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[kaijyuu]

Lynching it is not. A lynching is a public murder. That's breaking and entering, assault, and arson.


If she was dragged out into the street, hung up on a lamp post while a crowd watched, that would be a lynching.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Still attempted murder.

[Reelya]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/23/1615213/us-regaining-manufacturing-might-with-robots-and-3d-printing

The future of robotic manufacture:

one of China’s largest manufacturers, Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group, announced last August that it plans to install one million robots within three years to do the work that its workers in China presently do. It found Chinese labor to be too expensive and demanding.

If Chinese labor is "too expensive" dropping the US minimum wage to "be competitive" isn't going to help.

[Levi]

I think the point was that the American robot slaves will do the work, and they don't need to be paid at all. 

This is actually pretty interesting, as with the prices of 3d printing and manufacturing coming down, I can see China losing a lot of its employers, which could potentially be catastrophic. 

[RedKing]

Yeah, but the Chinese robot workers will work on even less maintenance than those lazy American robots with their greedy demands for "oil" and "gaskets" and "electricity".


I'm telling you, the robot unions are going to kill this country.

[Truean]

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[RedKing]

I rather love the idea of a knockoff Chinese Terminator. It will be called the XTerminator. (See ma? No copyright infringement!)
And it will utter catch phrases like "I'll return."

Or, it might just look like this:

[Reelya]

Chinese managers save the "good stuff" for local engineering projects. Quite simply because they execute people for taking "short cuts" about things the party cares about.

They have the three longest bridges in the world, you can bet they spared no expense ensuring those were solid (bullet to the head for failure is a good incentive).

[palsch]

Yet more Chick-fil-A fallout.

Boston mayor bans them from the city.

Then there is this.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"They aren't boycotting us. Their toys aren't safe for children! We cut ties with them!"

[MetalSlimeHunt]

People should go around with sticky notes that say "Lies and Treason!" and put them on those signs.

[Sirus]

The blatant lying is pretty bad, but I disagree with the Boston mayor's decision. Banning a restaurant chain seems like a violation of free speech to me.

[kaijyuu]

Companies aren't people. They don't have the right to free speech.


Though I wonder just how he got that past the city council and such, though. Bit more authority than I imagine a mayor actually has, at least alone.

[GreatJustice]

Companies aren't people. They don't have the right to free speech.

Congress shall make no law.

So yeah, they do have a right to free speech.

I also find it priceless that anyone would argue that certain huge corporations (and labour unions, but no one talks about them) shouldn't be allowed freedom of speech, but other huge corporations (Specifically, news corporations) are allowed to be gigantic propaganda factories on the basis on specifically making money from it.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Congress shall make no law.

So yeah, they do have a right to free speech.

I also find it priceless that anyone would argue that certain huge corporations (and labour unions, but no one talks about them) shouldn't be allowed freedom of speech, but other huge corporations (Specifically, news corporations) are allowed to be gigantic propaganda factories on the basis on specifically making money from it.

I don't really agree with the Mayor of Boston's decision, but Freedom of Speech only applies to people. That's why the First Amendment specifically mentions Freedom of the Press, and that is what news corporations fall under. A business that isn't press doesn't necessarily have a right to free speech except that the Supreme Court has ruled that they do.

[Nadaka]

Companies aren't people. They don't have the right to free speech.


Though I wonder just how he got that past the city council and such, though. Bit more authority than I imagine a mayor actually has, at least alone.

The republican appointed majority of the supreme court disagrees with you.