dghughes

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by dghughes 13y ago
Sometimes even in a room made of wood no large metal objects nearby and then moving a CRT monitor 90 degrees is enough to mess it up requiring it be degaussed. I'd say the metal frame had ferrous metal in it which is magnetic your monitor
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by dghughes 13y ago
The product is referred to as pulltab or breakopen tickets I'm not sure what other names they are called in other countries, if that's what you mean.
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by dghughes 13y ago
It's the same with slot machines penny may be 80% (payback) but $1, $5 and up may be 96% but that's over a million or even ten million spins.
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by dghughes 13y ago
I work for a lottery that sells the type of tickets you're referring to i.e. a set amount of tickets a business purchases knowing how many of each winner is in the box. Only the business that purchased the box could cash winning tickets, e
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by dghughes 13y ago
My concern is people like myself who wear prescription eye glasses who may want to try Google Glass so end up putting the device on prescription glasses. It's one thing to remove your Google Glass glasses to be polite or legal i.e. washroo
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by dghughes 13y ago
China you're next! lol just kidding.
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by dghughes 14y ago
(I guess comment edit option goes away) CBC has this story and they mention it's zenon isotopes that are measured to determine the age of the water. >The researchers estimated how old the water was based on an analysis of the xenon gas
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by dghughes 14y ago
Probably a variation of the isotopes of oxygen. edit: I found this http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Paleoclimatology_O...
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by dghughes 14y ago
I thought the same thing then thought it's the US so maybe drugs, yup. With such a large cocaine network in the 80s, especially in Miami, I doubt there weren't some deaths directly connected to the operation.
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by dghughes 14y ago
When I had a motorcycle I could tell when rain was on the way using a similar method. Most of the time I could be home by the time the rain started. If you live in a cold climate you may notice the smell of snow before it snows especially t
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by dghughes 14y ago
Utility companies are in the power business I don't see why that means a giant plat full of machinery. Say a little old lady wants solar panels but is in no way capable of installing them anymore than she can install plumbing. Power utiliti
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by dghughes 14y ago
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/03/experts-pour-cold-wa...
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by dghughes 14y ago
I thought so too but the result would be a CD with grey stuff on it. My plan is to sell Lightscribe DVD drives and graphite oxide, like the store that sold shovels to gold miners.
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by dghughes 14y ago
A bit ironic, if I read it right Gorilla Glass has a (Mohs hardness) of about 7 or 8. Aluminum is about a 6 but oxidized luminum is corundum/sapphire is about a 9. The one thing you may have had in you pocket, oxidized aluminum object, will
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by dghughes 17y ago
The Axitron looks pretty sweet, it's a Macbook modded by Axiotron to become a real Mac tablet computer, the Modbook. Woz is on the board of advisors. http://www.axiotron.com
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by dghughes 17y ago
> It does not "take two" to make an assault. Actually it does :P
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by dghughes 17y ago
I understand that but why do we believe Sean C's side of the story? He could a bigger loon than she is, it takes two to make a fight.
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by dghughes 17y ago
> Accounts differ as to what happened next, but a struggle ensued. I don't get why Sean C.'s version is more believable than Diane Goodman's, I don't know either of them and nobody else witnessed the event so how can any of us judge?
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by dghughes 17y ago
That's very cheap, I buy Jamieson brand chocolate chewable vitamin D tablets and they cost around $30. I too live in Canada, work inside in a windowless area even in the summer, shift work, get up when it's dark, work in the dark and go ho
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by dghughes 17y ago
$75 for 'The Sound of Music' and then the reporter very quickly says "porno costs more."
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by dghughes 17y ago
"Another place the radar is invaluable? In fog. I drive over the Santa Cruz mountains every day to get home and there often is fog. One day there was a car in front of me that had no back taillights." I bet the driver of that car was just u
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by dghughes 17y ago
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by dghughes 17y ago
In my province there was a similar program, Provincial Nominee Program or PNP, an immigrant would invest $200,000 in a local business plus give a $25,000 deposit to the provincial government and the immigrant investor's citizenship request