The quasi Official Stupid Ideas that have actually been done thread
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Why the fuck would you use newer better technology as a fallback?
because it's harder to block preroll ads in flash video players than it is in HTML5.
:-/
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I've read that blog, and I don't see why he hasn't been shut down for manufactured spending, since it readily admits to doing it in the article.
Then again, I assume the card companies are happy enough with him generating customers through referrals.
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Waterfox?
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Just bury it alive.
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and stick a tree on top of it for good measure?
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The water doesn't have enough colors, considering recent discussions.
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@Luhmann said:
FireFox
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Like that'll work well ...
(what the hell's up with nested quotes?)
Seems it's the only way to get FF39 to close now. I've had to nuke it several times today when something hung it. (Like those damn San Jose sidewalk links I posted in another thread.)
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Ah. That. Could have sworn I'd nested like that before... Must have only nested depth and not multiple at same depth. oh well.
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This just proves that if you don't keep moving, you'll take root
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And I refer you to my post here, specifically the second part about disabling the site suggestions in the new tab page.
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http://pagesix.com/2015/07/30/bizarre-naked-tom-cruise-art-a-salute-to-scientology/ (NSFW if nude art makes your employers anxious.)
It was announced Wednesday that a giant Cruise shroud and commemorative medals will be unveiled in tribute to the actor’s 25-year involvement with the Church of Scientology — but the controversial religion claims to have no part in the spectacle.
The 14-foot-by-3-foot shroud – which depicts a very well-endowed nude likeness of the 53-year-old ....
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Not sure where to put this, but:
Taipei, Aug. 24 (CNA) A Taiwanese boy on Sunday punched a hole in an extremely valuable Paolo Porpora painting at a Taipei exhibition after apparently tripping and trying to catch his balance on the artwork, according to the surveillance tape provided by the organizers on Monday.
Filed Under: Oops
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The stupid idea here was putting an extremely valuable painting at waist level with nothing but a rope to protect it from tourists, right?
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The stupid idea here was putting an extremely valuable painting at waist level with nothing but a rope to protect it from tourists, right?
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They obviously don't ridicule their chunky kids enough.
I prescribe 30 minutes of Truffle Shuffle a day.
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The very next video that offered me was "Everything wrong with Goonies in 8 minutes or less," but I haven't watched it yet because I haven't seen the movie.
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The movie's just a thin wrapper around the Truffle Shuffle.
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The movie's just a thin wrapper around the Truffle Shuffle.
You're just a thin wrapper around...no, wait, that doesn't make any sense.
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Is it really possible to put smoking and non-smoking lanes on public sidewalks?
Technically yes, but it's not going to achieve much....
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Technically yes, but it's not going to achieve much....
Only if the smokers have as much sense of shame as you seem to have. Smoking is one of the few things we're actually allowed to shame people about.
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Smoking is one of the few things we're actually allowed to shame people about.
Along with being fat, drinking alcohol, eating too much salt, having too much fun....
Anything any of the neo-puritans think we shouldn't be doing basically.
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Right. But don't even think about shaming a lazy person. You'll get shamed by a @flabdablet cartoon if you try.
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But don't even think about shaming a lazy person.
Covered that already though.
Being fat.
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Twice. Or maybe thrice - I've not been keeping up....
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Only two. For now...
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One was originally a troll created shortly after the Likes thread got going. The other was specifically created recently as a backup. There are currently just those 3 topics blacklisted from the '* Poster' badges.
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Anyone with a BMI over double digits you mean....? (At least that's what the prohibitionists of all colours would have us believe...)
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Inb4 that thread gets locked and another backup thread is created.
(I'll wait. It'll be a while...)
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There are currently just those 3 topics blacklisted from the '* Poster' badges.
I'm sure there's at least one other...
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I think you are about to relearn, as I did earlier this week, that the sekret UUID that keeps things out of 2^n badges is not the same mechanism that is used to restrict the Like related badges.
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Technically yes, but it's not going to achieve much....
Also, the (any) such System will break down / fail to cope with changes in wind direction
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It's funny, because those pop up every once in a while, when someone finds a new hook to put them on a clickbait site. Most of the sculptures I'd seen before, but the last one you posted an image of, the giant watering trough, was new to me.
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I hope they don't all get destroyed, like Googie architecture in the US. Which is practically extinct because people suddenly decided it looked tacky, and the only examples you can see are things that are so iconic they can't be destroyed-- like LAX's Theme Building, the Space Needle, the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign, etc.
It's goddamned tragic how many structures were destroyed or remodeled beyond recognition.
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I hope they don't all get destroyed, like Googie architecture in the US.
I don't think there's a plan per se to demolish them, but they are generally not being maintained, and, for example, the ones that are buildings, and not just sculptures, are suffering exactly the kind of deterioration you'd expect of a building that's been left exposed to the elements.
The structures should last a very long time, although the link I saw to the particular article @boomzilla mentioned said that the concrete was substandard in some cases, and the affected structures are starting to break down. But then the body of the article didn't mention that, that I saw. The couple of places I'd seen these sites mentioned before (places like englishrussia.com) didn't mention the concrete decaying.
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The structures should last a very long time, although the link I saw to the particular article @boomzilla mentioned said that the concrete was substandard in some cases, and the affected structures are starting to break down.
As a wise man said:
Commies love concrete, but they don't know how to make it. Concrete is a mixture of cement, gravel and straw? No? Gravel, water and wood pulp? Water, potatoes and lard? The concrete runway at Warsaw's Miedzynarodowy airport is coming to pieces. From bumpy landing until bumpy take-off, you spend your time in Poland looking at bad concrete. Everything is made of it - streets, buildings, floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, window frames, lamp posts, statues, benches, plus some of the food, I think.
-- PJ O'Rourke
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Yeah, that was the quote. I probably saw the article from the same site as you--Ace or whoever's link to it--but I didn't see it in the article itself, just the site it was linked from. I looked for it, too, hoping there was a bit more, not terribly hard.
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tl;dr; Left over paper lantern hangers mistaken for nooses and interpreted as hate crime. Assembly held to “to find ways to change the campus climate” and new "diversity action plan" being put into place. I guess to try to find some smart students.
h/t David Thompson
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Cover story! Systematic deception! This goes all the way to the top!
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Assembly held to “to find ways to change the campus climate” and new "diversity action plan" being put into place.
To make the stupid clear, IIRC this assembly was called (or not called off) even after it was discovered that these weren't nooses.
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Fake but accurate!
Dan Rather should be ashamed, but he's really quite proud.