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hoobajoo posted:I think Jack Chick thinks his books do something very different from their actual effect. I have no doubt he thinks an atheist would pick one up, read it, say "Look at what a poo poo we all are! I should praise Jesus instead!". But I doubt highly this has ever happened. I think his basic premise is that there are no atheists. Or other religions. Everyone knows Christianity is true, some people just choose to worship the devil or deny god. So all you have to do is show people the consequences of that and they'll come back to Jesus, because why wouldn't you? Vin BioEthanol posted:You UK guys just need to cook it 5x longer like we do, it's supposed to be cripsy not soggy and slimy but yours is the same stuff as far as I remember Middle bacon is the best, and if it's crispy you overcooked it. 
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Tiggum posted:I think his basic premise is that there are no atheists. Or other religions. Everyone knows Christianity is true, some people just choose to worship the devil or deny god. So all you have to do is show people the consequences of that and they'll come back to Jesus, because why wouldn't you? He sometimes has atheists, but they're all hideous, pox ridden mole people that are made sick by righteous prayer.
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Feb 27, 2014 03:33
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hoobajoo posted:He sometimes has atheists, but they're all hideous, pox ridden mole people that are made sick by righteous prayer. That's what I mean. He thinks "atheist" means "someone who denies god (despite knowing that Christianity is really true)".
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Feb 27, 2014 03:40
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Grundulum posted:And this is why you start with a quarter or half a tablet. Also, it is possible to build a resistance to it really quickly (going along with that addiction thing previous posters have mentioned). I know people for whom a single tablet of Ambien isn't enough to reliably put them to sleep; at this point all it does is make them loopy enough that they'd be willing to go to sleep if they decided they felt tired. Yep, like a great many drugs, your mileage may vary. I had surgery a couple years back and they gave me some Ambien. I could take two and while it made me sleepy, I could stay up if I wanted to and never had any fun hallucinations.
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Tiggum posted:That's what I mean. He thinks "atheist" means "someone who denies god (despite knowing that Christianity is really true)". You're right, he probably thinks of atheists as people that hate God, rather than someone who just doesn't believe in one. hoobajoo fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Feb 27, 2014 |
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Feb 27, 2014 05:19
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Why are so many Wikipedia pictures of people taken at Comic-Con?
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Feb 27, 2014 05:21
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404notfound posted:Why are so many Wikipedia pictures of people taken at Comic-Con? I'd hazard the guess that legally it's not a place with an expectation of privacy so people can't complain if their picture gets taken and then posted on the internet. I'd also guess that most people at Comic-Con WANT their picture taken or are uploading pictures of themselves.
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Feb 27, 2014 05:39
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404notfound posted:Why are so many Wikipedia pictures of people taken at Comic-Con?
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Feb 27, 2014 06:53
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Getting free images with no right reserved saves Wikipedia money and protects it from legal actions by anyone who takes issue with their content. Most free images on the site are taken by amateurs, not professionals, because professionals want to control their work and make money. Amateurs tend to have inferior equipment (camera phones) and typically cannot arrange photoshoots with the celebrity in question.
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Feb 27, 2014 10:30
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Vin BioEthanol posted:Yeah here in OK if you buy used you change the license plate over to your name and put a new sticker on it each year. And the cops just ask for license and proof of insurance. I live in Pennsylvania and tend to average about one speeding ticket a year. Many times the cops have asked me simply for license and registration and never bothered with asking for insurance.
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Feb 27, 2014 10:55
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This might be better suited to TCC but I don't think they have a general questions thread... Are there any (illicit) drugs that can cause tonic seizures? Last night I was helping a friend close his bar and this guy fell (quite literally) down the front stairs and started seizing, twitching, and collapsed on the ground. He couldn't hold himself up and every time he tried to stand his legs just collapsed from under him. He seemed quite manic and a bit out-of-it but was coherent enough to speak to us. He kept saying he was having a fit but wasn't an epileptic (he seemed really insistent that he didn't have epilepsy) and he lay on the floor for a few minutes seizing and twitching and kept telling us to hold him down. Now step 1 in 'how to help someone having a seizure' is 'don't hold them down' so we just kind of hovered near him to make sure he didn't smack his head on the wall or anything. After a few minutes he managed to stand up and shakily drag himself up the stairs and just disappeared down the street. It was weird as gently caress and I have no idea what could have caused his condition but would like to know because I don't want to have to deal with dudes seizuring all over the place if it is a side effect of some new drug or something.
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Feb 27, 2014 11:52
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Yeah back bacon is what you'd call English. Basically cured loin (the same cut you get chops from). It has no place in a sandwich. We sell far more of it than we do streaky, even though it's more expensive. I thought back bacon was just what most Americans called Canadian bacon.
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cyberia posted:This might be better suited to TCC but I don't think they have a general questions thread... Not a doctor or drug user, just a person with a movement disorder chiming in. Sometimes severe dystonia and/or dyskinesia can resemble seizures since they both involve lots of involuntary movement but the sufferer is completely conscious at the time. They have a number of causes -- including as side effects of prescription medication -- and there's not much that can be done to control them short of meds also used in Parkinson's patients. He could have something like that and known exactly how to best manage himself until the worst passed. There are probably a lot of other explanations; that's the first one I came up with from personal experience.
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Feb 27, 2014 13:12
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cyberia posted:This might be better suited to TCC but I don't think they have a general questions thread... Don't know much about recreational drugs that cause seizures, other than there probably are some, but some antidepressants can cause seizures if taken with a contraindicated drug, and there are a million of said contraindications.
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Feb 27, 2014 19:34
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Don't know where else to ask this, but there's this porn vid of a guy singing NOW I'M IN YOUR rear end YEAH and some goon made it into the funniest heavy metal song in existence. Where is that!
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Feb 27, 2014 20:47
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If I have a battery charger for alkaline batteries, I can recharge any old alkaline battery in it, yes? (Well, the right sized one...it charges AA and AAA.) I understand and alkaline not meant to be recharged will probably give me a pretty bad charge, and probably get worse with every charge, but it's just for my electric toothbrush, so I don't really care if they only last a few brushes, it's trivial to swap them out.
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Feb 27, 2014 22:04
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BoyBlunder posted:Proof of insurance isn't required in some states (MA) I know we've moved on from this in the last page and a half, but in MA they don't ask for proof of insurance because you can't register a vehicle without insurance. Ergo your registration is proof of insurance (Your policy ID and carrier are printed on it). Dragyn fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Feb 27, 2014 |
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Feb 27, 2014 22:16
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cyberia posted:This might be better suited to TCC but I don't think they have a general questions thread... There are a lot of things that can lower your seizure threshold, so maybe he took something like that and his brain wasn't able to cope with some stimulus that it's normally OK with. Then again, there is adult-onset epilepsy, so maybe he does have epilepsy and just doesn't realize it.
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DrBouvenstein posted:If I have a battery charger for alkaline batteries, I can recharge any old alkaline battery in it, yes? (Well, the right sized one...it charges AA and AAA.) Rechargable batteries are a totally different chemistries. A regular alkaline (Zn/MnO2) battery will not recharge. Its power comes from the initial composition of its materials as they are placed there upon manufacture, and it is not realistically reversible once discharged. Technically the reaction is reversible, but some material/structural things get in the way of it being possible to reverse the reaction. Also, applying a recharge voltage, you might evolve some gas or something weird and dangerous like that. tl;dr: Alkaline batteries are not meant to be put in a recharger. It won't work and it might be dangerous.
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Feb 27, 2014 22:41
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Dragyn posted:I know we've moved on from this in the last page and a half, but in MA they don't ask for proof of insurance because you can't register a vehicle without insurance. Ergo your registration is proof of insurance (Your policy ID and carrier are printed on it). Michigan is the same way in needing insurance to register but they still ask for it because a lot of people will get insurance just long enough to register the vehicle then cancel the insurance.
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Feb 27, 2014 22:46
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Trastion posted:Michigan is the same way in needing insurance to register but they still ask for it because a lot of people will get insurance just long enough to register the vehicle then cancel the insurance. In Mass if you cancel your insurance your vehicle is then unregistered, and the insurance people send that to the DMV immediately so when the cop runs your reg it will come back as canceled. That's why we don't have to carry proof of insurance, because if you don't have insurance you're driving an unregistered vehicle. As you might imagine, this makes changing insurance providers a loving nightmare.
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alnilam posted:
There are specific chargers designed and marketed to be used on alkalines, which is what I think DrBouvenstein has. They're probably designed with AA, C, D cells in mind and he wants to know if he can use it for his electric toothbrush which also has an alkaline cell. That said, I don't know the answer.
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The thing to keep in mind with those is that they just won't work on a lot of batteries. It'll probably be cheaper and more reliable to just buy a package of intended to be recharged batteries + their charger rather then buying the special alkaline recharger and seeing if it'll actually succeed on your own used batteries. Among other issues, alkalines successfully recharged can only have the process done to them about ~10 times before the resulting storage int he battery isn't useful anymore
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How long has google maps had a 3D parallax effect on the ground itself? Buildings and stuff in cities has been 3D for a while now but if you look somewhere hilly like here in Wales and flick between satellite/map view you can see the hills rise and fall.
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Feb 28, 2014 00:29
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whiteshark12 posted:How long has google maps had a 3D parallax effect on the ground itself? Buildings and stuff in cities has been 3D for a while now but if you look somewhere hilly like here in Wales and flick between satellite/map view you can see the hills rise and fall. This is the "new" Google Maps, that was an optional beta for the past year or so. It's been available since then if you chose to join, or since the time you saw it change to the different interface overall if you didn't actively choose it.
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Feb 28, 2014 00:34
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whiteshark12 posted:How long has google maps had a 3D parallax effect on the ground itself? Buildings and stuff in cities has been 3D for a while now but if you look somewhere hilly like here in Wales and flick between satellite/map view you can see the hills rise and fall. They've been doing that for years in google earth, but it's cool that it's in maps now.
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Feb 28, 2014 02:36
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What's the name of the "cowbell" sound that songs from the 80s used a ton like in the beginning of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm_QilrHkh8
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Feb 28, 2014 05:59
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I think that's a woodblock.
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Feb 28, 2014 06:06
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Cowbells, woodblocks, and temple blocks all can make that sound.
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Feb 28, 2014 07:16
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I have a bit of a weird question and I'm not sure where I would be able to find out this information so I'm just asking here in case anyone can point me in the right direction. Basically I was talking to my grandfather about WWII, and he still remembers his service ID number thing from when he was serving in the Chinese military. Where do I go/who do I talk to, to find out if a) Chinese military records from WWII still exist, and b) if it's possible at all for my grandpa's to be dug up for me to look at (e.g. by name or by his service number)? I'm not sure how possible or often this sort of thing is done but I just thought that if it could be done, I would want to do it. Thanks a lot in advance.
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Chroisman posted:I have a bit of a weird question and I'm not sure where I would be able to find out this information so I'm just asking here in case anyone can point me in the right direction. Assuming you don't live in China, I'd call up the nearest Chinese embassy for starters. Even if they give you the run around on looking things up, they'd at least give you a decent idea of what info they could actually look up. This is pretty much the textbook example of it never hurts to ask. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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Is mixing uppers and downers actually bad for your heart? I know combining them highly increases risk of OD, but I'm talking exclusively about heart damage here. Google gave me sources going both ways, but none of them seemed to be totally believable (it's mostly from various drug forums and advice columns). I'm also not talking so much about heroin and meth as I am, say, taking a Xanax to ease the crash from Adderall. Or having an energy drink while on Vicodin after surgery. There are a lot of drinks that have caffeine in them, like Jaegerbombs, but college students aren't dropping dead from heart disease at 30. I'm also pretty sure EMT's respond to amphetamine overdose with benzodiazepines, and I doubt they'd use a treatment that's going to wreck the patient's heart. Finally, the whole idea of your heart "getting confused" just sounds unbelievably stupid to me. Does anyone know the truth about this? Preferably with a trustworthy source, if possible?
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Karb posted:Finally, the whole idea of your heart "getting confused" just sounds unbelievably stupid to me. Does anyone know the truth about this? Preferably with a trustworthy source, if possible? Just because it sounds stupid to you does not mean it's untrue. You've probably read this if you've done a cursory internet search, but it's from an academic source so it's likely not very biased: http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/mixing-uppers-downers-bad-idea I'd also recommend crafting some searches with specific drug types as opposed to "uppers" and "downers" because you could probably find some scientific studies and review the results yourself. Either way, if you're trying to convince yourself that taking uppers and downers is really an okay thing and all this science stuff is a bunch of mumbo jumbo, I don't know what to tell you. For example, your EMT argument is sort of silly. An EMT is concerned about making sure a person survives whatever immediate peril they're in. If a small amount of heart strain means a person isn't going to OD and die, their course is clear. e: Found an applicable article on google scholar: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987707000278. Short version: "people who take both uppers and downers gently caress up their heart tissues and arteries, which could increase their risk of coronary heart disease." e2: redacted, none of my business. kedo fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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Karb posted:I'm also pretty sure EMT's respond to amphetamine overdose with benzodiazepines, and I doubt they'd use a treatment that's going to wreck the patient's heart. Lots of emergency medicine (even non emergency medicine) has pretty horrible side effects on your body. This is why isn't not administered will-nilly and a trained professional has to make the call. We administer things that absolutely do have sometimes pretty horrible side effects. Those side effects are gentler than "immediate death" so we feel that administering them and giving the patient a chance making it to to a higher level of care alive is preferable.
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thrakkorzog posted:Assuming you don't live in China, I'd call up the nearest Chinese embassy for starters. Even if they give you the run around on looking things up, they'd at least give you a decent idea of what info they could actually look up. This is pretty much the textbook example of it never hurts to ask. Bear in mind that the government of China that existed during World War II went on to lose a civil war. The only territory the nationalist government managed to hold onto was Taiwan, where it continues today. I don't honestly know which country (People's Republic of China or Republic of China, AKA Taiwan) would have old WWII service records. It's possible that both do. But remember, there's no such thing as a Taiwanese embassy in most countries.
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Any AI people lurking? Why/how did "14 inch dick turbo" lose an inch and become "13 inch dick"? Did he literally damage his penis [during automotive work] or something? I watched a video of the man smoke an owl pellet, so no answer could surprise me... Am I just horribly confused about everything? Link to a thread would be ace. I guess I can always ask in an AI or forums history thread but hey, may as well try here...
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What's the best console controller (360 or PS) to buy if I want to use it for games on my PC? I know it's possible, but I don't know which is the most convenient/works with the most programs/is easiest to configure.
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Pocket DeSade posted:What's the best console controller (360 or PS) to buy if I want to use it for games on my PC? I know it's possible, but I don't know which is the most convenient/works with the most programs/is easiest to configure. If you are using windows then USB Xbox 360 controllers are pretty much plug-and-play.
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Pocket DeSade posted:What's the best console controller (360 or PS) to buy if I want to use it for games on my PC? I know it's possible, but I don't know which is the most convenient/works with the most programs/is easiest to configure. 360 is better supported in Windows, PS3 will work, but I haven't cared enough to try since the 360 controller works so well. Keep in mind the 360 controller needs a USB dongle if it's wireless, which would be an extra purchase the PS3 controller may not need if connecting via USB instead of Bluetooth.
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Ror posted:If you are using windows then USB Xbox 360 controllers are pretty much plug-and-play. Will it be usable/configurable for most games? I imagine most big-budget popular games work, but I usually play weird indie games.
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