is a question Siri can't answer. Tried that yesterday eight times and had three coworkers try that each at least two times. One of the responses gave us directions to Austin, TX I assume because that is the home of Whole Foods. If AI isn't good enough to give us directions to a store a couple of blocks away, it's just useless and not even worth discussing.
Wow, really?
"Drive to Whole Foods" (or to some market I actually use) with Google voice search on Android would result in immediate directions, or "you have a few to choose from", etc.
And that's just the plain old voice search, without the "assistant" window dressing.
The Electoral College failed to fulfill its purpose in the last election.
It fulfilled it's purpose precisely, which is to dilute the electoral power of population centers and result in a true United States, not just "Big Cities and their Farming Colonies".
Same purpose as two senators per state.
Now, you may not like that purpose. But it's literally the purpose of the electoral college.
My wife has long had Sprint, I have long had T-mobile. Sprint sucks, in every conceivable way. Super pricey, awful service.
Latest Sprint example; she finally got a new phone... gave up waiting for any of the affordable phones to be "in stock" from Sprint (affordable models never "in stock", how believable is that?) and got an unlocked phone elsewhere. Got a SIM from Sprint, it took 2.5 hours on chat with Sprint support, literally, to get the stupid thing working.
Never had any problems with T-mobile. Sprint had better not screw them up.
crap that is broadcast on it all day, every day. Right wing political rants, conspiracy theorists, and religious kooks have taken over all the space between the baseball games. Every station broadcasts continuous running advertisements interrupted occasionally by "programming", which is itself mostly advertising. We have a lot of stupid people in the US, but how even they listen to that for more than a few minutes at a time?
AM radio was essentially saved by one particular "right wing ranter" who launched a phenomenally successful three hour show in 1988. Like him or hate him, it's dishonest to claim that he had anything other than a positive effect on AM radio, business-wise.
As for the rest, you are confusing cause and effect. Music, the 800 pound gorilla of radio, left for FM, for obvious reasons. Making AM affordable for more niche content. Again, AM simply would have died for real decades ago without that content coming in. You have it exactly backward.
The flagships are all pushing thinner phones with minimal bezels. F that. It's hard enough to handle a phone already without fat-fingering an edge and triggering some unwanted change.
I want a thicker, easier to handle phone, and take the room to put the headphone jack back in, along with a larger removable battery and sdcard. Bonus if you have front facing stereo speakers in the bezels (with no display notch).
That's why I have a moto E4. It does what I want it to do, is easy to handle, and doesn't have stupid stuff. (And does have a headphone jack).
If it is really that important it should be passed as a law. This is the issue with executive orders and regulations. Then next guy can just undo it. Perhaps previous administrations should have focused more on compromised laws and less on orders and regulations.
The next guy(s) can just undo a law too, just so you know. At least, that's how it's supposed to work.
The main objection here doesn't seem to be to the executive order-ness, but that it was possible to undo it at all.
Apparently decrees of Obama are like from the King of Babylon or something. Even he can't reverse them!
Voicing your concern over a policy that negatively affects you? No school for your kids.
We're already almost there. Express any concerns about your kids getting "educated" on the current government's ideas of sexual morality? You're some kind of antisocial weirdo.
... we just outsource it to private parties on social media (and often simply media media) to do the enforcement.
You can get fired for making a political contribution to a ballot initiative.
You can get thrown out of a bar for wearing a MAGA hat.
You can become public enemy #1 for "refusing to denounce" something.
You can "be" a hateful bigot for holding Bill and Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's (first term) position on marriage being for a man and a woman.
You are branded a "denier" (like a Holocaust denier, get it?? you are horrific and untouchable) for declining to believe what you have been instructed to believe about climate change. Not for actually doing anything polluting, mind you, just for refusing to offer your pinch of incense to the statue of belief.
While some of this is government driven (e.g. six figure fine for declining to bake a cake), most of it is outsourced to the private sector.
China is just more systematic and efficient about it.
What this point demonstrates that it is Liberalism, Freedom of Speech, and strong protections of Personal Rights that allow SJWs to exist.
You seem to imply that this is a bad thing. Those vary same things allow for all manner of other ideologies, advocacy groups, or people with other points of view to exist as well, many of which have little or no overlap with SJWs in terms of belifs. It's those same protections that allow you to post about it on the internet without anyone from the government kicking down your door and dragging you off to one of those reeducation camps. I would think that having to listen to some idiots whinge on the internet (where you're just as free to dispute them) is a tiny price to pay for those freedoms.
Quite agree. You might want to tell the UK though, where you can be arrested for posting a video of your dog.
It's always amusing to get modded down for posting literal facts.
Putting scare quotes around invented doesn't change the fact you're making shit up. The fact you opened with an alternaitve "fact", then doubled down with an intentional isreading means you are not arguing in good faith. There's therefore no point trying to have an actual conversation, so I'll simply highlight your lies for the benefit of other people.
I thought it was bleeding obvious that I was making a pointed joke. It never even occurred to me that someone might think it was an actual quote.
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is a question Siri can't answer. Tried that yesterday eight times and had three coworkers try that each at least two times. One of the responses gave us directions to Austin, TX I assume because that is the home of Whole Foods. If AI isn't good enough to give us directions to a store a couple of blocks away, it's just useless and not even worth discussing.
Wow, really?
"Drive to Whole Foods" (or to some market I actually use) with Google voice search on Android would result in immediate directions, or "you have a few to choose from", etc.
And that's just the plain old voice search, without the "assistant" window dressing.
Treated in utero?
But Nancy P says they aren't even people until you take them home from the hospital!
What does PSA in the headline mean?
Public Service Announcement
Walmart.com has 2-day free shipping [f]or free without any membership dues. There is a $35/min order amount to qualify.
Well, Amazon has free shipping too if you meet the minimum order. No membership dues.
That's the whole point of Prime (the shipping portion, anyway), you get the free shipping without needing the minimum purchase.
The Electoral College failed to fulfill its purpose in the last election.
It fulfilled it's purpose precisely, which is to dilute the electoral power of population centers and result in a true United States, not just "Big Cities and their Farming Colonies".
Same purpose as two senators per state.
Now, you may not like that purpose. But it's literally the purpose of the electoral college.
... it had better be T-mobile that runs the show.
My wife has long had Sprint, I have long had T-mobile. Sprint sucks, in every conceivable way. Super pricey, awful service.
Latest Sprint example; she finally got a new phone ... gave up waiting for any of the affordable phones to be "in stock" from Sprint (affordable models never "in stock", how believable is that?) and got an unlocked phone elsewhere. Got a SIM from Sprint, it took 2.5 hours on chat with Sprint support, literally, to get the stupid thing working.
Never had any problems with T-mobile. Sprint had better not screw them up.
crap that is broadcast on it all day, every day. Right wing political rants, conspiracy theorists, and religious kooks have taken over all the space between the baseball games. Every station broadcasts continuous running advertisements interrupted occasionally by "programming", which is itself mostly advertising. We have a lot of stupid people in the US, but how even they listen to that for more than a few minutes at a time?
AM radio was essentially saved by one particular "right wing ranter" who launched a phenomenally successful three hour show in 1988. Like him or hate him, it's dishonest to claim that he had anything other than a positive effect on AM radio, business-wise.
As for the rest, you are confusing cause and effect. Music, the 800 pound gorilla of radio, left for FM, for obvious reasons. Making AM affordable for more niche content. Again, AM simply would have died for real decades ago without that content coming in. You have it exactly backward.
I agree, when has "abstinence only" sex ed ever worked?
If you think the specific content is the point, you missed the point.
The flagships are all pushing thinner phones with minimal bezels. F that. It's hard enough to handle a phone already without fat-fingering an edge and triggering some unwanted change. I want a thicker, easier to handle phone, and take the room to put the headphone jack back in, along with a larger removable battery and sdcard. Bonus if you have front facing stereo speakers in the bezels (with no display notch).
That's why I have a moto E4. It does what I want it to do, is easy to handle, and doesn't have stupid stuff. (And does have a headphone jack).
The entire launch was triggered with the touch of a button, 5 kilometers away at an office of the National Weather Service (NWS).
Dang, 5km away!! Tell me more about these robot computer thingies!
If it is really that important it should be passed as a law. This is the issue with executive orders and regulations. Then next guy can just undo it. Perhaps previous administrations should have focused more on compromised laws and less on orders and regulations.
The next guy(s) can just undo a law too, just so you know. At least, that's how it's supposed to work.
The main objection here doesn't seem to be to the executive order-ness, but that it was possible to undo it at all.
Apparently decrees of Obama are like from the King of Babylon or something. Even he can't reverse them!
In other news, Drew's composite girlfriend was unavailable for comment.
Look at some of the current people in our government.
The problem with your idea is that those are the people who would decide what your "social score" is.
You mean, if you build this kind of apparatus, politicians you don't like might get to use it in the future? No way!!
Voicing your concern over a policy that negatively affects you? No school for your kids.
We're already almost there. Express any concerns about your kids getting "educated" on the current government's ideas of sexual morality? You're some kind of antisocial weirdo.
... we just outsource it to private parties on social media (and often simply media media) to do the enforcement.
While some of this is government driven (e.g. six figure fine for declining to bake a cake), most of it is outsourced to the private sector.
China is just more systematic and efficient about it.
Maybe he could become an artist or something... hat tip Nancy Pelosi
This time it's half? Last week it was something else.
Nobody really knows.
Buses seem like a prime application, limited range, slow speed.
More gas for the rest of us :)
And just to be crystal clear, my "alternate headline" was not an actual headline in any publication. It was a pointed use of humor.
What this point demonstrates that it is Liberalism, Freedom of Speech, and strong protections of Personal Rights that allow SJWs to exist.
You seem to imply that this is a bad thing. Those vary same things allow for all manner of other ideologies, advocacy groups, or people with other points of view to exist as well, many of which have little or no overlap with SJWs in terms of belifs. It's those same protections that allow you to post about it on the internet without anyone from the government kicking down your door and dragging you off to one of those reeducation camps. I would think that having to listen to some idiots whinge on the internet (where you're just as free to dispute them) is a tiny price to pay for those freedoms.
Quite agree. You might want to tell the UK though, where you can be arrested for posting a video of your dog.
It's always amusing to get modded down for posting literal facts.
Better than getting arrested, I guess.
So you're saying that this is the diversity you had in mind?
So you're not denying your original post was a lie. I mean who cares if it's a lie if it feels right, eh?
I thought it was bleeding obvious that it was a pointed joke. Never even occurred to me that someone might think it was an actual quote.
So my "invented" quote
Putting scare quotes around invented doesn't change the fact you're making shit up. The fact you opened with an alternaitve "fact", then doubled down with an intentional isreading means you are not arguing in good faith. There's therefore no point trying to have an actual conversation, so I'll simply highlight your lies for the benefit of other people.
I thought it was bleeding obvious that I was making a pointed joke. It never even occurred to me that someone might think it was an actual quote.
Why am I even bothering to explain this?
There isn't any kind of social consensus that discrimination is a bad thing (though plenty of people think it is), so don't expect it to change soon.
People openly stare and point at physical disabilities too. It's another world.
So my "invented" quote is in fact what the activists think.
China has shot far ahead of the US on deep-learning patents
Well, sure, they have the computer programmer's motivators, so ...