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Diabetes By Sundown posted:There's a dehumidifier in my basement to prevent stuff from molding, but I feel like there's a lot of electricity going to waste. Is it possible to replace the dehumidifier with a dessicant of some kind, e.g. Damprid? Or would that result in a moldy basement?
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randyest posted:Yeah but you'd need a lot of it to pull out as much water as a dehumidifier, and it might end up costing the same or even more since it gets used up and has to be replaced. The best long-term plan is to get your basement waterproofed. More money up front but cheaper in the long run if you're going to keep the house. Well I'm renting and I'll only be here another year. I figured if the damprid lasted about that long I would be okay. Guess I'll look into it. Thanks.
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Jun 5, 2011 22:38
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Anjow posted:Has anyone used an air ioniser? My father suggests that I should get one to help alleviate dust buildup in my room in my new place. Do they do this? Are they any good? If so, does anyone have a recommendation of a good one? I can't speak for ionisers, but I live in a dusty old house, and these, along with dusting and vacuuming, do an excellent job of keeping the dust under control. You have to replace the filters regularly, and especially the carbon prefilter, but you can buy the carbon prefilter in rolls or sheets from other manufacturers (my Menards store sells them in the same display as the Hunters) and cut them to fit. One of these on the nightstand next to my bed makes a big difference in whether I wake up in the middle of the night because I can't breathe for allergies.
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Jun 5, 2011 23:00
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Diabetes By Sundown posted:Well I'm renting and I'll only be here another year. I figured if the damprid lasted about that long I would be okay. Guess I'll look into it. Thanks.  I'd think your landlord would want to take measures to keep it dry since, you know, once you get mold you're pretty hosed.
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Jun 5, 2011 23:12
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bru posted:Can anyone recommend an acoustic guitar for round about £200/$350? Thanks! Yamaha, very sturdy and a nice versatile sound. Played lots and lots of them at a friend's music shop back in the day. The bracing for the lower tier models stays the same up until the ~£350 mark, iirc. Then it changes again a few models up the ladder. Better check their current catalogue to make sure you're paying for audible differences in quality instead of cosmetics.
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Jun 6, 2011 01:29
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Does anyone have/ know anyone who has an asus eee slate? How well does it run minecraft? I was thinking of getting a new laptop, something portability based, and this seemed like a better choice than a macbook air.
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Jun 6, 2011 01:34
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I just got the "Inception" soundtrack on a whim. I noticed that it doesn't include the audio used in the trailer, "Mind Heist." Why not?
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Jun 6, 2011 01:59
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^^^ Often music used in trailers is used because the score isn't finished, or simply because it fits the trailer better. They even use scores from other movies in trailers. Long story short; unless there was a theme song or something, you usually don't get the trailer song on the soundtrack. From a business aspect, it isn't on there because they licensed it for broadcast, but didn't buy the extra rights to include it on the soundtrack. bru posted:Can anyone recommend an acoustic guitar for round about £200/$350? Thanks! I have one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Takamine-EG34...07324788&sr=1-3 It's right at your price range on amazon, and I have nothing but good things to say about it. Durable, great acoustics, good action, holds tune, nothing has broken. I've had it for probably 6 years now.
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Jun 6, 2011 02:47
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RaoulDuke12 posted:From a business aspect, it isn't on there because they licensed it for broadcast, but didn't buy the extra rights to include it on the soundtrack. I don't know this for a fact, but I would bet a dollar it's related to licensing.
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Jun 6, 2011 04:18
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stubblyhead posted:I don't know this for a fact, but I would bet a dollar it's related to licensing. It is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Steps_From_Hell Another big company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Music
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Okay, I could really use the help of an entomologist, hobby bug guy, or anyone who has dealt with a cockroach problem. I moved into this house last year, joining two occupants who have been here for nearly a decade. They've never had to deal with cockroach problems. Over the summer I saw two separate bugs that look like cockroaches to me, I'm told they're 'waterbugs.' I assume they know more about the region than I do, since I'm a newcomer. I've seen three this week alone. That's a little more concerning than seeing two in a summer. I captured the third one, ignoring the heebie-geebies, and it is now my prisoner in a very small Tupperware thing. I've tried to identify it, see if it's even a cockroach, and I'm having no luck. I did find out that a waterbug is a drat cockroach, very comforting. The pictures don't look like what I have, the descriptions are vague, and I don't trust exterminators. I'm sure if I called one, they'd decide we need to spray some expensive crap all over. I'm also pregnant, which makes me want to get the roaches gone faster, since they do carry disease causing bacteria, but it makes me want to spray less, since I'm overprotective of the fetus and I have an unnatural fear of 'chemicals' I learned from my father. So, if anyone can help, or knows of a site more helpful than the stuff Google brings up, please speak up.
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Jun 6, 2011 12:57
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Take a picture of the bug. We have a bunch of bug geeks hanging around here who are pretty fast at identifying.
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Jun 6, 2011 14:39
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Fabulist posted:Okay, I could really use the help of an entomologist, hobby bug guy, or anyone who has dealt with a cockroach problem.
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Jun 6, 2011 14:55
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Fabulist posted:Okay, I could really use the help of an entomologist, hobby bug guy, or anyone who has dealt with a cockroach problem. As an aside, sometimes where I'm from (Texas) we call the largest, gross kind of American cockroach a "water bug" so we don't feel like we have a cockroach infestation.
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Jun 6, 2011 15:59
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I wasn't sure if I would ask this in Cinema Discusso or TVIV, so I'm asking it here.  A friend of mine just finished watching the 2009 Star Trek movie, and she's looking for a good summation of the changes between the original timeline/history and the alternate reality in the new movie. Anyone have a good link for that? The best result my Googling found was some discussion of how the characters are different as portrayed by the different actors, and that's not what she's looking for.
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Jun 6, 2011 18:43
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It's a reboot in every way but name, there is nothing left of the old universe. It would be easier to list things that were not changed.
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Jun 6, 2011 19:28
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Sometimes my neck hurts so I crack it, when I lean my head to the left I can feel it in the right side of my chest and it does not feel good. Could this be a pulled muscle?
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Jun 6, 2011 20:08
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Has google pulled all of the free hotspot apps from the market? I don't feel like paying an extra 30 dollars a month for some bullshit
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Jun 6, 2011 22:55
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I want to open some ports so I can run a minecraft server with my friend. However, I'm renting from a Korean fellow and everything on my router is Korean. Can anybody give me instructions on how to open the proper port? Pictures are here - http://imgur.com/a/RUtQ1 Appreciate it. Edit: Forgot the buttons at the bottom 
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Jun 7, 2011 02:40
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anyone know of a youtube-esque video hosting site that allows you to uplaod a 1GB file thats one hour long?
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Fabulist posted:Okay, I could really use the help of an entomologist, hobby bug guy, or anyone who has dealt with a cockroach problem. Your profile says you're in a "Flyover State", so that's close enough to me (Illinois) that I feel I can relate. If you've seen three of these, you've got an infestation, and yes, waterbugs are cockroaches, although they have the saving grace of at least not being the common or "German" cockroach, explosively populating midnight scurrier of kitchen and bathroom; generally waterbugs live in damp areas like basements and really way back under the kitchen sink and--here's the point--you generally don't see many waterbugs (as in, "more than one") unless their population pressures are such that outlyers are being forced out to where you can see them. They're not invasive the way that German cockroaches are, but they're definitely roaches. However, everybody I know takes the same laid-back attitude towards waterbugs that your roomies do--"Eh, it's just a waterbug". This is because you don't usually come into the kitchen at midnight and find a whole population of them snacking down on your dirty dishes. If you're bothered by waterbugs, bug-bombs work well; you set them off in your basement and under the kitchen sink. Leave the house for 4 to 8 hours to let the fumes dissipate. As a pregnant person you should have someone else air out the house for you, but most home-use bug bombs I believe are based on relatively non-toxic-to-humans pyrethrins rather than EPA-licensed ghastly poisons. Waterbugs also respond well to ordinary once-a-month spraying with Ortho pesticide, Spectracide, or Bugstop or the equivalent gallon-jug-with-sprayer bug spray that Wal-Mart carries (Note: NOT ordinary Raid®, which has no residual knockdown effect plus smells really bad). Spray around damp places, like in the basement, around utility tubs, washing machines, etc., and under the kitchen sink. Get all the junk out from under the kitchen sink, too; you want an absence of hiding places. The trick is to keep after them, because there are always new age cohorts of bugs coming to maturity and going out into the world (i.e. your house), so you spray once a month. A professional exterminator will try to sell you on a contract to have him come in once a month and spray. You do not need this, you can do it yourself with Bug-Stop from Wal-Mart. However, you CAN hire him to come in and do a one-time treatment only. Just say no to the maintenance contract. Note that the pesticides here are being put in places where you personally don't normally go, unless you're in the habit of sticking your face under the kitchen sink or behind the washing machine or under the basement utility tub. If you exercise normal caution and just try to keep your distance from the actual spray, your baby should be fine. I raised 3 kids in this house with monthly Bug-Stop and none of them have any birth defects. For you, I went and looked up "tralomethrin teratogenic" on Google, and the EPA reports that they force-fed the active ingredient in Bug-Stop to rats and rabbits, with no birth defects. http://www.epa.gov/iris/subst/0385.htm
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Jun 7, 2011 03:38
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How come sometimes people link youtube videos using the URL youtu.be? From my experience it just redirects to the actual site, so I assume people go out of their way to alter the URL. But why?
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Fun Times! posted:How come sometimes people link youtube videos using the URL youtu.be? From my experience it just redirects to the actual site, so I assume people go out of their way to alter the URL. But why? Maybe for the twitter users that have limited characters. I don't know honestly. Is it a faux pas to ask someone what their avatar is from?
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Jun 7, 2011 04:48
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JDanielS posted:Is it a faux pas to ask someone what their avatar is from? I do it all the time
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Fun Times! posted:How come sometimes people link youtube videos using the URL youtu.be? From my experience it just redirects to the actual site, so I assume people go out of their way to alter the URL. But why? The youtu.be form URL serves two functions: it's shorter, which is nice for things like Twitter, which used to count URLs toward the message limit (now I think it has fancy autoshortening). It also still lets people know that you're heading to a Youtube video, as opposed to some random tinyurl.
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Jun 7, 2011 04:53
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Oh. I only asked because I saw some links in that fashion on the forums, but they were in TCC so who knows.
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Jun 7, 2011 04:59
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Fun Times! posted:I assume people go out of their way to alter the URL. Clicking the "share" button under a video produces a .be link specifically for Twitter et al. because it's short.
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Jun 7, 2011 05:07
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Does there exist a website or a collection on a website dedicated to dramatic parody readings of terrible fanfiction? Stuff like Half Life: Full Life Consequences. I can't get enough of this stuff.
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Jun 7, 2011 13:46
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nbv4 posted:anyone know of a youtube-esque video hosting site that allows you to uplaod a 1GB file thats one hour long? http://vimeo.com/ seems to be where I see long hi-def films usually posted.
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Jun 7, 2011 16:41
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change my name posted:Has google pulled all of the free hotspot apps from the market? I don't feel like paying an extra 30 dollars a month for some bullshit Yes, they puled a bunch from their market a few weeks ago. There's nothing stopping you from loading the .apk manually though.
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Jun 7, 2011 16:52
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Can anyone recommend an online boutique that supplies bras in larger sizes? E cup for example, i'm trying to help my girlfriend find a good supplier but it's difficult to ascertain at least for me being a male and so on. Shipping to Canada would be mandatory.
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Jun 7, 2011 20:20
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figleaves.ca. She can sort by size, as well as a bunch of other criteria. Also, if she hasn't already, she should go to the best department store near y'all and get sized properly. An absurdly large number of women are not wearing the right bra size-- most have a smaller band size and a larger cup size than they think they do. Finally, there is a bra megathread in W&W that might be of help for both of you.
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Blogger or Wordpress? Which do you prefer and why? Seems to be hotly debated.
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Tostito posted:Blogger or Wordpress? Which do you prefer and why? Seems to be hotly debated. What are your needs?
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Sizzlechest posted:I just got the "Inception" soundtrack on a whim. I noticed that it doesn't include the audio used in the trailer, "Mind Heist." Why not? It's very common for production companies to use 3rd party music for the trailers, since the film score is done in post-production and the trailers need to be out before the film is completed. Zack Hemsey wrote the music in the trailer, but Hans Zimmer is the one who scored the film. The soundtrack is probably going to be almost exclusively Hans' music.
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I've been using a citronella-based insect repellent to deal with the mosquitoes, lately. I understand that citronella is a natural oil derived from a plant. Does this mean that it is a totally safe, non-toxic product? I really just want to know how much I can safely use at a time while I'm working outside.
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Raimundus posted:I understand that citronella is a natural oil derived from a plant. Does this mean that it is a totally safe, non-toxic product? Yes and no. Citronella oil is safe to use but may cause irritation in some people -- it gives me a mild rash, for example. But just because something is "natural" doesn't mean that it's safe, non-toxic, or good to use.
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tarepanda posted:But just because something is "natural" doesn't mean that it's safe, non-toxic, or good to use. Exactly, nightshade comes from a plant and is deadly poisonous. If you don't have any negative reactions to it, then go nuts. I think it stinks, so I don't use it. YMMV.
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tarepanda posted:Yes and no. I've used it a few times already. No rash or reaction, just comments from other people about the smell (it's pretty loving potent). I was more referring to any dangerous or long-term effects, anyway. Are there any?
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Not that I know of. It's been around for ages without anything being reported other than topical irritation.
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