Wouldn't it be better if we had leadership in this country that didn't completely and utterly polarize all 350,000,000 of us with their idiocy and corruption, so we didn't have to be discussing it every goddamned motherfucking day? Or would you prefer we all stick our heads in the sand, put our fingers in our ears and go LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU! when the fuck-up of the day happens? Oh and by the way you're not helping!
Take a look at Estonia; 17,000-and-change square miles, 1.3 million people -- IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. California has enough budget surplus that they could buy Estonia, I'm pretty sure, and there are cities in the U.S. that have more people in it than Estonia has in it total. 'Free public transit for everyone' would not scale up.
Slightly off-topic, I know, but: It's sad and wrong that there is even such a thing as this 'app', regardless of how 'secure' it is. What ever happened to teaching your children the value of trust via example, by trusting them, and them respecting the trust put in them? Now you have parents installing what amounts to an ankle monitor like someone under house arrest is required to wear. How sad is that?
Yeah. Once upon a time Sony was synonymous with high-quality equipment. Not so much anymore I guess. Sad. I had Sony VCRs and Sony monitors and they were great.
Trump really has nothing to do with these things, the wheels were set in motion for them years ago, and the wheels as ever turn slowly. In fact he's practically screwed the pooch on North Korea, if Kim was just a little more of a maniac there might have been a nuke set off somewhere.
Too many people are brainless sheep is a large part of the problem; they're followers, they don't know how to think critically or think for themselves, so they look to 'leaders' (regardless of qualifications) to tell them what to think and do. Also, apparently little things like 'conscience' and 'moral compass' don't count anymore and are actively discouraged -- unless of course you get your 'conscience' and 'moral compass' from someone else, who brow-beats you into believing that they are the ones who are smart and wise, and that you should STFU and do what they say.
I personally didn't vote for Hillary Clinton because she really doesn't come off as trustworthy, regardless of the fact that she has the skills otherwise to do the job. Of course I didn't vote for Donald Trump either, because I trust him even less, and he clearly doesn't posess the skills or the temperament to do the job. So then of course jackasses say to me "so you didn't vote?" which is bullshit, I voted for a 3rd-party candidate, because I don't want to be that guy who doesn't vote then complains about the results. What I get for my trouble from the jackasses is then "So you wasted your vote on a loser? Why would you bother? You should vote for who was going to win!" which is about as pants-on-head retarded as you can get. I'm telling you all this to illustrate how fucked-up our political system is right now and how clueless some people in my country are; apparently, to some people, 'voting your conscience' is considered stupid, you're supposed to 'be on the winning side' regardless of whether you agree with what they stand for, think they're trustworthy, or otherwise should be elected for any reason. How screwed up is that?
This is just my opinion, but I think the majority of the GOP held their nose and endorsed Trump because they just couldn't stomach 4 to 8 years of Hillary Clinton (as if I blame them, and I'm (now) a democrat (was Independent)). Of course now even they've had quite enough, see what a colossal mistake it was, and in 2020 will likely pull their support of Trump for re-election and try to get someone else in there. I'm predicting that will fail and we'll have whoever the Democrats put up.
I disagree, I think the majority will see that having used their ballot in a temper-tantrum of their own against our political system was a colossal Bad Idea and won't do it again -- except maybe the most hard-core idiots who have no impulse control to speak of.
They're trying to do an end-run around millions of years of evolution, compressing it into a handful of years, and in the meantime we don't even understand how it is our own brains (or ANY brains for that matter) can do what they do.
Just because we're not in the middle of a World War (yet), or worldwide famine (yet), or worldwide plague (yet), doesn't mean we aren't living in some version of a dystopian hell-dimension, and by the way fuck you.
Allow me to quote myself from a comment-on-a-comment above:
Trump is more a symptom of the problem than he is the problem itself; he is the manifestation of the problem. The real problem is the people who voted for him in the first place and the people who backed him as a candidate. None of this however excuses his behavior or lets him off the hook for not being suitable to be POTUS.
This is more or less what you're saying -- even if you're obviously very angry about it. I'm angry too -- and more than a little scared for the country.
If you read my original comment again I think you'll see that Trump is more a symptom of the problem than he is the problem itself; he is the manifestation of the problem. The real problem is the people who voted for him in the first place and the people who backed him as a candidate. None of this however excuses his behavior or lets him off the hook for not being suitable to be POTUS.
Look at how many times his business ventures have gone completely bankrupt; that is what this country could very well end up looking like in your theoretical situation.
Most of IoT devices don't need to be IoT in the first place, but of course marketing people (and their shills, of which there are many) convince people that they 'need' these things for 'reasons'. Anyone with a functioning ability to reason can see that 99% of them are pointless complexity added to things that don't need them and really don't provide any benefit.
This story about the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon/Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump, is case-in-point as to why he never was Presidential material, why he is not a good President now, and why he never will be a good President, ever: Donald Trump is incapable of de-coupling his ego from his personality when it comes to his duty as President of the United States. The lies, the staffing choices based on personal loyalty and not personal integrity and aptitude, the grandstanding (attention whoring, basically), the temper-tantrums when he doesn't get his way, and decision-making based on personal grudges and personal vendettas (as is the case here specifically) are all anyone with two eyes and a functioning brain need to see that he is not now and won't ever be someone who should have been allowed to be elected in the first place. Never mind that he may well be at least as crooked as Tricky Dick or not (we may never really know, but boy oh boy does it look likely), or that he's flat-out incompetent politically (vis-a-vis Israel/Jerusalem), what we've seen since January 2017 is so far as I and so many others are concerned more than enough evidence that Donald J. Trump as POTUS was one of the worst electoral mistakes in the history of the United States, one that this country will spend decades living down with the rest of the world.
But robots suck, I and many others aren't willing to pay restaurant prices to have what amounts to canned or frozen food, quality-wise. Where's the value-added of going to an actual sit-down restaurant? As someone else in this discussion said:
Quite frankly I'd like to see them make a robot that could cook steak, potatoes, side veggies meal....because I'm quite certain they couldn't. Even a quality hamburger would confound a robot.
You and I are just powerless faces in the crowd who might happen to notice what's going on, and won't be able to affect much of anything. That's in the hands of others, and we'll all be long since dead before the outcome becomes apparent.
My muscles are bigger than yours, therefore I am superior to you!
I am taller than you, therefore I am superior to you!
I can run faster, therefore I am superior to you!
My penis is larger and harder, therefore I am superior to you!
I am superior to you, therefore more females prefer to mate with me more frequently than with you! Our GDP is larger, therefore we are superior to you!
Our species is still painfully young, not much more evolved than the rest of the animals. We just have better toys.
Co-operation is more important than competition
We might just survive long enough to reach that point.
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Wouldn't it be better if we had leadership in this country that didn't completely and utterly polarize all 350,000,000 of us with their idiocy and corruption, so we didn't have to be discussing it every goddamned motherfucking day? Or would you prefer we all stick our heads in the sand, put our fingers in our ears and go LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU! when the fuck-up of the day happens? Oh and by the way you're not helping!
Take a look at Estonia; 17,000-and-change square miles, 1.3 million people -- IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. California has enough budget surplus that they could buy Estonia, I'm pretty sure, and there are cities in the U.S. that have more people in it than Estonia has in it total. 'Free public transit for everyone' would not scale up.
Slightly off-topic, I know, but: It's sad and wrong that there is even such a thing as this 'app', regardless of how 'secure' it is. What ever happened to teaching your children the value of trust via example, by trusting them, and them respecting the trust put in them? Now you have parents installing what amounts to an ankle monitor like someone under house arrest is required to wear. How sad is that?
Yeah. Once upon a time Sony was synonymous with high-quality equipment. Not so much anymore I guess. Sad. I had Sony VCRs and Sony monitors and they were great.
Wouldn't at all be surprised if this is a side-channel attack on Jeff Bezos from Trump via Mnuchin. We'll find out soon enough I'm sure.
ISIS, the economy, North Korea
Trump really has nothing to do with these things, the wheels were set in motion for them years ago, and the wheels as ever turn slowly. In fact he's practically screwed the pooch on North Korea, if Kim was just a little more of a maniac there might have been a nuke set off somewhere.
Too many people are brainless sheep is a large part of the problem; they're followers, they don't know how to think critically or think for themselves, so they look to 'leaders' (regardless of qualifications) to tell them what to think and do. Also, apparently little things like 'conscience' and 'moral compass' don't count anymore and are actively discouraged -- unless of course you get your 'conscience' and 'moral compass' from someone else, who brow-beats you into believing that they are the ones who are smart and wise, and that you should STFU and do what they say.
I personally didn't vote for Hillary Clinton because she really doesn't come off as trustworthy, regardless of the fact that she has the skills otherwise to do the job. Of course I didn't vote for Donald Trump either, because I trust him even less, and he clearly doesn't posess the skills or the temperament to do the job. So then of course jackasses say to me "so you didn't vote?" which is bullshit, I voted for a 3rd-party candidate, because I don't want to be that guy who doesn't vote then complains about the results. What I get for my trouble from the jackasses is then "So you wasted your vote on a loser? Why would you bother? You should vote for who was going to win!" which is about as pants-on-head retarded as you can get. I'm telling you all this to illustrate how fucked-up our political system is right now and how clueless some people in my country are; apparently, to some people, 'voting your conscience' is considered stupid, you're supposed to 'be on the winning side' regardless of whether you agree with what they stand for, think they're trustworthy, or otherwise should be elected for any reason. How screwed up is that?
This is just my opinion, but I think the majority of the GOP held their nose and endorsed Trump because they just couldn't stomach 4 to 8 years of Hillary Clinton (as if I blame them, and I'm (now) a democrat (was Independent)). Of course now even they've had quite enough, see what a colossal mistake it was, and in 2020 will likely pull their support of Trump for re-election and try to get someone else in there. I'm predicting that will fail and we'll have whoever the Democrats put up.
I disagree, I think the majority will see that having used their ballot in a temper-tantrum of their own against our political system was a colossal Bad Idea and won't do it again -- except maybe the most hard-core idiots who have no impulse control to speak of.
They're trying to do an end-run around millions of years of evolution, compressing it into a handful of years, and in the meantime we don't even understand how it is our own brains (or ANY brains for that matter) can do what they do.
Just because we're not in the middle of a World War (yet), or worldwide famine (yet), or worldwide plague (yet), doesn't mean we aren't living in some version of a dystopian hell-dimension, and by the way fuck you.
If any POTUS is not acting in the interests of the United States then yes I'd agree with you. He's adding nails to his own political coffin.
Trump is more a symptom of the problem than he is the problem itself; he is the manifestation of the problem. The real problem is the people who voted for him in the first place and the people who backed him as a candidate. None of this however excuses his behavior or lets him off the hook for not being suitable to be POTUS.
This is more or less what you're saying -- even if you're obviously very angry about it. I'm angry too -- and more than a little scared for the country.
If you read my original comment again I think you'll see that Trump is more a symptom of the problem than he is the problem itself; he is the manifestation of the problem. The real problem is the people who voted for him in the first place and the people who backed him as a candidate. None of this however excuses his behavior or lets him off the hook for not being suitable to be POTUS.
Look at how many times his business ventures have gone completely bankrupt; that is what this country could very well end up looking like in your theoretical situation.
That's very insightful.
Most of IoT devices don't need to be IoT in the first place, but of course marketing people (and their shills, of which there are many) convince people that they 'need' these things for 'reasons'. Anyone with a functioning ability to reason can see that 99% of them are pointless complexity added to things that don't need them and really don't provide any benefit.
Trump is making policy decisions based on personal grudges and personal vendettas, his ego is blinding him to facts.
This story about the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon/Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump, is case-in-point as to why he never was Presidential material, why he is not a good President now, and why he never will be a good President, ever: Donald Trump is incapable of de-coupling his ego from his personality when it comes to his duty as President of the United States. The lies, the staffing choices based on personal loyalty and not personal integrity and aptitude, the grandstanding (attention whoring, basically), the temper-tantrums when he doesn't get his way, and decision-making based on personal grudges and personal vendettas (as is the case here specifically) are all anyone with two eyes and a functioning brain need to see that he is not now and won't ever be someone who should have been allowed to be elected in the first place. Never mind that he may well be at least as crooked as Tricky Dick or not (we may never really know, but boy oh boy does it look likely), or that he's flat-out incompetent politically (vis-a-vis Israel/Jerusalem), what we've seen since January 2017 is so far as I and so many others are concerned more than enough evidence that Donald J. Trump as POTUS was one of the worst electoral mistakes in the history of the United States, one that this country will spend decades living down with the rest of the world.
Quite frankly I'd like to see them make a robot that could cook steak, potatoes, side veggies meal....because I'm quite certain they couldn't. Even a quality hamburger would confound a robot.
I agree with this 100%. Otherwise it's more or less this.
Do not want.
You and I are just powerless faces in the crowd who might happen to notice what's going on, and won't be able to affect much of anything. That's in the hands of others, and we'll all be long since dead before the outcome becomes apparent.
What responsible human being would subject an innocent child to the dystopian world we're living in today?
It's time to leave.
My muscles are bigger than yours, therefore I am superior to you!
I am taller than you, therefore I am superior to you!
I can run faster, therefore I am superior to you!
My penis is larger and harder, therefore I am superior to you!
I am superior to you, therefore more females prefer to mate with me more frequently than with you!
Our GDP is larger, therefore we are superior to you!
Our species is still painfully young, not much more evolved than the rest of the animals. We just have better toys.
Co-operation is more important than competition
We might just survive long enough to reach that point.