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Singapore is famous for it's malls and shopping centres, the locals go there to stand around and chat, enjoying the A/C and doing their shopping. Navigating these clumps of immobile pedestrians can be irritating if you have somewhere to go!
Enter the new pokemon thing and the zombie count has gone way up, crowds of people all peering at their phones waving them in the air and none of them are aware of their surroundings.
I predict a death or serious injury in the near future as one of these people blindly walks into the traffic!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Drop a shoulder and keep on ploughing on, or just pretend its ten pin bowling with people. See how many you can get in one go.... 
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I would not go that far, but by now I don't care very much if someone runs around blind and deaf and insists on running into me. If they don't care, why should I?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 11-Aug-16 4:06am.
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Me? I stick out a leg to "accidentally" trip over kids running around in supermarkets ... I'd have no problem pushing a Go-mbie down an escalator 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Would it not be much more evil to snatch their phones and throw them in front of the incoming subway/bus/steamroller?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Yeah - but what am I going to do with their phone?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Throw the phones before the bus, not the Zombies. They will follow automatically.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Yeah - but what am I going to do with their phone?
Play Pokemon Go?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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7 so far, though not in one go, I had to navigate 2 shopping centres yesterday and there were clumps of them filling the entire walk way. I'm a bit like a mack truck in a swarm of motor bikes, generally they move out of the way but they were so focused on the game I got quite a few.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Already happening and not just in singapore. alot sleepless people play pokemon go until midnight at hot spot near HDB and mall
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: none of them are aware of their surroundings
A playground for malicious hackers? Busy traffic, railways, cliffs, shooting ranges, mine shafts, concrete pours and other hazards present a real opportunity.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: shooting ranges
Why does that simmon up the picture of someone telling us how they deal with idiots in Texas, even without the help from hackers.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I predict a death or serious injury in the near future as one of these people blindly walks into the traffic!
Darwins ways are subtle and mysterious. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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"Think of it as evolution in action" --- Niven & Pournelle, "Oath of Fealty"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm and old SF fan, Niven and Puornelle are very much part of my past. the darwin comment also comes to mind except a lot of these have already bred!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Yes. Among each other, sooner or later becoming their own subspecies.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." -- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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 I wore that book out, I'm going to have to get an ebook copy some day. My daughter wore out Friday years ago but no longer reads SF, weird.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Here in Thailand there may be less of this due to the fact that most people understand that sidewalks here ... when they are not totally blocked by street-food vendors and other sellers, or not blocked by parked motorcycles, or a motorcycle actually speeding down the sidewalk ... are traps full of unmarked potholes, abrupt endings, and other hazards, designed to ensure the continuing prosperity of local orthopedic surgeons.
And, of course, sidewalks are dangerously near the roads where the number one method of birth control and population-culling in this country, vehicular homicide/suicide, is performed by insane drivers of all kinds of vehicles.
Of course, Pokemon Go, which has just "taken off" in Thailand, may change all that.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Bloody hell I have trouble navigating most SE Asian sidewalks sober and with full concentration.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Ahh! If you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I predict a death or serious injury in the near future as one of these people blindly walks into the traffic!
Ideally, before they have bred.
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You took a loan out over 72 months? Blimey. What was the interest rate on that?
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