There was a website many years ago that when opened, it looked like an online retailer in Germany for all sorts of things, similar to Walmart. When you scrolled around it would behave as you'd expect, but once you left it alone for half a minute or so, suddenly every element of the page became a Rube Goldberg machine.
A stack of pots and pans or something would fall down to the next row and send something hurtling across the screen, on and on, with the page moving up and down as needed. I wish I'd had the thought to record somehow it at the time. Only other thing I've seen like it was an old Google Chrome commercial on YouTube that used the whole page and not just the video player.
I've looked a few times for some hint of what I remember, but it might only live in the archive of my memories now.
This seems to be plausible only without significant wind in the middle of the ocean. If huge wind barriers can be set up without being blown over, then maybe this can be as 'very realistic' as this is claimed to be.
If that guy would stop being so jolly and load the naughties up with the coal they deserve, supply would plummet, prices would skyrocket, and it wouldn't be a viable energy source why longer.
Imagine if all painted infrastructure did this haha.
Right at the end there it shows a side effect of this installation that by itself is useful in bringing the cars to a reasonable speed when approaching the crosswalk every time, not just when there's a pedestrian: the crossing is raised.
Off the top of my head I can't remember how common raised crossings are in Montréal, but they are effective. This demonstration is quite fun though, I was expecting a bunch of body guards to pop out and create a wall across the roadway and the instant fence caught me off guard.
It's pretty standard for fire departments across the continent to oppose infrastructure that inhibits cars.
They drive the largest vehicles that need to fit down every street and make every turn, so from their perspective, streets can't be too narrow, turns can't be too tight, and anything that might obstruct their ability to drive wherever they need to is dangerous and cannot be permitted.
Jason Slaughter made quite a good video on the topic of fire departments and their influence over urban development. The tldw is pretty much the same as pick up truck die hards. Ignorance of other options, and insistence on their way being the only way.
I didn't make a red herring argument, I wasn't glossing over Hilary's arguments, nor was I suggesting Hilary's husband has raped anyone.
After seeing the headline, I read the article and thought it was funny that Bill was referred to as her husband so many times. My comment is a joke about repetition that apparently only landed with a couple people. Oh well, it's all the more funny to me now.
Each of you made good points that I agree with. Cheers.
Oh sure, I'd be happy as a peach counting pigeons for an afternoon. Trouble is it's only for an afternoon where the grocer had me on a two week schedule.
Then again, might not be hired to count pigeons again when I put twelve million pigeons on my tps report haha.
I don't know anything about the writer, but this sure reads like the machine is doing more good than bad. Even touting that human jobs are being created, as if counting pigeons for an afternoon is sufficient to make up for having been replaced at the grocers by a machine.
Also, wouldn't the machine needing to know how many pigeons you saw only need to know that because some other person asked it? In effect, isn't this just 'middle-machining' a gig job between two people?
I half want to give it a go and just provide wrong results from my couch, collecting some of those sweet VC bucks.
After looking at an article that can actually be read, I'm more surprised than I expected to be. I assumed this price point was for a season pass type thing that included with your parking space a free shuttle given the distance. Turns out, nope. Price per game and bring your walking shoes.
Standing outside for hours becomes a medical emergency.
While you are screwing around calling restaurants, he would have died of exposure
Why would calling a few places and trying something take hours? What argument is being made with these statements?
He's waving a shower rod at you.
I saw no indication of that in the article, if you have an alternative source to share, please do so. I wrote previously that I seriously doubted this would've been the case. I think this because unless this man was suffering a cognitive impairment or felt he was in danger, he wouldn't be waving his impromptu cane around. Besides, don't you think would have been reported in the article if he had been 'waving' anything at the woman or her dog?
If he was capable of following directions he would have walked into the police cruiser
Now you're just taking the piss. He didn't speak the language the police were saying to him, and in case it's been forgotten - he couldn't even see who was yelling at him. Let me take a page from your book of disingenuous arguments, "How many [police] do you know [that] speak Rohingya?"
I'm sorry to be rude but I've not got an idea why you have interpreted what I've written to indicate I'd watch a person die in the cold rather than make a phone call. Equally as perplexing is why you've now repeated yourself that it's not the woman's fault for calling the police - I specifically wrote in the comment you initially replied to that I didn't think it was her fault.
It's tiring to argue semantics. You and I are, I assume, on the same page in that we wish this man wouldn't have died. I'm not some villain because I wouldn't tried to communicate with man before putting him in a situation with modern day police.
While you are screwing around calling restaurants, he would have died of exposure
You pointed out yourself when he was on the doorstep it wasn't a medical emergency. But even so, try to bring him inside, hand him a blanket, get out the space heater, any number of things. I'm suggesting treating a person like a person, not like a problem.
The obscurity of the language isn't exactly relevant as I wouldn't know it was obscure if I didn't speak it. It could have been Polish, but if I'd never heard a Slavic dialect before, it would've been just as uncommon as this man's spoken tongue.
Hey, be nice to the big company. This policy of shooting an email doesn't undermine the profitability their addictive money machine. Won't you think of the shareholders Mister Curtis?
Right, I read the article. I also wrote what I would have done in this very thread. Here's a link to that comment. The tldr is a community approach, not calling a social worker.
Additionally, it's now popped into my head that when needing to communicate over a significant language barrier, you could probably just start listing countries and infer by the reaction which country the person is from and have a better bet on determining language.
If translation doesn't pan out, I suppose trying if any neighbours recognize the language would be the next step. Failing at direct communication, take a vague guess at nationality and call ethnic restaurants to see if anyone has a better idea what the language might be? Better yet, community groups would more than likely understand the urgency of the situation and try to help out.
While the man might have been agitated at being lost and not understood, I seriously doubt he'd have been acting in a threatening manner. Just giving him a bottle of water or a snack might have brought him some comfort and made the situation easier to resolve.
There was a website many years ago that when opened, it looked like an online retailer in Germany for all sorts of things, similar to Walmart. When you scrolled around it would behave as you'd expect, but once you left it alone for half a minute or so, suddenly every element of the page became a Rube Goldberg machine.
A stack of pots and pans or something would fall down to the next row and send something hurtling across the screen, on and on, with the page moving up and down as needed. I wish I'd had the thought to record somehow it at the time. Only other thing I've seen like it was an old Google Chrome commercial on YouTube that used the whole page and not just the video player.
I've looked a few times for some hint of what I remember, but it might only live in the archive of my memories now.