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ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
October 01 2015 00:02 GMT
#7041
On October 01 2015 08:28 riotjune wrote:
Switch broke and stuck at on permanently, so I unscrewed the bulb HOT HOT HOT

Should still probably call an electrician or do some youtubing for a solution to that problem. Call me paranoid but my nieghbors house burned down because of shoddy wiring in a hardwired doorbell.
whatisthisasheep
Profile Joined April 2015
624 Posts
October 01 2015 00:08 GMT
#7042
I do American businesses market promote products that are highly addicting when the products sell themselves? You don't really need to launch a campaign to get people to have beer, drink soda, smoke cigarettes, buy over the counter drugs, etc.

User was banned for this post.
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riotjune
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States3394 Posts
October 01 2015 00:15 GMT
#7043
On October 01 2015 09:02 ThomasjServo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 01 2015 08:28 riotjune wrote:
Switch broke and stuck at on permanently, so I unscrewed the bulb HOT HOT HOT

Should still probably call an electrician or do some youtubing for a solution to that problem. Call me paranoid but my nieghbors house burned down because of shoddy wiring in a hardwired doorbell.

Damn, fires can start because of that? Much obliged, will have it fixed asap.
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
October 01 2015 02:59 GMT
#7044
On October 01 2015 09:15 riotjune wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 01 2015 09:02 ThomasjServo wrote:
On October 01 2015 08:28 riotjune wrote:
Switch broke and stuck at on permanently, so I unscrewed the bulb HOT HOT HOT

Should still probably call an electrician or do some youtubing for a solution to that problem. Call me paranoid but my nieghbors house burned down because of shoddy wiring in a hardwired doorbell.

Damn, fires can start because of that? Much obliged, will have it fixed asap.

Yeah if the switch is on, there is a voltage between the + and - in the socket. Shouldn't be a current through the air, but if you get dust or animals or whatever in the socket you can get sparks which can start fires.
Karis Vas Ryaar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States4396 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-01 03:20:32
October 01 2015 03:13 GMT
#7045
On October 01 2015 09:08 whatisthisasheep wrote:
I do American businesses market promote products that are highly addicting when the products sell themselves? You don't really need to launch a campaign to get people to have beer, drink soda, smoke cigarettes, buy over the counter drugs, etc.


um I don't understand what your trying to ask here. do you mean why?

if your asking why its because products don't actually start becoming addicting until someone tries to actually use them. so you still have a customer acquisition cost even if your customer retention cost is relatively low to nonexistent. also you have to spend money on public relations and stuff. Also the objects you listed are all addictive to different extents and In cases like Alcohol and Soda I think most of your customers aren't necessarily chemically dependent on the product like you seem to think. Most people drink Soda because they like it, not because they'll have withdrawal symptoms if they stop
"I'm not agreeing with a lot of Virus's decisions but they are working" Tasteless. Ipl4 Losers Bracket Virus 2-1 Maru
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain18291 Posts
October 01 2015 03:23 GMT
#7046
On October 01 2015 12:13 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 01 2015 09:08 whatisthisasheep wrote:
I do American businesses market promote products that are highly addicting when the products sell themselves? You don't really need to launch a campaign to get people to have beer, drink soda, smoke cigarettes, buy over the counter drugs, etc.


um I don't understand what your trying to ask here. do you mean why?

if your asking why its because products don't actually start becoming addicting until someone tries to actually use them. so you still have a customer acquisition cost even if your customer retention cost is relatively low to nonexistent. also you have to spend money on public relations and stuff. Also the objects you listed are all addictive to different extents and In cases like Alcohol and Soda I think most of your customers aren't necessarily chemically dependent on the product like you seem to think. Most people drink Soda because they like it, not because they'll have withdrawal symptoms if they stop

There are also 100s of different types and brands of those addictive items. For instance, it doesn't help Heineken if Joe the alcoholic is buying budweiser or bourbon.
Karis Vas Ryaar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States4396 Posts
October 01 2015 03:27 GMT
#7047
On October 01 2015 12:23 Acrofales wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 01 2015 12:13 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
On October 01 2015 09:08 whatisthisasheep wrote:
I do American businesses market promote products that are highly addicting when the products sell themselves? You don't really need to launch a campaign to get people to have beer, drink soda, smoke cigarettes, buy over the counter drugs, etc.


um I don't understand what your trying to ask here. do you mean why?

if your asking why its because products don't actually start becoming addicting until someone tries to actually use them. so you still have a customer acquisition cost even if your customer retention cost is relatively low to nonexistent. also you have to spend money on public relations and stuff. Also the objects you listed are all addictive to different extents and In cases like Alcohol and Soda I think most of your customers aren't necessarily chemically dependent on the product like you seem to think. Most people drink Soda because they like it, not because they'll have withdrawal symptoms if they stop

There are also 100s of different types and brands of those addictive items. For instance, it doesn't help Heineken if Joe the alcoholic is buying budweiser or bourbon.


good point. I missed that point
"I'm not agreeing with a lot of Virus's decisions but they are working" Tasteless. Ipl4 Losers Bracket Virus 2-1 Maru
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11837 Posts
October 01 2015 04:33 GMT
#7048
On October 01 2015 08:28 riotjune wrote:
Switch broke and stuck at on permanently, so I unscrewed the bulb HOT HOT HOT


As others have said, no electricity bill for that (Which you would know if you had paid attention in physics class). You pay money for energy used. Energy is only being used if there is a current, which is only there if there is a closed electric circuit. Which requires something being between the two poles of the light bulb socket.

Still, not the best idea to have the switch constantly on on, as this means that there is constantly an open voltage difference between the two metal parts of the bulb socket (And between one of them and the floor. This means a) that fires can get started if an insect or something lands on the wrong spot, and b) you can electrocute yourself if you accidentally touch that spot (Which is also why you shouldn't work on anything electric without taking out the fuse in the fuse box first if you don't know wha you are doing. That also helps with the temperature of the lightbulb.)
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
October 01 2015 05:31 GMT
#7049
On October 01 2015 04:20 whatisthisasheep wrote:
Why are feminists and sjw's jumping over this commercial so much? Hardees has been marketing this way for decades but for some reason this commercial has received significant backlash in the US


Treating women as objects was okay back then, why can't it be okay now?
Treating minorities as lesser than whites was okay back then, why can't it be okay now?
Slavery was okay back then, why can't it be okay now?
Hardees was doing something offensive back then, why can't it be okay now?
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
October 01 2015 08:45 GMT
#7050
On October 01 2015 09:02 ThomasjServo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 01 2015 08:28 riotjune wrote:
Switch broke and stuck at on permanently, so I unscrewed the bulb HOT HOT HOT

Should still probably call an electrician or do some youtubing for a solution to that problem. Call me paranoid but my nieghbors house burned down because of shoddy wiring in a hardwired doorbell.

You're right to be paranoid about that. Fucked up electricity wirings are regular firestarters (that includes mice going in your walls and eating your electricity cables).
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zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15365 Posts
October 01 2015 09:37 GMT
#7051
How to best clean candle wax out of a laptop keyboard?

Also, out of sofa cushion?
ModeratorI know Teamliquid is known as a massive building
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
October 01 2015 12:41 GMT
#7052
On October 01 2015 17:45 OtherWorld wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 01 2015 09:02 ThomasjServo wrote:
On October 01 2015 08:28 riotjune wrote:
Switch broke and stuck at on permanently, so I unscrewed the bulb HOT HOT HOT

Should still probably call an electrician or do some youtubing for a solution to that problem. Call me paranoid but my nieghbors house burned down because of shoddy wiring in a hardwired doorbell.

You're right to be paranoid about that. Fucked up electricity wirings are regular firestarters (that includes mice going in your walls and eating your electricity cables).

I'll never forget Mothers Day that year, my mom came down to my room and woke me up, said the neighbor's house was on fire and we needed to get out because it could jump to ours. I legitimately thought she was trying to get me up early to do chores.

Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-01 12:50:43
October 01 2015 12:50 GMT
#7053
On October 01 2015 18:37 zatic wrote:
How to best clean candle wax out of a laptop keyboard?

Also, out of sofa cushion?

if it's a proper keyboard, just take the keys off and wash off the wax in hot water. Take the chance to soap the keys as well: keyboards are one of the main spreaders of disease. If it is the laptop keyboard of a mac, then you will probably have to buy a new laptop.

Turn the sofa cushion upside down, problem sovled. If not symmetric (or if this method has already been deployed at earlier occasion), you should be able to scrape of most of the wax by hand. Some cushions you can wash in the laundry machine as well.

If you are going down the scraping path, it may work better if the wax is cold.
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
October 01 2015 13:21 GMT
#7054
On October 01 2015 18:37 zatic wrote:
How to best clean candle wax out of a laptop keyboard?

Also, out of sofa cushion?

kinky
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
SoSexy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Italy3725 Posts
October 01 2015 20:40 GMT
#7055
Is there an expert in french law system / a lawyer / someone who knows law well here? I have a problem with a thing I can't understand, just PM me.
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Epishade
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2267 Posts
October 05 2015 20:15 GMT
#7056
Can I name my son "Dr." so that I can avoid sending him to expensive schooling but he can still tell people he's a Dr. ?

What about Judge?
Pinhead Larry in the streets, Dirty Dan in the sheets.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43989 Posts
October 05 2015 20:30 GMT
#7057
You can tell people your son is a Dr. without naming him Dr. Just lie.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
SoSexy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Italy3725 Posts
October 05 2015 20:36 GMT
#7058
I'm a bit bored from competitive games - do you guys have anything relaxing to suggest me? I loved stuff like far cry - single player but with a decent story you want to complete. kinda rpgish i guess
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Epishade
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2267 Posts
October 05 2015 21:01 GMT
#7059
On October 06 2015 05:30 KwarK wrote:
You can tell people your son is a Dr. without naming him Dr. Just lie.

This sounds highly unethical. I don't think I want to lie to people.
Pinhead Larry in the streets, Dirty Dan in the sheets.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45923 Posts
October 05 2015 21:04 GMT
#7060
On October 06 2015 06:01 Epishade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 06 2015 05:30 KwarK wrote:
You can tell people your son is a Dr. without naming him Dr. Just lie.

This sounds highly unethical. I don't think I want to lie to people.


At least name him Doctor, not Dr.
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