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Thanatosian posted:Outlook could be risky, but if you have a web login, you should be able to safely use that without a problem, provided it doesn't automatically download pictures or run scripts in emails (I know GMail doesn't). If you want to be double-safe, use a browser logged in from a sandbox (like Sandboxie). You could probably even open an email in Outlook running in a sandbox and be fine, but I'm not 100% confident in that. Thanks, I went through with it. No pictures or anything, apparently my mom visits a drug website (didn't click the link) and owns an iphone. Going to have her scan her laptop and change her email and her facebook passwords, its just weird that the sender used her entire name, even that stupid thing she does with her maiden last and her husband's last name.
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The Zombie Guy posted:Thanks for the link, I'll give this a shot tonight and see how it goes. I use this knot too (learned from the same link). It's so good that it should replace the traditional shoelace knot and be taught to every child.
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Friend of mine is having domestic violence issues at home. She gets into arguments with husband, locks herself into a room and he breaks stuff around the house. She said she was going to file a police report about it but now is hesitating because she thinks it's going to end their marriage. Are there statistics or websites that spell out why filing a police report is in her best interest that I can show her to convince her to file it? I realize this may be futile and any advice is welcome.
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Back on mosquito bites: Hydrocortisone has never done anything for me on anything. Drop of ammonia on a bite will help for a little while. One "weird old trick" I've recently been told about, works for a few minutes, use one of your fingernails press hard down into the bite for 10 secs or so so it leaves line, do another line 90deg from that making a + sign. edit: Mosquito bites drive me crazy I'll scratch till I bleed sometimes, this time of the year when they 1st start biting they're especially bad and bother me for days. Come september I'll get bites and be annoyed by them for like 30mins, then nothing. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 23:50 on May 14, 2013 |
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One of a small but sufficient number of nice things about living in Las Vegas: mosquitoes can't be loving bothered to live here either.  and with good reason. 104 deg farenheit today jesus h christ
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Steve Yun posted:Friend of mine is having domestic violence issues at home. She gets into arguments with husband, locks herself into a room and he breaks stuff around the house. Call an abuse hotline or shelter and ask for their advice.
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I have a Garmin GPSMAP 78. It's just a pretty standard new-ish model handheld GPS unit. Whenever I add a new waypoint, it puts the time beside it and it's driving me crazy. I don't want my waypoint to show up as Waypoint1 (7:45 p.m.). I just want it to say Waypoint1. The most annoying thing is that it doesn't do it to every waypoint, just some of them. And sometimes it will add the date instead of the time. I just reset it to the factory default and now it's making all of the waypoints show the time. How do I get it to... not do that? EDIT in case anyone even remotely cares: I kind of figured it out. If the waypoint name is < 4 characters it adds the extra information. Weird. razz fucked around with this message at 03:43 on May 15, 2013 |
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May 15, 2013 01:45
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nesbit37 posted:This question is probably better for Traditional Games but I could not find a relevant thread to stick it in, so lets try here. Agricola is a family planning, farm building game that's really deep and can even be played by yourself. It's cool, but really complex and lengthy.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Does anti-itch cream actually work for anyone on mosquito bites? I don't know why I keep trying it, it does nothing at all to me, it never has. Is it just something about me, or is it meant as a placebo? The one I've used (Paraderm Plus) has bufexamac (anti-inflammatory) and lidocaine (anaesthetic), so it works pretty well. No idea if it'd be available wherever you are though.
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What is the financial term used to describe the amount of time it will take to break even on an investment? For example, if I had a tool that builds widgets and was thinking of buying a better faster widget building tool and I wanted to know how many widgets I'd have to build to offset the cost of the new tool and start making a profit. There is a term to describe this type of analysis, but I can't think of what it is.
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SkunkDuster posted:What is the financial term used to describe the amount of time it will take to break even on an investment? For example, if I had a tool that builds widgets and was thinking of buying a better faster widget building tool and I wanted to know how many widgets I'd have to build to offset the cost of the new tool and start making a profit. There is a term to describe this type of analysis, but I can't think of what it is. I think you're thinking of amortization.
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Anyone have a SodaStream or particularly a SodaStream Source? I have one, love it, but I feel like I'm wasting CO2. If the thing starts whistling like a pissed-off banshee, is the water already as carbonated as its going to get or should I keep going until the instruction manual says to let go (about 
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SkunkDuster posted:What is the financial term used to describe the amount of time it will take to break even on an investment? For example, if I had a tool that builds widgets and was thinking of buying a better faster widget building tool and I wanted to know how many widgets I'd have to build to offset the cost of the new tool and start making a profit. There is a term to describe this type of analysis, but I can't think of what it is.
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Ciaphas posted:Anyone have a SodaStream or particularly a SodaStream Source? I have one, love it, but I feel like I'm wasting CO2. If the thing starts whistling like a pissed-off banshee, is the water already as carbonated as its going to get or should I keep going until the instruction manual says to let go (about To piggyback on this, does the Red Bull out of those things taste anything like real red bull?
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Ciaphas posted:Anyone have a SodaStream or particularly a SodaStream Source? I have one, love it, but I feel like I'm wasting CO2. If the thing starts whistling like a pissed-off banshee, is the water already as carbonated as its going to get or should I keep going until the instruction manual says to let go (about Mine just says to pull until it farts, then twice more. But i'm not sure of the model. Probably not the same upon rereading, but yeah in terms of chemistry there is a saturation point for co2 in water.
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There may be a better place for this, but if anyone can find out where I can buy this flag I'd be very grateful. I can buy you an Avatar or whatever. All I can find are small patches. 
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http://www.amazon.com/Polyester-Black-White-American-Recession/dp/B008ADJSX4
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That's black and white not brown and beige
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I have a stupid question that I've never been able to answer satisfactorily. I got home at 4:30 PM today. The thermostat said 72*F then. The sun shines on my apartment wall up until about 1 PM, then it passes over completely and begins shining on the other side of the building where I don't live. At 10 PM, it was 76*F. Right now, at midnight, it's 77*F, and fairly well past my tolerance for heat to sleep comfortably. My apartment is on the first floor, eastern facing. There's another row of apartments between me and the setting western sun in this building. I've experienced the phenomenon of my apartment(s) (happens in pretty much every place I've lived) getting uncomfortably warm at night in summer, and going from "chilly" to "toasty" at night in winter, across about 6-7 different places. I've lived in rooftop apartments, western facing apartments, eastern facing apartments, first floor apartments. Same poo poo happens everywhere. It's convenient in winter, at least. I used to attribute it to people coming home and turning on THEIR heat until I realized it was also happening in my current and highly-insulated "green" apartment. If it was "the building is releasing stored heat" then surely it would be happening much earlier than 9 to 11 PM... say, a couple hours after my yard and my side of the building are completely out of the sun and in the shade, instead of six hours after? Same stuff with "it's your body heat" - shouldn't it be happening a couple hours after I get home, instead of hours and hours later? I experience the same phenomenon of cool days and hot nights on the weekends, when I'm typically in my apartment for most of the day. Google is incredibly unhelpful on this issue. Why does this happen against all common sense / thermodynamics?
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What stuff do you turn on when you come home/at night? The oven would probably be too obvious, but lamps can turn the heat up in a room considerably.
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I play Ingress a location-based game, and I was insturmental in making a giant 'field' consisting of links between real-world locations. Is there any map-focused site where I could punch in the locations onto a map and it would calculate the (approximate) square mile area of said field? It's a trivial, personal thing to want to know, but I don't think GMaps has this ability. EDIT: Never mind, this served my purpose quite well. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 07:23 on May 15, 2013 |
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Wagonburner posted:Back on mosquito bites: Hydrocortisone has never done anything for me on anything. Drop of ammonia on a bite will help for a little while. When I was a kid mom used to put a coat of clear nail polish on mosquito / chigger bites and it seemed to help if I remember correctly. I got the gently caress out of the south / bug land years ago so I haven't tried it as an adult, but it's cheap and low risk so maybe worth a shot.
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Hey. I'm moving from Germany to the U.S. in a couple of months. Would someone be so kind to tell me about living expenses in Phoenix, Arizona? (or where I could get information on that subject) Biggest questions are: - what's the rent for a 2-3 room appartment in a non-awful part of town? - is food significantly more expensive than in Germany/other parts of the U.S.? - are doctors more expensive than in other parts of the U.S.? (dental, orthopaedic specialists)
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Phoenix is one of the cheaper big cities to live in especially compared to cities like NY, Chicago, San Francisco. -1000 to 1500 depending how nice you want. You may as well look at renting a house for about the same price. -no -no
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b2n posted:Hey. I'm moving from Germany to the U.S. in a couple of months. You will need a car unless you are living in Tempe and going to ASU. Even then you will really really really want one.
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Capt. Morgan posted:Phoenix is one of the cheaper big cities to live in especially compared to cities like NY, Chicago, San Francisco. greazeball posted:You will need a car unless you are living in Tempe and going to ASU. Even then you will really really really want one. Thank you both. I'll be working near Hadley Square, so I'd preferably live in that area. I'm assuming a decent car + insurance + 2to3 room appartment/house is definitely possible in PHX with a gross 65k salary?
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Thanatosian posted:Break even analysis? I figured it out, it is Cost-Benefit Analysis.
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Schweinhund posted:What stuff do you turn on when you come home/at night? The oven would probably be too obvious, but lamps can turn the heat up in a room considerably. I generally have one or two lamps on, they use the newer style bulbs though which aren't supposed to be as hot right? It might be my computer, but like I said - shouldn't that heat be kicking in a lot earlier than 10 PM, especially when I'm home all day long? I'll try leaving the lights off tonight and sitting in the dark like a goon and seeing if that affects it.
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A section of my gums has been slightly swollen for the past couple days. It's barely visible and isn't sore. Will this go away on its own, can I treat it myself at home, or do I need to go to a dentist? I'd prefer that it doesn't turn into something terrible when I'm out of town next week.
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b2n posted:Thank you both. I'll be working near Hadley Square, so I'd preferably live in that area. I'm assuming a decent car + insurance + 2to3 room appartment/house is definitely possible in PHX with a gross 65k salary? Gross? I'd imagine you'll be doing pretty well but I haven't lived there in years.
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Whenever I reboot my laptop, the trackpad stops working correctly. I can still move the cursor, but the extra bits like two-finger scroll and three-finger right click don't work. The only way to fix it (until the next reboot) seems to be to open the Hardware/mouse section of control panel. I don't have to change any settings, simply open the panel. I'd rather not have to do this every time I reboot, small as it seems. Any ideas on a permanent fix?
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miryei posted:A section of my gums has been slightly swollen for the past couple days. It's barely visible and isn't sore. Will this go away on its own, can I treat it myself at home, or do I need to go to a dentist? I'd prefer that it doesn't turn into something terrible when I'm out of town next week. Do you floss? If not, you should floss.
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miryei posted:A section of my gums has been slightly swollen for the past couple days. It's barely visible and isn't sore. Will this go away on its own, can I treat it myself at home, or do I need to go to a dentist? I'd prefer that it doesn't turn into something terrible when I'm out of town next week. You could just go to a GP and ask their opinion. Probably cheaper and more convenient than seeing a dentist.
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Brannock posted:I have a stupid question that I've never been able to answer satisfactorily. As noted electrical appliances of all sorts are remarkably inefficient and tend to create tons of heat, especially lights (and of ovens, water heaters and hair dryers). But do not forget that people are enormous sources of heat, to the point that many buildings, even in rather cold places are heated by the body heat of the people in them. Well-designed large lecture halls in universities, can be heated simply by the classes in them (which is why they are so cold the first few days after winter break).
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pupdive posted:As noted electrical appliances of all sorts are remarkably inefficient and tend to create tons of heat, especially lights (and of ovens, water heaters and hair dryers). Fun fact: a person dissipates about as much heat as a 100W light bulb, which is proportional to the base 2000 Calorie diet.
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So if something that lies along the x axis is horizontal and something that lies along the y axis is vertical, what is a thing that lies along the z axis? Is there even a word for that in English?
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TetsuoTW posted:So if something that lies along the x axis is horizontal and something that lies along the y axis is vertical, what is a thing that lies along the z axis? Is there even a word for that in English? Oblique or slant.
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