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Maklershed
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If you don't mind getting a little fanciful, could your character shoot a bullet crafted out of ice?
According to the internet, in the US channel 1 has a specific frequency spectrum that is reserved for land radio devices.
You'd have to be rather fanciful, I thought Mythbusters showed that can't work. And Mythbusters is my most trusted source for firearm information.
A lack of rifling would probably only damage accuracy at range, if this is somewhat point-blank it should still work. 50 yards, probably not, but 5 should be fine. I mean, it's still going forward out of the barrel, not like it's gonna plop out and go 90 degrees off.
If I were to guess I'd say it's from some time in the first third of the 1900s. But It could have been earlier. Probably not later.
Maklershed
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I was just thinking about this the other day! (but didn't bother to ask)
It was weird because two planes were flying in the same direction .. one about half the sky behind the other. The first plane had a contrail that went as far as I could see and just stayed there. The other plane had no contrail at all. The only thing I could think of why it was like that is one was at a different altitude and in a colder part of the atmosphere.
wolfmat
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Not all air above us is moving at high speed into one direction at the same time. There are pockets where stuff swirls, zones where air doesn't move at all with air moving around it, some air is trapped in pressure bubbles, things like that. Just like with fluids, I suppose. Put a few drops of milk into a stirred coffee pot, and you'll observe that some milk portions move far less than others.
Moreover, the higher the altitude, the less particles there are in the same volume because pressure, which stuffs them together, decreases. So obviously, the higher you go, the less dynamic the air around you is because the average distance between moving air "thingies" gets higher and higher, so one air particle affecting another needs more movement (there's effectively more tolerance for aberration).
Plus, note that you can't properly tell how high above you something is as a human. So it makes little sense to assume anything in that regard. You'll even have difficulty figuring out which cloud-like thing is higher above you in a lot of cases. All that can help you make that distinction is an overlap, but if two non-overlapping structures are above you, all you have is size, and that doesn't help at all because you don't have any idea how big a cloud is, for instance.
wolfmat
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If GUI support is compiled in, press t.
If you want to be selective from the command line, use the flag "-sub", as in
mplayer -sub something.srt wickedmovie.mp4
Toggle sub visibility with v. Cycle through available subs with j.
In any case, mplayer automatically picks subs if the filename of the srt is identical to the movie name, and the srt is in the same folder.
For instance, I have these two:
/home/wm/films/japaneseporn.avi
/home/wm/films/japaneseporn.srt
That way, shit automagically works. Same goes for VLC.
If you want to be selective from the command line, use the flag "-sub", as in
mplayer -sub something.srt wickedmovie.mp4
Toggle sub visibility with v. Cycle through available subs with j.
In any case, mplayer automatically picks subs if the filename of the srt is identical to the movie name, and the srt is in the same folder.
For instance, I have these two:
/home/wm/films/japaneseporn.avi
/home/wm/films/japaneseporn.srt
That way, shit automagically works. Same goes for VLC.
wolfmat
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Probably no GUI support. t only works with GUI support.
The command where you start mplayer with the sub filename in a flag would be used on a terminal.
Maybe something's weird or broken or they've changed things around. I don't know. I told you what's said about that stuff in the manual. I don't know more about it. I used to use mplayer a lot years back, but now, I rarely touch it.
Maybe mplayer doesn't support something about the subs out-of-the-box (like UTF-16 or other specifics) and just doesn't show them, period.
My advice would be to just get VLC. Supports all kinds of media, plus subs, also with weird sub formats and stuff. Much easier to figure out. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
wolfmat
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I have this one "friend" on Facebook who always ends sentences with !!!! and posts with !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm gonna target her specifically when I turn into a zombie. I fucking hate that shit.
But it's got to be some specific psychological thing, right? Someone's bound to have done research and given it a name.
I'm gonna target her specifically when I turn into a zombie. I fucking hate that shit.
But it's got to be some specific psychological thing, right? Someone's bound to have done research and given it a name.
That seems a little excessive..
Maklershed
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Does she work for aintitcool.com?
I've noticed most of the time that english isn't their first language. This is a generalization but from playing random MMORPGs I've noticed that it's mostly Asians that use things like ^^ xD ^_^ :3 and if they're not Asian then they're weeaboos
I'm thinking it's an anime thing as well
wolfmat
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It's happening everywhere. I'm talking about Germans myself. But I see it everywhere. Maybe it's also part 23 effect (you know, someone tells you 23 is everywhere and gives a few examples, and boom, you see that number in every thing around). Could be.
Yeah, that's maybe true. Although, I've got this metal freak as a buddy who ends all posts with ^^ that guy's not into anime. Maybe he's doing it to attract emo anime chicks, keikaku desu yo。Anyway, he even adds ^^ when he posts a YT URL.
Maybe it's some kind of worldwide conspiracy to annoy cranky nerds like me.
Nah, the Japanese use a different style for emoticons than Western people do. The Western stuff was popularized by online chat, and the Japanese stuff was popularized by those Japanese text boards of the 80s. There's actually a good, well-researched article about emoticons on Wikipedia.
I believe ^^ is a sign of happiness or mischief. :3 is a cat face.
I'd probably blame Tumblr and Facebook (ETA: And MySpace. I totally forgot about MySpace) for that. Tumblr's where I first started seeing Japanese emoticons used widely.
Professor Beef
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CHEEZMO;34258737 said:
Pfft, not me. >:I
^_^ is a hell of a lot better thanor
says the guy with an anime avatar
^_^ is a hell of a lot better than
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^_^ is a hell of a lot better than
Not even a little bit.
A lot of bit.
I wouldn't say it's commonplace but sure, why not? Sometimes you just HATE something so much that the word hate doesn't quite get the point across as people tend to use it as hyperbole a lot (eg, omg i hate that!). I've been known to use it on occasion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b--wuTCHHJc&t=8s
Yeah, I mean I guess if you aren't used to hearing it.
One could say no. Not all questions have answers, because some questions don't rely on answers, like rhetorical questions. They are meant to be greeted with silence for instance or an implicit agreement.
And also what if somebody poses a question, and there is no one to hear it? and the question bearer then dies?
One could say yes. rhetorical questions often have the answer embedded in them. If one wanted to answer it, one could.
And the case of the question setter, where no one remains to answer, then philosophically, the answer is still logically possible, therefore it stands to reason that there is an answer.
One could say that, we are unsure, whether every question has an answer. Even in the case of loose little defined sentences, like how long is a piece of string? one can come up with nonsensical answers or clever answers such as 'I don't know'. We may not have a correct answer, but there is an answer there.
is it possible then to set a question, that cannot yield an answer? Who knows.
Guys, I am trying to find a video clip I really have few infos about:
Here's the context : what I remember is a black dude, seemingly in the 70's, singing something that would be roughly be "Se-se-se-Seliman !" repeatedly (ok, could have been "si-si-si-silly man !" as well). Next to him, two black female dancers have zombie smiles and outfits I could not describe.
Last time I saw the video clip was on MCM channel on TV probably 12 to 13 years ago.
Is there a possibility to google it ? How could I do it ?
Here's the context : what I remember is a black dude, seemingly in the 70's, singing something that would be roughly be "Se-se-se-Seliman !" repeatedly (ok, could have been "si-si-si-silly man !" as well). Next to him, two black female dancers have zombie smiles and outfits I could not describe.
Last time I saw the video clip was on MCM channel on TV probably 12 to 13 years ago.
Is there a possibility to google it ? How could I do it ?
RadioHeadAche
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How much wood could wood chuck chuck if wood chuck didn't like chuck?
Maklershed
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The answer remains, if a wood chuck could chuck wood a wood chuck would chuck all the wood a wood chuck could chuck.
BackwardsSuggestions
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Anyone know how to fix this? Only IE is supported.
This morning I woke up, looked at my alarm clock, then fell asleep again, and woke up that exact same minute I fell asleep again, but completely rested. Has anyone else here experienced this? Are there any logical explanations? Can this happen? Did I dream the first one? How would I have known what the time was in the dream? 
I'd say "loathe" is stronger because it's impossible to say it without your voice subtly slipping into that of Alan Rickman. Gives it a certain emphasis.
Aquavelvaman
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I don't view 'loathe' and 'hate' as different intensities of the same emotion. They are both slightly different feelings of aversion. 'Loathe' is about disgust and 'hate' is about hostility.
parrotbeak
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"Hate" gets thrown around more too, so it has lost some strength, especially with the over-use of "hater." I would use "loathe" if I really wanted it known that I can't tolerate something. It would be very rare. Whereas I hate a lot of shit.
LOATHERS GONNA LOATHE
loafers gonna loaf
This just brings up a mental image of annoyed ogres sighing and gargling over something they're frustrated about.
I guess my previous question got overlooked, so I'll simplify. What are the best ways to tell if an intermittent connection problem over DSL is on my end or the provider end? I've already done the typical things that a support tech would tell me like power down my router and DSL modem for a while and then restart them, and to no avail. I thought maybe there was something I could do in the command prompt with ping or tracert to see if I could access at least Verizon.net or something. When I open the network and sharing center in Win7, it shows a disconnect between the network and Internet. I really don't want to have to deal with the outsourced techs.
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