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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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FMguru posted:

illiterate midwestern legal term for "fencing stolen goods"

"theft by conversion" is using stuff without permission but without permanently depriving the rightful owner of the use of it - so stuff like borrowing your parents car without permission.

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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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Panty Saluter posted:

Dude is pro as heck, you never realize how many samples there are. And how screwed they are until you see it happen

Then think about doing it in the early 90s without nles as sophisticated as ableton or w/e

a friend of a friend went to school with liam howlett and reckons he's the nerdiest person on the planet in the nicest possible way and freely admits if he'd been born 5 years earlier or later he'd probably be completely unemployable, instead he's a multi-millionaire who keeps building extensions to his house to fill up with more synthesisers and obscure lps

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILGrNzloMSU

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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SmokaDustbowl posted:

I bet terry pratchett would have let you sleep off a drunk on his couch then he would bring you tea in the morning

nah that's robert rankin, who'd probably also give you a joint to help you over the hangover

it's probably a tradition, or an old charter, or something

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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big scary monsters posted:

how many experiments get ruined and how much time and money does it cost if that switch gets flipped when it shouldn't?

the beautiful, shiny switch

the jolly, candy-like switch

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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jeff minter owns bones

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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turns out he has more genes in common with a crab than we thought

e: thank you random wikipedia editor

goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Mar 23, 2015

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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BANME.sh posted:

traffic circles are actually really easy to use and this image is wrong

right hand lane, you gotta exit on the next exit
left hand lane, you can exit anywhere you want
no lane switching in the middle of the circle, jesus, what is wrong with you if you do this?

as long as everyone follows these rules nobody gets hurt

i'm the person who cuts across two-three lanes of traffic to get to my exit

oh wait no that's you you idiot hell fucker

Linux Pirate posted:

roundabouts are not difficult

but those huge ones in major european metro areas look like a real pain in the rear end to deal with

at the arc de triomphe (13 entrances plus france's bullshit "traffic entering has priority sometimes but not always because gently caress you" traffic laws) the eventually just went "gently caress it" and got rid of all the signs and road markings and any crash there now is automatically 50/50 liability because even if someone just drives a steamroller straight across the middle of it destroying 200 cars each of those 200 cars were driven by someone loving dumb enough to try and go around the arc de triomphe so they're just as at fault

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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Linguica posted:

Didn't one of those progressive Scandinavian countries try this out in one town or something, and traffic accidents fell dramatically?

they've done it in loads of places

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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DNova posted:

what is wrong with that bird


goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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is that from one of the argentinan minefields left over from the falklands war? penguins are too light to set the mines off so presto, instant nature reserve

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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kid is cooler than literally every poster itt

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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Panty Saluter posted:



im the dog


the karate lady is yospos

so you're very poorly grafted in here with no real attempt to make it look like you belong

sounds about right

as does your closest experience with a lady being in the form of digital manipulation

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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whoever was interested about that computerphile thing about the old bbc model b should also put some time aside to watch micro men:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcAyFVK0gE

featuring bilbo baggins/arthur dent/tim canterbury as chris curry and the guy from pointless as a terrifyingly-accurate clive sinclair

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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quote:

T-Eliot – a rear-facing toilet that is a natural evolution in toilet design. Following in depth research into the toilet-etiquette of the nation bathstore is proud to announce the arrival of the all new, always on, WiFi enabled reverse toilet. The new design allows for full social connectivity, productivity and comfort whilst sat doing your business in the bathroom.



new posting stations for all!

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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SynthOrange posted:

1st of April is the worst.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/apr/01/april-fools-day-jokes-2015-the-best-from-around-the-world

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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he puts chili and tomato puree in shepherds pie, the man is literally historys greatest monster.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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atomicthumbs posted:

I am contractually obligated to watch this entire video whenever it's posted

no poster in this thread and probably no human being in the history of the world will ever feel the pure unalloyed joy this corgi is feeling

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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KoRMaK posted:

I'm thinking about sprucing up some migratons with ascii art. Can yous guys post some of those long ascii epics you like so much?

http://archive.birdhouse.org/etc/kibosig.txt

hosed if i'm going to edit it down to fit under the character limit

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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kwinkles posted:

yeah every time i see stuff like that or click past Hoarders on the tv i get up and make a new bag of things to donate to goodwill.

one of the channels had hoarders on a constant loop over the easter weekend, fantastic background noise to spring cleaning

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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du -hast posted:



yeah what the gently caress is the deal with that anyway? it doesn't look like this is in russia

pedestrian crossing ahead lane markers

quote:

191

You MUST NOT park on a crossing or in the area covered by the zig-zag lines. You MUST NOT overtake the moving vehicle nearest the crossing or the vehicle nearest the crossing which has stopped to give way to pedestrians.
Laws ZPPPCRGD regs 18, 20 & 24, RTRA sect 25(5) & TSRGD regs 10, 27 & 28

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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running a bit lean on cylinder 3

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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i'm the as-yet-unknown-to -science material that is simultaneously flexible enough to go around a wrist and rigid and light enough to be usable in an airframe, which also manages to return exactly to the correct shape.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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sort your poo poo out america

or at least get someone to write terrible poetry about serious engineering errors

quote:


Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

’Twas about seven o’clock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clouds seem’d to frown,
And the Demon of the air seem’d to say-
“I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”

When the train left Edinburgh
The passengers’ hearts were light and felt no sorrow,
But Boreas blew a terrific gale,
Which made their hearts for to quail,
And many of the passengers with fear did say-
“I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay.”

But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,
Boreas he did loud and angry bray,
And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

So the train sped on with all its might,
And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight,
And the passengers’ hearts felt light,
Thinking they would enjoy themselves on the New Year,
With their friends at home they lov’d most dear,
And wish them all a happy New Year.

So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

As soon as the catastrophe came to be known
The alarm from mouth to mouth was blown,
And the cry rang out all o’er the town,
Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down,
And a passenger train from Edinburgh,
Which fill’d all the peoples hearts with sorrow,
And made them for to turn pale,
Because none of the passengers were sav’d to tell the tale
How the disaster happen’d on the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

It must have been an awful sight,
To witness in the dusky moonlight,
While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,
Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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Boxturret posted:

this is porn to someone

everything is porn to someone

apart from you, nobody in any possible alternate universe will ever be sexually aroused by you

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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MORE CURLY FRIES posted:

yeah it was 16

which led to the sun's page 3 archive briefly being one of the biggest repositories of child pornography on the (non-dark) internet before they just tore the whole thing down and started again - they had an archive of every page 3 since it started in 1970; many of them were girls between 16 and 18 and until the 80s they only kept on file a thing saying "yeah she's legal", not actual proof of dob or identity, nor a record of when the picture was taken until the 90s, so basically just had to trash everything taken before about 1994 unless it was a well-known model where they could prove her age indirectly. ludicrously they didn't actually start to research this until the soa came into effect and sam fox herself pointed out that her pre-18 pictures were on there

those two changes to the record keeping, btw, came about after a softcore porn magazine published a picture set of a girl who turned out to be 15 but using her sisters (non-photo) id in the 80s, then a couple of cases (most infamously lindsey dawn mckenzie) where the daily stars ultra-creepy "countdown" series (where they'd tease pictures of a 15 year old girl with the promise of showing her on page 3 on her 16th birthday) turned out to actually have been taken prior - both the news of the world and the daily star had to withdraw and pulp editions because of this

admittedly these are slightly silly edge cases from a strict legal standpoint but gently caress me they're creepy as poo poo in context

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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BANME.sh posted:

it's me, im the guy that has done extensive research on the history of child porn published in mainstream media.



wait that's not me actually

unfortunately it's literally my job to know this poo poo

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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Radio Paranoia posted:

what's it like to moderate reddit?

arousing

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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kelly getting a bit weird now

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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vOv posted:

i don't understand why people think turbines look ugly. they look v 'city of the future'

yeah i think they look cool

except the ones at dagenham dock just outside of london, they're a bit too big and it fucks with the perspective as you drive past, also they're in a post-industrial wasteland and it sort of looks like they're what caused all the destruction around them

although now i think about it that's pretty cool too

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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maybe there's something wrong with my brain because that seems pretty adorable

still not as good as a dog but nowhere near as annoying as birds usually are

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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Pham Nuwen posted:

post ur favorite proper flag disposal ceremonies itt

even north korea thinks america is weird about its flag

i had an old st georges cross which at various times was used as an actual flag, a beach towel, a skirt (that was a weird night) and ended its life being used to block up an air vent while i was doing some diy, then i threw it in the bin

if a fair chunk of america had its way i'd have ended up in prison multiple times for doing that to your flag

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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Linux Pirate posted:

those americans, am i rite?

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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prefect posted:

when the volcano first appears, it still looks pretty cool. like it came out of the heavy metal movie or something

hubbard insisted the volcano imagery be used all over the place in the introductory materials because it would draw your thetans to it or something

then he decided all the thetans were killed in a volcano so surely they'd want to get away from it?

you know i don't think the fake religion invented by the drug-addicted hack science fiction author is particularly strong on logic

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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this video is not available in your country

that's enough to make me want to join isis right there

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Don't post my cool new hat and boots pls

pink is a nice colour on you

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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why isn't anyone smashing eggs in this man's face?

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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there's a low-key version of that in london, a guy called wickham wanted to build a massive department store and bought up a row of shops - but spiegelhalters jewelers refused to sell up, so wickham just demolished all the other shops and built his new store around spiegalhalters, expecting them to get sick of it and sell up

this is not a plan that worked:



thirty years later wickhams went out of business, spiegelhalter kept going for another two decades.

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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

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Shaggar posted:

because Kodak waited far too long to switch to digital. their calendar was way off.

they were involved in digital at the very beginning, they were just unwilling to start investing in plant to start up camera production again after polaroid wrecked their poo poo in the seventies. given the dedicated digital camera market is already disappearing rapidly in favour of smart devices it seems like that might have been a wise choice (they still make money on digital printing services, but fundamentally photography itself is a way tighter-margin market than it used to be)

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