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razz posted:I don't hate TurboTax, I've used it every year as long as I've been filing my taxes and have always been satisfied. I was just pointing out that they throw these little things up now and again during the process that can cause you to go from Free to Basic if you're not paying attention. I like TurboTax, it works fine for me. Point taken, my mom would do the same thing. I guess I was thinking more along the lines of the guy in the thread that was struggling through his taxes, if my taxes required it I'd probably pay for TT though because it is drop dead simple
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Is there a reputable place to buy jewelry online that isn't a standard ripoff B&M like Kay or Jared?
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My aunt was saying that in California, you can't outright purchase solar panels for your home, that it is illegal. I think that is bullshit, you can do whatever the gently caress you want with your house as long as it is legal. So can you buy your own solar panels?
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RaoulDuke12 posted:Is there a reputable place to buy jewelry online that isn't a standard ripoff B&M like Kay or Jared? I got my engagement ring at jamesallen.com and have no complaints. I don't know a lot about jewelry pricing so you should compare to local independent places, but I didn't feel ripped off.
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Is there a name for that strange type of dread/anxiety/stress that comes after a huge project is finished and you're left with a relatively light workload? It feels like a very uncomfortable sense of guilt or loss like there's a hole in your life where the project tasks used to be.
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I'm currently taking an antibiotic for a sinus infection. Can I take OTC sinus pressure/relief stuff as well? I started the antibiotics last night, and I'm afraid they'll cancel each other out. edit: I'd ask my doctor but it's after hours on a Saturday night. BoyBlunder fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Feb 8, 2014 |
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Feb 8, 2014 22:30
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BoyBlunder posted:I'm currently taking an antibiotic for a sinus infection. Can I take OTC sinus pressure/relief stuff as well? I started the antibiotics last night, and I'm afraid they'll cancel each other out. Yes, you're fine. They have totally different mechanisms of action. The antibiotic works by killing what's responsible. Sudafed and the like are vasoconstrictors, meaning they cause the blood vessels to constrict and not feel stuffy. Anti-inflammatory drugs are also okay. It's like how a dermatologist might prescribe antibiotics to treat acne but you can still use concealer. edit: Your antibiotic is probably just an expensive placebo anyway.
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Gobbeldygook posted:Yes, you're fine. They have totally different mechanisms of action. The antibiotic works by killing what's responsible. Sudafed and the like are vasoconstrictors, meaning they cause the blood vessels to constrict and not feel stuffy. Anti-inflammatory drugs are also okay. It's like how a dermatologist might prescribe antibiotics to treat acne but you can still use concealer. Well I'll be damned! Thanks!
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If you're worried another time, you can check for Drug Interactions at http://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html - You just have to look at the box for your medicine to find the proper name for the drug instead of the brand-name. There are some over the counter drugs that make some antibiotics take longer to be eliminated, so it's worth checking, but 9/10 times you'll be fine taking OTC stuff with prescription stuff unless your Doctor tells you specifically otherwise.
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b0nes posted:My aunt was saying that in California, you can't outright purchase solar panels for your home, that it is illegal. I think that is bullshit, you can do whatever the gently caress you want with your house as long as it is legal. So can you buy your own solar panels? A quick googling shows nothing to support such a ban.
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b0nes posted:My aunt was saying that in California, you can't outright purchase solar panels for your home, that it is illegal. I think that is bullshit, you can do whatever the gently caress you want with your house as long as it is legal. So can you buy your own solar panels? Total bullshit. I'm in California and just put up panels last month. I had the option to buy the panels or lease. Personally I went with a lease, but buying is totally an option. Our local county government has financing options too. You can even just buy them from places like http://www.wholesalesolar.com Did a solar installer tell her this by chance? Solar leasing is much more profitable than buying outright. It's even weirder when you consider that California is by far the #1 state for home solar PV installs.
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b0nes posted:My aunt was saying that in California, you can't outright purchase solar panels for your home, that it is illegal. I think that is bullshit, you can do whatever the gently caress you want with your house as long as it is legal. So can you buy your own solar panels? You do see how "you can't outright purchase solar panels for your home, that it is illegal" and "you can do whatever the gently caress you want with your house as long as it is legal" are not mutually exclusive options, right? That having been said, the reference to self-installed solar panels from the Go Solar California initiative strongly suggests that one can in fact outright purchase solar panels for your home (although you might well want to have a licensed contractor to make sure it's installed in a code-appropriate way, not to mention that this is part of an electrical system so there are a lot of things that could go painfully wrong). quote:Except for those systems that are self-installed, all systems must be installed by appropriately licensed California contractors in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the California Contractors State Licensing Board (CSLB.) Installation contractors must have an active A,B,C-10, or C-46 license for photovoltaic (PV) systems. All systems must be installed in conformance with the manufacturer's specifications and with all applicable electrical and building code standards.
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RaoulDuke12 posted:Is there a reputable place to buy jewelry online that isn't a standard ripoff B&M like Kay or Jared? I've had good luck with BlueNile.com and BrilliantEarth.com. My sister-in-law got a really nice-looking ring from Gemvara.com.
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In a fascist state wherein a single dictator has total dominance national affairs, who owns the means of production?
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RaoulDuke12 posted:Is there a reputable place to buy jewelry online that isn't a standard ripoff B&M like Kay or Jared? It's a little less traditional than the shops you mentioned, but I've had several smooth purchases from Fire and Ice.
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Raimundus posted:In a fascist state wherein a single dictator has total dominance national affairs, who owns the means of production? Political ideologies don't always match up with economic models. A lot of scholars have tried to theorize a characteristic fascist economy, but totalitarian regimes tend to be pretty unique based on each case. Like, even in Nazi Germany different prominent party members had very different views of economics. Think of the difference in economic policies of, say, Idi Amin (broad nationalization) versus Augusto Pinochet (neo-liberal free market reforms).
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Raimundus posted:In a fascist state wherein a single dictator has total dominance national affairs, who owns the means of production? The form it takes can be pretty different, but it's generally a small oligarchy, often based on cronyism and political maneuvering.
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So then a fascist state can have capitalist or communist/socialist economic leanings. This wasn't something I studied in school, and I've been trying to get this terminology straight for a long time.
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b0nes posted:My aunt was saying that in California, you can't outright purchase solar panels for your home, that it is illegal. I think that is bullshit, you can do whatever the gently caress you want with your house as long as it is legal. So can you buy your own solar panels? The closest thing to this is in Hawaii the electric company stopped allowing people to connect their solar panels to the grid which effectively makes them unusable. And it screwed over a lot of people who paid tens of thousands of dollars for solar panels.
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Schweinhund posted:The closest thing to this is in Hawaii the electric company stopped allowing people to connect their solar panels to the grid which effectively makes them unusable. And it screwed over a lot of people who paid tens of thousands of dollars for solar panels. Couldn't you just disconnect your house from the grid and invest in batteries as well? Or is that so costly as to be unrealistic?
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Raimundus posted:So then a fascist state can have capitalist or communist/socialist economic leanings. Fascism generally means a political view that puts the state as the principle entity of politics, rather than individuals, and has had both left and right wing economics. It generally isn't a very free-market, however, as the government will assert its control over industries as a matter of state security, though some do so indirectly by subsidizing individual companies, or giving economically influential people high ranking government positions. So large parts of the economy are generally state controlled in reality, if not in name. Really the signatures of fascism are a very powerful central government, a lack of political freedom, and a jingoistic nationalism.
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hoobajoo posted:Fascism generally means a political view that puts the state as the principle entity of politics, rather than individuals, and has had both left and right wing economics.
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Anyone got a link for a site that archives all your old SA avatars? I remember it being offsite
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Raimundus posted:Couldn't you just disconnect your house from the grid and invest in batteries as well? Or is that so costly as to be unrealistic? Batteries are way too expensive to be considered serious on a residential basis. Current battery technology just kind of sucks. (It's not really for a lack of trying, it's just that physics is kind of stuck when it comes to batteries.) Places like hospitals and server farms that are willing to spend the kind of money on big batteries basically just use them as a stopgap UPS until they can get an emergency generator up and running. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Feb 9, 2014 |
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It's been in the news lately that American credit cards are going to be changing. http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/october-2015-the-end-of-the-swipe-and-sign-credit-card/ It will be the end of the swipe and sign credit cards, and we'll be switching to "chip and pin" cards, where your credit card has a chip in it and the card will be scanned and the person using the card will enter a pin number into a terminal. Does anyone know how this will affect purchases online or over the phone? You can't scan your card for online purchases, and giving your pin number to a website would seem to make the system less secure, not more. I work in a restaurant, and people call in all the time for delivery and read us their credit card number over the phone. Then they sign the credit card slip when the delivery driver gets to their house. How is this supposed to work with "chip and pin"?
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For online purchases, most places require you to enter the credit card number, expiry date and ccv (3 or 4 extra digits). When using your card physically for low-value purchases, you don't even need to enter the PIN - the transaction is approved automatically.
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Orange Sunshine posted:It's been in the news lately that American credit cards are going to be changing. We've had it in the UK for years and I've never heard of anyone having a problem. As mentioned, you don't have to provide a PIN when buying remotely. When you buy stuff online now, surely you don't have to provide a signature anyway?
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Alan Smithee posted:Anyone got a link for a site that archives all your old SA avatars? I remember it being offsite http://www.muddledmuse.com/saars/ is the old one, whicl looks to be offline. http://esarahpalinonline.com/soap/ I think will be the one you're after.
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hooah posted:Is there any simple piece of software or web site that can generate binary tree diagrams? R can make any kind of diagram if you're willing to do a little scripting. I have worked a lot with programs for making phylogenetic trees, and some of the tree viewer programs can maybe be used. If you're doing math or stats you need to learn R sooner of later anyway. http://www.r-project.org/ http://www.inside-r.org/packages/cran/party/docs/plot.BinaryTree
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tuyop posted:Is there a name for that strange type of dread/anxiety/stress that comes after a huge project is finished and you're left with a relatively light workload?
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Orange Sunshine posted:I work in a restaurant, and people call in all the time for delivery and read us their credit card number over the phone. Then they sign the credit card slip when the delivery driver gets to their house. I'm pretty sure signing is totally unnecessary for that sort of transaction. We've had chip and PIN cards here for ages, but even before that you only had to sign when the transaction was done in person. And switching from signature to PIN hasn't changed anything in that regard, you don't need either for remote transactions.
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The real change for chip & pin is that the pin is assumed to be secure on the card so if your number ever gets stolen it's assumed that you gave it to them and hence you are liable.
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tuyop posted:Is there a name for that strange type of dread/anxiety/stress that comes after a huge project is finished and you're left with a relatively light workload? e.: As in: "After the project I fell into a (or the) black hole." That would convey the idea completely to someone speaking Dutch. I'm not seeing where guilt really fits in, but the term definitely qualifies for all the rest. Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Feb 9, 2014 |
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Is there any way to split an iTunes gift card?
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I mentioned this in a couple of different places but no real answers forthcoming...I'm an old nontraditional student about to switch schools from a small metro Atlanta university and transferring to a big state school - UConn, to be exact. I'm nervous, because I've done well at my old school, but then it's a small first gen college where I was in the top of my class, and stood out. Now I'm going to a big school where a lot of the faculty are probably going to be very good, and where the students will probably be every bit as intelligent as me, and many probably a lot more. I'm nervous if I can hang. I'm sure I can do well, but I want to continue to excel. It seems like it may be harder in a big pond.
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I doubt it'll be more academically difficult, UConn's a good school, but it's not Harvard. The big difference is going to be that there's not a lot of institutional support at big schools like that. You really have to make your own way and it's your responsibility. If you fail, no one's going to pull you aside to offer help. Go to class, meet with TAs/teachers when you need help, etc. There's probably some good threads here http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=162 I think there used to be one about non-traditional students that might be of interest.
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Mean Gene Okerlund's 1-900 Hotline was discussed today in the pro wrestling subforum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iG_YvbcEDo Obviously hotlines like that are long obsolete in the year 2014, and according to Wikipedia certain tactics 1-900 numbers used to prey directly on children have been made illegal. Are 1-900 numbers still active at all in the US? Not all that long ago you still saw ads for phone sex and psychic reading 1-900 numbers, but I haven't come across any of them lately either and a cursory Google search revealed no active ones. Thauros fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Feb 10, 2014 |
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My guess is, as credit cards became not only more widespread, but also a key way of ensuring the person on the other side is old enough to make a financial decision to buy something over the phone, that 900 numbers have moved to 800 numbers and take a credit card instead. And, an entry on a credit card bill is more protected than one on a phone bill, so both sides are more protected from fraud and lawsuits. Basically, credit cards replaced the "convenience" of putting a fee on your phone bill.
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Thauros posted:Mean Gene Okerlund's 1-900 Hotline was discussed today in the pro wrestling subforum. Wait, this reminds me of these things. I was a kid in the 90s and always wondered what these hotlines were; what did they tell you if you called it?
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