I understand and grudgingly accept that buying products made in China often involves supporting a system that treats workers badly and pays them poorly. But I also have believed that at least the workers are employed by choice, and that they deem work conditions they've opted for in some way superior to the alternatives. Today I learned that
"Made in China" can also mean "made by the slave labor of religious dissidents." How can I exist as a consumer in this global economy without perpetuating and contributing to this system? Is there any ethical way to buy Chinese imports, or do I risk endorsing inhumanity every time?
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posted by croutonsupafreak
on Jun 12, 2013 -
15 answers
I have an Excel spreadsheet with couple hundred rows: URLs, a few fields of identifying information (outlet, etc.), for media hits on the organization I work for. I need to make this into a pretty (or at least semi-legible to the computer illiterate) document that I can give to board members, senior staff, etc.
What I would like is to use some form of scripting to automate this. Bonus points if the script can somehow open the URL and take a screenshot of the story so that I don't have to.
I have a Mac, and both the Adobe and Microsoft suites. How do I not spend tedious hours manually doing this? Especially since I have to do it each month and quarter.
posted by klangklangston
on Jan 31, 2013 -
8 answers
We want to move to a new CRM provider, but our old CRM provider is holding our data hostage. Is there any recourse?
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posted by doomtop
on Dec 19, 2012 -
15 answers
How do I go about exporting a set of emails from 3 gmail accounts with a clearly defined subject line (i.e XXX DATE) from one sender when other senders also send the same subject line?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 10, 2012 -
6 answers
So, I want to restore my iPhone to a backup that's about 1 month old. However, I don't want to lose all of the SMS/MMS and Contacts data that I've accumulated in the meantime. Is it possible to extract and import this newer data into my older backup? I've searched around previous, similar MeFi questions and various 3rd party software, but no dice. And, sadly, jailbreaking is not an option.
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posted by Sine_Agraphia
on Jul 30, 2012 -
6 answers
Is it possible to export all of your own comments from an Invision Power Board forum into a text file?
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posted by dng
on Nov 17, 2011 -
2 answers
I just bought an
LG Cosmos 2 VN251 phone, and I want to figure out how to export my texts, call history, etc. off the phone and onto my iMac. I was able to do this with my previous phone, an LG-VX9900, via the bluetooth connection using
BitPim—but BitPim doesn't seem to recognize this model, and my text inbox is getting full pretty quickly!
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posted by not_on_display
on Oct 19, 2011 -
3 answers
I want to buy my wife this "Mamachari"
bike for her birthday. But they are only available in Japan (I'm in the US.) Any suggestions on how I'd purchase and ship one at the lowest price possible?
posted by soulbarn
on Sep 14, 2011 -
7 answers
About a dozen people have tried to solve this. All failed. Exporting from Excel to .csv causes cells to show #NAME? instead of the actual value.
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posted by Mr_Zero
on Jun 30, 2011 -
7 answers
I want to learn more about the animal rights issue in Australia in the context of animals being raised for slaughter. Where do I start?
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posted by vidur
on Jun 14, 2011 -
16 answers
I have edited my HD video in iMovie, and want to export it (as whatever file type) in 720p, but at a much smaller size than iMovie is putting out. Help me shrink this movie!
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posted by zardoz
on May 23, 2011 -
6 answers
I'm headed into Taiwan in a short while. Not to be indelicate, but I want to know what carry-on luggage-sized items I could bring to sell for a couple of bucks.
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posted by seansbrain
on Apr 12, 2011 -
7 answers
I've got a PDF (a magazine). I'm trying export some pages from this PDF (my article), as a separate PDF. I'm on a Mac (10.6.7). This seems like it should be easy, but I can't print my selected pages to PDF (it's grayed out in the "Save to PDF" drop-down), nor can I find any options to save-selected-pages-as or export-to. My searches have only turned up now-obsolete, non-functioning programs like PDFlab and PDFsam. What am I missing? Should I just print out the pages and scan them back in?
posted by finnb
on Mar 24, 2011 -
10 answers
I imported my car to Canada from the USA while in Vancouver on a work visa, so (as a non-settler) I paid no taxes on it. Now, I'd like to sell it — what should I do? Go back to the border office and import it for reals (how much would this cost?) or export it back to the US and sell it in a Carmax in Seattle or something?
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posted by dougunderscorenelso
on Mar 17, 2011 -
4 answers
Need to somehow retrieve SMS text messages from old, low-end Nokia 2610 cellphone. Please, someone save me from hours of mind-numbing thumbery. Details, including things I've tried, follow.
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posted by Alaska Jack
on Feb 17, 2011 -
17 answers
What's the (second) best way of getting emails from Outlook to Gmail?
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posted by jedro
on Jan 19, 2011 -
4 answers
How can I capture my blog pages as images to import into InDesign? (Tryin' to create a portfolio here...)
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posted by pearl228
on Jan 7, 2011 -
6 answers
Am I overlooking any options for archiving/exporting Gmail chat statuses? Alternatively, are there any notetaking apps that are REALLY REALLY REALLY well-integrated with Gmail?
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posted by unknowncommand
on Dec 28, 2010 -
3 answers
What's the best way of 'exporting' my delicious bookmarks without access to my account?
posted by nam3d
on Dec 28, 2010 -
2 answers
Microsoft Access 2007 - how on earth do I cut / copy / export / do
anything with my Pivot Chart, besides print it?
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posted by Jimbob
on Nov 23, 2010 -
12 answers
How can I export data from a SQL database into a CSV file and add a new column at the same time?
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posted by jfricke
on Sep 8, 2010 -
8 answers
Exporting PDF binary blog data into an outfile with mysql. Yeah, remind me how to do that without getting corrupt files again?
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posted by bhance
on Aug 4, 2010 -
1 answer
Picasa/Jpeg Questions: How can I export metadata from my massive photo collection? Also, is there any reasonable way to get the face recognition information into the pictures themselves?
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posted by Popcorn
on May 31, 2010 -
3 answers
Why do these clips look great in the Final Cut Pro viewer at 110%, but interlace-y at 100% and upon export? How is this even possible?
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posted by 235w103
on May 14, 2010 -
7 answers
I have my work and personal email in one gmail account. I may change jobs in the not-too-distant future. How can I separate the two?
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posted by anonymous
on May 8, 2010 -
6 answers
I have an hour long video (at .avi format) that I want to sample at 5 second intervals. Is there a software with such functionality that can automatically export a picture of the video at certain time intervals?
posted by typography
on Apr 14, 2010 -
5 answers
Is there a (free/cheap) way to turn pdf vector drawings into a dwg/dxf/eps without the errors Illustrator always seems to produce? Or some other way of getting a pdf vector drawing into VectorWorks?
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posted by carnival of animals
on Apr 5, 2010 -
7 answers
Mac users: is there an easy way to export a large number of photos and videos from the Photo Booth application?
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posted by pseudostrabismus
on Mar 22, 2010 -
4 answers
Help me make the most of spam! No, I don't want to send it. I want to receive it - and have some fun with it. And I need your help, especially if you know how to export bits of email.
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posted by 2oh1
on Jan 18, 2010 -
15 answers
I need to download all the documents in the Document Library, while preserving the original file names. (I notice that when you use "Export", the files are compressed and renamed.) Please point me in the right direction. If anybody has a shell script, please post it here.
Thanks!
posted by TyGrrBalm
on Dec 28, 2009 -
0 answers
Help me get my AutoArchived e-mail out of MS Outlook and the info from off Exchange server before work shuts it down tonight, please. I'm dumbfounded.
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posted by willie11
on Oct 19, 2009 -
8 answers
I am trying to build an automated solution to convert MKV files to MP4 without re-encoding on Mac OS X, using AppleScript, Automator, etc. and I need help!
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posted by joshrholloway
on Oct 6, 2009 -
10 answers
Flash animators: When I export my flash cartoon to quicktime, moving objects leave behind horrible artifacts. Apparently I am not the only one with this problem. If Flash's quicktime export is so crummy, how do the professionals publish their cartoons to video?
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posted by buriednexttoyou
on Sep 26, 2009 -
12 answers
Using a relational table in a one-to-many relationship in Access, what is the best way to export a csv file with one row per record (from the one half) with a variable number of columns (from the many half)?
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posted by JeremiahBritt
on Aug 19, 2009 -
6 answers
Is there an easy way to export Wordpress posts when the admin panel is crashed and I have only command line access?
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posted by johngoren
on Aug 12, 2009 -
5 answers
What should I import to New Zealand for resale? I'm looking for ideas of products that I could buy in bulk, ship to NZ, and resell for a modest profit.
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posted by redzarf
on Aug 8, 2009 -
7 answers
How can I save JPG images in Photoshop CS so that a digital camera can read them? Cheap crappy software can do this easily, but no matter what file settings I use in Photoshop, I've never been able to get any of my digital cameras to be able to read any JPG that was written by Photoshop - I have to load and re-save them with other piece of software to get them to work. Surely there is a way to make Photoshop save JPG files that cameras can read?
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posted by -harlequin-
on Aug 5, 2009 -
11 answers
