These chains on your ankles and wrists aren't meant to restrain you but to keep you from falling off the side of the ship. Now think different, grab that oar, and row exactly like the guy on either side of you...
I wonder what the typical lifespan of each type of device is? I know I tend to keep PCs around for 5-6 years, and cell phones/tablets change out every 1-2 years...
Good to know about the switches! I've done Leviton so far, I'll be careful about mixing... About timing things, I'm working in an irrigation module/HW controller right now, where I can use a soil moisture sensor to determine when to turn on the water. And then hook it in to weather reports so that if I have rain forecast in the next 4-12 hours, I'll go ahead and skip watering (if it doesn't rain within 12 hours, water anyway).
Yep - got the Vera Lite system. It's pretty sweet! Easy to set up and configure, and pairs nicely with lots of other Z wave based stuff (like Schlage locks).
Of course, it's also nice to make sure the wife or kids closed the garage door... Or that your front door is locked when someone else closed it. Or to activate a one-time code for my neighbor to use to bring in the Sunday newspaper.
Both - you can remote in via cell phone (and watch the WiFi cameras from wherever you are), or if you're within WiFi range you can connect that way. Basically however you can get to your home Internet network works. And yes, someone COULD hack my garage door - however, you can configure the system to get notifications when doors are locked and unlocked, and when the garage door opens or closes.
It's what I'm starting to use and it's pretty good so far. Door locks, window/door sensors, thermostats, motion sensors, lights, outlets, dimmers, etc. Pretty handy so far. Scripting with LUUP (a LUA like language) is pretty simple, and you can get it to play pretty easily with other whole-house solutions (like SONOS).
For example, when I get home, I can use my cell phone to open the garage door, turn on the garage light, the hallway light, the family room light, turn on the tea maker, and fire up SONOS to the Pandora station of my choice. At night, I can issue a single "time to sleep" command and the house locks itself up, sets lights/temperatures appropriately, and I'm set.
And in the US, it is an issue of culture NOT race. Look at the success of many subcultures of people of African descent (actual African immigrants, or those immigrated from the Caribbean), or Asia (new immigrants from Vietnam, China, Thailand) compared to people of the same races but from 2nd or 3rd (or more) generations of the US culture. The issue is culture, not race.
Do schools in Finland try to instruct in half a dozen languages simultaneously, leave kids with learning disabilities with others of the same age (mainstreaming), and guarantee teachers and administrators positions within the school regardless of the success/failure of their students?
Being an atheist is taking a position on the existence - actually, the lack thereof - of a higher power/being. If you're looking to NOT take a stance, than that is agnosticism. Atheists are as firm in their convictions as religionists - both are based faith, as there is no physical proof one way or another.
Try entering some of the older, more "exclusive" bars in Tokyo and get refused entry because you're gaijin. Same happens all over Asia, and all over the world. Not surprisingly, racism happens with all races.
Atheism is as much a religious belief as any religion. The only intellectually "pure" position is agnosticism. You cannot make a conclusive statement either for or against the existence of a higher being without hard data one way or the other.
Obamacare pretty much does that. If you earn very little/nothing, you get free Medicaid. And with that you get free contraceptives. That's the current law - GOP approval or lack thereof notwithstanding.
When 1 in 7 is using food stamps, there's a problem. Aren't we supposed to be in the middle of an economic recovery, with unemployment at 6.7% and falling? Why is food stamp use growing at and unprecedented rates?
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These chains on your ankles and wrists aren't meant to restrain you but to keep you from falling off the side of the ship. Now think different, grab that oar, and row exactly like the guy on either side of you...
It was also the Hebrew god, later adopted by Christianity, and further later by Islam...
Name me a single hotbed of innovation anywhere in the world from any historic period which was still a hotbed of innovation 50 years later.
Seattle. Hot today in tech, hot 30 years ago in tech, hot 50-80 years ago in aerospace (Boeing).
Here's another, where they track based upon mobile browser platform. It seems that worldwide Android has about 50% more traffic than iOS.
I wonder what the typical lifespan of each type of device is? I know I tend to keep PCs around for 5-6 years, and cell phones/tablets change out every 1-2 years...
Breaking my no AC rule
I thought, like gingers, lefties have no soul?
Good to know about the switches! I've done Leviton so far, I'll be careful about mixing... About timing things, I'm working in an irrigation module/HW controller right now, where I can use a soil moisture sensor to determine when to turn on the water. And then hook it in to weather reports so that if I have rain forecast in the next 4-12 hours, I'll go ahead and skip watering (if it doesn't rain within 12 hours, water anyway).
Yep - got the Vera Lite system. It's pretty sweet! Easy to set up and configure, and pairs nicely with lots of other Z wave based stuff (like Schlage locks).
Of course, it's also nice to make sure the wife or kids closed the garage door... Or that your front door is locked when someone else closed it. Or to activate a one-time code for my neighbor to use to bring in the Sunday newspaper.
Both - you can remote in via cell phone (and watch the WiFi cameras from wherever you are), or if you're within WiFi range you can connect that way. Basically however you can get to your home Internet network works. And yes, someone COULD hack my garage door - however, you can configure the system to get notifications when doors are locked and unlocked, and when the garage door opens or closes.
AC is just another 1%er upset that someone else is even higher up the economic ladder than they are... Envy is so disappointing...
It's what I'm starting to use and it's pretty good so far. Door locks, window/door sensors, thermostats, motion sensors, lights, outlets, dimmers, etc. Pretty handy so far. Scripting with LUUP (a LUA like language) is pretty simple, and you can get it to play pretty easily with other whole-house solutions (like SONOS).
For example, when I get home, I can use my cell phone to open the garage door, turn on the garage light, the hallway light, the family room light, turn on the tea maker, and fire up SONOS to the Pandora station of my choice. At night, I can issue a single "time to sleep" command and the house locks itself up, sets lights/temperatures appropriately, and I'm set.
I have no proof, as I said before: I don't need any.
And that is the very definition of faith. How is faith there is no god different from faith there is a god? Both are positions held simply by faith...
And in the US, it is an issue of culture NOT race. Look at the success of many subcultures of people of African descent (actual African immigrants, or those immigrated from the Caribbean), or Asia (new immigrants from Vietnam, China, Thailand) compared to people of the same races but from 2nd or 3rd (or more) generations of the US culture. The issue is culture, not race.
Do schools in Finland try to instruct in half a dozen languages simultaneously, leave kids with learning disabilities with others of the same age (mainstreaming), and guarantee teachers and administrators positions within the school regardless of the success/failure of their students?
Being an atheist is taking a position on the existence - actually, the lack thereof - of a higher power/being. If you're looking to NOT take a stance, than that is agnosticism. Atheists are as firm in their convictions as religionists - both are based faith, as there is no physical proof one way or another.
Question: are you 100% convinced there is no higher power/being/god? If so - what is your proof?
Try entering some of the older, more "exclusive" bars in Tokyo and get refused entry because you're gaijin. Same happens all over Asia, and all over the world. Not surprisingly, racism happens with all races.
and the official state religion is atheism.
Just being pedantic but a state religion cannot be atheism because atheism is by definition the absence of belief that deities exist.
Which in itself is a belief. Absence of proof is not proof of absence. Atheism requires as much faith as any other religion.
Well, not quite. Stalin was indeed a terrorist pre-1917
As was Mao until General Chek retreated to Formosa and Mao's revolutionaries won.
Atheism is as much a religious belief as any religion. The only intellectually "pure" position is agnosticism. You cannot make a conclusive statement either for or against the existence of a higher being without hard data one way or the other.
It's all the same
"There's no racism because I'm white."
"There is racism because I am white" - long-time Asia/Japan/Chinese resident who happens to be white.
Cohabiting is less than 10%. Unmarried usually means (more than 90% of the time) single.
Obamacare pretty much does that. If you earn very little/nothing, you get free Medicaid. And with that you get free contraceptives. That's the current law - GOP approval or lack thereof notwithstanding.
When 1 in 7 is using food stamps, there's a problem. Aren't we supposed to be in the middle of an economic recovery, with unemployment at 6.7% and falling? Why is food stamp use growing at and unprecedented rates?