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  1. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    **** aye
     
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  2. Hash.

    Hash. pure daycent

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  3. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    I, gambol. An epic gut wrenching tale of how a slave of 606 fought his way via slaying shagging and slaying and shagging through the dominus of SPN to the eventual freedom of not606 only to find his demons returned.

    I, by Jupiter's cock, shall prevail!
     
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  4. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    The programme was quite good as well
     
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  5. jonathan acworth 71

    jonathan acworth 71 Well-Known Member

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    tossers are going on strike again tuesday ****ed me right up
     
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  6. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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    Sack them all and go down the DLR route of driverless trains.
     
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  7. jonathan acworth 71

    jonathan acworth 71 Well-Known Member

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    What they did in scotland wasnt it?
     
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  8. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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    I've spent the best part of 5 years building computerised systems which do human jobs much more efficiently (after spending the previous 5 years doing the manual equivalent of the same jobs) - the single hardest part has been getting around the hurdles existing staff throw in your way because they fear for their jobs. It's true that some people who don't adapt will lose their jobs, but the clever people find other niches for themselves. In the end despite all the protestations that the new systems will never work etc etc they eventually do work and they free up human resources to do other productive things.

    I've no doubt within the next 20-50 years all trains will be driverless and we might even have driverless buses and taxis (with the likes of Google cars already being able to get people around with no driver) - we'll get a lot of bitching, protesting and feet dragging from the people who currently do these jobs in the meantime.
     
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  9. Cruyff's Turn

    Cruyff's Turn Well-Known Member

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    Did you see the Pakistan Airways pilot pished in the cockpit? Bet Allah love that.Apparently he was canoodling with an Orthodox Jew saying "You're my best mate you are"
     
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  10. ManDingo 20"/20"

    ManDingo 20"/20" MDMA Guru

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    You say that but they can't even program self service checkouts to work properly and they've been at that for years.

    I don't understand whats so complicated, all it has to do is read a ****ing barcode and produce a number <doh>
     
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  11. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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    The Tesco scan as you shop line is much smaller than the till lines - it will only be a matter of time before all products have RF chips in them, your trolley can tell automatically what you put in it - and checkouts will be redundant.
     
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  12. ManDingo 20"/20"

    ManDingo 20"/20" MDMA Guru

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    That's only because people with trolleys full to the brim use the manned checkouts.

    Who wants to stick 100 items through a self service machine?

    Apart from anything the amount of errors the self service machines chuck out is ****ing ridiculous. I've found myself going mental because every item I scan stops the machine. Then you have to wait for some dick with a swipe card to come over and sort it.
     
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  13. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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    I'm talking about the wee handheld scanner things you take around the store, so you can scan items you are buying before you put them in your tolley. When you get to the end of your shop all your items are scanned already and you just have to put your card in a machine and pay.
     
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  14. Mind The Duck

    Mind The Duck Well-Known Member

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    With everyone being made unemployed due to Micks worker drones, who would need to use driverless trains?
     
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  15. ManDingo 20"/20"

    ManDingo 20"/20" MDMA Guru

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    Fair enough. Don't even think you get them in Perth shops anymore (since the self service checkouts)

    I agree that checkouts will be redundant in the next couple of decades though.
     
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  16. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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    I'm sure hunter gathers in the middle east were frustrated at Egyptian farmers producing much more food efficiently, or weavers worried about their jobs when the industrial revolution brought machines that could produce yards of cloth much quicker, or car engineers were worried when the likes of Ford started building cars much cheaper with mechanised production lines.

    People find other things to do (sell each other insurance they don't need, in the case of Britain), wages rise, hours of work fall (a 40 hour week would have been a dream 100 years ago) and the general standard of living rises for everyone... eventually.
     
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  17. LEROY FER 10

    LEROY FER 10 New Member

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    All products will have RFID chips and so will your card ,they will be read by a scanner next to the door and automatically charge your bank account.... Simply walk in and take stuff .

    Very Orwellian but we have the technology already.
     
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  18. rogueleader

    rogueleader suave gringo

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    Mick - when will we have mass-produced, affordable jet-packs that work ?
     
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  19. Mind The Duck

    Mind The Duck Well-Known Member

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    Don't think of yourselves now...think of the shareholders of the future
     
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  20. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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    By the time they come out they will automatically fly you to your destination with no human input :(
     
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