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nous_ posted:When there is a sudden altitude loss on a commercial plane (like for a second or two) do the stewardesses hit the ceiling? What do they do? Are they trained to respond a certain way? The plane doesn't instantly go into freefall, it's more like an express elevator going down. The stewardesses would only hit the ceiling if the plane were thrust down faster than gravity could pull it, which weather generally can't do. I'm sure they are trained for walking around in a turbulent cabin.
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Cuddly Coach posted:Does being at or below sea level affect performance of network cat5e or cat6 cabling?
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alan negative posted:I have a new social security card coming into my new address. But at the social security office, i forgot to specify the apartment number. I'm freaking out, what do I do? Go down to your mailboxes and make sure your name is visible on yours.
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Drimble Wedge posted:The other day I was outside on my back porch, and noticed a large-ish ant going around and around in a circle about an inch in diameter. Other than the world's smallest donut, what was he doing? Maybe he was circling the border of an invisible splatter of something interesting that dried there. Ants like to follow scent trails.
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Where's a good place (either a forum here or a site in general) to ask questions about buying a surround sound system and receiver?
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Sep 9, 2010 16:16
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Strangely enough, Wikipedia has a page specifically on this topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Greece Short version, we got it from the Romans and haven't figured out how they came up with it themselves.
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Sep 9, 2010 23:39
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Very Strange Things posted:Do questions about the very fundamental essence of the Universe, reality itself, and the theoretical laws that govern it belong in a "Stupid/Small Questions Megathread"? You have it backwards- you hold the butt steady while you spin the shaft to drive the screw. It makes it easier to exert a steady force in exactly the right direction while it rotates.
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Sep 10, 2010 19:44
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Anjow posted:If one is made to feel like they are less like a man, then they are emasculated. Is there a similar term for someone who has been belittled in such a way that they feel less like an adult and more like a child? A term like feeling belittled, but specific to age. Infantilized?
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sc4rs posted:How did you sign up for the forums without an email account? I assume she means the email address of the contact for the interview.
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Sep 15, 2010 19:19
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...google solved the traveling salesman problem?
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Sep 24, 2010 01:59
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Underflow posted:Sort of related to that are muscular micro-expressions or some such term. I remember reading an article about a US sheriff with an uncannily high success rate in picking out guilty suspects. I think they tested him on a broad range of non-vocal, or rather non-vocabular abilities, and the outcome was that he had both an eye for those micro-expressions and an ear for faint tonal variations. Interesting stuff. See also the TV show Lie To Me. One of my friends claims to be able to do this, but we haven't really tested it.
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Oct 1, 2010 20:28
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GobiasIndustries posted:Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle AC3: What the hell does this mean? There are two different versions of American Gangster available for Best Buy's 2-for-$20 sale, one with this label, and one without. I speak english, and while I wouldn't mind having alternate languages available, I want it to be English as the main language. Best Buy has a weird habit of listing things with the "dubbed" or "subtitled" keyword even when it's completely irrelevant. Either of those discs should be the normal US release with English audio.
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Oct 4, 2010 15:07
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change my name posted:Is it a common thing for a young person to have the shakes? Do some people just naturally have rock solid hands and some have shaky ones? How shaky are we talking about? Do you have trouble doing things that require fine motor skills like typing or tying your shoes?
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Oct 6, 2010 03:29
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Does anyone actually drink 20+ year old wine, or is it pretty much a decoration at that point?
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Oct 6, 2010 20:56
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Abel Wingnut posted:Banking question. The deposit time is usually measured in "business days" which do not count national holidays, so add the extra day.
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Oct 7, 2010 21:02
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Jive One posted:What video or animated gif was the source for the Search YouTube for "shagged by rare parrot".
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smilie/emoticon? I've seen variations of this in avatars as well but I can't seem to track down the original source via Google or otherwise.
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A drat FOG posted:Is there a physical server somewhere that holds the master list of domains and IPs and allows me to see the same somethingawful.com as some kid in Italy? Yes. There are 13 such servers, mostly owned by very large telecom companies or government departments. quote:How does an internet IP become "registered" or whatever it is that binds the number to the physical location? "Domain name registrars" are companies authorized to make changes to the master list of domain names. All the domain name servers talk to each other so that changes made by one company are spread around to all of them.
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Oct 15, 2010 17:54
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Rapefist posted:Is there a term for when a politician is trying to get reelected and purposely waits until after the campaign before attempting to pass a potentially controversial bill or anything similar to that? Strategy? Not exactly what you mean, but a lame duck is a politician who is guaranteed absolutely zero chance of another term in office regardless of voting and so has more freedom to speak up and act controversially.
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Oct 24, 2010 02:41
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Does spraypaint work on cloth? Thin cloth, like a cheap lab coat. It doesn't have to work *well* in the long term, just not destroy it or stiffen it or be poisonous or anything. For a Halloween costume, obviously.
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Oct 24, 2010 20:03
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:Yeah, the name is the problem that's bothering me. I know there were a lot of creatures that matched his description, I'm just trying to find the one that sounds like "facdanus". I don't know how old your son is but there's a good chance this is a mangled name of a monster from a cartoon or video game that looks sort of like the Kronosaurus.
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Nov 1, 2010 17:32
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Liface posted:The problem is, the whole idea of writing a press release touting your own accomplishments seems so self-aggrandizing that it really almost doesn't make sense. Sure it does, how else is anyone going to decide to pay attention to you? Press releases are sent out so that there are news stories on things that reporters weren't aware of ahead of time or cared about attending, like sporting events with no professional organizations who promote them.
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Nov 1, 2010 18:37
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Alderdash posted:Is foie gras terrible for you? I'm thinking about getting it at a restaurant as a part of a celebratory meal, but the manner in which it is produced makes it seem like it'd give you a coronary after one bite. Probably, but nothing will give you a coronary after one bite, it doesn't work like that.
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Nov 1, 2010 20:34
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kapalama posted:Also vibrators dammit. Highly pressurized Mexican jumping beans.
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Nov 3, 2010 06:10
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For me it's kancho (don't look it up). Each of our little corners of Google has a slightly different dataset to use.
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kapalama posted:Mac User Opera and Firefox For Firefox (not sure about Opera): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/
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Nov 9, 2010 14:42
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nunchi posted:If I buy a really obnoxious avatar for my little brother will he be able to know that I bought it for him? No, avatar buys are completely anonymous. But you might want to edit out that post now.
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Nov 10, 2010 04:25
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NOG posted:So it can't even be applied to math? How about a NUMBER between 0 and infinity? You can't start at zero and reach infinity by any arithmetic process, so there's no way to ask that question.
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Nov 11, 2010 15:24
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Elijya posted:If I'm not mistaken, I believe the definition of a meter has changed a few times. In one case it's defined as 1/10,000,000 the length from the north pole to the equator as measured going through Paris. It's also been defined as 1/299,792,458 the length that the speed of light travels in one second. The first definition was the original one, the latter is the current one. Every SI unit except the kilogram is now defined in terms of measurable properties of natural phenomena; the kilogram is still defined as the mass of the lump of metal in France.
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Elijya posted:Question: What about the definition of a second? What phenomenon is that based on? IIRC, it's a certain number of vibrations of an atom of a particular isotope of cesium. That number was chosen to be identical to the previous length so those relationships would still hold, just now specified in a way that could be reproduced in any properly equipped lab instead of relying on something unique or arbitrary.
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You don't think they thought of that? According to Wikipedia, kilograms are stored in sealed environments and cleaned according to standardized procedures and schedules. Also according to Wikipedia, there is currently no accepted explanation for the masses of the kilogram and its copies drifting away from each other.
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A Violence Gang posted:It's pretty uncommon for a city to levy an income tax but I think it can happen. New York City has a municipal income tax. vvvv 
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Nov 18, 2010 19:57
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Even if Youtube won't do that itself, it's trivial to do with Javascript or PHP or whatever backend the site is using.
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Nov 22, 2010 19:34
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935 posted:Im on US Airways somewhere over Missouri, dicking around on my iPhone and complementary wifi. When I go to maps, the gps puts me square center in Orlando International Airport. There's clearly no cell service, and I'm going too fast for gps to get a lock/traveling in a giant faraday cage where gps can't reach me. Why did google maps peg me in Orlando, Florida? The iPhone uses an augmented GPS service called Skyhook Wireless that guesses your position based on wifi networks it can see. The plane must have been in Orlando when its on-board network was registered in their database.
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Nov 22, 2010 21:50
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Jeffrey Colon posted:I don't know about you, but I personally don't spray ejaculate all over my clothing when I'm in a hotel room or in any other scenario for that matter. Clearly you aren't going to the right hotels.
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If you're having that argument the marriage is already over.
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Nov 28, 2010 22:02
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Dudebro posted:What does "circuit" mean in the context of the American judicial system? Sorry if that's a dumb question (not an American). It's the level of organization one step up from individual districts, bundling them into larger areas of jurisdiction.
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Nov 29, 2010 18:54
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How does a rice cooker work? You don't have to tell it how much rice you put in, it just has a single "cook" button that magically stops at the right time.
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Play random, turn on milkdrop, and mute the sound?
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Spermando posted:I got a stupid question, but it's been bothering me for a while. Does snapping someone's neck really kill them? It happens in the movies and when someone is hung by the neck. But when someone breaks their neck in an accident, they become paralyzed. Severe neck trauma will do effectively random damage to the spinal cord. If you're lucky, it will only cut voluntary motor nerves and you'll be paralyzed. If you're unlucky, it will cut the nerves that control the heart or lungs and you'll die. And that's not counting all the other critical systems that run through the neck like the windpipe and the brain's blood supply. It's like being shot or hit by a car- it is in theory possible to survive and get over it, and some people do, but don't bet on it.
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The Aphasian posted:Is there a tumblr blog or something that just lists the body/kill counts of fictional characters? I'm curious to see the ridiculous >1,000 kills Sam Fisher has gotten in all the games if all enemies are taken out (excepting those that spawn indefinitely or would cause a mission or objective failure). Or Dexter Morgan. http://www.moviebodycounts.com/Top-Movies.htm They only seem to count deaths that are visible onscreen so sci-fi movies where the Earth gets blown up don't ruin the curve with a score in the billions. I'm not sure how a videogame chart would work because there are lots of games where you can kill as many enemies as you care to put in the time for, they'll just keep spawning forever (and not just arcade shooters either, the CoD games are notorious for this). haveblue fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Dec 8, 2010 |
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