25 years old and deep in debt

[Monoriu]

What about waiters?  I'd love to be able to order my restaurant with an ipad.  I've seen some high-end restaurants in China do it.  It is perfectly workable.

Not sure how you would automate the delivery of the food.

Automating the ordering part helps cut down the number of staff, even if the delivery part can't be automated.

Yet  I believe some Russian queen had a dining room with no servers at all.  The kitchen is under the dining hall.  Guests wrote the names of the dishes they wanted, wrote it on the "plate" in front of them, and rang a bell.  The folks would deliver the food from below with a mechanical mechanism. 

[Monoriu]

Actually I think the simplest solution about food delivery is for me to do it myself.  I press a button to ask the kitchen to prepare the food.  They press a button to tell me that it is ready.  I go get it.  Some airport lounges do it this way, because they don't have waiting staff. 

[garbon]

Yuck. I'm not try to play adventures in food service.

[Monoriu]

Yuck. I'm not try to play adventures in food service.

Why not? 

[The Brain]

I could be automated. But would I be happy? I don't know.

[garbon]

Yuck. I'm not try to play adventures in food service.

Why not? 

Because if I did I would like look for such a position?

[Monoriu]

Yuck. I'm not try to play adventures in food service.

Why not? 

Because if I did I would like look for such a position?

I don't get what you are saying

[garbon]

If I wanted to bus tables, retrieve food - I'd look for part time work in a restaurant. Sort of similar to my feeling on self-check out in stores.

[Ideologue]

I'd be interested in prostitutes with three boobs though.

They'd all be modelled after models. With A cups. And the personality of your average sit-com, while reminding us of our mums.
The future is going to suck sweaty elephant balls.

That is dystopia for you.

My concern is that they're going to have difficulty fitting all the necessary machinery into my sexbot.

[Tonitrus]

What about waiters?  I'd love to be able to order my restaurant with an ipad.  I've seen some high-end restaurants in China do it.  It is perfectly workable.

Not sure how you would automate the delivery of the food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXuGQRpvs4

[garbon]

Ahem, Yi said food.

[Monoriu]

If I wanted to bus tables, retrieve food - I'd look for part time work in a restaurant. Sort of similar to my feeling on self-check out in stores.

Ordering food: technology already allows that part to be automated easily, and I really do want to order my own food.  I am tired of waiters mixing up orders, and in a lot of places it is a challenge to get someone to do the ordering in the first place.

Busing tables: that is indeed difficult to automate, and I probably don't want to do that myself.

Retreiving food: more like I don't mind doing it. 

Self-check outs: agree that they don't really work.  There is only one place that does it in HK that I know of.  It is more like a marketing gimmick than anything.  Doesn't work because the people in front are far too slow and they don't really know how to do it. 

[Ideologue]

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/full-comment/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/09/23/robyn-urback-here-ontario-have-some-more-law-school-grads

Law students are walking, talking dollar signs for Ontario universities. They bring with them hefty provincial government subsidies and that priceless higher-ed asset: "prestige." Law students don't require expensive laboratories or the latest and greatest equipment — the major cost to the university, by and large, is for the professors hired to instruct them. That cost generally doesn't increase if a few extra bums are squeezed into seats in the lecture hall, which is why universities seem to welcome as many law students as possible.

The recent news from the law school at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, therefore, should come as no surprise. According to a memo recently sent to students, the school is currently weighing the idea of increasing its enrolment by nearly one-third in order to meet greater revenue demands. That means the school's target admission number, which was set at approximately 165 in 2013, may rise by another 35 or 50 students.

This is great news, right? If there's anything Ontario needs more of (besides expert panels on transit infrastructure), it's lawyers.

Or maybe not. Ontario is experiencing anything but a drought of law school grads. According to the Law Society of Upper Canada, of the 1,750 students graduated from Ontario law schools in 2013, one in seven was expected not to find an articling position. That's up from 12% of unplaced grads two years ago, and 6% five years ago. Obviously, the problem of too few positions for too many grads is only getting worse. So why on earth would law schools consider pumping out even more articling candidates?

The answer lies in those walking, talking dollar signs. The issue is not unique to Queen's. Indeed, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, just opened a new law school this year, which will add an additional 60 candidates to the graduate pool each year. Other law schools in the province have also increased their admission numbers, including the University of Ottawa — with its first-year registrants jumping from 271 in 2007 to 381 in 2010 — and the University of Windsor, which has added about 60 spots since 1997.

To try to control the problem, the Law Society of Upper Canada has approved a motion to pilot a three-year program starting in 2014 whereby law school grads can complete a co-op and skills-training program in lieu of articling. But while the new program may quiet the articling crisis, it won't help the glut of lawyers competing for positions after they are successfully called to the bar.

Indeed, the Society may be wise to take a cue from Ontario's teachers colleges, which will soon halve the number of its admissions (and double the amount of time it takes candidates to earn their degrees). The measure is being implemented as a way to curb the backlog of unemployed teachers in the province, where there are roughly 9,000 grads pumped out each year for just 6,000 jobs. Needless to say, no Ontario teachers college would dare float a question of increasing its enrolment now.

Perhaps the plight of unplaced law school grads hasn't reached the "crisis point" of their teacher counterparts, which is why Queen's might get away with opening its admission doors. But to do so would be to ignore the weakening job prospects for its current students, as well as law students across the province. Queen's could opt to raise its law tuition as a means of garnering additional revenue, but obviously, that would not bring in the same type of change as some 50 new government-subsidized students. So, the prevailing question remains: How many dollar signs can you squeeze into a lecture hall?

N.B.: I got no idea if this is a reputable Canadian publication, but it sounds pretty accurate to me.  Canadian 1Ls, welcome to the United States circa 2010.

[Jacob]

N.B.: I got no idea if this is a reputable Canadian publication, but it sounds pretty accurate to me.  Canadian 1Ls, welcome to the United States circa 2010.

The National Post is sufficiently reputable.

[Ideologue]

That's good.  I just don't know Canuck sources.