I get your point. But how do you set limits? It's just easier to enforce if you say 'no copying' period. Then you don't have to deal with ambiguity. Keeping in your vein of thinking, the U.S. already has enough of a problem keeping up with jailing criminals with their antiquated drug laws (btw I don't smoke dope and think it is dumb to do so... it called dope for a reason... but it is also dumb to keep prosecuting it too... I think they are already at the near maximum to how many people are going to smoke it, legal or no, already, and it just overburdens the legal system and makes criminals out of non-criminals).
FWIW, I got screwed by a photocopied counterfeit once. I went to pay with a ten that turned out to be copied. In a hurry I must have taken it as change somewhere. I had to pay with real money then took it to the local RCMP station (they are the feds in Canada and responsible for counterfeiting crimes). The desk sergeant just had me sign a quick report form about it (where did you get it, dont' know, how much, ten buck, thank you have a nice day). They said they had so many that unless it was a lot more they don't bother. Basically it was no different than someone stealing ten dollars from me, so all in all I can give the SS this one. Of course if I told them that they would probably have no sense of humour and just say we don't need your approval, at which time I would hate them for being arrogant pricks. But for now I'm OK.;)
I-8 in Southern California has these too. A number of years ago I was stopped in the middle of the night at a "border checkpoint" in the hills/mountains by Jacumba while on I-8. And yes to you anal folks Jacumba is not on I-8, but it is the closest town to where I was. This was probably no more than 6 or 7 kms from the border and no direct/official access for dozens of kms at a guess. Driving in pitch black and then I see lights like out of the Close Encounters movie, where the helicopter comes up the road except I was the one moving. I thought the aliens had landed. Then as I crested the hill I realized that they were portable arc lights and there was some sort of checkpoint set up. I though a murderer had escaped a local prison or something. That is the only time I'd ever seen something like that in Canada. All they wanted was to look for Mexicans in my back seat and trunk (the boot, for all you English English speakers). They didn't know I had a dozen in the glove box. Then they let me go. FWIW, I did stop in Jacumba once. They have a hot springs "spa" there and its bar looks like the modern equivalent of one in the town at the end of The Outlaw Jose Wales where the silver lode had run out. Mind you the town kind of had that look too (at least at that time).
What is digitized is the accounting ledger, not the money. The record that your money is deposited. Even when you purchase or pay on line, it is still just the ledger. The paper money still exists.
I think it might be more like 'make it a bitch to print'. Copying the images is easy and possible. Printing the very fine details takes special presses and papers (linen in many cases). And of course watermarks etc.
I was at a Schnuks grocery store in Saint Louis MO (Clayton actually) one night about 5 years ago and there were a bunch of the managers holding up a bill and examining it etc. When I asked they told me it was a counterfeit $50 dollar bill. One guy held it up to the light for me to see the watermark. The perpetrator had bleached a $5 dollar bill and then used an inkjet to print a $50 dollar bill image on the now white $5 dollar bill. The only reason they caught it was the watermark.
Make sure you put a mark on it as well as change the size so people can't mistake it as being real, even if you think it is obvious it is a copy. The secret service (in charge of counterfeiting as well as protecting the pres') doesn't have a sense of humour in these matters.
On a side note, I read a story outlining one of the most successful counterfeiters ever. When they arrested him he was an old man. He'd been printing and passing off one dollar bills and five dollar bills for a few decades before he was caught. Seems his success was because he wasn't greedy only using them for himself and when he needed to. And since the bills weren't large denominations people didn't check them carefully. In the end when they caught him, it also turned out the counterfeit job wasn't even that particularly good. But because of the previous points, no-one noticed till he was quite old. And only then because he hadn't changed the printing job, but the currency had been upgraded/changed a couple times since. The bills looked newly printed but with an old style; that's when people noticed. I remember reading this in a magazine or readers digest or something years ago, otherwise I'd post a link.
What you obviously lack is life experience. Here is an example in the moving industry in Toronto to help you with that. It is well known that there are scam artists out there who will quote you a price and then try to jack up the prices of the move by charging you a hefty deposit, loading your stuff, and then telling you there were "extra charges for extra work" before unloading. And if you don't pay they drive off with your goods. For the longest time and often even now when you call the police they (would) tell you it is a civil matter, even though it looks, feels, and smells like fraud. Quote from the link:
I have called the police and reported how I was intimidated and asked to go to the bank and get more money before they even finished loading my furniture, and the officer practically told me that this is a civil matter and there's not much they can do about this.
I got screwed like this once. But fortunately (if that is even applicable), it was one quite small load. However it has happened to others many times and in many places for hundreds and even thousands of dollars.
Finally the police arrested one crew for doing this to one poor soul. Then it turned out that the victim in this case was an off duty police officer. This was the first time many people had heard of actual criminal charges in these cases.
Charming. It's a shame the police didn't cotton on to this earlier: they admit that they ignored many earlier reports because they sounded like civil, not criminal, disputes. What changed? We certainly can't say, but CBC Radio was reporting yesterday that one of the victims of this scam was a police officer.
Now this was at least a couple of years ago so references are hard to find among all the advertising cruft and bullshit that google always returns, but there should be enough in the links etc I posted to show I'm not bullshitting. The only reason the police did anything was because it was one of their own. That is not paranoid delusions. That is reality. Before you make judgments, get out of the basement or whatever insular world you are in and see the world or at least pay attention to it.
It is a well know human trait that people protect their own. Police are no different.
Whether they be political leaders or business leaders they are still leaders. And if the followers allow them to lead and/or decide to keep following them, then yes, it is their fault. Inaction in this case is the same as deciding to follow them since their decisions affect most people, and inaction allowed the business leaders to do what they wanted. i.e. doing nothing also has consequences.
The west should have thought about this when they encouraged China to become the world's factory. Ah the for(shortened)sight of myopic business leaders focused on their bonuses; and the politicians who grovel for their money.
Hitchens was a polemic. Which practically, meant he disliked most things, or found things about them to dislike, and espoused on them. He made a living objecting and being objectionable. It is similar to if you are poor you're crazy, if you're rich your eccentric. If you manage to get a job writing about things you find to not like, you are a great polemic and notable author; if you are just an average joe on the street you are an asshole. So of course he would highlight the negative aspects of her. We all have negative aspects. So what? We don't all have positive aspects. Personally I'm tired of negativity like this guy spouted. Yeah he had some valid points, but he was so fucking obnoxious that he wasn't great to me at all. He was just annoying. Sort of the opposite of Mother Theresa. She did a lot of really, really good things (didn't just write about them either). Yeah she had her negative aspects, but relatively speaking she benefited society and the people, especially the poor in Calcutta. So I can give her the benefit of the doubt. She did things versus someone who talked and complained about others who did things.
Isn't it nice that by the time of her death what she started wasn't needed as much and people had/have the luxury of bitching about things that are obviously much more important than when people with leprosy were being tossed out of society like garbage, or people died of tuberculosis because they couldn't afford simple treatments, or many poor died in the street from starvation or diseases due to poor diet because they couldn't afford to eat good food. Or people being crippled because they couldn't get bones set correctly because they couldn't afford a doctor. Or any of a number of things the lady started bringing to the poorest of the poor when no-one else would. Sure people can bitch now about her bringing her religion into it, or some of her methods, but at least she was actually doing something about a very bad situation at a time when others were content to just overlook the severely disadvantaged. It is easy to play armchair quarterback 65 years after she first started her work, in a completely different day and age.
I am definitely not a fan of churches in general (in my view they seem to bring a bad taste to religion for me). And even though she was a devout catholic and also witnessed her faith at the same time as giving her help, she did a lot of good for a lot of people when very, very few others were. And anyone who wants to call her down because of these relatively minor complaints compared to the work she did in the times she did it in, isn't worth my time nor consideration. And for the record I don't hate the catholic nor most other churches/religions, nor do I dislike its followers, nor most other churches' followers as long as they don't espouse discriminating against or hurting "non-believers"... or try to counter scientific knowledge and teaching.
I worked on a pilot system testing a direct current arc furnace that was designed to work at up to 6 MW (at about 3000 amps IIRC... hard to remember it was 20 years ago). It was the largest direct current arc furnace ever built up to that time and maybe still so, since arc furnaces are normally alternating current. The shell of the furnace was bout 25 or 30 feet tall and about 20 feet wide. The walls were around one or two inches thick of steel not included a good number of feet of refractory lining. Because it was direct current the steel shell and adjoining feed pipes became permanently magnetized. There were these around 15 inch steel pipes that raw material would slide down and one time someone working on a deck/floor just above them accidentally dropped an 18 inch crescent wrench through an opening in the deck. They yelled look out below and heard clanging as it fell, but no one ever found it for a couple months. It was stuck to one of the pipes about 40 feet up, hanging by the end... not even flat to the pipe... but from the end swinging. The induced magnetic field was that strong (and the furnace was off when they found it). And then there was the time our instrument tech went to check something on the furnace wall and pulled out a solenoid checker (looks similar to a continuity checker). He looked and saw it was broken because it was lit up already. So he walked away with it to go to the shop to replace it and when he got 30 or 40 feet from the furnace shell the light on the solenoid checker went out. He walked closer and it went on. The checker worked. It is supposed to light up when it senses a magnetic field. The shell was that magnetized. The welders had to wrap cables from a second arc welding rig around some 40 inch pipes leading from the shell when they were welding so they could set up some sort of counter phase to the field so the arcs on their welding sticks wouldn't just sputter/spall blow around because the field messed with the arc. When we ramped up power the monitors in the control room (about 60 or 70 feet away through double blast walls) would go all funky till we degaused them. Any monitor without a degausing switch we had to shield. If it wasn't like working in the myth busters shop every day, it would have been kind of scary. But I don't think it did us too much harm, except for the eye twitches and the strangelove hands (but then it just feels like someone else).
The biggest problem with remotes that I see is the freaking long cable. But why couldn't they lower for want of a better term, a wireless access point to the bottom with a submersible and then release the sub when it gets down there. Then you would have real time control and the freedom of a tetherless vehicle. Only the access point would be connected to the surface. I am assuming it is better to put the access point down there because that much water would interfere with the control signals if they tried to wirelessly remote it from the surface.
Since the distance isn't as great, a waldo sub wouldn't have the same latency/lag that something in space or even a military drone aircraft would experience. As well, since the view ports on a manned craft will be so limited in such an armoured creation, the view from a waldo sub would be pretty much the same thing, if not better. If they really wanted to have the experience of living head to armpit in a tiny space a cockroach would have trouble slipping through, they could make an aircraft-like simulator that they could all cram themselves into uncomfortably and pretend to actually be in the real wirelessly controlled vehicle. It could turn a flip and all that. They could even spray them with a high pressure hose every time the accidentally bump into something with the real vehicle.
I'd say it's not that simple. Being liquid, water is not going to be compressible enough to matter in this case, and off hand I'd guess (maybe someone can do the numbers if they want) by the time you hit your first 1000 the water is going to be about as compressed as its going to get, which at sea level is not at its freezing point by the way... it reaches it densest at about 4C, any colder it starts forming ice which is less dense than water and why you can't normally squeeze it solid (I say normally because I can't remember how they determined all the different crystal phases water can have other than hexagonal... I don't think it involved pressure but may have). In any case we know it is liquid water right down to the bottom so we can assume for practical purposes that it is squeezed as dense as it can be by the time we get to any sort of depth; and I would give a WAG that 1000 feet down would meet that criteria. So you can make your matryoshka sub, but the water on the outer shell will press with full pressure, transferring full pressure via the incompressible water interlayer to the next shell, which will transfer full pressure to the next, etc. Unless the shells themselves cumulatively serve to act as an even thicker shell, which is probably better done without the water in between.
I'm not sure I find it funny or what when I see all these tech guys who are supposed to be good at abstracting problems not able to grasp the idea of metaphors. When you say "A Hammer is a hammer is a hammer," I get you. People can look at the shape of it and grasp immediately what it does and don't have to ask many questions if they need to use it for the most ubiquitous of reasons around, driving in a nail. Whether it be a ball peen hammer, claw hammer, framing hammer, whatever. Even if they might not know the ball on the ball peen hammer is for rivets. Not sure why others who are supposed to understand 'abstract' can't figure it out.
You are so obnoxiously overly literal you could be a creationist. Do you get lost if the directions are not exactly right? Here, let's help you FFS. It has been a LONG time since the UI on cars has been pretty much standardized with minor differences. And they haven't changed much over the years because people know and like the way it works. For a while in the 60s some cars started using push buttons to change gears and other stuff because it was all high tech and showy and all. Notice we don't have many if any cars produced now that have push buttons to change gears? And that is the point. Most people don't deal well with change when any sort of technology that can throw them for a loop is involved. Gah! And I thought I could be too overly literal some days. And media controls by the way are not essential so people don't give as much of a shit about that when it comes to understanding how to work their car. In fact most people will like media controls to be different. It gives them something else to do to keep their eyes off the road.
How big/powerful would a solar flare have to be before it became a concern for humans? I mean above not being able to watch America's Next Top [contest-name]tard.
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I get your point. But how do you set limits? It's just easier to enforce if you say 'no copying' period. Then you don't have to deal with ambiguity. Keeping in your vein of thinking, the U.S. already has enough of a problem keeping up with jailing criminals with their antiquated drug laws (btw I don't smoke dope and think it is dumb to do so... it called dope for a reason... but it is also dumb to keep prosecuting it too... I think they are already at the near maximum to how many people are going to smoke it, legal or no, already, and it just overburdens the legal system and makes criminals out of non-criminals).
FWIW, I got screwed by a photocopied counterfeit once. I went to pay with a ten that turned out to be copied. In a hurry I must have taken it as change somewhere. I had to pay with real money then took it to the local RCMP station (they are the feds in Canada and responsible for counterfeiting crimes). The desk sergeant just had me sign a quick report form about it (where did you get it, dont' know, how much, ten buck, thank you have a nice day). They said they had so many that unless it was a lot more they don't bother. Basically it was no different than someone stealing ten dollars from me, so all in all I can give the SS this one. Of course if I told them that they would probably have no sense of humour and just say we don't need your approval, at which time I would hate them for being arrogant pricks. But for now I'm OK. ;)
I-8 in Southern California has these too. A number of years ago I was stopped in the middle of the night at a "border checkpoint" in the hills/mountains by Jacumba while on I-8. And yes to you anal folks Jacumba is not on I-8, but it is the closest town to where I was. This was probably no more than 6 or 7 kms from the border and no direct/official access for dozens of kms at a guess. Driving in pitch black and then I see lights like out of the Close Encounters movie, where the helicopter comes up the road except I was the one moving. I thought the aliens had landed. Then as I crested the hill I realized that they were portable arc lights and there was some sort of checkpoint set up. I though a murderer had escaped a local prison or something. That is the only time I'd ever seen something like that in Canada. All they wanted was to look for Mexicans in my back seat and trunk (the boot, for all you English English speakers). They didn't know I had a dozen in the glove box. Then they let me go. FWIW, I did stop in Jacumba once. They have a hot springs "spa" there and its bar looks like the modern equivalent of one in the town at the end of The Outlaw Jose Wales where the silver lode had run out. Mind you the town kind of had that look too (at least at that time).
It is obviously a symbolic protest, not meant to act as payment. Think of it as abstraction of complaining. Does that help?
What is digitized is the accounting ledger, not the money. The record that your money is deposited. Even when you purchase or pay on line, it is still just the ledger. The paper money still exists.
I think it might be more like 'make it a bitch to print'. Copying the images is easy and possible. Printing the very fine details takes special presses and papers (linen in many cases). And of course watermarks etc.
I was at a Schnuks grocery store in Saint Louis MO (Clayton actually) one night about 5 years ago and there were a bunch of the managers holding up a bill and examining it etc. When I asked they told me it was a counterfeit $50 dollar bill. One guy held it up to the light for me to see the watermark. The perpetrator had bleached a $5 dollar bill and then used an inkjet to print a $50 dollar bill image on the now white $5 dollar bill. The only reason they caught it was the watermark.
Make sure you put a mark on it as well as change the size so people can't mistake it as being real, even if you think it is obvious it is a copy. The secret service (in charge of counterfeiting as well as protecting the pres') doesn't have a sense of humour in these matters.
On a side note, I read a story outlining one of the most successful counterfeiters ever. When they arrested him he was an old man. He'd been printing and passing off one dollar bills and five dollar bills for a few decades before he was caught. Seems his success was because he wasn't greedy only using them for himself and when he needed to. And since the bills weren't large denominations people didn't check them carefully. In the end when they caught him, it also turned out the counterfeit job wasn't even that particularly good. But because of the previous points, no-one noticed till he was quite old. And only then because he hadn't changed the printing job, but the currency had been upgraded/changed a couple times since. The bills looked newly printed but with an old style; that's when people noticed. I remember reading this in a magazine or readers digest or something years ago, otherwise I'd post a link.
What you obviously lack is life experience. Here is an example in the moving industry in Toronto to help you with that. It is well known that there are scam artists out there who will quote you a price and then try to jack up the prices of the move by charging you a hefty deposit, loading your stuff, and then telling you there were "extra charges for extra work" before unloading. And if you don't pay they drive off with your goods. For the longest time and often even now when you call the police they (would) tell you it is a civil matter, even though it looks, feels, and smells like fraud. Quote from the link:
I got screwed like this once. But fortunately (if that is even applicable), it was one quite small load. However it has happened to others many times and in many places for hundreds and even thousands of dollars.
Finally the police arrested one crew for doing this to one poor soul. Then it turned out that the victim in this case was an off duty police officer. This was the first time many people had heard of actual criminal charges in these cases.
Now this was at least a couple of years ago so references are hard to find among all the advertising cruft and bullshit that google always returns, but there should be enough in the links etc I posted to show I'm not bullshitting. The only reason the police did anything was because it was one of their own. That is not paranoid delusions. That is reality. Before you make judgments, get out of the basement or whatever insular world you are in and see the world or at least pay attention to it.
It is a well know human trait that people protect their own. Police are no different.
Whether they be political leaders or business leaders they are still leaders. And if the followers allow them to lead and/or decide to keep following them, then yes, it is their fault. Inaction in this case is the same as deciding to follow them since their decisions affect most people, and inaction allowed the business leaders to do what they wanted. i.e. doing nothing also has consequences.
The west should have thought about this when they encouraged China to become the world's factory. Ah the for(shortened)sight of myopic business leaders focused on their bonuses; and the politicians who grovel for their money.
Don't presume to know my religion. And get some counselling, you seem to be teetering on the edge of something.
Hitchens was a polemic. Which practically, meant he disliked most things, or found things about them to dislike, and espoused on them. He made a living objecting and being objectionable. It is similar to if you are poor you're crazy, if you're rich your eccentric. If you manage to get a job writing about things you find to not like, you are a great polemic and notable author; if you are just an average joe on the street you are an asshole. So of course he would highlight the negative aspects of her. We all have negative aspects. So what? We don't all have positive aspects. Personally I'm tired of negativity like this guy spouted. Yeah he had some valid points, but he was so fucking obnoxious that he wasn't great to me at all. He was just annoying. Sort of the opposite of Mother Theresa. She did a lot of really, really good things (didn't just write about them either). Yeah she had her negative aspects, but relatively speaking she benefited society and the people, especially the poor in Calcutta. So I can give her the benefit of the doubt. She did things versus someone who talked and complained about others who did things.
No. Just one from the grassy knoll.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
Isn't it nice that by the time of her death what she started wasn't needed as much and people had/have the luxury of bitching about things that are obviously much more important than when people with leprosy were being tossed out of society like garbage, or people died of tuberculosis because they couldn't afford simple treatments, or many poor died in the street from starvation or diseases due to poor diet because they couldn't afford to eat good food. Or people being crippled because they couldn't get bones set correctly because they couldn't afford a doctor. Or any of a number of things the lady started bringing to the poorest of the poor when no-one else would. Sure people can bitch now about her bringing her religion into it, or some of her methods, but at least she was actually doing something about a very bad situation at a time when others were content to just overlook the severely disadvantaged. It is easy to play armchair quarterback 65 years after she first started her work, in a completely different day and age.
I am definitely not a fan of churches in general (in my view they seem to bring a bad taste to religion for me). And even though she was a devout catholic and also witnessed her faith at the same time as giving her help, she did a lot of good for a lot of people when very, very few others were. And anyone who wants to call her down because of these relatively minor complaints compared to the work she did in the times she did it in, isn't worth my time nor consideration. And for the record I don't hate the catholic nor most other churches/religions, nor do I dislike its followers, nor most other churches' followers as long as they don't espouse discriminating against or hurting "non-believers"... or try to counter scientific knowledge and teaching.
My brother calls this the Mother Theresa Principle. No matter how much of a saint you are, someone will hate your guts.
Excuse me but I believe that is called the snapper, not the clapper. Now if the snapper gives you the clapper that is another matter altogether.
I worked on a pilot system testing a direct current arc furnace that was designed to work at up to 6 MW (at about 3000 amps IIRC... hard to remember it was 20 years ago). It was the largest direct current arc furnace ever built up to that time and maybe still so, since arc furnaces are normally alternating current. The shell of the furnace was bout 25 or 30 feet tall and about 20 feet wide. The walls were around one or two inches thick of steel not included a good number of feet of refractory lining. Because it was direct current the steel shell and adjoining feed pipes became permanently magnetized. There were these around 15 inch steel pipes that raw material would slide down and one time someone working on a deck/floor just above them accidentally dropped an 18 inch crescent wrench through an opening in the deck. They yelled look out below and heard clanging as it fell, but no one ever found it for a couple months. It was stuck to one of the pipes about 40 feet up, hanging by the end... not even flat to the pipe... but from the end swinging. The induced magnetic field was that strong (and the furnace was off when they found it). And then there was the time our instrument tech went to check something on the furnace wall and pulled out a solenoid checker (looks similar to a continuity checker). He looked and saw it was broken because it was lit up already. So he walked away with it to go to the shop to replace it and when he got 30 or 40 feet from the furnace shell the light on the solenoid checker went out. He walked closer and it went on. The checker worked. It is supposed to light up when it senses a magnetic field. The shell was that magnetized. The welders had to wrap cables from a second arc welding rig around some 40 inch pipes leading from the shell when they were welding so they could set up some sort of counter phase to the field so the arcs on their welding sticks wouldn't just sputter/spall blow around because the field messed with the arc. When we ramped up power the monitors in the control room (about 60 or 70 feet away through double blast walls) would go all funky till we degaused them. Any monitor without a degausing switch we had to shield. If it wasn't like working in the myth busters shop every day, it would have been kind of scary. But I don't think it did us too much harm, except for the eye twitches and the strangelove hands (but then it just feels like someone else).
Not sure but if you take a lot of iron supplements you might not need viagra. But maybe not.
Here ya go.
The biggest problem with remotes that I see is the freaking long cable. But why couldn't they lower for want of a better term, a wireless access point to the bottom with a submersible and then release the sub when it gets down there. Then you would have real time control and the freedom of a tetherless vehicle. Only the access point would be connected to the surface. I am assuming it is better to put the access point down there because that much water would interfere with the control signals if they tried to wirelessly remote it from the surface.
Since the distance isn't as great, a waldo sub wouldn't have the same latency/lag that something in space or even a military drone aircraft would experience. As well, since the view ports on a manned craft will be so limited in such an armoured creation, the view from a waldo sub would be pretty much the same thing, if not better. If they really wanted to have the experience of living head to armpit in a tiny space a cockroach would have trouble slipping through, they could make an aircraft-like simulator that they could all cram themselves into uncomfortably and pretend to actually be in the real wirelessly controlled vehicle. It could turn a flip and all that. They could even spray them with a high pressure hose every time the accidentally bump into something with the real vehicle.
I'd say it's not that simple. Being liquid, water is not going to be compressible enough to matter in this case, and off hand I'd guess (maybe someone can do the numbers if they want) by the time you hit your first 1000 the water is going to be about as compressed as its going to get, which at sea level is not at its freezing point by the way... it reaches it densest at about 4C, any colder it starts forming ice which is less dense than water and why you can't normally squeeze it solid (I say normally because I can't remember how they determined all the different crystal phases water can have other than hexagonal... I don't think it involved pressure but may have). In any case we know it is liquid water right down to the bottom so we can assume for practical purposes that it is squeezed as dense as it can be by the time we get to any sort of depth; and I would give a WAG that 1000 feet down would meet that criteria. So you can make your matryoshka sub, but the water on the outer shell will press with full pressure, transferring full pressure via the incompressible water interlayer to the next shell, which will transfer full pressure to the next, etc. Unless the shells themselves cumulatively serve to act as an even thicker shell, which is probably better done without the water in between.
I'm not sure I find it funny or what when I see all these tech guys who are supposed to be good at abstracting problems not able to grasp the idea of metaphors. When you say "A Hammer is a hammer is a hammer," I get you. People can look at the shape of it and grasp immediately what it does and don't have to ask many questions if they need to use it for the most ubiquitous of reasons around, driving in a nail. Whether it be a ball peen hammer, claw hammer, framing hammer, whatever. Even if they might not know the ball on the ball peen hammer is for rivets. Not sure why others who are supposed to understand 'abstract' can't figure it out.
You are so obnoxiously overly literal you could be a creationist. Do you get lost if the directions are not exactly right? Here, let's help you FFS. It has been a LONG time since the UI on cars has been pretty much standardized with minor differences. And they haven't changed much over the years because people know and like the way it works. For a while in the 60s some cars started using push buttons to change gears and other stuff because it was all high tech and showy and all. Notice we don't have many if any cars produced now that have push buttons to change gears? And that is the point. Most people don't deal well with change when any sort of technology that can throw them for a loop is involved. Gah! And I thought I could be too overly literal some days. And media controls by the way are not essential so people don't give as much of a shit about that when it comes to understanding how to work their car. In fact most people will like media controls to be different. It gives them something else to do to keep their eyes off the road.
How big/powerful would a solar flare have to be before it became a concern for humans? I mean above not being able to watch America's Next Top [contest-name]tard.
What about the bathroom/wc?
Shoot the TSA into it. Tell them they get to frisk the sun.