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They probably did, then later discovered the battery in the digital camera was flat.
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I'm not sure how WTF this is. I can easily imagine the agency has a process where a .jpg of each offender must reside in a certain place, and if the file is missing it screws the whole system up. So standard operating procedure would be for them to take a photo of the sign, if the perp wasn't available.
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Sorry... what were you saying again?
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I guess the special offer is that they kept the old price despite the inflation...
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My bet is that there once was a photo, but it was taken down for some reason. Perhaps they didn't have the ability to simply remove the photo, so they replaced it instead.
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It appears they have done this more than once. I randomly clicked on one of the links and got this [image]
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Bonus points if you run this http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/Convert_pics.exe
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The real WTF is that every "no photo available" is different: http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/421028.jpg http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/421049.jpg http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/421062.jpg
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I used to work there recently. I've seen signs like that a few times, but customers aren't supposed to. When there was a not-very-special special like that one, my manager would just write over it in permanent marker so you couldn't see the previous price or "savings"
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OK, I think I see what's wrong with the sign. It's all in French.
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Looks like www.corrections.state.nm.us crashed from the dozens of hits after be featured here.
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The real wtf is that a 7mb file listing didn't freeze my browser.
[img=http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/433088.jpg]
Also: http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/no_photo.jpg
Has anyone run that EXE yet?
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Looks like they did. Some random clicking shows another printed "No photo Available", which doesn't look like the first.
http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/441416.jpg
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they should have put amber on a wooden table first
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Reminds me of one time, a few years ago, I was selling my apartment. I measured the rooms and made a layout diagram, and sent it to the real estate agency as a picture file, so that they could just add it directly to their website.
They did display the picture in their ad for the apartment. It was a scan of a printout of the e-mail to which I'd attached the file.
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Heh, amateurs... I probably shouldn't but let me just peruse a couple of pictures....
NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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When you accumulate 10,000 points, you can trade them for $20,000,000 from the widow of a deceased Nigerian millionaire.
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Usually photos like that would be sent from each county/jail/probation office..., not from one office at the state capitol or such.
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Epic.
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This whole discussion has reminded me of a typical Goon Show (1950s BBC Radio comedy) running joke where a picture of an item substituted for the item itself.
It's called 'subject transference', a favourite technique of Spike Milligan, the writer.
Compare it with the famous 'What time is it Eccles?' scene available as an 'ogg' file on the Wikipedia page linked to above.
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Hey, I live two blocks away from the Cap 15 picture (second on the page)! It's located near the Eiffel Tower, which explains the "eiffel_clip" flash file...
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the .exe seems to read in a file from \docweb2\Pics\pics.txt and output a bunch of pics to \docweb2\Pics\
or maybe the other way around :) I didn't look to closely, but the above are referenced in the program. It's vb if anyone cares and I have an 'decompiled' version here.. in that it's 'decompiled' from native :)
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Yeah, I can only hope that question had nothing to do with real health care... I mean, imagine when "Alex" is out there with no hints!
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There's more, although not on a wooden table:
http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/415184.jpg
I guess clay tablet should be next. Sharpen your styli, people!
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Vincent is a friend of NULL?!? Way cool!
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lol^^ that's the right comment
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it's still availible.
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thanks for info
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