That’s a fine summary there, thanks. I don’t think #2 would be a real threat: it’s a bit like if Instagram wanted to sue Facebook because it also has a “follow” button. I totally understand the rest, and either is more than enough reason. Well, I hope they get there once, though.
Haha, especially then! I wonder what’s preventing the dev(s?) from making this possible.
I was afraid this would be the answer. But at least I know it’s not just me - thanks!
I’m slowly starting to believe that a US started world war can only be prevented by a US started US civil war.
The car was turning and accelerating. From his position, all he had to do to avoid getting hurt was exactly the same as he was doing, minus the gun. He just had to step aside. Which he did. Not like the car was going fast, and it was turning away from him already. The gun literally didn’t do anything to prevent a collision. If anything, she might have let the steering wheel go after the shot, making the car go straight instead of further turning away from the guy.
At the point of the last shot, he was basically making sure to send a bullet after her.
I’m not an expert copolist, and I’m almost sure this is not the only reason, but it seems somewhat easier to keep crime at bay when not every four year old can just carry an AR15 with a rocket launcher and plasma gun attachment.
Well, I didn’t necessary mean the structure of a song (that doesn’t have the complexity that would challenge an AI agent… in the early 2000’s, even), but more like coming up with their own lyrics that even make sense, and producing human speech with rhythm and musical tones.
Not closely related, but back when I was first reading the book, the idea of computer generated songs sounded like “flying future car” delusions, and learning AI in the early 2000’s even confirmed not the impossibility but the crazy limitations of all this.
I have just listened to a podcast last month that mentions how there are songs on Spotify made entirely by AI, and 97% of the people they asked couldn’t tell apart regular songs from the AI generated ones.
On one hand, it’s remarkable. On the other hand, we’re cooked. What’s even more depressing is that many-many, even more worrying things are getting pretty accurate in the book. Maybe not back in 1984, but we’re witnessing the convergence.
True, my bad for a poor word choice. I guess ‘people’ would have been more appropriate. But I guess the rest holds.
Some executioner style villain
Or Németország in Hungarian. And Hungary is Magyarország in Hungarian. Ország just means country, so they’re just “German country” and “Hungarian country”, literally.
Most slavic countries also call Germany Německo or the like.
This happens when there’s no fast global media when you meet a new nation, and you can’t copy someone else’s homework to come up with a name for them. Or when you copy someone else’s homework, instead of actually asking a member of that nation.
AFAIK French has something similar. I might be wrong, but similarly to the Holland/Netherlands (Nederlanden) story, it was named after one of the tribes in Germany (alamanni, “all men”), before the great unification.
I was just thinking about ways to justify “have a ftp” server. The only defence I can think of is that they pronounce ‘ftp’ not as ‘eff-tee-pee’ but literally as ‘ftp’, a vowelless word.
I was pulled back from another timeline and I got several WAIT WHATs, only realising a few seconds later that, in fact, I had read about these people’s death at one point in the past. Also, lol for the bottom row.
Hol’ up, does that mean Venezuelan politics is mighty fine?
Yeah, everything checks out. He is two worlds and 6000 years old.
I’m sure my reasoning would bounce off just one question later, but my next question would be that if god knows everything then why does he test people’s faith? He doesn’t need to, since he knows already whether you have faith or not. Also, are hundreds of million years old dinosaur bones really the most brilliant way of testing someone’s faith?
The proportional amount of people who happily support these regimes, and/or don’t care… I have doubts.