The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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Heh.
You said it, not me.
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Thw video was entertaining, but.. why this topic?
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I saw that this morning. The sniper probably shit himself.
I saw a vid several years ago where someone shot a Marine full in the chest from not too far away. Unfortunately for this guy, said Marine was wearing his chest plates, and got right back up again and proceded to return the favor.
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Unavailable.
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Odd. Earlier I had seen a different variant--someone had edited a minute or so out of it.
If you search youtube for "soldier shot in helmet" you'll see several other vids like this one.
In this particular one, three guys are clearing a compound, and as they're about to go out the door, one of them take a bullet to the top of his helmet. They all run back out of the visible area near the door, then he takes off the helmet while they look at the damage to it. Then they go out the back door and meet up with the rest of their squad and try to decide what to do next.
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"This video is private"
And I can't even see the video's name / link, so I can search for an alternative.
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I'm getting that, too. Short description, several marines are looking out a window or a door or something and you see one guy's head get knocked around by an incoming bullet. They run back into an interior courtyard and regroup. The guy who got hit is completely fine.
I assume that the "sniper" was using something very unsniperlike. Still...
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And clicking the video seems to have broken the back button. Wat @discoursebot
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@HardwareGeek - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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I assume that the "sniper" was using something very unsniperlike. Still...
Nah, getting hit on the top of a metal bowl can do that even with rifle rounds. It's sort of the whole point of a helmet. :)
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The jet blower stuf upthread reminded me:
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Jet powered VW bug
This seems more like it belongs in the "Future Darwin Awards" topic, especially the part at the end about putting jet engines on a Honda scooter.
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This game
Match the left boob to the correct right boob
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Now this is a public service announcement i can get behind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S75Rfva9O8&feature=youtu.be
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Apparently an image with a width of 1222px can be displayed with a max-width of 690px without warranting a lightbox.
Anyone know what the criteria for triggering a lightbox is?
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A PRNG.
Dear Discourse: this is a valid reply where all of the letters are capitalized.
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I would like this, but Dicsores says I can't for another 6 Discohours, so have a +Ȇ.
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I would like this, but Dicsores says I can't for another 6 Discohours, so have a +Ȇ.
Huh. I'm being told to wait 9 discohours. Which can't be right, since it's only 5.5 hours until 0000 UTC.
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Huh. I'm being told to wait 9 discohours. Which can't be right, since it's only 5.5 hours until 0000 UTC.
Unless they fixed it and it actually is 9 hours real time. Try again in 2 hours.
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Of course not, it's Discotime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naC-6RyD-eI
Filed under: Jeff's programming music
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Right (and left) turns on red.
This may be something some of you take for granted, but I had never heard of them before.
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I heard of it on an American TV show where the characters visited London. The guy tried to turn right on a red light, even though he was driving on the opposite side of the road.
TBH, it seems like a pretty good rule. It's frustrating to wait on a red light when you don't need to.
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Does America not have pedestrian crossings near crossroads though? Here you can almost never turn
$inside direction
at a junction because there will be people crossing the road
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Pedestrians have right of way. In most places, pedestrians are pretty sparse, because walking sucks when you can drive.
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America in general doesn't have pedestrians. In the places where we do (for example, New York, Boston, Chicago), pedestrian crossings are marked but traffic sucks and parking costs an arm and a leg so driving there is an unpleasant experience even without waiting for pedestrians.
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America in general doesn't have pedestrians. In the places where we do (for example, New York, Boston, Chicago), pedestrian crossings are marked but traffic sucks and parking costs an arm and a leg so driving there is an unpleasant experience even without waiting for pedestrians.
I flat out refuse to drive in Boston and won't touch NYC with a 8.9916 meter pole.
also where do you drive that pedestrians actually stick to the crosswalk? 'round these parts they just step into the road in the certain knowledge that we will stop for them because:
- they are invincibler
1234275345. they have a good lawyer - they have their ipods at full blast and don't notice the trafic
- they know how much trouble we'll be in if we hit them
- more than one of the above
- they are invincibler
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also where do you drive that pedestrians actually stick to the crosswalk?
In many less urban but still somewhat urban suburban areas pedestrians are somewhat rare but still a decent amount. And the roads are not pedestrian friendly at all.
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And the roads are not pedestrian friendly at all.
that is true in cities as well (or at least in what Maine calls a city)
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In many less urban but still somewhat urban suburban areas pedestrians are somewhat rare but still a decent amount. And the roads are not pedestrian friendly at all.
Many urban areas lack significant foot traffic due to being more spread out than places like New York, Boston, etc. Cities such as Omaha and Phoenix have large areas that are very vehicle friendly. Such cities only have limited downtown areas where you see significant amounts of foot traffic. And even then, traffic still tends to favor vehicles.
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or at least in what Maine calls a city
That's probably similar to the sort of urbanized suburban area I'm thinking about.
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you would be out west then? because what we call a city most of the west (on the other side of the Rockies(is that really the best name for a mountain range we could come up with?)) calls a town
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you would be out west then? because what we call a city most of the west (on the other side of the Rockies(is that really the best name for a mountain range we could come up with?)) calls a town
No, but I've lived out west.
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close enough for guv'mit work.
;-)
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Odd, thought you were up in LA.
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Not for a long time.
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Maybe I just buttumed you were because of the Dodgers thing.
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"In some states, such as New York[5] and California, a right turn on red is prohibited when a red arrow is displayed."
O RLY?
I'm not aware of any states where "no right turn on red arrow" isn't the law! That's what the red arrow is FOR.
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"In some states, such as New York[5] and California, a right turn on red is prohibited when a red arrow is displayed."
O RLY?
I'm not aware of any states where "no right turn on red arrow" isn't the law! That's what the red arrow is FOR.
That wording of that sucks so badly.
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That wording of that sucks so badly.
My wording, or Wiki's? If the former, then thanks, I practice.
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The latter.
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The latter.
That's what happens when you spend too much time around pedantic dickweedery: "It's the law everywhere" -> I might be wrong. "I'm not aware of anywhere it isn't the law" is opinion.
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Ask Judge @blakeyrat. HE IS THE LAW.
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I'm not aware of any states where "no right turn on red arrow" isn't the law! That's what the red arrow is FOR.
Only problem is, no one* around here seems aware of that! (Wait, we have a thread about that already...) Even with at least 5 signs that say "No Right On Red". (US101/Lawrence exit)
(*) Ok some. But they get honked at.
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Time to necro the driving anti-patterns thread?
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Only if you want to Do It Right by not being off topic here. On the other hand, necroing a thread is Doing it Wrong. I'm so confused.....
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Discologic doesn't make sense to people who are qualified and trained in some level of actual thinking.