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Count Uvula posted:So that webiste that wrote CV's in SA-Mart is sketchy now apparently. Is there some other cheapish CV preparing service for idiots with no grasp of what makes a good resume? This guy on SA MART I can easily recommend he is a drat good writer and helped me edit one of my essays, which made it sound 10x better. Other people have had experience with his resume writing service but you should check that thread for that quality.
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I got drunk last night and bought the domain name: https://www.givedaddyataste.com what should I out on it?
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DAIRY KING posted:I got drunk last night and bought the domain name: https://www.givedaddyataste.com what should I out on it? A middle aged italian man drinking vinegar while staring at the camera with a grimaced face. No context or formatting.
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Oct 21, 2015 21:46
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Methanar posted:A middle aged italian man
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Oct 21, 2015 21:53
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Methanar posted:A middle aged italian man drinking vinegar while staring at the camera with a grimaced face.
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Oct 22, 2015 00:23
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DAIRY KING posted:I got drunk last night and bought the domain name: https://www.givedaddyataste.com what should I out on it? Gay snowball porn
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Oct 22, 2015 01:03
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Stupid time travel question: If a modern person who's had all their shots and vaccinations were transported to London in the mid 17th century, how long would it be before they caught some horrifying disease? Assume that they interact with the locals like they would today.
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Oct 22, 2015 02:09
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They'd be eaten by dirty orphans or succumb to the smog first
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Oct 22, 2015 02:13
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Mister Kingdom posted:Stupid time travel question: Most of what we vaccinate for now is stuff that would protect you from anything then. The big one you'd be missing is smallpox if you're not like 40 or older, but that could easily take years to catch. Most likely, you'd end up bringing back some different modern disease strains and get other people sick.
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Oct 22, 2015 02:14
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Mister Kingdom posted:Stupid time travel question: depends, do they practice what we today consider basic hygiene (bathing and regular handwashing)? cause that would prevent a lot of old dread diseases up to and including the Black Death cholera is a little harder but you can still boil your drinking water to help avoid it afaik those were really the main two outside of vaccine-preventable diseases
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Enourmo posted:depends, do they practice what we today consider basic hygiene (bathing and regular handwashing)? cause that would prevent a lot of old dread diseases up to and including the Black Death What about the TB? I think I'd get consumed p quickly. But, on the other hand, most people did fine so I imagine most modern people would also do fine regardless of vaccinations. I think the brutal thing would be the total lack of skills. Like, gently caress me I barely know how to use a gas lamp (compared to someone in the 17th century) and I've never seen a coal stove in my life. I would be a worthless human in the past.
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Oct 22, 2015 02:29
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Yeah but you could make a fortune just bringing token semi-modern engineering knowledge back with you. I mean, just a single cylinder lawn mower engine you could fit into a suitcase could single-handedly kickstart the industrial revolution a few centuries early.
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Oct 22, 2015 02:48
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Enourmo posted:Yeah but you could make a fortune just bringing token semi-modern engineering knowledge back with you. Nah that requires knowing how to make gasoline and associated lubricants. Now, bringing back blueprints for say, some later coal-based steam era stationary engines for factories and rail engines for transport? Basically jumping over the early inefficient models? That's your ticket, and can be done with the technology and tools of the time period.
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You could probably make do with animal-based lubricants (warm bacon grease is about the consistency of motor oil, so it's plausible), but yeah gasoline requires petroleum and fractional distillation. Maybe a mechanical-injection diesel, those'll run on anything. Steam's probably more plausible, although those need lubrication too.
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Enourmo posted:You could probably make do with animal-based lubricants (warm bacon grease is about the consistency of motor oil, so it's plausible), but yeah gasoline requires petroleum and fractional distillation. Maybe a mechanical-injection diesel, those'll run on anything. Steam's probably more plausible, although those need lubrication too. Would knowing the basic principles of that be worth anything, do you think? What about basic electrical generation? I mean, these are potentially valuable ideas right?
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Oh yeah there's thousands of examples, I was just thinking things that could be easily looked at, understood, and reverse-engineered (and profited from!) in that era. You could bring a generator/electric motor, but it's a lot harder to understand how those work and make new ones without also having accompanying fundamental knowledge about electromagnetism. Mechanical principles were a lot better understood back then, levers, shafts, gears, etc.
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tuyop posted:Would knowing the basic principles of that be worth anything, do you think? What about basic electrical generation? I mean, these are potentially valuable ideas right? Even being able to reasonably articulate grade 12 chemistry principles, kinematic equations, basic electrical theory like the concepts of voltage, current, V=ir, induction, batteries, and maybe calculus depending on when exactly you spawn in the 1700s would all be huge. Literacy and an education in mathematical notation is all very helpful too. Bonus points if you bring a solar powered scientific calculator with you or at least a 1950s slide ruler.
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I don't know any of the maths but I know that I can take some magnets and spin them around some wire to generate electricity, or vice versa. I bet I could hook up with a maths dude and rock that poo poo, right? Same with oil fractionation. Boil some oil and collect the biproducts/steam at different temperatures and pressures and you get a bunch of gross useful stuff. If I were to pick a thing to bring back, I don't think I could do any better than one of those Wikireaders.
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Is there a program for Windows that's like the audio mixer, but much better / more customizable? Basically, I want to play Game Audio through my headphones while someone watches something on Youtube or Hulu, and be able to mirror it to multiple dvices, or play it through just the one, or move it to an individual device quickly and easily.
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tuyop posted:I read up on this beforehand and opted to avoid the permanent flap based on my love of outdoor activities in remote places that often involve poo poo hitting my eyeballs and potentially dislocating the flap, leaving me half blind in the middle of some jungle or something. But yeah, the healing process is pretty frustrating and I'm definitely worried I'll be unlucky. I'd rather take the chance of a bit of regression or far sightedness when it would happen anyway (I didn't find any information on reading glasses needed before like, mid-late 40s, which is normal anyway). I think the whole wavefront thing helps with some of the concerns, right? \ I am not a doctor, just someone who suffered badly from PRK (though my vision is good enough for what I do now). But I am doing what I am doing now in part because I had to change my work arrangements dramatically while waiting for stable vision to happen, so... Fighter pilots who do ejections into airstreams are now allowed to get LASIK, because research showed that Lasik has as secure an attachment after healing as rehealed eye cells from PRK. And because PRK took some pilots out of action for unnecessarily long time. (and made some unlucky few pilots unable to continue to fly permanently because of the drift of the healing cause loss of proper eye shape.) Here's the biggest problem: if you drift during healing, you have to go through the whole 6 month long process again. WIth LASIK it's the same take a couple of hours to get things fixed if something heals funny, and a couple of weeks if you really want to be unnecessarily careful. For people with irregular healing during the first round of PRK (or god forbid the fixer second time around), school, close work, reading, computer work, driving, can all be something that can happen on some days, and not be possible on some days, which makes life hard to plan for all but a few people who work in spoken word only customer service. Here's how sketchy PRK is: some of the most experienced doctors won't do both eyes at once because experience has taught them that PRK can leave some unlucky ones with uncorrectable vision problems in both eyes for long enough that they lose the ability to live a normal life until it heals. In the end, the worst part about it is that it is done so infrequently that the doctor doing it may do one or two a year, while they do 300-400 LASIK procedures a year. Experience makes everyone better at everything. The expert who fixed my PRK specialized in fixing blown PRK attempts, and even though that was his entire practice, he said repeatedly it would be better for everyone if no one ever got PRK ever again. He became expert in repairing bad PRK because of the need to do re-work on the many military who used to only be allowed PRK, but he said experience has shown him that all of the old rationales for PRK versus LASIK (thin corneas, flap dislodgment, etc.) have just been shown to be not problematic with the improvements in LASIK, and the problems now are almost now all coming from PRK procedure itself, since healing is by its nature through the vision center of the eye. (which is exactly why my vision was so unstable during healing.)
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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kapalama posted:Eye stuff That's super interesting, thanks. I hope mine heals well. When did you get your first operation done? Also, was the fix for your botched operation more prk or did they lasik you?
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tuyop posted:That's super interesting, thanks. I hope mine heals well. When did you get your first operation done? Once I had problems the first time, I went to that someone above who did nothing but fix PRK problems, and his take on it was that there was too little research to justify the expected risk of trying to switch to LASIK for the new go round in general, and in my case in specific, he felt that he could see what caused the problem and fix it due to more experience. The risk is apparently in the assumed thinner cell layer after healing from PRK. He did deliver on his promises, but I still had (and a few people just do have) odd patterns in the regrowth of eye cells which made for an odd (but livable) life using just the alternate (Non PRK) eye when I had to do serious reading on some days. Interspersed with days of perfect vision. I did ask him if I had not told him I had not done PRK, and had walked in asking for LASIK whether my eyes were candidates for LASIK, and he said they went from prime LASIK candidate (scans from before the LASIK) to borderline LASIK (post PRK) that he would have nonetheless felt comfortable having LASIK done, were he not already aware of the PRK. Obviously those with bad experiences see things differently. I hope you are (and everyone is) the far, far more common perfect outcome of PRK on the first go.
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tuyop posted:What about the TB? I think I'd get consumed p quickly. You don't get vaccinated for TB?
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Mr. Squishy posted:You don't get vaccinated for TB? Not unless you're specifically going to a part of the world where the disease is endemic. It's not part of the regular vaccines everyone gets (in Denmark at least, and according to a quick google search it seems like it's the same in the US)
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Turtlicious posted:Is there a program for Windows that's like the audio mixer, but much better / more customizable? Basically, I want to play Game Audio through my headphones while someone watches something on Youtube or Hulu, and be able to mirror it to multiple dvices, or play it through just the one, or move it to an individual device quickly and easily.
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If you're in the military and regularly dealing with a lieutenant colonel or a major general, would you always address them by their full rank or would you shorten it to the second/main part of their rank? (i.e. call a major general: general?") Also trying to figure out if field marshal would be reduced to marshal, but that rank here in the UK is a little more obscure.
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VagueRant posted:If you're in the military and regularly dealing with a lieutenant colonel or a major general, would you always address them by their full rank or would you shorten it to the second/main part of their rank? (i.e. call a major general: general?") From my extensive movie experience, you would almost never use their full rank, so in your case it would be "colonel" and "general", or just plain "sir".
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baquerd posted:From my extensive movie experience, you would almost never use their full rank, so in your case it would be "colonel" and "general", or just plain "sir". This is also the way it is on the civilian side of defense contracting, but maybe we just aren't expected to know the specifics ranks. Its also worth noting that the "base" model is usually the highest rank so you won't be insulting anyone by calling them a lower rank. edit: http://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/pdf/p600_60.pdf here is the official document with all the written/spoken ways to address the different ranks. Xenoborg fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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baquerd posted:From my extensive movie experience,
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baquerd posted:just plain "sir". This. At least as an enlisted, your address to any officer at all is "sir"/"ma'am". If you're talking about them, then you'd use their full rank pretty much always. Unless maybe you're in the Army, since at least for enlisted they call most everyone E-5 and above "sergeant".
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Did hitler actually blame the Jews for what happened to Germany post ww1? Or was it a convenient political rallying point. What was Hitler's ultimate goal in WW2? The way I understand it was Hitler wanted Germany to conquer a ton of eastern European land that would be used for farming to feed Germany. I'm not sure what this has to do with raping Belgium or rolling Denmark.
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Methanar posted:Did hitler actually blame the Jews for what happened to Germany post ww1? Or was it a convenient political rallying point. I thought he equivocated Jews with the bankers holding all of Germany's debt for WWI.
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Methanar posted:What was Hitler's ultimate goal in WW2? In short, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
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Methanar posted:Did hitler actually blame the Jews for what happened to Germany post ww1? Or was it a convenient political rallying point. He saw nationhood as sort of a survival of the fittest thing where the powerful nations (Germany) would constantly be gobbling up more land to increase their population and power. Hated Jews, Roma and the like because they didn't fit with his worldview because they lived in Germany without being Germans or Poland without being Poles etc.
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I made a post in CineD and I can't see it, did I get hellbanned?
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You could be, or the rotting vestiges of SA's codebase may have just swallowed your post whole, as nutrient for its putrefied blobby form
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muike posted:You could be, or the rotting vestiges of SA's codebase may have just swallowed your post whole, as nutrient for its putrefied blobby form Not a joke, actually. It'll probably mysteriously appear to you in five minutes, long after everyone else has already seen it. Happened to me in Games and MMO HMO in the last year.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Stupid time travel question: Yeah, as others have said, other than TB most of the more serious infections would be covered by modern vaccines. It'd probably be like moving to a developing nation, where you get gastroenteritis and colds fairly frequently for the first couple of years. The poor sanitation standards of water and food would probably give you faucet-butt semi-regularly at first. I imagine if you went even further back in time (say thousands or millions of years) it would actually be harder to get sick because the proteins on the surface of viral particles wouldn't be able to bind to the proteins on the surface of cells in modern humans, since they usually require a fairly specific physical configuration. Without cell binding and entry viruses can't infect a host. Bacteria could still gently caress you up though I guess.
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Baron Porkface posted:I made a post in CineD and I can't see it, did I get hellbanned? I can see the post FWIW.
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