Three is a company…
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I have house plants, don’t know, I just like them. They look good around the house too. They have peaceful vibes and I sometimes I even feel like they help with my mood.
We even have a coffee plant (no beans yet unfortunately). I must say though, my flatmate finds it very hard to keep hers alive so I’m the one looking after them usually.
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So you guys have this common name for men called : William
Out of curiousity, how in the world can William be called Billy?
Its like 2 different names, right lol
Apologize my Asian’s point of view 
I don’t know. I’m still trying to figure out how Dick is Richard and Jim is James.
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I guess Slavic names may have even more forms. One is formal, the rest informal. Sometimes they have something in common in the way they sound.
formal: Anna informal: Ania, Anka (and some more)
But sometimes they are completely different:
formal: Aleksandra informal: Ola
formal: Cezary informal: Czarek
What makes me more is that in the US you may use any noun as a first name - so your name can be Apple, Peach, Melody, North…
And that sometimes you have the same name for males and females like Robin.
And that in formal language polititians are called Dick Cheney/Bill Clinton instead of Richard/William.
Can’t imagine Putin to be called Volodya in any Russian news.
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Its true lol but didnt know that Dick was Richard tho… thats weird lol but heard that Jim is James
Aleksandra could become Ola
Wth thats completely different names! Lol
Those noun names are pretty cool tho haha
Yeah Robin is unisex as well as Taylor… i guess
Haha true how come they choose Dick over Richard and Bill over William… Richard and William sounds more “intelligent” or “polite” more or less haha
Whats a Volodya in Russian again? Haha pardon my ignorance
It comes from Vladimir.
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If it’s true that the detonator of a bomb or other explosive thing could be disactivated cutting whatever colour wire…
Why in ALL movies the person in charge to stop it has to cut a precise coloured wire??
Or am I wrong in my first statement?
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It’s not so much the colour of the wire as it is the purpose of the specific wire. You can’t just go around cutting wires all willy nilly because that’s how you get yourself blown up. If the bomb is designed to trigger at a loss of power, the last thing you want to do is cut Vcc or Gnd. Likewise, some have failsafes that make it detonate if you follow some kind of standard procedure.
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Then it isn’t about the RED or BLUE but to where they’re connected 
Thank you, now I got it better
I don’t know the answer so I’ll respond to it 
Whatever the truth is - a movie needs a kind of suspense - will it explode or not?
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A bad guy would switch the colors to make it harder on the hero 
Or use the same color for all
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Well yes. How would a colour of a wire influence the function of anything? Wire colour coding in electronics is only so that you can more easily distinguish what’s what. By convention (for DC), red is positive, black is ground and then signals are whatever colour you choose.
Imagine working on a circuit where all the wires were black. How many components would you fry by accidentally connecting to Vcc instead of Gnd? Then imagine having to troubleshoot one specific section of circuit if it’s all black.
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Usually it doesn’t kill many people 
LMAO!!
Wow @the_termin8r your explanation is really well done, I’m glad to ask it here and not going Google search
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In fact, they always cut the right colour.
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I’d be really very concerned if I of all people couldn’t explain the basics of electronics after getting a degree in electronic engineering, being close to gettting a second one and spending the last year teaching basic electronics to beginners. 
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Yeah, I’m in the right place 
That’s when you blame the newbies and call them idiots and fail as a professor
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Jokes aside, some poor girl had her Macbook fried in the 19-20 academic year. I was co-leading the fundamentals project for our society, but word spread quickly from the autonomous vehicles project. Apparently someone thought common ground and common positive were the same thing (there’s no such thing as common positive), so he connected everything to positive and somehow manged to send 12V to the Mac’s USB port, killing it instantly.
Apple haven’t done much better in their newer designs. Some retard thought it would be a good idea to have the 50V backlight trace on the PCB right next to (I’m tallking ~1mm) a low voltage (~3V) CPU trace with no ground trace in between. That means that if there’s even a little bit of moisture in the air or if there’s some freak event, the laptop sends 50V to the CPU and kills itself. If you spent a bit more cash and bought a model with a GPU, then you get lucky and only fry some control circuitry which can potentially be replaced.
Then there’s the excellent bit of Apple design where a damaged trackpad cable will murder the screen.
(Link goes to TL;DW part of vid)
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