🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Anybody got the nerve to try this one?
http://www.bimbo.comI was pretty sure I knew what it was going to be, and my work doesn't use a filter, so I clicked on it, and was right.
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Not at work, so...
What you do when you're not at work is, presumably, your own choice. I wanted to make sure anyone who might get in trouble clicking the link had enough information to decided whether or not to click it.
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It might help if someone said what it actually was and not just that they guessed what it was.
I was pretty sure I knew what it was going to be, and my work doesn't use a filter, so I clicked on it, and was right.
I did and was disappointed to find exactly what I expected.
Same here.
That doesn't help.
From their FAQ:
Also, if you want to get some worn goods of your favorite piggybank girl, we need your address for the shipping.
Now I'm more curious than ever...
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It might help if someone said what it actually was and not just that they guessed what it was.
Sorry. Bimbo is a bakery company. They sell the kind of bread products (honey buns and the like) that you'd find in a convenience store. IIRC they also sell regular bread and stuff like you'd find in a grocery store.
I believe it's a Mexican company with a US subsidiary--certainly all[1] their marketing in the US is Spanish-language.
[1] that I've ever seen.
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Worse idea: Signing that with your name.
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Online DRM in Solitaire? Are you sure this was the right thread?
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I think this could also be filed in evil ideas. Or stupid ideas that have been done. What's the rules for this one again - are ideas that have been done allowable here?
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Are they asking someone to go out with them or are they stating the fact that William goes out with them?
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He must be a bad date if Will doesn't know they're going out.
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My wife just discovered today that if you're watching a movie on our TV that's stored on a USB drive, and the computer goes to sleep, the TV stops playing the movie. The TV and computer are both wired into the router. This wouldn't be a big deal except the TV doesn't have a faster fast forward than 2x, which is just INSANE.
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No, I will not. I pefer people who can plan ahea
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He must be a bad date if Will doesn't know they're going out.
I was thinking it's more of a command than a statement of fact.
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Worse idea: Signing that with your name.
Is that really worse than trying to woo a building?
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I almost threw up just watching that.
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I can only express my self in Spanish for this:
Que huevos.
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Very bad idea:
Our algorithm scans the internet, surfaces the most popular adult video and sends it to you daily.
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Is it bad that I was waiting for him to slip?
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As a political candidate, threatening to shoot your opponent if they ever get selected to be prime minister.
"If he is I will personally put a bullet between his eyes. If this lad turns up to be our prime minister I will personally put a bullet in him. That's how strong I feel about it."
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Film is POV, so waiting on something that isn't going to happen is probably dumb but it would have been more interesting.
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Film is POV, so waiting on something that isn't going to happen is probably dumb but it would have been more interesting.
Ah, but I didn't know it wasn't going to happen. Sure, there was reason to expect that the filmer wouldn't be hurt (the video was posted, after all). But that doesn't mean that he wouldn't slip.
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Even if the film is POV, the guy could have fallen and died and even broken the camera. There are wifi cameras now.
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Here's how to kill the type of people who will try anything on YouTube that they see someone else do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9UjxG8sN1c
Or, wait, maybe I should have put this in the Good Ideas thread?
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Or, wait, maybe I should have put this in the Good Ideas thread?
No, he omitted the grounding. So it's definitely a bad idea.
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No, he omitted the grounding. So it's definitely a bad idea.
Killing idiots through YouTube was the good idea part of it, so that just makes that part better.
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That is colloquially known as a "pisspot dimmer".
You can probably guess why, and the "joke" the old hands played on the newbies.They were very common before the advent of electronic dimming, cheap and easy to fix - albeit fairly likely to harm you.
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cheap and easy to fix - albeit fairly likely to harm you.
it's amazing how often those two traits coincide.
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What Prenda Law has done.
Latest in the saga: Prenda Law And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Appellate Argument (popehat.com)
For the uninformed:
All Popehat posts about Prenda
The Deposition (REQUIRED READING) - Spoiler alert - Paul Hansmier knows nothingQ. Is your testimony here today that AF Holdings
has never paid Mr. Lutz any compensation of any kind for
his services as the sole employee of AF Holdings?
A. Could you repeat that?
(Record read as requested.)
THE WITNESS: Yes.Actually, this might deserve its own topic.
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@xaade? Is that you?
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Where's my ?
No, seriously, break out all the theater snack food for this -- Prenda puts on a legal Benny Hill Show every time they turn up in court!
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Absolutely! I am kind of eagerly awaiting the next phase of a trial where the lawyer insists is clients be allowed to stand in criminal court. This guy appears to be using the Chewbacca Ate My Twinkie defense.
"You appear to be a great lawyer".
"Thank you."
"At least, is says so on your website."That shit ranks up there with "we would defer to the expertise of the ATF if we were able to discern any."
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I'm so out of the loop on that, I thought there was a Prenda Law trying to be passed.
I don't get the connection. Are you saying that any argument against Prenda is overly complex, or that I'm like Prenda?
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I'm so out of the loop on that, I thought there was a Prenda Law trying to be passed.
I don't get the connection. Are you saying that any argument against Prenda is overly complex, or that I'm like Prenda?
Let's see if anyone else is willing to explain the connection.... :)
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I don't get the connection. Are you saying that any argument against Prenda is overly complex, or that I'm like Prenda?
Stop worrying about it too much; it's just a snide dig at you. The whole Prenda thing comes under the heading of When Idiots Go To Court and will no doubt be on the legal profession's equivalent of TDWTF for years to come…
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Not worried.
I knew it was pulling my leg.I just wanted to know what direction the pull was.
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All Popehat posts
So I've seen various retweets from their Twitter account, but I'm not sure I've read their blog. And now I'm sad I've missed it, because it's great. Interesting, well-written, often-times amusing. (I like the somewhat wry sense of humor, like "Now, ignoring a court's order to show cause is an atypical strategy," or something like that from an earlier post. Reminds me a little of "Things I Won't Work With.") That's totally getting added to my RSS reader.
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"You appear to be a great lawyer"."Thank you.""At least, is says so on your website."
That shit ranks up there with "we would defer to the expertise of the ATF if we were able to discern any."
I like one of the quotes from the original judge's ruling against them. After saying that Prenda (and criticizing them for) calculates their proposed settlements to be "just under the cost of a bare-bones defense," the judge described the punishments as "calculated to be just under the cost of an effective appeal."
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So
Prenda: There's no need to defend yourself.
Judge: There's no need to appeal.I think we need a frivolous category, that when applied, the person suing will have to pay all defense costs if they lose.
They can then be free to sue if they want.But I can't do this without considering the massive abuse that could entail. Building walls too great for a individual to sue.
We really just need better judges to use more sanity when they filter cases.
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Yep, I was making a jab at @xaade because usually he's the one who posts nonsensical stuff. Rereading @riking's post, it makes a little more sense now that it's not 1AM, but it's still kinda tough to grok