The Death of Common Sense

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The Death of Common Sense

zogger

Tue Apr 11 15:20:22 -0700 2006

Politics.

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Here's one for the books, showing how far society can go to completely avoid common sense when the automated machinery tells you such and such is reality. Some guy in Malaysia gets a phone bill for over 200 trillion dollars and they sicced the collection agency on him to get him to pay up!

HAHAHAHAHAHA! "The computer said so! It is all knowing and powerful! Pay up!"

The Death of Common Sense

hal9000_sn3

Tue Apr 11 19:33:54 -0700 2006
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That figure comes out to something like three times the annual GDP of all the countries on Earth combined.

The Death of Common Sense

Haeleth

Wed Apr 12 05:20:36 -0700 2006
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It's the .01 on the end of the bill that I like. So kind of them to be exact, instead of rounding the number off and then having to send him another bill for the last 0.01 ringgit later when the error is discovered...

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shadow303

Wed Apr 12 05:33:16 -0700 2006
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This reminds me of an incident I had at a hardware store. I was checking out with a few items, and the inexperienced cashier hit the total button and then noticed that she missed an item. She then scanned it and apparently the register interpreted the barcode number as the amount of money I paid. The end result was that the register said she owed me about $2,000,000,000 in change. I wish they would have just believed the computer in that case.

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sdfisher

Wed Apr 12 08:17:39 -0700 2006
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Did society ever have common sense to begin with?

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arakis

Wed Apr 12 12:02:27 -0700 2006
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Common sense says no.