🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@Intercourse said:
Trying to rob a gun store with a baseball bat.
If you had a gun, you wouldn't need to rob the gun store. Duh.[gif]
Now, I don't think the people who do this sort of thing deserve death or a crushed ribcage. But maybe one or two broken legs would discourage them from doing it again.
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At least you see something. I just see blank empty white space where I'm assuming an image is supposed to be.
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Two students at the University of East Anglia have started a campaign called #gowiththeflow encouraging their classmates on campus to urinate in the shower to save water.
The idea is that if everyone on the campus - around 15,000 students - peed in the shower in the morning they would each save the 12 litres of water used each time the toilet is flushed.
The two students, Chris Dobson and Debs Torr, want those taking part to announce their support on Facebook and Twitter, and the first 15 to do so will be offered a £10 gift voucher.And ever the
idiotoptimist:Chris said: “We’ve done the maths; the project stands to have a phenomenal impact. With 15,000 students at UEA, over a year we would save enough water to fill an Olympic size pool 26 times over. Imagine how big an impact it could have if we could get everyone in East Anglia, or even the UK, to change their morning habits.”
Yeah, like that's gonna happen...
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Doesn't this assume they're all showering every day? In the morning? This doesn't fit with the typical college students I've known.
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Hidden side benefit, or real point of initiative? YOU DECIDE.
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Actually, if it makes them shower more often wouldn't that end up using more water? I mean you get rid of a different problem, but...
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Doesn't this assume they're all showering every day? In the morning? This doesn't fit with the typical college students I've known.
When I was in college most students showered in the mornings. Doing anything in the shared dorm bathrooms in the morning required a ton of dumb luck. But I've always been a night-showerer (old habit from growing up on a farm, you don't go to bed covered in cow manure and hay dust) and usually had the entire bathroom to myself in the evenings.
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I had some friends who showered at night. I typically did that in the morning, but due to work and stuff, I often had earlier classes than most, so it wasn't usually a problem. But I knew plenty of people (guys, at least) who would stay up and sleep so late that they barely had time to put on clothes before going to their first class.
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http://fox59.com/2014/10/12/johnson-county-men-arrested-for-showing-up-drunk-to-bail-out-friend/
Specifically they were trying to bail out a friend who was in on underage drinking.
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Feeding 200GB/day of files through a home-brew messaging layer that groans and buckles under the current load.
Filed under: someone clearly hasn't heard of rsync or scp/sftp
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At least you see something. I just see blank empty white space where I'm assuming an image is supposed to be.
As do I, but it comes and goes. It's strange.they were trying to bail out a friend who was in on underage drinking.
What were they thinking? Were they.... oh.
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This needs to be seen, but it's too extreme to embed it here. Thus, I'm posting just a link.
This woman has decided to treat breast cancer with "natural" vegan diet instead of real medicine. 2 years latter... WARNING! NSFW! NSFL!
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i shouldn't click that link, not here.
i shouldn't click that link, but i'm going to, later.
bookmarked so i can view after i leave the office for the day.
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i shouldn't click that link, not here.
i shouldn't click that link, but i'm going to, later.
bookmarked so i can view after i leave the office for the day.
There's a song in there, if I'm any judge. Might need some work on the beat.
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@accalia ... do not click it.
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are these words spoken from experience?
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What are you talking about?
And when did I post that post above?
And why can't I remember anything that happened after I entered this thread?
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What are you talking about?And when did I post that post above?And why can't I remember anything that happened after I entered this thread?
oh dear. you do have it bad...
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are these words spoken from experience?
Thanks for taking one for the team.
I am disappoint that you didn't warn the rest of us, though.
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Thanks for taking one for the team.
I am disappoint that you didn't warn the rest of us, though.
Is it a Dwarf Fortress link?
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Is it a Dwarf Fortress link?
Beats me.
I assumed it was a picture, and "suppurating" is likely to capture the essence of the set of words that would apply to the description thereof, and today was a day I decided I could live without knowing what's on the other end of that link.Click it and find out.
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
Is it a Dwarf Fortress link?
Beats me.I assumed it was a picture, and "suppurating" is likely to capture the essence of the set of words that would apply to the description thereof, and today was a day I decided I could live without knowing what's on the other end of that link.Click it and find out.Hey - I already took one for the team in a previous thread (not linked because DiscoSearch).
@PJH: Take One For The Team badge required?
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I clicked it soon after it was posted. At work.
The link was suitably tagged. I see no reason for anyone else clicking it to be at all surprised by its contents....
O_o
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I clicked it soon after it was posted. At work.
i too clicked the link. After i was home.
I can't say i was surprised at the result.
what has been seen..... cannot be unseen....
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Unless you reverse time quickly.
Has the side-effect of causing a few minutes of memories getting lost, though.
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i would have been okay with that really. even an hour or so if needed.
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I've heard people propose things like lowering the drinking age. I think that has promise, because at least it takes away the attraction of the forbidden. I'm sure there would still be binges, but I'm not sure that it wouldn't reduce them.
look at UK universities, same problems, but students are of legal drinking age.
Exactly that: it's about extending the don't-park-here lines to absurdity.
It's a bad idea and a WTF.
I don't think it's that absurd, someone could park a motorbike anywhere along the full length of those lines, and probably would at some point without them. although as I continue to read the thread someone beat me to it.
'#gowiththeflow
it has an additional side benefit of clearing up veruccas quite effectively, a common problem for people sharing a shower cubicle.
homeopathy is fake, hence, peeing in the shower is not bad for your fellow shower users.
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I clicked it too. Looked a lot like corn plants with fungal disease, only it wasn't corn.
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look at UK universities, same problems, but students are of legal drinking age.
Seems like you guys also have more problem drinking from older non-students than we do, too. But that's just my impression, which could be way off.
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Our attitude to alcohol, as a country, is not great. Brits just seem to love getting absolutely trolleyed and causing trouble
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Brits just seem to love getting absolutely trolleyed and causing trouble
Given that even your town drunks tend to be well-spoken and surprisingly clear of mind (at least, when not directly engaged in their occupation) - the fact everyone feels a need to blow off steam every once in a while doesn't strike me as odd.
What got me is how easy it is for the Brits to get wasted. Yeah, I know, there aren't many nations that can directly compete with Poles in drinking contests (the Russians - and possibly the Finns), but come on! Whilst living in London I'd seen people get absolutely plastered before I'd even have a chance to get a bit tipsy.
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London is one of the more heavyweight areas in my experience. It's a perfectly normal thing to go out for a pint or four on a school night, twice that at weekends. I drank more in the year I lived in London than I have in the three years since moving away
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So, today I've looking into this Roku device thing (don't ask) and got:
Roku Channels are written in a Roku-specific language called BrightScript. BrightScript is a scripting language similar to VisualBasic
From what I've gathered, it's a Linux device so why build a new DSL instead of using any established language? Why build a DSL based on something as far off from Linux as VB?
Oh well, at least it's not similar to ActionScript.
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But all the cool kids are making their own DSL's!
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London is one of the more heavyweight areas in my experience.
Not in my experience, however, 'coz my point is that the actual quantities of alcohol I've seen imbibed weren't that big (our beer is considerably stronger than standard British fare and something like 2 l. in a night is nothing extraordinary, just enough to get you in a good mood; 4 l. sounds about right for a Saturday night). When you really want to do some serious drinking you break out the vodka.
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It's the pre-loading that really does it. Too many people will have the vodka before going out…
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Ah. There's the problem, then.
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Well, I was going to say that it was a classic example of something that belonged on the Bad Ideas Thread, but then I realised where I was…
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It's the pre-loading that really does it. Too many people will have the vodka before going out…
Back in my university days, I spent a couple seasons working security at the (american) football stadium on campus. Campus was (allegedly) dry, so people had to do their drinking before they arrived (or smuggle it in, of course). Despite the wildly varying start time for college football games, the alcohol content of the student section was fairly constant. If the game started earlier, so did the pregame drinking.
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It's the pre-loading that really does it. Too many people will have the vodka before going out…
Usually works out better that way, in my experience.
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Usually works out better that way, in my experience.
I just have the vodka instead of going out. Much better. Not to mention cheaper.
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I just have the vodka instead of going out. Much better. Not to mention cheaper.
I only have vodka if I've flavoured it with something nice first. Lemon peel works well, or a little fierce chilli. Pop it in the bottle, leave it to steep for a while somewhere cool, drink (carefully if it is the chilli version).
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I see no reason for anyone else clicking it to be at all surprised by its contents....
The only surprise would be the form of the destructor, so to speak.
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look at UK universities, same problems, but students are of legal drinking age.
It seems like in recent years, many English people just have a drinking problem, whereas the drinking problem in US universities definitely got significantly worse gradually after the drinking age went up.
When I was in college 20 years ago people didn't generally glorify being stinking drunk, pregaming, etc.
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Why build a DSL based on something as far off from Linux as VB?
I think everyone who writes a DSL with an intended-to-be-easy-syntax says it's "like VB".
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It seems like in recent years, many English people just have a drinking problem,
That depends on your definition of "recent"
I can't vouch for the whole of the last two millennia, but I did all my serious drinking in the late 80s and 90s and Friday and Saturday nights were always about having a skinful and staggering home. Moderation was not practiced in any form.
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Python is nothing like VB.
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I did all my serious drinking in the late 80s and 90s and Friday and Saturday nights were always about having a skinful and staggering home.
I will never understand the desire to get that drunk.
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Is Python a DSL?
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Is Python a DSL?
No. While some scripting languages at bootstrapping that sort of thing, Python isn't one of them.