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= December 11 =
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= November 26 =
== If I ever opt to live in a ] for ]s, could my ] pay the rent and utilities? ==
== China and Taiwan ==
What is it like for mental health clients to live in group homes? What is paid out-of-pocket? What is paid by insurance?
Officially, is China and Taiwan 1 country or 2 countries? ] 02:08, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:Short answer: Yes.
:For the longer answer, see: ]. -- ] ] ] 02:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
As a diagnosee of ] and other disorders, and being thought to still be on the ] by some therapists despite a rediagnosis to the above disorder, is there a group home near or in ] for anyone with my types of disorders?
:::One country; two systems! After 1949 both countries considered themselves as part of the unitary state of China, but disagreed over who had the right to be considered as the official government. Even after ] left for Taiwan, following the Communist victory on the mainland, he continued to insist that he was the rightful head of all of China. Officially, Taiwan is still known as the Republic of China, in contrast to the mainland People's Republic of China. Taiwan lost its seat in the UN some years ago, and today is recognized by very few as the legal government of all of China. There have been moves recently to have Taiwan reconstituted as an independent state, though the mainland government have made it clear that they would take a very serious view of any such development. ] 02:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::::Though despite the One China policy, it's worth noting that in the ] for the ], the ] did play ], as Taiwan is often referred to international sporting events, in a match at ]. The People's Republic won by 22 points to 19. -- ] (]) 14:22, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Could my Medicaid ] ] pay for all expenses associated with living in the group home?
== Locate a fellow Vietnam Veteran ==
I hope to no longer have to pay $450/month in rent and over $100/month in energy bills as well as $70/month in ] at 1 GBPs if I move into a group home and have health insurance pay for it all.
Hello,
I would only intend to live there until all of my debts are paid off and once I have substantial investments saved up, including ] so I can live off of a ] that pays for basic living expenses in a normal residence again.
My husband James E. Bowers has been trying to locate a buddie he was in Vietnam with in 1967-1968. He was in the Co. D 3d Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th INF Division.
And lastly, what freedoms might I possibly be giving up if I were to ever move into a group home? Thanks. --] (]) 04:47, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
He can't remember his friend Brian's last name but if he could some how get a copy of a list of men in his Division. He feels he'd remember if he were to see it.
:The ''only'' people who could possibly answer this are KanCare Sunflower health insurance. Look at the terms of your agreement or ask them directly on their help line. ]|] 09:56, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
If you are unable to help please point us in the right direction. We appreciate any help you can provide.
= December 12 =
Thanks,
== How to revert a company ==
Kathy Bowers
Kelso, Washington
36--577-1766
I received an unsolicited email soliciting a contribution to an upcoming issue of a biomedical journal. My contribution, they assured me, coming from an eminent researcher like me, would greatly enhance the quality of said issue. This may well be true, but, since my knowledge of biomedical issues has largely been formed by doing research to answer questions at the Reference desk, this does not bode well for the quality of this issue, even with my eminent contribution. I don't want my name to be associated with low-quality journals, so I'll refrain from contributing.
:Contact the Army. They should have records of who was in what where. Misplaced Pages does not. Good luck. -] 05:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
The email states at the bottom, in fine greyish print,
== Democrat and Republican ==
:{{small|{{color|#888|BioMed Grid LLC, California, USA. If you do not wish to receive this email, revert us.}}}}
I indeed do not wish to receive this email and would like to unreceive it. But I can't figure out how to revert this company. Can anyone help me? (There are some more companies I'd also like to revert.) --] 09:19, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
:I guess it means block them or tag it as spam. I assume you've read '']''. ]|] 11:03, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
I was wondering since the page about the Democratic party did not say anything on the Immigration Issue, what are their view on the Immigration and BAMN (By any mean necessary) THank you ] 03:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:I believe it's just corporate talk for "email us back". See definition 14 in ]. ] (]) 20:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Definition 14 has the label '']'', while the spotted use has a transitive sense. --] 10:03, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
::I was about to add that it's Indian English - but the Wiktionary entry says it is now global. ] (]) 21:02, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
:::But is it? I'd never seen this before. Our article on the journal states that the publisher, Biomedgrid LLC, was first registered in California in 2018 by Sasidhar Vontethina and Sushma Manchikanti, both Indian (more specifically ]) names. --] 08:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
:::: I also question this. I'd be befuddled if I was asked to revert a company. But then, I always wince when I hear "write me" rather than "write to me" (other than "write me a letter"). -- ] </sup></span>]] 19:27, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::::: Or, reverting to before the Internet, mail and maybe even speech a request to "reach out." All the best: ''] ]''<small> 12:33, 20 December 2024 (UTC).</small><br />
= December 13 =
Which ]? ] ] 11:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== LUFS meter vs. Audiosurf algorithm ==
Current Democratic party ] 21:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
What are similarities and differences between ] meter (especially momentary) and ]'s audio analysis algorithm (when comes to how tracks are colored in particular way depending on the song intensity)? Considering the color (when "fancy coloring" mode is enabled) of momentary LUFS bar on my own when fed with the same song as the video, lines up with the color of the blocks and the tracks on and/or sometimes and at other times, it doesn't line up assuming they somehow sync with the video. ] (]) 03:43, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
:I think CambridgeBayWeather meant, which of the '''84''' democratic parties listed on ] are you referring to? (Admittedly, only 38 of them are listed as simply 'Democratic Party'). --] 23:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:] about the Audiosurf game tells that the game engine analyzes an imported song to create and save its dynamics in an ASH file. ] these files to extract the generating algorithms is research that is beyond anyone here. This is proprietary information that the game creator Dylan Fitterer may choose to withold. Already as you look for correlation between your objective LUFS detector and the game screen, bear in mind that where the object of Audiosurf is more to entertain than analytical logging, some degree of randomity may be deliberately included. ] (]) 16:32, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
::@] BTW, what's the difference between song intensity estimation algorithm (which ] probably uses it) and a ] meter (aka. a K-weighted RMS meter)? And are these two even interchangeable? ] (]) 02:47, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
= December 15 =
:I think it is pretty clear from the heading of "Democrat and Republican" and the fact that he/she is referencing ] in the post that he/she was referring to the ]. I understand that people should try to be specific in their questions but if it can be reasonably inferred what country someone is talking about — especially when most of the people on this site at from the United States — I don't see any reason to give people shit about it. --] 01:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Meta physics ==
:To answer the question... has some of the central party responses to the issue of immigration, though there are many different opinions held by individual politicians (immigration is a volatile enough issue that it isn't easy to assume there is a standard "party line" on it, whether Democratic or Republican). I am pretty sure that BAMN would be a little too out-there for the Democrats, and that BAMN would consider the Democrats to be a little too centrist for their tastes, but this is just extrapolation of mine. --] 01:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
about things beyond nature ] (]) 20:36, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
::Why is it clear that they were referring to the US parties? I had not heard of BAMN as an entity until you provided the link. I looked at the ] article and ] party article and realized that they could be from any country that had both, such as Albania. ] ] 12:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:See ]? ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 21:34, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
:Note that metaphysics is not about phenomena or entities that are ''beyond'' the ]. The usual term for these is "the ]". --] 07:57, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
:The word "meta" means “beyond” and “about”. The word “physics” means “nature”. Therefore, metaphysics can be regarded as the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality and existence. ] (]) 06:45, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::]The Ancient Greek preposition {{serif|]}} also means "next, after". It is generally thought that the title of Aristotle's book ] (Tōn metá ta phusiká), "Of the things after Physica", the etymon of our term '']'', was given to it (not by Aristotle but by the editor) simply because it was the next book in series, following Aristotle's book '']'', "Natural phenomena". --] 11:22, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
== stockmarket==
= December 16 =
== My habit of feature requests scared a developer? ==
is stock market addictive? If so, why? 04:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Reading these posts ( and ) on a thread about foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer in ] forum about my doings that "scared" off a developer of foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer and foo_loudness_peakmeter components for ] player and yet, the developer of a for ] did implement my feature requests into this plugin despite I've not have written fanon wiki pages about future version of CoolEdit Nostalgia (like I did and before). So, why would they? ] (]) 18:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
:For some people, playing the stock market is just like any other form of ]. It's the ] version of ]. -] 05:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:What has this got to do with wikipedia or finding references for anything? ] (]) 19:34, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
::{{ping|Nanonic}} perhaps finding a reliable reference for what some bad habits when comes to feature requests that are likely to made software developers quit their job. ] (]) 21:20, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Your questions are scaring off the Reference desk respondents. --] 09:57, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
:Whatever drama you're involved with on that board, I suggest you keep it there and don't post about it here. --] 10:02, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
= December 17 =
::In short, the more you lose, the more you think your luck will change and when you win, that is an incentive to go on. So you never stop. Until your money runs out, that is. That said, there are two people on the stock market, those who know what they are doing and those who don't. The latter lose money and that is how the former make money. Take away the latter and stock markets might just collapse. ] 08:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Futures contract ==
== Royal Victorian Order Medal ==
I don't understand finance, so I thought I'd ask. If I buy a ] for say a ton of corn at a specific price, and I hold it until the delivery date, will someone literally deliver a ton of corn to me? Thanks. ] (]) 00:04, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
My dad has a MVO medal with the number 39 stamped on the back he inherited it in a box with other canadian medals, can you help us figure out who in our past family received this medal. thankyou
:The contract is likely to read "FOB Kansas City," or something like that. You'll probably have to move it from whatever transportation it is on (train, ship) yourself. Or, arrange (pay for) delivery. ] (]) 01:38, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
::At the delivery date, the current buyer will have become the proud owner of a ton of corn ''somewhere''. The identity of the buyer of the contract almost always changes, so the seller drawing up the contract does not know the identity of the eventual buyer at the delivery date. Therefore, wherever the "somewhere" may be, you as the buyer can be reasonably sure it will not be delivered to your doorstep. --] 09:54, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
:Oil futures have even been known to have a negative price, when the producers' local storage was full and demand was low. At that point the buyer of the contract is being paid to take it away. --] (]) 20:30, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
:Most futures contracts are cash-settled and there is no physical transfer of the underlying asset. ] (]) 06:31, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::True, but this depends on both parties agreeing to a new or modified contract. If the buyer does the unexpected and just sits it out, as suggested in the original question, and also does not agree to a new contract, the seller is obligated to produce the asset to the buyer, even if this means they need to go and buy it on the market. --] 10:58, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
:Yes, a futures contract is ultimately for purposes of delivery of the specified contract in accordance with its terms. A standard corn futures contract is for 5000 bushels (although there is also a mini corn future for only 1000 bushels). A bushel of corn (maize) weighs 56 pounds, so at settlement the buyer owns 140 tons of corn (or, for a mini corn future, 28 tons).
:But that is not going to be you. You are a retail investor and would trade through a ], who is probably not going to be willing to accept physical settlement on your behalf. ] (]) 00:41, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
== Which Political Bloggers are Former Programmers? ==
cherie Nickel, ''Address Removed''
Such as ] and ]. ] (]) 13:45, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
''E-mail removed''
:Why do you ask that? I don't think the answer to this question can help you. ] (]) 01:15, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
::Maybe the OP wants to find out how many other former programmers aren't very bright. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 13:46, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
= December 19 =
== Who is the following unknown? ==
:See the article on ]. If they are sequentially ordered, there must be a record somewhere, it being bestowed by the Queen. -]
When asked '''<span style="color: orange">"WHO IS YOUR X?"</span>''' (X still being unknown to me but is known to the respondents), here are the answers I get:
::"MVO" suggests that the medal belonged to a '''Member of the ]'''. This award is different from the Royal Victorian Medal (which entitles the user to the postnominal "RVM"), although both are part of the Royal Victorian Order. ] 00:11, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
To sum up, the special phenomenon here is that, everybody has their own X (usually), and if any respondent points at another respondent as the first respondent's X, then the other respondent '''must''' point at ''themself'' as their X.
== Broken Amplifier ==
I wonder who the unknown X may be, when I only know that X is a ''natural example from everyday life''. I thought about a couple of examples, but none of them are satisfactory, as follows:
I don't know which category this fits into, but I was using a 4-channel 1980's ''Realistic'' amplifier in my home theater system. All 4 audio channels were bridged into a subwoofer, but when I adjusted the balance control the fuse in the unit blew. A replacement fuse also blew immediately after I inserted it, meaning something must be broken. Does anyone know what the problem would be and how I would be able to fix it? ] 06:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
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X is the leader of one's political party, or X is one's mayor, and the like, but all of these examples attribute some kind of ''leadership'' or ''superiority'' to X, whereas I'm not interested in this kind of solution - involving any ''superiority'' of X.
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Here is a second solution I thought about: X is the ''first (or last)'' person born in the year/month the respondent was born, and the like. But this solution involves some kind of ''order'' (in which there is a "first person" and a "last person"), whereas I'm not interested in this kind of solution - involving any ''order''. ] (]) 12:11, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
:Drummer? ] ] 14:25, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
:Um How do you bridge 4 ch into 1 subwoofer? Can you draw a simple wiring diagram?--] 06:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::The OP also posted this question on the Math desk. What if everyone says "I'm Spartacus!" ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 14:30, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::I forgot to add an important point (so I've just added it, thanks to your response): Everybody has their own X (usually). ] (]) 14:58, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::::What do you mean by "everybody has an X"? A lot of folks have an "ex", but is that what you mean? ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 15:08, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::I mean that everybody has their own X (usually), whether X is one's mayor, or X is the leader of one's political party, and so forth. Additionally, keep in mind that if any respondent points at another respondent as the first respondent's X, then the other respondent must point at ''themself'' as their X. ] (]) 15:21, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::(ec)The statement "everybody has their own X" makes no sense to me, and I'm a native English speaker. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 15:36, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::::X is the usual symbol denoting an unknown (as in mathematical equations), but here the unknown is a person, like "a mayor", and the like. ] (]) 15:42, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
:There are too many possible answers that still don't involve order or superiority.
:- Translator
:- Publisher
:- Spokesperson
:- Copyeditor
:- Cleaner
:- Keyholder (person who closes a shop and responsible for turning up in cases of property related emergencies - sometimes it's a manager but sometimes it's merely someone who is willing to stay late or be early)
:- Scribe
:- Accountant
:- Driver
:Basically anything where there's a "role" in a group but usually only one (barring circumstances).
:What are you hoping to accomplish by asking a question like this? ] (]) 15:34, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::Thx. {{resolved}} ] (]) 15:42, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
:::I don't believe it. A publisher doesn't have necessarily a publisher, because it normally is not an author. A keyholder could be a trusted neighbour,who doesn't work at the shop and is therefore not its own keyholder (at least in relation to the shop). Of course in relation to its own living quarters mostly everybody is a keyholder, but that was not part of the definition. Even a translator doesn't translate itself when it expresses itself in the foreign language. At least not necessarily. Even a cleaner doesn't necessarily cleans up after itself. I know one! Personally!
:::When you're satisfied by these examples that don't match your description, then I would like to see the real description. ] (]) 08:24, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:So this is interesting linguistically and socially - the use of the word "usually" lets in a lot of the examples given, at least in some societies. However mathematically you are looking for something impossible. Lets assume that everyone has an X (or equivalently ignore those people without an X, who are also no-one's X). The relation partitions the set into subsets (i.e. the subsets include all the elements, and each element is in one and only one subset). Each subset has one self-X call it C for centre, and all the other elements (0 or more of them) point to C. Example, whole numbers under the relation "what is the remainder if you are divided by 5". 5 subsets with C=0, 1, 2, 3, 4. In every case there is a "privileged" centre, whether it would be considered superior, inferior or just special is open to interpretation. You can only have no centres in the case where there are no elements at all. All the best: ''] ]''<small> 21:07, 20 December 2024 (UTC).</small><br />
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Why Googlehas not launched Street View in mainland China? There do exist several user-submitted photos, mostly from landmarks and historical cities, but why Google cars have not traveled there yet? How likely is that in 2034, mainland China will have photos by Google cars if Street view is launched there?
It's basically like this, with the same process for the negative. The important thing is to make sure it's a mono signal and not adjust the balance. Also, I had to split the preamp signal.
:Well, each channel expects a certain amount of resistance (ohms) per speaker. If you're plugging them all into a single subwoofer, no doubt it uses too much current. Just use one of the channels, not all four. - ] 06:49, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
And, why South Korea, a country with a large economy and almost no bans, still has large unphotographed areas with most minor cities and major freeways are not photographed entirely? And could North Korea ever get Street View by Google cars? --] (]) 17:54, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
:It was about a 500W speaker and each channel was only 120W, so it was the only way I could get sufficient volume. Even though I was told not to do it it all worked perfectly until the balance was adjusted. ] 03:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Here is some info: ] There are some places in China where they have it. As to future predictions, Misplaced Pages can't do that. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 19:07, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::The 4 channels may have slightly differing levels of amplification, due to drift in component values, so if channel 1 is trying to produce say a 100 hz signal at 120 watts in a 4 ohm load, it might produce 21 volts. Channel 2 might have slightly lower amplification and be trying to produce 18 volts in response to the same input. This can result in high current as the two channels each try to maintain different output levels at the same time with their outputs solidly in parallel. Result? blown fuse. Differing degrees of distortion can also produce high current. Paralleling power amplifiers is a chancy practice unless the gains are carefully balanced. ] 05:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:{{ping|40bus}} https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/160276 (and see also my comment below). {{tq|could North Korea ever get Street View by Google cars}} That is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future, and anything beyond that is unforeseeable. ] (]) 01:12, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
::My dream would be every country in the world having full coverage. Is that likely in next 20 years? At least Belarus's lack of Street View should be corrected. I would like to see views from every country. --] (]) 06:21, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:::"]". ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 07:13, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:Though a multinational, Google is at base an American company, or at least is perceived as such.
:Youre going to need some sharing ]s to stop the amp o/p looking into a ] of the other amp o/ps. This will of course mean you losing some power in these resistors. BTW what you have shown is not a ] but a ]ed connection of all 4 o/ps.(very inadvisable as unlimited circulating currents will flow)--] 22:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Think about the political tensions between the ], and the West in general and the USA in particular. Now ask yourself – how ''might'' the ] feel about American-controlled spy-cars driving around the whole of China, photographing everything visible? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ] (]) 20:51, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::That is (obviously) not the reason; your tin foil hat is malfunctioning. The USA does not require something as lowtech as a 360 camera mounted on a car to drive through an area to spy on that area. The reason is that Google does not want to waste its money. And China has a habit of creating local state-owned alternatives to foreign services, allowing those to rip off the foreign tech, and then massively disadvantaging the foreign company. They have done this many times before. ] (]) 01:10, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:::I'm not suggesting that the ''US'' would ''want'' (or need) to do this. I'm asking how the ''Chinese'' Government would welcome the ''appearance'' of it, particularly in the perception of their own people. International relations and management of internal perceptions are all about opinions, beliefs, and what can be spun, regardless of truth.
:::Recently, in my own country, Chinese visitors and personnel from an ostensible language school fomented a totally spurious 'incident' at a London railway terminus, by approaching a well-known busker and YouTuber filming his and others' performances on a public piano, and then insisting that he stop filming, complaining to police present that he was violating their rights by filming them. This was not done for any valid reason, but (presumably) to try to manipulate public opinion within China, and create a spurious 'grievance' to use in diplomatic discussions. Such games go on all the time. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ] (]) 01:36, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
::::{{tq|I'm asking how the ''Chinese'' Government would welcome the ''appearance'' of it}} I have answered the original question; please don't hijack this thread to ask a vaguely related question and then bring up unrelated stuff (which was not recent but a year ago, and a storm in a teacup, and your conspiracy theory is not supported by evidence). There are plenty of diplomatic incidents between China and the UK; neither side has a need to manufacture one. If you want to ask a new question, please post it in a new section. Thank you, ] (]) 01:44, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::Telling a user "your tin foil hat is malfunctioning" is offensive, and is by itself a "hijacking" of this section. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 02:20, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::Incorrect (on both counts). And posting 2 conspiracy theories in 1 thread is a clear sign of a malfunctioning tin foil hat. ] (]) 02:21, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::::If you love the Chinese government so much, maybe you should have your own "tin foil hat" checked for malfunctions. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 02:49, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::::Thanks for proving my point. The CCP killed insane numbers of people through brutality and incompetence. But we should still call out tin foil conspiracy nonsense. The idea that all conspiracies about the "other" must be true, just because we don't like them, is a very very dangerous one. Just like the idea that everyone who points out that some conspiracies about the "other" are false must be an "other". ] (]) 12:07, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::Considering ], it seems correct to mention the Chinese Government as a cause. ] and ] have presumably obtained authorization, because they're not foreign organizations. This incidentally functions as protectionism. I tracked the piano thing down to ], and I suppose there ''is'' a tenuous connection since it involves the ] and image rights. ] ] 03:32, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::Google's use of GCJ-02 coordinate data and WGS-84 sattelite images has led to in the past. ] (]) 12:12, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::The Surveying and Mapping Law led to 14 companies being given exclusive rights to map China. All local companies. Google Maps applied and was denied. https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/63636/ https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2 ] (]) 12:27, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:Relations between Google and the Chinese government have been difficult for years. China wants its citizens to see only a censored version of the internet, requiring Google to filter results from its search engine. In case of Street View, the Chinese government is concerned about what their own citizens can see (and I suppose they also want to know who views which streets). Google isn't very eager to comply with all China's request, as that could be quite expensive and bad for their image in less authoritarian states. ] (]) 19:44, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:Why Somalia, Venezuela and Cuba do not have Street View yet? --] (]) 23:38, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
::This question can be answered by chatgpt or similar. Or by reading the Misplaced Pages articles about those countries. ] (]) 01:33, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
= December 21 =
:But the amplification wasn't parrallel, as it was using a preamp signal, which is default for a subwoofer outlet. Because the signal was split into left and right and I assumed the output for for each channel would be exactly the same. Also, has anyone got ideas for cooling amplifiers?
] 00:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== Britannica ==
== Online visual of community ==
Why ] uses imperial units in its articles, ever for things that are measured in metric in UK such as temperatures, if it is based in UK and read by people in metric countries? --] (]) 07:47, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
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:{{u|40bus}}, it is not based in the UK despite its British sounding name. The Encyclopaedia Britannica has been published in the United States since 1901. That's two years before the first human piloted airplane flight. ] (]) 07:57, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
::Why it is not based in the UK? And if it is read and edited by people in metric countries, why many of its articles use imperial units first? It even uses British English spelling. And are there any similar UK-based online encyclopedias? --] (]) 08:36, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
:::No. Go be bored somewhere else. ] (]) 09:27, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
:::If all else fails, you could try ''asking them''. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 16:43, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
A while ago I was sent a link that enabled me to see in my own backyard etc. It was a satelite view I think.
== Webpages ==
I have since got a new computer as the old one died and I can not find the same link to allow me to see that site.
Are there any web pages from late 1980s and early 1990s that are still in their original address, rather than on Internet Archive? Was it common for a company or person to have website in early 1990s? --] (]) 07:53, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
I would appreciate the link if you have it.
:We have a ]. The IN2P3 site from 1992 can still be visited, where you may enjoy seeing the French National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics's contact details, a small picture of the building, and five hyperlinks. The article says there were {{tq|2,879 websites established before 1995}}, so no, it wasn't common. ] ] 09:19, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
Many thanks
::Were there any websites around in 1990? This year feels still relatively recent. And are there any saved TV broadcasts from that time in the web, from any country? --] (]) 11:47, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Are you just randomly asking questions? ] (]) 12:00, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Take the effort to read the first sentence of ] and you will have the answer to your question. --] 10:41, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
== Did ]'s father, ==
:I believe you're looking for ] at http://maps.google.com/ ☢ ]<span style="font-size:120%">⌇</span>] 07:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Fred, know ]'s father, who is said to have been a mob contract killer? I'm asking because I've heard rumors somewhere that both Donald and Fred had mob contacts in New York City.] (]) 22:43, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
::Although you'd still have to know the exact latitude and longitude to find your backyard again. ] 07:40, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:::(Unless you start from a nearby city and know where to go. –]<font color="#FF0099">]</font> 07:50, 26 November 2006 (UTC))
:::: You can punch in your street adress in Google Maps and it pinpoints your house. ] 13:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:"Said to have been"; is there a reliable source that claims this? It has also been said that Donald Trump is a shape shifting lizard.<sup></sup> Harold Giuliani was at the bottom of the low end of shady dealings in the Italian immigrant community. It seems extremely unlikely that Fred Trump, a high-profile successful real-estate developer from the German immigrant community, would have a reason to meet him. --] 10:38, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
== What do calls from 000-000-0000 mean? ==
:::Well, that's what the OP is asking. You're just repeating the OP's question using different words. --] 10:52, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
::::The OP did not ask whether it was plausible but whether it was true. Even if the mob contract killer story should prove more than randomly created innuendo, there is still nothing to suggest the two fathers ever met. The suggested mob contacts would not make this more likely than two random New Yorkers (like Henri who sometimes ordered pizza and Freddy who sometimes delivered pizza) knowing each other. It is very difficult to prove a negative, but the question implied the OP thought it was at least plausible, which, as I tried to point out, it is not. --] 01:09, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
::{{small|No insult intended to shape-shifting lizards. ] (]) 10:50, 22 December 2024 (UTC)}}
::(it's easy for you to google that the rumors are out there, Lambiam.] (]) 18:59, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
:::I did not dispute the rumours exist, but IMO they are irrelevant to the question whether the two fathers knew each other, so I ignored them. --] 01:09, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
:Giuliani gave a eulogy and he probably would have mentioned it if they knew eachother, but it doesn't seem like he did. https://nypost.com/1999/06/30/trump-patriarch-eulogized-as-great-builder/ ] (]) 18:22, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
::Thanks for finding this, Polygnotus. But are you sure Rudy would have mentioned it in his eulogy, being possibly embarrassed about his father's occupation? And mentioning an acquaintance with his father would not make Fred seem more illustrious, which eulogies are meant to do. ] (]) 19:03, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
:::No, I haven't found definitive proof. ] (]) 12:08, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
= December 22 =
I've gotten them like three of them. I answered one. Someone asked for Tyrell something rather. That was it.
== Policy related to places ==
If I recall correctly it means somebody has called you from a computer, mostly its just spam or advertisement, I wouldnt give it to much thought if I were you. If you keep getting them you can get on the DNC list and they will block it for you. ] 08:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
Found some additional information on it. "What is happening is telemarketers have found a way to NULL out the caller-id field on placed calls, so instead of using standard Caller Line Identity Restriction which will set outbound caller-id to anonymous they just make regular phone calls with a NULL from field. This was meant as a way of getting past people who have Anonymous Call Rejection. " ] 08:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I want to add an article for a place in delhi cantonment. However, i am unsure about the relevant Misplaced Pages policies on this topic. I tried searching on DuckDuckGo to no avail And the results of Misplaced Pages search gave unrelated things. What are the relevant policies? ] (]) 11:16, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
:I get a number of calls at work from "123456789" or "3456789". Most of them are "free magazines". I did get one call from a newspaper reporter which showed "382" as the caller ID — he must have had a caller-ID spoofer. — ] | ] 14:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:You may find ] a good starting point. Be sure in particular to study the section on notability. You may also want to look up articles about similar places (if those articles exist) and review them to get a sense of what does and does not go into such an article.
Anyway to sum it up, phonenumbers that dont seem like real phonenumbers are most likely just spoofs from telemarketers that want to get past your anynoumous call rejection. ] 10:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:It looks like you're new to Misplaced Pages. (Welcome!) You may find it easier to write an article from scratch and get it past article review or new pages patrol if you spend some time here first editing other pages and getting to understand the culture. That's not a strict requirement, just something a lot of people benefit from when they first arrive! -- ] (]) 14:28, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
::And the place for new editors to ask questions is the ] (although we're happy to help here too, especially with references). ] (]) 15:24, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
:] information is often generated by the ] and this information must be correctly programmed within the PBX or errorneous information will be transmitted. I learned this years ago when I was getting telemarketing calls that appeared to be coming from a ] that claimed to not have implemented the exchange code that was showing up on my Caller ID box. I finally actually got to answer one of the calls and with the help of the calling party, we tracked the problem back to exactly such a misprogramming of their in-house PBX.
== Indian city classification ==
:Of late, the illegal ] telemarketing calls that were made in ] originated from a variety of fake Caller IDs including '''000-000-0000'''. It must have been an innocent mistake, of course. ;-). After all, it was only last year that various officials in the state party were convicted of telephone hijinks relative to the 2000 election cycle.
I was looking at ]. In tier Y, there are more than 100 cities listed. But in the reference given there are only 88. I even looked what appears to be official website, there's no new circular of new list. Are there any other circulars or should I just remove extra cities. Also, as my main purpose to look for a tier classification, was to use it as approximation for urban (Tier X and Y) and rural districts (Tier Z). Is there any other department which does this kind of classification, please let me know. -- ] (]) 17:13, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
:] 18:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:That circular by the ] indicates that classification of cities depends on the latest census. Entities using the classification after yearly update seemingly are easy to find ( https://7thpaycommissionnews.in/classification-of-indian-cities/), regarding a specific source explicitly mentioning their is an update the department link to look for has to be related to the census. --] (]) 21:28, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
== Overenthusiastic article ==
What kind of tag can I apply to an article (]) I consider way over the top and biassed? ] 08:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:<nowiki>{{neutrality}}</nowiki>, I believe. Also, next time, put these Misplaced Pages-related questions on the ]. ☢ ]<span style="font-size:120%">⌇</span>] 08:32, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::I thought I did. Must have pressed the wrong link. ] 00:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Scientology==
= December 25 =
How come the Scientology page doesnt say that it was banned in Germany for being a dangerous cult? ] 08:47, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:Because that would be inaccurate. As the ] says: "In Germany Scientology is not considered a religion by the government, but a commercial business." That means it doesn't get the privileges religious organisations have under German law. But it's hardly the same thing as being "banned". It is still legal to restore the free will of one's ]s. ] 10:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:Did you read the section ]? If you feel further information would enhance the article, ]! ] 10:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::Germany's "government and societal discrimination against minority religious groups" shows up as a Human Rights problem in the US State Department's on Human Rights Practice for 2005. <blockquote>The government does not recognize several belief systems, such as Scientology, as religions; however, it does not prevent them from engaging in public and private religious activities. Federal and state authorities classified Scientology as a potential threat to democratic order, a status that led to employment and commercial discrimination against Scientologists in both the public and private sectors.</blockquote> Thanks for the reminder, I really need to do some editing there. --] 17:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Heroin and cocaine==
Are there any countries in the world where it's 100% legal to purchase, possess and 'consume' Heroin and/or cocaine? Not planning my next holiday or anything, just curious... ;) --] 08:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Netherlands? ] 08:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Nevermind just checked only "Soft" drugs are allowed in Netherlands, but I think you could reasonably assume drugs were allowed in most african countries, if nothing else then because of lack of restriction. ] 09:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::I don't think it's reasonable to assume anything when the consequence could be death! African nations are cracking down, particularly on trafficking - Nigeria is recognised as a major transit point for trafficking from Asia to Europe , and South African heroin use is on the increase . Heroin is legal in the UK and Switzerland if you have a precription, possession of 1g of either heroin or cocaine is legal in Colombia, and possession of unprocessed coca is legal in Peru and Bolivia. Both are also legal, pretty much anywhere in the world, if you happen to be a research chemist, surgeon or anaesthetist, or producer of legal heroin or cocaine. ] 09:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:Note that, without a prescription, drugs that are illegal in most countries are usually also illegal in the Netherlands, including weed. It's just that in the case of weed the police can't be bothered, unless it's sold to minors or in bars (combining drugs is always a bit iffy). See also ]. ] 19:08, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Crazy Sunglasses ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/WP:RD/M
Most of us have seen this commercial on TV already, but what I want to know is what kind of sunglasses are those? I have been told those are Aviator glasses, but I don't agree because Aviators aren't perfectly circular like this pair. I've seen Ozzy and John Lennon wear similar (or identical) pairs of sunglasses, but I can't find out the name or brand. Anybody with any info would be a lot of help.
] 09:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)Mouseman
:That link you have there doesn't go anywhere useful but you seem to be describing what I would call "round hippie glasses" like or . --] 18:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
==How to Rescue a Friend from a Ponzi Scheme==
I have a friend who has gotten entraped by a ] called 13dailypro<dot>net. I've tried explaining the general principle of a ponzi scheme, but they have been unmoved. Is there any reliable source I could point this person to that mentions this site in particular as a problem? In general-- how do I talk them into getting out while they still can-- or at least not putting any more money in!?--] 11:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)Z
*One of the external links in our article should help. Especially the US Gov site. - ]|] 12:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
*:My concern would be that just telling the "mark" about ponzi schemes in general wouldn't be enough to convince him to quit. I wonder if there's anything about that site in particular. --] 14:43, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::There is an interesting interview (and analysis) with the head of the site at . --] 15:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
: gives a "blueprint" of an autosurf program operating as a Ponzi scheme. --]] 18:41, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
If the Ponzi scheme gets shut down, that'd stop anyone putting more money in. My inclination is to talk to the police, although of course Internet-based frauds may pose jurisdictional problems. It's also possible that the fraudster's ISP may be persuaded to shut them down, although that would likely be temporary. --Anonymous, 06:45, November 27.
== Removing sticker residue from car window ==
Okay, a ''very'' off-beat question for the wizards of the reference desk: A few months ago, someone stuck a large sticker on the window of my car (advertising something or other, I can't remember). It was a very persistent little blighter, and took me several minutes of scraping and peeling to get off. Now the sticker is off, but I can still see its outline whenever it rains on said window (the drops form a different pattern where the sticker once was, I imagine that residue is interacting with the water to change the droplet size). Despite numerous car washes, scraping and yelling obscenities, I can't seem to get the remaining residue off. Now, it's not amazingly critical that I do (it's on a side window and pretty much transparent), however, I was hoping that maybe someone here might have a suggestion as to something else I could try to get the stuff off....? :) — ]<i>]</i> 12:41, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:I would try a solvent such as white spirit, meths, or isopropyl alcohol. Make sure it doesn't run onto the seal or the paintwork though.--] 13:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::There is a product called, I kid you not, "Sticky Stuff Remover". I guarantee it works everytime. I always keep two bottles in the shed and I buy it from one of those catalogues a local guy delivers to your door. It is always filled with everything you never knew you needed but you always buy something anyway. But on this occasion, Sticky Stuff Remover was a surefire winner. I recently sprayed my decking with weather protective wax sealant and it blew in the wind onto my house windows. Nothing would shift it until - you guessed it. And now they are sparkling again.
:::There are a few products like this on the market which work well. is another well-known one. --] 01:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Remember ] - thats usually good for removing sticky glue when water and detergent has failed.
::I have cleaned a lot of stickers off plastic, not glass, and used 91% isopropyl alcohol (as already mentioned) but have also found to work well. You can find it easily on eBay if your local hardware store doesn't carry it. --] 16:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:::] is another product that should work, but WD40 would be my first resource.
:::] 18:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:If even yelling obscenities doesn't work, there's only one thing left - turpentine. I once had to remove some glue, tried everything, nothing worked, until I tried turpentine, which worked instantly. Of course there are loads of types of glue, but so far it has always worked for me. That is, if it's glue. If it isn't visible normally it migh be something else, but I can't think what. Maybe you removed some protective layer? Just a wild guess. ] 19:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::Thank you very much everyone for your suggestions, I will go ahead and try some of them! Cheers muchly! :) — ]<i>]</i> 05:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Another possibility is to try sticking and then quickly removing another sticker of similar type or some thick heavy duty tape like parcel tape or gaffer tape. The peeling off of that tape will often take a lot of the original tape's sticky off with it. Another thing which is just about guaranteed to work is a wonderful lubricating oil from CRC Industries called CRC 5.56 (not sure whether or not it is known by that name worldwide, or just in Australia & New Zealand). Spraying some of that on and then rubbing it off will remove just about any stickiness from sticky labels. ]...''<small><font color="#008822">]</font></small>'' 12:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== wy? ==
why have all the articles on wikipedia been cut short? I typed in wii and the article is only a fifth of the size as it was before. Is this something wikipedia does every year?
:Can you provide us with a link or screenshot? Is it still loading up like that? Have you tried another browser, or is your internet connection timing out too early? ] 13:41, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::All the articles have not been cut short. ] looks fine to me. Try rebooting your computer.--] 14:40, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Could be the Firefox bug? ] 16:09, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:Me too - articles are sometimes truncated - usually after a space
like this. I'm not using firefox - any clues?] 16:14, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:on some internet connections dont pages cut off after 30kb or something? ] <sub>]</sub><sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub><sup>]</sup> 16:23, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::The 30 - 50kb limit bit on ] has more to do with "attention span" but there is mention of former problems editing long pages (not reading them). --] 17:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:It could be a bug in your browser - try reloading the page (click the "refresh" or "reload" button in your browser's toolbar). It sometimes happens to me when I'm using an old version of Internet Explorer, the connection cuts out (for whatever reason) and the browser assumes the page has been fully loaded. A refresh always fixes it. — ]<i>]</i> 05:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Palm reading - left or right hand? ==
Which hand should be used in palm reading? No info on the palm reading page in Misplaced Pages about it. I'm left handed and this is my dominant hand in writing, sports etc. So should my left palm be read because it is my dominant hand? ] 13:41, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
: Just found out that it's the dominant hand that is read if you're curious ] 14:23, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::According to our ] article, ''In some traditions of palmistry, the other hand is believed to carry past-life or karmic information, as well as hereditary traits.''--] 14:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:I'd go for the one with the longest life line. ] 19:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Creation of Misplaced Pages ==
Does anyone know the exact time Misplaced Pages was founded, I.e., the moment it went online? ] 15:47, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:] doesn't have what you're looking for? —] 00:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::That article has information on what day it was founded but I'm interested in the time as well. ] 01:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Otter - Sea or River? ==
]I can't seem to truly determine whether this ] is a ] or a ]. I took this photo on the Pacific coast of Washington, In Olympic National Park. Thanks! <font style="background:#7FFF00">]</font><sup><font style="background:#00ff7f">]</font></sup> 16:46, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:Wow, nice close-up shot! I'd love to get that close to one in the wild. (I should upload a closeup I got at the aquarium recently.) I'm going to have to say river otter, as its tail appears to be longer, thicker at the base and more tapered than the sea otter, and the face is different from the sea otters I've seen. to compare to for a sea otter, and (a rather cold river otter, I'd say). ] <small>]</small> 00:11, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:I'd say it is a river otter as well. --] 05:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== hotwiring ==
How do you hotwire a car? what wires do you cross and so on? thanks for the help
:If the car is yours, you are best getting a locksmith to make you a key for it as you will do significant damage to the car hot-wiring it. If not yours, then I ain't tellin' ya. --] 17:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I think it's the blue and the red, but don't trust me on it. <font style="background:#7FFF00">]</font><sup><font style="background:#00ff7f">]</font></sup> 18:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:]. No, wait; cut the RED wire. --] 18:32, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::Hotwiring isn't very easy anymore because too many cars used to get stolen that way. If you happen to find a classic 60s-era Mustang and don't mind a few years in the penitentiary then go ahead and try whatever methods you uncover, but it's cheaper and easier and less (you know the jokes) to just buy the durn car. <font face="Verdana">]<sup>'']]''</sup></font> 18:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:Why does everyone assume intentions of theft? I'm curious too, although I believe Durova is right in that it's no longer that easy. ] 19:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::Of course we are all curious as to the answers to these questions; I have decided that I am a "knowledge buff". Just that this one looks suspicious to me; but that is just me and my "spidey-sense". --] 19:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:::] --] ]
::::] - Hahaha. I think that needs a bit of something! --] 23:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Maida-A type of flour ==
Can anybody please let me know what is Maida-a type of flour used in India,made of?????????
:We have ]; says wheat there (and possibly ]). --] 18:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Organizational Theory ==
What are some of the relationships between organizational theory and management practice? How do you think a knowledge of organizational theory would help managers work more effectively and efficiently on the job? Would this information be of greatest benefit to lower, middle, or upper managers? What is the value of studying organizational theory?] 18:32, 26 November 2006 (UTC)Steve De Chellis
:At the risk of being wrong; this sounds like "Do your own homework"; see above "How to ask a question". --] 18:35, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::In very simple terms a knowledge of organizational theory would hopefully benefit managers at all levels, but one would expect the 'upper' manager to be able to bring about the most improvements as they could cascade their learnings down the chain. Not know exactly what organizational theory is (unless it is very much a self explanatory term) understanding how your sector fits into an overall organisational strategy would, again, be beneficial to all managers. The pitfalls will be that theories can often be taken literally and few (if any) theories will simplistically work in a real-life situation. Management must balance the desire to find new ways of working and the reality of the way in which their staff work best: Sometimes the management technique that works for team X won't work for team Y. Treat each as individual and you will be making a good start. ] 19:47, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Organizations as Open or Closed Systems ==
Why should organizations strive to function as an open system?
:More of the same. --] 18:47, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::At the risk of doing your work for you I shall note this is a very unspecific question. What defines an 'open' system? Are we to believe an open system is one that has no secrets from shop floor to boadroom, and a closed one has many secrets? Is the system open in that Joe Public know what is going on in every aspect of you business, or that everything is made public no matter how good/bad? As always in business (as in life) there are no definites. Sometimes information needs to be kept secret from the boardroom, others from the shopfloor. Sometimes Joe Public should be invited to find out more about how wonderful you are as a business, other times it can harm your business model if too many competitors can see how you work. ] 19:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Resource Dependency Theory ==
This has many applications in organizations. According to resource dependency theory, what motivates organizations to form interorganizational linkage? What is the advantage of strategic alliances as a way of exchanging resources?
:Is this ALL due on Monday?? --] 18:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:: Don't know the academic business name, but it all boils down to Symbiotic Survival.
== OMG PS3! ==
1)When will sony be releasing a new batch of ]'s without bugs?
2)If I don't have a high-def TV, will all the games look like crap? ''']''' 18:49, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:2) Even if you do not have High-definition TV, as long as you have a decent digital TV, the graphics should still look better than 6th generation console graphics. ] 22:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Film in Jane Austen style. ==
::Help. I have been watching a load of Jane Austen type re-runs (the acting, the diction, the style, the settings) - they are all so impeccable, and the storylines are not too difficult to follow. But there is one, and it may not actually be a Jane Austen, that is eluding me. It's not Pride and Prejudice, and I don't think it is Sense and Sensibility or Mansfield Park. The one scene I can clearly recall is where one of the females is introduced to a young dark-haired and darkly handsome Duke of ?????. But he has an obsession with dismantling and fixing period clocks and I think instead of bedding the girl, he climbs into the sack with one of his servants. Any ideas please? Thanks ] 19:08, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:::It's definitely not Austen. That's all I can say. ] 23:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::::Bedding the girl? In the sack with the servant? These things ''simply do not happen'' in the world of Jane Austen! The Austen milieu, moreover, is largely that of the landed gentry, rather than great aristocracy, like dukes and earls. The scenario you describe is not one that is familiar to me from any of her novels. It may of course be something 'in the style' of Jane Austen, though, I do have to stress, displaying very modern standards of behaviour. Unfortunately, I cannot be any more specific than that. Sorry. ] 23:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::Thanks Clio (for nothing). I suppose your analysis of Austen leaves us serene in the confident knowledge that Mr. Wickham's relationship with the young Miss Bennett was entirely non-sexual and purely platonic?????????????? ] 01:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::That is all in your mind. ''Pride and Prejudice'' is full of latent sexual tension, but all feeling is expressed in purely conventional terms; in terms that would have been understood, and accepted, by Austen and the world of Regency England. Your interpretation is absurdly out of place and time, and I seriously doubt that you have actually ''read'' any Austen. If you have, you most certainly have not understood. No need for thanks. I will not be responding to any more questions from you. ] 01:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Thanks anyway. Your non-response is an anticipated relief. BTW, if you come across anything resembling the answer to the question I actually posed, I would not consider that a response in the context you set out above, and would be grateful for it. ] 01:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:CasualWikiUser, please remember to be ] and to ] of your fellow editors in your pursuit of an answer. None of us are obligated to go out of our way to respond to questions, please keep that in mind. On another note, your description reminds me vaguely of a period drama that I was ''sure'' starred ], but looking at her IMDB profile, I guess not. It was a little bit different though, it was about an impoverished gentleman whose lands were all entailed (so he couldn't sell them), but whose income was insufficient to support them. A youngish housekeeper (Stevenson) with one or two children came to care for him, and expected him to engage in an affair with her (he seemed to want to), but he preferred the bottle. The story was kind of a ] type story, showing how exposing the housekeeper's children to a refined life (via the surrogate fatherhood of the drunken lord) made their lives challenging in ways we (in our age) wouldn't expect. Doubt it's your story, but anyways...
:The 70s-90s were thick with original BBC period dramas (not based on books), and those based on pulp romance novels, like ], ], and others. They would have featured more relaxed sexuality. ] 01:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
*Gormenghast by Peake? ] 12:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== HP ==
Where can I find more information on the 7th book in the HArry Potter series? :-)
:Have you already looked at ]? –]<font color="#FF0099">]</font> 19:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
How do the Yoruba of Africa adapt to their environment?
] 19:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:I'm not sure that is a good question. There are about 40,000,000 ], they live throughout West-Africa, some in villages, others in cities, many in a ] (]). Presumably these groups all adapt to their environments in different ways. ] 19:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== General Theory of Jobs, Property and Money ==
If an updated approach to reform inspired by Maynard Keynes to reflect the information revolution we have experienced since his death were to be attempted, which texts already written would be appropriate beginnings for a colaborative or sole author effort?
:Hello, anonymous user. Please forgive me for saying so, but I think your question is, perhaps, a little too ambitious, and may not elicit exactly what it is you are looking for. Anyway, have a look over ], ] and ] and see if this helps to clarify the position. Perhaps then you might consider some more specific questions. ] 00:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
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Dear Clio, it has been a long while since I wrote to wikipedia.
I was logged on as Johngelles -- but did not remember how to make that known to a reader.
I do agree with you that "a theory of jobs, private enterprise, and public money", (or near to such categorical terms), to bring Keynesian thought on monetary systems of production up to date -- to reflect the worldwide absence of a gold standard and the power of modern information systems to identity and record for logictics purposes anything and everything that anyone can articulate, such as the universal product code suggests, and the further power to compute a useful cost price with far more accuracy than was imagined in WWI and WWII -- is a bridge too far for quick results.
But I am sure some existing texts have started this project already.
:I have read your suggested wikipedia entries. They were new to me. I believe they were created after I first got interested in wikipedia. I will have to read them several more times. They seem to be relatively accurate. But they also seem, at first blush, to avoid any instrumental purpose (beyond saying what some history might reveal).
:It is obvious that we do not have full employment or full investment in the promises of the various technological revolutions in progress. The fact that there is not money enough to fully employ our human resources speaks for itself. History is not a prescription for future reform.
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I am a particular fan of www.wikispaces.com , as a tool for wiki collaboration that is little bit easier to use than other wikis I've seen.
I know we need an update of Keynes if we are to finance nationally the things California is attempting to do locally: infrastructure, energy, environment, education, and health.
And, ideally we must finance these projects globally.
Keynes recognized that we were demand constrained (moneywise) as well as supply constrained (thingwise or logictically).
We all know this too. But we are not, as Americans, Nato-allies, or UN members, looking for the match that is missing between our global supply potential and our global demand systems.
Somehow or other I believe we need a dialectical starting point to approach the problems of poverty and war from a jobs, property and money perspective.
Johngelles ...
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:Hello, Johngelles; nice to know you by name. You could open a Misplaced Pages account, if you wished; it's a fairly simple process.
:Anyway, you clearly see the Keynesian model as the solution to domestic and international macro-economic problems. It's certainly a reasonable position to take, though not one, I have to confess, that I share. Taking a libertarian approach to these issues, I still believe that government intervention in the economy creates more problems than it solves; that state expenditure sucks life out of the real economy, leads to unacceptably high levels of taxation, fuels inflation and rarely, if ever, creates the conditions at which it is aimed. As an economic tool Keynsianism was showing real strains by the 1970s, when 'stagflation' was becoming an established condition in many industrial economies, particularly the United Kingdom, the one country most wedded to the paradigm. I believe in more economic freedom, not less; and I believe government should keep the lowest possible profile in these matters. Low taxation, maximum incentive and the free distribution of resources create the conditions for freedom. However, despite our differences, it is a pleasure to be able to exchange views. ] 09:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
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Dear Clio,
I agree with all you say. My emphasis is always on Keynes without debt and without taxes (except for anti-hyperinflation taxes -- if necessary).
I do not want government intervention -- only government responsibility for financing needs beyond the reach of the market for private investment -- (as when government as the money monopoly printer, finances procurement for war, but does not operate production facilities unless such operations are for historical reasons better then private operations would be: certain arsenals and shipyards come to mind).
See Keynes without debt, an article by Morrison in the Post Autistic Economics Review.
I have long had a wikipedia account -- but have forgotten how to use the system. Did you check out the wikispaces facility ? I believe it is offered from the UK.
Thank you for your kind help.
John
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:You are very welcome, John. ] 00:29, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
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Just added keynes-21.wikispaces.com
John
== Slave Zero ==
It will not run on Windows XP. I have an emulator that does not work (DOS box - I don't know how to run games on it).
Any ideas? Please NOTE: I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REPLY SO DO NOT POST ANY QUESTIONS. {{unsigned|82.46.182.142}}
:Slave Zero was made for Windows, not to be run in an emulator. If you are on a windows machine it should work out of the box.
] 04:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Nicorette Gum ==
I have some Nicorette stop-smoking gum at home (2mg Nicotine gum). Some of the warnings on the gum include:
-Do not take if you are a non-smoker
-Do not take if you are under 18
However, I am 16, and a non-smoker, and I'm wondering what'll happen if I take the gum anyways. Is it safe? Thankyou.--] 21:08, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:You have a higher risk of nicotine poisoning. Symptoms include :
**Nausea and vomiting
**Salivating
**Diarrhoea
**Abdominal pain
**Cold sweats
**Weakness
**Disturbed hearing
**Headache
**Breathing difficulties
**Weak, rapid or irregular pulse
**Loss of consciousness.
:] 21:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:It's a poison. I would not reccomend it (just as I would not reccomend smoking for a non-smoker). If you have never smoked and you take some of this gum it is likely that you would at least vomit, if not something worse. - ] 21:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:It's about as good of an idea as starting smoking. --]<font color="red">]</font>] <small>] ]</small> 01:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:The gum will taste very bitter and you'll wonder why people would ever want to start smoking in the first place if that's how they have to quit. You'll probably have to go to the bathroom. That's probably about it. I'm assuming you weren't going to try chewing the whole pack at once, of course, which would probably induce those other symptoms. Or you could suffer one of those statistically improbable side-effects, I suppose, but I wouldn't put my money on it. It's basically the equivalent of smoking a cigarette, except not smoking it, and just mainlining the nicotine into your stomach, which will probably make it somewhat upset but I doubt would do much else. I'm not saying you should do it — it's really not the best use of your time — but I doubt any of the scarier things cited above would happen, given my experience with it. --] 01:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Read ] and ] and seriously consider not playing around with such an addictive drug. -] 12:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::I dunno. Nicorette is probably the least fashionable way to be exposed to nicotine. It tastes like crap, the dosage is limited, it is extremely expensive, it will make your stomach upset, and it utterly lacks any "cool" factor. More than can be said for cigarettes. --] 14:11, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::So instead of nicotine without cigarettes, we need cigarettes without nicotine. ] | ] 14:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::::Or find something more sensible to be "cool". Or is that an oxymoron? --]<sup>'''] ]'''</sup> 05:30, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Okay, thankyou for telling me this. I am not going to try the gum. (Nor will I ever smoke).--] 23:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Your My World ==
I am looking for an Italian singer who sang Your My World
:: It's actually titled, 'You're my World' as in 'You are my World', and was originally recorded by Dionne Warwick (US) but her version was beaten to the music stores by Cilla Black (UK) who made a very succesful cover version that was released before Warwick's. No Parliamo Italiano.
:::"]" was covered by ]. ] 21:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
== Car clanking sound ==
Why is there a metal clanking sound when large cars such as Pick-up truck, SUV's and vans after they are parked? This usually happens in freshly parked cars and continue for about 30 mins. Is this due to the tension of the parking brakes or something? Thanks. ] 22:04, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
:I imagine it is the noise made by the fixings of things like radiators & engine parts, as they contract as they cool down. --] ]
::It is the engine cooling down. When things heat up they expand and the opposite happens when they cool down. The clacking is metal contracting back into shape. You can hear it in many places where metal heats up and cools down fairly rapidly, my radiator does it when the thermostat turns it off, tin roofs can do it when the sun goes down. ] 23:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::We tend not to get that in the UK, though since the introduction of intermittent thermostatically controlled cooling fans (as opposed to the previously installed permanently driven belt ones), the heat in the engine compartment is often dissipated by the fan operating long after the ignition is switched off, the effects, as alluded to earlier, will be much more distinctly heard in hot environments than in our sub-Arctic climate in the UK. ] 01:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Exhaust systems experience radical changes in temperature from off to hot to off again. In particular, the ] operates very hot. So the exhaust system often clanks as it cools back down again. (It probably clanks warming up too, but there's too much othe rnoise to hear it.)
:::] 18:22, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
= November 27 =
== Turducken ==
I believe the first paragraph of the "]" article has been edited in a vulgar way. I am not sure what it should say, only that I assume it is incorrect. Please see for yourself and tell me if I am wrong.
:Looked at it; don't see anything wrong. What is it you object to? Cavities being stuffed? --] 02:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Likewise. Perhaps the wording is just too fowl? ] 02:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::I think it's all the talk of 'de-boning' and 'stuffing'. --] 02:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:You know what I think? I think there should be a new "how to ask a question" tip up there saying "Do not report article vandalism here" and then explaining why not. ] 14:02, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Sounds good; you should be able to edit the template. Don't know how much of it gets read though. --] 15:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I've seen pencils that say that they have a clutch action device or clutch-action device, for example,
. What does that mean? Do those pencils work like a clutch pencil? But these pencils can use leads smaller than, say, 2mm? Like, for example, 0.3? Thanks.] 03:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::I think these look like regular ]s. In Australia we commonly call them a ] but as stated in the article, that is a ]. They generally only work with the size insert they are designed for, but 2mm sounds very large, I think 0.5mm is the most common but the article says 0.7mm and 0.3mm are available. ] 04:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::I would imagine "clutch" refers to grapping and letting go of the lead. The clutch is only designed to hold lead of one specific diameter; usually 0.7 or 0.5 mm. --] 04:44, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::::I am using a 2mm leadholder of clutch pencil right now. The link that I posted, if you look to the box on the right:{{quotation|...Clutch-action...|}}. So that is one of my questions: what does it mean? Does it WORK the same way as a clutch pencil?] 07:04, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Yes, in South Africa "clutch pencil" is Standard English, but most persons would know what a pacer is. The sizes vary from 0.3 to 0.7mm for standard leads, the fine ones being made of a hightech composite to reduce breaking. Thicker leads (up to a few mm) are becoming popular for art. Colured leads are available, but do not seem to be popular. ] 05:04, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::I think that "clutch pencil" is the pencil used by architects and draftsman that hold a thickish piece of lead that you have to put a point on using a sandpaper pad or a sharpener. The mechanical pencils such as your link hold a thin piece of lead that you don't have to "point" and the term "clutch action" simply refers to the mechanism inside to hold and feed the lead. But they are mechanical pencils, not clutch pencils. --] 14:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Help!? ==
Where did the saying, "Here's pie in your eye," come from? And what does it mean?
:It doesn't seem to be that popular a saying. --] 05:22, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::If I were to hazard a guess, here would not be an innapropriate time to say "Here's pie in your eye." ;) ] 05:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::You're probably thinking of "Here's mud in your eye", which is used as a toast. Don't know the origin of it, though. You might get a better response over at the ]. --] ]] 08:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::I guess it could be because it's easier to say than, "Here's 3.142857142 recurring in your eye"??
:Sounds like a mixture of "pie in the sky" (an empty promise or wish) and "Here's mud in your eye". You could always combine the two: "Here's mud pie in your eye". ] 11:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Mmmmm, ] --] 14:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I think there are ''three'' different expressions being confused here: 1. "Pie in the sky", 2. "Here's mud in your eye", and 3. "Pie-eyed" - the latter meaning ''"besotted, blind drunk, blotto, pissed, plastered, sloshed, smashed, etc"''. Both "Here's mud in your eye" and "Pie-eyed" are associated with drinking alcohol. "Pie in the sky" is entirely different. There is no such standard expression, afaik, as "Here's pie in your eye". ] 23:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Snow at nighttime ==
It's been snowing here all day, and around six in the evening the power went out for about a 25-square mile area. This time of year the sun goes down and it gets dark right quick around five pm. So why is it so light outside after a snowfall, when it should be pitch black? The nearest city is at least ten miles away. This area is very rural, even with the power on there wouldn't be much light. But right now (9pm) it's brighter outside than it is during a full moon, and the sky is overcast, but clearly lit from somewhere. On a typical winter night it's utterly pitch black out here if I don't turn on any outside lights. I guess having snow covering a large area reflects light from cities or towns and makes the night seem brighter but- how far away can the cities or towns be and still contribute? ] 9:15pm, 27 November 2006 (PST)
:I don't know where you live exactly, but lights from cities can refract for quite a distance through the atmosphere (it's one of the reasons ] is such a problem, you don't need to be particularly near to a city to feel its effects. I don't have any hard numbers to give you, but I know I could see the entire southern horizon lit up when I was a good fifty miles north of London, for instance. Snow on the ground is a spectacularly good reflector, so ''any'' stray light around will seem to be strongly amplified to you. — ]<i>]</i> 05:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Snow is the most reflective stuff around. It has an ] of 90%. And there is always light, even when it is pitchblack. Pitchblack just means the available light falls below your perception threshold, even after your eyes have adapted to the light. If almost all the light gets reflected the incoming light is doubled, and it may only just fall above the threshold. With adapted eyes that will make all the difference. You say it is comparable to moonlight, which is a point in case. ] is extremely faint compared to sunlight. According to the article 500 000 times fainter. ] 06:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Cool, thanks for the answers. After thinking about it more, I'm also going to guess that the solid overcast sky also contributes. Is it possible that light can be reflected between the clouds and the snow, and so illuminate a large area? If the storm passes tonight and the skies are clear I'll get some empirical observations! ] 10:10am, 27 November 2006 (PST)
:::According to the albedo article, cloud albedo's vary wildly (for obvious reasons). Do your empirical observations with a camera, though. Don't rely on your eyes, because they adapt. Take photos with with different skies with the camera settings (aperture, exposure, ASA and white balance) fixed. Keep us posted. ] 04:06, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== help im stuck ==
is it possible to proform sexual acts to yourself with mouth actions??
from andy
:Well did you read ] or ]? ] ] 11:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Of course. Why do you have to ask? Are you incapable? -] 12:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Of course, sucking your thumb is always possible.--] 12:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Soaking in ] can soften up the bones sufficiently. Or does that just work with eggs?? --] 13:29, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:I feel a thread deletion coming on! 8-)--] 13:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Yes, it is -- at least for men. It's easier if you lie on your back, push your legs out straight and then flip them back over your body while curving your back. --Anon.
::And for women, ]. Hope you're not stuck! –]<font color="#FF0099">]</font> 16:59, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Here's a question... if you tried to perform autofellatio, and now you're stuck, then how did you manage to type anything here? That must be quite an uncomfortable position to be stuck in! --] 15:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:: You could always talk dirty to yourself............
:Only ]. -] 16:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Actually there is a pic on the net somewhere of a young guy giving himself a blow in front of his computer. Cant remember the website just ATM....--] 21:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Actually there are many, many porn videos/DVDs available of guys performing autofellatio, and I'm sure there would be much more than just one website. They all seem to have extremely nimble bodies and are better than averagely endowed. It would seem to be beyond the physical capacity of most men to achieve this (but not for want of trying in many cases). ] 23:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Hence the pop tune of the early sixties: ]--] 02:52, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== I am a camera n00b ==
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As usual, I don't know whether to place technology topics in the Science or Miscellaneous desk. I have two old cameras that were my grandfather's. One of them lets you do a bunch of settings, and since I don't know much about cameras, I could use some help interpreting them. (The other one is a bit automatic so, without a battery, it's even more difficult to know what it will do when you push the…er…trigger(?).) In the attached images, I have labeled some of the moving parts and here are my thoughts on what they might be for:
<ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha">
<li>'''Focus'''. One scale is labeled from "1 m" to "≈" and that's fine, but what is the other one (on black background)? Some kind of measure of how blurry things will be on different distances?</li>
<li>'''Shutter speed'''. If it says <math>x</math>, it means <math>(1/x)\,\mathrm{s}</math>, right? And "B" is for "as long as you hold the…um…GO button(?) pressed".</li>
<li>'''Aperture size'''. The numbers on the scale is apparently the focal length (<math>45\,\mathrm{mm}</math>) divided by the aperture diameter. Why is this relation of interest?</li>
<li>Something with the '''flash'''. (And the connector next to it I guess is for the flash as well.)</li>
<li>Something with '''light sensitivity''' (it says "ASA" and "DIN").
<li>Seems related to E.
</ol>
Oh, and the light sensor is a cool thing. The needle on the top is driven by the light energy! :-)
Do you think you can help me fill in the gaps? Thanks in advance. —] 14:22, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Sounds like you need a basic . Then check out ] (f-stop) and ] (for E). Oh, and shutter speed is probably the other wheel on top, not on the lens. BTW, very nice work on the pics! --] 14:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:: Nice to hear you like the images! :-) I had some trouble with sharp highlights that made the numbers hard to read. I ended up moving the light source (a table lamp) during exposure (mabye about a second, automatic camera, so I don't know). Once on the computer screen, I realised that the bulb must have been brown or something, was rather dull. :-( But after correcting the colours, ]! OK, I might have overdone it and exaggerated the shininess of reality a little. ;-) Thanks for you links. Actually, I am familiar with the principles of photography, I just don't know the traditions and conventions of cameras, as I tend to approach a subject from a theoretical viewpoint. I have read the f number article. :-/ Those notations make me wanna cry! —] 15:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:(after edit conflict)Oooh, nice camera. Let's fill in the gaps (let me state first that I'm native German and that while I know quite well how cameras work, I am not sure I am using the correct English technical terms...I hope you can understand everything I am trying to explain):
:*The numbers on the black scale next to the focus indicate the depth of field, depending on the aperture. A wide-open aperture will let in a lot of light, allowing for a shorter exposure time, but it will have a smaller depth which basically means that whatever you focus on will be sharp but objects behind and in front will be blurry (which is an effect often used in portrait photography). A smaller aperture will require a longer exposure time but will give you a larger depth. The numbers on the scale give you a rough approximation of how far away from your focus the image will be sharp.
:*You are correct about exposure times being measured in 1/x and B being "as long as you keep the trigger pressed".
:*The aperture size influences the depth of field, as outlined above. Smaller numbers mean a larger aperture opening, and vice versa.
:*I am not sure about the flash symbols, haven't seen those on any camera I own.
:*On the top dial, E is for setting the camera for the type of film you have installed. As a rule of thumb (although there are lots of subtle variations), films with a larger ASA number are more sensitive to light but also more grainy. For indoor portrait photos, 800 or even 1600ASA films are a good choice because they are sensitive enough for indoor photography without a flash (and flashes are evil, especially when doing portraits) and the grainy effect may be just what you want with a black-and-white portrait. For outdoor photography, you will usually use a film with 50 or even 25ASA to get your photos a sharp as possible (200ASA is a common compromise between sharpness and sensitivity). The camera has to know how sensitive a film you are using so that the light meter works correctly.
:*Dial F is where you set the exposure time.
:Hope you have fun with the camera, ] ] 14:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Good job above. It is also very possible that the light meter does not "interact" with the camera, i.e. you use the meter reading to set the shutter speed and aperture manually. The film speed dial (ASA/DIN) is more so you remember what you put in the camera and does not control the camera in any way. --] 14:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::: I think you might be correct, and would like to extend it. I think that E and F are acting as a ] (aren't those cool?!) for doing calculations rather than really ''doing'' anything.
:::# Set E to the light sensitivity of the film.
:::# Take the reading from the light meter, either with the lid closed (brigth conditions, light still coming in through small holes) or with the lid open.
:::# Turn F to point at the reading you got. It has a scale that first reads "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8" (on black background) and then continues with "2 3 4 5 6 7 8" (on green background). Probably, black is for ''lid open'' and green for ''lid closed'' (there is actually a green mark showing when you close the lid).
:::# On E and F are printed scales we haven't used so far. On E, it reads "2,8 4 5,6 6 11 16 22" so it's probably aperture sizes (or rather focal length divided by aperture diameter). On F, we have "300 100 50 25 10 1/5 1/2 1 2 4 8 15", which I guess i shutter speed. (They probably mean "1/300 1/100 1/50 1/25 1/10 1/5 1/2 1 2 4 8 15".) These two scales line up against eachother and provide combinations of aperture size and shutter speed that give the same exposure (I think). We are free to choose which combination we want and we dial it in with B and C. (Btw, B is heavy to turn in both directions and you can hear it crunch inside the camera when you do. Why is that?)
::: Even if this is correct, there is still a question. In the cut-out of F, there is a black arrow (in the image, it's pointing at the "8" with black background), but there is also a red "2" (pointing approximately at the "2" with green background) and a red "4" (pointing even more approximately at the "3" with green background). What's that? —] 16:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:: Thanks for the info. As far as I could tell, there was never any problems with English terms. Actually, I'm Swedish, so I would probably have understood you anyway. :-) —] 15:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Just in case you don't already know. The camera seems to be a model of the Zeiss-Ikon Contina. There are a couple of similar on ebay (though perhaps not so nice condition as yours). You could probably locate a manual for it on ebay or elsewhere. Have fun! --] 16:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::: Ah, I never thought anyone would know about this camera, but I was wrong. I found a for a similar model. (username: "free", password: "manuals") —] 16:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::Very cool! That's going to help a lot. --] 17:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::: There's still the problem of what the "2" and the "4" is doing next to the arrow on the ''computor ring'', as the manual calls what we call ''F''. —] 17:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Left. Does it relate to f2.8 being a "snapshot setting"? No, that is f8. --] 17:37, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
By the way, the reason the symbol for an "as long as you keep the shutter button pressed" time-exposure is B is that it stands for "bulb". Not a light bulb, but a rubber squeeze-bulb, which you could operate without shaking the camera. This stopped being an essential attachment for ordinary exposures as films got faster, but some cameras continued to be made with a fitting for it, and the B symbol stuck even when there was only a button. --Anonymous, 18:45 UTC, November 27.
: My little compact camera lacks such a connector, but it has a mode where there is a two second delay between the moment when you press…er…fire(?) and the shot, so you have time to take your hand off the camera and the camera can stop shaking. At least that's what I use it for. —] 18:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Oh, and regarding that "crunch"; the camera may need to be serviced (cleaned and oiled). You can probably find out to disassemble it and clean/oil it or take it (or ) to a pro. But you probably want to do that before using it much. --] 19:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::: Really? I thought it was perhaps supposed to do that. Apparently, it was for setting the exposure time. I don't know how the timer for that works, so I don't really know what needs to be moved around inside to change the time. Do you? —] 19:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::::OK, but you set exposure time on top. I thought it was the focus or aperture ring that made noise? BTW, those links I gave above are stinky - you can do better; , for instance, shows some photos taken with "your" camera. --] 19:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::::: Ah, nice! Thanks. It's actually not exactly the same camera, but really close. A is focus, B is exposure time, C is aperture size and E and F is for computing suitable combinations of exposure time and aperture size (which are then dialled in with B and C). —] 19:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::::::Oh, that's different. My dad was a camera buff and had some nice old cameras. Do you think that protrusion near "B" is for the bulb mentioned above? It looks like a hollow tube so it could have a pressure/vacuum trip to trip the shutter. --] 19:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::::::: Yes, "B" is for "as long as the button is pressed". Even if a remote trigger would comprise an air-filled bulb, on the camera side, I'd say it's purely mechanical – a little pin extending into the hollow thing you saw. —] 20:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Left. Actually, I looked again at the manual. You attach the remote cable to the threaded hole on top of the shutter button. My guess is the peg on the ring is just to make it easy to turn or to distinquish which ring is which without looking? --] 20:29, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== German language DVD purchase ==
I want to buy some German language DVDs. I live in the UK. Any good websites? --] 18:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Oh and they need to accept UK payments (so Amazon is out 'cos they won't accept ] cards in the German version) --] 18:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Plenty of German language films (like ], ], and countless others I'm sure) will be available on amazon.co.uk. You can just turn off the English subtitles. -] 03:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== Government relations ==
how do the state the county and the city interact with eachother?
:Where? In ]? Please sign your name using four ]s. -] 21:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== sick dreams ==
hi. im generally a good person. for some reason, i've recently been having dreems of sexually assaulting my sister. when i realize later on what i dreamt it makes my stomache churn. what can i do to stop them.
:Try taking 100-200 mg of ] daily, preferably early in the day (right after breakfast) as it may keep you awake (wikipedia not for medical advice, etc. - so consult a ].) you see that one symptom of B1 deficiency is sleep disorders - follow that link for general advice. B1 deficiency can be caused by drinking alcohol, fasting, or any activity that burns a lot of "mental energy" (editing on wikipedia, for example). --] 18:41, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::I wouldn't concern yourself with the strange things you dream about, they are not a reflection of your personality or character and have no basis in reality. There are many, i'm sure, who will give you indepth meanings and so on, but I would be weary of believing them, they are quite an unexplainable working of the mind. Read the ] article for more indepth information. ]
:: Interesting. How does B1 work in this case? —] 18:54, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::I added a bit more above. --] 18:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::::And remember; thoughts are thoughts and deeds are deeds. You do not have control over what you dream and we all have dark impulses. I would tell you ] those impulses live but a few here seem to think I proselytize (laff). --] 19:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::I can find little literature on such links. It's more likely that what you're suffering from are ''just dreams'', such as everyone has. They're always fairly random, and rarely under our control. You can gain some control over dreams by mentally applying yourself to it (i.e. ]), but you might just have to ride the dreams out. If they're really persistent and disturbing, something more may be at play, in which case you should likely see a sleep specialist. -- ] <small>(])</small> 19:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:]. -] 21:19, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
: has a little info. IANOP but I imagine it upsetting you so much in the way it does increases the chances you'll dream it again, because you're worrying about it. What you think and what you do are very different things, and the automatic, unconscious thoughts we have can be unrelated to what we would choose to think about. What you choose is what matters. After all, if someone thought to themselves that slavery was wrong, but still owned slaves, you would judge them by their actions and not their thoughts. Equally, judge yourself by your actions and not your thoughts. Know that you choose not to do anything like your dreams, and never will, then try to relax :-) After all, you can imagine yourself smashing the computer screen. Does that mean you're going to? Does it even mean you want to? ] 01:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== Changing rooms at school ==
About 15 years ago,when I was at primary school the boys and girls got changed together for PE even in the last year.
Even at secondary school every now and then one changing room would be unavailable and so we'd all pile in together or they'd just open one changing room for the lunchtime swim.That was still going on to about 10 years ago when they stuck a roof on the pool and changed the changing rooms around.
Nowadays I never hear of any other schools that do this-and with girls developing earlier and worries about sexual harassment and that kind of thing I would imagine they would not be able to.
So was ours the last school to do this or are there any other schools that still allow mixed changing? ] 19:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::I went to primary school about twenty years ago in Australia and we definitely had separate change rooms, mind you I did go to a catholic primary school so maybe that has something to do with it. You don't live in France by any chance do you? They have unisex bathrooms in some places. ] 21:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Is that why the French are more sexually liberated?--] 21:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::I go to ]. We have all gender bathrooms and showers in our ]. This extends to showers as well.—]•] 03:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:I hope you count yourself lucky, it sounds like an amazing place: ''Oberlin students have a reputation for being radically liberal and/or progressive. Oberlin has a thriving LGBT community, and most students are well informed as to the intricacies of gender politics.'' ] 04:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== Beatlemania the trivia ==
I am looking for the rules to "The Trivia Game Beatlemania the Illustrated Treasury."
It was produced in Canada in 1984, by P & R Enterprises. I have a copy of the game, but no rules.
Thank you.
:Check this out . Looks like the scoresheet and instructions are one page. Maybe if you ask nicely they will scan it for you. --] 21:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Where can I buy a University of Southampton academic scarf? ==
I want to buy an ] for an ] friend who is a member of the ]. Where should I ask? The university? SUSU? Some third party robemaker as you do in Cambridge? Google finds me nothing. Thanks in advance. ] 19:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:Soton themselves sell various bits of clothing , but it doesn't seem to encompass scarves. SUSU they sell a selection of clothing, and they may be your best bet. ] | ] | 19:26, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== help me please ==
I would like to start by saying that this is an incredible web site and I find it most helpfull, My question to you is, how can I get further information on getting peoples contact email. I have done some searches on key persons, art collectors and you have alot of information on them, however I would like to know how I can access their emails so that I can contact them.
Thank You
Doron Arie
:In many cases, we don't have contact information for the individuals about whom we've written articles. You may be able to find contact information through corporate or personal web sites listed in a given article's ''External links'' section. In general, even if we did have a given person's email address, we wouldn't add it to a Misplaced Pages article. This is because having an email address on a publicly-accessible site would expose those individuals to a great deal of spam and potentially other sorts of harrassment. If you would like contact information for a few specific individuals, there may be editors at the Ref Desk here who can help you with your search—particularly if you can explain why you're hoping to contact those people. Best of luck, ](]) 21:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== Hmmmm (why do we shake hands with the right hand, not the left?)==
Very quick question, and this is just a thought. Why do we shake hands using our right hand and not the left. hmmmmmm.
:Isn't the classic reason that the right hand would normally hold the weapon and by offering your right hand bare you are signifying friendship (or at least non-aggression)? See . --] 19:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::Must have been great for left-handed backstabbers. ] 20:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Indeed, we have ]! ] 20:11, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::::Besides the whole weapon thing, people used to wipe their bottoms with the left hand. -] 21:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::Yeah but that was in the days before toilet paper 8-)--] 21:51, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::::::There are many places in the world where toilet paper is not available (or unknown) and the left hand is still used for that purpose. Also, many cultures (eg. India, Sri Lanka) do not generally use eating utensils but eat with their hands. The right hand is always used, even where toilet paper has replaced the left hand in the toilet. Even though their left hands are probably just as clean as their rights, to eat with their left hand is a serious social disaster in those places. For the rest of the world, hand shaking with the right hand has become the accepted tradition, if for no other reason than because for 90% of people the right hand is the dominant hand and this is the most "natural" hand to proffer. But the ] shake with their left hand (or they did back in the Dark Ages when I was a boy scout - but our articles seem to make no mention of this, so I wonder if that is still the case). ] 00:07, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::::Yeah - when I was a ] ten years ago, we were told that we shook hands with the left because in order to do that you had to put down any shield you were holding. Putting down a weapon signified friendship, but lowering your shield whilst allowing the other person to retain their weapon signified trust. --]]] 00:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:First, holding out the right hand indicates you aren\'t holding a weapon (the probable origin of handshaking), and second, the left is the sinister hand, the hand associated with the devil, Judas, sin and evil. Not the hand you want to put forward. :-) ] 00:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:] is Latin for left.--] 00:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::Yeah, but according to Merriam Webster, the English word is derived from the Latin one. ] 00:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Yeah thats what I was pointing out.8-)--] 01:20, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Most people are right-handed. ] 01:17, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:But the more intelligent are left handed 8-))--] 01:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::Do they wipe their backsides with their right hand? ] 01:49, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:::I couldnt say what the majority of the intelligent people do. THey probably have a machine to do it. (I dont have one)--] 01:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::::AHHH! Revelation. Ive just realised where the term '] handed' for LH people comes from!!--] 01:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::Your folk etymology turns out to be spot on. But I could have told you this years ago, if only you'd asked. ] 02:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::::::Heres a LH link --] 02:28, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== Air in the bloodstream ==
Is air in the bloodstream lethal? I mean, what would happen if a person accidently got 1cc of air into their artery via an ] (if the IV was running low and a few air bubbles got into the blood). How would the body get rid of the extra air? I'm asking because I once ALMOST got some air bubbles into my bloodstream when I had an IV in a hospital, and the IV had almost ended and I just noticed at the last minute that there was air in the tube going into my IV site along with the last drops of IV fluid above it.--] 23:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
:As I have understood it, it's not particularly dangerous in small quantities... ] 23:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
::See ] --] 23:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Okay, thankyou for the link to "air embolism". I didn't know what it was called. I found a link on that page to the answer, which is on this website: www.dplylemd.com/Questions/archive/airbubble.htm
--] 23:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
== could the Vatican become part of the EU ==
I was watching CNN.When they talked about the popes trip to turkey.I was just wondering could the vacatcin become part of the EU.i got the idea for that question when i heard something turkey becoming a part of the EU.
:I know of no reason why it couldn't become a member, but the ] has preferred to remain somewhat aloof from most international organisations. For example, it has permanent observer status with the ] but has never been a member. ] 00:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::I doubt the Pope's status as absolute monarch would be compatible with the EU constitution --] 00:21, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:::The Pope is elected. The position isn't passed by family membership like a monarchy... ] ] 03:52, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::::And then there are human rights issues, like using a type of absolute rule (well, it is to true believers) to get people not to use condoms. ] 04:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::::Actually, the pope is an elected ] and the Vatican is a theocratic absolute monarchy. -] 04:38, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== Link problem - webmaster issue ==
I am trying to link to the excellent article at http://en.wikipedia.org/Maison_Carrée, from my site, http://latrouvailledesanilhac.com/region.html. However, the accented 'e' in Carrée is not being read by your (or mine?) server correctly, and, if you go to my site and click on the linked text, "Maison Carrée", you get sent to a error page on wikipedia.
This was done with 'cut & paste' from the page. any idea on how to correct it?
Thanks for the help.
:If you go to the page ], and look at the address bar in your browser, you will see http://en.wikipedia.org/Maison_Carr%C3%A9e (at least that is what I see in my browser). URL's have a limited (defined) set of characters, and anything else must be replaced by hex codes as in that example.
:Please sign your contributions with four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) --] 01:20, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== T-shirt under Buttoned down ==
Why do people wear t-shirts underneath a buttoned down shirt? ] 01:21, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:Men wear ]s to keep their shirt clean by absorbing skin secretions, to make a white shirt appear whiter, to prevent the body from being visible through shirts made of thin material, because sometimes they are more comfortable against the skin than a shirt, and because it shows a lack of good breeding not to do so. -] 01:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:Breeding?? Anyway ]s are for ]s--] 01:33, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::I believe the custom of wearing undershirts (now better known as t-shirts) without a buttoned down shirt began with ]'s performance in '']''. The reverse custom of wearing a button down shirt without an undershirt began nearly two decades earlier with ] in '']''. <font face="Verdana">]<sup>'']]''</sup></font> 01:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:Is a button down shirt the same as a button up shirt?--] 01:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::I assumed that a buttoned down shirt is a shirt that has a button down ] -] 02:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Wait... is the shirt buttoned down or is open with just a shirt underneath. Either way, the answer, like all your style questions, are not known. They are just fads and trends... why do guys have long hair right now? What's with the skater look? Many questions, no real answers. ] 01:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Why? Because I'm generally uncomfortably cold without a flannel shirt on over my t-shirt. <tt>]</tt>|] 02:47, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== Popping collar ==
Why do people "pop their collar"? Do women find this more attractive? ] 01:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:People "pop" their collars because they believe it influences the way other people think about them in a positive manner. No doubt some women find it attractive and others do not. If you are considering "popping" your collar, think about which kind of women you wish to attract. You might also look the phrase up at to see what some other people think about the practice. The average user profile there is likely different from the one here. According to one of them, young men in ] "pop" their collars to hide the ] they got from their fraternity brothers. -] 01:44, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::It is a fashion trend.... it's preppy... it's like ] and ] and ], just some fad. It's just something that we (teenagers) do, we rarely give explanations other than "it looks cool" or "everybody's doin' it." ] 01:47, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:LOL. My first thought was that that was slang for pulling back the foreskin. :) ] 04:20, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::Ah good morning/afternoon/evening Dirk. What an interpretation. You are obviously thinking of the condition known as ]. Get a bag ready!--] 04:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== does any one know of how to start a religion? (or following?) ==
Hello, I want to save the world, I believe I know all of life's' questions (no, really I do)
and I need to shear my ideas with others.
If I start preaching my ideas will I get arrested? (I live in New Zealand)
They are really good ideas and really nice beliefs,
would I get a following?
thank you, much app. {{unsigned|222.155.2.130}}
:You may know all the questions; but do you know the answers? Why not try writing in a paper or magazine first?--] 01:49, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::I agree with LC, but if you have ], ], and ]; then you can start preaching. ] 01:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:See ], ], and ] -] 01:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:Actually these days its probalby better to start your own website for your ideas. They will not stand on WP 8-)--] 02:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
::I do not know about NZ but many countries have a tradition of ]. I do not see why you should not be able to start and if your ideas are good and your delivery is good; why, you might end up with a following. Good luck! I created a religion myself about 35 years ago; ''The Church of the Magnanimous Flow''; my friends got a big kick out of it (especially when we were, well, you know) so there is always that. --] 03:34, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== Music question ==
Does any body here know what a composer of Ragtime or a performer of Ragtime is called. I just have a hard time imagining ''Rager'', ''Ragist'', ''Ragtimer''. This is not a question that must be answered ASAP...I am just curious.__] ] 04:34, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:"Ragtimer" is indeed the informal designation. -] 04:46, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
== mordern day philsophers ==
What do news commentators like Bill O`Reilly,Sean Hannity,Tucker Carlson etc. have if anything in common with the philsophers of the anicent world.
== how do i report inapropriate items posted? ==
I was looking at the naruto episode list and someone wrote innapropriate items in it (sexual in nature). Since I'm not a member I was wondering who to talk/to write to directly. Here is the link to the abuse
The best answers address the question directly, and back up facts with wikilinks and links to sources. Do not edit others' comments and do not give any medical or legal advice.
What is it like for mental health clients to live in group homes? What is paid out-of-pocket? What is paid by insurance?
As a diagnosee of schizotypal personality disorder and other disorders, and being thought to still be on the Autistic Spectrum by some therapists despite a rediagnosis to the above disorder, is there a group home near or in Hutchinson, KS for anyone with my types of disorders?
I hope to no longer have to pay $450/month in rent and over $100/month in energy bills as well as $70/month in Cox internet at 1 GBPs if I move into a group home and have health insurance pay for it all.
I would only intend to live there until all of my debts are paid off and once I have substantial investments saved up, including dividend stocks so I can live off of a passive income that pays for basic living expenses in a normal residence again.
The only people who could possibly answer this are KanCare Sunflower health insurance. Look at the terms of your agreement or ask them directly on their help line. Shantavira|09:56, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
December 12
How to revert a company
I received an unsolicited email soliciting a contribution to an upcoming issue of a biomedical journal. My contribution, they assured me, coming from an eminent researcher like me, would greatly enhance the quality of said issue. This may well be true, but, since my knowledge of biomedical issues has largely been formed by doing research to answer questions at the Reference desk, this does not bode well for the quality of this issue, even with my eminent contribution. I don't want my name to be associated with low-quality journals, so I'll refrain from contributing.
The email states at the bottom, in fine greyish print,
BioMed Grid LLC, California, USA. If you do not wish to receive this email, revert us.
I indeed do not wish to receive this email and would like to unreceive it. But I can't figure out how to revert this company. Can anyone help me? (There are some more companies I'd also like to revert.) --Lambiam09:19, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
But is it? I'd never seen this before. Our article on the journal states that the publisher, Biomedgrid LLC, was first registered in California in 2018 by Sasidhar Vontethina and Sushma Manchikanti, both Indian (more specifically Telugu) names. --Lambiam08:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
I also question this. I'd be befuddled if I was asked to revert a company. But then, I always wince when I hear "write me" rather than "write to me" (other than "write me a letter"). -- Jack of Oz19:27, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
What are similarities and differences between LUFS meter (especially momentary) and Audiosurf's audio analysis algorithm (when comes to how tracks are colored in particular way depending on the song intensity)? Considering the color (when "fancy coloring" mode is enabled) of momentary LUFS bar on my own multichannel peakmeter when fed with the same song as the video, lines up with the color of the blocks and the tracks on this video and/or this sometimes and at other times, it doesn't line up assuming they somehow sync with the video. 2001:448A:3070:DCCD:D862:849B:9C69:6E43 (talk) 03:43, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
The article about the Audiosurf game tells that the game engine analyzes an imported song to create and save its dynamics in an ASH file. Reverse engineering these files to extract the generating algorithms is research that is beyond anyone here. This is proprietary information that the game creator Dylan Fitterer may choose to withold. Already as you look for correlation between your objective LUFS detector and the game screen, bear in mind that where the object of Audiosurf is more to entertain than analytical logging, some degree of randomity may be deliberately included. Philvoids (talk) 16:32, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
The word "meta" means “beyond” and “about”. The word “physics” means “nature”. Therefore, metaphysics can be regarded as the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality and existence. Stanleykswong (talk) 06:45, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
Των μετά τα φυσικάThe Ancient Greek preposition μετά also means "next, after". It is generally thought that the title of Aristotle's book Των μετά τα φυσικά (Tōn metá ta phusiká), "Of the things after Physica", the etymon of our term metaphysics, was given to it (not by Aristotle but by the editor) simply because it was the next book in series, following Aristotle's book Physica, "Natural phenomena". --Lambiam11:22, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
December 16
My habit of feature requests scared a developer?
Reading these posts (this and this) on a thread about foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer in HydrogenAudio forum about my doings that "scared" off a developer of foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer and foo_loudness_peakmeter components for foobar2000 player and yet, the developer of a spectrum analyzer plugin for MusicBee did implement my feature requests into this plugin despite I've not have written fanon wiki pages about future version of CoolEdit Nostalgia (like I did this and this before). So, why would they? 2001:448A:3070:EA0F:F1A2:31A3:43A5:587B (talk) 18:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
I don't understand finance, so I thought I'd ask. If I buy a futures contract for say a ton of corn at a specific price, and I hold it until the delivery date, will someone literally deliver a ton of corn to me? Thanks. Therapyisgood (talk) 00:04, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
The contract is likely to read "FOB Kansas City," or something like that. You'll probably have to move it from whatever transportation it is on (train, ship) yourself. Or, arrange (pay for) delivery. DOR (ex-HK) (talk) 01:38, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
At the delivery date, the current buyer will have become the proud owner of a ton of corn somewhere. The identity of the buyer of the contract almost always changes, so the seller drawing up the contract does not know the identity of the eventual buyer at the delivery date. Therefore, wherever the "somewhere" may be, you as the buyer can be reasonably sure it will not be delivered to your doorstep. --Lambiam09:54, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Oil futures have even been known to have a negative price, when the producers' local storage was full and demand was low. At that point the buyer of the contract is being paid to take it away. --Amble (talk) 20:30, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
True, but this depends on both parties agreeing to a new or modified contract. If the buyer does the unexpected and just sits it out, as suggested in the original question, and also does not agree to a new contract, the seller is obligated to produce the asset to the buyer, even if this means they need to go and buy it on the market. --Lambiam10:58, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
Yes, a futures contract is ultimately for purposes of delivery of the specified contract in accordance with its terms. A standard corn futures contract is for 5000 bushels (although there is also a mini corn future for only 1000 bushels). A bushel of corn (maize) weighs 56 pounds, so at settlement the buyer owns 140 tons of corn (or, for a mini corn future, 28 tons).
When asked "WHO IS YOUR X?" (X still being unknown to me but is known to the respondents), here are the answers I get:
A answers: "A"
B answers: "C"
C answers: "C"
D answers: "F"
E answers: "F"
F answers: "F"
To sum up, the special phenomenon here is that, everybody has their own X (usually), and if any respondent points at another respondent as the first respondent's X, then the other respondent must point at themself as their X.
I wonder who the unknown X may be, when I only know that X is a natural example from everyday life. I thought about a couple of examples, but none of them are satisfactory, as follows:
X is the leader of one's political party, or X is one's mayor, and the like, but all of these examples attribute some kind of leadership or superiority to X, whereas I'm not interested in this kind of solution - involving any superiority of X.
Here is a second solution I thought about: X is the first (or last) person born in the year/month the respondent was born, and the like. But this solution involves some kind of order (in which there is a "first person" and a "last person"), whereas I'm not interested in this kind of solution - involving any order. 79.177.151.182 (talk) 12:11, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
I mean that everybody has their own X (usually), whether X is one's mayor, or X is the leader of one's political party, and so forth. Additionally, keep in mind that if any respondent points at another respondent as the first respondent's X, then the other respondent must point at themself as their X. 79.177.151.182 (talk) 15:21, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
X is the usual symbol denoting an unknown (as in mathematical equations), but here the unknown is a person, like "a mayor", and the like. 79.177.151.182 (talk) 15:42, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
There are too many possible answers that still don't involve order or superiority.
- Translator
- Publisher
- Spokesperson
- Copyeditor
- Cleaner
- Keyholder (person who closes a shop and responsible for turning up in cases of property related emergencies - sometimes it's a manager but sometimes it's merely someone who is willing to stay late or be early)
- Scribe
- Accountant
- Driver
Basically anything where there's a "role" in a group but usually only one (barring circumstances).
I don't believe it. A publisher doesn't have necessarily a publisher, because it normally is not an author. A keyholder could be a trusted neighbour,who doesn't work at the shop and is therefore not its own keyholder (at least in relation to the shop). Of course in relation to its own living quarters mostly everybody is a keyholder, but that was not part of the definition. Even a translator doesn't translate itself when it expresses itself in the foreign language. At least not necessarily. Even a cleaner doesn't necessarily cleans up after itself. I know one! Personally!
So this is interesting linguistically and socially - the use of the word "usually" lets in a lot of the examples given, at least in some societies. However mathematically you are looking for something impossible. Lets assume that everyone has an X (or equivalently ignore those people without an X, who are also no-one's X). The relation partitions the set into subsets (i.e. the subsets include all the elements, and each element is in one and only one subset). Each subset has one self-X call it C for centre, and all the other elements (0 or more of them) point to C. Example, whole numbers under the relation "what is the remainder if you are divided by 5". 5 subsets with C=0, 1, 2, 3, 4. In every case there is a "privileged" centre, whether it would be considered superior, inferior or just special is open to interpretation. You can only have no centres in the case where there are no elements at all. All the best: RichFarmbrough21:07, 20 December 2024 (UTC).
Street View
Why Googlehas not launched Street View in mainland China? There do exist several user-submitted photos, mostly from landmarks and historical cities, but why Google cars have not traveled there yet? How likely is that in 2034, mainland China will have photos by Google cars if Street view is launched there?
And, why South Korea, a country with a large economy and almost no bans, still has large unphotographed areas with most minor cities and major freeways are not photographed entirely? And could North Korea ever get Street View by Google cars? --40bus (talk) 17:54, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
My dream would be every country in the world having full coverage. Is that likely in next 20 years? At least Belarus's lack of Street View should be corrected. I would like to see views from every country. --40bus (talk) 06:21, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
Though a multinational, Google is at base an American company, or at least is perceived as such.
Think about the political tensions between the Peoples Republic of China, and the West in general and the USA in particular. Now ask yourself – how might the Government of China feel about American-controlled spy-cars driving around the whole of China, photographing everything visible? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.223.204 (talk) 20:51, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
That is (obviously) not the reason; your tin foil hat is malfunctioning. The USA does not require something as lowtech as a 360 camera mounted on a car to drive through an area to spy on that area. The reason is that Google does not want to waste its money. And China has a habit of creating local state-owned alternatives to foreign services, allowing those to rip off the foreign tech, and then massively disadvantaging the foreign company. They have done this many times before. Polygnotus (talk) 01:10, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
I'm not suggesting that the US would want (or need) to do this. I'm asking how the Chinese Government would welcome the appearance of it, particularly in the perception of their own people. International relations and management of internal perceptions are all about opinions, beliefs, and what can be spun, regardless of truth.
Recently, in my own country, Chinese visitors and personnel from an ostensible language school fomented a totally spurious 'incident' at a London railway terminus, by approaching a well-known busker and YouTuber filming his and others' performances on a public piano, and then insisting that he stop filming, complaining to police present that he was violating their rights by filming them. This was not done for any valid reason, but (presumably) to try to manipulate public opinion within China, and create a spurious 'grievance' to use in diplomatic discussions. Such games go on all the time. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.223.204 (talk) 01:36, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
I'm asking how the Chinese Government would welcome the appearance of it I have answered the original question; please don't hijack this thread to ask a vaguely related question and then bring up unrelated stuff (which was not recent but a year ago, and a storm in a teacup, and your conspiracy theory is not supported by evidence). There are plenty of diplomatic incidents between China and the UK; neither side has a need to manufacture one. If you want to ask a new question, please post it in a new section. Thank you, Polygnotus (talk) 01:44, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for proving my point. The CCP killed insane numbers of people through brutality and incompetence. But we should still call out tin foil conspiracy nonsense. The idea that all conspiracies about the "other" must be true, just because we don't like them, is a very very dangerous one. Just like the idea that everyone who points out that some conspiracies about the "other" are false must be an "other". Polygnotus (talk) 12:07, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
Relations between Google and the Chinese government have been difficult for years. China wants its citizens to see only a censored version of the internet, requiring Google to filter results from its search engine. In case of Street View, the Chinese government is concerned about what their own citizens can see (and I suppose they also want to know who views which streets). Google isn't very eager to comply with all China's request, as that could be quite expensive and bad for their image in less authoritarian states. PiusImpavidus (talk) 19:44, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
40bus, it is not based in the UK despite its British sounding name. The Encyclopaedia Britannica has been published in the United States since 1901. That's two years before the first human piloted airplane flight. Cullen328 (talk) 07:57, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
Why it is not based in the UK? And if it is read and edited by people in metric countries, why many of its articles use imperial units first? It even uses British English spelling. And are there any similar UK-based online encyclopedias? --40bus (talk) 08:36, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
Are there any web pages from late 1980s and early 1990s that are still in their original address, rather than on Internet Archive? Was it common for a company or person to have website in early 1990s? --40bus (talk) 07:53, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
We have a List of websites founded before 1995. The IN2P3 site from 1992 can still be visited, where you may enjoy seeing the French National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics's contact details, a small picture of the building, and five hyperlinks. The article says there were 2,879 websites established before 1995, so no, it wasn't common. Card Zero (talk)09:19, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
Were there any websites around in 1990? This year feels still relatively recent. And are there any saved TV broadcasts from that time in the web, from any country? --40bus (talk) 11:47, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
Fred, know Rudy Giuliani's father, who is said to have been a mob contract killer? I'm asking because I've heard rumors somewhere that both Donald and Fred had mob contacts in New York City.Rich (talk) 22:43, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
"Said to have been"; is there a reliable source that claims this? It has also been said that Donald Trump is a shape shifting lizard. Harold Giuliani was at the bottom of the low end of shady dealings in the Italian immigrant community. It seems extremely unlikely that Fred Trump, a high-profile successful real-estate developer from the German immigrant community, would have a reason to meet him. --Lambiam10:38, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
The OP did not ask whether it was plausible but whether it was true. Even if the mob contract killer story should prove more than randomly created innuendo, there is still nothing to suggest the two fathers ever met. The suggested mob contacts would not make this more likely than two random New Yorkers (like Henri who sometimes ordered pizza and Freddy who sometimes delivered pizza) knowing each other. It is very difficult to prove a negative, but the question implied the OP thought it was at least plausible, which, as I tried to point out, it is not. --Lambiam01:09, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
I did not dispute the rumours exist, but IMO they are irrelevant to the question whether the two fathers knew each other, so I ignored them. --Lambiam01:09, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for finding this, Polygnotus. But are you sure Rudy would have mentioned it in his eulogy, being possibly embarrassed about his father's occupation? And mentioning an acquaintance with his father would not make Fred seem more illustrious, which eulogies are meant to do. Rich (talk) 19:03, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
I want to add an article for a place in delhi cantonment. However, i am unsure about the relevant Misplaced Pages policies on this topic. I tried searching on DuckDuckGo to no avail And the results of Misplaced Pages search gave unrelated things. What are the relevant policies? KhubsuratInsaan (talk) 11:16, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
You may find this guide a good starting point. Be sure in particular to study the section on notability. You may also want to look up articles about similar places (if those articles exist) and review them to get a sense of what does and does not go into such an article.
It looks like you're new to Misplaced Pages. (Welcome!) You may find it easier to write an article from scratch and get it past article review or new pages patrol if you spend some time here first editing other pages and getting to understand the culture. That's not a strict requirement, just something a lot of people benefit from when they first arrive! -- Avocado (talk) 14:28, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
I was looking at Classification of Indian cities. In tier Y, there are more than 100 cities listed. But in the reference given there are only 88. I even looked what appears to be official website, there's no new circular of new list. Are there any other circulars or should I just remove extra cities. Also, as my main purpose to look for a tier classification, was to use it as approximation for urban (Tier X and Y) and rural districts (Tier Z). Is there any other department which does this kind of classification, please let me know. -- Parnaval (talk) 17:13, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
Resolved 79.177.151.182 (talk) 15:42, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
