Siri doesn't always work. It's not like the computer in Star Trek. But it works very well in limited contexts, and within these contexts is a powerful way of using your phone.
Not to mention, there are times (more often than not) when you don't want to be shouting at your phone in public....
I don't like doing that while at work....or in a restaurant maybe or bar...etc.
This brings me to another pet peeve I have...when calling into tech support or anything these days...the auto phone robots want you to speak what you want instead of s simple press a number to make a selection. I HATE having to talk like an idiot to a robot in public....
The voice thing is fun from time to time, but I don't like doing it out while in public, and I get annoyed when others are doing it in a restaurant or other crowded venue.....
At normal full cruising speed the TGV goes 300 km/h (186MPH) vs. 130km/h (81MPH) on France Motorways. Assuming time between trains / busses is no more than 5-10 minutes, and the journey time took no more than 50- 100% extra time over driving, I'd be glad to take public transit everywhere (acceptable time between busses/ trains could be longer up to 1hr-2hr for intercity travel). With the exception of a road trip on a wide open sunny motorway, driving is a chore. And a car is a depreciating asset to maintain.
Unfortunately where I live now there is no public transit whatsoever.
And it doesn't get you from door-to-door exactly where you want to be...
Frankly, though, it is convenient. Much more so than cash. I don't want to have to regularly go and get a bunch of new physical items to pay people with.
Wow...that sounds a bit lazy.
It takes me all of about 5 -10 min out of my way max to hit the ATM when I need more cash. I tend to take out a bit over $200 every 5 days or so....it takes no time at all.
I love cash, it keeps me honest when I see how much I'm physically spending....rather than with abstraction of money with CC's or the like.
Just like in the casino...the chips abstract you from how much you are really wagering and losing....
I think this problem is WAAAY overblown from what it is....
In the US, our society, the male is still expected to be the aggressor. And the girl still often does play somewhat hard to get. In the old days, what was called trying to get to 2nd - 3rd base, can now be called sexual assault, if the girl decides later (after the fact, much later) that's she's mad at the guy or pissed off, for nothing having to do with the mutual groping session.
The PC society and over concern of things of this nature are sending mixed messages to young folks of both sexes.
I'm not talking about overt rape, or violent sexual assault, but instead, redefining what is expected groping for want of a better term....where a girl expects the guy to be an aggressor. Guys often have doubts when and where to try, but know they are expected to. If you don't try some sexual advances, you are doomed to be relinquished to the dreaded "Friend Zone".
*sigh*...what was once known as being a boy, is now termed ADHD and they drug them. What was known (and expected) as males trying for heavy petting, is now borderline (at least) sexual assault.
Common sense on things like this have gone straight out the fucking window....I'm glad I'm not having to grow up in this day in age, with so many mixed messages...and the fear that a normal male with nomal (at least by recent history standards) sexual drives and attempts...can potentially have his life ruined by accusations and permanent exile to the sexual crimes lists out there....
I'm going with option C. The authorities want to be able to see what we're doing. Encryption interferes with that. Linking encryption with terrorism in the public mind might change public sentiment when it comes to the question of back doors. The public is largely unsophisticated in this area and the government and media like that just fine.
If they can also somehow tie the terrorist encryption to child pr0n, then they will have the crowd behind them to ban common citizen encryption without backdoors.
This of the children!!
Think of the terrorists!!
I think the two of those are likely to be the keys to the Constitution, at least in the US>
I like having people over to visit my place, and be sociable and go to their place...BUT, man, I do NOT like sharing walls with people.
I spent a healthy amount of money over the decades building my AV system...and I like to exercise it. Yes, from time to time, I like to watch the Flintstones and concert volume.
I don't wanna bother people and I don't want them bothering me (kids crying...drives me up the wall).
SO, I don't think I could do this...and besides, I'm renting a 3 bedroom stand alone house with fence yard, etc....for about $1300/mo. That is also with offscreen parking under a carport and covered patio and open yard for my smoker, big green egg, grill....and when I want to fire up for a crawfish boil.
I like people, but I like for them to go home...and I like my elbow room and a place for my stuff.
I outgrew dorm living back after I got out of college. Perhaps the millennial just need to start to grow up a little bit?
I mean, I have stayed a kid for a LONG time, but these younger generations would give me a run for my money on holding off on becoming an adult...wow.
Did it ever occur to you that we might want some immigrants, some of who might even be Mexican?
I have no problem with legal migrants, some of which might indeed be Mexican.
Those coming in legally, via the official border crossings, would not have any problematic encounters with the minefields I mentioned earlier which would be clearly marked, and span the rest of the border. Those are there ONLY as a deterrent from people sneaking in illegally.
I still fail to see what your problem is?
I don't mind people immigrating into this country....I just want them to officially sign the fucking guest book on the way in.
Don't even joke about land mines. They are one of the nastiest devices, deployed easily and cheaply, and undeployed in a manner that rarely removes them. Twenty to thirty years later, they're still claiming the lives of children and the poor who are unfortunate enough to be "pushed" into areas where the wealthy fear to trod (due to explosions).
I"m not talking about placing them randomly all over the place.
Clearly mark out a wide trench, maybe half a mile wide or so, and within there and there only, load it up with mines. No need to harvest them back up, there are there to deter anyone illegally crossing there, period.
...for that kinda money, we could have lined the border with Mexico with a ton of land mines, and solved a lot of the illegal crossings problems.
Or even just put up some US military snipers and let them take practice on anyone stepping over the border...kill two birds with one stone so to speak...
:)
Anyway...the mine field would solve the shutting the border problem, and then we could handle the paper work till a proper computer system is put into place once you stop the flood of people jumping the border without "signing the guest book".
It takes a special type of person to be a mathematician....."working on your favorite sequences"?
Hard to imagine getting excited about number sequences. But, that's just me..takes all types in this world, and thank God for that so there are people that can and WILL do this stuff, but I"d rather sit and watch a car rust than do that stuff for any length of time, unless paid and un-Godly amount of money. And even then......
It's also an outright lie to claim he used the most, he's used less exec orders than Bush or Clinton and F. Roosevelt issued around 15 times as many as Obama has so far.
No it is true if you count the Presidential "Memorandums" he's put out in addition to the Executive Orders...which are basically the same things with the same powers.
There is no problem to build a completely silicon/germanium based amplifier which glows and has better characteristics than a tube based one. You might need more elements to do so, but as silicon is small, cheap and quite frugal on electric energy, while tubes are not, operational amplifiers have better characteristics and less energy consumption than tube based ones.
But they aren't as pleasing to the ears with the various order harmonics, and they don't clip in the same fashion as real tube amps.
No one that is wanting really nice audio gives a damn about saving power or efficiency. If you can afford a nice hi-fi set, you can afford the power bill that comes with it pretty readily.
But in reality the president has to negotiate for most of what they want to achieve. And when they have to do that with people that don't want to negotiate then not much gets done.
Not that Obama ever wanted to seriously negotiate anything....but for your main point, yes, the president is supposed to be limited in power.
However, Mr. "O" has been doing everything possible far in excess of every president before him to circumvent congress and grab more power for himself to dictate rather than have to bother negotiating. Obama has written more Executive Orders and Presidential Memorandum to try to dictate law in the US than any other president prior.
Even now, with the courts putting a hold on his latest unilateral attempt to "reform" immigration....his legal team are looking into many other ways they can try to side step congress and the Constitution.
I don't expect this to stop when O is finally out of office, but the precedent he's set for future Presidents is scary....unless we actually get one that is interested in trying to go back to a more Constitutional level of authority and power.
In the US you either get censored or punished before you get the chance to speak.
That's only if you are espousing opinions that go against the current liberal / WSJ political correctness group-think.
If you even attempt to say something that differs from their opinions, you aren't merely argued with, you are shouted down and they try to prevent anything like that being said in public at all. Look at what's happening in our colleges....
Anything not remotely "PC"..and you get shouted down at racist, or something "phobic" or the like.
The lack of the US' ability to guarantee Snowden will be granted a fair trial
What makes you think he'd not get a fair trial in the US?
It isn't like we take US citizens, even on the past with WORSE spy cases, and don't give them a trial with counsel, etc. While I'd not advise Snowden to come back to the US (he'd get a trial, but it is pretty open and shut IMHO that he broke the law)...I would say he would get a fair trial, it isn't like he's gonna be extradited and "disappeared"....
I'm cynical but not THAT cynical.
The way some of you people on/. talk you'd think it was a regular occurrence that people disappear off the streets, that the govt commonly removes citizens at will never to be seen again.
Seriously, you have more a chance dying in an auto accident than the govt ending your life or freedom (and I'm HIGHLY suspect of the govt)....but I don't think he'd not get as fair a trial as possible.
We've had much worse spies get trials in the US in the past, no reason Snowden wouldn't get the same.
but at the border your rights are severely diminished and they can do all sorts of nasty things to you.
Ok, I'm assuming you mean the US border. Has there been any serious documented abuse or "nasty" things happening to people with a laptop trying to come back into America?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.[emphasis added]
I do not think that means what you think it means...
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Not to mention, there are times (more often than not) when you don't want to be shouting at your phone in public....
I don't like doing that while at work....or in a restaurant maybe or bar...etc.
This brings me to another pet peeve I have...when calling into tech support or anything these days...the auto phone robots want you to speak what you want instead of s simple press a number to make a selection. I HATE having to talk like an idiot to a robot in public....
The voice thing is fun from time to time, but I don't like doing it out while in public, and I get annoyed when others are doing it in a restaurant or other crowded venue.....
Gimme a button to push that is clearly marked!!
And it doesn't get you from door-to-door exactly where you want to be...
A car isn't that expensive...not for me I find.
Wow...that sounds a bit lazy.
It takes me all of about 5 -10 min out of my way max to hit the ATM when I need more cash. I tend to take out a bit over $200 every 5 days or so....it takes no time at all.
I love cash, it keeps me honest when I see how much I'm physically spending....rather than with abstraction of money with CC's or the like.
Just like in the casino...the chips abstract you from how much you are really wagering and losing....
In the US, our society, the male is still expected to be the aggressor. And the girl still often does play somewhat hard to get. In the old days, what was called trying to get to 2nd - 3rd base, can now be called sexual assault, if the girl decides later (after the fact, much later) that's she's mad at the guy or pissed off, for nothing having to do with the mutual groping session.
The PC society and over concern of things of this nature are sending mixed messages to young folks of both sexes.
I'm not talking about overt rape, or violent sexual assault, but instead, redefining what is expected groping for want of a better term....where a girl expects the guy to be an aggressor. Guys often have doubts when and where to try, but know they are expected to. If you don't try some sexual advances, you are doomed to be relinquished to the dreaded "Friend Zone".
*sigh*...what was once known as being a boy, is now termed ADHD and they drug them. What was known (and expected) as males trying for heavy petting, is now borderline (at least) sexual assault.
Common sense on things like this have gone straight out the fucking window....I'm glad I'm not having to grow up in this day in age, with so many mixed messages...and the fear that a normal male with nomal (at least by recent history standards) sexual drives and attempts...can potentially have his life ruined by accusations and permanent exile to the sexual crimes lists out there....
It ain't like the giveaways make it worth your while these days.
If they can also somehow tie the terrorist encryption to child pr0n, then they will have the crowd behind them to ban common citizen encryption without backdoors.
This of the children!!
Think of the terrorists!!
I think the two of those are likely to be the keys to the Constitution, at least in the US>
What exactly information have they been collecting in the past?
I'd not want to force my kids to get in the SS program if they didn't have to...claim the religious thing or something....
I didn't apply for one till a typing class like when I was in 9th grade.....but I heard the FEDs are trying to make parents register newborns now....?
Is there a way parents can refuse to allow this to their kid?
I spent a healthy amount of money over the decades building my AV system...and I like to exercise it. Yes, from time to time, I like to watch the Flintstones and concert volume.
I don't wanna bother people and I don't want them bothering me (kids crying...drives me up the wall).
SO, I don't think I could do this...and besides, I'm renting a 3 bedroom stand alone house with fence yard, etc....for about $1300/mo. That is also with offscreen parking under a carport and covered patio and open yard for my smoker, big green egg, grill....and when I want to fire up for a crawfish boil.
I like people, but I like for them to go home...and I like my elbow room and a place for my stuff.
I outgrew dorm living back after I got out of college. Perhaps the millennial just need to start to grow up a little bit?
I mean, I have stayed a kid for a LONG time, but these younger generations would give me a run for my money on holding off on becoming an adult...wow.
I have no problem with legal migrants, some of which might indeed be Mexican.
Those coming in legally, via the official border crossings, would not have any problematic encounters with the minefields I mentioned earlier which would be clearly marked, and span the rest of the border. Those are there ONLY as a deterrent from people sneaking in illegally.
I still fail to see what your problem is?
I don't mind people immigrating into this country....I just want them to officially sign the fucking guest book on the way in.
I"m not talking about placing them randomly all over the place.
Clearly mark out a wide trench, maybe half a mile wide or so, and within there and there only, load it up with mines. No need to harvest them back up, there are there to deter anyone illegally crossing there, period.
Or even just put up some US military snipers and let them take practice on anyone stepping over the border...kill two birds with one stone so to speak...
Anyway...the mine field would solve the shutting the border problem, and then we could handle the paper work till a proper computer system is put into place once you stop the flood of people jumping the border without "signing the guest book".
It takes a special type of person to be a mathematician....."working on your favorite sequences"?
Hard to imagine getting excited about number sequences. But, that's just me..takes all types in this world, and thank God for that so there are people that can and WILL do this stuff, but I"d rather sit and watch a car rust than do that stuff for any length of time, unless paid and un-Godly amount of money. And even then......
And let the world just start over in that part of the world.
No it is true if you count the Presidential "Memorandums" he's put out in addition to the Executive Orders...which are basically the same things with the same powers.
But they aren't as pleasing to the ears with the various order harmonics, and they don't clip in the same fashion as real tube amps.
No one that is wanting really nice audio gives a damn about saving power or efficiency. If you can afford a nice hi-fi set, you can afford the power bill that comes with it pretty readily.
Not that Obama ever wanted to seriously negotiate anything....but for your main point, yes, the president is supposed to be limited in power.
However, Mr. "O" has been doing everything possible far in excess of every president before him to circumvent congress and grab more power for himself to dictate rather than have to bother negotiating. Obama has written more Executive Orders and Presidential Memorandum to try to dictate law in the US than any other president prior.
Even now, with the courts putting a hold on his latest unilateral attempt to "reform" immigration....his legal team are looking into many other ways they can try to side step congress and the Constitution.
I don't expect this to stop when O is finally out of office, but the precedent he's set for future Presidents is scary....unless we actually get one that is interested in trying to go back to a more Constitutional level of authority and power.
While I'm at it...I'd like a pony for xmas......
Stereos that "glow"....sound so great, and look so cool in the room with the lights turned down low.
Easy on the ears and easy on the eyes.
OOps...well, you know my motto:
"Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!!!"
That's only if you are espousing opinions that go against the current liberal / WSJ political correctness group-think.
If you even attempt to say something that differs from their opinions, you aren't merely argued with, you are shouted down and they try to prevent anything like that being said in public at all. Look at what's happening in our colleges....
Anything not remotely "PC"..and you get shouted down at racist, or something "phobic" or the like.
What makes you think he'd not get a fair trial in the US?
It isn't like we take US citizens, even on the past with WORSE spy cases, and don't give them a trial with counsel, etc. While I'd not advise Snowden to come back to the US (he'd get a trial, but it is pretty open and shut IMHO that he broke the law)...I would say he would get a fair trial, it isn't like he's gonna be extradited and "disappeared"....
I'm cynical but not THAT cynical.
The way some of you people on /. talk you'd think it was a regular occurrence that people disappear off the streets, that the govt commonly removes citizens at will never to be seen again.
Seriously, you have more a chance dying in an auto accident than the govt ending your life or freedom (and I'm HIGHLY suspect of the govt)....but I don't think he'd not get as fair a trial as possible.
We've had much worse spies get trials in the US in the past, no reason Snowden wouldn't get the same.
Ok, I'm assuming you mean the US border. Has there been any serious documented abuse or "nasty" things happening to people with a laptop trying to come back into America?
This is all news to me...
I do not think that means what you think it means...