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Message 1637806 - Posted: 5 Feb 2015, 17:33:10 UTC

The book I'm reading now has helped me understand better
why Mitt Stupid got out of the race so quickly this time
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"Double Down"


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Message 1637979 - Posted: 6 Feb 2015, 0:47:09 UTC - in response to Message 1637734.  

@Chris believe me, there are a lot of road/highways you can be on more or less autopilot, because you may see a vehicle once an hour or so.

Yes Uli, in the States I entirely agree, you drive out there, and you have been driven in the UK, our road system is quite different to yours as you know. I just worry about people setting the cruise control then nodding off ......

You drove me in your rig in California, and I felt quite happy in your hands, but I still wouldn't encourage you to let the vehicle take over.

Their are still some people who don't know what cruise control is. They hit the button and think it's like autopilot. My grandfather said he knew somebody who did that in a van and went to get a soda in the back. He ended up in a ditch and scared.

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Message 1638167 - Posted: 6 Feb 2015, 13:10:15 UTC - in response to Message 1637979.  

Their are still some people who don't know what cruise control is. They hit the button and think it's like autopilot. My grandfather said he knew somebody who did that in a van and went to get a soda in the back. He ended up in a ditch and scared.

In my car's handbook, on the page which mentions cruise control, most of the text is in about 11pt font. Then at the bottom, in 16pt, bold and underlined, a phrase to the effect of Caution. Cruise control does not maintain direction of travel, driver must retain control of steering wheel at all times!
Can't remember the exact wording, but clearly there's been a court case.
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Message 1638472 - Posted: 7 Feb 2015, 6:20:45 UTC - in response to Message 1637734.  

@Chris believe me, there are a lot of road/highways you can be on more or less autopilot, because you may see a vehicle once an hour or so.

Yes Uli, in the States I entirely agree, you drive out there, and you have been driven in the UK, our road system is quite different to yours as you know. I just worry about people setting the cruise control then nodding off ......

You drove me in your rig in California, and I felt quite happy in your hands, but I still wouldn't encourage you to let the vehicle take over.

As Admiral mentioned, I said autopilot not cruise control, which I have never used in my life. Also Eric was the driver not me. Just my Rig.
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Message 1638812 - Posted: 8 Feb 2015, 6:06:28 UTC - in response to Message 1638536.  

You drove on the last day to the Koi park :-)

I was trying to forget that.
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Message 1638825 - Posted: 8 Feb 2015, 7:38:39 UTC - in response to Message 1638812.  

You drove on the last day to the Koi park :-)

I was trying to forget that.

That bad? Should have been with me two snow storms ago this winter. Going to work and was driving up a hill then... The rear end comes unglued from the road. Went completely sideways three times (left right left). I stayed on the road. My coworker next to me went almost white. Then turning the steering wheel to go back down the hill to try it again.

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Message 1639192 - Posted: 9 Feb 2015, 3:28:57 UTC

The sight seeing was ok, but I like to be in the right lane and not have to cut over at the last minute.
Now back to books.
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Message 1639204 - Posted: 9 Feb 2015, 4:16:24 UTC

Seeing Hummers are a common sight here.

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Message 1639623 - Posted: 10 Feb 2015, 6:25:35 UTC

MMMM Mods getting a bit off Subject here. Used to see a lot of Hummers, now Priouses are the IT here.
Waiting for Ang and Eric's Prious's to write a book.
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Message 1639979 - Posted: 11 Feb 2015, 2:02:12 UTC

"Thinking Fast and Slow", Daniel Kahneman.
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Message 1639983 - Posted: 11 Feb 2015, 2:08:25 UTC - in response to Message 1639979.  

How is it going?


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Message 1640073 - Posted: 11 Feb 2015, 7:54:01 UTC - in response to Message 1639983.  
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Slow, Celt. I keep being pulled back into the politics of Hatshepsut.
Tough lives, for all, back then. Average life expectancy was 30.
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Message 1647465 - Posted: 27 Feb 2015, 21:48:42 UTC

Change-of-pace: "Look Me in the Eye", John Elder Robison. An autobiography
of a life with Asperger's. Another book, in the "beautiful" category.
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Message 1653957 - Posted: 18 Mar 2015, 2:17:49 UTC

Found it again!

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I am nearing the end of the book Double Down.
I say it will be Hillary Clinton versus Jeb
Bush, and perhaps a third party run.



(Ok every one, place your bets here...)
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Message 1654015 - Posted: 18 Mar 2015, 6:34:49 UTC - in response to Message 1636012.  

My all time favourite is still Hothouse by Brian Aldiss.

Read that in high school (1969?), American title "The Long Afternoon of Earth". Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, but also a lot of Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, McCaffrey, you name them, I probably read them. I have a huge collection of SF&F magazines from the late 60s to about 1995. Met David Brin, Jerry Pournelle, and Robert Heinlein in the early 1980s when I was active in the L-5/National Space Society, and going to World SF Conventions.

Got into Murder Mysteries about 1975, both old masters like Elery Queen, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Mickie Spillane, and newer writers such as Sue Grafton, Bill Pronzini, Robert B. Parker (Spencer, Jesse Stone). Asimov wrote mysteries, too.

What little time I have for reading now, I'm bouncing back and forth between Submarine & Military History and Politics. Ben Carson's book "One Nation" is on top of the stack. And every so often, for something completely different, I pick up one of my (3) copies of Rudyard Kipling's Complete Verse.
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Message 1654558 - Posted: 19 Mar 2015, 15:28:38 UTC
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@ Celt -- I think you're right. Nobody else on the horizon who's friendly
and authorized.
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Message 1654562 - Posted: 19 Mar 2015, 15:59:11 UTC - in response to Message 1654558.  

I am afraid to open a discussion thread in politics
about the this election cycle for fear it would denigrate
into chaos......

Still Double Down is not a bad read, I think the authors
were very concerned with over taxing the minds of the targeted
readership....
(This is not a criticism, but the book sort of reads like a
Sunday supplement.)


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Message 1654775 - Posted: 20 Mar 2015, 3:01:04 UTC

I'm not sure whether a joke that I just received, on-line, would be a
candidate for the Café SETI joke thread, or politics. So, will include
it under jokes. . . ;o)
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Message 1656171 - Posted: 23 Mar 2015, 23:09:07 UTC

My Monographs, as usual:)
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Message 1656184 - Posted: 24 Mar 2015, 0:21:08 UTC - in response to Message 1654562.  
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I am afraid to open a discussion thread in politics
about the this election cycle for fear it would denigrate
into chaos......

Still Double Down is not a bad read, I think the authors
were very concerned with over taxing the minds of the targeted
readership....
(This is not a criticism, but the book sort of reads like a
Sunday supplement.)


Doesn't a election cycle have a certain amount of Chaos Theory built into it?

Read "Double Star" by Robert Heinlein. How to run for elected office and hold it. Even if the real candidate is incapacitated and later dies. And his double has to go forward in office.

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