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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Is there any way to setup something that will give you a notification whenever a certain person comes online on facebook? Like a popup on firefox or something?
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I think the microwave thing might be from Maximum Overdrive. It had a lot of stuff like that.
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Jul 20, 2011 03:33
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ShadowHawk posted:If you use Pidgin you can add facebook chat as an account to it and then create a buddy pounce. This would be pretty cool, thanks. Is there any other type of method?
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Jul 20, 2011 03:42
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Are the taxes and surcharges the same between various cellular carriers? What I mean is, if your monthly fee is $60 with one place, and another place has a plan for $40, will your bill be $20 less, or would there be some variation due to taxes etc?
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Jul 20, 2011 03:43
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Dudebro posted:No, but maybe similar. There was an old '80s movie about a ghost in the machine (might have been called that) and there was a kitchen scene with a teenage girl. The ghost in the electrical grid made her washing machine go crazy and get soap everywhere and made the microwave go nuts so she died a horrible death. Yep, that's Ghost in the Machine, a 1993 "sci-fi" horror movie. The dishwasher didn't just "get soap everywhere", though - it sprayed water across the kitchen floor, and the ghost then manipulated the microwave so that she was exposed to the high-voltage current from the microwave while standing on the watery floor. Operating a microwave oven with the door open will do relatively little damage to anything not in its immediate vicinity, and even to that, its effects are largely limited to generating heat. Microwaves cannot give you radiation poisoning (because, despite the term "microwave radiation" and the colloquialism "nuking", microwaves are not actually radioactive) and will do no permanent damage to you unless you stand next to them long enough for your skin to actually heat up enough to cause burns, which is not a short amount of time. (Consider that microwaves' cooking properties were discovered by engineers working on radio antennas, when one of them noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket melted when he walked in front of the giant antenna. None of these engineers suffered permanent ill effects from working around these antennas that dealt with vastly larger amounts of microwaves than your home oven can produce.) That said, it's still probably not that great of an idea. Neither, incidentally, is watching "Ghost in the Machine".
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Jul 20, 2011 03:46
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Eyeball posted:I think the microwave thing might be from Maximum Overdrive. It had a lot of stuff like that. No, it was this delicious turd of a movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107009/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2HPq-WDnFQ Thanks, besesoth. I was going to reply with something I found on Yahoo answers. It's not too dangerous, but you can still burn yourself by putting your hand in there, which isn't anything special. There's more danger in the transformer and putting metal objects in the microwaves' paths. I knew someone in grade school whose dad died while working on a microwave because he forgot to unplug it. Dudebro fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Jul 20, 2011 |
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Jul 20, 2011 03:47
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Besesoth posted:(Consider that microwaves' cooking properties were discovered by engineers working on radio antennas, when one of them noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket melted when he walked in front of the giant antenna. None of these engineers suffered permanent ill effects from working around these antennas that dealt with vastly larger amounts of microwaves than your home oven can produce.) Huh. I always assumed that those dudes were all getting cancer ten years down the line, and they just didn't know about it yet. Like Marie Curie discovered Radium, and ended up dying from it.
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Jul 20, 2011 03:56
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ShadowHawk posted:How much effort is it to learn how to ride a horse? Are we talking a few days of lessons or something much more involved? There are several different levels here. There is: 1. Learning how to sit/balance on top of a horse without falling off as it is led around at a walk. With a well-trained, calm horse, this takes, as noted, a couple minutes. Toddlers being led around a riding ring on Grandpa's old plow horse can do it. 2. Learning how to sit/balance on top of a horse without falling off as it moves as the faster paces of trot and canter. This takes longer, say an hour, with you as a mere passenger, a sack of flour, while the horse trots and canters in circles around its trainer who is holding it on what amounts to a very long leash. 3. Learning how to sit/balance on top of a horse without falling off as it moves AND steering it yourself with the reins, AND giving it cues with your legs and heels, AND making it go where YOU want to go, not where the horse wants to go, which is usually back to the barn where the food is, AND making it slow down, stop, go faster, etc. Depending on you and the horse, you can take years and never learn this and have to go through life telling people, "I just don't get along with horses", or like many a horse-crazy first-grader little girl, you can pick it up in two lessons. This here, #3, is what is generally referred to as "learning to ride", in other words, the element of "making the horse do what YOU want to do", of being more than a passenger, is present. However, if all you want is to spend an hour on a rent-a-horse excursion out of a livery stable, all you need to do is #2; the horse will have a predestined pathway around the grounds or trails that he will be long accustomed to traveling, plus with an amateur, inexperienced rider (such as you) he will simply shrug, ignore you, and follow the other horses. So all you have to do is not fall off. Holding onto the mane (the hair on the back of his neck) works well. No, it does not hurt him. Holding onto the saddle itself also works; ignore those who sneer at greenhorns who "pull leather", because tourists need all the help they can get to keep from falling off into the pricker bushes two miles out and having to walk back in 90 degree heat. Wear shoes that have a discernable heel for safety so your shoe doesn't slip through the stirrup and get stuck; not Reeboks, not for god's sake flipflops, not tennies or Chucks. Wear oxfords, or cowboy boots or rancher-type boots. There's a reason for the stacked heel. Have your choice of hydrating beverage in the car for afterwards because you will be thirsty and livery stables don't normally serve pop or beer, although they would probably let you have a drink out of their garden hose.
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Jul 20, 2011 03:59
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:This would be pretty cool, thanks. Is there any other type of method?
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I have a couple questions about a doctor's visit. I have had all of this managed by parents in the past but I was thinking about making an appointment for a mental health problem. I am sure a lot of these questions will seem really stupid (this seems like the right thread though) but my parents managed all of this for me in the past. 1. How do I tell what my insurance will cover? 2. How do I tell a doctor I think I have a mental health problem? Something like "I feel sad all the time and I'm not sure why?" 3. Do I go to specialist for this type of thing? 4. Is it difficult to get a prescription? Do I need to prove I have a problem? These types of drugs can be easily abused I believe so I am not sure if they would take someone in college seriously. 5. Do I need to go to a "family doctor" or can I schedule something around where I go to college?
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Jul 20, 2011 05:52
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Go to a GP first, not a specialist. You'll get a referral if you need one. Tell them straight out what's wrong -- all the symptoms, when it happens, what causes it (if anything), when it started, how long you usually feel like that, what breaks you out of the funk, etc. The information will help them figure out what's going on and whether you need meds or just someone to talk to. If you live on-campus, there should also be mental health services or something like that; you could go there for free and try talking to a therapist for free.
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Jul 20, 2011 05:56
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What would be the right word to call a person who lacks fundamental knowledge in any given complex area of science? "Outsider" sounds a bit harsh, doesn't it?
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Jul 20, 2011 05:59
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Usually those people are called "laymen".
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Shy posted:What would be the right word to call a person who lacks fundamental knowledge in any complex area of science? "Outsider" sounds a bit harsh, doesn't it? Is there anything wrong with using 'layman?'
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haveblue posted:Usually those people are called "laymen". kimbo305 posted:Is there anything wrong with using 'layman?' I think I never heard it before, or never paid attention to it. Thank you.
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TheBoogeyMan posted:I have a couple questions about a doctor's visit. I have had all of this managed by parents in the past but I was thinking about making an appointment for a mental health problem. I am sure a lot of these questions will seem really stupid (this seems like the right thread though) but my parents managed all of this for me in the past. 1. Your insurance company will have on their website detailed information on what kind of things are covered and will have copay information as well. 2. Tell him exactly that. 3. If you're referring to mental health issues, then yes you'd need to see a specialist of some sort. If you need some help getting started in that direction, check the mental health megathread over in The Goon Doctor. 4. If you have a legitimate medical issue then you shouldn't have trouble getting the medicine that's going to help. 5. If you're having a problem, go see a doctor right away. Once you get back to school you can have your records sent over to your school's health services or whatever so they have all your information. A lot of schools have psychological services as well if that's something you need. Good luck to you, I hope you get things sorted out.
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Thanks for the quick replies. I'm on campus over the summer so I'll go to them first and take things from there. Thanks again.
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I'm looking for the name of an arcade game similar to the xmen one. I think it had moon knight in it, or at least someone with a white hooded cape who flew and shot yellow beams from his hands. I think the game also had hawkeye
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Fauxtool posted:I'm looking for the name of an arcade game similar to the xmen one. I think it had moon knight in it, or at least someone with a white hooded cape who flew and shot yellow beams from his hands. I think the game also had hawkeye Vision, maybe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_america_and_the_avengers
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Loopyface posted:Vision, maybe? Yeah that's it, thanks
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A buddy of mine was pulled over on a toll highway for an expired sticker on his car. I was just a passenger but the police officer asked me and another passenger for our drivers licences as well. Was he just looking for more things to catch us with since he had us, and is that even legal? I didn't want start a fuss so I let him have the licence (it's squeaky clean anyway) but is that even legal, and am I required to give an officer ID just because they ask? This is in Canada.
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Rhizoid posted:A buddy of mine was pulled over on a toll highway for an expired sticker on his car. I was just a passenger but the police officer asked me and another passenger for our drivers licences as well. Was he just looking for more things to catch us with since he had us, and is that even legal? I don't know about Canada specifically, but here in the US most states have a law stating that you must provide ID to a police officer if requested. I imagine most places in Canada have a similar statute. It makes it easier for them to check you for warrants, since they have most of your identifying information on a handy little card.
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Is the windows folder of Win7 really supposed to take up 23 gigs? I allocated 30 gigs of space for my OS partition, and drat if it isn't always within a gig of being full. Any tips? I install all programs that allow me to choose a destination to other drives, but I can't even run windows update anymore because of space restrictions.
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Cheekio posted:Is the windows folder of Win7 really supposed to take up 23 gigs? I allocated 30 gigs of space for my OS partition, and drat if it isn't always within a gig of being full. Any tips? I install all programs that allow me to choose a destination to other drives, but I can't even run windows update anymore because of space restrictions. Mine takes up 19 gigs, and it's a fresh install (not upgrade) from just a month and a half ago. So, yeah, it's supposed to be that big. Though, I got my OS from Toshiba so who knows what kind of junk they shoved in there. nLite and vLite did exactly what you want for XP and Vista, but there doesn't seem to be a Win7 equivalent. EDIT: Also, post in this thread. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jul 20, 2011 |
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TheBoogeyMan posted:I have a couple questions about a doctor's visit. I have had all of this managed by parents in the past but I was thinking about making an appointment for a mental health problem. 3. After checking with your insurance to see what is covered, I'd recommend heading directly to a psychiatrist if it is covered, saving money on the GP visit and talking to the professional in the best position to help you. 4. Benzodiazapenes, used to treat short term anxiety are the main "abused" drugs. If you want to try anti-depressants they hand them out almost like candy. 5. Depends on your insurance.
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baquerd posted:3. After checking with your insurance to see what is covered, I'd recommend heading directly to a psychiatrist if it is covered, saving money on the GP visit and talking to the professional in the best position to help you. I know you said "after checkin with your insurance," but I just wanted to point out to TheBoogeyMan that he might not be able to skip the GP and go straight to a psychiatrist. Many insurance plans require a referral from the GP in order for insurance to cover the visit to the specialist (in this case psychiatrist). It's just a matter of finding out what insurance covers. Call the number on your insurance card and they'll be able to help you figure all of this out.
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Rhizoid posted:A buddy of mine was pulled over on a toll highway for an expired sticker on his car. I was just a passenger but the police officer asked me and another passenger for our drivers licences as well. Was he just looking for more things to catch us with since he had us, and is that even legal? DELETED posted:I don't know about Canada specifically, but here in the US most states have a law stating that you must provide ID to a police officer if requested. I imagine most places in Canada have a similar statute. It makes it easier for them to check you for warrants, since they have most of your identifying information on a handy little card. Actually that's not true. No state (that I know of) requires by law a person to produce identification. Some states have laws that require one to identify themselves ala "terry stops" but it varies and in some states a person is under no legal obligation to even give their name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_identify_statutes As to Canada this site seems to imply that Canada has the same laws for the most part (no need to self identify unless driving/suspect in a crime/etc): http://bccla.org/arrest/ Of course if you are going to refuse to identify yourself you better be willing to spend a night in jail, and go to the mat with a lawyer. Sucks but that's the reality we live in.
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:Actually that's not true. No state (that I know of) requires by law a person to produce identification.
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Golbez posted:Indeed, since we are not required to carry identification, we cannot logically be compelled to supply such. You are however, compelled to identify, meaning your name and address. You are correct that you don't need an actual ID card from the government (though claiming to not have it even when you don't will catch you poo poo).
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Again, that depends on the state. Some states do not have "terry stop" laws.
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That article also mentions the precedent to give people various obstruction charges for refusing to show ID, so like most american rights you can be punished for exercising it. America: free to do anything once 'til they catch you.
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No. (officially) E: Outside of PPV an other on demand stuff.
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FogHelmut posted:Do Verizon/Comcast track which television shows you watch? Yes, but not individually. They do keep track of how many cable boxes are tuned to what channels at what times in aggregate, but they wouldn't be able to tell anyone that your household specifically watched My Little Pony every episode for the past month.
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Do cable companies report that up somewhere for tv ratings to get based on any of that? Or they still using the weird small sample nielsen thing?
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When you buy a car, in some places, there is a law that says you have 3 days to change your mind and return the car before the contract becomes official. What is the name of this law? Or am I making this up? Randomity fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Jul 20, 2011 |
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Randomity posted:When you buy a car, in some places, there is a law that says you have 3 days to change your mind and return the car before the contract becomes official. What is the name of this law? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law ?
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haveblue posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law ? I thought there was something in some places where it didn't matter if the car was messed up or not, you can change your mind as long as you do it within a certain amount of time. Edit: My husband seems to think it's not just for buying cars, but for any type of contract in general.
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Wagonburner posted:Do cable companies report that up somewhere for tv ratings to get based on any of that? Or they still using the weird small sample nielsen thing? There was a start up a while back that intended to aggregate that information but it kind of disappeared (there was a flurry of "my privacy" articles around the time). Yes they still use Nielsen amongst other things like phone surveys etc.
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Wagonburner posted:Do cable companies report that up somewhere for tv ratings to get based on any of that? Or they still using the weird small sample nielsen thing? You really don't need that big of a sample size to generate statistically significant and accurate findings even on a scale as big as the U. S. population.
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