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6th May 2015, 10:57 AM
#31

Originally Posted by
KBs PensNmore
The way drones, etc. are going, Pilots will be a thing of the past in about 10 years

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Doesn't a drone still have a "pilot", just not sitting in the cockpit. I doubt they will ever remove pilots (in the cockpit) from commercial passenger airlines, as I doubt many of the passengers would be comfortable with a pilot who doesn't have some skin in the game:
Cheers.
Vernon.
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6th May 2015, 03:17 PM
#32

Originally Posted by
Chris Parks
I was reading the paper today and there was an article predicting that a lot of jobs are going to disappear in the next twenty years due to the digital age catching up with them. When I started work in the mid sixties I was an apprentice compositor in the printing industry and that job completely disappeared due to digital publishing. Did you have a job earlier in your life that has effectively disappeared for whatever reason?
I was upstairs as a proof reader - that one has definitely gorn
Neil
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11th May 2015, 03:03 PM
#33

Originally Posted by
rob streeper
I haven't even seen a payphone in ages.
Obviously you haven't been incarcerated in ages, either. 
That's about the only place that you will see a pay phone these days.
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11th May 2015, 04:50 PM
#34

Originally Posted by
rrich
Obviously you haven't been incarcerated in ages, either.
That's about the only place that you will see a pay phone these days.
There's one about 400 metres up the road, next to the shops, from me and it still works.
Peter.
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11th May 2015, 06:44 PM
#35

Originally Posted by
Sturdee
There's one about 400 metres up the road, next to the shops, from me and it still works.
Peter.
Is that cell block 3 or cell block 4, near the canteen?
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11th May 2015, 08:11 PM
#36

Originally Posted by
rrich
Obviously you haven't been incarcerated in ages, either.
That's about the only place that you will see a pay phone these days.
I can think of 3 near me off the top of my head. They're slowly being converted to public WiFi hotspots
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