nomadpete

Now you might understand why Terrump is urgently needing a billion dollar bunker.

If you want more rain, hanging washing on the line should do it. In your case, It might help to wash the car, just to be sure.

But Nev, I'd expect a trained pilot would identify before actuating a control. (even in a car) The average idiot doesn't think that way.

Don't worry, Peter. The next generation of cars will have A I. voice recognition. The makers will not fit control stalks on either side of the steering joystick.

At last! Good to see you finally got some rain. Now you'll be complaining about having to buy a lawnmower. Where we are, I'd have to say 'Crikey it's damp!'. Every day we wake to grey wet mist, punctuated by bouts of drizzle. Forecast is the same for the forseeable future.

Will the day come, when 'Robot dog bites robot postman' hits the headlines?

I was just pointing out that windage is simply an engineering consideration for all structures.

We have got Jerry-AI-tric back. But I won't believe the real Jerry's back until I see his normal keyboard scramble posts.

I know it's just a meme. But is it true?

The Not-a-war is going bigly for amerika.... Well it is going great for the arms replacement industry!

Hey! Wait a mo! That can't be OUR Jerry. There aren't enough keyboard errors. Where's my tinfoil hat?

You have dashed my hopes for an A.I. that is logical and unbiased enough to rule our world.

BTW, Thanks. I was missing your sentient inputs

So, it sounds like a duck, it speaks like a duck, it reacts like a duck, it reasons like a duck..... but it isn't a duck? Or are you saying that most human beings can't be considered to be sentient?

I think about that when I see highrise buildings. The windage must impose massive leverage on the foundations.

I reckon those secret service guards might benefit from a bit of gun training - it took 30 shots to bring down one lightly armed person. (there was only mention of him having a hand gun)

No, just another day in good ole USA. If he intended an assassination, I doubt he would pull a pistol at the front gate. So, simply another deranged gun nut.

Hopefully, he is enroute to sunny Orstraya at last!

I welcome the government moving toward controlling the housing investment businesses

Owning a rental house is not the simple business it once was. For instance, There is a whole industry of Real Estate agents managing the rental, taking usually 7% of the rent. They promise to 'protect the value of the property', and protect the interests of the tenant. I have not heard any glowing reports of value for money. There is a notable lack of general care by tenants on the assumption that the landlord is getting rich from the rent, so the wear and rear is worse than that of an owner occupier. Also, many young renters simply have no idea how to look after a property. Remember, a house is not rentable until it is brought up to a set standard, but the overheads continue to cost the landlord until it is once again rented out. Nowadays there are extra costs for regular testing of safety switches and fire alarms (every 6 months?). There are no cheap rentals nowadays for the poor. For instance, when I first married, we rented a tumble down house with an outside toilet, with no light. It was rough (non tenantable in modern rules), but we went out and bought paint and spruced it up. Later we moved to better places, but it was common to run a paint roller over the walls to make it look a bit cleaner than it was when we moved in. Modern tenants wouldn't dream of this. The result is a shortage of cheap rentals. I had two rentals, one made nil capital gains for seven years, the other made a capital gain. Meanwhile, they just broke even, whilst being a constant pain in the arrs. My experience is that about one tenant in ten was good. Sure, the developers and big players seem to get rich from it, but not the smalltime investors.

I say the same thing. However, although the sale pricing of the property has doubled, the value hasn't really changed since the money (if I sold right now) doesn't buy a more grand place. Capital gains are only realised by wealthy speculators who buy multiple properties.

Yeah, but half the families around me when I was a kid, couldn't afford a mortgage, either. Yes, I'd like to see better housing availability. And I'd also like to see fewer entitled people expecting someone else to solve their problems for them.

Hear that Benjamin Netanyahu is the worst US president sunce Eloin Musk. But pootin was no better

when I consider the generally accepted definitions of 'conscious' and 'self aware', then Claude is as sentient as many humans. A lot of people are less self aware than Claude. Many people practise Large Language Model conversations using the same mental process as Claude, (but lack Claude's access to knowledge). I conclude that many humans are less human than Claude. The big problem is the ethical one, which Claude highlighted. There isn't much chance that the A.I. companies are going to implement ethics, neither in their business model, nor their A.I. programming policy. Oh dear.