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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+364That last picture has been photoshopped. Compare it to one of the earlier ones.
- terrordemon, on 10/10/2007, -9/+150baaaad photoshopping
- iownsomuch, on 10/10/2007, -7/+82Even if it is photoshopped, the first truck falling was enough to make me laugh lol
Dugg. - murphygr, on 10/10/2007, -7/+71my law?
- it5five, on 10/10/2007, -4/+59The last picture is fake:
http://snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp - kamel, on 10/10/2007, -7/+53Can we have an older than your mom bury option? Then pictures and stories like these could have a "Reported by diggers as possibly being older than your mom" flag on the front page?
- synod, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37Is it murphy's law when bad photoshopping leads to bad digging?
- sarazen, on 10/10/2007, -10/+43Old
- Homerr, on 10/10/2007, -6/+34Yeah, last one is photoshopped. Compare people in past pic to 5th pic.
- addiggt, on 07/06/2009, -1/+27Thanks to it5five below for submitting this snopes link http://snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp the last pic is fake but the first truck was real.
- ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26Murphy's Law
prov. The correct, *original* Murphy's Law reads: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." This is a principle of defensive design, cited here because it is usually given in mutant forms less descriptive of the challenges of design for lusers. For example, you don't make a two-pin plug symmetrical and then label it `THIS WAY UP'; if it matters which way it is plugged in, then you make the design asymmetrical (see also the anecdote under magic smoke).
Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the U.S. Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) quoted at a news conference a few days later.
Within months `Murphy's Law' had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone by variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went. Most of these are variants on "Anything that can go wrong, will"; this is sometimes referred to as Finagle's Law. The memetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy's Law acting on itself!
-Jargon File - addiggt, on 07/06/2009, -10/+27Hmm now that you mention it the last one looks kind of photoshopped so it's possible, but the rest are definitely real so it's still funny :)
- Davede70, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15They need to start increasing the effect of the Bury button. Too much garbage is floating to the top.
- tfb9999, on 10/10/2007, -6/+18Shop, pixels, etc.
- Warptera, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16Last picture is a very bad photoshop. (fiftieth person to say it!)
- zachninme, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Dugg just to annoy other diggers.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8it's like being in an AOL chat room all over again.
- Shorties, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6especially after a bunch of people just disappeared from the previous picture
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The third one is a truck truck truck!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0x7fj6gwJk - NSMike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Yes, the last one is definitely photoshopped. If you look at the previous photos, you can see the larger crane operator was smart enough to put out his outriggers, so it was not possible for him to have suffered the same fate.
- neoblaque, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6We here at the pub don't care if it is shopped or not, one guy blew beer through his nose when we got to the last picture.
Priceless. - xaxxon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4because someone submitted it and a bunch of people, probably not that unlike yourself dugg it. It's pretty simple. I think the basics of the algorithm are available online somewhere.
- ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5WHAT?!?!?
HOLD ON EVERYBODY!!
WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?!?
/moron. - Error601, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6There should be a filter for stuff that showed up on snopes three years ago.
- repete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Someone needs to further photoshop it, adding a helicopter which ends up suffering the same fate.
- Al3x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://duggmirror.com
- drenader, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://www.duggmirror.com
- ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5these pictures are fresher and more interesting than your ***** upside-down text gimmick.
- Lezlee798, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Yeah, If that actually happened I don't think the group of people would just stand there talking to each other.
- xaxxon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4We, here, at Adobe®, prefer you say "creatively enhanced by Adobe® Photoshop® software." Thank you, and have a nice day.
- quetzatcoatl, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Yeah, the last photo has the same guys in the background as the photo of the first truck falling into the water.
- neoblaque, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The women sitting next to me thnk you are gay.
- Sibre, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yes, since it is incredibly easy to tell exactly what version of Photoshop they were using to make the edits...
- ThinkBox, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Only on digg can an article be pronounced FAKE by EVERY comment.... and still get 600+ diggs and stay on the front page.
Buries stopped working, and not only do people not read the article now, they dont even read the comments. - TheFlood16, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5This picture is so old that one of my really old professors used it in class last semester to demonstrate poor planning...I think he prefaced the showing of the picture with something like "You can find some weird stuff on the internets."
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3C.f.
Finagle's Law: n.
The generalized or ‘folk’ version of Murphy's Law, fully named “Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives” and usually rendered “Anything that can go wrong, will”. May have been first published by Francis P. Chisholm in his 1963 essay The Chisholm Effect, later reprinted in the classic anthology A Stress Analysis Of A Strapless Evening Gown: And Other Essays For A Scientific Eye (Robert Baker ed, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-852608-7).
The label ‘Finagle's Law’ was popularized by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this ‘Belter’ culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy. Some technical and scientific cultures (e.g., paleontologists) know it under the name Sod's Law; this usage may be more common in Great Britain. One variant favored among hackers is “The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum”; Niven specifically referred to this as O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law. See also Hanlon's Razor.
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Hanlon's Razor: prov.
A corollary of Finagle's Law, similar to Occam's Razor, that reads “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Quoted here because it seems to be a particular favorite of hackers, often showing up in sig blocks, fortune cookie files and the login banners of BBS systems and commercial networks. This probably reflects the hacker's daily experience of environments created by well-intentioned but short-sighted people. Compare Sturgeon's Law, Ninety-Ninety Rule.
At http://www.statusq.org/2001/11/26.html it is claimed that Hanlon's Razor was coined by one Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, PA. However, a curiously similar remark (“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”) appears in Logic of Empire, a classic 1941 SF story by Robert A. Heinlein, who calls the error it indicates the ‘devil theory’ of sociology. Similar epigrams have been attributed to William James and (on dubious evidence) Napoleon Bonaparte. - andyrobo60, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2wow murphy's law in action, if a server can crash it will crash, 404
- kuek1991, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It already is, smarty pants.
- moschops, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Exactly - I blame Digg for not making the Bury button as obvious, if not more obvious than the Digg one. Folks you don't have to Digg it to leave a comment... just bury and move on.
- IcyNinja, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I got a 404 error from that link. Now that's murphy's law for you...
- DanGleesacks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2fookin pikeys... can't drive... I mean, how did the pleb in the Peugeot manage to drive off the edge anyway?
- ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Bad news for you: You're in a gay pub.
- Suplyndmnd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Murphy's smoke.... don't breathe this....
- p51d007, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Could someone tell me how crap like this ends up on Digg?
- dorianh49, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3several HUNDRED weeks ago, maybe.
- omarqaz7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Ironically, This 404 Page definately proves that things go wrong at the worst possible time.
- minideezel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2its not that he didn't extend his stabilizers it was that the truck was extremely under rated for that kind of load, that crane was probably designed for moving pallets on and off of his bed, not picking up a several ton car, and also the fact that he probably didn' t have outriggers like the bigger second crane.
- jtorkbob, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Heck at this rate I could just browse Snopes...
- ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1.
- AnonymousFan9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why is the title "Accounting Tutorial"?
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