Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: As the extent and importance of automation grows in the life of a nation, > so to will the number and importance of the people who create, attack, and > protect that automation infrastructure. > I doubt this will be a problem much longer. It would be easy to improve security wit

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread Axil Axil
As the extent and importance of automation grows in the life of a nation, so to will the number and importance of the people who create, attack, and protect that automation infrastructure. A nation and its people will be so dependent on automation, that an attack on that automation cannot be allowe

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread Lennart Thornros
Hello Jed, I think you are pessimistic about the time frame for auto driven cars, trucks etc. 10 years, at the most 15 years. I think we will see this technology implemented rather slowly though. Large expensive vehicle (read 18 wheeler) ought to be the beginning. There are really no big obstacles.

Re: [Vo]:NEDO RFP for cold fusion projects

2015-08-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
CB Sites wrote: Hii All. Based on pdf and from that question Jed translated, (ie the > translation sighted by Jed), it's no worst than an NSF proposal, or NIH > proposal. > Yes, it seems reasonable. The problem is that all remaining cold fusion researchers in Japan are retired professors withou

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread leaking pen
to provide services. Technical support and customer service phones jobs is a MASSIVE industry. On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > Jobs required to create, support and run the internet are the vast > majority? To make tablets and software? Laugh! > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
leaking pen wrote: Because a lot of things still require the human touch and cant be replaced > by a robot. > Correct. Plus, many "unskilled" jobs still require basic skills that computers and robots have not yet fully mastered, such as driving automobiles and stocking shelves in ordinary grocer

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
Jobs required to create, support and run the internet are the vast majority? To make tablets and software? Laugh! On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:44 PM, leaking pen wrote: > blaze, if not for the overhead eating efficiency created by mass building, > those things wouldn't exist. and the jobs you ar

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread leaking pen
blaze, if not for the overhead eating efficiency created by mass building, those things wouldn't exist. and the jobs you are describing are a SMALL fraction of the jobs available, and the ones Joe is listing the vast MAJORITY. On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > No, any so

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
No, any sort of job that increases communication and education I don't see as generally planet wrecking, though certainly we could do a lot better. I'm talking about the excess energy consumption, cars, the houses, the yachts, the airplanes, the military to protect all this, etc etc. On Tue, Aug

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread Joe Hughes
So would you consider the jobs required to create, support and run the internet, networks and infrastructure that this list runs on as bullsh*t planet wrecking consumption? How about the jobs to create and deliver the computer, tablet or mobile device you use to post on this and all of the assoc

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
Most of those things are pretty much unnecessary though. As soon as you get a few levels up on maslow's hierarchy of needs (safety / security / etc), it's all pretty much just useless bullsh*t planet wrecking consumption. On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:01 PM, leaking pen wrote: > Because a lot of th

Re: [Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread leaking pen
Because a lot of things still require the human touch and cant be replaced by a robot. On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > > http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/08/04/why-are-there-still-so-many-jobs-the-case-for-the-persistence-of-middle-skill-employment/ > > I think the answer

[Vo]:Why are there still so many jobs?

2015-08-04 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/08/04/why-are-there-still-so-many-jobs-the-case-for-the-persistence-of-middle-skill-employment/ I think the answer is pretty obvious, non? There are so many jobs because interest rates are artificially low and allow businesses to borrow at cheap rates and hire peop

[Vo]:LENR VERSUS CLIMATE CHANGE

2015-08-04 Thread Peter Gluck
Inaction now or slow action will be regretted bu our grandchildren Therefore I am still trying, I wrote this: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2015/08/a-lenr-manhattan-plan-starting-soon.html Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com