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Share us your impossible advice.
Andrei Ellman
Member #3,434
April 2003

Hi,

Just thought I'd start a thread in which we all share our silly, impossible or just plain weird solutions for solving everyday problems. Here's mine.

Re-charging the credit on your mobile phone if it runs out: Transport yourself to an alternate reality and see if your mobile phone in that reality has credit.

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GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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Nuclear:

Just send our nuclear waste trought the space , targetting the sun.
In this case there will be no more nuclear disease in the world, and the sun will have more power to burn.

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Thomas Harte
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April 2000
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Ummm, if crows are eating the line of bread crumbs you left in order to navigate your way home, just follow the line of crows?

Simon Parzer
Member #3,330
March 2003
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I advise you: Don't post any advices here!

FMC
Member #4,431
March 2004
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Out of gas?
Make two holes under the car and start running ala Flinstons....

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Dennis
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July 2003
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Thomas Harte said:

Ummm, if crows are eating the line of bread crumbs you left in order to navigate your way home, just follow the line of crows?

What if the crows have flown away? To prevent that, you should always use poisened bread crumbs, so in the worst case you can follow the row of crow-corpses.
[edit]uh oh, i think i'm disqualified, because the advice is not impossible[/edit]

Tobias Dammers
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August 2002
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Stain rings on your coffee table? Use rectangular cups!

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Archon
Member #4,195
January 2004
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[edit]
When you screw up a forum post, load_game(5 minutes ago);

Samuel Henderson
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August 2003
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If your ship hits an iceburg and is sinking, simply remove all water from the surrounding area...:P

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Tobias Dammers
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August 2002
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This is actually a Sesame Street classic: When you have a leakage, and the plumber is horribly unqualified, just drink it all up...

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Samuel Henderson
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August 2003
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Quote:

This is actually a Sesame Street classic: When you have a leakage, and the plumber is horribly unqualified, just drink it all up...

Wow, I had no idea of that! I was just watching a documentary on the Titanic last night and sinking boats were the first thing that popped into my head. 8-)

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kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002

Real life advice (from my life):

1. Have bills automatically charged by the end of the month, this will reduce your snail mail. After that, only check your snail mail once a month.
2. Never use cash when it's possible to pay by card.
3. Wash mugs/cups before you drink from them, even if they were clean to begin with.
4. Create an archive e-mail address (at gmail for example) where you send all important e-mails to. You can also archive programming projects there.

Simon Parzer
Member #3,330
March 2003
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Stain rectangles on your coffee table? Use normal cups!

Marcello
Member #1,860
January 2002
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Or never fill them!

Steve Terry
Member #1,989
March 2002
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Quote:

Just send our nuclear waste trought the space , targetting the sun.
In this case there will be no more nuclear disease in the world, and the sun will have more power to burn.

That seems like a good idea until a rocket explodes before leaving the atmosphere and rains down a nuclear winter ;D I guess that's what the space elevator will solve.

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Billybob
Member #3,136
January 2003

Can't wait until Christmas? Slow down such that Earth is going 299,727,392m/s faster than you and Christmas will be here in one hour*. That's just below the speed of light, in case you didn't notice.

*One hour for you.

NyanKoneko
Member #5,617
March 2005
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Need to defeat Al Quida?

Invade Iraq. :D

Onewing
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August 2005
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Get to "friends with benefits" status. ;)

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Tobias Dammers
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August 2002
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Get married ;D

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Murat AYIK
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October 2005
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Quote:

Get married

Correction: Get married, be happy!

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Neil Walker
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April 2000
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Got no mates and nothing to do on a Friday night. Post some crap to allegro.cc ;)

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Arthur Kalliokoski
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February 2005
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When you have a leakage, and the plumber is horribly unqualified, just drink it all up...

Eeewww! Somebody tried to get me to fix a leaking pipe coming from the commode a couple weeks ago! I decided not to do it, drinking it or not....

Impossible advice: (not my idea) For an O(1) sort, using the idea of alternate universes being created anytime any trivial alternative possibility comes up.

Randomly permutate the elements to be sorted by using a quantum process (radioactivity)

Check to see if your copy of the randomly shuffled data is now sorted (O(1))

If it is sorted, you're good to go. Otherwise, destroy your copy of the universe. Destroying your copy of the universe is left to you as an exercise for the student.

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

Billybob
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January 2003

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Destroying your copy of the universe is left to you as an exercise for the student.

Easy. First, create a parallel universe inside of a box. Second, go to that universe and exchange your box of their universe for their box of your universe. The end result is that you now have a box containing your universe in your universe ready for destruction!

Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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If you're stuck inside a locked room, draw another door to any wall, open it and walk out.

BAF
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December 2002
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