The question is not how will people "do nothing", the question is how will people get paid for "doing nothing".

There will be a small percentage of people who do actual physical work. There will be a small percentage of people who do mental work. Those people will be paid well.

What about the rest? McDonalds/Starbucks will be fully robotic.

The patent office should have to pay the legal fees of the winning side every time a patent is defeated in court.

The patent office are the gate keepers. They are currently enabling all the patent shakedowns.

For proper control every system needs proper negative feedback. If the patent office gets money for granting patents and does not lose money for granting bogus patents they are going to grant everything under the sun to encourage more applications and more incoming money.
Only by penalizing the patent office for improper patent granting will there be a proper measure of control.

In response Siri will support -
Valyrian

If we can get them to target politicians then laws against monitoring user traffic(*) will be created in no time at all.

(*) without due authority, like a warrant, suspicion of terrorist activity, or membership in the tea party.

Everything is for sale, including the laws.

ATMs themselves were not compromised. The authentication system for debit cards was. Sure the money came from ATMs but the authentication that came from it was the backend systems.

It was the backend banking system that was compromised, not ATMs. The ATMs worked perfectly and gave out cash only to authorized cards. There was no problem with the ATMs.

The level of basic science/math illiteracy never ceases to amaze me.

What the heck does happen in the school system?

a) find image you want to use at site X
b) have someone strip the the image of identifying information and repost it at site Y
c) discover image at site Y lacking traceable information
d) do "due dilligence" based on image from site Y
e) declare image from site Y as 'orphaned'

f) PROFIT

Are you then asserting that irrational killing is an intelligent thing to do ?
Please explain how this is so.

We are still killing each other for irrational reasons down here.

Why would intelligent life even want to stop by for conversation? ((with a bunch of violent irrational creatures))

In RF land the concept of placing object A near object B means very little. The big question is antenna gain/directionality and reciever gain and the ability of both to reject out of band noise and not create in band noise.

If a cell phone can read a signal from your credit card over a 2" gap then an antenna in a van can do it from across the street and Jodrell Bank can do it from the other side of the planet.

Profitabily is 12 to 18 months out. Thats when the hockey stick curves up.

It was that way 3 months ago. It will be that way in 3 months.

My team seems to do ok on the estimates. Then we get beaten into 1/2 that by management. Then in the end it takes twice as long as management expected. So the original estimate was good.

So we would be fine if only management did not try and squeeze it.

Management never accepts the "debug", "refactor" and "new feature" timelines, those are generally considered as "not needed". It just supposed to work perfectly and on the timeline they negotiated before consulting the people who would actually deliver it.
*sigh*

Who is in control would depend on why the design is being done.

Not cpu efficient, put th engineers in charge.
Not usable, put the UI people in charge (real UI people).
Not selling, put the users in charge.

Never put managers in charge. Never put marketing charge.

The density is measured including its interior space. In reality the interior space is filled with air and its realtive weight is the carbon structure alone.
To make it float you would have to find a way to seal off the interior structure and remove the air from that.