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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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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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kapalama posted:Pdfs are almost never just picture of the page. They can be, but they rarely are. To add to this, having a PDF that is just a scanned image is a relatively recent development, when PDF was developed you almost exclusively would use it for computer generated stuff.
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Aug 31, 2010 14:58
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Ana Lucia Cortez posted:Is there a way to block mail from a certain address? I'm talking about real SNAIL mail here, not email. An ex keeps sending letters and cards in the mail. As much as I've pleaded with him to stop, I still receive the occasional birthday card or "Hey what's up girl" letter... which my fiance is not too happy about. Considering there's no way to block it, realistically, have you tried asking him to donate to a charity on your behalf when he wants to send you stuff. I mean yeah it sounds crazy but whatever. As others have said - even if you could block his address, he can just use a different or no return address at all. He could even drive to different nearby post offices to mail stuff instead of his town's.
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change my name posted:Does anyone here have a MiFi/ know someone who does (more specifically, the Virgin Mobile MiFi)? I love the idea of being some kind of cyberpunk nerd I have one, on the $40 a month prepaid unlimited plan, it works great!
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alan negative posted:I have a new social security card coming into my new address. But at the social security office, i forgot to specify the apartment number. I'm freaking out, what do I do? Inform your landlord.
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gwar3k1 posted:Parlour Music. Adding 1930's to your search term isn't going to hurt. Call up a tailor? I'm sure any given tailor will have that style of fabric and if they don't they'll certainly be able to get some to make a suit by Halloween.
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Sep 7, 2010 15:18
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stubblyhead posted:Yes I am sure a tailored suit will cost much less than $200. Tailored suit doesn't have to mean a nice suit. I went to a local tailor one year to get a gaudy purple Joker from Batman type suit for Halloween and he whipped one up for me for about $40.
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Sep 7, 2010 16:46
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Note that in quantum mechanics, "observation" and "measurement" are satisfied by merely having inanimate atoms bump into whatever is in question. You don't need someone actually going out and trying to observe/measure to have the "observation" effects occur.
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Sep 10, 2010 18:50
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kapalama posted:Not quite correct. The two slit in a perfect example of needing an actual measurement. Prior to the measurement on the backscreen, the particle travels through both slits (which of course in nonsensical in the non quantum world). I don't think you understand, the same stuff still happens if noone's around looking at it. It is essentially impossible for any even to go unobserved by quantum mechanics standards. If there's no human standing there, the atoms of the slit and back wall themselves are the "observer".
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Sep 10, 2010 19:38
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Dandy Cat posted:At the risk of sounding like an emo fag, I was wondering if anyone knows any good places to order clove cigarettes online from? I ordered 2 cases of Djarums from salecheapcigarettes.com and they shipped me 5 cartons of some other kind of clove. I am just kind of looking for a reliable place to order from. As of September 22, 2009 the clove cigarette was no longer legal to sell or distribute in the US, and cigarettes purchased overseas are subject to seizure by U.S. Customs. As I assume you're American, you should realize it's been illegal to get clove cigarettes for almost a year now. You need to start looking for clove cigars or clove mini-cigars.
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BorderPatrol posted:Since this is the small questions thread, Arriviste do you use some kind of weird WYSIWYG editor to post on SA? From your post history, all your links are bolded or italicized, you use [super] and [sub] tags moe than a normal human should, and you even use citation notes on some of your posts. SALR lets you easily do all the markup, if that's what you're after.
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Eyeball posted:How do I figure out what generation a Kindle is? If it's all angular and wedge-shaped it's first generation. Otherwise:
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Sidewalk biking is rarely illegal outside of cities, and usually much less dangerous than street biking outside cities.
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Sep 17, 2010 20:23
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Anjow posted:How do you pronounce DDoS? If you need to say it, it's best to just say the full thing (distributed denial of service).
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Sep 18, 2010 17:26
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:So my ISP, Alltell, decided to screw me over by selling the only tower near me to AT&T--and then they discontinued my service without notice because I'm "roaming". After calling no less than two 800-numbers and asking them what the gently caress, they turned my access back on until the end of the month and reduced my bill. Actually these days, both Verizon and AT&T charge you $10 per extra gigabyte of usage, they no longer do the kind of overage charges that lead to a $3000 bill domestically. I don't get it though are you using cellular as your only internet access? If you can't get cable or DSL look into an actual wireless internet provider, one that doesn't use cell service. They usually have better plans, usually don't have data caps, and usually are more reliable. And you don't really have a hope of improving your connection to Virgin Mobile (they use Sprint for their actual network by the way). if you had land-based broadband you COULD get a femtocell, a device which you out in your house that creates access to the cell network through your broadband line, but that's really not an option if the cell service is your broadband.
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Sep 23, 2010 17:00
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:No cable or DSL in my area. In fact, the landlines are so awful that dial-up isn't even an option. The only way to transmit data here is to transmit it over the air. Alltel was working pretty well, but not anymore I guess. The pisser is that Verizon would charge me exactly the same amount as Alltel, but they would cap my service. Well Verizon IS Alltel, seeing as they bought them and all. But yeah, they've loosened the overage charges on it. Like I said though, try to find an actual wireless ISP, I'd reccomend one but they're pretty much all regional not national.
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change my name posted:How does the Droid marketplace work? Is it true there's just no guidelines at all? That'd explain things like the psx/gba emulator and the hotspot creator apps (when sprint normally charges $30 a month to "officially" use it) They'll kick your app out if it's malicious. Or if it just doesn't work at all.
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Sep 25, 2010 23:26
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Expired Condom posted:Do freight trains run every day of the year, or do they take holidays? It depends on the operator, the railroad, the customers, and so on. For example, I believe some coal power plants require coal to be delivered by train every day to keep the plant running, those would have to have freights rolling on holidays. Anecdotally, there's a rail line that passes about a mile form my house that is both for passenger and freight service. I have heard and seen freights using it on various holidays, including Christmas and Labor Day.
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Sep 28, 2010 14:49
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Kitsch! posted:What would be the simplest way to do this, for someone who is generally computer-ignorant: Did you enable Google Apps through Dreamhost? If you do that you can maintain Outlook compatibility, but the Google Apps mail interface also has a function that imports all mail from the old mailservers to the new accounts.
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Sep 29, 2010 05:28
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kapalama posted:Bad stuff about CFLs: big time toxic waste when they do finally die. Not really. It is a small amount of mercury in the base - less than they used in old thermometers. All you have to is find a proper disposal site which can usually be done by calling your city or county government. Usually they can be recycled into new CFL bulbs.
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Rankine Over Gash posted:My girlfriends' housemate has come back to the flat a bit giddy. He's found a large amount of money in notes on the pavement (three figures) and is rather excited. However, without wanting to piss off any Karma Gods, we've all agreed he should notify the local police that he has found it. Am I correct in assuming there's a set time for it to be claimed before it becomes finders keepers? Any help or experience in this matter would be appreciated. Well first things first you should take it to a bank or something and ask them to check if they're counterfeit. Additionally though, if it's just loose money on the ground there's no real way for the police to find whose it is (unless the person who lost it meticulously recorded all the serial numbers). Turning in a wallet is expected since there can be secondary identification and all that, but loose money on the ground belongs to whoever finds it.
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FLX posted:I've got a stock market related question. A couple of days ago, when the rumor came up that Microsoft might acquire Adobe, Adobe's stock price jumped up by 17%. Why did that happen? If I owned Adobe stocks, I wouldn't be happy about someone buying the company. I obviously have no clue about stocks and all of this, but I thought that generally takeovers aren't necessarily a good thing if the company isn't in trouble. (Is Adobe in trouble?) When a company look to be close to being bought out, investors try to buy shares in it in hopes of making a profit from the potential buyout, and that drives the stock price up.
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Orzo posted:attempting to do that, it's just a pain in the rear end with little space and no yard (high rise) Put the gravel on a pan or something in your oven, with it turned to about 200 degrees or so. It'll quickly dry though obviously you'll need to wait for them to cool down later.
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GobiasIndustries posted:I'm sure there's a scientific or psychological explanation for why colors projected onto a pure white image come out in the exact same color...I just don't know what it is. Can anyone link me to the explanation? I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but a pure white surface is one that reflects all light equally and nearly completely, so none of it is absorbed which could change the overall color.
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Mister Macys posted:Does streaming HD video (youtube et al.) require more CPU/GPU power than playing a file from the harddrive? Before recent versions of Flash, all the video decoding in a streaming flash video had to be done on the CPU whereas the audio and video decoding when played outside of Flash usually had some level of video card and sound card acceleration involved, reducing CPU need. The most recent versions of Flash support hardware acceleration of video and audio decoding tho, although you have some minor overhead on the CPU still. Naturally though, you need a graphics chipset capable of doing the acceleration, and the very cheap models (sub-$200) usually won't be sufficent for that. Try to find a netbook with an Nvidia ION or ION 2 graphics chipset in it, those will definitely handle high def streaming video in Flash and the like.
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In retrospect we'll probably just refer to 2000-2009 as "turn of the century" again.
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change my name posted:How does amazon calculate tax? I just bought 50 dollars worth of books, and the tax only came out to 80 cents. The same way the law calculates tax. Remember that you usually don't pay sales tax on items bought from other states, you probably only got taxed on one book that originated in your state.
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the posted:My work sells soda in biodegradable "eco" cups that are made from corn. Could I eat theoretically one of those? Yes but it wouldn't taste good or really feed you.
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revolther posted:Here's a question about Android and tablets from someone with no knowledge of either firsthand, I guess it's a little about Google Voice too which I have a little knowledge of. You're better off asking here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3281154
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Drevoak posted:We've never gotten any notice about going over the limit. Then don't worry about it. The 250 gigabyte cap is a "soft" cap - it does not apply to everyone at all times. If you've been going over for months, and having received a notice, it's because Comcast doesn't care if you go over the cap in your location. I also have Comcast and have been going over 250 gb every month since April, no problems.
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Extensive Vamping posted:Okay, here's a really stupid question: Standard spacesuits weigh 185 pounds, and the HEV suit is basically a spacesuit, so it probably weighs the same.
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Drimble Wedge posted:They've probably got some sort of traffic shaping in place so that torrents receive a lower priority over types of network activity. He's not talking torrents. He's talking the .torrent file you download to start a torrent.
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If you take more than about 150% the daily recommended dose of Vitamin C, you just piss out the excess within hours of consumption.
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Gravity Pike posted:Probably. However, the effect-size of placebos has doubled over the past 20 years or so, and Vitamin C might be helpful, and it's certainly not harmful, so why not? It's a waste of your money to buy vitamin c pills for stuff like that. You get 225% of your daily recommended value of Vitamin C from drinking 2 glasses of orange juice with most brands. And like I said earlier, over 150% you piss it out basically as soon as possible. Honestly, there's a lot of vitamin c in almost every food we eat, most people get well over the daily dose by midway through lunch/
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Luffles posted:Can my apartment complex force me into a specific ISP? I assume they get some sort of kickback and don't want me to leave it, but FiOS is available here and I hope that I'm not actually stuck with Bright House at this new apartment. Call up the FCC and explain your situation, they can tell you whether your apartment complex can disallow you from getting FIOS.
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Alderdash posted:I realize this is a pretty specific question, but does anyone know how I can go about fixing/getting a broken neon light fixed? I looked up neon sign specific repair places and the closest one is like an hour an a half from where I live. All it is is a crack in the glass tubing that needs to be fixed. If there is a crack in the tubing, the neon or other gas used (since some gases can be used instead of neon itself to better display different colors) has gotten out and would need to be replaced, assuming you could properly repair the thing in the first place. Likely, the whole tube with the crack will need to be removed and replaced with a brand new one. Fortunately, that tube looks like it should be easy to get replaced, but yeah there's not much hope of fixing it yourself.
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the posted:Before computers, how did they measure things? Protip: before they worked out all the measures there would be a different length of the foot, different weight of the pound, and different volume of a cup if you went 100 miles away from home. For example though for a modern measure: Currently the meter is defined as the distance travelled by light in vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second. However this is just a back definition found after a meter was attempted to be defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole at sea level by French scientists. It turned out what they got didn't actually match a 10 millionth of that distance so they had a bar made of the size they found and it became eventually defined as the current definition. Essentially it's just some length. The same happened with every other measure.
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kapalama posted:My question too. The standard kilogram varies in weight because it is a unit of mass and being in locations where the force of gravity changes changes the weight.
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kapalama posted:The standard kilogram might be called a measure of mass, but since that mass is always determined by measuring its weight, to make a distinction in this case is stupid. They do not do any mass measuring tests; they use only weight measuring tests. Gravity varies across the earth's surface bro. Move any object anywhere and the weight changes. Not so much that most people could feel it but a sensitive scale shows it. Elijya posted:Question: What about the definition of a second? What phenomenon is that based on? All units are actually arbitrary things, which we later hunted down precise measurements for. The second is 1/60 of a minutes and a minute is 1/60 of an hour and there are 24 hours in a day... except there's actually a teeny bit extra time, less than a second, in the length of the day. All SI units are supposed to be interrelated and a kilogram was supposed to be the mass of a liter of water at the densest point which was supposed to be 0 degrees celsius. But it turns out water is at its densest at 4 celsius, so noone could agree on which part 0 c or densest should be the definition, so they made a lump of iridium and other metals and said it's that.
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