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He writes science papers, enjoys chess and origami, loves Star Trek, and is a huge fan of 2nd edition D&D
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Only joking He reads no books, barely sleeps, tweets all night, and loves watching cable. Who da thought?
"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
Associated Press wrote:"We're making more with fewer people," says Howard Shatz, a senior economist at the Rand Corp. think tank.
General Motors, for instance, now employs barely a third of the 600,000 workers it had in the 1970s. Yet it churns out more cars and trucks than ever.
Or look at production of steel and other primary metals. Since 1997, the United States has lost 265,000 jobs in the production of primary metals — a 42 percent plunge — at a time when such production in the U.S. has surged 38 percent.
Allan Collard-Wexler of Duke University and Jan De Loecker of Princeton University found last year that America didn't lose most steel jobs to foreign competition or faltering sales. Steel jobs vanished because of the rise of a new technology: Super-efficient mini-mills that make steel largely from scrap metal.
This is a reality that must be faced. Even in places like China, workers are being replaced by automation. It's easy and convenient to place all the blame on foreign dumping or undercutting, but increasingly automation is just making each individual worker much more productive and thus companies need less of them, though the rewards such productivity gains are captured almost entirely by shareholders rather than resulting in increased pay as well.
BBC wrote:Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots.
One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post.
Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: "More companies are likely to follow suit."
China is investing heavily in a robot workforce.
At some point with automation growing the way it is. We will have to deal with a future where some people don't work.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Associated Press wrote:"We're making more with fewer people," says Howard Shatz, a senior economist at the Rand Corp. think tank.
General Motors, for instance, now employs barely a third of the 600,000 workers it had in the 1970s. Yet it churns out more cars and trucks than ever.
Or look at production of steel and other primary metals. Since 1997, the United States has lost 265,000 jobs in the production of primary metals — a 42 percent plunge — at a time when such production in the U.S. has surged 38 percent.
Allan Collard-Wexler of Duke University and Jan De Loecker of Princeton University found last year that America didn't lose most steel jobs to foreign competition or faltering sales. Steel jobs vanished because of the rise of a new technology: Super-efficient mini-mills that make steel largely from scrap metal.
This is a reality that must be faced. Even in places like China, workers are being replaced by automation. It's easy and convenient to place all the blame on foreign dumping or undercutting, but increasingly automation is just making each individual worker much more productive and thus companies need less of them, though the rewards such productivity gains are captured almost entirely by shareholders rather than resulting in increased pay as well.
BBC wrote:Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots.
One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post.
Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: "More companies are likely to follow suit."
China is investing heavily in a robot workforce.
At some point with automation growing the way it is. We will have to deal with a future where some people don't work.
The future? That future occurred 20 years ago.
Not to the extent it will be. We will have to come together as a country and make sure people can live when there is no jobs for them to do. I understand there is a problem now, but it will only get worse.
Associated Press wrote:"We're making more with fewer people," says Howard Shatz, a senior economist at the Rand Corp. think tank.
General Motors, for instance, now employs barely a third of the 600,000 workers it had in the 1970s. Yet it churns out more cars and trucks than ever.
Or look at production of steel and other primary metals. Since 1997, the United States has lost 265,000 jobs in the production of primary metals — a 42 percent plunge — at a time when such production in the U.S. has surged 38 percent.
Allan Collard-Wexler of Duke University and Jan De Loecker of Princeton University found last year that America didn't lose most steel jobs to foreign competition or faltering sales. Steel jobs vanished because of the rise of a new technology: Super-efficient mini-mills that make steel largely from scrap metal.
This is a reality that must be faced. Even in places like China, workers are being replaced by automation. It's easy and convenient to place all the blame on foreign dumping or undercutting, but increasingly automation is just making each individual worker much more productive and thus companies need less of them, though the rewards such productivity gains are captured almost entirely by shareholders rather than resulting in increased pay as well.
BBC wrote:Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots.
One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post.
Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: "More companies are likely to follow suit."
China is investing heavily in a robot workforce.
At some point with automation growing the way it is. We will have to deal with a future where some people don't work.
The future? That future occurred 20 years ago.
Not to the extent it will be. We will have to come together as a country and make sure people can live when there is no jobs for them to do. I understand there is a problem now, but it will only get worse.
While I agree with you, we won't. Most of the world has a tiny uber wealthy class and a vast poor to hyper poor group. That will only exacerbate.
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: "You have no steelworkers".
"Yes we do".
"You have basically no steelworkers. Stop being obtuse".
Say what you fething mean in the first place then.
I think it was fairly obvious what he meant. There's only 2% of the steel workers there used to be.
Correct. Although the fact there were any surprised. From a BBC show a few months ago it sounded like TATA was going to close UK operations completely in a year.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Associated Press wrote:"We're making more with fewer people," says Howard Shatz, a senior economist at the Rand Corp. think tank.
General Motors, for instance, now employs barely a third of the 600,000 workers it had in the 1970s. Yet it churns out more cars and trucks than ever.
Or look at production of steel and other primary metals. Since 1997, the United States has lost 265,000 jobs in the production of primary metals — a 42 percent plunge — at a time when such production in the U.S. has surged 38 percent.
Allan Collard-Wexler of Duke University and Jan De Loecker of Princeton University found last year that America didn't lose most steel jobs to foreign competition or faltering sales. Steel jobs vanished because of the rise of a new technology: Super-efficient mini-mills that make steel largely from scrap metal.
This is a reality that must be faced. Even in places like China, workers are being replaced by automation. It's easy and convenient to place all the blame on foreign dumping or undercutting, but increasingly automation is just making each individual worker much more productive and thus companies need less of them, though the rewards such productivity gains are captured almost entirely by shareholders rather than resulting in increased pay as well.
BBC wrote:Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots.
One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post.
Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: "More companies are likely to follow suit."
China is investing heavily in a robot workforce.
At some point with automation growing the way it is. We will have to deal with a future where some people don't work.
The future? That future occurred 20 years ago.
Not to the extent it will be. We will have to come together as a country and make sure people can live when there is no jobs for them to do. I understand there is a problem now, but it will only get worse.
This will be the defining challenge of the 21st century.
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Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: "You have no steelworkers".
"Yes we do".
"You have basically no steelworkers. Stop being obtuse".
Say what you fething mean in the first place then.
I think it was fairly obvious what he meant. There's only 2% of the steel workers there used to be.
A trend that is reflected worldwide. There will always be a need for steel in the foreseeable future, but new materials are emerging, and of course, new manufacturing methods also reduce the number of workers needed.
"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
British press corp is locked outside the White House because our birthdates were submitted in UK format and secret service don't get it.
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...does any branch of your Govt. currently have a clue what it's doing ?
BTW :
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Fantastic press conference with May and Trump.
Tomorrow he's looking forward to phone with Putin, Holland and Merkel.
I guess will be less fantastic up to the talk with the russian bear.
Former moderator 40kOnline
Lanchester's square law - please obey in list building!
Illumini: "And thank you for not finishing your post with a "" I'm sorry, but after 7200 's that has to be the most annoying sign-off ever."
I know we are weird (because we say "June 4th, 1985", whereas you say, "The 4th of June, 1985), but even I know that the brits use DD/MM/YYYY. Although this is why I think all forms with dates should specify.
Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote: Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote: Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
BaronIveagh wrote: Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
Yeah! You be be like us, we don't give a feth what order you put your dates in!
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
Preposterous. I've been informed by the best people, the good people, that Twitter is full of beanie babies who wouldn't harm a fly, and would never say anything hateful
Trump is against the EU. He has planned to build a golf course in Ireland. He has gotten the approval from Ireland, but for some reasons not from the EU. He hates the EU for that.
Former moderator 40kOnline
Lanchester's square law - please obey in list building!
Illumini: "And thank you for not finishing your post with a "" I'm sorry, but after 7200 's that has to be the most annoying sign-off ever."
Tell all the steel workers in your country, oh wait, you don't have any any more.
The Steel Industry in America began dying in the 40s for a lot of reasons, the foremost being that it is really expensive to make steel in the US and steel costing a lot drives up prices on virtually everything because steel is so ubiquitous in consumer goods. On top of that, US Steel was always of middling quality anyway. The Iron resources in the US aren't exactly the best. The only reason we really had a booming steel industry in the first place was blatant protectionism and the abundance of coal in Appalachia.
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That press conference went WAY, WAY better than I expected. Trump behaved himself, even acted like an adult, overall.
I will admit, I kinda might have p**-ed myself a little bit when Laura Kuenssberg asked her question but after only a little awkwardness, it kinda worked out ok.
I'm not gonna say it was the best press conference on the face of the planet but, well, considering what it could very well have been, I'd call it a win.
If we're lucky, May (and, apparently, General Mattis), might be able to keep an eye on Trump, rein him in a little.
That press conference went WAY, WAY better than I expected. Trump behaved himself, even acted like an adult, overall.
I will admit, I kinda might have p**-ed myself a little bit when Laura Kuenssberg asked her question but after only a little awkwardness, it kinda worked out ok.
I'm not gonna say it was the best press conference on the face of the planet but, well, considering what it could very well have been, I'd call it a win.
If we're lucky, May (and, apparently, General Mattis), might be able to keep an eye on Trump, rein him in a little.
So the minute Obama passed the latest round of Russian sanctions, right before he left office, Paul Ryan stated emphatically that they were "overdue". Let's see how this plays out.
That press conference went WAY, WAY better than I expected. Trump behaved himself, even acted like an adult, overall.
I will admit, I kinda might have p**-ed myself a little bit when Laura Kuenssberg asked her question but after only a little awkwardness, it kinda worked out ok.
I'm not gonna say it was the best press conference on the face of the planet but, well, considering what it could very well have been, I'd call it a win.
If we're lucky, May (and, apparently, General Mattis), might be able to keep an eye on Trump, rein him in a little.
Honestly just about anything would be an improvement over this past week.
wuestenfux wrote: Trump is against the EU. He has planned to build a golf course in Ireland. He has gotten the approval from Ireland, but for some reasons not from the EU. He hates the EU for that.
wuestenfux wrote: Trump is against the EU. He has planned to build a golf course in Ireland. He has gotten the approval from Ireland, but for some reasons not from the EU. He hates the EU for that.
Something I've noticed here in the last few days. Trump supporters seem to pop in now and then and offer one sentence summaries of what they like about him/his policies. When confronted with opposing facts, they don't respond . A few days go by, new Trump supporter sentences.
A few of our die hard right leaning supporters stay engaged. Whembly, Frazz, Prestor Jon, and so on. They make claims and counter claims and the thread goes on as usual but they attempt to make clear that they do not like or support Trump explicitly, just some of the policies.
Question: do we have, in the little dakka community, a Trump plant or two? I really doubt it. Do we have a few posters who are doing for trump what the right wing posters said was the initial problem with Obama--essentially religious fanatics? Seems more likely. But still, it doesn't really explain it. Where do the one hit wonders come from? What is their motive?
My opinion? The Trump fans have sublimated the way Trump thinks and talks into their own thoughts and posts. It is a twitter tweet tweet. It is an off hand comment that doesn't really mean anything other than how that person is feeling at that instant. Forget thought, get reaction. Film and post it. Done. Now move on to the next thought. The problem is that doesn't work for thought or analysis or debate.
Mr. Nuggaztheninja, Mr. Just Tony, Mr. (Redacted because they have made comments that have greeted them with bans for posting here), please tell me what your rationale for posting here is, if it isn't for actual discussion.
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wuestenfux wrote: Trump is against the EU. He has planned to build a golf course in Ireland. He has gotten the approval from Ireland, but for some reasons not from the EU. He hates the EU for that.
Are you saying Trump is a wee bit vindictive?
Water is a wee bit wet!
Technically, no it isn't.
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Gordon Shumway wrote: Something I've noticed here in the last few days. Trump supporters seem to pop in now and then and offer one sentence summaries of what they like about him/his policies. When confronted with opposing facts, they don't respond . A few days go by, new Trump supporter sentences.
A few of our die hard right leaning supporters stay engaged. Whembly, Frazz, Prestor Jon, and so on. They make claims and counter claims and the thread goes on as usual but they attempt to make clear that they do not like or support Trump explicitly, just some of the policies.
Question: do we have, in the little dakka community, a Trump plant or two? I really doubt it. Do we have a few posters who are doing for trump what the right wing posters said was the initial problem with Obama--essentially religious fanatics? Seems more likely. But still, it doesn't really explain it. Where do the one hit wonders come from? What is their motive?
My opinion? The Trump fans have sublimated the way Trump thinks and talks into their own thoughts and posts. It is a twitter tweet tweet. It is an off hand comment that doesn't really mean anything other than how that person is feeling at that instant. Forget thought, get reaction. Film and post it. Done. Now move on to the next thought. The problem is that doesn't work for thought or analysis or debate.
Alternatively, people simply lead busy lives and not everyone has the time or inclination for long drawn out in depth political discussions on a toy soldier forum...not a right wing conspiracy theory.
Next you'll be calling people Russian trolls.
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He reads no books, barely sleeps, tweets all night, and loves watching cable. Who da thought?
