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What's this "_ sighed and drew his Katana" phrase, that I see pop up in threads from time to time?
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Mister Macys posted:What's this "_ sighed and drew his Katana" phrase, that I see pop up in threads from time to time? Seems to be from this GOP fanfiction. Part III posted:Reagan chose to ignore the address, instead turning to the audience. Pointing at the nominee, Reagan boomed "This is the man you have selected? This is the man you think will defeat the Democrats at this trying hour? This is the man you think can lead this nation to glory it deserves? This self-proclaimed maverick?"
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Jan 4, 2013 10:25
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"Do you speak English/French/Spanish/etc.?" is the way we phrase the question, even if what we mean is "Do you understand ____?" Like if I was watching a French DVD with no English subtitles, you might say, "Oh, I didn't know you spoke French" even though speaking has nothing to do with watching a DVD. I know they do the same (speak=understand) in Spanish, French, German and Italian. Do other languages use the same/similar word choice when asking about knowledge/understanding of a language? For example: Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or any others not already mentioned really.
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Jan 4, 2013 11:16
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In Japanese, there are three common ways of asking this, in no particular order: 1. Can you speak XXXX?(~を話せますか?) 2. Do you understand XXXX?(~がわかりますか?) 3. Can you do XXXX?(~ができますか?) tarepanda fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Jan 4, 2013 |
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Jan 4, 2013 11:25
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You know that new Star Wars X-wing Miniatures board game that everyone is going nuts over and that's expensive as all gently caress? Is there a similar game that doesn't cost as much? It would be cheaper to buy crack rocks and have space battles with them.
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Jan 4, 2013 12:26
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Is there a good book/website with a detailed history of the phone company? I was reading the obsolete technology thread, and some of the stories about being forced to lease phones, not being allowed to hook up answering machines, etc. made me want to read more about the historical reasons why we had a phone monopoly for so long, and what the effects of that were.
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Jan 4, 2013 12:59
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You can start with the wikipedia article on Bell Systems.
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Jan 4, 2013 15:21
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Noni posted:You know that new Star Wars X-wing Miniatures board game that everyone is going nuts over and that's expensive as all gently caress? Is there a similar game that doesn't cost as much? It would be cheaper to buy crack rocks and have space battles with them. We have our very own board game thread that you can ask in but I do not know of any cheaper alternatives that are any good. If you are into playing board games though read that thread. There are a LOT of good games out there right now. Edit - opps quoted wrong person.
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Jan 4, 2013 15:31
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greazeball posted:"Do you speak English/French/Spanish/etc.?" is the way we phrase the question, even if what we mean is "Do you understand ____?" Like if I was watching a French DVD with no English subtitles, you might say, "Oh, I didn't know you spoke French" even though speaking has nothing to do with watching a DVD. Russian does too but, like anything, it's situational. When I first started learning it and was hanging out with Russian people they would sometimes stop and ask me, "Do you understand?" Wotan fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Jan 4, 2013 |
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Jan 4, 2013 16:05
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Penguissimo posted:Is there a good book/website with a detailed history of the phone company? I was reading the obsolete technology thread, and some of the stories about being forced to lease phones, not being allowed to hook up answering machines, etc. made me want to read more about the historical reasons why we had a phone monopoly for so long, and what the effects of that were. http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3246&context=lcp [PDF] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/09/how-att-conquered-the-20th-century/ http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/150/1870.xhtml http://www.mikundan.com/Portfolio/winstaru/WUContents/courses/intro/1history1.htm
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Capt. Morgan posted:You can start with the wikipedia article on Bell Systems. dokmo posted:http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3246&context=lcp [PDF] Awesome, thanks guys!
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Jan 4, 2013 18:59
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Is there a good (possibly online) program I can use to track the amount of money I'm taking in and the amount im spending, and what i'm spending it on?
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Jan 5, 2013 03:28
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Avocados posted:Is there a good (possibly online) program I can use to track the amount of money I'm taking in and the amount im spending, and what i'm spending it on? https://www.mint.com/ for online quicken for offline
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Jan 5, 2013 04:07
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There were these awesome paintings I saw on the internet a few years ago that I lost. They are of the nose-art girls on WWII planes come to life, flying alongside the plane in question. The two that stood out to me were a woman with jaws painted on her face like the flying tigers paint job, and a tattooed Japanese girl floating next to her sunk plane. My boss is a WWII nut and talking to him reminded me of them. They were so beautifully done that its driving my crazy that I can't find them.
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Jan 5, 2013 04:37
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Tasty_Crayon posted:There were these awesome paintings I saw on the internet a few years ago that I lost. They are of the nose-art girls on WWII planes come to life, flying alongside the plane in question. The two that stood out to me were a woman with jaws painted on her face like the flying tigers paint job, and a tattooed Japanese girl floating next to her sunk plane. My boss is a WWII nut and talking to him reminded me of them. They were so beautifully done that its driving my crazy that I can't find them. check http://gangus.cgsociety.org/gallery/ http://gangus.cgsociety.org/gallery/496735/ fits the jaws description. Edit: this one is pretty cool too: http://gangus.cgsociety.org/gallery/398685/
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Jan 5, 2013 14:34
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I was recently given an older 46 inch busted JVC. It looks like this: Any idea what exactly is wrong with it or how much it would cost to repair?
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Jan 5, 2013 20:47
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Inpossible posted:check http://gangus.cgsociety.org/gallery/ That's the guy! Thanks!
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Jan 5, 2013 20:52
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fuckpot posted:There is a depressing lack of Simpson's quotes on youtube. Has a big index of Simpson's quotes been attempted before but Fox has taken them down? Pretty much. The only ones I ever see are upside down or reversed, or in another language, something like that.
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Jan 5, 2013 20:53
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Douche Bag posted:I was recently given an older 46 inch busted JVC. It looks like this:
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Jan 5, 2013 21:10
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Douche Bag posted:I was recently given an older 46 inch busted JVC. It looks like this: Screen is cracked, it's going to cost you about the same amount as the TV
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Jan 5, 2013 21:10
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Nevermind.
teen phone cutie fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Jan 5, 2013 |
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Jan 5, 2013 22:22
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Douche Bag posted:I was recently given an older 46 inch busted JVC. It looks like this: Who gave this to you? Now you're just disposing of it for them for free (judging from the other responses). I hope they had good intentions.
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Jan 6, 2013 01:13
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How do I send a message to an entire Facebook group? Is that still even a thing I can do? I figure I can always just create an event and invite the whole group (oh god, can I even do that?) as a workaround for getting information out, if nothing else.
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Jan 6, 2013 02:32
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FadingChord posted:How do I send a message to an entire Facebook group? Is that still even a thing I can do? Can you not just post on the group's wall?
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Jan 6, 2013 03:37
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FadingChord posted:How do I send a message to an entire Facebook group? Is that still even a thing I can do? It looks to me like only group admins can message the whole group.
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Jan 6, 2013 03:43
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Is there a simple way to remove audio/subtitle streams from mkv files? How about adding subtitle streams from srt files? Or do I have to re-encode the entire thing to do that?
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Jan 6, 2013 04:02
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Amelia Song posted:It looks to me like only group admins can message the whole group. I'm a group admin; I just can't find the button in the new groups layout. Somebody make me feel stupid, please.
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Jan 6, 2013 04:23
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tarepanda posted:Is there a simple way to remove audio/subtitle streams from mkv files? How about adding subtitle streams from srt files? Or do I have to re-encode the entire thing to do that? MKVToolNix Run the GUI program. Add your mkv and srt files as input files, then you can remove or rearrange the tracks and remux.
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Jan 6, 2013 04:41
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EDIT: Nvm I'll just make an E/N thread.
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Jan 6, 2013 04:51
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Dudebro posted:Who gave this to you? Now you're just disposing of it for them for free (judging from the other responses). I hope they had good intentions. They, like me, thought it might be fixable 
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Jan 6, 2013 04:55
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Turtlicious posted:What age do people stop getting Christmas / Birthday gifts? I just read/participated in a convo that made me re-think an assumption I had which was that once you were a teen all gifts stop. Is this not the norm? I guess nobody loves you. (The hell? I spent 300 bucks on Christmas this year, and I'm broke as gently caress. Giving people you love stuff is the best.)
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Jan 6, 2013 05:05
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Turtlicious posted:What age do people stop getting Christmas / Birthday gifts? I just read/participated in a convo that made me re-think an assumption I had which was that once you were a teen all gifts stop. Is this not the norm? For birthdays, there probably comes a point when family (except parents and some tenacious aunts/uncles/grandparents) isn't really involved in any sort of gathering. When you stop blowing out candles on pony cakes to the sound of applause and start wanting to go to the mall, hang out with friends, or simply sink through the floor, birthday gifts from family die a natural death. Christmas is a little more complicated in my experience with my own family and being an interloper with several others throughout the last decade. Everyone brings gifts for the kids of the family. If they don't, someone will probably cover for them and put their name on a gift. I've seen it many times over--this is when parents can teach their kids to pay attention to who gave what, and to remember to thank them for it no matter what, so you don't want to be the odd one out...do you?  So you drat well better bring those gifts or arrange a collaboration/pure lie ahead of time. This lasts until they're in high school, nearly done with high school, or whenever they became too cool for happiness and gratitude and just want cash and to be left alone. Then across the board they seem to get weaned off from presents with gift cards, checks, and maybe some "oh poo poo find something to wrap quick" things. Parents keep buying for their own kids. Adult kids keep buying for their own parents or get the siblings to pool funds for something really nice. For the rest, if the holiday isn't just about food or singing carols together or watching TV or playing games, I think adults--siblings and maybe cousins, aunts, uncles, etc--seem to get into drawing names so they get just one nice gift for whoever they draw. Easy on finances, and cuts last-minute boxed chocolate, tube sock, and random kitchen appliance gifts down by maybe 75%. Also popular seems to be the white elephant gift exchange where several mystery presents get chosen one-by-one by participants, unwrapped to joy or horror, and eventually traded or stolen for something someone else got. Disclaimer: I am not a gift expert, etiquette maven, or even particularly well-adjusted. But I've been to a billion family Christmas parties of many shapes and sizes, God help me.
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Jan 6, 2013 05:46
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Liebfraumilch posted:whenever they became too cool for happiness and gratitude and just want cash and to be left alone. I read your post twice to try to figure out why I liked it so much and this line right here is the reason.
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Jan 6, 2013 13:42
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In Excel, I've generated a column of numbers using a formula rather than manually typed values. I want to copy and paste this column into another spreadsheet, but it all comes up as zeros because it's still a formula and the input data is not there. How can I copy the results?
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Jan 6, 2013 15:30
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Baron Bifford posted:In Excel, I've generated a column of numbers using a formula rather than manually typed values. I want to copy and paste this column into another spreadsheet, but it all comes up as zeros because it's still a formula and the input data is not there. How can I copy the results? Create a new page in the first workbook. Copy the column you want. Go to your new page, select paste special->paste as values. Copy the values. Paste in your 2nd workbook.
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Jan 6, 2013 15:36
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What's a good gift for someone you don't know, that doesn't drink alcohol? For a 24-year old girl? Only something small, that I can get at short notice. My first thought was like fancy soap but I've just been told that the suggestion of her using it in the shower makes it inappropriate coming from a stranger (I think this is bullshit). How about like a nice, scented candle?
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Jan 6, 2013 19:59
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When people talk about using ear protection for loud concerts, is there anything in particular you're looking for or are all earplugs the same? And while I'm on this note, is there a way they're supposed to be used beyond "shove in ear?" I don't think I've ever really worn an earplug. I guess it's a good thing I haven't been to many loud concerts.
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Jan 6, 2013 20:00
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Hoops posted:What's a good gift for someone you don't know, that doesn't drink alcohol? For a 24-year old girl? Only something small, that I can get at short notice. My first thought was like fancy soap but I've just been told that the suggestion of her using it in the shower makes it inappropriate coming from a stranger (I think this is bullshit). How about like a nice, scented candle? Everybody needs a good umbrella.
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Hoops posted:What's a good gift for someone you don't know, that doesn't drink alcohol? For a 24-year old girl? Only something small, that I can get at short notice. My first thought was like fancy soap but I've just been told that the suggestion of her using it in the shower makes it inappropriate coming from a stranger (I think this is bullshit). How about like a nice, scented candle? How about a nice unscented candle? Why do they all smell like a tire fire in a candy store? Other ideas: Some nice tea or coffee mugs A non-nerdy boardgame (like Settlers of Catan or Pictionary) Why are you expected to bring a gift to a 24-year old stranger?
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