All categories - 10 August 2007

I have a 15amp circuit breaker serving a circuit which connects 2 outlets in 2 different bathrooms. The only think attached to the outlet is a 4-watt night light.

Yet every other week this circuit breaker trips and upon a reset of it, power comes back to the night lights.

How do I fix this?

2007-08-10 09:12:25 · 9 answers · asked by erustom 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

Why?

be nice everyone...no need to be crude or rude

2007-08-10 09:12:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

My daughter has just bought a new laptop & wants to go on the net the cd that came from the isp won't load it keeps saying she needs administrator rights is ther anyone who can help. PS make the answer as simple as possible as we have not got any computer knowledge so a simple step by step answer would be very much appreciated.

2007-08-10 09:12:22 · 10 answers · asked by lowtherdick 1 in Other - Computers

Vietnam, a single small country.
AND STILL AMERICA LOST>.<

America score: 100000000000wins vs. 1 lost.

2007-08-10 09:12:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Ladies feel free to answer as to how often you do..

2007-08-10 09:12:09 · 10 answers · asked by T 1 in Singles & Dating

Some of you claim that if the innocent are aborted, then they go straight to heaven. So, abortion would be a GOOD thing in that case.
However, you also claim that people who have never heard of (or never had the opportunity) to hear about jesus, go straight to hell. They don't pass GO, they don't collect $200.00.
So, which one is it? Foetuses certainly cannot have heard about him so if they're aborted they go straight to hell.
OR, if they go to heaven, then certainly, the people who have never heard the word go to heaven too. Right?
I mean you can't have it both ways can you? And if the latter is true, then the best course of action would simply be to keep quiet and not tell ANYONE about Jesus and all the rest of the mythological trappings, thereby ensuring that everyone would go to heaven.
Right?
(Of course, this is all patent nonsense, heaven and hell are myths, no more real that Oz or Narnia. This whole religion thing is designed to do this; separate fools from their money)

2007-08-10 09:12:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-10 09:12:05 · 3 answers · asked by Still Beautifully Conservative 5 in Polls & Surveys

I was at a gas station earlier,a mother buying ciggarettes. She was saying something that her daughters in the car crying because she didn't have any cigarettes, the lady wouldn't sell them to her at another gas station b’cuz she was underage...

is there a law that could punish the parents for doing this?

what possesses these 'parents' to buy ciggs for their kids?! When was it that the roles were reversed and the kids get to tell the parents what to do? ...I’m 24 and my mother still wouldn't buy mine if i asked her...

my theory on parenting:

your kids have enough friends at school and stuff- at home they need a PARENT!...parents are trying to hard to be friends w/ their kids instead of actually parenting them...ridiculous...

2007-08-10 09:12:00 · 25 answers · asked by KittyKatKarin 2 in Parenting

I’m all for women’s equal “right” to get tattooed. This question has nothing to do with whether or not one thinks it is “proper” or “classy/trashy” to be tattooed. In fact, I find tattooing on women to be attractive, though that’s only one aspect of tattooing. And I highly respect women like “Somebody” on here, who are very smart about and dedicated to tattooing.

My question is serious – not sexist.

Tattooing in Western society has had a “culture” of it’s own, and we all know that culture is about MEANING. What does it mean to be tattooed? Why do people get tattooed? My OPINION on the right reasons to get tattooed includes:
--the images being tattooed inspire you
--the images fuel your imagination
--a more recent thing (in the West): love of art and taking that art beyond banal “canvases” of museums (along with this there is something “deep” about the permanence of it and the fact that it is on skin, w/ blood, etc)

--to mark affiliation with a group. Affiliation with a group makes people feel like they are a part of something larger than themselves.
--a memorial

Along with these comes a sense of permanence. Permanence reinforces commitment. Finally, I think tattooing has also been resorted to by marginalized/disenfranchised people as a type of property. If nothing else in this world, at least they have their tattoos, which will go with them to their death.

Think for example of sailors who were among the first to popularize getting tattooed. During long shipping voyages in crap conditions, they could use all the inspiration they got. And these people really had no property—even the clothes on their backs were often in pawn! If they went “overboard,” the one thing they would have is their tattoos—also what they look at and dream about during long days away from home.

Now why are trendy people getting tattooed nowadays?
--“dangerous” factor. People thinks it makes them “wild” or “dangerous” in some way. But guess what? It used to be much harder to get tattooed. You had to travel or interact with certain “dangerous” people to do so. These people were not “polite,” not there to be nice to you or stand for any of your bullcrap. It sickens me how encouraging people are on this site towards people asking “Should I get this tattoo?” No! Tattooing is not meant to be as easy to get (even if cheaper than) Starbucks.

In the current atmosphere of “Have a nice day,” “convenience” tattooing, any associations of “danger” are actually removed.

--to “symbolize” something. This is such a load of b.s. Yes, tattoos do “symbolize”...they indeed “mean” something. But there are many different ways of representing or symbolizing. The type of signing that trendy people usually do is not the type of signing common to tattoo culture. It would take a long and complicated discussion to explain this... you either get it or you don’t.

--to memorialize. This was the one past (traditional tattoo culture) motivation for tattooing that the trendy people have harped in on and blown all out of proportion. I don’t know if it’s because they see stuff like Miami Ink where everyone (as instructed to them by the show’s producers) walks in with some story about how blah blah happened and they need this tattoo of blah blah to represent that.
Trendy people seem to feel the need just to make ANY mark on their bodies to mark that something happened. “This shooting star is because my grandma died.” Huh?

--anxiousness to be “experienced.” As teens, most of us felt anxious about losing our virginity. Once you had sex, you joined the ranks of the non-virgin population—the EXPERIENCED population! A similar process seems to be at work with tattooing—people are anxious to get MARKED in any way to join this “club”.

But here is the thing: joining the “club” isn’t meant to be easy. There is inconvenience....pain....stigma....permanence. Inconvenience, Pain, Stigma, Permanence—these are the things that the trendy tattoo people are bent on getting around. Everything (questions on Yahoo Answers, for instance) are driven towards avoiding these obstacles--- BUT THEY ARE THE VERY OBSTACLES that give MEANING to being tattooed, to being in the “club”!!

In the absense of this meaning (tattoos have become meaningless fashion), the trendy people try to add “meaning”—“symbolism”. In real tattoo culture, someone is inspired by something so much that they want it permanently put on their body. In trendy tattooing, people decide first that they “need” to get tattooed (to become part of the cool, experiened club, to attract people sexually, to work out their psychological issues of things like isolation and poor self image)...and THEN they try to “think up” a tattoo (usually some banal shape or image inspired by commercial logo-ing/branding) and add to it some stated “meaning.” Do I need to go any further in explaining how utterly bankrupt this trendy tattoo culture is?

Trendy men and women are equally guilty of lowering the standards of tattoo culture and turning it into cheap branding. But women especially seem significant in this process. Because of the nature of popular “women’s culture” ALONG WITH women’s historical relationship to the art of tattooing, they especially have sought to remove the
INCONVENIENCE (“Can I pay with my credit card?” “What brand of lotion should I buy?” “How many times a day should I rub it in?” “Let me just get a little star here on the spot today” “Let me go online and ask...”)
PAIN (“Where does it hurt least?” “What creams can I use to reduce to numb it?”...)
STIGMA (“Stop calling it a tramp stamp” “I got my tattoos for me, they are mine” “Why get it in a place where you can’t show it off?”)
PERMANENCE (“How much does tattoo removal cost and does it really work?”).

Notice that the vast majority of people asking tattoo questions on this site are women.

What do you think this means? Thanks

2007-08-10 09:11:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Tattoos

the police gave me a ticket..but I am sure it wasn't my fault..anyways..the police who gave me the ticket and the girl that wrecked me had the same last name and I am preety sure they were related..she called the police..and there behavior was friendly/brotherly like....but there was another lady officer with him but she didn't do anything she was just in car whole time...can I go to the court and do somthing..is there a law that says that family memeber cannot take a accident case or somthing...plz help..thank you very much.

2007-08-10 09:11:47 · 6 answers · asked by bob 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

My cousins [age 6 & 2] always come over and always ruin our house! It is VERY annyoying because they won't settle down for anything! They don't want to watch movies, they throw food ALL over, our backyard is filled with fruits and stuff so that's not an option, front ward is busy with cars coming and going, and the basement is filled with workout stuff and they could get hurt playing around there. Dolls and toys get ruined and so my sister gets mad because they all belong to her. What can i do to controle and occupy these kids while the rest of us try to enjoy ourselves?!?!?

2007-08-10 09:11:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Toddler & Preschooler

2007-08-10 09:11:37 · 8 answers · asked by tea4twoholiday 4 in Cooking & Recipes

20,000 would I have to pay capital gains tax and what would the rate be if i kept the property less than a year? I live in Houston Tx.

2007-08-10 09:11:16 · 2 answers · asked by unique 1 in United States

2007-08-10 09:11:12 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Software

2007-08-10 09:11:11 · 4 answers · asked by hope 5 in Military

2007-08-10 09:11:09 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

2007-08-10 09:11:07 · 6 answers · asked by zpicklesimer 1 in History

2007-08-10 09:11:01 · 10 answers · asked by Fifteen steps, then a sheer drop 6 in Polls & Surveys

what would be a good shotgun for a women for just general shooting. I am wanting a pump shotgun.

2007-08-10 09:11:00 · 13 answers · asked by bcsback 2 in Hunting

i've had them for months and im looking to buy a new pair of running shoes... hoping that it will eliminate the problem! thanks so much to those who answer!!

2007-08-10 09:10:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Running

THERE ARE MALE DOGS AFTER HER BUT SHE WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

2007-08-10 09:10:57 · 21 answers · asked by talealuvsjj8605 1 in Dogs

I'm just honestly curious. What's with the fascination that Americans and British people seem to hold for each other? Does these questions appear quite frequently, or am I just here at the an odd point in time?

Please, don't be offended or anything. I don't mean it in any offensive way, and I'd like to hear your thoughts on the subject.

2007-08-10 09:10:55 · 18 answers · asked by sheep_are_taking_over 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

the guys that come and install a home entertainment system. They come tommorrow and will be here for a good 3 hours as they are putting all the wires behind the walls and hooking everything up Then they give a 20 minute presentation on how eveyrthing works. I am paying good money for the install, but do I still tip the two guys?

2007-08-10 09:10:50 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-08-10 09:10:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Astronomy & Space

2007-08-10 09:10:44 · 3 answers · asked by Raven 2 in Other - United States

can some one answe these for me thanks

2007-08-10 09:10:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

2007-08-10 09:10:38 · 4 answers · asked by customizorama 1 in Software

2007-08-10 09:10:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Video & Online Games

tomorrow, me and my friend are going to get our cartilage pierced. her parents have agreed, and mine havent agreed, but they have an idea i'm getting it done, and arent trying to stop me.
firstly, how much will this piercing hurt?
and also, im going to a theme park a few days after.
will the rides hurt my ear?

please help.
xxx

2007-08-10 09:10:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pain & Pain Management

Alright, i dont need smart remarks on this i am an adult i know you shouldn't do drugs. I quit smoking (pot) on June 20th. When I was smoking i didn't do it all the time. On July 20th i smoked for a night. I took a drug test Aug 10th do you think i will be OK? I am 5'4 125lbs and exercise, I also drink alot of water and green tea.

2007-08-10 09:10:25 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care