Yeah you'll get downvoted, because spending 5k on cold hamburgers from McDonald's ist not something anybody would do. It's something an idiot would do. Everyone with two brain cells would have started calling large restaurants or catering providers and ask them if they can make something happen.

Knew a programmer that was near blind who only used magnifier on maximum zoom with his IDE. One of the best programmers I met, but his screen looked very much like that. Don't know how he did it.

Yeah they got into the supply route and added c4 to all those pagers. Makes me wonder how many pagers or smartphones have added explosives still.

Success has many parents. Failure is an orphan.

Using a hole punch to make 5 1/4" disks double sided! Saved a lot of money!

I don't know. In my country no gas can be paid unless the nozzle has been placed back. The machine registers as "still pumping", and the gas station attendant sees this and cannot process the payment. Why you would do this any other way baffles my mind.

Congratulations! And now please say after me: "All the gear, all the time!"

My experience is: If you don't want x to happen with computer systems, make it physically impossible. Cut the internal USB cables or super glue them shut.

As a German: "First time?"

Forbidden nose boop.

Never have bought a single Sony product since. They never apologized for their outright hostile and damaging behaviour. It's not much to them, but I bought 10000s of Euros of electronic since then. No cent for them. Fuck Sony.

Same here. This was such a hostile move I never bought anything "Sony" after that.

Wtf. Genetic information. So they can take your DNA after bringing your car in for service and sell it?

5 1/4" floppy disk drives had little sensors that would detect a notch in the side of the rectangular disk sleeve (well outside of the round magnetic disk inside). Open notch meant "writeable". Manufacturers would sell "one sided" disks cheaper with missing notch for the backside of the disk to prevent using it. You could use a hole punch to pierce the soft plastic sleeve and make a "writable" hole at the correct spot. The disks inside were identical on both sides, there never was a "one-sided floppy disk", technically. This was during the "C64 and everybody got the games by exchanging floppy disks on the school yard" phase of home computing (ca 1985). Prices for floppy disks mattered a lot back then.

If you think you can open the front window of a 737 above the clouds and the only thing that happens is that your tie is slightly blown to the side then you have a very limited grasp of reality.

Laut Micha Cheroudin ein Trümmerteil auf der Fahrbahn, das einen Reifen zerstört hat. Bei 200kmh plus bei Einfahrt Tiergarten hat sich das Fahrzeug sofort quergestellt und mehrfach überschlagen. Wenn die Sicherheitsgurte herausreißen und die Menschen aus der Fahrzeug fliegen, kann man auch vorstellen was für Kräfte da gewirkt haben. Keine Chance.

Little book full of German religious psalms and poetry, printed 1692. Not worth much really, but smells great and is fun to look at. Have to be careful with it though, quite brittle if still in good shape.

It's actually a Caipirinha. I think I remember drinking a freshly juiced one at a bar once.

As a German: "First time?"

They will not stop at removing books, you know..

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. Usually the "The Hero Dies Tragically" theme.

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Used in Platoon at Elias' death for example.