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tarepanda posted:They're translated. And if you translate such creative names as "Smith" or "Miller" or "Cooper" you get "smashing metal", "stands by water" and "barrel maker."
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If you call a fax number using a phone you hear a sound similar to a dial-up handshake. Does the same happen in reverse? That is, would attempting to fax something to a telephone number cause the receiving line to make similar sounds?
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Mak0rz posted:If you call a fax number using a phone you hear a sound similar to a dial-up handshake. Does the same happen in reverse? That is, would attempting to fax something to a telephone number cause the receiving line to make similar sounds? Yes.
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Mak0rz posted:If you call a fax number using a phone you hear a sound similar to a dial-up handshake. Does the same happen in reverse? That is, would attempting to fax something to a telephone number cause the receiving line to make similar sounds?
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:I changed my first name but I don't have anything to prove it except my new social security card and the city paperwork. I got a pink letter in the mail saying I have a certified mail delivery I need to pick up with my new name on it and I've been freaking out and procrastinating about this. It says specifically that I need photo ID but I haven't gotten a chance to renew my permit (so it's expired) or change my name on it. I'd just go in and explain the situation, and bring your old photo ID and the paperwork verifying your name change. If you're polite and explain the situation then they'll probably try to be as helpful as they can. stubblyhead posted:Sounds like step one is to get a picture ID with your new name on it. You've been without valid ID for at least a year? Cmon dude, get it together. I haven't had photo ID since October 2011. It's not caused me any problems. It might be more difficult if I'd never had it, but an expired learner's permit is still valid for just about anything other than actually driving a car.
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Trastion posted:GA = General Admission I had GA tickets at a NIN concert a few years ago. There actually wasn't a whole lot of moshing, but chances are you will be crushed by the crowed pretty hard and pressed into someone's back the whole concert.
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Mescal posted:I'm wondering about Native American names but it's kind of hard to google. In pop culture, we hear about dudes named Runs Beside Water or Diving Hawk. One reason that's confusing is that these kinds of names are in English. Which tribes did/do this? Do females also get descriptive/animal names? Are names chosen by the parents at birth? Were there surnames before the whites showed up? I'm native and yes there is huge variation among different nations ("tribe" is considered an antiquated and somewhat derogatory term btw). Generally, names would be given at birth and people could receive several names during their lifetime due to life changes, events, as gifts or honorariums. Male anatomy was held in esteem among some nations and it was not unusual for a particularly accomplished or brave warrior to receive a name such as Penis or Testicles.
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Part of Everything posted:I'm native and yes there is huge variation among different nations ("tribe" is considered an antiquated and somewhat derogatory term btw). Generally, names would be given at birth and people could receive several names during their lifetime due to life changes, events, as gifts or honorariums. Male anatomy was held in esteem among some nations and it was not unusual for a particularly accomplished or brave warrior to receive a name such as Penis or Testicles. Nowadays are names given in the nation's language or in English? Who decides the translation if it's not straightforward?
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Part of Everything posted:I'm native and yes there is huge variation among different nations ("tribe" is considered an antiquated and somewhat derogatory term btw). Generally, names would be given at birth and people could receive several names during their lifetime due to life changes, events, as gifts or honorariums. Male anatomy was held in esteem among some nations and it was not unusual for a particularly accomplished or brave warrior to receive a name such as Penis or Testicles. Thanks for the knowledge. I was not sure about "tribe" because it does sound funny. What nation are you from? Can you tell me more about name changes? And why are you speaking in the past tense, is everybody named Jim or Bob now?
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If I ask someone to take care of a dog that I own for an extended period of time (say, over a month) and that dog does damage to property of the caretakers, who is responsible for the damages? EDIT: Should probably mention I'm asking for a friend. The caretaker lives in Arizona if it makes any difference. SCheeseman fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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Tiggum posted:I'd just go in and explain the situation, and bring your old photo ID and the paperwork verifying your name change. If you're polite and explain the situation then they'll probably try to be as helpful as they can. Thank you, I'll do this today.
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What is the supposed point of PE classes in highschool? It just occurred to me that although I was never a fan of classes like Studies of Society and Environment and I'm pretty sure my teachers did a terrible job with that material, I understand what I was supposed to have been getting out of it, but I'm actually stumped by PE. We played a bunch of different games, some more enjoyable than others, none for very long. I enjoyed the class and participated fully when we played games I liked and did as little as possible when we played games I didn't, but somehow still managed to get passing grades the whole way through. Although I can't imagine what we were actually graded on. Sometimes we played actual games like cricket or badminton, other times we did seemingly pointless activities like practising isolated skills for a game we never played (eg. football), or did other miscellaneous things like climbing ropes. We didn't learn anything about health or fitness, we didn't do anything that could honestly be thought of as a reasonable amount of exercise, and in the warmer weather we went to the swimming pool. What the hell was the point of all that?
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Where I lived we just played different sports on a rotating schedule. I guess the idea was that you might find something you liked and you could go play it for real. I know at least one person who did so. Of course we never knew in advance which sport was scheduled for the day and the teachers were terrible so it never really amounted to much.
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Exercise is kind of important, however old you are. It's not so much a lesson the same way everything else you did is, to teach you some specific set of information or skills, and more a kind of general quality of life thing. Sports is an easy thing they can do to get you outside, makes a good break from lessons and it's often a good way to make friends and just get away from lessons while still having some structure. Grading it seems pretty pointless, and possibly even counter productive, but I guess it's just something they have to do. Also, schools tend to like having trophies with their names on it, and there are a lot of trophies for sports and stuff. Once I asked a PE teacher why they made us run around a field so much, even when we all hated it. Turns out it was supposed to be good for us. Deformed Church fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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MooCowlian posted:Exercise is kind of important, however old you are. It's not so much a lesson the same way everything else you did is, to teach you some specific set of information or skills, and more a kind of general quality of life thing. Sports is an easy thing they can do to get you outside, makes a good break from lessons and it's often a good way to make friends and just get away from lessons while still having some structure. I think what Tiggum is getting at is that it's supposed to be physical education. All we did was play sports and do the occasional gruelling run gauntlet but not once did we have a class discussing how the body works or how certain exercises affect different components of the body. I can't speak for all countries, but that tends to be how it goes in Canadian grade schools (or it was, at least): Just put a bunch of kids in a room and make them play soccer or something. There's hardly any education going on.
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MooCowlian posted:schools tend to like having trophies with their names on it, and there are a lot of trophies for sports and stuff. This is Australia, so we don't really have the big school sports things Americans do. I was vaguely aware that the school had teams that competed against other schools at things, but even then I doubt that many people outside of the members of those teams really knew anything about them, and they really had nothing to do with the regular PE classes. As for the exercise factor, you really don't get much of that in the sorts of games we seemed to play most of (cricket, badminton, baseball, table tennis, etc.). Even the more energetic ones would only really have been of value for the people who were really keen on them, most of us played soccer in much the same way we played cricket, which is to say we stood around chatting with our friends while the few kids who actually liked the game played it. If it actually had been about getting kids to exercise I could totally understand that. I'd probably have hated it at the time, but in hindsight that would have been great. And it didn't even get us outside that often since a lot of the time we'd play indoor sports.
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Really big convenient-store chain Quicktrip here has a somewhat new fresh vegetable toppings bar for nachos and hotdogs. This includes sliced raw, not pickled jalapenos. They're nasty. Hard, crunchy and watery. Fibrous. I've never seen non-pickled jalapenos used for anything anywhere. Maybe back in the kitchen of a restaurant they have raw ones but they'll be cooked into something. Is this in any way normal or am I the weird one for not liking? (I really do like the poo poo out of pickled ones and will put them on most anything) John Redcorn fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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I think the system elsewhere is a bit different to what we did in the UK. It sounds like you guys have less structure and ongoing stuff than we did. I guess my anecdotal evidence as to it's benefits to children don't apply so much. We didn't have much in the way of learning how the body works until it became a choice you could take at 14, but until then, we usually had the rugby term, the football (soccer) term and the athletics/cricket term, where everyone would do it at various levels and you'd be promoted or demoted around between the first team, the people who wanted to play but weren't too good and the "development squad." We then have another PE lesson where we'd have basketball term, gymnastics term, badminton term or whatever. Doing different things every week or something definitely sounds like it defeats the point a little though. I still think there's something to be said for getting children out of hard, learning based teaching and into doing something slightly active, even if it is inside. I hated actually having to do stuff, but it was nice to have a longer, timetabled period where I'd be able to get up and stop history or maths and have a bit of a mental rest. VV Yeah, that. I was trying to be less cynical, but eh. Deformed Church fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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Tiggum posted:What is the supposed point of PE classes in highschool? It just occurred to me that although I was never a fan of classes like Studies of Society and Environment and I'm pretty sure my teachers did a terrible job with that material, I understand what I was supposed to have been getting out of it, but I'm actually stumped by PE. In practice, they put a coach in charge of burning off some energy from a bunch of students, and he or she mostly uses it as an additional practice for the athletes, and doesn't give a flying gently caress about anyone else.
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I am renting a house that has a wood fireplace with a flue that won't close properly. Basically there is a four square inch hole at all times. We signed the lease with a verbal contingency that the fireplace would be working properly since the house has old inefficient baseboard heaters. We had them write "Fireplace will be serviced within 14 days or a specialist will be scheduled" into the lease but I am not terribly experienced in contract writing so I didn't make the agent write in anything about penalties if they refused to fix it. A handyman came and looked at it, said yup it's broke and we can't fix it, bye. When I contacted the agent/property manager she said that she was assured the fireplace is still "useable" and that she wouldn't take further action unless smoke was leaking out. My question is can I insist to have the specialist scheduled (ostensibly to evaluate the impact on our heating bill) as the handyman didn't perform any service per the written lease? If they refuse to schedule someone other than the rinky dink handyman to come out and actually fix the problem I would ask they subsidize our heating bill in the fall/winter months by reducing our rent $10/month, is that equitable?
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I'm trying to understand cross-state  fireworks laws around Pennsylvania.I live in PA. Some friends of mine from NY can go into a PA fireworks shop, show their ID, and be taken to "the back room" with all the rockets and stuff, which are illegal in PA. But, they're even more illegal in NY, so my friends can't legally set them off in their home state OR the state of purchase. So is this just a loophole in the PA law? If I live in PA, could I drive to Ohio or WV and pull the same trick? Or does it work differently there? Asking out of pure intellectual curiosity here 
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Hey dudes, having never flown before I was wondering what the best way is to get my PC & Monitor from UK to Canada? Has anyone had experience getting similar items through airports? If I should use a third party service, are there any recommendations? Unibaggage is relatively cheap, but has a forum thread with horror stories. Sendmybag is UCAS recommended, but way pricier, and I'm not sure how much I should be expecting this to cost. For reference, I'm flying with United Airlines, if that changes anything
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Coonskin_Cap posted:Hey dudes, having never flown before I was wondering what the best way is to get my PC & Monitor from UK to Canada? Has anyone had experience getting similar items through airports? How old/fancy is the PC, as well? Might be worth looking at this as an opportunity to upgrade that, too.
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Thanatosian posted:Is this for, like, a temporary trip, or a permanent move? If it's the latter, barring your having some sort of very high-end, fairly new monitor, I would take this as an opportunity to upgrade; moving it is likely to be more trouble than it's worth. New last year, it's a pretty decent rig and is like my IV when it comes to both leisure and schoolwork. If moving the monitor is really a pain, I'll just get a new one at the other end. PC's pretty much gotta come though, I figure. I'm going there for a year to study at UVic, so sort of temporary I guess. 
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I'm from about halfway between Boston and Providence, and I'm going on a cruise out of Bayonne, NJ in October. I'm trying to find the best method for transportation to and from the cruise port. Most bus services only go to NYC, which is about 14 miles from the cruise port. I'm not sure what my other options are. Is it reasonable to expect a cab to bring me that far (out of NYC), and would be be unreasonably expensive? Dragyn fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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Dragyn posted:I'm from about halfway between Boston and Providence, and I'm going on a cruise out of Bayonne, NJ in October. I'm trying to find the best method for transportation to and from the cruise port. Most bus services only go to NYC, which is about 14 miles from the NYC port authority bus terminal.
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alnilam posted:I'm trying to understand cross-state If I remember right, the law just states that you can't sell good fireworks to any PA residents while in Pennsylvania. The law has no mention at all about out-of-state people, which is where the loophole comes from. So it doesn't matter if they come from a state where the laws are even more retarded than here, there's nothing preventing the sale in PA law.
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Have you considered taking the important bits (hdd, graphics card, ram, motherboard) out and packing them in your suitcase, then buying a new case/psu in Victoria? I would guess that'll be cheaper than shipping everything there and back.Coonskin_Cap posted:New last year, it's a pretty decent rig and is like my IV when it comes to both leisure and schoolwork. If moving the monitor is really a pain, I'll just get a new one at the other end. PC's pretty much gotta come though, I figure.
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Mak0rz posted:I think what Tiggum is getting at is that it's supposed to be physical education. All we did was play sports and do the occasional gruelling run gauntlet but not once did we have a class discussing how the body works or how certain exercises affect different components of the body. In middle and high school, I only had to take P.E. for six weeks a school year. It had a lot of overlap with our subsequent six week health class so there were usually one or two days in gym used for awful sex ed - which mostly consisted of high school students coming in and talking to us about all the ways to refuse sexual advances. Mostly though it was just an excuse to burn off our energy and give an appearance that the school was trying to keep us healthy. There wasn't a whole lot of actual "education" going on as we didn't even learn about individual sports or anything like that.
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I can't find an answer to this on Facebook or google, either because I'm phrasing it wrong or it doesn't exist: there are a couple people on my Facebook friends list who I have to have on there for work reasons. One posts hippy dipp crap about crystals and rainbows and the other blindly reposts hoaxy chain letters. Is there a way to block crap from them on my feed without removing/blocking the people themselves?
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Part of Everything posted:I can't find an answer to this on Facebook or google, either because I'm phrasing it wrong or it doesn't exist: there are a couple people on my Facebook friends list who I have to have on there for work reasons. One posts hippy dipp crap about crystals and rainbows and the other blindly reposts hoaxy chain letters. Is there a way to block crap from them on my feed without removing/blocking the people themselves? Click the Hide option on the upper right of their post. After it's hid there should be a "Change what updates you see from So-and-so" option that you can use and Unsubscribe from them.
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alnilam posted:So gmail asked some, but not all, users if they wanted to upgrade to google hangouts. They intend to eventually replace google chat entirely. Anyway I decided to try it out. I have hangouts and can chat with gtalk people just fine. But keep in mind that gtalk people cant do group chats, so they wont get those messages. 1 on 1 chats should work fine though.
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Crimpanzee posted:I am renting a house that has a wood fireplace with a flue that won't close properly. Basically there is a four square inch hole at all times. We signed the lease with a verbal contingency that the fireplace would be working properly since the house has old inefficient baseboard heaters. We had them write "Fireplace will be serviced within 14 days or a specialist will be scheduled" into the lease but I am not terribly experienced in contract writing so I didn't make the agent write in anything about penalties if they refused to fix it. A handyman came and looked at it, said yup it's broke and we can't fix it, bye. When I contacted the agent/property manager she said that she was assured the fireplace is still "useable" and that she wouldn't take further action unless smoke was leaking out. Contact the tenant's rights association in your area. There are likely a very specific set of steps (letters, second letters, etc.) you need to take before you are allowed to take action yourself. Many of these places work for free/donations (please donate--landlords are scum). Coonskin_Cap posted:Hey dudes, having never flown before I was wondering what the best way is to get my PC & Monitor from UK to Canada? Has anyone had experience getting similar items through airports? Shipping is outrageously expensive, full stop. If you pack your case on a plane, they will loving smash it. Your best, cheapest alternative is to do what kidhash suggested and bring the parts in your carry-on (good luck with security) and buy a new case. Or just get a reasonably priced laptop and an external hard drive (unless your studies are CPU intensive). Remember, you have to ship everything back home at the end too: you'll end up with double the shipping budget in the end.
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Shipping by Greyhound freight can be a cost effective option in some cases, and people rarely think of it.
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Greyhound does not ship stuff across the Atlantic ocean, though. When I moved back to Europe from the US, I used Seven Seas for shipping some stuff. They send you boxes and packing material, you pack them and they ship them from your door. You pay per box, not per pound. Also it took many weeks for my stuff to arrive, but it was cheaper than regular mail and much cheaper than Fedex or UPS. http://www.sevenseasworldwide.com/
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greazeball posted:Contact the tenant's rights association in your area. There are likely a very specific set of steps (letters, second letters, etc.) you need to take before you are allowed to take action yourself. Many of these places work for free/donations (please donate--landlords are scum). Thanks a ton, doing a search for tenants associations brought me to the local union and got me to this: RCW 59.18.060. Landlord—Duties ~ (2) Maintain the roofs, floors, walls, chimneys, fireplaces, foundations, and all other structural components in reasonably good repair so as to be usable and capable of resisting any and all normal forces and loads to which they may be subjected; ~ (8) Maintain the dwelling unit in reasonably weathertight condition; (Irrelvant info omitted) That seems to give me some clout to insist this gets done.
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greazeball posted:Contact the tenant's rights association in your area. There are likely a very specific set of steps (letters, second letters, etc.) you need to take before you are allowed to take action yourself. Many of these places work for free/donations (please donate--landlords are scum). Yeah, the whole tossing it around thing is what I was wary of. That, and the whole 'airport baggage handlers rifling through your stuff and straight up taking what they want' thing. Regarding carry on, I really don't think I'd get my hard drive/motherboard/graphics card through airport security. axolotl farmer posted:Greyhound does not ship stuff across the Atlantic ocean, though. These guys look the part; I'll probably use them. How many extra weeks are we talking here?
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Coonskin_Cap posted:Yeah, the whole tossing it around thing is what I was wary of. That, and the whole 'airport baggage handlers rifling through your stuff and straight up taking what they want' thing. Regarding carry on, I really don't think I'd get my hard drive/motherboard/graphics card through airport security.
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Coonskin_Cap posted:That, and the whole 'airport baggage handlers rifling through your stuff and straight up taking what they want' thing. I understand that this does happen, but how in all holy hell is this still happening?? Do police have no jurisdiction in airports? Do airlines/airports not have any liability in regards to travelers' luggage??
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Technically bringing a laptop through security is the same thing, this would just be all the loose items in your bag.
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