[Robotgroup] TMMRS # 0 Re: RG emails on Google

[Glenn Currie]

TMMRS #0

Regarding the RG email list:

Do what you can to limit spam,
but write your email messages as if you expect them to be published.

Lately here is more email about email than about robots! (unless you 
consider
the Google and other data mining programs to be robots).

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On to other topics.

Here are a few things for publication via the famous Robot Group email list
(as featured on Google!)

"Humans are emotional creatures, capable of limited rational thought."
                           -Glenn R. Currie
                             The Robot Group Inc.

"A considerable amount of the "rational" thought humans are capable of,
 is squandered, rationalizing emotional based actions and decisions."
                           -grc

If you disagree, we can "step outside" and settle the mater by fist fight.

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More fodder for disagreement:

Ever heard this one?
"I'll save money on car repairs on my current vehicle, by getting a new 
car."
Translation of rationalization - "I just want a new car - a SUV!".

Many buy an SUV, because everyone else is buying one.  For most, it is
a fashion statement, not practical transportation.  Few people (12% ?) ever
drive "off road" in their SUV.  Vehicles well adapted to serious off road
use, have stiff suspension and drive systems not well suited to sustained
speeds of 45 mph or faster.  Compared to a passenger sedan, a SUV
has more mass (not necessarily more protection), sucks more fuel,
has a longer minimum stopping distance, has a higher center of gravity
thus tends to roll over easier ... 
<snip> 3 Mb of text removed here

(New Whippo - is it a tasty dessert topping, or a durable floor wax?  
It's BOTH!!!"

A prefect example of a fashion statement vehicle is - a "Hummer".  It is 
a cheap imitation
of the military vehicle.  The military version has hydraulic drive to 
each of the 4 wheels.
Look under the vehicle, and you will see no differential.  The 
centerline of the undercarriage,
is, is clear. Each of the 4 wheels, has an independent hydraulic 
circuit, with check valves. 
As long as 1 wheel
has a functioning hydraulic circuit, that wheel is capable of moving the 
vehicle.  It is a
great, off road drive train and is a very expensive way of doing things 
- and it can do
about 45 mph for reasonable periods of time, while sucking lots of fuel. 
If that sounds slow, try riding off road at
45 mph, on rough terrain.  Your butt becomes an integral part of the 
vehicle suspension.

The "civilian" hummer essentially has a pick-up truck chassis, with 
wimpy suspension,
for a smooth ride and a "look alike" sheet metal body.  All of the 
fundamental mechanical
systems that make it special, are missing. Including the fake, self 
inflating safety tires.
Check the interior of a Hummer,
and see if you think that is what the inside of
a military vehicle looks like.  
(Hint: Count the cup holders.)

Hummers are a cheap (not inexpensive) knock-offs.

"Yes, but I want one..."


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Once done with the the above exercise,
answer this one:

"Why ask rhetorical questions?"
                  -grc

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If you tell me I am crazy,  I'll reply that the Pope is Catholic.
This is all well and good, but to move the discussion forward,
please define your terms,
and try to stay on topic.

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The above rant is is the first installment of the
"Tom Morin Memorial Rant Series".
TMMRS #0 
(nerds start counting at zero, not one.)

Tom enjoyed  my rants. His grin would grow and eyes would
narrow as he chuckled and fidgeted with ever an ever rising level of 
stimulation
as I spewed  stream of concisenesses emotional rationalizations of 
biased, slanted, jaded,
middle-aged-delinquent sleep-deprived opinions.

Sometimes I might actually have a good point,
but I am usually so full of crap, that I am surprised
my blue eyes, do not turn brown, (before the crap reaches
my ears, and leaks out. Thank God for retro-fit pop off valves,
that fit in the ears.  Otherwise I would be a safety hazard.
A crap bomb, waiting to go off.
Now you know why I regularly wear ear plugs.)

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Anything else I can do to help float your brain in chemicals it likes?
No extra points for pissing people off. That is too easy!

Tag, your it.

;-)

Cheers,

-Glenn