MeFi comment:
"Were they told the hardware specs? Because that's the real dead-giveaway. I mean, yeah you can make Vista look like XP... who cares if it still sucks up twice as many resources and thrashes your hard drive when it's idle?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
2 ½ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"'tragically, Violence.'
Much better than plain 'Violence'. In fact, I suggest that every name be predicated with an adverb.
"My name? Yes, it's Smith. Predictably John Smith...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sebastienbailard, transona5, topynate
3 ¼ hours ago
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"NYC and SF are the best for living car free.
Boston trumps NYC any day of the week, any week of the year in terms of walkability. New York is fucking big as you will quickly realize once you try and go without mass transit (which is ludicrously..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by zaphod, DoctorFedora
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I've been a member of iCE...
I was a member of iCE waaaaaay back in the day. Around 1991, if memory serves right.
Woah, fellow iCE alum here, too! '92-'93. Same handle, too.
That's why it pays to think hard about your goddamned handle,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by cavalier
Yesterday
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"I drove across the country in my first Miata back around 1999. It was a fucking blast. If you know your way around Miatae, you already know that you can basically weld the hood shut on the things. The following is a list of all the problems that I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by yohko, eriko
Yesterday
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"He's getting text messages from an intern in the middle of the night?
Sorry, but it's over." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by damnjezebel
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I still don't understand what calculus is, and I've read the wikipedia entry and everything.
The fucking wikipedia entry suffers from the same problem most math textbooks suffer from, which is that they don't explain things in common terms that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Brian B., darkstar, jaymzjulian
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Delia is the Ada Lovelace of electronic music. She is the pioneer. Like in Genesis... before her, there was nothing. I wish more of the world knew about her contributions. Delia Derbyshire was so profoundly prescient she should be taught about in..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jonathanbell, chuckdarwin, Blacksun
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Nice sentiments, but bullshit.
100% yes. This country is full of apathetic doo-gooders who just want to close their eyes and make all the boogie men go away. It doesn't work like that. Turn the other cheek and you just get slapped twice.
If..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mammary16, lupus_yonderboy
6 days ago
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"Just to balance DaShiv's Canon lens lineup with a Nikon group:
The most important lens for a cropped Nikon:
Nikkor 17-55 DX AFS f/2.8
It will cost a couple hundred more than the body. If you don't want to spend that much go with the next-best..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cosmic osmo
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"My friend once wrote an article comparing penguins to koala bears after visiting Australia and New Zealand. The basic gist was, koala bears get stoned and sleep three quarters of their life away, while the poor penguin is faced with unbearable..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by halonine, Kattullus
7 days ago
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"I had the same problem, but thankfully our next-door neighbor was finally evicted. We tried to be diligent about locking our doors (first floor apartment), but every now and then we'd forget and have random people walking through our front doors...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mynameismandab
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Ibuprofin is over the counter. It's available, legally, anywhere in the country. It's even available in generic form. A kid could walk into a supermarket, purchase a giant tub of 1000 ibuprofin generics for, like, $10, but as soon as the analgesic..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by ZakDaddy, miss-lapin, shinynewnick, Jilder, babybuns, Dreama, any major dude, Senor Cardgage, aeschenkarnos, orthogonality, dantsea, blueberry, perilous, sonic meat machine, JHarris, phrontist, jonp72, Pope Guilty, dejah420, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, Krrrlson, oaf, jedicus, dabitch
10 days ago
Ask comment:
"1. Sign up for a good USENET feed that offers a web interface so you can download over port 80 (aka http--the port all "regular" web traffic goes over).
2. Laugh maniacally at Comcast's impotence...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by T.D. Strange
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I used to work at a place that both wrote and graded the state exams they give in the Northeast. The description of the table-leader and "voice from above" is apt: that's exactly how we did it as well. From the readers I talked with, the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vsync
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"This? This is what happens in monoculture. [...] If anything I see these people as potential victims of a system, or symptoms of an unhealthy cultural ecosystem.
I dunno, loq. The funny thing is that they aren't decorating their cars with Nike or..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by humannaire, wemayfreeze, Monochrome, noway
11 days ago
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"Sorry, forgot to follow up.
The easiest way to get two things to float to the right and left sides of a container is explained much better here.
But it looks like you've got everything looking good at least, in the only browser that matters......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by goodnewsfortheinsane
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"For years and years, margarine was all you could get in southern restaurants (I don't know about the rest of the country: maybe sanity prevailed elsewhere).
I experienced a similar phenomenon the first time I tried coffee in the Great Plains...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by BrotherCaine, Blazecock Pileon
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I loves me some iconiclasm here and there, but a few points of clarification need to be made, in fairness:
Does Daniel do any kind of conditioning specific to a fighting tournament?
Presumably he already has some fighting experience, though..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JT, blueberry, JibberJabber
13 days ago
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"You are very defensive, I wonder if you could step out of the thread for a while and just listen?
Maybe he's defensive because he's specifically, repeatedly asked for alternative solutions to therapy, and people still keep insisting on bringing it..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Wilder, HighTechUnderpants, Phalene
2 weeks ago
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"Hmm. Upon further Holga research, you're dealing with a fixed shutter speed of 1/100th of a second an aperture range of f/8-f/11. If you don't have any metering ability, I would recommend getting a cheap flash like the Vivitar 285, set it to f/8,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Korou
2 weeks ago
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"Look, birds are just lizards with slightly more mileage on their evolutionary engine. I've got no moral problem with eating something that was trying to kill my distant mammalian relatives 65+ million years ago. They're a good source of protein,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roombythelake
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Taking something that isn't yours? That is theft.
Nothing is being taken, ergo, it's not theft. Too hard?
Here...
Copying == Duplicating
Taking != Duplicating
ergo...
Copying != Taking
People who keep bleating about "blah blah..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by grouse, perilous, Popular Ethics
2 weeks ago
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"When I was a young lad and had just discovered Nineteen Eighty-Four, my mother gave me another book in a similar vein that I had never heard of, and to this day most people familiar with the author's works have never heard of it, let alone read it--..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Goofyy, badmoonrising, methylsalicylate
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Woah... the good folks who do the lego videos have a fucking awesome Lego Bohemian Rhapsody." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zeugitai_guy
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"anyone can learn rogramming
Sure, anyone can learn (p)rogramming. But not everyone can do programming. Just like anyone can learn math, or biology, or law, and yet we are not a nation of doctor-lawyer-mathematicians. Know why? Because knowing..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, liza
3 weeks ago
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"You may not be a native English speaker, in which case I really do apologize, but your sentences sound like they were translated into Martian and then retranslated back into English. You'll have to take my word for it.
Huh? They read like..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by danOstuporStar
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""He was especially hard on the little things... the helpless and the gentle creatures."
Easily my favorite line in the movie." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 weeks ago
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"(I won't go into details here, but let's just say that this is a very youth-oriented social circle that is very interested in partying and youth culture in general)
And they're in their 30s? Remind yourself that they're feebly grasping on to the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by mynameismandab, konolia, Listener
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"We know nothing of this person's private life. Perhaps they have a jilted lover, or an vengeful ex-spouse? Perhaps they work as a military contractor, or study biological agents? These days, it's easy as heck to spy on someone. It doesn't have to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by yohko
3 weeks ago
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"As has already been said, Indonesia was the bees knees in terms of affordability. Much more so than Thailand or Malaysia. You can get by on $500/month easily in Indo--even in Bali, which is overrun with tourists. Other inexpensive choices are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Without immunity to the diseases of the day you would be a dead man in just a few years.
Modern human beings are swarming with inoculations given at birth to stop those very diseases that used to be real trouble-makers in our past. The biggest..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sindark
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Sick and strange, yet I can understand and relate. I had a cut that took forever to heal, because once the scab solidified it would itch like mad. I would just start scratching and scratching it until the scab was scratched off, but the scratching..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm sure I could jam at least 50 babies into a Volvo
Better that than a single baby in 50 Volvos." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I also refuse to shoot straight weddings.
So, you admit to discriminating against the recently wedded?
HOW LONG CAN AMERIKA STAND 4 THIS INJUSTICE!?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Caduceus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The live feed doesn't say conclusively but the consensus seemed to be there were no rules—batter and pitcher could switch whenever they wanted.
That really, really bugged me. The rules for switch hitters meeting switch batters has been known for..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nev, transona5, zippy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"But we shouldn't ignore the truth.
I think the really important part of the story that always seems to get glossed over in high school history class is that the slaves were only truly free once they reached Canada. Just getting to the North..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ethnomethodologist
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Most decent homes here in Canada cost about $450K (but $800K is not at all out of the ordinary), and the average household income is, what, CDN $50K a year?
What?!
Survey of Canadian Pricing, Q1, 2008 [PDF]: Average Two-Story Home..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jubal Kessler
Last month
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"They may not be that dumb. If you buy a vowel, you don't have to spin, and there's no chance of going bankrupt.
This is a good point that bears repeating. Strategically, if you haven't figured out what the answer is and you don't have any easy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
Last month
