The hard part of lying is not to not tell the truth, but make people believe it IS the truth. The example you give is a great example of that. We all know it isn't true, so it is a bad lie.
Other things are less obvious. Are the voting machines are telling the truth, or are they lying? If there is doubt, we could check it, unless the people who are doing the checking are also the ones who gain from the lie (for whatever reasons).
The thing is that we always assume that computers tell the truth. e.g. You have entered the worng login and/or password. You retype it and you would never think that was not true.
The reason is that to lie, you need to gain something by not telling the truth. This can be in extreme cases a medical condition, but under normal circumstances it is to get a profit out of it. There is no real reason a computer would deny your first two tries of login and password and allow the third one, even if they are identical.
Programming lying is harder than you thing. Not sure how good they are at lying in poker games.
Imagine a game where you can select 1-6 and the computer colls a dice. You never whin, because it exclused what you selected. So you play 6 eery time and now you notice that 6 is NEVER trown. You do that for other numbers and you caught the liar. So now you need to finetune that and see that if somebody starts selecting 6 all the time, you need to start playing honest.
So now we start playing with 5 people at semi-random numbers and we see that nobody ever wins.
So the hard part is not the lying and cheating. The part is not being caught (too soon)
There was a LOT wrong. Two scenarios. It is (percieved as) a bomb. It is not a bom.
It is a bomb: Why leave it with the kids? This is endagering kids. It is not a bomb: Why call the police. If needed dicipline the kid, but no need to get the police involved.
So set up? Perhaps, but no matter what, they reacted wrong. This is what they should have done: It is a bomb: Evacuate! Before anything else: Evacuate! It si not a bomb: congratulate the kid on his work. If he tried to make you think it was a bomb and you know it was not: reprimand the kid acordingly.
I have had my bolas confiscated at school as they were dangerous. This after the warning that I was not allowed to take them to school. I was stoopid. They got confiscated and I had to stay some extra hours. And all this before cell phones, so you can imagine how "happy" my parents were when I told them why I was late.
No police involved.
I was once asked to go to the police for fighting and the officer said "What? Kids are not allowed to fight anymore? Go away!"
There is a difference to overhearing things and listening in on people. If you are standing at the water fountain and people come and talk about the fact that the secretary does it with the CEO, that is overhearing. When you hid behind a ficus just around the corner, so you can hear what Ellen from reception has to say about the sexlife of the CEO, that is listening in. And when you are in IT and read the messages from HR that she send to her home with the pictures of the CEO boning, that is also not just "listening" in.
Mind you: they are all most likely legally alowed (depends on the country). However they are not all moral. To me teaching kids is about doing the moral thing, so them asking the police to watch over them in this way is extremely wrong. Legal, but wrong.
As a European I go even further with what privacy is. For an American (as I understand it) Everything that is not public, is private. In Europe it is the other way around. Everything that is not private, is public. Private does mean (in Europe) your person and even when you are outside you have rights to privacy.
You mean the uncompetitive companies like BP, Shell, Philips, Siemens, AB Inbev, Heineken, Mercedes, Volvo, Volkswagen, Nestle, Unilever,... (You might even figure out why they are grouped like they are)
And through political machinations where e.g. the US companies just poor NO money into politics and lobbying and what not, right?
And many of these companies have been caught attention of the EU laws. Mosy learned to play nice.
If they are so worried about kids minds being influenced, why not ban marketing targeted at children and teenagers and early teens, till they are 21. (Seems like a good age for drinking according to many; so why not?)
Well, I think you forgot about the rest of the world. Every person who flies WORLDWIDE pays for it. I work in Brussels and due to these stupidities (Iraq), we have now soldiers on the streets. At this moment I am STILL more afraid of the traffic. I do not feel more or less safe, yet I have the Metro drive still 22:00 and not later. I have my backpack searched at random.
So yes, we all pay. Each and everyone pays. Thanks Bush. Let's see what the next lunatic will do that people vote for.
The fight has been going on longer than CDs. It has been going on longer than the Music Cassette. It has been going on at least since sheeted music was sold.
And piracy has been going on as long as there has been some sort of restriction. This goes back to very early in the German (Bavarian) beer brewing industry in 1200 or so.
What is wrong with decent Polka music instead of what them hippies make and call music?
Now get of my lawn.
The thing that has changed is not the quality of the music. There was always rubbish. Even the classics where called rubbish.Abba? Pure shite! Rolling stons? Noise. Hendrickx? Raping the national anthem.
What has changed is the amount of music that people have or own. My grandparents had about 20 records.My parents have about 80 and they were the people with a LOT of music in their time. I own about 200 records and 200 Cds and that was considerd a lot before the Intertubes.
Now people have 128GB of music easily, up untill several TB. As the amount that people spend compared to their income will probably not change a lot, there are two ways this can go: 1) Lower prices 2) Pirating And one does not exclude the other.
Imagine people spend 5% of their disposable income on music in the 60ies, the few records they bought made it possible. As 5% is 5%, with more music, something needs to give and the easiest to give is quality. People want clearly qantity over quality. Be it music or clothes or anything.
Because if YOU want quality, it is still available. You just need to spend time looking for it. People are not willing to do that. So if you do not have good quality music, blame yourself, not others.
Because they make good money right now, so why change?
There are already machines where you are able to do this. It is called an espresso machine. You put grounded coffee in it per 1 or 2 cups and that's it. About the same price as a Keurig. Or as expensive as you want to make it.
Trademarks MUST be enforced. You snooze, you loose. This is standard. This is the law. If they do not react, they loose their trademark. e.g. Walkman used to be a trademark, but they did not react, so now it isn't anymore.
This is a bout trademark and that I can get behind. If it were copyright, that would be completely different.
If the choices are "damned if you do and damned if you don't", to me that means that you do not have much of a choice, It is like the Mafia would defend them saying "But your honor, I gave him a choice between his left and his right kneecap and HE choose the left one. You can not blame me for HIS choice."
What the US needs is a complete rebuild of their politics. A revolution (does not need to be bloody). Break up the country if you need to as what is important is not the lines on a map, but the people living on it.
If they are not idiots, I am sure they will know this will go nowhere, wo why would they propose it? I doubt they are looking for the long term where peopl will think to implement only part of it will be their goal.
What I assume is that they are paid to do so by companies who want this. They give it a shot and if not, no harm, no faul.
So who is behind these ideas? What lobyying has been done to get them to do this?
Just a reminder that Hitler was elected too. But I doubt they would vote for him again. Whereas the senators are voted for again and again and again.
Will anything change? No, because people will vote emotionally, not rationally. People will say: I will not vote for X, because he is from party A and I am against party A, even if he agrees with everything I want.
The mistake you make is calling out Obama by name. As if any other would have been any different. Politicians are politicians. Surely but slowly people have let companies take over to fight for us. We are delighted when companies block state laws that we find are just. We are delighted when companies refuse things that we think are just. And then we are surprised the politicians are not interested in us.
As a man, I would hate it if women would start using MY restroom. Have you seen the queues at the ladies? I now can get in, piss and/or shit and get out. Then I would have to wait AND wash my hands. Hello NO!
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The hard part of lying is not to not tell the truth, but make people believe it IS the truth.
The example you give is a great example of that. We all know it isn't true, so it is a bad lie.
Other things are less obvious. Are the voting machines are telling the truth, or are they lying? If there is doubt, we could check it, unless the people who are doing the checking are also the ones who gain from the lie (for whatever reasons).
The thing is that we always assume that computers tell the truth. e.g. You have entered the worng login and/or password. You retype it and you would never think that was not true.
The reason is that to lie, you need to gain something by not telling the truth. This can be in extreme cases a medical condition, but under normal circumstances it is to get a profit out of it.
There is no real reason a computer would deny your first two tries of login and password and allow the third one, even if they are identical.
Programming lying is harder than you thing. Not sure how good they are at lying in poker games.
Imagine a game where you can select 1-6 and the computer colls a dice. You never whin, because it exclused what you selected. So you play 6 eery time and now you notice that 6 is NEVER trown. You do that for other numbers and you caught the liar.
So now you need to finetune that and see that if somebody starts selecting 6 all the time, you need to start playing honest.
So now we start playing with 5 people at semi-random numbers and we see that nobody ever wins.
So the hard part is not the lying and cheating. The part is not being caught (too soon)
There was a LOT wrong. Two scenarios. It is (percieved as) a bomb. It is not a bom.
It is a bomb: Why leave it with the kids? This is endagering kids.
It is not a bomb: Why call the police. If needed dicipline the kid, but no need to get the police involved.
So set up? Perhaps, but no matter what, they reacted wrong. This is what they should have done:
It is a bomb: Evacuate! Before anything else: Evacuate!
It si not a bomb: congratulate the kid on his work. If he tried to make you think it was a bomb and you know it was not: reprimand the kid acordingly.
I have had my bolas confiscated at school as they were dangerous. This after the warning that I was not allowed to take them to school. I was stoopid. They got confiscated and I had to stay some extra hours. And all this before cell phones, so you can imagine how "happy" my parents were when I told them why I was late.
No police involved.
I was once asked to go to the police for fighting and the officer said "What? Kids are not allowed to fight anymore? Go away!"
Oh, better times, now get of my lawn.
They should learn that in school as many parents will not be aware of it.
There is a difference to overhearing things and listening in on people.
If you are standing at the water fountain and people come and talk about the fact that the secretary does it with the CEO, that is overhearing. When you hid behind a ficus just around the corner, so you can hear what Ellen from reception has to say about the sexlife of the CEO, that is listening in.
And when you are in IT and read the messages from HR that she send to her home with the pictures of the CEO boning, that is also not just "listening" in.
Mind you: they are all most likely legally alowed (depends on the country). However they are not all moral. To me teaching kids is about doing the moral thing, so them asking the police to watch over them in this way is extremely wrong. Legal, but wrong.
As a European I go even further with what privacy is.
For an American (as I understand it) Everything that is not public, is private. In Europe it is the other way around. Everything that is not private, is public.
Private does mean (in Europe) your person and even when you are outside you have rights to privacy.
Legalize Mary Jane and put the people who text in prison. No loss for the companies who operate the prisons.
It's not a country. It's a provice: Zeeland. That is right next to Australia, so Australia is next to that country. Yep, checks out.
(My head hurts)
You mean the uncompetitive companies like BP, Shell, Philips, Siemens, AB Inbev, Heineken, Mercedes, Volvo, Volkswagen, Nestle, Unilever, ... (You might even figure out why they are grouped like they are)
And through political machinations where e.g. the US companies just poor NO money into politics and lobbying and what not, right?
And many of these companies have been caught attention of the EU laws. Mosy learned to play nice.
Can't we make a deal? We push over the UK to the US and we get Canada in return. We are used to multi-lingual countries.
That way everybody will be happy.
You can't handle the truth.
Anyway, with a name like USA FREEDOM it is clear those words do not mean what they think it means.
If they are so worried about kids minds being influenced, why not ban marketing targeted at children and teenagers and early teens, till they are 21. (Seems like a good age for drinking according to many; so why not?)
Well, I think you forgot about the rest of the world. Every person who flies WORLDWIDE pays for it. I work in Brussels and due to these stupidities (Iraq), we have now soldiers on the streets. :00 and not later.
At this moment I am STILL more afraid of the traffic. I do not feel more or less safe, yet I have the Metro drive still 22
I have my backpack searched at random.
So yes, we all pay. Each and everyone pays. Thanks Bush. Let's see what the next lunatic will do that people vote for.
I agree. Who do they think they are? Companies? Let them buy their own government if they want to do that.
The fight has been going on longer than CDs. It has been going on longer than the Music Cassette. It has been going on at least since sheeted music was sold.
And piracy has been going on as long as there has been some sort of restriction. This goes back to very early in the German (Bavarian) beer brewing industry in 1200 or so.
What is wrong with decent Polka music instead of what them hippies make and call music?
Now get of my lawn.
The thing that has changed is not the quality of the music. There was always rubbish. Even the classics where called rubbish.Abba? Pure shite! Rolling stons? Noise. Hendrickx? Raping the national anthem.
What has changed is the amount of music that people have or own. My grandparents had about 20 records.My parents have about 80 and they were the people with a LOT of music in their time. I own about 200 records and 200 Cds and that was considerd a lot before the Intertubes.
Now people have 128GB of music easily, up untill several TB. As the amount that people spend compared to their income will probably not change a lot, there are two ways this can go:
1) Lower prices
2) Pirating
And one does not exclude the other.
Imagine people spend 5% of their disposable income on music in the 60ies, the few records they bought made it possible.
As 5% is 5%, with more music, something needs to give and the easiest to give is quality. People want clearly qantity over quality. Be it music or clothes or anything.
Because if YOU want quality, it is still available. You just need to spend time looking for it. People are not willing to do that. So if you do not have good quality music, blame yourself, not others.
Because they make good money right now, so why change?
There are already machines where you are able to do this. It is called an espresso machine. You put grounded coffee in it per 1 or 2 cups and that's it. About the same price as a Keurig. Or as expensive as you want to make it.
So it is ok to iron my clothes on my body while taking a bath? Good to hear this shocking news.
Blame the education system in my country where they taught it to me as a third language. Stoopid system!
Trademarks MUST be enforced. You snooze, you loose. This is standard. This is the law. If they do not react, they loose their trademark. e.g. Walkman used to be a trademark, but they did not react, so now it isn't anymore.
This is a bout trademark and that I can get behind. If it were copyright, that would be completely different.
If the choices are "damned if you do and damned if you don't", to me that means that you do not have much of a choice,
It is like the Mafia would defend them saying "But your honor, I gave him a choice between his left and his right kneecap and HE choose the left one. You can not blame me for HIS choice."
What the US needs is a complete rebuild of their politics. A revolution (does not need to be bloody). Break up the country if you need to as what is important is not the lines on a map, but the people living on it.
If they are not idiots, I am sure they will know this will go nowhere, wo why would they propose it? I doubt they are looking for the long term where peopl will think to implement only part of it will be their goal.
What I assume is that they are paid to do so by companies who want this. They give it a shot and if not, no harm, no faul.
So who is behind these ideas? What lobyying has been done to get them to do this?
Just a reminder that Hitler was elected too. But I doubt they would vote for him again. Whereas the senators are voted for again and again and again.
Will anything change? No, because people will vote emotionally, not rationally. People will say: I will not vote for X, because he is from party A and I am against party A, even if he agrees with everything I want.
The mistake you make is calling out Obama by name. As if any other would have been any different. Politicians are politicians.
Surely but slowly people have let companies take over to fight for us. We are delighted when companies block state laws that we find are just. We are delighted when companies refuse things that we think are just.
And then we are surprised the politicians are not interested in us.
So YOU are the reason so many women let themselves go and become fat. They do not want to risk to be one of the 30.000.
The other story is obviously that there still is a prison culture where rape happens, everybody know it and shrugs.
As a man, I would hate it if women would start using MY restroom. Have you seen the queues at the ladies? I now can get in, piss and/or shit and get out. Then I would have to wait AND wash my hands.
Hello NO!