Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
I'd settle for a mag-lev.
What Annoyed You Today?
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Hey, I'm just annoyed that we don't have this some ~25yrs after Sep 11 especially after all the investments made. It would make travel so much smoother.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CX9Agzeh-c
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CX9Agzeh-c
MIflyer
Captain
The feminists would never allow that.
It could be done at the same resolution and the like as current scanners. And from my experience, it isn't just "feminists" as you refer to them that would complain. I have seen more than a few men who are just as hypersensitive.
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
A package was supposed to be delivered today. I got a notice that it had arrived.
When I got home there was no package, and no sign that anyone had been to the house. Called the merchant. UPS had apparently delivered it to an apartment building across town. Hope they like the color, and it fits.
They are going to send a new item. Should have it by Christmas. Assuming UPS (pronounced "ooops!") doesn't screw it up again.
When I got home there was no package, and no sign that anyone had been to the house. Called the merchant. UPS had apparently delivered it to an apartment building across town. Hope they like the color, and it fits.
They are going to send a new item. Should have it by Christmas. Assuming UPS (pronounced "ooops!") doesn't screw it up again.
cvairwerks
Staff Sergeant
We used to have problems with mail being incorrectly delivered. We lived on Commanche Trail, and were in one zip code. Nearby was another subdivision that had Commanche...same numbering scheme, same town, but different zip..
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
I believe our problem is people can't tell the difference between east and west.
MIflyer
Captain
I once mailed a package to Australia that did not show up. Turned out that in that city they had two different streets with the same name.
special ed
1st Lieutenant
- 6,587
- May 13, 2018
I suspect with the modern education system, the carriers can read numbers but they can't read readin'
cvairwerks
Staff Sergeant
If people ever saw how the addressing was scanned, keyed in and then sent to the "correct" delivery sections, they would be brain fried...
MiTasol
Captain
Like many sprawling cities about 50-60 years ago Auckland NZ had the same problem. Multiple suburbs that once were autonomous now part of a larger entity. Streets that stretched for long distances with a different name in each burb, or, like in so many Aus cities multiple names in the same burb (as in east of A st it is X street and west it is Y street).
They are the only city I know of that did the smart thing. They identified all the streets with multiple names and gave each of them a single name from end to end.
Then they found all the remaining streets with the same name, kept that name for one street only*, and renamed the rest.
I drove there about five years before and about five years after and the difference in navigating was unreal. It went from difficult to easy with just that one change. I have no doubt that the mail system was chaotic for a while tho.
Congratulations Auckland for having the brains that most, if not all, other cities lack.
*If my memory is correct there are two streets in Auckland named Queen St. One in a small burb that was the first street officially named in NZ or some such thing and the main drag in central Auckland city.
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MIflyer
Captain
Well, it is common for places to have a name like Maple Street and connecting to it a street like Maple Circle. But having one named, say, Maple Street and one in the same town named Maple Drive is a bit much.
One Sunday, on the way home from the airport I was hailed by a small group of young Japanese men, asking for directions. I pulled into the parking lot they were in and we started comparing our GPS units. Another carload of them pulled up while we were talking. They wanted to go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's center; at least one of them spoke good English. I told them how to get there but they wanted a map. Finally they switched their GPS over to English and I saw what had occurred. They had typed in KSC Visitor Center and the first thing that showed up on their GPS was KSC Credit Union, and they had followed the directions to the credit union HQ parking lot, several miles to the South of their intended destination. After bowing in thanks, they finally set out in the correct direction. By the way, that is now called the Launch Credit Union and I wondered if they had changed the name to keep their parking lot from filling up with Japanese tourists.
One Sunday, on the way home from the airport I was hailed by a small group of young Japanese men, asking for directions. I pulled into the parking lot they were in and we started comparing our GPS units. Another carload of them pulled up while we were talking. They wanted to go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's center; at least one of them spoke good English. I told them how to get there but they wanted a map. Finally they switched their GPS over to English and I saw what had occurred. They had typed in KSC Visitor Center and the first thing that showed up on their GPS was KSC Credit Union, and they had followed the directions to the credit union HQ parking lot, several miles to the South of their intended destination. After bowing in thanks, they finally set out in the correct direction. By the way, that is now called the Launch Credit Union and I wondered if they had changed the name to keep their parking lot from filling up with Japanese tourists.
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MIflyer
Captain
I was once trying to find hotel in the Sunnyvale CA area, located on the main north-south road, called them and asked if they were South or North of my location. The man on the phone replied "East." The road does run more or less East and West in that area but it is named South or North. I finally found the hotel. It was located essentially on the boundary between two municipalities, with the result that the street numbers go instantaneously from something like 10000 to 13000.
MiTasol
Captain
A new Aus video on Beaufort production is full of crap.
The underlying story is mainly correct but the video and narration are crap. 100% for the concept and 0% percent for execution which is obviously done by Abysmal Intelligence because no Beaufort ever looked like this.
Naturally the site does not allow comments and does not register thumbs downs.
The underlying story is mainly correct but the video and narration are crap. 100% for the concept and 0% percent for execution which is obviously done by Abysmal Intelligence because no Beaufort ever looked like this.
Naturally the site does not allow comments and does not register thumbs downs.
- The first 55 seconds show a Japanese A6M (Zero) undergoing maintenance
- This is followed by an Airspeed Oxford undergoing maintenance
- Then the narrator says women who have never held a rivet gun before are suddenly welding bomber fuselages together.
- Next we have and American factory with the caption that the Australia's aircraft industry barely exists
- Then at 2:45 they say Aus had to redesign the powerplant to use Pratts. Aus PAID BRISTOL TO DO THAT
- Starting at 3:00 is 42 seconds showing 2 African American women riveting,
- Next is something powered by a Cheetah engine - probably an Oxford variant,
- At 4:15 we are back to the African American ladies with an NA-16 variant fuel tank panel in the background with rivet guns welding aircraft fuselages,
- It is Commonwealth AIRCRAFT corporation FFS
- At 7:58 we are back to the US B-24 factory.
Escuadrilla Azul
Tech Sergeant
- 2,121
- Feb 27, 2020
Is time to brace ourselves for the surge in long time debunked myths to come back again and with new ones
MiTasol
Captain
I just realised that everyone is spelling inshitification wrong.
They keep spelling it with an E at the start instead of an I and it is blindingly obvious that it is an I or else AI, which everyone intelligent knows means Absolute Inshitification, would be called AE.
They keep spelling it with an E at the start instead of an I and it is blindingly obvious that it is an I or else AI, which everyone intelligent knows means Absolute Inshitification, would be called AE.
Thumpalumpacus
Lieutenant Colonel
Do you inable something, or enable it? Do you impower a person, or empower them?
English has these funny little byways that are hard enough for an American to understand, never mind an Aussie.
MiTasol
Captain
English spelling is very consistent. You know I before E except after C or in any word like Height or Weight or .....
In school we had to do a book review on a book of proper English - I thought the author was George Bernard Shaw but I cannot find it in his listed works.
The author gave many examples of PROPER English spelling and the one I always liked best was fish, in proper English spelling, is ghot
Therefore either I (or O from the example above) for the first letter of Inshitification is perfectly correct.
In school we had to do a book review on a book of proper English - I thought the author was George Bernard Shaw but I cannot find it in his listed works.
The author gave many examples of PROPER English spelling and the one I always liked best was fish, in proper English spelling, is ghot
- GH is the F sound in many words like enough
- O is the I sound in words like women
- T is the SH sound in words like station.
Therefore either I (or O from the example above) for the first letter of Inshitification is perfectly correct.
Not really: the "sh" in station is more due to the use of t and i. So 'fish' should really be "ghoti".
Meanwhile AI needs a better meaning; I do like the sentiment of "inshitification" but as Thumpalumpacus rightly points out, it really needs to begin with the letter e. We need to come up with something that aptly describes our total disgust and anger at what it means. Sadly 'excrement' also doesn't begin with an i.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
There's a lot AI ads using digital homunculi. Computer code telling us "their" "relatives" love a product. Non existing healthcare providers extolling the virtues of their eSnakeoil. I'd love to see disclaimers on these ads. Similar to "actor portrayal" on TV ads.
