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Those existed well into the 60s too.
Probably just before my time. I remembered my Grandmother talking about them in Philadelphia in the early 1940's.
Won't kill me but it goes through me like grass through a goose. If I go to town and need to eat on the run I'll go to Subway or Quizno's but those grease-burgers and fries, well, they may not feed me but they sure clean out my system. One a year, just for a reminder...
Archery season opened here on the first, rifles on the 10th. We're so over-run with deer you can take three, two does. No wild hogs, though.
I remember actually eating in one with my dad in Manhattan when I was a young child in the 60's
Look at it this way: there will still be people in the back preparing the food, cleaning, etc. They can move up into a maintenance type role like they can move into manager. And then perhaps pursue more in the technology skills.
I've read that this is a way of weaning customers off of personal checkers. I think, from what I read, that it's working. Maybe the chains have been told this is the right number now, per their customer base, by marketing research firms?
It's changing every year so I see it as silly to make the claim you did like it's set in stone. It's like people that said the car would never replace horse-drawn carriages. New technology takes time to be widely adopted.
self checkouts have been around for a while and they have plenty of disadvantages such as not being able to stop theft that they will have make major jumps in technology before you will see more than just a few at your local store
self checkouts have been around for a while and they have plenty of disadvantages such as not being able to stop theft that they will have make major jumps in technology before you will see more than just a few at your local store
Still not really making your point. Doesnt really change anything.
The deer will be easy. I live in the woods up near the top of a ridge and they walk thru the yard twice a day. Just need to be waiting for them. The hogs will be fun this year, we are scouting a new area that should allow us to shoot from an elevated position and some pretty good distance.
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are you looking at the same graph I am?
It shows senior poverty dropping by more than 2/3 and child poverty dropping approx 20%
It also shows child poverty increasing the most when Reagan and bush* were President
My initial statement was regarding the last 40 years.
IOW, you're cherry picking
Sure it does there are things a cashier can do more efficiently than a machine and that's why there are more cashiers than machines it's that simple
Nope. I was pointing out that escalating costs of the war on poverty over the last 40 years have yielded no results. That isn't cherry picking.
No, you picked the point where child poverty hit its' lowest point, the ams War on Poverty was the 60's (not the 70's) and you ignore that some programs have been cut (or even eliminated) and the effects that has had since that time
Removing the decade in which poverty programs had their greatest effect on poverty is a dishonest way to argue that poverty programs have had no effect on poverty
It's a simple concept really, Sangha, I was arguing that the spending increases of the last 40 years haven't budged the poverty rate. This isn't cherry picking, it is a simple fact, like saying that the planet has warmed 0.8C in the last 110 years when 110 years ago was a low point in global climate. That isn't cherry picking either, just stating a fact.
Your guess avoids logic and real world developments of the last 50 years. I don't "like" mine, it's just what is going to happen.
It appears the answer is yes in some cases. They don't seem to be helping. That isn't saying that there aren't the possibility of better programs that the money would be better spent on, however, just that the programs of the last 40 years have been abysmally inept.
Mandatory spending between 1993 and 2013 outpaced inflation by more than a factor of three (Inflation was 61%, Mandatory spending rose 200%), and poverty rates didn't change. Surely you don't see this as a success?
Yes they are, because when we are discussing JOBS you try to change the subject to a subject that is pretty much the OPPOSITE of jobs.
Me: "Unskilled workers jobs are threatened by innovation, Does the government owe them anything?"
You: "BLAAARG!! YOU WANT KILL WELFARE AND CHILDREN!!!"
Yes, you intentionally inferred a comment about welfare from a comment I said that had nothing to do with welfare. It isn't a matter of "parsing for weasel words", it's a matter of you learning how to read in general without dumping a truck load of your own garbage on what the other person wrote.
When have we actually had a situation that matches this free trade and modernization? Jobs are going off shore because it is cheaper, companies are leaving because taxes are lower. You and every other nanny-state promoter ignore the simple fact that it is DEMOCRAT policies that are driving jobs over seas and driving companies to countries with lower taxes.
You also ignore the reason why so many jobs ended up going to China, and the US lost it's edge over Japan in the automotive and technology markets: US Protectionism created s**ty products in the 70s and 80s.
And the manufacturing jobs lost over seas were replaced with a booming services market in IT and contruction. Your way of processing information seems to rely heavily on zero sum logic... sprinkled with a healthy dose of the bigotry of low expectations for low income workers.
Note that the only decline in the poverty rate in that 40 year span has been in the retirement population, poverty in working age families has increased, and in the end it is a wash with no net change in the national poverty rate.
Couple days ago I left the garden gate open and a doe and last years fawn went in and wiped out our tomatoes. I don't have a tag and I'm too close to the road so had to chase them out and the young one got messed up in the wire mesh and I had to carry her out.
Picked a tick off my neck at the hair line later, and I've been reading up on Lyme disease ever since!
Never hunted hogs. Do you bait them?
That's what I do - I just don't ground the steak. I actually cut up a nice skirt steak and mix it with my ground beef... It makes for a really tasty burger. I also throw bread crumbs and Worcestershire sauce into the ground beef and steak mix - make my patty's and throw them on the grill. Everyone loves them because they're "chewy" because of the steak, so it's like getting the best of both worlds - a burger and a steak. haha
What is wrong with you? A burger is good but steak is steak. I'm almost certain it is a felony in Texas to turn a perfectly good steak into a burger.
'If you’ve ever felt guilty ordering at McDonald’s, the fast-food mega-chain has just the fix: You can now order your own quarter-pound bacon cheeseburger from a welcoming, non-judging machine.
Battling the worst sales slump in a decade and competition from build-your-own upstarts like Chipotle and Smashburger, McDonald’s is expanding a test concept built around ordering via tablet. Just tap on a screen and watch as your burger’s toppings (and calories) pile on, then wait for an employee to bring it over. No human interaction necessary.
McDonald’s move towards dehumanization, launched as a pilot last winter and expanded across San Diego last week, is part of a larger trend of chain eateries turning tablets into your full-time restaurant buddy: equal parts menu, server and paycheck. Applebee’s, Panera Bread and even airport bars have installed tablets to allow diners to order food or booze without a wait.'
McDonald’s fresh hope to turn around slumping sales: Ordering burgers from a machine - The Washington Post
This is what happens when - among other reasons - you start demanding higher pay then your position is worth (like fast food workers demanding $15/hr.).
If these fast food workers force Congress to adopt a $15/hr. minimum wage? I guarantee you that the above will be the result...automation and mass layoffs.
It ain't rocket science people - you are VERY replaceable.
From a business standpoint this is a ridiculous move.
The reason McDonalds's sales are slumping is because they have an inferior product as compared to their competition. 5 Guys, In 'n' Out, and others offer a better burger at more or less the same price.
And if they have fewer of them, they'll be able to pay them more and not effect their bottom line. Really, this is a harbinger of things to come that aren't going to be pleasant for the uneducated and poorly educated among us. There was a time when a strong willing body was enough. We're fast approaching a time when that's not going to be nearly enough.
'If you’ve ever felt guilty ordering at McDonald’s, the fast-food mega-chain has just the fix: You can now order your own quarter-pound bacon cheeseburger from a welcoming, non-judging machine.
Battling the worst sales slump in a decade and competition from build-your-own upstarts like Chipotle and Smashburger, McDonald’s is expanding a test concept built around ordering via tablet. Just tap on a screen and watch as your burger’s toppings (and calories) pile on, then wait for an employee to bring it over. No human interaction necessary.
McDonald’s move towards dehumanization, launched as a pilot last winter and expanded across San Diego last week, is part of a larger trend of chain eateries turning tablets into your full-time restaurant buddy: equal parts menu, server and paycheck. Applebee’s, Panera Bread and even airport bars have installed tablets to allow diners to order food or booze without a wait.'
McDonald’s fresh hope to turn around slumping sales: Ordering burgers from a machine - The Washington Post
This is what happens when - among other reasons - you start demanding higher pay then your position is worth (like fast food workers demanding $15/hr.).
If these fast food workers force Congress to adopt a $15/hr. minimum wage? I guarantee you that the above will be the result...automation and mass layoffs.
It ain't rocket science people - you are VERY replaceable.
My guess really doesn't. If the cost is equal, and you say it's getting there, then there exists a ton of incentives to avoid the incredible, daily hassle of dealing with low skilled employees, taxes, unemployment, calling in sick, failing to show, etc. I don't think the cost difference is the barrier - it's whether the machines can do the job as well as humans and whether people accept them. There are self checkout places in stores with wages FAR above minimum wage. If McD finds that people accept robots or automated kiosks, they'll replace workers whether they're paid $8 an hour or $15. As someone pointed out, in Europe they're getting $15. Why haven't they all been replaced by machines? At any rate, it's an objective question and you've cited no data or evidence, same as me.
Can you cite any study, treatise, discussion, or are we just supposed to take your word for it?
That's mostly Medicare and SS, and the poverty rates of old people DID change. Look at the graph.
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