🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Especially Apple users.
If they had waited 48 hours, they could have walked straight in and said, "I would like to buy the new iPhone please", and been in and out in 15 minutes. Instead, all of those jackasses took days off work and slept on the street like homeless people in order to get the latest and greatest that really is not a hell of a lot different than the one they had in their pockets.
I hope they all got dysentery.
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I hope they all got dysentery.
Game idea: Tongue-in-cheek variant of The Oregon Trail where you lead a band of hipsters to the nearest Apple Store for a launch-day upgrade.
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That comment actually did come to mind because or an article I read about a lot of the old classic games being released.
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WTF 3: Worse still, when reported in The Telegraph (link below) the concept also appears to be beyond the actual reporter and they report the accusation as fact rather than rhetorical device:
Were people in general always this dumb and it's just more obvious these days,or are people actually getting stupider over time?
INB4: "yes"
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drunk tube driver
WTF is a tube driver? Sounds like the kind of thing you'd have to be drunk for.
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No no no... We're suffering from Global Cooling. Well, we are in Newcastle. Probably why they changed the name to Climate Change - couldn't make up their mind which it was
Quite the considering that the page you linked has this to say:This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community
Academic analysis of the peer-reviewed studies published at that time shows that most papers examining aspects of climate during the 1970s were either neutral or showed a warming trend
The latter quote links to [this paper][1], which has this to say:An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about the prospect of global warming.
A review of the literature suggests that, to the contrary, greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists’ thinking about the most important forces shaping Earth’s climate on human time scales.
The survey identified only seven articles indicating cooling compared to 42 indicating warming. Those seven cooling articles garnered just 12% of the citations.
(Edit: I see you quoted that later on and actually were legitimately :-))
[1]: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/131047.pdf
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WTF is a tube driver?
Considering that was in the URL and in the SAME POST(!) there was this...
Backstory - train driver failed a drugs test (for alcohol),
How could I have made it more obvious?
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How could I have made it more obvious?
Using crayons and construction paper to draw a little picture and then taking a picture of that on a wooden table and posting it?
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WTF is a tube driver?
For some reason, this came to mind:
http://www.tikiwebgroup.com/tikitumble/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2014/12/youtube-racers.jpg
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how many of your personal freedoms have been compromised because of them?
None! They don't control me, they don't control my government, and they don't control airport security. All those things you mentioned are because of cowards in government and the cowards that vote for them.
And not to mention the bollocks Cameron's come out with when he implied making https (among other protocols) illegal?
Governments have a long history of making secrecy for anyone else illegal or difficult. Terrorism is just another fear to hype up to make ignorant people think it more acceptable.
Oh - an posting cartoons. A capital offence these days - or at least the threat of it.
Even those unfortunately gunned down by barbarians in the name of the some nutjob prophet are inconsequential to the average person.
Police from several UK forces seek details of Charlie Hebdo readers
I can't think of any good reasons for them to do this - do they hope the bad guys buy the magazine to see how offensive it is before getting the
pitchforksmachine guns?So yes - the ravages of the Religion of Peace®©™ are demonstrably having more of an effect on the west than Climate Change™
Cowardly governments in the west are having more of an effect, using ISIS and other terrorism as an excuse.
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OTOH I distinctly remember National Geographic having an issue devoted to the danger of Global Cooling.
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Governments have a long history of making secrecy for anyone else illegal or difficult.
And yet secrecy for the government and its operations is essential to the functioning of the modern state, and stop asking awkward questions!
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secrecy for the government and its operations is essential to the functioning of the modern state
Some secrecy is essential, yes. I don't think anybody (sane) denies this. The problem is when governments are "secret by default" and you only get to see what they do with good reason, instead of "open by default" and they need a good reason to keep something secret.
Also, secrecy laws are a good way to cover up corruption, war crimes, etc.
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The governor of my state:
Science dictates... anything? Science dictates... a belief?
Faith, the affirmation that a statement is fact no matter what happens agrees with science, the affirmation that any statement can be proven wrong if sufficient evidence is given?
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Someone really deserves a honorary whoosh badge there...
"Does the Pope shit in the woods? "
" IN TODAY'S NEWS: GUY TAKEN OFF AIR AFTER QUESTIONING POPE FRANCIS PERSONAL HYGIENE"
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Faith, the affirmation that a statement is fact no matter what happens
I have a different definition of Faith: confidence that an hypothesis is true (or false) despite lack of proof or evidence for (or against) it;
while science is confidence that something is true (or false) because there is proof or sufficient evidence (for some interpretation of "sufficient") for (or against) it.
My interpretation is that they are opposites sides of a spectrum, and as such I agree with the sentiment.
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while science is provisional confidence that something is true (or false) because there is proof or sufficient evidence (for some interpretation of "sufficient") for (or against) it.
FTFY.
Well, FTFM, but I'm pretty sure you'll agree with the modification ;)
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Heather Cho being a pretentious bitch, over how her (unasked for) nuts got served to her on a plane owned by the company for whom her father is the chairman and, gets her a year of gaol after being found guilty of obstructing aviation safety.
Oh, and she resigned from her post of vice-president of the same company.
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Cho had forced her Seoul-bound plane to turn back to the gate and offload a steward because she did not like the way she had been served nuts.
Were they not salty enough?
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This just happened
root@what:~# docker ps ^Croot@what:~# ^C root@what:~# ps aux ^C^C root@what:~# htop ^C^C ^C^C^C root@what:~# reboot
I really want this droplet moved @apapadimoulis
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Digital ocean is fine, just to a new droplet
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Next: Wanting to ban books. Because someone (else) might be offended.
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, Scottish Labour MP Thomas Docherty has written to culture secretary urging a ‘sensitive debate’ on [not - ed.] allowing its sale
Scottish Labour MP Thomas Docherty is calling for a national debate on whether the sale of Adolf Hitler’s “repulsive” manifesto Mein Kampf should be prohibited in the UK.
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Nuts on a Plane... gets her a year of gaol after being found guilty of obstructing aviation safety.
Heh...the hilarious conclusion to..
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-the-fwip-sound-thread-again/4285/329?u=boomzilla
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@PJH said:
Wanting to ban books.
The Evil Ideas thread isI thought Mein Kampf already was banned. Surely this is about what to do when the ban expires?
Fake edit: Ok I looked it up: not banned outright; de-facto banned by the copyright holder.
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I thought Mein Kampf already was banned. Surely this is about what to do when the ban expires?
The German government (well the Bavarian state after they inherited it, but the government are going along with it) banned the copying and publication of it(1) (with little effect on other countries,) not the UK government.
This useless politician wants a UK instigated ban.
(1) It is however not illegal to posses or trade existing copies (with the occasional exception.) But then again, the copyright expires and it enters the public domain 1 Jan '16...
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It is however not illegal to posses or trade existing copies (with the occasional exception.)
Mein Kampf, the ivory of the book world?
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@boomzilla said:
Mein Kampf, the ivory of the book world in Germany, until next year?
So...we can go back to hunting German publishers next year?
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But Linuxes are so STABLE! And so GREAT FOR SERVERS!!!!!
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I thought Mein Kampf already was banned.
Not in the US. We actually remember why the fuck we fought a war against Fascism.
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But Linuxes are so STABLE! And so GREAT FOR SERVERS!!!!!
You didn't explain the BAD IDEA here in relation to what @sam said. It's not clear if you have a point or didn't understand the situation.
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He hasn't explained if he ever got the droplet
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I think the bad idea is Discourse.
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I think the bad idea is Discourse.
OK, so
...didn't understand the situation.
Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.
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Not in the US. We actually remember why the fuck we fought a war against Fascism.
Except when it comes to nipples.
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Except when it comes to nipples.
That's not fair. Also when it comes to corporatist socialism. Surely others I'm not thinking of.
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TDEMSYR.
Google "Wardrobe Malfunction" on Wikipedia (if the bit in quotes isn't clue enough that is.)
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Google "Wardrobe Malfunction" on Wikipedia (if the bit in quotes isn't clue enough that is.)
I'm sure he knows about that. The link to European fascism on that seems kinda thin, though. Plenty of earlier precedents here.
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Google "Wardrobe Malfunction" on Wikipedia (if the bit in quotes isn't clue enough that is.)
Do you understand that Fascism was a threat in the 1930s and 1940s? At that time, the US was one of the LEAST prudish societies on Earth.
You're talking about an attitude that developed in like the 60s and 70s (maybe even later-- Fritz the Cat was a mainstream animated movie in 1972 chock-full of tits, penis, violence, etc.) and attributing it to a political movement that occurred decades before.
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At that time, the US was one of the LEAST prudish societies on Earth.
I think you just made my point for me.
Ta.
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I think you just made my point for me.
Exactly. If anything, the US has gone backwards w.r.t. prudishness.INB4
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So your point is, the US adopted Fascism long after it defeated Fascism, and the evidence is nipples?
Well I can't argue with that logic. The only possible response is an ambulance and straight jacket and I'm fresh-out of both.
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