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Sweevo posted:Price labels that don't show the price are moronic, and proof that Americans will make excuses for anything.
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Wacky Delly posted:Those drives are the size of a Compact Flash card. Compact Flash is still around and common for scientific/industrial devices. Kind of like RS232, but that's been discussed more than once in this thread.
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Jerry Cotton posted:No-one ITT is expecting that Explosionface posted:You advertise that the widget is $4, so regardless whether you really sell it at $3.51 + tax or $3.88 + tax doesn't really matter except for fiddling with the margins on the widget you put on the shelf at $2 a pop. The customer sees and pays the same price at all locations.
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Jerry Cotton posted:They also have codes/laws/ordinances that prevent people from installing doors that open the correct way (i.e. outwards) so that cops and bounty hunters have an easier time busting in and killing you and your entire family and kicking your dog. I don't think I've ever seen outward opening doors except on sheds in the UK. Like even medieval buildings' doors open inwards. I used to live next door to a castle with an inward door.
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That's because the hinges on an inward opening door are on the inside. Of course now you can hide the hinges but it was easier to bar the door than to figure out how to stop an invading army from just sawing the hinges off before people figured out how to do that.
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Jun 15, 2018 14:27
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Sweevo posted:Price labels that don't show the price are moronic, and proof that Americans will make excuses for anything. Are you in one of those countries with no VAT, or do you just cheat on customs a lot when ordering online?
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it’s the company that dodges the vat here - thanks shopto for shipping every physical game I’ve bought as a dvd - under £15 of course - from jersey
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Jun 15, 2018 14:47
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rndmnmbr posted:You are unless you're expecting corporations to never advertise based on price again ... National ads state "The new Ford Tippex is $12,999.99 plus local taxes - buy one now!" and the stores list whatever the hell the price is with their taxes added on. There, solved.
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bitterandtwisted posted:I don't think I've ever seen outward opening doors except on sheds in the UK. Like even medieval buildings' doors open inwards. I used to live next door to a castle with an inward door. Yes well you see civilized lands have sort of moved on from mediaeval times. Of course the UK also has poo poo for doors - that's where USA got them. Not that "our castle has a poo poo door" is much of an argument since welp guess what our castle has: 
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Gimme! I think it's been in the thread before but it's a reality, good to see a video of the creator going over the different OSes it can run on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTU28QgYHdQ I'm glaring at my N97 and N900 which are currently not booting and just want to shake them at my screen. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 15:53 on Jun 15, 2018 |
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Grand Prize Winner posted:now there's an obsolete technology Delaware is one of the best run states I've ever seen. And without Delaware you wouldn't have neoprene!
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Nobody knows where Delaware even is. We should consolidate it with Rhode island and Alaska or sell it to the French and not put the tax on the price tag
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Delaware is one of the best run states I've ever seen. And without Delaware you wouldn't have neoprene! Or shell corporations for hiding your porn star hush money payouts. I know, I know, there would still be Bermuda et al but Delaware really is the king of grade-A-made-in-the-USA shady LLC registration.
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Tunicate posted:Are you in one of those countries with no VAT, or do you just cheat on customs a lot when ordering online? What?
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Sweevo posted:What? My guess: most American goons ITT still haven't realized that when we are discussing price tags/stickers, we mean price tags/stickes, not things that don't have price tags/stickers?
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Jun 15, 2018 17:52
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bitterandtwisted posted:I don't think I've ever seen outward opening doors except on sheds in the UK. Like even medieval buildings' doors open inwards. I used to live next door to a castle with an inward door. Every door on the building evacuation path has to open outwards, or towards the larger open space, here in the socialist Northern Europe, to prevent trampling and for the (easier) possibility to force open a jammed door from within the building. I have never seen an apartment door or access door which opens inwards.
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Der Kyhe posted:Every door on the building evacuation path has to open outwards, or towards the larger open space, here in the socialist Northern Europe, to prevent trampling and for the (easier) possibility to force open a jammed door from within the building. I have never seen an apartment door or access door which opens inwards. Same with most commercial spaces and newer apartments in the US. It's single-family residential construction where the door most commonly opens inward. I actually think (haven't bothered to google it) it's because we have historically put 2 doors in-line on our houses. A light "screen" door that opens outward and a much sturdier door that opens inward. Because the doors are only 6" apart they cannot physically open the same direction.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Nobody knows where Delaware even is. We should consolidate it with Rhode island and Alaska or sell it to the French and not put the tax on the price tag If you're traveling on the main vein of America's primary coast, Interstate 95, Delaware will charge you $4 to enjoy its 23 miles of that highway. That'll make you remember!
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Delaware, home of that one little building that has nothing more than a bored receptionist that will tell you about the building. Said building is listed as the corporate hq of thousands of companies so they can say they're from Delaware.
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Delaware doesn't actually exist, it's just a fictional state created as a tax haven for credit card companies.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Delaware doesn't actually exist, it's just a fictional state created as a tax haven for credit card companies. Naw man, I totally know one person who said he lived there for like a year.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Naw man, I totally know one person who said he lived there for like a year. Yeah I know his girlfriend, Rachel From Cardholder Services
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Tunicate posted:Yeah I know his girlfriend, Rachel From Cardholder Services I AM GOING TO KILL HER
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*closes three tabs of Onkyo service manuals* Update! Man, late-stage hi-fi cassette players are weird inside. I've got plenty of experience with early '60s decks (big, open mechanisms) and the early-mid '90s stuff (cheap plastic mechanisms with all the processing and control done digitally with a microcontroller), but this deck is from 1979. It has what looks like ICs, but they're really just hybrid components, and there's a hefty mix of hand-designed soldered boards, and point-to-point components attached with posts and wire wrap. Then some wire wrap components are soldered and shielded. The mechanism itself has all of the complexity of a completely mechanical late-60's deck, but it's been miniaturized with heavy springwork and piano keys. I got out of class today at 1530, and by 1600 I was working on it. It's not 1930 and I've finally got it put back together. New belts, a hefty half-can of deoxit, choice placement of some lithium grease, and a "custom" heatsink on the one, single traditional power transitor in it (for good measure).  Combined with my (1kg!) Koss Pro/4AA headphones, it's so loving hipster I may die  (dirty floor shot because lol studio apartment) Here's a (silent, YT audio copyright poo poo) video with the VU meters dancing to some Madonna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2VoOYohnwE During assembly, I had routed the three belts in it about four different ways, all of which were wrong. There's one belt that stretches what I would consider an inappropriate amount, halfway across the internal mechanism, with the spindle axle for the main flywheel running through the middle. Analog miniaturization! Let me add, it's extremely difficult to diagnose wow and flutter using 80's pop music that's full of it intentionally. Took me too long to realize that I should probably pop in some Simon and Garfunkel instead.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Delaware, home of that one little building that has nothing more than a bored receptionist that will tell you about the building. Said building is listed as the corporate hq of thousands of companies so they can say they're from Delaware. My buddy used to work near there and when I would pick him up I'd park beside that building and stand next to it and smoke and look at my phone to pass the time. There was always a nice street spot by it.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:*closes three tabs of Onkyo service manuals* It's 7:18 and I just woke up after dreaming all night about trying to fix a late 70s tape deck that was mostly made of Legos but also shitloads of metal wheels that were just stacked on top of each other in a very particular order but not actually attached to anything. And for some reason three spent 12.7mm shell casings. And when I had it all opened up I inadvertently turned it upside down. Welp that's my nightmare hope you enjoyed it God bless.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:If you're traveling on the main vein of America's primary coast, Interstate 95, Delaware will charge you $4 to enjoy its 23 miles of that highway. That'll make you remember! No, that's those fuckers in Maryland. There aren't any tolls on 95 in Delaware. (And is it only $4? I thought it was more - $6? - but I live a few miles away from that toll station so I just drive around it.)
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Compact Flash is still around and common for scientific/industrial devices. Kind of like RS232, but that's been discussed more than once in this thread. hell yeah, the same SCADA devices I frequently tout during the RS232 discussions also run their operating system off CF. Usually VxWorks or something like that. I recently pulled one apart that ran on a TotalLossBrain has a new favorite as of 05:32 on Jun 16, 2018 |
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Captain Kevbo posted:No, that's those fuckers in Maryland. There aren't any tolls on 95 in Delaware. If Delaware exists, the bit the Interstate passes through is maybe 12 miles north-south and has no toll, I've driven up the east coast. Yeah, they're thinking of Outer DC.
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Chillbro Baggins posted:If Delaware exists, the bit the Interstate passes through is maybe 12 miles north-south and has no toll, I've driven up the east coast. Yeah, they're thinking of Outer DC. I'm sorry but there is a toll collected by the state of Delaware on 95 by the Maryland border. It's 4 dollars, no matter which way you're going. Delaware is real! The toll is real! I do like that I started the toll derail by saying surely people would remember Delaware who have driven on the East Coast because of its ludicrous shakedown and here's somebody who has done that and doesn't remember at all.
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just because the toll is real doesn't mean that this 'Delaware' of yours exists
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Naw man, I totally know one person who said he lived there for like a year. Delaware? Please.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I do like that I started the toll derail by saying surely people would remember Delaware who have driven on the East Coast because of its ludicrous shakedown and here's somebody who has done that and doesn't remember at all. I was awake and sane* when we wemt through Delaware in 2003 on the way from Dallas to Albany. Is there a non-toll interstate through there, or has the toll been implemented in the last fifteen years? * on the way back, I remember taking over driving in Memphis, taking two No-Doz and washing them down with a NOS energy drink, and going into the house. I don't remember Arkansas.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm sorry but there is a toll collected by the state of Delaware on 95 by the Maryland border. It's 4 dollars, no matter which way you're going. Delaware is real! The toll is real! i moved from Texas to NY one year ago this Friday and did not pay any tolls on my drive up so I'm very confused right now
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Chillbro Baggins posted:I remember taking over driving in Memphis, taking two No-Doz and washing them down with a NOS energy drink, and going into the house. I don't remember Arkansas. 
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InediblePenguin posted:i moved from Texas to NY one year ago this Friday and did not pay any tolls on my drive up so I'm very confused right now I know that just between downtown Baltimore and NYC you pay the Fort McHenry tunnel toll, the north bound Maryland toll after the bridge, the Delaware line toll, the New Jersey tolls, and the various bridge or tunnel tolls going into NYC. Teriyaki Hairpiece has a new favorite as of 19:14 on Jun 17, 2018 |
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When I drove between DC and New Jersey a few times a year or two ago I always had to go through tolls in Delaware, but I just googled it and apparently if you don't go across the Delaware Memorial Bridge and detour around the toll at the MD/DE border it may be possible to go through Delaware without paying any tolls? Honestly you pay so many tolls on that route it's hard to even care that much (it would be a nightmare without EZ-pass though.)
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My condo association only accepts checks for some of their fees, like buying an ID or bringing a guest to the pool. Now it's been over a month and they still haven't cashed it, I'm just going to have this pending transaction in my budget forever. I remember being a kid and getting a check for $5 for my birthday. I didn't want to bother going to the bank to cash it, but my Mom made me. I sort of get it now, but still, gently caress you Aunt Pat, you gave me a chore for my birthday.
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