Posts by CowHorseFrog

Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year

Almost sounds like Tesla did a Jaguar, and Musk shoudl ask do Tesla still make cars ?

Re: "tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring"

Mach you just confirmed what i said, with your comment highlighting Monsanto. Farmers produce the goods we eat, and as you guess, large funds are going to Big Farmer filled with suits in a big office who think they deserve it all.

Re: "tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring"

Australia is a free country - not every grape farmer grows for the wine industry. They are free to sell to whomever they like.

Re: "tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring"

There are very large teams of council office staff who exist to perform tasks for the benefit of the local rate payers.

How can they help local rate payers if they dont actually interact, learn, listen and help those rate payers ? If you want to help someone theres a good chance you must leave the office. In the end someone has to visit the street, home or other site to see and identify if a problem exists.

dave: Similarly, phone up your council's housing number with a legitimate question about social housing and you'll get help.

cow:

Local councils in Australia do not help with local housing or similar social work. That type of thing belongs to a different department who function at the federal level.

I stated in a previous post local councils do work like picking up trash and taking care of parks and accepting payments for land rates. They off course process building requests for changes and new developments. Thats literally ALL their work.

Why does a local council need a hundred or more office staff to perform that work ? The garbo who picks the rurbbish and the council workers who cut the grass are not assisted by the office workers at all. THose office workers are not mechanically minded, they dont fix those big machines.

THis example of office workers matches what we see on a national level. Almost nothing (ignoring food) we buy is made in Australia, the vast majority comes from overseas. THe same is true of the UK. Most cars are from OS, clothes, electronics, etc.

Re: process their pay

You are another example of the lazy office worker at a computer.

I didnt insult anyone, i gave an observation and my opinion.

You however are too lazy to even quote what i said to share some context.

Re: "tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring"

How about you actually back your statements anon, instead of being yet another example of a lazy shit who cant be bothered to write a complete sentence and counter what i say.

Re: "tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring"

Dave: As your your comment of e-mailing random government/council bodies with random questions, did it ever occur to you that those people may in fact be busy doing their JOBS and hence may not have the free time to just sit there and reply to every inane query that you send through?

cow:

Do you know how the police/ambos/firies find out people need help ?

From their phone line.

Im simply talking about other orgs, the only difference is those orgs also have public emails or forms.

So you think the fire/ambo/police would be better able to do their work by ignoring 000 or 999 ?

What a fucking idiot.

Re: process their pay

Thank you downvoters, youa re exactly the bludgers i am talking about. You can only downvote and cant take a few moments to write a critique of my statements.

Just like your office worker brethren who cant be bothered to help the public and just hang the phone or ghost .

Re: Now you tell us what you've done.

Woolies sold me grapes or $16kg just the other day. Whether its $16 or $5ish the later is still 20x what the farmer is making.

20 DUCKING TIMES.

The farmers are not covering their costs at 20c they need 40c and thats why they are going broke.

This is insane, theres a 20x markup and the farmers who provide the product cant even break even.

Re: process their pay

cow: That's how the farmer gets $0.20 for a kilo of grapes and the consumer pays $16.00 for a kilo of grapes."

doctor: I doubt most of the difference goes in paying those whose jobs involve just coming into the office as you seem to think. I'd guess most of the mark-up is the supermarket's although it will cost money to transport them (probably refrigerated).

Cow:

Theres are a few problems. OIL is on the low side, even when compared to 10 years ago, so there are no new oil costs. Wages are stagnant and havent really moved in years. Food is constantly increasing all the time. Grapes are almost double they were just a year or two ago.

So what changed ?

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doctor: However, as to AUTOMATING (your shout) office jobs, most weekend papers have a column dedicated to customers and taxpayers who got screwed by banks, finance companies, travel companies, property companies, government departments etc and cannot get hold of anyone to sort things out until a journalist rings the press office. That's auomation at work.

cow:

You ddidnt actually answer my question where is the money going ?

Everything is going up - because our society is plagued with unproductive people who add no value and add only cost.

There is no manufcaturing in Australia, there are of course real workers like the blue collar types who fight fires, fix plumbing and all that. But as the years ago by the number of ofice workers goes up.

BUT a lot of Australians have jobs in offices, and this burden is forcing the prices of everything up. More office workers does not make food cheaper. It doesnt make clothes cheaper.

Maybe 30 years ago we had one GAS company and one electricity company both run by the government and prices were cheaper. Today gas and electricity is going up at least 10% each year. What we do have is dozens of companies, with dozens of offices and all that staff. Before it was one HQ and now its dozens. Thats not free, those buildings cost a lot of money, all those managements want bonuses. The cost of coal hasnt changed that much, same for coal.

Pretty obvious wher ethe cost sorry tax on people is coming from. Those bums on seats cost money and they add no value. THey were not neeced 30 years ago and they certainly are not now.

Re: process their pay

I have news for you.

Council office workers are not specialised. Councils do not have bomb fragment or similar investigations.

What makes you think EVERY council has such a unit ? A country like AU has thousands of councils, there is no need for a bomb investigation unit for EACH ONE.

Re: process their pay

Your first paragraph is true, but theres only one problem, all these processes are computerised and not manual. Sure there are teams of programmers and the related team members. However governments and teams will readily admit that while they have a lot of software teams, most of their office workers are not in anyway close to the software side of things.

As i state most people today dont actually do anything of value. THey ATTEND their work places, and they are all waiting for time to pass and go home. They dont actitvely try and help people.

Most people here who have answered to me, are examples of this, they cant actually say what these people or themselves do, instead they insult me, and that tells.

Re: "tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring"

Rikki: Typical "public servants do nothing" attitude. I have worked in a territory/local government, and I can assure you that most people work hard. Yes, there are some slackers and some (mainly at middle management level) who may not be optimally productive, but these are very much a minority.

cow: Yes the public servants OUTSIDE work hard most of the office workers do NOTHING.

Goto any job board, and randomly pick a 3 advertisements with contact emails. Write them a simple question and whats the bet NONE reply. Repeat the challenge but this time try emailing random government or council body with a random question.

Re: "tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring"

THe sad thing is most humans do less than that, they literally do nothing.

GO visit any office for example, half the staff could be at home completely disconnected and nobpody would notice and nothing would change.

My local council has a multi story building with hundreds of staff and yet the only people actually doing real work that we can see are the garbos who pick up the garbage, and gardeners. Thats barely 10- 20 people and yet there are over a 100 in the office doing i have no idea.

I saw another video on YT about grape growers in South Australia, who are struggling to sell their grapes for $200 a tonne, thats 20c a kilo, and yet my local Woolies sells grapes for $16 a kg.

Where is all the money going ?

Bums who do nothing.

Unfortunately we have an over supply.

Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work

Im confused with all this AI power, why doesnt Google just recreate every popular game with a homage or v2.0 and kill Steam ?

Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out

The way AI and big tech is going there will be no more customers to buy any of their services with or without AI.

Phones down, brooms up: HashiCorp co-founder lectures business hopefuls

Most technology or any other field success is due to luck.

We are lucky to be born, our location is also luck. There are many hard working smart people in Africa for example they are just unlucky to be born in Africa.

WIth recent Epstein file names and stories again we see that many of these people are there for many reasons but brains isnt one of them, the most probably answer is luck.

Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it

Re: You don't need "containerization"

The real problem is log4j made that feature enabled by default and all the idiots down the road let it be.

Making everything enabled by default is completely the opposite of what should be safe, but it happens. Log4jShell thing happened because of this.

If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this

Re: Amazon are absolute bastards - I would never work for them

But but isnt Amazon a part of your family ?

Re: Universal Basic Income

Precisely, this is a major component why the price of ev erything is going up. THe system is overloaded with people who contribute far less than the cost their position adds to the system.

In the end this cost makes their own and other parts of the system expensive. When you add up all that burden onto the system everything costs a lot more. THis is why food and housing as examples is becoming very expensive for nearly if not all western countries.

Re: Actually, it is their fault

AI is a failure.

Take a look at Apple, their homekit is a joke, it gets the most basic of requests wrong. It is often broken, it cant handle two spoken requests without a big break between. YT and google is no different. I get adds for farming equipment and for all sorts of sprays. Google knows my IP and therefore my locataion, its pretty obvious I am not a massive farm who needs all that stu and sprays. Dont get me started on its suggestions for videos in other languaes with subtitles in other languages we clearly do not know here. No family understands 10+ random languages every few days.

Re: Universal Basic Income

doublelayer Just because you don't know what someone is doing isn't sufficient evidence that they're doing nothing.

cow:

I shared the example of the local council in my area.

What are those 100s of staff in the building doing ?

If the council workers are not outside in the neighbour doing manual work as i shared previously.

WHy does a council with under 10000 residents need a building with a few hundred council office workers ?

What could they possibly be doing ?

Paying council rates is pretty basic, they have systems for that, they dont need 100s of staff for that.

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double:

As for what the people in the Commonwealth Bank buildings are doing, I can explain that. They are trying to take money and turn it into other money, even though none of it might be yours.

Cow:

Wow like all arse hates you have to make a stupid comment about me even though you have no idea if i am rich or poor.

Goto any bank and watch how many staff are literally doing NOTHING.

They do stupid things like telling members of the public where to line up. A bank with less than 5 customers in store, does not need someone to tell them where to line up. Thats completely braindead and unnecessary.

Re: Universal Basic Income

Sadly a universal basic income sort of already exists.

How many workers out there actually do anything, and i mean anything ?

If aliens came today and took half the people in any country, nobody would notice.

In my local council there are 100s of people in an office, doing i have no idea what. The only true council workers are of cours ethe garbos and gardeners who take care of parks and stuff like that.

What do the others do ?

THe same is true of any company. Here in AU, every company even the mega big ones only have ONE phone number, some dont even have an email. You literally cant find anyone "inside" the comany for a question of complaint. I know this is by design, they just want you to give up anything, but my observation remains, what do these people do ?

The Comm Bank, massive bank one of the biggest in the world, has mega buildings everywhere "full" of people, what do they do ? No idea.

Same is true of everywhere you go.

These parasites is why everything is expensive and going up, because we are all paying for the do nothings.

As time travels forward about I keep seeing more and more AI news and bullshit claims I cant help think this is a repeat of religion and the passion, suffering and horrible things that people in the west did to each other while pretending their God was the right one or better etc.

Unfortunately the people doing bad things still happens in the rest of the world, because some people tell bullshit stories, and those stories have to be better than the others. Back then they would start a war and cleans the unbelievers.

AI is the new God, they keep on forcing news and telling everyone how wonderful it is, but they never can actually show it - its always a let down. Reminds me of the bible for example where God is always so powerful on paper, but when it counts he is no where to be seen. God never saves Israel from the Greeks, Babylonians, Egyptians etc etc in real life.

Even in ElReg there are several stories where they "claim" in a post somehwere that AI did this in a few hours, but they never show you the code or put up an online demo.

No the bullshit never ends.

Just like the misery religion has caused, AI is run by the same types of psychopaths and this isnt going to end well. Just like the popes, preiests and whatever you want to call them, they always claim they are right and its for your own good.

In todays times where water is clearly a motivation for major news events, AI Is raping the world for resources that we as a living creature on earth cannot afford. Just ask Iran how well they are doing with water. Those idiots wasted their water growing and exporting some goods for a few dollars, and today they are on the edge of ruin. The money they earnt has lost a lot of its value because naturally their money is worth shit now. The result is they destroyed their land for money that is worth practically nothing.

This tells us the real value is not money but water, more wars are going to come because we waste resources we really need on bullshit like AI we dont.

Just watch Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq are all on the edge of running out of water or heading that way. Its not going to end well.

To stop crims, Google starts dismantling residential proxy network they use to hide

What makes you think the ethical team was nothing more than a charade ?

Has Google ever investigated itself for the crimes that it enables ?

How many scammers today exist primarily because Google gave them a start via its advertising system ?

IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge

You could buy a x86 server with a 1TB of memory for a fraction of any IBM mainframe.

THis has to be the most stupid title.

Why would anyone buy a mainframe for anything including AI when they can buy a few servers for a fraction of the cost ?

Mainframes are slow, cost a shitload. They are barely more capable than a few laptops from your local Harvey Norman, and they cost millions.

This title makes no sense.

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour

Im calling bullshit.

Where is the source ?

Where is the binary ?

Just like religion we have the religious basher telling us how wonderful their god is, but their god is never seen.

MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall

No wonder they are going down, if the only thing they did was change CEO, not much money in that.

Microsoft leaves Pakistan but promises customers won't notice the change

The market of a country that cant even run a power grid ?

Re: Top priority

Yes lets outsource to the same country that cant even run electrical power 24/7 or pick up the rubbish in any of its major cities.

Pakistan is almost a failed state... they cant even run electricity or clean water in major portions of the country. Im surprised MS even bothers to sell anything there.

Australian airline Qantas reveals data theft impacting six million customers

WHy wasnt this group of corporate wizards checking the systems yesterday before the attack ?

Q is nothing more than the primary example of corporate sponsorship by the tax payer.

Looka t the new $40B western sydney airport... paid for by tax payers.

Why didnt Q pay for the airport themselves ?

UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

Re: Re-fighting WW2

The only war they are fighting is for Hollywood and fly bys during superbowls.

I remember seeing a few YT vids about whether a single F35 could stop the japanese at Pearl Harbour.

How is any number of F35s going to stop 1000s of drones ?

Why would anyone buy a few chinese fighters when they can buy 1000 drones instead for less money ?

Buying F35 of any kind is plain dumb.

For the total cost of F35s and their support carriers the UK should have bought missiles, like 1000s of them.

Those 1000 missiles could deliver far more damage against Russia, than a few dozen F35s.

The UK could have bought thousands of missiles for the cost of the two new carriers and these F35s.

Please tell me which has a great range and which has will be able to deliver MORE hits upon Russia ?

I guess these can go with the Uks carriers which fly American planes.

Why does the UK even bother to have a military when it keeps buying incomplete useless equipment that it doesnt control at all.

US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data

Re: There isn't a hurricane on the way

I think Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico, because he wanted the hurricans to ONLY destroy the worthy red voters of America.

Those non americans in communist cuba and other counties can buy and pay for their own hurricanes.

Re: There isn't a hurricane on the way

Funny that you mention weather only affects deviants, because the states that get slammed by hurricans are all red voters.

Arent the primary victims of hurricans the same RED voters that love trump ?

Said it before and will say it again, those red voters wanted to fuck others for a few more dollars and it appears they are the ones being fucked for everything by their glorious leader.

Talk about karma.

Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material

Whats wrong with America, you can buy guns and gut people but seeing a boob.. is wrong ?

CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs

Re: Lets refactor that.

Isnt writing a monolithic function or method thats pages long wrong ?

Seems to me, you dont know good code when you see it.

Private equity types to snap up NoSQL biz Couchbase

How will they make any of that back from sales ?

New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers

Re: Perfect

And just like drugs only idiots take drugs and then become ....

In the old days the idiots went to church beliving in a god who cares for them... today that god is called ai.

SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground

Re: I'm starting to wonder

AC: Nobody is claiming that Gwynne has built a rocket.

cow:

Yes it a different skillset, but you completely overplay and over evaluate putting people in place compared to building rockets.

She can write as many emails as she likes but she isnt going to bullshit physics, and fix the problems that caused the last Starship to blow up.

Re: Mars ... to go, where no man will go

Even with a broken Russia, USA hasnt the balls to even say boo to Putin.