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Haus of tech support would be a good link for the "appropriate subforums" in the OP. A few more megathreads that deal with topics commonly asked about in the old thread: "Help me identify a song" megathread Ask linguists about languages and linguistics The Windows and Windows software megathread Firefox megathread
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Mak0rz posted:I noticed my sister's vehicle has song/artist info for basic FM radio. How does this work? Does a radio signal broadcast more than just the sound? Yeah, there can be some data embedded in the signal.
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Aug 31, 2010 04:13
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Not going to argue that but it's anything other than dumb conformity but if you're an American dude carrying an umbrella in the sun, you're absolutely going to get made fun of by like every single person who sees you. Many people might not even get that it's for the sun and would just assume you're a lunatic. Exceptions: if you're willing to tell everyone it's a legit medical necessity, or if you travel in a something like a fashionista/hipster crowd and can pass it off as trendsetting.
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Sep 2, 2010 03:18
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Eggplant Wizard posted:Does it help that I'm a chick? Yeah, that helps a lot. Maybe a little eccentric depending on your area but shouldn't make you look like a total weirdo, go for it.
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Sep 2, 2010 03:36
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My guess is it'll likely either get put in with mail to a general office if your apartment complex has one, and your landlord or whoever would just give it to you or that if your postman's astute he could notice and put it in with your stuff. Especially if, like above said, your name is on the box.
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Sep 4, 2010 03:49
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Eyeball posted:Is there a word for falsely attributing something to someone famouser than its actual author in order for it to seem more important than it actually is. Examples would be the "wear sunscreen" monologue thing falsely attributed to Kurt Vonnegut in the nineties, the "11 rules of life" attributed to Bill Gates, and all kinds of quotes attributed to either Oscar Wilde or Benjamin Franklin. "misattribute" unless there's some reason you're avoiding it.
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Sep 8, 2010 16:34
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Eyeball posted:I'm wondering if there's a specific term for intentional misattribution, I guess. I might read "falsely attributed" with more of a connotation that it was intentional or at least negligent than "misattributed" but that's just a fuzzy sense and I wouldn't count on anyone else to read it the same way. If you want to convey that it was intentional, I would just modify "misattributed" with a word like "intentionally", "knowingly" or "deliberately".
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Sep 8, 2010 19:57
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Tostito posted:Which is the better sounding sentence? I'd prefer the second but note that they're not exactly equivalent: the first conveys that there are 25 parolees on the current roster of the program, while the second could mean that a total of 25 have come and perhaps gone from the program since March.
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Sep 9, 2010 04:46
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:I don't think the first is even grammatically correct. After "parolees" I think there should be a comma or semicolon or something. I might have this all wrong but I think there some rule to the effect of... don't use a comma on a clause introduced by "that." "That" signifies a... I forget the term but as I remember the idea is that the clause that follows is necessary to identifying the thing signified by the noun it modifies and should not be separated by a comma. "Who" or "which" introduce clauses that describe the noun further but are not necessary in that way and can be preceded by a comma. But yeah, the sense you're expressing that the first sentence is unwieldy and in need of punctuation is a good reason to prefer the second.
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Sep 9, 2010 05:19
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TShields posted:So my fiance and I came home after work to find our house smelling, well... fruity, for lack of a better word. It smells like fruity candy or something, but we can't figure out why. Rotting food/garbage often strikes me with a smell I always want to describe as "purple," sounds like you might be talking about the same thing. Trash can overdue to be emptied, some perishable fruit or something left in a place where you'd forget about it, that kind of thing?
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Sep 9, 2010 06:10
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Bojanglesworth posted:Excuse me? You find it weird that I think something smells "purple"? I don't know, just like this fruity, like an artificial grape flavoring or something and that's how I always thought of it. Or you mean why am I often smelling rotting garbage? I'm not, I just remember it from when I had to help clean out my grandfather's incredibly filthy house when he had to be moved to a nursing home, or like when a dumbass roommate at college left something out over spring break.
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Sep 9, 2010 06:17
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Econosaurus posted:First off, is it just me or is the forum periodically going down? Not just you.
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Sep 13, 2010 04:15
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Pretty sure you don't need the reflexive pronoun "yourself" since its antecedent, the person to whom you are speaking, is not previously referenced in the same clause. "You" will suffice even as one of the objects of the preposition "with".
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Sep 23, 2010 04:30
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First, don't assume that they even are making money. You can ask that question about any small business and the answer is very often "They're not making money, they just haven't reached the point of failure quite yet." But, if they are, I can think of a few possible reasons. They probably carry pretty low expenses. The places I'm thinking of often seem to be operating out of a home, maybe just a trailer on a small piece of cheap land, usually not what you'd think of as pricey commercial real estate. Could easily share space and split the cost with a beauty salon or something like that. Locations probably skew toward small towns, semirural areas with low cost of living. Inventory is just books, DVDs, "blessed candles" and trinkets like that -- non-perishable, easy to store with massive room for markup. Unlikely to employ more than a single part-time minimum wage cashier to ring up that junk while the proprietor is out, small enough to avoid some of the costly hassles like health insurance that even slightly larger businesses are subject to. And, like The Aphasian said, the proprietors self-select for skill at manipulation and the customers for gullibility. These people should be practiced at getting maximum value out of marks who are happy to play along. And while they might not be fronts for drugs or prostitution, it does seem like a low-effort, flexible profession that would be easy to sustain as a secondary source of income alongside something more conventional.
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Oct 13, 2010 18:27
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hooah posted:Since Games doesn't seem to have either a small/stupid questions thread or a Guitar Hero thread, I'll ask here. The GH thread
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Oct 17, 2010 04:48
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Binowru posted:Is there a verb in the English language that means "to make something exciting"? "Enliven"?
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Oct 20, 2010 02:19
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Jiriam posted:If I'm in the US with a greencard (marriage), can I join the armed forces? Seems so: quote:U.S. citizens or Permanent Resident Aliens (people who have an INS I-151/I-551 “Green Card”) may join the U.S. Military.
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Nov 1, 2010 02:20
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Liface posted:What are the rules about writing a press release about yourself and sending it out? I have a friend who has set a pretty impressive world record in sports. In addition to what's already been said, I'd recommend you consider just calling the hometown newspaper or dropping by their office, if you're local, and talking to a reporter instead of trying to write something up. If they like the idea they'll just end up talking to the person and rewriting it themselves so you could spare yourself the effort and make more of an impression if you talk to them personally. If you want to contact some larger media outlets that are farther away, then something like a release might be good for that. Important thing is to be sure this information makes it into the hands of someone who might care -- just sending it to a receptionist at the front desk is less likely to work than looking over the paper or whatever, identifying the reporter(s) who looks like they might handle this sort of thing and emailing or calling them directly. But the hometown paper can actually go a long way toward getting more attention -- TV stations in the area will often pick up a story after seeing it in a smaller paper; if it's interesting enough the local paper might push it to a regional Associated Press wire, etc. But either way do contact them. Reporters love this kind of poo poo, especially if there's some novelty value like it's an unusual sport. Compared to the stuff they see every day these are easy to write and unlikely to piss anyone off. Only thing I would note is that since you say there's no organization keeping track of this, you should make sure you can prove to a reasonable extent that the person accomplished what you say and that this actually is a record, that somebody other than yourselves actually cares about this. Not a huge deal, just to the extent that the reporter won't be afraid they're getting pranked.
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Nov 1, 2010 21:08
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who cares posted:What TV show or movie has a squirrel or other small animal who drives a miniature car? I think he drives it drunk and crashes on one occasion. If you're not certain it's a TV show or movie it sounds like you're describing Todd from the webcomic Achewood.
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Nov 13, 2010 00:51
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hookerbot 5000 posted:How does the tax system work in he US, does it change a lot from state to state or is it pretty much the same across the board? In addition to what's already been said, the taxes imposed by each state to fund their own operations are typically small relative to your federal taxes but that will vary, and not just in amount -- some states have very little or no income tax and rely on property or sales taxes and vice versa. Basically the same goes for municipalities, again on a much smaller level. It's pretty uncommon for a city to levy an income tax but I think it can happen. Sales taxes can be very different from one city or county to the next.
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Nov 18, 2010 19:49
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haveblue posted:New York City has a municipal income tax. Yep, that's the one I was thinking of but I wasn't sure enough to say. Does anybody else?
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Nov 18, 2010 20:00
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1) Why are 9-volt batteries not called by an alphabetic name like the other common types? 2) Do speakers of languages that don't use the Latin alphabet name the notes of the musical scale with their own letters?
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Dec 23, 2010 21:26
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Liar posted:I need to completely uninstall and reinstall Google Chrome, but I don't want to lose all my saved favorites. Other than manually copying every address and saving it somewhere else is there any other way to do this? Something like Xmarks or if Chrome has a built-in sync feature, I forget if it does.
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Jan 6, 2011 02:55
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Jan 17, 2011 17:29
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njaa posted:So I'm looking for a famous game reviewer who does short videos on different games with lousy black and white animations on which he speaks humorous stuff in a very fast tempo. I think he had a british accent and somewhy I associate the colour yellow to his videos. Yahtzee's "Zero Punctuation". Was a goon.
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Jan 29, 2011 18:50
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UrbanFarmer posted:Is the copyright of a newspaper article owned by the journalist or the newspaper who pays the journalist for the article? Thanks. Almost certainly the newspaper. Under American law, absent an explicit agreement to the contrary, copyright to works created by employees in the course of their job belongs to the employer. Not certain if other countries use the same principle but I'd be surprised if the result was any different.
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Feb 8, 2011 18:40
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Movie question reminded me to ask, in what format/quality do radio stations have their music?
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Feb 10, 2011 20:05
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revolther posted:"Da Do Ron Ron Ron" http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2388112&pagenumber=1
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Feb 12, 2011 00:23
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change my name posted:Why, are you a neonazi/ work with neonazis or something? You thinking of the white supremacist signifier "14/88" or did something significant to Nazis happen in the year 1888?
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Feb 14, 2011 17:28
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kapalama posted:Is there a FOSS option for a good pdf reader for Windows, or a free one that is not trying to install toolbar and other spywarish stuff? Don't remember if anything tried to tag along during the install but Sumatra PDF is FOSS and does fine by me.
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Feb 18, 2011 00:32
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Spermando posted:I've noticed that on cartoons whenever Jews celebrate something, they always play the same song. It's like a jaunty polka with a rising melody. IIRC some old man also sings it in Life Of Brian. Anyone know the name of the song? Hava Nagila?
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Mar 19, 2011 21:34
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nesbit37 posted:As mentioned above, they didn't necessarily understand this but through trial and error would have figured out what they should be drinking pretty easily. Along these lines, here's an interesting article about scurvy. Sailors knew how to prevent/cure scurvy long before anyone knew what vitamin C was, but misunderstandings about its cause led to a resurgence even after it was thought conquered.
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Mar 28, 2011 18:11
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wigtrade.cc posted:what happens when you don't pay a parking ticket Usually a higher fine and eventually an arrest warrant.
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Apr 1, 2011 19:35
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Dudebro posted:thank you. Also seems like it's in parentheses if it's an independent clause or is longer than a few words. It stands for "id est", which translates to "that is", if that helps you think about it. It's typically followed by a comma in American English but not in British.
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Apr 17, 2011 01:52
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RaoulDuke12 posted:For example, Breaking Bad was supposed to be back with new episodes by now I'm pretty sure it's was announced at the end of the last season that it wouldn't return until around July of this year.
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Apr 19, 2011 00:35
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metallicaeg posted:Simple (I think) legal question: Probably more informed readers in this thread, and, in any case, make sure to tell them where you are or no one will know what law applies.
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Apr 25, 2011 20:29
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Shy posted:I'm reading a book on English grammar, there's a sentence, the validity of which I can't understand: No, that really should be "increasing Anglicization".
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May 13, 2011 00:30
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isoprenaline posted:What is a " small l liberaterian"? Used correctly, "Libertarian" should be capitalized only when it's a proper noun/adjective, mostly likely referring to an organized political party of that name, analogous to "Democratic" or "Republican", e.g., "the Libertarian candidate for Congress", "the Libertarians met for a party convention". Lowercase "libertarian" refers more generally to a political philosophy rather than a specific institution, analogous to "liberal" or "conservative" -- "a history of libertarian thought", "a Republican congressman expressing libertarian views". (This distinction is often unnoticed by writers less familiar with the topic who frequently capitalize "Libertarian" even when it's not being used as a proper noun.) A writer explicitly using the term "small-l libertarian" is just emphasizing that they refer to the latter; it's not really a label for a single distinct position. One might self-identify as a "small-l libertarian" to indicate that they do not belong to or support the Libertarian Party for any number of reasons -- whether they consider it too extreme, as suggested above, or too compromised, or simply mismanaged, or even because the speaker rejects electoral politics entirely. Also note that the term "libertarian" has also been applied, especially in Europe, to a political philosophy substantially different from the laissez-faire ideas familiar to Americans, and can apply to other positions within non-political philosophy like metaphysics.
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Jun 8, 2011 10:50
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CatchrNdRy posted:What's the name of that 70s/80s track and field or cross country guy with the shaggy blonde hair? I think there was a few movies made of him and he died. Steve Prefontaine?
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tarepanda posted:Crypts. "Crypt" still implies it's subterranean: quote:1. An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.
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