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Jack Gladney posted:Wiki itself did a study that showed that the most active editors of wikipedia were IP addresses located at the headquarters of major corporations policing their own articles. So Debeers had some intern scrupulously removing anything about blood diamonds or the artificial scarcity of diamonds, while Coca-Cola had people eliminating the time some bottling plant in south america hired mercenaries to kill workers trying to unionize. That's fairly unnerving. You want unnerving Wiki edits? Here's a Twitter feed I follow: https://twitter.com/congressedits
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:You want unnerving Wiki edits? Here's a Twitter feed I follow: https://twitter.com/congressedits Unsettling in the sense that your tax dollars are paying for a senator to correct phrasing on the page for the Warren Zevon song "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner."
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C.M. Kruger posted:Unsettling in the sense that your tax dollars are paying for a senator to correct phrasing on the page for the Warren Zevon song "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner." Not "a senator," someone using one of the dozens of IP addresses associated with Congress. Including quite possibly anyone using the wifi in their phone or tablet.
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Basticle posted:Has Super Replicas been discussed before? Ah. I never thought you could download I mean order a knock off car. Well, in theory since it seems similar to failed kickstarters that vanish in the wind. On one hand, haha loving mormons. But on the other hand, untreated mental health issues is godawful and I hope they lock this dude away longer enough for some kind of treatment to kick in. Maybe some anti psychotics and a little gentle castration if it's true....
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A Pinball Wizard posted:Not "a senator," someone using one of the dozens of IP addresses associated with Congress. Including quite possibly anyone using the wifi in their phone or tablet. Huh. Seems like a pretty good political move would be to log onto the wifi in the building and edit their own pages to say how great they are. Then, during the same session, edit in nice things about Hitler.
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A 14-year old raped and murdered his math teacher. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ered-blood.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3361610/Teen-convicted-rape-killing-high-school-math-teacher.html quote:A Massachusetts teenager was convicted on Tuesday of killing his high school math teacher after following her into a bathroom and brutally strangling, stabbing and raping her. quote:Chism, who was 14 at the time in October 2013, has admitted to killing his 24-year-old teacher, but is pleading not guilty on the grounds of insanity. quote:Chism's lawyers are also expected in court in Boston on Wednesday as he faces separate charges of attempted murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after he allegedly attacked a state Department of Youth Services worker in June 2014 while awaiting trial. I can't begin to understand how someone commits crimes like these at only 14. Guy seems like a total psychopath who likes hurting women. The teacher's Twitter is still up. The last post is from the day before she died 
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Why going around the world on a solitary cruise can be a bad idea.  ,  for natural mummification.
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FourLeaf posted:A 14-year old raped and murdered his math teacher. God drat. That girl who walked in and left again probably escaped a horrific death and didn't even realize it 
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Mak0rz posted:God drat. That girl who walked in and left again probably escaped a horrific death and didn't even realize it Probably has loving terrible survivor guilt, too. I hope she's gotten the help she needs.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Unsettling in the sense that your tax dollars are paying for a senator to correct phrasing on the page for the Warren Zevon song "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner." not gonna lie, would vote for any candidate who knew that song well
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This is a great posthumous article written by a Canadian right-to-die activist. I helped eight people end their lives
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Wedemeyer posted:Ah. I never thought you could download I mean order a knock off car. Well, in theory since it seems similar to failed kickstarters that vanish in the wind. I worked with the greatest open wheeled racer the world has never seen in real life. It was bizarre finding out that his real life bull poo poo act that he had at work was known well enough in the internet that people wrote an article about it. He legitimately acted like people bought his brand of bullshit even though it was pretty well mocked. Delusion is really kind of unnerving, and I'm glad that I'm not aground that guy anymore. BTW he doesn't use a fake name or anything. If you're in Vegas casinos and look long enough at security officers name tags, you'll find him.
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I live the next town over from where that kid murdered his teacher, it was highly surreal looking at his picture taken in court, he looked like any dumb awkward teen I would have gone to high school with.
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diabeetz posted:This is a great posthumous article written by a Canadian right-to-die activist. This man is a hero
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Wasabi the J posted:I worked with the greatest open wheeled racer the world has never seen in real life. It was bizarre finding out that his real life bull poo poo act that he had at work was known well enough in the internet that people wrote an article about it. I'm kind of confused about what is going on in this post, can you explain it for me? I know gently caress-all about racing and I can't tell what he's actually doing that people are mocking.
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Dylanthulhu posted:I'm kind of confused about what is going on in this post, can you explain it for me? I know gently caress-all about racing and I can't tell what he's actually doing that people are mocking. You know how certain "special" individuals will buy themselves a military uniform, slap on a ton of awards and pretend to be from SEAL Force Delta 6? Or a police uniform and surplus cop car? Or a fireman's turnout gear and then go around setting buildings on fire? Basically the same thing but he's pretending to be a race car driver in a defunct indycar (F1 style racing) league. 
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Dylanthulhu posted:I'm kind of confused about what is going on in this post, can you explain it for me? I know gently caress-all about racing and I can't tell what he's actually doing that people are mocking. Yeah sorry I'm not feeling well. He's a pretend car driver and genuinely thinks people believe him.
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Right on. So is he the one updating the racing league website linked in the article? Because that's an insane amount of effort for such a dopey lie. And so I'm not making GBS threads up the thread with my questions I found this thing when looking for corpses with ciphers because I like Taman Shud, and it happened in my own meth-riddled backyard. I might have missed this being posted before. Ricky McCormick was an unemployed 41-year-old man on disability who turned up dead in a field in Broken Teeth, Missouri with two pieces of paper in his pocket.   It gets worse when his mother says "The only thing he could write was his name. ... He didn't write in no code." His father's comment wasn't any better, saying his son "couldn't spell anything, just scribble." So, that leaves two options here, either this guy was some kind of cryptography savant or someone killed a random person and put secret codes in their pocket out in Broken Teeth, Missouri? Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention his cause of death hasn't been determined and according to the wikipedia article's citations from the FBI some of his family members say that he has used encrypted notes since he was a boy. Shows what his parents know, I guess. So, yeah... That's some Zebb Quinn poo poo there. I like articles where everything just stops lining up at a certain point in the story.
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What if it isn't a code? It would be impossible to crack if it was just whatever letters popped in to the writers head.
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That's what I'm thinking happened. Dude was fifteen miles from home with no car and effectively illiterate. Hadn't been seen for five days. Wandered off, died, had the odd sort of scribbles and gibberish his family said he wrote sometimes on him.
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Dylanthulhu posted:That's what I'm thinking happened. Dude was fifteen miles from home with no car and effectively illiterate. Hadn't been seen for five days. Wandered off, died, had the odd sort of scribbles and gibberish his family said he wrote sometimes on him. The head of the FBI's cryptanalysis department seemed pretty convinced it was a code of some sort. I would think he knows what he's talking about.
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Dylanthulhu posted:Wandered off, died, had the odd sort of scribbles and gibberish his family said he wrote sometimes on him. Regularly "scribbling" neatly-formatted lines of adeptly, consistently formed letters and numbers, as well as parentheses, apostrophes, and fractions, is a peculiar habit on its own, so it's even more bizarre that there isn't a clear consensus from his family members - including his own parents - as to whether he could write at all and how semantic his writing was. I read an interesting theory that dissected the note and suggested it's a shorthand journal of his mental health and medication - you can see a (3XOR[a]L) in there, for instance.
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Did no one think maybe he was delivering a message for his dealer?
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He had some kind of mental handicap/impairment, but regularly wrote in mysterious ciphers that no one else could read? Was he autistic? Schizophrenic? It seems to me that if you were keeping information for yourself, as opposed to communicating with someone else, you could make a cipher unbreakable simply by mixing gibberish with the real message and remembering which was which.
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Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashed on landing in Mexico City in 1979. The pilots were disoriented by fog, and tried to land on a runway that was closed for repairs. They realized the mistake at the last second and applied power to abort the landing, but the right-side landing gear and tail hit a dump truck on the ground and sheared off, making the plane largely uncontrollable. It staggered on just off the ground for about 20 seconds, then finally smashed into an unused terminal building and exploded. 72 people on board were killed, 16 survived. A few years later, ABC ran a special report on the crash and the findings of the accident board. For some reason, the producers felt that the introductory segment describing the crash would benefit from an out-of-nowhere segue into the last few seconds of the CVR, including the pilot screaming in incoherent terror as the building loomed up at them, accompanied by a little NES-style animation of the plane bursting into flames and disintegrating. It's maybe the weirdest thing I've ever seen in a serious news program (possibly audio for desperate screaming):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0DtWDNzf3Y
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I hate to link a Cracked article but there are a few here I haven't seen recently: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-creepiest-unsolved-murders-no-one-can-explain/
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Apraxin posted:Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashed on landing in Mexico City in 1979. The pilots were disoriented by fog, and tried to land on a runway that was closed for repairs. They realized the mistake at the last second and applied power to abort the landing, but the right-side landing gear and tail hit a dump truck on the ground and sheared off, making the plane largely uncontrollable. It staggered on just off the ground for about 20 seconds, then finally smashed into an unused terminal building and exploded. 72 people on board were killed, 16 survived. I have to fly next week.
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ravenkult posted:I have to fly next week. Remember flying has never killed people. Its the relatively hard surfaces that usually do it.
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ravenkult posted:I have to fly next week. Remember that refreshments are free if you're plummeting to the ground. I know its hard to keep a clear head in that situation, but it's totally cool to hit the steward button and order vodka.
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DandyLion posted:Remember flying has never killed people. Its the relatively hard surfaces that usually do it. Sometimes it's the smoke and fire, or explosions
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Sometimes it's a lack of breathable air that comes on so quietly that no one realizes what's happening until it's too late. Ah, ghost flights.
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Parasol Prophet posted:Sometimes it's a lack of breathable air that comes on so quietly that no one realizes what's happening until it's too late. Actually won't be too bad of a way to go. Slip off into a beautiful sleep and never wake up again. Not the way I'd want to go, but still pretty good as far as deaths are concerned.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Not the way I'd want to go, but still pretty good as far as deaths are concerned. Eh, we can't all have charmed deaths: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tached-him.html
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I want to watch that but the older I get, the weaker my constitution becomes; especially when it deals with hearing the final moments of the unfortunate. 
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DandyLion posted:Eh, we can't all have charmed deaths: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tached-him.html The hell? How would anyone get "stuck" on a dick if someone died? Do....do spikes shoot out of my penis when I die?
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Solice Kirsk posted:The hell? How would anyone get "stuck" on a dick if someone died? Do....do spikes shoot out of my penis when I die? Are you saying your penis doesn't have spikes? Whoa you might wanna see a doctor about that
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 That's gotta be why all the women I sleep with start laughing when I take my pants off!!!
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Solice Kirsk posted:The hell? How would anyone get "stuck" on a dick if someone died? Do....do spikes shoot out of my penis when I die? Its a legit medical condition that doesn't happen specifically when someone dies. It may have been the extreme stress and shock of the situation that caused it.
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If it's 'penis captivus' like the article suggested, that means that it's her muscles refusing to let go of him, not his dick that's the problem. Which is still  .
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MRAs were right! Women can trap men with their yoked up vaginas!
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