They have accelerators in the headset. It doesn't do much good when at times the head can move at constant velocity. For sensing gravity and rotational movement, it works well, but translation movement is impossible to do reliably with accelerators lacking any sort of frame of reference.

Everyone knows we hit peak oil in the 1970s. That's why we have to walk everywhere, and those antique internal combustion vehicles are cluttering our landfills.

I think the really difficult thing to overcome is when there truly is a labor surplus. Still a need for labor and particularly like you say, labor that not enough people 'just want' to do and particularly jobs almost anyone could do given a near trivial amount of training, but not enough demand to keep everyone meaningfully occupied.

Say hypothetically you are facing a situation that would mean massive unemployment, but realistically you could feed, clothe, shelter, and provide health care for everyone. But you still need people like delivery drivers. So either you provide all the fundamental needs for the unemployed and have a hard time finding people to do delivery work, or you resign society to screwing over the unemployed.

Of course, I think a key flaw that leads to this situation is the bad assumption that the choices are either 40 hours of work/week or 0 hours of work/week. A less ambitious goal might be to have more people working but for fewer hours. At least in the US, the stack is very heavily stacked against this evolution. The current healthcare situation is the worst of both worlds. When they first started talking health care reform, I imagined foolishly that we would be put on a path where one's employer did not have anything to do with coverage. Instead, it doubles down on that and as a result people are getting fewer hours, but without the health care. For such a goal to move forward, the 'magic' around 40 hrs/week has to go away.

While I agree there is more to motivation than money, that statement is just simply wrong. There was one dubious study that claimed that $75k maxed out 'happiness'. People still fret about acquiring compensation to put to some personal use well beyond $75k. Maybe somewhere up in the millions of dollars the dollar amount becomes more of a 'high score' than something to exchange for goods/services, but it's definitely not at $70k.

In all fairness, the same can apply to a loan. If you are in a country whose laws do not recognize your liability to your previous government, they likely don't recognize your liability for the loan. I think that the list of nations where that would work is pretty short and many of which are not exactly places you'd want to be.

While I am not sure how I feel about such a thought, he does present an interesting perspective. University in many cases presents a conflict of interest. An aspect of university is to prove to other people how capable a person is, but said person is the source of income to the university, so they have to walk a fine line between pandering too much to paying students and diluting the value of issued degrees and driving away sources of funding. If the University is instead funded based on the aggregate success of their graduates, it presents a very different motivation scheme.

Of course, that scheme might not pan out so well for liberal arts, where financially the result is likely not to be favorable.

Getting too old to have kids, and dating a guy who has two, so I'm good. :^)

I for one am glad that his ex-wife insisted. :^D

I have a cat. He's pretty super.

I'll be sure to tell baldass_newbie that he needs to reverse his vasectomy so that I can have teh babiez! ;^)

And you're supporting the Orwellian idea that we should want cameras pointed at us 24/7, and never have a negative reaction to it.

Congratulations!

*waves banner*

Like the next AC said.. If someone wants good guns, it's easier to hit a police station, gun store, pawn shop, or the local national guard armory. Police stations can be rough, except the "office" stations, which are basically unmanned outside of normal business hours.

Gun stores are suppose to vault all their weapons after hours. When I've talked to some, they depend on their building security, considering the entire building to be the "vault", including the sales floor.

One gun store was shut down recently, and it made it *real* easy for the state police to empty it. They picked the lock on the front door, disabled the alarm, and moved all the weapons out in a U-Haul. Since they were cleaning the place out, they took their time, and took all the computers and records. It took about an hour.

If they're feeling ungraceful, a ram can give them access in seconds.

Me, being well armed as an individual, is nothing in comparison to any of the above mentioned facilities.

Still, some criminals are dumb. They'll hit a gas station for the cash in the drawer (frequently under $100), rather than the bank or check cashing store next door.

I think the beta is pretty and the functionality of journals couldn't possibly be worse than it is now, so I'm hopeful.

Wondered who that guy was in some of my friends' G+ circles. And now I know. :^)