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The robots are coming! Gonna get real boring if it really comes to nothing to do.
See @CodeWraith - I knew there was a good reason to start collecting neodymium magnets. that'll learn them!
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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I once read a definition of a civilized man as "A person who can keep himself busy all day even when he doesn't have to go to work". By that definition, very few of us are civilized.
I predict that if UBI is enacted at present, we will see the following pattern:
- A large number of people will quit their jobs, intending to go on a trip around the world, write the Great <whatever> Novel, etc.
- It will be difficult to find people to perform the essential jobs; the standard of living for everyone goes down (think what happens when all the sanitation workers quit...)
- After a while, some people may return to their jobs, having worked it out of their system
- Many (most?) of the essential workers, from Doctors to Garbage Collectors, will need to be lured back to their jobs by better conditions than they had before UBI
- This results in a decreasing of the size of the pot, possibly making UBI untenable
UBI can only work if:
- The gross planetary product is so high that feeding all the drones is a trivial expense
- All of the drudgery and "sh*t" jobs can be automated
- There are enough people who are willing to do the remaining jobs for the sheer "fun" of it.
I don't see that we're there, yet.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I once read a definition of a civilized man as "A person who can keep himself busy all day even when he doesn't have to go to work".
I'm trying to figure out what that means, given that an entire vacation day can go by and I'll feel like I've accomplished nothing.
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Among other possibilities, it means that you have interests in addition to food, shelter, and s*x.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: feeding all the drones Do like bees do. Come winter, kill and/or kick out the drones.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Two words: Nice dream. Its not going to happen. Listen to just the talk about Universal Health Care, even at that is impossible in the US.
Unless we found an unlimited source of energy and we figured out energy-matter conversion instantaneously. May be, just may be. The 1% will always try to take advantage of the 99%.
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Leng Vang wrote: The 1% will always try to take advantage of the 99%. Bill Gates came to my house yesterday and used the bathroom. He didn't even tip.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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My sense of humour is still clearly in alpha testing – hopefully soon it'll get beta.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Omega-aaaaad! Gamma a break! What a psi-ck joke!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Oh no! Griff's gone from geek to Greek!
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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You mean that he's (finally) going to college in the US?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm certainly not joining a frat house!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm gamma tell you that the delta required is much greater than epsilon.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Funny you should bring that up. Actually, if you can stomach it, a good gag can bring up even more questions: It just depends upon what your e-quip-ed for.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Glad you got that off your chest - it must be a wonderful release...
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Hopefully, until then its all Greek to me.
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Treatment[^]
Sort of leaves an empty spot in one's thought process.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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i wonder what the same woul look like if the gender was reversed ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Hi All,
I am doing the usual trying to test a widget, with not enough stuff, too find faults, which there isn't time to fix. Well one of the new widgets has an IP port that needs to be tested. Not wanting to get my finger nails torn out by the Net Admins, I am trying to come up with a means that will save my finger nail beds. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 sending pings out and an Arduino Uno with a suitable shield and code to reply to a ping...
Happy Days!
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And that's the most expensive machine in the whole hospital!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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