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Spacewolf posted:For a weird goonish project I am doing: Find the number of live births in each country from the appropriate time period for current 3 year olds. That should give you workable data in a relative sense, so long as you note the methodology in your work. LOVE, VITALIS Edit: Owned by Lawnie
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Tin Gang posted:I don't recognize it but I'd wager it's some generic royalty free song. Sorry for the useless answer. Could well be. It was also used on a TV advert over here in the UK (I think around christmas?) a few years ago. If anyone can remember what the ad was for that might lead me to it.
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Why did GBS stop being a place to post and talk about the news, and then why was it deleted? E: I don't post in GBS
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Turtlicious posted:Why did GBS stop being a place to post and talk about the news, I think when gbs decided to donate thousands of dollars to an alabama hot dog man and there wasn't a single post questioning it, the admins decided old gbs had gone about as far as it could go. Turtlicious posted:and then why was it deleted? I think when gbs was still obsessed with an alabama hot dog man years after the fact without single funny or interesting ever being posted about it, the admins decided new gbs had gone about as far as it could go.
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Sep 22, 2016 23:10
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Neo GBS was a bastion of 4chan-level awful posting. I don't know why it survived a month, let alone multiple years.
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Sep 22, 2016 23:14
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Stupid question: What's the best way to learn to drive properly? I lived in NYC for too long, and didn't think I needed to drive there. Now I'm 21 and embarrassed to not have a license.
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Sep 23, 2016 01:14
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Find a friend you trust to teach you. And don't feel bad because I'm 30 and can't drive. Won't be able to learn for health reasons, either.
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Sep 23, 2016 01:17
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KittyEmpress posted:Stupid question: Driving school
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Where can I find a good layman's overview of pre-Islamic / traditional religion in the Songhai Empire? I've done some cursory searching but Wikipedia's woefully inadequate for this.
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KittyEmpress posted:Stupid question: You're young enough that when you do learn it, it'll eventually become second nature, almost as if you had learned at 16 like everyone else. If you put it off a few more years, though, you may never quite feel comfortable with it. So go learn now.
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Sep 23, 2016 02:14
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What is the World Wide Web? Is Xbox live a different internet?
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Where can I find a good layman's overview of pre-Islamic / traditional religion in the Songhai Empire? Try posting in an academic thread because medieval paganism is super specialized. All I remember from my undergrad course on West Africa is that little is known about actual practice 600 years ago.
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Sep 23, 2016 10:16
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Baron Porkface posted:What is the World Wide Web? Is Xbox live a different internet? If you're young enough that when you do learn it, it'll eventually become second nature, almost as if you had learned at 16 like everyone else. If you put it off a few more years, though, you may never quite feel comfortable with it. So go learn now.
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1 800 J JAMES posted:Sounds like a copy paste job for the lowliest and unluckiest admin person available? We have a work experience intern in this week and my manager said "can she do it?" My response was "even intern and work experience time is too valuable to waste doing this." ValleyOfWalls posted:Looks like this excel add-in provides this functionality. I was holding out for something like this! Awesome, thanks.
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Is https://twitter.com/DPRK_News real?
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So, in slightly older tv shows, mostly science fiction, there are usually what I call 'paranoia episodes'. In which a character suddenly wakes up for example in a modern day asylum, and they have to gradually piece together that they are not insane and that they are trapped in an illusion/dreamworld/holodeck/whatever. These were always my favourite episodes by far. I wonder if there is a specific name for these type of episodes?
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So I have a habit of saving quotes I like, but often I forget where they came from. Google isn't helping in this instance. I think? it was from a movie, but it's also possible it was a book. Kind of a long shot, but if anyone knows what this quote is from I would appreciate it “You kill a nobody and it makes you nobody. not a lot of people learn a lesson like that. some of them know they’re just nothing in the world, they keep at it though. they keep at it though. trying to carve out a niche. trying to step over the corpses of poo poo. they’re valuable to society. They’re only damaging the people that are already damaged. Nobody cares too much about them.”
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Sep 23, 2016 22:06
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You dare question the Supreme Leader?
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Namarrgon posted:So, in slightly older tv shows, mostly science fiction, there are usually what I call 'paranoia episodes'. In which a character suddenly wakes up for example in a modern day asylum, and they have to gradually piece together that they are not insane and that they are trapped in an illusion/dreamworld/holodeck/whatever. These were always my favourite episodes by far. I wonder if there is a specific name for these type of episodes? I know EXACTLY what you're talking about but I don't think there's any real name for it outside of gross fan wiki circles.
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Sep 23, 2016 23:15
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Mumps apparently has broken out in my workplace. I've received the MMR vaccine and its associated boosters on-schedule so I assume I don't have anything to worry about, right? I'm 29 years old if that matters.
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Tin Gang posted:I know EXACTLY what you're talking about but I don't think there's any real name for it outside of gross fan wiki circles. Found out that tvtropes calls them "Cuckoo Nest". God knows what the actual term is though, but that should be good enough to find more.
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Sep 23, 2016 23:45
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Baron Porkface posted:What is the World Wide Web? Is Xbox live a different internet? Someone else could probably explain this way better, but the Internet is an enormous network that connects computers all over the world. There's also intranet, which connects computers within, say, a building for use by a company or other organization. The internet is basically the same thing except way bigger and any modern device can potentially connect to it. Xbox Live works through the internet to connect the consoles to each other. It's not really separate from the edit: vvvv noted El Jeffe fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Sep 24, 2016 |
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Sep 24, 2016 00:06
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Strictly speaking, The internet is the global network as a whole, whereas the web refers only to web pages
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Mak0rz posted:Mumps apparently has broken out in my workplace. I've received the MMR vaccine and its associated boosters on-schedule so I assume I don't have anything to worry about, right?
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KittyEmpress posted:Stupid question: Driving school driving school driving school. I learned to drive when I was 16, then didn't drive for years, then relearned at driving school as an old. Driving schools are used to teaching adults. Everybody else I did driving practice with was at least 25.
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KittyEmpress posted:Stupid question: Get a friend who knows how to drive and find an empty parking lot. Learning to drive itself isn't that difficult, the difficult parts are remembering the road laws. Also other drivers, but there isn't much you can do about them.
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No it's run by this guy: https://twitter.com/Popehat . In the past journalists have mistaken it for a genuine North Korean news source. Hilarity ensues.
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Does anyone have fixes for gummy/tacky bags? Over the summer I kept my leather JOST backpack in my bedroom out of sunlight, but now it's come time to dust it off for the autumn the handle/straps are all gummy and whatever is coating/glueing the leather has also come off on the interior at the top. I had this issue before with a Furla bag, but I was living in Japan at the time, and put it down to the humidity. However, I live in the UK now and while it has been 'hot' it's only really been around the 20s with minimal humidity, but I find the same issue with the bag. More perplexing the Paul's Boutique patent bag which was kept in the same place has none of the same issues (which you would expect if it was a weather/storage problem). So, can I fix this? If I can't how do I stop it happening again? What exactly is going on with these bags?
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Updated windows 10 now I have no audio. what driver should i reinstall nevermind figured it out gently caress computers.
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ChocNitty posted:I got some music CD's without their jewel cases, and these are ones I do not recognize. If you know what albums they are, please let me know. The buffalo rear end is half of Foo Fighters' In Your Honor
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If I turn on a light switch with no light bulb or a burned out bulb, does my electric bill go up?
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Maha posted:If I turn on a light switch with no light bulb or a burned out bulb, does my electric bill go up? No. Or at least only an insignificant amount.
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Sep 24, 2016 18:42
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Shouldn't go up at all. Your light switch is just an open circuit that you close when you want electricity to happen. If there's no bulb then there's still an open circuit, just somewhere else on the line.
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Maha posted:If I turn on a light switch with no light bulb or a burned out bulb, does my electric bill go up? Nope. The lack of a bulb (or a bulb with a broken filament) does exactly the same thing that a lightswitch set to 'off' does -- interrupts the circuit, so there's no path for power to flow through. At least, for an old style incandescent bulb. Fluorescents or LED bulbs might burn out differently, since they're more complicated than "put a shitload of power through this tiny wire and it'll heat up and glow", which is how incandescents work. I could imagine a fluorescent swirly bulb failing in such a way that it fails to light, but still uses power since it's trying.
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On iOS 10 is there a way to make the screen follow a text box as you type like it used to in 9? For example, when writing this post I have to manually drag the screen around to follow the cursor or I can't see what I'm typing. Previously it would follow the cursor automatically. Also, is there a way to make it automatically switch back to the letter keyboard after inputting punctuation (also like it used to)?
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I received a letter from Charter saying that my internet service monthy rate will go up at the end of the month due to a one year promotional rate expiring. However, I'll be moving to a new apartment then, is it possible to start over with charter at the initial promotional rate?
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I literally just did the same thing (moved at the end of my promo rate) and all I had to do was call and tell them I was thinking of looking for more competitive pricing in my new area instead of renewing when I moved and they extended the promotional rate another year. As long as you're not a dick about it they generally won't call your bluff. It does help to have another price to compare it to just to make it sound like you're really ready to jump ship.
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Powered Descent posted:I could imagine a fluorescent swirly bulb failing in such a way that it fails to light, but still uses power since it's trying. Seeing that incandescents are nearing extinction, Maha may well have been thinking of CFLs. And now you've got me wondering if the ballast continues to draw any power at all after the tube's gone completely kaput.
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CaptainViolence posted:I literally just did the same thing (moved at the end of my promo rate) and all I had to do was call and tell them I was thinking of looking for more competitive pricing in my new area instead of renewing when I moved and they extended the promotional rate another year. As long as you're not a dick about it they generally won't call your bluff. It does help to have another price to compare it to just to make it sound like you're really ready to jump ship. usually saying (nicely) that you're looking elsewhere for a better deal is a good way to get promotional rates extended. i literally got my bill cut in half for an extra year because i said i was thinking of cancelling and moving to a competitor, even without moving.
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