Yet Another evolution article on Slashdot

[rms]

The one where semaphores/traffic lights and robots are not connected in any apparent way.

[SteveRiley]

My bad... when I wrote the quote, my brain momentarily spaced out and I thought I was replying to SecretCode. Oops.

The first time I visited South Africa, as the car was pulling away from the airport, I noticed a sign admonishing people to "wait for the robot." I asked the driver, "WTF? Do people go around pranking road signs in South Africa?" He laughed and explained that robot is the vernacular for traffic light.

[woodsmoke]

I definitely learned something from the last few posts! lol

robot traffic lights...I wonder if they dream of electric parking meters?

woodsmoke

[bsniadajewski]

I wonder what they call an actual robot over there (you know, what the rest of us think of when we hear the word.)

The one where semaphores/traffic lights and robots are not connected in any apparent way.

Good to know that I'm in Beograd. (I believe you call them semafori).

[SecretCode]

My bad... when I wrote the quote, my brain momentarily spaced out and I thought I was replying to SecretCode. Oops.

Gentlemen, I believe we have caught Mr Steve Riley making a mistake.

[SteveRiley]

The occasional display of a minor imperfection is an inevitable consequence of the accumulation of billions of years of adaptational anomalies that accrue throughout the continual evolution of any species on all worlds where life has arisen.

IOW, I fubar-ed!

[rms]

I wonder what they call an actual robot over there (you know, what the rest of us think of when we hear the word.)



Good to know that I'm in Beograd. (I believe you call them semafori).

You got me B. I'm indeed from Singidūn. Game over. If winds of fate ever bring you to Minas Tirith, drinks are on me!

[SecretCode]

The occasional display of a minor imperfection is an inevitable consequence of the accumulation of billions of years of adaptational anomalies that accrue throughout the continual evolution of any species on all worlds where life has arisen.

Don't put this on a bumper sticker ...

[bsniadajewski]

Speaking of the topic I started here, rms, it seems your country and the surrounding area has "evolved" quite a bit in the last 20 or so years, eh? ( No, I'm not Canadian)

[rms]

Perhaps you're mixing evolution with politics. Viewed from the angle of the later, the region has always been tough neighborhood.

[bsniadajewski]

Yeah, I probably was. And when you have that mix of ethnicites, religions, and some bad blood, you are gonna get quite a volatile situation, as we've all seen on CNN

[rms]

Yeah, I probably was. And when you have that mix of ethnicites, religions, and some bad blood, you are gonna get quite a volatile situation, as we've all seen on CNN

My home town, in its history, has been destroyed to the ground & rebuilt from ashes nearly 40 times. It's more of a recurrence than an evolution, but you get used to it as time goes by.

[bsniadajewski]

And going strong it seems. Hopefully the situation down in Kosovo can be resolved peacefully.

[rms]

Well, they don't want peace in this new *Kosovo republic*(never did perhaps) but having broad shoulders behind them, at the moment, that need coal & other stuff there, are trying to get what they are not entitled to so, you can imagine where it will eventually lead.

Anyway, politics revolves around the axes which, sadly, is neither peace nor justice or whatever other fine words are heard spluttered from mouths heard on CNN or elsewhere and, therefore, cannot be considered as good and, certainly, not evolving.

[bsniadajewski]

Yes, I does make you wonder what's going to happen next. One bad move and *boom*, here we go again like in '99.

BTW, not to go way off-topic but, what do you think should be a reasonable solution to the problem that'll somewhat satisfy both the Albanian majority in Kosovo and the Serbs there as well as in the rest of Serbia?