1) This rate is not stabilizing anything - it's well below replacement rate, which means population is shrinking.

Not all jobs need to be replaced. If nobody makes trash, nobody is needed to take out the trash.

2) Short term a shrinking population means fewer workers to pay into government funds to help the elderly

The aging people payed government funds per capita at expected higher numbers. There is now fewer people. If the government doesn't have the money to support the fewer people then they are screwing the people.

3) Fewer elderly with children mean more reliance on the state in old age.

Fewer means less. Fewer people need less assistance.

4) Fewer people mean shops have fewer customers, demand for housing drops, construction starts waning, economy goes down.

Economy is related to population, "per capita". You can't have a down economy if it is reduced at the rate of population decline.

5) Long term, what happens when a country cannot sustain a population? Eventually it becomes a totally different nation as others will eventually take it over. I guess if you don't care about the preservation of Japanese culture that's not a problem.

Their population isn't shrinking towards extinction.

Europeans know that a "robot takeover" would piss people off, hell would break loose, then it'd be over. People in the U.S. would vote in some dipshit that has fucked over people for a living and feel appeased. People in China will let someone run them over by tanks until they stfu.

I would have gone with the self driving golf club. Why miss out on a good pun when talking about English workers being destructive?

Agreed. They totally need to take it off and give it to me.

"When I was a kid, while other boys where learning how to talk to girls, I spent a lot of time working through puzzle books and doing recreational mathematics." So because girls don't have a hard time talking to girls they don't get good at puzzles and math? Brilliant!

It has been removed from Dianne's Internet. Oh wait. She just logged into another machine. brb

Are they really saying fat guys like me can be electrifying?

In the 60's all you needed for brain drain was a six pack and a lid. Now get off my lawn!

Real masochists slam their keyboard into their face until the site they are trying to reach comes up.

"Nuclear war loomed as an apocalyptic shadow that could possibly have brought human history to an end." The future is shitheads releasing clouds of radio active materials from whatever materials they can get their ideoligiosic sociopathic hands on. Someone in power, no matter what level of nutbag they are, would never chance loosing their comfy little hole.

Are they the lizardsquad or the lowest hanging fruit squad? If they had skills they'd do something that isn't totally gay.

I haven't read anything that suggests North Korea would have been successful if Sony switched to using two factor authentication on sensitive devices. Then again, I haven't read anything about Sony hiring NSE's after any of the times the have been ownt. Then again, karma for the root kit and not hiring people that can protect them is two factor in its own way.

Not all replicants live short lives. Rachael did not have an expiration date. There is no way they are going to be able to make Harrison Ford look as young as he was. Even if the movie is bad, it will put to bed the notion Deckard is a replicant.

It should be, "You want to reduce the amount of fat on your body?" The answer is not how much you eat or what you eat. It is the relationship between how much work your body does for a given action and how affective it is at utilizing calories from the food you eat.

If you eat a lot of food and burn a lot of calories and your body is not very good at turning the food you eat into energy, you will be thin. If the first are the same and your body is good at utilizing the food you eat, you will be muscular.

Manipulate those factors and you will find a simple formula that will determine food to work to weight to muscle.

My body just happens to do no work, consume lots of food, and is great at converting it to be used.

Why should people have to pay for cable, pay for "TV channels", and pay for bandwidth. Why can't they just stfu, be an ISP, and let people tf alone?