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Robots Step Into New Planting, Harvesting Roles
Wall Street Journal ^
| April 23, 2015
| ILAN BRAT
Posted on 04/24/2015 7:28:14 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: dfwgator
Eventually robots will service other robots.
In the Future.
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posted on
04/24/2015 11:12:03 AM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: River Hawk
Obama and Clinton want illegals here to vote white liberal elites into office. To prop them up - to be the ‘new blacks’...
One more reason to fight for our country by stopping illegals...
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posted on
04/24/2015 11:12:34 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dead Broke Hillary Dodged Sniper Fire With Her Immigrant Parents In Tuzla - Steyn)
To: JoeFromSidney
Thanks for adding your information to the story. FWIW, in a previous life, I toured a business in California's Central Valley which made these machines. This would've been in the summer of 1980.
What I remember most is that a lot of the assembly was being done outdoors from part racks on wheels while the plant was being expanded. I was so naive then that I had no idea then that tomatoes were even being harvested mechanically, much less that the machines could be assembled outdoors with a few part bins on wheels and guys with simple hand tools.
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posted on
04/24/2015 11:13:06 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Rodamala
You have an important point... one the future will have to deal with..
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posted on
04/24/2015 11:14:23 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dead Broke Hillary Dodged Sniper Fire With Her Immigrant Parents In Tuzla - Steyn)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Maybe we could stand to have a cross every place someone accidentally died in a hospital. Theyd serve as warnings. You're on fire today HiTech... YOU are so right on the above...
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posted on
04/24/2015 11:17:36 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dead Broke Hillary Dodged Sniper Fire With Her Immigrant Parents In Tuzla - Steyn)
To: Oatka
So . . . he went to Mexico, but couldnt make a sale down there either. One factory owner was pretty candid and showed him why. He was led into a large two-story warehouse that was filled with tables each holding about a dozen people, working like fury cutting out the strawberry stems. There was a catwalk on the second level where a guy with a bullhorn was walking around and blasting some table that didnt look like they were working fast enough. The owner pointed to those people and said that it would cost him more to wash down the guys machine at days end than it cost to pay all those people. The guy said there were too many there, even at slave wages, to work cheaper than his machine.
I can top that... many years ago an American company went to China - the company rep saw women - on their hands and knees - cutting the plant grass with scissors. The man in charge explained that it was cheaper to hire women to cut the grass by hand than to buy gasoline for the mower the company had supplied. The company rep told them to use the mower even if it cost more...
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posted on
04/24/2015 11:25:46 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dead Broke Hillary Dodged Sniper Fire With Her Immigrant Parents In Tuzla - Steyn)
To: GOPJ
You have an important point... one the future will have to deal with..Honestly, I believe we are dealing with that future right now.
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posted on
04/24/2015 12:17:14 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: dfwgator
Eventually robots will service other robots. Yes, and eventually robots will create other robots. And at that point we'd better have lots of safeguards in place....
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posted on
04/24/2015 12:19:22 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dead Broke Hillary Dodged Sniper Fire With Her Immigrant Parents In Tuzla - Steyn)
To: Mastador1
Well I certainly hope I didn’t cause a hernia for pointing that out.
Get better soon!
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posted on
04/24/2015 12:36:01 PM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
To: cripplecreek
I guess it’s a “sign” when you are on here enough that you notice people’s apparent absence. Heh.
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posted on
04/24/2015 5:17:43 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
04/25/2015 12:43:57 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
To: uglybiker
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posted on
04/25/2015 12:45:17 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Clearly Cruz 2016)
To: Rodamala
Progress you say? From my perspective, automation may increase the "quality of life" for many, but removing human beings from direct production increases the speed of moral decay, and decreases the capacity for applying practical knowledge (common sense) within society. That's the Amish view, and they have a point. Avoidance of technology by whole communities is going to become more common.
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posted on
04/25/2015 3:42:45 PM PDT
by
Reeses
(A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
To: The_Reader_David
We on the right had better figure out how to manage the transition to a society in which there are very few jobs and great abundance, because the left already has an idea, and it looks an awful lot like the worst aspects of Brave New World, 1984, and The Hunger Games all rolled into one. Been working on at least part of that answer for about three years, but it is both physically risky and difficult and intellectually and perceptively demanding work. It will be in my next book.
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:42:17 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by government regulation.)
To: Rodamala; cripplecreek; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Larry Lucido; ...
Re:
Robots Step Into New Planting, Harvesting Roles Gadzooks! Doing my best by checking out their impliments: picks, shovels, rakes... and hoes--
So, I decided to supply... my own!
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posted on
04/26/2015 3:37:12 AM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Bender2
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posted on
04/26/2015 5:39:59 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: HiTech RedNeck
Someone has to engineer, build, operate, and service the robots. For a while anyway. A generation or so.
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posted on
04/26/2015 5:47:46 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Borges; Cringing Negativism Network
The money sentence...... “Horses are unemployed because horses are unemployable”
This video illustrates a significant reason for joblessness. many have become simply unemployable. Like horses, their skills and abilities are simply no longer required.
Asking “Where have all the jobs gone” is Asking “Where have all the horses gone”
So, it is worth reposting the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Now it on to ebay to find Lego robotics stuff for my grand son
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posted on
04/26/2015 6:08:24 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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