Or it would just not connect.

The Android scripting environment already gives you Python, and a bash shell. This article is completely retarded.

Gravity is not a constant, it is a function of mass/inertia. you may carry on now ;)

Damn, that's some serious coin. Seems everyone in this dispute is being incredibly belligerent.

I agree that QANTAS are stuck between a rock and a hard place, but seriously look at the evidence here. QANTAS are expensive, yes, but people chose them on their reputation as the safest airline in the world. Since QANTAS have embarked on their outsourcing operations we have witnessed a series of dramatic and damaging mishaps that have resulted in very nearly losing a couple of planes. This, I believe, is at the heart of the argument from the unions. QANTAS differentiated themselves and hence gained customers, think of them as the Apple inc. of the skies - you can't compete on a premium brand with the same shitty service as everyone else, and yet this is the strategy they have adopted.

They have been going back and forth doing exactly this for the past 6 months...

The median wage in Australia is roughly $65k/year. That may sound like a lot but we have a very, very high cost of living in this country. Are the engineers asking for a median wage of $120k/year? I can tell you as someone who lives with a combined income of $70k before tax, we are not well off in the slightest.

China takes a roughly similar quantity of our exports as Japan, and is by no means our only customer. The mining sector in Australia accounts for roughly 6-7% of GDP, not exactly the dominant industry. The truth is Australia's economy is fairly diversified and our financial sector is well regulated, our government has comparatively low levels of debt. We also benefit from a close proximity to the worlds growth regions, not just China but all of Asia. It will be difficult for us if China slows, but people have been predicting that for ten years or so now. The truth is we are simply in a strong position.

Bravo, exceptional analysis.

You can't play much if you have no job to afford comforts in life.

I'v been pondering on this very issue a lot lately, and it seems to me that increased automation is a very real threat to the current status quo. How we deal with it going forward will have profound implications on social cohesion. Yes, for the most part we have seen jobs created by technology just as they are taken away, but who is to say these two are in balance? Hypothetically we aim to automate as much as we can, doesn't this lead ultimately to an automatic world in which people do not need to do as much work? So yeah, lets just play, but our current economic system simply will not allow that. This is a discussion I think we need to have sooner or later - the way we have our capitalist system set up will not function correctly in an automated future. There will be jobs for engineers, cashflow for business owners, and a limited number of service jobs, but what about everyone else? We are looking at a very real possibility for dramatic wealth imbalances that will bring the economy to a halt, we need consumers to drive demand for the things made by robots, otherwise even the factory owner won't be making a dime. The problem I see is that this unquestionably leads to greater social cooperation, as we will in all likelihood need to share the limited workloads and more effectively redistribute wealth. This is not a conversation (the USA at least) is remotely willing to engage in. I would go so far as to argue we are already witnessing the early effects of this trend with the dramatic increase in the 'casualisation' of the workforce.