The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Although I expect window managers which have it configurable allow that, in my opinion it would be silly.
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If you've been a human being for 5 minutes, you'll know that sometimes people get groggy or distracted or otherwise confused and will think they're in 3rd gear when they're actually in 5th.
That sounds like a personal problem. It also sounds like those of us who live near you should be glad you're driving an automatic.
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That sounds like a personal problem. It also sounds like those of us who live near you should be glad you're driving an automatic.
You're like the Linux developer of cars. Congratulations, you're a horrible human being.
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Although I expect window managers which have it configurable allow that, in my opinion it would be silly.
Well, I don't see anything that looks like those buttons, so I'm not sure where you think they are.
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You're like the Linux developer of cars. Congratulations, you're a horrible human being.
But not the Worst of the Worst™?
EDIT: seriously though, if you're in 5th instead of 3rd, the engine won't sound like you need to upshift, but that goes back to the paying attention thing you seem to think is optional.
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You're like the Linux developer of cars.
Yeah. We've had automatics since practically forever. Get over manual transmissions already.
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seriously though, if you're in 5th instead of 3rd, the engine won't sound like you need to upshift, but that goes back to the paying attention thing you seem to think is optional.
Considering the cost of placing reverse anywhere else is negligible, and the cost of incorrectly shifting can be several lives, I don't see that there's much of a reason to try to defend the practice. Yes, it's not instantly lethal to alert drivers, but neither are steel spikes in the steering wheel. Would you defend those because alert drivers won't slam on the breaks or run into things?
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We've had automatics since practically forever. Get over manual transmissions already.
You can have my stick-shift when you pry it from my cold dead paws!
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Fuck, don't you people read? I DON'T WANT ANY CAR WITH A MANUAL TRANSMISSION.
What makes you think I would want yours?
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You're like the Linux developer of cars.
Called an old joke to mind. Found an updated version of it.
hmmm, choices choices choices, do I link to it (and rely on ppl being butted to "go see", or copy, paste and edit (the formatting) it here and risk breaking infinscroll.......chocies, choices choices....
What if Operating Systems Were Airlines?
Published on Friday, 01 February 2002 00:00
Written by David L Norris HEREDOS Airlines
Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again, then they push again jump on again, and so on.
OS/2 Airlines
The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers milling about. The announcer says that their flight has just departed, wishes them a good flight, though there are no planes on the runway. Airline personnel walk around, apologising profusely to customers in hushed voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets outside the terminal on the field. They tell each passenger how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they will have to wait a little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems.
Once they finally finished you're offered a flight at reduced cost. To board the plane, you have your ticket stamped ten different times by standing in ten different lines. Then you fill our a form showing where you want to sit and whether the plane should look and feel like an ocean liner, a passenger train or a bus. If you succeed in getting on the plane and the plane succeeds in taking off the ground, you have a wonderful trip...except for the time when the rudder and flaps get frozen in position, in which case you will just have time to say your prayers and get in crash position.
Windows Air
The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever.
Windows NT Air
Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.
Mac Airlines
All the stewards, stewardesses, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look the same, act the same, and talk the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are told you don't need to know, don't want to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie.
Unix Airlines
Each passenger brings a piece of the airplane and a box of tools to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, they build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there.
Wings of OS/400
The airline has bought ancient DC-3s, arguably the best and safest planes that ever flew, and painted "747" on their tails to make them look as if they are fast. The flight attendants, of course, attend to your every need, though the drinks cost $15 a pop. Stupid questions cost $230 per hour, unless you have SupportLine, which requires a first class ticket and membership in the frequent flyer club. Then they cost $500, but your accounting department can call it overhead.
Mach Airlines
There is no airplane. The passengers gather and shout for an airplane, then wait and wait and wait and wait. A bunch of people come, each carrying one piece of the plane with them. These people all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they're building. The plane finally takes off, leaving the passengers on the ground waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. After the plane lands, the pilot telephones the passengers at the departing airport to inform them that they have arrived.
Newton Airlines
After buying your ticket 18 months in advance, you finally get to board the plane. Upon boarding the plane you are asked your name. After 6 times, the crew member recognizes your name and then you are allowed to take your seat. As you are getting ready to take your seat, the steward announces that you have to repeat the boarding process because they are out of room and need to recount to make sure they can take more passengers.
VMS Airlines
The passengers all gather in the hanger, watching hundreds of technicians check the flight systems on this immense, luxury aircraft. This plane has at least 10 engines and seats over 1,000 passengers. All the passengers scramble aboard, as do the necessary complement of 200 technicians. The pilot takes his place up in the glass cockpit. He guns the engines, only to realise that the plane is too big to get through the hangar doors.
BeOS Air
You have to pay for the tickets, but they're half the price of Windows Air, and if you are an aircraft mechanic you can probably ride for free. It only takes 15 minutes to get to the airport and you are cheuferred there in a limozine. BeOS Air only has limited types of planes that only only hold new luggage. All planes are single seaters and the model names all start with an "F" (F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, etc.). The plane will fly you to your destination on autopilot in half the time of other Airways or you can fly the plane yourself. There are limited destinations, but they are only places you'd want to go to anyway. You tell all your friends how great BeOS Air is and all they say is "What do you mean I can't bring all my old baggage with me?"
Linux Airlines
Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"
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Considering the cost of placing reverse anywhere else is negligible, and the cost of incorrectly shifting can be several lives, I don't see that there's much of a reason to try to defend the practice.
Not sure if trolling or ...
You not only have to consider the cost, but also the likelihood. How many times has this happened per vehicle mile?
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Fuck, don't you people read? I DON'T WANT ANY CAR WITH A MANUAL TRANSMISSION.
What makes you think I would want yours?
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You can drive whatever you want. Long as I can drive manual.
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No, CHUD based on the movie.
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I have never once accidentally tried to put a manual transmission into reverse due to it being directly below 5th gear. Learn to drive, people.
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Not only that, just about every car I have driven in the UK, and that's a lot of different models of car, have some form of physical interlock - push, twist, pull - you name it, to prevent accidental engagement.
However, that does not mean I have tried and wondered what the noise was. Done so quite perfectly but didn't want or need reverse. Or on one infamous occasion, totally failed to and had to push the car out of the parking slot.
The above was after leaving an interview; I was very young; I had borrowed my sister's car (which was an old Ford Cortina MKI); It was the first time I had driven it (and that model); I spend ten or fifteen minutes trying to find the "special move" necessary to engage reverse; The guy who had just interviewed me stood and watched across the car park for the entire time.
I didn't get the job - which was for Electronic Test Engineering.
Interesting Fact: Saabs, require reveres gear to be engaged before you could take the ignition key out, and the ignition key was right next to the gear leaver. I don't know if they still do.
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Saab folded several years ago, making the question
Yes, the Company folded (eventually), but the marque is still around.
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The minimize/maximize/close buttons belong on the right-hand side of the window.
Unless you're using default Ubuntu - unless it's particular to 14.04.
Annoys me no-end when I actually have to use it (which is infrequently, thankfully):
Yes, I'm sure it could be changed.
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Yes, I'm sure it could be changed.
This problem is easily corrected with a Windows install disc.
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Unless you're using default Ubuntu - unless it's particular to 14.04.
At least they have the appropriate icons on them.
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That theirs an
implicit assumption that westerners are better
It would really help if you didn't butcher the grammar.
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I have never once accidentally tried to put a manual transmission into reverse due to it being directly below 5th gear. Learn to drive, people.
Ok.
And yet if the design of the car could be made safer, at no additional cost, it's stupid not to.
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Not only do they still do that by default, they force it on gnome-shell as well, and it occasionally reverts during distribution upgrades.
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And yet if the design of the car could be made safer, at no additional cost, it's stupid not to.
Safer than what? No one answered my question above:
How many times has this happened per vehicle mile?
If it never happens then it doesn't make sense to say it's stupid not to move the gear somewhere safer (you can't get safer than 0 incidents).
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Whatever, look: if your argument relies on, "people have to be amazing drivers every second of every day or else FUCK THEM if something goes wrong", I'm going to hate you. Because you are a shit and you are making a shitty argument.
People make mistakes. Systems should be tolerant of mistakes. This is not a concept that is questioned anywhere except the type of retarded morons who run Linux in IT.
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Have you done usability testing to show that this is a problem? Where are your statistics that existing systems are insufficient?
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if your argument relies on, "people have to be amazing drivers every second of every day or else FUCK THEM if something goes wrong", I'm going to hate you.
Good thing it doesn't, then.
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BUT HYPOTHETICAL PROBLEMS THAT HAVEN'T ACTUALLY HAPPENED MUST BE FIXED!!!!!!11!1l
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I don't care one way or the other because I'm smart enough to buy a modern car that doesn't make me do something that it can do better.
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BUT HYPOTHETICAL PROBLEMS THAT HAVEN'T ACTUALLY HAPPENED MUST BE FIXED!!!!!!11!1l
Actually, I think he admitted above to almost doing it when he thought he was in 3rd instead of 5th, which I still maintain doesn't happen if you're paying attention.
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People who prefer/drive Manual vs Automatic.
Then there's those of us who prefer Manual but drive Automatic. (Dammit Subaru. 4cyl Outbacks used to, but aren't anymore.)
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If you've been driving the car for more than 5 minutes, you'll know that there isn't a 6th gear and won't try it.
We have two cars. The Mazda 3 has 6 forward gears and to engage reverse you push down and to the left of first gear.
Our other car is an 80 series Landcruiser that has 5 forward gears and reverse is straight below 5th.
I'm always really paranoid that I'll throw the Cruiser into reverse at 100 kph.
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Didn't we already have the safety argument about a magical screwdriver that doesn't stab you in the face when you use it?*
*may have been a dream.
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Yes we did
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That way all those people that identify with the left image are saying (in the nicest possible way) *I don't give a ..."
Oh yeah sure, the left side should be the people who don't give a ...
Racist.
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Huh?
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I'm just pretending to get up in arms about supposed left-is-bad sentiment.
I do get up in arms about that stuff for real - I have a particular chip on my shoulder about left-handers in fiction - but not when it clearly isn't anti-lefty at all: then I'm just joking.
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LOL, Sorry. I actually had a dilemma when I first replied in that I didn't want to use the word "right" because I didn't want to give cause for somebody to "take up arms", so to speak. So I settled on RHS and explained that i did not mean right. Later when
edited the reply, I realised that most of the of the images needed swapping, thus making it very inefficient. So I went with LEFT also, thinking that that could not cause offence with anybody.Note. Whilst I was composing this, I had a panic attack because I was talking about the wrong thing, but I checked and I wasn't. Still, I glad you did not see my post in another topic. Phew!
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On the 2 cars I've tried with a design like that, you can't directly switch from 5th gear to reverse, you have to move it to the centre first as a safety measure.
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Reading my recent backlog, I kind of already forgot what thread this was.
Post some funny stuff, dammit
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some funny stuff, dammit
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Damn it
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Not even when it's battered, deep-fried, and served with chips?
That would be a different icon on the sign.
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What are the two types of people here? People who drive, and people who also-drive?
that's manual vs auto.
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