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by arprocter 12y ago
Don't tempt me! Can't imagine the look on my SO's face if I set up a half-stack in our little apartment... Got my eye on the special 6 ultra combo. Too bad there's no headphone socket though
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by arprocter 12y ago
There seems to be a bit of a low power tube renaissance happening lately. When I started playing no non-boutique manufacturers made anything analogue with less than 50w. The Marshall DSL5C can toggle between 5 or 1w - you can use headphone
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by arprocter 12y ago
Roosevelt Island uses pneumatic tubes to collect trash because the streets are too narrow for garbage trucks [0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_refuse_conveying_syst...
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by arprocter 12y ago
In iOS I'm seeing 2.4.1 Feb 12th update offered but then 'No longer available' when I hit update Looking forward to checking out the local streaming changes - DLNA stopped working for me a while ago, although I didn't ta
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by arprocter 12y ago
>But of course, selling musical instruments is different, for unspecified reasons There is a difference, because people like to try out instruments before they buy - otherwise it's like buying a car without test-driving it first. It
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by arprocter 12y ago
Cheering for Team I Hate Sports is still cheering
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by arprocter 12y ago
It has now been corrected, but thanks for the downvote
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by arprocter 12y ago
>the market incentive to develop modern & sophisticated automatic weapons pretty much ended with the M16 (the USA having by far the largest civilian market for firearms). A few non-USA automatics have been designed since (FN P90 and
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by arprocter 12y ago
Link to TUAW is typo'd in the article. Correct address is http://www.tuaw.com/
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by arprocter 12y ago
Interestingly in the UK upgrading your brakes will get your premium bumped up because now the vehicle is 'modified', even though it now stops better
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by arprocter 12y ago
This is correct. In the UK Mountune provides this for Ford and your car is still covered by the original manufacturer warranty Edit: same for Mountune USA
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by arprocter 12y ago
It seems ridiculous that these too-rich-for-the-law-to-apply-to-me types keep doing this - if having your own beach is important to you then go live somewhere where you can legally own one
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by arprocter 12y ago
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri offered 'nerve stapling' [0] as a method of quelling riots [0] http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Atrocities_%28SMAC%29
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by arprocter 12y ago
View page source and find "original.jpg"...
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Life in a no-vacation nation(bbc.com)
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by arprocter 13y ago
>Is there any reason to keep them besides having a reason to arrest anyone at any time? A former NYC ADA mentioned that this was a popular way for the cops to arrest people because they felt like it: http://www.nytimes.com&#x2
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by arprocter 13y ago
I'm glad someone else made this reference. The first half of the story reminded me of Chappelle's "I'm sorry officer - I didn't know I couldn't do that" bit
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by arprocter 13y ago
I also found newer versions have a --buffer-size option which allows you to set a huge buffer and download at a much higher speed
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by arprocter 13y ago
>The fact that he and WikiLeaks both choose to release their documents over time instead of in a single dump gives them the advantage of having or following a script The downside of this is that the public/media have a short attenti
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by arprocter 13y ago
We had to replace 50+ Agility 128s as around half of them went bad within weeks of install. A year later and none of the replacement Intels have gone bad...
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by arprocter 13y ago
Wasn't there a story that they 'found' smut in OBL's hideout?
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by arprocter 13y ago
I'm guessing it happened because the stars are really a percentage, so a 4/5 would count as 80%; although whenever we asked amazon 'why has xyz strange thing happened?' they seemed to just respond with a stock 'it&#
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by arprocter 13y ago
Newer vehicles often get software updates as part of the maintenance schedule; so all OTA does is avoid a trip to the dealer
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by arprocter 13y ago
I haven't been involved in Amazon in a few years, but when I was, buyer feedbacks could really turn sales off and on like a switch. A seller needs to have 'good' feedback to show up in the More Buying Choices box on a listing
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by arprocter 13y ago
Tesla is aiming for the M5 end of the market, Volt is more of a Prius
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by arprocter 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines