Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]
Discussion
S1KRR said:
Similarly, the music in the ad for the BMW 1 Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3jWA_f-bW8
Which prompts the question, how in the name of juddering f
k is using your phone to unlock your car in any way convenient, let alone cool?Keyless entry, car is unlocked as you approach it, get in & start car.
Ordinary key, plip as you approach car, get in & start car.
Phone. Access phone with fingerprint, code or lock squiggle, scroll to app, open app, place phone on door lock, unlock car, get in & start car.
21st Century Man said:
hich prompts the question, how in the name of juddering fk is using your phone to unlock your car in any way convenient, let alone cool?
Friend of mine got a NEW Mercedes A Class last year/ early this year. It had this phone nonsense. k is using your phone to unlock your car in any way convenient, let alone cool?She loved it, right up to the point it stopped working! And then her actual remote key wouldn't open the door. Or lock it (she had to use the separate blade part in the key) or allow her to put on the ignition (no slot, it's a press button on the dash) to drive the car!
With all the nonsense over keyless go thefts. Why manufacturers think people want keyless entry and keyless press button to start is beyond me.
It's not like you can leave the key at home! You still need it, so why not have somewhere to put it when driving? One of the error messages on my friends car told her to put the key in the cup holder (where the reader is I guess) what was wrong with a ignition barrel?
S1KRR said:
Why DOES music inspire an emotional response in us?
https://youtu.be/8Qn_spdM5Zg?t=1m28s
This is the new Star Wards trailer, and there's something in the way they've tweaked the theme tune, slightly slower perhaps, louder, but it triggers something in me. (No, not a full on bawling
)
And it's ridiculous as I'm not a big SW fan. ( I've not even watched all of them!
)
Similarly, the music in the ad for the BMW 1 Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3jWA_f-bW8
It's a track from a couple years back. (Glue - BICEP ) But the track takes me back to the mid 90s (and the official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ZxRs45tTg is on that theme too)
And again it triggers an emotional response in me. Why does the human body react like that? It's not anything tangible like a person. Or anything a person has said or done in real life. It's just a memory.
Is it all just nostalgia? Why does Nostalgia do that then?
There's this myth that we store everything in our brain but are unable to recover it all as memories. This is a myth. Instead, we store what might be referred to as 'thumbnails'; low-res snippets of our past which include memories of the emotions we felt. So there's these huge gaps in our recollection of things. But our brains can fill in those gaps with external help; a photograph, a home movie, someone else who was there at the time or a piece of music. So if a song fills one of those gaps to create a memory of something happy, then this triggers the pleasure cells of the brain to give a pleasing emotion.https://youtu.be/8Qn_spdM5Zg?t=1m28s
This is the new Star Wards trailer, and there's something in the way they've tweaked the theme tune, slightly slower perhaps, louder, but it triggers something in me. (No, not a full on bawling
) And it's ridiculous as I'm not a big SW fan. ( I've not even watched all of them!
)Similarly, the music in the ad for the BMW 1 Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3jWA_f-bW8
It's a track from a couple years back. (Glue - BICEP ) But the track takes me back to the mid 90s (and the official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ZxRs45tTg is on that theme too)
And again it triggers an emotional response in me. Why does the human body react like that? It's not anything tangible like a person. Or anything a person has said or done in real life. It's just a memory.
Is it all just nostalgia? Why does Nostalgia do that then?
By the way, that Bicep song is great! And the video too.
StevieBee said:
There's this myth that we store everything in our brain but are unable to recover it all as memories.
This is a myth.
It's a theory, that's all. One of quite a few. It's a theory of processing and retrieval, The most popular memory model today is the Multi-Store model, In this there are three memory states.This is a myth.
StevieBee said:
...Instead, we store what might be referred to as 'thumbnails'...
I think you're referring to the Working Memory model, another quite popular theory. most of the memory models work on the premise of information in / information processed/ information out or kept if rcalled. Recent memories are stored in the short term memory, but if these memories are not recalled they move to the long term memory, and are kept there for as long as they are very occasionally retrieved, This applies to skills as well. If never recalled then after a certain amount of time they are lost, regardless of the trigger.Clockwork Cupcake said:
captain_cynic said:
The same reason that people work for oil companies, tobacco producers and gambling companies... The pay is good and the benefits make it worthwhile. H.A.R.M. offers 10 extra personal holidays, a 10% location loading, a living away from home allowance and an excellent health care plan, not to mention the usual benefits like shift loading (running a secret underground lair is a 24/7 operation), subsidised canteen and accommodation, gym membership, et al. Supervisors are sympathetic and responsive to workers needs and being an evil organisation, they are often at the forefront of any technological development.
Also I think you're being a bit short sighted about the so-called "villain" in this scenario. You've only heard about it from the so-called "good guys" perspective where, they don't show the fully stocked free vending machines, nor Dr Evil at the office Christmas party thanking all the minions and henchmen for another fantastic year. They don't show Frank the technician talking to his 6 yr old daughter on the phone, his job is putting her through ballet lessons, nor Steve the security guard who is saving up for a house deposit and struggling with a long distance marriage. They want to settle down in a nice cottage and Steve is planning to take Clara on a romantic holiday to make up for spending so much time apart.
You only see when the do-gooder so-called "hero" knocks Frank over a railing into a vat of boiling chemicals (Frank was days away from his 5 year anniversary at H.A.R.M. there was a party planned and everything) or when Steve gets booted into the shark tank after they escape from the extremely slow moving dipping mechanism... And whilst we're on that, railings and slow moving mechanisms... They are BIG on health and safety, clearly caring about the well being of their employees.
So in the end we've got a daughter without a father and a wife without a husband... Not to mention now that the good guy has killed the head of the organisation in some ironic fashion, there's going to be a few hundred people out of work with bills to pay, struggling to put food on the table and they're the lucky ones who were fortunate enough to survive a government sanctioned secret massacre... I have to ask... Who is the real villain in this situation? The Media are only showing you the parts that fit their narrative.
Typical BBC bias. Harrumph.
Basically, the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to work for Hank Scorpio who is the perfect boss apart from being a Bond super-villain. Homer is blissfully unaware of this, even when stood next to Hank torching good guys with a flame thrower. Also I think you're being a bit short sighted about the so-called "villain" in this scenario. You've only heard about it from the so-called "good guys" perspective where, they don't show the fully stocked free vending machines, nor Dr Evil at the office Christmas party thanking all the minions and henchmen for another fantastic year. They don't show Frank the technician talking to his 6 yr old daughter on the phone, his job is putting her through ballet lessons, nor Steve the security guard who is saving up for a house deposit and struggling with a long distance marriage. They want to settle down in a nice cottage and Steve is planning to take Clara on a romantic holiday to make up for spending so much time apart.
You only see when the do-gooder so-called "hero" knocks Frank over a railing into a vat of boiling chemicals (Frank was days away from his 5 year anniversary at H.A.R.M. there was a party planned and everything) or when Steve gets booted into the shark tank after they escape from the extremely slow moving dipping mechanism... And whilst we're on that, railings and slow moving mechanisms... They are BIG on health and safety, clearly caring about the well being of their employees.
So in the end we've got a daughter without a father and a wife without a husband... Not to mention now that the good guy has killed the head of the organisation in some ironic fashion, there's going to be a few hundred people out of work with bills to pay, struggling to put food on the table and they're the lucky ones who were fortunate enough to survive a government sanctioned secret massacre... I have to ask... Who is the real villain in this situation? The Media are only showing you the parts that fit their narrative.
Typical BBC bias. Harrumph.
If you've not seen it, it's well worth looking out for.
captain_cynic said:
The same reason that people work for oil companies, tobacco producers and gambling companies... The pay is good and the benefits make it worthwhile. H.A.R.M. offers 10 extra personal holidays, a 10% location loading, a living away from home allowance and an excellent health care plan, not to mention the usual benefits like shift loading (running a secret underground lair is a 24/7 operation), subsidised canteen and accommodation, gym membership, et al. Supervisors are sympathetic and responsive to workers needs and being an evil organisation, they are often at the forefront of any technological development.
Also I think you're being a bit short sighted about the so-called "villain" in this scenario. You've only heard about it from the so-called "good guys" perspective where, they don't show the fully stocked free vending machines, nor Dr Evil at the office Christmas party thanking all the minions and henchmen for another fantastic year. They don't show Frank the technician talking to his 6 yr old daughter on the phone, his job is putting her through ballet lessons, nor Steve the security guard who is saving up for a house deposit and struggling with a long distance marriage. They want to settle down in a nice cottage and Steve is planning to take Clara on a romantic holiday to make up for spending so much time apart.
You only see when the do-gooder so-called "hero" knocks Frank over a railing into a vat of boiling chemicals (Frank was days away from his 5 year anniversary at H.A.R.M. there was a party planned and everything) or when Steve gets booted into the shark tank after they escape from the extremely slow moving dipping mechanism... And whilst we're on that, railings and slow moving mechanisms... They are BIG on health and safety, clearly caring about the well being of their employees.
So in the end we've got a daughter without a father and a wife without a husband... Not to mention now that the good guy has killed the head of the organisation in some ironic fashion, there's going to be a few hundred people out of work with bills to pay, struggling to put food on the table and they're the lucky ones who were fortunate enough to survive a government sanctioned secret massacre... I have to ask... Who is the real villain in this situation? The Media are only showing you the parts that fit their narrative.
Typical BBC bias. Harrumph.
Also I think you're being a bit short sighted about the so-called "villain" in this scenario. You've only heard about it from the so-called "good guys" perspective where, they don't show the fully stocked free vending machines, nor Dr Evil at the office Christmas party thanking all the minions and henchmen for another fantastic year. They don't show Frank the technician talking to his 6 yr old daughter on the phone, his job is putting her through ballet lessons, nor Steve the security guard who is saving up for a house deposit and struggling with a long distance marriage. They want to settle down in a nice cottage and Steve is planning to take Clara on a romantic holiday to make up for spending so much time apart.
You only see when the do-gooder so-called "hero" knocks Frank over a railing into a vat of boiling chemicals (Frank was days away from his 5 year anniversary at H.A.R.M. there was a party planned and everything) or when Steve gets booted into the shark tank after they escape from the extremely slow moving dipping mechanism... And whilst we're on that, railings and slow moving mechanisms... They are BIG on health and safety, clearly caring about the well being of their employees.
So in the end we've got a daughter without a father and a wife without a husband... Not to mention now that the good guy has killed the head of the organisation in some ironic fashion, there's going to be a few hundred people out of work with bills to pay, struggling to put food on the table and they're the lucky ones who were fortunate enough to survive a government sanctioned secret massacre... I have to ask... Who is the real villain in this situation? The Media are only showing you the parts that fit their narrative.
Typical BBC bias. Harrumph.
Edited by captain_cynic on Friday 20th December 19:32
Castrol for a knave said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
There are all sorts of reasons why some motorway junctions are built as limited access.
More often it is a financial decision, or a geographical one, or it is deemed that a full access junction would encourage local traffic, or conversely would increase congestion on local roads, or that it is too close to another junction, or any number of reasons. But I very much doubt that those reasons include foiling a bank robbery - I'm calling bullst on that one.
M54 north M6. More often it is a financial decision, or a geographical one, or it is deemed that a full access junction would encourage local traffic, or conversely would increase congestion on local roads, or that it is too close to another junction, or any number of reasons. But I very much doubt that those reasons include foiling a bank robbery - I'm calling bulls
t on that one. I mean. Really?!?!
Some just seem absurd. Why is M5 J10 just for traffic between Cheltenham and the North? Probably something to do with GCHQ or something.
Rostfritt said:
Some just seem absurd. Why is M5 J10 just for traffic between Cheltenham and the North? Probably something to do with GCHQ or something.
I grew up in Cheltenham as it happens. The main GCHQ site was close to J11 at Golden Valley and nowhere near J10. I can't actually remember why J10 was limited access though - probably Planning Permission and/or cost. I hear there are plans to extend it to full access by 2024 if government funding is approved. 
S1KRR said:
How has Simon Calder become THE go to guy for any form of Travel news. Disruption, strikes whatever. Every channel BBC/SKY/ Radio he's blooming everywhere!
Dunno, but when he's introduced I always thought they were saying "An independent travel writer". It's only recently I clocked they were saying "The Independents' travel writer" and I realised he worked for the newspaper. 
The Don of Croy said:
After the recent damp weather...if 15mm falls across a significant landmass how much would it add to sea levels?
Then again, how much energy was involved evaporating that amount of water in the first place? And where did the salt go?
I don’t think it would add anything to sea levels.Then again, how much energy was involved evaporating that amount of water in the first place? And where did the salt go?
It’s the same water being constantly recycled, evaporated, rain, drain off back to sea, rinse & repeat.
Exige77 said:
I don’t think it would add anything to sea levels.
It’s the same water being constantly recycled, evaporated, rain, drain off back to sea, rinse & repeat.
Unless it gets locked up in permanent ice, as that takes it out of the cycle It’s the same water being constantly recycled, evaporated, rain, drain off back to sea, rinse & repeat.
That's why sea levels are rising as the permanent ice caps melt, which releases water back into the cycle.
The Don of Croy said:
After the recent damp weather...if 15mm falls across a significant landmass how much would it add to sea levels?
Then again, how much energy was involved evaporating that amount of water in the first place? And where did the salt go?
15mm is bugger all in drainage terms. I'd expect most to be taken up by the soil etc.Then again, how much energy was involved evaporating that amount of water in the first place? And where did the salt go?
You want to be looking at more like 100mm to be getting some proper rain.
For example a 1 in 100 year event with some cc thrown in for London is around 175mm.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Exige77 said:
I don’t think it would add anything to sea levels.
It’s the same water being constantly recycled, evaporated, rain, drain off back to sea, rinse & repeat.
Unless it gets locked up in permanent ice, as that takes it out of the cycle It’s the same water being constantly recycled, evaporated, rain, drain off back to sea, rinse & repeat.
That's why sea levels are rising as the permanent ice caps melt, which releases water back into the cycle.
I think answer is no. Won’t add anything.
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