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aceofspades19
9y ago
Radium wasn't used for over a century all over the entire planet and exposed to most of the entire population of the world their entire lives. It's literally the worst comparison to non-ionizing radiation possible. I think if the
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aceofspades19
9y ago
Maybe if you didn't already agree to the EULA. While it's true that some EULAs are of dubious legality, I doubt a court would say that the facebook EULA is totally invalid, but a random post on facebook is legally binding.
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aceofspades19
9y ago
Ummm, most modern cards can go far above 5000 miles, and definitely longer than 2500 miles. If you have an old beater from the 90s, it might be a good idea to change it every 2500 miles but definitely not any car made in the past decade. h
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aceofspades19
9y ago
Well there definitely is no criminal law against starting a company with student loans. It would be up to the actual contract he signed which might not say anything about how you spend the money as long as you you aren't lying about an
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aceofspades19
10y ago
CBP is Customs and Border Protection which is the American department for that. Canada has the CBSA - Canadian Border Services Agency. So you wouldn't get harassed by the CBP if you were entering Canada, it would be the CBSA.
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aceofspades19
10y ago
The Coquihalla highway (BC-5) is notorious for it's steep hill and the speed limit is 120 km/h in ordinary conditions. I could probably find a lot of highways in BC that are similiar.
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aceofspades19
10y ago
Google maps says that a typical commute arriving at 9 am would take between 40 minutes to an hour and 5 minutes from Langley to downtown Vancouver. Of course if there is a crazy accident or severe construction it could take way longer, but
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aceofspades19
10y ago
2 hours is a pretty big exaggeration. To put in perspective, ~2 hours drive from downtown Vancouver is Yale BC, or if you went northwest down the 99, that would put you in Pemberton, which both are really in the middle of nowhere. I don&#x
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aceofspades19
10y ago
Should the person taking out the loan have 0 responsibility as well? Surely either the janitor or the english lit major should have some personal responsibility when it comes to taking on debt that they could not possibly pay back. I think
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aceofspades19
10y ago
FileZilla is a legacy win32 app? I understand what you mean but that's a poor example considering it runs on Linux and OSX as well and is still updated quite frequently.
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aceofspades19
10y ago
I have a Nexus 5 and its never shown up as the top battery user, usually it's the actual phone app or the screen.
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aceofspades19
10y ago
I use the facebook app quite a bit, and its never used more than a few precent of my battery in the battery stats on Android, and usually significantly less than my mail client(K-9 Mail) so I never understood the meme that the facebook app
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aceofspades19
11y ago
Really? I don't know many university students that don't have the latest smartphone(or at least a fairly recent one) which usually implies they have a data plan of some kind since most of them don't have $800+ to pay outright
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aceofspades19
11y ago
Well there is definitely some BS to it, as there is with any customer facing job. I'm sure you know though, after dealing with people's BS all day long, someone saying they are recording their call isn't going to phase you mu
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aceofspades19
11y ago
I live in Canada, and I don't know anyone who lives here that doesn't have a data plan of some kind, although I'm sure they definitely do exist and there are definitely people without a ton of data.
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aceofspades19
11y ago
Why? its not like they have anything to lose by having a customer record their call as long as they are following company policy and not doing anything ridiculous like swearing at the customer. Most of the time unless you are talking to a h
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aceofspades19
11y ago
I've worked as a CSR for a wireless company in Canada for a short period of time and as tech support for a large north american PC manufacturer for awhile and nothing I did ever changed just because a customer was recording the phone c
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aceofspades19
12y ago
a constitutional republic is contained in the set of democratic governments. You could just as well say Canada is not a democracy, its a constitutional monarchy.
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aceofspades19
12y ago
Uhh Fly-by-wire has nothing to do with autopilot. Fly-by-wire is just that the controls are dealt with in software rather than physical connections to the controls.
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aceofspades19
12y ago
Well I'm in Canada so straight talk is unavailable. As far as I know there is no provider that offers unlimited plans for everything at a reasonable cost. I'm with Fido and my plan is $45/month with 200 mb data, 200 weekday m
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aceofspades19
12y ago
I got my nexus 4 for 'free' on a contract and even if I bought it outright and got on the cheapest plan with roughly the same features, I would've only saved $5 a month. 5 * 24( 2 year contract) is only 120 so by going on a c
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aceofspades19
12y ago
Well some introductory CS courses are taken by people in other majors. At my university, all science majors(as far as I know) have to take at least 1 introductory programming course. In that context, it makes sense to use python to introduc
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aceofspades19
13y ago
My math professor hooks her Windows tablet to the projector and then draws on that using Onenote which works out pretty well
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aceofspades19
13y ago
Then you could argue that any embedded device that runs the Linux kernel is not Linux because it doesn't use the GNU userland. I think its splitting hairs, anything that runs the Linux kernel is by definition, Linux. You can replace th
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aceofspades19
13y ago
it should be in my profile
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aceofspades19
13y ago
An invite would be welcome :)
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aceofspades19
13y ago
I used to work for Dell tech support, and I used to install VLC on customer's machines all the time..woops. At that time there was no rule against it and we generally assumed that software couldn't damage hardware. When I worked t
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aceofspades19
13y ago
Have you ever done any troubleshooting in Windows? I spent over a year as tech support for Dell supporting Windows, and I honestly can't say that Windows is any easier to fix. Most of the time(outside of PEBKAC errors), I ended up a) e
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aceofspades19
13y ago
Both me and my girlfriend work in tech and she wasn't offended by the name 'bropages'. Furthermore, she disagreed with your comment completely. She doesn't feel excluded or discriminated from the name 'bropages'
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aceofspades19
13y ago
On 2., if you have studied any economic theory, you would know that in the long run the real value of goods and wages stays the same, its only the nominal value that changes in the long run. So no, you have not been 'robbed' via i
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