Flyering doesn't work immediately, but it can at least increase awareness that hey, there's a new porn store in town.
My suggestion is to find the nearby woods and leave some flyers there.... [
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You need to be asking for, ideally, half in advance. (This can be based on an estimate and you could call it a retainer or deposit.) At the very least bill in thirds: first third up-front, second chunk upon delivery of initial draft, final chunk upon... [
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I currently write developer documentation for a Web services platform. If you are someone who has the aptitude for programming, but who also has good writing skills and finds writing about technology satisfying, writing developer documentation is a... [
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8 days ago
This would have been a good question to ask US Season 3 winner Christine Ha at her recent Reddit Ask Me Anything. Maybe someone else asked! [
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11 days ago
The maid of honor has work to do. It is very, very easy for a bride to wreck a friendship during the planning of a wedding, especially with someone who is involved in putting the wedding together. Count yourself lucky.... [
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I have no idea what happens behind close doors between two shy types, but I have to believe it's boring.
Are you kidding? Shy people can actually be very communicative. They're just not communicative
with people they don't know.... [
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12 days ago
If you're in a monogamous relationship, you must treat monogamy as policy. A policy is simply
a decision that has already been made. Once you have decided to be monogamous, you do not ask yourself "shall I fuck her?" every time you... [
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13 days ago
I'd be careful with some of this stuff. If it's anything that the buyer might reasonably consider a fault or defect, they probably would have preferred to have known about it before the sale, so they may be quite displeased. For example: which... [
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In the Nursery's "Desiderata" is... well, the Desiderata of Max Ehrmann, recited over an orchestral backing track.
The Art of Noise's "Opus 4" is Thomas Hood's poem "November" (also known as "No!").
Dave... [
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A referral is not normally required.
It is if you want your insurance to pay for it! [
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Consider a Nexus 4. Much cheaper than the iPhone ($350 with no contract) and no carrier-specific bloatware. I got one in February and am thrilled with it. The size of the phone I have not really found to be a problem. Actually, my iPhone-using wife... [
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You live at least part of the time in Toronto, with a metro area population of 5 to 6 million humans, or whatever that is in metric. Odds are excellent that there is a single man just as awesome as the guy you are pining for within fifty miles of you.... [
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Are you tempted, perhaps, to convert some of your U.S. dollars to Australian dollars and put them in an Australian bank?
Good, that's just what the Australian government wants!... [
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Go to Autozone and get the diagnostic codes pulled (they'll do this for free). Then a bit of Googling should point you in the right direction. [
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The older parts expire from the server, or don't make it to your server in the first place. Like most Internet protocols, NNTP is best-effort and offers no guarantees.... [
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Yeah, I think you're fine.
Keep in mind that 1. Nobody is ever paying as much attention to you as you think they are; 2. You are an American (I assume) in France, so as long as you don't screw up
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2 months ago
Take the salary. Double it. (That's 50% for the benefits and taxes you now have to pay for yourself, another 50% for the work you have to do that doesn't pay you directly, such as bookkeeping and client acquisition, and because you probably won't be... [
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Warning: long-ass post.
MetaFilter has a lot of people who care about words and ideas and view the Web as the ideal medium for both. The cam and e/n crowds, in contrast, see the Web as a tool for personal connections. As an example (and not to... [
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3 months ago
if quonsar = ass
This is a common mistake but no less tragic for all that. See, you have actually just assigned your ass to quonsar. [
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3 months ago
Capacitance is not the term you want here, by the way: that's about storing electricity. You'd need a second metal plate positioned parallel to the first with an insulator between them to store (a very small amount of) electricity.
The brass... [
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3 months ago
I only use the flashdrive once b/c when I use them a few times my computer will corrupt them and then they're unusable and the data cannot be retrieved from them
Wouldn't this be a reason to
get your computer fixed rather than buying... [
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3 months ago
You can't really send emergency notifications to staff by SMS. SMS is a best-effort service and there is no guarantee as to when, or if, the message will arrive. You want a dedicated application that has a SLA with such a guarantee.... [
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You will probably have a better time investing the other packages support of clustering, distributing rendering, client-server, and/or playback synchronization—that is, using more standard terms for the feature than "boygrouping," which... [
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To 99.44% of people, a 165-pound standard-definition CRT TV has literally no value. So, you are not selling or giving away a TV, you are trying to throw one away. You are basically trying to hire someone to take it to the waste transfer station for... [
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4 months ago
What sold us on our awesome KitchenAid freezer-on-the-bottom French door fridge? The fact that you could tell the in-door water dispenser how much water you wanted, and it would dispense exactly that much. Need a cup of water for a recipe? No problem,... [
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4 months ago
An idea that I first heard at work, but which I have found useful in
many circumstances since, is that when two people have a disagreement, this almost always means that one of them has information that the other does not (this could of course... [
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4 months ago
Another thing that may help: you may feel a responsibility to keep some sort of contact with your parents simply because they're your parents.
But who instilled that idea into you? Those very parents! Absent some benefit to you of maintaining... [
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4 months ago
You shouldn't have to spend 30 minutes in the shower to rinse off. Soap is soluble in water, so virtually any amount of water will do; it doesn't need to be particularly high pressure.
If you are feeling a film after showering from other... [
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Agreed with the Empress here. I really only began being able to deal with my father when I realized that between the two of us, I was the grown-up and he was the child. I haven't gone so far as to imagine him physically as a child, but now that I... [
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4 months ago
By "owe no tax" that sentence you've quoted means
you have already paid all the tax you should be paying (through withholding or estimated payments) and do not owe any
additional tax. You are indeed required to file in that... [
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Putting money into savings is always good, but for life insurance it's exactly the wrong direction. Life insurance is intended to replace your future earnings. Your future earnings go down as you get older since you will be working for a shorter... [
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You can indeed buy a large monitor, but since it qualifies as professional gear, it's going to be more expensive than a regular TV with speakers and tuner and whatnot.... [
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I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout when I began having pain in my hands. Seems to have worked.
You're already using the gloves, right? Most people I know with CTS are; Adam Engst has recommended them several times in the Mac publication... [
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It varies based on your locality (sounds like you're in Canada) but in the US, it's based on "likelihood of confusion." That is, would an ordinary person, hearing your business's name, be confused about the origin of the products or... [
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Feed it to a cat
As a treat, in small portions. Tuna lacks nutrients vital to a healthy cat, and the animal will likely develop steatis, a painful inflammation of the subcutaneous fat caused by Vitamin E deficiency, if fed only tuna for an... [
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5 months ago
There is a very good chance that he's trying to scam you and so he'll never come back with a police report. I wouldn't spend a second worrying about it unless that happens.
To avoid this in the future, keep scrupulous records on who you're buying... [
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5 months ago
You can easily use your existing e-mail account with the device; the built-in mail client will handle this fine. You probably won't get push e-mail (that's where the e-mail server sends your e-mail to your phone the moment it arrives) but you can set... [
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5 months ago
Another genre of non-fiction I'd forgotten to mention would be the self-help/self discovery/how to develop useful skills in life type book.
I'd have to say my cornerstone here is David Richo's "How to be an Adult." I've found... [
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5 months ago
The reason e-commerce sites haven't moved to AOSSL is because they don't really have any incentive to do so. There would be costs involved in making the change (just for development and testing) and there is little evidence that these costs will... [
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5 months ago
Spark plugs for another $200 is, however, highway robbery. Spark plugs will cost you under $50 (slightly more for "premium" plugs, like iridium) and assuming you have no tools at all, you could use another $50 to buy what you need... [
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5 months ago
Either is valid. The two have distinctly, but subtly, different meanings. If you capitalize Isthmus you are shortening "Isthmus of Panama" and referring directly to that isthmus. If you don't cap it, you are talking about some isthmus,... [
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5 months ago
You may need spot treatment, the foaming kind. Put down a layer and then use a brush to work it into the area. Let it set 10-15 minutes per the directions, only instead of vacuuming, run the steam cleaner over it. Use water as hot as you can get, and... [
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It's not necessary to have 4G, if by 4G you mean LTE. HDSPA+ is nearly as fast, really, for most practical uses, and you save battery by not running two radios. My current plan is to get a Nexus 4 and Solavei SIM (T-Mobile HDSPA+ network with roaming... [
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