This isn’t about what anyone has experienced. This is a contest to dream up the scariest story about the future, then trick angry, easily manipulated internet followers into believing it and forming an online lynch mob.
For politics, for power, for contributions, for Google and Netflix corporate convenience.
I wonder why Woz is involved. Does he really believe the stories? Is he easy to manipulate?
So you’re saying you can’t imagine anything else happening, even though the thing you insist must be happening is undetectable. In other words, you are guessing based on an incomplete understanding of the overall system.
How am I exaggerating? I said it's making them stronger and more destructive which is true. Right now it's marginal (to our instruments) but it's still 100% true.
The experts you cited said your statement could not be responsibly made at this time. The differences in storm strength are not significant. Meaning they can’t be determined to be other than regular random variations.
No, some people in the US want out of the Paris agreement because they are being told that they are being bullied by jerks.
If a voter wants jerks to stop bullying him, how does it matter if you say you disagree with his understanding of his situation? You don’t seem to want to listen to him. So why should he listen to you? (And before you come up with an answer, remember he’s not listening to you because you’re distinctly not on his side. So lecturing will not be heard.)
You don't understand. They think taxes are what life is about and that citizens and businesses exist to serve the government and provide for the government's needs.
If someone has a job, but the government doesn't get to cash in on that job, then that job has no value.
Yes, this exactly. You want action on climate change, this is why you aren't going to get it. People would rather turn up the AC than be ruled by evil people who hate them.
I'll read it later maybe. The first sentence was enough to establish the original comment was an irresponsible exaggeration. You guys should stop exaggerating if you want Americans to take any action on Climate.
Many people want the US out of the Paris agreement for spite alone, because they're tired of being bullied by jerks.
You mean something like the outrage factories called Fox News or InforWars?
Yeah, that stuff sucks. People shouldn't watch any TV news and they should be deeply skeptical of any other news reports. Especially if the stories are interesting or seem to confirm a specific belief or bias they hold.
"There are fools on the other side too" isn't really saying much, is it? Let's all stop being fools and tell our people to stop believing this garbage and letting themselves be manipulated for an agenda or for ad clicks.
Or maybe the latest claim that Jennifer Lawrence said that Trump was to blame for the hurricanes? Nevermind that she didn't say that.
I looked it up. She tied hurricanes to "voting" through climate change. Celebrities say stupid stuff like this all the time. When there's a disaster with an very obvious human toll, making political statements about it is extremely bad form. Hopefully she learned not to do that.
It's sad that Fox is taking statements out of context and trolling their viewers the same way CNN does.
Is contradicted by their first sentence in their first summary conclusion:
It is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity.
Sorry a bunch of internet drama people freaked out about nothing. Sorry a news report created a false narrative and a mob of angry jerks believed it. Sorry you were trolled. Sorry that simple, entirely voluntary commerce is so upsetting to some people with a loose grip on rationality.
Let me make it up to you by telling you a completely different nonsense story full of soothing pretense. That's what shallow drama people understand.
Most of what I've seen written about hurricanes and climate change suggests there might not be any more hurricanes in number than usual, but that they might become more intense and have more rainfall when they do form, so numbers might not be the best way to judge changes.
Lots of things might or might not be happening. Climate change might be causing fewer, weaker hurricanes. Or stronger ones. Or more. Or it might not be doing anything to hurricanes. Or it might be doing something that's not significant.
Numbers are the only scientific way to judge changes.
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Amazon's idea is pretty much the same ...
Yes, but I’d like someone to post what they actually do with it, not talk about someone’s “idea” of what they might do.
I can't find value in your question or post.
That’s ok with me.
You make a point that you seemed to have wasted your money.
I spent it so I could find out if I could make Alexa do something useful. I found out.
Obviously yes. Mine is an actual testimonial from someone who tried it. Most people consider those to be useful.
Try plugging it into external speakers
I already have less kludgy ways to experience music.
Other things I found useful -
Shopping lists (i.e when I run out of milk, "Alexa, add milk to shopping list"), never forget anything when I got to the grocery store.
"Alexa, play bedtime lullaby" - if you have an infant
"Alexa, set a timer for 45 minutes" - when cooking.
"Alexa, what's the price of bitcoin/gold/stock" - if you're casually trading
Haven't tried any IoT stuff yet though.
Sounds like a marketting feature list rather than actual stories about how people happily use their Amazon Echo.
I tried getting stock info: it does a poor job. The info you get Is only good enough for people who don’t care about trading stocks.
Thanks. Your comment is completely useless to everyone.
This is quite the story. But I actually have an Amazon Echo. It turns off my lights ok, but I can’t find much else for it to do.
I’m not super interested in hearing poorly-curated music played out of a small speaker. News is occasionally semi-interesting at best.
And Alexa doesn’t do much of anything unless you use the app and go find “skills” for it. The capabilities of the skills are disappointing.
Does anyone have any stories about Alexa doing useful things? True stories only, not made up stuff about what it might do someday.
What does that have to do with US Net Neutrality rules? The US FCC has no authority over Rogers Cable.
The US FCC doesn’t control Canada's Net Neutrality rules, does it?
The internet is worldwide. US net neutrality only affects one country.
Yeah, no one likes Netflix or anything from Apple out there on the extreme ideological fringe.
This isn’t about what anyone has experienced. This is a contest to dream up the scariest story about the future, then trick angry, easily manipulated internet followers into believing it and forming an online lynch mob.
For politics, for power, for contributions, for Google and Netflix corporate convenience.
I wonder why Woz is involved. Does he really believe the stories? Is he easy to manipulate?
Is it 1983? Who cares about IBM?
Data is not the new oil.
Not me. Tell us another tale about how cow farts cause hurricanes.
If you’re not a religious environmentalist, your cows' methane emissions are not a sin.
So you’re saying you can’t imagine anything else happening, even though the thing you insist must be happening is undetectable. In other words, you are guessing based on an incomplete understanding of the overall system.
How am I exaggerating? I said it's making them stronger and more destructive which is true. Right now it's marginal (to our instruments) but it's still 100% true.
The experts you cited said your statement could not be responsibly made at this time. The differences in storm strength are not significant. Meaning they can’t be determined to be other than regular random variations.
No, some people in the US want out of the Paris agreement because they are being told that they are being bullied by jerks.
If a voter wants jerks to stop bullying him, how does it matter if you say you disagree with his understanding of his situation? You don’t seem to want to listen to him. So why should he listen to you? (And before you come up with an answer, remember he’s not listening to you because you’re distinctly not on his side. So lecturing will not be heard.)
You don't understand. They think taxes are what life is about and that citizens and businesses exist to serve the government and provide for the government's needs.
If someone has a job, but the government doesn't get to cash in on that job, then that job has no value.
Yes, this exactly. You want action on climate change, this is why you aren't going to get it. People would rather turn up the AC than be ruled by evil people who hate them.
What if the weather is just the weather? What if linking any specific weather event to climate change is not factual?
I'll read it later maybe. The first sentence was enough to establish the original comment was an irresponsible exaggeration. You guys should stop exaggerating if you want Americans to take any action on Climate.
Many people want the US out of the Paris agreement for spite alone, because they're tired of being bullied by jerks.
You mean something like the outrage factories called Fox News or InforWars?
Yeah, that stuff sucks. People shouldn't watch any TV news and they should be deeply skeptical of any other news reports. Especially if the stories are interesting or seem to confirm a specific belief or bias they hold.
"There are fools on the other side too" isn't really saying much, is it? Let's all stop being fools and tell our people to stop believing this garbage and letting themselves be manipulated for an agenda or for ad clicks.
Or maybe the latest claim that Jennifer Lawrence said that Trump was to blame for the hurricanes? Nevermind that she didn't say that.
I looked it up. She tied hurricanes to "voting" through climate change. Celebrities say stupid stuff like this all the time. When there's a disaster with an very obvious human toll, making political statements about it is extremely bad form. Hopefully she learned not to do that.
It's sad that Fox is taking statements out of context and trolling their viewers the same way CNN does.
You should read it. The thing you said:
Climate change is making [hurricanes] stronger
Is contradicted by their first sentence in their first summary conclusion:
It is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity.
Sorry a bunch of internet drama people freaked out about nothing. Sorry a news report created a false narrative and a mob of angry jerks believed it. Sorry you were trolled. Sorry that simple, entirely voluntary commerce is so upsetting to some people with a loose grip on rationality.
Let me make it up to you by telling you a completely different nonsense story full of soothing pretense. That's what shallow drama people understand.
Most of what I've seen written about hurricanes and climate change suggests there might not be any more hurricanes in number than usual, but that they might become more intense and have more rainfall when they do form, so numbers might not be the best way to judge changes.
Lots of things might or might not be happening. Climate change might be causing fewer, weaker hurricanes. Or stronger ones. Or more. Or it might not be doing anything to hurricanes. Or it might be doing something that's not significant.
Numbers are the only scientific way to judge changes.