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du -hast posted:I have a question about a thread that I'm posting in here on these fine forums: I mean its hardly illegal, but there's nothing stopping them from using their money to harass and intimidate anyone with less money than them, assuming they give a poo poo to go to the effort of it. On the other hand, I've got a feeling that your real name isn't du hast, nor is it all that likely that they're gonna find the posts you make on SA even if you do use the name of the place.
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504 posted:Thanks Tuyop, ill give it a go.. I’m sorry if you’ve lost your data, but you should take this opportunity to look at cloud storage solutions for really critical data in addition to external hdds. I get 1tb of OneDrive for being an alumni at my university and I use it to store heavily encrypted volumes of my private documents. If you have several terabytes of stuff you need to save, you can set up Amazon glacier storage for pennies a month unless you do a huge restore. The most handsoff options are solutions like Backblaze that run in the background when your stuff is plugged in on a network or whatever. They’re like $6 a month, I think. Another option is to keep like a synology NAS with a RAID array and some scripts or software to run periodic backups. There’s an NAS thread in SH/SC if you’re interested in that. It’s not a substitute for cloud backups, but if it’s less critical data or you’re very paranoid about it then it’s better than nothing. I think that runs around $400 for a 4tb setup.
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Someone in the Shadenfroode thread mentioned you can prevent autoplay of embeded mp4s and those huge rear end video gif things and utterly dragging your entire browser to a standstill. How do I go about doing that? I'm using Firefox and can't find anything in particular in the Options page.
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du -hast posted:I have a question about a thread that I'm posting in here on these fine forums: Sorry to jump in with a pet peeve. HIPAA applies only to certain categories of people/companies: Health Care Providers, Health Plans, and Health Care Clearinghouses. In the last five or so years, I've seen this general notion creep into American public consciousness that HIPAA applies to all health information regardless of what/where/who. If I know that Dave has an STI because he told me/his girlfriend told me/etc. I'm free to spread that information without violating HIPAA because I am not a Health Care Provider, a Health Plan, or a Health Care Clearinghouse. Dave may have some claim against me for slander/libel/defamation of character, but those each have their own standards and are unrelated to HIPAA. You will not be violating HIPAA if you talk about this rehab/cult facility because you aren't one of the covered entities, but as others have pointed out, you may open yourself to general legal harassment if you're specific enough for this organization to care and pursue you.
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Are there people who are both Christian and Muslim, i.e. they believe Jesus was the messiah and that Muhammed was a true prophet of God?
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value-brand cereal posted:Someone in the Shadenfroode thread mentioned you can prevent autoplay of embeded mp4s and those huge rear end video gif things and utterly dragging your entire browser to a standstill. How do I go about doing that? I'm using Firefox and can't find anything in particular in the Options page. (1) In a new tab, type or paste about :config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful. (2) In the search box above the list, type or paste 'autoplay' and wait while the list is filtered (3) Double-click the media.autoplay.enabled preference to switch the value from true to false
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El Jeffe posted:Are there people who are both Christian and Muslim, i.e. they believe Jesus was the messiah and that Muhammed was a true prophet of God? iirc that’s the position of Islam as a whole
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dupersaurus posted:iirc that’s the position of Islam as a whole They accept Jesus as a prophet, not messiah. e: vvv Thanks El Jeffe fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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El Jeffe posted:Are there people who are both Christian and Muslim, i.e. they believe Jesus was the messiah and that Muhammed was a true prophet of God? dupersaurus posted:iirc that’s the position of Islam as a whole Islam generally rejects the divinity of Christ, but consider him a precursor prophet of sorts to Muhammed. The Quran as far as I remember doesn't speak much of his significance as the Messiah, but as far as the beliefs of muslims goes I'm sure it's all over the board, just like any religion. ChairMaster fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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ChairMaster posted:Islam generally rejects the divinity of Christ, but consider him a precursor prophet of sorts to Muhammed. The Quaran as far as I remember doesn't speak much of his significance as the Messiah, but as far as the beliefs of muslims goes I'm sure it's all over the board, just like any religion. Quran 3:45 posted:When the angels said: O Marium, surely Allah gives you good news with a Word from Him (of one) whose name is the '. Messiah, Isa son of Marium, worthy of regard in this world and the hereafter and of those who are made near (to Allah). But yeah, the exclusively Christian part is the divinity of Christ, not the Messiah part. Edit: reading more I didn’t realize just how much Jesus shows up in Islam dupersaurus fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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Feb 25, 2018 00:27
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He's like the most mentioned guy in the whole Quran I think.
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Oh the irony. Don't tell any red-blooded 'muricans.ladron posted:(1) In a new tab, type or paste about :config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful. How do I do this in Chrome? Hipster_Doofus fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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El Jeffe posted:Are there people who are both Christian and Muslim, i.e. they believe Jesus was the messiah and that Muhammed was a true prophet of God? I don't think you could be an observant Muslim and truly believe Jesus was the Messiah. Of course, there are Jews for Jesus and Messianic Christians/Torah-Observant Christians, so it does seem like someone could come up with an Islam/Christianity combo platter of some kind, but the Messiah business is kind of a sticking point. There's always Bahá'í, which holds that Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, the Báb (né Sayyed Ali Muhammad Shirazi, 1819-1850), and Bahá'u'lláh (né Mirza Husayn-Ali Nouri, 1817-1892) were all equal as Manifestations of the Divine, and that all the Abrahamic religions are mostly true, but that Bahá'í is the purest expression of those truths. As you might imagine, this hasn't gone over well, historically, with either Christianity or Islam, and the Bahá'í have faced a lot of persecution.
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AlbieQuirky posted:I don't think you could be an observant Muslim and truly believe Jesus was the Messiah. That's ethnic Jews being religious Christians though. As you say, believing Jesus was(is) the Messiah is basically the definition of being religiously a Christian.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Oh the irony. Don't tell any red-blooded 'muricans. (1) Go to mozilla.org.....
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Eric the Mauve posted:That's ethnic Jews being religious Christians though. As you say, believing Jesus was(is) the Messiah is basically the definition of being religiously a Christian. Saying Jesus is the Messiah AND the Son of God is what makes your Christian. As quoted earlier the Quran calls Jesus the Messiah, but he is just another man. The Judean Messiah is also just a man, but unlike in Christianity and Islam, hasn’t happened yet.
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Does anyone have those screenshots of Frozen characters edited to make them less ugly?
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ladron posted:(1) In a new tab, type or paste about :config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful. Thank you, I adore you so much! I promise to spare you when I murder god and take His place!
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Does anyone have those screenshots of Frozen characters edited to make them less ugly? Maybe ask this question in the COMPLETELY 100% OFFICIAL 'REQUEST IMAGES' THREAD, part two.
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Is there a way to search in archives?
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uwaeve posted:Is there a way to search in archives?  E: nope :rofl: E2: nope :roflmao:
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Hipster_Doofus posted:
E3: dammit; well you get the idea E4:  Finally! Hipster_Doofus fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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looking for a voice changer program to goof around with my friends. any suggestions? tried one called clownfish voice changer but it didn't work.
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Q8ee posted:looking for a voice changer program to goof around with my friends. any suggestions? tried one called clownfish voice changer but it didn't work. smoking works but it takes a while
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Does anyone know anyone who works at USPS/ Canada Post? I ordered a package from someone in the States (I live in Canada). The package almost made it to my house, but appears to have to have been lost somewhere between getting on the truck and getting to a Canada Post office, where it was not scanned when they sort the packages into trucks to be distributed among the drivers for the small communities in the area. Just contact Canada Post, right? WELL, it turns out that Canada Post cannot just order an investigation, they have to be contacted by USPS and told that they need to investigate a missing package. The sender attempted to do that, but was told that: quote:they could not open a ticket due to International Trade laws for this particular type of package. I was also informed that they cannot legally ask the Canadian post to trace this type of package, nor is the Canadian post obligated to keep exact tracking in this situation. I phoned Canada Post and told them this, they told me that they don't know what information the sender was given, however they absolutely cannot proceed without being requested to by USPS. I contacted the sender and asked him to try again, and I plan to drive to the post office where I think the package may have been lost and beg them for help. So far they have refused to answer their phone, even when I asked another Canada Post office to phone them. My question: How the hell do I resolve this? So far it's going nowhere and no one seems interested in helping.
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I know it hurts, but I'm not sure at this point there's any option left but to just accept that someone on the Canadian side stole it and that's that. :\
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I think after going in tomorrow that I'll just accept that it's gone and hope that maybe it will show up. It should have been here Feb 15th-16th, so if it got on the wrong truck it would have been by now, but yeah it's very aggravating to think it was stolen. Edit: The final advice USPS gave the sender was to wait for a week or two and it might show up.
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Doorknob Slobber posted:the deep state is a right wing conspiracy theory thing right? Conspiracy theorists from all sides have been theorizing about what is essentially "the deep state" (who's REALLY running the show  ) for a long time, but lately it's been a distinctly right wing thing especially if they use the phrase deep state. So, yes.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I know it hurts, but I'm not sure at this point there's any option left but to just accept that someone on the Canadian side stole it and that's that. :\ Well it turns out the magic words to get Canada Post moving are "I'm beginning to think an employee stole it." I just got off the phone with a rep, who I explained the situation to, but this time included my concerns that the package was taken by an employee. She "escalated" the call and put in a ticket, apparently someone will contact me tomorrow. Hopefully this will have a happy ending.
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If the deep state does exist, the assumption that it operates above the general inefficiency, infighting and bureaucracy of the government is sort of charming, I think.
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Eric the Mauve posted:That's ethnic Jews being religious Christians though. As you say, believing Jesus was(is) the Messiah is basically the definition of being religiously a Christian. Jews for Jesus are ethnic Jews who are religiously Christian. Messianic Christians and Torah-Observing Christians are a subset of fundamentalist Christianity, not people with Jewish heritage. In fact, they often clash with actual Jews because, surprisingly enough, Jews don't like it when Christians appropriate their observances. More here; the author is more kindly disposed toward these folks than I am. AlbieQuirky fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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Doorknob Slobber posted:the deep state is a right wing conspiracy theory thing right? I thought it was just a term for the people who make government run. The legions of bureaucrats in all the departments that execute the mandate of whatever portfolio based on the will of elected officials and don't lose their jobs when the government changes. In Canada we just call it "the bureaucracy" and they're supposed to be sworn to do their best regardless of their personal convictions and stuff. This is also why you don't need to be an expert to hold a portfolio. For example, I think most of the time the Minister of Education (which is a provincial ministry) is not, themselves, an educator, but the Deputy Minister (who's a bureaucrat) should be an expert. Our past three Ministers of National Defence before the current one had no military experience, and the incumbent minister is a reservist who lied about his service. Though that's from a country where words still sort of matter. It wouldn't surprise me at all if "deep state" has become a ridiculous dog whistle term in the US.
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I for one had never heard the term Deep State until this week and suddenly I’m seeing it everywhere. Then again I am in the UK where we probably don’t get phrases like this until they are becoming mainstream buzzwords. I find it a sort of interesting concept, but as noted above the idea that this hidden state agenda somehow operates efficiently when the overt one is so shambolic is risible.
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The use of it in modern times originates from 80s/90s Turkey, because of the habit of the bureaucracy to use the military to depose leaders who started getting too authoritarian or to otherwise heavily intervene. It used to be it'd be just about Turkey in English use, with the occasional comparison to the Turkey aspect when talking about other countries.
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That’s why I can never find it in my heart to be angry at conspiracy theorists. Don’t we all want to live in a world where people are competent and efficient and the world is an ordered place where one lone person can’t just gently caress things up on a whim?
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So I went True Detective/ crazy person today and went into the last place my package SHOULD have arrived. I say SHOULD because it appears that it got on a truck at the Distribution Center, but the Canada Post it would have arrived at does not scan their parcels before they go out of delivery. So it's possible that a) the package is still on the truck or b) the package got off the truck and piled with other mail going to my area. They person I spoke to checked out back and could not find it. The paper I showed him listed the Escalations Ticket #, which he noted. I asked him if it were possible that the package went with the wrong driver, which he didn't seem to eager to agree with me on, but he did take 1) a copy of the pictures of the package/customs form/ sender receipt, the tracking info showing it stopped at the truck/ their office, and my number so that his supervisor could call me tomorrow. Tomorrow I will stop at each of the post offices along the delivery route for the driver and show them a picture of the package. The sender has asked me to hold off until March 5th, one month after sending the package, before we talk refunds/replacements. Is there any risk in this? Does Paypal have a deadline of some sort that I could miss by waiting? Edit: I don't think I mentioned it, but this is a Signature Required delivery, if that makes any difference in how they are tracked. Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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I won a coupon for a free Hershey's Gold bar through the Olympic games promotion. Where the heck can I redeem it? I've been looking everywhere and keep getting denied. Walmart won't honor the coupons even though the coupon is through Hersheys. I tried to get the manager involved but he said it was a store policy. I did get the contact information for the regional manager, but I'm not sure if they'll be able to do anything.
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Professor Shark posted:Tomorrow I will stop at each of the post offices along the delivery route for the driver and show them a picture of the package. nossir, I've never seen a box like that
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Bioshuffle posted:I did get the contact information for the regional manager, but I'm not sure if they'll be able to do anything. that's a lot of work for a free piece of candy. why don't you call hershey's? from the website: Call or Text* 1 (800) 468-1714 @ASKHERSHEY
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