😈 The Evil Ideas thread
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You're right, my faulty memory. I was confusing the girl's father beating her, thinking it was he that raped her.
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I like the book a lot, though haven't read it in ages, and the movie adaption is excellent. Gregory Peck as Atticus is one of the best acting jobs I've seen -- though take that with a grain of salt, because I really haven't seen many movies and am missing many highly-regarded ones. Anyway, yes, that description of the plot is accurate. I don't think that the book or movie comes out and explicitly that he knew before the trial, but in both he is portrayed as being quite good at what he does, and it's a fair bet that he knew beforehand.
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A friend of mine painted a canvas black then painted a black square over it with a different brush. He's real proud because when he sold his house, the buyers asked for that painting to remain as a condition of the sale “that's just as good as selling the painting, right?”
Well, there's also a follow-up, "The White Square On The White Background":
http://www.russianpaintings.net/articleimg/malevich/malevich_white.jpg
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I'm getting a little tired of this white on white violence....
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I think you mean:
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The watermark is what really sold it for me.
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That's a large white large square, yes?
Except that it's off-white.
Wasn't there a Monty Python or something with that line? "How off-white?" "Green."
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Chemical attack on a passable furry convention.
Chlorine gas sickened several people and forced the evacuation of thousands of guests from a suburban Chicago hotel early Sunday, including many dressed in cartoonish animal costumes for an annual furries convention who were ushered across the street to a convention center hosting a dog show.
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The source of the gas was apparently chlorine powder left in a ninth-floor stairwell at the hotel, according to the Rosemont Public Safety Department. Investigators believe the gas was created intentionally and are treating it as a criminal matter.Though it apparently wasn't all that bad for some:
But attendees seemed to think the evacuation was part of the fun — particularly those who recalled being herded into the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center as it was hosting a dog show.
"In walk all these people dressed like dogs and foxes," said Pieter Van Hiel, a 40-year-old technical writer from Hamilton, Canada, chuckling as he thought back to the scene.
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Cat with head-mounted laser pointer
Dog with collar-mounted laser pointer
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Dog with collar-mounted laser pointer
After watching that, it suggested watching wife with collar-mounted shocker.
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After watching that, it suggested watching wife with collar-mounted shocker.
The title on that one is a little misleading. In the video, it was actually her idea.
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The title on that one is a little misleading. In the video, it was actually her idea.
Yes, and all around it's not nearly as awesome as you might think, but I chuckled a little watching her squirm as she anticipated the shock.
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That video was not what I was expecting based on the title, but maybe I've been talking to much with a Dom.
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ok, that comment belongs in at least one of the funny things threads.
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Taxing people for installing solar panels or wind turbine generators, even though they are feeding energy back in to the grid.
"Right now, a distributed generation customer is really paying less for the maintenance of the infrastructure than our other customers," despite the up-front costs of installing solar panels on a roof, said Kathleen O'Shea, spokeswoman for Oklahoma Gas and Electric
Of course, those same people are feeding energy in to the grid, that you get to mark up and sell to someone else...
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If your home uses fewer kilowatt hours of electricity than the amount of electricity produced by your wind turbine, OGE bills you for the electricity it provides to you. If your turbine generates more kilowatt hours than your home consumes, OGE will only give you credit for the power you consume and provide no compensation for the excess electricity you've provided to OGE free of charge.
Wait, what?
If your home uses fewer kilowatt hours of electricity than the amount of electricity produced by your wind turbine, OGE bills you for the electricity it provides to you. If your turbine generates more kilowatt hours than your home consumes, OGE will only give you credit for the power you consume and provide no compensation for the excess electricity you've provided to OGE free of charge.
I think someone done goofed editing this...
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That also shows even further WTFs in this. If you produce excess electricity, and feed it back in to the grid, you get no financial benefit and they get to sell the power that they get for free. How do shitty laws like this get passed?
Lobbyists...I forgot.
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@Intercourse said:
That also shows even further WTFs in this. If you produce excess electricity, and feed it back in to the grid, you get no financial benefit and they get to sell the power that they get for free. How do shitty laws like this get passed?
Lobbyists...I forgot.
Here in Arizona, the power companies have to give you credit for any excess power you feed into the grid. Of course, that's probably because such decisions are made by a small (5 members), elected Corporation Commission. There aren't enough of them to hide who voted for what, so they tend to vote what's best for the state, not best for the companies. After all, they want to get re-elected.
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Or, if you vote on something that you have a conflict of interest with, you are never allowed to hold public office again. I like that solution. Why don't we do that?
Oh yeah...legislators would have to pass that law, and that would be against their best interests. Our political system is basically fucked.
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@Intercourse said:
Or, if you vote on something that you have a conflict of interest with, you are never allowed to hold public office again. I like that solution. Why don't we do that?
With the amount of stuff the government has some influence in, that would effectively stop them from voting at all. ASDESIGNED_WONTFIX
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that would effectively stop them from voting at all.
You say this like it would be a bad thing.
That government is best which governs least.
— Anonymous; often attributed to Thomas Jefferson
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You say this like it would be a bad thing.
Take your time, it will come to you. (Or are you trying for a whoosh badge?)
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With the amount of stuff the government has some influence in, that would effectively stop them from voting at all.
I did not mean they would not vote about stuff the government has an interest in, although that would be an interesting twist. If you as a legislator vote on something that could potentially have a positive economic outcome for you, you will never be allowed to hold a public office again.
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Evil idea: confusing users with horrible cache invalidation.
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what? evil? no it's discourse it must be the one true way!
addendum: sending the same avatar four times in four different sizes for every loaded avatar instead of simply sending the biggest needed (45px square in this case) and having the client resize
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@Intercourse said:
If you as a legislator vote on something that could potentially have a positive economic outcome for you, you will never be allowed to hold a public office again.
This way madness lies (trying to be serious instead of snarky / trolling here). The definitions and exceptions are going to be so painful. And opponents will bring all sorts of crazy and imaginative claims. Nothing will ever get done. Hmm...then again, maybe you're on to something.
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Nothing will ever get done.
As a person who thinks we would be better off with less laws, I am more than OK with that.
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@Intercourse said:
As a person who thinks we would be better off with less laws, I am more than OK with that.
If you don't want anything done except the patently obviously necessary, just require a supermajority in favour for the measure to be passed.
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If you don't want anything done except the patently obviously necessary, just require a supermajority in favour for the measure to be passed.
I would prefer to burn K Street to the ground from end-to-end and draw and quarter anyone who betrays the public trust. But if you want to go all sensible and shit, I guess your idea would work also...
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Evil idea: confusing users with horrible cache invalidation.
I think you can just confuse users by modifying the quote block
Edit: You can't; it just changes the preview, not the post
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@RTapeLoadingError - Last Day Without A Discourse Bug: null
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Proposal: add humorous touches like "Last Day Without A Discourse Bug: you're kidding, right?"
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Proposal: add humorous touches like "Last Day Without A Discourse Bug: you're kidding, right?"
@loopback1, you're the one to ask, right?
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If you don't want anything done except the patently obviously necessary, just require a supermajority in favour for the measure to be passed.
And a supermajority to prevent a repeal.
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And a supermajority to prevent a repeal.
I'd rather have all laws having an automatic sunset clause.
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AWB
Automatic White Balance?
INB4 Assault Weapons Ban, but I had to google to discover that. I know far more about video cameras than guns.
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Anterior Whiskered Ballsack?
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Automatic White Balance?
<small><small>INB4 Assault Weapons Ban, but I had to google to discover that. I know far more about video cameras than guns.
I can't say I know a ton about either, but I know quite a bit about Google.
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Worked well for the AWB.
If all laws have it, and it takes a supermajority to get a law passed, the only laws that can stick around are those that continue to maintain a supermajority of support. They'll probably be mostly sensible ones (like which side of the road to drive on and so on). Anything vaguely iffy will get dropped just to cut the load on the legislature back to a level where they can stand to do that much voting.
I hope…
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Durian is a food.
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The taste is halfway between burning rubber and pineapple. Some people apparently love it.
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If all laws have it, and it takes a supermajority to get a law passed, the only laws that can stick around are those that continue to maintain a supermajority of support. They'll probably be mostly sensible ones (like which side of the road to drive on and so on). Anything vaguely iffy will get dropped just to cut the load on the legislature back to a level where they can stand to do that much voting.
There would need to be some way to allow the public to vote on overriding the sunset, thus making the law permanent. This process should require a public super-majority. Something like 70% or more.
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I'd rather have all laws having an automatic sunset clause.
I might settle for that, but preferably in addition, because we'll start getting hundred (or more) year sunset periods.