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[Ghost1951]

Found this entertaining link about off grid life in BritishColumbia. A resourceful, family making their way without a grid connection. At first I watched a video about making wood gas from firewood to run a generator, but watched many more videos about their life in general.

You could never buy land in the woods here in the UK and build your cabin and just live off the land. The planning dictators would never let you do it. However - in other places, people are free to do as they like with their own property. How did we let ourselves become the slaves of bureaucrats?

Great watch -

 

[flecc]

You could never buy land in the woods here in the UK and build your cabin and just live off the land. The planning dictators would never let you do it. However - in other places, people are free to do as they like with their own property. How did we let ourselves become the slaves of bureaucrats?

Impractical romanticism.

• England: England has about 8.7% woodland cover
• Europe: The average European country has about 39% woodland cover

We cannot have that freedom with our population density, we'd have no woodland left at all.

I'd go much further with control, I wouldn't allow anyone to buy land since it is the birthright of all born on the planet. I would only allow it to be rented for the needs of the current generation.
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[Ghost1951]

Impractical romanticism.

• England: England has about 8.7% woodland cover
• Europe: The average European country has about 39% woodland cover

We cannot have that freedom with our population density, we'd have no woodland left at all.

I'd go much further with control, I wouldn't allow anyone to buy land since it is the birthright of all born on the planet. I would only allow it to be rented for the needs of the current generation.
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And how did that happen?

UK population in 1950 - - - - - 50.4 million

Uk Population in 2024 - - - - - 69.138 million


And don't forget in England there are six million more people registered with a GP than the government thinks are living here so really, the population here is about 75 million, and 90% of that rise is from migration which is why you almost rarely spot a white person on the TV adverts these days, and why in London, over forty percent of the population were born outside the United Kingdom.

But of course, even in 1950 everyone could never have gone into the woods and neither would they want to do so. The point is if you do want to build a house in the woods - in your own woods... You will never be allowed to do it because after WW2, an over bearing government took control over what EVERYBODY and ANYBODY was allowed to do with their OWN property.

As I said - we are slaves - which as we saw a couple of weeks ago, YOU think is fine.

I did not comment at the time on your lauding of the Chinese Communist Party. You have made such remarks at other time too. You HATE the idea of freedom, in case people do things you don't like - such as driving a car with petrol in it.

Yeah I've noticed your fascist tendency (fascist in its true meaning - state control and no freedom).

 

[flecc]

And how did that happen?

UK population in 1950 - - - - - 50.4 million

Uk Population in 2024 - - - - - 69.138 million

You are living in cloud cuckoo land, even with 50 million that sort of freedom isn't possible here, but I wish it was:

Population density of England = 434 per square kilometre.

Population density of the USA = 38 per square kilometre.

Population density of Canada = 4.2 per square kilometre.

Even in Russia one can live a natural life in the woods with their population density of 8.5 per square kilometre and many do so there and in other wild places in their vast country.

Illustrating that is what this issue is about, space, not state control.

So leave out the unjustified insults, my love of freedom and hatred of avoidable control is far more obvious than yours, with much more of your life having been tied down to marriage and family.

Get your brain into gear and work out why I'm opposed to land ownership. It's my hatred of what happened long ago when kings gave away so much of our land in perpetuity to a privileged elite who then presumed they had a god given right to have control over us, a relationship I've fought against all my life.

Then consider that, by your definition of fascism, you are a fascist for favouring control over those 20 million irregular immigrants to prevent them from living and working here peacefully. Despite the fact that we used force to live in their countries, often living anything but peacefully.

Of course you are not a fascist for wanting to do that, you are merely in favour of entirely necessary control, as I am, but only when it is demonstrably necessary.
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[Woosh]

More power just for the asking, ha ha ha, why bother with those "super" batteries! ;-)

You surely don't believe in getting free energy?

 

[saneagle]

More power just for the asking, ha ha ha, why bother with those "super" batteries! ;-)

I already made something similar to that, but mine's better because it can power anything without needing a secret cable plugged into it, and it has no moving parts to wear out. It also charges a 1.5kwh standby battery in case of problems.

 

[Ghost1951]

Chat GPT continues to amaze me in its question answering usefulness:

ChatGPT - Moon Earth Temp Differences

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[MikelBikel]

VW exposed EV owners details to the world for a year, wow. Then got an Eastern company to do it!
Über-informatzionen unt unter-securizionen mit Kina Überwachung. So safe?

 

[MikelBikel]

I already made something similar to that, but mine's better because it can power anything without needing a secret cable plugged into it, and it has no moving parts to wear out. It also charges a 1.5kwh standby battery in case of problems.

Doesn't that extension lead from the lamp post count as a "secret cable", hehe

 

[MikelBikel]

Nurse, nurse, they're out of bed again. Time to increase their medication!? Calm down lads, we're only having the 'craic'

 

[Woosh]

Chat GPT continues to amaze me in its question answering usefulness:

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Rumour has it that OpenAI o3 uses AI own language. At inference stage, prompts are translated to AI language which removes ambiguities, the prompts are then executed with programming languages and at the final stage, translate to human languages for output. The only downside of this method is you may need to buy a new laptop with AI inference chip built-in, or is it a ploy to sell more laptops?

 

[Ghost1951]

Rumour has it that OpenAI o3 uses AI own language. At inference stage, prompts are translated to AI language which removes ambiguities, the prompts are then executed with programming languages and at the final stage, translate to human languages for output. The only downside of this method is you may need to buy a new laptop with AI inference chip built-in, or is it a ploy to sell more laptops?

The REALLY impressive thing to me (but there is more than one) is that it absolutely' knows' what you want when you ask a detailed question. I put 'knows' in quotes because it doesn't know like you and me, but it gets the point almost perfectly, unless you ask the question in too brief a way - but then that would happen to a human too. It is completely tuned to 'getting the point' about what you want. This is a VERY sophisticated thing. Plenty of people are bad at that. I've met loads of them. As a tool of usefulness, producing a completely relevant answer is a fantastic asset for answering queries.

Another impressive achievement is the way in which it operates 'like a human'. It is able to present human-like manners and references. It gets the joke if you tell it one and it gets irony too - another thing plenty of humans can't do. I don't know if you read the link, but at the end of its answer to by two part question, I complimented it on doing a good job, and its reaction was extremely human like.

Then impressed as I was, I wondered what Alan Turing - sometimes called the father of computing, would have thought of its present abilities, and it went off into an interesting musing about that - with full and detailed knowledge of the issues Turing was interested in.

AS a person whose first experience of owning a computer was buying a ZX81 when they first came out in the 1980s and being profoundly disappointed at how useless it was at doing anything helpful, I am amazed at the progress since then - especially at the way these large language models power of usefulness is expanding exponentially. Five years ago, I don't think we could have expected the rate of progress we have seen. The progress in the way the models perform since when Chat-GPT first came out is unexpected - at least to me.

 

[lenny]

The REALLY impressive thing to me (but there is more than one) is that it absolutely' knows' what you want when you ask a detailed question. I put 'knows' in quotes because it doesn't know like you and me, but it gets the point almost perfectly, unless you ask the question in too brief a way - but then that would happen to a human too. It is completely tuned to 'getting the point' about what you want. This is a VERY sophisticated thing. Plenty of people are bad at that. I've met loads of them. As a tool of usefulness, producing a completely relevant answer is a fantastic asset for answering queries.

Another impressive achievement is the way in which it operates 'like a human'. It is able to present human-like manners and references. It gets the joke if you tell it one and it gets irony too - another thing plenty of humans can't do. I don't know if you read the link, but at the end of its answer to by two part question, I complimented it on doing a good job, and its reaction was extremely human like.

Then impressed as I was, I wondered what Alan Turing - sometimes called the father of computing, would have thought of its present abilities, and it went off into an interesting musing about that - with full and detailed knowledge of the issues Turing was interested in.

AS a person whose first experience of owning a computer was buying a ZX81 when they first came out in the 1980s and being profoundly disappointed at how useless it was at doing anything helpful, I am amazed at the progress since then - especially at the way these large language models power of usefulness is expanding exponentially. Five years ago, I don't think we could have expected the rate of progress we have seen. The progress in the way the models perform since when Chat-GPT first came out is unexpected - at least to me.

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[Ghost1951]

Rumour has it that OpenAI o3 uses AI own language. At inference stage, prompts are translated to AI language which removes ambiguities, the prompts are then executed with programming languages and at the final stage, translate to human languages for output. The only downside of this method is you may need to buy a new laptop with AI inference chip built-in, or is it a ploy to sell more laptops?

Just playing about with it I find that you can argue it into a reversal of its initial responses. I made a jokey statement and it replied in similar vein, then I hit it with some argument and it admitted it had changed its mind.

In its last remark it admits it had been too flippant.

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[Ghost1951]

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Don't link that with my point.

I have no need of such things and I doubt anyone else here does either.

 

[Ghost1951]

Is Boeing finished?



I don't think I'd be that happy to get on one these days and I still ride my motorbikes.

South Korea plane crash latest: Crash victims' families criticise lack of updates as investigators search plane debris

Some 179 people were killed in the Jeju Air crash in South Korea on Sunday, with the precise cause still unclear.

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"It's still in shambles": How Boeing can come back from crisis

Safety issues with the Boeing 737 Max and mass employee strikes made for a challenging 2024.

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[lenny]

 

[Nealh]

Until the Korean crash cause is found , one can't speculate on Boeing's integrity.
Had the aircraft touched down at the beginning of the runway and not halfway down it then all may have come to a very different ending , instead of running out of runway.

No doubt the question will be asked why the under carriage wasn't or couldn't be lowered ( There are meant to be three fail safes to prevent it).

That said the day previous a KLM B737-800 same aircraft type also suffered a Hydraulic failure , the crew landed the crippled aircraft in Oslo and the aircraft skidded off the runway. All 184 pax/crew safely exited off the aircraft.

Flying can be dangerous , landing a crippled plane at times is down to sheer luck.
With no power or hydraulic failure then one has to hope for a good ending.
Not every pilot is skilled or has the luck of Chesney Sullenberger.


Three major aircraft incidents over Christmas ( likely all three suffered some kind of power or hydraulic failure ) two crashed (one crippled by shrapnel damage) with many fatalities and one landed and all survived.

 

[Ghost1951]

Until the Korean crash cause is found , one can't speculate on Boeing's integrity.
Had the aircraft touched down at the beginning of the runway and not halfway down it then all may have come to a very different ending , instead of runnig out of runway.
Panic may have set in and the crew simply didn't lower the under carriage ?

That said the day previous a KLM B737-800 same aircraft type also suffered a Hydraulic failure , the crew landed the crippled aircraft in Oslo and the aircraft slid off the runway. All 184 pax/crew safely got off the aircraft.

Yes we don't know enough yet about the Korean crash, but just looking at the recent history of Boeing disasters, failures and bad manufacturing problems - not forgetting that two astronauts sent on a few day trip to the Space Station have been stranded there for months because their Boeing Starliner craft was too dangerous to use as a return ship, just makes me think that company may be in a terminal situation. The introduction of the new Boeing re-imagining of the 737 as the Boeing 737 MAX 8 which resulted in I think two aircraft just diving into the ground has been followed by a series of terrible quality failures. I think they may be done for.

 

[Woosh]

Just playing about with it I find that you can argue it into a reversal of its initial responses. I made a jokey statement and it replied in similar vein, then I hit it with some argument and it admitted it had changed its mind.

In its last remark it admits it had been too flippant.

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Not at all, Tony1951! Think of me as your overenthusiastic assistant who’s here to make your job easier, not take it over. Your experience, intuition, and perspective are uniquely yours—no AI could replicate that!
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I reckon that is a lie.

I think the 'shifts' in the job market as you put it, will lead to a lowering of income for many. Just as offshoring manufacturing jobs to China led to a migration downward in income for many in the UK - their high value jobs in manufacturing ended and all the workers could get were low value delivery and call centre jobs.

Agreed.