this reminds me strikingly of the Bielefeld conspiracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Even Chancellor Merkel confirmed the non-existence of Bielefeld.

The story goes that the city of Bielefeld (population of 333,786 as of December 2019)[4] in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia does not actually exist. Rather, its existence is merely propagated by an entity known only as SIE ("they" in German, always in block capitals), which has conspired with the authorities to create the illusion of the city's existence.

The theory poses three questions:

        Do you know anybody from Bielefeld?
        Have you ever been to Bielefeld?
        Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?

A majority are expected to answer no to all three queries. Anybody claiming knowledge about Bielefeld is promptly disregarded as being in on the conspiracy, or having been themselves deceived.

The origins of and reasons for this conspiracy are not a part of the original theory. Speculated originators jokingly include the CIA, Mossad, or aliens who use Bielefeld University as a disguise for their spaceship.[5][6]

Thats an US problem. I can assure you that every european bank - well except the vatican bank - will happily do business with sex workers.

Well, except with US citizens. Thats because the US required foreign banks to literally make themselves nude when working with US citizens. When my cousin married an US citizen he immediatelly lost his bank account at the second largest european bank. They simply told him "you are not worth the hazzles."

Actually ALL german state except Bavaria are switching to Open-Source.

Bavaria is home of the largest german Microsoft Office and Microsoft has been aggressivelly sponsoring its products for educational programs.

And now something completely different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Seriously, such brainless glorification for a device I have used like 15 years ago?

Oh, I see: Apple Users. Welcome to the undiscovered country, immigrants.

A funny fact from my home country: In case of property crimes in a private suit the victim can pay for coercive detention like "for every €10 of damage the victim can pay €20 to put the offender for one additional day under arrest IN ADDITION to any sentence by a criminal court.

A couple of years ago someone stole our garden gate (don't ask, that guy must have been an utter moron) worth around €1200. When he did not disclose the location of the gate we were opting to pay €2400 to put him into jail for 240 days. After a week he confessed the location. He even managed to get some money out of thin air to pay for repairs. It is just wonderful how some days inside the cooler make people behave. Later he was convicted to another 30 days for petty theft. Overall the detention ist somewhat limited along the crime, most likely he could left after 90-180 days and doesn't add to your criminal record but still... nice.

Seriously, €2400 wasn't too much for my family but it felt awkfully good to have him looked away and wipping the stupid smile from his face.

This actually no new news. In german folklore the Vita Prinzip is well know for several generations which basically says:

Highly Qualified People are considered highly qualified because of many projects listed on their Vita.

To list many projects on ones Vita one must do many projects even if they don't make sense.

If a project doesn't make sense leave the project before it is finished. If it fails later it obviously failed because the best man - you - has left the project.

this sounds like an obvious scam. just not sure who the scammer is.

but nevertheless, great PR.

I usually love to eat at goverment cafeterias/lunchrooms.

They are often dirt cheap, very tasty and less crowded than public restaurants. Sure, they only have a small amount of choice per day but usually it is good enough. And in many cases they are even open to the public, they are just not allowed to advertise themselves.

For example last month I ate at our local cafeteria at the mayor hall. They offered a pretty good greek mixed grilled meat plate for slightly more half the price of a good greek restaurant. Sure, you had to get the food yourself but with little people around this was done in less than three minutes. Show me a real restaurant with real menus where you get a full meal in less than ten minutes.

Funny fact, dig a hole ANYWHERE on earth with 100m x 100m x 100m.

You just mined 500 tons of nuclear material. Including 150 tons of uranium and 100 tons thorium which also is a powerful fission fuel.

If you take a brick of coal then the natural radioactive materials inside this brick have ten times more nuclear energy than the chemical energy of the brick.

My lowest spec linux/unix/posix system was a 386sx16 with 2MByte of memory. Using a manually optimized and build kernel I could do some textmode work - even at 100x60 character through the use of the ancient SVGATextMode toolchain but barelly anything else. I am ignoring the WRT54 router I tried using with 2MByte because it got me nowhere. Even addin 0,5MByte additional memory was greatly appreciated. Thankfully I got some 8MByte of memory for free shortly after that and besides that particulary awful 386sx16 I always had 8-16MByte.

Btw, my lowest resource x86 was a non-IBM-compliant 8088 with 16kByte of memory and a tape drive at school. Funny enough it was able to run some very early self booting games like Psi5 Trading Company in pure text mode.

On the other hand, my first computer ever was a CBM3032 with only 32kByte. Now imagine reserving 1MByte of memory on that one...

Nope. The average gazian tunnel is barelly more than a crawling tube. Building Fake-Tunnels on the other hand serves barely any purpose because the simpler ones are easy to be recognized as fakes and the more complex ones are as much work as a real tunnel. And in the end one doesn't actually attack the tunnels themselves but its intersections, exists and weak spots. Simple military reasoning, by collapsing both ends of a tunnel and trapping enemy combatants inside you actually give the enemy more trouble than simply killing the combatants inside the tunnels because the enemy has to rescue his own people under fire creating even more valuable targets.

Finding tunnels has not much to do with classic artificial intelligence but with advanced sensor evaluation.

Satellites have been able to scan underground tunnel networks for around 20 years. There are at least two nations openly claiming to be able to scan deep underground, the USA and Germany. For example the commercial resouce scanning satellite "Erdräuber" was able to detect underground anomalies like Oil, hot springs, flowing water, metal and caverns up to a depth of 2000 meters in 1992. The military solutions based on these were kept a secret but I guess detecting a tunnel network less than 100m deep is pretty much apprentice training for these systems (Georg = Geheimes Elektro-Optisches Reconnaissance System Germany with its SAR-Lupe network which is tightly cooperating with the optical french helios system). I guess US-systems are equally potent, with china a distant third and russia mostly stuck in a cold war skill set which still is still quite useful. I am pretty sure Israel lacks that kind of technology but one doesn't actually need the technology itself if the data can be easily shared in real time, the more if it hurts a pariah like Hamas...

You would have to dig miles deep and would still be detectable but at least all that rock and dirt gives you a nice absorbtion shield.

If one thinks a tunnel network works against a space faring opponent he will be into a big surprise. Even more if the enemy is actually preparing for tunnel warfare and uses a networked approach including human resources and sensory data in close coordination. And besides, Hamas is very much hated in Gaza itself so getting someone to snitch could be as easy as asking friendly or giving a bit of bakschisch.

Well, it is true that most pets can not talk to humans in a meaningful way. How should they, we are the only ones able to form words from thought. Birds can form words but not from thought. But many pets can understand humans as long as they can hear words, as long as they have ears.

My cousins dog is able to understand and operate on understanding some pretty complex sentences.

"Bring Petras shoes to the door" even though usually the sentence sounds like "Bring my shoes to the cupboard" and the former sentence is a first time.

"Do you want to drive in Toms car?" even though Tom is a rare guest and the dog rarelly drives in a car and never before in Toms car and she goes happily "woof!" running outside to Tom who is waiting in his car.

The dog is afraid of doctors but a simple "doctor will heal you" is sufficient to calm her.

Ok, dogs are highly social animals and have a lot of common with human ways of thinking. But they are not exceptional smart by human standards. And still they understand what we are saying.

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  I think there might be intelligence which is unable to understand and communicate with humans. But I also think such an intelligence would be unable to build a true civilization. Without being able to teach, without being able to delegate work there will be no civilization.
  Or in other words, every civilization will use some form of syntax communication. Be it by sound and words or signs and letters, smells and sniffing. And if there is a syntax then you can learn to understand it. Maybe you need tools to understand and communicate but those are just that: Tools.

  Besides, humans are great at empathy. We can look at a bird breeding eggs and understand what motivates it. We can see monkeys fighting for social status and see the reason behind. We see ants attacking other ants in organized wars and we can understand their reasons. Even better, we can "tell" bees where they should fly to look for honey because we have learned their "dancing language".

In other words, give us time and we can understand pretty much everything where there is something to understand at all.

You won't believe how weird the mind of a conspiracy paranoiac works.

Ever heared of the Bielefeld Conspiracy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This is an absurd satiric conspiracy theory that this 300.000 citizen town doesn't exist.

Even though people could just travel over there and check if there is a Bielefeld or not.

And I am not talking about people from australia who refuse the long journey but about people living like 20km next to Bielefeld.

The theory poses three questions:

        Do you know anybody from Bielefeld?
        Have you ever been to Bielefeld?
        Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?

A majority are expected to answer no to all three queries. Anybody claiming knowledge about Bielefeld is promptly disregarded as being in on the conspiracy, or having been themselves deceived.

While ARM first saw wide spread use in 1987 in the overhyped Archimedes it is actually a lot older. First public available systems date back to 1985, first demonstation system back to 1983 and the core concepts are from the late 1970.

And talk about legacy support... ARM at first had put the status bits into the adress register. WTF how stupid was that?

Techicaly ARM and Intel are only seperated by five years at best. One being 43 years in use the other 38 years. Not much of a difference.