Have you ever been a hiring official for any medium- or large- organization?

Yes I have.....and for entry jobs....GPA has been a consideration where there is no experience.

Is it the only consideration? No....but when you don't have experience it is one component to weed applicants down.

Not really, but many of the machines in them are designed to be operated by humans.

Yes. Human bodies are incredibly versatile compared to any non-primate. Granted, there's things we can't do, but we've got a very good mix of abilities compared to other creatures. Our skin is a bit disappointingly fragile, but otherwise we're quite capable.

Agreed. It would make more sense to use robot arms with the tools redesigned to go on one instead of being operated by human hands. A lot of the tools are robotic already, for example the machines they use to tighten head bolts. A human only applies the tool to the head, it does the actual work. The human is there only for fine positioning! And it's not actually fine by modern standards, either.

Black hole star
You're so far
And very very bright
What a light
What a light
What a light

I think that's how it went anyway

After experiencing the initial wave of revulsion at the idea like everyone else, I did think about what these might actually be good for. And the answer is PR events. The elite are always creating the future they want, they have all the resources and all the power and can actually do so. And in that future they want photographs of them looking beautiful and powerful and hobnobbing with other beautiful and powerful people to exist, but without all of the side baggage that goes along with that — either from the media asking them occasionally-inconvenient questions, or from those pesky photographers who are always asking them to stand a certain way. It's quite distracting! Surely the computer can retouch the image!

And they are right. It can. So what if the image winds up looking processed and plastic? So are they.

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Don't worry, soon we won't be able to afford to buy cars

They are smart enough to know an ID law when they see one

Agree in spirit, but if one vendor breaching one contract means you're instantly and irreparably out of business overnight... You second-source it or do it in-house!

No court order in the world can un-burn a dollar.

Then we're going to need a lot more funnels to refill all those toothpaste tubes.

If you removed every foreign-made product from a typical Walmart, you'd basically be left with a steel-frame building stripped to the beams.

If you replaced every one of those products with an American version - You'd have Niemann Marcus plus Erewhon, with some products simply not available at any price (short of bespoke).

These drones are used for things which affect ordinary people so we'll be paying for them as part of our purchases and taxes.

The judge is ordering equivalence.

Because a raspi can do the job they are presumably doing with it. There's no need for this class of hardware unless you're really incompetent.

Oh wait, we're talking about Russia...

Lolol of course they can. The data doesn't actually belong to the intermediary and it certainly doesn't belong to iron mountain. It's good that they required a court order, because the party requesting the data is not the party that provided it, but it's still the PBS station's data and they still have a right to it.

I threw up a little.

Companies used to make a profit by selling things people wanted to buy