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xsf421 posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages#Message hard to imagine a more enticing invitation to some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland adventurer
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Weedle posted:hard to imagine a more enticing invitation to some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland adventurer quote:This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
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Jun 15, 2020 16:16
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Proteus Jones posted:From playing D&D in college, NOTHING got me to try everything I could to get into something than it being labeled like this. That's the entire joke with it. Some barely literate dipshit in the future is gonna go "There must be some REALLY cool poo poo buried here if they went to all this trouble. I bet there's gold!"
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Jun 15, 2020 16:24
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Undersea vaults are the answer. By the time a society is advanced enough to crack them open, they are advanced enough to go 'oh poo poo maybe we should be careful'
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RFC2324 posted:Undersea vaults are the answer. By the time a society is advanced enough to crack them open, they are advanced enough to go 'oh poo poo maybe we should be careful' Take waste, place in regular steel barrel, fill completely with molten glass, let cure to room temp. Dip steel drum in 3-4 coats of what's basically industrial plasti-dip. Load on barge. Drive barge to 200km north of Point Nemo, tip them into ~14k feet of water. Mark disposal survey map, just in case we somehow figure out how to turn glass covered wrenches and pipe chunks into shitloads of cash some day. Vitrified waste leeches out over the course of 5k+ years, and it doesn't leech into groundwater, it leeches into the shittiest part of the ocean, in an area where nothing grows, and which takes 10k+ years to mix with the surface waters, and into which you're slowly dissolving a few thousand tons of reactor waste into 40 cubic kilometers of sea water.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Take waste, place in regular steel barrel, fill completely with molten glass, let cure to room temp. Dip steel drum in 3-4 coats of what's basically industrial plasti-dip. Load on barge. Drive barge to 200km north of Point Nemo, tip them into ~14k feet of water. Mark disposal survey map, just in case we somehow figure out how to turn glass covered wrenches and pipe chunks into shitloads of cash some day. this is how you get radioactive cthulhus
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Take waste, place in regular steel barrel, fill completely with molten glass, let cure to room temp. Dip steel drum in 3-4 coats of what's basically industrial plasti-dip. Load on barge. Drive barge to 200km north of Point Nemo, tip them into ~14k feet of water. Mark disposal survey map, just in case we somehow figure out how to turn glass covered wrenches and pipe chunks into shitloads of cash some day. Isn't that where Godzilla came from?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Isn't that where Godzilla came from? Yeah, but was less "do it responsibly" and more "Twenty miles from Tokyo Bay is good enough to just pour liquid waste over the side of the boat, right?" like an 80s Captain Planet villain. Weedle posted:this is how you get radioactive cthulhus If he didn't want us dumping our lovely leftovers all over his lawn, he shouldn't have been sleeping there. If tipping Yucca Mountain over the side of the boat gets us either of these options, I'll call that money well spent.
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Roundboy posted:ALL OF THESE JOBS ARE YOURS Nice.
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Weedle posted:hard to imagine a more enticing invitation to some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland adventurer I know proper linguists were involved in making that place, but I feel like using negative conjunctions is a recipe for disaster when dealing with a culture which is expected to have a weaker grasp of your language. quote:place ... place of honor... ... highly esteemed deed ... commemorated... nothing ... valued Hopefully they understand the word "danger" and bother reading that far.
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Even just putting the word "death" on it in every extant language that we know of, every dead language that we know of, and trying to keep it updated as long as we can... will both work better than that and also totally inspire me to crack it open in case of good loot. poo poo didn't work for the Pharaohs.
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Proteus Jones posted:From playing D&D in college, NOTHING got me to try everything I could to get into something than it being labeled like this. Better hope you put your points in dex or con
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the more of that wikipedia article i read the more hilarious it is. this is their plan for making the disposal sites unappealing to visit. all of these sound insanely coolquote:The Sandia report explored designs for physical markers which conveyed the concepts of dangerous emanations, shapes that evoke bodily harm, and the concept of "shunned land" that appears destroyed or poisoned. The designs suggested included: gonna take my grindr profile pic at the Forbidding Blocks
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Weedle posted:the more of that wikipedia article i read the more hilarious it is. this is their plan for making the disposal sites unappealing to visit. all of these sound insanely cool would've thought the Black Hole would be more appropriate
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larchesdanrew posted:Sadly, nothing outrageous happened. I'm leaving on good terms because I still haven't even landed an interview in Denver and I move in 3 weeks. I need his title on a recommendation. I sent you a PM
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Weedle posted:the more of that wikipedia article i read the more hilarious it is. this is their plan for making the disposal sites unappealing to visit. all of these sound insanely cool The illustrations to go with those are spectacular, especially if you're writing post-apoc lit or you want to DM something really foreboding in a TTRPG.
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A ticket came in.quote:Request assistance how to use word/excel thru MS 0365 (web access outlook). Need to know how to Save word/Excel document thru Web access outlook 0365 MS office. Tasty luddite word salad. This is on a day where I'm already busy, but I seem to have become the dumping ground for every ticket that takes >2 but <100 brain cells to accomplish.
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Jun 15, 2020 20:30
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Weedle posted:An enormous slab of basalt or black-dyed concrete, rendering the land uninhabitable and unfarmable. Oh hey cool, look at this easy building site. Don't even have to clear it!
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dragonshardz posted:A ticket came in.  ticket keyword stuffing. I love it.
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tactlessbastard posted:Oh hey cool, look at this easy building site. Don't even have to clear it! A black stone surface is the Arizona sun isn't something people without air conditioning can live on. You are talking 110°+ heat without the black magnifying it
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dragonshardz posted:A ticket came in. ...how does one fail at saving a document? That's impressive, even for a typical user. Every app mentioned in the word salad uses the same shortcut.
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Darchangel posted:...how does one fail at saving a document? That's impressive, even for a typical user. Every app mentioned in the word salad uses the same shortcut. i'm 99.999% certain that they just don't know that office 365 web apps autosave to onedrive
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Darchangel posted:...how does one fail at saving a document? That's impressive, even for a typical user. Every app mentioned in the word salad uses the same shortcut. Well, first, you work for the government and don't know how to computer... Weedle posted:i'm 99.999% certain that they just don't know that office 365 web apps autosave to onedrive I am also 99% certain this is the case, but this particular user is, um, a loving moron so who knows! They're working from home and their callback number is a busy signal at all times, and they haven't responded to emails, so I'll let it chill until the end of the week and then close it for non-response.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I know proper linguists were involved in making that place, but I feel like using negative conjunctions is a recipe for disaster when dealing with a culture which is expected to have a weaker grasp of your language. I've always thought some form of pictogram would be ideal. Forget labeling what the danger is, that might make it more difficult for any sort of translation. If you seal something like that with multiple doors (and why wouldn't you?), having something like a picture of a human body nearby a smaller skeleton on the first door, and increasing the size of the skeleton relative to the person (with the final door being perhaps having just the skeleton) as a sort of symbolic "you are approaching danger/death", well that seems reasonably universal. If they're going to bust open that last door, then no warning you could've put down likely would've stopped them; you did your due diligence.
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Rorac posted:I've always thought some form of pictogram would be ideal. Forget labeling what the danger is, that might make it more difficult for any sort of translation. If you seal something like that with multiple doors (and why wouldn't you?), having something like a picture of a human body nearby a smaller skeleton on the first door, and increasing the size of the skeleton relative to the person (with the final door being perhaps having just the skeleton) as a sort of symbolic "you are approaching danger/death", well that seems reasonably universal. If they're going to bust open that last door, then no warning you could've put down likely would've stopped them; you did your due diligence. I think they're doing that too, to be fair.
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The bigger the warning, the better the treasure. Better just putting basic warnings out - the human brain is perverse.
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If pictograms threatening death for the opening of a sealed tomb were effective we wouldn't have the field of Egyptology.
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Ghostlight posted:If pictograms threatening death for the opening of a sealed tomb were effective we wouldn't have the field of Egyptology. To be fair, they knew there was gold in there. Darchangel posted:The bigger the warning, the better the treasure. Better just putting basic warnings out - the human brain is perverse. Who says it'll be humans 
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Jaded Burnout posted:Who says it'll be humans dolphins come next, and they are going to be dumping their waste on the land
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The Fool posted:need to make some dns changes on behalf of a subsidiary Inject this stuff directly into my veins. Seems weird though as I don't think you could completely registration for SMS to a land line though.
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I'm unsure if this is still true, but in the UK when you received SMS to your landline you'd get it read out to you by text to speech.
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Sickening posted:Seems weird though as I don't think you could completely registration for SMS to a land line though.
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SlowBloke posted:My provider has a 1:1 match for each landline to a subscriber email so, if someone sends me a sms or a mms to my landline, i get a email with the message/attachments.
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Thanatosian posted:That seems loving awesome for legit stuff, but seems like it would be a pain in the rear end for spam texts. do you get more spam texts than spam emails?
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I was looking into this a year or so ago - SMS can actually be supported by VOIP providers (Flowroute is one), though your phone system needs to support it as well. We're on 3CX, which has stated it will support it eventually, but it was supposed to be in the beginning of the year and now they're saying by the end of this calendar year so who knows. Admittedly they have a problem because all the VOIP providers use different APIs for SMS, so trying to develop integrations for all of them would be horrendous. Whereas things like 8x8 and RingCentral control the entire system end to end so they can support SMS on their DIDs because their endpoints/trunks are all under their control. edit: obviously this doesn't apply to true landlines, i.e. for those who still have PRIs, but if you still have PRIs, you've probably got bigger things to be annoyed by than lack of SMS support.
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Sickening posted:Inject this stuff directly into my veins. Seems weird though as I don't think you could completely registration for SMS to a land line though. Not sure how it happened in the first place, but it is godaddy. The office manager of the subsidiary set it up and when we went to make a change for them they're like "Oh, that's the main number, it rings the phone at my desk!"
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Weedle posted:the more of that wikipedia article i read the more hilarious it is. this is their plan for making the disposal sites unappealing to visit. all of these sound insanely cool the best idea is the "Ray Cats": quote:Cultural memory 99% Invisible talked about it in their episode about the WIPP and actually comissioned someone to write a song about Ray Cats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78hZIEqONM
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Jaded Burnout posted:I'm unsure if this is still true, but in the UK when you received SMS to your landline you'd get it read out to you by text to speech. One of the enduring Something Awful Forums stories from yesteryear that is burned into my brain is the story of how the UK voice for SMS text-to-speech was Tom Baker, and one goon accidentally hit the wrong contact when sending a message, resulting in his girlfriend's parents being woken up by a very dirty message from Tom Baker.
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Rorac posted:I've always thought some form of pictogram would be ideal. Forget labeling what the danger is, that might make it more difficult for any sort of translation. If you seal something like that with multiple doors (and why wouldn't you?), having something like a picture of a human body nearby a smaller skeleton on the first door, and increasing the size of the skeleton relative to the person (with the final door being perhaps having just the skeleton) as a sort of symbolic "you are approaching danger/death", well that seems reasonably universal. If they're going to bust open that last door, then no warning you could've put down likely would've stopped them; you did your due diligence. So in the future, they read the other way. So first door means you can turn your dead child back into a living adult, and the further in you go, you can bring older people back to life. Symbolism depends on culture as well. A skeleton might not mean death either, we have no way of knowing. Burying it deep somewhere either stable or somewhere that is being pushed down into the planet by tectonic plates is probably better.
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