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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 2, 2024 23:18:36 GMT
I think that sums up my thoughts. Why are so many people broke? Physics teaches you that there is more than one way to solve a problem, and this is of course our country's problem. Some complaining bint on Channel 4 News will claim I work all day but can't afford to heat my home/feed my kids/eat myself... We can spend hours listening to crap about what the government will do and why it is this or that problem, but the easy way to get a certain understanding is to look at the product of Blighty, and to do that you have to look at what people actually do in work. The money this country generates is the sum of all the work everyone who lives here does, and the problem really is staring you in the face. Lets look at the psychology behind it, as per the things you would have to think in order to do what is done.
Example 1: council tax
I live in a house and I pay council tax. What do I need to know? Lets see now. I would need to know how much it is, who to pay and when it should be paid, and should I be in arrears which I never am cos I do it direct debit I would need to know the current arrears. Easy isn't it, so how stupid do you have to be to think I would need over 100 pieces of paper for one year's tax and how does it benefit me to read it all? Don't forget to consider the time is money factor, so if I were to read it all then that is many hours wasted instead of generating money to live on.
Example 2: operating a German freezer
As you should know by now a freezer is a pretty simple thing and this one only has two buttons on it. One button switches it on and the other selects the temperature. So why when I'm reading this manual, do I need over 20 pages of information? Taking a random line in the manual before using it so as to find how you switch it on I am advised that I should not allow small children to operate the freezer. Why the hell would I need to know this? Why do I need parenting lessons in a bloody freezer manual, and what kind of idiot thinks I would? This is just one of millions of bloody obvious things some total dick thought up in his office and was paid out of my purchase price!!
Example 3: a Huawei Mate 30 phone
Inside the box was one A4 double sided page instruction manual with contact details on where to send it if it goes wrong and a dear customer well done for buying our phone remark. The manual gave the minimum tips and suggestions for looking after it and how to switch it on. So simple.
The UK is becoming a paperwork bloatware zone. It slows us all down.
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Post by borchester on May 2, 2024 23:44:14 GMT
Most of us don't read the paperwork, so why do you ?
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 2, 2024 23:48:37 GMT
Most of us don't read the paperwork, so why do you ? Surely that is obvious? |
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Post by borchester on May 3, 2024 0:22:51 GMT
Most of us don't read the paperwork, so why do you ? Surely that is obvious? Not really.
As you have said, all a freezer requires is an on/off switch and a temperature control.
And that is it.
Unless of course you are afraid of the technology, which is understandable, but a tad unfortunate.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 3, 2024 1:09:52 GMT
Not really.
As you have said, all a freezer requires is an on/off switch and a temperature control.
And that is it.
Unless of course you are afraid of the technology, which is understandable, but a tad unfortunate.
You had to press the button for 7 seconds. If no one needed a manual it would only be half the problem, but you do need to know half a dozen things. Those half a dozen things are hidden in a thick wood of bullshit. It's as if they like wasting your time. |
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Post by piglet on May 4, 2024 10:16:49 GMT
Im with the baron here, i have a BMW i havent read the instructions, and wont, theres gismos on there i have no idea what its for, all i want to do is drive the effing car.
I DONT WANT IT TO TAKE DECISIONS WHEN DRIVING FOR ME. I have to turn it off twice, it turns itself back on sometimes and i dont know why, with lights flashing. I dont want to fiddle with toys, the computerised nonsense, its put on there to please the grown up kids who buy that s hit.
Apart from that a great car. Computerisation is a pox.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 4, 2024 10:55:14 GMT
Im with the baron here, i have a BMW i havent read the instructions, and wont, theres gismos on there i have no idea what its for, all i want to do is drive the effing car. I DONT WANT IT TO TAKE DECISIONS WHEN DRIVING FOR ME. I have to turn it off twice, it turns itself back on sometimes and i dont know why, with lights flashing. I dont want to fiddle with toys, the computerised nonsense, its put on there to please the grown up kids who buy that s hit. Apart from that a great car. Computerisation is a pox. I've come across two instances of this problem you have but in aircraft. The first is in civilian airliners where they do accident investigations into fatal crashes and sometimes everyone on board ends up dead, so it is serious. They do reconstructions of the cockpit responses to the black box information and replay it in real time to see exactly what the pilot would have seen running up to the accident. Often these accidents involve major mechanical problems like a part of a control surface broke off or an engine is on fire. As they go through all the problems and all the pilot responses, often what seals the fate of the entire passenger list is pilot error, say there was something he must have done to get out of it and forgot. Even the biggest idiot can clearly see why the pilot would have made the error. The plane is flying too close to the ground. Sure the pilot can see this, but the stupid safety system is going repeatedly "Warning low terrain, pull up now... warning low terrain... " and it goes on and has annoying high pitch bleeping noises as well. Obviously the pilot only needs this warning the once. I don't think in this case the pilots are adult children, rather adult adults. One is reminded though of what a team of industrial software engineers look like. No one seems to be over the age of 25 and they all spend all their free time and money playing computer games. The second instance is jet fighters. Like a passenger plane, when one is in battle in a jet fighter bad stuff can go wrong. Listening to a jet fighter instructor yesterday he was saying that if one were to follow the advice of the computer one would end up dead. Only the pilot has the intelligence to take into account everything and plan a way to get out of it.
So now the next step in paperwork eh? This is an instruction manual that can crawl out of its packet and make you read it whenever it feels like it. These developers must feel a greater sense of power. Ah ha they think, now we can force the bastard customer to take instruction.
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Post by Dan Dare on May 4, 2024 12:29:53 GMT
The paperwork bloat in Anglophone society is a consequence of having too many lawyers with too little to do so they invent problems like product liability for which they can provide 'solutions'. Entire industries like the general aviation industry have been wiped out by the predations of these leeches and others like medicine are going for the chop.
East Asian societies don't have this problem. If you buy something in China and it blows up in your face that's just your hard luck. The market will exact its own form of punishment on the miscreants, it doesn't need an army of lawyers.
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Post by borchester on May 4, 2024 13:21:06 GMT
Men don't read instructions.
This site is getting to sound more and more like The Shirtlifters' Gazette
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 4, 2024 14:00:53 GMT
Men don't read instructions.
This site is getting to sound more and more like The Shirtlifters' Gazette
People don't read instructions because: Kingfisher International products Limited, London W2 distributed by B and Q from their 36 page A5 manual.
People do read manuals because: Acoustic Energy Limited, Gloucestershire distributed by richer Sounds and quoted from a 3 page A5 manual
They are two different British companies. One is run by engineers and the other by idiots and their lawyers.
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Post by borchester on May 4, 2024 14:59:58 GMT
Men don't read instructions.
This site is getting to sound more and more like The Shirtlifters' Gazette
People don't read instructions because: Kingfisher International products Limited, London W2 distributed by B and Q from their 36 page A5 manual.
People do read manuals because: Acoustic Energy Limited, Gloucestershire distributed by richer Sounds and quoted from a 3 page A5 manual
They are two different British companies. One is run by engineers and the other by idiots and their lawyers.
No.
Men don't read instructions. They press all the buttons and if that doesn't work they give their grandchildren £20 to sort the matter out, but they don't touch the instruction manual.
You should know these things Baron. Are you sure that you are getting enough protein in your diet. ?
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 4, 2024 15:41:55 GMT
People don't read instructions because: Kingfisher International products Limited, London W2 distributed by B and Q from their 36 page A5 manual.
People do read manuals because: Acoustic Energy Limited, Gloucestershire distributed by richer Sounds and quoted from a 3 page A5 manual
They are two different British companies. One is run by engineers and the other by idiots and their lawyers.
No.
Men don't read instructions. They press all the buttons and if that doesn't work they give their grandchildren £20 to sort the matter out, but they don't touch the instruction manual.
You should know these things Baron. Are you sure that you are getting enough protein in your diet. ?
See if you can press all the buttons on this.
735 pages, and this is written in concise Chinese.
By the way, real men are independent and don't need to rely on someone else to fix something. You are talking about women.
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Post by borchester on May 4, 2024 16:27:45 GMT
You are talking about women. Not wishing to hurt your feelings Baron, but I sometimes wonder if you can tell the difference  |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 4, 2024 17:46:39 GMT
Not wishing to hurt your feelings Baron, but I sometimes wonder if you can tell the difference Are you just trolling? |
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Post by piglet on May 5, 2024 9:04:01 GMT
Baron, ive watched all of the aeroplane accident investigation programmes and they are jaw dropping. They have huge checklists before take off, then if the pilot has a problem that he does not know how to fix, the pilots dig out a huge manual, sometimes that is not enough, then while in the air, the towewr contacts the maufacturer to help solve the problem.
On a commercial aeroplane the possibilities of disaster must be uncountable. Even a small short circuit or a wire can cause a plane to crash.
Pilots dont trust what the computers tell them and ignore it, because they know that most of the time its bull. The interface between the computer systems of which there must be thousands, god knows how many, and the pilot is fatally flawed.
I remember one programme that an unqualified pilot had to take over because the main pilot was ill or whatever, i cant remember why, he crashed the plane killing all, because he could not fly it.
He got through to a pilot seat because the airline had a shortage, and he was cheap.
When i fly i am in a constant anxiety state, i remember one flight where the pilot turned, nearly tipping the plane onto its back, one passenger commented that doing that wasnt nescessary, your telling me. Boy racers in cars exist in planes too. Being blasted into the sky by rockets is not normal.
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