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That's bloody frustrating. There's good reason one of the local IT support outfits in my city is called Those Friggin' Computers.
 
The only thing I haven't tried to fix this is reboot my computer because I didn't want to risk messing up the paper file and losing anything from it. Once the paper has gone to the press in the morning, I'll reboot and hopefully (fingers crossed) that will fix whatever is causing this
 
Berserk is busy trying to prove God through Catholics producing one or two weird medical cases every decade. What he really needs to find is people praying to God and suddenly getting their printer to work.
 
Waterfall said:
Hmmm, what if God came back as an AI?
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There's a lot of s-f that kind of does that. UK author Charles Stross has the Eschaton, a godlike AI who functions rather like God in the universe of a couple of his novels (the Eschaton actually introduces itself by saying "I am not your God" and then proceeds to act rather like a God). Dan Simmons had godlike AIs messing with human history and society in his Hyperion universe. All, of course, are presented a human-created AIs going through a "Singularity".
 
Mendalla said:
There's a lot of s-f that kind of does that. UK author Charles Stross has the Eschaton, a godlike AI who functions rather like God in the universe of a couple of his novels (the Eschaton actually introduces itself by saying "I am not your God" and then proceeds to act rather like a God). Dan Simmons had godlike AIs messing with human history and society in his Hyperion universe. All, of course, are presented a human-created AIs going through a "Singularity".
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Must be hard for fiction writers to come up with something original these days
 
Waterfall said:
Must be hard for fiction writers to come up with something original these days
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There is nothing new under the sun, some famous writer guy once said. Though modernist and post-modernist sensibilities have opened the door to some rather original ways of telling stories. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski comes to mind. If you boil the story down to the barebones, it's the old people trapped in a haunted house story. But how he tells that story and what he does with the tropes is highly original, if sometimes incomprehensible.

I don't really even try for total originality myself. If I can take some interesting tropes and story ideas and mix them into something that is at least my own spin on them, then I am happy.
 
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05:52 Thursday.

Last, and here's a pic I took yesterday in Yongin. The white stuff arrived yesterday. And, some say, will melt away by the weekend. It's beautiful, really, and great fun to walk through. It reminds me of being back home in Toronto
 
Last, and the snow's turning out to not be so much fun today. Tons of emergency alerts have been flooding onto my cellphone this morning warning about being outside.

For example, "Please refrain from outdoor activities such as going out and driving vehicles as a heavy snow warning is in effect, the risk of falling down structures, slipping on icy roads, and traffic congestion on the way to work. [Hwaseong City]"
 
LOL. Here, it has to be a full-blown weather catastrophe like a tornado before alerts like that go out. Though some Canadians would probably benefit. I still see people who think you can drive in a winter storm the same as on a sunny day.
 
Mendalla said:
LOL. Here, it has to be a full-blown weather catastrophe like a tornado before alerts like that go out. Though some Canadians would probably benefit. I still see people who think you can drive in a winter storm the same as on a sunny day.
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More conditional applications?
 
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