Heh, well, you might have a point. Also there's way too many pedants, and people who just plain lack a sense of humor to start with -- and not just the Trump voters, either. xD Makes for a tough room on the best of days.
Fact of the matter is, in the wild, cats rarely vocalize at all. Humans 'teach' them to 'talk', because we make so much (unncessary?) noise with our mouths. Cats learn to copy that because they discover it gets them what they want. This is something I picked up watching some shows on Animal Planet.:-)
You act like I don't know who you are. You argue with people all the goddamned time, for no reason other than to argue, therefore you have no room to talk. Also, you jackasses keep missing the point: I do not want a smartphone in the first place, not even if you gave me one for FREE.
O I C, I'm the moron, huh? Not you, who apparently doesn't grok sarcasm? Should I really need to put a tag at the end, for the two-digit IQ people like you?
Oh and by the way, I didn't vote for Clinton (because I didn't, and don't, trust her at all), and neither did I vote for Cheeto-head (because he's a buffoon, a liar, completely unqualified for the job, and very likely a criminal and/or traitor), I voted for someone else just to mock both of them and the entire broken electoral system. Accoding to the comments you've posted, you voted for the unqualified buffoon/liar/criminal/traitor -- and now that it's clear how much he's fucking everything up, you're massively butthurt, but your pride won't allow you to admit you fucked up -- not that there were any good choices anyway, it was a shit-fest from the beginning. But, see, that means you're not smart, not at all, and worse: you THINK you're smart, which makes you dangerous. Do yourself a favor and get a clue, son.
Sure, you can buy a cheap-ass smartphone, but what's the point? If I buy something I prefer to buy quality things not cheap things that'll break soon, so hundreds of dollars for something I don't trust and that will inevitably cost me more money? No thanks.
What does it really matter if it's alarmist or not at this point? The people who need to listen have already made up their minds anyway, and no adjustment of the volume knob or rewriting of the content is going to change that. We're on a trajectory, and our RCS has failed completely; burn-through of the hull is imminent; smoke 'em if you got 'em, you probably won't get another chance.
The Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief of the US of A says so! That's why his administration minions are cutitng funding for renewable energy and instead propping up the fossil fuel industries! Also your 'thermometer' is something created because of SCIENCE, and Jesus hates science, so of course it's lying to you!
* * * WORLD-DESTROYING FACEPALM OF DOOM * * *
Face it: We're fucked. The only reason I can stay relatively sane, is I know I'll be long dead by the time the formerly temperate zones of the Earth become nigh-unto uninhabitable. Tell your single-digit-aged childen to cross their fingers that the current climate theories are in fact wrong and that there's a mini ice age coming up.
..and now I sit back and bask in the glory of being modded down to negative one by all the rabid conservatives. Go ahead, use your points up on me! All you're doing is proving that you're mad.
Okay.. some of my information, apparently, is out of date. Last I'd heard, ST:C was in a legal kerfuffle with CBS, mainly over the fact that they were producing a broadcast-quality program, and CBS wanted them to either stop completely or dumb it down to the point where it looked like a skit done in a hallway at a science fiction convention. Apparently they've backed off that.
Oh, and one more big 'FUCK YOU' to CBS, since someone reminded me of it: Sueing 'Star Trek Continues' into non-existence. If you never had a chance to see it, it was excellently written, acted, and produced, professional, broadcast-quality.
Didn't read every single word of your comment, but want to say this: Ask any sci-fi author about using time travel as a plot device.. and they'll give you the hairy eyeball, assuming that is they're experienced authors. Time travel is a cheap-ass way to fix a problem deus ex machina, essentially, and writing anything that centers around time travel? You're asking for disaster. You almost certainly end up painting yourself into a corner, ruining any chance of redeeming your work. That's what authors have told me, at least.
Now on the other hand, if you're not a LUDDITE, then you have an APP for time travel..
Between the 'streaming only' delivery of it (I'm not paying for that any more than I'd pay for cable anymore) and the whole Axanar debacle, CBS can kiss my ass, Do Not Want. If I feel the need for a Star Trek fix, there's reruns of all of it on the H&I Channel.
What I'm starting to believe is that there are two kinds of people who are buying into the hype: One, peope who see fictional 'AI' on television and in movies, and then see/hear the media hype about 'AI', and actually believe what's on the TV and in the movies is real. Then there's the fanbois who really want an AI-driven robot to take everyones' jobs, so they can push for Universal Basic Income, and never have to work a day for the rest of their lives (UBI is also media-driven hype/fantasy, too, because the math shows it just won't work on a large scale).
Sure, you can buy a cheap-ass smartphone, but what's the point? If I buy something I prefer to buy quality things not cheap things that'll break soon, so hundreds of dollars for something I don't trust and that will inevitably cost me more money? No thanks.
or maybe you just like having something to talk about.
Worse: I'm thinking there seems to be a segment of the population that not only believes the hype, but that are eager to have so-called 'AIs' take their jobs, because they want to push for Universal Basic Income (they also seem to be bad at basic math, by the way) so they can live for free and never have to work their whole lives. Of course all the above is sheer fantasy. Hell, I'd rather be living in a post-Federation of Planets Earth of the 24th century, too, but that's also pure fantasy.
Well, as I keep saying, they'll destroy it that way. The people (like me) who shop there because of the more specialty things you can't find in most places will go elsewhere, and then they're competing with purchasing giants like Winco. They'll be trading high-middle-class and above money for middle-middle-class and below money.
Congratulations, you're a candidate for the Responsible Intelligent Thoughtful Parent award. Not being sarcastic. It's an elite club, by the way. It would be nice if it wasn't.
Get your fucking hands off the people's rights unless you can prove you're right.
Apparently you haven't gotten the memo, friend; The Truth has been up for sale for a long time now; it gets to be defined by the highest bidder. Otherwise, for instance, tobacco companies would have been driven out of business a long time ago.
Because, as you say, 'some people' can't seem to control themselves when it comes to smartphone usage (which also by the way is in part due to the enabling influence of wireless companies and other companies that profit from increasing smartphone usage), which also includes rampant usage of smartphones while people are operating a motor vehicle, we may end up with legislation of some sort or another. Then everyone will scream and cry and whine about it, much like the drone fanbois do, about how it's so unfair, when the fact of the matter is that too many people will have made their beds and now must lie in it, and everyone else who has been responsible with their smartphone all this time will be forced to pay the price for everyone elses' excesses and abuses.
Neither am I, really, but you have to wonder when people run off and make kids without really fully grasping the awesome responsibility of raising another human being from birth, which it seems has been the trend for quite some time now.
Quite right, and it's gratifying to see that for once I'm not the first person to say what you're saying. What is 'exploding' is all the media hype, making technologically uninformed people think what they're erroneously calling 'artificial intelligence' is much much more than it actually is.
If this story is accurate, then they'll be making a big mistake: Whole Foods will fade into the background noise of every other grocery store and become irrelevant. The whole point of Whole Foods is there's things you can't find anywhere else. You eliminate those things and it's Just Another Grocery Store; at that point it may as well have been turned into a Winco (which I'm not saying to bash Winco, I buy basic stuff there, but there are things I must have for health reasons I can only find at Whole Foods or similar).
You either didn't read what I wrote, or you didn't understand it, or you saw what you wanted to see instead of what I actually meant. In any case you've completely missed the point.
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Heh, well, you might have a point. Also there's way too many pedants, and people who just plain lack a sense of humor to start with -- and not just the Trump voters, either. xD Makes for a tough room on the best of days.
Adult cats generally don't use their voices much
Fact of the matter is, in the wild, cats rarely vocalize at all. Humans 'teach' them to 'talk', because we make so much (unncessary?) noise with our mouths. Cats learn to copy that because they discover it gets them what they want. This is something I picked up watching some shows on Animal Planet. :-)
You act like I don't know who you are. You argue with people all the goddamned time, for no reason other than to argue, therefore you have no room to talk. Also, you jackasses keep missing the point: I do not want a smartphone in the first place, not even if you gave me one for FREE.
O I C, I'm the moron, huh? Not you, who apparently doesn't grok sarcasm? Should I really need to put a tag at the end, for the two-digit IQ people like you?
Oh and by the way, I didn't vote for Clinton (because I didn't, and don't, trust her at all), and neither did I vote for Cheeto-head (because he's a buffoon, a liar, completely unqualified for the job, and very likely a criminal and/or traitor), I voted for someone else just to mock both of them and the entire broken electoral system. Accoding to the comments you've posted, you voted for the unqualified buffoon/liar/criminal/traitor -- and now that it's clear how much he's fucking everything up, you're massively butthurt, but your pride won't allow you to admit you fucked up -- not that there were any good choices anyway, it was a shit-fest from the beginning. But, see, that means you're not smart, not at all, and worse: you THINK you're smart, which makes you dangerous. Do yourself a favor and get a clue, son.
It means you're arguing for the sake of argument.
Pot calling the kettle black.
What does it really matter if it's alarmist or not at this point? The people who need to listen have already made up their minds anyway, and no adjustment of the volume knob or rewriting of the content is going to change that. We're on a trajectory, and our RCS has failed completely; burn-through of the hull is imminent; smoke 'em if you got 'em, you probably won't get another chance.
The Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief of the US of A says so! That's why his administration minions are cutitng funding for renewable energy and instead propping up the fossil fuel industries! Also your 'thermometer' is something created because of SCIENCE, and Jesus hates science, so of course it's lying to you!
..and now I sit back and bask in the glory of being modded down to negative one by all the rabid conservatives. Go ahead, use your points up on me! All you're doing is proving that you're mad.
* * * WORLD-DESTROYING FACEPALM OF DOOM * * *
Face it: We're fucked. The only reason I can stay relatively sane, is I know I'll be long dead by the time the formerly temperate zones of the Earth become nigh-unto uninhabitable. Tell your single-digit-aged childen to cross their fingers that the current climate theories are in fact wrong and that there's a mini ice age coming up.
Okay.. some of my information, apparently, is out of date. Last I'd heard, ST:C was in a legal kerfuffle with CBS, mainly over the fact that they were producing a broadcast-quality program, and CBS wanted them to either stop completely or dumb it down to the point where it looked like a skit done in a hallway at a science fiction convention. Apparently they've backed off that.
Oh, and one more big 'FUCK YOU' to CBS, since someone reminded me of it: Sueing 'Star Trek Continues' into non-existence. If you never had a chance to see it, it was excellently written, acted, and produced, professional, broadcast-quality.
Didn't read every single word of your comment, but want to say this: Ask any sci-fi author about using time travel as a plot device.. and they'll give you the hairy eyeball, assuming that is they're experienced authors. Time travel is a cheap-ass way to fix a problem deus ex machina, essentially, and writing anything that centers around time travel? You're asking for disaster. You almost certainly end up painting yourself into a corner, ruining any chance of redeeming your work. That's what authors have told me, at least.
Now on the other hand, if you're not a LUDDITE, then you have an APP for time travel..
The phrase I coined to refer to that is 'Star Trek-flavored movies'. Artificially flavored, of course. With sucralose.
Between the 'streaming only' delivery of it (I'm not paying for that any more than I'd pay for cable anymore) and the whole Axanar debacle, CBS can kiss my ass, Do Not Want. If I feel the need for a Star Trek fix, there's reruns of all of it on the H&I Channel.
What I'm starting to believe is that there are two kinds of people who are buying into the hype: One, peope who see fictional 'AI' on television and in movies, and then see/hear the media hype about 'AI', and actually believe what's on the TV and in the movies is real. Then there's the fanbois who really want an AI-driven robot to take everyones' jobs, so they can push for Universal Basic Income, and never have to work a day for the rest of their lives (UBI is also media-driven hype/fantasy, too, because the math shows it just won't work on a large scale).
or maybe you just like having something to talk about.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Worse: I'm thinking there seems to be a segment of the population that not only believes the hype, but that are eager to have so-called 'AIs' take their jobs, because they want to push for Universal Basic Income (they also seem to be bad at basic math, by the way) so they can live for free and never have to work their whole lives. Of course all the above is sheer fantasy. Hell, I'd rather be living in a post-Federation of Planets Earth of the 24th century, too, but that's also pure fantasy.
Well, as I keep saying, they'll destroy it that way. The people (like me) who shop there because of the more specialty things you can't find in most places will go elsewhere, and then they're competing with purchasing giants like Winco. They'll be trading high-middle-class and above money for middle-middle-class and below money.
Congratulations, you're a candidate for the Responsible Intelligent Thoughtful Parent award. Not being sarcastic. It's an elite club, by the way. It would be nice if it wasn't.
Get your fucking hands off the people's rights unless you can prove you're right.
Apparently you haven't gotten the memo, friend; The Truth has been up for sale for a long time now; it gets to be defined by the highest bidder. Otherwise, for instance, tobacco companies would have been driven out of business a long time ago.
Because, as you say, 'some people' can't seem to control themselves when it comes to smartphone usage (which also by the way is in part due to the enabling influence of wireless companies and other companies that profit from increasing smartphone usage), which also includes rampant usage of smartphones while people are operating a motor vehicle, we may end up with legislation of some sort or another. Then everyone will scream and cry and whine about it, much like the drone fanbois do, about how it's so unfair, when the fact of the matter is that too many people will have made their beds and now must lie in it, and everyone else who has been responsible with their smartphone all this time will be forced to pay the price for everyone elses' excesses and abuses.
I'm not for legislating parenting techniques.
Neither am I, really, but you have to wonder when people run off and make kids without really fully grasping the awesome responsibility of raising another human being from birth, which it seems has been the trend for quite some time now.
Quite right, and it's gratifying to see that for once I'm not the first person to say what you're saying. What is 'exploding' is all the media hype, making technologically uninformed people think what they're erroneously calling 'artificial intelligence' is much much more than it actually is.
If this story is accurate, then they'll be making a big mistake: Whole Foods will fade into the background noise of every other grocery store and become irrelevant. The whole point of Whole Foods is there's things you can't find anywhere else. You eliminate those things and it's Just Another Grocery Store; at that point it may as well have been turned into a Winco (which I'm not saying to bash Winco, I buy basic stuff there, but there are things I must have for health reasons I can only find at Whole Foods or similar).
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With the direction most Americans' waistlines is going, it'd better be a gift certificate for Torrid, not Hot Topic. *drum hit*
Just checked that myself. It's more or less 230 million.
You either didn't read what I wrote, or you didn't understand it, or you saw what you wanted to see instead of what I actually meant. In any case you've completely missed the point.