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I'm about to go on a trip with a TON of driving. Do these work? http://www.amazon.com/BESTEK-invert...ar+adapter+plug
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Turtlicious posted:I'm about to go on a trip with a TON of driving. I don't know about that one, I have a Canadian Tire one that is similar (though corded instead of direct plug in) and it works perfectly. On really long trips where we can't stop we use it to run a kettle to reheat and rehydrate food and it hasn't blown a fuse from that.
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Turtlicious posted:I'm about to go on a trip with a TON of driving. I can't tell you if that specific one works, but I've used a converter to charge up my own laptop before. Weeks on end even. So the principle is definitely possible.
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Anyone know if simply setting up a multi-user Quickbooks file on a mapped network drive for a small business is a terrible idea? Or should I always start from installing Quickbooks on the server itself and going from there? I don't see why the mapped drive wouldn't work, but I also know nothing about Quickbooks.
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Turtlicious posted:I'm about to go on a trip with a TON of driving.
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Some time ago I remember reading a thread where people could describe images they once saw, but could no longer find - mostly funny/bizarre internet images. People were pretty good at identifying the images and providing them. Does that thread still exist? Or if I'm crazy and it never existed - where would be the best place to do something like this? There's an image I saw online a while ago that I've never been able to find again.
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bouruarofuto posted:Some time ago I remember reading a thread where people could describe images they once saw, but could no longer find - mostly funny/bizarre internet images. People were pretty good at identifying the images and providing them. Does that thread still exist? Or if I'm crazy and it never existed - where would be the best place to do something like this? There's an image I saw online a while ago that I've never been able to find again. Request images thread, stickied in PYF.
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Thanatosian posted:Anyone know if simply setting up a multi-user Quickbooks file on a mapped network drive for a small business is a terrible idea? Or should I always start from installing Quickbooks on the server itself and going from there? Recent versions of QuickBooks (depending on your edition) have a "server install" option which sets up the background multiuser connection processes without requiring a unique license. Heavily recommended if you're working in a shared environment like that.
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Turtlicious posted:I'm about to go on a trip with a TON of driving. Take a look at the Waze application. Its good for long trips.
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I'm looking for a hollow rock to hide something in. No, not a key, it's for a gift, I want the person to 'find' it on a geology hike and smash it open with a rock hammer. I'm thinking two half shell like pieces that I could glue together with the (hammer resistant) thing inside. Googling suggests working with rocks is hard and probably beyond my resources at home. I haven't come across any obvious choices to buy or machine shops that advertise this. Anyone heard of anything like this?
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You can buy unbroken geodes. From there you would just need an appropriate saw and then glue to put it back together.
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Why not just make something out of concrete and paint it to look like a rock?
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ladron posted:Why not just make something out of concrete and paint it to look like a rock? He could even make a mold from a rock then cast it in plaster with whatever in it that he wants.
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Wrap it in burlap then coat it with concrete.
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There's always paper mache.
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You could use a regular rock and act surprised when there's nothing inside.
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You could also use a turtle. They naturally contain treasure anyway.
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The Vikings posted:I'm looking for a hollow rock to hide something in. No, not a key, it's for a gift, I want the person to 'find' it on a geology hike and smash it open with a rock hammer. I'm thinking two half shell like pieces that I could glue together with the (hammer resistant) thing inside. Googling suggests working with rocks is hard and probably beyond my resources at home. I haven't come across any obvious choices to buy or machine shops that advertise this. Anyone heard of anything like this? A paleontology person could do something like that pretty easily with a real concretion, a rock saw, and an air scribe. You might contact a natural history museum to see if anyone wants to help. However, you can approximate sandstone with clear epoxy and sand. Mix them together. You won't need much epoxy, just add enough so that the sand clumps and stays put. It'll get much, much harder once it dries. Form it around your object and tada! You might paint it or carve some grooves or something. If it looks shiny at the end, you used too much epoxy. Apply a bit of elmers with a brush and then roll it around in some sand.
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Does applying anti-perspirent make your -other- sweat glands work harder? What would happen of you covered your whole body in it except just one hand or something. Would it sweat like crazy?
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If someone's visiting their identical twin in prison, how do they make sure the right one comes back out?
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FrozenVent posted:If someone's visiting their identical twin in prison, how do they make sure the right one comes back out? One is usually in prison clothes or behind some sort of barrier. All visits are monitored so it's not like they can strip down and swap clothing.
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FrozenVent posted:If someone's visiting their identical twin in prison, how do they make sure the right one comes back out? The one in the orange prison jumpsuit is probably the prisoner.
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FrozenVent posted:If someone's visiting their identical twin in prison, how do they make sure the right one comes back out? DNA tests
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I've visited people in a federal penitentiary and they used a stamp with UV ink on your hand/wrist. There was a guard with a blacklight who checked your stamp when you entered and exited the visitation room.
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stubblyhead posted:DNA tests Identical twins will have the same DNA. The friction ridges on their finger will form differently though, so fingerprints would allow you to tell them apart.
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DELETED posted:I've visited people in a federal penitentiary and they used a stamp with UV ink on your hand/wrist. There was a guard with a blacklight who checked your stamp when you entered and exited the visitation room. Are you sure you didn't just go to a nightclub? Sounds very avant-garde.
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Baldbeard posted:Does applying anti-perspirent make your -other- sweat glands work harder? What would happen of you covered your whole body in it except just one hand or something. Would it sweat like crazy? No.
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Baldbeard posted:Does applying anti-perspirent make your -other- sweat glands work harder? What would happen of you covered your whole body in it except just one hand or something. Would it sweat like crazy? It actually gives you sweat-based superpowers. One documented example is this picture, where the antiperspirant-covered man waved at a passerby. 
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Nighthand posted:It actually gives you sweat-based superpowers. One documented example is this picture, where the antiperspirant-covered man waved at a passerby. I fuckin' knew it.
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Could someone identify this bug for me? I live outside of Philadelphia for reference, these bugs are coming into my house, and I've never encountered them before.    It looks like a wasp, right? But it's much smaller than a wasp, and it's not aggressive. It flies around calmly and silently, like a winged ant, and when you swat at it repeatedly, it doesn't try to attack you. It's pretty chill for a wasp-like bug. Could it be a cicada killer? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus I've found at least one of them in my house every day for the past week, I can't tell where they're coming from, and I'd like to know how afraid of them I should be before I freak out. Rabbit Hill fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Rabbit Hill posted:Could someone identify this bug for me? I live outside of Philadelphia for reference, these bugs are coming into my house, and I've never encountered them before. I'm not sure what it is, but definitely not a cicada killer. I'll browse around and edit if I find the answer. Edit: I think it's a type of Potter wasp (aka mason wasp). The internet says they rarely sting, but if they do it would be similar to any other bee/wasp. Pogo the Clown fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Rabbit Hill posted:Could someone identify this bug for me? I live outside of Philadelphia for reference, these bugs are coming into my house, and I've never encountered them before. There are several professional bug experts in the Critterquest thread, one of them can surely identify it for you.
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What is the most powerful existing weapon? I see that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba was the biggest ever detonated. But that was half a century ago. That explosion was 35 miles high, or 7 loving Everest mountains. What the gently caress.
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:What is the most powerful existing weapon? I see that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba was the biggest ever detonated. But that was half a century ago. That explosion was 35 miles high, or 7 loving Everest mountains. What the gently caress. You'll want to be more specific. What would make the biggest boom? Cause some bio weapon that would kill 90% of all humanity is imo way more powerful than any nuke or neutron bomb which, no matter how powerful, could at most take out one city and the immediate surroundings.
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:What is the most powerful existing weapon? I see that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba was the biggest ever detonated. But that was half a century ago. That explosion was 35 miles high, or 7 loving Everest mountains. What the gently caress. Maybe the MOAB or the FOAB which causes all that is alive to evaporate, according to Russia. But there have been a bunch of absolutely insane industrial explosions and accidents that seem pretty inconceivable in scale. Like, the Halifax explosion was 2.9 kilotons of TNT and was the largest explosion ever until the development of nuclear weapons. But the N1 rocket test was like three times as powerful. 
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Let's say I have 5 100mb movie files on a website. A. It's faster to download each one at a time B. It's faster to download them all at once C. Both A and B take the same time ?
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the posted:Let's say I have 5 100mb movie files on a website. Depends on the website's server setup and both your and its connection. Ideal situation is C, but in many cases it's A, because a lot of servers won't properly handle all those connections, or will be intentionally set up to slow you down for attempting it.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Depends on the website's server setup and both your and its connection. Ideal situation is C, but in many cases it's A, because a lot of servers won't properly handle all those connections, or will be intentionally set up to slow you down for attempting it. So if I'm downloading from say, one computer to another on the same network, then C should be true?
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the posted:So if I'm downloading from say, one computer to another on the same network, then C should be true? You will probably have reduced speeds with multiple separate downloads, due to the computer serving the files having to constantly seek between files on its hard drive. Best to copy them one after the other in that case.
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