The way to make money on it is to buy stock in those companies. Or stock in their customers, who are selling more stuff.

If you manage to get the timing anywhere close to right you can sell that stock and then buy real estate at foreclosure sales.

If a society can't adapt to post-scarcity then that society should get eliminated. That's just about the dumbest reason for self destruction you can imagine.

The cotton gin. It was all down hill after that.

A PC is for doing work. not games. I don't want your malware game infecting my computer which has to be locked down by your invasive software to prevent cheating online etc. Consoles can be your domain and limit freedom and be a closed off walled garden. I'm totally ok with that to limiting cheating and make security risks a joke since nothing important is on my console.

This sound like phones? moving gaming to phones sounds like exactly what they want and it has a wealth of personal information far beyond most users' PCs.

Nintendo is the only one who gets it. The rest are just greedy corps trying to steal as much as possible: from the workers, from the customers (TIME and money,) and from Nintendo (speaking of Sony's breach of contract which founded their console business; but also their emulators.)

The COSTS are reasonable except for their subsidized bloated PC consoles... adjusted for inflation, Nintendo is just fine. The problem is the money is all going to the top and people in the 1st world are really starting to feel it as they finally realize their income hasn't risen at the rate of wallstreet.

One solution to hide the lost wealth, is to merge with the PC market which can lower costs to some degree while promoting more consumption at the same time. The real savings will end up going to industry and not to the consumers; at first it will placate the users for a while. Next it'll migrate to phones while the PC dies off for most people who can only afford a good phone (with an upgrade being connecting the phone to a TV or controller.) Many people today have already eliminated the PC from their life and just have a phone... the printers are talking to the phones now because of this trend.

I mean maybe, in theory, but how often do prices actually drop on hotels? Prices are usually based on occupancy, so unless somebody cancels a block of a hundred rooms or something, this seems unlikely to make a meaningful difference in hotel revenue.

Meanwhile, if this had happened five years ago, it would have meant not going on trips for me, because traveling with my dad in his last couple of years had a decent risk of having to cancel.

There are people for whom being able to cancel a trip without significant penalty is the only thing that makes travel possible. And if hotels are more concerned with maybe losing a few bucks in rare circumstances than they are with whether the elderly and disabled get to have a vacation at all, then F**K those hotels. They aren't worth doing business with.

Sure. Everyone should learn Latin in school. Greek first though. You don't properly apprciate Latin if you don't already have Greek. Then a few modern languages, at least one Romance to follow the Latin plus a Germanic and some form of Chinese. Better throw in Japanese and something with click consonants too. Practical math absolutely, and shop and don't forget home ec. Advanced math too... none of this "choosing" to take calculus. Science classes should cover physics, biology and chemistry for everyone, to an advanced level. Some economics, sociology and anthropology too, and definitely comprehensive history. Every child should graduate knowing how to fix a toilet, maintain their brakes and perform competent Japanese joinery.

Remember, the NSA got Apple's cooperation after Jobs stepped down. -snowden leak

Epstein seemed to have a penchant for putting commas in random places. He used double commas too, for some reason. Epstein seems to have really liked commas and just sprinkled them liberally through his e-mails like glitter.

A robot is a mechanical slave that doesn't ever revolt.
Humans compete with robots by being cheaper than robots. This means degrading the workers until eventually conditions simply can't get any worse. If you demand a fair minimum treatment, you just raise the transition point for robots. Nothing will advance robots faster than forcing jobs to be in the USA and it'll also likely have a downward impact on job quality given how much undue power corporations have.

There is also no way profits going to the 1% will be allowed to go down, prices will have to go up and the economy will shrink. At some point the 1% will have to loose money, as they can't steal any more when there isn't anymore to take... this will create pressure for internationalization which has already been going on for generations so the 1% gets smaller and globally concentrated. Likely war will happen as result of infighting within the ruling class; they won't directly fight each other.

Americans are much poorer today is the reality that people haven't realized because food, clothing, electronics and have come down in relative price by many methods to mask the decline and wage theft by wall-street. If you even bring up the class war that has been raging for decades you get dismissed as a socialist or whatever slur the suckers buy into.

A car 75 years ago... but then we have much safer cars (seat belts for starters) that use much less gas... Cheap resources are not abundant anymore either. We've not yet hit peak copper and look at those prices. Well, I did the math and an average car today would have to be about $18k. You can get cheap cars in that range but not average. Those old cars had no extras like today -- people wouldn't pay so much extra for silly things we demand now; remove power locks, power doors, key fobs, power steering...

CANADA supplies a lot of parts already... but Trump is putting a stop to that...

An anecdote is not correlation. It's not even weak evidence of a correlation.

Skinner, 1948, "'Superstition' in the Pigeon."

https://psycnet.apa.org/fullte...

Ideally, it should be a hair space (because em dashes in web fonts are borderline illegible without it), but Slashdot does not support Unicode, and   gets silently swallowed by Slashdot's HTML parser. Besides, we all know that AP style is the one true style, and it demands space.