Anyone encounter other fake buttons, controls, etc put there to fake us out? How about other things like elections?
You can stop pounding on the “Close Door” button on the elevator. They’re not there for you. Turns out that most of them don’t work unless you’ve a maintenance person or fireman with the special access key inserted. It’s just one of several different “placebo buttons” placed around our world that only give us the illusion of control.
Walk buttons? In Manhattan they’re totally useless, as the New York Times reported in 2004. And most office thermostats are dummies, not connected to any system at all. In 2003 the WSJ detailed how they’re just installed by HVAC guys who are sick of office workers calling them up and complaining about the temperature.
JB–fair comment. Absent having watched Rachael Madow’s show on all the right wing generated internet garbage, I might have responded differently. It was in response to the vortex generated by the wingnuts when they find anything at all written anywhere at all.
Seems the $200 Million per day Obama trip to India was spawned by a news report (on line?) by some source in India. Was it fact checked?==No. Its just repeated by the usual goons as if it was the gospel with no need or desire to be factual. If it slams Obama, thats good enough, even when it is ridiculous on its face.
Then we look at any of the contested issues: is the Globe warming? Is it caused by human activity? Are we running out of oil? Is Keynes a reputable economist or not? Was there any oil spilled at all in the Gulf? And sure enough, no matter what the subject, there is a sentence in cyberspace saying whatever you can imagine.
So–having a link now can only mean you aren’t pulling monkey crap out of your own ass to post here, at least you are reading something. Not likely, but hope that if you read even more you might “sense” the consensus or critical thinking path that would lead you to the truth. Course, you would still have to drink that fetid water.
Still, fair call–on both sides.
Still true that your BS without a link is monkey shit, but that cannot be proved against by merely having a link from the great cybershere.
I have often wished we could have “the truth button” which when pressed would motivate god to part the clouds and tell us what the truth is. Now, there would be a god I could get behind.
That money you work so hard for, just green paper.
Re: Elevator control illusion.
The “Press for Emergency Call” button:
Around 2003 on the campus of one of the 10 largest U.S. universities by enrollment, a technician was working on an elevator as I was boarding it. He told me that at least one-third of the “Press for Emergency Call” buttons in the elevators for the entire campus did not work and no one knew why.
The close door button is not there for you , but it is there for me.
If you press it and the floor number it takes you
to that floor with no stops for other people.
Well now it is for you also.
I live in Japan and the close door buttons DO work on elevators here. It is nice…
I live on Mars, and we don’t even have elevators. It’s all good…
>> jbenson2 said, on November 6th, 2010 at 11:16 am
>> Yup, along with millions of dumbocrats who have also seen the light. Obama is a one-term loser.
“dumbocrats” — wow, with intellectual discourse like that, how can you conservatives possibly lose in 2012!
>> Tatsuwashi said, on November 7th, 2010 at 1:55 am
>> I live in Japan and the close door buttons DO work on elevators here. It is nice…
I’ve noticed that in some other countries, the door buttons do work – and people use them routinely.
But, in the building at my university here in the US, I don’t think the close door button works. The door certainly doesn’t close an faster when it’s pressed.
On OTIS elevators if you punch close door button and the floor you want it will go directly to that floor with no stops. Life hack
Greg Allen is upset with the word “dumbocrats”, but doesn’t bat an eye when it comes to all the demeaning variations of Republicans.
What a hypocrite!
This is very good having controls in the system.
The biggest “fake buttons” appear ever election cycle. They’re the ones that say, “a vote for this guy, will solve all your problems”. But regardless of who gets elected, they never do. Not unless you happen to be extremely rich. Then not only do you not have to bother to vote. Whoever wins the elections, automatically does your bidding. And your problems and cares vanish.
Hello there, superb website. Is extremely good design. I recently got completed with cosmetic classes and want to start up my personal website. I appreciate you for the good posting!