🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Doc...tor... Free..man. sen...d me an e...mail.
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They're just trying to win the First of May Olympics. What's wrong with that? other than its not May
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I'm more concerned with the COMPLETELY FUCKED PCI-E PORTS
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Exactly, Lodge-ban
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Sponsored by the May First Movement, right? Damn calendrical reformers.
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"Alrighty then."
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I leave it as an exercise to the reader as to whether taking pictures of food or claiming copyright of said pictures is the BAD IDEA.
In individual cases, shared pictures may be illegal. At worst, a copyright warning notice might come fluttering to the social media user. For carefully-arranged food in a famous restaurant, the cook is regarded as the creator of a work. Before it can be made public on Facebook & Co., permission must first be asked of the master chef.
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This seems like a bad idea, but I kinda want to try it too so maybe more of an intriguing idea
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It's either stupidity or ulterior motives.
This explains all sorts of things in the world.
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That happened when the customs agents ripped out the graphics cards (yes, plural).
As I said, bad idea.
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Wait, why did the customs agents want the graphics cards out? Did they think they were full of cocaine?
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I don't understand how they even managed to get socket damage. I've had to rip out a GFX card before after the tab got jammed. It just snapped the tab off. Maybe they didn't even unscrew the cards from the case and just rocked them back and forth until everything broke..
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"Look out! It might be a bomb!"
"I know! I'll SMASH THE FUCK OUT OF IT so that it explodes in my face!"
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Most likely it never occurred to them to use anything other than brute force. They probably needed too remove the cards because they were covering the weapon.
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If they'd thought it might have been a bomb they wouldn't have opened it in the first place.
They would have blown it up under controlled circumstances. Probably send the recipient the bill.
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Why would they need to do anything with it at all? Presumably, the person wasn't taking the desktop computer into the cabin with them, so there being a gun-shaped heatsink shouldn't be a problem.
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From the article, it was a mail shipping. Gun import is almost certainly regulated, so after the x-ray suggested there was a gun in the box they needed to verify whether this was the case using the fastest method available. That fastest method likely included a crowbar or similar implement.
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The fastest method to get the gun out was to smash a totally unrelated part of the device?
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Which was covering the gun. GPU in SLI, those cards will have covered that heatsink.
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to smash a totally unrelated part of the device
Obviously, if you work in security. [spoiler]In particular, if you know that your nephew wants a pair of over-priced SLI graphics cards.[/spoiler]
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What, are GPUs three feet long now?
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Gaming cards can get huge. Random GIS result:
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using the fastest method available
(emphasis by me)AFAIK, had this have happened in Germany, you could have sued them. A gun won't get a bit more dangerous if you took several minutes more time.
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Nope. I'm assuming pressure to handle packages as quickly as possible.
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pressure to handle packages as quickly as possible
Depends on where and on behalf of whom. But shredding the package right away might have been faster, still. (As integrity of a possibly innocent package obviously doesn't count.
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In any case, the idea of making a piece of metal inside your computer that you can't see from the outside without the kind of scanners they have in airports look like a weapon is a pretty terrible one.
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This iPhone stand.
Are... Are these fake apples? Because of "Apple"?
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I think they are wax, as in candles. They appear to be all the same i.e not individually made.
Given the the above - artistic display etc, and (what I assume to be) the prices. I can only conclude that the "crystals" are in fact diamonds. In addition to them being used as classy dressing, they act as sacrificial decoys / distractions to any potential snatch and grab type thief
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In what currency does that price make any sense? The language on the card looks like a Western Slavic, maybe Czech, but even in CZK, that's well over $3000. Polish złoty is even more ridiculous, over $21000. Slovakia uses the Euro, as does Slovenia.
Maybe South Slavic, not Western. Serbian Dinar gives $761. Expensive, but not insanely so. And that's as much research into exchange rates of Slavic countries as I care to do this afternoon.
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There is something with "20%" which I assume is some kind of VAT.
Serbia has a 20% one - which differs from the other countries you mentioned.
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Why would they need to do anything with it at all?
Well, we can guess based on observed behavior, that it's actually to get people used to obeying arbitrary and pointless commands, given that people with inch-high gun necklaces and shirts with pictures of transformers with guns have been told to take it off or turn the shirt inside out.
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In any case, the idea of making a piece of metal inside your computer that you can't see from the outside without the kind of scanners they have in airports look like a weapon is a pretty terrible one.
You know they make cases with view panels on the side, right? Theoretically, if someone spent money on a MoBo like this, they would spend money on a case with a view panel.
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Wouldn't that only matter if you had lights inside the case? That's a pretty bad idea too. I'm not looking at the inside of my computer while it's running.
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I'm not looking at the inside of my computer while it's running.
Why? It's not like it's going to moon you, or anything.
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Wouldn't that only matter if you had lights inside the case? That's a pretty bad idea too.
Many ventilation fans include LED lighting. Easy enough to light up the interior of your case.
@ben_lubar said:
I'm not looking at the inside of my computer while it's running.
Why? It's not like it's going to moon you, or anything.
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Yup, not copypasta this time, I took that pic yesterday.
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Typed "20 % PDV" into Google. The returned a results page that caused Google Translate to start twitching and mutter stuff about "working conditions". I translated the one that I thought would produce the most informative information:
From the date of 01.10.2012. years after the decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia general tax rate F. (F) is changed from 18% to 20%! Also persons who are not VAT taxpayers are relieved of the duty to use and keep traffic over fiscal cash! Other rates remain unchanged since it is given any explanation. On the website of the Ministry of Finance can find a list of all activities under this decision will not have to use cash registers for recording traffic.
Anyway, 80,490 Serbian Dinars is about $760 or £484. What its value is in terms of the local cost of living, I don't know.
I was pleasntly surprised that the (forum) respons was not along the lines of "...it's not currency because it's format is 80 period 490 comma 00
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But shredding the package right away might have been faster, still.
Once the “potential weapon OMG!!!” has been detected, it's immediately moved out of the fast processing track anyway.
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I was pleasntly surprised that the (forum) respons was not along the lines of "...it's not currency because it's format is 80 period 490 comma 00
I hope most, if not all, of us are sufficiently aware of localization issues not to be fazed by that.
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What's with the faces on the price tag stand things?
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I think they just wanted some "cute" photo-clip thingies. Also, they kinda look like the product - if you squint to make them blurry
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It's their company logo.
You guys are having way too much fun analyzing that pic.
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They're still selling the Note3?!
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Party pooper :P
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Although it is definitively Doing It Right™, I think it is nevertheless a very bad idea to enable an arbitrary mixture of three incompatible markup notations.
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I think it is nevertheless a very bad idea to enable
an arbitrary mixture of three incompatible markup notations.Discourse.FTFY.