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Why are the CEOs of corporations paid such exorbitant salaries? I don't think it's just because they have extremely rare and precious talents. After all, kings and warlords make more money than the common folk, but it has nothing to do with the valuable services they provide to the populace. I think something more is at play here.
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SlayVus posted:This might be better suited for goon doctor, but I'll ask here first. Look up "plantar fasciitis"---there are lots of stretches to do that can help. Arch braces/sleeves might also be a good idea.
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Nov 23, 2013 08:55
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Baron Bifford posted:Why are the CEOs of corporations paid such exorbitant salaries? I don't think it's just because they have extremely rare and precious talents. After all, kings and warlords make more money than the common folk, but it has nothing to do with the valuable services they provide to the populace. I think something more is at play here. It's a very complicated question with lots of factors, but I've found this article helpful. http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/12/is_ceo_pay_too_.html quote:The thrust of their argument is that CEOs hold managerial power—simply put, leverage—over the boards that set their compensation. The leverage starts at the board nomination process—typically controlled by the CEO—and is reinforced by the information advantage the CEO has over the board in terms of the company's performance and his or her role in it. It persists because board members are generally reluctant to rock the boat and are somewhat toothless to do much given their limited time commitments as directors.
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Nov 23, 2013 08:55
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SlayVus posted:What can I do about foot pains? See a podiatrist? Unrelated question: You know those knobbly sticks you see them dipping in honey in commercials? These things:  What the hell are they for?
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Nov 23, 2013 09:34
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Tiggum posted:See a podiatrist? That's a honey dipper. You use them to get honey out of a jar and then spread it on stuff. Though they're quite old fashioned.
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Nov 23, 2013 09:39
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Tiggum posted:Unrelated question: You know those knobbly sticks you see them dipping in honey in commercials? These things: They have those at a local vegetarian/hippie restaurant. If you keep rotating them when you pull them out of the honey, the honey sticks inside the little grooves in the knob. If you stop spinning them, the honey drips out. It provides a surprising amount of control over how much honey you want in your tea or on your crumpet or whatever.
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Nov 23, 2013 12:17
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SlayVus posted:This might be better suited for goon doctor, but I'll ask here first. When I had this issue, I got some insoles. Specifically, I went to one of those gimmicky Dr. Scholl tester things where it supposedly analyzes your feet using advanced space-age technology. It's $50 for that though. There's a money back guarantee so if it doesn't work you can just return them I guess?
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Nov 23, 2013 12:47
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A tree branch cut the top of my head and a huge thorn went into my scalp, it bled all over my face but do I need to perform any kind of medical care on it, like sterilising the area with something?
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Nov 23, 2013 12:52
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Any wound you should clean and make sure it isn't too bad. Head wounds bleed a lot even when they're minor, but it's probably a good idea to clean it up and see how bad it is. If it's bad enough you may want stitches. Depending on how deep the thorn penetrated, it may have pushed some dirt or left some plant matter under your skin, which could be a potential vector for infection, or at the least irritation, like a splinter on your head..
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Nov 23, 2013 13:17
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Probably have better luck here Im sure it's some mainstream band but at any rate I saw a music video and liked the tune. The music video is the band performing (well mostly the dude singing) at some sort of event and a guy and girl , who's there with another dude, are flirting and in the end of the music video they run off into the city and are hit by a truck. Not a lot of details but the last bit should give it away.
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Nov 23, 2013 13:30
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When using Google to check the weather, why is the current temperature sometimes wildly outside of the temperature range for the day? For example, this morning shows a high of 0 and a low of -3, but a current temperature of -12. When the current temperature is that far outside of the projected range, why isn't the range adjusted accordingly?
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Nov 23, 2013 13:55
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:When I had this issue, I got some insoles. Specifically, I went to one of those gimmicky Dr. Scholl tester things where it supposedly analyzes your feet using advanced space-age technology. It's $50 for that though. There's a money back guarantee so if it doesn't work you can just return them I guess? That is exactly what I did not even 40 minutes ago. Sadly, I had to drive 1:30 round trip to get to one of their machines. Hopefully the insoles help.
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Nov 23, 2013 15:38
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miryei posted:When using Google to check the weather, why is the current temperature sometimes wildly outside of the temperature range for the day? For example, this morning shows a high of 0 and a low of -3, but a current temperature of -12. The range you see comes from the weather forecast, not observed data.
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Nov 23, 2013 15:46
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Reposting because someone here has got to have watched the X-Files:Hummingbirds posted:Are seasons 8 and 9 of the X-Files even worth watching? I'm afraid they might ruin the first 7 for me.
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Nov 23, 2013 16:15
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Hummingbirds posted:Reposting because someone here has got to have watched the X-Files: They won't ruin it, they're just not as good. It really depends on how much of a draw the monster of the week and conspiracy hooks are for you vs. the Mulder / Scully dynamic. Heck, they're nowhere near as bad as, say, James and Nadine's storylines in S2 of Twin Peaks, and they didn't ruin the show for me (though admittedly I skip over their plot lines during rewatches).
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Nov 23, 2013 16:21
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regulargonzalez posted:They won't ruin it, they're just not as good. It really depends on how much of a draw the monster of the week and conspiracy hooks are for you vs. the Mulder / Scully dynamic. Thanks, this is helpful, I guess if I can handle the extraneous s2 Twin Peaks material I should press on
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Nov 23, 2013 16:26
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I'm from Indonesia and in here Blackberry phones are super popular, to the extent that my gadget savvy brother was shocked that when I'm living in Australia nobody I know uses Blackberry. The general impression I get from skimming Inspect Your Gadget is that Blackberry isn't very popular? Why is this? Is it just because Apple and Android are marketed more heavily or is it because BlackBerry suck as phones? Some other factors? Before BlackBerry I've used N-Gages, so I have no taste regarding phones.
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Nov 23, 2013 17:26
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It's not a marketing thing, Blackberries just didn't evolve, they were great in the early to mid 2000s. They don't do anything new that androids and iphones do. We use them at work, I'm the computer guy and have to take care of the phones too and do love supporting them vs. the random mix of winmo phones we used to use.
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Nov 23, 2013 17:47
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I've seen some barbers rap hot wet towels around the faces of their customers. Why do they do this?
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Nov 23, 2013 17:57
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Baron Bifford posted:I've seen some barbers rap hot wet towels around the faces of their customers. Why do they do this? If it's before a shave, I believe it's supposed to relax and open your pores for a closer shave. Otherwise, it might just be because it feels nice. VVVVVV Well, on one, literal, unsatisfying level, it means exactly what it says. The Game of Thrones world has irregular seasons, so their summers can be "years" long, as well as their winters. On a symbolic level, it means "don't get comfortable, because hardship is always in the future." It's the family motto of one of the main families in the fiction, because they live in the northern regions that are hit hardest by winter, so it makes sense that they'd especially need to keep in mind the impending change of seasons. KnifeWrench fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 23, 2013 18:01
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I've never watched Game of Thrones and I don't know the signifcance of the "winter is coming¨ catchphrase. What does it mean?
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Nov 23, 2013 18:24
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toanoradian posted:I'm from Indonesia and in here Blackberry phones are super popular, to the extent that my gadget savvy brother was shocked that when I'm living in Australia nobody I know uses Blackberry. The general impression I get from skimming Inspect Your Gadget is that Blackberry isn't very popular? Why is this? Is it just because Apple and Android are marketed more heavily or is it because BlackBerry suck as phones? Some other factors? The main reason Blackberries are still popular in Indonesia, and in other countries like it, is that even though they have much restricted functionality compared to other phones, they are at least cheap. However, in America, Australia, and other more wealthy developed countries, the phone carriers have made it so that you can get the better phones that would ordinarily cost much more for the same prices as Blackberries. And that leaves them with no advantage at all.
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Nov 23, 2013 18:55
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Baron Bifford posted:I've never watched Game of Thrones and I don't know the signifcance of the "winter is coming¨ catchphrase. What does it mean? From what I understand, seasons last years and years (decades, maybe? I dunno) so winter is kind of a big deal and a terrible time, especially because there's this huge (mountain range scale) wall in the north keeping out all sorts of winter baddies (zombies and the likes, I guess) which will come south.
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Nov 23, 2013 19:44
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Taeke posted:From what I understand, seasons last years and years (decades, maybe? I dunno) so winter is kind of a big deal and a terrible time, especially because there's this huge (mountain range scale) wall in the north keeping out all sorts of winter baddies (zombies and the likes, I guess) which will come south. Also, at the time it's taking place, it's been a very long, multi-year summer (which folk wisdom says portents a long winter). A lot of people have started to take summer for granted, and have stopped giving a poo poo about preparing for it, and have stopped giving a poo poo about their guardians in the north who are supposed to be protecting them from zombies and the like when winter comes. Also it's the catchphrase of the ruling family of the northern territory, so they're all practical and poo poo and they're like "we are so ready for winter when it comes  "Light, vague spoiler below Also, metaphorically, a lot of bad poo poo happens to the family whose catchphrase that is, so there's that.
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Nov 23, 2013 19:53
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Baron Bifford posted:I've seen some barbers rap hot wet towels around the faces of their customers. Why do they do this? The beard hairs absorb the water, and stand up a bit more because the cells fill with water, which leads to a closer and less irritating shave. Also feels nice. Baron Bifford posted:I've never watched Game of Thrones and I don't know the signifcance of the "winter is coming¨ catchphrase. What does it mean? They are the words (motto) of House Stark, one of the most popular houses that feature heavily in the books. The world has unpredictable seasons that last for years, and being from the far North, House Stark has to be relatively spartan and always working to survive the potentially decades-long colds. It also is the general vector of the story, where things across the books get pretty much darker and more tragic for everyone as the story progresses, so "Winter is Coming" is sometimes seen as the unofficial motto of the series. Also most of the other houses' words are pretty forgettable, with the exception of "We Do Not Sow" for the more minor pirate-house Greyjoy, which probably contributes to Winter is Coming being commonly use among fans to evoke/reference the series as a whole. And watch Game of Thrones, that show is incredible! hoobajoo fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 23, 2013 21:14
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toanoradian posted:I'm from Indonesia and in here Blackberry phones are super popular, to the extent that my gadget savvy brother was shocked that when I'm living in Australia nobody I know uses Blackberry. The general impression I get from skimming Inspect Your Gadget is that Blackberry isn't very popular? Why is this? Is it just because Apple and Android are marketed more heavily or is it because BlackBerry suck as phones? Some other factors? So, when BlackBerry's first devices came out, they were highly secure email devices that integrated very well with Exchange servers using their proprietary software (BlackBerry Enterprise Server, or BES). So, most of the initial owners used them for business purposes. As they developed into phones, they continued to focus on that market, and built some very secure business phones. They were pretty much the only big phone OS manufacturer paying more than nominal attention to security, and BES made integration very easy. Then, BlackBerry started to make lovely phones. Their answer to the touchscreen was the BlackBerry Storm, which wasn't an actual screen, but basically a keyboard behind the screen (so you had to press down on the screen and have it click in order to register a touch). Further, the BES software stopped working as well, and iPhone and Android started to blow up. Since iPhone and Android were less niche, they had way more apps, and app developers weren't really interested in BlackBerry as a platform. Between the lack of apps and the lovely phones, people started moving away from BlackBerry into Android and iOS. Also, from a business perspective (BlackBerry's main market), iPhones and Androids were much easier to support (if less secure); setting up a Blackberry took probably half an hour, setting up an Android or iPhone takes about five minutes, if that. By the time BlackBerry fixed their lovely phone problem, most of their user base had jumped ship, and were now living in a walled garden of some variety (i.e. they have a bunch of iOS, Android, or WinMo apps that they lose if they switch back to BlackBerry). It put BlackBerry in a very lovely position, that they are unlikely to ever come back from. If you've ever used a Storm or Storm 2, though, you know they totally loving deserved it.
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Nov 23, 2013 22:12
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I know nothing about plants or how to keep them alive. I bought a Rosemary plant, and it came in a plastic pot. I own a terracotta-looking pot. Should I take the dirt & plant out of the plastic pot and put it in the other, nicer-looking pot? Or is the terracotta pot intended to hold a smaller plastic pot?
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Nov 24, 2013 00:09
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Gravity Pike posted:I know nothing about plants or how to keep them alive. I bought a Rosemary plant, and it came in a plastic pot. I own a terracotta-looking pot. Should I take the dirt & plant out of the plastic pot and put it in the other, nicer-looking pot? Or is the terracotta pot intended to hold a smaller plastic pot? Definitely put it in the terracotta; rosemary will die if it has wet roots and plastic tends to hold water longer. I'm on my phone so I can't link but we have several plant threads, there's one in DIY . The OP will have some good pointers on how to keep your plant alive.
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Nov 24, 2013 00:17
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So uh, my richass cousin gave me some macaroons. According to him there is literal gold in them?! I mean there does seem to be shiny metallic stuff on them but why would there be precious metals in my food? Is he just messing with me?
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Nov 24, 2013 01:58
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regulargonzalez posted:You'll never watch 90% of that stuff ever again. quote:And there's no reason not to encode it to a more reasonable size so you're not filling up 4 TBs worth of space on the regular. Get Handbrake, use constant quality = 13 (which is way more quality than you'll need, you could easily get away with quality 14 or 15 and probably never notice the difference) and you'll cut the size by 50%+ and never notice any quality difference. I'm guessing you're using the highest quality on the gopro (35 or 45 Mb/s depending on model) -- it's a tremendous waste of space.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:22
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Xun posted:So uh, my richass cousin gave me some macaroons. According to him there is literal gold in them?! I mean there does seem to be shiny metallic stuff on them but why would there be precious metals in my food? Is he just messing with me?
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Nov 24, 2013 02:23
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Xun posted:So uh, my richass cousin gave me some macaroons. According to him there is literal gold in them?! I mean there does seem to be shiny metallic stuff on them but why would there be precious metals in my food? Is he just messing with me? He's not messing with you it's a real thing. It's usually called gold leaf.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:25
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Tiggum posted:I assume this restriction is on some specific type of debit card, because mine works anywhere a credit card works. As far as the shop can tell, it is a credit card. There's no way they could prevent debit cards being used. The Issuer Identification Number will disclose the issuing bank and the type of card (credit/debit/prepaid). I don't know if it violates any regulations, but in theory a processor could block IINs associated with debit cards.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:36
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Xun posted:So uh, my richass cousin gave me some macaroons. According to him there is literal gold in them?! I mean there does seem to be shiny metallic stuff on them but why would there be precious metals in my food? Is he just messing with me? Yeah, it's kind of a richass showoff type food, kind of like Goldschlager.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:41
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Gravity Pike posted:Yeah, it's kind of a richass showoff type food, kind of like Goldschlager. Goldschlager has like $0.75 worth of gold in it, and it's not an expensive liquor. Is it really a "richass showoff" beverage?
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Nov 24, 2013 02:44
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Considering I once bought a bottle of Goldschlager when I was in college, it is not legally allowed to be called a "richass showoff" beverage.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:51
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Putting gold in or on food or drink is showoffy. But sometimes it's cheapass showoffiness. It's dumb no matter what, though the glitter poop is entertaining.
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Nov 24, 2013 03:24
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Does gbs.fm still exist? I can't seem to login.
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Nov 24, 2013 03:48
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Loopyface posted:Goldschlager has like $0.75 worth of gold in it, and it's not an expensive liquor. Is it really a "richass showoff" beverage? The "richass" was tongue-in-cheek, but I think the point stands. I mean, you didn't buy it for the flavor, did you?
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AlbieQuirky posted:
Is this really a thing? I need glitter poop.
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