🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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I figured you mistyped because only that first sentence was incorrect.
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I think it's obvious from his post that he hasn't seen the video.
Yeah, he probably wasn't even aware of its existence, hence my post...
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The instructor did not did not follow the range's established safety protocol. His right hand was supposed to be ready to push the gun away in just such a situation. Instead, his left hand was below her elbow (supposedly ready to grab her arm), and his right hand was on her back.
Ranges need a recoil guard, just like a salad bar's sneeze guard.
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That old gun debate is old. Let's talk about bringing your service weapon into a room with an MRI machine so the machine can take your gun and fire it without using the trigger and while the thumb safety is engaged.
http://bearingarms.com/rise-machines-mri-scanner-disarms-officer-fires-weapon/
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Wow, that website sucks:
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OK, the tech should have been more clear about where it was OK to take the weapon but at the same time the officer should have confirmed his understanding of the instructions as the whole point of his being there is big ass magnets. Like most firearms stories it is stacked mistakes that caused the problem.
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Hmm, sounds like you could use super-electromagnets as a way to quickly disarm everyone in the room!
(Filed under: Bad ideas)
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B-but malformed tags!
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Hmm, sounds like you could use super-electromagnets as a way to quickly disarm everyone in the room!
(Filed under: Bad ideas)
You'd probably need a backpack nuclear reactor to power it too.
(Filed under: Not sure if good idea or bad idea)
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B-but malformed tags!
Looks fine to me when not using one of them fancy pocket computer thingies all the kids have.
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Paging @VictorFrankenstein…
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the machine can take your gun and fire it without using the trigger and while the thumb safety is engaged.
I have to admit I was impressed by that.
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You'd probably need a backpack nuclear reactor to power it too.
I can't remember if I heard about this via bearing arms or some other site. Did this one talk about what's involved in shutting down an MRI machine?
If not, it's "$100,000 and a couple days," apparently.
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This post contains multiple bad ideas
Using the Remedy web app1, getting halfway through a change request and, thinking you are in a textbox2 and hitting the backspace key and being dumped without warning to the Remedy login page3
1 This is obviously not my decision to make
2 Some sort of custom, non-native thing as far as I (a non-developer) can tell
3 This can result in language that some people may find offensive
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Using the Remedy web app1, getting halfway through a change request and, thinking you are in a textbox2 and hitting the backspace key and being dumped without warning to the Remedy login page3
Sometimes you can go back to the next page and your text will still be there.
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Arriving late to work:
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You lost, granpa? The sidebar is that way
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You think this fits better there? I didn't care until my wife had the "Bad Idea" so I thought this would be a good place. Also, I didn't want to give it too much publicity.
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Also, I didn't want to give it too much publicity.
A piece of software like that deserves all the shame we can pile upon its properly anonymized back.
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This is basically what the category is for.
If you extracted a few pics too, that would be great.
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Joking about having electronic bola whilst on a plane.
Filed under: He should have realised that he can't use his electronic bola during takeoff and landing
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This post contains multiple bad ideas
Using the Remedy web app
Stop right there. You can't top that one.
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This post contains multiple bad ideas
Using the Remedy web appStop right there. You can't top that one.
"‘I Have Ebola’ Prankster Panics Airline Passengers, Prompts Full Hazmat Response"
http://www.inquisitr.com/1530506/i-have-ebola-prankster-panics-airline-passengers-prompts-full-hazmat-response/
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A comedy club charging per laugh.
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Sounds like it's working out for them. Definitely has gimmick appeal.
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Yeah, but I could also see it incentivizing the audience to not respond.
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"The project was developed to combat falling audience numbers."
TRWTF.
No a WTF would be implementing this and discovering nobody was laughing, and not because they didn't want to pay extra..
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Yeah, but I could also see it incentivizing the audience to not respond.
The incentive seems small enough. The max ticket price isn't bad, so it's like an automatic money back guarantee. They probably still end up making more money selling overpriced drinks.
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OK, point there. It just struck me as a wonky set up.
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Do you object to the lines themselves, or the fact that they were neatly joined together instead of just dead-ending?
Just the pictures and no context leaves me no purchase to decide how to disagree with you, and that's not very nice.
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And the street view explains why it's like that: someone just carried "don't park here" lines to absurdity. Maybe they were being artistic? I probably would've teed the lines at the point the blacktop was too narrow to be a valid parking spot and then zebra-striped the remaining triangle.
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Exactly that: it's about extending the don't-park-here lines to absurdity.
It's a bad idea and a WTF.
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It's a bad idea and a WTF.
I'll agree it's a WTF. I'm not sure if I'd call it a bad idea per se, though, unless you object to the waste of paint. Dumb, yeah.
Now you got me thinking, "I know, I'll run that down like that, put some curlicues in, and call it art."
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Given that it's taxpayer's time and money being used on that...
It's not a huge deal, but it is just a bad idea. But it's not in the realm of preposterously bad ideas.
I'm actually amazed they bothered, since looking at that, I'm not sure there's actually enough room to get a car down there meaning the double-yellows aren't even strictly necessary (and bicycles tend to ignore them anyway)
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Motorcycles? Mopeds?
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Given that it's taxpayer's time and money being used on that...
TRWTF. In the US, parking lots are generally painted by the owner.
Here in Texas they do this weird thing where they mark fire lanes in any public parking lot by painting a red line. Every couple of years a contractor shows up to my apartment complex and redoes them.
For example if you look here you can see a faint red line that mostly marks off the end of the parking spots. You can't park...I think the rule is inside the volume enclosed by the red lines, but it might be "against the red lines."
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TRWTF. In the US, parking lots are generally painted by the owner.
Here in Texas they do this weird thing where they mark fire lanes in any public parking lot by painting a red line. Every couple of years a contractor shows up to my apartment complex and redoes them.
For example if you look here you can see a faint red line that mostly marks off the end of the parking spots. You can't park...I think the rule is inside the volume enclosed by the red lines, but it might be "against the red lines."
I just looked again at it all.
Double yellows are generally put there by the council to indicate no parking - on public highways.
You don't tend to see them in parking lots as a rule... this could just as easily have been the parking lot owner, however, because the big-ass trucks that do the normal painting simply couldn't get in there.
But the paint job is a little too good for someone just doing it, you know?
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But the paint job is a little too good for someone just doing it, you know?
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There's a whole legion of pictures out there of different ways to fail at road painting. Hadn't seen this particular one before (or the one up-thread).
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In the US, parking lots are generally painted by the owner.
In the UK too (unless the owner and the local government in charge of the roads come to some special arrangement). We don't use fire lanes so much though; I think the usual plan is to bring the fire engine in via the existing service road for the business, which is usually the reverse side of the building.
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Trying to rob a gun store with a baseball bat.
http://www.kptv.com/story/22937395/deputies-baseball-bat-used-to-rob-portland-gun-store
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I'm not sure there's actually enough room to get a car down there meaning the double-yellows aren't even strictly necessary
There isn't. That was the point...
There's a whole legion of pictures out there of different ways to fail at road painting.
Yup:http://auto-fail.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/roadkill-armadillo-road-line-painted-over.jpg
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Bad idea: picking the wrong target for insurance scam
NSFL
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...... discourse. why you wait until after the GIF plays once to apply the spoiler blur?