If there was an affordable robot that could clean and dust my house; I would buy it. If it could do my laundry including ironing and folding then wash, dry, and put away my dishes I'd pay even more. If it then could also feed my cat and clean her litter, that would be the single most useful thing I own. If it could cook my meals, wash my car and take out my garbage I would lose that ability to live with out it. if it could drive me to work then do the shopping and fill my gas tank then drive back to my house and put the groceries away then return for me at the end of my day I might never drive to work again. If it could do all of those think I wouldn't care if it looked like Rosie from the Jet-sons, a Terminator T-800, or a Mr. Handy from Fallout.
"James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron!" - James Cameron (as portrayed on South Park)
It was space aliens. Ancient civilizations were all developed by space aliens who came to Earth for some unknown reason, and decided to teach us everything.
it's a pity they stopped before before giving us the tools, knowledge, resources, and plans for an interstellar vessel.
I knew you were going to make that mistake, but I wasn't sure warning you was the right thing to do.
Warning them would have violated causality and could have created a paradox leading to the destruction of our world, however, it's Monday morning and there is a security policies meeting I don't want to be included in, so go ahead.
this gives me an idea for a device that would use speech recognition to detect profanities.
it could be an android pda in a box, rigged with a flashing light and a siren that would go off if they detected a profanity.
John Spartan, you are fined five credits for repeated violations of the verbal morality statute.
At very least, there should be some requirement for parents to authorize the in-game purchases and limit spending on them on a per-game basis.
There is another way, an iTunes allowance which prevents over spending be creating a separate bucket of funds automatically incremented each month with $10 - $50.
Having increased my morning commute from 10 minutes to 1.5 to 2.5 hours, given the choice between even 20 KM below the speed limit and stopping and starting several times I would rather keep moving.
This is a definite limitation of phonics biased reading for some people, I learned to read with phonics and my spelling is terrible. When I was in grade 8 I received a standardized test that was designed to determine the spelling and reading comprehension acres the province. I scored 98% in reading comprehension which was rated at a university level and 2% on the spelling section which was rated as grade a grade 4 level.
My spellcheck has suggested corrections for 9 words in this post.
Other than a very high level overview of scamming techniques, what are you going to teach people in schools that will be relevant for the next 60+ years of their life?
Healthy skepticism, sprinkled with a little paranoia
If you could prove a statistically significant savings of life I'd have no objections, however, I'm tired of the recent string of laws designed to roads safer but only serve to make it look like politicians are doing something positive. Forcing a law through that could potentiality save 100s of lives but inconveniences all driver is a mistake if the 100s of lives amount to less than 0.0001% of the people driving.
On a related note, ever notice how each company or organization will use a different term for a Powerpoint Presentation?
Slides
Charts
Foils
etc.
I've seen debates on THAT! One of those things you never notice until someone points it out to you. Then you can never unsee it!
When out company was purchased by an American the new executives started requesting decks after two meeting in our office and a Google search we realized they were talking about Power Point.
This isn't a parody and it's still not infringing. Best Buy couldn't make an argument that any of their consumers might confuse God Squad with Geek Squad.
I think the reverse would be far worse...
My last service call was shit, I had to install a router, set up the wireless, baptize a small child, configure 3 laptops, and perform last rights on a NT 4 box.
You had the whole set up but missed the punchline:
...Hey look a black helicopter, what's with this strange red dot? At any rate, I highly douQ!##0!XQ. ATZ+++ NO CARRIER
If the post ended with NO CARRIER, then who would have hit Preview and then Submit, I doubt that assassins after crossing Lake Ontario and assassinating me would have bothered to submit my post, unless they waited for a reply then replied to it as me to divert suspicion from them. That will be all citizens, go about you day completely unaware of your puppet-masters true identity and drink lost of Sprite, this months black ops sponsor.
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It would make for better TV too.
If Apple doesn't set the prices, how can they fix the prices?
If you're not gonna spend it, they'll need to tax it. So start spending, or we'll have to try Socialism. :-P
What do so many Americans have such fear/hatred of Socialism?
"Eh, you never know what you're capable of. I never thought I could shoot down a German plane, but last year I proved myself wrong." - Abe J. Simpson
If there was an affordable robot that could clean and dust my house; I would buy it. If it could do my laundry including ironing and folding then wash, dry, and put away my dishes I'd pay even more. If it then could also feed my cat and clean her litter, that would be the single most useful thing I own. If it could cook my meals, wash my car and take out my garbage I would lose that ability to live with out it. if it could drive me to work then do the shopping and fill my gas tank then drive back to my house and put the groceries away then return for me at the end of my day I might never drive to work again. If it could do all of those think I wouldn't care if it looked like Rosie from the Jet-sons, a Terminator T-800, or a Mr. Handy from Fallout.
The 2nd law of robotics (robots must obey humans) trumps the 3rd law (self preservation)
This is the issue I've always had with the 3 laws, why can't we value all sentient life (both organic and synthetic) with equal respect.
"James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron!" - James Cameron (as portrayed on South Park)
It was space aliens. Ancient civilizations were all developed by space aliens who came to Earth for some unknown reason, and decided to teach us everything.
it's a pity they stopped before before giving us the tools, knowledge, resources, and plans for an interstellar vessel.
I knew you were going to make that mistake, but I wasn't sure warning you was the right thing to do.
Warning them would have violated causality and could have created a paradox leading to the destruction of our world, however, it's Monday morning and there is a security policies meeting I don't want to be included in, so go ahead.
What's left to actually own?
your debts
Maybe AOL can become relevant by being a start-up hotel?
FTFY.
FTFY.
this gives me an idea for a device that would use speech recognition to detect profanities. it could be an android pda in a box, rigged with a flashing light and a siren that would go off if they detected a profanity.
John Spartan, you are fined five credits for repeated violations of the verbal morality statute.
At very least, there should be some requirement for parents to authorize the in-game purchases and limit spending on them on a per-game basis.
There is another way, an iTunes allowance which prevents over spending be creating a separate bucket of funds automatically incremented each month with $10 - $50.
Having increased my morning commute from 10 minutes to 1.5 to 2.5 hours, given the choice between even 20 KM below the speed limit and stopping and starting several times I would rather keep moving.
This is a definite limitation of phonics biased reading for some people, I learned to read with phonics and my spelling is terrible. When I was in grade 8 I received a standardized test that was designed to determine the spelling and reading comprehension acres the province. I scored 98% in reading comprehension which was rated at a university level and 2% on the spelling section which was rated as grade a grade 4 level. My spellcheck has suggested corrections for 9 words in this post.
I here Vancouver is very nice.
What about directory assistance?
Other than a very high level overview of scamming techniques, what are you going to teach people in schools that will be relevant for the next 60+ years of their life?
Healthy skepticism, sprinkled with a little paranoia
If you could prove a statistically significant savings of life I'd have no objections, however, I'm tired of the recent string of laws designed to roads safer but only serve to make it look like politicians are doing something positive. Forcing a law through that could potentiality save 100s of lives but inconveniences all driver is a mistake if the 100s of lives amount to less than 0.0001% of the people driving.
will this bring peace to a world raggled by the google apple wars ?
More likely it's just another sign of the coming zombie apocalypse.
On a related note, ever notice how each company or organization will use a different term for a Powerpoint Presentation?
Slides Charts Foils etc.
I've seen debates on THAT! One of those things you never notice until someone points it out to you. Then you can never unsee it!
When out company was purchased by an American the new executives started requesting decks after two meeting in our office and a Google search we realized they were talking about Power Point.
What does stupidity have to do with "common courtesy"?
This isn't a parody and it's still not infringing. Best Buy couldn't make an argument that any of their consumers might confuse God Squad with Geek Squad.
I think the reverse would be far worse... My last service call was shit, I had to install a router, set up the wireless, baptize a small child, configure 3 laptops, and perform last rights on a NT 4 box.
At least with Verizon I can say "fuck you" and cancel my service.I don't know how to do that with Congress.
Like this
You had the whole set up but missed the punchline:
...Hey look a black helicopter, what's with this strange red dot? At any rate, I highly douQ!##0!XQ. ATZ+++ NO CARRIER
If the post ended with NO CARRIER, then who would have hit Preview and then Submit, I doubt that assassins after crossing Lake Ontario and assassinating me would have bothered to submit my post, unless they waited for a reply then replied to it as me to divert suspicion from them. That will be all citizens, go about you day completely unaware of your puppet-masters true identity and drink lost of Sprite, this months black ops sponsor.