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jackpot posted:Seriously, just buy a new receiver. Best Buy's two cheapest receivers ($28 and $47, respectively) both have USB inputs made for ipods. I'm in the same position as him, no aux input but even the cheapest aftermarket deck will get my windows smashed/cheap deck stolen. My probably $600 lovely factory one wont. An inline hardwired fm modulator sounds as good as any strong real fm station. Or for cheaper you can hack certain model belkin wireless fm mods to xmit lots more power. Sounds about as good as a hardwired one. I've done about 5 of these and a friend has done 3 with good luck. Can get them for about  on ebay.http://computerchristmas.com/christmas/link-how_to/HowToId-133/Belkin_Tunecast_Auto_Universal_FM_transmitter_Mod
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Huntersoninski posted:Someone I used to work with just got busted for possession of child pornography...like, raiding his house/huge bail busted. What are the odds of a misunderstanding like, it being hidden in a torrent for something else and unwittingly seeded, drawing a dramatic response like that? Most busts like this are for distributing child porn, not merely possessing it. Distribution is a much easier case to prove.
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If anyone is curious, I downloaded some population data from the US census bureau which definitely has all incorporated areas, as well as a lot of unincorporated ones. There's a shitload of places like Township 1 or whatever number, and Minnesota has a Camp 5 Township, as well as unorganized territories called Lake No. 1 and Lake No. 2. I haven't decided yet whether these count or not for my question. e re. foxes: There was a really good article in National Geographic about animal domestication within the last two years or so, and they discussed foxes at length. I believe the issue has a fox on the cover as well. stubblyhead fucked around with this message at 22:03 on May 17, 2013 |
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Sieg posted:Plenty of people have fennec foxes as pets. Tons of videos on YouTube on this if you are interested.
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randyest posted:Who would stop a town from putting a numeral in it's name? Is there like some sort of official registry or something? The postal service generally decides what the formal name for an area will be, and many towns and other municipalities throughout the US have had their names changed over time to match with what the postal service asked for. This particularly happened in the latter 19th century, when a lot of towns finally got their own post office and they went through clearing up names (particularly encouraging towns duplicating the name of another town or city in the same state to change theirs). An example would be a town called "Maple Corners" but there was already another town in the state called "Maple Corner". The Postal Service might decide that the town would now be called "Maple Heights", and if people wanted to mail anything to the town then it better have the name "Maple Heights" on it or else it won't get delivered. Usually, the town government would grumblr but agree to match the name up for convenience sake. There have also probably been several cases of a town name originally being kinda dirty or risque, and the postal service deciding they'd prefer to use another name. The postal service is a bit more lax about naming these days though, because ever since the ZIP Code system was implemented it's become a lot easier to manage name conflicts or weird names, since the ZIP Codes will be unique. Nintendo Kid fucked around with this message at 22:55 on May 17, 2013 |
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FCKGW posted:Most busts like this are for distributing child porn, not merely possessing it. Distribution is a much easier case to prove. Also worth noting that at least here in the UK, the laws against abusive imagery of children are broad enough to include non-photographic stuff, so some of the more questionable hentai and such could possibly lead to charges being brought.
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My state has its own special operation right now against the top cp consumers( focusing on the "most violent" and horrible material), so it might go beyond what the feds consider, not sure...got drat this is hosed
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Kevin DuBrow posted:My car doesn't have in-line audio input, and no cassette player. What's a good way to have decent-quality audio playing from my iPod? I've tried an FM transmitter, but it had horrible quality. I've looked for a way to use the CD player but haven't found anything. I was becoming increasing frustrated with FM transmitters, but like you had little way to avoid the problem without having to replace the entire receiver in a stock Trailblazer. I ended up purchasing the GOgroove FlexSMART X2 Wireless In-Car Bluetooth FM Transmitter and was pretty stunned how well it worked. I was really skeptical, but the reviews convinced me and the ease of using Bluetooth with my iPhone is phenomenal. I've been using it about four months and only last week had my first problem with some "fuzz" on the station I was using that was easily solved by changing to a new FM station. I think you're better off upgrading your receiver, but it's an option to think about that definitely worked out for me.
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I'm looking to buy wireless headphones, like the kind that you can plug into a TV. Can someone recommend me a set? I don't want anything real fancy and I'm not super concerned with having awesome sound quality, it's really just so my fiance won't bug me playing xbox when I need to go to bed early. Maybe something in the $50-75 range? Thanks.
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razz posted:I'm looking to buy wireless headphones, like the kind that you can plug into a TV. Can someone recommend me a set? You know, you could buy a portable radio and one of those cheapo FM transmitters meant for use in cars. Maybe you even already have a portable radio. You could set that up and just plug the headphones into the radio, and the transmitter into the TV (maybe with a RCA audio jack to headphone port converter like this http://roxsat.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=137_21_230&products_id=741&zenid=7d9b4f2ced6f2d3bc2e20b3d7be0dd99 if your TV doesn't come with a headphone jack to use).
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Buy bluetooth ones and some type of bluetooth audio transmitter so you have some bluetooth headphones to use with your phone too. Something like this (I have no idea if this is any good, just an example):http://www.walmart.com/ip/GOgroove-BlueSense-TRM-Wireless-A2DP-Bluetooth-Transmitter/22477981 + any bt headphones/buds. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 05:26 on May 18, 2013 |
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This didn't seem like it needed its own thread. I found out someone I know was on an episode of Judge Hatchett like 12 years ago. I need to find this episode, but have had no luck. I'm willing to pay if there's some service or something that allows you to get back episodes of dumb judge shows where they send troubled teens to boot camp or something. Pretty much all I have is the date it originally aired.
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Install Gentoo posted:The postal service generally decides what the formal name for an area will be, and many towns and other municipalities throughout the US have had their names changed over time to match with what the postal service asked for. The Postal Service is also great at making poo poo up. The town on my driver's license doesn't exist. It's a post office. This is big-time suburbia too, not East Bumfuck.
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How in the summerloving heck can I contact a real human being at Yahoo about my Flickr account? My Yahoo account was temporarily set to a German language setting ten years ago. So they restrict my Flickr account to German settings. (This means that I can't see certain stuff--basically it's like GIS with safesearch always on.) I've tried changing settings on the website and I've contacted their "customer care" via email more than once. Their robot responses have been less than helpful. This is such a tiny detail that should be easily fixable, but this glitch has been screwing up my account since 2007. What can I do about nonexistent customer service short of threatening the CEO?
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Try contacting them via social media - Facebook, twitter etc.
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ElwoodCuse posted:The Postal Service is also great at making poo poo up. The town on my driver's license doesn't exist. It's a post office. This is big-time suburbia too, not East Bumfuck. Sounds like you have an ornery Postmaster to deal with around there!
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razz posted:I'm looking to buy wireless headphones, like the kind that you can plug into a TV. Can someone recommend me a set? Your fiance should find some other time to play his video games, he's being inconsiderate. These are problems to fix now, they won't get better over time.
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How do I get rid of starlings? I live in an apartment and they've been trying to nest in our air conditioner for several weeks now. We try to plug up the holes and they just find other ways of getting in. What else can I possibly do?
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MyronMulch posted:Your fiance should find some other time to play his video games, he's being inconsiderate. These are problems to fix now, they won't get better over time. It's inconsiderate if he wakes her up, but there is nothing wrong with having different sleep cycles or doing your own thing while your partner sleeps. If he gets headphones it sounds like the perfect system.
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I've watched a lot of nature documentaries that depict schools of fish forming a swirling ball whenever they are surrounded by predators, such as sharks or dolphins. Each fish is constantly trying to move towards the center of the roiling mass, where they are shielded from the jaws of the sharks. Individuals who break off are picked off. I always thought that this was a losing strategy, since the sharks could just pick them off at their leisure once they're well surrounded (this is how I've won many a Starcraft game). But then it occurred to me that most of the fish will not get eaten because the sharks have limited appetites and will leave when sated. When the fish swarm into a ball, each is trying to make sure it will be their fellows and not them who sate the sharks' hunger. The fish are thus not really mounting a defence but instead organizing the sacrifice of their weakest swimmers. Is my interpretation correct? Any biologists here?
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In the original Star Trek, captain Kirk wore yellow. In all the ones since, the captain has worn red. Why did that change? I'm sure star trek fans know this straight away but I've never been into the show.
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In the original show, they didn't bother to come up with a good in-universe reason for the colors of the uniforms; they were just what the designers thought would look cool. For the second movie (Wrath of Khan in 1982) the production designers wanted to make Starfleet more explicitly a uniformed civil service with a military influence, so they redesigned all the uniforms and settled on a standard color scheme which they could apply to every member of the crew.
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Hoops posted:In the original Star Trek, captain Kirk wore yellow. In all the ones since, the captain has worn red. Why did that change? I'm sure star trek fans know this straight away but I've never been into the show. Patrick Stewart looked better in red than in that yellow-green color, so the producers decided to swap around the colors of the departments. DS9 and Voyager had the same setting as TNG, so the colors carried over. Enterprise was set centuries earlier, so they went back to the original color scheme (but only used it for the accent stripes on the blue jumpsuits).
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Baron Bifford posted:I've watched a lot of nature documentaries that depict schools of fish forming a swirling ball whenever they are surrounded by predators, such as sharks or dolphins. Each fish is constantly trying to move towards the center of the roiling mass, where they are shielded from the jaws of the sharks. Individuals who break off are picked off. I'm a biologist, not a fish ecologist but I'll try to answer. See it from an individual fish's point of view. If you head into the middle of the ball of N fish, and the shark pics off one at random, the probability that you will be eaten is 1/N. If you dash off and get chased by a shark, you are a filet. For a predator, it is actually harder to catch a single prey out of any of the fish in a school than it is to catch a single fish. The same effect can be demonstrated in human: throw a coin into the air and catch it on the way down - easy; throw a handful of small change into the air an try to catch any of the coins on the way down - hard. Schooling is really interesting actually, and there are lots of ecologist working on it from different aspects. Lots of interesting stuff in the wiki articles on [url=]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schooling_%28fish%29]schooling[/url] \and collective animal behaviour.
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And sometimes all that strategizing is meaningless in the face of pure scale.
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I'm trying to make a disguise for myself because I'm trying to keep my identity a secret during a public appearance. What's an easy way to make a mask that looks hokey enough so the cops won't arrest me for being a terrorist, but also isn't completely stupid looking? I'm pretty much going to just get a piece of denim or black canvas and I'm going to punch some holes in it with a knife. Is this a good way to make a mask?
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nunchi posted:I'm trying to make a disguise for myself because I'm trying to keep my identity a secret during a public appearance. What's an easy way to make a mask that looks hokey enough so the cops won't arrest me for being a terrorist, but also isn't completely stupid looking? I'm pretty much going to just get a piece of denim or black canvas and I'm going to punch some holes in it with a knife. Is this a good way to make a mask? 
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But seriously, something like that would be a good way to go, because does mask stuff fairly well without having people think you're about to rob something.
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nunchi posted:I'm trying to make a disguise for myself because I'm trying to keep my identity a secret during a public appearance. What's an easy way to make a mask that looks hokey enough so the cops won't arrest me for being a terrorist, but also isn't completely stupid looking? I'm pretty much going to just get a piece of denim or black canvas and I'm going to punch some holes in it with a knife. Is this a good way to make a mask? Does it have to be a mask? Hoodie+bandana will cover up most of your face, leave you able to see and talk, and you won't look super suspicious. (Worst case, you look like a gang member, I guess?) Plus you can transform from Masked Mystery to "punk kid" by slightly adjusting things, instead of being stuck with a big dumb mask.
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nunchi posted:I'm trying to make a disguise for myself because I'm trying to keep my identity a secret during a public appearance. What's an easy way to make a mask that looks hokey enough so the cops won't arrest me for being a terrorist, but also isn't completely stupid looking? I'm pretty much going to just get a piece of denim or black canvas and I'm going to punch some holes in it with a knife. Is this a good way to make a mask?
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Gravity Pike posted:Does it have to be a mask? Hoodie+bandana will cover up most of your face, leave you able to see and talk, and you won't look super suspicious. (Worst case, you look like a gang member, I guess?) Plus you can transform from Masked Mystery to "punk kid" by slightly adjusting things, instead of being stuck with a big dumb mask. Where do you live that a hoodie and bandana isn't super suspicious? It's pretty much on par with a ski mask.
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nunchi posted:I'm trying to make a disguise for myself because I'm trying to keep my identity a secret during a public appearance. What's an easy way to make a mask that looks hokey enough so the cops won't arrest me for being a terrorist, but also isn't completely stupid looking? I'm pretty much going to just get a piece of denim or black canvas and I'm going to punch some holes in it with a knife. Is this a good way to make a mask? Considering the bombing and shooting recently I've send the appropriate information to the authorities.
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Florida Betty posted:Where do you live that a hoodie and bandana isn't super suspicious? It's pretty much on par with a ski mask.
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Garmin wants $50 just to update my map of North America on my nuvi. I'm about to drive cross-country, and honestly i-93 hasn't changed since I got this thing, so I'm not that worried about it. But I have used it in the past and it's given me directions to places that are out of business or have relocated, so I would like to update it. Is there a free/open source alternative for getting GPS maps?
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Anonymous Robot posted:Garmin wants $50 just to update my map of North America on my nuvi. I'm about to drive cross-country, and honestly i-93 hasn't changed since I got this thing, so I'm not that worried about it. But I have used it in the past and it's given me directions to places that are out of business or have relocated, so I would like to update it. Is there a free/open source alternative for getting GPS maps? No smartphone? A Google maps directions printout as a backup should do nicely. I assume you aren't driving cross country to get to a retail location, so you probably shouldn't worry too much. As for getting free maps that interface with a Garmin, I have no clue. Hell, I would drive cross country with an old AAA map and just ask people for more specific directions as needed. Old school still works.
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When I use the print screen button, where does the picture go? I assume there's no archive folder on my (windows) computer of all the times I've accidentally hit it. (Though I'd like there to be.) I believe you can ctrl-v it, but is that all? I'd like to take screenshots without using that function via picasa, which is a bit of a memory hog.
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It goes to your clipboard. You can then paste it wherever in whatever document.
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Mescal posted:When I use the print screen button, where does the picture go? I assume there's no archive folder on my (windows) computer of all the times I've accidentally hit it. (Though I'd like there to be.) I believe you can ctrl-v it, but is that all? I'd like to take screenshots without using that function via picasa, which is a bit of a memory hog. I think it just goes into the clipboard which is a buffer. You don't need to use anything more complicated than Paint to save a screenshot.
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Mescal posted:When I use the print screen button, where does the picture go? I assume there's no archive folder on my (windows) computer of all the times I've accidentally hit it. (Though I'd like there to be.) I believe you can ctrl-v it, but is that all? I'd like to take screenshots without using that function via picasa, which is a bit of a memory hog. It's copied to the "clipboard" and is just in memory, similar to anything you'd cut or copied in a program. It isn't saved anywhere permanently unless you paste it in a program and save that. You can paste screenshots into MS Paint and save them there if you don't want to use Picasa, but if you have a large screen (and/or more than one) the screenshot itself can get pretty big, and in memory it'll be an uncompressed bitmap. eta: any suggestions on learning to type posts faster?
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Anonymous Robot posted:Garmin wants $50 just to update my map of North America on my nuvi. I'm about to drive cross-country, and honestly i-93 hasn't changed since I got this thing, so I'm not that worried about it. But I have used it in the past and it's given me directions to places that are out of business or have relocated, so I would like to update it. Is there a free/open source alternative for getting GPS maps? You'll want to go to one of these: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin Open Street Map is continuously updated, and pages like that can set you up with the latest compiled maps to use on your device.
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