Friday, September 26, 2014
You may not be able to call 911 but at least you can browse
I kinda like it when Technology fails. First off I'm sick of all the technology commercials on tv by which I mean mainly smartphones and tablets. You need Siri in your life I don't know what to tell you. The debut of the new iPhone6 and 6+, people waited in line for blocks and now they're grumbling on social media. Seems the 6+ bends when you have it in your pocket all day but people c'mon you're not supposed to sit on it! Then there's the issue of dropping calls but at least you can check your Twitter feed in the meantime. Others are complaining the phablet version is too big to stick in your pocket and yet the coming screen sizes were the big draw in the first place. More hacked nude celebrity photos have been posted recently, makes ya think the only thing young Hollywood A-listers and B-listers do with their phones is take nude selfies. Social Observation: is it possible for a woman to walk around Target or Bed Bath & Beyond without looking at her smartphone half or most of the time? Tech-commercials and pill commercials that's like all you see on tv:)
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So, essentially we are linked in and tuned out?
ReplyDeleteI was watching a NOVA special the other night about cybersecurity and hackers, prime numbers used in key codes and this new kid on the block called a quantum computer and the days of Henry David Thoreau don't look so bad right?
ReplyDeleteThe changing rate of technology is interesting; you know, we used horses for a
ReplyDeletethousand years; the piston engine for a hundred, the turbojet for sixty and the home
computer for twenty five. I was born just before WWII and us kids thought the
Erector Set was about the apex of toys. Now the toys are electronic and adults
seem to have a need for them. The thing is, technical progress is much faster than
Mom Nature and the capacity she gave us humans to adapt to the new. An Aristotle
could be pretty knowledgeable in all areas; now days folks carry their memory in
a plastic thing run by a chip, ya know?
I'm currently reading a fairly updated book on the Bermuda Triangle (on my tablet of course). Any thoughts and can we send the rest of ISIL on a big cruise to nowhere?
ReplyDeleteI'd be in favor of sending them naked to Antarctica .
DeleteISIL is like if you put a time machine in the Medieval Age, they all stepped in and got transported to the new millenium. Maybe Stephen Hawking can explain it.
DeleteWatching HSN last night. They were hawking a Samsung tablet and one feature is you can as it as a remote for your tv but wait a minute I already have a remote which I use quite happily.
ReplyDeleteSteven Hawking gets more out of his high tech computer/interface system
ReplyDeletethan I would.
Stephen Hawking kinda came out against God the other day.
DeleteNot too shocking for a physicist:
Delete"Among the different disciplines, disbelief in the existence of God was not correlated with any particular area of expertise:
Disbelief in God by Academics
Discipline
%
Physics 40.8
Chemistry 26.6
Biology 41.0
Overall 37.6
..and among the 'soft' sciences:
Sociology 34.0
Economics 31.7
Political Science 27.0
Psychology 33.0
Overall 31.2
Have you bullet proofed your
ReplyDeletesmartphone yet? I'm guessing one would carry it in a shirt pocket over the heart?
If you had two I'd put one in front of the gonads.
DeleteI caught FoxNews regular Fr. Johathan Morris (NYC priest) on the telly this AM and found my self in agreement (in that he outlined positions I had already arrived at) on
ReplyDeletea couple of items: the recruitment of ISIS members from the Muslim missions in US
jails: in that criminals will be attracted to violent hateful religious concepts for the very same reason they are attracted to gang membership- a brotherhood of violent men pretty much against the world; secondly the good priest's assertion that the concept of military atheist chaplains is an oxymoron- atheism in some respects is
simply the rejection of religion, not a religion in itself. Even Christopher Hitchens
agreed that after death there is no pain, no heartbreak, but eternal peace, albeit no further existence as a lifeform. It would be ludicrous for an atheist chaplain to pray to the non-God. (IMO)
Put another way ISIS deliberately targets the disaffected. What I don't get is under Sharia women can be stoned for adultery but can be raped under spoils of war.
DeleteWHY is the Oklahoma beheading being solely put into the catchall category of "workplace violence"? Used to be some people shot their bosses and a few co-workers. Beheading would seem too involved.
ReplyDeleteWhy do the folks that foam at the mouth over Benghazi think that Sandy Hook was faked?
ReplyDeleteIn a number of red states, it requires less ID to buy/carry a firearm than it does to
ReplyDeletevote. Whassup?
Back to that workplace beheading by that Muslim convert we have ALOT of assorted violence in this country but actual beheadings are quite rare. Just sayin':)
ReplyDeleteAccording to the supernatural types, beheading is the simplest way to kill a
Deletevampire. (or just about anything, I guess)
You know I couldn't sleep last night. Maybe it's what's going on in the world, what's going on in this country. Even the Irish Triple-Distilled whiskey didn't help.
DeleteDo you have an App to hide your spyware App ?
ReplyDeleteOn the flipside you can see what your stalker is doing.
DeleteHow do you think Dr. House would handle this condition ?
ReplyDeleteIs it accompanied by tinnitus?
DeleteIs it just me, or does Guv Christie STILL look a half ton overweight?
ReplyDeleteHe claims he recently lost about 80. I think the lapband snapped.
DeleteBeheadings, everyone's freaking that it's terrorism. What about the guy who killed someone by literally biting his face off? I would think that leaves beheading far behind on the holy shit did that actually happen in 21st century America scale.
ReplyDeleteNow everyone's going to panic about Ebola. Ingraham says it's Obama's fault, because everything is Obama's fault. It's not nearly as big of a deal as people want it to be, because we don't live in a third world country that has no sanitation and people actively sabotaging healthcare relief effoorts.
Speaking of third world countries, poor people in Detroit aren't allowed to have clean running water. How long before they get cholera and dysentery there, which are both pretty badass killers of large numbers of humans annually but no one seems to be concerned about?
We are going to the Outer Banks this weekend and staying in Nags Head. I wanted to stay in Buxton but I was overruled. It's still going to be nice and we are going to Ocracoke on Saturday so that means at least driving through Buxton twice. We haven't been anywhere since the dog so this is sort of a weird thing. I keep thinking we have to get someone to watch her....
Lovin on the Subaru. I really thought I'd miss veing in a truck but the more I drive it the more I like it.
The political ads in NC are appalling. Nonstop and so full of shit they make your house stink. Thom Tillis's commercials are so blatantly lying and tissue paper transparent it is almost ridiculous. Kay Hagan really needs to win this race. McCrory got slapped down over voting restrictions, but he's done so much damage to this state that it's going to take years to fix it.
Fuzzy jammies season has arrived. That is all.
My issue Saty is the FBI, the feds in general are too quick, practically the same day saying in such cases this or that is not a lone wolf attack. Why so quick? at least say give us time we're looking into it. Law enforcement pronouncements are often affected by PC and PC kills.
DeleteHeard galloping in the street and went to the window to check. A Moose!
ReplyDeleteRalph Reed and the Fundywingers should be delighted. ISIS has reformed education in areas they control. And-
ReplyDelete"In science books, any reference to Darwinism or to natural evolution was to be deleted. This would be replaced by sentences that made it clear that God was the creator of everything. However students would be allowed to study chemistry and physics because these were laws used by God."
BB Ralph Reed and the Fundywingers aren't gonna chop anybody's head off and there's the difference. In other words we can all politely disagree and keep our heads.
DeleteAlong those lines, Joe The Plumber is in town today. Stumping for a guy that is running on the 2nd Amendment vs the incumbent, a local family doctor that has been reelected several times. But the doc voted against
Deleteforcing colleges to open their campuses to gun toters. Idaho has elected
marginal politicians strictly on how rabid they are on guns and we have
worked our way down to last in the US in wages, education, physicians per population, median income, etc. Suckers
It's hard getting a colonoscopy in Idaho is it?
DeleteYeah, they do it down at the TV station.
DeleteLol
DeleteI got sidetracked today by a smartphone issue. Last two days my battery drained really fast so I explored my data usage a little and seems for whatever reason the CNN app I recently installed is a big offender in terms of juice so Uninstall. Never had that problem with the BBC.
ReplyDeleteSo basically I've been unknowingly leaving work with an about 8% charge just so I could be notified that George Clooney just got married.
ReplyDeleteISIL- now they are beheading aid workers. I'm a bit at a loss as to how they should be eradicated: they live among the indigenous folk, so stuff that would be good for
ReplyDeletethem, like tactical nukes, persistent nerve gas, saturated cluster bombing and other
illegal methods would have significant collateral damage. You think some LSD missiles would have them beheading each other?
Read a religious link the other day and this is not that widely known 'cause the msm doesn't cover everything but IS even beheads and crucifies CHILDREN. In one case they left a little kid's head on a fencepost in the city park and literally sawed another kid in half...
DeleteSo I would say this is somewhat different and the ONLY way to eradicate this evil is for an international coalition to put boots on the ground in both Iraq and Syria. Take Baghdadi out and reveal that hostage-beheader's name already. IS has already adapted to the airstrikes.
DeleteI guess you are not big on the death penalty, but beheading innocent folk
Deleteseems to be a crime worthy of it,
Oh no you can make that case and consider drone strikes an instant death penalty anyway.
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