(While wearing my bluetooth headset and working on my car) "Siri, How'd the Patriots do?" "They beat the Jets 52-10." "Woohoo!"
Or stop working on my car, dig for my cellphone and either launch an app for sports scores (which I have to have on my phone) or launch Safari and search (ie, type) "Patriots Jets" and hope that Google is clever enough to figure out what I want and will put it on the search results.
I agree that if I want to know the details of the game--number of butt fumbles, interceptions, and what-not--I'm going for the App. But just to get quick answers, voice is far more convenient.
And in the past, I have been given a metal knife when flying in first class (obviously, first class passengers cannot be terrorists!)
First, I'm kind of curious when this happened? I haven't flown in a sufficiently high class since 9/11, but I remember when airlines used to give you hot food. I don't know if they still do or not--it may depend on how far you're going and which airline you're using.
That said, first class passengers are not terrorists because terrorists are frugal. Remember the guys who tried to blow up the World Trade Center using a truck bomb and then went back for the deposit on the tuck? And none of the 9/11 Terrorists flew first class because why spend the extra money if you're going to crash or blow up the plane?
...and in the revolving door of free-market and government, there would never be any kind of collusion or bribery to make sure that a patent got through! Genius!
Agreed. It's not about security--it's about tracking and CYA.
Currently, the school doesn't know who gets on the bus and where they get off the bus.
FTA:
"There's not a day goes by that we get a frantic call from parents that they can't find their child. It's never been a serious situation."
[...] A device scans the eye of the student to identify him. Then a text message or email would be sent to a parent letting them know what time their child was picked up and the time the bus arrived at school. The electronic device would also notify parents if their child got off at a different bus stop.
With this system, the school can say, "Little Johnny got on the bus and got off the bus at stop 12, the corner of Woodward & Burnstein. Go look for your kid around there." Better yet, the school can say, "Check your own fucking e-mail and leave us alone."
So you have parents who expect the school to keep track of where their kids are--but they don't want the school to actually track the kid because that would be bad/Orwellian.
Only a parent's group would be as naive is to attempt this.
Dear God, won't somebody think of the parent's group?!
Half-way seriously, consider their situation. The bullies are kids, too, so we can't blame the kids. We're a parent's group--what're we going to do, blame ourselves? I don't think so. Besides, some parent has just lost their child. They're victims and we can't blame the victims!
Let's see...who's an adult around that we can blame? AH! Facebook! Large nameless faceless corporation who is run by adults and should have known better because it is all of our responsibilities to protect our children. Yeah! It's their fault!
I hate advertisers why would I want ads transmitted to me just because I walked by a store?
Well, it somewhat depends. And this may be one of those interesting things we discover--what is the tolerance for such things?
For example, I'm walking over to my friend's house. I have a destination and a time that I have to be there. I agree that the last thing I want is to have ads pop up as I walk past various stores on my way there--"10% discount on French Fries Today!" "Check out our Monet reproductions!" "Get Laid!"
Okay, the last one I might file away for later research.
On the other hand, I like the idea that I could walk into an area with lots of restaurants and be able to pull up information about a restaurant by just looking at it, including the fact that they have 10% discount on French Fries today.
In some ways, I'm not too worried about the first example because, if it did that, I wouldn't buy Google Glass. So Google gets nothing out of me. But if Google can come up with a way to present the information--including advertising--in a way that I don't find annoying, then I might buy a pair.
I'd leave partisanship out of it--I'm pretty sure it's more about money from car dealers both via campaign contributions and taxes.
Think of it this way--that car lot takes up a lot property. Property gets taxed at a local level. There were a bunch of localities that had problems when their Pontiac and Saturn dealerships closed down. People start buying cars over the Internet and not through local dealers, there goes those dealers and their local taxes. I'm sure there are plenty of cities who'd rather not see that happen.
Let me get this straight--you're comparing using iPhones with murder, death, and disease? You must be the biggest Apple-Hater in the world. I mean, I may not be a big fan of iPhones, but I certainly wouldn't compare owning one to having HIV.
You see, this is why we have to tell you when it is intended to be humorous. Because otherwise you go off the deep-end.
I was thinking more of the association between Apple products and homosexuals, myself. I mean, if you're going to have gay soldiers, they absolutely have to carry iPhones.
What I get annoyed with is the whole, "Star Trek explored all sorts of socially relevant topics." I don't deny this--but it did so fairly rarely. Hell, "Roseanne" and "Home Improvement" had the occasional "Very Special Episode" that explored socially relevant topics.
I don't hate those episodes listed. To me, they are examples of non-socially-relevant episodes--and I could list quite a few others. One of my favorite episodes is "A Piece of the Action." Short of "Don't leave a Chicago Gangs history book on another planet," there isn't much social relevance there. It's just a fun episode where Kirk out-mobsters the mobsters.
While "Spock's Brain" could be called a cautionary tale about society stagnating under the control of a machine intelligence, so could "Return of the Archons", "The Apple", and arguably "A Taste of Armageddon." Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.
I may have been off-base regarding "Bread and Circuses," which I kind of looked at as a "Sliders" episode--"What if the Roman Empire hadn't fallen?" Fun concept, definitely, but not necessarily socially relevant. But you do make a good point.
Again, Star Trek had it's share of social relevance, and that's wonderful. But it also had it's share of episodes that were more character-driven than story-driven. That's not a bad thing. It also had a few really stupid episodes. I tend to look at televised science fiction in that light: If I can tune in and have a better than 50% chance of being entertained or enlightened, it's a good show. Star Trek definitely qualifies for me.
Actually, Simon Pegg (Scotty) had this to say about the Lens Flare:
[Interviewer:] Who made the first joke about lens flares?
[Pegg:] Probably some film student who wanted to demonstrate his or her knowledge of film terminology, thus elevating themselves to an assumed level of critical superiority, which gave them the kind of smug, knowing smile that indicates a festering sour grape, fizzing in the pit of their own ambition. It’s become a sort of communal stick to have a crack at JJ with, mostly by people who didn’t know what the fuck lens flare was, until someone started sneering the term all over their blog. It demonstrates JJ’s supreme talent as a film maker that the main means of knocking him is to magnify a throw away artistic choice, into some sort of hilarious failing. Lens flare is essentially an anomaly caused by light hitting the lens and creating refracted shapes. Because it draws attention to the fact that we are looking at a filmed event, it actually creates a subliminal sense of documentary realism and makes the moment more vital and immediate. In the same way Spielberg spattered his shots with bloody seawater in Saving Private Ryan, JJ suggests that the moment we are in is so real and alive, there just isn’t time to frame out all the light and activity. The irony is by acknowledging the film’s artifice, you are enhancing the reality of the moment. It’s clever and I love it. On set we call it ‘best in show’ and our amazing director of photography, Dan Mindel has a special technique to achieve it. To the detractors, I offer a polite fuck you and suggest you find a new stick to beat us with, if being a huge, boring neggyballs is necessary for your personal happiness.
Episodes brought to light issues that paralleled the prevailing topics of the time such as racism, transgender, homosexuality, bi-racial relationships, the cold war, what defines humanity [...]
faithfulness to Trek canon (Spock and Uhura? Spock is mated to T'Pring)
Who, it's fair to assume, is now dead.
Also, there are plenty of Spock & Uhura moments in the original series. Nichelle Nichols had this to say:
The attraction between the characters was in the original series, says Nichols. “Now, go back to my participation in Star Trek as Uhura and Leonard (Nimoy) as Spock,” she explained. “There was always a connection between Uhura and Spock. It was the early 60s, so you couldn’t do what you can do now, but if you will remember, Uhura related to Spock. When she saw the captain lost in space out there in her mirror, it was Spock who consoled her when she went screaming out of her room. When Spock needed an expert to help save the ship, you remember that Uhura put something together and related back to him the famous words, ‘I don’t know if I can do this. I’m afraid.’ And Uhura was the only one who could do a spoof on Spock. Remember the song (in Charlie X)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.”
I do think this Spock is a bit more emotional. Some of it may come from Spock Prime...
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I was amused at the keynote when Spindler said, "Can't innovate, my ass!" and then they cut to Woz on the video screens...
Of course, that depends on what's going on.
(While wearing my bluetooth headset and working on my car)
"Siri, How'd the Patriots do?"
"They beat the Jets 52-10."
"Woohoo!"
Or stop working on my car, dig for my cellphone and either launch an app for sports scores (which I have to have on my phone) or launch Safari and search (ie, type) "Patriots Jets" and hope that Google is clever enough to figure out what I want and will put it on the search results.
I agree that if I want to know the details of the game--number of butt fumbles, interceptions, and what-not--I'm going for the App. But just to get quick answers, voice is far more convenient.
Then instead of having the world's tallest building, they'll have the world's longest building.
It's win-win!
Think iOS.
True. Apple never discontinues APIs or things like that. They're very good about that. Just ask Adobe.
And in the past, I have been given a metal knife when flying in first class (obviously, first class passengers cannot be terrorists!)
First, I'm kind of curious when this happened? I haven't flown in a sufficiently high class since 9/11, but I remember when airlines used to give you hot food. I don't know if they still do or not--it may depend on how far you're going and which airline you're using.
That said, first class passengers are not terrorists because terrorists are frugal. Remember the guys who tried to blow up the World Trade Center using a truck bomb and then went back for the deposit on the tuck? And none of the 9/11 Terrorists flew first class because why spend the extra money if you're going to crash or blow up the plane?
...and in the revolving door of free-market and government, there would never be any kind of collusion or bribery to make sure that a patent got through! Genius!
No mention of the resolution, but I assume it involved unplugging the fridge.
You will unplug my beer fridge over my cold and lifeless body. This is why we Uhmerkins have guns.
Hopefully, they bought him a new fridge.
Agreed. It's not about security--it's about tracking and CYA.
Currently, the school doesn't know who gets on the bus and where they get off the bus.
FTA:
"There's not a day goes by that we get a frantic call from parents that they can't find their child. It's never been a serious situation."
[...] A device scans the eye of the student to identify him. Then a text message or email would be sent to a parent letting them know what time their child was picked up and the time the bus arrived at school. The electronic device would also notify parents if their child got off at a different bus stop.
With this system, the school can say, "Little Johnny got on the bus and got off the bus at stop 12, the corner of Woodward & Burnstein. Go look for your kid around there." Better yet, the school can say, "Check your own fucking e-mail and leave us alone."
So you have parents who expect the school to keep track of where their kids are--but they don't want the school to actually track the kid because that would be bad/Orwellian.
Maybe if they built a large wooden badger...
It doesn't.
I'm sure we would still be fighting over who would pay for it, or some other political bullshit when it hit and killed us all.
True. But some of us would go to Heaven while the rest of you evil people would end up suffering eternal torment and damnation in Hell.
So why the hell should my tax dollars go to saving the lives of a bunch of sinners? Let the end times come! It's God's Will!
(No, I don't believe this. The scary thing is, there are those who do.)
Also keep an eye on your kidney.
Only a parent's group would be as naive is to attempt this.
Dear God, won't somebody think of the parent's group?!
Half-way seriously, consider their situation. The bullies are kids, too, so we can't blame the kids. We're a parent's group--what're we going to do, blame ourselves? I don't think so. Besides, some parent has just lost their child. They're victims and we can't blame the victims!
Let's see...who's an adult around that we can blame? AH! Facebook! Large nameless faceless corporation who is run by adults and should have known better because it is all of our responsibilities to protect our children. Yeah! It's their fault!
I hate advertisers why would I want ads transmitted to me just because I walked by a store?
Well, it somewhat depends. And this may be one of those interesting things we discover--what is the tolerance for such things?
For example, I'm walking over to my friend's house. I have a destination and a time that I have to be there. I agree that the last thing I want is to have ads pop up as I walk past various stores on my way there--"10% discount on French Fries Today!" "Check out our Monet reproductions!" "Get Laid!"
Okay, the last one I might file away for later research.
On the other hand, I like the idea that I could walk into an area with lots of restaurants and be able to pull up information about a restaurant by just looking at it, including the fact that they have 10% discount on French Fries today.
In some ways, I'm not too worried about the first example because, if it did that, I wouldn't buy Google Glass. So Google gets nothing out of me. But if Google can come up with a way to present the information--including advertising--in a way that I don't find annoying, then I might buy a pair.
A whole host of sources, some of which include the NWS but, and here's the important bit, not their website.
Really? So stuff like this isn't used by anybody. I assume they get their current conditions on a CD...
Yeah, and I remember getting 6 inches of "flurries" one Thanksgiving.
Of course, you neglect the other 364 days of the year when they were spot on.
They could take money from other useless parts (like the website that the private sector has entirely covered
Uh, where do you think "the private sector" is getting their data from?
Of course, electricity wasn't all that common.
I'd leave partisanship out of it--I'm pretty sure it's more about money from car dealers both via campaign contributions and taxes.
Think of it this way--that car lot takes up a lot property. Property gets taxed at a local level. There were a bunch of localities that had problems when their Pontiac and Saturn dealerships closed down. People start buying cars over the Internet and not through local dealers, there goes those dealers and their local taxes. I'm sure there are plenty of cities who'd rather not see that happen.
Let me get this straight--you're comparing using iPhones with murder, death, and disease? You must be the biggest Apple-Hater in the world. I mean, I may not be a big fan of iPhones, but I certainly wouldn't compare owning one to having HIV.
You see, this is why we have to tell you when it is intended to be humorous. Because otherwise you go off the deep-end.
I was thinking more of the association between Apple products and homosexuals, myself. I mean, if you're going to have gay soldiers, they absolutely have to carry iPhones.
(It's a joke people...)
Au contraire--I'm actually a fan.
What I get annoyed with is the whole, "Star Trek explored all sorts of socially relevant topics." I don't deny this--but it did so fairly rarely. Hell, "Roseanne" and "Home Improvement" had the occasional "Very Special Episode" that explored socially relevant topics.
I don't hate those episodes listed. To me, they are examples of non-socially-relevant episodes--and I could list quite a few others. One of my favorite episodes is "A Piece of the Action." Short of "Don't leave a Chicago Gangs history book on another planet," there isn't much social relevance there. It's just a fun episode where Kirk out-mobsters the mobsters.
While "Spock's Brain" could be called a cautionary tale about society stagnating under the control of a machine intelligence, so could "Return of the Archons", "The Apple", and arguably "A Taste of Armageddon." Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.
I may have been off-base regarding "Bread and Circuses," which I kind of looked at as a "Sliders" episode--"What if the Roman Empire hadn't fallen?" Fun concept, definitely, but not necessarily socially relevant. But you do make a good point.
Again, Star Trek had it's share of social relevance, and that's wonderful. But it also had it's share of episodes that were more character-driven than story-driven. That's not a bad thing. It also had a few really stupid episodes. I tend to look at televised science fiction in that light: If I can tune in and have a better than 50% chance of being entertained or enlightened, it's a good show. Star Trek definitely qualifies for me.
But let's not make it something that it was not.
Actually, Simon Pegg (Scotty) had this to say about the Lens Flare:
Episodes brought to light issues that paralleled the prevailing topics of the time such as racism, transgender, homosexuality, bi-racial relationships, the cold war, what defines humanity [...]
And "Spock's Brain."
'nuff said.
faithfulness to Trek canon (Spock and Uhura? Spock is mated to T'Pring)
Who, it's fair to assume, is now dead.
Also, there are plenty of Spock & Uhura moments in the original series. Nichelle Nichols had this to say:
I do think this Spock is a bit more emotional. Some of it may come from Spock Prime...