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gariig posted:Moving to Seattle is a red herring. I just need to get a local phone number but I don't want to spend $15/month for a POTS line just so I can buzz friends into our apartment. I was hoping to find a service like Google Voice (but not Google Voice) where I can get a Seattle phone number that will ring my cell phone. You can change your google voice number, it's like $10 I think. That plus having a local phone number may outweigh the hassle of updating your friends with your new number, but that's on you to decide.
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gariig posted:Moving to Seattle is a red herring. I just need to get a local phone number but I don't want to spend $15/month for a POTS line just so I can buzz friends into our apartment. I was hoping to find a service like Google Voice (but not Google Voice) where I can get a Seattle phone number that will ring my cell phone.
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randyest posted:Can you not get a separate google voice number under a different account and forward it? Or he could spend $20 once and get a second number. http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/06/10/google-voice-now-lets-you-have-multiple-numbers-on-one-account-for-a-fee/
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randyest posted:Can you not get a separate google voice number under a different account and forward it? You can't forward one Google Voice number to another Google Voice number which is why I need a solution that isn't Google Voice. I also don't want to switch my phone number unless absolutely necessary because I've had the number for 10 years. Edit: I've thought about porting my number to Google Voice and get another number for my cell phone that is local to Seattle. Just seems like there is another way gariig fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jun 6, 2012 |
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When you "switch" your number, you still have the old one for 90 days. You can pay Google $20 during those 90 days to keep both numbers permanently. I'm not sure how it would work with Sprint.
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ManPortable posted:I use SugarSync and it's been great for me. A free account is 5GB and I upgraded to 30GB when they had a 50% off promotion (which they seem to offer quite often). They have a pretty nice iphone app if that's important to you. Yes SugarSync seems to not well enough known. Dropbox has the stupid web game to earn space, and it still does not have as much as SugarSync starts with. (I really wish I could remember my SkyDrive login so I could get 25gb grandfathered, which is just right to store my personal stuff, and the training vids I need to share out to people. SkyDrive gives 7gb right from the start, but I cannot use the autosync with my old OS X (10.6.8). It requires 10.7.
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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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My normal source of cheap tickets to Six Flags Great Adventure has vanished. Does anyone know of any good deals/coupons floating around out there? I want to take my sister, but I can't afford two full price tickets. 
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http://www.retailmenot.com/view/sixflags.com This site is a pretty reliable source for coupons and codes, but I dunno if those work.
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kapalama posted:http://www.retailmenot.com/view/sixflags.com None of them work for Six Flags Great Adventure, NJ. 
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Why does Youtube still not have a reliable, working "Watch this next"-button? As in, "When I press this button the video in question will ACTUALLY start playing after the currently playing video without needing me to get up off my sweaty rear end from this very comfortable position I had relaxed in with a cold beverage after a long day of study to watch people getting hit in the nuts"-button. NO I don't mean playlists, those loving things never work and don't automatically start playing new videos. Why does this not exist? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
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Are you trying to play songs or actual videos?
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Does anyone know which western countries offer paramedicine/EMT education at a college/university level? (besides the UK)?
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Jiriam posted:Does anyone know which western countries offer paramedicine/EMT education at a college/university level? (besides the UK)? The United States does. EMT/Paramedic training is usually done at 2-year community/vocational colleges. You must complete an EMT training course in order to take the national EMT exam. Each state can decide on how much training is required. In my state (Missouri), the training takes about a year. Once you have passed the national exam to become an EMT and have about 100 hours of experience, you can enter a paramedic program. The paramedic training program will typically take another 1-2 years - more the former than the latter - to complete and usually results in a 2-year associates degree. Completion of a certified paramedic program allows you to take the national paramedic exam.
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How does a company facebook presence work? I tried to register, but the automated system rejected the name because it was not a real persons's name. So how does a compnay facebook presence get built? Is it all built off of one personal account?
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If you're logged out of facebook, there's a link on the bottom of the page to "Create a Page for a Celebrity, Band, or Business".
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Can I have my vehicle registered at one address and my license registered at a different address?
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Gravity Pike posted:If you're logged out of facebook, there's a link on the bottom of the page to "Create a Page for a Celebrity, Band, or Business". Thanks, that did the trick.
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Obscurity posted:Can I have my vehicle registered at one address and my license registered at a different address? You can in my state. I have just left the address on my license as my parents place for years. Haven't bothered changing whilst my car is registered just wherever I'm at. Don't see why you can't?
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Fists Up posted:You can in my state. I have just left the address on my license as my parents place for years. Haven't bothered changing whilst my car is registered just wherever I'm at. What about if I'm renewing them both at the same time, and need to change my License address to my current residence, but my registration was changed to my moms address? Basically I am not going to pass the e-check in my county.
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b0nes posted:Are most of the things on Kickstarter patented already? Or do people submit an idea and if it is good and people donate use the money to apply and research a patent? I have a good idea for a removable roof luggage rack for cars, but I lack the funds to apply for a patent. I doubt it. Judging by the 'awful kickstarters' thread in GBS it seems like most people come up with an idea (and maybe a prototype or demo) and hope that people will throw money at them. It doesn't even look like a lot of people on Kickstarter are operating as registered businesses let alone going through the patent process. stubblyhead posted:Other things like Heroin, for instance. Your best bet is to look up this information on Erowid. Anecdotally, meth is sold in 'points' meaning 1/10th of a gram. A point will last a light user several days if they are only smoking a small amount at a time and are spacing out their hits. Conversely, a heavy user may smoke a point in one go and may smoke several points or more a day.
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Obscurity posted:What about if I'm renewing them both at the same time, and need to change my License address to my current residence, but my registration was changed to my moms address? I'd bet that you would be breaking some law (maybe insurance issues too?). Most places have figured out the easy sidesteps for smog checks and got rid of them. Best person to ask would be the person at the DMV. They don't really care one way or the other, if it's ok to do they will gladly take your money. If not explore your options.
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:I'd bet that you would be breaking some law (maybe insurance issues too?). Most places have figured out the easy sidesteps for smog checks and got rid of them. I wonder if they'd overlook it if I renewed them on different days. Or even better..the tags via mail (online renewal) and the license at the DMV. That should work theoretically, yeah? Edit: Sites broke or something..even though I changed my address it still asks if I live at the one I'm at instead of my mother's address. Oh well I was able to change address for both online to my mom's so I just need to tell them I want to renew and no questions should be asked I'm assuming. Zaekkor fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Jun 8, 2012 |
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In Skype video calls, a good 20% of the screen is covered by the stupid button overlays but they don't fade away. I poked around but have not found a way to disable them. Is there a way to get a clean video window? I'll do anything third-party or edit files if I need to, I just think this program sucks poo poo and the buttons are a terrible design.
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I just found a rather large roach in my bathroom and it managed to wedge itself under the baseboard before I could find something to kill with. I've been at my current apartment for over a year now and have never seen a roach in that time. Should I be worried about a roach invasion or is it pretty common for just one roach to sneak in somewhere?
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change my name posted:Why don't trains have seatbelts? Because in a train crash, the seatbelt would be the equivalent of the twine you use to tie a chicken's legs together before you roast the sucker.
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change my name posted:Why don't trains have seatbelts? The seating is usually designed to provide equivalent restraint in the kinds of crashes a train might end up in - similarly this is why many buses don't have seatbelts.
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This begs the question of why planes have seatbelts then.
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OneEightHundred posted:This begs the question of why planes have seatbelts then. Wishful thinking?
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OneEightHundred posted:This begs the question of why planes have seatbelts then. in case of turbulence
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Dishsoap posted:I just found a rather large roach in my bathroom and it managed to wedge itself under the baseboard before I could find something to kill with. I've been at my current apartment for over a year now and have never seen a roach in that time. Should I be worried about a roach invasion or is it pretty common for just one roach to sneak in somewhere? You want a horror story? One time I found a few roaches in my kitchen, in an old lovely apartment I was renting. Took a can of Raid and gave a good spraying in the gap behind the cabinets over the sink. There was an outpouring - a veritable waterfall of roaches that came cascading out from behind that cabinet and into my sink. It rained a steady stream of roaches for five minutes.
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Prometheus opens this weekend and I want to see it. My wife's never seen Alien, or any of the Alien movies: would you say the first one is a prerequisite for seeing Prometheus, or could it probably stand on its own?greazeball posted:in case of turbulence
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jackpot posted:Prometheus opens this weekend and I want to see it. My wife's never seen Alien, or any of the Alien movies: would you say the first one is a prerequisite for seeing Prometheus, or could it probably stand on its own? There's really no connection besides the general "universe", she won't be missing anything
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OneEightHundred posted:This begs the question of why planes have seatbelts then. One part of why buses and trains do not need seatbelts is that massive deformation (like what happens in cars and planes) does not happen as often because there is not the mass differential. Cars deform because they are not as massive as the striking object (big trucks, bridge abutments). Trains and buses are as massive as the stricking objects. Planes' striking object is the earth which is pretty dang massive. Things that deform need to have the egg locked in place becuase the area of safety is rather small. Seatbelts are not safe in and of themselves: they strangle people, dislocate body parts, and ever dismember people. The seat belt stripe welt is as ugly a bruise as there is. But seatblets do keep people in the spot of relative safety. Have a distance of less than 1/4" to undergo massive deceleration is just better than the people ended up outside the deforming body, but it is not at all the best way to protect people. The best way to protect people is to spread that decelrating force over a greater distance. Impossible in cars, possible in trains and buses. Thus seat belts in cars. Cushioned seatbacks in buses and trains, with mounting bolts that will shear, and frame that will deform to absorb some of the kinetic energy. The drivers in Buses do wear seatbelts because they are in the deforming area of the bus.
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I heard that seatbelts in planes were also useful as they kept the bodies in their assigned seating - which allowed investigators to match up bodies to names after a major fatal accident. Even if the seat is ripped out, you can work out which seat it was, and therefore which body is in it - which was often a difficult task. (this is before DNA testing became common)
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Why do chain link fences rust in sections? Looking at an old chain link fence, it's apparent that there's a clear divide between rusty and non-rusty areas, appearing as a vertical line. Sometimes the dividing line is a fence post, but more often it's simply the middle of the fence.
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I did not know any of that, thanks!Chamale posted:Why do chain link fences rust in sections? Looking at an old chain link fence, it's apparent that there's a clear divide between rusty and non-rusty areas, appearing as a vertical line. Sometimes the dividing line is a fence post, but more often it's simply the middle of the fence. That doesn't explain the sharp dividing lines, though.
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jackpot posted:Prometheus opens this weekend and I want to see it. My wife's never seen Alien, or any of the Alien movies: would you say the first one is a prerequisite for seeing Prometheus, or could it probably stand on its own? It stands 100% on its own. If you're familiar with the Alien series, however, you'll see the connections. It's an origin story.
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I read the other day that John Travolta owns an old boeing 707 jetliner. I knew he was an avid pilot so I guess this doesn't surprise me too much, but where is the aftermarket for this sort of thing? If I was interested, where would I go? How much would one of these cost?
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stubblyhead posted:I read the other day that John Travolta owns an old boeing 707 jetliner. I knew he was an avid pilot so I guess this doesn't surprise me too much, but where is the aftermarket for this sort of thing? If I was interested, where would I go? How much would one of these cost? Here's 2 sites that you can buy them from: http://www.globalplanesearch.com/jets/airliners/boeing/ http://www.humesmccoyaviation.com/pages/aircraft/vip_707_18928.html (got 6 mil to spare?) And here's the history of Travolta's personal plane: http://blog.flightstory.net/45/john-travoltas-boeing-707/
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