And you use kerosene lanterns all the time, or just break them out for outages? I've got lanterns and flashlights squirreled away too, that's not going to change if I happen to smartify my home.
I don't know, think about how many toolbars that gigbit internet could handle? The average user could have 10, no 20 different toolbars installed, and still not notice any degeneration of service.
I could see some automation being nice if you traveled a lot, or if you had a large house. For instance, an RFID tag that would adjust the temperature of the room that you are in, while letting the rest of the house be a little hotter/cooler depending on the season. If you have a single bedroom apartment, that's not that good of a feature, but if you have a two story home with multiple rooms? The ability to adjust each room independently could be worthwhile, and having each room adjust to when it is actually being used (with a manual over ride of course) would be nice.
Wouldn't any holodeck be self cleaning? All it would need to do is create a field starting at the outer boundary, and shrink it down, lifting any... stains... that happen to have accumulated off the outer walls, until it has everything in a ball a tthe center. It then would move that ball of... stains... to what ever it uses for garbage collection, or simply incinerates it mid air.
In defense of the Roomba, I don't think it was ever meant to replace your upright. You run the roomba every other night, and instead of using the upright every week, maybe you can get away with every other week, or even every three weeks.
If I want music, I either ask the artist(label/store/merch guy/whatever) for the music, or I download it illegally. Aside from Apple sending U2's new ablum to everybody (which was done for free mind you) is a musician forcing themselves on you?
So what you are saying, is that even though the law is specifically stating that only a gay parade is illegal, it's not discrimination since straight people haven't tried to hold their own parade?
By that logic, we could pass a law that states that only blacks are not allowed to smoke crack. Since whites don't smoke crack, it's not a discriminatory law.
Likewise, what about those of us that find it difficult to fall asleep at a decent hour in order to wake up at five or six in the morning so we can make it in to the office at 8?
You tell me I have to come in at 8 in the morning, and I'll only get five hours of sleep a night. You tell me to come in at noon, and suddenly I'm getting a full nights sleep and able to stay awake and do my job without issue.
I don't believe in the government deciding who can or can't get married. However, that doesn't mean that the government doesn't have certain interests in a household. For instance, when it comes matters in custody of children and inheritance. We have laws that dictate these kids of matters in relation to marriage.
I would much rather see the government drop marriage from teh language and develop domestic partnerships. Essentially contracts between people, regardless of whether or not they wish to engage in a religious ceremony or have sex with each other, that are stating that they are coming together for the purpose of maintaining a household. There should be different types of contracts, for instance, one could be just for people that wish to be room mates and would like to jointly file tax returns or share some of the benefits. Another could be for people that wish to combine assets, declare that one will inherit the goods of the other, and other such things that you now have with a marriage. Each could be easily dissolvable and should include set automatic expiration based on the level, but be as easy to renew as your car registration
This way the government no longer cares about who is in love with who, or what happens behind closed doors, and they can stick with what they should be regulating, while letting the religious leaders say who can and cannot get married within their own religion, and leave everybody else alone.
gay marriage can increase health care costs since it increases the possible number of individuals your plan has to cover, but otherwise, you are correct.
You can either have an equality of treatment, or an equality of outcome.
You can't treat everybody the same and expect everybody to come to the same outcome since everybody is different. If you want the same outcome, you have to start treating some people different from others.
I remember when I saw a feminist on 60 minutes or something several years ago. She was upset that there weren't enough women on the FDNY. The problem was that anybody looking to join was given equal treatment and asked to pass the same test. This test included a strength test. The fire department stated that if you aren't strong enough to quickly chop down a door or wall, or to carry a hose or body up and down a ladder, you can't be a fireman, and thus equal treatment. The feminist stated that they needed to change things to that women could be firemen and not have to be strong (no mention of weak men mind you), as she sought an equality of outcomes.
While an equality of outcomes may be a wondrous thing if it could be possible, the downside is that it leads capable people being pass over for less capable, which in turn leads to more people trapped in burning buildings.
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Is that one vote per smartphone?
Because you can't have a guy contracted to do just that...
And you use kerosene lanterns all the time, or just break them out for outages? I've got lanterns and flashlights squirreled away too, that's not going to change if I happen to smartify my home.
300K for a home isn't exactly backwater
I don't know, think about how many toolbars that gigbit internet could handle? The average user could have 10, no 20 different toolbars installed, and still not notice any degeneration of service.
That's why I only use clean burning propane. Taste the meat, not the heat, I tell you what.
google device manager is your friend
I could see some automation being nice if you traveled a lot, or if you had a large house. For instance, an RFID tag that would adjust the temperature of the room that you are in, while letting the rest of the house be a little hotter/cooler depending on the season. If you have a single bedroom apartment, that's not that good of a feature, but if you have a two story home with multiple rooms? The ability to adjust each room independently could be worthwhile, and having each room adjust to when it is actually being used (with a manual over ride of course) would be nice.
or at the worst, you just get a program that creates a maid to clean it for you.
Wouldn't any holodeck be self cleaning? All it would need to do is create a field starting at the outer boundary, and shrink it down, lifting any... stains... that happen to have accumulated off the outer walls, until it has everything in a ball a tthe center. It then would move that ball of... stains... to what ever it uses for garbage collection, or simply incinerates it mid air.
Does your home work during a power outage now?
In defense of the Roomba, I don't think it was ever meant to replace your upright. You run the roomba every other night, and instead of using the upright every week, maybe you can get away with every other week, or even every three weeks.
If I want music, I either ask the artist(label/store/merch guy/whatever) for the music, or I download it illegally. Aside from Apple sending U2's new ablum to everybody (which was done for free mind you) is a musician forcing themselves on you?
Of course, the government probably thinks that they did get him for the worst of his crimes.
Or pedophilia, but only so long as you have a successful film career
By that logic, we could pass a law that states that only blacks are not allowed to smoke crack. Since whites don't smoke crack, it's not a discriminatory law.
Or be the ones in power with the ability to arrest people and hand down sentences.
Oh, I get it, they weren't arresting people.
You tell me I have to come in at 8 in the morning, and I'll only get five hours of sleep a night. You tell me to come in at noon, and suddenly I'm getting a full nights sleep and able to stay awake and do my job without issue.
I would much rather see the government drop marriage from teh language and develop domestic partnerships. Essentially contracts between people, regardless of whether or not they wish to engage in a religious ceremony or have sex with each other, that are stating that they are coming together for the purpose of maintaining a household. There should be different types of contracts, for instance, one could be just for people that wish to be room mates and would like to jointly file tax returns or share some of the benefits. Another could be for people that wish to combine assets, declare that one will inherit the goods of the other, and other such things that you now have with a marriage. Each could be easily dissolvable and should include set automatic expiration based on the level, but be as easy to renew as your car registration
This way the government no longer cares about who is in love with who, or what happens behind closed doors, and they can stick with what they should be regulating, while letting the religious leaders say who can and cannot get married within their own religion, and leave everybody else alone.
gay marriage can increase health care costs since it increases the possible number of individuals your plan has to cover, but otherwise, you are correct.
He could have timed it to happen along with anything else that happened in Washington.
"Obamacare passed, sorry about your job"
"They built a wall across the border, no more cheap labor at site A means layoffs at site B"
"TSA groped me and you look like the agent that did it, you're fired!"
How long does it take to convert your ill-gotten gains into bitcoins and then dump the merchant account you created using a stolen ID?
I would suggest that their best course of action is to just give PUSH the finger and tell them to shut up.
You can't treat everybody the same and expect everybody to come to the same outcome since everybody is different. If you want the same outcome, you have to start treating some people different from others.
I remember when I saw a feminist on 60 minutes or something several years ago. She was upset that there weren't enough women on the FDNY. The problem was that anybody looking to join was given equal treatment and asked to pass the same test. This test included a strength test. The fire department stated that if you aren't strong enough to quickly chop down a door or wall, or to carry a hose or body up and down a ladder, you can't be a fireman, and thus equal treatment. The feminist stated that they needed to change things to that women could be firemen and not have to be strong (no mention of weak men mind you), as she sought an equality of outcomes.
While an equality of outcomes may be a wondrous thing if it could be possible, the downside is that it leads capable people being pass over for less capable, which in turn leads to more people trapped in burning buildings.