If The 'Black Box' Is Painted Orange - Why Do They Call It A 'Black Box'?.....

[global1]

why don't they call it the 'Orange Box'?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Because black in this case is not used in the sense of color

But in the sense of being hermetically closed. You can't see inside of it. All you can do if feed data into it, and extract data out of it.

[djean111]

2. Sort of like black box software testing - you input data, see if the results are as expected,

but you can't see the code.
Sort of like our voting system, come to think of it.

[Aerows]

25. Oh so true

Sadly

[Renew Deal]

3. And why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways?

[thereismore]

6. We in CA drive on freeways. At times they turn into parkways though... nt

[progressoid]

37. What if the freeway has a tollbooth?

Is it still free?

[thereismore]

46. Then it's called a toll road. nt

[Logical]

11. I never hear people use 'parkway'

[Renew Deal]

12. They are common in the North East

Also express ways. Out west they use Freeway

[Logical]

21. Highway here. nt

[Aerows]

26. Highways

on low ground often flood.

[Warpy]

32. Then it would be "pahkway."

I think it used to be Jamaica Pahkway in Boston but I never heard it called anything but the Jamaicaway.

[whistler162]

18. I use it every day......

but I live on Park Way! But, it is common around in the northeast.

[Logical]

22. Ok, makes sense. nt

[MineralMan]

24. They're common in Minnesota.

There's one a couple of blocks from my house. One way traffic on either side of a strip of grass with walking and bike paths. It goes for blocks and blocks. There are numerous other parkways in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Most are in residential neighborhoods and are major arterial streets.

We walk our dogs in the park strip of the parkway near our home. It's great. There are benches, trash containers and everything you'd find in a park. They're just long, skinny parks. Hence the name.

[Chan790]

42. Come to beautiful NJ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_State_Parkway

The Garden State Parkway (GSP) is a 172.4-mile (277-km) limited-access toll parkway that stretches the length of New Jersey from the New York line at Montvale, New Jersey, to Cape May at New Jersey's southernmost tip. Its name refers to New Jersey's nickname, the "Garden State." Most New Jersey residents refer to it as simply "the Parkway" or "the Garden State". The Parkway's official, but unsigned, designation is Route 444. At its north end, the Parkway becomes the Garden State Parkway Connector, a component of the New York State Thruway system that connects to the Thruway mainline in Ramapo. The Parkway has been ranked as the busiest toll highway in the country based on the number of toll transactions. The parkway is the longest highway in the state.

credit: Wikipedia

[Hassin Bin Sober]

43. In Chicago, if it's a parkway or a boulevard, you can't drive a truck on it.

[snooper2]

29. Why do signs say "Open Trench"

You ever see a closed trench? that would be, land

[PoliticAverse]

4. Why do you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?... n/t

[Walk away]

16. When my Dad started to do the opposite we took his license away.

[sufrommich]

5. Why do we refer to the Sun as rising and setting?

It does neither!!

[Junkdrawer]

14. Echos of old, still somewhat useful, models hanging around the language...

much like the myth of the self-contained, individual mind.

[Aristus]

7. 'Black Box' is a generic term used to indicated any sort of self-contained,

secret high-tech gadget.

There were a lot of 'black boxes' on board the M1 Abrams tanks I crewed in the Army. They were usually painted white, actually, to blend in with the other hardware mounted on the inside of the tank. Access to these components was restricted to depot technicians with computers.

The color of the 'box' is immaterial. The term is meant to convey secrecy, and sometimes sinister purpose.

[global1]

15. It Just Cracks Me Up Every Time A MSM Talking Head Says Something About The Black Box.....

that they have to qualify it by saying "Of course the 'Black Box' isn't painted black - it is painted Orange.

[GeorgeGist]

8. Its quantum or somethin ...

[randome]

9. Why does 'burn up' mean the same as 'burn down'?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[truebrit71]

10. More importantly if the only thing they expect to find is the black box...

...why not make the whole plane out of the same material?

[djean111]

34. I read somewhere that it would be too heavy to fly.

There is a really good book called "To Engineer is Human", which explains the trade-offs between functionality, design, and cost.
i have also read that airlines used to (or maybe still do!) compare cost of making safety tweaks against how much they would lose if an airplane went down.

[Lex]

13. Getting fired or the "pink slip" might not be pink or a slip. nt

[pipi_k]

17. I dunno...why do they call

it "Key Lime Pie" if there are no keys in it?


Why do/did drive-up ATMs have a braille keypad?


How come a dime, which is worth more than a nickel and a penny, is smaller than both?


Why are they "hot dogs" if they're not made from dogs?



These are strange times....

[whistler162]

19. And who put the bomp in the bob she bob,,, I would like to thank him!

&feature=kp

[pipi_k]

36. Who was that man? I'd like to shake his....

hand.



a big hahahaha for anyone who thought it would be something else

[Recursion]

41. I know all of those!!!

There are "key limes" in it, because they were first grown in the Keys

Because they make all the ATMs at one factory and they don't know what kind of installation it's going to at the time it's made. Even if they did, blind people take taxis or bum rides to drive-up ATMs. Even if they didn't, the ADA would mandate it.

Because originally the dime was silver while the penny was copper and the nickel was -- wait for it -- nickel.

Because of anti-German rumors before WWI implying that sausagemakers used dog meat.

[Chan790]

45. One of those has an answer.

Why do/did drive-up ATMs have a braille keypad?

The reason for this is so simple that it's nonsensical. There are two reasons.

1.) It's cheaper and easier to make one die-set of keys rather than two...so all the keys whether for a drive-through or walk-up ATM are identical. That is, they all have braille.

2.) Several states have laws that specify that all ATMs have braille key-pads and audio-ports for blind-assistance devices. (aka. headphones) Since it doesn't make a difference as ATM manufacturers wouldn't produce ATMs for drive-throughs without braille keypads even if they could legally, there is no impetus to change the law.

[Arkana]

20. And what's the deal with airline food?

[Lex]

39. LOL.

[Chisox08]

23. Boehner already claimed the name Orange Box

[Aerows]

27. More like

"The Orange Box of Rocks". Though, the "Orange bunch of hammers" or "Orange bag of hair" would do just as well as a title.

[cthulu2016]

28. Black box is a term indicating independence from outside forces

[Warpy]

30. It's a term from physics

for any gadget that performs a certain function but whose inner workings don't have to be considered for the experiment you're doing to work.

Or not work, for those who have actually taken physics.

[Sheepshank]

31. Orange is the New Black

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1648927744/tt2372162?ref_=tt_ov_i#

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. And what's the deal with Ovaltine?

The box is round. They should call it Roundtine.

[pinboy3niner]

44. Well...

[djean111]

35. When performing software quality assurance nowadays, we have black box, gray box, and white box

testing, which are just varying degrees of what information the tester has access to for test purposes.

[pipi_k]

38. More re: boxes...

When I was a kid I heard the term "crackerbox houses", and so, being just a dumb (literal) kid, I imagined tiny little people living in these...





If I had known any really bad words back then, I would have thought WTF????

[Recursion]

40. "Black box" is a term from physics: signals go in and not out

It's also just a generic term for a compartmented piece of technology (some circuit diagrams label internal integrated circuits as "black box" meaning roughly "don't worry about what this does because it doesn't affect your circuitry&quot .