🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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"I'm more diversity"
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This is where flabby shows up and says that we don't live in a just world, thereby ignoring the clear and obvious idiocy that's actually the subject here.
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Jesus, does Islam promote animes???
We need to up the drone bombings.
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Jesus, does Islam promote animes???
I know it's hard, but try to keep your religions straight.
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Bad idea: trying to interview a Dota 2 player that just beat a superior team 2-0 and is visibly emotionally overloaded who doesn't speak the same language as the interviewer.
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You had me at Dota.
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Hey, if people have thrown $72,000,000.00 at this year's tournament, it can't be all bad.
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Of course it can. People pay heaps for every sport, and they're almost all as boringto watch. I mean, at least it's no cricket, but its certainly no starcraft either.
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as boringto watch
I don't see how a sport where a bunch of people of the same gender kick a sphere around and try to get it into one of two nets without using their hands is "as boring to watch" as a sport where competitors kill each other using swords, explosions, and magic spells and there are several buildings destroyed per match.
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It does when they're always the same things, thousands and thousands of times in a row. Starcraft is repetitive as well, but there's more going on at any given time, and you can observe micro directly on a level dota will purposely never match.
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thousands and thousands of times in a row
If something happens more than twice, the players probably aren't professionals because they wouldn't fall for it that many times if they were.
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What does she do when you aren't around?
Is this the timeless "is the light on when you are not looking?" - question?
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at least it's no cricket
Cricket has the advantage that you can have an afternoon nap while watching the game and miss none of the action!
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Cricket has the advantage that you can have an afternoon nap while watching the game and miss none of the action!
I think you and I have very different definitions of the word "action".
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More a "Sick Things" thread sort of thing, but...
A "swinger" and mum-of-three is behind bars after admitting sex offences against children.
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The court heard that Bennett, a member of Fab Swingers, showed an image of herself and others engaged in sexual activity to two children, aged 14.
Sentencing her to six months' imprisonment, Judge John Harrow said: "You exposed them to things they should not have seen. There is no evidence that your intention was to groom them towards involving them in sexual behaviour.
NSFL pic on the article:
[spoiler]
[/spoiler][spoiler]No mention in the article of flour being used to find the damp patch[/spoiler]
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This is why I don't even think about going to swinger bars. The odds are against me.
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as a sport where competitors kill each other using swords, explosions, and magic spells and there are several buildings destroyed per match.
Let me know when such a sport exists.
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Whole Foods clarifies:
"We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. We looked into this right away and found that this item was being carried in just one of our stores in California. It was meant to be water with the essence of vegetables and/or mushrooms to be used as broth (similar to a bone broth), which are typically made over a long period of time soaking in water. The product was made incorrectly and has since been removed from the one store where it was carried. We read your story, and would love your help clarifying that this product isn't and never has been available for online ordering on Instacart and was only ever offered in one store."
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One of those Asian DOTA2 players was on the bus with me yesterday afternoon. He had a DOTA2 logo fleece jacket, a giant DOTA2 shopping bag, he was looking at some DOTA2 app on his phone.
It was kind of sad.
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competitors kill each other using swords, explosions, and magic spells
Ben L, when people get hurt in football, people actually get hurt in football. You're not talking about the competitors killing each other, but their little cartoon avatars which is completely different.
I mean, you can find whatever you like entertaining. Fine. But that was a ridiculous statement.
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If you're near Seattle and you've only seen one Dota 2 fan this week, you must not have functioning eyes.
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I've probably seen dozens, however, this guy was distinct from the other tourists, being covered entirely in DOTA and Valve logos.
Most people are normal.
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I'm iffy about that whole thing. If parents think their children should be taught about sexuality at a younger age than customary, who am I to argue? Even if they are overweight.
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I'm iffy about that whole thing. If parents think their children should be taught about sexuality at a younger age than customary, who am I to argue?
I'd be more concerned about the fact that they weren't her children, she was a swinger (imagine getting her car keys out the fish bowl) and she certainly wasn't their teacher - she was a domestic.
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Please tell me there is an unedited capture of this tweet out there so that we can all go take the piss out of the person who said it?
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Probably deleted by now. I don't know, but if people can ignorantly excoriate a real dentist for contributing to lion conservation, I feel like it's alright for me to lampoon possibly imaginary idiots for their idiocy. Or at least laugh at a good joke.
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Bad idea: assuming Cortana on Windows 10 has anywhere near as many features as the Cortana that was advertised on TV.
Take 1: click microphone button, say "Hey Siri"
Take 2: say "Hey Cortana, hey Siri"
Also, I see that they still haven't fixed screenshots of window borders.
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If you turn on hey Cortana in the settings, saying it launches with the microphone active. If you don't, it won't. If it doesn't know about something, you get a web search.
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Oh, I'm sorry. I had assumed that Microsoft's version of Siri was better in some way because it was released later.
http://www.mytecharena.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Jealous-Siri-394x700.jpg
So now I have two different female computers who will search things on the internet, but only one of them works on my dhromebook and only one of them is any good (hint: it's the same one).
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I have a strong dislike of voice interfaces†, which is ironic because my housemate and I sometimes I act as one towards each other.
"Hey are you on the internet — of course you are — can you search for this?..."
†But I understand not every one feels the same way. In fact I am a full supporter of voice interfaces for people to whom it is inconvenient, unsafe, or even impossible to type.
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now I have two different female computers
My phone still has "OK Google Now" instead of "OK Google". It's not compatible with "OK Google", but "OK Google Now" seems to work the same way except buggier and longer.
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Just looked at the PSU of my work Dell. In addition to the 8-pin motherboard power connector it has instead of the stock 24-pin one, there's an 8-pin header on the motherboard used to power the HDD/DVD! There are NO HDD or SATA power connectors coming directly out of the PSU, so I guess I can't put my new Titan X in it. (Of course, the PSU says "Maximum continuous total DC output power shall not exceed 290W", so I'd have to cut a hole in the case for a 2nd PSU.)
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Of course, the PSU says "Maximum continuous total DC output power shall not exceed 290W",
I don't think you could run an i3 Celeron on just 290W, never mind the cooling fan.
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Nah, the CPU in the machine (i5-4590) is an 84W TDP part. Add 1HHD, 1DVD and you've got lots of headroom. I actually have a 9500GT in there as well, which is only a 70W part or so.
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Bad ideas: Minesweeper for Windows 10 is a 200MB download and has IAP.
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I don't think you could run an i3 Celeron on just 290W, never mind the cooling fan.
I once measured my system with a Kill-A-Watt. 4.5 GHz i5, GTX 460, 4 hard drives, and a liquid cooling system for the CPU and it ran on about 100W. (I'm sure that number goes up drastically if I were to fire up IntelBurnTest and Furmark at the same time.)
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Yeah, relatively modern systems tend to sip power. My home i5-3570k + 650Ti Boost uses 80-100 in normal use, around 150 (I think) with prime95, and under 300 with something like OCCT's gpu test.
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Dell have always been a bit weird with power. Some of their machines use non-standard ATX pinouts so if you replace the OEM power supply with a compliant ATX supply you blow the board up. Thankfully the supply survived...
I think the AT pinouts were weird as well but that's a bit long ago to remember.
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Dell have always been a bit weird with power.
True, but for the longest time they were using more or less standard components. My PC is an OptiPlex 3020; another one purchased a year earlier was a 3010, and its motherboard had the standard 24-pin connector, and the drive cables came out of the PSU like normal.
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That's interesting, I wonder if the standard/non-standard is model dependent or if they just go through phases.
We only buy Dell servers now so I haven't seen any of their desktops since the early ATX days.
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Yeah, relatively modern systems tend to sip power.
Power scaling of the CPU is common now, as it reduces the amount of futzing around with cooling that you need to do.
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They aren't donuts, though.
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you, sir, have my complete and, at the moment at least, undivided attention.
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I wonder if the standard/non-standard is model dependent or if they just go through phases.
I suspect phases. The two machines are otherwise very similar.
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undivided attention
Sadly, I have no follow-up to that. It was just a joke based on the name of the benchmark, whatever it is. (I hadn't heard of that benchmark before. Based on the name, I'd guess it's a GPU rendering test, but CBA to google it.)