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A small question to start things ofF: when a US Postal Service drop-off mailbox says there's a collection at 5 pm, does it mean they actually pick up the mail around 5, or does it mean, "We'll pick up the mail sometime today, no later than 5, and you have no way to know whether we've picked it up or not."?
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Aug 30, 2010 20:51
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Childlike Empress posted:A small question to start things ofF: when a US Postal Service drop-off mailbox says there's a collection at 5 pm, does it mean they actually pick up the mail around 5, or does it mean, "We'll pick up the mail sometime today, no later than 5, and you have no way to know whether we've picked it up or not."? I'm sure it means they pick it up around 5. My anecdotal evidence for this is that I used to regularly shove my Netflix in the mail at 5 or even 5 after, and I always received notification the next day that it got there.
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Aug 30, 2010 20:55
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Childlike Empress posted:A small question to start things ofF: when a US Postal Service drop-off mailbox says there's a collection at 5 pm, does it mean they actually pick up the mail around 5, or does it mean, "We'll pick up the mail sometime today, no later than 5, and you have no way to know whether we've picked it up or not."? Quoth the USPS: Collections should be made within approximately 30 minutes of the posted collection time. However, occasional transportation issues (severe weather, blocked traffic, etc.) may result in a later collection time. If it is necessary to change the collection time a new collection schedule will be posted on the collection box.
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Aug 30, 2010 20:57
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Some suggestions for the first post: General Movie Questions Thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2871728 Identify a book for me thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2704537 Identify a movie for me thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2177344
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Aug 30, 2010 21:03
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Aug 30, 2010 21:09
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New thread! At a couple of Mcdonalds they have TVs on the wall on mute with a sign underneath saying "Volume must remain off per FCC regulations" What's up with that? It reminded me of something, somewhat related, in the aspect ratio modes section of my TV manual it says something to the effect of "use of modes other than native may be unlawful for other than home use" The second one I'm guessing is something like "you don't want to piss off james cameron for making your own 4:3 interpretation of avatar inside your bestbuy/blockbuster/whatever store". Is that close to right? I have no idea on the mcdonalds muted tvs though. On the post office drop box thing: I always took it to mean "we'll be no earlier than xx:xx" as long as you get it in by then it's definitely going out today. I'd only be angry with them if they came early. There's one outside the door at my work and every time I've actually seen the guys they're always 30-90 minutes late picking up. I don't think being late to pickup hurts your letter's chances of going out that day, all the dropboxes around here have a pickup time no later than 6pm and the ones at the post office are like 9pm Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Aug 30, 2010 |
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Aug 30, 2010 21:15
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Wagonburner posted:At a couple of Mcdonalds they have TVs on the wall on mute with a sign underneath saying "Volume must remain off per FCC regulations" What's up with that? Well if McDonald's isn't paying for "business" TV service and the like, it's unlawful for them to provide the sound to their customers. It's sorta the same reason that most businesses won't have a regular radio playing in customer areas - they'd have to pay a feeeto certain groups to have the rights to play music to you. The second sounds like it's just something thrown in there to cover their asses so they can't get sued by some jerk's media company.
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Aug 30, 2010 21:53
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fishmech posted:Well if McDonald's isn't paying for "business" TV service and the like, it's unlawful for them to provide the sound to their customers. It's sorta the same reason that most businesses won't have a regular radio playing in customer areas - they'd have to pay a feeeto certain groups to have the rights to play music to you. Weird never knew that. It was foxnews they had on, if it was a regular air channel abc cbs fox can they have sound? there's ads on there that people see. Also ads on radio people hear too, I always thought the reason for muzak was a restaurant would never find a radio station that didn't piss someone off so they chose muzak to ever-so-lightly piss us all off with light jazz or light adult contemporary.
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Aug 30, 2010 22:04
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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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Wagonburner posted:Weird never knew that. It was foxnews they had on, if it was a regular air channel abc cbs fox can they have sound? there's ads on there that people see. Technically if you display regular broadcast TV in a business, you still need to pay someone for the right to do it - I forget who though. Well the muzak systems explicitly include the rights to play them to customers - some places of business instead directly pay the RIAA I think to be allowed to just play regular radio.
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Aug 30, 2010 22:22
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Wagonburner posted:... I always thought the reason for muzak was a restaurant would never find a radio station that didn't piss someone off... The funny thing is that for the most part it is/was used for a much more "ohh that makes sense" reason(s): Productivity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak_Holdings I always wonder what the purpose of the +2000db musak on IVR's for massive companies seek to accomplish.
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Aug 30, 2010 22:29
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On a scale from "Well it isn't .com, but so what?" to "Filter with extreme prejudice ala .ru/.cn," how trustworthy is India's .in TLD? I'd like to register a CLEVER DOMAIN, and it's a .in. If I were to use it for email, how hosed would I be?
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Aug 30, 2010 23:26
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.in is pretty much ok because of the nature of the infrastructure in india and how seriously they take their IT plant as it shows to the world. More reading: http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web.pdf E: Ohh as to your scale? Leaning towards "it's not a .com but whatever." Honestly it really depends on what you are doing with the domain.
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Aug 30, 2010 23:41
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Once upon a time someone mentioned to me that incredibly purified water is used in some industrial or scientific processes and that to touch this water would be harmful, because it would suck nutrients from the skin via osmosis. Is there any truth to this? I have looked up purified water on wikipedia but it only talks about the harmful effects of drinking it - not touching it.
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Aug 30, 2010 23:46
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If USPS's website says they've delivered a package to my home, and I never received a package, there is basically fuckall I can do about it, right?
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Aug 30, 2010 23:57
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http://www.ehow.com/how_4442629_claim-lost-package-usps.html E: I'm assuming no insurance, but it's worth a try to go through the motions.
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:http://www.ehow.com/how_4442629_claim-lost-package-usps.html Okay, but if their website says it was delivered, and it's not there, then it was stolen, right? Or is there a possibility that their website would tell me it's been delivered when it hasn't?
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Mastiff posted:Okay, but if their website says it was delivered, and it's not there, then it was stolen, right? Or is there a possibility that their website would tell me it's been delivered when it hasn't? This BS happened to us last Christmas. The package definitely didn't get stolen, but they claimed it arrived. I went through all the motions and they did jack poo poo about it for me. I hope it goes better for you.
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Aug 31, 2010 00:13
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chachu posted:This BS happened to us last Christmas. The package definitely didn't get stolen, but they claimed it arrived. I went through all the motions and they did jack poo poo about it for me. I hope it goes better for you.  I guess my next question is, how do I stop feeling suicidal when little things go wrong?
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^^ I hear weed, but I'm sure you'd get busted on your first buy attempt and shoot yourself  Mastiff posted:Okay, but if their website says it was delivered, and it's not there, then it was stolen, right? Or is there a possibility that their website would tell me it's been delivered when it hasn't? Depends on how much it's worth to you but the postman says he delivered it but he didn't it's surely on him. I could have swore USPS didn't do package "drops" on the doorstep for this very reason. For UPS it's just a risk analysis for multiple trips should stuff get stolen so depending on the worth they leave it. It's definitely worth going through the initial motions.
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Mastiff posted:If USPS's website says they've delivered a package to my home, and I never received a package, there is basically fuckall I can do about it, right? This happened to me like two weeks ago. After calling and getting no help whatsoever I rode my bicycle around the neighborhood and found that they delivered it to the wrong house, they were supposed to call me back within an hour and I didn't recieve a call for days, then the actual driver called me to see if I had "found the package" or if I wanted to submit a claim. I was tempted to just say I never found it since he delivered it to the totally wrong house, but I took the high road.
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Aug 31, 2010 01:35
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How do you not be boring in conversation, small talk or anything? 
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Aug 31, 2010 02:32
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Ularg posted:How do you not be boring in conversation, small talk or anything? This is complicated, and there's no totally right, all encompassing answer. It's a very personal thing that varies from person to person, and whatever your exact problem is could be any number of things (you didn't really share any details). I will say that you can probably break it down to content and delivery. Content you can get from being well read, keeping up with the news, being informed, and recalling interesting events that may have happened to you. It helps to know just a little bit about everything so you can always have something to add no matter the subject. You can share your small observations that relate to the subject of conversation. For delivery, be brief but clear, and have some confidence in what you're saying. Most importantly, ask questions! If you want people to be interested in what you're saying, express interest in what they're saying. When they stop talking, follow up with an immediate comment, and ask another question to keep it going. If you strike a balance, keeping a conversation going at a nice back and forth pace can easily be achieved.
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Ularg posted:How do you not be boring in conversation, small talk or anything? "People who talk about themselves are vain. People who talk about 'stuff' are boring. People who talk about me are interesting." Everyone you talk to has something interesting about them. Everyone you talk to is passionate about something. If you're not talking about that, you're probably being boring. Try to figure out what that thing is. JasonV fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Aug 31, 2010 |
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Elijya posted:This is complicated, and there's no totally right, all encompassing answer. It's a very personal thing that varies from person to person, and whatever your exact problem is could be any number of things (you didn't really share any details). I will say that you can probably break it down to content and delivery. Content you can get from being well read, keeping up with the news, being informed, and recalling interesting events that may have happened to you. It helps to know just a little bit about everything so you can always have something to add no matter the subject. You can share your small observations that relate to the subject of conversation. For delivery, be brief but clear, and have some confidence in what you're saying. Most importantly, ask questions! If you want people to be interested in what you're saying, express interest in what they're saying. When they stop talking, follow up with an immediate comment, and ask another question to keep it going. If you strike a balance, keeping a conversation going at a nice back and forth pace can easily be achieved. That is probably the best, most concise answer to the most open ended question I've ever read. Nice work.
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Elijya posted:This is complicated, and there's no totally right, all encompassing answer. It's a very personal thing that varies from person to person, and whatever your exact problem is could be any number of things (you didn't really share any details). I will say that you can probably break it down to content and delivery. Content you can get from being well read, keeping up with the news, being informed, and recalling interesting events that may have happened to you. It helps to know just a little bit about everything so you can always have something to add no matter the subject. You can share your small observations that relate to the subject of conversation. For delivery, be brief but clear, and have some confidence in what you're saying. Most importantly, ask questions! If you want people to be interested in what you're saying, express interest in what they're saying. When they stop talking, follow up with an immediate comment, and ask another question to keep it going. If you strike a balance, keeping a conversation going at a nice back and forth pace can easily be achieved. Both replies are really good, thank you. I've done the whole question asking before but not like you're phrasing it. But how would I go to just "Know a little about everything" should I just start by going what my friends are interested in and do a few readings on wiki pages and sites to get a general gist? For example I have a friend who talks about his bass system a lot, and it's not that I couldn't really care too much, but I know next to nothing on Bass systems or cars. I can just read a few things to be able to add to the conversation or something, right?
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Ularg posted:For example I have a friend who talks about his bass system a lot, and it's not that I couldn't really care too much, but I know next to nothing on Bass systems or cars. I can just read a few things to be able to add to the conversation or something, right? You could probably learn a lot about bass systems and cars by talking to your friend about them?
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Ularg posted:Both replies are really good, thank you. I've done the whole question asking before but not like you're phrasing it. But how would I go to just "Know a little about everything" should I just start by going what my friends are interested in and do a few readings on wiki pages and sites to get a general gist? For example I have a friend who talks about his bass system a lot, and it's not that I couldn't really care too much, but I know next to nothing on Bass systems or cars. I can just read a few things to be able to add to the conversation or something, right? If you're researching things to have better conversations with people, there's something wrong with either you or your friends. Just stop worrying about it.
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I have a PDF that's about 20mbs and is approximately 300 pages I think. I'm trying to be able to view the PDF on my iPad. For some reason it doesn't format right on the iPad. The pictures are perfectly fine but the words get pushed together somehow and you're mot able to read anything. The only thing I can think of is because it has OCR (it's a scanned strategy guide). I tried converting to other formats with mo luck. Ismt there a way to make it a normal, old school PDF? Where every page is essentially a picture??
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Aug 31, 2010 03:44
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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?
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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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onesickvdub posted:I have a PDF that's about 20mbs and is approximately 300 pages I think. I'm trying to be able to view the PDF on my iPad. For some reason it doesn't format right on the iPad. The pictures are perfectly fine but the words get pushed together somehow and you're mot able to read anything. You could export it as images and then convert those images to pdf. It's kind of a silly way to do it, but it'd probably be the easiest way.
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A Violence Gang posted:Yeah, there can be some data embedded in the signal. Huh, that's pretty cool. I had no idea. Thanks!
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Loopyface posted:You could export it as images and then convert those images to pdf. It's kind of a silly way to do it, but it'd probably be the easiest way. How do I export the PDF to I,ages and recompile it to a PDF? Which software is ideal for this?
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Anjow posted:Once upon a time someone mentioned to me that incredibly purified water is used in some industrial or scientific processes and that to touch this water would be harmful, because it would suck nutrients from the skin via osmosis.
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^^^What he saidAnjow posted:Once upon a time someone mentioned to me that incredibly purified water is used in some industrial or scientific processes and that to touch this water would be harmful, because it would suck nutrients from the skin via osmosis. And also I imagine with the amount of bacteria, etc on your skin, any purified water applied wouldn't really stay purified for long.
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If I put a piece of irradiated food in a sterile vacuum chamber, would it last forever?
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change my name posted:If I put a piece of irradiated food in a sterile vacuum chamber, would it last forever? Assuming theoretically perfect sterilization of both meat and chamber, and that the chamber is 100% perfectly sealed against any intrusion from a microbe, then the only breakdown would be the meat drying out because it's in a vacuum.
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