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Darth Ronson posted:Were actual pieces of eight as hoarded by pirates all wobbly edged as they're seen in some films? Wikipedia's pictures of pieces of eight shows them being properly minted - is the wobbly edgedness meant to show they were under water for a while? Or is it just artistic licence on the behalf of Hollywood? Old fashioned coin making was often more than a little bit sloppy. Sometimes the mints would have the coins produced nice and neat and sometimes they'd be a little bit messed up.
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This cover picture for the Economist replaces the name of every state with some name reflecting the grim financial situation of the US (Illinois -> Ill., for example): http://www.economist.com/node/18010469?Story_ID=18010469 What does Nebraska's new name, "Nebrassic", mean? Please let me know. I have three ideas (spoilered so as not to influence your judgment): 1. Like Jurassic. But I don't see what that has to do with being poor. Were dinosaurs poor? Are Nebraskans as primitive as our Jurassic mammal ancestors? 2. Nebra - sick. Like, the state is sick. 3. If you say it with a really nasal voice, it sounds like "depressing".
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a beautiful baby posted:What does Nebraska's new name, "Nebrassic", mean? Brassic is (British?) slang for being poor. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brassic
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Mr.Hotkeys posted:Brassic is (British?) slang for being poor. Thanks!!! i'm so glad it's not jurassic.
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Some of those are clever but some are just real bad. Seems like someone got too wed to the idea.
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Pontius Pilate posted:Some of those are clever but some are just real bad. Seems like someone got too wed to the idea. What? Got a problem with such gold as "Vergin'on the ridiculous", "West Vergin'on the ridiculous", and "Debt Mountana"?
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What would be the best way to send a one-time e-mail to ~320 people? I'm using Thunderbird/Dreamhost at work and BCCing everyone but can't send "quote exceeded". I assume Dreamhost thinks I'm spamming everyone. I don't want to sign up for something like Constant Constact since this is going to be a one-time thing. I have all of the e-mail addresses in a spreadsheet as well as listed individually line-by-line in a Notepad document.
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FoxIt was the free pdf reader, but now they are pushing toolbars and other crap that you cannot opt out of. Is there a FOSS option for a good pdf reader for Windows, or a free one that is not trying to install toolbar and other spywarish stuff? Also is there a free dual pane file browser, preferably FOSS again? kapalama fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Feb 18, 2011 |
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Kitsch! posted:What would be the best way to send a one-time e-mail to ~320 people? I'm using Thunderbird/Dreamhost at work and BCCing everyone but can't send "quote exceeded". I assume Dreamhost thinks I'm spamming everyone. I don't want to sign up for something like Constant Constact since this is going to be a one-time thing. I have all of the e-mail addresses in a spreadsheet as well as listed individually line-by-line in a Notepad document. You're BCCing, so why not just send 4 emails one after the other?
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kapalama posted:Is there a FOSS option for a good pdf reader for Windows, or a free one that is not trying to install toolbar and other spywarish stuff? Don't remember if anything tried to tag along during the install but Sumatra PDF is FOSS and does fine by me.
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kapalama posted:FoxIt was the free pdf reader, but now they are pushing toolbars and other crap that you cannot opt out of. What's wrong with Adobe Reader? It's not open source and is kind of clunky but it gets the job done.
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ibroxmassive posted:You're BCCing, so why not just send 4 emails one after the other? I can do that, but it'll take me 4 hours (100 recipients per hour). Just sent 90 out and looks like I can't do any more right now. http://wiki.dreamhost.com/SMTP_quota
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A Violence Gang posted:Don't remember if anything tried to tag along during the install but Sumatra PDF is FOSS and does fine by me. Thanks for this. Mr.Hotkeys posted:What's wrong with Adobe Reader? It's not open source and is kind of clunky but it gets the job done. Nothing in particular except that it is clunky. Especially the way it installs its own updater, and downloads huge updates in the background, and tends to need to online to complete the install. (100mb for Asian language support files. My connection is slow and intermittent, and I am downloading stuff on my mac and taking it to the windows machine.)
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Droid Washington posted:Thanks for everyones advice on the therapist no-show bill. I scrounged up some money and sent them a check, and cancelled my rescheduled appointment with them. Why did you cancel the reschedule? I've missed a few appointments over time but it's still in my best interest to go
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Here's my PDF software of choice: http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer Lightweight and has hundreds of features you have to pay out the rear end to let Adobe do. Allows highlighting and annotating and other neat stuff. Ideal for students. EDIT: Whoops, didn't realize you're looking for Open Source stuff. Regardless it's worth a try.
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Mak0rz posted:Here's my PDF software of choice: Thanks for this one too. FOSS is ideal, but free is also good.
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So for whatever reason I've grown accustomed to wearing wifebeaters/a-shirts instead of whatever undershirts I used to wear under dress shirts and button-ups; however, being a cheap bastard (and also college student), I was wondering if anyone knew where I could buy them online for any cheaper than Target/Wal-mart.
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Kitsch! posted:What would be the best way to send a one-time e-mail to ~320 people? I'm using Thunderbird/Dreamhost at work and BCCing everyone but can't send "quote exceeded". I assume Dreamhost thinks I'm spamming everyone. I don't want to sign up for something like Constant Constact since this is going to be a one-time thing. I have all of the e-mail addresses in a spreadsheet as well as listed individually line-by-line in a Notepad document. I'm pretty sure Constant Contact has a free trial, so if you don't already have an account it would probably be just the thing. I'll check later and see if it's a referral thing.
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wigtrade.cc posted:Hey does anyone remember those patterns on the back of cereal boxes that usually just looked like a lot of random noise until you put on these special glasses which would reveal the hidden words? Few pages back, but these are called Stereograms.
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Robin Sparkles posted:Few pages back, but these are called Stereograms.  No they aren't.
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 What kind of hat is this? It isn't a pillbox ballcap (like the 1970s Pirates wore) and it isn't a military tri-corner cap like old cops wore.
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Over the last few few days I've been through two light bulbs in quick succession for my bed side light. It's your average desk lamp that takes 40 watt bayonet bulbs. What do you think is causing this?
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Jippa posted:Over the last few few days I've been through two light bulbs in quick succession for my bed side light. Entropy aided and abetted by statistics and chaos theory. Or shorting wiring.
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Mak0rz posted:
Yes they are Wikipedia posted:An autostereogram is an optical illusion of depth usually observed by allowing the eyes to focus behind the image (diverge), or, less often, in front of it (converge). These two methods are also known as wall-eyed and cross-eyed, respectively. The slight differences in vertical repetitions of figures or random dots create the illusion of depth in the 2D image, just as the slight difference in perspective between one's eyes creates the perception of depth on 3D objects and scenes.
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Gravity Pike posted:Is there anywhere legit online that I can watch the IBM Watson Jeoparty games? Not asking for You'll have more luck finding them if you spell it correctly - it's 'jeopardy', like the word 'jeopardy', not 'jeoparty' like some kind of misspelt geography party.
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, just want to know if they're streaming on Hulu or NBC or ABC or whatever channel Jeoparty is on.
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If anyone can help me find either of these two threads I will be very grateful. First one was a joke thread where some guy had a really stupid and long winded joke and the punchline was "Welcome to the Republican Party!". I know it became somewhat popular after that, but I'm looking for the original thread specifically because some of the responses to that post were incredible. The second one was relatively recent (past month or two) and might have been gassed. Pretty sure it was in A/T and the OP posted some rambling post about how he and his friends had a LAN party. It ended with the quote "It was certainly an experience!" and the responses that followed were also hilarious. I know there's a PYF thread about finding threads, but I posted the first one and got no response, plus this thread seems to be generally more reliable.
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Robin Sparkles posted:Yes they are The cereal box ones the guy was talking about are different. There's a bunch of red static over some blue writing or whatever. You can't tell what the writing says until you put on the little red-tinted plastic glasses and it filters everything red so the blue comes through clearly. It has nothing to do with 3D. That said, I still have no idea what it's called.
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Jeffrey Colon posted:If anyone can help me find either of these two threads I will be very grateful. This?
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It turns out this is a "military cadet's hat", specifically a flat one.
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I have a couple of USB powered devices that need extra power. With one of them I got USB cord that has a Y split to let it plug into two USB ports for extra power. What are those kind of cords called so I can google them and but more?
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kapalama posted:I have a couple of USB powered devices that need extra power. I got good results searching for "USB Male Y Adapter" on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Power-Adapter-Cable-AUSB-Y/dp/B000JIOHDE http://www.amazon.com/AUDIOVOX-Utstarcom-Universal-Adapter-Terminal/dp/B0041CFFBM http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Splitter-Motorola-Blackberry-AUDM6BEBXAR/dp/B003VWJT0G These just have generic female USB plugs at the end. http://www.amazon.com/Cables-Go-28108-Y-Cable-Black/dp/B0013LSFJI http://www.amazon.com/Mini-B-Booster-External-Drives-Manhattan/dp/B003IMAEL2 http://www.amazon.com/Bytecc-USB2-HD201-cable-mini-USB-Hi-Speed/dp/B002GWMLE8 And these two are a few I found with common male ends for USB devices if you'd rather have that.
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Mr.Hotkeys posted:I got good results searching for "USB Male Y Adapter" on Amazon. I thank you greatly. Adding male or female was the trick, I was trying Y and google tends to ignore single letters like that.
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I have a plastic cup that I only ever drink iced tea out of. When I wash it, I can never get all the tea reside off of it with dish detergent. Just now, for the hell of it I sprayed bleach-based kitchen cleaner in there, and it tore off the tea residue instantly. I washed it about three times afterwards and there is no more bleach smell, is it safe to drink out of?
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Samurai Sanders posted:I have a plastic cup that I only ever drink iced tea out of. When I wash it, I can never get all the tea reside off of it with dish detergent. Just now, for the hell of it I sprayed bleach-based kitchen cleaner in there, and it tore off the tea residue instantly. I washed it about three times afterwards and there is no more bleach smell, is it safe to drink out of? Campers sometimes use bleach to disinfect water (in small drops of course) so it is safe enough. The bleach did not actually remove anything, though, it just bleached the tea color out. Apropos of nothing Bleach is really hard on plastics, so if it is your favorite cup from when you were a child you might want to live with the tea stains or avoid tea.
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kapalama posted:Campers sometimes use bleach to disinfect water (in small drops of course) so it is safe enough. The bleach did not actually remove anything, though, it just bleached the tea color out. Apropos of nothing Bleach is really hard on plastics, so if it is your favorite cup from when you were a child you might want to live with the tea stains or avoid tea.
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It broke down the dye compounds in the tea stains. So it did remove something, but it also probably did a number on the plastic of the cup.
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Samurai Sanders posted:You mean the tea residue is still there, but is...transparent? I'm staring at the cup and having a hard time believing that. For a fun experiment, slice a carrot into a thin round piece, and leave it in bleach overnight. You will wake up to a clear slice of carrot. It's kind of weird, like those clear shrimp you see in the ocean (or don't see).
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Samurai Sanders posted:You mean the tea residue is still there, but is...transparent? I'm staring at the cup and having a hard time believing that. No, once you washed it, all the tea was gone. The tea just stained the cup, and the bleach got rid of the stain. Think, like, how coffee stains your teeth. You brush your teeth, and all the coffee's gone, but the damage still exists in discoloration. As I understand it, any highly acidic thing can leave a significant stain over time (tomato sauce is another example, we've got tons of orange plastic bowels).
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thelightguy posted:It broke down the dye compounds in the tea stains. So it did remove something, but it also probably did a number on the plastic of the cup. It's a cheap cup anyway, if it gets destroyed by the time I do this fifteen times or whatever that's fine with me. I'm not giving up iced tea anyway, I live on the stuff.
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Mr.Hotkeys posted:As I understand it, any highly acidic thing can leave a significant stain over time (tomato sauce is another example, we've got tons of orange plastic bowels). Which does not come out even with bleach IME. They should paint cars and houses with tomato sauce.
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