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Jewel Repetition posted:Is this a real song or was it made for the vine? https://vine.co/v/OUljvzWBBiU Upper Echelon by TI and Travis Scott and 2 Chainz
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kapalama posted:And Japan has games where we get to look out a schoolgirl's panties. Your phrasing of this sounds like you wear the panties on your head and look through the material, and I refuse to believe you meant anything but this.
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Captain Bravo posted:I was in a disputed accident a few years back, somebody backed into my truck while I was pulling out of a parking space and claimed I was at fault. It was a 1 mph collision, with barely any damage, and they claimed medical expenses. I told the insurance company that was bullshit and that they were lying, and a week later I got a letter from them informing they had settled and paid the jerks a few thousand to go away. My rates went up by a bit and that was the end of it. Seems to be what's going to happen to me, yeah, more or less. The insurers have hired a forensics company to recreate the accident to see if injuries were feasible before they decide what to do, though, so my car's out of action for an extra few days for the forensics team to work with the car before it's fixed. At least their rental coverage is generous, at $50/day for 30 days max. Kind of nice driving a loaded VW Passat instead of my sort-of-loaded Mazda3 
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DavidAlltheTime posted:Your phrasing of this sounds like you wear the panties on your head and look through the material, and I refuse to believe you meant anything but this. I mean, there probably is one like that somewhere regardless of what they meant.
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Feb 25, 2016 01:40
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Wearing panties on your head got an anime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimoneta
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Jesus just when you think things can't get any more hosed up over there.
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Volcott posted:Wearing panties on your head got an anime. gently caress, I didn't know wikipedia was doing catfish work for the FBI. Now I'm on some kind of watchlist and I don't like it.
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To be fair, when someone describes the link as "An anime about wearing panties on your head", you kinda deserve whatever you get for clicking on it.
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I think I made it clear I wanted to be the one looking out of the schoolgirl's panties. That anime seems to be about schoolgirls wearing panties on their own heads.
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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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Ugh. I shoulda known! In other news, can optometrists polish out small scratches in glasses lenses? They look so superficial, it sucks to be thinking about a new pair if there's a quick fix.
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DavidAlltheTime posted:Ugh. I shoulda known! Err, sort-of, maybe, depending on where you live and what kind of glasses you bought. Most Optometrists you see usually don't usually make glasses or contact lenses, they just write prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses, and then point you to a side business that sells prescription eye glasses and contact lenses. That said, it's probably not going to kill you to call up the local lens warehouse to see if they can fix your glasses. Best case scenario is that they will fix it for you for free. Small scratches in glasses are a thing that happens and that's a cost of doing business for decent customer service. Worst case scenario is they tell you to go buy another pair of glasses. Which is what you were going to do anyway, so win/win there might find some decentcustomer service. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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kapalama posted:And Japan has games where we get to look out a schoolgirl's panties. Oh they made a game of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TozprFrnn10 greazeball fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Sometimes the scratch isn't actually in the lens itself but rather whatever coating you had put onto them. Anti-glare used to be really bad in that respect, but I've heard it's gotten better in recent years. The solution there is just to have them remove the treatment.
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Is there an easy way to reset / wipe your Facebook account without having to manually deleting everything or actually deleting the account?
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I keep seeing this thing on facebook, you surely have too ""Erase your old emails to save the environment!" Does it have any solid basis or is it slacktivism ?
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Busy Bee posted:Is there an easy way to reset / wipe your Facebook account without having to manually deleting everything or actually deleting the account?
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Can someone explain to me in idiot language what retroactive pay is, why it exists, and under what conditions it is paid to you? Suddenly today I received well over two grand, deposited directly by the university I used to study/work at. I checked the digital stub and it says "Scholarship/Fellow Retro" (which amounts to 50% of the pay) and "Scholarship/Fellow Monthly" (the other half of it) and I'm really confused. I was a grad student receiving departmental funding a few years ago so I assume it's related to that (especially considering the stub says "Job title: Scholar"), but I'm really puzzled as to why it's so much in one lump sum and why it was given to me over two years after I stopped receiving funding. I was a research assistant with the same university last summer and within the few weeks after my term ended I got a little bit of retro pay, but it was a comparable pittance so I didn't think much of it. The university is the only employer I've ever had to date that has done this. This is in Alberta, Canada.
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The usual reason for retroacive pay is some sort of bookkeeping that showed a incorrect pay rate, or (more commonly in my experience) pay given to people who were classed a contractors who an audit shows were required to be classed as employees. In the latter case, an outstanding employer retrocatively bump the pay rate to cover the self employment tax that the contractor is assumed to have to have paid. I have not had much experience with outstanding employers though.
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I bet if you talk to someone in the bursar's office they can tell you exactly what it's for.
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stubblyhead posted:I bet if you talk to someone in the bursar's office they can tell you exactly what it's for.
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photomikey posted:Don't take this the wrong way, but when I mysteriously get money I wasn't expecting, I shut the gently caress up and don't ask too many questions. That works out well until someone figures out the mistake after you've already spent it and now you have to repay a bunch of money you no longer have.
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photomikey posted:Don't take this the wrong way, but when I mysteriously get money I wasn't expecting, I shut the gently caress up and don't ask too many questions. Except when it's from a former employer who can then take it back at any time, well after you've spent it.
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DavidAlltheTime posted:I'm using a laptop as an RA. Yesterday, Windows said my key was expiring, and I needed to contact my admin to get a new one. I did, and he said to open my 'Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client' and it would update automatically. I opened it, and it did. It also connected to my University and made my usual WiFi connection say 'limited' while it was on, but I'm miles from my university. What is the Cisco software? Today it asked to be reconnected and I haven't yet, because I'm not sure what it is. Do I just need it when updating, or is it a good idea to have it on at all times? What else is it for? As already mentioned, Cisco Anyconnect is a VPN client: it sets up an encrypted "tunnel" for network traffic between your laptop and the University, essentially allowing you to use University's network resources as if you were connected to the university's local network. So with the AnyConnect open, you might be able to connect to network shares or remote-print documents to network-accessible printers at the uni, for example. For Windows itself, it allows the operating system to connect to all the Windows domain controllers/licensing servers/managed update servers the university computer admins may have set up, even if you are at a remote location. Depending on how it's configured, the encrypted tunnel might be used only for connections to the university resources, or it might be rerouting *all* your network traffic via the university while the tunnel is active. If it's the latter, then if your university has made any deals for university-wide access to online encyclopedias or similar, you should be able to use them remotely while Anyconnect is connected; however, you would then also be subject to any porn/  blocking filters the university might have.If I recall correctly, Anyconnect will automatically ask to reconnect if you shutdown your laptop without disconnecting it first: basically it attempts to return to the state you set it last, unless/until you tell it otherwise. If you need access to employees-only network resources at the university, or are handling personal information or other stuff that should not hit the public internet unencrypted, you should have it on and connected, and your experience with Windows key expiration indicates having it connected every now and then will allow Windows to do whatever background housekeeping it is configured to do; but if you are downloading something big (e.g. some new game from Steam), having all your network traffic encrypted and routed through the university might slow things down, so you might want it off in cases like that. TL;DR: Anyconnect makes your internet connection work like a really long, secure Ethernet cable between your laptop and the university network. While it's connected, you'll have all the benefits and disadvantages you would have when directly connected to the university network.
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I need some little-kid sciencey help. I’m looking for simple but fun experiments I can do or concepts to use that will reveal clues or communicate something. After reading the background below, other ideas are welcome as well, but basically I have to finalize and print my supply list and any color printed materials in the next 5 hours. I have a monochrome printer at home, and have plenty of time to do setup tonight. Pointing me to another thread is fine, too, I just figured a bunch of nerds would be able to help out in the Stupid/Small thread. The background is that my wife is going away this weekend and I have an almost-3 and almost-5-year old to myself. Coincidentally, the comet that I have been telling my kids that we are going to be able to see pass close to Earth tonight is not going to be there. Tomorrow morning, my kids are getting individualized packets in the mail from THE AGENCY stating that the comet was actually an alien craft that has landed in my town, and outlining the importance of our family’s contribution to the resistance. The aliens will be (at least until the very end) invisible. What I’m looking for are ideas that I can use to learn about the aliens to determine how to best fight them, as well as receive and decrypt the classified communications from THE AGENCY to locate the field kits (weapons, protective gear, supplies, that they have stashed around the house, yard, and neighborhood to help us out. What I have so far for science/nature/mathish stuff: Different white powders (one of which is baking soda) to react with the alien blood (vinegar) we find to determine a weakness. Simple substitution cipher for giving instructions/locating supplies (my 5-year old loves this crap and I’ll make sure he can read the resulting instructions). Makeshift compass for directionfinding to locate supplies (magnetized needle float thing). Lemon juice secret writing for instructions. Combining numbers that the younger one can read (either filling in blanks or simple addition) to find supplies etc. Color mixing with markers to find the right “something.” (e.g. the key for the shed is in the box with the orange arctic lego set, found by mixing red and yellow). The storyline is going to lead to them needing to sleep in a tent I set up indoors (first slumber party), a lot of crawling around the house trying to avoid being seen from the windows, glowsticks, decontaminations (baths), antidote to the space sickness the aliens can spread (jellybeans), a post-scarcity apocalyptic housescape, finding alien footprints in flour, walkie-talkies, some freeze-dried ice cream, binoculars, all the poo poo the kids go nuts for. We also have to recon an indoor trampoline park on Sunday for an as-yet-undetermined reason. I also haven’t really finalized the “climax and resolution,” but I have until Saturday night to come up with that to be able to set it up without being seen. I’m sure this is all going to backfire and fall apart but it’s fun to plan, and at the very least we get to do a bunch of fun unrelated poo poo.
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Have you considered just playing football with them
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It's childhood brainwashing like this that makes people hate aliens and leads to travesties like Independence Day 2 without Will Smith and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
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Dawncloack posted:I keep seeing this thing on facebook, you surely have too ""Erase your old emails to save the environment!" My best guess is the emails are just sitting on a hard drive somewhere so it's not a big deal. Like if everyone made an effort to delete some unimportant old emails then hotmail or whatever could put off their next datacenter upgrade by a few months. It would be helping the environment about as much as making sure you use *all* the toothpaste in the tube.
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[Tell] me about LARPing with my kids
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Just because you're schizophrenic doesn't mean your kids have to be too. Not to mention that you seem to be vastly overestimating the attention span of young children.
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Real talk: I feel like there's a distinct possibility that the concept of being under attack and forced to defend yourself from aliens is going to scare the poo poo out of at least one of your kids. Probably the one that's still two years old. Make the aliens friendly but shy, at least.
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 that's what I get for posting the background trying to preempt questions. I guess I was hoping to get something other than “do the rub a balloon on something to show static electricity,” in that this is an awesome experiment but wanted to figure out how to fit in into the theme.I appreciate the concern, but keep in mind these are my kids that I deal with every day, I would say I know their temperament etc. It’s not like I’m getting a random two-year old and dropping this poo poo on them “JESUS gently caress, GET TO COVER OR YOU’RE GOING TO loving DIE. GREAT, YOUR BROTHER JUST GOT HIS FACE EATEN OFF. STOP CRYING AND GET HIS BODY WE NEED HIS AMMO…” This is the kind of poo poo we do every weekend anyhow: little arts and crafts, science activities, running around inside and outside playing make believe, fighting off imaginary poo poo (and the last one is their idea, not mine), I was just trying to put a theme to it and have the little activities contribute to something larger. I don’t think I’m going to bill it as scary as it sounds, the younger one is honestly oblivious and the older one is good about pretending and playing along, and if he gets actually concerned I’ll just flat out tell him it’s pretend, and we just do our fun activities anyways. I'm probably just throwing gas on the fire but pretend I didn't post all the dumb larp poo poo and justifying my actions. I promise you guys I will post asking for advice from the hospital or when CPS removes my kids. e: for real the friendly but shy thing is a great idea, I will consider that instead of TRAGEDY IN BUENOS AIRES uwaeve fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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uwaeve posted:keep in mind these are my kids that I deal with every day Based on your post it really doesn't seem like it.
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uwaeve posted:TRAGEDY IN BUENOS AIRES Well now you've gone and changed my mind.
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They're probably a bit too young still, but there's a ton of stuff from Mr. Wizard's World on the youtubes.
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Don't listen to these childless asshats. You are being an awesome dad. They are just mad because their moms don't let them out of the basement still at the age of 42.
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you can do the trick where you write on a blank piece of paper with lemon juice. when the juice dries it'll be invisible until you hold the paper up against a light bulb or some other mild heat source edit: nevermind you already know that one
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Have them make a compass with a needle floating on something in water...?
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Tiggum posted:That works out well until someone figures out the mistake after you've already spent it and now you have to repay a bunch of money you no longer have. FCKGW posted:Except when it's from a former employer who can then take it back at any time, well after you've spent it. And this is exactly what I was concerned about. Turns out it wasn't retro-pay at all. I have a name doppelganger currently in the department that is preparing for his dissertation and is receiving pay for that. The department uses a different account for that funding than the one they use for Teaching Assistantship salaries and whatnot and it looks like they accidentally set it up for me when they made the switch. I unfortunately have to pay it back and I'm glad I found this out now rather than a month or so down the road. Too good to be true, I guess. Being an underemployed junior-level scientist in Alberta I was really happy to get the surprise cash. Oh well 
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I'm moving to an area where the only internet providers have data caps on all their plans. The caps are restrictive enough that it's most likely going to be a problem for my household. Do any of you have any tricks of the trade to either get around or mitigate broadband data caps? Or am I going to have to actually take my family outside to entertain ourselves?
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Danger Mahoney posted:I'm moving to an area where the only internet providers have data caps on all their plans. Why are you moving there then????
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