People love to talk about the free market as if it were a genie.
The law of capitalism means that it is IMPOSSIBLE for a regulation to raise the price of anything - all it can do is reduce the profit a corporation takes.
You are correct that they need to reference things, but a simple bit of googling reveals enough reference to show that 28k per arrest is a ridiculously expensive number. The agency averages $12k/ per person DEPORTED. That means to arrest, hold them in prison, charge, convict and fly/bus them back across the border costs less than HALF the cost of just arresting them using a drone.
God designed humans, but humans designed the robots.
It doesn't matter who builds the creation - human, robot, etc.
Trying to convince a robot to worship god would be like a man trying to convince his son that he should ask grandpa to play ball with him, rather than asking him to do it.
Specifically, it could have said:
Drone cost to apprehend: $28,000
Piloted aircraft cost to apprehend: $15,000
Piloted Boat cost to apprehend: $10,000
Land Vehicle cost to apprehend: $1,000
Foot agent cost to apprehend: $1,500
If the article had done this then we could have easily said no drones, piloted aircraft only AND limit the # of pilots to the bare minimum, while increasing the land vehicles.
In fact, the cost is NOT simple, you are simply too ignorant to realize how complex the calculation is. Your math is way way off.
The drones are ridiculously expensive for the very little they do.
Specifically you are comparing the cost to apprehend PLUS all the fixed costs of the agency vs the cost to apprehend with a drone.
IN reality, the cost per deportation is estimated at LESS than 15,000 per deportation - including apprehension costs. Clearly the fixed costs of the agency are far greater than you realize. Effectively, the drone program more than doubles the cost to apprehend.
But the actual cost per arrest to deport is about less than $1,000, from what I understand.
The average cost to arrest, try and deport an illegal immigrant is only $12,000 (source = http://blog.chron.com/immigrat... )
So the cost of $28k is ridiculous.
"Go" on the other-hand must still be played as a strategy game by computers because looking ahead is not that helpful.
In other words, this is an example of good image recognition software, that's it.
Show me a game that beat a human on a strategy based game, then you have something.
Otherwise I foresee a case where they take the $2 billion profit, then go ahead and charge $10,000 a pill, just like cancer drugs.
What they they be doing is admit that there are two separate features of their industry - the maintenance/connection to the grid and the supply of power. It costs a lot of money to maintain the grid as well as to supply the charge.
What they should be doing is to charge a set amount X dollars per month to connect to the grid and in addition a per kilowatt charge - that is of course smaller than the existing one. And that charge must be reasonable - based on their actual costs to maintain the grid.
These charge changes must go to ALL their customers - both those that sell power back and those that don't.
This gets rid of their only valid objection to selling power back to the grid - the cost of maintaining the grid.
Not to mention some career advice - get fired, get promoted, work -life balance.
Probably talk about other health issues that she might inherit, and at least mention some of the major mental ones - addiction (drugs, alcohol, and gambling).
Lastly, I would talk not just about advise, but about the things you value. Talk about your own personal views, what you believe in. Let her know who you are rather than just advisign her how she should live her life.
I bet they hope to eventually be able to print while the truck is in motion, but we don't have the tech to do that yet.
Of course, that will probably be another set of patents.
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.
