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Yep, the guy probably IS morally bankrupt...
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23/04/2013 20:57
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...But what the hell did the people buying them think they were doing?? Clickity bomb detector Who would spend £27K on a bomb detector without absolute proof that they worked....
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Re: Yep, the guy probably IS morally bankrupt...
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23/04/2013 21:23
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Did they find any golf balls? I hate losing golf balls.
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Re: Yep, the guy probably IS morally bankrupt...
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It's depressing in that it's true the world over.
It's on TV, it's advertised, it costs twenty grand - how can it *not* work? Surely they wouldn't allow someone to sell it otherwise?
And it's not just in the locations where it's sold. I work in Cambridge (in electronic design) where it's considered there's a reasonably high level of technical expertise... and yet we get people with fresh electronic engineer degrees coming for jobs who don't know what the components we use look like; who can't think except in black box ways; who have no idea what happens to electronic assemblies at high pressure, high temperature, high vibration... or often, just on the bench. These are folk who have the technical theory but no practical sense.
And to be honest, even if you doubted that the new toy from high command works, what squaddie is going to risk taking it to bits to see what's in it? 'Technologically unsophisticated' is a lack of education and training, and it's as common in the west as the middle east or Africa.
After all, how many people know how a smart phone works?
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Re: Yep, the guy probably IS morally bankrupt...
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24/04/2013 12:01
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After all, how many people know how a smart phone works? Indeed, Neil. And it reminds me of Arthur C Clarke's third law The issue is that, with technology pervading every aspect of modern life, there is no way that a person can understand every technology. Hence just having to 'accept' some things work, because they do ... and hence the potential for guys such as this to exploit that.
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Re: Yep, the guy probably IS morally bankrupt...
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24/04/2013 12:19
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After all, how many people know how a smart phone works? God does it, through the power of prayer. (Although, in placebo controlled, double-blind testing prayer turned out to be slightly more effective and reliable method of communicating than my iPhone).
Dear monos, a secret truth.
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Re: Yep, the guy probably IS morally bankrupt...
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24/04/2013 19:32
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And to be honest, even if you doubted that the new toy from high command works, what squaddie is going to risk taking it to bits to see what's it?
Whilst this is completely true, the military have an amazing ability to break things. Did no-one ever run one over in a tank?
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