Queueing Strategy


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Long ago, I learned this rule: when you're in a line, stay in it. No matter how appealing the other line may be, it'll get comparatively worse as soon as you change. Dance with the girl who brung ya.

Stay in Queue, a short film by Ferdinand Lutz, shows a bear who doesn't understand this. It won first place at the Kurz.film.spiele film festival in Konstanz, Germany in 2008.

-via Nag on the Lake


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Sometimes they get to that point eventually. But first they have to argue about why the debit or credit card was declined, try the other credit cards, check a gift card to see how much is on it, dig for change, ask the spouse for money (and of course the spouse hasn't been paying attention at all), and maybe calling Mom to see if she can bring some money down.

I can understand not having money, but you'd think people would try to keep track of it.
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I sometimes use a paper check at Walmart. Just hand them a blank check and they do an instant electronic withdrawal. It takes no time at all. What really holds up the lines at my local Walmart are the people who don't have enough money to cover their purchases. That happens constantly.
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That's me at the checkout lanes at Walmart. Now randomly replace 3 of the bears with old people who are paying with a check (a paper one) and who don't even take it out to start writing it until after all of their items have been scanned.
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It probably didn't kill them, but I'm sure the bugs were all WTF?! In any case, it's not cool to use living creatures in this way. I won't be buying a Samsung.
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zenparadox,

You have got to be kidding... You do more damage to insects every time you get in a car (what do you think those smudges on the windshield are?)
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@ethicalBob

Worst comparison.

One thing if you do it unintentionally and another matter is if you harm animals only to entertain others. And that is what Samsung is doing.

Think about it.

PS: Can you give me a hint how I could avoid killing insects with a car, swerving???
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C'mon people, this is clearly very well CGI. To hit a house fly requires god like skills because flies have pretty good sensors to detect air disturbances and they have special wings that give them super evasion
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Hmm... special wings...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_wing gives the tiniest snippet of:
"In the Diptera (true flies), the posterior pair of wings are reduced to halteres, which help the fly to sense its orientation and movement, as well as to improve balance by acting similar to gyroscopes."
Basically insects have 2 sets of wings but some flies have evolved to lose a set in place for some gyroscopes that allow it super reaction speed and manoeuverability.
At least, I hope I'm right in thinking this.
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i REALLY like people who think that just because they didn't put the bolt in the cow's brain, that when their steak comes out of their ass so does the guilt. the video was genius. and if a few gross bugs died to make my heart soar, then so be it. i would kill a million bugs with my fists and feet if it could make 1 child happy. or i would kill a million children to make 1 bug happy. that's just who i am.
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