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AI can be really useful! I just found this video which I reckon shows a fantastic use of AI. It appears that the original World War One film has been cleaned up so the images aren't scratched and the frame rate aligned with modern video frame rates so that the motion is not jerky, . If you are familiar with untouched WWI material you will soon pick up that the clothing everyone is wearing is period correct. Ignore the music and work noises in the soundtrack. That's obviously been added to make the end product interesting.

The placards were no doubt produced by the Party as normal stuff given out at one of these events. You see those placards all the time at political meetings. You'll see them at Democrat meetings as well. That the crowd had them is not relevant. If a shot of the crowd that Trump was facing was shown, you would see the same placards amongst them. What I thought I saw was the people behind him jumping the gun. Ooo-wah! I've used three words in this post that could have the CIA at my door. I won't repeat them, but you can look for yourself. Guess I'll have to cancel my trip to Disneyland cause I won't get past the front door of US Immigration.

Remember when you got your TRS-80 and went to the newsagent to get the latests issue of your favourite computer magazine? Then you went home and copied the program written in GS-Basic onto a storage medium so you could run it? A lot of people learned programming by debugging those transcripts. Jerry and Marty, I bet you were hot-shot programmers earlier, but now you recognise that you are not so hot. Sure, you have the experience to foresee possible problems with a bit of code, and that is the skill you need to pass on. But are you up to creating a program from scratch that will meet current expected standards? Maybe yes; maybe no. You be the judge. But me, whose only programming was to create a website in 2000 using HTML-4, can now gow to an AI thingy and ask it to write a program to prove the formula for the area of a circle, and for the result to include graphics of each step where relevant. Talk about AI causing the loss of jobs.

I was watching the supporters seated behind him as he was about the make that offer. They were all holding placards with general words of support. What I notice was that about a second or so before he made the statement, these people were beginning to raise their placards from their laps and show signs of being about to cheer. Do you think the crowd was being instructed? Couldn't be! That sort of pre-planned crowed response only happens in China and North Korea.

Let's be realistic. It's not going to happen. Anyone read an Epstein file lately?

That's what we said when desktop computers began being used in business. Mankind is adaptive. New technologies might eliminate old jobs, but they also create new ones. There are jobs in existence now that were never thought of 50 years ago. However, the problem is that the doers of those old jobs are maybe too old to retrain to do the new jobs. However, their children will train to do them. There are a lot of occupations that are necessary to keep society going and people will still be needed to do them. Not everyone has to be a paper-shuffler in an office. Someone has to be a barista.

Here is an analysis of Trump's $5K cheque announcement by, would you believe it?, an Australian professor of Economics living in the USA. He asks five questions whose answers shoq that this announcement is hot air. Totally impractical, and even illegal under world moentary rules. The answer to his first question is obvious - would Trump deliver? No need for me to supply the answer to you.

I don't think Parkinson's formula was meant to be applied in the real world. It is part of the satirical story. If you think about it, many activities or situations can be boiled down to some sort of equation connecting variable factors in order to provide a prediction for a possible outcome. A common situation in basic problem solving in maths is how to calculate how long three people, working at different rates can complete a job. The job is often something simple, like mowing an area of lawn. The idea of the problem is to teach the student how to generate an algebraic equation from data provided. I find that sort of task more useful than solving an equation for the values of 'x' given the equation mx + b = 0, and the values of m and b are given.

Don't forget that the book, Parkinson's Law, was a piece of satire. But satire is not comedy. Satire's main purpose is constructive social criticism. It does not just poke fun for the sake of entertainment; it holds up mirror images of flaws in individuals, governments, or institutions to encourage reflection or change.

Simply complying with Parkinson's Laws: Parkinson's Law is the title of a satirical essay by the naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson which was published in The Economist in 1955, following the report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service. He proposed the following Laws: 1. "The Law of Multiplication of Work" (Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion). 2. "The Law of Multiplication of Subordinates" (The number of workers within administration tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done). After observing that the promotion of employees necessitated the hiring of subordinates, and that the time used to answer minutes requires more work, Parkinson stated: "In any public administrative department not actually at war the staff increase may be expected to follow this formula" : where: x – number of new employees to be hired annually k – number of employees who want to be promoted by hiring new employees m – number of working hours per person for the preparation of internal memoranda (micropolitics) P – difference: age at hiring − age at retirement n – number of administrative files actually completed. Here's a video on this:

According to Trump, if it walks like a duck; if it quacks like a duck, it's a water fowl.

Huh????

I'm bloody sorry that I commented on the future demand for cadmium and nickel.

My rule: No caller ID, no pick up. It's inconvenient if it's a genuine call and the caller doesn't leave a message, but I think people are begining to adopt the practice of leaving a message if they have not been answered. Another idea I have is to text the person I want to call to let them know that they are going to get a phone call from me. Haven't used that trick yet, but it's in my bag of tricks.

I'm heartily sick and tired of Trump; probably more so of the American Democracy. Every day we are bombarded withthis man's insanity, and yet there is no one with the guts to do something about replacing him.