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by aestra 13y ago
I don't get it. Your carbon dioxide alarm and low battery alarm are the same? Your smoke detectors eat one battery a year? Sounds like you have awful smoke detectors. They sell cheaper ones that have 10 year batteries.
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by aestra 13y ago
You need more than one smoke detector... If you only have one you're doing it very wrong.
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by aestra 13y ago
You sound like you're marketing for them.
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by aestra 13y ago
You have nothing that is flammable in your house? What about electric fires? What if your computer caught fire in the middle of the night? I grew up in a brick building. We had two house fires there when I was growing up, though neither in
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by aestra 13y ago
>There are a lot of things that we are stuck with that are just plain stupid -- like emergency exits that are illuminated RED, the universal color of "stop", and only written in english. Only in the US and Canada, most of the r
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by aestra 13y ago
>I could think of nothing to do other than to remove all the batteries in all of my smoke detectors. The whole point is if you are kept awake all night by beeping THE VERY NEXT DAY you should go out and get new batteries so you aren&#x27
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by aestra 13y ago
Then check your fire codes and report them to the Fire Marshall? I'm just throwing that out there.
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by aestra 13y ago
At my mom's house growing up, we just did the wave the towel at it trick when it went off, which worked remarkable well. No windows open, nothing fancy. Just some vigorous towel waving for about 15 seconds. It would go off if you did s
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by aestra 13y ago
This really isn't true on a wide scale. There are exceptions but most hunter-gathers tend to be very egalitarian. There were no permanent leaders, and everyone worked together as a team. The best part about hunter-gather lifestyle was
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by aestra 13y ago
They can't award it to CERN or CMS or ATLAS. At most 3 individual people can split one prize.
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by aestra 13y ago
It's a controversial restriction. Scientists rarely work alone anymore.
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by aestra 13y ago
The Nobel Peace Prize was a joke before Obama. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Peace
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by aestra 13y ago
That's how all fiat currencies work. For example, to use your words: People think dollars have value because they're accepted by other people because other people think they have value. You accept your paycheck in whatever curre
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by aestra 13y ago
>has very strict anti-drug laws. I mentioned this in a reply below, but I'm an American who lived in Croatia for a little over a year. I lived there with a few other Americans. I'm not sure if any of this is true, but we were t
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by aestra 13y ago
Not to mention it isn't like the US and Croatia haven't worked together at least once in apprehending a criminal living in Croatia wanted by the United States. http://daily.tportal.hr/211771/Ukrainian-hacker-w
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by aestra 13y ago
I find stress to be a strange response though. Annoyance would be a more "expected" response. Stress is something I wouldn't expect because I associate stress with more of a "fight or flight" situation. It's so
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by aestra 13y ago
You didn't even read your "web citations" which are actually someone found this Wikipedia page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extraditi... ) and put some countries not on it in articl
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by aestra 13y ago
Do you think a fellow NATO member state would cooperate with the United States when they knew one of their most wanted fugitives was there? Don't you think it would be in their best interest to cooperate? Why would they create a rift i
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by aestra 13y ago
There are a couple of reasons. Living in San Francisco might have allowed him in hide in plain sight. Who is going to suspect a 20-somthing year old who lives in San Fran of running a multi million dollar drug business. He doesn't attr
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by aestra 13y ago
Croatia? SERIOUSLY? Croatia is a member of NATO, for one.
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by aestra 13y ago
Every week my significant other and I and some of our friends go to bar trivia. Last week our friend brought a lady friend he had been dating for a few weeks and she brought her roommate. These two were quite a bit younger than us (I'm
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by aestra 13y ago
>copy and paste on iPhone, MMS messaging, multitasking As I recall Apple tried to say things at the time that amounted to "you don't really need that." Every single iPhone user I knew at the time drank the Steve Jobs koola
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by aestra 13y ago
I wouldn't really consider Tor an amateur libtech product since the basics of the underlying technology (onion routing) was developed by the US Navy. Here's the original patent from 1998: http://patft1.uspto.gov/ne
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by aestra 13y ago
Absolutely.
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by aestra 13y ago
>I don't need to be told that I'm good, if I'm doing well I'll know it. This might sound strange to you, but some subset of the population won't know it. Ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger_effect[1]? Actual compete
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by aestra 13y ago
It comes from the dutch word verlof meaning "To conclude an engagement." http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verlof
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by aestra 13y ago
Federal employees aren't the only ones furloughed! (Some) contractors (for example) are too!
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by aestra 13y ago
Wow. You complete and totally 100% missed the point of my story. I used the example of neighbors because they are (in some neighbors) neighborly, and do altruistic things for each other. When there is a big snowfall in my neighborhood, all
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by aestra 13y ago
Recent songs that mention Sega: http://rapgenius.com/The-cool-kids-a-little-bit-cooler-lyric... http://rapgenius.com/Snow-tha-product-cookie-cutter-bitches-... http://rapgenius.com/Logic-300
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by aestra 13y ago
What rappers think about video game consoles: http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=Nintendo%2C%20Xbox%2C%20Play...

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