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Install Gentoo posted:You must be. I just looked up mailing 300 grams (11 ounces) in a 13x13x13 inch box (to have room for packing material around the record sleeves), from New York City to Los Angeles and the USPS will do it for: Packing and the awkward size will make it a bitch. I've worked in shipping and 9 times out of ten an object's dimensions will be the deciding factor, not the weight.
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Records also qualify for media mail, which is similarly cheap (and in theory slow, but I've never had a problem).
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Black Cat posted:Packing and the awkward size will make it a bitch. I've worked in shipping and 9 times out of ten an object's dimensions will be the deciding factor, not the weight. Well yes, I put it to 13 inch on each size which is quite awkward and did raise the price, but it's still cheap. 13x13x13 give you the space to have about 32 records in the box, with about an inch of padding space in each direction.
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the posted:I want to sell my vinyl in SA-Mart, but shipping looks loving ridiculous! I have sent mail using an LP jacket itself as the envelope, and it was like 5 USD. Wrap some paper around it and write "do not bend" and you should get similar results. Or if you want to protect it better, maybe a more rigid envelope, but a large envelope (make one yourself out of corrugated cardboard from an old box, and packing tape) should suffice and not cost much more. Probably no need for an actual box box.
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I hope this is the right place to ask this! Anyway, my mother ,for various reasons, needs to transport sets of crystal glasses in hand luggage internationally and has asked me to look into a couple of options on how best to package them without making it a total pain in the arse to unpack and repack them all the time. I'm thinking along the lines of custom foam like for camera lenses etc. In any case, if someone has any bright alternate ideas or knows a good place to get that sort of thing done in the UK (preferably London) that'd be very helpful. I'll look into it more myself of course but I figure some goon might know something useful.
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NLJP posted:I hope this is the right place to ask this! Got me on the London part, but if you decide to DIY, you can find suitable foam at most arts and crafts stores.
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alnilam posted:I've heard rumor that some health insurance providers (USA) do not cover injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. This sounds insane, but then again, insurance companies \/ I've heard of this in the vaguest sense. It came up during the battle to pass HIPAA back in the 90's. Motorcycle forums and sites all seem to have the story of a "friend of a friend" who wasn't covered, etc. The general gist seems to be that while there are certainly policies that don't, they're rather unusual. If you're personally concerned about it, you should first contact your provider or your company's HR rep if the company is big enough. Assuming you aren't covered, your motorcycle insurance is going to need to have a big-rear end medical rider added to it.
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Yeah the only reason I can logically think of someone saying their health insurance didn't cover a motorcycle accident was because their auto insurance was supposed to. I mean, if you get into a car accident and need medical attention, that generally goes through your auto insurance. At least the first 60k or whatever your limit is.
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How much does writing in a book actually affect its value? Enough for some pencil in the margins to knock $200 off of a first edition?
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change my name posted:How much does writing in a book actually affect its value? Enough for some pencil in the margins to knock $200 off of a first edition? Depends on whether it had any value to begin with. The drop in value between a first edition Lord of the Rings and a first edition "How to pick your nose" will be noticeably different.
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It was more of a general question about whether or not it was a really important factor, but it's mainly since I managed to buy a first edition copy of The Master and Margarita for $15 instead of 250 because of it.
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SIHappiness posted:I've heard of this in the vaguest sense. It came up during the battle to pass HIPAA back in the 90's. Motorcycle forums and sites all seem to have the story of a "friend of a friend" who wasn't covered, etc. The general gist seems to be that while there are certainly policies that don't, they're rather unusual. My insurance had a big checkbox for having a motorcycle and/or being a diver, both of which would make the price a lot higher. I guess statistically motorcycle drivers fall and die a lot more than the rest of us. I am in Denmark though, things could be different.
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RaoulDuke12 posted:Yeah the only reason I can logically think of someone saying their health insurance didn't cover a motorcycle accident was because their auto insurance was supposed to. Oh my. I've never had a car so I've never had auto insurance and don't know much about it. I always assumed that any nasty medical event, car crash or not, was covered through health insurance, and auto insurance only covered damage to vehicles and property. So do auto insurances have additional medical coverages that are intended for people without health insurance? Or is it typical that the auto policy's health coverage comes into play instead of tapping into your health insurance, even if you do have the latter? And then, I guess that would mean that if I do have health insurance (and it covers motorcycle stuff), I shouldn't worry about any medical coverage through my motorcycle insurance. Sound right? I feel like I'm in an atypical situation, since most people own a car and are tacking their motorcycle insurance onto their auto.  Thanks for the answers!
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What are the pairs of values on this site for? http://xdecrypt.com/google-sha1-2ad6-2
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alnilam posted:Oh my. I've never had a car so I've never had auto insurance and don't know much about it. I always assumed that any nasty medical event, car crash or not, was covered through health insurance, and auto insurance only covered damage to vehicles and property. So do auto insurances have additional medical coverages that are intended for people without health insurance? Or is it typical that the auto policy's health coverage comes into play instead of tapping into your health insurance, even if you do have the latter? Your auto or motorccle insurance will have a medical rider for self and passenger, usually. This is generally intended to cover the deductibles and out-of-pocket costs on any medical insurance you or your passengers may have. The "passengers" part is particularly important because if it was a non-family member riding shotgun and the driver was at fault, the health insurance company would start investigating ways to recover from the driver. In my case, for instance, I have $10K of medical coverage per passenger primarily because my (and my wife's) medical insurance is just fine and it's way less common for someone else to be riding with us. Someone with a high-deductible medical policy might want to spend a little more here. $10K was literally the base level for my insurance - it's impossible not to have it; all of my various medical deductibles (imaging, testing, out-of-pockets, etc.) wouldn't amount to $2,000 if I ended up in something that resulted in an ambulance ride, X-ray/MRI, ER visit, and same-day discharge. At $10K, I guess it goes a little further into the scenario where an accident might result in an extended hospital stay. In the case of a crash where the other party was at fault, their general liability is going to be expected to pay for the medical bills - your medical insurance will go after them for that. In the case of a collision where you were at fault, though, the medical rider kicks in. TL;DR: The medical rider on your auto/motorcycle is intended to supplement your health insurance coverage in most cases, not replace it. If your health insurance is fine, then you'll be okay to stick with a relatively minor medical rider on your motorcycle insurance. For someone who had insurance through their employer that didn't cover motorcycle accidents, though, I'd say you'd be looking for as big a medical rider as is economically feasible.
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SIHappiness posted:TL;DR: The medical rider on your auto/motorcycle is intended to supplement your health insurance coverage in most cases, not replace it. If your health insurance is fine, then you'll be okay to stick with a relatively minor medical rider on your motorcycle insurance. For someone who had insurance through their employer that didn't cover motorcycle accidents, though, I'd say you'd be looking for as big a medical rider as is economically feasible.
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Help i'm trapped on my phone and i'm looking for the rules to an improv game called penny for your thougts. All i've been able to find is rules for icebreaker style games for wedding showers, i remeber it being more along the lines of a collaborative story type of thing.
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quote:All players gather around and reach into their purse or pocket and pull out any coins that they have. Each player will select one coin. Players who do not have any coins should borrow from other players or the host or hostess can provide extra. Players will then read the date off of their selected coins. The host or hostess will then ask “What is an event from the date on your coin? It can be something happened to you, your family or in the news.” The players then take turns sharing events and commenting one each other’s events. That's what I could find.
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Orzo posted:What are the pairs of values on this site for? A common method of *attempting* to secure passwords should the security be compromised is to "hash" them, the problem with that is that even though they are extremely hard to reverse engineer once the hash for a given string is found it may as well be plain text. Example I know the MD5 hash of 'password' (5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99) when I see it. So if I found a list of compromised accounts with MD5 hashed passwords I would easily identify and be able to access any account with the password of 'password'.
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Orzo posted:What are the pairs of values on this site for? TL;DR: They help you crack passwords. A bit of background: there are some mathematical functions called "one-way hashes". You give them a number as input, do a bunch of math to it, and end up with a different number as output. What's special about these functions is that, for any given input a, you will always get the same output b, and, given only b, it's impossible to figure out what a was to start with. These functions are very useful in saving passwords on websites. When you set up your account, you type in a password. The website takes your password, converts it to a number, and runs a 1-way hash on it, then stores that instead of your plaintext password. Whenever you log in, it takes the password you enter, runs it through the hash, and compares that number to the number that it's saved in it's database. If they're the same, the password you just typed in has to be the same as the password that you gave when you signed up. That way, if someone does manage to get their username/password store, they don't actually have your password, just the hash of it. They don't even have a way to log in as you, because they don't know what password, when typed into a login box, is going to give them the hash they know is associated with your account. Enter this website. This website just seems to have a list of SHA-1 hashes, and passwords that will generate the hash. That way, if someone knows that your hash is 2ad64ce3f8a0c3b6f79314ad2f3974e1c753b8bb, your password must be soviet-derived. This list of hashes and passwords is called a "rainbow table." This table is necessarily limited in size; hashes create a 256-bit number, which means there are 10^77 possible hashes, which is way more data than can be stored using all of the hard drives on earth. These tables generally contain "easy" passwords, like dictionary words, or passwords that they've found in databases that they've already cracked. Any good website is going to take steps to combat this even further. They will "salt" your password before they turn it into a hash. For example, when you type in your password (soviet-derived), they'll add some extra characters onto the end of it (!#SA-LT#!_*), and hash the combination (soviet-derived!#SA-LT#!_* -> 1936b9a7e8c42cb393bdc4a7aaf02742e2c0a797). This basically adds two constraints onto trying to hack an account - you need to know what the salt is, and subtract it from the initial password, and you need to have the longer, more complicated password in your rainbow table. (You often won't.)
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I suppose this doesn't warrant its own thread, but can people tell me odd hobbies to work on? Currently I'm spending my spare time juggling, juggling a soccer ball, and goofing off on a guitar. I love learning new things and acquiring knew skills. I was going to the gym steadily but now I've had a bizarre back pain that's lasted a month so I'm trying to get that to go away. I'm going to start distance running again soon and I'm stretching daily again. I'm considering practicing karaoke in my room, if I can stomach the embarrassment (I live with 7 people). Anyone know of any decent how-to-draw websites?
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I didn't ask the original question, but this was really cool. Thanks for posting in such detail!
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Is there a proper musical term for the type of piano playing in this video? Fast and very jumpy?
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Black Cat posted:Anyone know of any decent how-to-draw websites? Towards the bottom of this OP. Duhhhhhh forgot to include the link  http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3481312 An observer fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jul 5, 2012 |
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Experto Crede posted:Is there a proper musical term for the type of piano playing in this video? Fast and very jumpy?
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I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but I'm looking for a website or a software to help me build 'webs' of names. I'm interested in obtaining something like this:  Thanks!
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Meltman posted:I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but I'm looking for a website or a software to help me build 'webs' of names. I'm interested in obtaining something like this: R can do this  but you probably need some kind of background in network analysis to do it. I would try asking in the Scientific/Math(s) Computing: numerical/statistical analysis tools and CASs thread.
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Thanks, I'll look into that.
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What's the shipping route a package takes from Australia? I just ordered something off eBay and the guy says it will arrive "July 24th through August 6th."
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Experto Crede posted:Is there a proper musical term for the type of piano playing in this video? Fast and very jumpy? I know you already got an answer but I just wanted to toss in that it sounds ragtime-y to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_dI6BZt06U Is there a thread on SA where people post examples of stupid facebook users? I don't know where to look for something like that - PYF, E/N?
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Idiots on facebook: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3313077
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Is there a quick way to mark all Gmail messages as "read"? I have almost 6000 emails that are unread at the moment, mainly newsletters and "word of the day" subscriptions and job application confirmations that have accumulated over the years. I can mark 50 emails at a time as read, but it may take a while to get through them all. I can't seem to find a big flashing "reset this and have an easily read summary of your recent emails instead of a counter that could double as a Hebrew calendar" button.
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Tick the box in the upperleft to select the current 50, and a message will appear questioning you if you want to select all mails in the current folder. e: also a tip, I put a filter on incoming mails filtering "newsletters" to go to the newsletter label. This owns and really streamlines my inbox reading.
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Samopsa posted:Tick the box in the upperleft to select the current 50, and a message will appear questioning you if you want to select all mails in the current folder. That did the trick! drat my domestic blindness.
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