THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@Ben L. said:
@HardwareGeek said:
Most free Oxygen is found as molecules of O2, so Oxygen is 200% oxygen.@dhromed said:
Oxygen is nearly 100% oxygen!
Chlorophyll a is about 9.5% (by mass) oxygen; ethanol is 34.7% oxygen. By that reasoning, drinking ethanol should be more than 3.5 times as effective at oxygenating your blood.@PJH said:
Well. Let’s pick a quote at random. Chlorophyll is “high in oxygen”. And the darker leaves on plants are good for you, she explains, because they contain “chlorophyll – the ‘blood’ of the plant – which will really oxygenate your blood.”
Reading this shit makes me angry, and makes me want to oxygenate the world.
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@El_Heffe said:
TIL 2 / 2 = 200%@Ben L. said:
@HardwareGeek said:
Most free Oxygen is found as molecules of O2, so Oxygen is 200% oxygen.@dhromed said:
Chlorophyll a is about 9.5% (by mass) oxygen; ethanol is 34.7% oxygen. By that reasoning, drinking ethanol should be more than 3.5 times as effective at oxygenating your blood.@PJH said:
Well. Let’s pick a quote at random. Chlorophyll is “high in oxygen”. And the darker leaves on plants are good for you, she explains, because they contain “chlorophyll – the ‘blood’ of the plant – which will really oxygenate your blood.”
Reading this shit makes me angry, and makes me want to oxygenate the world.
Oxygen is nearly 100% oxygen!
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@joe.edwards said:
@El_Heffe said:
TIL 2 / 2 = 200%@Ben L. said:
@HardwareGeek said:
Most free Oxygen is found as molecules of O2, so Oxygen is 200% oxygen.@dhromed said:
Chlorophyll a is about 9.5% (by mass) oxygen; ethanol is 34.7% oxygen. By that reasoning, drinking ethanol should be more than 3.5 times as effective at oxygenating your blood.@PJH said:
Well. Let’s pick a quote at random. Chlorophyll is “high in oxygen”. And the darker leaves on plants are good for you, she explains, because they contain “chlorophyll – the ‘blood’ of the plant – which will really oxygenate your blood.”
Reading this shit makes me angry, and makes me want to oxygenate the world.
Oxygen is nearly 100% oxygen!
200%? That's nearly 100%!
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@El_Heffe said:
Most free Oxygen is found as molecules of O2, so Oxygen is 200% oxygen.
There ain't no such thing as free oxygen.
(I reckon you'd say ozone is 300% oxygen!)
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@da Doctah said:
@El_Heffe said:
Most free Oxygen is found as molecules of O2, so Oxygen is 200% oxygen.
There ain't no such thing as free oxygen.
(I reckon you'd say ozone is 300% oxygen!)
There are two ways to interpret "Oxygen is 200% oxygen".The first is that oxygen molecules are 200/100 oxygen atoms, or 2 oxygen atoms, which is true.
The second is that for every 100 oxygen molecules there are 200 oxygen molecules, which is obviously false.
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@Ben L. said:
@joe.edwards said:
2 atoms is not twice as much as 1 atom?@El_Heffe said:
200%? That's nearly 100%!
TIL 2 / 2 = 200%@Ben L. said:
@HardwareGeek said:
Most free Oxygen is found as molecules of O2, so Oxygen is 200% oxygen.@dhromed said:
Oxygen is nearly 100% oxygen!
Chlorophyll a is about 9.5% (by mass) oxygen; ethanol is 34.7% oxygen. By that reasoning, drinking ethanol should be more than 3.5 times as effective at oxygenating your blood.@PJH said:
Well. Let’s pick a quote at random. Chlorophyll is “high in oxygen”. And the darker leaves on plants are good for you, she explains, because they contain “chlorophyll – the ‘blood’ of the plant – which will really oxygenate your blood.”
Reading this shit makes me angry, and makes me want to oxygenate the world.
You have interesting maths, sir.
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Officers said the incident apparently began when a woman wearing an
Angels jersey and a sombrero got into a dispute with two people who were
talking about the Dodgers and their love for chalupas. Coincidentally,
the woman in the Angels jersey wearing the sombrero preferred burritos.
An argument then ensued.
As the conflict grew, three Marines who were passing by attempted to
come to the aid of the woman wearing the sombrero but ended up being
attacked and stabbed.
Police said that as officers tried to break up the fight, one of the Marines was stabbed in the face with a broken beer bottle.
According to the report, the three Mariners "were recovering" as of today and the investigation is ongoing.
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@dhromed said:
@El_Heffe said:
You have interesting maths, sir.
And you have an interesting definition of 100%.
Okay, since English isn't logic-based, this is hard, but let's expand the statements:"100 oxygen molecules are 200 oxygen atoms."
This is obviously wrong as molecules are not atoms. Molecules are made of atoms.
"100 of the atoms contained in oxygen molecules are 200 oxygen atoms."
This is also wrong because 100 atoms cannot be 200 atoms.
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Opening this text file.
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@Ben L. said:
@dhromed said:
100 molecules contain 200 atoms.
Okay, since English isn't logic-based, this is hard, but let's expand the statements:@El_Heffe said:
You have interesting maths, sir.
And you have an interesting definition of 100%.
"100 oxygen molecules are 200 oxygen atoms."
This is obviously wrong as molecules are not atoms. Molecules are made of atoms.
"100 of the atoms contained in oxygen molecules are 200 oxygen atoms."
This is also wrong because 100 atoms cannot be 200 atoms.
200 atoms is twice as much as 100 atoms.
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@dhromed said:
@El_Heffe said:
You have interesting maths, sir.
And you have an interesting definition of 100%.
Maybe you should think about it this way: you want 100 oxygens, so you take 100 oxygens. But since you get 2 oxygens for every oxygen, you only needed to take 50 oxygens! You now have twice as many oxygens as you needed in the first place. Incredible? Not really, because it's how percentages work. 200% means you get two times the oxygen per oxygen.
Because oxygen is 200% oxygen, you only need half as many oxygens as you need. It seems counter-intuitive, but it's true. How can it be? Science! Without science, we wouldn't have been able to build rockets to go to the moon (which required lots of oxygens, by the way (but only half as many oxygens as they needed)). Can you imagine how heavy the rockets would be if they had needed twice as many oxygens? Thank you, science, for leading us to progress.
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HOLY FUCK IT'S BSTORER
:D
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@bstorer said:
...and this was the thread that woke you up. Welcome back.
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@bstorer said:
Can you imagine how heavy the rockets would be if they had needed twice as many oxygens?
Twice times twice as heavy!
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@boomzilla said:
@bstorer said:
...and this was the thread that woke you up. Welcome back.
I've got almost 5000 threads to work my way back through. Just starting at the top of the queue.
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@bstorer said:
I've got almost 5000 threads to work my way back through.
Get a cup of coffee before the Monty Hall thread. Or maybe something stronger.
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
@bstorer said:
I've got almost 5000 threads to work my way back through.
Get a cup of coffee before the Monty Hall thread. Or maybe something stronger.
The nice thing about this forum is that (to paraphrase Alex quoting Lorne) not all of our our baskets have flown the coop.
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@El_Heffe said:
Filed under: And you have no sense of humor
So THAT'S what the lines I commented out from the core AX system did!
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
@bstorer said:
I've got almost 5000 threads to work my way back through.
Get a cup of coffee before the Monty Hall thread. Or maybe something stronger.
Dont tell me I missed an argument about the Monty Hall problem. That's one of the all-time classics of great internet arguments! Oh, well. At least we can all agree that 0.999... = 1, a plane on a treadmill can still take off, 0-based indexing is stupid, and kernel style is the One True Brace Style.
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@bstorer said:
Dont tell me I missed an argument about the Monty Hall problem. That's one of the all-time classics of great internet arguments! Oh, well.
I'm afraid I triggered it, but for what it's worth I did it without mentioning the probability thing at all. There was some thread about "what did you learn today?" and I said I learned that Carla Gugino (the mom in the Spy Kids movies, among other things) was the niece of "Let's Make A Deal" prize-pointer Carol Merrill. And it just took off from there.
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@bstorer said:
I've got almost 5000 threads to work my way back through.
Just don't read that one thread about Steam removing items due to feedback.
@bstorer said:At least we can all agree that 0.999... = 1, a plane on a treadmill can still take off, 0-based indexing is stupid, and kernel style is the One True Brace Style.
I agree with 3 out of 4 of these statements. Due to the other one, however, we must duel to the death, sparking of a feud that will last for generations.
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@bstorer said:
At least we can all agree that 0.999... = 1
.. I'm fairly certain we didn't...
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@PJH said:
@bstorer said:
You are correct, sir. However, I'm much too lazy to find the thread and link to it.At least we can all agree that 0.999... = 1
.. I'm fairly certain we didn't...Restarting any of those arguments is definitely a BAD IDEA, so I suppose this is the right forum in which to do it.
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Pants
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@El_Heffe said:
Pants
Filed under: Not 100% certain this is a bad idea
Filed under: Not 100% certain what an action zone is used for
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@Ben L. said:
Filed under: Not 100% certain what an action zone is used for
I'm guessing it's a predecessor of Ballroom Jeans.
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Drunk college student breaks into business, eats half a box of Hot Pockets, passes out. That really doesn't do justice to what this guy did. But this bit caught my eye:
@TFA said:WBND notes he told police he had also been smoking synthetic marijuana.
I didn't even know that was a thing.
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@Ben L. said:
@El_Heffe said:
Maybe it is for storing the extra large "snack" sack.Pants
Filed under: Not 100% certain this is a bad idea
Filed under: Not 100% certain what an action zone is used for
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@bstorer said:
Dont tell me I missed an argument about the Monty Hall problem.
You only missed it because you were so fucking determined to stick with your original guess.
@bstorer said:
a plane on a treadmill can still take off
I hate this one. A plane on a treadmill obviously can't take off. I mean, Jesus, a treadmill is only, what, 5 feet long? Dipshits.
@bstorer said:
0-based indexing is stupid
And Go is the best language.
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@Ben L. said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@bstorer said:
HOLY FUCK EVERYONE IS COMING BACK :D
I only dropped by to see how much of a clusterfuck the move to Discourse had most certainly become. I was not disappointed.
Then I saw that pstorer had bosted and it was like Ramadan on the Fourth of July, except with fewer white people having limbs blown off.
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@morbiuswilters said:
white people having limbs blown
SUBLIMINAL OBSCENE CONTENT DETECTED. CONSIDER THIS YOUR FINAL WARNING.
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Upgrading to Novell GroupWise 2014. Because, you know, Office 365\Exchange and Google Apps don't exist or anything.
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GroupWise (at least the 1997 version I last used) is still way better than Domino/Notes.
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@Douglasac said:
Upgrading to Novell GroupWise 2014.
Apparently, Netscape once had a thing that was like the GroupWise thing.Filed under: Apparently Novell is still a thing, GroupWise is a thing too.
TAFE Victoria in Holmesglen has not changed its messaging and collaboration platform since it moved from Netscape to Novell’s GroupWise almost 10 years ago
@Wackypedia said:Netscape's server products and its Professional Services group became part of iPlanet, a joint marketing and development alliance between AOL and Sun Microsystems. The software in the newly branded iPlanet included "messaging and calendar, collaboration, web, application, directory, and certificate servers", as well as "production-ready applications for e-commerce, including commerce exchange, procurement, selling, and billing." In March 2002, when the alliance was ended, iPlanet became a division of Sun.
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p=1.35
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A car light enough that 3 kids can pick it up
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@Ben L. said:
Also, you just lost a game of your choosing.
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A guitar with an asking price of $20,000 because it belonged to Perry Como.
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@joe.edwards said:
Goat Sounds CD
Those aren't goat sounds; they're bassoons.
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@joe.edwards said:
The second door contains a car with a Goat Sounds CD playing on the stereo.
Lame. I at least want a car with satellite radio. The SiriusXM Goat Sounds station is great. It's all goats, all the time, with none of the commercials of terrestrial goat sound stations.
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@El_Heffe said:
A guitar with an asking price of $20,000 because it belonged to Perry Como.
Well, that's not the only reason for the asking price. It also goes to eleven.
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@da Doctah said:
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It's a 1958 model. 11 hadn't been invented yet.@El_Heffe said:
A guitar with an asking price of $20,000 because it belonged to Perry Como.
Well, that's not the only reason for the asking price. It also goes to eleven.
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2.1.1 :001 > HistoricalFigure.group(:gender).count (73.5ms) SELECT COUNT(*) AS count_all, gender AS gender FROM "historical_figures" GROUP BY gender => {"MALE"=>168669, nil=>2, "FEMALE"=>169307, "DEFAULT"=>83}
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