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,
I'm pretty much against these voluntary microphone bugging devices...BUT:
While I'm not sure what a 'meow meow' skill is...if one of these things could keep the fucking neighborhood cats from sleeping on my black convertible roof in the carport...I might reconsider and get one!!
I can't figure how to keep the fucking cat(s) from sleeping on my new car roof and getting hair and all over it and footprints on my car.
I've asked around, and folks have suggested waiting up at night and taking "target practice"...some even recommended putting out a bowl of anti-freeze.
That last one puzzled me, but I googled and apparently cats will drink anti-freeze and then well...they won't be a problem for sleeping on my car anymore...they will be asleep permanently.
I'll admit, I'm no cat fan...but I don't wanna 86 someones pet. I do wish they'd keep the damned thing inside the house.
Anyway, I digress....any way an echo or dot could keep the damned cat off my car at night?
More likely the new administration would just stop collecting inconvenient data, or change the metric as described in the summary.
If they did, then they would be merely continuing the SOP for all federal government data collected and reported, as done previously by Obama, and Bush and.....
You have a choice. You can pay a living wage or you can pay for the social safety net that subsidizes those jobs that pay less than a living wage.
Or, yet another choice those folks get other jobs that *DO* pay a living wage, or work two jobs to get by....
They can also try to be somewhat intelligent human beings and see that they need to spend time off work honing skills that get better jobs!!
It simply is NOT that hard to get a job out there. It might not be one you like right off to bat, but there are jobs to be had where you can support yourself. And yes, you might have to struggle and not have luxuries in life, but that's kind of your own fault, for not grabbing that education you were offered as a youngster.
You have to pay the piper at some point, and if you didn't do it early on, well you have to do it later in life, when things are even more difficult, but it can be done.
Society does not owe you a living, it is up to you to fight and do what is necessary to live and succeed in our civilization and economy.
I dunno, I don't mess with the phone in my car, I'm too busy concentrating on driving.....and jamming to what's on the stereo....and trying not to spill my beer.
Well, to be fair...not every job out there is meant to be a full time, "real" job that you earn your full living from....
I mean, uber is just a side money job, that's it. I mean, should I pay a living wage to the kid down he block to mow my lawn or rake leaves...or baby site my kid, and throw in full blown benefits too?
I know I"m moving closer and closer to the "get off my lawn" crowd, but please tell me, I missed it..when did things change an EVERY job available became one where you were supposed to make a living from and have a career?
I mean, when did burger flipping become a "real job" instead of something teens did in high school?
I currently have FireTV's on all my tvs....and currently do Playstation VUE for $35/mo for the 70+ channels.
I tried the DIRECTV NOW for the free 7 day trial.
I wouldn't switch to DirectvNOW due to:
1. No built in DVR capability (helps skip commercials).
2. On some days,it would periodically keep asking me to input my password, like it lost it somehow.
The interface was pretty slick, and the deal they had was pretty good, I got to see AXS and Velocity channels I lost when I cut the cord to ATT Uverse.
But it just isn't ready for primetime to me...glitchy and no DVR yet.
I may look again when they add DVR to the service, but who knows when that will be.
As per usual on/., didn't read the actual article, but just the synopsis..and it was talking about the US traffic safety board not finding Tesla fault...so, wasn't sure why a US story was using slang that isn't familiar to someone IN the US.....
It's going to happen sooner or later. There are too many states for the current Federal system to function properly. If we combined them together into 13 or so new states, I think we'd find the Federal system would start to work a whole lot smoother.
No.
The US has been working just fine so far, and is just fine currently, no need to change.
If it does, I hope it is LOOOOONG after I'm dead and gone. I've been 101% happy with it as it is so far.
...but for me the main one is the lack of interaction you will have with a diverse group of people. You aren't likely to understand the issues faced by an inner city black male
Well, if you aren't dealing with them...and it doesn't directly influence your life, why should you give a shit?
I mean, there are LOTS of problems and injustices in the world, but if they don't effect my life, I pretty much ignore them.
I have plenty of things that DO effect my life that I need to spend time dealing with and caring about.
To start off, don't rely on private insurance providers or push any responsibilities out to individual states.
The trouble with your proposed solution, would be taking even more power away from the states, where constitutionally, the most power in the US is supposed to reside.
Hey, if they are going to ever develop "fuck robots", they'd damned sure better be as convincingly real as possible....
Then again, if they ever do get to that level, that will pretty much solve overpopulation and perhaps put humanity itself into jeopardy.
I mean, if a guy can have a convingly female robot he can fuck, that never ages, whines, talks back, argues, or tries to divorce and take half his shit when he upgrades to a newer model....well, why would any guy ever deal with a real woman again..?
I still have my old Nakamichi cassette deck. If I recall, it needed to maybe have the heads adjusted a bit.
But, back then, you didn't BUY pre-recorded cassettes...those just sucked.
To get the best quality out of them back in the day, you recorded your vinyl album onto them....I used to get the Maxell high bias tapes...can't remember the exact model, but those sure sounded good for the day.
Now.....if they brought back Reel-To-Reel tape and tape decks again, I might be interested in that.
I never got one back in the day, but I sure wanted one...
I see the same thing as Sling -- packaged cable channels that mean I have to pay for a lot of channels I don't want to watch just to get one that I do. It's tied into a Playstation, which I don't have.
I was just mentioning VUE because it addressed the same short comings in sling that I also found...
And no, you do not have to have a playstation unit to use Playstation VUE.
I'm currently running VUE on my Amazon Fire TV boxes....
Yes, I try to keep my computing in the office. I work there all day and when I want to relax, I usually want to be away from the keyboard for the most part.
My first actual viewing of kodi, was from it being on an amazon fire stick a friend brought over and plugged into my main living room tv.
I'd since loaded kodi on my amazon fire tv boxes, but I've not yet tried any plugins, etc....as that I was concerned about legality...well, mostly traceability of content that might not be 101% legal.
I've just never been able to figure exactly WHERE the content from those plugins is coming from....
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I'm pretty much against these voluntary microphone bugging devices...BUT:
While I'm not sure what a 'meow meow' skill is...if one of these things could keep the fucking neighborhood cats from sleeping on my black convertible roof in the carport...I might reconsider and get one!!
I can't figure how to keep the fucking cat(s) from sleeping on my new car roof and getting hair and all over it and footprints on my car.
I've asked around, and folks have suggested waiting up at night and taking "target practice"...some even recommended putting out a bowl of anti-freeze.
That last one puzzled me, but I googled and apparently cats will drink anti-freeze and then well...they won't be a problem for sleeping on my car anymore...they will be asleep permanently.
I'll admit, I'm no cat fan...but I don't wanna 86 someones pet. I do wish they'd keep the damned thing inside the house.
Anyway, I digress....any way an echo or dot could keep the damned cat off my car at night?
If they did, then they would be merely continuing the SOP for all federal government data collected and reported, as done previously by Obama, and Bush and.....
Nothing new to see here folks.
Or, yet another choice those folks get other jobs that *DO* pay a living wage, or work two jobs to get by....
They can also try to be somewhat intelligent human beings and see that they need to spend time off work honing skills that get better jobs!!
It simply is NOT that hard to get a job out there. It might not be one you like right off to bat, but there are jobs to be had where you can support yourself. And yes, you might have to struggle and not have luxuries in life, but that's kind of your own fault, for not grabbing that education you were offered as a youngster.
You have to pay the piper at some point, and if you didn't do it early on, well you have to do it later in life, when things are even more difficult, but it can be done.
Society does not owe you a living, it is up to you to fight and do what is necessary to live and succeed in our civilization and economy.
Humans were born to adapt...so, fucking adapt!!
I dunno, I don't mess with the phone in my car, I'm too busy concentrating on driving.....and jamming to what's on the stereo....and trying not to spill my beer.
Kind of like those automated doors at the grocery store that automatically open for you??
I mean, uber is just a side money job, that's it. I mean, should I pay a living wage to the kid down he block to mow my lawn or rake leaves...or baby site my kid, and throw in full blown benefits too?
I know I"m moving closer and closer to the "get off my lawn" crowd, but please tell me, I missed it..when did things change an EVERY job available became one where you were supposed to make a living from and have a career?
I mean, when did burger flipping become a "real job" instead of something teens did in high school?
They by definition are generally NOT REPRODUCING offspring....hence, you'd not be having many families in the area.
Just a thought.
I tried the DIRECTV NOW for the free 7 day trial.
I wouldn't switch to DirectvNOW due to:
1. No built in DVR capability (helps skip commercials).
2. On some days,it would periodically keep asking me to input my password, like it lost it somehow.
The interface was pretty slick, and the deal they had was pretty good, I got to see AXS and Velocity channels I lost when I cut the cord to ATT Uverse.
But it just isn't ready for primetime to me...glitchy and no DVR yet.
I may look again when they add DVR to the service, but who knows when that will be.
As per usual on /., didn't read the actual article, but just the synopsis..and it was talking about the US traffic safety board not finding Tesla fault...so, wasn't sure why a US story was using slang that isn't familiar to someone IN the US.....
Ok I give..what the fuck is a "lorry"?
Let's all start going along with the PC/SJW ideology and start with the concept that it is just basically *WRONG* to be a white guy.
If you just start with the correct premise, this all becomes very easy to deal with.....
[rolls eyes].
You sit, you shit, you wipe, stand and flush.....?
Its just that the US tax payer shouldn't be on the hook to fucking pay for it....
I mean, who gives a fuck if they have internet access or not?
No.
The US has been working just fine so far, and is just fine currently, no need to change.
If it does, I hope it is LOOOOONG after I'm dead and gone. I've been 101% happy with it as it is so far.
I have to imagine they actually ARE pretty well armed, moreso than folks from NYC that pretty much ban guns.
And if you talk more N vs S...I'd posit that we are WAY more heavily armed, so, don't zombie your way down here.
Well, if you aren't dealing with them...and it doesn't directly influence your life, why should you give a shit?
I mean, there are LOTS of problems and injustices in the world, but if they don't effect my life, I pretty much ignore them.
I have plenty of things that DO effect my life that I need to spend time dealing with and caring about.
The trouble with your proposed solution, would be taking even more power away from the states, where constitutionally, the most power in the US is supposed to reside.
Frankly, I'm amazed we've survived this long without more rights trampled.
Then again, if they ever do get to that level, that will pretty much solve overpopulation and perhaps put humanity itself into jeopardy.
I mean, if a guy can have a convingly female robot he can fuck, that never ages, whines, talks back, argues, or tries to divorce and take half his shit when he upgrades to a newer model....well, why would any guy ever deal with a real woman again..?
It could prove to be a scary future indeed!!
Err...don't you hate it when all these years, you've been singing the WRONG lyrics...?
Should be:
"Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant."
That and they don't tend to blow-up quite as often....
But, back then, you didn't BUY pre-recorded cassettes...those just sucked.
To get the best quality out of them back in the day, you recorded your vinyl album onto them....I used to get the Maxell high bias tapes...can't remember the exact model, but those sure sounded good for the day.
Now.....if they brought back Reel-To-Reel tape and tape decks again, I might be interested in that.
I never got one back in the day, but I sure wanted one...
I was just mentioning VUE because it addressed the same short comings in sling that I also found...
And no, you do not have to have a playstation unit to use Playstation VUE.
I'm currently running VUE on my Amazon Fire TV boxes....
Yes, I try to keep my computing in the office. I work there all day and when I want to relax, I usually want to be away from the keyboard for the most part.
My first actual viewing of kodi, was from it being on an amazon fire stick a friend brought over and plugged into my main living room tv.
I'd since loaded kodi on my amazon fire tv boxes, but I've not yet tried any plugins, etc....as that I was concerned about legality...well, mostly traceability of content that might not be 101% legal.
I've just never been able to figure exactly WHERE the content from those plugins is coming from....