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NESguerilla posted:How much weight can be sent with a single stamp? I want to mail a friend a little booklet I made. It fits in an envelope but weighs about as much as 3 or 4 postcards. If I throw a second stamp on there should that cover me? Also it needs to lie flat so it can be fed through the automatic reader. If it is puffy or too big(or small!) you need to pay extra postage.
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KoB posted:Its not "Americans," its just dumb people, which is sadly a good portion of Americans. Head over heels doesn't make sense either. It's an idiom. Nothing to do with intelligence.
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dokmo posted:Head over heels doesn't make sense either. It's an idiom. Nothing to do with intelligence. It's more like the cargo cult version of an idiom; people not completely understanding it just making poor copies. Although one could argue that if enough people accept the new version it is just as valid as the original.
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Jan 18, 2013 22:59
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Namarrgon posted:It's more like the cargo cult version of an idiom; people not completely understanding it just making poor copies. Although one could argue that if enough people accept the new version it is just as valid as the original. The point is (and I think I've made this point several times already in this same thread which should qualify as some sort of mental illness) that nobody formulates that particular phrase on their own. It's not a grammatical error, nobody is that confused about how language works. However it started people say it because people say it and they overlook the literal meaning because its a common phrase with a well known meaning, that's what makes it an idiom.
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Jan 19, 2013 00:36
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Stop just stop.
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Thank you. That was getting annoying. Ask the Linguistics thread if you actually care. (Please don't. This is dumb)
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What's a decent, free .vob file to mp4/mov/avi converter? I'm on Windows 7 and google's results are daunting. Half the reviews are blank or saying things are full of trojans 
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Wedemeyer posted:What's a decent, free .vob file to mp4/mov/avi converter? I'm on Windows 7 and google's results are daunting. Half the reviews are blank or saying things are full of trojans HandBrake can handle vobs, right?
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Wedemeyer posted:What's a decent, free .vob file to mp4/mov/avi converter? I'm on Windows 7 and google's results are daunting. Half the reviews are blank or saying things are full of trojans HandBrake should do it just fine.
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Jan 19, 2013 03:55
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This belongs in the legal thread
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Jan 19, 2013 04:14
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Wotan posted:Is it legal for them to use my contact list like that?
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Jan 19, 2013 04:56
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Are you absolutely sure that you didn't accidentally add them to a contact several years ago? I can't think of any possible situation where they would be able to 1. find a friends number in the contacts of your phone and 2. spoof their number to match his when calling. Your phone either malfunctioned, the above happened, or your phone got hacked so that you would pick up a collection call. The latter there sounds kinda unreasonable.
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RaoulDuke12 posted:Are you absolutely sure that you didn't accidentally add them to a contact several years ago? I can't think of any possible situation where they would be able to 1. find a friends number in the contacts of your phone and 2. spoof their number to match his when calling. Nah, it was a pretty specific name. The number was different, but I just looked at the name when I answered. My phone is not a smart phone. It's a flip phone from 2006
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What's the easiest way to put password protection on a specific folder? e: Found a way. In case anyone is wondering, Windows doesn't have a direct means to do it. A simple workaround is: code:To make this work, open up notepad and paste this. Create a folder, and save this as Lock.bat. Click the new .bat file and it will create a folder named "Private". Dump your porn and horrendous diaries in there. Click the .bat again and it will prompt you to lock the file and will hide the folder. Click again and it will prompt you to enter the password to unlock, then click again to lock, and so on. This also works on flash drives. Also, you cannot re-name the "Private" folder unless you alter the source code. Well, you can, but it'll gently caress up your poo poo and you'll lose it. Don't ask me how I know that. Or what I lost. Red Crown fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Jan 20, 2013 |
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Jan 19, 2013 23:23
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Is there a thread for general rants, discussion of anything, letting off steam, or anything similar?
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Timid posted:Is there a thread for general rants, discussion of anything, letting off steam, or anything similar? There's a whole sub-forum for it, I guess you could say (EN), but also in EN is "The 'Passive Aggressively Show Concern Yet Do Nothing' Thread" for open-letter type things that you probably don't feel warrant a whole new thread where you will be scrutinized to death as OP. Liebfraumilch fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jan 20, 2013 |
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Jan 20, 2013 05:15
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Looking for the name of another fruit , it'd brown and round, white inside with small black seeds.
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Jan 20, 2013 05:27
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b0nes posted:Looking for the name of another fruit , it'd brown and round, white inside with small black seeds. Kiwi? It's green with a light green/white center inside, brown on outside, and has tiny black seeds.
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b0nes posted:Looking for the name of another fruit , it'd brown and round, white inside with small black seeds. I know dragon fruit is white inside with black seeds, but it's not exactly brown and round on the outside. 
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Jan 20, 2013 05:44
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b0nes posted:Looking for the name of another fruit , it'd brown and round, white inside with small black seeds. Do you remember anything else about it? Hard or soft flesh, skin edible or not?
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Jan 20, 2013 07:00
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b0nes posted:Looking for the name of another fruit , it'd brown and round, white inside with small black seeds. There are a number of south american fruits like that, where you suck tast white goop off of black, inedible seeds. If that's what you mean. E.g. Cacao? Custard apple?
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Yo I got a question about hiccups, or more specifically a remedy that I found works for them despite the rest of the normal stuff (hold breath, get scared, drink water, all that fun stuff) not working. The remedy is bending over and drinking water while bent over. The person who taught it to me was a biology teacher who said something about it crushing the diaphragm but just bending over doesn't work either, so why does drinking water somehow make this work when just drinking water or bending over don't work by themselves? Thank you for listening to my dumb question about hiccups.
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Jan 20, 2013 09:53
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I imagine its the combination of bending over, which relaxes your diaphragm, and consuming a liquid slowly, which prevents the glottis from opening (closing?) while you are doing so, since you would inhale water if it did, which I guess gives the diaphragm time to get back into sync. [Dr. Spaceman voice] Scientists still don't know the exact mechanism that causes hiccuping, so this is all speculation. Relevant.
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Control Volume posted:Yo I got a question about hiccups, or more specifically a remedy that I found works for them despite the rest of the normal stuff (hold breath, get scared, drink water, all that fun stuff) not working. It stretches the diaphram, causing it to open and close directly. Think about when you drink something, you're using your diaphram to create a vacuum causing the water to go where you need it to go. At least, this is what I was told when I was 15. I was high at the time, so someone should probably verify this. Quick googling says I'm right though.
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Jan 20, 2013 10:06
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Google Chrome question: How do I get the top bar with the web page title back in my browser, even when it's maximized? I use two screens and I like to be able to drag the browser around a lot, but I also like having lots of tabs, but it seems I can't have both?
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Jan 20, 2013 10:42
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You can drag chrome around if you click to the left of the new tab button - the little area of "empty space" that's left even if you have several tabs open.
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This is a propaganda leaflet that was dropped by the Americans over Afghanistan: Are there any Pashto or Dari speakers who could translate this for me?
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Gravity Pike posted:You can drag chrome around if you click to the left of the new tab button BonHair posted:Google Chrome question: How do I get the top bar with the web page title back in my browser, even when it's maximized? I use two screens and I like to be able to drag the browser around a lot, but I also like having lots of tabs, but it seems I can't have both?
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No I definitely want to move my window around, preferably without having to hit a really small area small area. Actually, preferably without having to even look at what I'm doing, since I like to turn my one screen around and sit in weird places where I can't see the other screen.
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ToxicFrog posted:Do you remember anything else about it? Hard or soft flesh, skin edible or not? Sorry no. I was eating dinner with a bunch of friends and one was describing a fruit she tried a long time ago and that is the description she gave. I am pretty sure it isn't a kiwi. I was also thinking dragon fruit.
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b0nes posted:Looking for the name of another fruit , it'd brown and round, white inside with small black seeds. Taro.  Edit: It's technically a root vegetable, but I've seen it used to flavor bubble tea, so it must be sweet. Raimundus fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jan 20, 2013 |
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Jan 20, 2013 22:34
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BonHair posted:No I definitely want to move my window around, preferably without having to hit a really small area small area. Actually, preferably without having to even look at what I'm doing, since I like to turn my one screen around and sit in weird places where I can't see the other screen. Maybe write a macro for something like autohotkey to move the mouse way in a corner (to get it to a known spot) and then to move the window (if it's maximized in some screen whose resolution never changes) where you want it?
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Jan 20, 2013 22:59
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BonHair posted:No I definitely want to move my window around, preferably without having to hit a really small area small area. Actually, preferably without having to even look at what I'm doing, since I like to turn my one screen around and sit in weird places where I can't see the other screen. Are you using Windows 7? Hold the Windows key and press the arrow keys to move the window around. Up and down do maximize/restore/minimize, left and right move it to the corresponding side of the screen. With multiple monitors you can also move the window from one monitor to the other with left/right.
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Is there a way to get music off my itouch 3gen and still keep all the ratings, playcounts and such? I'm on a new laptop and I tried itunes 9-10 and they all want to erase when I try syncing with music on the laptop. I'm on windows 7, itunes 10 with music on the itouch 3gen that I want on the itouch 4gen.
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I once saw this Japanese porno where there were a bunch of holes on a wall, let's say 3 rows, each with 10 holes in it, so something like 30 holes. Now, from each of these holes was a woman who was sticking her naked rear end and crotch out of it, as if she was bent over from the other side of the wall. Like a womens glory hole, I suppose. 2 or 3 men were released into this room to "choose" which woman they wanted to choose. This was because the wall behind them was closing in, and soon they would be trapped with whichever woman they had chosen. I have no idea how to google to find this again but it was really funny. Can someone tell me what it was and where to find it? johnny sack fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Jan 21, 2013 |
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johnny sack posted:I once saw this Japanese porno where there were a bunch of holes on a wall, let's say 3 rows, each with 10 holes in it, so something like 30 holes. Now, from each of these holes was a woman who was sticking her naked rear end and crotch out of it, as if she was bent over from the other side of the wall. Like a womens glory hole, I suppose.  I don't even want to know what your googling has turned up. But I promise you get some weird ads on gmail for a while.
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I've heard it a few times, but this (about 40 seconds in) is the only example I have handy. Is there a specific name for the synth-harmony effect they use for "Hawking"'s voice there? Are there specific genres or artists that make heavy use of it?
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Jan 21, 2013 16:43
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I think what you're looking for is a vocoder. It's used a lot in electronic music and sometimes hip-hop, but it's around in a lot of other different genres too. I think Daft Punk uses it pretty frequently (I've only listened to one album but it had a lot of vocoder on it), and the Clockwork Orange soundtrack is full of it. ELO, Pink Floyd, and Styx have used vocoders before, too, but I don't remember how much (probably not much). How To Wreck A Nice Beach is a pretty good examination of its history if you're interested in that.
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ToxicFrog posted:I've heard it a few times, but this (about 40 seconds in) is the only example I have handy. Is there a specific name for the synth-harmony effect they use for "Hawking"'s voice there? Are there specific genres or artists that make heavy use of it? Sounds like a pretty regular autotune effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4NMoJcFd4
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