Schadenfreude Thread: What did they think would happen?

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wayfinder posted:

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# ¿ Oct 20, 2015 05:53

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WarpedNaba posted:

People still watch Redtube? Something should've taken it's place by now

Red dit

# ¿ Oct 21, 2015 23:35

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Schadenfreude Thread: Kids loving up and hurting themselves is normal and an important part of learning about how the world works

# ¿ Oct 25, 2015 23:32

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Rah! posted:

I am intrigued. Please tell us your story about poo poo lasagna.

No tuba didn't read

# ¿ Oct 26, 2015 18:33

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LordSaturn posted:

Just because I personally love audiophile quackery and the schadenfreude of $1200 power strips: http://wathifi.tumblr.com

The thing is, that most of what they say is correct in the sense of electrical interference, shielding, etc. you do get grandees between components due to electromagnetic interference.

However, the amount it affects things at that level is so minuscule it's like wiping off your fruit at the grocery store before you weigh it, since the oils from residual fingerprints have a nonzero mass.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2015 19:03

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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I'm at a complete loss as to what she thought she was doing.

She danced, she fell, she danced again.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2015 02:31

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Consoles are cheap because their prices are subsidized by people buying games for them.

Microsoft was losing money on each Xbox sold, the only way a Steambox could be subsidized like that is if Valve produced them directly or they gave a cut of whatever was bought on them to the manufacturer.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2015 17:43

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KoRMaK posted:

Hmm geez wiz I wonder if Valve could sell games to offset a loss leader like a Steambox.

Why bother though, they already have all the hats they could ever want.

They could, but every other company that makes them (Falcon, IBP, Alienware, whoever) couldn't subsidize the cost unless Valve gives them a cut.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2015 18:52

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G8_BbERk8o

Wanamingo posted:

That's not just Microsoft, it's the industry standard to sell your consoles at a loss. Whenever the cost to make them goes down then that means it's time to cut the price and get back to losing money on each unit.

Sort of, Nintendo was making $50 profit off each Wii sold.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2015 01:12

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Rysithusiku posted:

Release 3 greased pigs on campus, but first paint big numbers on them. 1. 2. 4.

whoa stealin this one

# ¿ Nov 12, 2015 17:14

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veedubfreak posted:

Neither do 60s beetles.

Wow next thing you're going to tell me is that that one girl didn't really get a frozen hot dog stuck in her and have to go to the emergency room

# ¿ Nov 12, 2015 17:23

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Oh man you guys wouldn't believe the wacky things that happened at my school:

Girls going to the ER with hot dogs stuck up them
Ejaculating in creme filled donuts and giving them to officials
Letting livestock loose with numbers / letters / etc
Assembling cars in offices / hallways / extradimensional spaces
Cops arresting road workers / gardeners / etc
Psychologically manipulating facility through behavior reinforcement
Psychologically manipulating animals to attack referees
Putting laxatives in the cafeteria lunch
A girl asking why semen tastes so salty if it contains sugar
Flat tire questions on missed exams
.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2015 20:46

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synthetik posted:

It's weird he didn't get margined when he couldn't cover his losses, but I've never used etrade.

I'm amazed eTrade gives you a margin account with a 25K call limit in it and no other appreciable securities in other funds they can liquidate if you put $33K on naked shorts.

I've used eTrade for "normal" trading, and I thought the margin accounts needed a hell of a lot more than $25K and some good wishes with it.

Alternately, maybe he does have some other securities or something and is just trying to play the victim for donations so eTrade doesn't seize them.

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The stock was at $16 and my account was negative over 100k. I figured it was a mistake, Etrade would never let that happen, they must have cut the position when my account got to $0....nope. I immediately called them and they confirmed I still owned all the shares. He says that it got out of hand too fast for them to cover me, he says that all he can do right now is cover. I was devistated. I asked him to cover at $16 and he waited trying to find me a good exit. I told him to do it asap and the fill was around $18.50 avg.

At the moment not only is my $37k gone, but I now owe ETrade the negative balance of over $106k. I always knew I could blow up an account and I was financially able to "afford" to lose the $37k. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Etrade would NOT have some sort of stop or circuit breaker in place that would automatically cut a position if the account went to $0.....how could they ever let it get to -$144k loss on a account that small!

eTrade would never let that happen, I thought they automatically bought options for me to cover my shorts when my account goes to 0! I can't find the historical trading data, but I can't imagine buying some calls to cover would be more than a hundred bucks or so, considering the historical data?

He gets his buddy to do a covered call for him in hopes the price drops back down and he can exit at a wash? l o l

How does this guy think a margin account works. I can't wait for the lawsuit comedy that follows this.

I love that the stock price was also $2, so his theoretical maximum gain was $2/share, but his theoretical risk is infinite (or in this case, 144k when eTrade freezes your account). This is a total cash grab that got punished hard.

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# ¿ Nov 20, 2015 21:12

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He didn't intend to slide, you can see him trying to slow / stop himself in the first few seconds before giving up.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2015 22:23

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oldpainless posted:

Trump would do a pretty decent job I think.

Probably have less murders and killings than Obama at least.

One less stabbing than Carson though

# ¿ Dec 4, 2015 02:24

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# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 05:57

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Turtlicious posted:

I don't follow politics, what did Hilary do that was vindictive?

Had a vagina

# ¿ Dec 18, 2015 18:18

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HEY NONG MAN posted:

Sadly, that sign is gone now.

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# ¿ Dec 19, 2015 03:39

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chitoryu12 posted:

The big problem with them is probably that stepping on or off will gently caress up the balance, so if you're not careful it'll suddenly move and an accidental shift in body weight could cause a chain reaction until it slips right out from under you. Likewise, someone who panics when it starts moving will just make it fly around until they fall off or crash.

That's the big problem, it compounds any reflexive movement to avoid something, and you have no other method of stability. It's only a matter of time before someone drives themselves in front of a bus with some jerky motion to avoid something.

whalestory posted:

Actually it would be really cool if everyone was zooming around on one while wearing google glass

I don't think they make them that big.

# ¿ Dec 26, 2015 10:03

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speshl guy posted:

I see a lot of things wrong with this, and an overall absence of 'freude. First of all that dude has a list of defamation, plagiarism and distortion allegations longer than his bibliography, which is to say that not only is he a douche, but he's an unethical douche.

Secondly, the issue of poverty and homelessness in Detroit is not something you can just take sides on, especially when the most passable case study you could do a report on involves the homeowner getting arrested for attempting to kill the squatter with her car. We're not off to a great start here.

After glossing over the attempted murder, LeDouche goes out of his way to make sure the squatter mentions she's on WELFARE and she DEFINITELY HAS A DISABILITY GUYS SHE'S NOT FAKING IT. So now that we've sufficiently established a confirmation bias in all of the Fox viewers, we can get on with arresting this dirty squatter so that she can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, leaving her child parent-less and in the care of the state for over 2 years! What's that, we forgot to mention that she had a child? Well that might make her too sympathetic, because what person wouldn't move into a seemingly abandoned house when they have a child to care for, so let's just gloss over that and get a close up of the handcuffs locking in place around her dirty squatter wrists. Excellent reporting, guys, our journalistic integrity is definitely intact and we've solved Detroit's homelessness epidemic.

ah, so it's really about ethics in physio claim journalism

# ¿ Dec 29, 2015 23:22