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ommega posted:So I might pop this question in Creative Convention, but thought I'd ask here first. I'm applying to several freelance jobs and I constantly see employer asking to send rate along with resume and such. Is it bad to just say 'my rate is negotiable'? Look around to see what other people in your field are asking for their work, then find a rate in there you feel comfortable asking for. Preferably a little high, since it's your ability they're going to pay for.
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I remember drinking this beer (purchased in America) whose name I cannot remember and I'm trying to find it again. The name was actually just a year.. something like 1569 or something like that. I think the first two numbers were either 14, 15, or 16. Not sure. The beer was kind of dark too, I think. It came in a 24oz bottle with an old-timey looking label and you could only buy individual bottles. Anybody got any ideas?
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Totally Negro posted:I remember drinking this beer (purchased in America) whose name I cannot remember and I'm trying to find it again. The name was actually just a year.. something like 1569 or something like that. I think the first two numbers were either 14, 15, or 16. Not sure. The beer was kind of dark too, I think.
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Hoops posted:Kronenbourg 1664? It's a very common beer in the UK, maybe it's a specialist import in the US. It's French. Although it isn't dark. Oh no, I love that beer though which is a funny coincidence. Maybe I just like beers with years in their name. But this beer's name was purely just a year, no other words.
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Totally Negro posted:I remember drinking this beer (purchased in America) whose name I cannot remember and I'm trying to find it again. The name was actually just a year.. something like 1569 or something like that. I think the first two numbers were either 14, 15, or 16. Not sure. The beer was kind of dark too, I think. Any chance it was a New Belgium 1554 Brussels Style Black Ale?  I found it with this list: http://beerme.com/beerlist.php?orderby=beer . Numbers should be sorted to the top. So look through there if that's not it.
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Totally Negro posted:Oh no, I love that beer though which is a funny coincidence. Maybe I just like beers with years in their name. There's a new Belgium beer that is called something like 1567. Is that it? Edit: beaten like a brunette natural child
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gman14msu posted:Any chance it was a New Belgium 1554 Brussels Style Black Ale? This is a regular release now called 1554 Enlightened Black Ale, if that helps. edit: Totally Negro posted:I remember drinking this beer (purchased in America) whose name I cannot remember and I'm trying to find it again. The name was actually just a year.. something like 1569 or something like that. I think the first two numbers were either 14, 15, or 16. Not sure. The beer was kind of dark too, I think. Re-reading your post it might not be 1554, since it's available in 12oz bottles too. It could be Stone's Vertical Epic series too, which are all named 1.1.1, 2.2.2, 3.3.3, etc up to this years release which is 11.11.11? WHEEZY KISS A DUDE fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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If a political candidate decides to bow out of his election race, what happens to all of their unspent campaign contributions and funds?
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A friend of mine's kid is into Skyrim, and I'd like to somehow have a copy made of the Septim coin that came with Oblivion for him. I say copy because, as lame as it sounds, I like the damned thing, so I'm not giving my coin to a kid. Amusingly enough, I know how to do it. Make a negative of the coin, fill the negative with another material, let it cool, voila. What I don't know is where I'd find someone / someplace to do it. Googling didn't work all that well, since there's bound to be negative connotations to copying coinage. I guess the short question is "what sort of business / store would be able to take a coin-shaped object and make a copy of it"?
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Nov 30, 2011 07:53
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MisterBibs posted:A friend of mine's kid is into Skyrim, and I'd like to somehow have a copy made of the Septim coin that came with Oblivion for him. I say copy because, as lame as it sounds, I like the damned thing, so I'm not giving my coin to a kid. How about just buying one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Elder-...0#ht_500wt_1413
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greenchair posted:If a political candidate decides to bow out of his election race, what happens to all of their unspent campaign contributions and funds? It usually ends up paying off their debts or being transferred to another campaign fund (like if a presidential candidate is also a congressman). It can also be transferred into the general party re-election fund for democratics/republicans or to other candidates. It could theoretically be returned or given to charity, but I'm not sure how often that actually happens.
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MisterBibs posted:A friend of mine's kid is into Skyrim, and I'd like to somehow have a copy made of the Septim coin that came with Oblivion for him. I say copy because, as lame as it sounds, I like the damned thing, so I'm not giving my coin to a kid. Talk to a jeweler (as in, a person who makes jewelry as opposed to just sells it), they'll know who can do it in your town.
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This is a really dumb question. Please don't judge me. You know in movies and stuff set in space where the ship gets a hull breach or opens the doors to get rid of an alien or something like that? And everything gets sucked out, including the air? Okay, so say that happened in real life. What would happen to the air? I have images of it floating around in space like a bubble of air, like what you see liquids doing in zero gravity, but gas doesn't work like that. Would it just... dissipate? Told you it was dumb.
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eating only apples posted:This is a really dumb question. Please don't judge me. The pressure of a gas is the macro level effect of the particles in the gas zooming around, hitting other particles and bouncing off in different directions. The length a particle has to sail along without hitting something is its mean free path. So yes, in space, the particles would just keep flying away forever, mostly to never hit another particle again.
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A followup to that: When we see liquids in zero gravity, floating around in their own little clump, that's in a pressurized environment inside a spacecraft or station. What would happen were they not in a pressurized environment? Absent outside pressure, and lacking enough gravity to clump on their own, would the molecules dissipate just like the gas would? Edit: And a second corollary: I know it's gravity that keeps us down, but how much is contributed by the weight of the atmosphere? That is to say, if there were no atmosphere at all, would I be able to jump any higher? I've never heard that the acceleration caused by gravity (9.8m/s^2) is affected by atmospheric pressure, so we'd still fall back down at the same rate, right? Golbez fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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Nov 30, 2011 18:58
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Golbez posted:A followup to that: When we see liquids in zero gravity, floating around in their own little clump, that's in a pressurized environment inside a spacecraft or station. What would happen were they not in a pressurized environment? Absent outside pressure, and lacking enough gravity to clump on their own, would the molecules dissipate just like the gas would?
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Golbez posted:Edit: And a second corollary: I know it's gravity that keeps us down, but how much is contributed by the weight of the atmosphere? That is to say, if there were no atmosphere at all, would I be able to jump any higher? I've never heard that the acceleration caused by gravity (9.8m/s^2) is affected by atmospheric pressure, so we'd still fall back down at the same rate, right? Air pressure doesn't just push you down, it pushes you in every direction at once. Essentially it's all pushing "in" trying to squish you from all sides. But since our bodies are pressurized to the same approximately 1 atmosphere, the net force is zero. Acceleration caused by gravity is always the same (on Earth) but the density of the medium you're falling through certainly does effect the speed at which you fall. Because air is compressible (unlike water) density and pressure increase together. If you fell through a hypothetical atmosphere that constantly increased in density and pressure you'd eventually just stop falling when you hit a point at which you were buoyant in the medium.
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In movies/tv how do they shoot someone looking into a mirror or another reflective surface without the camera being seen in the reflection as well?
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Rubies posted:Ok so I think I have the first zit since the 11th grade developing on my cheek. Don't know if you're still looking for suggestions, but there's since stuff called bye bye blemish that works really well. I've dabbed a bit onto huge gently caress off zits several times before bed and they're practically gone in the morning.
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kimbo305 posted:It's pressure that keeps something a liquid. In 0 pressure, a liquid can "boil" at any temperature. So in space, you would see a ball of liquid vaporize on the surface and quickly expand into a big cloud of vapor, which itself would dissipate. So what if you had a planet-sized ball of water? I figure a core would form of a solid, hot ice crystal, and the surface would evaporate enough to create its own atmosphere? And/or, its gravity collects gases and creates an atmosphere that way.
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actionjackson posted:In movies/tv how do they shoot someone looking into a mirror or another reflective surface without the camera being seen in the reflection as well? The use of other mirrors, creative angles, and also sometimes simply coloring over the film crew and camera with the right colors to greenscreen them out.
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Golbez posted:So what if you had a planet-sized ball of water? I figure a core would form of a solid, hot ice crystal, and the surface would evaporate enough to create its own atmosphere? And/or, its gravity collects gases and creates an atmosphere that way. The outer surface of your giant water ball would boil off until it was all gone or a sufficient atmosphere had built up. If the water ball had enough mass to retain an atmosphere it would eventually reach an equilibrium point.
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If you take the Milky Way galaxy and divide it into four quadrants with Earth being a tiny, tiny dot in one of those quadrants, how much of our own quadrant have we explored? And also of the rest of the galaxy. Do we know to a reasonable degree that we are the only intelligent species in our own galaxy? (may not be an accurate depiction) Dudebro fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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Dudebro posted:If you take the Milky Way galaxy and divide it into four quadrants with Earth being a tiny, tiny dot in one of those quadrants, how much of our own quadrant have we explored? And also of the rest of the galaxy. Do we know to a reasonable degree that we are the only intelligent species in our own galaxy? Define "explored". We do not know to any reasonable degree that we are the only intelligent species.
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As far as I know, "exploring" consists of looking at stuff and going "That sure is a big ball of fire" and possibly "yep, there's a bit of rock there too". So we're not at all certain about intelligent life out there... This is just my sort of general background trivia floating around in my head, so it might not be true per se.
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My general feeling is along the line of Fermi's Paradox - Since we have not seen any radio transmissions from an intelligent species in our own galaxy, and since our own galaxy is 70,000 light years across, that there are no intelligent, advanced species out there. 70,000 years is a blink of an eye, a statistical anomaly, so if no species has been transmitting by now, we can reasonably assume none has in the last 70,000 years (being a blip), meaning we're either alone, we're vastly in the technological lead, or we're so far behind that whatever species were transmitting radio have since moved on to a different, undetectable-by-us medium.
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While we are on space questions, would a planet in a binary system, equidistant between 2 stars, have a stationary orbit? Could the gravity from both stars stall the planet at one point right between them?
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Dudebro posted:If you take the Milky Way galaxy and divide it into four quadrants with Earth being a tiny, tiny dot in one of those quadrants, how much of our own quadrant have we explored? And also of the rest of the galaxy. Do we know to a reasonable degree that we are the only intelligent species in our own galaxy? If by "explored" you mean "sent physical crafts to," then the region would be smaller than the "earth" dot you splotched on your diagram. Much smaller. Failing that, you'll have to clarify what you mean buy "explored."
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Dudebro posted:If you take the Milky Way galaxy and divide it into four quadrants with Earth being a tiny, tiny dot in one of those quadrants, how much of our own quadrant have we explored? And also of the rest of the galaxy. Do we know to a reasonable degree that we are the only intelligent species in our own galaxy? Voyager I was launched in 1977, and has traveled farther from earth than any other man-made object. It is currently right on the edge of our solar system traveling at something like 38000 mph. Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our own sun, is about 4.2 light years away. By comparison, Voyager I is about 16 light hours away. At its current speed it will take it about 17500 years to travel one light year. We've explored approximately 0% of our own galaxy.
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Golbez posted:My general feeling is along the line of Fermi's Paradox - Since we have not seen any radio transmissions from an intelligent species in our own galaxy, and since our own galaxy is 70,000 light years across, that there are no intelligent, advanced species out there. 70,000 years is a blink of an eye, a statistical anomaly, so if no species has been transmitting by now, we can reasonably assume none has in the last 70,000 years (being a blip), meaning we're either alone, we're vastly in the technological lead, or we're so far behind that whatever species were transmitting radio have since moved on to a different, undetectable-by-us medium. The response to this, on the other hand, is that we've only been seriously looking for 50 years, and our efforts are still piecemeal and non-comprehensive. If a civilization stopped broadcasting such that their last signal would have arrived on Earth as recently as 1959, we'd have no clue that they'd ever been there. And if their signal were even trivially out of the spectrum on which SETI instruments are currently receiving, we might be receiving messages even today and not see them at all. And we don't need to be vastly in the technological lead, either - no more than a century and a half, in fact. And who knows, some enterprising student at MIT might invent an ansible tomorrow and put the radio stations out of business.
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Mak0rz posted:If by "explored" you mean "sent physical crafts to," then the region would be smaller than the "earth" dot you splotched on your diagram. Much smaller. This is what I mean by "explored". Well, not really "explored", more like mapped. How much of our own quadrant is mapped? Using earth as an analogy, mapped would be knowing that this island is here, this continent is here, etc... Explored would be knowing what the landscape and topography are like on these various pieces of land. So how much of the layout of our galaxy do we know? I thought we'd know more, but the Voyager I example reminded me again that we don't know poo poo. Golbez posted:My general feeling is along the line of Fermi's Paradox - Since we have not seen any radio transmissions from an intelligent species in our own galaxy, and since our own galaxy is 70,000 light years across, that there are no intelligent, advanced species out there. 70,000 years is a blink of an eye, a statistical anomaly, so if no species has been transmitting by now, we can reasonably assume none has in the last 70,000 years (being a blip), meaning we're either alone, we're vastly in the technological lead, or we're so far behind that whatever species were transmitting radio have since moved on to a different, undetectable-by-us medium. This is interesting to think about. Given the age of our galaxy, I think it's unlikely that we wouldn't have detected intelligent signals originating from somewhere else by now, assuming that we can detect these things, but also at the same time, I don't know what "cross-section" of the galaxy we can cover in terms of detecting communication. It's also so extremely unlikely that we're on the same timeline of discovering electromagnetism and nuclear fusion, etc... as any other species on another planet.
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I say "vastly" because I figure the odds of a civilization being out there that has evolved to radio-stage within the last 70,000 years are incredibly low. As I said, 70,000 years is virtually a statistical anomaly, so if another one hasn't appeared by "now" (which is to say, by 70,000 years ago) the odds are one won't appear for quite some time. And Dudebro points out something interesting - this only applies to the part of the galaxy we can see. I don't know if all transmissions are blocked by the core, but I know visual ones are, so there could be a civilization directly across from us that we can't see.
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How do EM waves propagate anyway? Do they stay in the same line and path or do they spread out like ripples? Do they effectively go on forever if they don't hit any objects? I'm picturing us (the Earth as a whole) as open to any kind of detectable communication (as far as we know), but imagine earth being represented as a person who is looking for signals going across an almost unimaginably large and flat field. The satellites and exploratory satellites effectively widen our range of detection, but signals are like lasers (like that of a laser pointer) of a hypothetically infinite length in this huge plane so that it's more likely that you'll miss a laser rather than have one be detected. Or is it more like a three-dimensional ocean surface where you're looking for "ripples" and if your instruments aren't sensitive enough or your net isn't big enough or we plain don't know enough about what we're looking for then we won't find anything? It's mentally taxing to even formulate questions about this. Dudebro fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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Athanatos posted:While we are on space questions, would a planet in a binary system, equidistant between 2 stars, have a stationary orbit? Could the gravity from both stars stall the planet at one point right between them?
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Golbez posted:I say "vastly" because I figure the odds of a civilization being out there that has evolved to radio-stage within the last 70,000 years are incredibly low. As I said, 70,000 years is virtually a statistical anomaly, so if another one hasn't appeared by "now" (which is to say, by 70,000 years ago) the odds are one won't appear for quite some time. It's really hard to receive broadcasts from light years away that you weren't specifically looking for, essentially. Keep in mind, that although you see things about how I Love Lucy broadcasts are finally reaching some star, if you were on the planet Earth, with a tuned antenna and proper tv set, but you were just 10 miles too far away you certainly weren't going to be watching I Love Lucy, and there's about 0 chance anyone enough light years away to hypothetically pick up a weak signal of it would notice. Not finding radio signals from other civilizations could be as easy as the path light and radio would need to take from their planet to ours happening to have been blocked during the past 100 years by some other stellar object or objects.
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Maybe a dumb question but my Google-fu is failing me utterly right now. I'm trying to track down and order a costume similar to the African outfit worn by Eddie Murphy in Trading Place during the train scene (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9EKsleJKQU). However, I'm having a tough time finding anything close - searches using phrases related to the movie (i.e. 'Trading Places Edddie Murphy costume' and the like) don't return anything even close to what he's wearing, and the same story for 'traditional African costumes', 'Kwanza costumes', etc. Any suggestions?
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Hoopaloops posted:Maybe a dumb question but my Google-fu is failing me utterly right now. I'm trying to track down and order a costume similar to the African outfit worn by Eddie Murphy in Trading Place during the train scene (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9EKsleJKQU). However, I'm having a tough time finding anything close - searches using phrases related to the movie (i.e. 'Trading Places Edddie Murphy costume' and the like) don't return anything even close to what he's wearing, and the same story for 'traditional African costumes', 'Kwanza costumes', etc. Any suggestions?
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Hoopaloops posted:Maybe a dumb question but my Google-fu is failing me utterly right now. I'm trying to track down and order a costume similar to the African outfit worn by Eddie Murphy in Trading Place during the train scene (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9EKsleJKQU). However, I'm having a tough time finding anything close - searches using phrases related to the movie (i.e. 'Trading Places Edddie Murphy costume' and the like) don't return anything even close to what he's wearing, and the same story for 'traditional African costumes', 'Kwanza costumes', etc. Any suggestions? That looks like the casual African clothing you see in a number of countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_in_Africa I believe the cap is called a Kofia and the shirt looks like a Dashiki. Its kind of like a Kaftan (which there are different kinds in Africa I think)
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Runcible Cat posted:Dashiki? Did you happen to watch Young Apprentice yesterday, by any chance?  Hey Kimbo thanks for answering my question 
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