THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Naming your middle eastern restaurant The Bomb.
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How about a restaurant called Camp Anal
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Arrest a firefighter for where he parked his truck while responding to a crash. Ponch never would have done that. Jon, I'm not so sure about.
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Moving from solid platform like community server to an untested platform like Discourse?
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Or a Mexican restaurant called C.O. Jones.
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@Nagesh said:
solid platform like community server
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Your baby will probably learn to sit independently between the ages of 4 and 7 months. This is about the same time that he will have mastered rolling over and holding his head up. Most babies can sit well for several minutes without support by the time they're 8 months old. Even babies who've mastered sitting will topple over eventually, often because they lose interest in being upright.
"I'm not drunk. I simply lost interest in remaining upright."
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@El_Heffe said:
Your copy of Mr Chen's post appears to have lost some context, as well as the right location of the closing anchor tag... (here for those who don't follow him.)Your baby will probably learn to sit independently between the ages of 4
and 7 months. This is about the same time that he will have mastered rolling over and holding his head up.
Most babies can sit well for several minutes without support by the
time they're 8 months old. Even babies who've mastered sitting will
topple over eventually, often because they lose interest in being
upright."I'm not drunk.
I simply
lost interest in remaining upright."
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Guess which service my ISP gives higher priority to.
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English to Japanese translation.
Click on the "speaker" icon on the English side. Then on the Japanese side.
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@Ben L. said:
What's the problem there? It sorts all the solid bits out perfectly!
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@El_Heffe said:
It's got a good beat and you can dance to it.English to Japanese translation.
Click on the "speaker" icon on the English side. Then on the Japanese side.
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@morbiuswilters said:
I just installed Win95 from floppy disks, and boy are my arms tired!
True story: I bought OS/2 Warp on floppy disks.That was a bad idea.
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@El_Heffe said:
What's supposed to happen? FF and Chrome under Linux have the icons but nothing (obvious/interesting) happens when they're clicked, IE under Windows doesn't even have the icons.English to Japanese translation.
Click on the "speaker" icon on the English side. Then on the Japanese side.
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@PJH said:
@El_Heffe said:
English Japanese
What's supposed to happen? FF and Chrome under Linux have the icons but nothing (obvious/interesting) happens when they're clicked, IE under Windows doesn't even have the icons.English to Japanese translation.
Click on the "speaker" icon on the English side. Then on the Japanese side.
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@PJH said:
@El_Heffe said:
You click on the speaker icon and it plays audio of the translation. At least it does for me (Firefox/Windows)
What's supposed to happen? FF and Chrome under Linux have the icons but nothing (obvious/interesting) happens when they're clicked, IE under Windows doesn't even have the icons.English to Japanese translation.
Click on the "speaker" icon on the English side. Then on the Japanese side.
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@El_Heffe said:
@Ben L. said:
English Japanese
Here's what I get for those links.Since you're all the wurst, I threw in a german version too.
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@El_Heffe said:
@Ben L. said:
Here's what I get for those links.
Fine, I'll upload it to a music sharing site.
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@Ben L. said:
Fine, I'll upload it to a music sharing site.
The original link I posted works fine. I don't know what the heck you people are doing.
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select p, sum(s) as score, sum(r) as rounds from (select p, (select sum(t_wins) from rounds where rounds.match = m and rounds.round >= 1 and rounds.round <= 15)+(select sum(ct_wins) from rounds where rounds.match = m and rounds.round >= 16 and rounds.round <= 30) as s, (select count(*) from rounds where rounds.match = m) as r from (select match as m, t1p1 as p from matches union select match as m, t1p2 as p from matches union select match as m, t1p3 as p from matches union select match as m, t1p4 as p from matches union select match as m, t1p5 as p from matches) union select p, (select sum(ct_wins) from rounds where rounds.match = m and rounds.round >= 1 and rounds.round <= 15)+(select sum(t_wins) from rounds where rounds.match = m and rounds.round >= 16 and rounds.round <= 30) as s, (select count(*) from rounds where rounds.match = m) as r from (select match as m, t2p1 as p from matches union select match as m, t2p2 as p from matches union select match as m, t2p3 as p from matches union select match as m, t2p4 as p from matches union select match as m, t2p5 as p from matches)) where p is not null group by p order by score asc;
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@Ben L. said:
A massively multiplayer video game with one character that everyone controls at the same time.
THE HIVE MIND HAS BEGUN
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@Ben L. said:
title="This comic shows estimated average frequency. I wanted to include the pitch drop experiment, but it turns out the gif format has some issues with decade-long loops."
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Jurors not convicted of murder due to mental defect / disease:
During preliminary jury screening at a firearm silencer possession trial, one member of a 28-person panel had an unusual reply to the judge's question, "Has anyone ever been convicted of a crime?"
The juror raised his hand and asked if that included a case of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
The potential juror: Keith R. Kalota, 55, who killed his wife and two children 27 years ago, stabbing each of them more than 20 times.
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@boomzilla said:
During preliminary jury screening at a firearm silencer possession trial, one member of a 28-person panel had an unusual reply to the judge's question, "Has anyone ever been convicted of a crime?"
From the rest of the article:The juror raised his hand and asked if that included a case of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
The potential juror: Keith R. Kalota, 55, who killed his wife and two children 27 years ago, stabbing each of them more than 20 times.
Milwaukee County Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers said Tuesday he had never heard of someone adjudicated not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect turning up in a jury pool, but he confirmed that such a person, even Kalota, remains legally eligible to serve on a jury. Even people convicted of felonies can serve if they've completed their entire prison sentence and supervised released probation, Kremers noted.
I wonder if that includes sex offenders. You know, the ones who even after they've completed whatever sentence the law hands down, are still required to go door-to-door and tell all the new neighbors that they've been bad.
Anyway, Kalota was found not guilty, treated for psych issues and released. He has official expert documentation now that says he's mentally sound. Do any of the other jurors have a piece of paper to that effect? Do Kremers or any of the attorneys in the firearm case?
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@da Doctah said:
I wonder if that includes sex offenders.
Gotta be a jury of peers, right?
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.i.ui cabdei jbedetnunsla la.mark.
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@Ben L. said:
.i.ui cabdei jbedetnunsla la.mark.
Can somebody explain to me WTF happened to Ben L.? Maybe it's just cause I'm sick and my brain is barely functional, but I don't get his latest posts/signature.
Edit: nevermind, I figured it out.
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Stroke.
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@mikeTheLiar said:
@Ben L. said:
.i.ui cabdei jbedetnunsla la.mark.
Can somebody explain to me WTF happened to Ben L.? Maybe it's just cause I'm sick and my brain is barely functional, but I don't get his latest posts/signature.
Edit: nevermind, I figured it out.
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@Ben L. said:
http://www.lojban.org/jboski/index.php
"If you are new to Lojban or this site, please read the help page first."That seems about right.
Edit: Every link on that page results in a Page Not Found error.
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@El_Heffe said:
@Ben L. said:
http://www.lojban.org/jboski/index.php
"If you are new to Lojban or this site, please read the help
page first."That seems about right.
You forgot to include the next two lines of text:It's a broken link, but it sends you to the right place.
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@Ben L. said:
I'm just glad we have this thing quarantined to the right thread.
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@Ben L. said:
@boomzilla said:quarantined
mi toltu'i do ta tiI'm curious as to why you are using lojban. If it's just to be annoying wouldn't using loglan make more sense?
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@locallunatic said:
I'm using lojban because English is bad.@Ben L. said:
@boomzilla said:quarantined
mi toltu'i do ta tiI'm curious as to why you are using lojban. If it's just to be annoying wouldn't using loglan make more sense?
My friend sent me this code:
if (c.hasGravity) { v.yVelocity += 3; } if(!(c.left_touching && v.xVelocity < 0)){ c.left_touching = false; } if(!(c.right_touching && v.xVelocity > 0)){ c.right_touching = false; } if(!(c.up_touching && v.yVelocity < 0)){ c.up_touching = false; } if(!(c.down_touching && v.yVelocity > 0)){ c.down_touching = false; } if (c.right_touching) { v.xVelocity = 0; } if (c.left_touching) { v.xVelocity = 0; } if (c.down_touching) { v.yVelocity = 0; } if (c.up_touching) { v.yVelocity = 0; }
I couldn't convince him thatif(!(c.left_touching && v.xVelocity < 0)){ c.left_touching = false; }
was the same asif(v.xVelocity >= 0){ c.left_touching = false; }
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@Ben L. said:
I'm using lojban because English is bad.
I'm sorry I don't follow that. Because english is bad you are using something derived from an old not very well done lingustics experiment (not well done because they weren't measuring the expected behavior of if the theory was right)?
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- Lojban is designed to be used by people in communication with each other, and possibly in the future with computers.
- Lojban is designed to be culturally neutral.
- Lojban has an unambiguous grammar, which is based on the principles of logic.
- Lojban has phonetic spelling, and unambiguous resolution of sounds into words.
- Lojban is simple compared to natural languages; it is easy to learn.
- Lojban's 1300 root words can be easily combined to form a vocabulary of millions of words.
- Lojban is regular; the rules of the language are without exception.
- Lojban attempts to remove restrictions on creative and clear thought and communication.
- Lojban has a variety of uses, ranging from the creative to the scientific, from the theoretical to the practical.
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Do I even need to add a Rosie here? (Hint: the answer is no)
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@Ben L. said:
- Lojban is designed to be culturally neutral.
- Lojban has phonetic spelling, and unambiguous resolution of sounds into words.
Phonetic spelling while not using the phonetic alphabet and instead using the english one? Yes of course that is culturally neutral.
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@locallunatic said:
Any alphabet can be used with Lojban as long as it has letters that represent the sounds in Lojban unambiguously.@Ben L. said:
- Lojban is designed to be culturally neutral.
- Lojban has phonetic spelling, and unambiguous resolution of sounds into words.
Phonetic spelling while not using the phonetic alphabet and instead using the english one? Yes of course that is culturally neutral.
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@Ben L. said:
OK, but that doesn't change the fact that *EVERY* link on http://www.lojban.org/jboski/index.php is broken.. Instead of having all the links take you to another page that contains the actual working links, why not just have working non-broken links in the first place. For something that is supposed to be "logical" the design of their website is pretty illogical.It's a broken link, but it sends you to the right place.
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@Ben L. said:
Any alphabet can be used with Lojban as long as it has letters that represent the sounds in Lojban unambiguously.
So no non-phonetic alphabet then (which means basically all of them). Excellent design choice.