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alnilam posted:There has to be something in the air for the beam to be visible. If you can see it "anywhere," it's because it's very bright and brilliant and is showing off of some dust or other air particulates. A red beam is showing off of the same stuff, it's just less brilliant. But a typical red laser you need to have smoke or dust in the air that's a level that's pretty well noticeable to your eye even without the laser. I can turn my green one on inside anywhere or outside after 8pm and see it no problem. A red beam would show in that same air but you'd need a lot more powerful since your eyes don't pick up on red as well as they do green.
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Fragrag posted:Well, what I'm getting at is, there seems to be only a tactical disadvantage of having a laser dot pop up on your target, because all it would do is notify your target. After doing some quick Googling though, it does seem that law enforcement do use lasers as a form of intimidation. I'm no LE/mil guy but the laser was likely coming from a sub-machinegun like an mp5 or a rifle like an AR/m4 and not a sniper-rifle like someone thought in the Boston bombing thread. Guys holding those type guns on him are close enough in that he knows they're there anyway. Lasers would do no good on rifle at a decent range anyway like a sniper rifle due to bullet-drop, parallax and probably a bunch of other sniper type things I have no clue about. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jul 19, 2013 |
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alnilam posted:There has to be something in the air for the beam to be visible. If you can see it "anywhere," it's because it's very bright and brilliant and is showing off of some dust or other air particulates. A red beam is showing off of the same stuff, it's just less brilliant. Um, excuse me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=032BWyrHRM8&t=15s 
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I remember having a ringtone on an old Nokia (E71) that decreased in the tone as it rang. It's difficult to describe and almost impossible to search for. Anyone remember it or have an old Nokia E71 kicking around?
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Bovril Delight posted:I remember having a ringtone on an old Nokia (E71) that decreased in the tone as it rang. It's difficult to describe and almost impossible to search for. Anyone remember it or have an old Nokia E71 kicking around? this? http://www.zedge.net/ringtone/1146253/nokia-classic/ I think most ringtones are on that page, so you can search if this one one is wrong.
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Inpossible posted:this? It was much more of a traditional ringer sound, and it went in 3 sounds per "burst", if that makes any sense.
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Bovril Delight posted:I remember having a ringtone on an old Nokia (E71) that decreased in the tone as it rang. It's difficult to describe and almost impossible to search for. Anyone remember it or have an old Nokia E71 kicking around? I know what you're talking about. I used that ringtone exclusively (or a really similar one). I had it on a Kyocera phone. It was like a pulse of 3 tones, then a pause, then a quieter pulse of 3 tones, then a pause, etc.
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Jul 19, 2013 22:32
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Maybe the crank ringtone from the movie crank? Didn't come with symbian but it was popular while symbian was. I had it on my 6682. Original guy and razz's descriptions match it in my mind anyway. Edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJ3g2vSZJE&feature=youtube_gdata_player Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Jul 19, 2013 |
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Jul 19, 2013 22:53
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Fragrag posted:Well, what I'm getting at is, there seems to be only a tactical disadvantage of having a laser dot pop up on your target, because all it would do is notify your target. After doing some quick Googling though, it does seem that law enforcement do use lasers as a form of intimidation. The point of laser sights is being able to see them so you know where to shoot and can aim easier. What would be the point of pointing an invisible laser at someone.
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Schweinhund posted:The point of laser sights is being able to see them so you know where to shoot and can aim easier. What would be the point of pointing an invisible laser at someone. He's talking about red dot sights and the like, where the dot is only visible in the sight; no one else sees it.
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Loopyface posted:He's talking about red dot sights and the like, where the dot is only visible in the sight; no one else sees it. Or when you have an IR laser and are wearing night-vision goggles. We did this in Marine Combat Training (a sort of half-assed infantry school for Marines not destined for infantry) and it was loving awesome.
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Schweinhund posted:The point of laser sights is being able to see them so you know where to shoot and can aim easier. What would be the point of pointing an invisible laser at someone. The military uses infrared lasers, which are invisible with the naked eye but do show up when you use night vision goggles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoblNytUocA Outside of films and TV, I have never seen a red laser actually being used on a person and I was just wondering whether it was actually visible with the naked eye, or it was an IR laser being picked up by the camera which can be sensitive to it as well. Anyways, it turns out that law enforcement do use laser sight, to actually make it clear to a person that they are being targeted as a form of intimidation. So I'm guessing that's the case here.
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Except for the super-fancy IR ones, the laser sight on a gun is exactly the same thing as the laser pointer you'd use to play with your cat. It's just mounted (rather precisely) on a gun.
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Can you really consider coin flips to be 50/50 odds of heads or tails? Isn't the weight on each side unequal from the different engravings we have on the coins as well as any finger oil &c. that might've found its way onto the coin? The same applies to dice, as well. Won't the side that has 6 holes in it weigh ever so slightly less than the side with one one hole in it?
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There are weight/reliability issues with coin tosses (it's entirely possible to reliably throw a coin to land a certain way), but iirc dice are cut in a way that balances the weight out.
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The material they use to fill the pips in a casino die has the same weight as the rest of the material, so all the sides are even.
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Kheldragar posted:Can you really consider coin flips to be 50/50 odds of heads or tails? Isn't the weight on each side unequal from the different engravings we have on the coins as well as any finger oil &c. that might've found its way onto the coin? The same applies to dice, as well. Won't the side that has 6 holes in it weigh ever so slightly less than the side with one one hole in it? The heads side of a US quarter is or at least used to be slightly heavier. Now there are many different versions of most coins, complicating things. The issue is moot as anything other than a probabilities exercise. What are you going to do, flip a coin for shotgun, best of 900?
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Flip a coin twice, and if the second result is the same as the first, ignore that flip and start over.
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In ethical studies, are there commonly used, let's call it 'ethical decision scenarios' where you can apply a certain ethical framework to 'solve' it?
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Wagonburner posted:Maybe the crank ringtone from the movie crank? Didn't come with symbian but it was popular while symbian was. I had it on my 6682. Original guy and razz's descriptions match it in my mind anyway. This is it, thanks. No idea why I thought it was a default ringtone.
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So I'm applying for a study permit for canada, and someone just brought this to my attention:quote:Strike Action Is anyone familiar with this situation? What's gonna happen to my application? I hope it doesn't go over a month, my course will automatically fail if it does... :/
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I have a 2009 Ford Focus and one of the rear doors won't open. It won't open from the inside or the outside. The door is unlocked and the child lock is not on. Why won't my door open? I don't want to pull on the handle too hard for fear of busting it off. I got in the back seat yesterday and tried to open it from the inside but pushing on it pretty forcefully did nothing.
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Ok, there has to be an easy solution to this problem I've having: I'm on Windows 7, using Paint.NET. I have a small image that I'd like to print several copies of, on one page, at it's actual size. Near as I can tell...Win 7 isn't letting me do that. It's "print" option seems to assume I'd love, love, LOVE to have it resize the image for me for common "photo" sizes. 4x6, wallet, etc... But I don't want that, drat it! I want it the real size it is, in this case, 1.5x3 inches! I've only found two ways to get it to print the actual size, but none of them will allow multiple copies per page. I can either expand the canvas size in Paint.NET to 8.5x11, so Win 7's "full page" option is now the same size as my canvas, or print from MS Paint, and set the scaling to "100%" in print setup/ But both of those options just give me ONE copy per page. I know I can manually copy+paste multiple copies of the image in Paint.NET, but I won't get them lined up as perfectly as I would like, and as perfectly as a GOOD, FUNCTIONAL print option would. (I need to use a paper cutter to then cut them all out, so I need them to all be perfectly lines up in rows and columns.)
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Fragrag posted:So this ( Two words: laser pointers. They've been around for years, and kids often point them at movie screens or curtains Quite visible. DrBouvenstein posted:Ok, there has to be an easy solution to this problem I've having: If you have MS Office, you can probably create a table in Word and paste the picture in one cell, then copy the cell to as many other cells as needed, hide the borders, and print. WillieWestwood fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jul 20, 2013 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Ok, there has to be an easy solution to this problem I've having: Can you use a business card layout in word/writer?
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I have vermont medicaid, does anyone know if it will cover services in other states while I am traveling?
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ThatsSoNotPLUR posted:I have vermont medicaid, does anyone know if it will cover services in other states while I am traveling? I work in a hospital billing office and I have seen patients with out-of-state Medicaid cards and we rarely have problems getting paid. So, you should be okay.
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ThatsSoNotPLUR posted:I have vermont medicaid, does anyone know if it will cover services in other states while I am traveling? Check with the Vermont Medicaid office.
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I have this small, wall made out of concrete slabs, separating the sidewalk from the grass right below my condo window. It now serves as an impromptu bench for the local beer bottle diaspora. I'm looking for a substance I might be able to get in a hardware store or a similar establishment to coat the top of the wall with, so that it stains clothes whenever someone parks their drunk rear end on top of it. Ideally, the substance would be tar-like and would not require to be re-coated too often. Does anyone know anything like that? Wall in question: 
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Mokotow posted:I have this small, concrete wall separating the sidewalk from the grass right below my condo window. This 30 cm tall wall now serves as an impromptu bench for the local beer bottle diaspora. I'm looking for a substance I might be able to get in a hardware store or a similar establishment to coat the top of the wall with, so that it stains clothes. Ideally, the substance would be tar-like and would not require to be re-coated too often. Does anyone know anything like that?
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I'm in Poland - neither my building management, nor the local authorities give two shits. These slabs stick barely out of the ground, and there's no chance anyone else would sit on them, because they're too low (not anything like a bench). There's a group of 5-10 local people who spend their days here drinking and littering, and they won't go when asked. Whenever I get back home from work or on weekends, I get to listen to their every drunken conversation, smell their cigarette smoke and enjoy empty beer cans everywhere. Believe me that I've tried all sort of things. Right now all I have left is taking pictures for the police (fat chance that'll help) or outright removing or coating the concrete slabs.
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Mokotow posted:I'm in Poland - neither my building management, nor the local authorities give two shits. These slabs stick barely out of the ground, and there's no chance anyone else would sit on them, because they're too low (not anything like a bench). There's a group of 5-10 local people who spend their days here drinking and littering, and they won't go when asked. Whenever I get back home from work or on weekends, I get to listen to their every drunken conversation, smell their cigarette smoke and enjoy empty beer cans everywhere. Believe me that I've tried all sort of things. Right now all I have left is taking pictures for the police (fat chance that'll help) or outright removing or coating the concrete slabs. What about replacing the concrete slabs with some other edging? Something like this or this would be impossible to sit on, and might look nicer too. If you just coat it, people will still sit, they'll just be pissed when they get home later and realize that their pants have been ruined.
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miryei posted:What about replacing the concrete slabs with some other edging? Something like this or this would be impossible to sit on, and might look nicer too. Fair enough, I'll ask the administration to replace it and just buy the drat things myself. You guys are right, maybe best not to go all out in anger.
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Besides, once they've figure it out they'll just bring a cloth, some newspapers or whatever to sit on, so it wouldn't help anyway.
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You could put something like pigeon spikes on top of the wall.
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Cheap-rear end quick-dry cement and a few handfuls of nails should do it too. Might not help increase the value of the property.
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A long time ago someone here recommended a book about how if you were dropped off in the woods, how to create a perfect circle or perfectly straight lines of a particular length. Or how to reinvent a perfect (or as close to perfect as can be gotten) kilogram. Has anyone heard of this book or something like it?
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Have you tried turning on your sprinklers when they're there?
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I have a pair of shoes that smell terrible. I've never worn them apart form trying them on the store, they smelled ok when i bought them then I put them in my suitcase to take them on a trip and when I unpacked they smelled like rear end and so did my suitcase. I left my suitcase outside in the heat and its back to smelling normal but the shoes are still rank. The insides don't smell like anything, but the outsides smell awful, like rotten chemical-infused garlic or something. I don't know if something got spilled on my bag in the cargo hold of the plane or what, but there are no visible stains so I don't know what the hell happened to them. How do I get them to stop smelling awful? They're shoes I bought for my wedding so they're expensive and not something I want to just throw random chemicals on. I wrapped them in dryer sheets in a hot room overnight and it hasn't made much of a difference. I'm going to febreeze the poo poo out of them when I get home, but is there some other trick I can try?
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:I have a pair of shoes that smell terrible. I've never worn them apart form trying them on the store, they smelled ok when i bought them then I put them in my suitcase to take them on a trip and when I unpacked they smelled like rear end and so did my suitcase. I left my suitcase outside in the heat and its back to smelling normal but the shoes are still rank. The insides don't smell like anything, but the outsides smell awful, like rotten chemical-infused garlic or something. I don't know if something got spilled on my bag in the cargo hold of the plane or what, but there are no visible stains so I don't know what the hell happened to them. You could try wrapping them in a plastic bag and putting them in your freezer. Depending on what's causing the smell it might not work, but it's free and easy.
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