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Gravity Pike posted:At my old place, there were two mailboxes for two "units" in the house. I never had to put "apt 1" or "bottom floor" on my mail; I just taped a 3x5" notecard with my name on it over my mailbox, and I got all of the mail addressed to me. As a former mailgoon: Put both your name and apartment number and whatever else might be relevant, such as the name of you business on the mailbox. Don't put excessive amounts of seals being clubbed on it please, I will hate you forever for it.
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Wyatt posted:As for what to look for, the lighter the frame the better, and the skinnier the tires the better. This is true, but only if you only ride on nice paved roads. Any dirt-tracks will be uncomfortable with a skinny tire bike. Just keep that in mind.
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In Denmark (which is in Europe) we have both even and uneven frequencies.
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Does anyone know of an easy way to remap a button on my keyboard to something else? Specifically, I would like my capslock button to produce a 'ə'. I am using Windows 7 if that helps, and I am willing to download whatever spyware you can find!
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Robin Sparkles posted:Yes, you'll have to write a script to do it. My delete and backspace button were broken and my friend wrote one to make f9 and f10 do those things. I'm unsure of how to do it myself, but I can send you the script I had if you'd like to take a look. That's very nice of you, but I couldn't script my way out of a paper bag, so it wouldn't do much good 
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fishmech posted:Use this official microsoft program to create a custom "keymap" for your keyboard. It will allow you to assign basically anything to basically anything else, and once created it's easy to switch back to normal layout if needed: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx While it doesn't want to change the very important capslock button, it does allow me to remap most of the keyboard, which is brilliant! Thanks a lot!
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Wedemeyer posted:On that note, would it be weird to give him a holiday card/gift? I mean, I don't talk to him or anything other then to say thanks once in a while, but we do see each other every day. When I worked as a postman, getting Christmas presents from customers was one of the most awesome things. I assume the same applies to bus drivers. But don't go with anything overly specific. I got wine, chocolate and money, but anything more than that might seem weird. Also, you are a great person for even thinking of it!
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SkunkDuster posted:Being in Minnesota, I was thinking of getting my postal carriers a box of those chemically activated hand/foot warmers. Would this seem like a good gift, or do they usually already have stuff like that provided to them from the post office? It's definitely not provided for them, but we at least got gloves and sweaters and jackets and other warm clothes. Anything for warming feet is a potentially good idea though, especially if there's a lot of outdoors work for your postman (IE no inner city blocks). Generally, we like to keep our hands clear so we can shift through letters and stuff. I have no clue where you would leave the presents though, I mostly got from shops and businesses, in person and all. But I intend to leave some cookies at the mailboxes this year. But be aware that anyone collecting mail probably wont read the envelopes at all, unless you put it somewhere else where it's obvious that it's for him.
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EricBauman posted:Yeah, especially in some of the Arab states where it is illegal to enter if you've been to Israel the immigration officers are obliged to literally check every page in the passport. I was in Syria this autumn, going from Copenhagen over Vienna to Damascus. In Vienna every single passport was checked (thumbed through, essentially) for Israeli stamps. I don't know if you can get around that if you are just passing though, but it's worth checking I'd say.
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Jam2 posted:Once, twice, thrice, _______ , _______ Four times, five times.
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I'd go with Iceland though, way too much green for it to be Greenland.
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Unless you set off the metal detector for whatever reason, then it's both. Protip: German airport security is rather thorough, avoid wearing your nitted pants when you're going to Germany.
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Cukel posted:The liquor is Koskenkorva Salmiakki, black liqorice flavored vodka. A lot of my friends expressed interest in it and I figured just 1 liter wouldn't be enough and I'd make a thing about bringing a whole lot of it. It is not at all unlikely that you can get it in the US, it's a pretty mainstream brand after all. One of the major supermarket chains in Denmark carries it, so I don't see why a liquor store in the US wouldn't have it.
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The same guys who can post in the goldmine. Also the child pornography megathread is not child porn but just bad posts.
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May 10, 2011 08:07
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Goon adds are on the bottom, corporate adds are on the top. Also goons are horrible persons, do not trust them.
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May 21, 2011 22:03
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Or, you know, someone might notice that Clark Kent looks like Superman with glasses, and also that he has the same voice and presumably accent.
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May 29, 2011 08:42
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2508084 posted:Once in a while during an active text convo my phone will decide the other person is texting from the future. at 3pm I got a response that is timestamped for 930pm tonight. Another one came that way when she responded to me again. My texts show the right time and hers went back to the right time, but those two texts show as the most recent with the 930 (and 934) timestamp. Whenever I get texts from China (I'm in Denmark), they'll appear to be in the future. I guess the sender makes the timestamp, relative to whatever timezone the phones believes itself to be in. Perhaps your friends hosed up their clocks or something. Or they are Nigerian scammers.
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cosmicjim posted:Cannibalism is the only long term solution Babies take like 5 years to reach a suitable eating size, and they have to be fed during that time. five year old kid can feed you for like a couple of weeks at the most. That's not a long term solution. Also scurvy and other fun stuff.
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Jun 11, 2011 08:45
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Golbez posted:in full, according to Wikipedia: Her Royal Highness Princess William Arthur Philip Louis, Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn, Baroness Carrickfergus. Why does she lose her own name and get awarded several boys names?
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Jul 8, 2011 08:39
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How does pay and banking and stuff work in the US anyway? I'm from Denmark where checks are pretty much exclusively a novelty and everyone has a bank account. When I get hired I just tell my employer my Social Security Number and my full name and with that they can find my bank account and set up a direct transfer of pay to my account. I can also access my account from the Internet and pay bills and make transfers to friends, without any fees. Also I get a credit card tied to the bank account for no cost except overdraft fees. How much of this is commonplace in the US, and what are the alternatives you use? And why are checks still something you have to deal with?
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proton posted:I'm dyslexic. Always struggled with reading. My mom works with dyslexics at a high school level, and one of the things that really help her students is getting a computer to read stuff for them. Obviously this is easiest when the text is already digital, but I think it's possible to scan texts and get the computer to read them for you. Unfortunately I can't point you to any programs, because I don't really know any, and even if I did they'd be in Danish...
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Jul 22, 2011 08:50
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I sure hope you told the student that that was not acceptable behaviour. Students sometimes forget that professors are, in fact, real persons in their own rights, and are not available at all times for random discussions.
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Aug 1, 2011 22:35
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Zewle posted:The mongrelization of the American empire is at hand. When we're in our 70s living in burnt out shacks, I'll tell my grand kids I knew poo poo was gonna slide this way once it became normal for normal people to watch badly drawn stupid looking cartoons that consist of some autistic mutant's surreal sexual violence fantasy with children. Protip: society has been on the decline for as long as there's been civilization. Remember back in the 60's when them drat youngins stopped caring for proper haircuts and started listening to vulgar rock'n'roll?
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Fun fact: In Danish (which is my native language), and probably in English too, 'between/from/after/etc my wife and I' is becoming grammatical in the internal grammars of the speakers, and it might just be a matter of time before it's not something anyone would notice. But with all the grammar nazis, who knows?
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As for why it's a letter: "Letter" doesn't mean the same to mailing companies as it does to most mortals. I think the Danish definition of a letter is something like "not more than 2kg (4ish pounds) and not too obnoxiously big", which means it could still be a computer case sized box.
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I have these two cathegories in the bottom: Demographics - Age - 25-34 Demographics - Gender - Male I am only 22, but I'm way more mature than that! Faggots!
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Mak0rz posted:I'm not sure how much fragile stickers are going to be heeded, but you could try those too. The difference between stuff marked "fragile" and regular stuff is whether we will throw it 5 or 10 meters. Unless your fragile thing is a really obnoxious shape, in which case we'll probably just throw it even more. Packages get used to play footy with as well, both for being obnoxious and for being sorted wrongly and probably just for fun as well. Also, those ten ton bricks that other people are sending? Probably gonna end up on top of your china in a van at some point. In conclusion: Make sure your package is properly packed.
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Sep 18, 2011 08:32
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Some people like to have stockpiles of everything, especially if it means saving money. You don't have to eat it all at once you know...
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b0nes posted:I sold a broken Nokia phone on Ebay. The winning bidder tells me out of the blue that he is not far from me and wants to come pick up up and pay cash. I am not trying to be a jerk, but do I have to accept this? If he wanted local pickup, he should have let me know before the item ended correct? I just don't like meeting people to sell stuff, Ebay or Craigslist. Just tell him that you're not really at home most of the time and kinda busy as well. But also stop being afraid of people.
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Speaking of batteries: Is there any reason I keep mine in the fridge? Besides knowing where they are of course...
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Sounds a bit like a pressure thing which I sometimes get in airplanes. Do you work in a tall building or something like that? If it happens again, try closing your mouth and holding your nose shut and blow as hard as you can (does that make sense?). It might work.
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vanessa posted:No, knitting needles do not need a "visible project" on them: Remember that airport security depends a lot on the country you're in. German and English security is very thorough, whereas when I flew out of Syria last year we accidentally brought half-liter water bottles onto the plane from outside...
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Danish and German phone numbers are not the same, what with there being a lot more Germans than Danes. But yeah, we use XX XX XX XX mostly, and say it as "fortytwo, eightynine eleventyfive zero one" or whatever with a real number. The +45 thing is only for international calls to Denmark.skynix posted:I actually have two questions: Pretty much all parts of a bike can be replaced, and once a year (depending how and how much you use it) you probably need to replace the chain. It's inevitable that it gets loose at some point. Go to a bikeshop and tell them to replace it. You can also try to check where the back wheel is bolted to the frame. Sometimes it will be possible to loosen the bolt and drag the wheel a little further away from the pedals, though it's probably too late for that to have any noticeable effect by now anyway. Also: Remember to lubricate your chain (oil, not astroglide). It'll make your chain last longer AND make it run smoother.
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As far as I know, "exploring" consists of looking at stuff and going "That sure is a big ball of fire" and possibly "yep, there's a bit of rock there too". So we're not at all certain about intelligent life out there... This is just my sort of general background trivia floating around in my head, so it might not be true per se.
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OilSlick posted:Is there any way I can donate to an online charity completely anonymously? Like, I don't even want a receipt going to my house. I know I can use those for income tax purposes but I don't care. If it would email me the receipt that would be fine, I just don't want anyone knowing that I'm doing this. I've tried entering completely wrong address information, and a thank you letter still comes to my house (must be connected to my credit card address or something) Out of curiosity, why would you go out of your way to hide the fact that you are doing something nice?
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Excel question: I have a bunch of numbers that I want to turn into lines in a diagram. I want essentially a hundred or so lines, each consisting of two (x,y) points. That's the easy yet tedious part. Now, I also want to make a lot of them share the same colour and, if possible legend, preferably without having to change every god drat line individually. I would also like if it could tell me which point in the line is the first and which is the second. Can that be done in an easy way?
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Zotwoz posted:All right, this is too short for E/N, so into this thread this goes. Try encouraging him. Or stop caring, it'll probably pass. Write him out of your will if you want.
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Torka posted:How important is gravity to digestion, if at all? Would eating upside down impede the process of food through the esophagus and GI tract, or is it all based on muscular contractions that don't need gravity's assistance? I think maybe you didn't think this through. The obvious answer is to do a headstand with some nachos.
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tarepanda posted:How come silicone cookware is so popular now instead of glass/pyrex, plastic, or metal? Have you tried it? It's bloody awesome! It's way easier to get your stuff out of, easier to clean, and it even comes in funky colours and shapes!
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Some time ago, Stargate SG-1 and Doctor Who were recommended to another poster as good scifi shows. But now I'm about done with the 2005 series of Doctor Who, and I want more. I am getting Torchwood obviously, but what about the old series? Where do I start? I tried watch the first doctor, and that was way too slow for me, but I'm guessing it picks up at some point? And SG-1:I've watched half of season 1 and I like the core concept and the big story arch, but the characters are bland as hell and most of the episodes are just self-contained stories which I don't care about. Does it get better or should I just quit now? By better, I guess I mean "does it flesh out the universe and involve mankind in interstellar politics" or something like that.
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