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Memento posted:In my experience, no airline ever is the slightest bit lenient with weight limits for baggage. A couple of weeks ago coming home from the tropics, I had a bag limit of 23kg and my bag weighed 23.2kg. They told me it was going to be an extra $250 to get it on board. I threw out my sunscreen and insect repellent and put it through again.
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Turtlicious posted:I mean but directly shot into a main artery. Since they don't test on humans you can see the LD50 of rabbits and rats here in section 11. http://education.jlab.org/frost/msds/isopropanol.pdf Just adjust by weight. The mg/kg ratio should probably be fatal to any mammal. How specific is this game you're playing because this seems a little weird?
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Jul 31, 2016 08:00
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syscall girl posted:Since they don't test on humans you can see the LD50 of rabbits and rats here in section 11. Someone argued with me that they could kill their target with a syringe of isopropyl alcohol, the fight went on for 30 minutes, and he wouldn't accept the guy wouldn't just drop over dead, which made me curious to look it up. I google'd it saw nothing and came over here. I hoped saying "This is for a tabletop RPG" would make it less weird. TBF: The player in question worries me at times with his specificity.
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Jul 31, 2016 09:02
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Which of these sentences is more grammatically correct? "Hail Satan I guess." Or "Hail Satan, I guess."
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Jul 31, 2016 09:11
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cyberia posted:Which of these sentences is more grammatically correct? Depends what you want to say. The first implies you gotta Hail someone and I guess Satan will do, the second says I guess I could Hail Satan specifically. You probably mean the second one?
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Jul 31, 2016 10:29
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Turtlicious posted:Someone argued with me that they could kill their target with a syringe of isopropyl alcohol, the fight went on for 30 minutes, and he wouldn't accept the guy wouldn't just drop over dead, which made me curious to look it up. I google'd it saw nothing and came over here. I hoped saying "This is for a tabletop RPG" would make it less weird. You're going about it the wrong way. Make the judgement based on whether or not it suits the gameplay you want, not based on whether it is or isn't factually correct. e: think of it in terms of game balance. If you allow your players to use a syringe full of stuff to instakill someone in a fight, you should take care that the stuff is harder to get ahold of/more expensive than their usual weapons, otherwise it is overpowered and they'll use nothing else.
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Jul 31, 2016 13:12
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Memento posted:In my experience, no airline ever is the slightest bit lenient with weight limits for baggage. A couple of weeks ago coming home from the tropics, I had a bag limit of 23kg and my bag weighed 23.2kg. They told me it was going to be an extra $250 to get it on board. I threw out my sunscreen and insect repellent and put it through again. Eh, I have gotten heavy bags through with no fee a bunch of times, just depends on the mood of the checkin person. I very often fly with a pelican full of tools so I am over weight like half the time. I just try to sound friendly and smile alot.
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Jul 31, 2016 13:41
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I used to work as a baggage handler, and later at the check-in counter. I used to let 50.5 go, and anyhing after that I'd get into "c'mon it's just one pound, and it's the same weight in a carry-on or in the cargo area" argument all the time. It's not just to be a jerk, it's because when you finish loading the bags the pilot asks for the numbers - in our case it was number of bags per bin, and then what category: regular, "heavies", and gate checks. I don't know the specifics, but when they do the numbers that stuff matters. If we have plane with 200 bags on it, and 100 gate agents decided to be nice and let a few pounds slide, suddenly the number of "heavies" is down and the pilot makes a load plan based on there being ~150lbs less in a certain bin, that's a problem. Realistically I don't think that's gonna stop a plane from taking off safely but it sure will net a huge fine from the FAA if they decide to conduct one of their many nit-picky inspections. Blah blah blah you get the idea. Before I worked there I hated all the rules for flying but now I appreciate them. Even the most eye-rolling regulations are based on preventing something unlikely but possible. tldr we know it's annoying and seems overly picky but it's a picky industry when it comes to regs so just roll with it, it's for your benefit. Tacking on the exorbitant fees for overages is just greed, but you'd be doing the luggage shuffle regardless. Anyway, here's my question: I got a TV for my room, and the only place it can go is across my (large) room so I have to turn it way up to hear it. I don't like it blasting while I sleep, walls are p solid but the volume I require to hear from my bed is probably enough to bother the people next door. If I put a speaker behind my bed on a shelf, would my mind adjust to the idea of sound from behind, screen in front? I rigged up a similar setup with my laptop where the TV is and a small bluetooth speaker behind me and it was weird, I watched maybe 10 minutes and couldn't zone out the difference. Now if I hook up a nicer system that's more rich and clear than my bluetooth minispeaker, will this be better, and will I get used to the sound from behind? It's an older wired system that I'd have to drag out of storage and dick around with just to try it, so I figured I'd ask if anyone's done this before I waste a couple hours.
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Jul 31, 2016 22:53
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life is a joke posted:the pilot makes a load plan based on there being ~150lbs less in a certain bin, that's a problem. How do they deal with statistical anomalies like a bunch of 300lb people all sitting on one side of the plane, while the other side has little kids, right?
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Jul 31, 2016 23:53
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The smallest plane I worked with was a hundred seats and they've printed dispatches that say "leave at least 15 seats open between rows 1-11 for weight and balance". And I've been on little cape air planes where the pilot just says "hey can you move over there?". I'm not a pilot nor do I work there anymore, so I'm probably wrong, but I think the jets we had used averages for different types of bags and for people (pilot got number of adults, children, and babies) so I think they could work with set numbers when averaging that. IDK tho haha. I was never inflight but I wouldn't be surprised if they were instructed to tell the pilot of there was a super obvious balance issue, like one side of the plane being stacked with heavy people and the other side being mostly kids.
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Aug 1, 2016 00:12
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The flight was doomed the moment the baby convention and the fat people convention were scheduled on the same day, in the same remote town.
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Aug 1, 2016 00:44
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CrazySalamander posted:The flight was doomed the moment the baby convention and the fat people convention were scheduled on the same day, in the same remote town. They really, really wanted to sit together, too.
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Aug 1, 2016 00:56
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life is a joke posted:I got a TV for my room, and the only place it can go is across my (large) room so I have to turn it way up to hear it. I don't like it blasting while I sleep, walls are p solid but the volume I require to hear from my bed is probably enough to bother the people next door. If I put a speaker behind my bed on a shelf, would my mind adjust to the idea of sound from behind, screen in front? I rigged up a similar setup with my laptop where the TV is and a small bluetooth speaker behind me and it was weird, I watched maybe 10 minutes and couldn't zone out the difference. Now if I hook up a nicer system that's more rich and clear than my bluetooth minispeaker, will this be better, and will I get used to the sound from behind? It's an older wired system that I'd have to drag out of storage and dick around with just to try it, so I figured I'd ask if anyone's done this before I waste a couple hours. Thanks for letting 50.5 slide. And thanks for holding the line on 51. The only thing worse than having to take two pair of socks out at 50.5 is watching the guy in the next podium checking his 62 pounder when the agent forgets to look.
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Aug 1, 2016 01:06
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What happened to E/N forum? It was a fun read once in a while... VVV Thanks! pokie fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Aug 1, 2016 01:50
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pokie posted:What happened to E/N forum? It was a fun read once in a while... It's still around, it's just called Internet Defectives now.
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Aug 1, 2016 01:53
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Memento posted:It's still around, it's just called Internet Defectives now. Speaking of which, has anyone got a link to that one thread where a really depressed guy wanted to destroy the world and people slowly convinced him that that wouldn't be a good idea and he started working to improve his life and outlook?
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Aug 1, 2016 02:32
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Xpost from Something Offal...Johnny Truant posted:So I was an idiot and set my favourite pan down on a plastic grip mat, burning some of the material onto the bottom of the pan. Would acetone damage anything about the pan?
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Aug 1, 2016 03:00
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Johnny Truant posted:Xpost from Something Offal... It's safe for plain metal pans, and should also be safe for those with a non-stick surface, so long as the non-stick surface doesn't already have deep gouges into it.
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life is a joke posted:Even the most eye-rolling regulations are based on preventing something unlikely but possible My favorite is the rule that lavatories must have an ashtray.
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Aug 1, 2016 03:40
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life is a joke posted:I got a TV for my room, and the only place it can go is across my (large) room so I have to turn it way up to hear it. I don't like it blasting while I sleep, walls are p solid but the volume I require to hear from my bed is probably enough to bother the people next door. If I put a speaker behind my bed on a shelf, would my mind adjust to the idea of sound from behind, screen in front? I rigged up a similar setup with my laptop where the TV is and a small bluetooth speaker behind me and it was weird, I watched maybe 10 minutes and couldn't zone out the difference. Now if I hook up a nicer system that's more rich and clear than my bluetooth minispeaker, will this be better, and will I get used to the sound from behind? It's an older wired system that I'd have to drag out of storage and dick around with just to try it, so I figured I'd ask if anyone's done this before I waste a couple hours. You could get some wireless headphones.
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Tiggum posted:You could get some wireless headphones. Do this. Don't get gaming headphones because they're mostly flashy garbage.
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I'm finally dumping all my physical media. I need to get rid of all my CDs and DVDs in one shot. Most of it is old junk. Where can I sell it? I found an app called Decluttr that will take nearly all of it but I'm getting like 30 cents each. Is that the best I could do? I don't want to list everything individually on eBay.
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Aug 1, 2016 05:52
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FCKGW posted:I'm finally dumping all my physical media. I need to get rid of all my CDs and DVDs in one shot. Most of it is old junk. Where can I sell it? I found an app called Decluttr that will take nearly all of it but I'm getting like 30 cents each. Is that the best I could do? I don't want to list everything individually on eBay. Unless you have something rare or super popular with all the packaging 30 cents is a good deal. Ask me about all the Jonny Cash vinyl I saved from a dumpster behind my apartment.
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Aug 1, 2016 06:15
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syscall girl posted:Unless you have something rare or super popular with all the packaging 30 cents is a good deal. Yeah I'm not expecting a lot, and there's a couple CDs that I scanned that are showing a couple bucks. $.30 for a DVD for me doesn't seem a good deal though, I might be better off donating them to a library or to one of those groups that sends them to children's sonf VA hospitals.
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FCKGW posted:Yeah I'm not expecting a lot, and there's a couple CDs that I scanned that are showing a couple bucks. Yeah, that's a good idea. They're not worthless but they're not worth much money v0v
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I have an outlet replacement deal that is just 4 USB power outlets - it fits in a standard "decora" outlet and charges 4 devices. I now have 2 USB-C phones - I need something to replace this thing with that has (ideally) two USB-C outlets and two regular USB outlets. I can't find this thing on the internet, but the last time I asked something similar here, someone found me what I needed in 5 minutes. Does this thing exist? PS, your CDs/DVDs are worthless. Take your $0.30. photomikey fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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syscall girl posted:Ask me about all the Jonny Cash vinyl I saved from a dumpster behind my apartment. So I hear your saved a bunch of Johnny Cash albums from the dumpster, what's the story with that?
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Aug 1, 2016 12:37
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stubblyhead posted:So I hear your saved a bunch of Johnny Cash albums from the dumpster, what's the story with that? I got enough money at the indy record shop to buy a tall can
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Aug 1, 2016 12:43
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photomikey posted:I have an outlet replacement deal that is just 4 USB power outlets - it fits in a standard "decora" outlet and charges 4 devices. You could get USB-to-USB-C cables and keep the outlet.
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FCKGW posted:I'm finally dumping all my physical media. I need to get rid of all my CDs and DVDs in one shot. Most of it is old junk. Where can I sell it? I found an app called Decluttr that will take nearly all of it but I'm getting like 30 cents each. Is that the best I could do? I don't want to list everything individually on eBay. List it on eBay, but do it in themed sets. Got a bunch of CDs by one artist? That's one auction, make it start at like 50 cents times the number of CDs. A bunch of DVDs with the same actor? List them together. Additionally, many of these CDs and DVDs can be given to Amazon on their trade-in system for Amazon credit. A lot of them will only be like 75 cents or a buck, but that's more than 30 cents and they'll give you a shipping label to use.
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alnilam posted:You could get USB-to-USB-C cables and keep the outlet. This would be the best idea. Aren't USB-A to USB-C cables more practical anyways, so you can plug them into normal USB outlets on computers and whatnot? I mean, you never see Micro-USB to Micro-USB cables or anything like that.
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bvoid posted:This would be the best idea. Aren't USB-A to USB-C cables more practical anyways, so you can plug them into normal USB outlets on computers and whatnot? I mean, you never see Micro-USB to Micro-USB cables or anything like that. That's because microUSB-microUSB violates standards. USB-C to USB-C on the other hand is the future standard, and will be necessary for the fastest charging and data transfer eventually. That said USB-A to USB-C is defintielyt he way to go for now, since we've definitely got way more use for those at the moment.
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syscall girl posted:I got enough money at the indy record shop to buy a tall can bless, this is what Cash would have wanted you do to
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stubblyhead posted:My favorite is the rule that lavatories must have an ashtray. There's still an ashtray because if you're stupid enough to smoke on a plane, it's much, much better that you have somewhere to ash your cigarette. You'll get caught immediately because of the smoke alarm, but that's preferable to another disposal method, because a cabin fire is worse than an engine failure on a passenger aircraft. A lot worse.
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The answer to the alcohol question, you need almost an entire bottle of the stuff, so I was definitely in the right. I already know pigs don't eat bodies in a day, and with that much chrome, it wouldn't matter. The player is throwing a fit though  Unrelated question: A friend asked me to help him change some stuff on his website. I tried to go through GoDaddy's file hosting, but that didn't work and they only supported FTP, so then I ftp'd in and saw they had a wordpress set up, and I couldn't find the files that represented the individual pages, when I tried to log-in through the wordpress admin console, I got a message saying the password I was provided was wrong. Is there a way to update the files via FTP, or do you have to use Wordpress's stuff to change files on the site? Not only THAT, but my friend said he paid someone previously to manage the site, so he isn't even the one who set it up. It's very confusing. E: I've never used wordpress
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Turtlicious posted:The answer to the alcohol question, you need almost an entire bottle of the stuff, so I was definitely in the right. I already know pigs don't eat bodies in a day, and with that much chrome, it wouldn't matter. The player is throwing a fit though It depends on what you need to do. If you're trying to edit content on the site, you most likely need access to WordPress as that's the whole reason why it exists – to manage content. If you're trying to edit the look and feel (that is, the theme files), you can find them in wp-content/themes/[whatever the active theme is] WordPress doesn't have individual files that represent a page of content. It takes a theme file (say, post.php) and sticks in the content the adminstrator inserted via their WYSIWYG editor (say, a blog post) and generates a new page on the fly when a user requests it.
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Is there a good (possibly cheap) alternative to cans of compressed air (like you'd buy in an office supply store)? I have a lot of diecast models that tend to get dusty and I almost destroyed one with canned air.
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Aug 1, 2016 22:42
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Feather duster? (Frilly French maid's outfit optional )
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Aug 1, 2016 22:57
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spog posted:Feather duster? Tried that, but I can't get into the tiny spaces. And I don't have the legs for the costume.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Tried that, but I can't get into the tiny spaces. And I don't have the legs for the costume. You can get electric air dusters - like compressed air but battery powered. I think I recall someone complaining that they were inferior as they were less powerful, which is a bonus for you.
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