Posted on 05/27/2018 4:46:40 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Ask around, and you’ll find a surprising number of people have a smart speaker in their homes. As of January, 1 in 6 Americans own a voice-activated speaker, but Gartner predicts 75 percent of U.S. households will have one by 2020. With a broad gamut of capabilities—streaming news and music, answering questions, issuing reminders, and controlling connected home products—they can offer a good value proposition, particularly when paired with an attractive price point.
But just because our Echos, Google Homes, and HomePods can do all sorts of things doesn’t mean we’re taking advantage of every single one of their features. Many of us are content to rely on our digital assistants for just one, or a handful, of specific tasks. With that in mind, there seem to be several distinct emerging classes of smart speaker users to which people belong.
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If I ask my Google appliance, “Hey Google, what is the value of pi,”, her answer is, “Here goes, feel free to tell me when you’ve had enough. 3.14159...”
And she goes on wasting bandwidth ... until I yell, “Hey. Google, stop!”
PJ-Comix, Alexa just repeated a conversation you muttered about bank accounts. Thanks for funding my next online purchase. Alexa is cool.
Alexa, please report TexasGator to the police for recording phone calls of others without informing the other party first.
Please dial 911 now.
Alexa, please notify the local FBI & Police that MarkL currently has illegal copyrighted music on his computer, in addition to some kiddie porn pictures.
Also demote his “social score” rating over this.
To start off with my posting in NO way is insulting to Freepers. The “group” I was referring to was the five the article was pointing out . This is the most consistent and God fearing sites on the web with a following that loves and appreciates this great Republic as I do . If you interpreted my sarcasm to the article as an insult to fellow Freepers (which I am one)...well I don’t see it . You took it wrong and by no means would I ever insult persons I agree with mostly on a multitude of topics . My point was , the thing is connected and all it does leaves an electronic/digital footprint with its design . And I think it absurd to pay to have a device that listens to all that goes on behind closed doors . Point in fact , an echo/alexa or whatever communicates with the companies servers to analyze all it hears looking for the “trigger command” and their are ways that an individual can delete its history otherwise it is BY DEFAULT on the company providers servers....so I hope that fact is not insulting!
Alexa just speaks out programmed “truth”—weaponized “history’, “facts”—oh, enough “truth’ not to make you suspicious (for now, but it is for your children, not you really), but it will suck you into the Big Lies as easily as a Scofield Bible, or like a lying Walter Cronkite did to our fathers and grandfathers.
Alexa is a Marxist (utopian) bible .....Oh, maybe not your authentic “Truth” on every topic (yet) , but Alexa is just a baby bible now—the conditioning “system” not yet fully forced on the world, although it is much more effective on your children— to create lazy, just programmed “people” who will never research and study original documents—too lazy to lift up a book/hard copy (which is their goal—to be totally dependent on their interpretation of EVERYTHING!!!). You will only hear their “version” of your “question”—their “versions” of the Great Books (just gentle rewrites-—oh, just a crucial word or two changed , here and there, where no one except a genius could notice.)
The beginning of the Orwellian “truth” so the Shadow Government (Lucifereans) can put you into their Postmodernist Box of moral relativism (and then shut the lid).
Think of this Orwellian World: Just a few elite people who “program” Alexa can control 75% or more of the entire World—programing in all the exact same sentences/ideas/experiences/emotions, perceptions and thoughts to billions of people at once.
Huxley knew exactly the totalitarian power of such evil, dehumanizing mind control of the masses (and he laughed).
Every concept, word is AI on Alexa—not Reality, not an individual, unique human/human experience—but “group (non) think” artificial experiences. It will control your emotions and what you “think” and those emotions are artificially controlled and will reprogram your brain in artificial ways (not organically).
They put billions of dollars into the psychology—into the sound of the voice, inflection, emotional impact, etc.— and ESPECIALLY the “words” they choose to elicit the exact response/belief.
Words/Language can control your ‘perceptions” as Wittgenstein understood so well. It is why we have legalized “abortion” (baby-killing) made “normal” and into “Just Law” (lol) and such impossible, stupid satanic things like “homosexual marriage” (an oxymoron, in a “just” (virtuous) law, no less, in America where Just Law has to be based on “Right Reason according to Natural Law”. Oh, but not any more, after control of “education” so children can’t even understand the concepts of Natural Law, Truth (God) and Reality anymore, they are so “dumbed down” and dehumanized; they live in an Alexa-type (AI/transhumanist) reality already, most plugged-in children, where Truth is created by a few elites/Mind Controllers.
So—put your faith in “Alexa”—and you will find that some of the Classic books have been ‘changed” like I have-—oh just a few paragraphs or a word, but 99.9% of people will never ever notice that Classics have been twisted and warped just enough to flip a worldview in a person. Concepts of a Jesus Christ can literally be changed to that of Satan—2000 years of Ethics changed back to the pagan mindset of serfs, slaves and sodomites (man-boy “love” days).
Just like today, where the TV/News is “truth” when it is all lies and misinformation and distraction from Reality. Yet, look how TV controls the minds of the masses, so they are so removed from Reality and Truth (God) that they literally “think” that people who sodomize each other “love” each other.
Alexa is to create “Minds in a Vat” in everyone-—for the NWO (People who won’t “think” exactly like an Alexa will be dehumanized, put in prison and killed in the NWO where everyone has to “think” exactly alike (total dehumanization/slavery).
Alexa is built using psychology—weaponized “truth”— which will force you to “think” their “way”-—same as Wikipedia does to children to flip Good and Evil. No different than the “encyclopedia” of France, except there was much more facts/truth/true diversity at that time in books, since lack of centralized controls. We all should know now, that who writes the history textbooks (Lucifereans) will control exactly what people “know” of history and the past (which is all lies and misinformation to force perceptions/worldview for the NWO).
Since 1930, though—you have a few elite family blood lines that have censored most books and religions (especially in Europe) and Alexa is this Shadow Government on massive worldwide steroids.
Control of the Narrative, is control of the Mind (and all emotions)-—and Alexa is part of the NWO-—to control every idea, thought and emotions young children can have-—it is weaponized to create only ONE allowed Mindset where Evil is normalized so that all identity can be erased (no male/female), etc.
“Why do people who have no interest in the topic come and insult fellow freepers?”
You’re new here, huh?
You usually are the thin-skinned type. FR isn’t your personal security blanket, so don’t expect it to be one.
Maybe you’d do better in the EU where making someone feel insulted is a crime.
“Your hilarious list of things you need your plastic toy to provide, that which you cannot figure out on your own are illustrative of what we are curious about.......”
Well, said.
Actually, I find that “values” in life are really, really very satanic in today’s “culture of death” and the type of existence which demands such devices, really destroy the ability to understand/know what is really, truly important. It prevents human interaction—addicts and controls and diverts people from the Truth. It also takes up “work” for the brain—and atrophies it. Oh, I know, it is so “easy”—just like watching TV which has dumbed-down generations, now, and dehumanized so many where IQ has literally dropped. But lazy human nature will become addicted to it in a nanosecond, since the technology is weaponized to create dopamine hits to rewire the brain in artificial, addictive ways.....like TV (programming/mind control) does.
It is all a distraction from living an authentic, meaningful life.
The Amish understand some very essential aspects of true happiness—although even I appreciate an IPhone sometimes and texting....although I am going to get a lead box and keep it away from me most of the time. I still hang up a calendar and pick up a pen to write my schedule : ) and funny thing-—I don’t miss any appointments with no bells and dog whistles.
The devices are extremely powerful—but they were created by DARPA, the depopulation satanists—and their endgame is globalism (one-mind world “think”) and it is nefarious.....so beware—especially of 5G.
You are correct, some deluxe model Alexa Telescreens™ do have screens now.
I still don’t want one.
I am not and never will be one of those people.
“No insulting, because we have a curiosity about those that need so many crutches from electronic baubles to get through life.
Your hilarious list of things you need your plastic toy to provide, that which you cannot figure out on your own are illustrative of what we are curious about.......”
No insulting! ROTFLMAO!
I forgot. Which Sal tactic are you using on me?
I’m definitely the third type, edging more and more towards giving my Alexa more home integration responsibilities. I really do like it. It’s nice to tell Alexa my grocery list, have it sent to my phone and my Meijer’s copuons then do my shopping. Makes my life easier and I need that!
“To start off with my posting in NO way is insulting to Freepers. “
In my book, being called a sucker is an insult.
Mark
Actually, every song I have on my computers has an associated CD in my back bedroom or was digitally purchased on Amazon. I don’t steal. Can you say the same?
As for the rest of your nonsense, someone could just as easily sent a swat team to your home, as was done in Kansas not too long ago, even though you don’t have a device. Heck, you don’t even have to have a computer or cell phone. All you need is a sociopath with your home address.
Mark
To use the old phrase from P.T. Barnum is apropos and is a saying that applies to many situations , putting listening devices in ones own home is one of them .
I repeat my question.
Why do people come on these threads just to insult fellow freepers?
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