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Re: Sponsor Appreciation, Careline, laskdfa ksd l;fajs;f dkfas;, & More

2011-12-09 16:09 • by Rosuav (unregistered)
Didn't Simon and Steven have some hardware with serial numbers like that hard drive?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/01/bofh_taking_the_fight/

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2011-12-09 16:09 • by JJ (unregistered)
When you play the division by zero card, the universe implodes and you immediately win the game.

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2011-12-09 16:12 • by dbomb123
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2011-12-09 16:13 • by Ed (unregistered)
So, you get to choose from happy to sad, from exploding-stomach to comatose, and from tiny to small.

All in strangely square, square-afro'd guys.

I would have LOVED to see the meeting where they came up with those "Manikins" and thought they were a good idea.

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2011-12-09 16:13 • by frits

Anyone who uses a unisex public bathroom doesn't deserve privacy.

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2011-12-09 16:13 • by The Bytemaster
Actually in the US it was hard to get the grammer school instructors to shout out annoying and blunt error messages when approached by students about dividing by 0, so they implimented an error handling routine that caught the exception and simply returned 0 as the output.

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2011-12-09 16:19 • by UrzaMTG
369270 in reply to 369267
frits:

Anyone who uses a unisex public bathroom doesn't deserve privacy.

Is that Jamie Hyneman (and maybe even Adam Savage) in the reflection?

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2011-12-09 16:22 • by Ptorq (unregistered)
369271 in reply to 369266
No, I think the third row goes from "I am an infant" to "I am a giant amputee."

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2011-12-09 16:22 • by Seahen
369272 in reply to 369266
Ed:
So, you get to choose from happy to sad, from exploding-stomach to comatose, and from tiny to small.

All in strangely square, square-afro'd guys.

I would have LOVED to see the meeting where they came up with those "Manikins" and thought they were a good idea.


This doesn't look to me like a design-by-committee blunder, more like a design-by-one-poor-misguided-soul blunder. The phrase "proven tool" suggests that it was copied, with too little critical thought, from a book (probably about communicating with children and/or across language barriers).

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2011-12-09 16:22 • by Petrea Mitchell (unregistered)
What I desperately need to know is if the person providing the name of the magazine designer (see lower left of the Greater Lansing periodical) is asking "Kill it?" or if they should kill IT?

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2011-12-09 16:25 • by Yokel (unregistered)
The picture of the bathroom door with transparent glass could be using stuff like this Electric Privacy Glass
Apparently Akismet this this is spam :-(

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2011-12-09 16:42 • by Pim
Hey, where did all the other comments go? Did someone nullify them?

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2011-12-09 16:45 • by haha (unregistered)
TRWTF on that ATM is the fact that 'QZ' is mapped to '1'.

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2011-12-09 16:46 • by haha (unregistered)
369278 in reply to 369277
haha:
TRWTF on that ATM is the fact that 'QZ' is mapped to '1'.

... of course, by ATM I meant gas station pump. There must be a law that covers these situations.

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2011-12-09 16:56 • by @Deprecated (unregistered)
Someone needs to take a black marker and change the first e to an o in "This phone connects you to the Careline". Maybe with a red-dot-and arrow sticker that says "For a good time!"

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2011-12-09 16:58 • by Stabbitha (unregistered)
369280 in reply to 369277
Nah, TRWTF is that the guy shopped the pic to make TDWTF.

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2011-12-09 17:01 • by Nagesh
How many time in 1 month is there going to be Sponsor Appreciation?

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2011-12-09 17:04 • by boog
Maybe the bathroom door window is a one-way mirror (or is it two-way mirror?) and you're supposed to leave the bathroom light off when you're using it?

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2011-12-09 17:08 • by Mr. Magenta (unregistered)
It was I Mr. Magenta, who nullified the comments in my attempt to take back over Fridays! BWA HA HA HA!

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2011-12-09 17:21 • by jdw (unregistered)
At first I was like :|

But then I exploded and lost my legs.

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2011-12-09 18:18 • by Poster (unregistered)
Whats the WTF on the self assessment manikin? We use these in studies all the time.....

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2011-12-09 18:20 • by Gdub (unregistered)
Well I'm wide awake but not experiencing any kind of explosive diarrhea. I have no first inclination based on these options.

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2011-12-09 18:34 • by sleiN13 (unregistered)
About the mannekin it is a common tool used to analyse how people feel about things.

It uses the tree axis happiness, arousal and dominance to define how someone feels. All emotions can be placed on these axis.

I don't see why it would be a WTF except that they might be better off actually explaining the meaning of the mannekins

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2011-12-09 18:45 • by neminem
369289 in reply to 369288
sleiN13:
It uses the tree axis happiness, arousal and dominance to define how someone feels. All emotions can be placed on these axis.

So the more aroused you feel, the more you feel like something in your stomach is going to explode out of your chest? You might want to see a doctor about that.

That and the fact that it really looks like the sort of question you would ask of a preliterate small child. I would perhaps expect it of a psych study, but it would feel a bit condescending, to me, to have that sort of thing show up on a commercial survey.

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2011-12-09 18:47 • by Splognosticus (unregistered)
It's called the "Careline" because we "Care".

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2011-12-09 18:53 • by Alesix
The comment was written by XXXXXXXXKILL IT?a.

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2011-12-09 19:01 • by Mrs. Nagesh (unregistered)
WHO LEFT THE SEAT UP? NAGESH! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO LEAVE THE SEAT UP!

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2011-12-09 19:27 • by ksenzee (unregistered)
That's not 12/0, it's 0/12. Which is still legal, even in the US.

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2011-12-09 19:41 • by Rick (unregistered)
The bathroom door window is so you can tell if someone is using it, of course. You don't want to wander into the unisex if it is occupied by someone of the (whatever is special to you) gender.

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2011-12-09 19:42 • by Jack (unregistered)
369295 in reply to 369293
ksenzee:
That's not 12/0, it's 0/12. Which is still legal, even in the US.
And since not much else is, we should have a math parade to celebrate our few remaining rights!

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2011-12-09 19:45 • by Kef Schecter (unregistered)
369296 in reply to 369293
No it isn't. The number to the left is the divisor. That's the left number is usually small and the right number is usually large when teaching long division.

Even if the card on top did say 0/12, though, the two cards below it clearly say 11 ÷ 0 = 0 and 8 ÷ 0 = 0.

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2011-12-09 19:45 • by Kef Schecter (unregistered)
I meant to say "That's why the left number..."

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2011-12-09 19:55 • by coarse nutmeg (unregistered)
369298 in reply to 369293
ksenzee:
That's not 12/0, it's 0/12. Which is still legal, even in the US.


Read the two cards below it. 11 ÷ 0 ≠ 0.

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2011-12-09 21:17 • by Therac-25 (unregistered)
369299 in reply to 369293
ksenzee:
That's not 12/0, it's 0/12. Which is still legal, even in the US.


Then they're writing it backwards from when I learned long division.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/long_division.html

Anyway, it was probably made by

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2011-12-09 22:56 • by GoatRider
This is a room with a view:

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2011-12-10 02:08 • by Agnesh (unregistered)
369305 in reply to 369266
Ed:
So, you get to choose from happy to sad, from exploding-stomach to comatose, and from tiny to small.

All in strangely square, square-afro'd guys.

I would have LOVED to see the meeting where they came up with those "Manikins" and thought they were a good idea.


This almost looks too "wtf" to be true. Is this really from Avis, or is this the work of some advertisers (etc) trying to be clever? "Mannequins" is obviously spelled incorrectly (as far as this Aussie can tell), and the rest of the wording reads like a 419 scam.

I could well be wrong, and if I am, WTFF!?

The captcha is validus: Valid, sound, robust

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2011-12-10 02:31 • by lolwtf
369306 in reply to 369281
So what are those images supposed to mean? Happy/sad, sick/not sick, small/giant?
Nagesh:
How many time in 1 month is there going to be Sponsor Appreciation?
$$$$$$.

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2011-12-10 02:35 • by Your Name (unregistered)
I'm feeling kind of explody today.

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2011-12-10 03:30 • by sleiN13 (unregistered)
http://www.cnbc.pt/jpmatos/29.%20Bradley.pdf

If you want to know more about SAM (Self-Assessment Manikin)

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2011-12-10 03:54 • by dkf
369311 in reply to 369264
JJ:
When you play the division by zero card, the universe implodes and you immediately win the game.
Not so fast! I write transfinite numbers on my revision cards…

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2011-12-10 04:05 • by Matt Westwood
369312 in reply to 369274
Yokel:
The picture of the bathroom door with transparent glass could be using stuff like this Electric Privacy Glass
Apparently Akismet this this is spam :-(


Yeah I can see how that works. They put up a cartoon or something when someone's in there.

Imagine the power outage situation.

"There I was, watching this episode of Family Guy and I was suddenly watching some guy sitting on the can. Thought it was just Seth Macfarlane being surreal for a minute ..."

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2011-12-10 04:41 • by pjt33
The second row of Manikins is clearly asking you to state the level of development of the xenomorph that was implanted into you. What Joe didn't mention was that he was attacked by a facehugger when collecting the car, and this is the standard Avis followup.

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2011-12-10 05:43 • by Shenag III (unregistered)
369314 in reply to 369270
UrzaMTG:

Is that Jamie Hyneman (and maybe even Adam Savage) in the reflection?

It looks like Hyneman to me: the stance, build, height and dress seem right. His (her?) head looks a tad wrong, but it is really hard to tell on my crappy little laptop screen.

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2011-12-10 07:00 • by DaveK
369317 in reply to 369303
GoatRider:
This is a room with a view:


Is that where Bear Grylls shits in the woods?

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2011-12-10 07:03 • by Kemp (unregistered)
369318 in reply to 369309
sleiN13:
http://www.cnbc.pt/jpmatos/29.%20Bradley.pdf

If you want to know more about SAM (Self-Assessment Manikin)


And to anyone who hasn't read that, which will be at least 99% of the people filling in the survey, we have a measure of how happy, explosive, and giant you are.

Having read it (i.e. glanced quickly) I still don't see why they picked such silly ways of conveying each one.

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2011-12-10 07:04 • by DaveK
369319 in reply to 369284
jdw:
At first I was like :|

But then I exploded and lost my legs.
I thought it was a dramatic zoom.

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2011-12-10 08:59 • by no laughing matter
369321 in reply to 369276
Pim:
Hey, where did all the other comments go? Did someone nullify them?

Still attached to the original null article.

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2011-12-10 09:37 • by Zecc
369323 in reply to 369312
Matt Westwood:


Yeah I can see how that works. They put up a cartoon or something when someone's in there.

Imagine the power outage situation.

"There I was, watching this episode of Family Guy and I was suddenly watching some guy sitting on the can. Thought it was just Seth Macfarlane being surreal for a minute ..."

I don't want to pee on your parade, but:
Our Electric glass switches on demand from frosted to clear and remains that way until you choose to change it.
[...]
Energy Consumption:
Frosted - O watts
Clear - 3-5 Watts per Sq Meter


On the other hand:
Electric privacy glass has many uses that range from medical to industrial and churches to strip clubs.
Lol.

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2011-12-10 10:01 • by GP (unregistered)
369324 in reply to 369268
The Bytemaster:
Actually in the US it was hard to get the grammer school instructors to shout out annoying and blunt error messages when approached by students about dividing by 0, so they implimented an error handling routine that caught the exception and simply returned 0 as the output.

Grammar
Implemented
laskfda

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2011-12-10 11:10 • by someone (unregistered)
I would rather be connected to a 'Caroline' than a 'Careline'. I guess they just fired her.
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