Sorry, my reply was badly phrased. I understand NZ's anti-nuclear stance, I was just wondering why the US think that's so important for free trade agreements.
I wouldn't set it a fixed amount to the giving but I would hope to encourage it. I make giving a routine part of my life and I would encourage it in my children too.
Responsibly managing your money in my world means: spending it wisely, saving and investing it wisely, and giving it wisely.
I take a much more spiritual tact on the whole thing. I think giving is good for the giver first and then helpful to the people receiving it (particularly if they aren't just giving it away but investing it in something useful for others). That's been my experience and reflects Biblical teaching on the subject.
Meanwhile, in the UK, Amazon appear to have opted to not use existing services like the Post Office (who are capable enough to deliver packages) and gone with their own "Amazon Logistics" (who don't seem to be able to deliver a package).
The demand doesn't scale, this is a fashion market where new restaurants are in incredible demand until ... the next hot new restaurant gets it's day in the sun.
I suspect this might be down to the 'dynamically generated' maps feature in the current maps.google.com preview.
Either way, unless Google has somehow managed to bypass extortionate data roaming charges, spotty local coverage, and absurd latency It's pretty much made maps useless for me.
At least before, when my phone has decided to not connect to the network, or latency has spiked up to 30s I could still look at the map and get places.
Yup. It's frustrating for me since I used a winmo device 7 years ago with TomTom that provided flawless offline maps. There doesn't even exist a comparable offline maps program for newer Windows Phone OSes... Google abandoning offline maps in the Android OS is another reflection of this trend, but the world's infrastructure just isn't there yet, especially when you leave California - here in Southern Ontario, coverage is good but the cost of data plans for all is prohibitive once you've got a family full of people with phones.
Of course, Google has been eschewing offline support throughout Android - like the anemic and non-expandable storage on their entry-level Nexus devices, pushing their cloud-based music service instead of the traditional "just load songs onto the device" approach, and so on.
This massive technological regression on disconnected mobile software is really disappointing.
Windows Phone 8 has offline maps via Nokia Here, you can also use Nokia Drive to get offline navigation. Both are free and have helped me navigate without a data connection in Europe, Asia and North America.
They should call it City Maps or something. Get a few miles from a major highway and you don't have maps anymore. It was only marginally functional anyway since you have to know the cellular coverage in the area you plan to drive, and save the map tiles yourself, which is time consuming. You often can't save enough map tiles for a long trip in advance, so you have to fiddle with it along the way, as you find coverage. It would have been so much better if this could be done in advance of a trip.
I guess it may also be for quality.
For example it's not inconceivable that one could write an audio transcription bot that is quite good and may be good enough for a lot of tasks, but still not as good as a human and may fail quite badly at complex tasks.
Once the market gets flooded with bots, the buyers will work out what's going on and start to lower their offers to cover the risk of getting a bot transcription. Then the real humans leave.
And of course, if a task can be fully automated then amazon would prefer to integrate it into their cloud offering and take all of the profit themselves.
Amazon has to deal with the quality of human workers, too. It shouldn't matter who is behind the work.
>And of course, if a task can be fully automated then amazon would prefer to integrate it into their cloud offering and take all of the profit themselves.
Humans are more likely to care about reputation than bot herders who can trivially flood the market with programs which will work 24 hours a day. As soon as you allow bots, it becomes 99% bots very quickly.
You would also get people doing some work themselves to build reputation up and then swapping in a bot.
It would be quite interesting to build a dedicated market for bots. Just let people upload scripts with a documented input/output format and then pay the developer a royalty each time it is run.
From Amazon's perspective it doesn't matter if the user is a bot or a user. An user can also work themselves to build reputation up and then start doing low-quality work to increase pay. If you can't create a market for humans, you can't create a market for humans and bots.
The selling point of MT is that you can get human tasks done, if bots chase the humans out they loose that. It's similar to marketplaces like etsy in that regard.
Who are "they"? Amazon shouldn't care if the turks are humans or bots, they'll make the same dollar in any case. The people who create tasks for turks shouldn't care either: they just want stuff done.
The point of MT is that it's a market for jobs that cannot be easily automated. If someone can automate the task then so be it, it doesn't matter.
The point of MT is not a market place for "tasks that can only be done by humans", it's a market place for "tasks that can't be automated easily, therefore everyone and everything should have an opportunity to complete the task by any means what-so-ever. if you can only complete tasks on drugs then so be it. if you can only complete tasks by writing a bot so be it.". The seller just wants task to be completed cheaply.
The advantage of listing a job on MT vs finding a program to run is that you know it is at least reviewed by a human being who cares somewhat about their reputation within the system.
Once that guarantee goes away you affect the value of all transactions within the market. What is commonly known as a "Lemon market effect".
Yep, it's the law. Much to the chagrin of the US.
Their Military has no Nuclear weapons, and the population is pretty strongly opposed to anything nuclear, instead favouring 'green' technology.
I'd go as far to say, as it's now so entrenched in NZ's identity, if any government that tried to repeal it, it would be an act of political suicide.