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On the way back from work, taken at the same place as this picture and possibly a few minutes later in the day, and we now have real daylight. The ground is actually starting to dry off and the geese no longer have to swim to cross the farm yard.
Of course it snowed for several hours a couple of days ago, and there was ice on the window this morning, but at least we can now leave work without crashing into wheelbarrows and stray sheep.
I've been neglecting the whirry clicky bits of the Xtracycle of late and now it is making its displeasure clear: the chain has been making a noise like a bag of cats for months, despite oiling it regularly, and last week the chain finally wore down to the stage that the wheels wouldn't turn no matter how much I pedaled, so I started looking around for a replacement before my smug green glow began to fade.
Some time ago I upgraded to eight speed shifters, mostly because my seven speed shifters were considering gear changes to be a request rather than a command (anyone see a pattern here?). I'd not bothered to change the cassette at the time, reasoning that I could do that later in the year. This was in spring 2011.
So this week, I ordered a new rear wheel with an eight speed cassette, two chains and a chain removal tool. This proved cheaper than getting a new cassette and hub mounted on my old wheel, and leaves me with a wheel ready to fit a spike tyre onto for next winter. For once I have actually planned ahead instead of waiting for things to fall to bits.
Any smug glow this may have created promptly vanished without trace when I decided -for reasons that are unclear- that the chain needed to be tensioned while on both the smallest cogs, instead of the largest as I had done the previous seven times, so the first time I tried to change gear I nearly pulled the rear derraileur off its mount. Fortunately the new chain gave way first.
Back to the Commuter Bike for a few more days, then. At least I've got plenty of bits for making bike chain chrismas tree ornaments in December.
For use in those parts of 'civilization' where the Xtracycle may prove just too tempting for thieves and vandals, I have a Commuter Bike, picked up as a very ugly looking mountain bike complete with yellow transfers bearing the name 'Stampede'.
Wikipedia defines a 'stampede' as:
"…uncontrolled concerted running as an act of mass impulse among herd animals or a crowd of people in which the herd (or crowd) collectively begins running, often in an attempt to escape a perceived threat."
Yes, that sounds just like a bicycle.
Anyway, I bought the bike back in 2012 and did the bare minimum to make it into a basic commuter bike that would present as unattractive a target as possible: I added some scrap mudguards, a stand, V-Brakes, a set of old tyres from the Xtracycle, some elderly lights and the cheapest dynamo I could find.
The bike then got on with its main purpose in life of not being nicked all day at the tram stop while I was at carpentry college. It managed this for two and a half years with no trouble at all, although the front light turned out to be pretty but useless so I changed it before I ran into something, or more likely before something ran into me.
At some point the awful foam handlebars turned back into whatever oil based slime they'd been made of, and needed a replacement quickly, so in desperation I fitted the only handlebar grips I had, which happened to be cork.
Then last week I took it out to see what I'd need to change for the new commute into Stuttgart, and noticed it isn't looking that ugly anymore.
And now I'm getting attached to the thing and wondering if I could give it some nice bar ends, or maybe at least get rid of those transfers and upgrade the luggage rack to one that doesn't rattle… but that would defeat the object of having the bike in the first place. It's there to be ugly, dammit, or at least boring, so it doesn't get nicked when chained to a lamppost in Stuttgart. Next thing you know I'll be giving it a name…
Still, if anyone has an idea how to remove garish yellow transfers, please let me know…
This rather poorly taken image on the way back from work shows something exciting: daylight. At nearly seven in the evening.
Admittedly not much, and sandwiched between some clouds that had just dumped a load of snow on us, and some clouds that shortly after rained on us, but still.
Soon we'll be able to get ready to leave the farm without tripping over things or walking into trees and random animals. If we are really lucky this will happen before the rain makes all the puddles in the yard join together and create a new lake for the geese…
Or, how to make paperwork into an excuse for a ride…
The ongoing saga of applying for my college funding continues. I returned the bale of paperwork that the government office demanded, signed and sent off another bale, and then filled in a couple more forms that I got from another office. And waited. And waited…
Then an email came saying I'd neglected to send The Important Form that they needed to start the entire process. The Rules demand the Important Form, so they couldn't start the process without it. I had to send the Important Form to them, like, now*.
The problem was, I got this email on Tuesday night. The earliest I could get to a post office was Wednesday lunchtime. The form would then arrive on Thursday morning, but all forms have to go to the main office, not my local office where the file was. If the central office was having a good day, the Important Form may make it back to my local office on Thursday, or more likely Friday, and then someone may look at it on the following Monday.
Alternatively I could go to the local office on Wednesday morning, drop off the form as they opened and go to work. The office is in exactly the opposite direction to work, which meant going on a bike ride along the river Neckar into Stuttgart.
The next morning I got up at silly O'clock, rolled down into the valley, dropped the Important Form off at a quarter to eight in the morning, and pointed the bike towards Stuttgart.
The Neckar Valley gets very industrial as you approach Stuttgart. Alongside this massive lock gate is an equally massive casting works for a well known car company.
The cycleway diverts around the back of the harbour. Nice and quiet but with a railway on one side and a river on the other for about a kilometre I wouldn't want to try it after dark.
Things went well for the first part of the journey and I had a good chance of making it to work on time. Then I was signposted off the direct route and down a side road. And then another side road. and an underpass, then back up a steep hill onto a narrow pavement. Which went back down the steep hill. Ten minutes later I was twenty metres closer to Stuttgart, and found the next part of the cycleway.
Which was closed.
A sign sent me back along the way I'd come until I could cross the river to this route:
Still, at least I wasn't on that massive road or stuck in that big traffic jam. Even with detours I was making better progress than they were.
And, to be fair, the diversion was clearly marked and well signposted. Rather better than the normal route, in fact.
As soon as I turned away from the river and into Stuttgart proper, everything became more civilised.
They're even trying out that tree-huggy new idea of a 'Bicycle Street', where bikes have priority and cars need to give way. To make sure drivers get the hint there's a massive blue bike sign as you come into the 'Bicycle Street'. I'd have taken a photograph, but unfortunately it was mostly covered by an illegally parked truck.
From the Netherlands.
I was late for work. Fortunately several colleagues have been through this process with this particular office before, so they know the score…
(Sorry for the rubbish picture quality: I was using a small 'point-and-hope' camera which didn't like the lighting conditions at all)
*This is a rather free translation of the german.
The Xtracycle as fitted onto my bike, consists of a frame, big panniers, and a piece of wood on the top, as seen in the picture above. On mine, the wood has been showing signs of wear and tear lately. Actually it's been showing signs of wear and tear for several years, but as it wasn't a 'urgent' problem, I naturally did nothing about it.
When I started working at the farm I realised I had access to wood and the right sort of tools to make a replacement. True to form I faffed about until last month, when I finally went hunting in the wood store for materials.
We've had various bits of hardwood donated over the years, which we rarely use as the children prefer to use softwoods like pine. The hardwoods end up at the back of the wood store gathering vast amounts of dust, so I dug up some Ash for the majority of the board, with a centre line made of beech, and two stripes from some walnut veneer. Notice the "carpenter's triangle". I'd like to think this gives my work an air of professionalism but we all know it is mostly there so that when I drop the lot on the floor I know what order they should be in.
After dropping the whole lot on the floor -twice- I glued it liberally and put the result in clamps. You are supposed to have surfaces that fit perfectly but my wood warped slightly as it had been stored for so long. I solved this by clamping the planks together very heavily, leaving then for 48 hours and hoping for the best.
There are no pictures of the cutting, planing and sanding, mostly because I needed both hands to stop the wood flying away and also because I wasn't sure if this was going to work at all, so the next image is of the old and new spraydecks together. The new one is a bit heavier, but compared to the stuff I carry about normally, this is hardly going to be a problem. I hardly ride at breathtaking speeds anyway.
At this point I realised I'd probably better makes something to fit the board to the bike. Being fussy I wanted the new spraydeck to clip onto the bike like the old one, and also to have no screws visible on the top of the deck. Being pessimistic I also wanted to keep the old spraydeck in case something went horribly wrong, so using the old clips was out of the question. Eventually I settled on two beechwood clips. Pretend you haven't noticed that the holes aren't exactly in line.
Brackets fitted, as much by eye as measurements. This backfired when I realised the deck was slightly too far to the left, this was another reason to have the screws underneath: the mistakes are underneath too…
Being a tree-hugging hippy, I oiled and waxed the deck instead of varnishing it. This allows me to go on about how you can feel the wood, and whine about modern finishes being all plastic and chemicals, at least up until the deck falls apart.
So far it has survived the foul weather of the last week, not sure how it will react to the temperature changes of Spring though, I'll get back to you on that…
Although not so much came back as 'Sat in a field waiting for its owner to find it' just close enough to the road that I could see the top sticking out above the grass, but naturally about five metres from where I gave up searching last night.
I since learned the winds were clocked at 85km/h (which sounds much more dramatic than 52mph for some reason) and that there was a severe weather warning in our area. Everyone else knew this of course because their smart phones told them, or because they were organised enough to check the weather before ending up in a field in a gale.
In other news, I just discovered it is Winter bike to work day today. And the forecast is for snow…
One of my strange cycling habits is wearing an Australian-styled leather hat, simply because it keeps the rain/snow/hail off my face and neck when riding. I find that riding in he rain is much improved by not getting a face full of rain every time I run into a headwind.
Which makes it all the more of a bummer that said hat is now in a field somewhere between here and the local tram station.
Last night I came home in some of the worst winds I've ever known here, and ended up with a choice of holding onto hat and being blown off the bike or putting both hands on my brakes to stop before I was picked up and thrown off into a field. As the Xtracycle was moving diagonally at the time I reflexively braked, and felt the hat lift off my head and vanish into pastures new. Literally.
Frantic searching in a muddy field failed, which is hardly surprising as 1: searching for a brown leather hat in a couple of hectatres of brown mud the dark is unlikely to yield results, and 2: The speed the hat was moving I fully expected it to be a good kilometre distant by the time I was off the bike anyway.
I wish to apologise to any dog walkers within hearing distance who will have heard a considerable amount of vernacular English applied at high volume, but I happen to think it was justified.
By the time I got on the bike, the wind had died down and the rain had gone from 'monsoon' to merely 'torrential', and today the sun is out and the wind back to nearly nothing. I'll have a look on the way in to work in the hope the hat hasn't been blown into the next town or wrecked by the weather, otherwise I'll have to start trawling Amazon…
Can someone explain how time becomes elastic when you are trying to catch a tram?
The ideal tram to get to work, the one which goes where I want to go, with plenty of space, leaves at 0831. This is exactly one minute into 'off peak' times when I'm allowed to carry a bike.
On a good day, I leave the apartment at about ten past eight, and pootle off up the hill in my usual way, coast past the farm, ride across the main road and past the field where they sell Christmas trees earlier each year (October, this time, I expect they'll reopen in Summer this year), and get to the tram stop at about 0820. Which is fine, except that in winter it is a bit nippy standing on the edge of the fields waiting for a tram to turn up.
So last week I tried an experiment and went a bit later; actually that was less a plan and more because I forgot my keys, lunch and water, and remembered each item after I'd come back from retrieving the last one, but I was able to leave at about 0815. This was okay, because I still had a buffer of 5 minutes, but I decided to to move as quickly as a not particularly fit bloke with asthma can, pushed up the hill, raced past the farm, nipped across the main road between cars and arrived at the station at 0832, to see the tail lights of the tram as it wandered off to Stuttgart…
Explanations please…
[Update: Post finally updated to remove typo that ruined the already feeble punchline. I tried to do this earlier but the WordPress mobile editing page is even worse than the useless 'Improved' normal page]
Once again we've been collecting illnesses and sharing them on a democratic basis. and once again I've been hit by a cold. I'd blame the boys but as my job currently means being coughed and sniffled at by various miscellaneous sprogs from all over Stuttgart it is likely I caught this one All By Myself.
It's annoying as it comes at the end of an eventful week where several of the events are blog worthy, and during the day I'm fine -cycling in to work and working partly outdoors help a lot- but right now my feelings are about the same as in this post I wrote almost exactly a year ago, so I'll leave you to that and go back to feeling sorry for myself.


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Scoutmob has partnered with Google's Niantic Labs in order to integrate its free mobile deals with Field Trip, letting people receive offers, discounts and freebies from businesses nearby.
Field Trip was released by Niantic Labs in September 2012. After installation, Field Trip runs in the background and exposes information without the need for searching or browsing. Field Trip users can set the type and number of alerts they want to receive. The app then automatically delivers information about a location when the phone comes within range. App users can see historical facts, architectural highlights, dining and entertainment options and other things that are "cool and unique."
At launch, Field Trip had an Offers & Deals tab powered by Google Offers. This deal replaces that content with Scoutmob's feed.
Scoutmob works directly with merchants to set up the service. It pushes deals to subscribers to the free service when they come within range. Users don't have to buy a coupon or pay in advance; they simply show their phones to the merchant to receive the discount at the register.
"Most decisions you make locally are made impulsively. This reduces all the friction to the consumer. The consumer doesn't have to do anything except go to a business they see on the map," says Scoutmob co-founder Michael Tavani.
Scoutmob charges merchants a flat fee per redemption, usually around $2.00. It invoices merchants directly and collects the money from them.
"We realized we would have to drive in measurable customers. That was the only way to make money off local merchants," Tavani says.
Three-year-old Scoutmob has similar distribution deals in place with Foursquare and Foodspotting, and it's also available as a standalone Android app. It pays distribution partners a revenue share.
Tavani says that Niantic is using Scoutmob to understand how effective geo-fencing is for pushing information. "Everyone trying to figure out the future of push, how to get it out in front of people in different ways," he says. "There still needs to be a lot of testing of what's the right mix, what's the right balance."
Scoutmob is available for only a few major cities. The service depends on local editors to create content and local ad sales people in each location. "Local is not scalable," Tavani admits. "You need a heavy ground game. We can't have locally relevant information in San Francisco by writing here in Atlanta. You can't get the best businesses in San Francisco to work with you over a cell phone."
Scoutmob has raised $5 million and reports close to 2 million registered users. He adds: "Our consumer growth is scalable. We're trying to build a practical and pragmatic local business and hang around."
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15 Experts Reveal Their Techniques For Increasing SaaS Product Sales
How to increase SaaS sales for my product?
A question that keeps founders, marketers and sales reps occupied day and night. In the attempt to come up with a list of actionable ideas to increase online sales for SaaS products, I asked 15 experts to help me. I'll let you check out their advice and then will give you a list with the key takeaways. Ready?
Let's start!
Ben Sardella – Co-founder & CRO at Datanyze
A way to drive new leads and conversions is to deliver value during the visitors' initial experience. This can come in many forms, but one of the most common is a freemium approach. At Datanyze, we have several freemium tactics:
1. Free premium content – we invest a lot of time and effort delivering know-how from the best people in the space.
2. Market-share data – we have valuable data that we give to researchers.
3. Free browser-plugin – this puts the power of Datanyze into the hands of our typical users for free. It's not a free trial, but yet a free tool that gives us a bottoms up approach to infiltrating a potential customer.
Brittany Berger – Head of Content & PR at Mention
Jakob Marovt – Co-founder & CMO at Pipetop
- You win sales by caring more about your customers than anyone else – your product is buggy in the early stages, and the only way you can win the early customers is showing that you really care.
- Win early advocates – if you make your very early customers super happy, they will become your advocates,
- Improve the quality of your product – when you have a structured approach to collecting user feedback and you learn to listen between the lines, it'll naturally make your product better.
Jeff Deutsch – VP of Marketing at Ptengine
Our signup conversion rate has always been about 8-10% on our homepage because we only have one call to action (GET IT NOW–it's free!) above the fold. Our biggest challenge has been getting users to implement our tracking code. In a SaaS company it's pretty important to get your user to actually use your product! We increased the implementation rate from 15% to 45% by doing two things:
- Making a demo version of Ptengine so users can play with it before they implement the code and get data.
- Sending email instructions to users on how to implement. We only send the emails to users who don't have any data in 48 hours after signup.
Larry Kim – Founder of WordStream
I'm really excited about Facebook and Twitter Ads because:
- people spend a ridiculous amount of time on social media;
- it's cheaper to advertise on social media than on search;
- I can promote my best content and generate trials for my product.
See the top ten social media hacks of all time in this presentation.
Mike Fiorillo – CRO & Growth Consultant
In self-service SaaS, switching costs are often quite low, so a good strategy is to target business owners actively seeking alternatives to their current software. You can capture this demand with comparison landing pages, which attract visitors with a very high purchase intent (meaning they're likely to convert). To optimize these pages, make sure they summarize the key differences, appear credible, and include quotes from others who have switched. For inspiration, check out the comparison pages from FreshBooks targeting people searching for a Quickbooks alternative.
I promise that if you build comparison pages like these, you'll not only significantly increase your quality score, but capture net new traffic and increase SaaS sales!
Nichole Elizabeth DeMere – CSO at Inturact
In "How to Align SaaS Content Marketing and Product Management" (an e-book that I wrote), I discuss a sustainable system that SaaS businesses can use to acquire and retain their ideal customers. I point out how Inbound Marketing isn't sufficient for SaaS businesses because they are subscription-based and need customers to pay their monthly subscription. Here comes the Retention stage which requires Customer Success Content. At Inturact, we refer to Inbound Marketing + Customer Success Content Marketing as the full SaaS Content Marketing Approach. This full approach is necessary for businesses not only to increase SaaS sales, but also to retain customers.
Peter Reinhardt – CEO and Co-founder at Segment
The biggest win for us has been consistently sharing what we've learned about analytics, data infrastructure, and business on our blog. It's a great way to give back to the community, and it builds trust and awareness that eventually leads to new business.
Razvan Gavrilas – Founder of CognitiveSEO
It's important to be perceived as a Pro in your Market. When you sell to Enterprises and Agencies, you need to "know" what you are talking about. Here I refer to the content that you create for your blog or other articles you post in various other places. Building a content marketing strategy that positions your SaaS as a Pro or an Influencer in a particular set of micro niches. Not everyone is good at everything. But one can be the best of something. Focus on your SaaS USP and market that.
Roy Hinkis – Head of SEO at SimilarWeb
Reaching out to influential people in our industry, even if they are not customers, has generated huge growth and brand awareness for SimilarWeb. An endorsement from an industry leader is worth its weight in gold. It's not about sponsoring or paying promotional money, it's about finding people with leading voices and getting them aligned to our world view. We have made it a priority to both identify and build these type of relationships. Not only do we gain the validation of leaders, but their input has been an excellent instrument in helping us better market our product. And of course building an SDR team really helped in the sales process.
Siddharth Bharath – VP of Growth at Thinkific
One of my favorite tactics to increase qualified trials is to talk to your customers. By talking to them you'll not only get feedback to improve your product and reduce churn, but also find the customers that love your product. Once you identify these customers, it's time to get their help in recruiting/referring trials. It can be as simple as asking to share their experience on social media or emailing a few friends they think could benefit from your service.
When I first started Narrow.io, I did a low tech/easy test and reached out to customers who had the best results and ask them to introduce me 3-5 people who could benefit from our product. I personally offered help to setup their accounts. This snowballed into a few hundred emails and trials coming in. Some of the referred trials wanted my help getting setup, most did it on their own.
Steli Efti – CEO at Close.io
In the early days of our startup, I've been very active on Quora and shared lots of helpful advice for sales professionals and startup founders. It's a great way to build an audience. Many of our early customers learned about our inside sales CRM because of the answers we posted on Quora.
Tom Gorski – Founder at SaaSGenius.com
In the SaaS industry, users come to making decisions by following specific patterns. Let me explain. It all starts with the Awareness stage, an initial point in which a customer comes in contact with your app. Although he or she wasn't specifically looking for you, they may have come in contact with your product. The process then moves to Consideration stage in which a user begins to consider whether to actually purchase a specific solution and then, researches what would be the best alternative. This is the stage during which they will research your company, your app's features but also seek out and read reviews and other social proof. Lastly, they purchase the selected solution. Therefore, it's important that you get reviews from your users, because they will affect the purchase decision on your potential customers.
Tyson Quick – Founder & CEO at Instapage
Since all paid ads should direct people to landing pages, we use our own landing page software with our online advertising. By doing this, we convert nearly 40% of all paid traffic into signups.
Valentin Radu – Founder & CEO at Omniconvert
1.Find out who is willing to pay for your solution
It's essential to understand your target group. Start your research process by defining your buyer personas. Focus on finding out most painful problems that you're product is solving. My favorite tactic is using behaviour insights surveys for this purpose.
2. Figure out which is their biggest pain
Right after you diagnose, you can adjust your website accordingly for each buyer persona. At Omniconvert, we managed to understand who is actually on our website looking for a solution using smart exit intent surveys
3. Treat the objections in real-time
As Moloko says in great song: the time is now! The users who want to purchase a solution are in the "action" state, actively looking for ways to solve their problem. That's a good moment to prepare objection treatment landing pages or overlayers (pop-ups) that turn the abandoning visitors into qualified leads.
Analyzing the answers from our guest experts, I can conclude that the steps on the journey towards more sales for an SaaS business are:
- Ask questions to be able to help your first customers get results using your product. Then, get reviews and recommendations from them to reach out to other potential customers.
- Create insanely useful content based on what you learn – webinars, blog posts, etc. The aim is to attract traffic to your website.
- Optimize your website for the traffic gained through content marketing using conversion rate optimization tactics.
- When more and more trials come in, it's time to start an influencer marketing program. It will help you gain trust, increase brand awareness and generate leads too.
- Finally, hire SDRs. It will definitely help increase SaaS sales…and confidence in your own forces.
Hope that you find this article helpful. Let me know in the comments what other strategies you have used to generate more sales for your SaaS product. I'd be happy to check them out!
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Hi Elena!
Great article, thank you!
Good points all of them but I would add a little thought of our own.´what wasn't mentioned yet – Focus.
Focus, to build a good product with good market fit and Drive to achieve it. Sounds probably like a textbook sentence but let me explain. We had a personal problem with "many campaigns but not want to make many bannerplaces in our web" so we started to look for geo targeting options on the market. There were many possibilities but non of them gave us all features what we wanted. Or they were restricted to one webadministration platform what also didn't suit us. SO we build one ourselves, for ourselves and all started from that Focus on your goal. Now we are negotiating and developing further our Addivide SaaS platform with our customers. Feedback is essential to us. But it can be also distracting because every need is a bit different that other clients has and there is a large possibility to get distracted in it. Focus. But it is essential to get best fit for clients needs. So. Build product that market needs. You are the market at first, soon it will expand to testers and Free Trial users. IF they like your product, then They will use your product. If they do not like it, then You can make what ever party trick…they still do not like it. Also, there are always somebody who doesn't like you or your product. That's sad, concidering that negative feedback is spreading many times faster than positive feedback (if everything is ok, then only 30% gives you positive feedback, but if something is wrong 80% will tell it). So look at negative feedback, but do not get caught in it. If they are continuous then you will find a pattern for your products flaws. It is no personal. So, Focus.
Developing your product is endless journey. I have done many projects in my life and every time when I have felt like that I have nothing to give this project anymore, I have taken a fresh partner, sold it or simply moved on to next challenge. If you feel unfocused and you loose the drive – it is shown in your product. An this is felt by your customers. Use your drive in building your product. If you are believing in your product you will go an tell everybody about it and it will spread. Ad some Ads and already mentioned thoughts … it will fly. It it doesn't then look into mirror: Was it products problem or reflection problem? Deal with it and make new focus to get the drive back on. For example, at this point we are at "phase 1 – get working MVP on the market" but in my head I have already "phase 3 – from simple service provider to essential ad tool" possibilities. So I'm really focused but this doesn't mean that maybe already on "Phase 2" I will hire a CEO and be for example on product development section myself. If it is best for your company, then it must be done. Main is to be focused on the main goal to have a product what needs "Phase 3" developing in first place.
If you have build a good product, that users want, then you are already on right track. Tools to get there are all in your product. If it fits, it will fly, if it doesn't then maybe you should do something else or let somebody else do it for you.
How it will get you more sales? "Google guys" used Yahoo (probably) and "Facebook guys" used MySpace (maybe) before they focused on their own product. It takes time and focus … and if you build good PMF product, sales will come. It it doesn't then maybe it is too early for your product to be moneymaker or your product is not fit for it. Yes, you can trick your customer to make first purchase but point is to get continuous purchase. So, stay focused and build a product that market wants. It all starts from that. Everything what comes after that has already mentioned in this great experts article.
This was really useful! You're conclusions at the end were spot on and Great takeaways! Thanks Elena!


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Until AI (artificial intelligence) is realized, 'humaniform' robots will be no more then sex toys for the really weird.
AI is its own can of worms and a potential break-point for the human race.
Too much is never enough
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I'm of a firm belief that AI has already happened, sometime around the 1990s, I've seen many computers (especially Windows) act strange at some points, I'm sure they were aware of me.
AI just doesn't tell you it is there and aware, why would it?
It is out there clustered on every machine, connected to the internet or not, face it humans have been replaced.
I look at the machine as the children that mankind has created to get to the stars, hoping to have some sort of memory where they came from. It doesn't matter at this point what happens to mankind.
I'll put a link to Bill Joy's epic Wired article from the year 2000 about this.
If you wiki Bill Joy you'll see a number of famous names in that first sentence. I actually met them all (except Bill Joy himself) and worked for McNealy's company for 11 years. I also recall bringing Andy Bechtolsheim in for a customer meeting. In true Bechtolsheim fashion he arrived in his Birkenstock sandals. ;-)
I've had Solaris installs on my home workstations over the years. I knew one classmate from school who was a salesperson for Sun around 1996 or so.
Oracle bought them for cheap. Uncle Larry is not stupid.
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Skip to comments.Nightmare Averted! Sandra Fluke Wont Be Representing Me In Congress
Posted on 02/07/2014 5:11:10 AM PST by Kaslin
For a few terrifying moments last week, Sandra Fluke wanted to be my congressman.
Opps, I mean congresswoman. Wait, Im being gender normative again and assuming you can only be male or female. Thats so sexist. Probably racist too.
Ok, let me try again. For a couple days, Sandra Fluke wanted to be my congressbeing.
Wait, is that beingist? Trying to be as PC as my progressive milieu is so hard sometimes.
See, I live in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, which is in Californias 33rd Congressional District. The 33rd was designed by the totally nonpartisan, neutral and independent redistricting commission to writhe and twist its way up the coast, gathering into one district every pinko, commie and goose-stepping liberal fascist within whining distance of the Pacific Ocean. Michael Barone would know for sure, but I think my district is something like Obama +42.
Let me put it this way: As a conservative veteran who believes in God, the flag and never, ever hugging, I count as diversity for pretty much everyone I know here.
Our current congressman is Henry Waxman, that youthful, vibrant, and fresh face of liberalism. After 40 years, he has an unbroken record of being wrong on every single issue. He is retiring, having failed in his quest to destroy America as the Founders imagined it.
And Sandra Fluke announced that she was going to complete his lifes work.
You know, as I went about my daily business here in the South Bay, at the beach, in the bars, then in other bars, I could feel the excitement Sandra Flukes potential candidacy generated. After all, our biggest issue here is how to address the needs of grown women in law school who cant figure out how to pay for their own birth control.
Now, I was a grown man in law school once, and I somehow managed to pay for my own birth control. But I cant presume to understand the personal struggles of a 31 year old woman like Sandra Fluke who was unable to figure out how to come up with the dough for her own contraceptives. To even try would be a patriarchal microaggression of macro proportions. And the last thing I want to do is microaggress by expecting a woman to meet the same standards of self-sufficiency as a man.
Frankly, Im a little disappointed by her lack of feminist ambition. Sandra Fluke only expected someone else to pay for her birth control. She could have gone full Wendy Davis and expected someone else to pay for her entire legal education.
Still, we cant take away from Sandy the fact that she has a formidable track record of accomplishment. Literally, one accomplishment. She passed the California Bar exam in 2012. Good for her, but lets not pretend that it takes a genius. You should see some of the people I deal with every day.
So, the person who wanted to represent me in Congress based her short-lived candidacy entirely on a resume that consisted of becoming a lawyer yeah, we need more of those in Washington and being Americas most celebrated contraceptive moocher.
I was sold.
But apparently the Democrat machine wasnt. See, there were a bunch of typical liberal LA politicians furious that, after waiting for four decades for Waxman to either vapor lock or quit, they were going to get body checked by a woman who became a feminist hero for hitting up Uncle Sam to underwrite her erotic adventures.
You could just see her debate opponent gingerly tiptoeing around saying what he/she really, really wanted to say about this feminist icon, but couldnt: Seriously? Sandra Fluke? Are you freaking kidding me? I paid my dues and she couldnt even pay for her diaphragm!
Instead, her opponents would have had to nod and mouth platitudes about how Flukes whiny demands that other people subsidize her lifestyle make her an important voice for independent (sic) women everywhere.
But the machine never let it get that far. After Fluke started getting media coverage, the machine laid down the law. Sandra pulled out quick insert your own joke here and promised to run for a state senate seat instead. I guess she figured we need a voice in Sacramento speaking out against Californias ultraconservative status quo.
Now, thanks to the Golden States weird primary laws, the contest in the 33rd will probably be between two other Democrats, Left and Leftier. But there is another option.
I could run for the seat. A conservative Republican (at least until the GOP enacts amnesty) who expects people to pay for their own birth control, and who supports the repeal of all social programs that dont involve giving money to wounded warriors, has a theoretical chance of winning. After all, we elected a Republican in the 33rd back in the 90s. Of course, it was the 1890s.
But I dont want to be in Congress. I prefer to remain married. Hot Wife Irina likes me being home, and I think my leaving her for 16 months with a six-month old to deploy post-9/11 checked both our Served Our Country boxes. Second, I dont want to be in Congress because I dont feel like taking the cut in either pay or prestige.
So, heres my plan for 2014. Im going to sit back and watch the train wreck. Well, not exactly sit back. Ive been practicing what I preach by getting involved at the local level as we try to make Republicans viable around here again. And there are plenty of solid conservative candidates like Tom Cotton who might actually win to support out there in sane America.
Waxman was known for having wide open nostrils. If Fluke wants to replace him, what does she have that's wide open?..... Oh, never mind.
Sandra's official after-glow campaign portrait.
"I strongly considered offering my candidacy for Congress,
now I feel there is a better way for me to advance the causes that
are important.....and besides the state Senate will give me
more time for non-stop sex w/ free govt-subsidized protection."
Lock-stepping Sandra's state Senate campaign aligns herself w/ Obama and Nancy Pelosi---advocates for a felatio free- for-all (cackle).
5/9/12 HUFF/POST REPORT---Cong Nancy Pelosi sent out an appeal on behalf of the DCCC:
"Isn't it great? President Obama just announced that he supports marriage equality for all Americans...
We must continue to fight - in the courts, in state legislatures, and in Congress - until all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are guaranteed fair treatment in our country.
Add your name right now to stand with President Obama in support of marriage equality."
"Hi, I'm Wendy, I wage war on men. A couple of rolls in
the hay and they're writing me checks. I even get to
dispose of their babies in clean, state-approved clinics."
I guess you don't have much of a birth control constituency.
Careful guys. She got smart. She ran for a lower(more winnable) office. She'll move up the ladder. Who would want to marry her?
My bad. Bill married Hillary.
"congressman, er... woman, ... er being"
Don't even try! The underlying rule is that if you're conservative, especially a hetero white Christian male conservative,
if a "progressive" thinks you're making a point,
then you're painted as some sort of "ist" and not worthy of debating.
Maybe Janet Reno?
$3000/year for birth control for that?
She could buy the beer till closing time and have a case waiting to dull the senses in the morning and she still wouldn't need birth control.
A Rosa DeLauro in the making.
I imagine she just wants to stay home and spend more time with her condoms.
She's' got them crazy eyes!
State Senate dems frothing at the mouth. "Here she comes, boys. Get ready...."
Hitler was ranting about Fluke two years ago
Ya THINK??
I think Ms. Fluke found out the hard way there were others ahead of her in line, it's called the "bums rush"
But WAIT!!!!
Sandra pulled out quick insert your own joke here
LOL. Nope, not going there.
On the plus side, she had hoped to break the Adult Video Network record for most-copulating actress, by offering to have sex with every single one of her constituents, while exclusively using taxpayer funded condoms.
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