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Originally Posted by Ohio

Is it voluntary, or will you die resisting?

Resistance is futile.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by awareness

Resistance is futile.

I would prefer to be a martyr. How about you?

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Ohio

I would prefer to be a martyr. How about you?

I'll be The Terminator. Or, I'll just unplug the damn thing.

[awareness]

Tax Incentive Puts More Robots on Factory Floors
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-inc...ors-1516962600

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by awareness

Tax Incentive Puts More Robots on Factory Floors
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-inc...ors-1516962600

So one interesting example is the ubiquitous camera. Everyone now is carrying a smart phone with a camera and video camera. Some people even wear these cameras like Google's products that use AI to decide what pictures to take and what to delete. As a result it is much harder for someone to be a full time photographer, but on the other hand we now have much better pictures of every event.

Student shootings in schools are no longer some reporter outside the building, but rather smart phone images inside the building at the time of the attack.

When the news is looking for a person of interest in a crime there is almost always a decent photo of the person that they can show.

Train crashes, terrorist attacks, some idiot biting a cell phone battery. We don't simply get the photo from a reporter thirty minutes later, we get to see photos and videos live, as the event unfolds.

I think we would all agree that there are much better pictures now than thirty years ago, and yet the possibility of someone being a professional photographer is harder. If you hire a photographer for the wedding three fourths of the best photos will come from everyone's smart phone. So people still do hire them for a couple of official pictures, but it becomes less and less necessary. As these cameras get better and cheaper no one needs to be a "professional" to have top quality equipment.

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Billy Graham's Granddaughter Says What We're All Thinking About Trump's Evangelical Enablers
His religious supporters are hypocrites who "send the wrong message to the world about what Christianity is."

Scuitto asked if Evangelicals, including her uncle Franklin Graham and grandfather, would be as lenient if former President Barack Obama had an extramarital affair with a porn star. “I think we all know the answer to that,” Armfield responded, dismissing her own relatives as "these Evangelicals."

Armfield later said that she wished Evangelicals who support Trump's policies on subjects like abortion would have the decency to say Trump's behavior "disgusts" them, because Evangelicals are "sending the wrong message to the world about what Christianity is."

Watch the clip below.
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...ps-evangelical

[zeek]

Here's an encouraging article: "Defeat is inevitable. Everybody knows it, even Trump: Washington’s legal immune system is about to expel an infection from the body politic."

https://www.salon.com/2018/01/27/def...it-even-trump/