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#46
November 24th 19, 06:55 PM
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:59:50 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote: I spoke too soon. This thing is far more brilliant than I at first realized. It solves numerous age-old problems. The problem of how to force people to enable script in their browser when they look up an address? SOLVED. The problem of figuring out how to track people and show them Google ads every time they look up an address? SOLVED. How to allow at least 3 companies to spy on you when you visit a webpage? SOLVED. How to wrap Google mapping services in a pointless wrapper? SOLVED. This is the most amazing thing since Rube Goldberg's portable cigar lighter: https://media.rubegoldberg.com/site/...t-1200x417.jpg I disagree. Rube Goldberg's cigar lighter didn't sell. Apparently thousands of people are actually paying for the scam. "You send us your GPS location, we will turn it into 3 words and send them back to you. You type the three words into your cellphone. We'll charge the rescue parties to convert that back into your GPS location. While that's happening, we don't care if you're freezing, being mauled, drowning, whatever. Tough luck, sucker. And we'll sell all your private data to spy/advertizing agencies - it'll be worth less if you don't survive, so try to hang on, for our sake". Fanta$$$$tic.... Who started this ridiculous OT thread, anyway? []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 
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November 24th 19, 07:37 PM
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On 24/11/2019 18:50, nospam wrote:
In article , Andy Burns wrote: If you think w3w is good, wait until you've used w3e :-) https://what3emojis.com amusing, but the emojis aren't randomly scattered and some don't display properly. The 1km square around my house all has the same emoji string. -- Basil Jet recently enjoyed listening to 7 Worlds Collide - 2009 - The Sun Came Out
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November 24th 19, 07:53 PM
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
In article , Basil Jet
wrote: If you think w3w is good, wait until you've used w3e :-) https://what3emojis.com amusing, but the emojis aren't randomly scattered and some don't display properly. The 1km square around my house all has the same emoji string. i dragged the pointer several towns over and at least one of the emojis remained the same. what3words scatters the words.
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November 24th 19, 07:59 PM
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nospam wrote:
Basil Jet wrote: The 1km square around my house all has the same emoji string. i dragged the pointer several towns over and at least one of the emojis remained the same. It's good enough for a ****take
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November 24th 19, 08:59 PM
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Andy Burns wrote:
nospam wrote: Basil Jet wrote: The 1km square around my house all has the same emoji string. i dragged the pointer several towns over and at least one of the emojis remained the same. It's good enough for a ****take For my address, one of the emojis is a 'Mobile phones forbidden' [1] one, which is good enough for me! :-) [1] It's actually a smartphone, which makes it even better! :-)
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November 24th 19, 09:23 PM
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"Frank Slootweg" wrote
| For my address, one of the emojis is a 'Mobile phones forbidden' [1] | one, which is good enough for me! :-) | Better than "hospital-****-napster", at any rate, which seems to be the sample pictured on their homepage. Which brings up another issue with this idea: I don't know about others, but I don't know what most emojis mean and rarely see them. I don't even have a font installed to see them on webpages. And I'm perfectly happy with that.
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November 24th 19, 09:52 PM
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Mayayana wrote:
brings up another issue with this idea: I don't know about others, but I don't know what most emojis mean and rarely see them. Are you missing the joke?
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November 25th 19, 04:20 AM
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"Andy Burns" wrote
| Mayayana wrote: | | brings up another issue with this idea: | I don't know about others, but I don't know what most | emojis mean and rarely see them. | | Are you missing the joke? Oh, maybe I did. Was the emoji version a spoof? That never occurred to me. The logic seemed OK: Invent idiotic location service.... But it depends on English language.... And that's not politically correct... So use emojis...... In my defense, if I'm going to believe what3words is real then it's not much of a leap to think what3emojis is real. And they really did a great job on the site. But thanks for letting me know. I might have embarassed myself later, ranting about it.  It turns out there's at least one other spoof: http://www.what3****s.com/ Thank goodness for humor.
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