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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:If it is the issuing bank they *may* cash it (for a fee). If it's not the issuing bank no way. When you cash a check at your bank, they have the ability to take the funds out of your account if the check is bad. That's why banks where you don't have an account will rarely cash for you.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Is there a good resource out there for getting the most out of juggling 20 different hotel reward points/frequent flyer programs? For questions specific to rewards, I would try this thread instead. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3252512 I don’t contribute to it because while I’m not personally opposed to credit cards or reward programs, and it is nice to get a little something back, I’m a loan officer and I notice that people get in trouble when they have the mentality of getting something form nothing, and they outsmart themselves trying to maximize the usage of a dozen separate cards. The whole thing seems flim-flamey to me. In your case, it’s cool since your company is paying for it all. Also, I would rather you use one company card that they are liable for rather than your own personal cards that you are liable for. People have been stuck when for whatever reason their company doesn’t or can’t pay them back.
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fishmech posted:When you cash a check at your bank, they have the ability to take the funds out of your account if the check is bad. That's why banks where you don't have an account will rarely cash for you. I was saying a bank refusing to cash a check drawn on them (for no reason) is retarded (they're not obligated to by law).
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:I was saying a bank refusing to cash a check drawn on them (for no reason) is retarded (they're not obligated to by law). Wait, a bank is not obliged by law to honor an instrument that they have given to an account-holder to allow the account-holder to transfer the money that they have given the bank to hold? That seems really fishy. Why on earth would anyone use checks if the issuing bank could arbitrarily refuse to honor them?
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AFAIK the issuing bank is obligated to cash the check drawn against one of their account holders. They are allowed to charge a few (usually between 2-10 bucks).
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Jun 11, 2011 00:10
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I've been looking for this painting everywhere. Can anyone identify it? Sorry about the poo poo camera pic: Edit: Er, nevermind! I found it. It's called Last Minute Touches by Ed Martinez Al Cu Ad Solte fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jun 11, 2011 |
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Jun 11, 2011 01:46
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TinEye directed me here: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Last-Minute-Touches-Posters_i427208_.htm I have no idea if that's the original or not (there's no caption in your example, for instance), but I guess it's something to go on if nothing else. E: Ah, well.
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Where can I buy an antique-looking sepia standing globe that also opens up and doubles as a cooler/fridge?
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change my name posted:Where can I buy an antique-looking sepia standing globe that also opens up and doubles as a cooler/fridge? http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=liquor+globe+cabinet&x=0&y=0 ?
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2508084 posted:http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=liquor+globe+cabinet&x=0&y=0 ? Oh my god that's fantastic
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2508084 posted:http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=liquor+globe+cabinet&x=0&y=0 ? ...Thank you so much for introducing me to this.
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Those things are badass sean connery type equipment and need to be sold with background checks and waiting periods to make sure they won't be filled up with jose and tvarski. Also to make sure potential owners have country club memberships and not anime forum memberships.
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Raimundus posted:I've never had to cash a check without an account before. Can I just walk into any bank to do it? Most walmarts or grocery stores will cash checks for you, I think walmart only charges about $3 or so?
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isoprenaline posted:If all other life ceased to exist how long before the earth became uninhabitable by humans? What would the atmosphere become without other life? Anyone?
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isoprenaline posted:Anyone? I think the major question to ask is whether the atomsphere would become toxic to us from CO2 build up. What I don't know how to model: - the fact that CO2 is heavier that most elements in the air, and thus would tend to blanket the earth in the absense of photosynthetic processes to convert it back into O2. - whether wind gets worse or calmer in the absence of trees, grass, etc. I think worse? Which might help disperse CO2 at ground level - CO2's absorption rate into the ocean (which is acceptable since there's no life in there for it to kill) - doh -- forgot to consider whether industrial processes (that emit way more CO2 than respiration) would continue. On the one hand, you want to make food, but on the other hand, you don't want to generate any CO2 you don't have to. Assuming the CO2 people breath out tends to settle at the ground, and using figures here: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/258239.html http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_volume_of_Earth%27s_atmosphere It might take something like 80,000 days for CO2 concentrations at ground level to reach toxic levels? I used a magic number for estimating CO2 tending to settle. Give or take an order of magnitude, and you have 2 years - 2000 years. So not a great range. Assuming the worst case, humanity still might run out of food supplies and not be able to set up infrastructure to make food from materials out of the earth. I assume the cost to set up those industrial processes would outweigh the cost to come up with machinery to create O2 or trap CO2. Both would be incredibly hard to do, of course. Using these figures: http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/Carbon_Cycle.gif And this quote: "About 40% of human CO2 emissions are being absorbed, mostly by vegetation and the oceans." Then we'd only be roughly doubling the rate of CO2 concentration rise. Which isn't that bad, in the context of a no-life doomsday. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Jun 11, 2011 |
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If ALL other life ceased? Including plants? We'd be hosed immediately. I would venture that you basically have as long as you could survive without food and water although I'm not sure about oxygen levels. Most of our oxygen comes from the plant life in the ocean and without that, we're screwed. What would you eat? Everything depends on plants.
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isoprenaline posted:Anyone? You probably need to be more specific. Bacteria is life. We have bacteria that we now require for things like digestion. Strictly ALL life other than human would mean immediate death.
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I was wondering about the oxygen situation. (I was dumb enough to forget that we would be left with nothing to eat). Without plants would there be no oxygen produced?
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cosmicjim posted:You probably need to be more specific. Bacteria is life. We have bacteria that we now require for things like digestion. Strictly ALL life other than human would mean immediate death. True, I was much to broad. Let's say all life " in the wild" as it were. Anything that isn't inside us.
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There's gotta be a way to make food out of dirt. Not a cheap or efficient one. I'd wager people would turn to eating the dead right away. And soon after that, killing other people for food. I figure water wouldn't be a big deal. You could always just boil groundwater, which I don't know would be majorly affected as long as the water cycle kept up.
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We can't survive off dirt, it's just carbon. True about the water. Unfortunately, the CO2/O2 balance would still be majorly hosed. Goodbye, cruel world.
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Dudebro posted:We can't survive off dirt, it's just carbon. You could find / synthesize everything you needed from the ground, right? My guess is scientists would have to work loving hard to try to get half-assed, self-replicating quasi-cells made in big vats. And then let rich people eat that poo poo.
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Interesting thing....Uneaten food and vegetation when it dies won't rot if dentrivores are killed, also. That will prolong food sources for a little bit, unless somehow these food sources were to magically disapear upon death. Cannibalism is the only long term solution, unless we could do something ridiculous like changing chemical bonds to make the nutrients we need to eat to survive.
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kimbo305 posted:You could find / synthesize everything you needed from the ground, right? My guess is scientists would have to work loving hard to try to get half-assed, self-replicating quasi-cells made in big vats. And then let rich people eat that poo poo. The thing about carbon is, it's easy to make, but very difficult to un-make.
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RaoulDuke12 posted:The thing about carbon is, it's easy to make, but very difficult to un-make. I remember reading about scientists synthesizing self-replicating RNA some years back. I think for the sake of science/food, a lot of dead bodies would have to be used as base material for various organic chemistry attempts to make food.
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cosmicjim posted:Cannibalism is the only long term solution Babies take like 5 years to reach a suitable eating size, and they have to be fed during that time. five year old kid can feed you for like a couple of weeks at the most. That's not a long term solution. Also scurvy and other fun stuff.
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Here's a very small stupid question: Why do my t-shirts/vests/tank tops twist in the wash? I buy them brand new and after one wash the side seams have moved around so one is at the front and another at the back, making the top look weird and lopsided when I wear it. Does anyone else get this, and is there a way of preventing it from happening or reversing it? (Sorry to interrupt the cannibal talk but I'm getting really annoyed with this happening every time!)
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I just got back from a little trip to find that my refrigerator had gone on the fritz and was filling up with moisture, leading the food to develop a thick (and I mean THICK; there was a pizza box on top that was literally made indecipherable due to the amount of mold) over it. When I opened the door I was really taken aback by the smell of it all, and I decided the best course of action would be to remove everything from the fridge with a shirt wrapped around my mouth and nose to prevent myself from inhaling any spores. When I did so, though, I could feel my eyes sting from the smell and probably the spores, and now I'm concerned about any possible health risks. There are still some patches of the mold in the fridge that I was going to clean with bleach tomorrow; should I save some and take it to a specialist to make sure I'm OK? Should I seek medical help immediately? It's probably just a placebo effect, but my eyes feel like they sting now slightly. I'm going to take a shower and make a change of clothes now to be on the safe side, but are there any other precautions I should take?
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blaarghh posted:Why do my t-shirts/vests/tank tops twist in the wash? I buy them brand new and after one wash the side seams have moved around so one is at the front and another at the back, making the top look weird and lopsided when I wear it. Does anyone else get this, and is there a way of preventing it from happening or reversing it? What dryer setting do you dry them on? Cotton shrinks, and I guess it can happen unevenly. It seems weird that it's happening to all your t-shirts, though. Can you post a picture of exactly what you're talking about? Is it possible that your body is somehow lopsided? I find that when I'm wearing jeans, the left leg twists to the point where the inseam is resting above the tongue of my sneakers, but the right leg is exactly how it is supposed to be. It seriously happens with every single pair of jeans that I own, but not with any other kind of pants. I have been forced to accept the fact that the fault lies not with the trousers, but with myself. And I have a clothing-related question of my own. I wear a button-up shirt with a tie and slacks to work, but my job involves a fairly constant level of physical activity that most people wearing business attire don't really have to deal with. My shirt comes untucked constantly. Is there any solution to this that doesn't involve me shoving my hands down my pants every ten minutes?
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Jun 11, 2011 13:05
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Long, fitted shirts. Alternatively, suspenders may help.
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I'm not really ready to go the suspenders route, although I have considered it. I don't think that my shirts are too short. They don't come completely untucked. But after a short time, it gets to a point where it's just kind of sloppy looking.
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What is the feminine version of emasculate. Or a word that means to deprive of feminine vigor.
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blaarghh posted:Why do my t-shirts/vests/tank tops twist in the wash? Eyeball posted:Cotton shrinks, and I guess it can happen unevenly. Yup, this is pretty much it. Almost all fabric shrinks, and depending on how cheap your clothes are, the commercial weaving process for fabric can leave a lot of room for the threads to shift around. Clothing companies do not "preshrink" their fabric, a process in which the fabric is washed in very hot water and then dried in a machine dryer. This prevents further shrinking (provided subsequent washes are done properly) and lets the threads move into place so that they do not shift around. I've found that spending a little bit more money on my basics helps. Very few if any of my more expensive tops have the twisting problem.
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Ridonkulous posted:What is the feminine version of emasculate. Or a word that means to deprive of feminine vigor. I was going to say "effeminate," but realized that it kind of means the same as "emasculate." English 
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Ridonkulous posted:What is the feminine version of emasculate. Or a word that means to deprive of feminine vigor. What is feminine vigor? Emasculate works for men because strength is viewed as a defining feature of the male sex. Traditionally in many societies the equivalent offense would be an affront to or loss of virtue.
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BonHair posted:Babies take like 5 years to reach a suitable eating size, and they have to be fed during that time. five year old kid can feed you for like a couple of weeks at the most. That's not a long term solution. There's already plenty of eating size people. I'm not starting from scratch. Though, I shouldn't have said long term. Eventually, I will run out of people to eat, since if cannibalism is the only food source the population can only shrink. It's the longest way to prolong inevitable demise based on current technology.
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Eyeball posted:What dryer setting do you dry them on? Cotton shrinks, and I guess it can happen unevenly. It seems weird that it's happening to all your t-shirts, though. Can you post a picture of exactly what you're talking about? Is it possible that your body is somehow lopsided? I don't own a dryer, I hang them on the line...could that be the cause, maybe? It's weird though because I know tons of people who line dry their clothes and I'm the only one it happens to. I drew a crap diagram of what I mean:  The side seams kind of end up twisting round on the lower half of the shirt, with one going on the front and one on the back. And I don't think I'm lopsided, at least I've never been called lopsided before 
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nesbit37 posted:What is feminine vigor? Emasculate works for men because strength is viewed as a defining feature of the male sex. Traditionally in many societies the equivalent offense would be an affront to or loss of virtue. this is what emasculate means and with the word "masculate" being derived from masculine I have assumed their is a feminine version of the word, but effeminate does not mean the opposite of emasculate.
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You're looking for "defemenize.". Comedy/slang option: "effemulate."
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The Easy Rider posted:I just got back from a little trip to find that my refrigerator had gone on the fritz and was filling up with moisture, leading the food to develop a thick (and I mean THICK; there was a pizza box on top that was literally made indecipherable due to the amount of mold) over it. When I opened the door I was really taken aback by the smell of it all, and I decided the best course of action would be to remove everything from the fridge with a shirt wrapped around my mouth and nose to prevent myself from inhaling any spores. When I did so, though, I could feel my eyes sting from the smell and probably the spores, and now I'm concerned about any possible health risks. There are still some patches of the mold in the fridge that I was going to clean with bleach tomorrow; should I save some and take it to a specialist to make sure I'm OK? Should I seek medical help immediately? It's probably just a placebo effect, but my eyes feel like they sting now slightly. I'm going to take a shower and make a change of clothes now to be on the safe side, but are there any other precautions I should take? You're fine. Mold isn't as dangerous as people make it out to be - your risk is with long-term exposure to breathing spores. Short of eating all of that moldy food, there's very little it's going to do to you. You might have gotten spores in your eyes, which would sting and make your eyes water, but that's how your eyes are supposed to work.
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