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b0nes posted:Why do people poo poo on Wikipedia as a reference so much? I realize anyone can edit what's on there but isn't most of the stuff verified to be correct? It isn't like peoples dogs and cats are logging in and messing with stuff. Wikipedia itself tells you not to cite it, but rather to cite its sources. It's fine to mention it in casual conversation, but only a fool would cite it in any serious capacity.
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Like any "tool" wikipedia has it's proper use; a jumping off point for researching something. A lot of things stated as fact are based off of sources that are not stating them as fact. It mostly gets poo poo on by people who a well learned in something and have to deal with people who think they know everything about the topic because of a couple hundred words on a web page.
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What's up with the signature "This thread brought to you by a tremendous dickhead?" Who did it, and why?
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tarepanda posted:What's up with the signature "This thread brought to you by a tremendous dickhead?" Who did it, and why?
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So, reasonably large amount of water in a several square foot section of carpet. No shop vac, and I can't take it up (lovely rented apartment). I've got a dehumidifier on, a couple fans pointed at the section and I've tried to soak up as much as possible with towels/cloths/paper towel. Anything else I can do to reduce the clusterfuckery of my water-spilling actions? Travakian fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jul 14, 2012 |
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Jul 14, 2012 06:06
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Travakian posted:So, reasonably large amount of water in a several square foot section of carpet. No shop vac, and I can't take it up (lovely rented apartment). Do you have a bunch of bulk rice you don't need or want?
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Jul 14, 2012 06:12
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:Do you have a bunch of bulk rice you don't need or want? Yes. Was my first though, but would rice all over be a better idea than fans blowing directly? I feel these ideas are mutually incompatible.
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Jul 14, 2012 06:14
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hooah posted:My wife has a character from a medieval/fantasy movie who she can't remember the name of. In some of her words, he wears a black cloak, is an archer, might be some other character's half-brother. He saves (some of?) the main characters in "a dark place," which is a two-leveled room. At the beginning of this scene, he had his hood up and you think he's a bad g. He's got black hair and a "strong nose". I didn't see the Dragonquest movie, but is it Raistlin? I seem to vaguely remember a character like that from the books.
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Jul 14, 2012 06:52
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Ben Davis posted:I didn't see the Dragonquest movie, but is it Raistlin? I seem to vaguely remember a character like that from the books. It turned out to be some guy from Eragon, which I haven't seen, so that's why I was useless.
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Jul 14, 2012 06:57
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Travakian posted:Yes. Was my first though, but would rice all over be a better idea than fans blowing directly? I feel these ideas are mutually incompatible. Throw the rice into the fans. Just use rice and keep the dehumidifier on.
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Kitty litter will work too. I had to use that when a gallon of olive oil decided to burst open in my car one time.
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spregalia posted:Kitty litter will work too. I had to use that when a gallon of olive oil decided to burst open in my car one time. Don't try this at home. Sawdust kitty litter is fine, but the clay kitty litter is not particular;ly useful soaking up many things, and the stuff it does soak up makes for a mess that is siginficantly harder to clean up that the original. (I took the kitty litter advice once, before I thought about how effective clay is at absolutely ruining carpet.) kapalama fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Jul 14, 2012 |
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Jul 14, 2012 11:38
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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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Have Transatlantic flight durations been significantly reduced over the last few decades, or has it mostly remained the same since the 60s? By Transatlantic flight I specifically mean large commercial passenger L.A./N.Y. to London. Elphiem fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Jul 14, 2012 |
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Jul 14, 2012 12:22
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"Born To Die" by Lana Del Rey sounds just like an other song, but which song is killing me. Is there a thread where this sort of question can get answered? "Identify Which Song Another Song SOunds Like?" I want to say it is "Hope There's Someone" by the Antony and the Johnsons, but it might be some Moby song.
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Jul 14, 2012 13:19
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I have this doll that belonged to my father's cousin's father, and the Antiques Roadshow Megathread linked in the OP is closed, so I'm not sure where to ask about it.   I'm not really looking to sell it or anything, just curious about what it is, where it might have come from, etc. and no one in the family seems to know anything about it, other than that it's been around for as long as anyone can remember. It seems to be one solid thing (although maybe the head is just joined on, I don't know) and just sits like that by itself, it's not held up by anything.
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Jul 14, 2012 14:40
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Looks like a traditional Japanese doll, often bought for daughters to celebrate the 7-5-3 holiday. Like so: http://nakamachi.m2-navi.com/ichimatsu/index.htm
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Jul 14, 2012 14:43
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Elphiem posted:Have Transatlantic flight durations been significantly reduced over the last few decades, or has it mostly remained the same since the 60s? Unless you count the Concorde, which is no longer flying, things have stayed about the same since the 747 was introduced in the 1970s.
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Please bear with me, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to word this. Is there a name for saying something along the lines of "This steak was dry to say the least!"? It seems like there would be a name for the general structure of "to say the least" to me, for some reason. I understand that it is an idiom of speech, but does it have a particular label?
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Jul 14, 2012 15:54
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Old West posted:Please bear with me, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to word this. Is there a name for saying something along the lines of "This steak was dry to say the least!"? It seems like there would be a name for the general structure of "to say the least" to me, for some reason. I understand that it is an idiom of speech, but does it have a particular label? Probably discourse marker.
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Yeah that adds up in my mind, thanks a lot!
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Jul 14, 2012 16:12
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 Obvious dirt aside (the previous tenant was difficult) I wonder what this is. You can drill it into the hole by the window. I was told it provides some ventilation but I can't feel any difference from the hole or its surroundings. Any idea? Thank you!
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Jul 14, 2012 18:59
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Uh, did you try screwing that knob I and pulling on it to slide the thing open?
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lllllllllllllllllll posted:Obvious dirt aside (the previous tenant was difficult) I wonder what this is. You can drill it into the hole by the window. I was told it provides some ventilation but I can't feel any difference from the hole or its surroundings. Any idea? I think it helps prevent condensation from building up and allowing mold or mildew to grow there. e: And what he^ said
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So, just a handle then? There is a bigger handle on the side, not on the photo (sorry) and the window doesn't slide but opens via a hinge on the side (again sorry for leaving this out before). The bigger window beside it does not have this (mildew). Once it's screwed in, there is no wiggle room. It remains a mystery... Thanks though. e: Could be that it is supposed to hit whatever is on the windowsill before the window hits it (bumper). That's my best guess. lllllllllllllllllll fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jul 14, 2012 |
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Jul 14, 2012 19:13
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It's really hard to tell from that pic but maybe when screwed in it keeps the window slightly open? You know, for a slight draft?
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Old West posted:Please bear with me, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to word this. Is there a name for saying something along the lines of "This steak was dry to say the least!"? It seems like there would be a name for the general structure of "to say the least" to me, for some reason. I understand that it is an idiom of speech, but does it have a particular label? Uh, I'm not a linguist, so I have no idea, but maybe you could add more examples? I imagine that if there's a name for this kind of "structure" or "function" (that is to say, group), there would be more members to the group?
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I'm looking for a youtube video from an old SA thread from years ago. I think the thread was about modifying/mixing scenes from movies, and someone posted a fantastic youtube video with what I think was the ending from Shawshank Redemption cutting into a scene from the Rocketeer. The dialogue went something like "... so i decided [...] to become the Rocketeer!". Does anyone recognize this or is there a better thread somewhere to ask in?
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It's been requested in the new Re-score Films/TV thread with no luck yet, but I'd hang around there on the off-chance someone manages to dig it up.
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Since this has never happened before: I was just driving home and a rabbit ran out in front of me. I stopped, and last I saw of it, it was smack-dab centered under my car. I did not hear a thump, for the record, and I had the music off in my car. There's no damage to my front end, so here's my question: what are the odds that the animal ducked and just waited until my car passed to keep going? This is 50% "I don't want to go out to my parking spot and find a dead animal" and 50% "Gosh I hope I didn't kill that poor animal?".
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How much of a person's original body has to exist for them to be legally considered "human?" I heard that you're still considered human so long as you still have a brain and a spinal cord, even if the rest of your body is artificial. Also, what's the proper grammar on question marks and quotation marks? Is it "On the inside?" or is it "On the outside"?
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Lance Streetman posted:How much of a person's original body has to exist for them to be legally considered "human?" I heard that you're still considered human so long as you still have a brain and a spinal cord, even if the rest of your body is artificial.
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An old high school buddy of mine just added me as a friend on Steam, and I was immediately struck by the fact that he has invested 2,435 hours or 101 days of time into playing Team Fortress 2, including 70 hours in the past week. I have no idea how the TF2 community functions; is it common to see people with playtimes like this? Are there a lot of people who play this much? Has anyone seen someone with a greater number? I'm just dumbfounded by this and I have the urge to find out whether it's in any way normal, or if my buddy turned into some FPS freak of nature.
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Those ads that say things like "Harvard scientists BAFFLED by [insert your town here] housewife's one weird trick to weightloss/teeth whitening/eternal youth." How are they getting around laws? I mean, could I take out an ad that says "Research at MIT shows that the world is flat " and be completely in the clear?
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Huge Liability posted:An old high school buddy of mine just added me as a friend on Steam, and I was immediately struck by the fact that he has invested 2,435 hours or 101 days of time into playing Team Fortress 2, including 70 hours in the past week. I have no idea how the TF2 community functions; is it common to see people with playtimes like this? Are there a lot of people who play this much? Has anyone seen someone with a greater number? I'm just dumbfounded by this and I have the urge to find out whether it's in any way normal, or if my buddy turned into some FPS freak of nature. You can get some stuff in TF2 just by having your character sitting connected to a server. He's probably doing that.
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MisterBibs posted:Since this has never happened before: You would hear/feel it almost always, even with the radio on (outside of 500 watt 18" subs going). Rest easy. There's a good reason the "hey I didn't know I hit __" doesn't go over well with police: A pebble in your tire will annoy the poo poo out of you, hitting almost anything at speed will/should be noticed.
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Lance Streetman posted:How much of a person's original body has to exist for them to be legally considered "human?" I heard that you're still considered human so long as you still have a brain and a spinal cord, even if the rest of your body is artificial. There is no "legally considered" because this has never been tested in court. When it is tested it will be very interesting - let's say you can replace half a brain & spinal cord - if you split someone in half & repair each half, is it 1 or 2 people now?
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Lance Streetman posted:Also, what's the proper grammar on question marks and quotation marks? Is it "On the inside?" or is it "On the outside"? In America, always on the inside. Elsewhere it depends on whether the punctuation is part of the quotation. America posted:Lance Streetman asked "what's the proper grammar on question marks and quotation marks?" Elsewhere posted:Lance Streetman asked "what's the proper grammar on question marks and quotation marks?" But as long as you're consistent about how you use them it usually doesn't matter.
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Lance Streetman posted:How much of a person's original body has to exist for them to be legally considered "human?" I heard that you're still considered human so long as you still have a brain and a spinal cord, even if the rest of your body is artificial. I seriously doubt that "legally considered 'human'" is even a concept. There are not many laws that revolve around "humans;" most tend to be about "persons" or "parties". It may not seem like an important distinction, but law is all about being pedantic, and very rarely concerns itself with matters of substance.
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I see advertisements all the time for crappy health products like herbal flu remedies that claim they are proven in clinical tests to reduce the time you have the flu by 50%. That is just one specific example and I have seen many other similar claims made about equally dubious products. Are they exploiting some sort of technicality to claim that their product is clinically tested and works? I was thinking something along the lines of they got results from their product in a tightly controlled laboratory environment that has no bearing on what how the product would behave in real life. I live in Australia and we have pretty tight advertising restrictions on health-related products here and they could never get away with outright lying.
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fuckpot posted:I see advertisements all the time for crappy health products like herbal flu remedies that claim they are proven in clinical tests to reduce the time you have the flu by 50%. That is just one specific example and I have seen many other similar claims made about equally dubious products. Are they exploiting some sort of technicality to claim that their product is clinically tested and works? I was thinking something along the lines of they got results from their product in a tightly controlled laboratory environment that has no bearing on what how the product would behave in real life. In the UK they have to mention the sample size, so we get things like shampoo ads bellowing "Makes Your Hair Up To 76% Shinier-Looking!" with "Based on a survey of 23 people" in tiny writing at the bottom.
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