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I only knew about Great Falls. Thanks.

Looks like it's machining plastic

Filled up at 2.47. Suburban liked it

you have a good memory! Merry Christmas

I like how they started modding one thing, and ended up redoing the whole car. LOL

Don't drive like my brother

LOL. Storker Electrics will bring hotrodding back - I hope

It's been so long, I can't even find that pic. It's around here somewhere. And yes, I'm lucky to not be permanently disabled. :lol:

ouch. On the air hose to face! I have a similar looking cut on my index finger as the original poster. Mine is above the nail though. Happened 25 years ago. Still a minor scar to remind me.

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on the campus of George Mason University... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2GSHG7IO-8

people only get alienated when name calling begins. the jobless recovery mentioned in one of the articles - it's not really a recovery. It's marketed as a recovery, but it's really a market reaction to over supply of money by the fed. I think the lack of jobs recovery is as much caused by government policies that are unfriendly to employment growth, as the blame technology gets. There are all kinds of disincentive for businesses to cross various employee count thresholds. So that drives businesses to find creative ways to not hire. One of the articles points out growth in low paying jobs growing and mid pay jobs not. Wait till the $15 minimum wage is put in place. All of a sudden technology will be blamed for displacing even more minimum wage jobs.

I agree time will tell. I just don't see it that way. It seems to me that the more we innovate, the more we will create new problems that must be overcome. And don't get me wrong, I long for just cutting loose from the rat race and living in the mountains. "evidence does show the net loss of middle income jobs"

Despite what the video shows, evidence right before our eyes shows that advancement in technology has not resulted in net loss of jobs or shortage of things to do. It is exactly the same as the last generation of changes and the one before that. We will be replacing one set of problems with another. The typewriter repair man will have to find something else to do - through no fault of his own, and there will be someone starting a business replacing cracked iPhone screens. If we happen to perfect the art of making self replicating machines, that market will be insanely competitive. It will drive the need for technical innovations in energy storage and many other fields that will be huge job generators. There will be whole new companies who will join the "have's". The gap between the haves and the have nots - is it bigger today because the have nots have a lower standard of living than 200 years ago? 500 years ago? There are countries in the world where the gap isn't so great. Are our have nots willing to move to other countries so they'll be closer to the haves? I'm betting not. The focus should be on growing the pie, not debating about how to split it.

more importantly, don't put policies in place that makes it very very difficult to be that guy.

Well, what would you do if you were out of a job and couldn't land somewhere doing what you're comfortable with? You'd adapt, right? Learn something new, take a pay cut, do something else and climb again. This is not a hypothetical for me - i've lived it twice. I don't believe I'm any better than anyone else. It is not my job to solve other people's problem, with the exception of the disabled, elderly - people who are truly unable to take care of themselves. It is perfectly natural for someone who used to be successful at making a living in a certain field to be out of work due to innovation or market forces - no fault of their own. The more society is expected to protect their job, the worse off we all are. Same goes for minimum wage. The idea of minimum wage jobs becoming a career is ridiculous. Those are supposed to be undesirable jobs to people with work experience. Starter jobs. Anytime you find yourself needing to "protect" a job sector, by definition you're doing something that you're not very efficient at (some other country or technology is doing it better). Everyone is better off by not protecting their uncompetitive sectors. It's simple logic. There is only one "fix" . remove barriers to market force and let the market sort it out. Fiddling with the market does not solve any problem. It just shifts problems from one part of the economy to another, and in the process creates a bigger central authority - one that can be bought, lobbied, etc... The example is right in front of us now.

Unlike the horse, humans will adapt and invent. Except those looking for a "living wage" working a minimum wage job for a career. What is the alternative?

um, you just described most of human history. "minimum level of services" - who determines this? what do you do with people who just take it and contribute nothing? I have not seen a cap on wealth creation either, unless you call 75% - 100% tax rate a "cap" (see France). As for ISIS - the problem is chaos on the ground, and lack of clarity from people who can stop them. Again, this is true for most human history, whether it's country, group or individual behavior (think of how you personally treat filing your income tax, vs paying sales tax on internet purchases - both are required by law, one comes with a big stick). Just like Hamas and Israel, when one group has the stated goal of wanting to completely destroy a whole people, that's the end of negotiation. You don't go to war on a whim, but when you go in, you have to go to totally dominate until the enemy is COMPLETELY defeated. We are not willing to fight that war - therefore groups like ISIS, Taliban, [fill in the blank] exist and continue to morph. ISIS will only respond to getting its butt kicked - that is what they understand. They have a goal and they're willing to do anything to achieve it. Anything. They're a small army with no navy, no air force, no capability to make weapons, and they're killing innocent people while our leaders are busy playing golf without a plan. Nations in the middle east are not ready for democracy. The institutions and way of thinking required by the common man for a civil society to thrive do not exist there. It's not a coincidence that it doesn't work.

oh, they're around... http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/exclusive-american-extremist-reveals-his-quest-join-isis-n194796 interestingly I was talking to a French cop who works just outside Paris. In her opinion, the real extremists are actually French born (to immigrant families), not those who actually migrated themselves.

have fun, keep the shiny side up

not much surprises me anymore :nonod:

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send me a PM, I'll call him and give him your number. Thanks.