"Colloquial" would be "I'm an average Joe" or today is "about average". In these instances, no one is expecting the speaker to be making any kind of mathematical statement.
In our case here, the speaker was referring to a population being a precise amount below the average. That's clearly mathematics, not colloquial speech.
The difference is that the microphone on my cell phone sucks and no one can hear me anyway. So no threat there.
Now - if they were to take a "smart speaker" microphone and somehow graft it on to a phone, thereby making it possible to use your phone to talk to people and have them understanding you - well, shit, then they'd have something!!
The result of all that IR shit in the bathroom is people leaving with dirty and/or wet hands most of the time, since that shit never seems to work satisfactorily.
Personally, I don't even bother TRYING to use a paper towel dispenser that uses IR - and I refuse to stand in front of an air dryer and go deaf either.
Is it really such a burden to just wash your fucking hands, and work the keypad on the microwave or calculator you keep in your kitchen drawer to convert from quarts to milligrams or whatever? I mean...damn.
Yep, it's pretty useful. I can be in the kitchen cooking and just yell up at my echo to play music or change the lights. It only sends the audio back if it hears the trigger word.
Are you the guy who decided IR technology would be great in the bathroom?
"Look! Someone can just wave their hand in front of the dispenser and it will dispense! We can deploy these high tech devices in every bathroom on the planet, even though simple mechanical devices will work just fine and are actually preferred by people. This will be the greatest use of technology EVER!!!"
I for one don't want it either. I don't like talking to those voice assisted telephone prompts either.
I don't want to fucking talk to anything in order to use it. Hell, even on my phone, I'd rather send an email or look at a website for the info I need, rather than place a phone call.
And I DEFINITELY don't want electronics talking to ME. Just fuck that every which way!
Down with voice!! Make your voice heard!! Wait - what? Oh yeah. Down with voice!!
Yeah...they can move 75mph until they get to the portion of the road that can't handle that. Then they slow down. And stop. And everything behinds them has to as well. That line of stopped traffic builds up and extends into the portion of the network where 75mph is theoretically possible. Then your fancy self-driving cars are stuck in bumper to bumper traffic just like everyone else.
I live a 5 minute walk from a bus stop and 4.5 miles from "downtown" Pittsburgh.
I can get to work on my motorcycle in 15 minutes and park for free. Round trip, that's 30 minutes and free (since cost of gas is virtually $0). And if I need to go somewhere during the day, I can do so, at my convenience, at no additional charge.
I can get there on the bus in 30 minutes, for $2.75. The return trip is 40 minutes and another $2.75. Round trip, that's 70 minutes and $5.50. And that's if the bus is on time, and doesn't pass by the bus stop because it's already full. And if I need to go somewhere during the day, I have to pay to do so, and it's on someone else's schedule.
American culture is pure selfishness. It's all about "me me me" without any consideration to their community, municipality, country, state, or even country.
Because SANE people realize that they don't exist to serve the State, the State exists to serve them.
42%: oil 27%: transportation, refining, retailing and profit 13% state excise tax 6%: federal tax 4%: cap and trade tax 4%: other state and local tax 3% cleaner-burning fuel (what the hell does that mean?) 1%: low carbon fuel source (what the hell does that mean)
That's at least 27% tax. Might be 31% tax, depending on what "cleaning-burning fuel" and "low carbon fuel source" mean.
Powerful people don't use mass transit, therefore there is no priority on mass transit.
Powerful people want a society enslaved and subservient to them (the Democrats don't even hide this agenda). A good mass transit system that would make people dependent on it to get around would further that goal. Just imagine if you couldn't go anywhere unless mass transit took you there, on a scheduled dictated by the powerful, and it tracked all of your comings and goings. That would be hugely beneficial that would be for "the powerful".
It's THE PEOPLE who don't want it. I can tell you that personally, I wouldn't use it even for FREE, because it is inconvenient and unreliable. Hell, I don't think you could even pay me to use it, under present circumstances. Now, you can argue that even if I am right - if it were MADE convenient and it were MADE reliable, that people would want it. That would be true - until taxes were raised to cover the ENORMOUS expense involved to make that happen. Then they would say "fuck that!"
Laying in mass transit can work, if you're starting from scratch (your nation was bombed out, and you never developed a car culture of significance). But trying to lay it in after the fact would be so expensive and so disruptive and so unpalatable from the confiscation of private property and wholesale city redesign that would be required, a fair portion of the population will resist it - and it's not the powerful, who, in fact, would stand to gain the most since as they would control it.
If you want to do something for "the people" - promote motorcycle use every way you can. Less congestion, less parking required, etc. etc. etc. Yes, you can't drive them in the snow (easily), but if even 20% of the cars on the road commuting to work with one fucking person in them were replaced by motorcycles, that would be a huge win, for EVERYBODY.
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I gotta tell ya, someone hacking into my Bluetooth connection is about as worrisome to me me as catching my dick in Christy Brinkley's pants zipper.
It's not that hard when you require the work to be done before cutting the check to pay for it. You know....like sane people do.
Not disagreeing - but to be fair, how often do urban areas say "thank you" for food and chemicals and shit that come from rural areas?
Didn't think so.
I live in a city. I have FiOS. My service level is 1GB.
I still cannot reliably stream video without interruptions, disconnections, etc. from Amazon, Apple and YouTube.
Simply having the ability to PAY for a fast connection is hardly a panacea.
Right.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Like the floppy drive?
Or maybe the optical drive.
As long as Apple's stock price continues to rise, they could market shit sandwiches as far as I am concerned.
Eat up!!
Exactly. All three devices are perfectly compatible with Bluetooth headphones. No adapters required.
But if one insists on using wired headphones, one can simply either not update some of their stuff, or they can update all of their stuff.
Nice try.
"Colloquial" would be "I'm an average Joe" or today is "about average". In these instances, no one is expecting the speaker to be making any kind of mathematical statement.
In our case here, the speaker was referring to a population being a precise amount below the average. That's clearly mathematics, not colloquial speech.
The difference is that the microphone on my cell phone sucks and no one can hear me anyway. So no threat there.
Now - if they were to take a "smart speaker" microphone and somehow graft it on to a phone, thereby making it possible to use your phone to talk to people and have them understanding you - well, shit, then they'd have something!!
The result of all that IR shit in the bathroom is people leaving with dirty and/or wet hands most of the time, since that shit never seems to work satisfactorily.
Personally, I don't even bother TRYING to use a paper towel dispenser that uses IR - and I refuse to stand in front of an air dryer and go deaf either.
In other words, previous poster confused average with median.
Is it really such a burden to just wash your fucking hands, and work the keypad on the microwave or calculator you keep in your kitchen drawer to convert from quarts to milligrams or whatever? I mean...damn.
Yep, it's pretty useful. I can be in the kitchen cooking and just yell up at my echo to play music or change the lights. It only sends the audio back if it hears the trigger word.
Are you the guy who decided IR technology would be great in the bathroom?
"Look! Someone can just wave their hand in front of the dispenser and it will dispense! We can deploy these high tech devices in every bathroom on the planet, even though simple mechanical devices will work just fine and are actually preferred by people. This will be the greatest use of technology EVER!!!"
You have confused average with median.
I guess we know where you fall in the distribution.
No shit.
I for one don't want it either. I don't like talking to those voice assisted telephone prompts either.
I don't want to fucking talk to anything in order to use it. Hell, even on my phone, I'd rather send an email or look at a website for the info I need, rather than place a phone call.
And I DEFINITELY don't want electronics talking to ME. Just fuck that every which way!
Down with voice!! Make your voice heard!! Wait - what? Oh yeah. Down with voice!!
Thank you!
Which is all fine, until you demand that those who do NOT want it participate in paying for it.
Yeah...they can move 75mph until they get to the portion of the road that can't handle that. Then they slow down. And stop. And everything behinds them has to as well. That line of stopped traffic builds up and extends into the portion of the network where 75mph is theoretically possible. Then your fancy self-driving cars are stuck in bumper to bumper traffic just like everyone else.
If even 20% of the private vehicles on the roads were replaced by buses or rail, THAT would be a HUGE WIN FOR EVERYBODY.
No it wouldn't. The consequences of having that would be devastating for many.
In other words, we had "good" public transportation when people had no other good options.
I live a 5 minute walk from a bus stop and 4.5 miles from "downtown" Pittsburgh.
I can get to work on my motorcycle in 15 minutes and park for free. Round trip, that's 30 minutes and free (since cost of gas is virtually $0). And if I need to go somewhere during the day, I can do so, at my convenience, at no additional charge.
I can get there on the bus in 30 minutes, for $2.75. The return trip is 40 minutes and another $2.75. Round trip, that's 70 minutes and $5.50. And that's if the bus is on time, and doesn't pass by the bus stop because it's already full. And if I need to go somewhere during the day, I have to pay to do so, and it's on someone else's schedule.
Why the fuck would I take the bus?
Same reason why I'm not living large as a drug dealer, rakin' in the dough.
Money isn't everything, it's not, how I want to spend my time, and I actually have some other options available to me.
American culture is pure selfishness. It's all about "me me me" without any consideration to their community, municipality, country, state, or even country.
Because SANE people realize that they don't exist to serve the State, the State exists to serve them.
As a percentage of the pump price:
42%: oil
27%: transportation, refining, retailing and profit
13% state excise tax
6%: federal tax
4%: cap and trade tax
4%: other state and local tax
3% cleaner-burning fuel (what the hell does that mean?)
1%: low carbon fuel source (what the hell does that mean)
That's at least 27% tax. Might be 31% tax, depending on what "cleaning-burning fuel" and "low carbon fuel source" mean.
https://www.mercurynews.com/20...
Powerful people don't use mass transit, therefore there is no priority on mass transit.
Powerful people want a society enslaved and subservient to them (the Democrats don't even hide this agenda). A good mass transit system that would make people dependent on it to get around would further that goal. Just imagine if you couldn't go anywhere unless mass transit took you there, on a scheduled dictated by the powerful, and it tracked all of your comings and goings. That would be hugely beneficial that would be for "the powerful".
It's THE PEOPLE who don't want it. I can tell you that personally, I wouldn't use it even for FREE, because it is inconvenient and unreliable. Hell, I don't think you could even pay me to use it, under present circumstances. Now, you can argue that even if I am right - if it were MADE convenient and it were MADE reliable, that people would want it. That would be true - until taxes were raised to cover the ENORMOUS expense involved to make that happen. Then they would say "fuck that!"
Laying in mass transit can work, if you're starting from scratch (your nation was bombed out, and you never developed a car culture of significance). But trying to lay it in after the fact would be so expensive and so disruptive and so unpalatable from the confiscation of private property and wholesale city redesign that would be required, a fair portion of the population will resist it - and it's not the powerful, who, in fact, would stand to gain the most since as they would control it.
If you want to do something for "the people" - promote motorcycle use every way you can. Less congestion, less parking required, etc. etc. etc. Yes, you can't drive them in the snow (easily), but if even 20% of the cars on the road commuting to work with one fucking person in them were replaced by motorcycles, that would be a huge win, for EVERYBODY.