You're absolutely right - because inherently, ROBOTS are boring, because they're engineered.

Engineers design things to be BORING, because in the Engineer's world, generally, when things get EXCITING that's BAD.

Exciting is dangerous, and Engineers don't like dangerous because then people die, questions are asked, people get sued, people get fired, and that looks bad on the old resume, and that makes it hard to get another job.

So, boring robot cars are the fault of HR.

this is very insightful

And what brand is that then?

What hardware is NOT made in China? And what hardware do you know for sure is not backdoored at the hardware level OR firmware running on the hardware?

They have something better now. The conspiracy minded folks should be chiming in here and saying the same thing.

They have something better. My guess is that they are using quantum entanglement communication tech for long range covert comms.

Sorry to reply to my own post, I just googled "dazzle camo face paint" and apparently it CAN mess with facial recog.

If a person is living in an area where wearing a mask is illegal, perhaps some sort of face paint would work.

You've seen the bizarre paint schemes called "Dazzle camouflage" (it's on wikipedia) used on ships at sea?

What about Dazzle Camo face paint? Would that work to confuse the facial recognition algorithms?

My college taught us, Mechanical Engineering majors, Fortran. Specifically. It's the only language they intentionally decided we needed to know as part of the core curriculum. This was at least as recent as the mid 90s.

I later discovered that the native scripting language used by the FEA code ANSYS, was ..... FORTRAN.

there is amazon, there is netflix, there is hulu, and there is youtube. Also, there are many many many websites out there with nearly every episode of every tv show available for streaming. for free. Attach media pc to web enabled tv and there you go. Cord is cut. You won't miss a thing, trust me.

It's really $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat

It's a testament to the writing of Vince - he totally made it believable that the meth COULD have came out blue.

depending on how many years ago this was, maybe the NSA wasn't logging everyone's internet activity.

find a local place that will do it for you and pay them to do it.

If you absolutely have to do it yourself, find a local place that does it and ask what tape deck they use.

depends on what fraternity you're in

be careful, don't bash the BBT, all the kids who think they have asbergers are gonna come on here and yell at you.

Wow. I bet a psychology student could do a doctoral thesis on the intricacies of that. Actually probably already has been done more than once??!?!?