Besides, the Tivo has been made obsolete already with streamers.
Not really.
I'm using Tivo as part of my cord cutting set up.
I have the Tivo Roamio OTA (comes with lifetime guide service) to record my local OTA channels, and I also have Tivo Minis to stream that from the main tivo to the bedrooms and office televisions.
The Tivo also has streaming built in for Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, etc...and like another poster said, it is good at searching through all of them for show or key words you want to search for.
I will say that the Tivo's interface with the Netflix and amazon prime is a bit slower than my Amazon FireTV and Roku's Iv'e played with...but the search across all of those in addition to all my local channels via antenna is great.
I did add the Amazon FireTV units to each TV too....so that I could use Playstation VUE, and for $35/mo I could get all the "cable channels" I would have missed, like all the ESPN channels during college football season, I get FX, FXX, TCM, IFC...all the news MSNBC, Fox News, CNN...etc.
But I find that this set up is really working well. I have the TIVO for searching and DVR for OTA and the VUE on Amazon FireTV which had DVR capability for all those shows I described above....
I take it you were opposed to Chick-Fil-A's stance on LGB issues?
The company didn't discriminate against anyone, employees or customers, but the owner expressed his view points.
No, I have no problem with anyone expressing their viewpoints on subjects like this. Everyone is free to embrace or oppose what till recently have been very prevalent thoughts and traditional values.
As a Non-American I find this fixation with guns absurd.
I was going to answer, but I see the ScentCone has beat me to most of my valid points, especially about the Oz example.
So, yes, I fear for my existing gun freedoms.
And as that you are a non-American, it shouldn't really matter one way or another to you, should it?
It's nice that you're interested, but you really needn't bless us with your 'superior' and more 'civilized' outlook on weapons where you live. If you don't like to have full freedoms like we have here (guns being one of them) then fine, stay where you are, but don't moralize or try to talk down how we have things here.
My point is that companies shouldn't get involved either way. Once you start worrying about "diversity" and irrelevant stuff like that you are dead. Just avoid the issue and don't respond.
Fair point. There's total and utter stupidity too.
You might also consider it the support of the lesser or the two evils being presented to us this time around.
Many are likely voting one way or the other on the potential for the Supreme Court balance alone. That's actually my main issue now, along with gun rights.
the question is whether someone who promotes opposition to gender and racial equality should be allowed to serve as a steward for a company whose stated mission is to connect the world.
Ok...I'm not the biggest Trump fan, hell, I con't care for either one of them...
But with all that Trump has said or promoted, I've not seen yet where he came out to promote the agenda that is against equality in matters of gender and race.
Has Thiel himself come out for these views against equality? If so, I missed that.
Trump has said a lot of stupid shit, but I've not heard him yet say he was against racial or gender equality.
This is really getting dangerous in this country, if people start getting blackballed, hired or fired for having expressed mere support for X political party or Y viewpoint.
Serious question, not an attempt to troll. What kind of people buy these 'smart TVs' and why? For Internet? Doesn't almost everybody have a PC or tablet nowadays anyway?
Well...it almost sounds like 2 questions you have here.
1. Why would you want smart features on a TV?
- Well, this is often for folks that want to watch things streaming like Hulu, Netflix, etc...without having to fumble with multiple remotes and units..all in one spot.
2. Why would you want at TV to watch smart tv content on, because everyone has a PC and/or tablet.
-Well, despite many young folks not watching traditional tv, and even I'm cutting the cord....if you have the means, it is VERY NICE to watch movies and the like on a large, high quality screen. Myself, I also have my main stereo with my large TV in the living room, so my surround sound is quite good and frankly, with my set up, I can't generally think of a good reason to go out to see a movie, I can pause it, my bar is right near by and no assholes on the phone or talking to mess with my movie. Also, I control the volume.
I now have Klipsch for a 5.1 system....and when I get to a larger abode, I'll expand for that to 7.1 or Atmos for even ceiling sound. (K-Horns in front, 15" Klipsch subwoofer, older large Klipsch center channel, and now I scored recently a great pair of older Klipsch Cornwalls for the surround speakers.
So, to go with that large sound, I like a large TV.
Much nicer to sit and enjoy things on that system rather than a tinny speaker on a tablet for a movie....
So, hope that answers what sounded like you're two questions you were asking...
given the increasing stratification of American culture, they'd probably never manage to have children. So we breed poorness out of the population! Win-win!
I'd not thought of that, but it would be a nice side benefit....
but I predict a pretty precipitous population drop if everyone were do be held to your (perfect, morally upright) standards.
Err...nothing "moral" to it...just common sense that you don't do shit you can't afford. And...kids are NOT cheap.
I actually do see, that many kids today are waiting on average to later in life to have kids, and that is smart for most of them since they are not hitting the workforce at levels of income (relative to the times) that we did in the past.
Sure you had folks having kids younger in the past, but in the past, people seemed to "grow up" a bit faster and they mostly were working jobs where they could afford kids and a house, etc....
Times have changed and well, it is like anything.
If you cannot afford a new car...don't buy one till you can afford it. Don't have kids if you cannot afford them. And if you do have them, be prepared to sacrifice yourself in many ways for them, give things up so you can give to them.
I'm just saying, kids do NOT pop out of thin air and surprise you...at least they should not if you are an adult with adult level thinking and reasoning.
I will say that if you love stuff like Walmart, chain restaurants, condos/suburban developments and spending as much time as possible watching TV and/or being on-line, living in CA makes no sense at all.
I live in the New Orleans area.....I may hit a Wal-Mart once a year tops...usually to buy something to wash car with...
But I have so much stuff doing on around here year 'round that I only watch TV when I need a break from the outside fun world. We have some sort of music/food fest almost every weekend of the year, plus Mardi Gras (3+ weeks of parades and celebrations), and beyond that, just a ton of stuff to do, specially if you like fishing and hunting.
Not nearly as populous as CA cities like you mention, not the gridlock traffic, and people are generally nicer here.
That and we have "to-go" cups so you can take your drink from the bar to go...and can buy liquor, beer and wine all from a grocery store or even 7-ll...and food prices are low, and food is good.
Also, I can comfortably assume that at least one of the parents wasn't around much for family time and raising children
Most people of my generation had the model of pretty much JUST the father working, which kept him away from home a lot. But with Mom there to raise you, not a problem really. Dad was there on weekends.
I was raised this way and don't feel any harm. Heck when I was a teen and could be more on my own, my Mom joined the workforce....and still, no problem.
You don't have to have helicopter parents like you have today on the other extreme.
TOO much parental time is not good either, as we see today with kids that weren't raised to be allowed to start learning independence at any age levels before college.
Exactly. That is not nearly enough to live decently in a place like for example silicon valley or the bay area.
Wow....strange you would use 2 such extreme example of high cost of living places to make your point.
Most places in the US are not nearly that expensive. Hell in TX you can get virtual mansions for the $300K range or less....big house, big yard, etc.
But really, with everything paid off, and $1.2 M in the bank, I could easily live my days out starting likely tomorrow.
When you retire, you're not out buying new Tesla's or a new phone every year, you don't really need to....having things paid off and money in the bank, and with age, your "fun" needs decrease really, no kids to take care of, etc. That's pretty easy in most parts of the US.
You're extreme examples really make no sense for the majority of Americans. Hell, you might as well have mentioned NYC in the same breath....no, unless you're VERY wealthy, no one retires to those locations, not normal people at least.
If you are working a public facing job...you NEED to speak the fucking language, period.
If you're doing something that doesn't require you to interact with the general public...then fine, work that while you're learning the language of the land, but if you're dealing with me, speak the damned majority language of the land.
Uber can't hire any decent people. Only desperate people who let's just say aren't from around here. I can't even imagine that 10% of Uber drivers make enough money to profit on. The only way Uber makes a lot of money is screwing drivers, and avoiding regulations and when they can't they just leave.
What it seems so many people are missing here with these jobs is...
Not ALL jobs are meant to be sole source of income that you make your living from!!
Many are jobs that are there for side jobs, for extra money, not a 40 hour work week.
Most everyone I've met, and yes I always talk with my Uber driver....they just do this a few hours here and there to pick up a few extra bucks. This is NOT a career for them.
Not every job is, nor should it be, something you make a career out of....this somewhat recent thought process is killing off jobs that used to be reserved for young folks just learning the ropes of the work place, students working part time for school.....etc.
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Something just HAS to be done about this!!!
Won't someone "please" think of the diversity!!
I guess I don't understand that.
The ONLY reason I work, is to earn enough $$ to fund my lifestyle I like when I'm not having to work.
If it were me and they offered me for something I started up, I'd sell it so fast your head would spin.
I'd much rather spend my time doing fun things that working or nurturing a company.
I don't get it...sure, that's about double the money, but at BILLIONS of dollars, what does that matter really?
I mean, geez...I'd have taken the $24B and live the rest of my life on easy street.....
I'm pretty sure I could somehow manage to stretch out $24B over the rest of my years on earth....[rolls eyes]
Not really.
I'm using Tivo as part of my cord cutting set up.
I have the Tivo Roamio OTA (comes with lifetime guide service) to record my local OTA channels, and I also have Tivo Minis to stream that from the main tivo to the bedrooms and office televisions.
The Tivo also has streaming built in for Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, etc...and like another poster said, it is good at searching through all of them for show or key words you want to search for.
I will say that the Tivo's interface with the Netflix and amazon prime is a bit slower than my Amazon FireTV and Roku's Iv'e played with...but the search across all of those in addition to all my local channels via antenna is great.
I did add the Amazon FireTV units to each TV too....so that I could use Playstation VUE, and for $35/mo I could get all the "cable channels" I would have missed, like all the ESPN channels during college football season, I get FX, FXX, TCM, IFC...all the news MSNBC, Fox News, CNN...etc.
But I find that this set up is really working well. I have the TIVO for searching and DVR for OTA and the VUE on Amazon FireTV which had DVR capability for all those shows I described above....
The company didn't discriminate against anyone, employees or customers, but the owner expressed his view points.
No, I have no problem with anyone expressing their viewpoints on subjects like this. Everyone is free to embrace or oppose what till recently have been very prevalent thoughts and traditional values.
I was going to answer, but I see the ScentCone has beat me to most of my valid points, especially about the Oz example.
So, yes, I fear for my existing gun freedoms.
And as that you are a non-American, it shouldn't really matter one way or another to you, should it?
It's nice that you're interested, but you really needn't bless us with your 'superior' and more 'civilized' outlook on weapons where you live. If you don't like to have full freedoms like we have here (guns being one of them) then fine, stay where you are, but don't moralize or try to talk down how we have things here.
None of your business....
In theory, it is supposed to work that way.
In practice, it certainly does NOT.
US workers are being actively displaced by them.
No..to keep the ILLEGALLY border crossing Mexicans (and anyone else using that border) out.
There's a big difference.
I don't think many Americans have problems with LEGAL immigrants.
We just want them to sign the fucking guest book on the way in, you know?
Well, if Clinton put forth a replacement for Scalia like Scalia....a strict constitutionalist and not a legislator from the bench, they'd pass him.
But I"m guessing hell isn't getting that cold any time soon....
Yes, and I thought (hoped) we'd LONG gotten past that in the US.
I agree 101%.
You might also consider it the support of the lesser or the two evils being presented to us this time around.
Many are likely voting one way or the other on the potential for the Supreme Court balance alone. That's actually my main issue now, along with gun rights.
Ok...I'm not the biggest Trump fan, hell, I con't care for either one of them...
But with all that Trump has said or promoted, I've not seen yet where he came out to promote the agenda that is against equality in matters of gender and race.
Has Thiel himself come out for these views against equality? If so, I missed that.
Trump has said a lot of stupid shit, but I've not heard him yet say he was against racial or gender equality.
This is really getting dangerous in this country, if people start getting blackballed, hired or fired for having expressed mere support for X political party or Y viewpoint.
Well...it almost sounds like 2 questions you have here.
1. Why would you want smart features on a TV?
- Well, this is often for folks that want to watch things streaming like Hulu, Netflix, etc...without having to fumble with multiple remotes and units..all in one spot.
2. Why would you want at TV to watch smart tv content on, because everyone has a PC and/or tablet.
-Well, despite many young folks not watching traditional tv, and even I'm cutting the cord....if you have the means, it is VERY NICE to watch movies and the like on a large, high quality screen. Myself, I also have my main stereo with my large TV in the living room, so my surround sound is quite good and frankly, with my set up, I can't generally think of a good reason to go out to see a movie, I can pause it, my bar is right near by and no assholes on the phone or talking to mess with my movie. Also, I control the volume.
I now have Klipsch for a 5.1 system....and when I get to a larger abode, I'll expand for that to 7.1 or Atmos for even ceiling sound. (K-Horns in front, 15" Klipsch subwoofer, older large Klipsch center channel, and now I scored recently a great pair of older Klipsch Cornwalls for the surround speakers.
So, to go with that large sound, I like a large TV.
Much nicer to sit and enjoy things on that system rather than a tinny speaker on a tablet for a movie....
So, hope that answers what sounded like you're two questions you were asking...
I'd not thought of that, but it would be a nice side benefit....
Err...nothing "moral" to it...just common sense that you don't do shit you can't afford. And...kids are NOT cheap.
I actually do see, that many kids today are waiting on average to later in life to have kids, and that is smart for most of them since they are not hitting the workforce at levels of income (relative to the times) that we did in the past.
Sure you had folks having kids younger in the past, but in the past, people seemed to "grow up" a bit faster and they mostly were working jobs where they could afford kids and a house, etc....
Times have changed and well, it is like anything.
If you cannot afford a new car...don't buy one till you can afford it. Don't have kids if you cannot afford them. And if you do have them, be prepared to sacrifice yourself in many ways for them, give things up so you can give to them.
I'm just saying, kids do NOT pop out of thin air and surprise you...at least they should not if you are an adult with adult level thinking and reasoning.
I guess we need to get Universal Basic Income ready for all the Yeasts we're going to be putting out of business with this new technology....
I live in the New Orleans area.....I may hit a Wal-Mart once a year tops...usually to buy something to wash car with...
But I have so much stuff doing on around here year 'round that I only watch TV when I need a break from the outside fun world. We have some sort of music/food fest almost every weekend of the year, plus Mardi Gras (3+ weeks of parades and celebrations), and beyond that, just a ton of stuff to do, specially if you like fishing and hunting.
Not nearly as populous as CA cities like you mention, not the gridlock traffic, and people are generally nicer here.
That and we have "to-go" cups so you can take your drink from the bar to go...and can buy liquor, beer and wine all from a grocery store or even 7-ll...and food prices are low, and food is good.
Well, if you're stupid enough to have kids before you can afford them, well, you reap what you sow, eh?
Seriously....offspring, just like any other choice in life, need to be planned for and not had until you have the means to provide for them.
1. Fucking is a CHOICE.
2. Fucking without birth control is a CHOICE
3. You had a kid even with birth control? (see option #1 again.)
Be prepared to live with the consequences of your actions and don't expect others to pay for your mistakes. You made your own bed....live in it.
Most people of my generation had the model of pretty much JUST the father working, which kept him away from home a lot. But with Mom there to raise you, not a problem really. Dad was there on weekends.
I was raised this way and don't feel any harm. Heck when I was a teen and could be more on my own, my Mom joined the workforce....and still, no problem.
You don't have to have helicopter parents like you have today on the other extreme.
TOO much parental time is not good either, as we see today with kids that weren't raised to be allowed to start learning independence at any age levels before college.
Wow....strange you would use 2 such extreme example of high cost of living places to make your point.
Most places in the US are not nearly that expensive. Hell in TX you can get virtual mansions for the $300K range or less....big house, big yard, etc.
But really, with everything paid off, and $1.2 M in the bank, I could easily live my days out starting likely tomorrow.
When you retire, you're not out buying new Tesla's or a new phone every year, you don't really need to....having things paid off and money in the bank, and with age, your "fun" needs decrease really, no kids to take care of, etc. That's pretty easy in most parts of the US.
You're extreme examples really make no sense for the majority of Americans. Hell, you might as well have mentioned NYC in the same breath....no, unless you're VERY wealthy, no one retires to those locations, not normal people at least.
I see no need to pay for others to sit at home and do nothing.
Everyone has to contribute....
...that the Clinton machine hasn't had him taken out with a drone yet....
If you are working a public facing job...you NEED to speak the fucking language, period.
If you're doing something that doesn't require you to interact with the general public ...then fine, work that while you're learning the language of the land, but if you're dealing with me, speak the damned majority language of the land.
What it seems so many people are missing here with these jobs is...
Not ALL jobs are meant to be sole source of income that you make your living from!!
Many are jobs that are there for side jobs, for extra money, not a 40 hour work week.
Most everyone I've met, and yes I always talk with my Uber driver....they just do this a few hours here and there to pick up a few extra bucks. This is NOT a career for them.
Not every job is, nor should it be, something you make a career out of....this somewhat recent thought process is killing off jobs that used to be reserved for young folks just learning the ropes of the work place, students working part time for school.....etc.