🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Iffy translation not mine.
Dortmund. random walk with consequences: Because he was stranded with his car on the tracks, a 31-year-old has blocked the U-Bahn in Dortmund for hours.
Offered to the light rail station Barop car park on Saturday morning a curious sight: Around 5 clock approached not from the darkness as expected U42 - just a gray car. For reasons still unknown, the man had gone into the slot and stopped at the stop.
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Wow. I haven't heard of anything like that before.
Not unthinkable, though - U-Bahn lines that are partially above ground aren't a rare thing.
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Same with the the London Underground. A lot of it is actually above ground; only 45% or so is in tunnels.
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There was a post on Reddit where they showed how he'd likely got onto the track from the road - two stations away from that photo!
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Around here it'd be a pretty clear case of a drunk or confused (read early signs of dementia) driver going the wrong way. This being Germany, I'm not prepared to rule out performance art.
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Kate sent an email and was told a new policy meant “fruit will be age verified in case natural fermentation takes place”.
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http://swns.com/news/shopper-asked-for-id-to-buy-fruit-in-case-it-fermented-and-turned-alcoholic-64438/
Kate sent an email and was told a new policy meant “fruit will be age verified in case natural fermentation takes place”.
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Erm…Excuse me; I think my brain's soaking into my shoes…
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To be fair, later in the article it is stated:
- The person who told her this said it was a rumor that this was the new policy.
- A correction was later sent that it was an error, and there is no such policy.
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This one's better:
Scales of bust-ice: Cashier’s breasts add £5 to shopper’s fruit and veg bill
After looking at their about page, I can't tell if those guys are intentionally satirical (e.g., The Onion) or not (like most US tabloids).
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To be fair, the email actually says:
“Don’t quote me on this but I have heard a rumour that all fruit will be age verified ongoing in case natural fermentation takes place.”
I prefer to think that it was all a mistake and that the "rumour" was just something someone made up.
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That one seems dubious, at best. AFAIK, those scales have to measure a steady weight for a period of time before they will register the purchase. They are specifically designed to prevent, for example, a surreptitious thumb on the edge of the scale to get a false weight, because it's almost impossible to provide a sufficiently steady pressure with part of your body. Doing so unintentionally seems even more unlikely, especially with a part of the body that is constantly moving due to breathing and heartbeat as well as normal motion.
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After looking at their about page, I can't tell if those guys are intentionally satirical (e.g., The Onion) or not (like most US tabloids).
I think the only way to be sure is to find these same stories reported by other news outlets.Anyone (UK resident) here read the Metro?
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Anyone (UK resident) here read the Metro?
Does timing myself on how long it takes to do the hard sudoku in it count?
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Yes, as does pretty much every story there.
I could be persuaded to believe in a clerical error incorrectly categorizing a product as needing verification, followed by an idiot making up a rumor. The one about the breasts on the scale, though, stretches credulity. Saying the cashier's "cleavage" was pressing on the scale doesn't help.
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I could be persuaded to believe in a clerical error incorrectly categorizing a product as needing verification, followed by an idiot making up a rumor.
Me, too. But looking at the site as a
whole...
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looking at the site as a whole
Well, the only stories I've read are the two that were linked here. However, unless presented with evidence to the contrary, I am willing to accept your opinion that, if I may paraphrase your statement, considering that site to be a reliable source of information would be an idea appropriate for this topic.
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I am inclined to believe that any 'news' story originating in a supermarket is lies.
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Bad Idea™: Backing up all workstations in an office of roughly 25 - 30 PCs to remote cloud storage when the office only has 2 - 3 Mbps upload.
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My Twitter feed just filled with stuff from this:
TL;DR: he gave some super secret documents to his biographer and leaked stuff much more important than what Snowden did. Right?
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he gave some super secret documents to his biographer and leaked stuff much more important than what Snowden did. Right?
Huh?
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TL;DR: he gave some super secret documents to his biographer and leaked stuff much more important than what Snowden did. Right?
Haha no.
Snowden just piped out gigabytes of confidential information without even attempting to review it to ensure it wouldn't put lives in danger.
I support his whistleblowing 100%, but the way he went about it was grossly irresponsible, and yes, I do think he should be tried in court for it.
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I support his whistleblowing 100%
I'm good with what he put out about domestic stuff. He deserves to be prosecuted for the other stuff.
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Right; and if I agree with Boomzilla you know it's got to be capital-T Truth.
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or, the end is nigh.
pick one
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if I agree with Boomzilla you know it's got to be capital-T Truth.
But ... but someone said you and @boomzilla are the same person, so you should agree all the time. I'm so confused...
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someone
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But ... but someone said you and @boomzilla are the same person,
I'm the same person as everybody. It's kind of metaphysical, I don't expect you to understand.
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Why are the Intertubes full?
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Well, the only stories I've read are the two that were linked here
I formed my opinion mostly based on the headlines down the right hand side of the page. Trash, trash, clickbait, trash. Nothing to see here.
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They aren't full, that's just our connection rate at work.
The backup thing isn't happening either but it's been proposed. I calculated it would take 11 days just to back up my system, assuming no one else is using the Internet in the interim.
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I calculated it would take 11 days just to back up my system, assuming no one else is using the Internet in the interim.
How much data is on your system??
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It's in the 200 - 300 GB range, probably more when you figure I have about 6 operating systems installed.
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Yeah, I came up with about 9 days. Not too far off. (and considering my total brain fart with @blakeyrat earlier, you are probably right...)
May I ask what service you are using? Most of them will let you seed your backups from an external hard drive, etc. Then you would only have to do an incremental from that point on.
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It is a top secret message to go to rgoogle.com, obviously
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May I ask what service you are using? Most of them will let you seed your backups from an external hard drive, etc. Then you would only have to do an incremental from that point on.
I think it was something developed in-house that would back up to the main corporate datacenter.
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I think I'd have laughed my balls off if a teacher treated me that way.
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Bad idea: Allowing Bond villains to finance their plots through Kickstarter.
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hmm..... i need to poke kickstarter about that. it is annoying as hell!
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The bad ideas thread seems like the best place to post this
http://imgur.com/a/z2fet#y1XovDp
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"Art" is often a Bad Idea.
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I like furry things, but plates should not be furry!!!
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I remember these :) It was an interesting exhibit about intentionally making small modifications to useful things to make them utterly useless, right?