Comment: No (Score 1) 276
Heck, I don't even wear a dumb watch, and I haven't for years. My phone has a huge time display right on it. And I sit in front of a computer all work day. What do I want a watch for?
Comment: Re:Meanwhile In Humans... (Score 1) 114
I'll feed this troll.
...we're lead to believe with enough money for education everyone can be intelligent!
Appropriate general education ensures that we all have a chance to get to a certain level. Surely some people are more intelligent than others at baseline, but like most characteristics it needs to be exercised and developed... in the absence of education, it's easy to waste what you were born with, and that's what general education tries to prevent - the waste of intelligence. The other important role of education is to ensure that no matter what your level of education, you receive instruction sufficient to let you integrate into society.
Thought experiment: if we had perfect education, whatever that might be, then the only differences in the per-person outcome would be due to individual aptitude.
Think there wouldn't be differences?
Comment: Well ... (Score 1) 54
... thank goodness the Feds are taking ever larger roles in healthcare! Clearly, they know what they are doing.
Comment: Re:Slaves of Dubai (Score 0) 265
Sure. The people they don't like. That way the rural areas are so much purer, the air is cleaner, and the schools better.
Oh, I see. Are we talking about the "Republican" enclaves like Martha's Vineyard, the Kennedy Compound
Comment: Re:Slaves of Dubai (Score 4, Insightful) 265
sounds like a republican capitalist paradise. we should import a couple of the Dubai leaders to put the US poor to work. finally.
Right
Comment: Um (Score 1) 150
What I cannot understand is how politicians fail to understand what a future Kenneth Starr is going to do with data like this.
It's one current Barry Sotero who is doing the spying, not a future or past Ken Starr.
And he's doing it to you and me, not to public perjurers.
Comment: Re:If everyone loses their jobs... (Score 2) 526
Farming was once 90%+of the population. It's been less than 3% (in the US) for a LONG time. Technology has been increasing productivity for thousands of years. The dystopias don't come from technology.
Sorry, robots didn't take a giant leap in 2008. There must be some other "mysterious" reason for the ongoing malaise
Comment: Re:Misused? Murder is intrinsic in communism. (Score 1) 526
Communisum has a lot of real problems but having to "murder" people who are "motivated" is not one of them.
Er, except that's what communism has actually done, you see. In country after country.
That's the problem with your analysis.
Comment: Woo! (Score 5, Funny) 46
about the same length as 40,000 subway cars connected in a single, long train
Crazy Unit of the Year award!
Comment: Re:Two sides to every issue (Score 2) 401
Also, a foreigner is less likely to job-hop for a better salary after a year.
Um, yeah; especially if their visa doesn't allow them to.
Comment: Re:Is *everything* a "robot" now? (Score 1) 120
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Then most of you are idiots
Right
Comment: Re: How about (Score 1) 375
Because large size causes corruption in companies, but it must only cause nobility in governments, right?
But
Comment: True ... (Score 0) 708
... it is tough being so right about everything, like communism, welfare, "affirmative action", illegal immigration, the evils of state-run medicine, how "stimulus" will just entrench the economic malaise, etc., while your ideologically blinkered opponents just dig in their heels and deny the reality that is right in front of their faces.
Oh
Comment: Meh, I'm not worried... (Score 1) 553
John Conner will save us.
Comment: Is *everything* a "robot" now? (Score 1) 120
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It's a neat application, but I'm not sure that it's what most of us would think of as a "robot".