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YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Without shampoo specifically made to combat dandruff, or without any shampoo?

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YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Mak0rz posted:

A rotating asymmetrical disc. Tape a weight to your ceiling fan to see the same effect at a bigger scale (don't do this).

Yeah, you can see this on some of the translucent Dualshock controllers:

The dark part in each handlebar(?) is a set of uneven weights and they spin at ridiculous speeds. I've had them fall off the table.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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lllllllllllllllllll posted:



Taken in Greenland or Iceland. Which bird could it be? Thanks in advance.

That is almost undoubtedly a Common Redpoll; they're pretty common here in Ontario. I didn't realize they were in Iceland and Greenland, too!

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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If the Sansa e280 doesn't have enough storage space for you, the Sansa Clip+ holds 8 gigs and takes 16 gig microSD cards. It's a tiny monster. It's like 2 inches long.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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chucky.z posted:

Would I be banned for asking for help with a homework assignment? I need 50 responses to a random survey for a Statistics project. I'm thinking maybe if I did some kind of a drawing it would go better? (I make vinyl stickers as a hobby, I could give one away of whatever someone wanted to one of the respondees).

Just as a heads-up, the last time someone asked for homework help in GBS, goons literally paid 72,000 dollars to have him permabanned.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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There was a greasemonkey script that gave a link to a poster's rap sheet, I used it before the option was added for Plat users. Might that be it?

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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It looks like the US dollar is usually worth around 85 Jamaican dollars. I don't think the current value is significantly different enough to justify buying a whackload of foreign currency.

edit: Actually, listen to the guy above me, he has way better graphs.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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hooah posted:

I believe WinAmp will do this pretty well, but I haven't used it in quite some time.

It doesn't, or at least I've to find a way to make it happen. Media players don't dock to the Windows 7 taskbar very well.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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gwar3k1 posted:

In the UK at least, 99% of our houses are built from brick. When we see houses destroyed in the news or just there in the media from the US, they all appear to be made of nothing more than wood.

I'd imagine those built in hurricane/tornado prone locations will be built cheap for cheap rebuilds, but the primary reason has got to be availability of clay, surely, or a preference against how brick looks?

My understanding is that wood houses are prefereable especially in earthquake-prone areas, ie the west half of the US, and it's less expensive.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Rhizoid posted:

Plant chives. They will never loving die. Ever. And they're awesome in everything.

I have to second this. There's a chive patch in the backyard that's been there for thirteen years. It grew from a clump 200 kilometers away that we uprooted and stuck in a box. We don't water it or anything anymore... it's just there, every spring. Put them in your potatoes!

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Is there a way to change the album art in Mp3 files en masse? My mp3 player won't display art over 100kbs, but I'm not really excited at the thought of manually modifying several thousand songs.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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SlightButSteady posted:

Yep. http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ (free)

Thanks, but this only lets me modify album art on an individual file-by-file basis, which isn't really what I need.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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SlightButSteady posted:

Yes it does. I just tested it.

Once you've got all the files in the list, select the ones you want, then right click the image box, select "add image", then hit save...

Sorry, I guess I'm not explaining myself to well. This works fine if I'm trying to give each song the same album art, but they all have different images which is why I don't want to extract, shrink, and reattach each one.

edit: I've found this, but it fails to recognize my album art anyway :geno:

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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I'm in Southern Ontario, and we generally use 'the x' for the comparatively large 400-series hoghway, but for the smaller ones it's sometimes just x. Also we them highways instead of freeways.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Law posted:

What's the word used to describe a fear or hatred of transgendered people. I need to call a guy I know out for referring to a transgendered character in a movie as a "cross dressing attention whore".

Transphobia, I believe.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Number pads on phones start with 1 in the top left, but number pads on keyboards start with 1 on the bottom left. Why the hell is this. It bothers me.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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jackpot posted:

Hip hop song from the last ten years, with the words "murder she wrote" in the chorus. Also, I think it's a Wyclef song, or at least connected to him somehow. Can't find this anywhere for some reason.

I admittedly don't know who the hell Wyclef is, or whether or not it counts as hip-hop, but I think this might be what you're looking for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OK0LWb8RtI

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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There's a physics thread in SAL, you might get better results over there?

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Nail his window shut.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Manslaughter posted:

Assuming a flat horizon in all directions roughly how much of the sky can I see? (How far is the horizon, and past that how far can I see the clouds beyond it?)

When you say "assuming a flat horizon," do you mean there aren't any hills, or that you're discounting the curvature of the Earth?

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Manatee faces have the consistency of a marshmallow.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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"Low-key" has been around for a long time, and it generally means something is understated or subdued. It apparently springs from a specific high-contrast lighting effect in cinematography, which was popular in horror and film noir.

Unless you are referring specifically to lowkey as a single word? I don't know who the gently caress started that.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Apparently it's from "Special Procedure."

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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The closest term I can think of is 'Scavenger Hunt,' but there's probably a more precise word for it out there. Letterboxing?

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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I think it's just called a nacho plate? I've heard 'nacho supreme' a few times but I don't know if that's a specific variation or what.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Under the Youtube Account Settings, you should have the option of disconnecting your Google+ account from your Youtube account.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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I've a power cord for a laptop that just busted. The brick that plugs into the laptop is fine, but the cord that goes into an outlet isn't. How precisely do I have to match the old cord if I get a replacement? Do I have to get an exact model number, or can I use, for example, a cord from an older laptop by the same manufacturer?

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Thanks, it turns out that my old busted HP machine from 2006 had an identical cord, so we've swapped them out and it works fine. :)

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Wirth1000 posted:

When does Burger King start serving breakfast?

Breakfast is generally from 5:00 am to 10:30 am, but that sort of thing tends to vary by location. Just call them.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Why do dog breeds differ so wildly in comparison with, say, different cat breeds? Is there some sort of genetic reason, or was there just no demand to try to breed so much variation into other domestic animals? Or is there that much variation and I'm just ignorant? (I would totally pet a cat with poodle fur.)

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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The material they use to fill the pips in a casino die has the same weight as the rest of the material, so all the sides are even.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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thrakkorzog posted:

It's mostly limited to situations where the professionals are trying to avoid undue familiarity in order to preserve their authority. So cops, judges, doctors, coaches, and teachers like to keep things on a last name basis. An overwhelming amount of TV shows are based around those professions, compared to actual percentage of people actually working those jobs, so I can understand the confusion.

This is sometimes also done if you have two coworkers with the same first name, or if someone's last name is way cooler than their first.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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No, because you need each eye to see a different image to get the 3D effect, so the lenses of 3D glasses have a different filter in each side. I'd be about as effective as using a single purple sheet of cellophane to see the old red/blue 3d images.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Fragrag posted:

I saw this Tumblr post and I was wondering what articles the artist is referring to.

Someone else asked him this on his blog, he said he couldn't remember them all, but linked to these three articles: 1 2 3

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Subway Ninja posted:

A few odd questions that have been crossed my mind:

1) Why do trailers and some RVs have thinner tires than cars/trucks?

2) Generally, in the US, would I be legally permitted to burn my house down, provided it was safely done and not for insurance fraud?

3) Are truth-revealing methods depicted in media (polygraph, sodium pentothal) actually effective, and if so, why are they not permitted in judicial proceedings?

1) Don't know

2) I think it depends on the state, there's at least a few where you could get in deep poo poo, especially if your house is close enough to anything else to risk the spread of the fire. Call the Fire Dept first, apparently they'll use old barnhouses for 'practice fires' sometimes, maybe they'll go for it.

3) Polygraphs and Sodium Pentothal are about as accurate as a Magic 8-ball. Polygraphs just measure blood pressure and heart rate and a bunch of stuff like that. So whatever sets off a polygraph could be lying, or it could be anxiety, or low blood sugar, or drugs, or nicotine withdrawal... etc. Also there's people who can lie without setting off those meters anyway. Sodium Pentothal apparently disorients people and makes them more inclined to talk, but adds nothing to truthfulness so they'll ramble about whatever you push them to. It's mostly good for getting false confessions out of someone.

YggiDee fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Jun 3, 2014

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Your uncle has been hiding a dark truth from you- he's secretly Canadian. I'm so sorry.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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blakout posted:

I was thinking about the time SA raised like over a hundred thousand dollars for the red cross to permaban some guy but I can't find that thread in the archives, anyone got a link?

It's right here, the final count was 70,000$ or so. Strangely I found the link through Wikipedia.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Why is damp fabric itchy? Especially socks.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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I've always assumed other languages consistently match a word's spelling to its pronunciation, like the classic set of thought, through, plough, dough, and cough.

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YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Tiggum posted:

Is there a convenient way to download old episodes of podcasts? When I start a show I like to go from the beginning, but it seems like the only way to download old episodes of most podcasts (eg. The F Plus or The Bugle) is to click through to the end of the archives and download each episode one by one. Which is incredibly tedious. Is there a better option?

Check if they have an rss page, and use something like DownThemAll to haul the whole archive in one go.

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