Karl Marx saw this coming over 150 years ago
The final end result of mass mechanized production is that the available workers will far outnumber the available jobs, and this is the problem that communism was intended to solve.
Unfortunately, communism has earned a fatally bad reputation after being misused by so many dictators during the 20th century.
What fast food place pays it's base-level workers $15/hour? A lot of places don't even pay shift managers that much.
Also, the poverty level (at least in Minnesota anyway) is currently $1000 per month for a single person, which works out to just over $11.50/hour at 40 hours/week.
The cost of labor is increasing rapidly in China, especially in terms of US dollars.
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
The lax pollution controls still make it cheaper to produce things in China though, despite the narrowing labor price difference.
There is a plugin for firefox (no idea why it needs a plugin, but whatever) that allows you to access the "hidden" youtube settings. One of these settings allows you to disable dash entirely. There are also settings to disable auto-quality, and to set a default quality level.
Trying to click "your results" just gives me a popup saying "Results from your location are not available".
It doesn't tell me what my "location" is, and it doesn't give me any option to change the location (since the "change location" link is on the results page that it refuses to show me)
If the location auto detect fails, it should give the user an option to manually set the location (or browse other locations), instead of just refusing to give any results whatsoever.
It's not a lack of feeling like "fitting in", it's a distinct feeling of NOT fitting in, there is a big difference.
"The average person" is an expression, not a statistical statement.
It's hard to fit into a world where the average person really is dumber than you.
Depends on the size of the mistake. Getting into a bar fight = small mistake, ripping off millions of people and causing a financial collapse = very big mistake
How is the BBC "left wing"?
Why do people assume that if an organization is more "left" or "right" of their own beliefs, that organization must be on a "wing" of some sort.?
Having you ever considered that you might be so biased to the Right that ALL media (except fox news) looks like Leftist propaganda?
Also, I find it very hard to believe that the BBC would have supported this law.
This "right to be forgotten" should be on a case-by-case court-ordered basis.
If you own a building with rental tenants, and one of them refuses to pay rent, you can't just kick them out. You have to go to the court and get an official eviction notice.
The same should be true here as well, if you want a link removed you should have to appear in front of a court, and get an official "forget-me" notice.
It's not the greatest example, but here is YouTube's policy on counter-notices (to get content put back up)
https://support.google.com/you...
It basically says, if the DMCA takedown is filed on behalf of one of the major media companies, Google is contractually required to deny all counter-claims. If you want your content re-instated, you have to sue whoever made the DMCA complaint.
That is only the first step. The site owner then can make a counter claim and the information goes back up.
What really happens is that the site owner makes a counterclaim, the hosting company goes to the DMCA complainer and asks "are you sure this is your copyright?", the complainer autoreplies with a "yes", and the hosting company respond back to the site owner "sorry, we verified the complaint, your content stays down unless you sue in court"
The only time that content goes back up is when either the DMCA complainer says "oops, we made a mistake", or the hosting company actually does some investigating of it's own (which is rare)
Maybe jumping over Poles is a popular sport in Finland
I heard it was popular in Germany back in the 1940s....
If figure skating isn't a sport solely because it's not objective, then there are a lot of Olympic sports that aren't actually sports either (high-dive, gymnastics,etc) as well as most of the X-games (freestyle BMX, half-pipe, etc)
By your definition, any sport that is subjectively rated by technique, instead of objectively rated by pre-defined goals, isn't a sport.
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