No more Pontiac. :(

[supmet]

Sorry guys. I've said it before and I'll say it again. When I was 16 or 17, I called the housing collapse, and the collapse of hummer, followed shortly by GM. If you couldn't see it, you were greedy or retarded. I'm really, really tired of "feeling sorry" for a bunch of people that ruined a perfectly good country with their own ignorance. Everyone after vietnam has had the world handed to them on a silver platter and now they are learning how much work it actually takes to survive.

This is just the first of many millions of lay offs. You think its bad now? A computer could already make you your big mac(and actually get your order right more than 60% of the time), McDonald's is just waiting for the right time to replace everyone. People aren't quite ready to accept a world run completely by robots. I already have computers checking me out at the albertsons down the street(and to think the checkers and baggers had the nerve to strike a few years back). 90% of packaging, shipping, manufacturing, and assembly jobs will be gone in the next decade or two.

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Okay Karl Marx. :p

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by supmet

This is just the first of many millions of lay offs. You think its bad now? A computer could already make you your big mac(and actually get your order right more than 60% of the time), McDonald's is just waiting for the right time to replace everyone. People aren't quite ready to accept a world run completely by robots. I already have computers checking me out at the albertsons down the street(and to think the checkers and baggers had the nerve to strike a few years back). 90% of packaging, shipping, manufacturing, and assembly jobs will be gone in the next decade or two.

I dunno.... not being a pain or anything but automating a task is still NOT quite that easy. I started in a product line with PLC - programmable logic controllers - and they're not that incredible.

McDonald's already has a lot of "automatic" cookers, especially in the grill area. Still cheaper to have people put the burgers together, for now any how.

Someday, sure.... I automated two thirds of my first job out of college, replacing data entry with a file transfer utility. Pretty easy there, but making a robot do something that requires fine motor control - and doing it cheaply enough to replace a minimum wage worker - that's not so easy.

Gene