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That's clever.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Now someone needs to pin this post. We should probably do it in numbers.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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As having personally used a pin number I had to guess in order to use, I'd have to say "It's not how you used the pin number to "get in", it's how do you change it that really matters".
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Whelp! Time to change all my pins to more secure ones! 9596 it is!
/s
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I had no choice in the matter; I just got a letter saying that this is your PIN number.
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That's normal in the UK as well, but every bank I know allows you to set it to your preferred one once you know the one they gave you. THat's probably for security - a PIN you remember has got to be better than one written down and kept in your wallet / purse.*
* Herself did that: her PIN was on a piece of paper wrapped round her debit card ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oops, I guess using a particular year is not so unique anymore (and I'm guessing padding it with zeroes in 6 digit pins ain't either)
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I'm smart, to many would use 5050, so 5150 
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Good, but! Back to real life. How many tries do you have, until ATM eats your credit/debet card? Here in Europe exactly 3 times. IDK how it's overseas, but I hope it's similarly limited, too. Soooo, unless PIN is explicitly linked to a card number, I think we are generally safe, aren't we? On the other hand, I checked, and my PIN is nowhere near the first hundred thousand (I didn't look further), so I can sleep like a baby one more night. 
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Wordle 1,094 6/6
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Wordle 1,094 3/6*
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Greetings Kind Regards
My most recent interaction w/ Microsoft Support was signed off as " support person name (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) [MSFT]" They have a web site. Apparently many happy programmers. And they know how to dance.
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And they probably enjoy driving in their affordable electric vehicles 
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Soon we may also unless they invent something superior perhaps teleporting the inexpensive EVs as it seems it is the United Federation of Planets vs the Romulans.
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When thinking of driving, my last desire is for the car to leave the surface of the road, yet the Tesla fans seem to like this idea  
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: When thinking of driving, my last desire is for the car to leave the surface of the road, yet the Tesla fans seem to like this idea
Yes, only backwards-flat-earther, luddites who know nothing of technology would say something against flying cars. Same thing for EVs. Anyone who knows anything about tech knows that electric flying car is the optimal solution and anyone who says it's not so are dumber than the rocks they keep drilling through to get oil. 
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Most people can't handle the two dimensions of road driving. They'll never figure out three-dimensional driving.
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raddevus wrote: electric flying car is the optimal solution and anyone who says it's not so are dumber than the rocks they keep drilling through to get oil. 
As someone who is dumber than rocks, I would like to counter your assertion.
In order to gain altitude, or maintain an altitude, you need a lot of energy to counter the opposing force of gravity. Which requires more energy? A car parked on the ground running at idle, or a helicopter hovering 50 ft. in the air? I'd say that the helicopter is expending more energy than the car parked on the ground idling.
Consider battery technology. There has been great progress, but modern batteries are heavy. Given how heavy batteries are in relation to the amount of energy that they produce prohibit them from use in operating aircraft. Sure, I've seen aircraft prototypes that are powered by electricity. It's a neat concept, but I can't see how it would be practical with today's technology.
I would love to have a car that flies, and with all of the highways in the sky, it would revolutionize transportation. One day, we will have the technology to build electrically powered aircraft that are practical and efficient. I don't know when that will be, but it will happen.
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As someone who is dumber than rocks permit me to state :
re/ helicopter hovering : Presumably flying cars have no need to hover. Will traffic lights or STOP signs be placed up in the sky? 
re/ heavy battery : Consider H2 as a fuel. Such a gas bag is light and may even provide lift.
re/ electric car is the optimal solution : I assume it was meant in jest.
re/ this post : Likewise. 
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BernardIE5317 wrote: re/ helicopter hovering : Presumably flying cars have no need to hover. Will traffic lights or STOP signs be placed up in the sky? 
When I think about how most people live in crowded urban environments, I don't know how a flying car could take to the air without the ability to take off and land vertically. I suppose you could drive your flying car to the nearest airport, and use the runway for take off. If everyone drives their flying car to the airport, the traffic jam would be a nightmare. BernardIE5317 wrote: Will traffic lights or STOP signs be placed up in the sky?
I wouldn't think so, but what if you got pulled over by the police for speeding? How would that work?BernardIE5317 wrote: Consider H2 as a fuel. Such a gas bag is light and may even provide lift.
That would be great if we could use hydrogen as fuel.
Several years ago, I conducted an experiment to see how much hydrogen I could produce using electrolysis. The problem with this is that no matter what material the cathode was made of, it would quickly erode. Titanium is said to be the ideal material for this, but it still erodes. When you increase the electrical current, it causes the electrolyte solution and everything in it to become hot. Heat will diminish the electrical conductivity and the system will lose its efficiency.
Hydrogen is extremely difficult to keep stored. I'm guessing that this is because the atoms are so tiny that the hydrogen permeates through every possible material that could be used as a container. It corrodes everything from what I understand. I wonder how they store liquid hydrogen before it's transferred into a rocket before launch? If we could safely store hydrogen, then maybe it could work.
I've heard of fuel cells that store hydrogen safely and release it in a controlled fashion. As to their viability? I have no idea. Being as dumb as rocks isn't as glamorous as most people think it is.
Do you remember that issue with the Ford Pinto back in the early 1970s? If the car got rear-ended by another vehicle, the gas tank ruptured releasing gasoline and fumes. The fumes would engulf the vehicle and burst into flames immersing the pinto in a huge ball of fire. If humanity can't handle gasoline, how can we handle hydrogen? Then we have that Hindenburg airship disaster. Whose idea was it to fill a giant balloon with flammable hydrogen gas anyway? Forget about being as dumb as rocks. That's more dumb than a box of hair.
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