One minor quibble …………. The party cracked in two, and the Northern Whigs joined the new Republican Party, which put Abraham Lincoln in the White House in 1861. The U.S. fired on Fort Sumter soon after, starting the Civil War.
Had to go back and look, but sweet Jebus if it didn't really say that. Why did the brutal industrial North choose to wage war on the gentlemanly agricultural South like that?
Autonomous vehicles (real drones*) and 3D printing are indeed going to wipe out a lot of jobs.
Machinists cashiered at age 50 aren't going to become massage therapists.
The best solution, just as it is with jobs lost to trade, is to take care of the displaced people: give them money.
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* A "drone" is a thing that operates without human guidance, like your thermostat.
Sorry, meant to say extended unemployment compensation, Medicaid, housing assistance, early Social Security benefits, vocational education, disability benefits…you know: just not welfare, because that's for the undeserving.
All started by Vox Day, whose |RationalWiki| entry begins:
Theodore Beale, known by his pseudonym Vox Day, is a science fiction author, game designer, musician, pseudo-libertarian, anti-vaxxer, racist, Christian apologist, pickup artist, stalker, moon landing hoax believer, and all-round fucking idiot.
The American Civil War was the first major conflict fought with practical instantaneous communication (the telegraph) and the ability to move large quantities of men and matériel over substantial distances (via railroad) in a matter of hours rather than weeks. As such it was of immense interest to military strategists from all over the world, and the Prussians, among others, sent observers. It also demonstrated that a modern industrial state with conscription could grind down an agriculture-based feudal aristocracy by sheer force and determination, no matter how noble or crafty the aristocrats were.
What we're calling "3D printers" are really a thing manufacturers have been talking about for years: "computer-numerically controlled" machining, or "computer-aided manufacturing" (the second half of the acronym CAD-CAM). It's got a way to go before it can make, say, heat-treated spiral-bevel gears to aircraft-reliability standards (.0001" tolerances and the like) or crankshafts for 1,000-hp, 12-cylinder Diesel engines in railroad locomotives. But these are just refinements, not new concepts. The first costs are probably staggering, and the corpocratic inertia hard to overcome. Let's just hope we do it before the Germans or Chinese.
Right, but you're never going to make dimensionally stable, durable industrial parts on your HP printer with its plastic gears and cams and rubber belts designed to sell you ink at $200/oz. So the machine that's going to make the things we want in the quantities we need is going to be expensive and there isn't any shortcut to that.
Was trying to say that 3D printing of durable, predictable machine components will not be accomplished on home-hobbyist-level machines. Which reminds me: As somebody who's trying to revolutionize transportation, you would probably enjoy this book as much as I did:
It's a kind of socio-scientific-history of the invention of the (first useful mobile) steam engine, Stephenson's Rocket, and why the English did it before anybody else. In it I learned that English craftsmen had a micrometer they called "the Lord Chancellor" because it was more accurate than any previous such instrument.
And don't buy the Kindle edition…too many good pictures and tables which the clunky Kindle interface renders incomprehensible.
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Even [ the Daily Bawler knows ] the Donald is winning, because he's running as a Whig.
One minor quibble ………….
The party cracked in two, and the Northern Whigs joined the new Republican Party, which put Abraham Lincoln in the White House in 1861. The U.S. fired on Fort Sumter soon after, starting the Civil War.
Had to go back and look, but sweet Jebus if it didn't really say that. Why did the brutal industrial North choose to wage war on the gentlemanly agricultural South like that?
As I recall, and being an olde that's a risk, it was the CSA who fired on Ft. Sumter.
I just sent in a correction. I'll probably end up with Newsweek spam.
False flag!
Autonomous vehicles (real drones*) and 3D printing are indeed going to wipe out a lot of jobs.
Machinists cashiered at age 50 aren't going to become massage therapists.
The best solution, just as it is with jobs lost to trade, is to take care of the displaced people: give them money.
___________________________
* A "drone" is a thing that operates without human guidance, like your thermostat.
A "drone" is a thing that operates without human guidance
Like your average Congresscritter?
Ah, but the whole point of implementing these technologies is to not give these people money!
Sorry, meant to say extended unemployment compensation, Medicaid, housing assistance, early Social Security benefits, vocational education, disability benefits…you know: just not welfare, because that's for the undeserving.
Related falsehood being spread by the lying fascist assholes. http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/trump-supporter…
As the NYT reports, [She is trying to say that she was counter-protesting the protesters who are making Trump/Hitler analogies]. Can't imagine why anyone would see any similarities whatsoever between the two…
All started by Vox Day, whose |RationalWiki| entry begins:
Theodore Beale, known by his pseudonym Vox Day, is a science fiction author, game designer, musician, pseudo-libertarian, anti-vaxxer, racist, Christian apologist, pickup artist, stalker, moon landing hoax believer, and all-round fucking idiot.
The American Civil War was the first major conflict fought with practical instantaneous communication (the telegraph) and the ability to move large quantities of men and matériel over substantial distances (via railroad) in a matter of hours rather than weeks. As such it was of immense interest to military strategists from all over the world, and the Prussians, among others, sent observers. It also demonstrated that a modern industrial state with conscription could grind down an agriculture-based feudal aristocracy by sheer force and determination, no matter how noble or crafty the aristocrats were.
Neither side treated prisoners very well, but there was only one | Andersonville. |
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Andersonvillesurvivor.jpg" />
Part(!) of it is that the resource poor South got resourcer poorer thanks to the war/blockade/etc, and they… prioritized…
What we're calling "3D printers" are really a thing manufacturers have been talking about for years: "computer-numerically controlled" machining, or "computer-aided manufacturing" (the second half of the acronym CAD-CAM). It's got a way to go before it can make, say, heat-treated spiral-bevel gears to aircraft-reliability standards (.0001" tolerances and the like) or crankshafts for 1,000-hp, 12-cylinder Diesel engines in railroad locomotives. But these are just refinements, not new concepts. The first costs are probably staggering, and the corpocratic inertia hard to overcome. Let's just hope we do it before the Germans or Chinese.
Right, but you're never going to make dimensionally stable, durable industrial parts on your HP printer with its plastic gears and cams and rubber belts designed to sell you ink at $200/oz. So the machine that's going to make the things we want in the quantities we need is going to be expensive and there isn't any shortcut to that.
Yet.
Was trying to say that 3D printing of durable, predictable machine components will not be accomplished on home-hobbyist-level machines. Which reminds me: As somebody who's trying to revolutionize transportation, you would probably enjoy this book as much as I did:
http://amazon.com/Most-Powerful-Idea-World-Invent…
It's a kind of socio-scientific-history of the invention of the (first useful mobile) steam engine, Stephenson's Rocket, and why the English did it before anybody else. In it I learned that English craftsmen had a micrometer they called "the Lord Chancellor" because it was more accurate than any previous such instrument.
And don't buy the Kindle edition…too many good pictures and tables which the clunky Kindle interface renders incomprehensible.