Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
What about the slackers who fail to participate in any other useful direction?
Comment Re:Taking a risk (Score 1) 583
Really? Put out 100 resumes. At least 5 will come back with interviews.
Comment Re:My favorite (Score 1) 11
Oh yeah, and They're free
Comment My favorite (Score 1) 11
Sure to piss off most conservatives and liberals, is my "Catholic Pro Life" bumper sticker: Six categories, all crossed out in dripping red blood:
No Euthanasia
No Abortion
No Death Penalty
No Poverty
No War
No Racism
Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? 385
turkeydance writes: What job is hardest for a robot to do? Mental health and substance abuse social workers (found under community and social services). This job has a 0.3 percent chance of being automated. That's because it's ranked high in cleverness, negotiation, and helping others. The job most likely to be done by a robot? Telemarketers. No surprise; it's already happening. The researchers admit that these estimates are rough and likely to be wrong. But consider this a snapshot of what some smart people think the future might look like. If it says your job will likely be replaced by a machine, you've been warned.
How Elon Musk's Growing Empire is Fueled By Government Subsidies 356
theodp writes: By the Los Angeles Times' reckoning, Elon Musk's Tesla Motors, SolarCity, and SpaceX together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support. The figure compiled by The Times, explains reporter Jerry Hirsch, comprises a variety of government incentives, including grants, tax breaks, factory construction, discounted loans and environmental credits that Tesla can sell. It also includes tax credits and rebates to buyers of solar panels and electric cars. "He definitely goes where there is government money," said an equity research analyst. "Musk and his companies' investors enjoy most of the financial upside of the government support, while taxpayers shoulder the cost," Hirsch adds. "The payoff for the public would come in the form of major pollution reductions, but only if solar panels and electric cars break through as viable mass-market products. For now, both remain niche products for mostly well-heeled customers." And as Musk moves into a new industry — battery-based home energy storage — Hirsch notes Tesla has already secured a commitment of $126 million in California subsidies to companies developing energy storage technology.
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
Indeed, you're the master thereof.
Comment Re:Yes, but because (Score 2) 189
More generally, the Information Age means that we need less and less peopleware to manage data and shepherd people.
The last holdout, of course, is government.
The last holdout, of course, is government.
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
Your capacity to rationalize fascism by laundering it through re-purposed terminology befits a prior century. *Golf clap*
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
So you seem to say that disagreement == bigotry? Or is my refusal to accede to you bogus reasoning, itself, bigotry? Am I venturing into microagression territory here? Should I put a trigger warning on all my posts? Is this a subtle white privilege play? Do all roads lead to racism? Could you be more mockable?
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
It's not an "idea", it is genetics that you are intolerant of. And the bigotry is based on intolerance against specific genetics. And boo on you if you don't like it, that's just the way it is. Analysis and reason is fruitless when confronted with tribalism and instinct. Just not worth my time. Besides, I am more easily humored by watching you play dumb.
The unintentional hilarity of YOUR shiny, new, fascist tribalism is its nihilistic inability to perpetuate hooey, but not the tribe itself.
I denounce myself afresh as the bad guy for upholding the notion that Form Follows Function; Flees Foolishness; Flames Falsehood.
Comment Re:Can you elaborate? (Score 1) 11
Heh heh heh. Yeah.
Comment Re:Can you elaborate? (Score 1) 11
No, that was Hastert.
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
Accusing someone of bigotry, just because they don't concur with an idea, is not the same as showing a specific instance of intolerance toward the subscribers of an idea.
I hope you can understand that you're leaving yourself wide open for fascism here.
The real issues involve power and money, of course. No one quite seems to grasp that, if there was not so much societal sculpture afoot via the tax code, we could all just do our thing much more in peace.
But try to share some real analysis, and get called a troll, or worse. What are you going to do?
I hope you can understand that you're leaving yourself wide open for fascism here.
The real issues involve power and money, of course. No one quite seems to grasp that, if there was not so much societal sculpture afoot via the tax code, we could all just do our thing much more in peace.
But try to share some real analysis, and get called a troll, or worse. What are you going to do?
Comment Re:Can you elaborate? (Score 1) 11
If you've got a dog in your cockpit, that's TMI. But I hope you've a speedy recovery.
