βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Why can't you pass a stopped school bus on the road side.
Remember, it's only when they're on/offloading passengers. But specifically as to why, imagine a 3rd grader getting out on the right-hand side fo the bus, walking across in front of it to cross the street to reach his destination. Just as you are going by at 30mph, he steps out from in front of the bus, which is nothing but blind spot.
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We also teach them to wait until the bus has fucked off (or at least to cross behind it).
And that works perfectly for you, so that no kids ever rush out into the street in front of moving cars?
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I don't know, it was really fucking annoying because they'd sit in the entrance to my parking lot blocking me from getting out because the bus stopped on the corner.
The last place I lived, I would sometimes see some dipshit woman who would drive behind her kid on the way to the bus stop.
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I just realized--I just made a ton of posts, and not one "You're doing it wrong" toaster.
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It's a big thread. If the limits are dynamic...it's hard to hit them.
Filed Under: amirite?, Like the running children getting off a bus
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i think it's based on how many posts are in the topic or some such discologic.
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OH NOES!
well yeah. if you're not on facebook regularly and they never send out an update via indigogo (which they can do) that there's a post on FB to go read it does become rather hard to get this sort of news until rather after the fact.
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And that works perfectly for you, so that no kids ever rush out into the street in front of moving cars?
No kid has ever walked out into the road in front of me.Adults, on the other handβ¦
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I can't decide whether I think @blakeyrat would like Wondermark or hate it.
It's on my RSS reader already.
Probably best to go with the most likely option and assume he think's it's shit.
Sure why not.
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Baristas as flamebait:
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Not content with serving mediocre coffee, now they want to be social justice pioneers?
Yeah⦠no.
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But at least they're putting those Masters degrees in Fine Arts and SJW to good use!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGCZB8jUxRc
The video says that most people after shaking hands with someone will smell their hands. Is this a thing? Do I do this without realizing it?
I think the video is just wrong, but Amy Shira Teitel is pretty damned hot.
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The video says that most people after shaking hands with someone will smell their hands. Is this a thing?
No!If you smell your hand after a handshake, the other person will think you're just weird.
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The video says that most people after shaking hands with someone will smell their hands. Is this a thing? Do I do this without realizing it?
I don't know that I've ever done that, but now I suspect I'll have the urge to on my next handshake.
BITCH.COMPLAIN.
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I don't know that I've ever done that, but now I suspect I'll have the urge to on my next handshake.
My thoughts also. I wonder if they contaminated the sample?
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Not that I realize, though I may wipe my hand on my pants if it was a sweaty hand.
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Amy Shira Teitel is pretty damned hot.
I know that's totally subjective but... No... Better get those glasses checked.
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To each their own, but keep in mind that I am 35 and married. :-P
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I hate these fucking emoticons. They all need to chill the fuck down.
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Oh, you sound older but you're actually younger than me. Go figure.
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You'd think the adjective of β β β β β β β would be Belgian.
Belch. Source: somewhere in /t/1000
Bad idea: Going to look for the first occurrence. Without using search.
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Amy Shira Teitel is pretty damned hot.
I know that's totally subjective but... No... Better get those glasses checked.
She'd be hotter if she was Milana Vayntrub:
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External speakers have no place on headphones
Yes, that's the only thing wrong with that...
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My dad bought McAfee to "protect" his laptop from "viruses and other threats". It supposedly has "protected" him from "3107 firewall intrusion attempts" behind a NAT with nothing forwarded to his laptop and "removed 4 viruses or other threats" which I assume means "tracking cookies". It also "protected" him from being able to start games on Steam and from shutting off the "anti"virus software. There is no "stop fucking everything up" button. There is, however, a "stop fucking up my network connections for 15 minutes (or until next reboot) and then go back to fucking them up" button that brings up always-on-top notification windows that cover half the screen as soon as he tries to start a game on Steam.
The only way to disable McAfee enough to start a Steam game is to uninstall it, reboot, delete a specific file from C:\Program Files (x86), and then start your game. He didn't want to get rid of it even though it was making his computer not work "because [he] paid for it".
Can anyone explain to me how antivirus software that does that is any different from scareware fake antivirus software? They both "remove" nonexistent threats and fuck up everything else "for your protection".
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"3107 firewall intrusion attempts"
You sure it wasn't "1337 firewall intrusion attempts"?
EDIT: Also, while I'm here, what games does your Dad play on Steam?
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Right now, Left 4 Dead 2, which he ordered last year from a physical store. He tried Portal 2 through Steam Family Sharing but he got motion sick right away. He bought some flight simulator game and I think he's played it a few times. I got him to try Dota 2, but it confused him.
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It supposedly has "protected" him from "3107 firewall intrusion attempts" behind a NAT with nothing forwarded to his laptop
Probably network discovery. Good thing McAfee blocked those for him... It would be a damned shame if he were able to use a wireless printer or something.
Can anyone explain to me how antivirus software that does that is any different from scareware fake antivirus software? They both "remove" nonexistent threats and fuck up everything else "for your protection".
Nothing, besides one of them is sold in retailers and the others are picked up from illicit sites and drive-by downloads. McAfee and Norton are both shit. Complete and utter shit.
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He didn't want to get rid of it even though it was making his computer not work "because [he] paid for it".
Today, after renewing the corporate-mandated Norton AV on a cow-orker's laptop, I complained about how I don't use it at all because it allows my machine down, and she volunteered the information that she didn't like the performance hit at home, where she'd installed it, and when I suggested she uninstall it, she said the same thing.
"It's causing nothing but trouble, but I can't get rid of it or I won't get my money's worth out of it!" No! Like economists say about subsidies, stopping it is like stopping hitting yourself with a hammer.
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I'd take her home if she was homeless.
If you took her home, you'd be the reason she was homeless in the first place...
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If you took her home, you'd be the reason she was homeless in the first place...
That is so untrue ... she would have her own little cell in my basement ...
Better get started on digging that basement
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we teach our kids the Green Cross Code. We also teach them to wait until the bus has fucked off (or at least to cross behind it).
It only takes a moment of inattention, and kids are full of inattention, for them to forget everything they have been taught and run out in front of the bus to their friends on the other side, a cute dog, or mommy, or chasing a beetle or their dropped ball, or...
I live next to a road with supposedly a speed limit of 70kmph, but since this is the first straight in five km, people rarely drive slower than 90. I have of course taught our kids never to go near the road; we had a cat who sacrifised his life to teach it even further to them, and I still have a fence and a huge gate. The kids have no trouble opening the gate, but they have to switch on their heads to do it.
Why? Because if something would happen, I could not bear the thought that I could have done more than just tell them to avoid the road. Seriously, If I could get away with duct taping them to the basement floor to keep them safe I would.
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I think the video is just wrong
Couple of major issues:
- The test subjects smelled their hands after shaking hands with someone wearing a rubber glove? I probably would as well, rubber gloves stink and its an unusual situation
- They seem to be talking about pheromones. AFAIK, that's completely debunked in humand. We don't have the necessary part of the nose to detect them
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We've got mandated mcafee at work. They have automated checks in place to ensure you're running it. And it seems linux mcafee performs even worse than the windows one...
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And it seems linux mcafee performs even worse than the windows one...
I am shocked and appalled by that fact, sir!
</sarcasm>
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Can anyone explain to me how antivirus software that does that is any different from scareware fake antivirus software?
they're identical.
windows defender (or microsoftSecurityEssentials for Windows7) and a reasonable modicum of safe browsing habits is more than sufficient protection.
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That wasn't sweat.
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So I've just had to investigate an issue where some people in our company couldn't email another company, the mails got bounced back as spam. It turns out that in order to email them, they have to have mailed you first. This adds your email address (individual email address, not domain) onto their whitelist. I've never seen this setup before, I just, why would you even...
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So I've just had to investigate an issue where some people in our company couldn't email another company, the mails got bounced back as spam. It turns out that in order to email them, they have to have mailed you first. This adds your email address (individual email address, not domain) onto their whitelist. I've never seen this setup before, I just, why would you even...
So just wait till you have another company with the same policy, and the fun ensues!
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That wasn't sweat.
How do you know that?
Or more specifically, how do you know that?Filed under: wow, sidecrous is particularly annoying today...
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Bad idea: Doing a massive forum data import without any notice. Which is apparently currently happening.
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Bad idea: Doing a massive forum data import without any notice. Which is apparently currently happening.
I wonder what exciting* thing will go wrong with the import this time?
*. not reallly...