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I know nothing about cars BUT I recently started to read my car manual so I can maintain it. I just bought this tire gauge:  I ride a lot of bicycles and maintain my bicycle a lot so I thought checking a tire pressure on a car would be similar but..it doesn't seem to be. When I check pressure on my bicycle, I can stick the gauge into the tire valve and 'lock' it in place and it reveals the PSI on the meter. When I check the pressure on my car using this tire gauge, I can't lock it into the valve. I basically jab the gauge into the tire valve, air shoots into the gauge, and it shows the PSI on the gauge but it doesn't seem very consistent. Is this the way I'm suppose to do it? Do I have to buy a valve or something to connect the gauge to the valve? Also, when it's time to fill my tires up, how am I suppose to check the PSI while pumping it? Would I have to pump it, check the gauge, release air if it's too much, check the gauge, add more air if it's too little, and repeat until I get the perfect PSI?
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So we have hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly. But what about other units of time? Are there words for something that happens every minute or second or decade? Secondly and minutely are both already taken.
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Jun 19, 2012 20:13
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Dr. Video Games 0089 posted:I know nothing about cars BUT I recently started to read my car manual so I can maintain it. I bike a lot and I have never had a car. But my bike friends who have a car tell me a secret that for some reason nobody knows.  you can use your bike floor-pump on your car tire, it's a schraeder valveUnless you don't have a bike pump with a gauge, in which case yeah I guess you pump and check, pump and check. But yeah, every time someone says "ugh I have to swing by the gas station to get air" and I say to just get out their bike pump, they're like, does that... does that work?
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Jun 19, 2012 20:20
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Dr. Video Games 0089 posted:I know nothing about cars BUT I recently started to read my car manual so I can maintain it. No, you pretty much got it as far as the gauge goes. There's so much air that it doesn't really matter, is my understanding of it. And most air-pumps at gas-stations are basically a hose that you operate like a garden hose by closing the handle-like trigger, but when you release it a copper cylinder shoots out that shows you your pressure. Heading off a common question, so sorry if you already know it and I'm being a dick : it says the pressure on the side of your tires. Most sedans are somewhere in the lower 30's. AKA Pseudonym posted:So we have hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly. But what about other units of time? Are there words for something that happens every minute or second or decade? Secondly and minutely are both already taken. Well, you forgot "weekly", but "per + time-unit" seems to get you most of the way there, e.g. "per second", "per decade", "per fortnight". And I could probably make a good argument that a construction like that is a word, at least at some underlying syntactic level. That good enough? More clunky, but "once a [time period]" is pretty good too.
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Jun 19, 2012 20:24
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:The Earth is on a tilt in respect to its orbital plane, which is what gives us seasons. The Summer solstice is the exact moment when that tilt is pointed directly towards the sun. Summer solstice on one hemisphere is Winter solstice for the other. Actually, does the tilt follow the geographical or magnetic poles? Or how does that work?
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Jun 19, 2012 20:37
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BonHair posted:Actually, does the tilt follow the geographical or magnetic poles? Or how does that work? Geographic. Magnetic wander.
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Jun 19, 2012 20:40
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BonHair posted:Actually, does the tilt follow the geographical or magnetic poles? Or how does that work?
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Jun 19, 2012 20:51
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BonHair posted:Actually, does the tilt follow the geographical or magnetic poles? Or how does that work? Look up "ecliptic" on wikipedia, should have a reasonably good explanation.
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Jun 19, 2012 21:06
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How live is live television. Sometimes while watching a basketball or football game and having a phone conversation with my brother, one of us will react to a play 5-10 seconds ahead of the other. Depending on the game, it can change. It got me wondering, are we a couple seconds behind or are there times when you're more than a few minutes behind. For background, my brother is in Kansas and I am in Houston. Also, I have even seen the Yahoo Sports tracker go backwards.
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Jun 20, 2012 02:27
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Bike29 posted:How live is live television. In those days, the delay was literally a tape delay, with a tape recording on one tape deck and playing on another, so it took a few seconds for the tape to get from record head to player. The beep was literally a test tone button the player that was used for calibration purposes (it was a 1KHz signal of known amplitude). I'm sure today it's digital, and college radio is usually a shoestring operation so the pros probably had better methods even in olden times.
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Jun 20, 2012 02:36
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Bike29 posted:How live is live television. Sometimes while watching a basketball or football game and having a phone conversation with my brother, one of us will react to a play 5-10 seconds ahead of the other. Depending on the game, it can change. It got me wondering, are we a couple seconds behind or are there times when you're more than a few minutes behind. You can also have slight delays introduced by the signal you use. If you're on cable and he's on a satellite signal, there will be a different delay on each. When I worked in a TV store years ago, we could call the pitches in a baseball game as they came up on the big HDTVs by watching the older analog models. The HD signal lagged by about 3 seconds. But, yeah, we're talking seconds here, not minutes.
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Jun 20, 2012 02:53
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Sometimes satellite delays (it takes a good fraction of a second for the signal to go up to the satellite and then back down) combined with overhead at local broadcasters and different regions and policies and commercial break schedules can skew airtimes by up to several minutes. You can see this happening in major TVIV threads when a small set of posters start discussing something that most of the thread hasn't seen yet, only to be frantically shushed before they ruin a big twist.
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Jun 20, 2012 03:04
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Thanks guys. I always figured 20-30 second at most.
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At my college radio station there's no delay unless I'm doing a road hockey game via the Internet. At home games, my headphone feed is literally what is being broadcast, with no delay. Obviously television and larger radio stations have a delay, thanks in no small part to Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake at the super bowl. As you might imagine, I have said "gently caress" and "poo poo" on air either by mis-speaking or not being ready for a commercial break to end and having a candid conversation with my broadcast partner. It'd be a disaster if the fcc were listening, but my hockey broadcasts only have somewhere in the neighborhood of 3000 people listening, so nothing's ever come of it. I also once asked a coach "what will [the team] have to do to have sex tonight?" rather than "have success." Unrelated but funny at the time.
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That's a question, inspired by this page. Is there any reason that second, the time measurement (one 60th of a minute) is the same word as second, that comes after first? I've never thought about it before.
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Hoops posted:That's a question, inspired by this page. Is there any reason that second, the time measurement (one 60th of a minute) is the same word as second, that comes after first? I've never thought about it before. etymonline.com posted:second (n.) Apparently yes! P.S. Everyone should go to etymonline.com all the time. It is basically a distilled version of the OED and it is awesome.
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alnilam posted:But yeah, every time someone says "ugh I have to swing by the gas station to get air" and I say to just get out their bike pump, they're like, does that... does that work? It works... if you're quite patient and don't mind a bit of an aerobic workout. I've done it, inflating a car tire all the way from dead flat -- I knew it was a slow leak and I just had to limp it to the tire shop, and I didn't feel like bothering with the spare. Worked great but took some time.
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Bike29 posted:How live is live television. Sometimes while watching a basketball or football game and having a phone conversation with my brother, one of us will react to a play 5-10 seconds ahead of the other. Depending on the game, it can change. It got me wondering, are we a couple seconds behind or are there times when you're more than a few minutes behind. There is a commerical product which impercpetibly compresses live events to let broadcasters air extra commercials. The local Pittsburgh affliate got caught using it to add extra comericals to Steelers games.
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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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Thanks! I was having no luck finding their phone number somehow. kapalama posted:There is a commerical product which impercpetibly compresses live events to let broadcasters air extra commercials. The local Pittsburgh affliate got caught using it to add extra comericals to Steelers games. a football game... with extra commercials? 
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greazeball posted:Thanks! I was having no luck finding their phone number somehow. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20011108/1644247.shtml (SInce I finally managed to find it.)
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Not being a native speaker, I'm wondering about people using the term "picked up" rather than "bought" all the time. Is that a form of snobizm, or is "picked up" genuinely interchangable with "bought"?
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Mokotow posted:Not being a native speaker, I'm wondering about people using the term "picked up" rather than "bought" all the time. Is that a form of snobizm, or is "picked up" genuinely interchangable with "bought"? It's appropriate. Look into phrasal verbs-- same idea as "checking up" on someone instead of "investigating their well-being" or something similar.
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Mokotow posted:Not being a native speaker, I'm wondering about people using the term "picked up" rather than "bought" all the time. Is that a form of snobizm, or is "picked up" genuinely interchangable with "bought"? What is snobizm?
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kapalama posted:What is snobizm? Snobbism, sorry. I Wrote it in Polish for some reason.
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kapalama posted:What is snobizm? A thing snobs say. Yes, it's interchangeable and not snobbish.
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Mokotow posted:Not being a native speaker, I'm wondering about people using the term "picked up" rather than "bought" all the time. Is that a form of snobizm, or is "picked up" genuinely interchangable with "bought"? Don't forget that "get" is also often used similarly to "buy" as in "Where did you get that shirt?" I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "genuinely interchangeable" but word choice in English is heavily dependent on context. The forums at UsingEnglish are actually pretty decent for advanced learners like you, especially the English Idioms and Sayings and General Language Discussion forums.
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greazeball posted:Don't forget that "get" is also often used similarly to "buy" as in "Where did you get that shirt?" I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "genuinely interchangeable" but word choice in English is heavily dependent on context. Yeah, it's simply untranslatable into Polish, and if you'd try, you'd essentialy end up with "I walked in, picked it off the shelf and walked out without paying". I figured that it probably is interchangable with "bought" and without subtext, but since it didn't sit too well with me, I wanted to make sure.
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"I picked up a six pack on the way home" has the same general meaning as "I bought a six pack on the way home." I think for my region, at least, "picked up" is a bit more casual or redneck-y (so the first one would probably work a little better, considering they're getting beer). "I picked up some strawberries" sounds odd, for example.
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I feel like "picked up" is a bit more casual and may imply that you have some purpose in mind: "I picked up some strawberries on the way home so we can make strawberry shortcake." But really it's identical for all intents and purposes. I guess "picked up" can also work for things that are being given away freely, so money doesn't necessarily have to be involved in the same way as it does for "bought." "I saw that the library had a pile of free discard books so I picked up a copy of The Hobbit." eta: Interestingly, the word "lift" can mean to steal. If someone lifts a car, s/he is either super strong, or a car thief.
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Cross-posted from the Product Recommendation Thread in PYF, because that doesn't get as much traffic: Can anyone tell me if the memory foam mattresses currently offered on Woot today are any good? http://www.woot.com/ I really need a new mattress, but I'm wary of them being so cheap...
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Eggplant Wizard posted:eta: Interestingly, the word "lift" can mean to steal. If someone lifts a car, s/he is either super strong, or a car thief. While lift means steal, I have to say I have never heard it being used about cars. Shoplifting on the other hand is done with hydraulic jacks, or by thieves. Get/got, and going to/gonna are the ones that ESL students trop on a lot. Also "I am being very happy" about this thread, since in every other case the is+present participle is used, seems to trip them up.
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marshmallard posted:A thing snobs say. I think it is a bit snobbish depending on what you're picking up. If you're picking up some milk from the store on the way home, it's not, but if you're picking up a new car, that is definitely snobbish. I would only use "pick up" with casual or everyday purchases, and if I hear someone using it with big-ticket items it sounds to me like they're bragging about being so rich that buying expensive things is a casual occurrence for them.
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I've become really interested in the Tor network. Is there a thread on SA about Tor? I have a few particular questions about it.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Cross-posted from the Product Recommendation Thread in PYF, because that doesn't get as much traffic: I swear there was a mattress thread, maybe in coupons? Just read through the forum from other wooters who have purchased this mattress http://www.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=5044405&PageIndex=1&ReplyCount=109 Or some of the other previous woots for the same thing: https://www.google.com/webhp?source...&bih=1323&ion=1 General consensus is that foam mattresses are great but they trap in your heat a bit more than a regular mattress and they have a chemical smell so you need to air them out for a couple days before using them.
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alnilam posted:I've become really interested in the Tor network. Is there a thread on SA about Tor? I have a few particular questions about it. To answer most of them: TOR is for revolutionaries raising the fist against their oppressors, drug dealers, child pornographers, and paranoid schizophrenics trying to protect themselves from Them. There are special websites that exist only on TOR and cannot be accessed without using TOR. They mostly contain drugs and kiddy porn.
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greazeball posted:Thanks! I was having no luck finding their phone number somehow. For future reference, try looking at privacy policies or links to the corporate website. Privacy policies are good for finding corporate office locations too should you need that (in the US anyway it's required by law though compliance is spotty).
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Gobbeldygook posted:Nope. I would also point out that using TOR will result in very slow web browsing and downloads, since your connection is being passed through 5 random servers each time, and most of them are some random dude's desktop on a slow DSL line.
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FCKGW posted:I swear there was a mattress thread, maybe in coupons? Thank...I'm not worried about trapped heat...I've got an AC in my bedroom. I also might be the only person who wants to "downgrade" my King to a Queen...a King is just too drat big. One of the reasons my current mattress sucks is because having to get it up and down stairs during my last move put a HUGE crease in it where some springs must have gotten broken. Now I'll have to find a queen frame and boxspring on craigslist.
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FCKGW posted:General consensus is that foam mattresses are great but they trap in your heat a bit more than a regular mattress and they have a chemical smell so you need to air them out for a couple days before using them.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Thank...I'm not worried about trapped heat...I've got an AC in my bedroom. I helped a friend move his king memory foam mattress and that thing was so drat floppy and heavy it was almost impossible for two people. Queen should help a bit. I think they ship them frozen so they're at least rigid.
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