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Golbez posted:Touche (and nice use of Well, then I guess I'm just confused about your use of the word event, or the dating of them. Without a point of reference somewhere, it becomes impossible to accurately date an event. Loonies have calculated the Earth is 6000 years old by counting "begats" in the Bible. Imagine if one of those "begats" had a reference saying "By the way, Gordon was born in a year with both a lunar and solar eclipse! It was whack, yo". Then we could probably pinpoint Gordon's birth and then clear the whole thing up. We can also date events without using astronomical data. The Year Without a Summer occured in 1816, after a volcanic eruption and low solar activity in 1815. Of course, we have plenty of sources for that. Golbez posted:Superstition and ignorance suck, but it'd be nice if modern wars could be stopped by something so simple. Yeah, too bad that Presidents (*cough*Bush*cough*) only uses religion to go to war, not end it.
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Loopyface posted:If you're planning on tipping, which you absolutely should, you need to close it. Some places add an automatic gratuity to tabs left unclosed at the end of the night.
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but someone told me about a webcomic with a strip about how Americans sound to British people and vice versa. Could have been xkcd but he isn't sure. Google Images turns up nothing. Any ideas?
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Saint Rockhopper posted:Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but someone told me about a webcomic with a strip about how Americans sound to British people and vice versa. Could have been xkcd but he isn't sure. Google Images turns up nothing. Any ideas? Loath as I am to link there for any reason, nonetheless, you're looking for The Oatmeal.
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What was that website that I read a whole bunch about that was supposed to be sort of like Wikipedia but it only cataloged every animal species? They got a bunch of start up capital and generated a bunch of publicity, but when I checked it out a year or two ago, it was very small and pretty worthless. I remember them featuring that hairy white lobster prominently on their page.
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At my part time job someone abandoned a beat up old mountain bike. Not locked up or anything. It was there for an entire day before I brought it inside. We have kept it in a lost and found for almost a week. I want it, since no one is coming to claim it, but my manager thinks we should call the police to see if someone reported a bike missing. I am thinking that most likely no one called it in, or that the police will just impound it and I will never see it again even if no one ever claims it. What's the right way to go about doing this to see if anyone is looking for it without the police just snatching it up (or do they even do that?)
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You could call the police department and ask them what they do. I know some places have bike auctions every year from bikes that have been cut off of bike stands for being there too long.
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Got a straight dude friend who's interested in cross dressing. He's not interested in living like a woman or dressing like a normal lady. He wants to be fabulous and gorgeous for special occasions, though, knowing him, I'm thinking he wants to be a little more tasteful than sequins and feather boas. Then again, this is kinda new for him, so maybe that's an option he should try out anyway. Anyway, I'd like to support him on this journey and am looking for advice. Mostly, I'd like to find some shops in Nor Cal and go shopping with him. I'm not being completely altruistic here. He's very narrow waisted and can wear my tiny girl pants, but his shoulders are super broad. Like, he even has problems getting dude shirts to fit. He is shaped like a perfect triangle. If you guys could even just direct me to an appropriate thread on SA that would be FABULOUS!
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I'd try the transgender thread or faggoon thread in E/N.
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Hi! I posted this in GWS but it didn't really fly in the catch all questions thread: Help, you glorious bastards! I am in Paris on my honeymoon and so far we have had fairly good meals at little bar/cafes, but before we leave I'd love to eat at a really fantastique French restaurant. It doesn't have to be 4 star Michelin. In fact I'd prefer something we didn't stress over reservations and hundred-euro price tags. Any good recomms?
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How long does it take for refrigerated soda-pop becomes undrinkable*? *Hazardous to health, and not hazardous in that "Oh soda's bad for you way", hazardous in the "Hey this H2SO4 looks mighty tasty." way.
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I got into an argument earlier about cremation. Are the corpses taken out of the coffins before they're burnt or do they just toss them in the furnace, casket and all? In one of the funeral parlors in my town, they remove the bodies and transfer them onto a stretcher of sorts, which transports them into the furnace. This is done partly because of the high cost of caskets, so I'm not sure if this is the standard practise everywhere.
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KildarX posted:How long does it take for refrigerated soda-pop becomes undrinkable*? Has it been opened or no? If it ain't been opened it can last 5 years or more, if it's been opened, about a year, if I remember right. People sell really old soda online that's been kept in storage for 20+ years and it's usually still drinkable as long as it stayed sealed.
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KildarX posted:How long does it take for refrigerated soda-pop becomes undrinkable*? If it doesn't have anything growing in it, it probably won't make you sick.
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Ariza posted:What was that website that I read a whole bunch about that was supposed to be sort of like Wikipedia but it only cataloged every animal species? They got a bunch of start up capital and generated a bunch of publicity, but when I checked it out a year or two ago, it was very small and pretty worthless. I remember them featuring that hairy white lobster prominently on their page.
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Feenix posted:Hi! I posted this in GWS but it didn't really fly in the catch all questions thread: Try this thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3318901
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Edit: It really was a stupid question, and re-reading the OP pointed me to the right thread. Thanks!
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Is there a way to tell if a friend has blocked me from Facebook, or simply deleted their account? I got back in touch with a friend after a decade, we added each other, she posted all over my wall, we swapped phone numbers and promised to hang out if either of us were ever nearby, but for really, really no reason her posts disappeared from my wall, she's not on my friends list and while her name shows up in a quick search (with a profile picture she stopped using a really, really long time ago) it doesn't load at all. The full search function turns up no results. If she's deleted her account I might try to keep in touch every once in a while, but I don't want to bug her if she wants to be left alone. KittenofDoom fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Oct 18, 2011 |
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Oct 18, 2011 00:00
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Use another account.
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Huh. I guess she really did deactivate then. Thanks!
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How do get black mold out of the corners/edges of my shower? I'm using Scrubbing Bubbles and a decent brush, but it's not coming off. If I get a coarser brush I'm afraid I'll start to take off the caulk. I'm normally a very clean person! 
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jackpot posted:How do get black mold out of the corners/edges of my shower? I'm using Scrubbing Bubbles and a decent brush, but it's not coming off. If I get a coarser brush I'm afraid I'll start to take off the caulk. I use some spray stuff thats for showers. Let it sit for an hour or so and then use a very stiff/steel brush. You'd have to go really hard to start taking off chunks of grout
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Do big cats (lions, tigers, etc) purr?
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Ego-bot posted:Do big cats (lions, tigers, etc) purr? They can purr when they breath out, but not in and out like small cats. http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-smallcat.html Google for videos of them doing it.
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jackpot posted:How do get black mold out of the corners/edges of my shower? I'm using Scrubbing Bubbles and a decent brush, but it's not coming off. If I get a coarser brush I'm afraid I'll start to take off the caulk. If it is caulk and not grout (tiles vs cracks between door fixtures) just scrape it out and replace it. It's easy to do and the biggest mistake you can make is not sealing all the way or following pretty simple instructions for surface applications.
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How does geolocation work? I understand what it's used for. I was thinking about it earlier and it occurs to me that I don't really know how the nuts and bolts of it work - is it something like a PHP script that gets your IP and compares it with a table of IP address ranges or is it some hugely complex Google-style thing with banks of servers?
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Encryptic posted:How does geolocation work? I understand what it's used for. I was thinking about it earlier and it occurs to me that I don't really know how the nuts and bolts of it work - is it something like a PHP script that gets your IP and compares it with a table of IP address ranges or is it some hugely complex Google-style thing with banks of servers? Most geolocation services keep and maintain their own lookup tables. There's various means for actually figuring out what IP is in what location. With pay ones, you're paying for depth of coverage and accuracy. Some of the free ones are pretty basic -- just a flat file you can load and do lookups with. I'm not aware of any services that can do any sort of real-time geolocation.
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kimbo305 posted:They can purr when they breath out, but not in and out like small cats. The Cheetah can, however it's status one of the big cats is debatable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah
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kimbo305 posted:Most geolocation services keep and maintain their own lookup tables. There's various means for actually figuring out what IP is in what location. With pay ones, you're paying for depth of coverage and accuracy. Some of the free ones are pretty basic -- just a flat file you can load and do lookups with. I'm not aware of any services that can do any sort of real-time geolocation. Cool, thanks for the explanation. 
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Spermando posted:I got into an argument earlier about cremation. Are the corpses taken out of the coffins before they're burnt or do they just toss them in the furnace, casket and all? In one of the funeral parlors in my town, they remove the bodies and transfer them onto a stretcher of sorts, which transports them into the furnace. This is done partly because of the high cost of caskets, so I'm not sure if this is the standard practise everywhere. When my mom was cremated we had the option of a viewing in a casket. After the viewing, the body would be transferred to a "cremation vessel" (fancy words for a cardboard box) and the casket would be sent to a company that recycles them. What we opted for was a "limited viewing" where the body was tastefully prepared in the cremation vessel (which was covered in some very nice looking but almost certainly cheap silk sheets). After the viewing, the body, vessel, and sheets were placed directly in to the crematorium.
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I use google chrome. My hotkey to open a new tab is my middle mouse button. Why on some websites, such as metacritic, when I middle click something it opens a new tab with the link AND makes my current page the new link as well?
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What's probably happening is that Metacritic is trying to avoid a new page load. When you open a new web page, you have to re-request all of the images, scrips, stylesheets, ads... everything that the webpage displays. Due to the way that the HTTP protocol was designed, each of the elements is a separate request that has to be handled individually, which can be tens, or maybe a few hundred requests for a modern webpage. Web developers for large sites (Facebook, in particular, is guilty of this) have figured out that they can use Ajax and Javascript to shuffle things around, making it look like a new page has been loaded, but actually re-using most of the content that you've already downloaded from them. This means more efficient use of bandwidth and server processing time, in exchange for much more complex code. What's probably happening is that they're detecting a "click," and trying to stop the default "load a new page" behavior, and replace it with a "grab a few new elements" behavior. The new tab isn't having any of this, so you end up with the replaced behavior in the old tab, and the new tab loading the page as if you'd just typed the url into the location bar.
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:If it is caulk and not grout (tiles vs cracks between door fixtures) just scrape it out and replace it. It's easy to do and the biggest mistake you can make is not sealing all the way or following pretty simple instructions for surface applications. It's caulk, the rubbery kind. I'll just try scrubbing harder.
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Why do some guys grow the fingernail on one pinky really long?
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greazeball posted:Why do some guys grow the fingernail on one pinky really long?
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Feenix posted:It's a coke nail, although some people probably just do it for a counterculture fashion statement. That's all I can think of too, but I can't understand why you would do it when you work in an office.
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In Asian cultures, it's a symbol of being a wealthy white-collar worker since poor laborers can't have long pinky nails that will hinder their work or break off. It's sort of like having a tan that shows you're wealthy enough to not work and can go sunbathing all the time. Also, some use it to pick earwax.
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A guy I knew who played Flamenco guitar grew out all of the nails on one hand and used them as picks. Just the pinkie is probably a coke nail though.
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greazeball posted:That's all I can think of too, but I can't understand why you would do it when you work in an office. coke makes office work a lot more tolerable.
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Ego-bot posted:Do big cats (lions, tigers, etc) purr? The general rule I've heard is that cats can purr or roar but not both. Though as has already been pointed out, big cats can purr in a small way. Edit: and someone mentioned the cheetah, which indeed can purr but not roar. Golbez fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Oct 18, 2011 |
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