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Stuart Sweet
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I think at one point or another we have all worried about losing our jobs to machines. After all, in our grandparents' day most factories were full of people. Modern factories have traded people for industrial robots. Still as capable as those robots are, they can't take the place of most forms of labor. Maybe someday, but not today.

In order to illustrate my point, I have shamelessly stolen this article from Gizmodo. It's been around a few years but it's still pretty much on point. Go check out the original if you want, or follow some of the links in this list, but basically you won't get far. This is a list of 99 jobs that we have been told at one point or another would be obsolete. After all, the robots would come in and take our jobs and do it all, leaving us in a state of economic freefall and total dependence. Of course at that point the robots would rise up and enslave us. Luckily it seems like that's a little while away.

  1. Robots were supposed to replace school teachers.
  2. Robots were supposed to be professional boxers.
  3. Robots were supposed to pay taxes.
  4. Robots were supposed to write screenplays.
  5. Robots were supposed to shoot us with our own guns.
  6. Robots were supposed to commit suicide.
  7. Robots were supposed to cause humans to commit suicide.
  8. Robots were supposed to make war obsolete by fighting our battles for us without any human casualties.
  9. Robots were supposed to travel around restaurants to collect the bill.
  10. Robots were supposed to replace our pet dogs.
  11. Robots were supposed to follow the milkman everywhere.
  12. Robots were supposed to have machine guns for heads.
  13. Robots were supposed to be your friends forever.
  14. Robots were supposed to tend crops on the sea cities of the future.
  15. Robots were supposed to help us remove our coats.
  16. Robots were supposed to have sex with "romantic old maids."
  17. Robots were supposed to be movie theater ushers.
  18. Robots were supposed to create a 20-hour work week.
  19. Robots were supposed to look like Cary Grant and be great in bed.
  20. Robots were supposed to eat dead people on the battlefield.
  21. Robots were supposed to scrub all our pots and pans.
  22. Robots were supposed to help men shave in the morning.
  23. Robots were supposed to greet us in department stores.
  24. Robots were supposed to go to the supermarket for us.
  25. Robots were supposed to cook and serve your breakfast.
  26. Robots were supposed to terrorize musicians.
  27. Robots were supposed to bathe our kids.
  28. Robots were supposed to farm the devastated earth after a nuclear apocalypse.
  29. Robots were supposed to cut our hair.
  30. Robots were supposed to become police officers.
  31. Robots were supposed to automate all of our fast food restaurants.
  32. Robots were supposed to save people after earthquakes.
  33. Robots were supposed to have dapper mustaches.
  34. Robots were supposed to be our guard dogs.
  35. Robots were supposed to drive our cars.
  36. Robots were supposed to drive our boats.
  37. Robots were supposed to operate our trains.
  38. Robots were supposed to play on the beach.
  39. Robots were supposed to deliver our jumpsuits.
  40. Robots were supposed to give Nazi salutes.
  41. Robots were supposed to compete in the Olympics.
  42. Robots were supposed to replace all human jockeys.
  43. Robots were supposed to help fly fighter jets like R2-D2.
  44. Robots were supposed to be better at sex than humans.
  45. Robots were supposed to help us explore distant planets.
  46. Robots were supposed to answer the phone.
  47. Robots were supposed to pick oranges.
  48. Robots were supposed to sell us kitchen knives.
  49. Robots were supposed to clear the table.
  50. Robots were supposed to become door-to-door salespeople.
  51. Robots were supposed to terrorize the countryside with chemical weapons.
  52. Robots were supposed to help us pick out our fruit at warehouses.
  53. Robots were supposed to play cards with us.
  54. Robots were supposed to all talk to each other Skynet-style.
  55. Robots were supposed to have boyfriends.
  56. Robots were supposed to serve us Italian food in Tokyo.
  57. Robots were supposed to serve us Chinese food in California.
  58. Robots were supposed to decorate our Christmas trees.
  59. Robots were supposed to replace Santa's reindeer.
  60. Robots were supposed to play William Tell.
  61. Robots were supposed to sing songs about computers.
  62. Robots were supposed to ride around on roller skates.
  63. Robots were supposed to hunt down humans for being inferior.
  64. Robots were supposed to carry our drinks.
  65. Robots were supposed to replace the American housewife.
  66. Robots were supposed to direct an orchestra.
  67. Robots were supposed to be in every American home.
  68. Robots were supposed to enslave humanity.
  69. Robots were supposed to adjust our "screenwalls."
  70. Robots were supposed to be our personal shoppers.
  71. Robots were supposed to smoke cigarettes.
  72. Robots were supposed to populate our theme parks.
  73. Robots were supposed to become "Supermen" and replace humanity.
  74. Robots were supposed to help kids with their homework.
  75. Robots were supposed to help us escape the ruined city we once called home.
  76. Robots were supposed to drive buses.
  77. Robots were supposed to perform in dancing chorus lines.
  78. Robots were supposed to punch us in the face.
  79. Robots were supposed to become implanted in our pets.
  80. Robots were supposed to load artillery shells.
  81. Robots were supposed to be kings by the year 2000.
  82. Robots were supposed to take a lot of abuse without crying.
  83. Robots were supposed to have little baby robots.
  84. Robots were supposed to walk around as paint mixers.
  85. Robots were supposed to toil in our fields.
  86. Robots were supposed to serve tea.
  87. Robots were supposed to squeeze our orange juice for us.
  88. Robots were supposed to tell jokes.
  89. Robots were supposed to be talking with Walt Disney's frozen head.
  90. Robots were supposed to drive around our living rooms on three wheels.
  91. Robots were supposed to become "household slaves."
  92. Robots were supposed to run our warehouses.
  93. Robots were supposed to fly.
  94. Robots were supposed to put everyone out of work.
  95. Robots were supposed to be everywhere on the highway.
  96. Robots were supposed to prepare meals to our exact specifications.
  97. Robots were supposed to mow our lawns.
  98. Robots were supposed to pull off their heads and become the sickest drum set you've ever seen.
  99. And by 2076, robots were supposed to run for president.

And, although I think the article fairly covered things, I'll add more: Robots were supposed to steal our pills. What do I mean? This is one of my favorite SNL sketches, and it doesn't get nearly the credit it deserves. Not only is it absolutely a perfect recreation of those predatory insurance commercials (which we still have) but the acting from the seniors is much higher quality than it needs to be. Take a look for yourself.


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harshness
The only concern about robots paying any taxes or fees was that they paid their union dues. In Japan, robots are required to pay union dues.

Paying taxes doesn't make sense as they don't use any of the infrastructure or government services/programs that humans do.
dfergie
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Last reply · posted in What's Cooking?
We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Garlic cheese bread
Green beans
Apples
Chocolate Milk
Some weird noodles. ;)
(They have salad and a couple other fruits if wanted)
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Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Leftover wanton soup and pork fried rice. Water.
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Scott Greczkowski
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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I Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith
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98.6 - Keith
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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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arlo
A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
dishstaller
That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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b4pjoe
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
harshness
If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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dishstaller
Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.
dishstaller
Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.