THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@locallunatic said:
@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.
No, you just need to define phonemes for the letters.
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Shia LaBoeuf tweeting in Lojban
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Shia LaBoeuf plagarizing a movie script in Lojban
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'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC played on the cello.
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Shia LaBoeuf skywriting an apology in Lojban
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@El_Heffe said:
'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC played on the cello.
Wrong thread. This is for bad ideas, not excellent wonderful ones.
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@Alex Papadimoulis said:
@R.Flowers said:
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
If FireFox ever hit mainstream popularity (which, as a publisher and consumer, I'm glad it won't happen)...
Can you elaborate on this, please? Is this about the ads, or... I don't get your reasons. Thanks.From reading articles, opinions, etc., from the FireFox team, I get the impression that they have the same or similar mindset as the "Linux commie" crowd* (note: I am only talking about a small portion of linux users here). This crowd does not believe in "intellectual property" and believes that creative work (music, software, etc) contributes to the betterment of society and should be unencumbered and free to derive from. They do not believe in copyright, patents, DRM, or anything -- including advertising -- that puts restrictions or a price on creative work.
I don't use Firefox, but from what I've seen of it, it's incredibly easy (just a few clicks) to download and install extensions. Since these blocking extensions are in the top of the list, it means that FireFox has made no effort to ban or block these extensions on their principle, which means that they tacitly endorse them. I would categorically ban such extensions on principle.
Such endorsement of ad-blockers reinforces my belief that the FireFox leads are "Linux commies" and that the ubiquitousness of their product would be detrimental to the "free with ads" paradigm most of us have come to enjoy.
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Out-of-context quoting from an 8 year old flamewar based on information that wasn't fully understood then, and has changed since, and who knows what anyone's opinion is at this point.
@dhromed said:
1. it'll [Windows Vista] look prettier!
2. Totally! Microsoft will drop XP, and everything older, like a brick once Vista gains foothold!*
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@El_Heffe said:
Oh dear.23-year-old Steven Miner II and his sister Kathryn, 20, grew up in a world of suffering. They were forced to live in a luxurious, $1.5 million home in Barrington Hills, Illinois, where their mom, Kimberly Garrity, lorded over them with "bad mothering" that caused "emotional distress..."
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As you can imagine, all this left the rich kids hopelessly damaged and incapable of ever having a healthy relationship again. So they hired three lawyers -- including their dad, Steven Miner I -- to take mom down.
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Using evidence of bitcoin WTFs to rationalize your opinions.
The fact that Bitcoin’s followers deeply oppose this sort of aggressive government action explains why their aspirations to building a universal currency aren’t working.
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Harry Hermione Ron
Gordon Alyx Barney
Geralt Triss RocheFirst column:
- Male
- Causes trouble just by being somewhere
- Doesn't remember the event that caused them to become special
- Third letter is an R
- Two syllables
- Main character of series
- Female
- Smart
- Is separated from main character at some point in series
- Spells HAT
- Male
- Not characterized as smart
- Contains an R
- Almost every character seen talking to this one is male
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Ben L, is there a reason you don't put this stuff in a Tumblr?
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@blakeyrat said:
Ben L, is there a reason you don't put this stuff in a Tumblr?
I don't have a Tumblr.
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@Ben L. said:
@blakeyrat said:Ben L, is there a reason you don't put this stuff in a Tumblr?
I don't have a Tumblr.Or you do and it's address is forums.thedailywtf.com
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@Ben L. said:
@blakeyrat said:
Ben L, is there a reason you don't put this stuff in a Tumblr?
I don't have a Tumblr.Well you could create one.
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Drinking so much espresso that your urine smells identical to a strong cup of coffee.
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Uncontested arrivals into foreign countries.
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A low budget remake of the original Star Trek television series that faithfully recreates the costumes and sets, but with even shittier acting**.
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@mott555 said:
Drinking so much espresso that your urine smells identical to a strong cup of coffee.
Drinking so much urine that your urine smells identical to a strong cup of urine.
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
@mott555 said:
Drinking so much espresso that your urine smells identical to a strong cup of coffee.
Drinking so much urine that your urine smells identical to a strong cup of urine.
Drinking so much strong cup of strong cup that your urine smells identical to a strong cup of strong cup of strong cup.
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Smoking keeps you sane!
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@El_Heffe said:
Make URLs longer
FTFY
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On Tuesday, the owner of the Poloniex exchange admitted on the Bitcoin Talk forum that around “12.3 percent of the BTC on Poloniex” was stolen.
The hacker discovered that multiple simultaneous withdrawals are processed essentially at the same time and that the system's software doesn't check quickly enough for a negative balance, so they are still processed. The site's owner went on to add that the “major problem here is that the auditing and security features were not explicitly looking for negative balances.”
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@Lorne Kates said:
Thou has doomed us all! When thou misspoke the words, the Army of the Dead awoke.@Ben L. said:
mi pu gleua li rau
Everything's cool! I said the words! I did!
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@joe.edwards said:
@Lorne Kates said:
Hey, Ash Wednesday was just a few days ago.
Thou has doomed us all! When thou misspoke the words, the Army of the Dead awoke.@Ben L. said:
mi pu gleua li rau
Everything's cool! I said the words! I did!
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Re: BAD IDEAS AND ASH WEDNESDAY
@mikeTheLiar said:
Hey, Ash Wednesday was just a few days ago.
Years ago, a friend of mine hung out with a bunch of guys who were heavily into sports gambling. One day, a couple of the guys who liked to bet on hockey games (bad idea #1) came up with a scam. All the games were played in the evening, except there was always one game a week played in the afternoon, so they decided they would trying betting on the afternoon game after it had been played and they knew the score, hoping that the bookie wouldn't notice.And it worked for a few weeks. When they went to meet the bookie to collect their money (which just happened to be on Ash Wednesday) they didn't know that he had finally caught on to their scam. As the bookie was berating them and telling them all the different ways he was going to kill them and their families if he ever saw them again . . . . they noticed that he had a large ash cross on his forehead.
They apologized and left quickly because laughing at someone who is threating to kill you is a bad idea.
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Taking pictures of your food like a hipster.
The badness of that idea is thankfully offset by the best website in the world (citation needed):
[url="http://pohtpof.tumblr.com/"]Pictures of hipsters taking pictures of their food.[/url]
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Trying to/believing you can raise the dead.
Johnson [of the Dead Raising Team™] is unwilling to provide successful case studies. And in general, the proof that believers cite is a bit unconvincing – for example, there is an American heart surgeon who allegedly brought a heart attack patient back from the dead with prayer … oh, and a defibrillator.
Other doctors find the story entirely unremarkable. One wonders why.
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Cramming as many red-flags into a property listing as possible, so that your wtf:listing ratio approaches infinity.
[url="http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?PropertyId=14125351"]Why is there "debris"? Why is there so much debris it had to be mentioned in a property listing? Why is there so much debris is will take a change of seasons to remove it? Does this have anything to do with why the appliances are "as is"? WHY ARE THERE NO CURRENT PHOTOS?[/url]
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@Lorne Kates said:
Why is there "debris"? Why is there so much debris it had to be mentioned in a property listing? Why is there so much debris is will take a change of seasons to remove it? Does this have anything to do with why the appliances are "as is"? WHY ARE THERE NO CURRENT PHOTOS?
I would guess:- The property has been vacant for a while so maybe there's a lot of leaves, tree branches, etc that have been piling up for a while
- Since it's Canada, everything is buried under 4 feet of snow, so they have to wait for their 3 days of summer to clean it up
- Which would also explain why there's no current photos
- The property has been vacant for a while so maybe there's a lot of leaves, tree branches, etc that have been piling up for a while
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@Lorne Kates said:
Cramming as many red-flags into a property listing as possible, so that your wtf:listing ratio approaches infinity.
OK, as an apartment dweller could someone explain why this listing says 2 story but then they list three different levels (Ground, Upper, and Second). The picture looks like 2 but I figure I'm being dumb in some way.
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@locallunatic said:
OK, as an apartment dweller could someone explain why this listing says 2 story but then they list three different levels (Ground, Upper, and Second). The picture looks like 2 but I figure I'm being dumb in some way.
Basement. For some reason, that doesn't count as a "story". Bathrooms and basements often aren't included in square footage measurements either. Real Estate is weird.
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Using Windows Calc to work out (√4 - 2)
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Using Windows Calc to work out (√4 - 2) and getting -1.068281969439142e-19
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@El_Heffe said:
Using Windows Calc to work out (√4 - 2) and getting -1.068281969439142e-19
Being a "Microsoft MVP", and when presented with this bug, tell the user the answer is:
"Run this may be something is corrugated in the core files."
Well, there you have it. Microsoft makes their software out of cardboard. It explains a lot.
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Confirmed that calc in Windows 8 is corrugated also.
4 years and bug not fixed. Since when did Windows become open source?