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I think because the correct sound for the Italian "u" doesn't really exist in English. Like learning to correctly pronounce "ch" in German. Like in "ich", which means "I" (in the sense of "me") or in "nicht", which means "not". The correct sound is a kind of hissing sound. If I really concentrate, I can get close. Mostly it comes out like "ick" or "nickt". Wrong, but my English trained tongue finds it hard to get itself around the sound. And then there is the rolled "r". Can't even get close to that...

That is the gist of it, I reckon. AI doesn't make decisions. At the best, it draws conclusions from data and comparisons that it has been programmed to collect and make. As far as I know, it is not (yet) capable of, for instance, checking for plausibility. If enough "hits" say that 2+2=5, it will go with that. It is not ready to be replacing rather than just assisting specialists. I have no idea how long it will be before it is ready, but it isn't yet. As far as music goes, in my time at the uni in the '80s it was a topic of discussion: how much of the compositon process can one relegate to a computer? At the time, the series "Miami Vice" was popular. There was a computer program that "automatically" generated music. One fed it with parameters, and it "composed" music. Rumour had it that most, or all, of the background music for the series came from that program. The crucial point is, does someone look at the output of the program and select the useful bits to use, or does the output get used without anyone checking to see if it is bullshit or not? EDIT: for example, look at what the forum software does with d ick. @#$$#! That this is a common nickname for people whose name is Richard doesn't come into it. It "knows" that is a "bad word" and censors it. Admittedly a very primitive form of AI, but still, it demonstrates what I mean.

Seems so. From the "Nutcracker Suite".

Yes, but AI is much more modern. Computer generated has been around for years...

I wouldn't say "gullible". The technology is still fairly new, and it is not common knowledge that it is so good. So one doesn't immediately question it. That is the big problem with the whole thing: AI is becoming very powerful, and is not being questioned enough. It is a useful technology, but needs to be regulated at least a little bit.

The music, it is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_the_Hours but my earliest memory of the melody is this or maybe this Walt Disney, Fantasia. @LowRyter right on the money.

As far as that goes, I don't have the means to enlarge the diagrams, but have found it very helpful to "extract" the various parts of the wiring loom from the wiring diagram. The pdf on the computer, which I can zoom in on, on the one hand, and a standard A4 print and coloured pens on the other hand to document the individual circuits. Once I've followed an individual circuit, it is pretty easy to understand. For those who think elecrickery is some kind of magic, it's not. I'm neither an electrician nor an electronics engineer. I studied music theory, but I ended up being a sound engineer. Doing that for a living does makes one very good at understanding what is connected to where, but it is not hard. Just remeber that "more Volts" will always try to find the path to "less Volts". That is all there is to it, really.

If you really do that, I'd be happy to help by adding German to the comparison. It wouldn't be the first time that I have confirmed something by comparing the translations.

Commenting on the costumes could easily be percieved as being a bit tacky, couldn't it? So I wont...

Yes. The correct "name" for that letter is zed.

I thought so. I'm one of the Admins on a German forum, and we can't see personal messages there either. I doubt that one could see them in the database either, actually.

Not on the wiring diagram I'm looking at. Neutral light gets fed from pin #3 on the ignition switch.

For the sake of completeness: A further inspection of the wiring diagram has revealed that, parallel to the fuel level sensor, there are also connections to The oil pressure warning light, and through that to the oil pressure switch The generator warning light, and through that to the regulator. The tachometer. Not the backlight, a + input that must have something to do with the internal works. I don't expect that the oil pressure warning light was a "leak". The oil pressure switch is, as far as I know, exactly that: a switch that is on or off. I don't however know what goes on in the regulator or the tachometer, so maybe there is a path to earth in one or both of them that is not a fault as such. Whatever, the point is there are enough explanations for how the 12 V on the wrongly connected green wire were finding a path to earth sufficient to activate the relay for the lights without having to worry that there might be an actual fault in the wiring somewhere.

After a night's sleep and a look at the wiring diagramm, that actually makes sense. With the high / low beam switch on low, the coil in the high beam relay was getting 12 V through the incorrectly connected green wire, and finding it's earth through the high beam indicator lamp, thereby closing the relay and allowing high beam to light up. Pressing the "flash to pass" closed the connection to put 12V on the other end of the coil in the relay. 12 V at both ends = no potential difference across the coil, so the relay opened, extinguishing the light.

So they'd be good mates of yours, I suppose... Brilliant typification.