"Free accommodations?" Spare us the euphemisms. Call it what it is... slave prisons. And we all know how the "inspectors" aka big boss' bag men are concerned about human rights. ChiComs can go straight to hell as far as I am concerned. In fact, I think they can just stay there and don't really need to go anywhere.

What does one of your "workers" make in USD for a day's work? And how many hours is a day's work? And how many day's work are in a week? pfffftttt.

Now you can tell us how happy your workers are because they were driven off their property in the country so they could move to the slave cities. They're happy alright.. happy they weren't murdered and dumped in a mass grave on the property where they were born.

Do they also provide suicide nets and store credit for everything you need in your 6' x 8' shared bunk cell?

I think the same thing about "Made in China" that I thought about "Made in Japan" in the early 70's. Slave trash!

And the raw material import restrictions are an unfair trade practice that will be remedied very shortly.

Yes I buy Chinese garbage. I would rather not, but when the globalists hand manufacturing to the most efficient slaver, I don't really have much choice. A conscious decision to destroy US manufacturing in favor of our trade frenemies was made in the 60s. I'm sorry so many of you have unknowingly or unwillingly participated in your own economic destruction.

When Homepin gets to the point of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, Jack Ma will start selling bootleg pinball machines out the backdoor of the homepin factory. And Homepin will have NOTHING to say about it. Thanks, suckers!

It would be nice if we could have a discussion free of false dichotomies and other logical fallacies.

Communists NEVER make an honest living.

Take a look at all the bootleg video arcade games and PCB's on ali-express:

https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-video-arcade-machine.html?site=glo&g=y&SortType=price_desc&SearchText=video+arcade+machine&groupsort=1&initiative_id=SB_20170612074944&needQuery=n

Government intervention in free markets?

Rooster taking credit for the sunrise. Business thrives despite government, not because of it. With debt absolution provided by the government-authorized bankruptcy and business entity personal protections, of course further regulation becomes necessary. Creating legal structure for hurdles to market entry and other market protections, government reduces productivity and in fact, makes us all poorer.... unless, of course, your business has paid off a rule maker or is a chosen winner in a government-skewed market.

One must first remove the jail bars from one's mind before removing the jail bars from one's cubicle.

Who will pay when automated vehicles cause damage or injury?

Self-driving cars are no good because they are also self-stopping cars. Imagine being in a large radius no-go zone during a surprise riot and finding your car is shut down. Or maybe you have a financial dispute and the bank shuts your car down. I can imagine thousands of reasons I do not want a car to give me permission to go places in it. This applies to paying with plastic as well. It's great until you get hacked and have to spend 15 minutes on the phone to buy gas. AI just isn't that intelligent. If you drove through a bug swarm at high speed and splattered your sensors, would the electronic controller stick it's head out the window to see? There are thousands of scenarios where human common sense survives and AI fails. Just like the other way around.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm

It would be great if the car just jacked the brakes so you could be run over from behind. This is the exact scenario I'm talking about. When the choice is speed up, slow down or swerve, I'd trust my own instantaneous judgment over any AI... especially with traction control and stability control. I know a lot of people are very trusting of automotive technology. As a lifetime member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, I can assure you that that trust is misplaced. Electronic/Mechanical systems have problems all the time. The idea that technology is better than human judgment in anomalous situations is ridiculous. I'm sure autopilot is better 99.9% of the time. It's that rare 0.1% of situations that cause my distrust.

Autonomous cars will be banned from traditional roadways by 2025. There will be a big push to convert traditional roadways into smart roadways where human-driven cars will be forbidden. The unforeseen problems of a shared roadway will become an insurmountable obstacle to a peaceful coexistence of both driven and driverless automobiles.

The perception that computer programs will be responsible for road deaths will be the motivation for "luddites" to win the perception wars. It's just that at-fault driverless cars will be a very easy target to pull on heartstrings, even if they are much less often at fault.

The faith that technophiles have in silicon and iron is laughable. The stuff works great in a laboratory environment and works terribly in the real world. For example, what is the calculus when a child runs in the road.. and how is that different if a dog or deer runs in the road? There are tons of questions regarding the algorithms and the companies developing the technology considers these questions trade secrets. Does anyone remember talking cars? Some technology is interesting, but impractical. The idea of Total Recall ubers running around everywhere is fantasy. I'm happy to entertain disagreements.

25year membership in SAE and I have not once been amazed a single time by technological change. I am amazed by tech neophytes' faith in the 21st century religion know as technophillia.

I'm not alone: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/autonomous-cars-biggest-roadblock-are-drivers-afraid-to-let-go

I think we have a different definition of AI. Following a control algorithm based on 4-6 inputs may seem complicated, but it hardly fits any commonly held definition of the words. AI is when the program is driven to make conclusions outside its pre-planned constraints. This is where it all breaks down. I've not seen a successful AI implementation in any industry by this standard.