Necc0 posted:

http://i.imgur.com/e2TPfhB.mp4

Yeah I would poo poo myself if that happened to me

PoorMoralCompass posted:

Holy gently caress watch the trees on the right, forget the cars.

happyhippy posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
No wonder the US hosed up in Iraq if they did poo poo like this.

BattleSausage posted:

As a Lance Corporal in USMC I played a war game where I was a Soviet armored column invading Okinawa (for what the gently caress reason). It was a computer simulation where we had our troops, teams, divisions, and whatnot. I was kicking everyone's rear end because I played it like a video game. I ignored all the stupid side objectives and drove straight for the American control center with my tanks and wiped out the American recon teams as they popped up to fight me. So because I was winning against American forces and the Commandant, General Krulak, was watching, I had to stop winning. They literally told me to stop winning, and that's how the commissioned officers perform war training.

BattleSausage posted:

As a Lance Corporal in USMC I played a war game where I was a Soviet armored column invading Okinawa (for what the gently caress reason). It was a computer simulation where we had our troops, teams, divisions, and whatnot. I was kicking everyone's rear end because I played it like a video game. I ignored all the stupid side objectives and drove straight for the American control center with my tanks and wiped out the American recon teams as they popped up to fight me. So because I was winning against American forces and the Commandant, General Krulak, was watching, I had to stop winning. They literally told me to stop winning, and that's how the commissioned officers perform war training.

Necc0 posted:

http://i.imgur.com/e2TPfhB.mp4

Yeah I would poo poo myself if that happened to me

pentyne posted:

My Little Dashie

and the subsequent lovely quality comics and SFM movies.

Convex posted:

IIRC handbrakes only work when the car is on the ground

Lizard Combatant posted:

You just reminded me of Qualcomm at CES 2013

https://youtu.be/v7qTHbOEiDY

Easily the most cringe and rage inducing keynote of all time.

Convex posted:

Steve Ballmer was CEO of Microsoft after Gates, and appeared to have an unusual presenting style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04FOUQpnGsc

Regular Nintendo posted:

There was a samsung one with some kid named zoll or something a few years ago that was totally bizarre. It had a great idea for a premise too (generation of kids born with all this technology around them) but all the livebloggers were just like "are they pumping nitrous oxide into the room right now"

Guardian posted:

He had sold about 6,000 detectors to Iraq for as much as £10,000 each while the production cost for the device was as low as £15. McCormick grew rich on the enormous mark-up. He owns a mansion in Bath that was previously owned by the Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage, a holiday home in Cyprus and a Sunseeker yacht as part of assets worth £7m identified by police.

One of McCormick's devices, the ADE 101, was essentially a golfball finder described by its maker as "a great novelty item that you should have fun with".

oversteer posted:

mobby_6kl posted:

Reminder that this just happened: Cocaine with a street value of up to 50 million euros (£42m) has been discovered at a Coca-Cola plant in France.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37232010

oversteer posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/23/somerset-business-guilty-fake-bombs

He'll serve half his sentence in prison then be a reasonably free person in 2018, presumably with tens of millions hidden away in offshore shell companies ..

Tequila Sunrise posted:

Isn't that the guy Rust and Hart blackmail at the end of True Detective?

origami posted:

Pretty sure it's MacGuyver's buddy from the old tv show.

quote:

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.

“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.”

He said he does not plan to take any further legal action.

Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.

The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.

Jordan alleged his rejection from the police force was discrimination. He sued the city, saying his civil rights were violated because he was denied equal protection under the law.

But the U.S. District Court found that New London had “shown a rational basis for the policy.” In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover.

Jordan has worked as a prison guard since he took the test.

Mahuum Aqoha posted:

The court said the policy might be unwise

Mahuum Aqoha posted:

The New London, Connecticut police department refuses to hire applicants that score high enough on an IQ test. A guy who scored high on the test and got denied a job sued the police department, and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court decision that the dumb cop policy was A-OK:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

Dogmeat posted:

the best part is their excuse is that they're worried that a 49 year old is going to get bored with police work and go become an accountant or something.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Isn't that type of thing fairly common though, and been around for a while now? I remember reading about similar stories 25 years ago, where people who were too smart were denied cop jobs for the same reasons.

Even beyond the "getting bored" angle, kind of a rough cultural fit if you're smarter than 99% of people on the force, likely smarter than all your bosses as well.

kaschei posted:

Are you sure you don't just remember the exact same story from 20 years ago when it actually happened?

oversteer posted:

kaschei posted:

Are you sure you don't just remember the exact same story from 20 years ago when it actually happened?

1% of police are smarter than 99% of THE ENTIRE POLICE FORCE. 1% of janitors are smarter than 99% of janitors. There's no way to avoid this.