Actually there was an explosion of jobs with the automation of elevators. Previously only a few luxury buildings could afford to have an elevator and operator, safety and reliability improvements along with automation put an elevator in every building. Automated elevators also allowed a huge boom in high rise building construction, previously most of New York City was buildings six or fewer floors tall.
And yet somehow we manage to spend 45-55% of that budget every year in useless war toys to massacre innocents across the entire planet. I guess it's easy to see where the priorities of our leaders are.
The Bureaucracy - The founding fathers never envisioned such a robust centralized bureaucracy which is why they didn't bother to spend much time writing any rules for them.
I don't buy that argument, and here's why: They knew political parties were a problem but they didn't spend literally any time writing rules for them. What I think is that they wanted problems they thought they would be the only ones smart enough to exploit.
The founding fathers claimed all men were created equal, then gave the vote only to landed white males. They were not all the same, but they all colluded to preserve their power.
When you participate in capitalism you are seeking some level of efficiency. Your specific goals may differ, but you're trying to get a service at a price point. I like to treat people like people, I don't expect to push a button and have them vend, but that includes taking what they want into account. Politeness exists in the intersection of that and what I want. If you're bartering goods that's one thing, if you're trading money for products or services it's another. Putting a song and dance in front of it so you can pretend it isn't happening and everyone is having a good time is delusion, to which I am opposed mostly because it retards progress.
I don't know TRS' story so I can't comment on it.
Commodore flattened itself with a shitty CEO. They also published schematics for their computers. There was nothing closed about the Amiga platform except the source code, and the chip designs. Both the accelerator slot and the expansion slots were well-documented. And on Amigas with bridgecards you can have ISA cards... or now you can even get a PCI bridgecard. And there are PowerPC accelerators, '060 accelerators with FPGA, ARM accelerators...
No, I was just hoping you'd take the hint instead of me having to put any more effort into it.
Your rebuttal is that you're intellectually lazy? Tell me something I don't already know, friend.
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Yes, they absolutely and literally are. Saying they do not expect payment when they do is a lie.
No it is not. A lie is a deception. This is not a deception. This is a ritual, where they are broadly speaking showing hospitality/lack of greed by refusing and you are showing respect and honour by insisting. That's what it means. Meaning is not always literal interpretation of words. Meaning is what people understand by those words. And what they understand by those words is not any kind of deception.
Let's try an example in English.
If you ask a British person how they are and they reply "not too bad", they are telling you that they are engaging in the ritual and acknowledge your question (and thank you for it), but will not otherwise divulge details. The answer covers everything from "stuck in the trenches of WWI" to "won the lottery". They are not deceiving you into thinking they are merely in a literal sense not doing excessively poorly.
Just because you personally don't understand the meaning does not mean it's a lie.
You are pretending words don't have their meanings for the sake of making an argument yourself.
You're pretending you can deduce meaning from the literal dictionary definition of words. This is not true, because idioms exist.
If we are ever to get off this single planet and expand into the larger universe we need to learn how to live elsewhere, and the only way to learn that is to go do it. Otherwise we go the way of the Neanderthal. Staying on Earth ensures our ultimate extinction, while if we move into the larger universe the possibilities are quite literally infinite.
On the other hand, if you're a fan of the Singularity just staying with robotic exploration for now would make sense, gaining experience for when your mind can eventually be downloaded into a permanently upgradable electro-mechanical body.
Just look at the flying kluge of the Space Shuttle, which is what you get when politicians and generals think they know how to design a spacecraft better than actual rocket scientists.
NASA as an organization doesn't so much "lack courage" as they lack funding. For a measly 4% of the Federal budget we landed on the moon, now NASA gets less than 10% of that amount. Had their budget continued at that level an ISS equivalent would have been launched by 1979, and a permanent moon base was planned to open in the mid-'80s. Instead Congress in its infinite wisdom decided that the advance of science and exploration needed to be abandoned.
All NASA budgets since its foundation, combined, including all of Apollo - $680 billion
2024 Pentagon budget, without intel agencies or Black Budget - $841
2024 NASA budget - $24 billion
2024 Space Farce budget - $30
This is why we can't have nice things.
On what planet would Vietnam be considered a Western country?
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. - Al Capone
