But coffee breaks?

Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human

And like a person, the robot worker gets paid for the hours it works.

And, oh yeah…

…costs the equivalent of $8 per hour, compared with a minimum wage of $15 per hour for a human employee.

[From Apple News.]

Passing through

Why does anybody need a "job"…

A Belgian citizen put his country up for sale on eBay in 2007.

Belgium is hardly the only strange thing to be listed on eBay, let alone sold. A corn flake shaped like Illinois went for $1,350 in 2008, a suit of guinea pig armor fetched $24,300 in 2013, and one buyer bid $55,000 for a ghost in a jar before later backing out of the deal.

…when it's all this easy? 

Beyond

Hot air

 

The Snows

Cold turkey

There's a certain logic here

Airlines worldwide rush to change flights over US 5G dispute

Altimeters measure how high a plane is in the sky, a crucial piece of equipment for flying.

And yes, we can see it'd be a good idea for pilots to know how far it is to the ground. Still, other countries are way ahead of the U.S. on implementing 5G and don't seem to be as concerned about this aviation thing as the FAA is.

For ourselves, we belong to that apparently vanishing class of people that don't care to watch movies on cell phones, and have plenty of access to wi-fi in case we change our minds. 

And don't have plans to fly anywhere.

Progress

And we're confused enough already

Judge pokes holes in Swiss cheesemaker's legal arguments

They said allowing others to use the gruyere name would confuse American consumers.

Three, maybe four inches, but it's raining now

It'll turn into soup. And then, tonight, freeze.

Cleaning up