Comment A real threat (Score 1) 267
How soon will the retirement robots be forcing us geezers out of retirement?
How soon will the retirement robots be forcing us geezers out of retirement?
Problem is, Trump would gleefully applaud rescinding Obama's expansion of EO12333 only to replace it with a much more invasive Trump/Pompeo version.
And keep in mind Pompeo founded his own private security firm.
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Actually we Idahoans tell jokes about Montana sheep herders.
Seriously, Idaho's competitive status is quite good.
You will have to look long and hard to find better onion field labor.
And lookit the money we've saved by educating our workforce accordingly.
Them education cuts have allowed some handsome tax incentives for our rich folks.
After all why should we allow our stoop labor to take all their trade secrets to the San Juaquin valley?
Don't be so hard on Mr. Greasak for being a thin-skinned belligerent egomaniac.
He is just trying to help make America great again like the current resident of the White House.
And if by some miracle we develop a low cost energy source that converts toxic waste to usable electricity with zero pollution and 100% efficiency rest assured that most of humanity will immediately turn up the heat or air conditioning and open all the windows to let in fresh air.
Homo: yes; sapiens: not.
Bought a inexpensive 2016 version of a turntable for digitizing my collection of hissy, scratchy, 60's & 70's albums. Teeny Bopper daughters wore out our Sears portable record player & half wore out my Rock'n'Roll and Folk albums 5 decades ago. All those LPs on something smaller than a finger. Computers that looked so futuristic on StarTrek (TOS) now look hopelessly quaint. Our imaginations just couldn't outguess Moore's Law.
We is compu-GEEZERS, not compu-geysers.
Unless, of course, you are snarkily referring to our propensity to froth at the mouth while eating milk toast while sitting in our wheelchairs.
Why waste time impeaching a lame duck president when they can call it one more Clinton conspiracy and have Hillary called onto their carpet?
She and Bernie are much more of a threat to the GOP-RightWingNut future than is Obama.
Historically Idaho IS where the preppers, sagebrush rebels, neonazis, and northwest tea party types form their enclaves.
But if you want anything done, just contact someone connected to the sitting Butch Otter governorship.
'Gladiator School' prisons and defrauding Idaho taxpayers? Done!
Illegal ISP contracts issued to connected overpriced bidders? Done!
Somehow DOE has missed the boat so far. NOT done -- YET.
It would just be one more confrontational issue between tea party and traditional corporate Republicans.
Idaho's last Republican caucus was an abortion, dead on arrival as each contingent took its half of the fetal corpse home rather than reach accord.
It was a less civil precursor of this year's feuds in the U.S. House of Representatives.
As one of the reddest of red states, don't worry that Democrats will be allowed to intercede on behalf of average citizens.
Graphics in linked articles show the effluent of Indian wastewater treatment plants. Few public wastewater facilities can, or were designed to, remove antibiotics from our waste. They are designed for household waste, not industrial waste. Most antibiotics and other drugs pass straight through a typical wastewater plant unharmed. In the USA, Industrial PreTreatment is required for businesses that would otherwise discharge toxic or damaging substances to a public treatment plant. Usually the offending business builds, runs, and pays for pretreatment. Unless, of course, the "good ol' boy" system can unload the cost onto local residents.
America and India have the same problem; India just has more metric tons of it and far less regulation.
FYI: licensed wastewater operator (retired).
I suspect early Autonomous Vehicle systems will be 'optional', or 'on demand', like an advanced version of Cruise Control.
A regular Driver's License would be appropriate for this implementation.
As capability and reliability evolve the systems may become 100% Autonomous; no PASSENGER intervention required or allowed.
Even then a prominent red [Emergency Stop] panic button may be mandated.
This implementation would probably not require any special license or qualification.
Think public transit, buses, light rail, & the aforementioned Johnny-Cabs.
WTF! Where's the "Been There, Done That" option??
I am so angry about... what was I saying...?
As long as she stays on Faux News it's all for the better.
Those viewers will "go with their gut", avoid vaccinations like the plague, and eventually eliminate themselves from the gene pool.
Future candidates for the Darwin Awards.
Surviving humanity will continue to advance and the world will be a better place.
Violence shouldn't be the only determinant of punishment.
True: Armed Robbery, Assault, Rape, & other violent crimes are a priority for removing people from society.
But they are not the only crimes that can ruin people's lives, sometimes lethally.
Ask anyone who has been devastated by fraud committed by a bank, wall street, or some corporation.
If the non-violent offenders are willing to provide complete restitution to their victims then Club Fed prisons are in order.
If they don't do complete restitution to the victims & society then give them hard time with a violent offender as cellmate.
That's not likely to ever happen considering which segment of our population finances our politicians and calls the regulatory shots.
Several commenters mentioned that Federal Prisons are more capable and professionally managed than State Institutions.
Maybe that's a hint to Federally finance our election campaigns too, in order to level the playing field & minimize buying of elections.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis