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Comment Re:So what's the answer? (Score 3, Interesting) 948

Hi. I'm an employer. I have 85 employees. I *want* them to take their time off. We converted from Sick/Vacation to "Paid time off" to give healthy employees even more vacation days than they would otherwise get. At the end of the year, some of that PTO expires, and for several of my employees -- some of it always does. So it might not be a big-bad-corporation-problem, but more of a employee-work-ethic-problem. Should I *force* my over-dedicated employees to go home at 5 or to take vacations without bringing the iPhone?

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 128

Because a robot can be powered down and require no resources for the flight there and back. They can also be stacked neatly into boxes. They also don't fight, or make little robots. They can stay at Mars forever, and no one will clamor to bring them back to Earth. And if your measurements are off and you kill one, you send another.

Which is really suboptimal, because it takes a lot less cost to manufacture humans.

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