PuppyCat: "
We already have those drugs around here. One comes in a bottle marked "Honey, I did the dishes" and the other bottle is marked "I didn't leave dirty socks and 3 beer bottles by the bed"."
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Phone an autoplan agent because I don't think your projected insurance cost on the Volvo is correct. IE: My 89 Storm with nothing but 1 million liability was $77 a month and I've got Road Star/no claims for 20 years. Heck my 50 year old tent... [
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Forgive my question but, shouldn't it be manditory for all schools and hospitals to have basements constructed or some large storm shelter to help this out?
This is somewhat debatable. On average any particular piece of property will only... [
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DarlingBri: "
As the person running the budget, you need an overage list: that list of items for which you do not anticipate having budget but would love to have in the years you do."
This is an important key point; you need to be... [
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The provincial government offers Home Preparedness Kits though a one person kit is $132. Their car kit is $85. It gives you an idea what the government thinks you should have on hand though what criteria they used I don't know. They also offer a... [
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robbyrobs: "
People should scan their photos and upload to Google/Flickr and/or put them on a hard drive with a friend/family in another location."
My offsite back up tape lives at my mother's place; which isn't 2 miles away.... [
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You say that like 50% of marriages don't end with the death of one of the members and the other 50% unhappily. [
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Whoa, the Wild Cards guy is the Game of Thrones guy? I really got to read GoT now. [
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4 weeks ago
Let's just say that there isn't any downside for media companies if 3 out of 10 DCMA claims prove to be spurious. [
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I wonder if there si anyone out there who would actually believe they could successfully buy Metafilter. And by successfully I mean have a metafilter after five years that anyone would recognize. Even Matt's fairly laissez-faire attitude towards... [
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zarq: "
The yahoo login at Flickr is a PITA, but they really haven't made any other changes that I can see."
They made all sorts of shitty changes over the years. Not the least of which was moving the servers to the US making the... [
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Sing Or Swim: "
It's like they were unhappy with a single click that means 'show me this picture bigger', so they consulted the Rube Goldberg School Of Web Design..."
I think it's all part of their anti-piracy measures and either... [
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I've harboured the stereotype that Germans in general are efficient but not that the Nazis were exemplary examples of German efficiency. I wonder if the impression that the Nazis were hyper efficient was partly a coping mechanism to deal with the... [
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It's certainly creepy, but ultimately how is it any different than any other documentary photography being shown in a fine art setting? Do war photographers release all of their subjects? "
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sammyo: "
Where is technology, we almost have robot cars, why not an electronic governor that limits speed near schools and other areas?"
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Because people use favorites this way, there is little functional difference between it and reddit's upvote/downvote other than that the effects are less immediate and more subtle and cumulative with favorites.
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I used to have to cross Laurier at this intersection (at the corner but no marked crosswalk because their aren't any in this subdivision except in the immediate vicinity of the school) and it was amazing to me how many drivers would blow through the... [
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Ah, annular. I was thinking that someplace half way around the world was getting a solar eclipse annually and I was thinking that is just so unfair. [
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In the heat of summer it's not rare to see guys running a cutting torch topless. Not on heavily regulated work sights but smaller shops. Hell I've probably done it. Obviously the bits are different though. And welders tend not to have flawless skin... [
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Why the reversed K in the replacement image? Is there some underlying US-Soviet tension to the hawkeye initiative? [
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instead of three wishes: "
two separate a/c-heating experts have looked my house up and down and told me to forget about installing a make-up air unit. The house is almost 80 years old, and has no forced air heat or central air conditioning.... [
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Slap*Happy: "
So, not only is the Conservative's view of science incompatible with academic science, it's also incompatible with commercial science."
Harper's government is essentially anti-science. Both on the front end like in... [
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I couldn't guess whether the Allan B. Polunsky Unit was named after some pro death penalty corrections officer or a former inmate. Either seems crazy. Turnes out Allan B. Polunsky is
a former chairperson of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice... [
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Jacqueline: "
But if they don't really mean anything, then why can't we have more of them to give???"
Brandon Blatcher: "
What sort of abuse would affect the site that requires limitation of favorites?"
If there... [
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Wow, I'm amazed they manage to pay these large salaries for football and still comply with Title IX. [
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HuronBob: "
I would love to wipe all my favorites at this point, but don't have the time or energy to do so. We really need a "wipe all favorites" nuclear button."
There's a greasemonkey script to help you with that.... [
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Once you get in the low dozens of favourites it becomes almost as much a chore finding something amongst your favourites as just searching the site.
Maybe I'm just a crappy searcher but I find the opposite to be true and I've got well over... [
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You could avoid accusations of grief flagging by flagging everything "fantastic comment". [
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The hackers diet has a similiar low time, no equipment work out but you don't have to be an olympic athelte to start on it. IE: if you can move at all you can start the first rung of the introductory ladder and it should take 15 minutes per day once... [
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I've been so poor that I've had to eat a can of tuna fish and make it last for three days, with nothing else to supplement it. I remember the days when a package of ramen noodles was a luxury. I never received government assistance or asked for it.... [
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en forme de poire your link is bad and because it's clever I can't search for your intention. [
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I'm not sure that engineering necessarily obliterates soul
True one only has to look at pretty well any mega buck Itailian thing to come out, but mainstream car companies under the influence of safety pundits and consumer reports and their... [
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Especially for something so heavily linked and so preventative justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow (unlike say birth control where covering birth control delays more than prevents).... [
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Justinian: "
Can people with a bunch of kids really do their shopping on foot?"
Do it all the time (though I only have the one kid my father lives with us). I start work 2 hours before my wife so I'm off two hours earlier so my... [
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mlis: "
Nothing says, "I am an entitled, self-involved twit" more than when people write, "Haven't read your whole question, but, [answer]" or "Haven't read all of the answers, but, [answer].""
While... [
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I'd probably have two levers, each like parking brakes, on either side of your seat.
This prevents anyone with use of only one hand from driving and it also prevents two handed drivers from switching off between hands to give their hands a... [
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I'm not enough of a recreational drug conisiour to come up with the right match for NetHack though I'm sure there is some old timey drug like Quaaludes or absinthe that would fit the bill.... [
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arcticseal: "
How is this not overstepping a person's right to privacy? I get the "I have nothing to hide, and hence have nothing to fear" approach but I think everyone has conversations and a reasonable expectation of privacy.... [
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jamjam: "
the young white woman has pretty clearly been raped"
Whaaa?
I'm starting to think this commercial is some sort of accidental Rorschach test and people are just seeing what they want or expect to see.... [
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I'm not sure what your point is yodelingisfun.
The probably use roads; register their births, deaths and marriages; operate under the protection of various civil protection agencies; hold passports; pay required taxes; buy regulated fuel from... [
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I keep hearing that the US murder rate is falling and that the gap between the rich and poor is increasing.
Both these things can be true if another factor (say access to abortion or removal of lead from gas) drives the murder rate down... [
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You'd want to pay if you couldn't get an antenna to work. [
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Not really, most people don't get an internet connection for free. [
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A business acquaintance of a friend used to make wood dildos, lathe turned with minor hand carving afterwards, way back before eBay came down on adult listings. Maybe he still does? At any rate we were sitting around a camp fire talking one night... [
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