Unfortunately for New Zealand, Ultrafast is relative. They're at the end of the cable. New Zealand connects to Australia which connects to Asia which connects to Europe and North America.
Since many websites are hosted on severs on "the other end of the cable" they have to bounce around many servers and potential bottlenecks before they get to the server they seek. Sites based in the US and Europe may still take a long time to load for the kiwis.
Connecting your smart home, light bulbs, etc, to Alexa, that's when it gets rather useful.
But why would I want to _talk_ at something to control these devices versus just pushing a button on a remote control, or using a smartphone app?
In the kitchen and hands covered in raw chicken. In bed, and it's dark instead of fumbling for the ceiling fan/light remote. If you're like me, when you get home you don't carry your phone around with you. You probably don't have a phone or a remote control within easy reach all the time.
I'm not saying that it is a necessity- you can just walk to the light switch... but it is useful and a convenience to be able to bark out commands instead of having to physically flip a switch.
To be honest, I don't expect the home voice assistant in 10 years to resemble the current one much, but it is more than a fad. This isn't like the tablet which was basically an inconvenient hybrid of a smart phone and a laptop- the home assistant like Echo, and Google Home is a new market and is surprisingly useful. Totally unnecessary, but useful.
Now, Voice assistants on your phone or PC... yeah... those are rather useless. Connecting your smart home, light bulbs, etc, to Alexa, that's when it gets rather useful. I use it every single day.
If you're just getting an echo dot for the "meow meow" skill, you'll get bored after driving your cats crazy a few times, but when it actually controls things around your home, that's another story.
Honestly, no I don't, I suspect it's lower than that. I suspect 40% is "his base" + "ideologues who would always vote republican no matter how bad the candidate- as long as he's not a democrat".
I think his base is very different to the traditional left vs right.
If you think of the traditional politics grid with the x axis being a left-right economic political opinion and the y axis being an authoritarian top to a libertarian bottom, his base is all those that have a strong authoritarian bend, regardless of whether they are to the left or the right on the economic scale. (he's actually to the left of Clinton on an economic front by many counts).
There are democrats and republicans who lean authoritarian. They are both his base.
I live in a red state, I know mostly republicans. Most of the people I know personally who are republican hate Trump. In my office there is me, a centrist who almost always votes 3rd party, a couple of die hard democrats, and the rest are republicans of various degrees of intensity. The republicans in the office hate him the most.
I'm not sure where the Trump supporters are, but they must be somewhere since he took our state.
Trump isn't someone you sit on the fence about. Either you think he's an infallible god in human form, or you think he's one of the most reprehensible, people on the planet.
I don't know many people who have an opinion somewhere in between those two extremes.
If schools were not paid for the students if too many (or too few) made "A" or "B" (I'm talking about as an entire school, not per class) then they would be incentivized to not allow a grade inflation.
Personally I don't get the whole obsession that some people have over the comparison between Obamas first inauguration and Trumps. I mean I get the agenda that they are trying to push but you really can't legitimately compare the two. It is outright disingenuous, one being a historical event of the first black president in US history and the other we are back to same oll same oll with one out of two of the most disliked candidates in US history.
If anything they should have compared Obamas second term inauguration turnout with Trumps. It would have been a significantly more meaningful comparison but it would not have been the chest beating that they where aiming for.
Obama's inauguration was historic, as the first President with African ancestry it was a big occasion. Trump's inauguration was even more historic though, it was the last democratically elected President the US will ever have.
A lot of blacks prefer the term black to African American. I suspect you're being called racist because of the sentiment behind your differentiation, or tone rather than choice of descriptor.
Most people aren't going to be offended by "black, African American, or Person of color" as long as it is said with respect and the underlying message you're trying to portray is not racist or disparaging. If the message you're trying to portray is racist you'll likely be called out for it no matter what term you use.
Are they lies if his voter base laps it up and calls them the truth?
The majority of Americans (that's 40% btw) who support him think he can't tell a lie. To him, he's Abraham Lincoln, but with better hair so he doesn't need a hat.
Sounds similar to my LG G2, although, I never bothered replacing the screen as the phone was 2 years old and I figured I could probably get a new phone for close to the repair price.
My previous phone was an LG, and whereas I loved it, it didn't last over 2 years for me. It was great for about two years, then I would get ghost touches, a deadspot that wouldn't respond to any touches, and it started turning off if anyone texted me and I had 15% or less battery left.
That last one was bizarre, if I had 15% or less power and someone sent me a text... zip- phone turned off. Before the two year anniversary phone was great though and I had full intention to buy another because it went 2 years without a problem. Went with a Motorola instead, and I'm really enjoying that so far.
I like what someone suggested above- cost is determined based on your grade point average. Maintain all A's and it's free. Have all C's or a C average and you pay full price. If you can't maintain a high grade, perhaps you shouldn't be in school.
I also think the USA should do away with socialized sport. College sports moves focus away from academics in Universities and moves it on athletics, giving scholarships and grants to people who really don't belong in University and are taking the place of someone who could actually use a degree. The socialized sports program is an unnecessary distraction from learning and education, what universities are supposed to be about.
The US, has a hard time keeping minor league and privately owned smaller sports teams in business because their socialized sports programs take away business from the smaller teams. It's not like other countries where private sports teams can survive well over 100 years in lower leagues with out collapsing. Average age of a minor league sports team is less than 10 years. Their socialist sports agenda- making sports part of government run entities kills the private sports teams.
If private universities want to have big stadiums and spectator attended matches, I can't argue with that. State run universities should not be about promoting socialized sports. It is an unfair government run business that impacts private teams and smaller private universities who frequently have to run a sports program at a huge loss to have "status" compared to the socialized state run teams.
Perhaps they should be harder to get into. There is no reason that someone who is going to be a hairdresser or a sales clerk needs a college degree. Ability, not money, should determine which of our population is educated to a higher level.
Yes, that was my partially my point. For the spirit of the constitution (well regulated militia) that suggests an armed populace, and is believed to be intended as a deterrent to government abuse. Hand guns aren't going to scare the military.
You'd save more lives banning hand guns then you would banning automatic weapons too. Sure, you wouldn't stop the mass shootings where automatics are frequently used, but the mass shootings are really an anomaly and make up a very tiny fraction of gun crime... it's just the crime that the media likes to focus on. Most gun crime is committed using smaller hand guns.
When one person earning was the norm, you could save up to buy a house without a mortgage because comparatively they cost less. There were no subscriptions. No cable bills, no ISP bills, no cell phone bills. You might have a phone bill, but that was one bill for the family. People didn't have as much STUFF. No drier, no freezer, no computer, no cell phone, no router, no alexa, no dvr, Kids had a handful of toys, there was no drive for them to have a thousand bits of plastic. Doctors and insurance weren't so driven to greed you could afford to go to a doctor without insurance.
We have dual-income households now but, houses cost more, we have subscription payments which syphon money each month, we have more stuff, and healthcare costs a HUGE chunk of our salary now.
If you're willing to cut subscriptions, and crap out of your life most people could probably go back to single parent households.
In the future everyone will be a polygamist because 3 parent income is needed to pay for everything we "need",
I agree, that it would be nice if every administration used the same metric. If they did it would be more meaningful, but you have to be careful. Just because someone doesn't work doesn't mean they want to.
In the 1950s the number of married women you didn't work was very high. Even today, a lot of married women (and a number of married men) don't work. Just because someone is of age to work doesn't mean they want to work.
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Unfortunately for New Zealand, Ultrafast is relative. They're at the end of the cable. New Zealand connects to Australia which connects to Asia which connects to Europe and North America.
Since many websites are hosted on severs on "the other end of the cable" they have to bounce around many servers and potential bottlenecks before they get to the server they seek. Sites based in the US and Europe may still take a long time to load for the kiwis.
I hope not, pidgin has helped people from different cultures communicate for centuries.
No, Congress is an example of cockroaches remote controlling humans.
This is obviously a ploy for funding. This is junk science at it's peak.
Not necessarily so. There have been remote control cockroaches for several years now.
One day they'll malfunction and start digging into people's brains.
That won't be a malfunction.
Connecting your smart home, light bulbs, etc, to Alexa, that's when it gets rather useful.
But why would I want to _talk_ at something to control these devices versus just pushing a button on a remote control, or using a smartphone app?
In the kitchen and hands covered in raw chicken.
In bed, and it's dark instead of fumbling for the ceiling fan/light remote.
If you're like me, when you get home you don't carry your phone around with you. You probably don't have a phone or a remote control within easy reach all the time.
I'm not saying that it is a necessity- you can just walk to the light switch... but it is useful and a convenience to be able to bark out commands instead of having to physically flip a switch.
A Fad... just like smart phones.
To be honest, I don't expect the home voice assistant in 10 years to resemble the current one much, but it is more than a fad. This isn't like the tablet which was basically an inconvenient hybrid of a smart phone and a laptop- the home assistant like Echo, and Google Home is a new market and is surprisingly useful. Totally unnecessary, but useful.
Now, Voice assistants on your phone or PC... yeah... those are rather useless. Connecting your smart home, light bulbs, etc, to Alexa, that's when it gets rather useful. I use it every single day.
If you're just getting an echo dot for the "meow meow" skill, you'll get bored after driving your cats crazy a few times, but when it actually controls things around your home, that's another story.
I have doctors in the family- the loans were paid off within a few years.
Honestly, no I don't, I suspect it's lower than that. I suspect 40% is "his base" + "ideologues who would always vote republican no matter how bad the candidate- as long as he's not a democrat".
I think his base is very different to the traditional left vs right.
If you think of the traditional politics grid with the x axis being a left-right economic political opinion and the y axis being an authoritarian top to a libertarian bottom, his base is all those that have a strong authoritarian bend, regardless of whether they are to the left or the right on the economic scale. (he's actually to the left of Clinton on an economic front by many counts).
There are democrats and republicans who lean authoritarian. They are both his base.
I live in a red state, I know mostly republicans. Most of the people I know personally who are republican hate Trump. In my office there is me, a centrist who almost always votes 3rd party, a couple of die hard democrats, and the rest are republicans of various degrees of intensity. The republicans in the office hate him the most.
I'm not sure where the Trump supporters are, but they must be somewhere since he took our state.
Trump isn't someone you sit on the fence about. Either you think he's an infallible god in human form, or you think he's one of the most reprehensible, people on the planet.
I don't know many people who have an opinion somewhere in between those two extremes.
If schools were not paid for the students if too many (or too few) made "A" or "B" (I'm talking about as an entire school, not per class) then they would be incentivized to not allow a grade inflation.
Personally I don't get the whole obsession that some people have over the comparison between Obamas first inauguration and Trumps. I mean I get the agenda that they are trying to push but you really can't legitimately compare the two. It is outright disingenuous, one being a historical event of the first black president in US history and the other we are back to same oll same oll with one out of two of the most disliked candidates in US history.
If anything they should have compared Obamas second term inauguration turnout with Trumps. It would have been a significantly more meaningful comparison but it would not have been the chest beating that they where aiming for.
Obama's inauguration was historic, as the first President with African ancestry it was a big occasion. Trump's inauguration was even more historic though, it was the last democratically elected President the US will ever have.
A lot of blacks prefer the term black to African American. I suspect you're being called racist because of the sentiment behind your differentiation, or tone rather than choice of descriptor.
Most people aren't going to be offended by "black, African American, or Person of color" as long as it is said with respect and the underlying message you're trying to portray is not racist or disparaging. If the message you're trying to portray is racist you'll likely be called out for it no matter what term you use.
Are they lies if his voter base laps it up and calls them the truth?
The majority of Americans (that's 40% btw) who support him think he can't tell a lie. To him, he's Abraham Lincoln, but with better hair so he doesn't need a hat.
Sounds similar to my LG G2, although, I never bothered replacing the screen as the phone was 2 years old and I figured I could probably get a new phone for close to the repair price.
My previous phone was an LG, and whereas I loved it, it didn't last over 2 years for me. It was great for about two years, then I would get ghost touches, a deadspot that wouldn't respond to any touches, and it started turning off if anyone texted me and I had 15% or less battery left.
That last one was bizarre, if I had 15% or less power and someone sent me a text... zip- phone turned off. Before the two year anniversary phone was great though and I had full intention to buy another because it went 2 years without a problem. Went with a Motorola instead, and I'm really enjoying that so far.
I like what someone suggested above- cost is determined based on your grade point average. Maintain all A's and it's free. Have all C's or a C average and you pay full price. If you can't maintain a high grade, perhaps you shouldn't be in school.
I also think the USA should do away with socialized sport. College sports moves focus away from academics in Universities and moves it on athletics, giving scholarships and grants to people who really don't belong in University and are taking the place of someone who could actually use a degree. The socialized sports program is an unnecessary distraction from learning and education, what universities are supposed to be about.
The US, has a hard time keeping minor league and privately owned smaller sports teams in business because their socialized sports programs take away business from the smaller teams. It's not like other countries where private sports teams can survive well over 100 years in lower leagues with out collapsing. Average age of a minor league sports team is less than 10 years. Their socialist sports agenda- making sports part of government run entities kills the private sports teams.
If private universities want to have big stadiums and spectator attended matches, I can't argue with that. State run universities should not be about promoting socialized sports. It is an unfair government run business that impacts private teams and smaller private universities who frequently have to run a sports program at a huge loss to have "status" compared to the socialized state run teams.
Perhaps they should be harder to get into. There is no reason that someone who is going to be a hairdresser or a sales clerk needs a college degree. Ability, not money, should determine which of our population is educated to a higher level.
Yes, that was my partially my point. For the spirit of the constitution (well regulated militia) that suggests an armed populace, and is believed to be intended as a deterrent to government abuse. Hand guns aren't going to scare the military.
You'd save more lives banning hand guns then you would banning automatic weapons too. Sure, you wouldn't stop the mass shootings where automatics are frequently used, but the mass shootings are really an anomaly and make up a very tiny fraction of gun crime... it's just the crime that the media likes to focus on. Most gun crime is committed using smaller hand guns.
When one person earning was the norm, you could save up to buy a house without a mortgage because comparatively they cost less. There were no subscriptions. No cable bills, no ISP bills, no cell phone bills. You might have a phone bill, but that was one bill for the family. People didn't have as much STUFF. No drier, no freezer, no computer, no cell phone, no router, no alexa, no dvr, Kids had a handful of toys, there was no drive for them to have a thousand bits of plastic. Doctors and insurance weren't so driven to greed you could afford to go to a doctor without insurance.
We have dual-income households now but, houses cost more, we have subscription payments which syphon money each month, we have more stuff, and healthcare costs a HUGE chunk of our salary now.
If you're willing to cut subscriptions, and crap out of your life most people could probably go back to single parent households.
In the future everyone will be a polygamist because 3 parent income is needed to pay for everything we "need",
The advantage of the sharks is it keeps the rednecks from Tasmania off the main land too.
There's a digital stamp going into a computer somewhere recording when you entered the country if that makes you feel any better.
The NSA regulary takes my biometric data, such as, the size of my anal cavity.
10 points to whoever spots the first space Nazi on the video streams.
I agree, that it would be nice if every administration used the same metric. If they did it would be more meaningful, but you have to be careful. Just because someone doesn't work doesn't mean they want to.
In the 1950s the number of married women you didn't work was very high. Even today, a lot of married women (and a number of married men) don't work. Just because someone is of age to work doesn't mean they want to work.