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james_s:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 23, 2020, 12:16:17 am ---We are already there - it affects all of us to some degree. Imagine for a moment if our Dave succumbed: are you suggesting that since we are rational engineers it wouldn't affect us any more than seeing some random name in a newspaper article?

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Dave participates on the forum, I've interacted with him as have many others, if I had a good reason to contact him I could do that. There's a lot more connection there than most people have with typical celebrities, I mean Dave knows I exist at least, most ordinary people's relationships with celebrities are entirely one-way. So yeah if he died I'd be bummed and miss his presence here, however I don't think I'd mourn the same as if a family member or close personal friend had died. It's all relative.

PlainName:

--- Quote ---however I don't think I'd mourn the same as if a family member or close personal friend had died. It's all relative
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 :-DD Good one!

I guess you missed the mass grief that Princess Di provoked when she went on her way. It was pretty over the top, but it does show that people do feel a connection even if it's only one way. It is natural for us. Celebrities score high because, well, they're celebrities. How do you think they get to BE celebrities in the first place? Of course, one's susceptibility to this kind of thing ranges from ludicrous (and you'd probably be a stalker) to 0 (and you' probably be a psychopath). But in normal people it is there, and it's why things like 'breaking the ice' work. And cons and scams, of course.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 23, 2020, 06:53:42 pm ---
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--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 23, 2020, 02:38:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: langwadt on March 23, 2020, 02:33:07 pm ---Here the government research institute that deals with infectious diseases and the likes is asking to
collect all location data from the phone companies to evaluate how well the "stay at home" works.

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Why not. Although I guess if this is made public, people will know they are traced. And those not willing to really comply/or fearing they might get in trouble being traced could just leave their phones home and get out...

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Very few young people appear to be able to survive for more than a few milliseconds without their phone...

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Good point. Those that have been seen to comply the least so far tend to be young people, and unless they were really ill-intentioned and wanted to hide their movements, they are likely to have their phones at all times. You can't completely rule out ill-intentioned people though...

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There will be some a-holes around, but they are likely to find out to their cost that people are not quite as stupid as they think...

james_s:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 23, 2020, 07:47:50 pm ---
--- Quote ---however I don't think I'd mourn the same as if a family member or close personal friend had died. It's all relative
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 :-DD Good one!

I guess you missed the mass grief that Princess Di provoked when she went on her way. It was pretty over the top, but it does show that people do feel a connection even if it's only one way. It is natural for us. Celebrities score high because, well, they're celebrities. How do you think they get to BE celebrities in the first place? Of course, one's susceptibility to this kind of thing ranges from ludicrous (and you'd probably be a stalker) to 0 (and you' probably be a psychopath). But in normal people it is there, and it's why things like 'breaking the ice' work. And cons and scams, of course.

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No, I didn't miss it, though I was only a teenager at the time and remember thinking "who cares?"  Why Americans seem so interested in the British royal family in general is a total mystery to me. I don't want any of them dead but I really don't give a rat's ass what they are up to on a day to day basis but it's all over the news any time one of them so much as farts.

Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 23, 2020, 06:41:49 pm ---Very few young people appear to be able to survive for more than a few milliseconds without their phone...

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We give devices which have been very carefully and deliberately devised to "retain attention" to children and they do exactly what's expected?

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