People where I live always call it a "pound sign", even though they use "lbs" for actual pounds. Except for the younger kids that picked up "Hashtag" from their smartphones. But they get "funny looks" when they use that., and soon stop.
It has always been true that half the people could not afford the more expensive cars. And carriages before that...
Cars are not more expensive now, it is the money that is of less value. The governments have been pushing inflation for generations. You used to be able to buy a loaf of bread for less than a dollar. Go back a bit more and you could get one for a penny. In a way, your dollar these days is only worth about a penny!
People are buying what they need, or alse someone would make what they need and get rich.
But I don't recommend buying the fancy cars with a single computer controlling all functions, they are not safe. I design that kind of stuff and they are not taking proper care with it... yet.
If you can't tell the difference, why would it matter?
It wouldn't, if it works. It all depends on the tech-response program used. If they have a script for the people, then they have a design that's better than a random bot.
Just like with the people, though, it all depends on whether you get a fix before the script runs out. And, what happens after the script.
Of course, if they can write a decent help program, then they should put it in the product. But too often it is different companies.
but that was my own fault for not paying attention to my bag It's your fault someone tried to rob you? Are you, the victim, blaming yourself instead of the criminal? How screwed up is that?
That's city people talk, they believe that it's the "mark's" fault for getting robbed.
Country people believe it's the robbers fault, and the robbers don't differ after they are dead. But robbers are very rare, there have not been any around here in years. .
A lot of people live near them and are still alive, so apperently we are not their preferred food!
The was an artical a few years back, about humans having a bad smell to preditors. Sharks bite prople, but usually spit them out. We might be like stinkbugs...
Crocodiles are not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs legs point directly downwards, crocodiles and most modern reptiles have legs that point sideways. Additionally, crocodiles have very different skin structure. If you go to a natural history museum, you'll typically find a detailed explanation of the difference.
You are right... except crocodile legs -can- be pointed downward. To see them running on land is very rare, and also very terrifying. Few films exist, but it is speculated that many people, that are killed by crocodiles, are caught this way. Never think a crocodile or alligator can't get you because it is slow. It doesn't have to be... 8-o
Actually, though, the belief that they -don't- exist is just as ridiculous as the belief that they -do- exist. We can only say that they don't exist -here- and -now-. "Here" being limited by line of sight, "now" being limited by how long we are at location "here". Generalizing it further degrades the confidense level, rapidly.
The truth of the world is that we don't "know", we only suspect a lot.
But a good engineer can do a lot with "kentucky windage" and "fudge factors". 8-) (We have gotten "approximatly" down to 1 in 10^17, in some fields.)
That is generally called a "false-flag" operation. Which type of thing has been used before by Gun-Ban Exremist groups. They seem to think "the end justifies the means"! 8-{
If they ever get to the point where the auto-drive cars can even recognise the dilemma, then it will be valid to argue about it.
But when humans can't figure it out in their easy chairs, much less in their cars, don't expect the computers to do it.
Computers are not superman and they are not gods. They will end up even slower than people to respond in such situations.
Just look at what the software load did to PCs, over the years. PCs are orders of magnitude faster, but the software has so much added to it that they end up slower than before. It will happen to the cars, plus the government beauracratic requirements! 8-P
Many people, when they get sick on boats, go down under the deck so they can't see the sea.
But they don't get better.
To get better, go where you can see the horizon and breath the fresh air. This is reassureing to your instincts and will allow you to adjust much quicker. The horizon is stable with gravity, it is the boat that is not.
In other vehicles, it is known to designers that lack of windows tends to cause sickness.
See "Cellular Automata". Large numbers of semi-independant entities, is definatly -not- deterministic!
People think that "If only I could control the world, I could make everything perfect!" But higher mathematics says: no, they could not. See: weather reporting...
The question is - do the people who are calling the time number actually know that the time on their phone is set automatically?...
A better question is, do they have a cellphone and is it working? Think, in a garage with an antique dial phone and a crashed car. Just this kind of thing, is probably enough to make money for an add based phone system.
Besides, some people are too lazy to look at the other side of their phone! 8-)
... Each time I enter the healthcare industry, I have to fill out the same "wonderful" multi-page form by including basic personal information and health history therein.
So what data is being hacked?...
They have your data, they just want to see if you are the same person and if you can remember it. It's a test! 8-P
The doctors and other personnel consider "data should be free", for their work, and security is not in their area of expertise. They consider patients first, which is good, but they don't believe that the patients also need the security. It is in the way, so they push it aside and forget it.
It is basically a lack of training in the medical collages.
... Let guns be in schools. As part of P.E. or even on its own, students will be in a firearm safety course. They will be target practicing. They will be tearing their guns down. They will be cleaning their firearms. They will be using hand guns, and rifles, and shotguns, etc. They will be taught that they are tools just like the circular saw or the welder in shop class, or knives and scissors in art class and home economics. They will take this class every year they are old enough to hold a weapon safely....
Actually, this is how it was for the first hundred years in the US. Except in one or two big coastal cities, where the "power structure" didn't want the immigrants to be armed. It worked so well, that people forgot why it was necessary, and many stopped carrying guns.
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People where I live always call it a "pound sign", even though they use "lbs" for actual pounds. Except for the younger kids that picked up "Hashtag" from their smartphones. But they get "funny looks" when they use that., and soon stop.
And get off of my lawn! ;-)
It has always been true that half the people could not afford the more expensive cars. And carriages before that...
Cars are not more expensive now, it is the money that is of less value. The governments have been pushing inflation for generations. You used to be able to buy a loaf of bread for less than a dollar. Go back a bit more and you could get one for a penny. In a way, your dollar these days is only worth about a penny!
People are buying what they need, or alse someone would make what they need and get rich.
But I don't recommend buying the fancy cars with a single computer controlling all functions, they are not safe. I design that kind of stuff and they are not taking proper care with it ... yet.
If you can't tell the difference, why would it matter?
It wouldn't, if it works. It all depends on the tech-response program used. If they have a script for the people, then they have a design that's better than a random bot.
Just like with the people, though, it all depends on whether you get a fix before the script runs out. And, what happens after the script.
Of course, if they can write a decent help program, then they should put it in the product. But too often it is different companies.
Those members of the public that you don't trust, are the same ones that are programming the autopilots!
"If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
Ok, next question: Just how hard is it to disable the "Autopillok" completely?
P.S. that's not a misspelling, See X-Rebirth and X-3 games autopilot discussion threads. 8-)
but that was my own fault for not paying attention to my bag
It's your fault someone tried to rob you? Are you, the victim, blaming yourself instead of the criminal? How screwed up is that?
That's city people talk, they believe that it's the "mark's" fault for getting robbed.
Country people believe it's the robbers fault, and the robbers don't differ after they are dead. But robbers are very rare, there have not been any around here in years.
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A lot of people live near them and are still alive, so apperently we are not their preferred food!
The was an artical a few years back, about humans having a bad smell to preditors. Sharks bite prople, but usually spit them out. We might be like stinkbugs...
But I would not bet on it. 8-)
Wrong. The original pilot had a human male captain, Christopher Pike, played by Jeffrey Hunter. Perhaps you should actually watch it sometime.
It was the XO that was a woman. And it did shock many people.
The dictionaries warn you of the common usages. They don't say that those are correct usage, if you want other people to understand you.
So we can start calling magazines clips now?
They are definatly different, some rifles can use either, and if you order the other you will definatly get the wrong thing! 8-}
Crocodiles are not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs legs point directly downwards, crocodiles and most modern reptiles have legs that point sideways. Additionally, crocodiles have very different skin structure. If you go to a natural history museum, you'll typically find a detailed explanation of the difference.
You are right ... except crocodile legs -can- be pointed downward.
To see them running on land is very rare, and also very terrifying.
Few films exist, but it is speculated that many people, that are killed by crocodiles, are caught this way. Never think a crocodile or alligator can't get you because it is slow. It doesn't have to be... 8-o
Actually, though, the belief that they -don't- exist is just as ridiculous as the belief that they -do- exist. We can only say that they don't exist -here- and -now-. "Here" being limited by line of sight, "now" being limited by how long we are at location "here". Generalizing it further degrades the confidense level, rapidly.
The truth of the world is that we don't "know", we only suspect a lot.
But a good engineer can do a lot with "kentucky windage" and "fudge factors". 8-)
(We have gotten "approximatly" down to 1 in 10^17, in some fields.)
You have been listening to too much of the Gun-Ban extremists propoganda. Everyone who is legal, is welcome in the NRA, and always has been.
It's the slave owners, who are the ones who want to disarm the citizens.
That is generally called a "false-flag" operation. Which type of thing has been used before by Gun-Ban Exremist groups. They seem to think "the end justifies the means"! 8-{
Therer are always more than two choices. Just because humans have only two hands, doesn't mean the world is that way.
Think with your feet! Find additional choices! ;-)
If they ever get to the point where the auto-drive cars can even recognise the dilemma, then it will be valid to argue about it.
But when humans can't figure it out in their easy chairs, much less in their cars, don't expect the computers to do it.
Computers are not superman and they are not gods. They will end up even slower than people to respond in such situations.
Just look at what the software load did to PCs, over the years. PCs are orders of magnitude faster, but the software has so much added to it that they end up slower than before. It will happen to the cars, plus the government beauracratic requirements! 8-P
See chaos theory, laminar flow, "sensitivity to initial conditions."
Chances are you are 100%, irrefutably and completely correct.
Well ... maybe not quite -that- correct! ;-)
Many people, when they get sick on boats, go down under the deck so they can't see the sea.
But they don't get better.
To get better, go where you can see the horizon and breath the fresh air. This is reassureing to your instincts and will allow you to adjust much quicker. The horizon is stable with gravity, it is the boat that is not.
In other vehicles, it is known to designers that lack of windows tends to cause sickness.
Time does not "flow", it is we who move though it. And there is little evidence that we move together, or even in the same direction ...
See "Cellular Automata". Large numbers of semi-independant entities, is definatly -not- deterministic!
People think that "If only I could control the world, I could make everything perfect!" But higher mathematics says: no, they could not. ...
See: weather reporting
The question is - do the people who are calling the time number actually know that the time on their phone is set automatically? ...
A better question is, do they have a cellphone and is it working? Think, in a garage with an antique dial phone and a crashed car.
Just this kind of thing, is probably enough to make money for an add based phone system.
Besides, some people are too lazy to look at the other side of their phone! 8-)
That's like forcing it to watch children's cartoons to predict what real live animals will do.
And probably just as inaccurate... 8-P
... Each time I enter the healthcare industry, I have to fill out the same "wonderful" multi-page form by including basic personal information and health history therein.
So what data is being hacked? ...
They have your data, they just want to see if you are the same person and if you can remember it. It's a test! 8-P
The doctors and other personnel consider "data should be free", for their work, and security is not in their area of expertise. They consider patients first, which is good, but they don't believe that the patients also need the security. It is in the way, so they push it aside and forget it.
It is basically a lack of training in the medical collages.
... Let guns be in schools. As part of P.E. or even on its own, students will be in a firearm safety course. They will be target practicing. They will be tearing their guns down. They will be cleaning their firearms. They will be using hand guns, and rifles, and shotguns, etc. They will be taught that they are tools just like the circular saw or the welder in shop class, or knives and scissors in art class and home economics. They will take this class every year they are old enough to hold a weapon safely. ...
Actually, this is how it was for the first hundred years in the US. Except in one or two big coastal cities, where the "power structure" didn't want the immigrants to be armed. It worked so well, that people forgot why it was necessary, and many stopped carrying guns.