Galanis is also a PLP loser as well. One should look at his record as to why he was fired from a Big 4 Accounting firm. All that you have to do, is google "galanis bahamas investment fraud". E&Y had to pay $3 million dollars to make criminal charges go away because of him.
Totally agree with you there. If you take a look at the austerity measures that Greece had to implement, what it did was impoverish hundreds of thousands of pensioners and others in Greek society. And how are they managing? By growing their own food on small plots. Here is a reference:
I am reminded of old Mr. Ferguson in Exuma. (If you take a taxi in George Town, you will run into him.) Every time he eats an orange, he plants the pips in his yard. Same with lemons, avocado pears and pretty much anything with seeds in it. I never knew that there are tiny seeds in pineapples just under the skin. He is pretty much self-sufficient. His neighbours make their own homemade ginger beer in those plastic cola bottles. They make a wonderful pasta dish from kerbs or West Indian Chiton that they pry off the rocks at low tide.
Knowing how to live off the land that you come from definitely pays dividends when it comes to survival.
>God will destroy the earth before he allows that to happen.
I didn't realise that God was afraid of robots as well. After all, according to your belief, if we all become psalm-singing robots, praising Dear Leader God, he will not smite us and burn us forever in a hell that violates the laws of thermodynamics.
The march of technology is upon us. Who knows if it will take us to good places or bad. But I can assure you -- if you read the news at all, you will realise that robots will eliminate up to 40% of all jobs in 12 years ( http://fortune.com/2017/03/24/pwc-robot… ) -- study done by Price Waterhouse Coopers reported in Fortune magazine. No amount of praying for rapture or hoping for smiting by virtual entities will change that.
Education is the key, but unfortunately some Bahamians such as yourself, have been so negatively value-programmed that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think.
You can pray all you want, and contribute money to charlatan preachers who drive Bentleys and get smashed to smithereens in private jets, but that een gern change what will happen in the next 10-20 years.
Here's the rub for employees in the hospitality industry that will be replaced by technology -- there is no tipping of robots. The hotel in Lausanne that I was in, advertised that fact. And a $10,000 robot is much cheaper than a $25,000 a year human who has to go to the bathroom and takes time off and gets lazy. The robot works 24 hours a day. Like it or not, this world is already upon us, and I een seen no god-smiting yet.
We need to diversify the economy and not rely so much on Tourism. There are ideas floating around, but unfortunately the shiny new crop of ministers don't know what they don't know.
If this country wants to move forward, it needs a better plan than fixing was is broke.
I don't believe the figures. I think that the systemic unemployment/under-employment rate is over 20% of the working population.
It's going to be very difficult in getting a low human capital workforce back to work. In the global scheme of things, low end jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate due to technology and efficiencies gained by it.
Recently, I checked into a Swiss hotel and did it at a kiosk without a human present. It spit out a magnetic card that was my room key. No human clerk necessary. Late at night, I heard a noise outside my door, and I took a peek. A Makita vacuum robot was going up and down the halls at night. I was surprised to see the same logo that you see on cordless drills, on a vacuum robot. The same hotel had a Savioke Dash robot that would deliver food to your room, and it could even navigate the elevator by itself. I didn't want to try it because the prices were exorbitant mini-bar prices for snacks -- out of this world, but the machine was taking jobs from humans.
When I pull into a gas station at home in The Bahamas, I am amazed at the number of attendants. There is a gas station down the street from me in my new city off island, that has no humans and it is open 24 hours a day, and you can charge an electric vehicle at it.
I am willing to bet that both Atlantis (and Baha Mar if it doesn't collapse) will see more mechanization and technology and a smaller head count. And we will all be in trouble with massive unemployment.
I am surprised that this government, the most forward-looking in a long time, is not taking strategic steps to future-proof the country. People are the most important things. Once they get rid of the sub-human PLP scum and lock them up for life, they should concentrate on the massive people/education/employment problem that no one is talking about. I realise that they are coming out of a deep chasm created by PLP criminality, but there doesn't seem to be an overall strategic plan, or a need to hurry to fix things.
Unless the guy is trying for a windfall payday because Chipman won, he should be paid off if his claim is legitimate. The very fact that he didn't collect weekly, and his pay was stipulated weekly says something to me -- unless of course, Chipman kept deferring it. If it comes down to he said-he said, and there is no contract, the plaintiff will lose.
We as Bahamians have become so inured to mediocrity and a toxic way of life , that it has become the norm. As a transplant to a new city, it is constantly amazing to me, to see a different way of living. There are no unsafe spots late at night. An internet problem is fixed by a technician coming the next morning at 8:30 AM. The supermarkets are clean, and I am amazed at the reasonable prices and high quality of foodstuffs. There are no power blackouts. The streets are alive with people, legal vendors like food trucks, buskers and a panoply of intriguing and interesting shops and markets. The cars are in good repair. The streets are clean. Garbage is picked up. There is no dump fire smoke. Everything works. My neighbour paid me a courtesy visit after noticing that I moved in and asked me to notify her if her dog disturbs me.
The path out of mediocrity for the Bahamas, is to start doing the small things right from the bottom up, and start doing the big things right from the top down. Shutting down our borders to hardworking, smart and/or professional people is not the way to advance the country. My own work permit was approved in a week -- 5 business days, even though they told me that it would take two whole weeks. There needs to be a whole attitude re-adjustment in the Bahamas, and news like this, shows that it een happening.
banker says...
Galanis is also a PLP loser as well. One should look at his record as to why he was fired from a Big 4 Accounting firm. All that you have to do, is google "galanis bahamas investment fraud". E&Y had to pay $3 million dollars to make criminal charges go away because of him.
On Galanis: Ditch the PLP losers
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banker says...
http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2017…
On ‘Jobs figures vindicate PLP’
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banker says...
Plus it doesn't take 20 people to operate a drone.
On $100 million a year cost of poaching
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Totally agree with you there. If you take a look at the austerity measures that Greece had to implement, what it did was impoverish hundreds of thousands of pensioners and others in Greek society. And how are they managing? By growing their own food on small plots. Here is a reference:
*Greek Villagers' Secret Weapon - Growing Their Own Food*
http://www.businessinsider.com/greek-vi…
I am reminded of old Mr. Ferguson in Exuma. (If you take a taxi in George Town, you will run into him.) Every time he eats an orange, he plants the pips in his yard. Same with lemons, avocado pears and pretty much anything with seeds in it. I never knew that there are tiny seeds in pineapples just under the skin. He is pretty much self-sufficient. His neighbours make their own homemade ginger beer in those plastic cola bottles. They make a wonderful pasta dish from kerbs or West Indian Chiton that they pry off the rocks at low tide.
Knowing how to live off the land that you come from definitely pays dividends when it comes to survival.
On ‘Jobs figures vindicate PLP’
Posted 14 August 2017, 7:18 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
John doesn't have a worldview to realise the march of technology and the current state of mankind.
My new job is to trade securities, and even my new job is not safe from the march of robots taking human jobs. Here is a story from Financial Times:
*Robots enter investment banks’ trading floors*
*UBS among the banks looking to AI to boost traders’ performance*
https://www.ft.com/content/da7e3ec2-624…
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>God will destroy the earth before he allows that to happen.
I didn't realise that God was afraid of robots as well. After all, according to your belief, if we all become psalm-singing robots, praising Dear Leader God, he will not smite us and burn us forever in a hell that violates the laws of thermodynamics.
The march of technology is upon us. Who knows if it will take us to good places or bad. But I can assure you -- if you read the news at all, you will realise that robots will eliminate up to 40% of all jobs in 12 years ( http://fortune.com/2017/03/24/pwc-robot… ) -- study done by Price Waterhouse Coopers reported in Fortune magazine. No amount of praying for rapture or hoping for smiting by virtual entities will change that.
Education is the key, but unfortunately some Bahamians such as yourself, have been so negatively value-programmed that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think.
You can pray all you want, and contribute money to charlatan preachers who drive Bentleys and get smashed to smithereens in private jets, but that een gern change what will happen in the next 10-20 years.
Here's the rub for employees in the hospitality industry that will be replaced by technology -- there is no tipping of robots. The hotel in Lausanne that I was in, advertised that fact. And a $10,000 robot is much cheaper than a $25,000 a year human who has to go to the bathroom and takes time off and gets lazy. The robot works 24 hours a day. Like it or not, this world is already upon us, and I een seen no god-smiting yet.
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Posted 14 August 2017, 12:19 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
We need to diversify the economy and not rely so much on Tourism. There are ideas floating around, but unfortunately the shiny new crop of ministers don't know what they don't know.
If this country wants to move forward, it needs a better plan than fixing was is broke.
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I don't believe the figures. I think that the systemic unemployment/under-employment rate is over 20% of the working population.
It's going to be very difficult in getting a low human capital workforce back to work. In the global scheme of things, low end jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate due to technology and efficiencies gained by it.
Recently, I checked into a Swiss hotel and did it at a kiosk without a human present. It spit out a magnetic card that was my room key. No human clerk necessary. Late at night, I heard a noise outside my door, and I took a peek. A Makita vacuum robot was going up and down the halls at night. I was surprised to see the same logo that you see on cordless drills, on a vacuum robot. The same hotel had a Savioke Dash robot that would deliver food to your room, and it could even navigate the elevator by itself. I didn't want to try it because the prices were exorbitant mini-bar prices for snacks -- out of this world, but the machine was taking jobs from humans.
When I pull into a gas station at home in The Bahamas, I am amazed at the number of attendants. There is a gas station down the street from me in my new city off island, that has no humans and it is open 24 hours a day, and you can charge an electric vehicle at it.
I am willing to bet that both Atlantis (and Baha Mar if it doesn't collapse) will see more mechanization and technology and a smaller head count. And we will all be in trouble with massive unemployment.
I am surprised that this government, the most forward-looking in a long time, is not taking strategic steps to future-proof the country. People are the most important things. Once they get rid of the sub-human PLP scum and lock them up for life, they should concentrate on the massive people/education/employment problem that no one is talking about. I realise that they are coming out of a deep chasm created by PLP criminality, but there doesn't seem to be an overall strategic plan, or a need to hurry to fix things.
On ‘Jobs figures vindicate PLP’
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Unless the guy is trying for a windfall payday because Chipman won, he should be paid off if his claim is legitimate. The very fact that he didn't collect weekly, and his pay was stipulated weekly says something to me -- unless of course, Chipman kept deferring it. If it comes down to he said-he said, and there is no contract, the plaintiff will lose.
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We as Bahamians have become so inured to mediocrity and a toxic way of life , that it has become the norm. As a transplant to a new city, it is constantly amazing to me, to see a different way of living. There are no unsafe spots late at night. An internet problem is fixed by a technician coming the next morning at 8:30 AM. The supermarkets are clean, and I am amazed at the reasonable prices and high quality of foodstuffs. There are no power blackouts. The streets are alive with people, legal vendors like food trucks, buskers and a panoply of intriguing and interesting shops and markets. The cars are in good repair. The streets are clean. Garbage is picked up. There is no dump fire smoke. Everything works. My neighbour paid me a courtesy visit after noticing that I moved in and asked me to notify her if her dog disturbs me.
The path out of mediocrity for the Bahamas, is to start doing the small things right from the bottom up, and start doing the big things right from the top down. Shutting down our borders to hardworking, smart and/or professional people is not the way to advance the country. My own work permit was approved in a week -- 5 business days, even though they told me that it would take two whole weeks. There needs to be a whole attitude re-adjustment in the Bahamas, and news like this, shows that it een happening.
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