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by tunap 10y ago
I was certain you were going to conclude with coaching her on how to remove the ball and clean the oil/dirt/hair off the rollers with a q-tip.
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by tunap 10y ago
Or, stop throwing gas on the fire to entertain the mob mentality and sell more ads. A vote by 4 individuals killed(most) unbiased reporting in the US 30 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
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by tunap 10y ago
Now we get to play whack-a-mole script blocking. Been noticing less 'Print' versions these days, too. So much for convenience & 'save the trees' if you want to print out a page without the secondary cruff.
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by tunap 10y ago
MSI sent me 5 out of warranty mobo's during the 'great capacitor plague'[0]. Never before or since have I had anything that close to painless doing warranty work. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacit
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by tunap 10y ago
I had a rep tell me a), they were the final arbiter and nobody to escalate to, quite a few years back. Was before they reorganized Dell Outlet... scratch & ding was a separate choice from refurbished. I chose the former and received the
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by tunap 10y ago
Stone age and profiting b/c people keep giving them money. Damned if I'm going to spend $hundreds on paper tickets, parking & over-priced junk food when the location of the seats(in said price tier) is determined by someone el
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by tunap 10y ago
NHL Center Ice was awesome when the commercial break came & you got the static camera image as the guy announced he has to hit the head and additional audio of announcers' goings on in the booth prepping for next segment. Of course
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by tunap 10y ago
Everything is sponsored and the rest is badly-written/executed script. "Show your support, send in your twits/texts to get something<worthless> free". Or, "Be the first to see this or that thinly-associated xy
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by tunap 10y ago
Electrical tape does the job in one application. You can even buy matching colors if standard black contrasts with your device/bezel/case. edit: sorry, did not see 'electrical' in your post. What device has luminosity to
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by tunap 10y ago
Even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardness I read an enlightening discussion on HN a few months back about "hardness". I was under the impression professional scientists/researchers do not use t
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by tunap 10y ago
And the internal audits of the other major banks have yet to uncover wrongdoing. And yet, up to a year ago I couldn't walk into any bank without getting the desperate, hard sell for services. Where's the BofA and Chase inquiries?
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by tunap 10y ago
I tired of the 'whack-a-mole' game and just stopped installing post-March 2015 updates on my Win 7 install. It may be vulnerable(what isn't?), but 3rd party sandboxing, firewall and noscript mitigate the immediate, automated
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by tunap 10y ago
The price sounds low. My initial question, "doesn't NHL advertising alone come close to this?" seems to be answered already. Not anymore. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canadas-tv...
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by tunap 10y ago
throw a "not" in the 1 sentence of last paragraph if you can still edit. correct meaning is still obvious with omission.
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by tunap 10y ago
Interesting theory, small sample. For me, it's more looking into the face of another is distracting. I involuntarily imagine time-lapse(forward & back) of a speaker/listener's face, note a facial scar/blemish and won
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by tunap 10y ago
"The problem with this is, do you want every program you ever use, to start prompting you with a series of questions about various opt-in / opt-out questions?" Simple answer, Yes. It would lead to conversations about the elep
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by tunap 10y ago
13 years ago a friend joined the ranks of "first responders". While they were studying and working up the org ladder he/she shared insights into the mechanisations of terror mitigation & response policies. The most notewo
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by tunap 10y ago
Fun Thanksgiving fact: the Mayflower colonists were starving next to a bay/coast full of "mud bugs" when the locals, overlooking earlier transgressions that depleted their winter stores, took pity on their starving "gues
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by tunap 10y ago
Yes, the south-west US exclusively. I never achieved "big wall" climber status. I have much respect for those who achieve such heights, while not necessarily caring for the attitude/mindset/personality required to reac
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by tunap 10y ago
Yup, different strokes. If I don't take time to reflect my life becomes messy and my decisions become reflexive instead of weighted. When I am heated, I do go through the thoughts and let emotions run(alone) to allow the release long b
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by tunap 10y ago
"add to it very friendly community" Mmmm, my experience was quite different. I found it very click-ish and there was never a shortage of people saying "you're doing it wrong" based entirely on an incomplete observat
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by tunap 10y ago
In my experience, audiobooks are excellent for wide open freeway miles, and much less beneficial in traffic. One small event(close call) becomes an attention tangent and I miss last 10 or more seconds of content. Which leads to fiddling to
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by tunap 10y ago
I consider it a feature, more times than not. Google's anticipating my search, flash heavy eye-candy/media and numerous unaffiliated servers baked into web pages all clog my 1mb connection and make my browser run like molasses. Ho
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by tunap 10y ago
It's also heavily weighted by what they want you to buy : over-stock, higher margins, last year's models.
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by tunap 10y ago
Worst case scenario must include if they find a market for the data, similarl to the recent AT&T revelations. Pick your source: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=at%26t+data+government...
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by tunap 10y ago
The "how" they make money and how they secure, anonymize and to whom they share it are all important considerations that are almost exclusively(there are exceptions) never divulged.
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by tunap 10y ago
An article on artificially inflated chicken prices and no mention of the water scams? Perhaps the purpose of the article has a political objective besides commodity prices.
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by tunap 10y ago
I employ the social rationalization, too. And what's a smoke break without a smoke? The secondary benefit for me is one of my early cessation attempts I knew I couldn't succeed if I drank so I quit drinking and never recommenced a
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by tunap 10y ago
I concede that is your opinion for R4YL2's post though still disagree to it's worth, the other subject was a comparison to Black Mirror content & execution; guess that is why there is no sole arbiter of value here. As for MFU&
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by tunap 10y ago
Awesome. I would very much like to quit and will give that a go. It's not the quitting I dread, it's the deep, perilous dread I feel when withdrawl begins, only an hour or two after the last. I know rationally I can do it, I go 6-

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