The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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Did you know if you lined-up everybody on Earth who was affected by World War 2 side-by-side, the width of the line would exceed 6' in places?
That fat? Wow.
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Wow.
Not really, some of them are lying down dead.
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Did you know that if you put all the elephants on the world on top of each other they would probably fall over?
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Inconceivable! Everyone knows an Elephant never forgets!
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In other news, 100% of people who were born have or will die.
Some even do it more than once!
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Creating and parading a burning effigy of your country's prime minister...
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Creating and parading a burning effigy of your country's prime minister...
Boy are they on his list now--bunch of radicalizers!
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Kickstarter: Make the Censors Watch 'Paint Drying'
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charlielyne/make-the-censors-watch-paint-drying
Today, [British Board of Film Classification] continues to censor and in some cases ban films, while UK law ensures that, in effect, a film cannot be released in British cinemas without a BBFC certificate.
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Luckily, there’s a flipside to all of this: while filmmakers are required to pay the BBFC to certify their work, the BBFC are also required to sit through whatever we pay them to watch.
That’s why I’m Kickstarting a BBFC certificate for my new film Paint Drying — a single, unbroken shot of white paint drying on a brick wall. All the money raised by this campaign (minus Kickstarter's fees) will be put towards the cost of the certificate, so the final length of the film will be determined by how much money is raised here.
They'll probably just put it on fast forward or something, but still. I approve.
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I’m Kickstarting a BBFC certificate for my new film Paint Drying — a single, unbroken shot of white paint drying on a brick wall.
Does it have to be white paint? Can it be yellow?
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This is a much more entertaining way to scam KS users than @lorne_kates' indiegogo.
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This has got to be filmed in either full colour 3D, or black and white with a grainy flicker effect. Depending on what "arty" statement you want to make. OR. you could do the "IF" thing.
Not so much for the plot etc, but the... read the bit about mixing b/w with colour...
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Your link goes to the disambiguation page for If. I think you meant this, but DiscoBBMarkCodeDown.
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Long story short: DiscolinkInserter decided that the trailing three "." were *not" part of the link.
Link in post edited.
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This is a much more entertaining way to scam KS users than @lorne_kates' indiegogo.
My GoFundMe isn't a scam. I'm straight up telling people "I will do absolutely nothing for you".
They'll probably just put it on fast forward or something, but still. I approve.
Solution: Get a plug-in for your video render program that will randomly insert 1-frame long images. 90% of the images are harmless Creative Commons licensed images with a G rating.
10% are hard code porn (properly licensed of course).
Not only do they HAVE to watch, but they have to watch with much, much more effort and attention. They'll not only have to spot the 1-frame jumps, but also pause, rewind, find the frame, watch it, continue.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
10% are hard code porn (properly licensed of course).
Not only do they HAVE to watch, but they have to watch with much, much more effort and attention. They'll not only have to spot the 1-frame jumps, but also pause, rewind, find the frame, watch it, continue.
Wrong. Because once they see single porn image, they can just tune out and rate the movie "Adult" in the end.
You need something like a 50-50 chance that a single porn image will appear somewhere within the movie. Preferably weighted towards the end.
Bonus point if all the other images are sort of zoomed in, or purplish or otherwise made to look ambigous enough so censors have to pay attention.
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Wrong. Because once they see single porn image, they can just tune out and rate the movie "Adult" in the end.
Then make it soft-core enough that they'll have to judge based on scrutiny and number of appearances.
Person in bathing suit. Porn, nudity, or art?
Two women hugging. Porn, or mother-daughter bonding?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Two women hugging. Porn, or mother-daughter bonding?
Definitely go gay, those are censored more harshly than hetero.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Solution: Get a plug-in for your video render program that will randomly insert 1-frame long images. 90% of the images are harmless Creative Commons licensed images with a G rating.
10% are hard code porn (properly licensed of course).
Not only do they HAVE to watch, but they have to watch with much, much more effort and attention. They'll not only have to spot the 1-frame jumps, but also pause, rewind, find the frame, watch it, continue.
Just use a digital video projector to project images against the wall periodically while you're filming.
edit: for bonus points, use a mix of questionable and naughty pictures, but with a zoom/crop motion filter so that the naughty parts of the naughty pictures are never quite projected. ... or are they?
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Just use a digital video projector to project images against the wall periodically while you're filming.
Not complicated enough.
In any case, it sounds like the kickstarter now has a stretch goal.
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'Indeed in a time of such difficult international relations, it is our belief that we would all greatly benefit from an intergalactic perspective which saw humanity as one - rather than the fractious, squabbling bunch of psychopaths that we often present ourselves as.'
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South Norwood Tourist Board
Because someone has to make Jeremy Corbyn look sensible and conventional.
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Because someone has to make Jeremy Corbyn look sensible and conventional.
What do you mean? Having the first Intergalactic port is a major win; everyone will want one. Logan Intergalactic. John F. Kennedy Intergalactic. F. D Roosevelt Intergalactic. For that matter, why not Obama Intergalactic?
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Logan Intergalactic. John F. Kennedy Intergalactic. F. D Roosevelt Intergalactic. For that matter, why not Obama Intergalactic?
Those might make sense. South Norwood? That's just silly.
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Some parts of the world don't have mandatory vehicle inspections.
15 years ago I was sent to a jobsite in Louisville to learn from the superintendent there as he was a great manager and leader. While I was there, nearly everyone had to take off early to go to the "vet". After the fifth person had to take a half day to go to the "vet" I asked the guy I was shadowing about the phenomenon.
Me: "Your crew must have a lot of sick animals at home or something."
Him: "What do you mean?"
Me: "Everyone is taking half days to go to the vet."
Him: "...it is Vehicle Emissions Testing...not veterinarian."
Ah, to go back to the days when I did not realize that government could interfere in your life in such ways.
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Ah, to go back to the days when I did not realize that government could interfere in your life in such ways.
You and VW both…
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Gee, like, she really understands the wage gap issue, doesn't she?
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Gee, like, she really understands the wage gap issue, doesn't she?
Every issue can be summarized into a single pithy soundbite that completely covers all the edge cases and nuances of said issue.
-- cartman82's on opinions
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Yes.
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Yes.
The gap is much much smaller when you look inside a specific profession, but it does still exist (with various explanations therefor).
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Gee, like, she really understands the wage gap issue, doesn't she?
The wage gap issue isn't really a thing, unless you're being dishonest. "Women make 77 cents to the man's dollar" only if you look at all men and all women. As soon as you break it down and compare men and women in the same stage of careers, the gap drops to about 93%, some of which can be explained by the fact that women don't negotiate as aggressively[1] as men for salary.
[1] in general.
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women don't negotiate as aggressively[1] as men for salary.
Let me tell you a little story I was privy to with an employer of mine.
One of my co-workers was assigned responsibility for the phone bill and noted that there seemed to be a lot of unused lines the organization was paying for. Ferreting them out, she had figures showing she had saved the organization $40,000 per month in lost money. Then, another department of IT requested installation of lines that she found out were not going to be used for 18 months; lines that would cost $1500 per month. She recommended they wait to activate the lines until just before go live and was told that was not her business.
So she asked for a meeting with the boss. She asked for a 10% raise, about $2.15 per hour. She asked to have authority in the decision making process for line installations, so that she would have authority to delay installation of the lines that weren't needed yet.
What did she get for her attempt to negotiate a raise and more authority?
[spoiler]Women are not encouraged to negotiate their career path; the best t hey can hope for is to be called "bitchy". Her reward for negotiating: Summary termination--literally escorted out the door.[/spoiler]
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The gap is much much smaller when you look inside a specific profession
What about professions that contain the word "adult"?
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The gap
The point is, women have to start making different choices. Like choice of profession but also working as many by hours as men.
But I'm less asshole than the feminist who wants to dictate women's acceptable choices.
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working as mean by hours as men
I can't parse this phrase. Are you saying women should be meaner per hour to bring them to the same standard as men?
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Women are not encouraged to negotiate their career path
Sounds more like she kicked over some rice bowls of people with a lot of juice.
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. Are you saying women should be meaner per hour to bring them to the same standard as men?
That's apparently what Swype thinks.
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Sounds more like she kicked over some rice bowls of people with a lot of juice
No. I knew her.
Moreover, she had the "fortune" of working directly for the CIO; the other team was an indirect report to him.
This was the same CIO that embarrassed a handicapped employee into quitting, by speaking exuberantly in all-team meeting, about what a wonderful job the company was doing of accommodating his disability. Naming him explicitly.
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Let me tell you a little story I was privy to with an employer of mine.
I don't see how that's relevant to my point, particularly when you factor in the footnote.
A guy could've been fired for that too. Perhaps the boss had a kickback scheme with the phone company, who knows.
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This was the same CIO that embarrassed a handicapped employee into quitting
That rather neatly undermines the point of your previous post, if the point was to suggest women aren't "allowed" to negotiate aggressively. Sounds like the CIO was an asshole.
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Damn women. They don't contribute as much to the GDP as men do. Unsolidaric.
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I had a boss where some women would rather quit than work in the same room as him (not alone, around 6 people in the room), out of fear.
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Ok, I undeleted it.
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Ok, I undeleted it.
(Post withdrawn by author, and will be beaten to death like a horse unless flagged in 24 hours)
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I am amazed at some of the stuff that people delete.