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https://9gag.com/gag/amPwdR6[^]
Yikes.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Does Anyone Want Any Toast?[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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At least Talkie Toaster was doing what he was designed for, unlike far too many "smart" devices these days. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I've come to realise that anything with the word 'smart' in front of it, is to be avoided!
In the UK, some bright spark came up with 'smart motorways'. Yeh, let's take a motorway; make it a whole lot more dangerous; and call it 'smart'.
Even though I lost my faith in humanity a long time ago, I am still shocked by it's stupidity. 
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For non-UKians, a Motorway is called an Interstate in the US.
And a "Smart Motorway" takes the emergency lane (or "hard shoulder" in the UK) and uses it as a regular traffic lane to increase traffic flow - ignoring that it's there to provide a "safe(ish) refuge" when you break down, and to allow emergency services quicker access to the accident that was caused by using the emergency lane but forgetting that it doesn't exist when you go under bridges, through tunnels, ...
People who live and work in big cities and use public transport / walk / cycle everywhere shouldn't be allowed to create traffic policy ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Boston MA does this as well. It may not be the stupidest idea for traffic policy, but it's certainly a contender for the title.
Here's a visual -- speed limit is 55, most traffic is doing 65, my exit is coming up, and an idiot is riding the shoulder doing 85 and he flies across the exit lane. If I hadn't seen him in my right side mirror, it would have been really ugly.
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Basically, it's like countries with the word Democratic in their name?
If the word's there, the concept isn't.
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Precisely. Nail, meet Mr PIEBALDconsult and a Hammer.
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But if they have great in them, then they must be great, right? 
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As in large or good?
Anyhow, the answer is the same.
That's a yes!
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5teveH wrote: I've come to realise that anything with the word 'smart' in front of it, is to be avoided!
Smartass.
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Shocking...no mask!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Pah! In Darwin we (I mean they, I left many years ago now  ) got crocodiles!!
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Also watch out for Drop Bears...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"Darling? Yes, I've decided to shop in Tesco today ..."
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Sydney's full of snakes. Even more in the nearby bush too.
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Maybe it was looking for something to eat, and got lost.
Probably a nice juicy rat!
In Louisiana we have alligators that get into people's swimming pools. Also CottonMouth snakes on golf courses.
Nanny Ogg
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Sad. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I hadn't heard either. One of the few C&W performers that I enjoyed.
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Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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After putting up with it for years, and never really looking into it until now, I've decided theweathernetwork.com's autoplaying videos needed to die. Like, in a fire.
It's bad enough they auto-play, but even if you hit the Stop button, their page auto-refreshes, and the video auto-plays again.
Looking at its source, I found multiple references to something called brightcove.net. I added the domain to Pi-Hole, and sure enough...bliss. TWN's site has plenty of other crap on it I'd like to get rid of (why would I want to see pictures of squirrels, who's running that site?) but that was by far the biggest offender I thought deserved to be neutered.
Then I looked a bit more into it...Brightcove seems to serve videos for any customer of theirs, not just this site (obviously), so maybe I'm breaking some other pages in the process--I don't know, but it's certainly a "chance I'm wiling to take". Anybody know of them? What do I risk missing (ha!)
Either way - do with that information what you will.
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