Vending machines use the dollar coins and give dollar coins as change.

And then you get picked up because the card you bought was actually traceable to kiddy porn or a terrorist bomber used it to buy fertilizer.

Ala Tor.

And you can by interchangable USB devices that work on multiple operating systems made by over twenty different companies.

When we can buy windows from twenty different companies and it just works, then the two will be equivalent.

I wasn't aware the FAA's mandate went down to 12' in residential areas.

Cool.

Hmm.

It sounds more like a half death and a full death.

So there have been one and a half deaths as a result of Tesla automobile accidents.

I wonder if the tesla team will get to analyze the wreckage?

So we really need a new name for when a company regularly avoids so much tax that it makes a profit off the tax system and another one for when it regularly pays zero taxes and shifts all of it's profits to another country while also consuming resources in the host company.

I kinda like parasiticorp for the second one.

The first is probably more "Evil scum back leeching bastards" but that seems too mild.

Now now, you can only discriminate on the basis of your religion if you share the religion of the supreme court justices.

Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists beliefs are still subject to the constitution.

A little late to the party but worth calling attention to.

Yes... there are a few trade jobs which can't be easily automated or outsourced.

They depend on a robust middle class to support their current wages.

Right now, 85 people take in the same income as 3.5 billion other human workers.

Extend that trend forward 20 years to world with extensive automation and perhaps 400 people taking in the same income as 7.5 billion other human beings while another 1 billion making "decent" incomes still (the rest of the 3 billionis people being children, disabled, and senior citizens).

For the most part- once the wealth reaches the top- it stops. It doesn't come back down. It's not even spent. It's put into long term bonds. Bonds have to be paid for with taxes. So bonds are really just another way for the wealthiest to extract more income from the rest of society.

How do you run a society without taxing the people who hold all the money?
How do you execute an economy when most of the wealth is all piled up on the opposite side from the consuming part.

In the face of ubiquitous automation, the very concept of money breaks down. Because "money" is just a token representing hours of your life. If no one needs your labor- the hours of your life have no value monetarily.

Which means no food- no entertainment- no medical care-- i.e. nothing to lose.

How do you run a world where 60% of the adult humans have nothing to lose?

North Korea has shown us one way of doing this. The other way is violent bloody revolutions which redistribute the wealth so the game can start over again.

"So far, neural networks have succeeded in imitating distinct musical styles, but truly original compositions have remained elusive. Miranda is tackling that problem with an orchestra of virtual musicians â" called agents â" that interact to compose original music. "

"The ChaoSynth "soundscapes," often accompanied by Miranda on the piano, have won awards for being "musical" despite the unearthly sound of their individual parts. While pleasing when blended in composition, the everyday sounds fit no known category when isolated. "

Sounds like it still needs work.

You know I see you continuing to bloviate, but I don't see any links to your job ads and I don't see any hard descriptions of the skill sets you are looking for or for the job you are trying to fill.

Seriously man, time to put up or shut up.

The thing you need to realize is that they are not rewarded based on your replacement succeeding as well as you.

They are rewarded for saving money. Executive bean counters can literally redefine the goal posts as well and declare success when the project failed by the original criteria.

And finally, they can move on to another job after a fairly short time to take their money saving ideas to the new company.

Nope, it's a conspiracy.

Go to youtube.

Search for
"avoid hiring americans"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. "

And...
Lou Dobbs: Law Firm teaches how to avoid hiring Americans
A law firm is teaching corporations how to get around hiring American workers for jobs so they can import foreign workers under the H1-B visa program. Lawrence M. Lebowitz, the marketing director of the Pittsburgh law firm of Cohen & Grigsby, told executives at its Immigration Law Update Seminar how to advertise...

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Quote: "Our goal is CLEARLY not to FIND a qualified us workers."

No things like pastors, editors, dentists, certain lawyers, ad executives, project management, inventors, certain freelance artists, etc.

Of course some creativity won't be worth keeping so it will be designed out when the process is automated.

Example: I was on a project in 2009. Rewrite the purchase order system. It turned out to be hugely complicated because every form on the P.O. form was overloaded and when we finished there were actually 31 ways to create P.O.s. Which meant a big project, budget, etc. And there was a lot of political power in each department that prevented any of us lower than them from changing or simplifying it.

So the executives bought a new PO program that had one way of doing things and said, "This is the only way to do it now". And that was that. All the "creativity" was out- and there was one way to do P.O.'s. It didn't have complete coverage- a few things had to be done manually or as attachments (to explain to approvers what was the PO was for in better detail than supported). But mostly, all the complexity of the system was cut away so it could be replaced with a $5000ish/year product that came off the shelf.

A robot doesn't replace 1000 workers.

A group of robots supported by a few human workers replace 1000 workers. They cost 1/3 the price, don't make mistakes, don't get sick, etc.

Other machinists don't agree with you on the replacement aspect.
http://www.goiam.org/publicati...

http://motherboard.vice.com/bl...
"That's according to a 2013 Oxford study, which was highlighted in this week's Economist cover story. That study attempted to tally up the number of jobs that were susceptible to automization, and, surprise, a huge number were. Creative and skilled jobs done by humans were the most secureâ"think pastors, editors, and dentistsâ"but just about any rote task at all is now up for automation. Machinists, typists, even retail jobs, are predicted to disappear. "

And that's not even addressing the 3d printing aspects.

When you replace several machinists, you have a few good ones out of the 12 you let go- and you take the one who is willing to work 24/7 for $10 to $15 bucks an hour.

I think they are off on "editing"-- it's partially being automated, partially being crowdsourced, and what's left- they just have stopped doing. I've seen "howlers" in professionally published (not self published) paper and hard back books increasingly over the last 10 years.

Agree with you entirely on the white-collar jobs which are not 90%+ creative. Jobs with less creativity will be combined and the creative parts done by consultants or designed out.