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DELETED posted:Check the sewing section of Wal-Mart, or even just a sewing/craft supply store, they usually have them for holding small jewelry and other things that totally aren't drugs. Yeah, these 100-packs are about $1.50-$2.00 at most at Wal-Mart. I don't think these bags come in smaller packs, though you might want to check a mom-and-pop sewing store if you're determined.
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Comrade Milton posted:I need to pick up perhaps a dozen of the small 1"x1" bags often used by makers of small parts, electronics manufacturers and drug dealers. I can only find them in packs of 100, which I really don't want to buy and waste, nor inadvertently be put on some kind of DEA list. You can also make your own by cutting up a full size ziplock baggie and heat sealing the open bottoms and sides to make 1" x 1" or any other size you care for. Probably get three or four resealable bags out of each.
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tuyop posted:Most routers have schedule functions that will let you do this without having to download and calibrate a third-party program. My Asus RT-N65U has it under Parental Controls, so you might check there if your router has that option as well. Thanks, but I'm just trying to download something that lets me disable the internet for X hours and doesn't let me turn it back on, not gently caress around with my router every day. I've definitely seen these programs reviewed before; there's gotta be a fellow writer on here who uses one. edit: Found it http://lifehacker.com/5780575/limit-visits-to-time-wasting-web-sites-and-give-your-willpower-a-break WerthersWay fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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syscall girl posted:You can also make your own by cutting up a full size ziplock baggie and heat sealing the open bottoms and sides to make 1" x 1" or any other size you care for. Probably get three or four resealable bags out of each. For the goons who don't know how, you heat up a fork on the stove, then run the hot edge of it across the plastic to blister seal the ziploc baggy. You can get up to 16 bags from a single sandwhich bag if you're careful.
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Comrade Milton posted:I need to pick up perhaps a dozen of the small 1"x1" bags often used by makers of small parts, electronics manufacturers and drug dealers. I can only find them in packs of 100, which I really don't want to buy and waste, nor inadvertently be put on some kind of DEA list. We used to sell them in an office supplies store where I worked, and for the smaller bags there was the occasional very obvious drug dealers buying them, it was kinda funny... Not sure how your luck would be on individual/small quantities though.
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DELETED posted:Check the sewing section of Wal-Mart, or even just a sewing/craft supply store, they usually have them for holding small jewelry and other things that totally aren't drugs. Yes, also bead stores. And CVS has slightly larger ones, usually on an end cap as part of the pill boxes and pill cutters display.
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Where do you activate gift certs?
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Turtlicious posted:Where do you activate gift certs? At the store where you bought them.
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Comrade Milton posted:I need to pick up perhaps a dozen of the small 1"x1" bags often used by makers of small parts, electronics manufacturers and drug dealers. I can only find them in packs of 100, which I really don't want to buy and waste, nor inadvertently be put on some kind of DEA list. I've previously bought them individually at a storage store (one of those places that sells plastic tubs and desk organizational stuff).
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e: question answered.
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TATPants posted:At the store where you bought them. To be fair, if it's a gift certificate, it's probable that the certificate was received as a gift. I've read stories of teachers receiving gift certificates from their student's parents, only to try to redeem them and find out the parents just shoplifted the gift cards. So the teachers just ended up getting two cents worth of plastic as a Christmas present, and end up looking like chumps when they tried to redeem them. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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thrakkorzog posted:To be fair, if it's a gift certificate, it's probable that the certificate was received as a gift. As someone that's worked in retail, i saw this happening a lot. Kids giving other kids "presents" for this birthday and it being nothing but an empty card. After they walked around and picked items etc and got invested.
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There has to be a list somewhere of something like the 50/100 most well known Western paintings from history, right? Probably quite a lot of them as people make different lists with different choices. I'm looking for that, but because of stupid about.com articles on art history that don't have actual paintings or titles in them I can't find any. Am I just bad at searching, or can you guys help me make a point on art literacy to my stupid friend? Edit± found a couple, but they're all poo poo. I think I'm going to give up. EricBauman fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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Is the HOT thread tag an autoban I can't remember help. oh heh, found the answer GoodluckJonathan fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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Don't quite know if this goes here, but uhh What the hell is wrong with my font?  Read posts alternate between blue and purple backgrounds too, and it's showing up on Firefox too, where I'm not logged in. It's not happening on my partner's laptop, nor on my desktop.
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It's happening for everyone there's a GBS thread
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What is the scam happening here, if any? My girlfriend relates me these stories from her cashiering at Office Max There's a guy who comes in every couple of weeks and buys a new tablet, using various prepaid cards which keep being declined until one works. There's a woman who comes in and buys like a candy bar and a $200 prepaid card, again using a bunch of prepaid cards that keep being declined until one works. Since they're prepaid, they don't have ID requirements or anything, and even though it's suspicious, they can't red flag deny them service or call over a manager when they show up or anything. Apparently they do this at a couple of different stores. Are they somehow laundering money? Reselling new tablets for some kind of profit? Just rich and addicted to owning a stack of tablets?
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Nighthand posted:What is the scam happening here, if any? My girlfriend relates me these stories from her cashiering at Office Max They're probably getting or stealing a bunch of prepaid cards from various places, and attempting to buy a tablet because tablets are relatively quick and easy to resell.
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Nighthand posted:What is the scam happening here, if any? My girlfriend relates me these stories from her cashiering at Office Max 1. steal bundles of non-activated cards 2. overwrite the magnetic strip at home with (not entirely) random codes 3. hope one of them matches an activated card someone else bought (and hasn't used up yet) Something like that. If you semi-understand how the system works, you can probably somewhat figure out what are likely to be valid codes and write some sort of keygen for it. Maybe with an inside man somewhere who pre-scans cards in his own reader and passes along what cards are about to be sold. I don't know.
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Where does Google get their weather info from? For the last couple days and into this week, they've been about 10 degrees higher than NOAA.
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hooah posted:Where does Google get their weather info from? For the last couple days and into this week, they've been about 10 degrees higher than NOAA. Google uses Weather Underground as its data source. Weather Underground itself uses both official National Weather Service reporting stations as well as various educational institution, governmental, and private person weather stations for its data. Mind saying where you've been looking for data from that's had the 10 degree difference?
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Can someone explain the mechanics of putting on and taking off the catsuits pictured below? I cannot, for the life of me, imagine why the zipper would go all the way under your body to the small of your back. 
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Irish Joe posted:Can someone explain the mechanics of putting on and taking off the catsuits pictured below? I cannot, for the life of me, imagine why the zipper would go all the way under your body to the small of your back.
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Install Windows posted:Google uses Weather Underground as its data source. Weather Underground itself uses both official National Weather Service reporting stations as well as various educational institution, governmental, and private person weather stations for its data. Google Now and this app that gets its data (ostensibly) from NOAA. I also checked out weather.com, which is between the two, but closer to Google's predictions.
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Flipperwaldt posted:If I tell you the zipper can open up starting at the back as well, does that help you figure out in what sort of scenarios that extra bit comes into play? I guess, but even unzipped, pooping in a catsuit doesn't seem like a good idea.
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Irish Joe posted:I guess, but even unzipped, pooping in a catsuit doesn't seem like a good idea. e. to prevent getting lost in layers of being willfully obtuse, let me add that from a certain point of view the anus, as well as an exit, is a point of entry. The zipper helps expose that. Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Mar 17, 2014 |
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hooah posted:Google Now and this app that gets its data (ostensibly) from NOAA. I also checked out weather.com, which is between the two, but closer to Google's predictions. I meant, what location did you keep getting the bad weather for? That said, Google Now seems to have a habit of only updating the weather info every couple of hours.
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Install Windows posted:I meant, what location did you keep getting the bad weather for? That said, Google Now seems to have a habit of only updating the weather info every couple of hours. Oh. Lansing, MI.
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Irish Joe posted:Can someone explain the mechanics of putting on and taking off the catsuits pictured below? I cannot, for the life of me, imagine why the zipper would go all the way under your body to the small of your back. it's for access to the sexhole zone.
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hooah posted:Oh. Lansing, MI. Looks like your issue might be Google Now preferring this particular Weather Underground station: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=42.731%2C-84.537&sp=KMIEASTL14 Which appears to have had a habit of reading high recently, as compared to the NWS station at the airport or the other personal stations.
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Install Windows posted:Looks like your issue might be Google Now preferring this particular Weather Underground station: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=42.731%2C-84.537&sp=KMIEASTL14 Interesting. Thanks, I guess!
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I'm not sure where the best pace to ask is, so I figured I'd try here and either get an answer or be directed to the right place. I work in worker's comp insurance, we're currently putting together a system of instruction manuals for the people on the floor to refer to when they don't know how to do something. My job is to write the manuals. I'm looking for a generally accepted way of organizing instructional documents. Should there be a lot of smaller documents each covering one specific thing, or should each document take you through an entire process from start to finish even though some documents would overlap with other documents? These will be in our online Document Management System with lots of appropriate hyperlinks. I've tried googling things like knowledge management and such, but all I get are people trying to sell me their proprietary systems.
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Golden_Zucchini posted:I'm not sure where the best pace to ask is, so I figured I'd try here and either get an answer or be directed to the right place. When I did these in the past, I tried to format it as much like Wikipedia as possible since that's a format that people are very familiar with. So, say for a routine admin guide, I'd write something like, "Biweekly, update applicable [tombstone data] into the [company tracker] and [battalion tracker], making sure to cross-reference with the [pers data] in the [clerk software]." Each [] indicates a link to a reference document on each subject with a guide on its use or whatever.
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We have a standard format for the documents with hyperlinks and all that. What I'm looking for is how to decide what content goes in what document. For instance, we have two processes called Escalations (bugging the adjuster to try to get an decision on whether a particular medication is approved) and Letter of More Information (bugging the prescribing doctor to tell the adjuster how the med is related to the work injury). The requests in both of these processes have a number of possible statuses depending on where the request is in the process. One of these statuses is Call Claims Manager. If the request is in Call Claims Manager status it is handled the same way regardless of what type of request it is. Would it be generally considered better to have the steps for handling the Call Claims Manager status as a separate document that the Escalations and LOMI documents point to, or would it be better to have an Escalations document and a LOMI document that each walk you through the entire process knowing that I'd be duplicating the entire Call Claims Manager subprocess in each? I guess what it boils down to is, with a database of interconnected documents, is it better to have a larger number of smaller documents or fewer large documents that duplicate some content?
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Golden_Zucchini posted:We have a standard format for the documents with hyperlinks and all that. What I'm looking for is how to decide what content goes in what document. For instance, we have two processes called Escalations (bugging the adjuster to try to get an decision on whether a particular medication is approved) and Letter of More Information (bugging the prescribing doctor to tell the adjuster how the med is related to the work injury). The requests in both of these processes have a number of possible statuses depending on where the request is in the process. One of these statuses is Call Claims Manager. If the request is in Call Claims Manager status it is handled the same way regardless of what type of request it is. Would it be generally considered better to have the steps for handling the Call Claims Manager status as a separate document that the Escalations and LOMI documents point to, or would it be better to have an Escalations document and a LOMI document that each walk you through the entire process knowing that I'd be duplicating the entire Call Claims Manager subprocess in each? I guess what it boils down to is, with a database of interconnected documents, is it better to have a larger number of smaller documents or fewer large documents that duplicate some content? I found people engaged more easily with the many small documents over few large documents, even if you included a hyperlinked table of contents and they could ctrl-f through the doc. So yeah, rather than a big escalations guide and then a big resource doc with glossary or whatever, just create a new doc for each resource. That's just me though, if that way is much more time consuming than few large docs, I would go with the less intense way.
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Motronic posted:This has more to do with departmental procedure and/or the union. tuyop posted:Proof that it really depends on area. In Halifax, the cops I knew from the army reserves unit wore strictly pistol and light-calibre proof vests. Here in Edmonton the guy I met through a friend told me they were just stab-proof and might stop light shot. Thanks for the answers! So it's really dependent on the jurisdiction. In the Southland example, they're in Southern LA, which is apparently one of the most dangerous precincts. On the other hand, I live in Canberra, which has pretty low rates of gun crime. (Yes, that's from 2012, but the fact remains that gun ownership is very low, and gun crime is very low.) quote:"Canberra gun ownership is about 1.2 in 1,000," said Sergeant Brett Cunningham. I don't know all the stats off the top of my head, but I'm willing to bet that most jurisdictions in America would have rather a lot more gun owners than 1.2 in 1000. I guess that still means we've got about 360 licensed gun owners in the city, but from what I know, gun crime is not very high, and most of the time I've seen police at, say, parades/whatever, they don't appear to be wearing any vests. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that the cop I spoke to was wearing a load bearing vest, as was his colleague. Maybe they wear something under their clothes, but I really have no idea.
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The time spent creating them isn't an issue (the way our document creation process is set up I have a lot of downtime waiting for more work to do). It's that som epeople have been pulling for more shorter docs and some people have been pulling for fewer longer docs, and it just doesn't work well to keep switching back and forth. The most important thing is that we settle on one way. My opinion (and that of the highest-level person involved) is to go with the shorter docs, so I'm glad to hear that you agree. I know it varies from person to person, but if more people prefer the multiple shorter docs approach that's what we'll go with. Thanks! Now to figure out how to set up the front-end document search to help people find the document they're looking for more easily. I don't even know what our options are on that, though.
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Infamous Sphere posted:In the Southland example, they're in Southern LA No.....no. Stop right there. It's not an example. It's a television show.
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Popular opinion on NiMH batteries is they last 500-1000 cycles. Does time play into this at all? I have batteries that are ~2 years old. How close are they to dead?
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photomikey posted:Popular opinion on NiMH batteries is they last 500-1000 cycles. Did they just sit in a drawer? They'll be fine once you recharge them. Did you drain them all the way flat then recharge them more than once a day every day over those 2 years? Then and only then would they be permanently hosed. For things in between they'll probably have only lost something like 10% of their original capacity.
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