The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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Doesn't Time Warner charge like $30 for their low end of cable modem? I mean that seems like you wouldn't even need to kick them out, just offer the fiber along side and people will go for the better deal.
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Apparently TWC screwed over the admins at my apartment complex a few times, so they're on a crusade against them. I have DSL at the moment, we're paying $40/mo for 6mpbs, which is competitive with TWC in our area. So yeah, I doubt even the DSL will stick around very long :)
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Go ahead and dump... I dare ya, I double dare ya, mutherbelgiumer, go ahead and dump one more goddamn time.
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mutherbelgiumer
Oh man, I found that way funnier than I probably should have!
Filed under: You should totally be nicer to @Luhmann ;-)
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It all makes sense now!
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A RED-HAIRED Aberdonian claims he has saved more than £200 after using a homemade “ginger discount card” in shops, bars and taxis.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/scot-cashes-in-with-fake-ginger-discount-card-1-3522272
Filed under: I bet he has
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Should 'homoiconicity' under 'Good Ideas' or 'Bad ideas'? I vote for 'good', but I know plenty disagree.
Filed under: "Is a Turing Machine Homo Iconic?" (don't worry, I have n-word privileges for this topic)
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While I believe it - GoL is Turing-complete, after all - the amount of work it must have taken is staggering.
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I don't know if he has Ginger Nuts, but he's definitely got brass balls.
Filed under: It's a redhead thing, that's what they do.
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What about absence of a soul?
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Homo Iconic
Isn't that getting us back perilously close to the “RAEP CULTURE!” silliness?
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Eh? I must have missed this...
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They tell you "Pretend you're working while we're filming." Your silent "fuck you" reply.
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Context?
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None. Take it for what it is :-)
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I didn't realize that was animated at first. My internet is spotty today and that picture is taking forever to load.
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And now it finally loaded (I was AFK for a bit) and it's pretty funny.
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It's like in the 90-ies, jpeg doesn't even have tits yet and you're already finished. :-)
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It's like in the 90-ies, jpeg doesn't even have tits yet and you're already finished.
Ahhhh, memories!
Filed under: The good old days
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90s hipster coder.
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Gives new meaning to "electronic piano".
Filed under: It's the source that gives me pause. You from 'round here?
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I would have worn it covering my eyes for extra effect.
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Party exhaust!
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Heh what?
Edit: I know, because I have
embed
on the url they can't tell whether I'm accessing directly or embedding on a frame. But I thought it was funny, so whatever.
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Are we talking early Internet porn, or middle school dating?
Filed under: What would I know about dating, anyway?
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What!?
I was talking about a yummy chicken breast recipe I was prepping from an early online cookbook.
Pervert!
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Why would a bird have mammal secondary sex organs?
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Why would a bird have mammal secondary sex organs?
Chernobyl, dude. Don't judge until you've lived it.
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Ah, and here I was assuming you were using the chicken breast because you couldn't catch any small birds on the Paridae family.
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Does that explain this seven and more different crescent wrench having a limp pantyhose worm?
I'm sure yummy triceratops provides different screwdriver, although drinking the bird karate class seven times is exquisite.
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They tell you "Pretend you're working while we're filming." Your silent "fuck you" reply.
The sad thing is, according to the scrolling text below, those are the guys that implemented the transport system in my city.
Think Oyster cards, only way more WTFy.
Filed under: instead of letting you top up in the ticketing machines, they broke the existing ones
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There's something more WTFy than Oyster cards? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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There's something more WTFy than Oyster cards? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
First - there are no unregistered cards. Nada. To get one, you need to submit a photo and an application, and wait a week or so. There was a six-month notice before they became mandatory for monthly+ passes, and before they ramped up the prices of paper tickets so badly they became worthless, but obviously nobody gave a shit, so three days before the date you'd see lines longer than to an Apple store.
Second - the card doubles as a pre-paid debit card, and technically you're free to withdraw your money at any ATM. Great idea for something you constantly keep in your hand and out of your wallet.
Third - we have no gates before stations (one thing I love in London - once you're behind the gate, you're free to take any trains you need to get you where you want to at a fixed price), so you need to punch in and punch out when you get on a tram. And since it bills you by the number of stops you've travelled, you need to punch out, or else you get billed as if you've travelled to the end of the line. Good luck punching out with three bags under your arm while the driver already closes the doors.
Fourth - as I said, we had a pretty efficient network of ticket machines at every stop, which worked with previous electronic pass system - you couldn't pay as you go, but you could buy a monthly, yearly, etc. pass. When they introduced the new cards, they broke it completely - the machines don't even read them.
Fifth - in addition to NFC sensors, we also get touchscreens - and one of the options is to add another ticket for a person travelling with you. The problem is, at least half of those are "jiggly", turning various options on and off when the bus hits a bump. So if you put your card to the reader at the wrong time, you end up being billed twice.
Sixth - if you want to change trams or buses, you only have 20 minutes before it registers as an another trip (and traveling one stop costs you 0,60; two 0,90, three 1,10, etc.) The trams are usually spaced in about 15-minute intervals, so if the schedule gets slightly out of hand, your trip estimate goes to hell.
Seventh - they made paper tickets essentially useless, to push people to get the cards. So you can only get a 10-minute ticket (which doesn't get you pretty much anywhere, and if there's a slip in the schedule, you're fucked), 40 minute one (which, on the other hand, is way too long and way too expensive), and a daily one (which is more expensive than the daily cap on the card). And all paper tickets are for all zones, so if you're a tourist who only goes around the city centre, well, sucks to be you.
Eighth - if you're taking the morning tram, good luck punching in and out. The damn kiosks are inside the trams, and while they're fairly close to the exits, you often can barely stretch your arm to punch in, let alone see if someone/something didn't trigger the "pay twice, sucker" option.
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Strangely enough, travel cards is something that Warsaw seems to have gotten mostly right. In all, I prefer our system to Oyster (and I've had a couple of years to sample the latter). Not that I found Oyster particularly WTFy...
Filed under: are my standards slipping?
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this was on my wedding registry
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Bad Ideas Thread is at the end of the line:
Don't forget to punch out.
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I see one of these, and I just shrug and think "ah, there's ben being pointless again. But at least it's not a plug for Go or DF."
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http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/full-episodes/6jaxht/september-3--2014---randall-munroe
Not sure why I decided not to link the original image. I was going to.
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That's the stickman dude?
I thought he looked more like a stickman.
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They show his self-portrait during the interview. I quote: "Drawing is hard."
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http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/full-episodes/6jaxht/september-3--2014---randall-munroe
Not sure why I decided not to link the original image. I was going to.
Does anyone have a picture of him using a laptop in public? I'd like to troll twitter.
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I get to see him in 10 days, and didn't know what he looks like until now.