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Hoops posted:This conversation is goony as gently caress but I've never understood that either. You go to the toilet when you actually need a poo poo, it's like a 60 second process. Are people reading before while they're waiting for it to come out, or do they sit and chill out with a magazine afterwards? Either one alarms and confuses me. Wait until you get older........
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Are there any tips on how to pick a good wedding DJ?
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The Moon Monster posted:How do people spend enough time on the toilet to actually read anything? I spend maybe a max of 2 minutes on it unless I'm in some sort of intestinal distress. Probably more like 45 seconds on average. Am I just the Usain Bolt of making GBS threads or something? I'm with you on this one. I don't get it. I don't go to the bathroom until I have to poo poo, so when I go, it's ready. I've asked (other young) people who do take a while to poop about this, and I've concluded that (1) some people get the urge to poop but it just takes longer to come out, no idea why; and (2) some people, instead of waiting til they're ready to poop, go to the toilet when they just think they could probably poop, and so once they sit on the toilet and signal to their body that it's time to poop, there's still a few minutes of the poop working its way out. Poop poop poop.
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Feb 8, 2013 00:48
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Golbez posted:Are there any tips on how to pick a good wedding DJ? Just hire this guy. My wife and I did for our wedding and have him over for all of our parties or even when I'm working in the lawn. His price is great and he didn't play a single song we didn't like.
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Feb 8, 2013 01:53
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The Moon Monster posted:How do people spend enough time on the toilet to actually read anything? I spend maybe a max of 2 minutes on it unless I'm in some sort of intestinal distress. Probably more like 45 seconds on average. Am I just the Usain Bolt of making GBS threads or something? Some people don't eat enough fibre or drink enough water so it's physically impossible for them to poop faster.
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:Wait until you get older........ Rule of thumb on male aging: For every 20 years that pass, your pees will take as long as poops used to, your fucks will take as long as your naps used to, and your shits will take exactly as long as it took for you to get done loving 20 years prior. Eventually, each of these event times reaches a limit and your day becomes nothing but one long string of continuous shits, pisses, viagra-fueled fucks, and naps. With no where else to go, you start to poo poo when you piss and nap when you gently caress. Then you die.
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I never take naps and when I have sex it tends to go on for an hour or more. This does not bode well for me.
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Sieg posted:It is AdBlock, not cookie block. What you need to do is to use something like the Firefox extension Ghostery or something similar to prevent websites from storing tracking cookies and other stuff on your computer. Or not, because it's completely harmless and sometimes you learn about things taht you want to buy. dokmo posted:Some people have kids and can't get privacy to read for 10 minutes anywhere unless they're making GBS threads. XmasGiftFromWife posted:Wait until you get older........ I've known two people who liked to read on the toilet. Both were in their early twenties, single with no children.
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I've never taken shits less than 10 minutes and I'm at work that usually stretches into a half hour or so. making GBS threads is relaxing and I like to take my time v  v
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FCKGW posted:I've never taken shits less than 10 minutes and I'm at work that usually stretches into a half hour or so. Yup shits at work for some reason tend to take me quite a while. Another mystery of the universe I guess.
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I bought a lapel mic to use with my voice recorder but I'd like to also use it with my laptop. It works fine with the recorder, but I get no signal at all in the PC. Is it something to do with the plug? The pink plug is the headset mic I use now, the black one is the new one. Is there an adapter I can buy to make this work?
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greazeball posted:I bought a lapel mic to use with my voice recorder but I'd like to also use it with my laptop. It works fine with the recorder, but I get no signal at all in the PC. Is it something to do with the plug? The pink plug is the headset mic I use now, the black one is the new one. Is there an adapter I can buy to make this work? The pink one appears to be stereo and the black one is mono. Check with Radio Shack. They should have an adapter.
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Mister Kingdom posted:The pink one appears to be stereo and the black one is mono. Check with Radio Shack. They should have an adapter. This is incorrect. Your headset mike carries a outgoing signal, the incoming signal, and a ground. You lapel mike carries only the incoming and the ground. Are you plugging the mike into a 'headset' jack or a dedicated microphone/line in jack? e:spelling
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:This is incorrect. Your headset mike carries a outgoing signal, the incoming signal, and a ground. You lapel mike carries only the incoming and the ground. Are you plugging the mike into a 'headset' jack or a dedicated microphone/line in jack? The pink one is from a headset that has separate plugs for mic and headphones. I'm plugging the new lapel mic into the mic jack, same as I do with the pink one.
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This picture... How was it done? Obviously the men were photographed holding their arms in position, and then the heads were cut out and pasted in their arms. The man on the far right seems to have a little bit of a white outline around his face, hinting that the men had been standing with the open sky behind them (or another white background) in the original picture before their heads were cut out. But the men's bodies don't look pasted in, it looks like they were photographed in that very spot, so how is it that there is untampered-with-looking foliage in the background behind where their heads are supposed to be? Rabbit Hill fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Feb 8, 2013 17:02
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Rabbit Hill posted:This picture... 1) Set up a tripod 2) Take Picture with mans 3) take picture with no mans 4) Cut everything off at the shoulder line (you can see the black line of the cut.) 5) paste headless mans photo on no mans photo 6) cut out all the heads and place them on arms (white halo is from extra material/thickness)
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Rabbit Hill posted:How was the photographer able to capture the foliage in the background behind where their heads are supposed to be? e: 
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:1) Set up a tripod Can you point out the black line of the cut? I can't see it on my monitor.
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Rabbit Hill posted:Can you point out the black line of the cut? I can't see it on my monitor. 
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Feb 8, 2013 17:12
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greazeball posted:The pink one is from a headset that has separate plugs for mic and headphones. I'm plugging the new lapel mic into the mic jack, same as I do with the pink one. Do you have a line in jack to try? Also check sound mixer to make sure everything is turned up.
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Ah, thank you! (And quick, thumbnail that so it doesn't break tables!  )
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greazeball posted:The pink one is from a headset that has separate plugs for mic and headphones. I'm plugging the new lapel mic into the mic jack, same as I do with the pink one. Interesting. I was originally with XmasGift but this is weird. I wouldn't think an adapter would make a difference, because when you plug a mono plug into a stereo jack, the L and R conductors in the jack both touch the + of the mono plug, and the ground is still the ground (the tip). This means, I would think, that an adapter wouldn't change anything. Your mono plug's + signal is going to your computer's L and R channels both, whether you adapter or not. Does that make sense or should I draw a picture? It's possible that the lapel mic sucks. Did you test it in another device? It's also possible that the lapel mic has a very different impedance than your computer is looking for, which is getting to the limits of my knowledge. But it looks like it's being sold as a computer mic, so I doubt that.
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Tiggum posted:Or not, because it's completely harmless and sometimes you learn about things taht you want to buy. Some people are more comfortable with invasions of their privacy than others. It seems more people find it to be intrusive since Chrome, Firefox, and IE all have options to tell websites you do not want to be tracked. The EU is going to require that websites have to ask your permission before storing most cookies on your computer. The UK has already implemented this. Then you start getting into web beacons, and things start to feel less harmless.
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Well, I was glad someone posted about ghostery, because yesterday I kept trying to go to Pandora and suddenly found myself transported to a Facebook error page.  It happened on another site too. I don't really care too much if I get ads for stuff I like (I have adblock anyway) but if it's actually interfering with my browsing, gently caress that. So thanks.
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Ron Don Volante posted:Why do college basketball teams (usually the away team) sometimes gather on the court and set up chairs during a timeout? Is there some psychological reason for it? To put a little more distance between themselves and the fans and make it a little easier to be heard
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ElwoodCuse posted:To put a little more distance between themselves and the fans and make it a little easier to be heard This article explains it pretty well: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/sports/ncaabasketball/24timeouts.html?_r=0
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Eggplant Wizard posted:Well, I was glad someone posted about ghostery, because yesterday I kept trying to go to Pandora and suddenly found myself transported to a Facebook error page. That was Facebook's fault, something with the Facebook login API. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/08/tech/social-media/facebook-killed-internet/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5
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Knightmare posted:That was Facebook's fault, something with the Facebook login API. I don't even use Facebook to login to Pandora or anything else  Interesting, though. Thanks.
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:Do you have a line in jack to try? Also check sound mixer to make sure everything is turned up. alnilam posted:Interesting. I was originally with XmasGift but this is weird. Thanks you guys for the help so far. There's no other input jack, I'm trying to use it with a Thinkpad T60. I've tested it with my Voice Recorder and it works with that. I tried plugging the cable into a 3.5mm jack extension cord and then into the laptop but I get the same result. I've been recording stuff and Skyping with my headset mic today and everything is fine with that. When I plug the new mic in and turn the mic volume up to max I do manage to get a small noise signal to appear in Audacity but none of my voice is picked up.
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greazeball posted:Thanks you guys for the help so far. Do you have an ohmmeter? Maybe see what the resistance is across each mic.
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I'm guessing the headset is the type with 2 plugs? Another one beside the pink one? If so the pink is for the mic part of it only, other connector is for your ears. If that's the case the reason pink plug has 3 conductors on it I think is because PCs typically expect a powered mic to be plugged in, extra conductor gives the mic some electricity. Your new mic with 2 conductor plug is a typical non-powered one, generates its own electricity from soundwaves and that's too small of a signal for the pc. To confuse the issue even more, newer thinkpads (t410+) have just a single a TRRS headset jack. This is what iphones and androids use, 4 conductors on the plug, left ear right ear mic and ground. This is a non-powered mic in a trrs headset I believe. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Is "friend of the family-rigged" considered a racist term in the US? It seems like it wouldn't be, since it connotes ingenuity in the face of adverse circumstances and suboptimal resource availability, but I get the impression that people don't like it. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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It would be offensive because, for one thing, at least in my experience, it's not a term that's used here, so people hearing it wouldn't have any idea it's supposed to be positive. We have other terms like "redneck engineering" and "MacGyvering".
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Yeah. I've never heard that before and pretty much anything with "friend of the family" in it would be assumed to be offensive. "redneck engineering" on the other hand has always had a pretty derisive connotation to it whereas "MacGyvering" is something pretty clever. There's also "jerry-rigged" (also kind of derogatory) and "jury-rigged" (improvisional but you did the best you could).
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Hurt69420 posted:Is "friend of the family-rigged" considered a racist term in the US?
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Hoops posted:Haha, come on really? I think they changed it to "jerry-rigged" for that reason, unless that's some kind of British slur on Germans or something.
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Runcible Cat posted:More probably a misspelling of jury-rigged, mixed with jerry-built. Exactly what it is. I did think that jerry-built was a WW2 term, but apparently it's totally unrelated. It might be a reference to the walls of Jericho. But this is an excellent rule of thumb: tarepanda posted:pretty much anything with "friend of the family" in it would be assumed to be offensive. People have gotten in trouble for much less. For not being niggardly with their vocabulary.
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Golbez posted:It would be offensive because, for one thing, at least in my experience, it's not a term that's used here, so people hearing it wouldn't have any idea it's supposed to be positive. We have other terms like "redneck engineering" and "MacGyvering". I've heard it before in the South. Less in recent years, for a number of reasons (like moving into a city from rural farm country). Yes, it's racist. Use "farm engineering" or "jury-rigged" or something.
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Hoops posted:Haha, come on really? I think they changed it to "jerry-rigged" for that reason, unless that's some kind of British slur on Germans or something. "Jerry rig" is a slur against Germans: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jerry-rig
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Hurt69420 posted:Is "friend of the family-rigged" considered a racist term in the US? It seems like it wouldn't be, since it connotes ingenuity in the face of adverse circumstances and suboptimal resource availability, but I get the impression that people don't like it. The black side of my family uses it a lot, I don't because I'm white and it's far easier to just not say poo poo like that even when you think it wouldn't be offensive. (Hint: if you think that you are 'allowed' to say the N-word because you have black friends/are married to a black person/are one tenth black/whatever, you are wrong. It will always end up offending someone.)
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