Let me see...In the past two years, almost every person on my street has started a side business. Two of them have quit thier jobs and now just work on their small business. I hope to quit in a few years when mine is built up enough, it's doing well so far, I've gotten an effective 20% raise for a few hours a week extra work. One neighbor's business has failed, but his idea was stupid.

The fact is that MOST small businesses fail in a few years. Blaming "Obamacare" is just covering for your stupidity.

This is actually done already.

My company has a program that hands out pedometers and if you meet certain fitness goals you get a discount on your health insurance. And if enough people do it, the company gets a big discount from the insurer.

And it's a good thing to do. Most people at the company have lost weight and are much healthier.

No, he's not talking about his sex life. Just because you are hetero doesn't mean you are even having sex. It just means that if you were to have sexual relations it's more likely that your partner will be of the opposite sex.

Listen to this person.

I got mine two years ago and they removed some stage 1 polyps. Had I waited a few years I might be in the same boat as this AC.

Now I have to get colonoscopies every 3 years. But I am not complaining.

I always tell people that my job is to make it so that eventually I am the only one who comes to work, and I just sit there in case I have to push the big red button to keep it all from going kablooey.

It was a choice of eliminating 1/3 of the jobs, or have all the jobs outsourced to Taiwan. I saved 2/3 of the jobs. That's pretty easy choice.

Now what were you saying about me?

Yep. I never claimed to be proud, but our entire factory was about to be closed and outsourced to Taiwan because they were cheaper. The changes my team and I implemented got rid of 1/3 of our people and brought our costs down well below what the factory in Taiwan could offer. Now we actually do some outsourced work for overseas companies, which has led to increased employment in other areas of the company.

It was a choice of eliminating 1/3 of the jobs, or have all the jobs eliminated due to outsourcing. That's pretty easy choice.

It's not just computer power, it's programmer time.

I could eliminate about half the jobs at my company (I've already eliminated about 1/3) with automation, but I don't have the time, and we only have a few decent programmers. I spend most of my time fixing problems caused by the lack of automation, aka general human error.

Will my job get automated? Not for a while. I'll be retired in a few years anyway..

Yeah. What goombah99 said.

3) They often show you ads for things you've just bought. If I get a new laptop why do I want to see more laptop ads?

I wonder about this all the time. I still get ads for something I looked up once and then bought YEARS ago. And it's a pretty niche product, not something that is advertised to everyone.

If ads get too annoying I just start clicking on them. Then they have to pay. Sometimes I click a lot.

Exactly. My company, based in the US, had [contractor name redacted] take over our IT. [contractor name redacted] is based in India. They slowly got rid of all the American IT employees over about 2 years and replaced them with Indian nationals. They would rotate them in an out based on whatever kind work visa they had. None of them ever really learned our system and eventually they had to hire back some of the Americans they got rid of.

Fortunately management has started to wake up and we're ditching [contractor name redacted] at the end of their contract.

So you're saying that there's a dancing gene?

Back in my day we calculated war efforts in megapanzers.

Whatever the cost, it just got over a billion people excited about space again.

Wow, this old idiocy? Even during the first moon landing when I was only 5 I heard Walter Cronkite explain about the stiff wires holding the flag out.

Dude, you are dumber than a 5 year old.