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Collect your frist here!
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...so you clicked the link and then what happened?
(don't leave us in suspense!)
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What is wrong with the "magic number" error message? Magic numbers are placed at the start of files and disk partitions to identify the type of file (system) to prevent trying to interpret a something that wasn't supposed to be used as input. This is the right thing to do and the error message clearly refers to this.
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That's the best #9 combo ever. I want one now.
CAPTCHA: Ludus - not quite ludicrous!
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TRWTF is charging an extra $1.99 for an egg.
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Once again we have a fundamental misunderstanding of (United States) contract law... Burger King offered a product at a price, you accepted, that's a binding contract. Sue them for failure to perform. You should be able to recover triple damages.
(Hint: $0.00 * 3 = $0.00...)
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*Maximum legal savings: $4.39
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$0 for a sausage&cheese muffin sandwich meal? That's more than I'd have paid for it, if it's anything like the picture.
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But (from what we can see) the sign lacks all those disclaimers. Fine print FTW!
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A popup appeared saying "Please do not click this link again".
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Ain't Ben who click link?
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Stupid Indian. That link is obviously photoshopped.
Also, get back to work!
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I would guess that "Legal" on the State Farm thing was a placeholder for some legal disclaimer that never got set. But then, I am just a lizard with a british/australian/new zealand/south afriican accent.
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Fixed.
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The real WTF is eating at burger king. It shouldn't be legal to call that industrial waste food.
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There's an interesting psychological experiment here. I'm guessing that "Do not click here" got clicked more often than all the other choices combined.
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At the risk of being serious: They're not charging you $1.99 for an egg. Maybe 10 cents of that is the cost of the egg. The other $1.89 is: (a) their labor to get the eggs, cook them for you, put them on the sandich, and deliver it to you; (b) the amortized cost of their ovens and other food storage and preparation equipment; (c) amortized cost of the dining area in which you can eat the egg; (d) cost to heat and cool the dining area. There are probably other costs in there I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.
From the buyer's point of view, you are paying for the convenience of having someone else cook your food for you. At an upscale restaurant you are also paying for the skill of the chef to produce a meal that is probably a higher quality than what you could prepare yourself.
My hometown paper once ran an expose on how much local restaurants charged for their food, emphasizing how much more they charged than what it would cost to buy the "raw materials" at a grocery store.
My thought was: Yeah, and your newspaper is a rip-off too: You charge way more for a copy of this newspaper than the cost of paper and ink.
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Well, duh.
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Note the operative words in the State Farm ad, "up to".
A few years back I saw a number of ads from an insurance company saying you could save "up to $X" (I forget the exact number) by switching to them.
I lived in Ohio at the time, and the state insurance board ran a web site where they showed the rates charged by all the insurance companies licensed in the state for a few "typical" customer scenarios. (Scenarios based on age, sex, accident record, etc.)
I noticed that the savings mentioned in that ad were the difference between the most expensive insurance company in the state and the company doing the advertising, in the scenario that gave the greatest difference.
So yes, you could save the amount mentioned in the ad -- but only in the most extreme possible case.
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Yep, why would you expect it to be different? Saying "You can save up to $X" is exactly the same as saying "You can't save more than $X".
It is the same problem of people complaining about "digital rights management". Yep, "rights management" imply that you'll have some rights denied. There is no other interpretation.
TRWTF is people not caring to listen what others are saying to them, and then claiming they were mislead.
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(Do not read this post.)
(And if you do, by all means don't reply to it.)
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That's why when I see "up to X" in an advertisement, I mentally substitute "less than X". Surprising how often that makes a "good deal" seem decidedly less so.
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And then you set stores that advertise things like "Save up to 50% or more!" How much more? Could it be 100%?
Captcha: luctus: I feel my luctus running out if I submit this post.
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I clicked the "Do not click here link" and got a sausage and cheese muffin meal without egg. Who'da thunk it?
The $0 price was obviously supposed to suggest that they didn't have the item available at that location (further suggesting that the sandwiches are put together somewhere else and reheated at the point of sale, which is another level of WTF). This is the wrong approach because, as suggested, people will try to order it expecting to get it for free. A pizza place near here used to list individual prices for additional toppings in each size they sold, with anchovies priced at $99.99 for all three sizes. Everybody understood the meaning: "we don't sell anchovies here".
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Don't forget funding the CEO's large bonus and golden parachute package. Remember, all you need for corporate success is a well-funded CEO!
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Haha, don't be stupid. Everyone knows that CEOs and managers are completely worthless, which is why employee-owned and other alternative models are so successful.
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No, you've found something people here know less about than coding: microeconomics. It's sad, really.
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I don't understand why you can still taste their burgers 3 days after eating one. Sure are tasty the first time, though.
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So how much for the Spam Spam Spam Sausage Cheese and Spam? (It's not got much egg in it!)
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look ... if you're going to ask people not to read/reply your post please have the decency to do so as your first sentence
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The DO NOT CLICK HERE link is obviously a check to see if a keyboard is present AND inquisitiveness of the viewer. It basically checks for the following condition:
if (isViewerOfPageInquisitive && isKeyBoardPresent){ // Person tabs to the link and presses enter } else { // The do not click page is not opened }
Unless anyone else can point out a better way to test these unique user dependent conditions, this is ruddey brilliant.
OTOH, what they would do with this information, I have no idea.
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In the U.S., the posted price there would indeed be treated as an invitation to offer the exchange, and would define the price of the item should the offer be accepted, but even were it sufficiently specific as to constitute an offer, and even were that offer accepted, you still wouldn't have a contract. The reason? A contract requires an exchange of consideration. It doesn't have to be a good deal, or even a sane deal. In fact, you could form a contract to sell a $50B company for one penny. You could sell a skyscraper for a song - literally. But each side has to give up something in order for there to be a contract. $0 does not form a contract.
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(P.S. NO mouse movements were used in the making of this post. MouselessBrowsing FTW!)
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Well, yeah. They also use the "people that switched..." phrase, which means that they're only including people that switched companies. People who don't get a lower rate probably won't switch companies, and we have no idea how many of those exist.
The Mayhem commercials, while entertaining, also annoy me, because every single scenario I've seen in those commercials WOULD be covered by any reasonable insurance policy. In other words, they're spreading FUD about certain non-traditional insurance providers. (I use a traditional insurance company that doesn't advertise much, and I think we pay reasonably good rates considering our situation. I just hate being lied to.)
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Damn you beat me, sir! thanks for the fish
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This would only be a WTF if it was a web application for showing an internal server error to the user instead of sending it to the developers.
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WRT the ticket gate: I got a similar once at the Dubai metro (forgot to take a photo). But that was after it had eaten my money and before ejecting the ticket, and the stupid employees refused to refund my money or give me another ticket, though the "payment received" message was clearly readable on the screen below the error box.
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What they do is only to manage some rights, namely those of the copyright owner, plus some rights they don't legally have, but just take for themselves.
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Your comment about newspapers: not quite true. I used to work for a large newspaper concern, at their web arm.
The face price of a paper doesn't even cover newsprint or ink - they only break even (if lucky) on adverts. Serious. Without ads, the face price of a daily paper would be 2-3 times what you pay now, if not more.
Web-based news outlets face a similar dilemma, even though hosting is cheaper than newsprint/ink - unfortunately the salesfolk in that arena are slow to change, and still believe CPM is all-important.
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