A dehumidifier removes moisture from the air. Moisture in air is also heat (latent heat). Even though it does not lower the temperature in the room, it still removes this latent heat.
Now the window AC not only also removes moisture from the air like a dehumidifier (see the condensate dripping out of the unit?), it also lowers the temperature of the air (sensible heat)
Bottom line: Using a dehumidifier and an AC at the same time only makes sense if the air is very humid and the capacity of the AC isnt enough to make you comfortable.
On the other hand, having an AC that is WAY to large will actually increase the humidity in the room, because it cooled the air so fast, that it didnt run long enough to condense much moisture out of the air. The result can be the moisture condensing on surfaces in the room (bad, very bad) and you feel clammy becuase sweating doesnt help either, because the relative humidity in the room is close to 100%.
You can have your negative feedback removed as part of an arbitration process, IF both parties agree and pay $20.
Q. What circumstances will eBay will consider removing Feedback?
A. In limited situations eBay may remove feedback without a ruling or settlement agreement from SquareTrade. See eBay's Feedback Removal Policy for more information.
eBay will remove feedback after filing a case with SquareTrade in two situations.
1) Feedback can be removed after you file a case with SquareTrade and there is no response to your case filing if:
-At least 14 days have passed since you filed your case; -The feedback was left less than 90 days prior to this case filing; -All necessary case notices were sent to the respondent and SquareTrade received no response either online or by email; -Filer used the same item # and eBay IDs as recorded in the feedback record (note that a separate case must be filed for each item #); and -The item bought or sold must not violate the marketplace policy.
2) Feedback can be removed after you file a case with SquareTrade and receive a response from the other party if:
-You have obtained the help of a SquareTrade Mediator; -Both parties agree to the removal in a Settlement Agreement; -The item bought or sold must not violate eBay marketplace policy; and -All other terms of the mediated settlement have been completed.
{Note: there is no time limit to resolving problems - feedback can be removed through mediation even if more than 90 days has passed.
Being able to break apart the blister packs they're usually on also makes it much more convenient to pocket doses when going out and what not.
Actually you would be in violation of federal law if you were to carry around medication like that, because it is not in its labelled container. Many people that carry their daily dose of pills around in pill organizers aren't even aware of that. Usually its no big deal, but it can get you busted big time.
I don't understand why in the US pharmacists need to fill bottles. It seems such a waste of time, and would seem to increase the cost of medication dramatically.
It would be much easier to have them prepackaged at the manufacturer, so the pharmacist simply reaches in the shelf and grabs the prepackaged box of whatever the doctor prescribed.
Not really an issue. The gas (Freon) stays in the refrigerator and is not consumed in any way.
It can only escape if the refrigerator develops a leak, and then it usually only a pound or so.
Thats nothing compared to the days when a can of hairspray or deodorant contained about the same amount of Freon and millions of pounds where vented daily by people trying to look and smell good.
Also, the refrigerant can be recovered and recycled when the old refrigerator is being disposed of.
Get a Tivo and install a Tivonet
Install TivoWeb so you can programm the Tivo via the internet, and locate some video extractions software.
Don't get a Tivo Satellite combo, get a standalone unit so you can tell it to record in low quality (VHS quality), an hour of video is about a gigabyte.
Download the video over the net, or have your buddy burn them onto CD and mail them to you.
There are PAL and NTSC DVDs. If you play them on a computer, it really doesn't matter (exept PAL has 25 frames / sec and higher resolution, NTSC has 29.97 fps and a lower resolution)
There are players, that can play PAL DVDs on NTSC Tvs and vica versa, but that is not a given.
Federal and many state forfeiture laws empower overnments to take people's private property without ever charging a crime. Legally, the property is accused of a crime, not the owner. Lawyers call that in rem -- Latin for "against the thing.
This is why forfeiture cases often have peculiar titles such as "U.S. v. 1960 bags of coffee," U.S. vs. $2,452, "U.S. vs. 9.6 acres of land and lake," or "U.S. vs. 667 bottles of wine." And since the Bill of Rights recognizes the rights only of citizens and state governments, not the rights of chunks of land or bottles of wine, there are almost no due process restrictions on government's attacks on property.
Between 1985 and 1995, the federal government through the Departments of Justice and Treasury, has seized over $4,000,000,000.00 (4 billion) from U.S. citizens, many of whom have never even been charged with a crime. In a single year, fiscal year 1994, the DEA alone made 13,631 seizures with a total value of $646,786,850.00.
ExtractStream doesn't seem to work on Tivo3.0 and by the looks of the page hasn't been updated for a year. I tried it the other night on Tivo3.0-01-00 series 1, it couldn't even display the "Now Showing" list.
I wonder if my tivo knows this. My 3.0 seems to be doing it. I did have to change one file in the tivoweb software to get "now showing".
DD: Realize there is tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market. SD: Realize there is tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
DD: Job is assisted by the industry's producing of newer, more potent mixes. SD: Job is assisted by the industry's producing of newer, faster machines.
DD: Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers. SD: Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists.
DD: Their product causes unhealthy addictions. SD: Doom, Quake, SimCity, Duke NukeEm 3D, 'Nuff said?
DD: Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you. SD: Drats! Drats! Drats! Drats!
Re:The Physics of Santa Claus (Santa's Rebuttal )
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Santa's Rebuttal
NORTH POLE, SANTA'S VILLAGE - For Immediate Release
It has come to the attention of Santa's workshop that there have been disparaging remarks made in the press recently about Santa's very existence. Several key points are overlooked by this callous, amateurish, so-called study.
As was admitted by the skeptics, there is only a very small probability of finding a flying reindeer. That is precisely because they are all located at the Workshop. Your very argument against Santa is proof of his existence! As is widely known (Re: the excellent historical documentaries "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") the flying reindeer are not a separate species, but were in fact given the power of flight due to eating magic acorns, which is passed on in their offspring.
A series of cascading assumptions have been relied upon to show the "impossibility" of delivering all presents in one Christmas. For example, there was assumed a uniform distribution of children across homes. Toronto/Yorkville, or NYC/SOHO, or other yuppie neighborhoods, have less than the average (and don't forget the DINK/SINK homes (Double Income No Kids, Single Income No Kids)), while the Catholic (the predominant Christian denomination) families with 10 children would skew that derived 15% of homes down a few percent.
You've also assumed that each home that has kids would have at least one good kid. Let us assure you that anti-selection applies, and homes with good kids tend to have more than their share of good kids? Still other single-child homes are notorious for spoiled "naughty" children and average 55% delivery on a good year. Let's drop that number of homes down a few more percent.
A simple history lesson reminds us that, the first major schism in the Church split the Eastern Churches, centered in Byzantium, from the Western, which remained centered in Rome, prior to the Gregorian correction to the Julian calendar. The Eastern "Orthodox" Churches do not recognize the Gregorian correction for liturgical events, and their Christmas is, as a result, several days after that of the Western Churches'. Thus, Santa's schedule is not as tight as previously indicated.
Santa does indeed FedEx a number of packages ahead of time, since he is not be able to fly into Air Force Bases, or into tower- controlled areas near airports. He's certainly not into dodging SCUD missiles over the no-fly zones in Iraq, so he uses DHL there. Subtract some more homes.
In regards to speed and time, we can't reveal all the details, but let us remind you of basic relativity theory: The faster you go, the slower time progresses. Do you think StarTrek came up with the idea of warp drive? So, if Santa could go faster than light, then he can easily visit all the good children which are not uniformly distributed by either concentration in each home or by number of children per household, and get home before he left so he can digest all those stale cookies and warm milk. (Has anyone thought of ice cubes?)
Aha, you say, Enterprise has matter-antimatter warp engines, Santa only has reindeer, where does he get the power to move that fast? The answer is right before your skeptical eyes! The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy. Per second. Each. This is an ample supply of energy for the maneuvering, acceleration, etc., that would be required of the loaded sleigh. The reindeer don't evaporate or incinerate or get crushed because of this energy; they accelerate! What do you think they have antlers for, fighting over females? Think of antlers as furry shield generator arrays.
The issue of weight constraints and delivery methods also shows a shocking lack of knowledge of basic matter/energy relations and beginning quantum physics. (Picture a two dimensional complex function mapped to the surface of a sphere with approximately 9000 nodal surfaces, and 18 million regions of relatively high amplitude.) Assuming this is getting way ahead of most people's conceptual limits, we'll just say that Captain Kirk wasn't the first to say "beam me down." Transporters, replicators, and holo-projections have been standard equipment in some workshops and certain aerospace vehicle way before the 24th century.
If that's not enough, watch the news on the 24th at 11 o'clock. NORAD (one of the few government agencies with more than 3 initials in it's name and therefore more trustworthy than the rest) tracks Santa every year and displays radar shots of him approaching from the North Pole. They haven't bombarded him yet, so they must believe too, right?
We certainly hope this clears up any damage caused by the bad press. Santa dead, indeed--some people will twist any statistic model to "prove" their cynical theory.
The god damn SSN isn't used properly (my fucking video store demanded I give them my SSN or I could walk out the door w/o a membership
I'll bet you did not have to show your SS card to the clerk. Few people ever ask to see an SSN card; they believe whatever you say.
If someone absolutely insists on getting your Social Security Number, you may want to give a fake number. There are legal penalties for providing a false number when you expect to gain some benefit from it. For example, a federal court of appeals ruled that using a false SSN to get a Driver's License violates federal law.
Making a 9-digit number up at random is a bad idea, as it may coincide with someone's real number and cause them some amount of grief. It's better to use a number like 078-05-1120, which was printed on "sample" cards inserted in thousands of new wallets sold in the 40's and 50's. It's been used so widely that both the IRS and SSA recognize it immediately as bogus, while most clerks haven't heard of it. There were at least 40 different people in the Selective Service database at one point who gave this number as their SSN. The Social Security Administration recommends that people showing Social Security cards in advertisements use numbers in the range 987-65-4320 through 987-65-4329.
There are several patterns that have never been assigned, and which therefore don't conflict with anyone's real number. They include numbers with any field all zeroes, and numbers with a first digit of 8 or 9.
Follow this link to see more details on the structure of SSNs and how they are assigned.
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A ham operator has built a voice powered radio and has made several long distance contacts with it.
Details are here
Wasn't that Net2Phone?
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w ww.net2phone.com/
Here is the companys timeline. http://web.net2phone.com/about/company/timeline.a
And here is the archive of their website from february 1997 http://web.archive.org/web/19970205073734/http://
From bash.org Quote #6618
Jon^D: I had to cat 8-9 seperate quote files, compare each line in each of them to make sure there weren't any duplicates then sort
Jon^D: I wrote a nasty perl script to get it done
Jon^D: and it didn't work very well
skank: cat quote*.txt |sort |uniq
Try JOrbis, the pure java Ogg Vorbis decoder as an applet.
"His job is to assume the worst scenario and act accordingly."
To assume Iraq had WMD and act accordingly?
Coming soon: Microsoft will buy Domino's Pizza and will include MS-Pizza in their new OS.
If it moves, tax it.
If it still moves, regulate it.
If it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
Do they have a patent on this?
Allow me to add to this:
A dehumidifier removes moisture from the air. Moisture in air is also heat (latent heat). Even though it does not lower the temperature in the room, it still removes this latent heat.
Now the window AC not only also removes moisture from the air like a dehumidifier (see the condensate dripping out of the unit?), it also lowers the temperature of the air (sensible heat)
Bottom line: Using a dehumidifier and an AC at the same time only makes sense if the air is very humid and the capacity of the AC isnt enough to make you comfortable.
On the other hand, having an AC that is WAY to large will actually increase the humidity in the room, because it cooled the air so fast, that it didnt run long enough to condense much moisture out of the air. The result can be the moisture condensing on surfaces in the room (bad, very bad) and you feel clammy becuase sweating doesnt help either, because the relative humidity in the room is close to 100%.
Are the ones in Europe new, or just reprinted?
I am not an expert, I enjoy reading them. I am certain they are new, drawn by italian and/or spanish artists.
This may be slightly offtopic, but I have been wondering, why there are no more Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck comics in the US?
They still seemt to be very widespread in Europe, but I can't recall seeing any in the US recently.
From: Squaretrade
You can have your negative feedback removed as part of an arbitration process, IF both parties agree and pay $20.
Q. What circumstances will eBay will consider removing Feedback?
A. In limited situations eBay may remove feedback without a ruling or settlement agreement from SquareTrade. See eBay's Feedback Removal Policy for more information.
eBay will remove feedback after filing a case with SquareTrade in two situations.
1) Feedback can be removed after you file a case with SquareTrade and there is no response to your case filing if:
-At least 14 days have passed since you filed your case;
-The feedback was left less than 90 days prior to this case filing;
-All necessary case notices were sent to the respondent and SquareTrade received no response either online or by email;
-Filer used the same item # and eBay IDs as recorded in the feedback record (note that a separate case must be filed for each item #); and
-The item bought or sold must not violate the marketplace policy.
2) Feedback can be removed after you file a case with SquareTrade and receive a response from the other party if:
-You have obtained the help of a SquareTrade Mediator;
-Both parties agree to the removal in a Settlement Agreement;
-The item bought or sold must not violate eBay marketplace policy; and
-All other terms of the mediated settlement have been completed.
{Note: there is no time limit to resolving problems - feedback can be removed through mediation even if more than 90 days has passed.
From the Article...
To protect drivers' privacy, using the system to track cars in real time would be illegal.
Right. Just like social security numbers weren't supposed to be used for identification purposes.
Being able to break apart the blister packs they're usually on also makes it much more convenient to pocket doses when going out and what not.
Actually you would be in violation of federal law if you were to carry around medication like that, because it is not in its labelled container. Many people that carry their daily dose of pills around in pill organizers aren't even aware of that. Usually its no big deal, but it can get you busted big time.
I don't understand why in the US pharmacists need to fill bottles. It seems such a waste of time, and would seem to increase the cost of medication dramatically.
It would be much easier to have them prepackaged at the manufacturer, so the pharmacist simply reaches in the shelf and grabs the prepackaged box of whatever the doctor prescribed.
No, not CFCs - other greenhouse producing gases.
Not really an issue. The gas (Freon) stays in the refrigerator and is not consumed in any way.
It can only escape if the refrigerator develops a leak, and then it usually only a pound or so.
Thats nothing compared to the days when a can of hairspray or deodorant contained about the same amount of Freon and millions of pounds where vented daily by people trying to look and smell good.
Also, the refrigerant can be recovered and recycled when the old refrigerator is being disposed of.
Get a Tivo and install a Tivonet Install TivoWeb so you can programm the Tivo via the internet, and locate some video extractions software.
Don't get a Tivo Satellite combo, get a standalone unit so you can tell it to record in low quality (VHS quality), an hour of video is about a gigabyte.
Download the video over the net, or have your buddy burn them onto CD and mail them to you.
Sir, you are mistaken.
I used to believe that too.
There are PAL and NTSC DVDs. If you play them on a computer, it really doesn't matter (exept PAL has 25 frames / sec and higher resolution, NTSC has 29.97 fps and a lower resolution)
There are players, that can play PAL DVDs on NTSC Tvs and vica versa, but that is not a given.
Would it be cool to get "First Post!" on the Disk?
Federal and many state forfeiture laws empower overnments to take people's private property without ever charging a crime. Legally, the property is accused of a crime, not the owner. Lawyers call that in rem -- Latin for "against the thing.
This is why forfeiture cases often have peculiar titles such as "U.S. v. 1960 bags of coffee," U.S. vs. $2,452, "U.S. vs. 9.6 acres of land and lake," or "U.S. vs. 667 bottles of wine." And since the Bill of Rights recognizes the rights only of citizens and state governments, not the rights of chunks of land or bottles of wine, there are almost no due process restrictions on government's attacks on property.
Between 1985 and 1995, the federal government through the Departments of Justice and Treasury, has seized over $4,000,000,000.00 (4 billion) from U.S. citizens, many of whom have never even been charged with a crime. In a single year, fiscal year 1994, the DEA alone made 13,631 seizures with a total value of $646,786,850.00.
ExtractStream doesn't seem to work on Tivo3.0 and by the looks of the page hasn't been updated for a year. I tried it the other night on Tivo3.0-01-00 series 1, it couldn't even display the "Now Showing" list.
I wonder if my tivo knows this. My 3.0 seems to be doing it. I did have to change one file in the tivoweb software to get "now showing".
Drug dealers: Refer to their clients as "users"
Software developers: Refer to their clients as "users"
DD: "The first one's free!"
SD: "Download a free trial version..."
DD: Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff).
SD: Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code).
DD: Strange jargon (Stick, Rock, Dime Bag, E)
SD: Strange jargon (SCSI, RTFM, Java, DSL)
DD: Realize there is tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
SD: Realize there is tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
DD: Job is assisted by the industry's producing of newer, more potent mixes.
SD: Job is assisted by the industry's producing of newer, faster machines.
DD: Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers.
SD: Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists.
DD: Their product causes unhealthy addictions.
SD: Doom, Quake, SimCity, Duke NukeEm 3D, 'Nuff said?
DD: Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.
SD: Drats! Drats! Drats! Drats!
Santa's Rebuttal
NORTH POLE, SANTA'S VILLAGE - For Immediate Release
It has come to the attention of Santa's workshop that there have been disparaging remarks made in the press recently about Santa's very existence. Several key points are overlooked by this callous, amateurish, so-called study.
As was admitted by the skeptics, there is only a very small probability of finding a flying reindeer. That is precisely because they are all located at the Workshop. Your very argument against Santa is proof of his existence! As is widely known (Re: the excellent historical documentaries "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") the flying reindeer are not a separate species, but were in fact given the power of flight due to eating magic acorns, which is passed on in their offspring.
A series of cascading assumptions have been relied upon to show the "impossibility" of delivering all presents in one Christmas. For example, there was assumed a uniform distribution of children across homes. Toronto/Yorkville, or NYC/SOHO, or other yuppie neighborhoods, have less than the average (and don't forget the DINK/SINK homes (Double Income No Kids, Single Income No Kids)), while the Catholic (the predominant Christian denomination) families with 10 children would skew that derived 15% of homes down a few percent.
You've also assumed that each home that has kids would have at least one good kid. Let us assure you that anti-selection applies, and homes with good kids tend to have more than their share of good kids? Still other single-child homes are notorious for spoiled "naughty" children and average 55% delivery on a good year. Let's drop that number of homes down a few more percent.
A simple history lesson reminds us that, the first major schism in the Church split the Eastern Churches, centered in Byzantium, from the Western, which remained centered in Rome, prior to the Gregorian correction to the Julian calendar. The Eastern "Orthodox" Churches do not recognize the Gregorian correction for liturgical events, and their Christmas is, as a result, several days after that of the Western Churches'. Thus, Santa's schedule is not as tight as previously indicated.
Santa does indeed FedEx a number of packages ahead of time, since he is not be able to fly into Air Force Bases, or into tower- controlled areas near airports. He's certainly not into dodging SCUD missiles over the no-fly zones in Iraq, so he uses DHL there. Subtract some more homes.
In regards to speed and time, we can't reveal all the details, but let us remind you of basic relativity theory: The faster you go, the slower time progresses. Do you think StarTrek came up with the idea of warp drive? So, if Santa could go faster than light, then he can easily visit all the good children which are not uniformly distributed by either concentration in each home or by number of children per household, and get home before he left so he can digest all those stale cookies and warm milk. (Has anyone thought of ice cubes?)
Aha, you say, Enterprise has matter-antimatter warp engines, Santa only has reindeer, where does he get the power to move that fast? The answer is right before your skeptical eyes! The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy. Per second. Each. This is an ample supply of energy for the maneuvering, acceleration, etc., that would be required of the loaded sleigh. The reindeer don't evaporate or incinerate or get crushed because of this energy; they accelerate! What do you think they have antlers for, fighting over females? Think of antlers as furry shield generator arrays.
The issue of weight constraints and delivery methods also shows a shocking lack of knowledge of basic matter/energy relations and beginning quantum physics. (Picture a two dimensional complex function mapped to the surface of a sphere with approximately 9000 nodal surfaces, and 18 million regions of relatively high amplitude.) Assuming this is getting way ahead of most people's conceptual limits, we'll just say that Captain Kirk wasn't the first to say "beam me down." Transporters, replicators, and holo-projections have been standard equipment in some workshops and certain aerospace vehicle way before the 24th century.
If that's not enough, watch the news on the 24th at 11 o'clock. NORAD (one of the few government agencies with more than 3 initials in it's name and therefore more trustworthy than the rest) tracks Santa every year and displays radar shots of him approaching from the North Pole. They haven't bombarded him yet, so they must believe too, right?
We certainly hope this clears up any damage caused by the bad press. Santa dead, indeed--some people will twist any statistic model to "prove" their cynical theory.
This just goes to show you, that if you don't want to get sued, you should host your website in russia or some other country.
I'll bet you did not have to show your SS card to the clerk. Few people ever ask to see an SSN card; they believe whatever you say.
If someone absolutely insists on getting your Social Security Number, you may want to give a fake number. There are legal penalties for providing a false number when you expect to gain some benefit from it. For example, a federal court of appeals ruled that using a false SSN to get a Driver's License violates federal law.
Making a 9-digit number up at random is a bad idea, as it may coincide with someone's real number and cause them some amount of grief. It's better to use a number like 078-05-1120, which was printed on "sample" cards inserted in thousands of new wallets sold in the 40's and 50's. It's been used so widely that both the IRS and SSA recognize it immediately as bogus, while most clerks haven't heard of it. There were at least 40 different people in the Selective Service database at one point who gave this number as their SSN. The Social Security Administration recommends that people showing Social Security cards in advertisements use numbers in the range 987-65-4320 through 987-65-4329.
There are several patterns that have never been assigned, and which therefore don't conflict with anyone's real number. They include numbers with any field all zeroes, and numbers with a first digit of 8 or 9.
Follow this link to see more details on the structure of SSNs and how they are assigned.