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Zzu posted:I guess just a general question. You tell them you've been offered another job and you're going to take it unless they can double your salary.
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tarepanda posted:If you have any solutions that don't involve branded products (I live in Japan), I'm listening.
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TetsuoTW posted:Have you tried dabbing white vinegar on it? Vinegar's a goddamned miracle-worker at cleaning poo poo. I'll get some tomorrow. Hopefully it hasn't been too long...
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Zzu posted:I guess just a general question. When do you have to start this other job? You could be nice and offer your first employer a few days so they could train another person. However, in these cases, the answer is generally: Give as much notice as they would have given you. I assume that you're in the US, aren't in a union, and your worker's rights barely exist. This is a basic hourly job that almost certainly would offer you no protection, no severance, and no notice if your employer decided to instantly fire you for so much as farting. To put it bluntly: That's the price employers pay for giving their employees lovely job security. Security and loyalty run both ways. If they don't want employees to be able to quit instantly and leave them empty handed, they should have disincentivized it in their employee contracts. Don't feel bad. It's business. If they act pissed, tell them you would have given them exactly as much notice as they were obliged to give you. Maybe they'll get the hint and offer the next guy a bit of job security.
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Zzu posted:I guess just a general question. One thing that stands out to me is your use of the "~" for the new job's income. Is it commission or tip based and that's why you are approximating the income? If so, you should make absolutely sure that you can actually make that amount of money. A lot of commission based jobs make promises that are far off what you'll actually end up making.
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tarepanda posted:I'll get some tomorrow. Hopefully it hasn't been too long... Just be sure to try it on a piece behind a closet or something, or if you have some leftovers lying around try it on that. Some cleaning agents make everything worse, and wallpapers can be made out of all kinds of materials.
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Jeffrey Colon posted:One thing that stands out to me is your use of the "~" for the new job's income. Is it commission or tip based and that's why you are approximating the income? If so, you should make absolutely sure that you can actually make that amount of money. A lot of commission based jobs make promises that are far off what you'll actually end up making. That was just me doing rough math. It works out to that after taxes. It's an hourly job.
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tarepanda posted:I'd have to find paint that matches the wallpaper, which is more of a pain in the rear end in Japan than it sounds like. Try something that is mildly abrasive, like baking soda -or even teethpaste, and lightly scrub. Find an area that nobody can see, like down in a corner by the floor next to a cabinet or something and try it first because you might make it worse. See Mr. Bean v. Whistler's Mother. But if you could make a moist paste of baking soda and apply it to the stain, then spray a little vinegar at it, the foaming action might be enough to lift it off. edit: I must have been on the last page. Both of these things were already posted; except the baking soda part.
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I tried to find a thread in the science forum to ask this but couldn't so I'll just put it here. Now first of all I will just post a few things I think I know about science so those who can give me an answer can easily point out where I am wrong. The faster an object travels to the speed of light, the more time slows down for that object. So if I throw a ball at the moon at a certain speed that is say 1/2 the speed of c, then time will slow down a certain amount. I believe this is called time dilation. When an object vibrates, it is moving one way and then another (perhaps the opposite direction) very quickly. If an object vibrates at the speed of light or close to it, how would the time dilation effect occur? Would the object just sit there vibrating staying in the same spot but experience time at a reduced rate or what?
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fuckpot posted:When an object vibrates, it is moving one way and then another (perhaps the opposite direction) very quickly. Ignoring the fact that vibration is traditionally measured in frequency and not meters per second, yes. The object would be moving in one direction at a that speed for a short time, then it would stop and reverse course and do it again in a different direction. For the period of time during which it is moving near light speed, it would experience time dilation.
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fuckpot posted:I tried to find a thread in the science forum to ask this but couldn't so I'll just put it here. Strictly speaking, at the moment it is going fastest (at the center of its oscillation), we are as slow to it as it is slow to us. There's significance in the fact that at the extremes of its oscillation path, it accelerates. One of the points of relativity is that A moving relative to B (but not accelerating) is no different than B moving relative to A (but not accelerating). But acceleration produces a real effect on things. Check out the twin paradox. The reason the spacefaring twin comes back to earth younger than its stay-at-home twin is because space-twin had to accelerate to start, turn, and end its trip. Not sure how this translates to a harmonic oscillator, but I believe this is relevant. I'm curious now too. Physics people?
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So I'm toying with the idea of this year or next rigging up a hillbilly wood-fired pool heater for our hillbilly 20' metal frame pool. I have an entire tree cut up that a storm knocked down. Would help get rid of this wood and get the pool going a month or 2 earlier. Some googling I see I'm not the only one with the idea, and most had the same idea as me, oil drum with a coil of tubing inside. Anyone have any advice for me on a couple things or throw out any other ideas you have: - Is there something cheaper and more sturdy than copper tube a normal person could make a coil out of? - What about something totally different than a coil, like a big freon can (like a grill propane tank) with a couple pipes welded top of it suspended in drum over the fire? Friend is telling me this wouldn't work, says there's too big a volume of water there and I "might as well be heating up a pot of pool water on the stove every 10 mins". - Flow-rate, If I flow too slow it would boil but is there a problem with flowing too fast? the output water isn't as warm but should be adding the same total amount of heat to the pool? - I have a external filter pump I could dedicate to this but would be easier if I could somehow branch off the output of the main 1500gph pool pump/filter without killing its total flow rate. Still letting most of the output of that pump flow out the regular outlet it does now. - lastly fire itself, I'm thinking some type of frame/grate to hold wood few inches from bottom of drum. How big/many airholes do I need at the bottom? And how do I cut without a cutting torch? I have an air cut off tool that will zip through bolts but would it take forever on this? Top of drum, leave it completely open? or make some kind of roof to keep rain out and slow the heat, possibly putting more into my water? Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Apr 17, 2012 |
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Is there a Twitter site that allows me to see what tweets by a certain author have been retweeted the most? Or at least some sort of popularity scale?
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Wagonburner posted:So I'm toying with the idea of this year or next rigging up a hillbilly wood-fired pool heater for our hillbilly 20' metal frame pool. You're building a heat exchanger. Fun! I'm a mechanical engineer but I haven't studied heat exchangers much in years, so I'm going to speculate based on my kinda-informed intuition, but I do not claim these are the best answers. quote:- Flow-rate, If I flow too slow it would boil but is there a problem with flowing too fast? the output water isn't as warm but should be adding the same total amount of heat to the pool? I think your second point is correct - in fact, you may even add more total heat to the pool with faster flow. I believe in a system like this where the water is all part of the same pool and is being recirculated and heated as it goes, faster can only be better.  By and large, heat transfer is driven by temperature gradient. So the heat transfer into the water depends on the temperature of the water - more heat will go into water that is more cold.So imagine slow water. It gets halfway through the coil and is already really hot, so it's sucking less heat out of the hot air. Imagine fast water. It goes through so fast that it barely changes its temperature, but in total, the coil fluid absorbed the max amount of heat (per unit time, not per mass water). You can see how this would be a problem if you were heating water one time only and then sending it off somewhere else, but if you are recirculating the water, then as you say, you'll add the same total heat. Except more effectively! P.S. if possible, pull water out of the bottom of the pool where it's coldest, for the same reason. quote:- lastly fire itself, I'm thinking some type of frame/grate to hold wood few inches from bottom of drum. How big/many airholes do I need at the bottom? And how do I cut without a cutting torch? I have an air cut off tool that will zip through bolts but would it take forever on this? Top of drum, leave it completely open? or make some kind of roof to keep rain out and slow the heat, possibly putting more into my water? A little chimney would improve air flow, I don't know if it would really "slow the heat" though. Slowing the heat means slowing the air flow, which means cooling the fire. But a chimney-shaped thing on top actually helps draw in air from below. The only way I can think of to slow the heat would be to give the hot air a more tortuous path to follow, so that the fire itself gets plenty of air, but the hot air dwells near the cold water for longer. One way to give the hot air a tortuous path would be to flip your phases: run the water through the oil drum, and run the flue gas from the fire through the copper tubing. But that would require a whole nother combustion chamber, so unless you have two drums and a lot more time, probably stick with water in the coils.
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I'm waiting for a hardcover book that came out a bit ago to go on liquidation. Is there a website/RSS feed that lists when BN throws their overstock onto the super cheap sale price?
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alnilam posted:
Thanks for all that. This part especially though gave me an idea. A regular gas hot water heater has a torturous path, a little spiral screw type thing in its flue/chimney that runs up the middle of the tank. Wonder if I could find one of those small hotel room/apartment 25 gallon water heaters broken but with a good tank, cut the tank out of it, suspend that in there. May be too big though and would almost surely require some type of wood access door be made. But that gets back to my friend's point of "too much water volume over the fire" and "take a pot of pool water to the stove every 10 mins" I see where he could be right, but still not sure why. He compared the normal coil idea to a car radiator, Goal of a radiator is to remove as much heat as possible as quickly as possible. I want to suck in as much heat as possible but I don't care if it takes 20 mins to actually start flowing out warm water. Pretend I make a big nice coil of copper with x square inches of surface area exposed to fire and pretend the coil itself holds 2 gallons of water. vs. If I used a tank from a hotwater heater, freon propane or whatever and it had the same x square inches exposed to fire. Does it having same surface area but 3-10x the amount of water inside the tank vs. the tubing slow things down at all given the same flow rate? I wonder if using a tank method if I could increase efficiency by strapping or having a friend weld some metal stick-out "scales" to the sides. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Apr 17, 2012 |
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I'm visiting my parents this week, and am trying to de-crudify their computer. One particularly irritating thing is that some stuff has a very hard time downloading (some windows updates, Flash installer, Java updates, etc.). It'll download right at first, but then peter out. If you pause/resume the download in IE, it'll download again in a short burst. It's not their connection, because my laptop that I brought with me doesn't have this problem. I'm doing virus scans and stuff, but is there any particular flavor of malware that might cause this behavior that I should watch for? I'm in the middle of a full MBAM scan right now which has found two items, but I'm not sure what since you can't get details until after it's done. They've got MSE installed and fully updated, and aside from one particular Windows update that doesn't want to download, they're fully patched as well.
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stubblyhead posted:I'm visiting my parents this week, and am trying to de-crudify their computer. One particularly irritating thing is that some stuff has a very hard time downloading (some windows updates, Flash installer, Java updates, etc.). It'll download right at first, but then peter out. If you pause/resume the download in IE, it'll download again in a short burst. It's not their connection, because my laptop that I brought with me doesn't have this problem. I'm doing virus scans and stuff, but is there any particular flavor of malware that might cause this behavior that I should watch for? I'm in the middle of a full MBAM scan right now which has found two items, but I'm not sure what since you can't get details until after it's done. They've got MSE installed and fully updated, and aside from one particular Windows update that doesn't want to download, they're fully patched as well.
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Is there any video of Newt Gingrich being asked about his moon base? I never caught anything about it after he said it, apart from hilarious mockery.
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greazeball posted:You tell them you've been offered another job and you're going to take it unless they can double your salary. Don't even say that because they could do it then just get rid of him as soon as they trained a new guy. It sucks but it won't matter. Best thing to do is just tell them the truth, the sooner the better.
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You don't have to tell them anything. Just quit. Its retail.
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TheBigAristotle posted:Is there any video of Newt Gingrich being asked about his moon base? I never caught anything about it after he said it, apart from hilarious mockery. Newt's big Moon speech in Florida: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E7rrRGqbZM Mitt Romney calls him out during a debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RavCepXxlj0 More can be found with a little searching. If you're looking for something specific, you can always ask around in the big Republican Primary thread in D&D.
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Runcible Cat posted:Have you tried downloading in Firefox or Chrome instead? IE9 can do some seriously weird things off its own bat even without a malware infestation. (I can't download zips with it on my work computer for example; it corrupts them.) Chrome was actually one of the things it didn't want to download. I finally got it by downloading the msi installer. As another example, it won't load anything on youtube. Hulu works perfectly (this is all in chrome now). This computer is only about a year old and still has pretty good specs, so it's not a resource issue.
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stubblyhead posted:Chrome was actually one of the things it didn't want to download. I finally got it by downloading the msi installer. As another example, it won't load anything on youtube. Hulu works perfectly (this is all in chrome now). This computer is only about a year old and still has pretty good specs, so it's not a resource issue. Watch out for using multiple virus/malware/firewall apps. Boot into safe mode with networking. Try. If on wireless try lan, if on lan try wireless.
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:Watch out for using multiple virus/malware/firewall apps. Looks like their router is causing some issues... it turns out I couldn't load anything on youtube on my own computer either, but once I plugged directly into their cable modem it works fine. I'll gently caress around with it tomorrow.
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Wagonburner posted:So I'm toying with the idea of this year or next rigging up a hillbilly wood-fired pool heater for our hillbilly 20' metal frame pool. You should post a thread about this in DIY. They will be able to give you a lot of helpful advice and hopefully keep you from killing yourself/others.
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I need a recording of a crowd, similar to that at a small posh string quartet type performance or something, maybe a small play? (20-30 people) Everyone murmuring, like the buzz before a school play back in the day, waiting then clapping politely when the musicians come on and then smoothly quietening down. I'd like to add it to the start of one of my songs that im making and make out it's a live performance as I have a cell phone going off halfway through as a joke with someone answering it. I'm sure there'd be some bootleg or live filming or audio recording of something like this, but I have no idea how to google it, or where to ask? Thanks!!
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Try searching using "sound effects" as keywords. I tried "sound effects small audience" but the first few hits I don't think are what you wanted, but you might have better luck. https://www.google.com/search?q=sound+effects+small+audience&num=100&hl=en&safe=off
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buzz wing wow posted:I need a recording of a crowd, similar to that at a small posh string quartet type performance or something, maybe a small play? (20-30 people) Everyone murmuring, like the buzz before a school play back in the day, waiting then clapping politely when the musicians come on and then smoothly quietening down. http://www.freesound.org/
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There's a Chinese shop keeper I've known for a couple of years, and every time I go into his place, he has the same drat CD playing. It's all wind instrument covers of popular songs (such as "I Swear" by Gary Baker/All4One) and it's been driving me nuts. I want to tell the guy to get some different music. I actually have a CD of similar instrumental music that I want to give him, but it's Japanese. Would giving it to him be inappropriate? My knowledge of Chinese/Japanese tensions is limited.
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Elijya posted:I actually have a CD of similar instrumental music that I want to give him, but it's Japanese. Would giving it to him be inappropriate? My knowledge of Chinese/Japanese tensions is limited. sub supau fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Apr 18, 2012 |
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I'm giving blood tomorrow, and it's been about 7 years since I last gave so I'm a bit rusty. I'm scheduled to donate at 10:00 AM, so is there anything I should do besides eat something for breakfast? Drink plenty of water perhaps? Avoid IV drugs?
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Centzon Totochtin posted:I'm giving blood tomorrow, and it's been about 7 years since I last gave so I'm a bit rusty. I'm scheduled to donate at 10:00 AM, so is there anything I should do besides eat something for breakfast? Drink plenty of water perhaps? Avoid IV drugs?
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I made an ultra-obnoxious MySpace profile for myself back in freshman year, and it keeps coming back to haunt me whenever I (and presumably anybody else) googles my name. Of course, I've long forgotten the password by now so I can't just delete it. Do any of you know how to make this go away?
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Harold Ramis Drugs posted:I made an ultra-obnoxious MySpace profile for myself back in freshman year, and it keeps coming back to haunt me whenever I (and presumably anybody else) googles my name. Of course, I've long forgotten the password by now so I can't just delete it. Do any of you know how to make this go away?
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Harold Ramis Drugs posted:I made an ultra-obnoxious MySpace profile for myself back in freshman year, and it keeps coming back to haunt me whenever I (and presumably anybody else) googles my name. Of course, I've long forgotten the password by now so I can't just delete it. Do any of you know how to make this go away? Contact MySpace and ask them to take it down. This is your best bet, but I have no clue how useful MySpace support is. If they don't, you might attempt to have another page of yours have a higher rating on Google. This will usually be as simple as posting your Facebook on a few other profile pages of yours (more links to your Facebook => higher Google result).
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Harold Ramis Drugs posted:I made an ultra-obnoxious MySpace profile for myself back in freshman year, and it keeps coming back to haunt me whenever I (and presumably anybody else) googles my name. Of course, I've long forgotten the password by now so I can't just delete it. Do any of you know how to make this go away? Try asking MySpace to remove it, or at least stop it from being searchable. Next, go here and ask Google to stop including it in their results; as long as it's no longer being crawled (which is what you want to ask MySpace to do, if they can't delete it), it won't show up the next time Google queries it. Or somethin'.
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I had to lock an old myspace account once and I seem to remember it involves emailing a picture of yourself holding a piece of paper with your account info on it. Screwy poo poo.
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stubblyhead posted:Looks like their router is causing some issues... it turns out I couldn't load anything on youtube on my own computer either, but once I plugged directly into their cable modem it works fine. I'll gently caress around with it tomorrow. FWIW, I updated the firmware on their router, and everything seems to be working great now.
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