Love a stranger living far away. Romantically, it's not possible in my opinion until you meet in person and get to know each other, but they may become a friend you like and who you do want to meet. To believe that somehow it could be more than friendship is self delusion. Don't fall for sweet words and some fantasy a scammer will try on to create an illusion of a romantic love between you. This is so he can start the age old scam of asking for money from you for some reason or another. Never send money or gifts to someone you have not met in person, because they are not real, sadly these Romantic scammers are on many dating sites, don't be fooled by them.

Duran, Duran.

Just realised it's 110v, need a transformer to 230v as well as an adaptor. I will manage some how.

I twuly believe its possible.

Beatles, The.

Thanks. That's great, I can now finish this hottie.

As one of the pioneers of computing Alan Turing called it, "The Imitation Game", that is to say what appears to be human but isn't. He introduced the Turing Test, as you know, where a human communicating with another human and a computer independently would not know which was which, they could not say which one was the computer. There are now computers that pass this test.

This in my opinion does not make the machine conscious, sentient, aware, they remain a machine. The machine follows a set of instructions, bases decisions on those instructions, and is machine learning the same as human learning is still a deep question. The importance of these machines is the speed in which they analyse data, no one human could ever do that in a lifetime. This does make them better than us only faster. There use in the medical field is proving to be game changing. I just heard on our UK tv news AstraZeneca the Oxford based company that developed the Covid 19 vaccine, has developed a vaccine for Ebola in 6 weeks which went in to human Clinical trials this week. Giving those in the Democratic Republic of the Congo hope of protection from this deadly disease of no known cure which is raging there. According to the news, this was developed by human scientists using AI. How AI is developed should be addressed by governments.

(PS. I still need to borrow the soldering the iron. )

Put some music on very loud, you will soon have the neighbours round for a chat.

No doesn't affect me.





On a more serious note, any one yawning usually sets me off, maybe its an old age thing in my case.

Probably to make the system appear more 'user friendly', rather than a deliberate deception. These systems will never be sentient, conscious, think for themselves, or be aware of there surroundings as we are, they are no more than very sophisticated machines. Can they go wrong, of course they can, more likely as a result of human failings. At the end of the day these machines are following a set of instructions, these instructions may be very complex, but it is not free thought.

Trust. There are different levels of trust, for example you would not trust everyone with your life. In my opinion trust is built up over time, you have some trust in them at the beginning and the level of trust increases as you get to know them, some would say that they earn the trust. Once trust is broken, its very hard to see how it would be regained, and in a romantic relationship it maybe impossible.

No use. There's no more room, too full of Mingle2 members, did someone shout its Happy Hour!

I frequently talk with my daughter and family in Australia using WhatsApp, saves a lot of money when the calls are free. I would be careful going off Mingle2 website to chat with people I have never met. Never used Telegram so I cannot comment on it.

Every one is off to Zee's pub, wait for me!

Sure do.



We love it!

I guess it is the couple that decide what is best for them. There are so many negatives with a big age difference, they should have a long courtship and experience the negatives and reactions they will receive from family and friends which for the most part will be negative, before marriage. They need to consider a lot more than a couple of similar ages, do they want children for example, the age of one of them may make it impossible unless they are prepared to adopt, or a surrogate, or sperm donor. Yes they would face many negatives which would need to be carefully thought about.

No, you are right, but what it does show is that not ALL people see age difference as a barrier. There are a lot more important characteristics that people look for in a serious relationship in my opinion.

STOP PRESS.

Father of eight Mick Jagger, 82, is engaged to 39-year-old former ballerina Melanie Hamrick (Getty).

Mick believes age is just a number.

Certainly makes us wiser for sure.