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Install Gentoo posted:Well duh, that's why people hire electricians. You can't exactly hook up to your whole house any other way that'll be safe. So in a mass power outage you have to hire up an electrician so they can hook up your generator?
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b0nes posted:So in a mass power outage you have to hire up an electrician so they can hook up your generator? If you wait to buy your generator until the power outage yes. But people generally buy them before hand and get them wired in well before.
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We had power out for 4-5 days due to an ice storm I bought a generator 1st night (had to stand in line for hours waiting for a truckload of them) I just ran a bunch of extension cords and hung portable lights everywhere. My generator is a 6KW one, not near powerful enough to run central AC or electric furnace but I have a gas furnace so it really only uses electricity for blower motor, controls/logic. I just unwired it from the wall box and attached a PC power cord to it, we have heat! I would run the heat up to about 75 degrees inside by 10pm when I shut the generator down and it'd stay warm enough until the morning. I had the washer and gas dryer going too and the kids got to dry their hair with a hair dryer. edit: I didn't power the fridge since there was a free source of cold, freezer food went in a cooler outside and refrigerator food in a cooler in the garage. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Dec 11, 2012 |
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Dec 11, 2012 20:29
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Did the Berlin Wall stretch into the countryside? Couldn't East Germans sneak across the border in the countryside?
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Dec 11, 2012 21:01
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Baron Bifford posted:Did the Berlin Wall stretch into the countryside? Couldn't East Germans sneak across the border in the countryside? The wall entirely surrounded West Berlin.
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Dec 11, 2012 21:05
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Baron Bifford posted:Did the Berlin Wall stretch into the countryside? Couldn't East Germans sneak across the border in the countryside? There was an even bigger and more dangerous border wall and security system along the border between West and East Germany. It stretched all the way from a few miles out to sea to Czechoslovakia. 
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Dec 11, 2012 21:26
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Golbez posted:I was on oral antibiotics for an inner ear infection. The course ended on Sunday. Today I have a little pain in my ear; is it possible the antibiotics are still working through my system and that will go away, or should I figure I've created a resistant superbug and head to the doctor? Definitely go to the doctor. If you still have symptoms after you finish the anti-biotics it generally means that it will come back worse if you ignore it. Eulogistics posted:How do I stop responding to idiots on the internet? Thoroughly research your response, make sure all the little details are as accurate as possible. I find starting that process usually reminds me that I'm wasting my time.
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Baron Bifford posted:Did the Berlin Wall stretch into the countryside? Couldn't East Germans sneak across the border in the countryside? I used to not understand either until I realised that west berlin was like an island of west-germany in east-german territory, and what the other people said. I think they explained it badly in my K-12 school. This is why the "berlin airlifts" were a thing - east germany cut off west berlin from all ground transport, including essential supplies (food etc.). They could do this because west berlin is an island within east germany (this is what I somehow didn't get in primary school). Western powers said gently caress it, we'll drop it in by parachute, until east germany stopped the blockade.
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alnilam posted:I used to not understand either until I realised that west berlin was like an island of west-germany in east-german territory, and what the other people said. I think they explained it badly in my K-12 school. This was possible because the western Allies had negotiated airspace rights with the Soviets, so while the Soviets could close the roads all they wanted (there were no formally negotiated rights-of-way on the ground), they couldn't close the airspace, as that was formalized. And even if the Soviets wanted to stop it, they would have to shoot down obviously unarmed cargo planes, which would have been a disaster for them and sparked a war. I suggest everyone read the Wikipedia article on the Berlin Airlift; the logistics involved are absolutely mindboggling. For a while, more than a plane a minute as landing in West Berlin; at its height, that was down to 30 seconds. It was a huge embarrassment to the Soviets. One correction though: Not parachute. Every one of those cargo planes landed and was unloaded. They got it down to a science, so they could unload a fully loaded plane in under six minutes. The only things that I can find that were dropped by parachute were candies, which became one of the more enduring legacies of the airlift.
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Canada tax question-- A company I used to work for, in another province, has asked me to continue working for them remotely from home. However, as opposed to my sending them invoices for the work, they suggested having me stay on payroll / direct deposit and just work offsite. My issues with this are that I'll still be incurring all of the deductions as if I was working in that province, and I feel they'd still be reporting me as working on-site for tax purposes. This is them attempting tax fraud / trying to get me roped into it, yes?
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Dec 11, 2012 22:43
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brylcreem posted:Head to the doctor. Tiggum posted:Definitely go to the doctor. If you still have symptoms after you finish the anti-biotics it generally means that it will come back worse if you ignore it. I called the doctor and she told me to take antihistamine and decongestant for a few weeks, and show up if symptoms don't improve.
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Install Gentoo posted:There was an even bigger and more dangerous border wall and security system along the border between West and East Germany. It stretched all the way from a few miles out to sea to Czechoslovakia.
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Dec 11, 2012 23:08
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Baron Bifford posted:This must have been the biggest barrier since the Great Wall of China. Were there absolutely no holes to sneak through? :O It looked something like this for most of its length.  and was extremely alarmed and patrolled and deadly. It was way more than just a border to civilians, though that's what it's more famous (and sad) for. It was THE border between "the west" and the Soviet bloc, so it was a serious military border with tank obstacles and landmines and all. I guess also largely to keep spies out? More details on the wikipede.
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Dec 11, 2012 23:24
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How often has an antipope been forceably made the 'real' pope? This is surprisingly hard information to find. 
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Namarrgon posted:How often has an antipope been forceably made the 'real' pope? This is surprisingly hard information to find. What do you mean by forcibly? They were just chilling and some fellas in red robes pop up telling him he must be the See of Rome or else?
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Dec 11, 2012 23:31
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Golbez posted:I called the doctor and she told me to take antihistamine and decongestant for a few weeks, and show up if symptoms don't improve. Cool. Good luck with it!
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I used to work retail for a big national company and they got discounts on hotel rooms. Now, for one chain I could access this discount via just typing in a company code that almost certainly doesn't change; for another chain you use a very specific URL that leads to prices with the discount applied. I've used the discounts while I was working for the company and whether or not the hotel verified my employment varied on a case-by-case basis--sometimes people cared and sometimes they didn't. I quit this job earlier this year. It would definitely not be good to continue to use these discounts, right? It's not a big deal--they only save about five to ten bucks at a maximum--but sometimes, I dunno, I just wanna do something diabolical.
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Not a good idea.
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From someone who worked front desk at a five star hotel: hotel employee posted:We absolutely did not give a poo poo who used those codes. It's not usually any better than a AAA rate (which I would give to people from time to time anyway). We would give any company who asked a discount code for the most part. It's smart business for us because for what amounts to a very small discount, an entire company is more apt to send its entire employee base to our chain. edit: But like you said, it's 5 bucks, who cares. RaoulDuke12 fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Dec 12, 2012 |
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Dec 12, 2012 07:53
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When's the last time a US aircraft has been shot down by an enemy? Or a ship sunk? I guess I'm trying to get a grasp on when war stopped being war. Now we've got drones, and sanctions, and stuxnet. I honestly don't know the last time America or the UK sent out planes and boats to just... shoot things and get shot.
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Just this August a US helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. Maybe. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/world/asia/11-killed-in-american-copter-crash-in-south-afghanistan.html?_r=0
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Mescal posted:When's the last time a US aircraft has been shot down by an enemy? Or a ship sunk? I guess I'm trying to get a grasp on when war stopped being war. Now we've got drones, and sanctions, and stuxnet. I honestly don't know the last time America or the UK sent out planes and boats to just... shoot things and get shot. We've still got tons of feet on the ground in various places... plus ships massing to fight against the pirates, last I heard. Edit: I mean, if you think about it, the war we've been in has been against Al Qaida et al... which has no navy. So why would any of our ships be in action? Ditto for air force. We use our aerial assets for transportation/recon/strikes, but Al Qaida doesn't really have much to bring to bear against our air force other than surface-to-air weapons, so there would be no direct combat.
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Mescal posted:When's the last time a US aircraft has been shot down by an enemy? Or a ship sunk? I guess I'm trying to get a grasp on when war stopped being war. Now we've got drones, and sanctions, and stuxnet. I honestly don't know the last time America or the UK sent out planes and boats to just... shoot things and get shot. Depends on what you mean by "war". The American Civil War was just about the last time war meant two sides simply lining up and firing at each other until one side was dead, because after that weapons technology began improving at a tremendous rate and the old tactics would just lead to an endless meat grinder that gave no long-term advantage to anyone (see the trenches of World War 1). Drones are just one of those things that fundamentally changed the way militaries the world over operate, like the automatic rifle or the tank or the airplane or the atomic bomb. haveblue fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Dec 12, 2012 |
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Experto Crede posted:What do you mean by forcibly? They were just chilling and some fellas in red robes pop up telling him he must be the See of Rome or else? A secular ruling marching on Rome with an army and deposing the Rome Pope and installing an antipope.
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"Thus do not" "Do thus not" "Do not thus" Which of these is grammatically correct? Context is "[t]hese words do thus not meet the test laid down in Thoburn."
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LittleBob posted:"Thus do not" "Thus do not" sounds right/much more natural to me, but I don't know if it's actually grammatically correct.
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LittleBob posted:"Thus do not" Well personally I'd go with "thus these words do not meet" etc. but otherwise "thus do not."
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Namarrgon posted:A secular ruling marching on Rome with an army and deposing the Rome Pope and installing an antipope. Yes, you'd think there'd be a list somewhere of this. Obviously there's the Avignon Popes, which maybe aren't all all antipopes but certainly have a murky legitimacy. And then there's Philip, who was pope for just one day in 768: quote:Rome was in turmoil following the death of Pope Paul I, as rival factions sought to elect a pope to succeed him. The Primicerius, Christophorus, and his son Sergius, the papal Treasurer, had sought Lombard help to depose Pope Constantine II, who was the candidate of the military faction in Rome.[2] I get the feeling that this kind of thing happened a lot. Pope dies, chaos ensues as different factions fight to get their candidate installed, temporal power provides the edge for a particular candidate. Look at Benedict VI: quote:The predecessor of Boniface VII was Benedict VI, ordained on January 19, 973. He was the Imperial faction candidate, while Franco (late Boniface VII) was the proposed candidate for the National party. Benedict VI was chosen by the Imperial faction and approved as Pope by Otto the Great, even though he lacked the support of much of the Roman aristocracy. Once Benedict VI came to power as pope, a widespread fear spread throughout Rome of whether or not the Emperor (Otto I the Great) would be able to do enough to keep Rome in check. On May 7, 973, Otto the Great died, and the youthful Otto II took over. Consequently, the Romans deserted their pope immediately and hurried to push forth their own candidate to replace him. Many of the Romans saw the beginning of Otto the 2nd’s reign as a glimmer of hope that it might be possible for them to recover their ancient rights and even free themselves from foreign rule. As you can see, even legitimate popes were elected with the help of temporal powers (see Medici family) so the line between pope and antipope isn't always clear. I just clicked randomly on wikipedia's antipopes for their stories.
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LittleBob posted:"Thus do not" None of these is grammatically incorrect, but I think there is a slight change in meaning depending on where you put the "thus". If you say "These words thus do not meet the test laid down in Thoburn", "thus" appears to be a conjunction with the meaning of "hence" or "therefore". If this is the meaning you're going for, you might be better off putting "thus" at the beginning of the sentence: "Thus, these words do not meet the test laid down in Thoburn." If you say "These words do not thus meet the test laid down in Thoburn", "thus" could easily be interpreted as an adverb meaning "like so" or "in this manner". So, which are you trying to say? In any case, don't use "do thus not". It may not be grammatically incorrect, but it's ugly.
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Not sure if there's a basic home repairs/basic plumbing thread, but my friend's toilet will occasionally run nonstop. I've fixed it myself a couple of times. The white lever part that holds the stopper levers off of a little post which I'm guessing should have a counterpart on the other side, circled in red wherein it's missing. Is this a replaceable part? What would it be called if it is? 
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MJP posted:Not sure if there's a basic home repairs/basic plumbing thread, but my friend's toilet will occasionally run nonstop. I've fixed it myself a couple of times. The white lever part that holds the stopper levers off of a little post which I'm guessing should have a counterpart on the other side, circled in red wherein it's missing.
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MJP posted:Not sure if there's a basic home repairs/basic plumbing thread There is: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2734407
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What parts of a laptop can make a ticking noise? Occasionally my laptop goes 'tick tick tick tick' like a clock for seemingly no reason, but the sound doesn't come from the speakers, and I want to know how to make it stop or at least know how worried I should be. I do not think it is a cartoon bomb, but then again I don't know anything about computer hardware. I'm asking this here because it doesn't really seem serious enough to ask in Haus of Tech Support.
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:What parts of a laptop can make a ticking noise? If it's got a non-SSD hard drive then my guess would be something to do with that, or the fan. Laptops have fans, right? In a computer like that, the only moving parts I can think of are the HDD and fan.
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Golbez posted:If it's got a non-SSD hard drive then my guess would be something to do with that, or the fan. Laptops have fans, right? In a computer like that, the only moving parts I can think of are the HDD and fan. I really hope it's not the HDD, but it is on the same side of the computer as the fan vent thing, which is also the side that the ticking comes from, so it isn't really possible to tell. If it is the HDD, should I be worried about a hard drive failure and start backing up everything? If it's the fan, I'm guess I could just clean it out or dust it or blow air on it or some poo poo like that.
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:Cool, I figured that might be the case but it's good to get that narrowed down. It really depends. Some HDDs make a clicking noise under normal operation. Some don't, but will stow the heads when idle or when under acceleration (this is common in laptop hard drives), which can make an audible click. It can also mean that there's something intermittently caught in or brushing against the fan. It could of course also mean that your hard drive is about to explode.  Does it pass its SMART checks and filesystem checks? If you're in linux, are there any warnings/errors related to it in dmesg?
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Mescal posted:When's the last time a US aircraft has been shot down by an enemy? Or a ship sunk? I guess I'm trying to get a grasp on when war stopped being war. Now we've got drones, and sanctions, and stuxnet. I honestly don't know the last time America or the UK sent out planes and boats to just... shoot things and get shot. Besides the fact that western troops and machines still get killed fairly regularly, which people have already addressed, are we forgetting about the non-westerners who die? They don't have drones yet and the fighting is in their backyard, so they are still under fire a lot. I mean I know the news rarely talks about enemy and civilian body counts except in times of scandal, but if people dying isn't "war" enough for you then I dunno.
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ToxicFrog posted:It really depends. Some HDDs make a clicking noise under normal operation. Some don't, but will stow the heads when idle or when under acceleration (this is common in laptop hard drives), which can make an audible click. It's not really hard drive clicking as I am used to hearing it (because it normally does that as well). It's a much louder and fairly rhythmic "tick", and it sounds almost exactly like an old clock counting seconds except slightly faster. The first time I heard it was two days ago, and I've been using this laptop for over a year. The fact that it's so loud makes me think it is the fan, but I guess it could always still be possible that it's the hard drive. quote:It your hard drive is about to explode.
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How did the old Nintendo and Sega light guns work? I seem to recall that even when plugged into the system they didn't emit any visible light when the trigger was pulled, but unlike the Wii and Kinect, there was no sensor bar back in the day. And this was technology from a time when putting an IR emitter in a "toy" seemed way out of place.
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