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Due to a persistent manufacturing defect which it seems impossible to eradicate, a small proportion of humans are "left-handed".
While the obvious solution is simply to cull the deviants as soon as they are identified and before they reproduce, this seems inexplicably unpopular.
Specific left-handed
computer peripherals are manufactured, but are of little use to normal humans.
BorgCo has therefore developed a special keyboard to suit both normal and abberant versions of human.
From above, it looks like a normal, if quite thick, computer keyboard.
Turn it over, and it reveals a complete, fully left-handed keyboard with all the key positions including the numeric pad and function keys transposed left-to-right. A sensor determines which set of keys is active, based on orientation.
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If it's not called H5N1, what will it be called ? Martina ? José ? Amaryllis ? |
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If it doesn't have a name, where will the survivors, if any, send the letters of complaint ? |
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Both of my in-laws are left-handed. My wife and her
brother is right-handed. There's not much that can be
predicted that way in terms of reproduction it seems. |
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We predict that left-handers that are culled as infants will not reproduce successfully. |
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This approach also addresses the problem of idiopathic left-handedness. |
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This is biased. If a standard keyboard is single sided and right handed, why should a left handed one also have a right handed side? Pure statistical favouritism. Make it single sided and left handed, is the only way. |
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Unless the monitor is also similarly reversible I suppose. |
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<Flags [poc] as a possible militant left-hander/> |
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Would swopping their arms over as soon as this
defect is apparent not be a more comprehensive
solution? [reward +] |
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The market acceptance of that offering has been, so far, rather disappointing. |
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I might mention that the old myth that left-handed people
are, on average, more intelligent than right-handed people
has, in fact, been tested and proven to be correct. |
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Also, this idea seems to assume that left-handed people have
some
problem using standard keyboards, which is uyyer bollonks. |
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I'm right-handed but militantly egalitarian. |
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// been tested and proven to be correct // |
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... for a sample size of what, two ? One of whom was left handed, and the other a right-handed Democrat ... |
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This is another of your "select the data until it fits the conclusion" things, isn't it ? Like when you promoted sales of your anti-wolf spray on your market stall by having your minions surreptitiously release a hungry wolf from the back of a van ? |
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There are both right- and left-handed Dvorak layouts. I've
never seen one in the wild.
I have seen a lot of "left-handed" stuff (rulers, scissors, etc)
but 2 "handed" things I've never seen the "other hand" of are
sewing machines and cameras. (Disclaimer: I'm right-handed
(by necessity).) |
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There's almost certainly a direct correlation between the complexity of the manufacturing setup and the size of the potential market - high up-front costs plus small potential sales, even at a premium price, will militate against viability. |
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Some effort has been put into making some products truly ambidextrous, including firearms, but there's almost no cost penalty for doing that. Setup costs for left-handed scissors are probably small, too - same metal blanks, just whenever the grinding machine needs readjustment, take the opportunity to change it over to left-handed and run off a batch. |
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3D printing will make the situation better, when it becomes possible to quickly and cheaply print a replacement right-handed human and the old left-handed one can just be recycled. |
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I'm really digging Xenzag's arm-swapping idea... |
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//Like when you promoted sales of your anti-wolf spray on
your market stall by having your minions surreptitiously
release a hungry wolf from the back of a van ?// |
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That's a slander against my marketing skills, [8th], and you
know it. I had my minions _say_ they had released a hungry
wolf from the back of a van. How else could I demonstrate
that my anti-wolf spray was working effectively? |
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Spray it on Wolf Blitzer, see if he dissolves into a
cloud of catchy headlines? |
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Determined to annoy the crap out of anybody else using my computer, the trackball is situated on the left of the keyboard, where it shengfuically balances out the numeric portion on the right, and has reversed buttons (retaining thumb operation for the main click). |
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[Ian Tindale]; I'm a pianist, but for vague reasons, when I
air-guitar I do so "left-handed", & I have to think carefully
about the directions of "higher" and "lower" (I mostly "air-
piano" instead...). |
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Just out of curiosity, what do you do if you want to tell
someone that a basketball player was "about this high"? |
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We've heard you called a number of things, [neut], including... oh, sorry, a "pianist" ? Someone who plays the piano, right ? Not a ... yes, right, got it. Pianist. A type of musician. Fine. |
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I'm only a pianist in the vaguest (vague-est? vagueest?)
sense. I'm not professional or even "good", but I can turn the
squiggles on sheet music into an approximation of music. |
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Still, it must be interesting to be the object of envy of those lacking any musical talent whatsoever, like Justin Bieber ... |
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Cardi B ? Sounds like a hospital ward ... |
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