who would pause eating, and suddenly start stabbing himself in the eyeball with his fork.
You know what used to happen to people like that? Bad things. Really BAD things, like involuntary incarceration in a nightmare institution where things like rape were tame in comparison to the other stuff that went on.
But despite all the truly horrible things that happened, something good did come out of it?
They didn't breed.
So while this person isn't likely to be going to a mental hospital any time soon, he has clearly demonstrated the inferiority of his genetic material through his behavior, and subsequent job loss. Which means he isn't likely to have children, and pass on his defective genetic material.
And I don't have a problem with that.
The premise of your argument is absurd. We're not talking about online services, we're talking about physical devices that exist in the real world. Things like your refrigerator, stove or desk lamp.
There is nothing on this planet that I need so badly, that I have to sacrifice it's ability to function if it cannot get on the Internet. If it cannot work on it's own, then it is of no use to me.
This presumes a couple of things...
1. That NK can actually get a real missile off the launch pad.
2. That NK can actually produce a nuclear weapon that will work properly, and not "fizzle".
3. That NK can actually get the missile to the appropriate location.
That's difficult, because...
1. They're having a very difficult time with getting those missiles to leave the launch pad. It's almost as if something were swatting them down shortly after launch.
2. NK nukes are very good at shaking the earth in underground tests, but they seem to be weaker than they should be. It takes a real whopper of a nuke to generate a decent EMP.
3. Getting it over the US is a very, very long trip. And like I said, those missiles keep blowing up for some strange reason.
Still, KJU makes for a pretty good boogeyman for the rubes that sign the checks!
... but no impulse to do anything bad.
Which is why you got the TS clearance. That's how clearances work, after all?
When I got mine, and during the re-investigation after 7 years, I had friends I hadn't spoken to in years contact me and ask me what was going on. Turns out they don't pay much attention to the people you list? Those people only serve as a springboard for the people you didn't list.
Those are the folks who get the really juicy questions.
It's also how they weed out those who are likely to do bad things.