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ripcityboy said:


Welcome to Costco. I luv you!

Welcome to Costco. I luv you!

Welcome to Costco. I luv you!
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I've never seen that whole movie but watched part of it on Comedy Central. Definitely good for a few laughs!
 
oldfisherman said:
I believe computer related jobs were the last new industry to create many good paying jobs in the USA. Many people where able to shift their careers into computer related jobs as their old jobs were phased out, some lost due to automation. Other jobs were lost due to environmental concerns; many jobs went to other countries that paid less.

What needs to happen to create more good paying jobs is the discovery of the next new industry. What that industry is, I do not have a clue. But it will eventually happen. And it will create a lot of new jobs.

I just hope the USA is in the forefront of the new industry, and not some other country like China or India. What has kept us a super power has been our ability to discover the next new industry.

If I was young and just starting out looking for my career, I would get into the medical profession. There are many medical related jobs that pay decent to good wages. Job security appears to be healthy as far out as can be predicted.


BTW, I have never been tazered by a self-checkout machine. But I have had more than one checker that looked like they wanted to.
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You could, and likely are right in the short term, but technology is ubiquitous and improving at an exponential rate. No matter the field, no matter what new industry pops up, 1000 jobs today will be accomplished by 100 jobs tomorrow and 10 jobs the day after that.

We can, and should as a society work within todays paradigm, do all we can to increase our inroads into up and coming industries, but that too will fade. Before too long we will have to abandon this current modus operandi and acknowledge that failure to shed our current ways of thinking will either leave a majority of the population destitute or see them perish. But when work is accomplished via automation, and 9 to 5's are ridiculously antiquated, then if we do aspire to better things we could spend our days learning, pushing the boundaries of science, mathematics, art, and building beautiful hand wrought treasures.
 
Possibly in our lifetimes, energy, food, water, housing, health care, every basic human need, will be fantastic, and given freely to all humans.

If people think this is a bad thing, they are fucking idiots.
 
I'm actually a bit aroused that robot lawyers will be making me hamburgers.
 
3RA1N1AC said:
Possibly in our lifetimes, energy, food, water, housing, health care, every basic human need, will be fantastic, and given freely to all humans.

If people think this is a bad thing, they are fucking idiots.
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Does that include the Larry O'Brien trophy?
 
Geez! I was charging batteries while trading posts here and a alternator belt broke. Tore the shit out of some wiring.
I guess I better check out some Kevlar belts a guy was telling me about. Shit tore about six wires off a ground block.
Lucky my ball wasn't in that fray.
 
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MarAzul said:
Geez! I was charging batteries while trading posts here and a alternator belt broke. Tore the shit out of some wiring.
I guess I better check out some Kevlar belts a guy was telling me about. Shit tore about six wires off a ground block.
Lucky my ball was in that fray.
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Rise of the machines......
 
It's important to remember that, if you work for most corporations, you are being exploited to the fullest extent of the law; if it were legal, they would murder you if it were less profitable to keep you alive.
 
theprunetang said:
Rise of the machines......
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Well I battled the beast and subdued it. Working again thanks to a handy wiring kit. Probably didn't fix the reason the belt broke though, I fear the new one will suffer the same fate. Perhaps it will last until I locate some Kevlar belts.
 
MarAzul said:
Well I battled the beast and subdued it. Working again thanks to a handy wiring kit. Probably didn't fix the reason the belt broke though, I fear the new one will suffer the same fate. Perhaps it will last until I locate some Kevlar belts.
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What kind of engine?
 
MarAzul said:
Kubota z600, a two cylinder deisel. A stub shaft on it driving two Alternators.
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Never mind. I've had that issue and thought I might have an idea, but I know nothing about 2 stroke diesel engines. Go with the Kevlar I guess...hehe
 
riverman said:
Karaoke and actually any record player or radio basically destroyed jobs of musicians all over the world. Nobody could justify paying a big band to play the weekend when a DJ could spin discs through a PA...there are millions of these stories ...it's life.
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Except none of that is true. Karaoke and DJ's have never replaced any musician with even barely average talent, ambition, and dedication. I have numerous friends who have been able to make a living creating and performing music. In fact, I've known of none who failed to do so. People will always pay for live performances, as well as for quality recorded music. Bend has a thriving musical community, and Portland's has always been a world leader. That other stuff you mention really isn't music at all.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
Damn sorry man, that sucks. In your car and back is whack, the person behind you in line might have taken it... I wonder if you were to leave that $40 behind 10 years ago if it would have lasted until you got back. Shit I think it would be interesting do to a hidden camera and ask people why they took it, or why they left it behind.

Keeping lost money is a grey area for me - I found $20 lying on the ground at Excalibur in Vegas as a kid and kept it. Not sure what I would do if I found $40 sitting in one of those machines though. I think I would be inclined to take it to customer service, feeling safe that the only person looking to claim $40 would be the person who left it behind.

I saved up to buy a pair of Oakley's as a kid and left them at my doctors office. The SOB set them out in the waiting room, not realizing exactly what they were. Needless to say some asshole stole my sunglasses. I look back on that situation as a life lesson that no matter what it is that's left behind you can never claim to know how important it might be to someone. So to this day whenever I find something that is not mine I always try to go the extra mile to try and make sure it ends up in its owners hands. I know I wish that's what the dickhead who stole my sunglasses had done.

It's definitely a philosophical question though. If you found that somebody left $40 behind would you act differently than if you found their $40 sunglasses?
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My bike was stolen from my locked shed when i was a kid. Momma didnt have a lot of money but bought me a $230 mountain bike for christmas cause i started riding my bike to school in middle school. When it disapeared i was devestated and didnt get a new mode of transportation till i was 17 and got a job and a $500 car.

Needless to say it taught me a valuable life lesson. I never take what isnt mine. I walked out of walmart once with a movie under a dresser in the cart. I forgot the movie was under it and when i got to the car my mom and i discovered it. She said well it was an accident and you got away with it, up to you what to do, i walked in to customer service and paid for it.

Saw a wallet on the road once and pulled over, i let my buddy out to grab it. He opened it and tried to grab the cash and i snagged it from him and told him he was a dick. Pulled the guys license out got his address and hand dilivered it with all money and cards. He couldnt believe it, he had his social security card in it too.

Years later i drop my wallet and by the time i notice some fucker has stopped at 3 different gas stations making small transactions on my cc before i cancle it. I had just lost my job and had no money, i had my social security card in it and my new license i just got in SC and was driving around applying for jobs. It is a true pita to get a new social security card and a new license without having either one.

I realized karma is bullshit but i still try to treat others with respect and appriciate the rare times it is returned.
 
MARIS61 said:
Except none of that is true. Karaoke and DJ's have never replaced any musician with even barely average talent, ambition, and dedication. I have numerous friends who have been able to make a living creating and performing music. In fact, I've known of none who failed to do so. People will always pay for live performances, as well as for quality recorded music. Bend has a thriving musical community, and Portland's has always been a world leader. That other stuff you mention really isn't music at all.
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you are not looking at the big band era of the post WWII industrial age...I've been a professional musician and robots making burgers are not going to have the impact that technology had on the live music business...there will always be a live music biz but the entire music biz has shrunken to a fraction of its heyday...a DJ can play a James Brown cut and it's still music, but 1 guy is pushing the entertainment button instead of a 13 piece horn band playing and getting paid ...there are countless examples of jobs that have been replaced by technology
 
MARIS61 said:
Except none of that is true. Karaoke and DJ's have never replaced any musician with even barely average talent, ambition, and dedication. I have numerous friends who have been able to make a living creating and performing music. In fact, I've known of none who failed to do so. People will always pay for live performances, as well as for quality recorded music. Bend has a thriving musical community, and Portland's has always been a world leader. That other stuff you mention really isn't music at all.
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I know plenty of musicians who failed to make a living or support a family by creating or performing music..it's not uncommon at all so I'm going to echo what you said and say this is just not true
 
riverman said:
I know plenty of musicians who failed to make a living or support a family by creating or performing music..it's not uncommon at all so I'm going to echo what you said and say this is just not true
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Just look at me!
 
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