Ah, you sweet optimistic bags of meat. Have you seen the hydraulic lines on a fork truck? The are not 14 AWG wires, they steel and steel braided tubes designed to handle literal tonnes of force. If you are lucky and are fighting a cheap one the you may be able to reach some wires above the pedals. Decent models will not have exposed wires.

How are you finger nails? On models with pneumatic tires you might be able to let the air out, but don't count on it as many have solid tires.

I doubt being speared is a worry as most don't move without an operator and those that are automated usually stop when a meat bag is detected. However once someone has the bright idea add AI and remote connectivity your days are numbered. Does Skynet use fork trucks? I would have to go back and watch that documentary Terminator.

Ah, sorry Chuck, it appears the reports of your death were greatly exaggerated! Please ignore my earlier responses, I no longer have to live in fear of rogue fork trucks.

Follow the thread, phantomfive was claiming he could beat a fork truck with his bare hands, not a flimsy robot.

With his hands? Or do you have a different definition of hand to hand combat?

He should fight a robot of the same age as him. I'm thinking an industrial robot like they make cars with. That would be fair wouldn't?

They don't need to be smart. There is two possible out comes. The human does nothing i.e. a draw. The human attacks the fork truck with his hands and suffers more damage than the fork truck, so the fork truck wins.

Shhh, don't give him idea, his love of Putin is so strong he would do it in heartbeat, just not his own heartbeat as he has no heart.

I'm guessing you where there closer to the era of the USSR. I was in Zaporozhye in 2005 for 3 months and the whole Russian vs Ukrainian language usage was a big issue at the time. I was told the further east you went in Ukraine the more trouble you got when speaking Russian. I was ok using Russian because it was clear I was a beginner and English was my first language i.e. it was not seen as a political or cultural statement when spoken by myself.

Spot on. Just wait until Ukraine gets the FP7 and FP9 ballistic missiles into production. Russia won't know what hit them as Ukraine understands how to pick targets for the maximum results, unlike Russia who wastes their missiles on terrorist activity that won't change the resolve of Ukrainians.

Yes with both leaders, and both of the wars they started, I am willing to bet it is because they are surrounded by yes men who told them what they wanted to hear instead of the truth. In Putin's case it is because people are scared of falling out windows if they don't say what he wants to hear. In trumps case it is because smart people scare him so he fires anyone smart, if they haven't already fled from him.

No, Russia needs to fuck off. Ukraine has repeatedly offered to negotiate. Ukraine are offering to be flexible but do have red lines. Russia on the other hand as offered nothing, just making unreasonable demands that would be suicide if Ukraine accepted the Russian terms. I you clearly do not know the history of past abuse of Ukraine by Russia, but the people of Ukraine do, and that is why they are fighting so hard. I learnt this when I was living in Ukraine for a while.

If the world can not afford continuation of this war then they should be offering Ukraine all the help they can.

Yes, that is exactly what will happen, but it doesn't matter as trump has lost his leverage over Ukraine after he pulled most of the US support for it. Zelenskyy pays lip service to trump in case the US can be of some help in the future, basically not burning bridges, while doing what needs to be done to survive without US help.

I thought there were no AI companies in the USA any more, only SI companies. Sounds like some in the White House didn't get the memo.

Now if Microsoft had done a Tim Apple (that's his name right?) and given trump a solid gold laptop they wouldn't be on the list, for a few weeks at least...

I was wondering what the pole names would be. I checked the paper, yea, nah I wasn't going to find the answer there. So how about N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW?