Posted on 11/14/2011 5:04:36 PM PST by gitmo
Do these tractors come equipped with ATMs?
Maybe we should get you a supply of clay, some styluses and patio for sun-baking?
Between the Democrats and the Bush wing of the GOP there is little chance that illegals are going to be deported.
You have greater odds of winning the lottery on the same day that lightning strikes you.
Of course I know that, but to blame unemployment on technology with the illegal elephant in the country is pretty out there.
The only way illegals will be dealt with is if we the people get angry enough to force our politicians to do something about it. If people knew the whole truth about illegal immigration and the other border issues and how it impacts every single person in this country it would happen soon. Most don’t care though and will watch dancing with the stars while whining about things they could change if they would get their arses off the couch.
“The only way illegals will be dealt with is if we the people get angry enough to force our politicians to do something about it. If people knew the whole truth about illegal immigration and the other border issues and how it impacts every single person in this country it would happen soon. “
I’ve lived in SoCal the last 40+ years. I know what you speak of and I share your anger.
Got it in one. My company simply couldn't exist without the "IT revolution". It gives us a global reach and increases productivity and innovation by a huge amount. CAD alone is a huge productivity booster (I started out "before AutoCAD" back when drawings were done by "T-square and triangle"...in "lead" or ink...by hand). I can whip out a drawing in a few minutes that would take hours the "old-fangled way").
If it is more efficient, it means the business makes more money, which means more money to the employees and shareholders and vendors, which then flows into the economy. It is crazy to argue that inefficiency ever is good for the economy.
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“The Big Bang Theory: The Jerusalem Duality (#1.12)” (2008)
Rajnesh Koothrappali: Do you know what he did? He watched me work for 10 minutes, and then started to design a simple piece of software that could replace me.
Leonard Hofstadter: Is that even possible?
Rajnesh Koothrappali: As it turns out, yes.
I had an uncle who was an aeronautical engineer, who started with a slide rule, log tables, and as you said, a T-Square and triangles... Then the technology hit and productivity went WAY up... The Teledyne "Drafting Machine." Eventually digital calculators and computers helped a bit too.
Mark
Bump for later
Problem, it's eliminated the dumb from the workforce...and the dumb gotta eat too.
I don't know the answer. I know the principal reason most companies use computing machines is to reduce human effort (hours) in order to reduce cost and increase precision.
If you have the brains and inclination, technology is THE field to be in.
It's busier now than at any time in the last 30 years as far as I can tell.
Let’s try a little bit of my vision:
The future belongs to humans, along with their “slave” machines, where, each human will be “partnered” with a robot, endowed with the best and most current “AI” of the times.
The slave will make each person independent and capable of functioning without government involvement or any kind of group thought or group interaction. The robot will take care of the human owner’s needs, and that could include food (through independent gardening), clothing, housing (building shelter shouldn’t be that difficult in the future wink ), entertainment (playing videos, music, movies), education (internally contained information, with lectures and everything that a teacher/professor might do), medical needs (blood tests, blood pressure tests, recommending medicines, etc), and much more.
Now, the robot could be free-standing and accompanying the owner everywhere for everything that the owner does. The robot would be equipped to recognize dangers in the environment and to take appropriate action to “defend” or warn the owner.
The robot could also be in the form of “attachments” on the body of the owner, worn (like clothing, glasses), embedded/inserted (like heart pumps), and much more. That robot would provide for locomotion (something like a Segway) so that the human can go longer distances than humans can currently on foot.
In essence, all of the needs that a human has, would be provided by the “slave”, with no questions asked, no complaints, and no getting tired, and working as independently as possible with very little outside intervention or interaction.
luddites are revolting.
Or sit around all day playing XBOX, watching cable and eating the proverbial government cheese.
What we are watching is the failure of the government education model. Otherwise IT wouldn’t have a negative effect at all.
Instead you’ve got generations trained not to think and to expect a hand out.
Right now educational methods can teach in 1-2 months what takes a year under the government schooling model and I mean teach to mastery. Imagine 1st graders doing iterations. It works and is very effective, except you don’t need a teaching certificate nor the current educational paradigm.
ping.
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