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jackpot posted:Yesterday, around 2pm, I was listening to my local NPR station and there was this short (ten minute) bit about a woman who taught a deaf man sign language, after never having been taught it for 27 years. it was amazing, and I want to find it online but I can't. Anybody else hear it and remember any details that would help me find it? Heres a transcript http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/transcript/
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Does YOSPOS not have archives? I had bookmarked a thread that is no longer in my list of bookmarked threads, and YOSPOS ends after page 5 with no visible archives. Am I missing something?
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2508084 posted:Heres a transcript http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/transcript/ Here's the recording, for anyone who's curious: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09
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The grounding/3rd prong on my mini fridge's plug broke off. In laymans terms, what could happen if I leave it plugged in without the prong attached? Will it damage just the fridge or could it hurt a person/pet/cause a fire? Alternately, could I super glue it back in? (kind of kidding, but you never know)
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drat Bananas posted:The grounding/3rd prong on my mini fridge's plug broke off. In laymans terms, what could happen if I leave it plugged in without the prong attached? Will it damage just the fridge or could it hurt a person/pet/cause a fire? Alternately, could I super glue it back in? (kind of kidding, but you never know) The earth pin is there so that if something goes wrong, electricity has an easy path to take. That makes it less likely to go somewhere you don't want it to. The best thing to do in your situation is cut off the plug and wire on a replacement. http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/skill-builder/0,,1576708,00.html
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OilSlick posted:Does YOSPOS not have archives? I had bookmarked a thread that is no longer in my list of bookmarked threads, and YOSPOS ends after page 5 with no visible archives. Am I missing something? Yes, but the custom style sheet prevents you from accessing them. If you know about when the thread was killed, you can go to another forum, enter the archives, and then switch to YOSPOS and you will be in the YOSPOS archives. There was a thread in QCS about getting this fixed months ago but it never happened.
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drat Bananas posted:The grounding/3rd prong on my mini fridge's plug broke off. In laymans terms, what could happen if I leave it plugged in without the prong attached? Will it damage just the fridge or could it hurt a person/pet/cause a fire? Alternately, could I super glue it back in? (kind of kidding, but you never know) You could become the path to ground while touching any exposed metal on the fridge, for one. I'd wire up a new plug for it, it's not too difficult.
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DELETED posted:You could become the path to ground while touching any exposed metal on the fridge, for one. I'd wire up a new plug for it, it's not too difficult. Unless its a plastic prong, in which case it is just there to open the other holes and it can be glued back on.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:The earth pin is there so that if something goes wrong, electricity has an easy path to take. That makes it less likely to go somewhere you don't want it to. The best thing to do in your situation is cut off the plug and wire on a replacement. I have a scanner/printer that someone gave me, unfortunately the previous owner literally cut the power cord instead of you know, unplugging it. I am reticent to just toss it because I really need the scanner, at the very least. Can I safely cut a three prong plug off something else and erm, attach it to make essentially a new plug? Or is that getting into 'you should really have an electronics professional fix this' territory? I'm pretty good with simple wiring things and have done wonders with speaker/stereo wires but I'm kind of leery of things with electricity going through them. When I was 16 I rewired a lamp and it blew up in the socket because I did it wrong, heh. I'm in my 40s now though, and a lot more careful.
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when worlds collide posted:I have a scanner/printer that someone gave me, unfortunately the previous owner literally cut the power cord instead of you know, unplugging it. I am reticent to just toss it because I really need the scanner, at the very least. Can I safely cut a three prong plug off something else and erm, attach it to make essentially a new plug? Or is that getting into 'you should really have an electronics professional fix this' territory? I'm pretty good with simple wiring things and have done wonders with speaker/stereo wires but I'm kind of leery of things with electricity going through them. When I was 16 I rewired a lamp and it blew up in the socket because I did it wrong, heh. I'm in my 40s now though, and a lot more careful.  ), so maybe you should ask for help. http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/skill-builder/0,,1576708,00.htmlYou can also buy replacement plugs at home depot and the like so you don't have to destroy something else or risk killing yourself if you forget to unplug it first 
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randyest posted:Yes of course that's easy. But then again you managed to wire an AC lamp socket such that it actually caused bulbs to blow ( Thank you! And yeah, I still don't know what went wrong with that lamp, other than I was 16 and never did anything like that before. I thought it would be quite a straight-forward procedure but the *fzzztBLAP* told me otherwise. Just call me Nikola  I'm probably a bit more meticulous now, and I've built several computers myself successfully, in the years since. It's nice to know that the scanner can be rescued, it's pretty nice and I didn't want to get rid of it. I'd ask my dad for help but he's kind of cranky unless it's his own house/belongings he's fixing. I should be ok though, with internet! and knowing that it's a common enough issue that Home Depot sells replacements.  Cheers!
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haveblue posted:Yes, but the custom style sheet prevents you from accessing them. If you know about when the thread was killed, you can go to another forum, enter the archives, and then switch to YOSPOS and you will be in the YOSPOS archives. Well gently caress. The thread I was reading was like 13000 posts long. I don't want to do that every time I want to read it. Is there any way to bookmark archived threads?
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OilSlick posted:Well gently caress. The thread I was reading was like 13000 posts long. I don't want to do that every time I want to read it. Is there any way to bookmark archived threads? Would a browser bookmark work?
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when worlds collide posted:Thank you! And yeah, I still don't know what went wrong with that lamp, other than I was 16 and never did anything like that before. I thought it would be quite a straight-forward procedure but the *fzzztBLAP* told me otherwise. Just call me Nikola Good luck!
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The other night, I got drunk, and I guess I peed in my closet? It could have been one of my roommates. Nonetheless, I discovered it late the next day after work-- a wet spot. Smelled it, sure enough, urine. By that time, it had half dried, but most of it was still in the carpet pad (I pulled up the corner in the closet). I mixed up some soapy water and went to work with a rag and scrubbed it hard. It didn't really work. I bought an enzyme cleaner from the store, and sprayed it on everything that was affected, still didn't help a ton. Today I tried vinegar on the pad and then mopped it up with a towel and put a fan on it. It still smells like it slightly, and only when you get close to it. Like when I'm picking up a pair of shoes, I can smell it mixed with the smell of enzyme cleaner/febreeze. Not too bad, but I'm really afraid. I'm a stickler for smelling good, clothes, cologne, bedding. I'm afraid that even if its a slight smell, its going to saturate my clothes. Firstly-- Should I fear this? Secondly-- What can I do, over time, to get rid of whats left of the odor?
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Bob A Feet posted:Firstly-- Should I fear this? I wouldn't worry about it, but if you're really concerned I've found that baking soda can get rid of it. Just sprinkle some on the spot and let it sit for a while and then vacuum it up. If it lingers, you can mix it with a little bit of water to make a paste and then spread that on the area and let it dry. After it dries, vacuum it up. A friend of mine swears by Listerine, too.
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Try the pet odor remover stuff - I've used it in the past with an aging cat, and more recently when my son drank a lot of juice and has leaked on furniture. Of course this is just some leaking and not a full blown adult piss, but I can say with certainty that my comfy chair doesn't reek of child-piss.
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If you rent a movie from Redbox at 1am midnight Sunday, is it due on Tuesday at 9pm? Or what time should I rent something to get the maximum hours.
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b0nes posted:If you rent a movie from Redbox at 1am midnight Sunday, is it due on Tuesday at 9pm? Or what time should I rent something to get the maximum hours. I was just looking at an email receipt from them, and it says quote:Thank you for using Redbox! The receipt below is for your first night's rental. If you keep your rented disc for any additional nights, Redbox will process those charges after your disc has been returned. If you return your rented disc by 9:00 PM tomorrow, you won't receive any additional charges and this will be your final receipt. But never mentions the due date specifically. The email has the date and time of your rental, so maybe after midnight you do get an 'extra' day?
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kensei posted:I was just looking at an email receipt from them, and it says Well not really an extra day but an additional 23 hours.
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On the way home from work I saw a guy (I think) crossing the road with a friend of his. This guy was wearing a really crazy outfit that I guess was an eastern religious thing, as both were asian. My first guess was that he was a Shinto priest or something, but I can't find anything online that matches what he was wearing. Warning: Horrible MSPaint incoming (thumbnailed so as not to offend the senses)  His robes were a pale grey with really large sleeves, so that you almost could not see his hands. Two things that stood out to me were his shoes (they looked like any old pair of sneakers except there was a pointy bit at the very tip of the toe that looked a bit like a fleur-de-lys) and his hair, which had a piece of grey material tied around a bun on top with the other end I think tied somewhere on his body. Anyone have any idea what he was?
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The top knot sounds like a Taoist monk thing. Was he wearing leggings above his shoes? e: check out these two: http://www.china-cart.com/d.asp?d=9741 http://www.china-cart.com/d.asp?d=13549 kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Feb 28, 2012 |
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Chrome updated for no reason and now thumbnails are outlined in red and I can't expand them by clicking them. I have to right click > open in new tab. What's the deeeeal?
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Clumsy Card House posted:Chrome updated for no reason and now thumbnails are outlined in red and I can't expand them by clicking them. I have to right click > open in new tab. What's the deeeeal? Have a look at this thread.
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Planning to order 5 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to support the gynocracy. I can choose between these: Thanks-a-Lots Shoutouts Lemonades Shortbread Thin Mints Peanut Butter Patties Carmel deLites Peanut Butter Sandwiches Any recommendations?
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Zotwoz posted:Planning to order 5 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to support the gynocracy. I can choose between these: What country are you from? Never heard of the first two. Thin mints and caramel delights/Samoas are my personal favorites though.
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Peanut Butter Patties, also known as Tagalongs, are fabulous. Shoutouts are caramelized crispy cookies and Thanks-A-Lots are shortbread cookies with a chocolate bottom. Here's a good list of them all.
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ferretsrule posted:Have a look at this thread. Thanks!
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Fire In The Disco posted:Peanut Butter Patties, also known as Tagalongs, are fabulous. I'd swear I read a thread somewhere that talked about East Coast and West Coast bakeries, which is kinda supported by this part of the Wiki Girl Scout Cookies page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scout_cookie#Production
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Different troops also have different ones available, much to the dismay of some customers. I help my niece sell every year and we had a few repeat customers who were disappointed that we didn't have the one he really liked from last year.
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I'm looking for resources on, erm, death statistics  due to various types of nasty events in transportation. Car crashes and bike crashes. If I'm lucky, stats on climbing/hiking would be nice too.The background: my mom gives me crap about biking as my main mode of transportation, and also climbing/hiking (and I don't even do trad climbing, yeesh). I always tell her that she's one to talk given that she drives a car for at least an hour total every day. But she thinks they're totally incomparable in the levels of danger, because she lives in a world where everyone drives everywhere and doesn't give it much thought. I know these sorts of statistics are to be taken with grains of salt, these things depend on your individual actions, etc. I just want to show her (from a source that is not me) that the amount of danger in driving vs biking is at least comparable. Basically if she thinks that she is nearly invincible driving a car, and that I am laughing death in the face every time I bike on a street, is there anything i can point to that might convince her otherwise?
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alnilam posted:I'm looking for resources on, erm, death statistics I don't have time right now to help you, but I love this kind of stuff. Start with Google Scholar -- here, have a link quote:Abstract 
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dokmo posted:I don't have time right now to help you, but I love this kind of stuff. Start with Google Scholar -- here, have a link Thanks, that helps a lot
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any good recommendations on password generation / storage software on an unrelated note how about cash register software for food deliver places, my job is stuck in the stone age 
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I like Password Safe. It's free/open-sourced, and relatively straightforward to use.
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Black Noise posted:any good recommendations on password generation / storage software
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Black Noise posted:any good recommendations on password generation / storage software I like LastPass because it's cross platform and seemless, but some people are put off by having their passwords "in the cloud".
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dokmo posted:I don't have time right now to help you, but I love this kind of stuff. Start with Google Scholar -- here, have a link edit: Now I see the chart does not include the person-trip factor in each category yet so it doesn't show that walking is more dangerous than cycling. Still curious about fatalities per person-mile traveled for each mode of transportation. randyest fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Feb 28, 2012 |
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randyest posted:Thanks! That's cool info and wow walking is more dangerous than cycling "per person trip" but what the heck is a "person trip" and why wouldn't the stats be per person-mile-traveled or something like that that's actually comparable? I know you just did a quick check, and I appreciate that (even though it's not even my question) but now I'm more curious to do an apples-to-apples (or miles-to-miles) comparison. Off to google scholar... I think maybe per person-mile is actually not as comparable because cars travel a ton more miles than people in a given time. But I see your point. Although the main gist of their study seems to be the idea of "travel exposure," i.e. how much time you are "exposed" to the conditions of being e.g. a pedestrian. So in that case, maybe per [person]*[time travelling] would be a good measure? But maybe that's harder to get data on, since the data probably comes from people responding about how many trips they took by a given mode. So I think the authors of this study are only making inferences about the time-spent-travelling factor, based on some knowledge they might have of how long a typical trip in mode X is.
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