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Soylent Yellow posted:I recently took up walking again, and am thinking of buying a new pair of boots. I currently own a pair of Brasher Fellmasters. These are in good condition, and while perfect for wet and cold days, I was wondering if there's anything slightly lighter and more breathable for summer use. For now, I'll probably be doing 10-15 miles, mainly on trails but with a bit of mild hillwalking thrown in. Does anyone have some decent reccommendations? I wear a UK size 10, and have slightly wide feet just to complicate things. I like Merrel's hiking shoes. Very breathable and durable as heck.
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Soylent Yellow posted:I recently took up walking again, and am thinking of buying a new pair of boots. I currently own a pair of Brasher Fellmasters. These are in good condition, and while perfect for wet and cold days, I was wondering if there's anything slightly lighter and more breathable for summer use. For now, I'll probably be doing 10-15 miles, mainly on trails but with a bit of mild hillwalking thrown in. Does anyone have some decent reccommendations? I wear a UK size 10, and have slightly wide feet just to complicate things. I have been considering the transabled lifestyle. Have you been crawling or did you get a wheeled-chair? What made you go back to being abled?
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Jun 20, 2015 21:32
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Is there a difference between "quicker" and "more quickly"?
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Jun 21, 2015 03:23
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No.
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Jun 21, 2015 03:26
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Vegetable posted:Is there a difference between "quicker" and "more quickly"? Same denotation, but the connotation is a touch different imo. "Quicker" sounds more casual in usage. "She returned from the store quicker than I did" vs "She returned from the store more quickly than I did" -- the latter sounds much better to my ears, the former sounds ... not quite uneducated, maybe lazier in effect? e: In that context, I'd use either 'more quickly' or 'faster' in preference to quicker.
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Jun 21, 2015 04:29
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Jeza posted:I don't know about a large collective resource, but I'm sure you can find ramblings on well-known paintings. Some kinds of fruit in old paintings are meant to connote wealth. Usually it's flowers that are loaded with more specific meanings. Thanks! I was searching for plums and kept getting Chinese art.
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Jun 21, 2015 06:43
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Vegetable posted:Is there a difference between "quicker" and "more quickly"? Quicker is an adjective, so it modifies a noun, or describes a thing. Quickly is an adverb, which modifies a verb, or describes an action. A cheetah is quicker than a rabbit. It runs more quickly than a rabbit does. Gravity Pike fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Jun 21, 2015 |
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Jun 21, 2015 07:47
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Why's cost of living so cheap in Rhode Island and Providence? What's the catch?
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Jun 21, 2015 19:19
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rizuhbull posted:Why's cost of living so cheap in Rhode Island and Providence? What's the catch? There's not much going on there. Also a buncha people who live there commute hours away to Boston or to places in CT.
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Jun 21, 2015 19:29
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I have heard that it's possible that a former employer can take part of your 401k if you are cashing it out and they were contributing to it. How much truth to this is there to this, and is it something they have to pursue or do they automatically take it back? I have a few grand sitting in an account from a job I had years ago and I'd like to cash it out, but most of it was obtained through a small percentage of my pay (that did not get removed from my checks) automatically going into the account each pay period.
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Jun 21, 2015 19:38
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rizuhbull posted:Why's cost of living so cheap in Rhode Island and Providence? What's the catch? Organized crime. They disappear so much money up there it looks like everyone is living on Idaho's level.
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Jun 21, 2015 19:40
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NESguerilla posted:I have heard that it's possible that a former employer can take part of your 401k if you are cashing it out and they were contributing to it. How much truth to this is there to this, and is it something they have to pursue or do they automatically take it back? I have a few grand sitting in an account from a job I had years ago and I'd like to cash it out, but most of it was obtained through a small percentage of my pay (that did not get removed from my checks) automatically going into the account each pay period. This is partially true in some cases. Any money that came out of your paycheck is yours to keep forever. As an incentive most employers will put some in themselves on top of your regular paycheck. This is called employer match or the employer contribution, and its usually a few percent of your pay. Every place has a different formula for exactly how much extra they give you. They will start matching your money as soon as you start the job, but some have rules that say you need to be at the company X years in order to keep it. This also varies by company, but anything from 0 to 5 years is common, sometimes its pro rated per year. Either way, this extra match money is the only thing they could ever take back. Anything they take back generally gets taken out automatically when you leave the job, so whats in the account now is probably yours to keep. As for where the money is going, are you literaly cashing out or moving to another retirement account? There are taxes and fees involved in cashing out that could easily eat 35% or more of the value. Come see us in the general finance thread if you want to know more: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3256838
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Jun 21, 2015 19:54
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I'm actually a little spotty on it because it's been about 6 years since I worked there, but I believe I wasn't contributing to the 401k myself at all and the employer automatically put a little bit into the account for me (like a fraction of a percent of my earings) and then matched up to a few percent but I wasn't putting anything myself because I was dumb. I'd like to just cash it out. I know there will be big penalties but 3 grand isn't going to save my life when I'm 60 and I'm super hard up for money at the moment and even if I got half of it right now it would be a big deal. I was at the company for about 5 years so hopefully I'm in the clear? I'm hoping they can guide me in the right direction at the bank tomorrow. Thanks I'll check that thread out.
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Jun 21, 2015 20:04
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NESguerilla posted:I'm actually a little spotty on it because it's been about 6 years since I worked there, but I believe I wasn't contributing to the 401k myself at all and the employer automatically put a little bit into the account for me (like a fraction of a percent of my earings) and then matched up to a few percent but I wasn't putting anything myself because I was dumb. The term you need to use when asking is vested. Typically you have to be at a place a certain number of years to be fully vested ie, the money is all yours. Every place uses a different formula and some do it gradually, such as 25% each year. So if you leave after 3 years you get 100% of your contributions but only 75% of theirs. The good news is that if you left that long ago, then whatever you see there is likely what's available to you. They would remove their amount at the time of your departure. However, yeah you are going to pay heavy early penalty fees and the money will likely count as income for your taxes next year.
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Jun 21, 2015 20:17
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I have a google spreadsheet/excel type question that I'm hoping someone could help me with. I want to have data in a row change color depending on their relation to each other. For example, 20, 20, 20, 20, 90, 1 Is there a way to get the '90' and '1' entries to have a color for higher than average and a color for lower than average? I'll have hundreds of rows, and I want the high values and low values within each row to stand out.
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Jun 21, 2015 21:50
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Baldbeard posted:I have a google spreadsheet/excel type question that I'm hoping someone could help me with. I can't tell you for google's excel clone, but in excel 2010, you do this:  One of the rule sets for the color scales is to work based on averages instead of raw number, and you can also make it so the middle of the scale is no color highlighting at all.
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Jun 21, 2015 21:57
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syscall girl posted:Organized crime. They disappear so much money up there it looks like everyone is living on Idaho's level.
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Jun 21, 2015 22:42
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rizuhbull posted:Is that it? It doesn't seem like that'd affect me too much. I'm a young college student looking to move there with a friend and the craigslist prices seem too good to be true. Nah it isn't. You should basically think of it as a city that's become just an unusually large college town over the years.
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Jun 21, 2015 22:54
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Nintendo Kid posted:Nah it isn't. You should basically think of it as a city that's become just an unusually large college town over the years.
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Jun 21, 2015 23:00
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I have a jpeg measuring 64200x31200 for a 20'x40" banner. It's 216mb. I'd like to resize this to a 2400x1200 image, but it causes every program I've thrown it at (Preview, Resizeit, Photos, LR, Illustrator) to choke and die. How can I resize this image?
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Jun 21, 2015 23:39
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tuyop posted:I have a jpeg measuring 64200x31200 for a 20'x40" banner. It's 216mb. I'd like to resize this to a 2400x1200 image, but it causes every program I've thrown it at (Preview, Resizeit, Photos, LR, Illustrator) to choke and die. How can I resize this image? Your problem is that that image is 2 gigapixels and is going to cause problems for just about everything. What program created it in the first place?
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Jun 21, 2015 23:44
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Nintendo Kid posted:Your problem is that that image is 2 gigapixels and is going to cause problems for just about everything. What program created it in the first place? No idea, I got it from a design firm for sending off to a printer. I thought they were using Illustrator but everything I got from them turned into a bit of a mess unless I massaged it a bit so I'm imagining them running some $2000 program on a Mac Pro.
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Jun 21, 2015 23:52
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tuyop posted:No idea, I got it from a design firm for sending off to a printer. I thought they were using Illustrator but everything I got from them turned into a bit of a mess unless I massaged it a bit so I'm imagining them running some $2000 program on a Mac Pro. Honestly, the simplest scenario, if you can do it, would be to print it out on standard size paper, and then scan that back in on a decent scanner and crop it to the size you need. You can try special 64 bit builds of image editing programs (you'll need it, because that image is going to require like 8 GB of RAM uncompressed for editing) to try editing it, but even that might exceed their limits.
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Jun 21, 2015 23:59
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tuyop posted:I have a jpeg measuring 64200x31200 for a 20'x40" banner. It's 216mb. I'd like to resize this to a 2400x1200 image, but it causes every program I've thrown it at (Preview, Resizeit, Photos, LR, Illustrator) to choke and die. How can I resize this image? Try imagemagick. It's all command-line so it'll have a little bit of a learning curve, but it can do an amazing variety of things and has a few different ways to handle stupidly-huge files. The "stream mode" sounds promising -- at the very least you should be able to use that to extract reasonably-sized chunks of the image, then scale those chunks one at a time and finally stitch them all back together.
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Jun 22, 2015 00:49
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I've been seeing this album floating around on social media, and while it's obviously a bunker of some sort I'm not seeing a good explanation of what it would have been built for or why it's so huge. Just looking for any info history buffs might have. http://imgur.com/gallery/yBle6
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Jun 22, 2015 01:18
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NESguerilla posted:I've been seeing this album floating around on social media, and while it's obviously a bunker of some sort I'm not seeing a good explanation of what it would have been built for or why it's so huge. Just looking for any info history buffs might have. It's just one of many bunker complexes all over Europe and especially Germany that were built in the initial expectations that although nuclear war could happen, you'd still need regular air forces to carry the bombs (ICBMS for launching a bomb out of like North Dakota straight to Moscow weren't around for quite a while). As such massive east-west war was expected to be much more survivable, so being able to hold out on the ground would be useful. If you'd like to learn about more bunkers like that, check out http://www.subbrit.org.uk/category/civil-defence
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Jun 22, 2015 01:31
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rizuhbull posted:Why's cost of living so cheap in Rhode Island and Providence? What's the catch? because no one wants to live here
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Jun 22, 2015 02:51
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I have had a big box of trading cards baseball/basketball and some old CCGs like Star Wars, Wyvern and Spell something. Whats the quickest/easiest way to determine if there is anything of value in there? There are hundreds of cards and it seems like a loving mess to type each card in and figure out if its worth a few pennies, I just want to know if there's anything actually worth more than the cardboard its printed on.
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Jun 22, 2015 05:05
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rizuhbull posted:Why's cost of living so cheap in Rhode Island and Providence? What's the catch? Most of the rental stock is fairly low-quality and poorly maintained. It's not at all simple to find work. Not everyone likes the weather. I am very pro-Providence, despite what I just said. There is a lot of cool stuff going on there.
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Jun 22, 2015 06:49
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Reason posted:I have had a big box of trading cards baseball/basketball and some old CCGs like Star Wars, Wyvern and Spell something. Whats the quickest/easiest way to determine if there is anything of value in there? There are hundreds of cards and it seems like a loving mess to type each card in and figure out if its worth a few pennies, I just want to know if there's anything actually worth more than the cardboard its printed on. Maybe take it into a game shop that sells them and see if the owner or someone who works there will go through them and give you a price for any they want to buy? Or you could try eBaying the whole box to see if anyone wants to buy it on the chance that it's worthwhile.
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Jun 22, 2015 09:03
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Reason posted:I have had a big box of trading cards baseball/basketball and some old CCGs like Star Wars, Wyvern and Spell something. Whats the quickest/easiest way to determine if there is anything of value in there? There are hundreds of cards and it seems like a loving mess to type each card in and figure out if its worth a few pennies, I just want to know if there's anything actually worth more than the cardboard its printed on. It depends on how much you value your time at. If you want to get rid of them quickly, a comic/card game store will probably buy them all, but only at a massive discount for the following reasons: -The market for old collectibles moves slowly, there's no guarantee that a buyer will come along, even if some cards are worth a lot. -They have you over a barrel, since they know customers don't know how to valuate or hilariously overvaluate their collections. -Most comic/game shops are already struggling to get by.
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Jun 22, 2015 09:27
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NESguerilla posted:I've been seeing this album floating around on social media, and while it's obviously a bunker of some sort I'm not seeing a good explanation of what it would have been built for or why it's so huge. Just looking for any info history buffs might have. Who owns something like this? It's obviously abandoned, could you theoretically make it liveable and squat there for a decade to try and gain the rights to it?
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Jun 22, 2015 10:01
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tuyop posted:I have a jpeg measuring 64200x31200 for a 20'x40" banner. It's 216mb. I'd like to resize this to a 2400x1200 image, but it causes every program I've thrown it at (Preview, Resizeit, Photos, LR, Illustrator) to choke and die. How can I resize this image? tuyop posted:No idea, I got it from a design firm for sending off to a printer. I thought they were using Illustrator but everything I got from them turned into a bit of a mess unless I massaged it a bit so I'm imagining them running some $2000 program on a Mac Pro. Email the design company and tell them to send you a copy in the format that you want. Chances are that it was a simple illustrator file and they've exported it as a giant jpg because the designer knows dick about file formats, Even without seeing the image, I bet a perfectly usable pdf is going to be <20MB
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Jun 22, 2015 12:27
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Base Emitter posted:There used to be a way to disable using a specific item to get recommendations, but I can't find it now. Even with that you'd have to disable all the individual apps you downloaded. Yeah, I knew about this, I was just hoping there was some global setting to not show recommendations from certain categories, like Apps or digital purchases. Thanks, though!
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Jun 22, 2015 13:54
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Captain Bravo posted:Who owns something like this? It's obviously abandoned, could you theoretically make it liveable and squat there for a decade to try and gain the rights to it? Either the successor government/military to the one who built it, or the guy whose land it's in and on. It's probably not something you can get squatter title on.
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Reason posted:I have had a big box of trading cards baseball/basketball and some old CCGs like Star Wars, Wyvern and Spell something. Whats the quickest/easiest way to determine if there is anything of value in there? There are hundreds of cards and it seems like a loving mess to type each card in and figure out if its worth a few pennies, I just want to know if there's anything actually worth more than the cardboard its printed on. There is nothing of value in there. You have a few options. 1) Go through the whole mess, card by card and look them up either online or in a collector's catalog and see if any individual cards are worth anything. They won't be. 2) Put the whole unsorted mess up on eBay for $5. Let someone else do the digging to see if you have anything of value. 3) Burn, trash or recycle into an art project. Personally, I'd do option 3. I mean really, just as an example, you can see that there are a lot of Star Wars CCG cards up on eBay, but no one is buying them. The highest value I saw anyone bidding on was $14 with 1 bid.
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How long will super glue take to dissolve when bathed in nail varnish remover
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Jun 22, 2015 18:28
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Or hold on to them and let your kids rifle through them some day. I used to go through my dads old football cards and loved reading the little blurbs about long retired players. If you want to go through them though then depending on how old they are focus on any rookie cards, cards with bits of memorabilia on them (jersey swatches, etc) or cards with serial numbers. Most of these will likely be worthless but if you do have something valuable it'll probably be one of those things.
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Jun 22, 2015 18:30
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EmmyOk posted:How long will super glue take to dissolve when bathed in nail varnish remover If the remover is acetone, pretty quickly, few minutes at most (to goopy at least, depends on how much glue and how much solvent there is). If the remover is ethyl acetate, it looks like you'll be waiting much longer.
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dupersaurus posted:If the remover is acetone, pretty quickly, few minutes at most (to goopy at least, depends on how much glue and how much solvent there is). If the remover is ethyl acetate, it looks like you'll be waiting much longer. I was stripping wire out of a fencing blade, so I bathed it in nail varnish for a while. It pulled out easily in the end. Cheers!
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