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Tim Aurora says

2. Buy a property in Canada ( Many minorities have already done this ) or in Mexico if cannot withstand cold. Go to Europe as it might be safer.

If you are not a Mexican citizen, you cannot buy property in your name that is located within 100 km from the border or 50 km from the coast.

Rin says

There are plenty of highly paid, useless white collar workers at places like MetLife, Bank of America, etc.

If anything, automation will go for the knowledge workers who pretty much, do the same thing, year after year.

This is where Continuous Improvement aka Kaizen 改 善 is a double edged sword for companies and workers.

Once the company embarks on CI and starts mapping a process (most anything can be and is a process) - all of the non value added positions and steps show up immediately in the map (value stream)

Same thing with running a "flow" exercise. All of the non value added steps show up and possibly some non value added positions.

If this non value added tag is attached to a human position - no more position but the elimination of the position results in costs savings to the company.

In a flow exercise no loss of jobs immediately but eliminating steps streamlines the process and with that the possible elimination of positions.

If done properly C.I. tools do not discriminate based on anything - they just show where the waste exists (be it a human job position, unnecessary work, steps etc.) in what is called the "value stream"

Some here may be familiar with Lean Manufacturing - works great around the house as well.

RC2006 says

If you are not a Mexican citizen, you cannot buy property in your name that is located within 100 km from the border or 50 km from the coast.

That's racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, etc. and extreme Nationalist Right-Wing Populism.

I also heard you must pay to translate everything into your language, Mexico does not provide language translation even in criminal court, and there's no such thing as permanent citizenship for the naturalized - they always must keep money in escrow and can be ejected.

The Robot hype. We really have to laugh when you put it in context.
When the Automobile industry went Robotic Assembly line. The fear back then was Robots were going to replace all of the workers.
But it certainly didn't put every welder and fabricator out of a job.

It very well may be with this new push. All we end up with is Robotic Hamburger Flippers at major Hamburger Stands, and Rumba Pallet Jacks in warehouses of the bigbox retailers.
But Jacks Diner will still have Louis the surly burger flipper behind the grill and Freddy's AC Supplies will still have Manny the warehouse guy at the loading dock when you pull up.

AD says

I read this as that the major increase in population within California is poor and Hispanic. Who is going to keep paying the taxes to support not only these poor, but also the public school teachers, and public servants ? Eventually California is going to be a lot more poor than Mississippi yet it will operate generously like a Blue state as far as state pensions, etc.

The Left wants to break the social contract and replace it with a Globalist Open Border Entitlement Mentality.

Tim Aurora says

It seems that many in the media are now bracing a new threat, Civil War. We have raised a Frankenstein in Trump and it seems any effort to impeach Trump or even his defeat in 2020 may result in a Civil Unrest. There is also going to be looting It is also imperative that all parties should make arrangements for protection,water, heat and food, I would add guns to the list.

Sounds like the Liberals are truly fucked, since they don't own any guns. I would suggest that you Liberals don't piss off any Conservatives.

I would also point out the automated Checkout line at the grocery stores are not as common as they were when they started out.
Many stores didn't pull them all out, some Idiots like them. But the stores that had only Self Checkout lanes or 5 of them, have scaled back to one or two. I know a few stores that took them out all together. Home Depot, they are all used like a regular cashier now. You bring your cart up and a person scans the items, and finishes payment through her cash register. That horrible automated computer that fucked more often than not, is Gone.

Kakistocracy says

Maybe right at home huh ? Just repeating what is heard at home or at the homes of his parent's friends.

Exactly. They heard from their parents, who are also suffering from TDS and they continue with #OrangeManBad and Trump is Hitler.

Isn't it nice NY has DiBlasio and Cuomo as role models in the state?

How's the neighborhood there? Many friends?

That horrible automated computer that fucked more often than not, is Gone.

That horrible automated computer that fucked more often than not is gone for one simple reason - reduce as much theft as possible.

Same reason Costco took theirs out - when the loss from non payment of goods exceeds the tolerable limit - the automated lines go away.

There is a cost based on what the anticipated loss will be and it is passed on to everyone - thank your fellow citizens for being fucking thieves.

WHY DO YOU HATE THE 1st AMMEMDMENT?

Kakistocracy says

Where did the child got his inspiration from ?

Social media ?

Playmates ?

Maybe right at home huh ? Just repeating what is heard at home or at the homes of his parent's friends.

Queens residents have never been known for tolerance of anything that wasn't exactly like them - White Anglo-Saxon Protestants aka WASPs.

As per the rapes the standard response on this forum for the last few years is basically "boys will be boys", and somehow the woman is more at fault than the man and besides most of the rape claims are false anyway so why bother to investigate them.

Canada could be conquered in a couple of days by USA or any of it's civil war splinters. The consciousness of taming the whims of the beast on their southern border has been an ongoing historical Canadian concern, and they are tied inextricably to our trade.

Civil War implies two predominant factions, each of which would have a prevailing and unifying political/religious philosophy, who would need to purge their territory of dissident voices through oppression or slaughter. It's far more likely at this point of balkanization that the USA would be destroyed or conquered and parted out from the outside, or sold out from the inside by the various corporate and globalist entities.

Tim Aurora says

It seems that many in the media are now bracing a new threat, Civil War.

Nope, it doesn't seem that. Stop inventing shit.

Tim Aurora says

There is also going to be looting

Have you ever even met a Trump supporter? These are not the people who loot. They’re the people who shoot the dirty looters who probably vote Democrat.

OccasionalCortex says

Amazon is planning to launch a new grocery brand with a lower price point than Whole Foods

Isn't that every grocery store, except Whole Foods???

I think the “harassment” charge is going to be hard to prove.
Sheesh it’s a dang kid who should get a talking to and maybe some detention. Involving the law is really going way too far. If the state law makes what is effectively speech a crime, it’s unconstitutional on its face and should be abolished. This isn’t the U.K.!

I remember being about 9 or 10 and my edgy playmate suggested we start a secret mischief club during recesses. Our activities included throwing wet wads of paper towels on the bathroom ceilings, and drawing swastikas, probably backwards, on the toilet stall walls using purloined ketchup and mustard packets. We had no idea what they meant, just that we were being naughty. I didn't learn anything about "Hilter" until several grades later.

OccasionalCortex says

There does not exist a fully automated vehicle assembly line in the world yet. Not even at Tesla.

Well I mean the welding and fastener robots.

Songsing Tellz Shme dey don't buy gungs at de gung bordega gringos.

What's up with all this civil war bs? When do you ever see looting or fucked up shit in right wing parts of the country even after national disasters, it's always liberal areas usually with a lot of non whites.

No reason for civil war. Life is too good for most.

Tenpoundbass says

It very well may be with this new push. All we end up with is Robotic Hamburger Flippers at major Hamburger Stands, and Rumba Pallet Jacks in warehouses of the bigbox retailers.

Exactly. We might have an automated express line or even automated checkout everywhere at McDs, but there will still be at least one human or two just for running the registers. "I need more ketchup. I don't like pickles. I really wanted supersize. Can you hold the sundae sauce?"
There may be some robotflipper, but where will he get the frozen buns from the fridge?

The problem with robots is their perception. Repetitive tasks done at one location, flipping burgers, is easy. Getting more patties from the shelf in the freezer and bringing it back, opening it, etc. is difficult.

Youtube is replete with major corporations, MIT, etc. with multi-million budgets building robots that bungle what seem to be stupid, unskilled tasks like patrolling a mall at night, and instead driving into the water fountain.

www.youtube.com/embed/CM-o0kMNHm8

OccasionalCortex says

But eventually doable for robots.

In maybe 50+ years

If the freezer is stuffed and the deliveryman puts the patties way back of the bottom shelf, and the robot is looking on the top shelf for "meat"... then you have to hope the robot doesn't "Punch" through the buns to get to the patties... it's much more complicated.

Robots lack perception and every bit of it is expensive. Organic entities have 1B years of evolution.

No robot has yet taught itself to open a simple push-down lever on a door. Every video you see of Robots opening simple latches is 100% programmed, scripted to the last movement.

www.youtube.com/embed/HdtmmHEs9jg

It's why the military can't use robots yet - their environmental perception is extremely poor and they quickly get into trouble when autonomous.

Quigley says

I think the “harassment” charge is going to be hard to prove.
Sheesh it’s a dang kid who should get a talking to and maybe some detention. Involving the law is really going way too far. If the state law makes what is effectively speech a crime, it’s unconstitutional on its face and should be abolished. This isn’t the U.K.!

Agreed. Detention and the parents being informed is enough. Anything more is stupid.

Going back to "Where he learned" for a moment, y'all might remember that guy who defaced the Temple, the Genderqueer/WhateverBlack kid who was adopted by rich Jews, got a City Internship in an Anti-Hate/Pro-Diversity Office, then got a free ride to Brandeis.

Where did he learn to hate Jews? Why, his major was African American Studies. His Black Muslim Professors taught him.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/03/nyc-synagogue-vandalism-suspect/

The ironic thing is that he was profiled as a success story by the NYT almost a year to the day of his Vandalism.

But only Whites can be racist.

OccasionalCortex says

Nope. A lot sooner than that.

Well, maybe so. But the past 10-20 years have shown no quantum leaps in this. Perceiving the environment uses Mucho Computing power.

OccasionalCortex says

Today is not going to be tomorrow.

50 years from the GM commercials, and there are still no Automated Highways/Self-Driving Cars. BUT, we discovered DNA and there's computers everywhere, even inside fridges.

We'll see what we shall see!

OccasionalCortex says

The Left will overreact by sending in the military.

Even in CA most military and police are overwhelmingly far right, I don't think such a thing would work out well for the left.

Ceffer says

Canada could be conquered in a couple of days by USA or any of it's civil war splinters. The consciousness of taming the whims of the beast on their southern border has been an ongoing historical Canadian concern, and they are tied inextricably to our trade.

This is not an exaggeration. Just to come up with a brigade or regiment for regular active service, Canada's military becomes hamstrung and at wits end to put one together. They can't even patrol it's own Arctic to peacetime levels without substantial USAF and USN assistance.

Canada spends about 1.25% of it's GDP on Defense, which includes SAR and resupplying far flung communities. It's less than the pathetic NATO median spend.

I heard that Canada's one frigate makes the entire Oceangoing Canadian Pacific "Fleet", but that it's mostly been in drydock due to various issues.

The US could invade Canada with just the Domestic Active Units and completely overwhelm the country within 24-48 hours. Even if the Canadians had called and readied every last reserve formation a week in advance while we went with whatever we had right away.

Michael Cohen - There Won’t Be 'Peaceful Transition Of Power’ If Trump Loses In 2020

“Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power,” Cohen told the House oversight committee at the end of his hours long testimony.

The statement was especially dark considering Cohen was Trump’s former personal attorney for more than 10 years and admitted Wednesday to threatening hundreds of people on the president’s behalf.

The big fear is that if Trump loses in 2020 he will refuse to transfer power and leave quietly. Trump will lose then try to invalidate and discredit the election. Trump will try everything that he can to stay in office because for Donald Trump, the presidency is the only thing that is keeping away from being indicted or in prison.

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/27/michael-cohen-warns-that-there-wont-be-a-peaceful-transfer-of-power-if-trump-loses-in-2020.html

Kakistocracy says

“Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power,” Cohen told the House oversight committee at the end of his hours long testimony.

Still posting quotes from a known liar under oath?

Kakistocracy says

The big fear is that if Trump loses in 2020 he will refuse to transfer power and leave quietly. Trump will lose then try to invalidate and discredit the election. Trump will try everything that he can to stay in office because for Donald Trump, the presidency is the only thing that is keeping away from being indicted or in prison.

THE TDS is now officially off the charts at new levels.

OccasionalCortex says

The Left keeps pushing and pushing. At come point, they will cross a line and yes, the Right won't take that shit anymore.

This is what's coming.

OccasionalCortex says

The Left will overreact by sending in the military. Civil War, baby!

That's NOT what will happen. We will see how many enlisted will actually shoot/attack the American population. The military won't be able to do much, as this next war will be fought in the streets. The enemy can be your neighbor across the street.

OccasionalCortex says

Why do you think they passed a law in NY to confiscate guns? Totally and blatantly unconstitutional, but they passed it anyway.

The Liberals are scared shitless that the Conservatives will eat them for lunch. The only way the Liberals think they can control the population is by gun control. The NY SAFE act had like a 3% compliance rate. Plus, there are a bunch of rural Sheriffs that refuse to implement unconstitutional laws.

It's not going to be pretty..

Reminds me of an incident in second grade when our group of four had to draw eskimos in the "indian tribe" exhibit our class was working on.
I put a pair of levis on my eskimo and my group mates misinterpreted the button and zipper I drew as something else. I then saw it too. We all couldn't stop laughing.

Our "dirty little minds" earned a quick public swat on the butt with "the paddle" and the incident was over.

We were just happy our parents weren't called.

MisterLearnToCode says

No robot has yet taught itself to open a simple push-down lever on a door. Every video you see of Robots opening simple latches is 100% programmed, scripted to the last movement.

Isn't every robot 100% programmed for anything it does?

Did you see this door opening robot?

www.youtube.com/embed/wXxrmussq4E

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Kakistocracy says

“Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power,” Cohen told the House oversight committee at the end of his hours long testimony.

Still posting quotes from a known liar under oath?
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Still ?

Cohen can't even place a respectable "show" in the liar category considering the competition - Potus, Sanders, Conway, Hannity, Carlson, Pence, Pompeo, Mnuchin, - the list is too long to finish

FortWayneIndiana says

No reason for civil war. Life is too good for most.

Yes true. The only ones who can push a Civil War are Democrats. Extreme statism always leads to civil unrest.

India and Pakistan engage in a high-stakes game of brinkmanship

Narendra Modi is under pressure to act over terror groups in Pakistan but may need to engage with his counterpart, Imran Khan
When Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba staged a sophisticated terror attack in 2008 in Mumbai — striking the main train station and two luxury hotels — Narendra Modi, then chief minister of Gujarat, raced to the Oberoi Hotel, where Indian security forces were battling the militants.Although Indians were clamouring for a military strike on Pakistan to avenge the assault, which claimed 166 lives, the then prime minister Manmohan Singh exercised extreme restraint and eschewed talk of retribution. Standing outside the Oberoi, Mr Modi lashed out at Pakistan and criticised Mr Singh, calling his response to the grave provocation “disappointing”.

In the years since, Mr Modi, now India’s prime minister, has repeatedly mocked the previous government’s response to the Mumbai carnage and said his predecessor lacked the “courage” to conduct surgical air strikes against Pakistan, as some Indian security hawks had then advocated.

This week, as he gears up for an unexpectedly competitive election just months away, Mr Modi proved that his tough talk on terrorism was not mere political bluster. On Tuesday, 12 days after 40 Indian paramilitaries were killed by a Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide bomber in Kashmir, Mr Modi authorised an airborne missile strike on Pakistani territory — the first Indian use of air power against its neighbour since the two countries went to war in 1971.India's prime minister Narendra Modi has displayed a new level of aggressiveness on the campaign trail this week .

The message, says one Indian official, was clear: India, with its growing affluence and superpower aspirations, would no longer remain idle if attacked by terrorists harboured by Islamabad. “February 26,” the official says, “marked the end of strategic restraint when it comes to counter-terrorism.”

Yet India’s new military assertiveness has not delivered a clear strategic advantage for New Delhi — nor given Mr Modi the unambiguous political boost he had been hoping for. A day after India’s strike, Pakistan retaliated, sending planes to attack military installations in India. In the ensuing aerial skirmishes, an Indian MiG-21 was shot down. The pilot, commander Abhinandan Varthaman, was captured by Pakistani soldiers and later paraded on television, bloodied and blindfolded.

The risk that hostilities could rapidly spiral out of control eased slightly after Imran Khan, Pakistan’s cricket-star-turned-prime-minister, announced on Thursday he was returning the pilot to India in a “goodwill gesture”. commander Varthaman was handed over to India on Friday. Mr Khan — elected with military support just last year and still wrestling with a severe economic crisis — has also implored New Delhi to engage in dialogue and avoid “miscalculation” that could lead to greater conflict. Pakistan releases captured Indian fighter pilot.
Tensions still remain high, however, with Mr Modi touting his new aggressiveness on the campaign trail. “This is a new India,” he declared at a large political rally on Friday. “This is an India that will return the damage done by terrorists — with interest.”

And even if this particular episode passes, political analysts are trying to assess how the bitter and volatile relationship between two nuclear-armed neighbours may evolve after their worst outbreak of hostilities in decades.

“India was very eager to convey to Pakistan that it was willing to strike at Pakistani territory in retaliation for terrorist acts against India, and that is very different from the past,” says Ashley Tellis, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “The difficult question is, does this fundamentally change the character of Pakistani terrorism to India?” he asks. “If it does, it’s all to the good. If it doesn’t, things look a little more dicey. This is a new threshold that India has set and in the future, things could be even more violent.” Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan has implored New Delhi to engage in dialogue.

Srinath Raghavan, a former Indian army officer who now teaches international relations at Ashoka University in Haryana, says it remains unclear whether even the current round of hostilities is definitively over. “All the Modi supporters feel that India should still land one more punch before calling this off,” he says. “Even if we manage to get out of this crisis, expectations are being set in ways that will make future management of this relationship difficult if terrorism continues.”

Enmity between New Delhi and Islamabad dates backs to 1947, when the departing British colonial rulers partitioned the subcontinent into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Since then, the two have fought three times over the Muslim-majority Kashmir region, which both claim as their own. In 1971, India used its military to help Pakistan’s rebellious eastern wing break away to become independent Bangladesh, a source of deep resentment in Pakistan.

But since the 1990s, Pakistan’s military establishment, particularly its Inter-Services Intelligence agency, has relied on unorthodox tactics to bleed its bigger neighbour: using committed Islamist militants to conduct suicidal terror attacks, both in restive Kashmir, and major Indian cities.
The leading actors in this asymmetric warfare have been Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Righteous) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (Army of Mohammad), both led by veterans of the US and Pakistan-backed mujahideen war against Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and both close to the ISI.

For two decades, the LeT and JeM — which openly recruit and train jihadis in Pakistan despite their UN designation as proscribed terror groups — have carried out numerous attacks in India, including a 2001 assault on India’s parliament and the 2008 Mumbai attacks.The Muslim-majority Kashmir region is a site of dispute and terror attacks.

These violent onslaughts have been coupled, since the two countries’ 1998 tit-for-tat nuclear tests, with Pakistan’s ambiguity about its willingness to use those weapons in a conflict, a threat that left India wary of military action.

Mr Modi has positioned himself as a strong, decisive leader willing to launch a robust response to Pakistani provocation. It’s also personal: early in his tenure, he expended personal capital to improve ties with then Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, only to see his outreach undercut by militant attacks on two Indian military bases in 2016.

Days after the second of those assaults, a small team of Indian ground forces were dispatched into Pakistani-held territory for a “surgical strike” to destroy shelters used by militants waiting to sneak into Indian Kashmir. That action has since become the subject of relentless political propaganda from New Delhi, as well as a slick Bollywood action thriller that Mr Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party urged Indian voters to see ahead of the elections.

In this climate, Mr Modi was compelled to hit back after a Kashmiri suicide bomber affiliated with JeM obliterated a military bus on February 14, the deadliest attack on Indian forces in Kashmir in decades. “The way we have portrayed the surgical strike implied there would be much bigger things if there are bigger attacks,” says Mr Raghavan. “This government has created that mood among the people.”

Precisely what India hit during its missile strike on Tuesday remains a matter of fierce dispute. New Delhi says it carried out a “pre-emptive strike” on a JeM training camp in the town of Balakot, acting on “credible intelligence” of jihadis planning attacks in India. Pakistani flags are burnt by Indian activists in protest.

Pakistan claims the missiles fell harmlessly on to a hillside and caused little damage, a claim seemingly supported by eyewitness accounts from the region and independent analysts who have examined satellite imagery. But the Indian military has been adamant that its “strategic objectives” were met.

Analysts suggest that regardless of what was, or what was not, hit in the attack it is India’s use of air power and the demonstration of its willingness to strike Pakistan’s territory that is more significant. Both are escalatory red lines that New Delhi was previously thought unlikely to cross.

“This was a change from the normal patterns of security competition, with deliberate pre-mediation to signal to Pakistan that India is willing to take the risks of escalation if necessary, and that attacks in India will not be cost-free,” says Mr Tellis.

But Pakistan has also displayed its own willingness to take risks, even through conventional military engagement, where it was considered to be at a disadvantage. “If you are a big power out to teach a lesson to an upstart, and it’s a draw — especially a messy draw of this kind, then the upstart has won,” says Ajai Shukla, a retired Indian army colonel. “We’ve actually achieved the near impossible feat of making Pakistan look statesmanlike. Imran Khan comes out smelling of roses.”

Ahmed Rashid, author of several books on Pakistan and South Asia, says he believes Mr Khan is genuinely keen to improve relations with India and is “sympathetic” to the need to crack down on extremists. “These small groups of extremists almost led us to war,” he says. “Obviously they are out of control and it’s an issue that Pakistan can’t ignore any longer.”

But he says Mr Modi’s “unflinchingly hard line” and refusal to engage with Mr Khan will make progress difficult. “There is now room for a change of policy here, but it has to be reciprocated, and I don’t see that,” says Mr Rashid.

Indians and many observers are sceptical of the chances of a genuine crackdown. “I do think the Pakistanis will be more careful about where their terrorism infrastructure is located to make sure it's not within striking distance,” says Mr Raghavan. “But to get Pakistan to totally change its game will be a long-term play.”

Still, Vipin Narang at Massachusetts Institute of Technology says India has created “uncertainty and ambiguity” about whether “all of Pakistan” is a target after future attacks. “If you’re Pakistan and you don’t know how India is going to act after the next provocation, you may rein in your provocateurs.”

https://www.ft.com/content/3705ee32-3c17-11e9-b856-5404d3811663

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d6rB says

We had a similar case back in Soviet Union at a school where I was studying in 1980's. Kid got yelled at by a local Communist functionary, his parents were called (and they probably spanked the kid at home), and it ended right there...seems like a correct punishment for a 12-yr old idiot

Exactly. Should be the same here. Would have been back when I attended school also.

Hugolas_Madurez says

What a pile of horseshit.

Yes, a troll. But @Patrick won't let me ban his ass from this thread. I am thinking of simply replacing all the text in my post with TROLL WON, THIS IS FUCKED UP! to make a point. It certainly proves my original contention that it isn't worth my time bother posting anything if trolls can just shit all over it.

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OccasionalCortex - I am thinking of simply replacing all the text in my post with TROLL WON, THIS IS FUCKED UP


Go for it !

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OccasionalCortex - It certainly proves my original contention that it isn't worth my time bother posting anything if trolls can just shit all over it


Now we have something in common.

Perhaps a chat with the fellow Trump supporters is in order - maybe if they stopped, others would stop

Never did hear a complaint though when it is someone else's thread - why is that ?

As it stands now looks like Indos got their clock cleaned by Pakis.