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Misleading headline. The article asks is OWNERS of robots should pay taxes.
Of course this is also utterly stupid. No labour saving device has ever been taxed, and the supposition that workers being replaced needs some kind of protectionist recompense is so typical of the EU (who has pretty much also banned Uber) that it makes me want to vote out!
Other similar EU propositions, enforcing quotas on Netflix and Amazon for European films. If people dont want to watch European films then make them better!
Protectionism ALWAYS destroys in the end!
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You europeans are tasting a bit of what Italy has done since the 80s (when the American Money for Marshall plan stopped raining from the heavens). Tax this, tax that and tax that too. We even pay taxes upon... the taxes (which is forbidden but circumvented)!! When I saw the last gas bill I almost choked because I had to pay tha VAT upon the Excise...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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This is why the EU needs the UK. It needs the UKs influence and simplicity, its openness and freedom, to hack a path through these ridiculous and abusive laws.
Would the EU technocrats support a UK style ecconomic system though? Thats the problem, and thats why the UK will always sit uneasilly in the EU.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: why the UK will always sit uneasilly in the EU
It might be sitting (un)easily outside the EU by tomorrow... 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: UKs influence and simplicity, its openness and freedom
Are you sure you are speaking about the UK?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If robots are going to steal human jobs and otherwise disrupt society, they should at the very least pay taxes. That's really stupid. Taxes aren't levied for stealing jobs or disrupting society. I've been stealing jobs and disrupting society for years and don't pay taxes.
/ravi
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That's the funniest thing I've read in a very long time.
So...since the robots will be putting into Social security, can they take out from it? I don't pay (or get paid) for my Roomba, seems like a long-term employment issue for my poor little electronic person.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Yup, and tractors should pay taxes, too. And crane drivers should pay 500x tac, because they're putting that many Egyptian pyramid builders out of work.
Deal with change when changes occur. Trying to deal with changes beforehand is like trying to polka on quicksand.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gojira - Silvera[^]
From Gojira's new album, Magma.
I've always kind of liked Gojira, but their new album just blew me away! 
Picking a particular song sound from the album was not easy, they're all good!
It's not exactly easy listening, not even for metalheads, but that's one of the things I like about it
The album has been pretty much on repeat since I first heard it last week 
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Sorry but the vid I just posted[^] on the Euro 2016 thread invalidates all other claimants to "Sound of the Week" Withdraw, sir, or I shall have satisfaction upon the duelling field!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: Withdraw, sir
Never!
9082365 wrote: or I shall have satisfaction upon the duelling field!
No you won't[^]
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Indeed great, their best album I think
and ... yes, I am reading your book while listening,
(just checking what I don't know  ...)
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That deserves a double upvote! 
How did you like my book?
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Thanks, good to hear! 
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Here I expected it to be beer bottle opened
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I have no idea what you're talking about... 
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I just read the header and figured sound of the week would be some sort of noise that encapsulated the state of the week. IT doesn't matter, I'm not that funny 
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Actually Sound of the Week is just my Song of the Week renamed.
Some people would question the definition of song almost weekly... 
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Nah, it's just that I have a Master in Acoustics, so I connect sound with different things than just music. Sound to me is everything that you can hear (or not); noise, music etc.
Sander Rossel wrote: Some people would question the definition of song almost weekly...
Im sorry 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: Sound to me is everything that you can hear (or not); noise, music etc.
Yes, to me too! That's exactly why I choose it as a new description for my original Song of the Week. I can now post songs, aria's, instrumentals, noise, pop, rock, classical, extreme brutal goregrind death metal, whatever, without getting the comments "that's not a song!" or even "that's not music!"
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Well, you know, they gotta' have something to talk about I guess 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: they gotta' have something to talk complain about I guess
FTFY 
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If the sound-track, and all the video-shots of the mutants in the final stages of rabies-induced mania posing with musical instruments were removed, I might enjoy this
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Maybe if they added some sitar[^]?
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