What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[RobDownSouth]

Yeah farmers didn't want to compete fairly in the market place so they hire illegal aliens who will work for less than most Americans. If farmers had to pay American labor rates and food prices went up against the demand to unacceptable levels, an entrepreneur would come along and invent a piece of equipment that would do the whole job for less, resulting in lower prices to the consumer and we could progress as a nation. BUt oh no, we have to think like Chief Swinehumps and those at the trough.

Baby Jesus giggles when Vettebigot starts talkin' about "fair competition".

 

[mercury14]

Yeah farmers didn't want to compete fairly in the market place so they hire illegal aliens who will work for less than most Americans. If farmers had to pay American labor rates and food prices went up against the demand to unacceptable levels, an entrepreneur would come along and invent a piece of equipment that would do the whole job for less, resulting in lower prices to the consumer and we could progress as a nation. BUt oh no, we have to think like Chief Swinehumps and those at the trough.

So you envision swarms of little spider robots that will scurry down tree limbs and delicately pick a peach and then scurry back to the mother robot to softly place the precious cargo in a bin?

Sorry but this isn't Star Wars. All fruit and many vegetables have to be picked by hand and there's no way around it.

 

[Busybody]

soon

we

will

get

all

fruits and veggies

in

a

pill

no

need

for

MexiCants

and

Grow Surry stores

 

[mercury14]

Vette says these things will be invented to pick our fruit soon. In fact they'd already be here if it wasn't for those damn Mexicans...

 

[RobDownSouth]

Vette says these things will be invented to pick our fruit soon. In fact they'd already be here if it wasn't for those damn Mexicans...

Vetty's idea of "fair competition".

 

[koalabear]

Stocks slip ahead of earnings

 

[Busybody]

a head of lettuce you mean?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

So you envision swarms of little spider robots that will scurry down tree limbs and delicately pick a peach and then scurry back to the mother robot to softly place the precious cargo in a bin?

Sorry but this isn't Star Wars. All fruit and many vegetables have to be picked by hand and there's no way around it.

Too funny. Poor pressed bastard probably never picked fruit a day in his life outside of a supermarket section.

 

[richard_daily]

Too funny. Poor pressed bastard probably never picked fruit a day in his life outside of a supermarket section.

He picks fruit all the time at the glory hole.





TMI?

 

[koalabear]

So you envision swarms of little spider robots that will scurry down tree limbs and delicately pick a peach and then scurry back to the mother robot to softly place the precious cargo in a bin?

Sorry but this isn't Star Wars. All fruit and many vegetables have to be picked by hand and there's no way around it.

Too funny. Poor pressed bastard probably never picked fruit a day in his life outside of a supermarket section.

Two MORONS, try google, you may find mechanical pickers are replacing humans on just about everything.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Two MORONS, try google, you may find mechanical pickers are replacing humans on just about everything.

Find one that picks fruit — better than a human, even — and post the link with a picture, shitstain.

We'll wait.

 

[koalabear]

Find one that picks fruit — better than a human, even — and post the link with a picture, shitstain.

We'll wait.

Hold your breath while you wait slob. Just don't smile, it shows your shitstained teeth.

 

[Busybody]

Find one that picks fruit — better than a human, even — and post the link with a picture, shitstain.

We'll wait.

Picks fruits like you... you dumbass NIGGER >>>>>>>>>

 

[Adre]

Two MORONS, try google, you may find mechanical pickers are replacing humans on just about everything.

I bet you pick your nose the old fashioned way.

 

[richard_daily]

I bet you pick your nose the old fashioned way.

His ass too.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Much like the useless vestigial appendages they call penises,

Racist shitstains fail to step up.

Quelle surprise.

 

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[unregistered]

 

[mercury14]

Nope, just a simple machine like so many that have triumphed over manual labor in the last couple of decades, dunce.

There is no such machine, nor will there be in our lifetimes.

 

[unregistered]

 

[unregistered]

 

[mercury14]

Get educated, dunce:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/robo_picker?currentPage=all

"As labor costs are still quite expensive in fruit picking, robots are being designed that can replace humans for this kind of work.[4] The research is still in full progress, especially as the robots need to be carefully designed so that they do not bruise the fruit while picking.[5] One solution is the use of suction grippers, used on automated fruit picking machines manufactured, for example, by ACRO.[6] Citrus fruit robot pickers have thus far been the focus of research and development, but cherry pickers are also being researched.[7] Vision Robotics, in particular, has made several robots that are already capable of taking over the work."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_picking

I understand that someone is imagining this shit but that doesn't make it practical.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Fuck you Merc. I hate siding with Vette but picking apples doesn't seem to be complicated. Not in a world where a computer can pinpoint my location on a globe and give me directions or fly a plane. Picking apples sounds simple to if you were working at it to drive prices down instead of using "damn" Mexicans.

 

[unregistered]

 

[IrezumiKiss]

You don't understand shit about it. Keep reading.

Yeah, let's read.

You can point at any time in the future when you'll be dead to prove a point about something that might happen.

Where are they right now? To prove your point right now? To justify your bitching and moaning about your suffering right now?

*crickets*

Keep staying pressed, Vette. Only the second week of the new year, but you've done a Santa Claus bag-load of tears so far...got a long road to whine down before it's over, fella.