It was agents of the state of Illinois who hacked the Pence's account. They were looking for some of Indiana's most secret information. Soybean and corn yields, pork belly futures.
Read what the OP said again. Don't Kelly Ann the conversation by changing it.
The use of a private email server wasn't prohibited by federal government statues applying to Hillary Clinton
That is a true statement.
The OP left out 2 things:
As you pointed out, classified info on said account is prohibited.
Using a separate account to avoid government disclosure laws is prohibited.
Things were done wrong, but just having a private e-mail server set up and secured by the Secret Service for the former President's use, and then used by Senator and Secretary H. Clinton was not what was wrong.
It was stupid to use it, but if no classified information had ever been sent or it wasn't done to skirt disclosure laws, then she would have just been embarrassed and not investigated.
The exact same thing applies to Pence. It is really dumb for him to use a private account for government business. If no Indiana "secrets" were revealed ( ie corn or soybean crop yields, pork belly futures), and it wasn't done to skirt disclosure laws, Then Pence is just stupid but not criminal.
Just as most of the Democrats still don't seem to realize that nominating one of the most despised figures in American politics as your candidate for POTUS is not a good strategy for winning an election, most Republicans don't seem to realize that being seen as acting exactly like the Democrats they're always complaining about results in the public despising Republicans as well.
The Democrats didn't win this last election, but neither did the Republicans. Trump won. Trump beat 12 Republicans on his way to the nomination. He wiped the floor with them. Some of them were extremely high profile, well funded candidates. Most of them were a waste of space. None of them stood a chance against Trump. Two years ago Trump was booed at CPAC, and Ted Cruz was held up as a shining example as the perfect, righteous candidate to lead the nation into its future. Trump walked all over "Lying" Ted Cruz.
Boehner, Ryan and others seem to act like they won last November. The Republicans lost. They lost a little less than the Democrats did, but Trump still whipped Republican @$$.
Sadly, both parties seem to be doubling down on the strategy of 'business as usual', which is a much greater threat to the country that the great orange one's erratic tweets.
There’s no obfuscated Perl contest because it’s pointless.
—Jeff Polk
Are you sure you are supposed to use a < instead of a >?
What if the specifications say
" Print the line: "this is the header of the output" on the first line.
" Execute a for loop that doesn't produce any output.
" Print the line: "where are the entries?" on the last line.
If that is what is wanted, then the code works perfectly.
It is perl after all. Just because there is a lot of extraneous code that seems to do nothing, or seems to function unexpectedly, does not it doesn't work. I mean if you write perl that is plain and obvious to understate you are not following the style guide.
Then give me 2 or 3 usb-c jacks. I like to listen to music on my phone while sitting at my desk, and sometimes I plug in the phone to charge it while it is just sitting there playing music. Blue tooth and wifi headphones are a joke because now i just have more bulky items to constantly re-charge.
I think Apple dropping the 3.5 mm jack is a great opportunity for android phones to promote their inclusion of the jack as a value added feature that their phones provide, but Apple phones lack. Poor iPhone users don't even get a headphone jack with their phones.
The blast of sterilizing radiation at that distance, combined with being tidally locked and probably wracked with catastrophic earthquakes at that distance would make life on these planets an unlikely impossibility.
The sun is a red dwarf and is 0.05% as bright as our sun. It has 8% of the mass of our sun and is 10% of the radius of our sun. It is much smaller, lighter and cooler. Not very much larger than Jupiter. The planets are likely to be tidally locked. Jupiter's Galilean moons are tidally locked to Jupiter, but they are not blasted by radiation. The study showed gravitational synchronization in their orbits, so that could cause earthquakes.
If the star were our sun the planets would be blasted wastelands tidally locked to their sun. I think the exciting point is that this system is 'only' 40 light years away, so we should be able to study it over the next few decades and learn much more. The planets are transiting their sun, as seen from earth, so we should be able to detect gas within their atmospheres through spectroscopy. Over the next few decades advanced space telescopes should help us gain a great deal of information on this system.
Could there be life> maybe. There is a whole lot to learn and a great many engineering challenges to solve to let us learn. For me that is more exciting than maybe a small chance of life.
The secret to very good managers I've worked with is that they realize that the staff working under them does have more talent than the management does. Like a sports team, the manager of the team can rarely accomplish what the athletes can. The manager may have been a great athlete in their past, but usually they were not.
Good management realizes it is their job to have all the things that the team needs in place so the team can perform at peak efficiency. They should take care of all of the logistics involved in getting the players and the equipment ready to perform. A great manager can often drive the strategy for the team, but this is not always necessary. Many great manager will just as often will employ others to provide the strategic planning.
Org charts should really be drawn in the other direction, with the highest level management at the bottom. management is there to service the organization, keep it tuned up and well oiled, keep it pruned and growing in the right direction.
The organization described in this article was of about 40 people. The tasks the former chief executives performed were analyzed and found to be tasks that could be performed by others in the organization. For an organization of professionals, experienced in their work, this seems completely reasonable and not revolutionary at all.
The very fact that they are training their replacements means that these jobs are not H-1B eligible jobs and that visa fraud is being committed. H-1B visas should be used when no workers with the skills are already available in the work pool. This would be workers who are already citizens, or permanent residents ('green' cards).
The fact that an American citizen is currently doing the job, and is willing to continue doing the job means that there is an American citizen available to do the job. Therefore the job is not eligible for H-1B visa.
Companies commit this fraud through the Human Resources (HR) equivalent of 'creative accounting'. The company will define a title for the current worker, just a descriptive label that has no legal status, something like 'Systems Design Analyst, Level III'. Then HR will define a description for the job, again a made up label, like 'Programmer First Class level IV'.
The company will say, "Oh boo hoo! We have no "Programmer First Class level IV" programmers and can't seem to find any in the USA! Whatever will we do? Our profits are doomed!" The company happens to work with a partner in India who sources H-1B visa worker, and amazingly this Indian company has a whole bunch of recent graduates with freshly printed certificates that show what good "Programmer First Class level IV' programmers that they all are, and look how cheap they are as well.
The current worker, who is not qualified for the job on paper but created all the software the job entails, is given the option of working for six months, training their replacement, a severance package, and no argument when they apply for unemployment insurance, or getting fired immediately and having the company deny them unemployment insurance.
The very fact that an American citizen is training an H-1B replacement means, in the real world, that visa fraud is being committed. However, there are no laws for truth in job descriptions like there are laws for truth in accounting that prevent companies from easily committing this massive fraud.
If there is truly a talent shortage, higher H-1B wages will help create a drive to train more workers within the USA and will reward any H-1B talent that is brought in to the US for their work. The only reason not to pay H-1B workers more is if you want to commit fraud and replace Americans with cheap labour.
How is this even legal? It is a crime to waste the money of corporations.
What planet do you live on? It cannot be planet Earth!
In no way, shape, or form is it a crime to waste the money of a corporation. Besides, they are free to hang up at any time and to stop wasting their own time.
This is a completely ridiculous thought. Almost as laughable as when people write things like "Corporate officers are obligated by law to make a profit." This is a completely false statement.
Companies are under no obligation to profit. They are completely free to fail and go bankrupt. They would like to profit and not fail, but they are under no legal obligation to do so. Stockholders or owners would like a company to be profitable and to make them money. They may choose new corporate leadership if a company is doing poorly, but they seem to be just as likely to hire a Carly Fiorina and run the company into the ground, while patting each other on the back for their great ability to pick such a great leader!
Corporate officers are required by law to follow legal accounting practices, and to follow the law when reporting their accounting to government agencies for things like paying taxes, or complying with insurance reserve laws, or payroll employment insurance obligations. This is just the same as an individual filing their taxes must be honest. They would be subject to fines if they don't follow these tax and accounting laws. Jail may be possible if criminal intent or negligence could be proven. However, they can be losing money, wasting money and frittering it away and still be completely in compliance with the law.
If it were truly a crime to waste the money of a corporation, pretty much all corporate managers and officers would be criminals.
I like the idea of posting all voting results publicly, where you are identified by something like a randomly generated UUID given to you at the time of voting (or some hash of your various personal information like name and SSN, etc.).
Although it doesn't address "extra" votes, you would at least be able to verify that your vote got counted as you intended, which is something...
The important thing is the vote, not the person casting it. In this system, a vote is a recorded thing so the UUID should be based on parameters of the vote:
- date-time Stamp when the vote is scanned (or entered)
- location id of the voting place (state/locality/precinct/ward/polling place id
- machine id of vote paper-scanner or electronic voting machine
- sequence number of vote on that paper scanner or e-vote machine that day
- id of voting judge who checked you off the polls?
Sounds more like the time the Daleks took Manhattan, but pigs and bears are related so I'm sure we'll get to the third step soon. Is Al Gore a Dr. Who fan? I thought he would be rooting for the cybermen, err women?
Don't ignore the difference between $180 someone paid for my echo and the $40 you paid for your dot. The capabilities are very similar, but the cost to capability ratio is very different. As you state, you use your dot to pass the task on to more capable devices.
Your speakers sound as if they are nice. I miss listening to things in stereo. I'm single side deaf, as a result of Meniere's Disease. Besides, playing in 7.1 stereo is not a capability of your echo dot. The streaming is, but I bet you already had a phone that could could stream your music to your speakers.
You live in a building with maintenance, I re-habbed my century old home. It is not being a luddite to have an appreciation of the 'character' of an old building. The original wiring in my house was cloth covered and was run behind wooden baseboards. The cloth would crumble when we removed the baseboards! We took care to preserve as much of the original style of our home. Fitting an old house with modern fixtures really does look awful, like when an old person tries to dress like a 20 year old. It's not that I'm a luddite, but old houses have character.
Also, don't ignore what I said about my children. When I think about college tuition versus spending money on smart hubs, AV systems or 7.1 speakers systems (hearing loss aside), the kids rank much higher than do the pleasure gadgets.
I think we have different priorities, and that leads to placing a different level of value on the benefits of some things over others.
When I bought the house there was still coal in the coal bin in the basement. Wood fired pellet stoves with hoppers will run quite a while between re-fills, but you still have to buy the pellets and re-fill them. The natural gas furnace does not require hauling wood or shoveling coal.
BTW, we traded the coal in the basement for a used mahogany ballroom floor and 4 casement windows. The windows replaced our original basement windows. The flooring became a staircase to our second floor. There were no original stairs to the second floor in the house, you had to go to the outside back stairs to get up there.
We got an echo (full size, not a dot) as a christmas present. Fun to play with for a few hours.
After the first day all we use it for is as a timer or as a blue tooth speaker to stream music from our phones. We used to just use our phones for the timer and a blue tooth speaker for the speaker. The echo does not add any benefit that wasn't already there. Certainly not $180.00 worth of benefit.
It is definitely not worth the price. Not even close. I recently replaced a furnace and considered an internet enabled thermostat. The added abilities were nowhere near worth the price, so I got a regular old programmable thermostat for $14.99. I've got a house that is about 120 years old. The thought of adding automated fixtures turns my stomach. I've owned the house 20 years. I've replaced all the wiring and plumbing, tore out the plaster, insulated and dry walled, replaced all but one window (it's decorative), replaced the roof, removed asbestos, replaced siding, and finally the furnace. I did most of this with my father and my wife.
When I read posts by people who say how amazingly great these devices are, I think to myself that they fall into one of two categories:
Payed shills who list the name and manufacturer of all of their 'wonderful' gadgets.
People who spent thousands of dollars on gadgets that give them the benefits of existing technology that costs much less, and are just trying to convince themselves.
I have two kids about to go to college and retirement in a couple of decades after that. The last thing I think about is wasting money on an expensive blue tooth speaker oven timer combo.
I purchased a Toyota vehicle 13 years ago. Part of my final choice was due to the fact that the vehicle was assembled in the US, and had one of the largest percentage of American made parts when compared to other vehicles. In 2004 the Toyota Sienna mini-van was listed as the second 'most' American car you could buy.
This was after owning a Ford made mostly from Mazda parts that were made and assembled in Mexico.
While the "Don't Blink" epsode is among my favorite of the new series, the weeping angels always bother my physics pedantic nature.
Begin Rant...
First, Dr. Who talks a little quantum mechanics mumbo-jumbo to invoke the 'observation' aspect of the weeping angels, but the 'observation' of quantum mechanics includes interacting with other particles, not just eyeballs looking at something. Every air molecule bouncing off of a weeping angel is 'observing' them. Even if it is just 'eyeballs' and other living things looking at them, how many insects and microscopic creatures with light sensitive patches are looking at them at any time? Any weeping angel on the Earth's surface would be locked 100% of the time, unless you put them in a perfectly dark room, evacuated all of the air and somehow got them to magically float (without using any kind of force to do so) so they weren't touching the floor. Oh, cancel out the Earth's magnetic field as well. The particles the angels are made of would 'feel' that and that would lock them.
Second, they send people back in time to 'feed' off the energy collected in doing so. I know time travel isn't really possible, other than the way we currently move from second to second as the normal flow of time, but what the angels do to 'feed' just bugs me! Time flows forward naturally, like a ball rolls down hill in a gravity field. Things go from the high energy state to the low energy state (if there is a differential that overcomes any barrier). So time 'flowing' to the future is like water flowing down hill. Moving water back up hill means putting energy into it. If the angels send someone back in time, they have to expend a bunch of energy to do it. If you want to move them forward, at a rate faster than normal, you have to expend a bunch of energy to do it. The best you can do is nothing and put no energy in and get no energy out.
OK. I know. It's science fiction, as good as the episode is I've always grumbled a little at the fast and loose attitude toward reality.
How about an episode where an absorberloff absorbs an angel? Mayhem and hilarity follow? No need for Dr. who, have it star Marc Warren, Carey Mulligan and Lucy Gaskell! Pope, Sparrow and Nightingale.
Also, a dongle is not a perfect replacement for the 3.5mm headphone jack. I often use my phone as an MP3 player while working. Charging the phone while listening to music. If the iPhone 7 replaced the 3.5mm headphone jack with a lightning port (creating an additional lightning port, that would be an improvement.
An iPhone is not on my wish list, so this doesn't affect me. Hopefully Android phone manufacturers will not follow suit, and instead will use this as an easy way to generate more sales for themselves and gain even more market share for themselves. Because Apple has dropped a basic feature from their phones, all Android phones automatically have a feature to offer that Apple doesn't, making the Android offering more feature rich and a better deal for the consumer.
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It was agents of the state of Illinois who hacked the Pence's account. They were looking for some of Indiana's most secret information. Soybean and corn yields, pork belly futures.
Real hush-hush stuff.
Read what the OP said again. Don't Kelly Ann the conversation by changing it.
The use of a private email server wasn't prohibited by federal government statues applying to Hillary Clinton
That is a true statement.
The OP left out 2 things:
Things were done wrong, but just having a private e-mail server set up and secured by the Secret Service for the former President's use, and then used by Senator and Secretary H. Clinton was not what was wrong.
It was stupid to use it, but if no classified information had ever been sent or it wasn't done to skirt disclosure laws, then she would have just been embarrassed and not investigated.
The exact same thing applies to Pence. It is really dumb for him to use a private account for government business. If no Indiana "secrets" were revealed ( ie corn or soybean crop yields, pork belly futures), and it wasn't done to skirt disclosure laws, Then Pence is just stupid but not criminal.
Just as most of the Democrats still don't seem to realize that nominating one of the most despised figures in American politics as your candidate for POTUS is not a good strategy for winning an election, most Republicans don't seem to realize that being seen as acting exactly like the Democrats they're always complaining about results in the public despising Republicans as well.
The Democrats didn't win this last election, but neither did the Republicans. Trump won. Trump beat 12 Republicans on his way to the nomination. He wiped the floor with them. Some of them were extremely high profile, well funded candidates. Most of them were a waste of space. None of them stood a chance against Trump. Two years ago Trump was booed at CPAC, and Ted Cruz was held up as a shining example as the perfect, righteous candidate to lead the nation into its future. Trump walked all over "Lying" Ted Cruz.
Boehner, Ryan and others seem to act like they won last November. The Republicans lost. They lost a little less than the Democrats did, but Trump still whipped Republican @$$.
Sadly, both parties seem to be doubling down on the strategy of 'business as usual', which is a much greater threat to the country that the great orange one's erratic tweets.
If he was using an AOL/Yahoo! account it is all backed up at the NSA, so there should be no problem making any of it public for review.
There’s no obfuscated Perl contest because it’s pointless. —Jeff Polk
Are you sure you are supposed to use a < instead of a >?
What if the specifications say
If that is what is wanted, then the code works perfectly.
It is perl after all. Just because there is a lot of extraneous code that seems to do nothing, or seems to function unexpectedly, does not it doesn't work. I mean if you write perl that is plain and obvious to understate you are not following the style guide.
Then give me 2 or 3 usb-c jacks. I like to listen to music on my phone while sitting at my desk, and sometimes I plug in the phone to charge it while it is just sitting there playing music. Blue tooth and wifi headphones are a joke because now i just have more bulky items to constantly re-charge.
I think Apple dropping the 3.5 mm jack is a great opportunity for android phones to promote their inclusion of the jack as a value added feature that their phones provide, but Apple phones lack. Poor iPhone users don't even get a headphone jack with their phones.
I thought Apple went out of business after they killed the IIgs! Didn't that guy from Pepsi kill them with the Performa series?
They still make stuff, huh?
The blast of sterilizing radiation at that distance, combined with being tidally locked and probably wracked with catastrophic earthquakes at that distance would make life on these planets an unlikely impossibility.
The sun is a red dwarf and is 0.05% as bright as our sun. It has 8% of the mass of our sun and is 10% of the radius of our sun. It is much smaller, lighter and cooler. Not very much larger than Jupiter. The planets are likely to be tidally locked. Jupiter's Galilean moons are tidally locked to Jupiter, but they are not blasted by radiation. The study showed gravitational synchronization in their orbits, so that could cause earthquakes.
If the star were our sun the planets would be blasted wastelands tidally locked to their sun. I think the exciting point is that this system is 'only' 40 light years away, so we should be able to study it over the next few decades and learn much more. The planets are transiting their sun, as seen from earth, so we should be able to detect gas within their atmospheres through spectroscopy. Over the next few decades advanced space telescopes should help us gain a great deal of information on this system.
Could there be life> maybe. There is a whole lot to learn and a great many engineering challenges to solve to let us learn. For me that is more exciting than maybe a small chance of life.
The secret to very good managers I've worked with is that they realize that the staff working under them does have more talent than the management does. Like a sports team, the manager of the team can rarely accomplish what the athletes can. The manager may have been a great athlete in their past, but usually they were not.
Good management realizes it is their job to have all the things that the team needs in place so the team can perform at peak efficiency. They should take care of all of the logistics involved in getting the players and the equipment ready to perform. A great manager can often drive the strategy for the team, but this is not always necessary. Many great manager will just as often will employ others to provide the strategic planning.
Org charts should really be drawn in the other direction, with the highest level management at the bottom. management is there to service the organization, keep it tuned up and well oiled, keep it pruned and growing in the right direction.
The organization described in this article was of about 40 people. The tasks the former chief executives performed were analyzed and found to be tasks that could be performed by others in the organization. For an organization of professionals, experienced in their work, this seems completely reasonable and not revolutionary at all.
I agree, but now that we have a 1.0 release we should have a choice between a release version and a working version.
So does Mr. Peabody, but he recently declared bankruptcy.
The very fact that they are training their replacements means that these jobs are not H-1B eligible jobs and that visa fraud is being committed. H-1B visas should be used when no workers with the skills are already available in the work pool. This would be workers who are already citizens, or permanent residents ('green' cards).
The fact that an American citizen is currently doing the job, and is willing to continue doing the job means that there is an American citizen available to do the job. Therefore the job is not eligible for H-1B visa.
Companies commit this fraud through the Human Resources (HR) equivalent of 'creative accounting'. The company will define a title for the current worker, just a descriptive label that has no legal status, something like 'Systems Design Analyst, Level III'. Then HR will define a description for the job, again a made up label, like 'Programmer First Class level IV'.
The company will say, "Oh boo hoo! We have no "Programmer First Class level IV" programmers and can't seem to find any in the USA! Whatever will we do? Our profits are doomed!" The company happens to work with a partner in India who sources H-1B visa worker, and amazingly this Indian company has a whole bunch of recent graduates with freshly printed certificates that show what good "Programmer First Class level IV' programmers that they all are, and look how cheap they are as well.
The current worker, who is not qualified for the job on paper but created all the software the job entails, is given the option of working for six months, training their replacement, a severance package, and no argument when they apply for unemployment insurance, or getting fired immediately and having the company deny them unemployment insurance.
The very fact that an American citizen is training an H-1B replacement means, in the real world, that visa fraud is being committed. However, there are no laws for truth in job descriptions like there are laws for truth in accounting that prevent companies from easily committing this massive fraud.
If there is truly a talent shortage, higher H-1B wages will help create a drive to train more workers within the USA and will reward any H-1B talent that is brought in to the US for their work. The only reason not to pay H-1B workers more is if you want to commit fraud and replace Americans with cheap labour.
How is this even legal? It is a crime to waste the money of corporations.
What planet do you live on? It cannot be planet Earth!
In no way, shape, or form is it a crime to waste the money of a corporation. Besides, they are free to hang up at any time and to stop wasting their own time.
This is a completely ridiculous thought. Almost as laughable as when people write things like "Corporate officers are obligated by law to make a profit." This is a completely false statement.
Companies are under no obligation to profit. They are completely free to fail and go bankrupt. They would like to profit and not fail, but they are under no legal obligation to do so. Stockholders or owners would like a company to be profitable and to make them money. They may choose new corporate leadership if a company is doing poorly, but they seem to be just as likely to hire a Carly Fiorina and run the company into the ground, while patting each other on the back for their great ability to pick such a great leader!
Corporate officers are required by law to follow legal accounting practices, and to follow the law when reporting their accounting to government agencies for things like paying taxes, or complying with insurance reserve laws, or payroll employment insurance obligations. This is just the same as an individual filing their taxes must be honest. They would be subject to fines if they don't follow these tax and accounting laws. Jail may be possible if criminal intent or negligence could be proven. However, they can be losing money, wasting money and frittering it away and still be completely in compliance with the law.
If it were truly a crime to waste the money of a corporation, pretty much all corporate managers and officers would be criminals.
I like the sig, although I'd like to see that Franken/Stein ticket running against Ron Paul/RuPaul.
I like the idea of posting all voting results publicly, where you are identified by something like a randomly generated UUID given to you at the time of voting (or some hash of your various personal information like name and SSN, etc.). Although it doesn't address "extra" votes, you would at least be able to verify that your vote got counted as you intended, which is something...
The important thing is the vote, not the person casting it. In this system, a vote is a recorded thing so the UUID should be based on parameters of the vote:
I see it. Look here. Maybe because you are AC, or have your settings different?
Sounds more like the time the Daleks took Manhattan, but pigs and bears are related so I'm sure we'll get to the third step soon. Is Al Gore a Dr. Who fan? I thought he would be rooting for the cybermen, err women?
The next version of chrome will contains a complete implementation of emacs, which qualifies as an operating system.
Although the emacs operating system needs a better editor.
Don't ignore the difference between $180 someone paid for my echo and the $40 you paid for your dot. The capabilities are very similar, but the cost to capability ratio is very different. As you state, you use your dot to pass the task on to more capable devices.
Your speakers sound as if they are nice. I miss listening to things in stereo. I'm single side deaf, as a result of Meniere's Disease. Besides, playing in 7.1 stereo is not a capability of your echo dot. The streaming is, but I bet you already had a phone that could could stream your music to your speakers.
You live in a building with maintenance, I re-habbed my century old home. It is not being a luddite to have an appreciation of the 'character' of an old building. The original wiring in my house was cloth covered and was run behind wooden baseboards. The cloth would crumble when we removed the baseboards! We took care to preserve as much of the original style of our home. Fitting an old house with modern fixtures really does look awful, like when an old person tries to dress like a 20 year old. It's not that I'm a luddite, but old houses have character.
Also, don't ignore what I said about my children. When I think about college tuition versus spending money on smart hubs, AV systems or 7.1 speakers systems (hearing loss aside), the kids rank much higher than do the pleasure gadgets.
I think we have different priorities, and that leads to placing a different level of value on the benefits of some things over others.
When I bought the house there was still coal in the coal bin in the basement. Wood fired pellet stoves with hoppers will run quite a while between re-fills, but you still have to buy the pellets and re-fill them. The natural gas furnace does not require hauling wood or shoveling coal.
BTW, we traded the coal in the basement for a used mahogany ballroom floor and 4 casement windows. The windows replaced our original basement windows. The flooring became a staircase to our second floor. There were no original stairs to the second floor in the house, you had to go to the outside back stairs to get up there.
Your switches sound nice.
We got an echo (full size, not a dot) as a christmas present. Fun to play with for a few hours.
After the first day all we use it for is as a timer or as a blue tooth speaker to stream music from our phones. We used to just use our phones for the timer and a blue tooth speaker for the speaker. The echo does not add any benefit that wasn't already there. Certainly not $180.00 worth of benefit.
It is definitely not worth the price. Not even close. I recently replaced a furnace and considered an internet enabled thermostat. The added abilities were nowhere near worth the price, so I got a regular old programmable thermostat for $14.99. I've got a house that is about 120 years old. The thought of adding automated fixtures turns my stomach. I've owned the house 20 years. I've replaced all the wiring and plumbing, tore out the plaster, insulated and dry walled, replaced all but one window (it's decorative), replaced the roof, removed asbestos, replaced siding, and finally the furnace. I did most of this with my father and my wife.
When I read posts by people who say how amazingly great these devices are, I think to myself that they fall into one of two categories:
I have two kids about to go to college and retirement in a couple of decades after that. The last thing I think about is wasting money on an expensive blue tooth speaker oven timer combo.
I purchased a Toyota vehicle 13 years ago. Part of my final choice was due to the fact that the vehicle was assembled in the US, and had one of the largest percentage of American made parts when compared to other vehicles. In 2004 the Toyota Sienna mini-van was listed as the second 'most' American car you could buy.
This was after owning a Ford made mostly from Mazda parts that were made and assembled in Mexico.
While the "Don't Blink" epsode is among my favorite of the new series, the weeping angels always bother my physics pedantic nature.
Begin Rant...
First, Dr. Who talks a little quantum mechanics mumbo-jumbo to invoke the 'observation' aspect of the weeping angels, but the 'observation' of quantum mechanics includes interacting with other particles, not just eyeballs looking at something. Every air molecule bouncing off of a weeping angel is 'observing' them. Even if it is just 'eyeballs' and other living things looking at them, how many insects and microscopic creatures with light sensitive patches are looking at them at any time? Any weeping angel on the Earth's surface would be locked 100% of the time, unless you put them in a perfectly dark room, evacuated all of the air and somehow got them to magically float (without using any kind of force to do so) so they weren't touching the floor. Oh, cancel out the Earth's magnetic field as well. The particles the angels are made of would 'feel' that and that would lock them.
Second, they send people back in time to 'feed' off the energy collected in doing so. I know time travel isn't really possible, other than the way we currently move from second to second as the normal flow of time, but what the angels do to 'feed' just bugs me! Time flows forward naturally, like a ball rolls down hill in a gravity field. Things go from the high energy state to the low energy state (if there is a differential that overcomes any barrier). So time 'flowing' to the future is like water flowing down hill. Moving water back up hill means putting energy into it. If the angels send someone back in time, they have to expend a bunch of energy to do it. If you want to move them forward, at a rate faster than normal, you have to expend a bunch of energy to do it. The best you can do is nothing and put no energy in and get no energy out.
OK. I know. It's science fiction, as good as the episode is I've always grumbled a little at the fast and loose attitude toward reality.
How about an episode where an absorberloff absorbs an angel? Mayhem and hilarity follow? No need for Dr. who, have it star Marc Warren, Carey Mulligan and Lucy Gaskell! Pope, Sparrow and Nightingale.
Sorry for the rant.
A 1995 remake with Kirk Cameron and Dan Castellaneta!
If ever a movie never needed to be remade, it was this one.
Also, a dongle is not a perfect replacement for the 3.5mm headphone jack. I often use my phone as an MP3 player while working. Charging the phone while listening to music. If the iPhone 7 replaced the 3.5mm headphone jack with a lightning port (creating an additional lightning port, that would be an improvement.
An iPhone is not on my wish list, so this doesn't affect me. Hopefully Android phone manufacturers will not follow suit, and instead will use this as an easy way to generate more sales for themselves and gain even more market share for themselves. Because Apple has dropped a basic feature from their phones, all Android phones automatically have a feature to offer that Apple doesn't, making the Android offering more feature rich and a better deal for the consumer.
Excellent reference!