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Must be the same guys who have problems with Darwin.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah, I know what you mean - but the internet lets one idiot feed a stupid idea to people all over the world in a few minutes. So instead of a couple of dozen morons eating washing liquid in a city, you get a couple of million even stupider people doing it world wide.
Now, if we had a chemical that rendered you sterile and we got eating that out as a meme ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: So instead of a couple of dozen morons eating washing liquid in a city, you get a couple of million even stupider people doing it world wide.
I wouldn't be so sure, mostly it's the news agencies milking the phenomenon - the fact that response times are faster because it gets to public attention in days makes it less dangerous than those ages old urban legends that were alive for decades, because happened only in sporadic undocumented cases in unconnected places and then were narrated by the reliable word of mouth across several layers of people.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: I wouldn't be so sure, mostly it's the news agencies milking the phenomenon
By the time the news agencies go to it it's already a phenomenon. They may encourage a few late-comers, but by and large, stupidity can outrun them on any day.
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Yes but there is a difference between seeing 5 news of the same thing happening because it has a high incidence and seeing 5 news and they were the only cases. Add the fact that the proliferation of agencies-for-peanuts (the ones that give away news for free, making money through advertisement) the same event can and will be narrated in dozens different flavours, changing places, names, ethnicities and quantities thus giving the impression that oh my dog it's an emergency please someone thinks fo the childraaa!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yes, I'm inclined to agree. It's got all the vague phrasing of the traditional urban legend "lots of teenagers", "possible death" etc., it all seems a bit "A friend of a friend knew this kid ..." to me.
I guess the internet allows it to be augmented by videos (fake or otherwise) and allows it to spread a bit faster than stories used to but it's pretty much the same thing.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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And then, when the worst of all this was over, we used to get a letter from the government that told us where we had to go to receive rifles and hand grenades and get some lessons on how to use them. But only for three months. After that we got to the really dangerous stuff.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Cor!! That brings back memories of when I was a kid. Mind you, some of those things weren't even generally available when I was a kid - plastics, for instance. Most of our time was playing Cops and Robbers amongst "abandoned and crumbling buildings" or spending the whole day over the fields eating whatever berries you could find when you felt hungry and drinking whatever water was available.
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Just when you think it can't get any worse! Tide Pods really, I remember in my student days people eating dish washer tablets. 
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I like sprouts.
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Ok, they still look like something fom a 1950s sci fi movie. But I like the planet where they come from.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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What, Baby Cabbages? They good (fried with bacon and chestnuts).
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Me too!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Me too. I've got a recipe for roasted Brussel sprouts that's [excuse me while I wipe up drool ... there, that's better] really good (it includes bacon).
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It's more complex than just that. Though to your point a lot of kids don't know what its like to work for something. It just looks like a generation lost without any goals to achieve, leaving them to play stupid games...
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Seems you are going against the Tide 
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I've always been the Bold sort.
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Then you need a wig
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I keep mine by the window; but only one Persil.
Gotta go - Surf's up!
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Darwin explained a perfectly good theory on why we should let this kind of thing continue unabated.
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I need a vacation from all this modern stuff and want to build something out of my parts box. No stone knives and bearskins this time, just a CPU and some memory on a board for starters.
And that's exactly the problem. It will be blind and deaf at the beginning, which will make testing it a little difficult. I also see no point in adding lots of components that I will only need for initial tests and never again after that.
The solution is so simple that it already worked for the Altair 8800: a VT52. Or a VT100.
These used to be huge and expensive, but nowadays you could just hook up something from a VGA monitor, some PC keyboard and all that held together by some little microcontroller. The microcontroller should be programmed and also have something like a MAX232 onboard to get true RS232 signals, but otherwise this should not be much of a problem.
Does anyone know where to get such a microcontroller set up as VT100? I have not found one yet, but I can't believe that they do not exist.
Edit: Speaking of stone knives and bearskins: I was thinking of 3d printing this[^] as a case.
Edit: Found this[^], but I would prefer not having to build it myself.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 13-Mar-18 8:44am.
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Or ... you could just install a free app on your lappie for initial testing: Remote Terminal[^] includes VT100 emulation. Chuck in a USB / RS232 device and you're off.
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Terminal emulation would work. I still have an old Pentium II/Celery era notebook that still works good enough to be a compact terminal. My current notebooks tend to be a little too big. I still need some room for soldering, power supplies and the Oscar.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yep. VT100 emulators worked fine on a 8086 machine!
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