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Sorry, but it's Saturday, and I'm going to listen to Car Talk, and then trim some overgrown bushes along the fence in the back yard. After that,..." [
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""...Importantly, though, the medication didn't change because the diagnosis changed; rather it changed because atypical antipsychotics are newer and they have fewer side effects, and thus patients are more likely to stay on them. ......" [
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7 days ago
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"My only issue with this is that it took 8 shots and a 3 hour chase to kill the animal. For an animal that size, even a massive handgun is pretty clearly the wrong weapon, although the boy was probably shooting it for record book purposes. Still,..." [
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7 days ago
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10 days ago
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""... If the prayer is genuine, it is heartening that Obama recognizes that the greatest danger to himself is the pride that comes with great power."
posted by eustacescrubb at 10:27 AM on July 27
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11 days ago
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""No, see, jock@law, you don't understand: we don't take religious people seriously here at MetaFilter, so in order to take Obama seriously (which we have to do because he's our only hope against the Evil Empire), we have to believe that he's not..." [
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11 days ago
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12 days ago
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12 days ago
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"I'm with Mutant, but a simpler way of thinking about the Powerpoint/No Powerpoint dichotomy is that, when you give a Powerpoint presentation, you are generally talking to an "audience." When you eschew Powerpoint, you are, to a great extent,..." [
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"Where I live, for better or worse, "Free Bird" is kind of sacrosanct. Believe it or not, Lynyrd Skynyrd still protects the song, vociferously, not just for the money it still brings in, but because it still brings tears to the eyes of their..." [
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13 days ago
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""isn't there a way to load the bullet so that it's further back in the barrel? ..."
posted by not sure this is a good idea at 1:07 PM on July 26
Bullpup designs attempt that, but are not without their own limitations. A key problem for..." [
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13 days ago
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""... But I have no idea when and where and how to begin such a conversation, given that it will never come up naturally."
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I can tell you how not to start it. Do not start it, as I once did,..." [
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2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
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"Better than merely a reading list, do the MIT OpenCourseWare in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (or at least those courses that interest you). Course descriptions contain textbooks and reading materials, usually available through Amazon,..." [
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2 weeks ago
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""... Something is better than nothing."
posted by allkindsoftime at 3:48 AM on July 21
Not in the opinion of the AU, allkindsoftime. And I don't mean that as short jab snark, either. Literally, the AU wants nothing to do with American..." [
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2 weeks ago
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""So it just means 8th notes? As in 8 notes per bar?
posted by jpdoane at 1:05 PM on July 20
Mostly. A 4/4 rhythm would normally be counted with a strong downbeat on 1 and secondary emphasis on the 3rd beat. Beats 2 and 4 are unaccented. 4/4..." [
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"Boogie-woogie (later swing) tunes counted eight-to-the-bar were, from the outset, dance music. The point of eight-to-the-bar was to be a fast dancer's count, for jitterbug, Lindy hop and swing style dances. So, the call to "beat it..." [
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2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
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""... If China doesn't care about that, I don't see how the weakness and indebtedness of African governments is going to be a major obstacle to them. ..."
posted by russilwvong at 7:54 PM on July 21
If it were possible for China to just..." [
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2 weeks ago
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""... I don't however understand what you mean by an "unfettered" China - isn't that pretty much what they are now?"
posted by allkindsoftime at 11:07 AM on July 21
If the post WWII experience of the IMF and World Bank in..." [
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2 weeks ago
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""... I agree that military pressure isn't feasible, but shouldn't it be possible for the West to compete economically? ..."
posted by russilwvong at 2:44 PM on July 21
The purpose of competition is usually to win some prize or advantage,..." [
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2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
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""... China is raping Africa, economically, because they can, because there's not enough motivation for the rest of the world to blow the whistle. ..." [emphasis added]
posted by allkindsoftime at 6:47 AM on July 20
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2 weeks ago
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"Here's some data from Japan, where open office plan is quite common. The Japanese have a proverbial expression that translates as "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down." In a typical large Japanese office, up to a hundred desks are..." [
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2 weeks ago
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""... Has anyone ever been in a situation like this? Or have advice on how to handle it? ..."
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IANAL, but I have been divorced. The majority of people getting divorced have communication problems,..." [
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"There can be a big disconnect between your self-perception as being unintelligent, and the external perception people have of you. You needn't be highly intelligent, or educated, to be very, very valuable to many people, if you can learn to listen..." [
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"Some other points, I should have included above:
During the divorce process, you'll have a period of several months to more than a year, depending on your jurisdiction and the complexity of your settlement agreements, to get over your old life,..." [
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posted by ikkyu2 at 11:09 PM on July 18
For once, I'm in complete agreement with ikkyu2.
"... As I said, we stopped drinking a little over a week ago, and my wife is still..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Maybe what's happening in your life is that romantic fascinations unduly telescope your focus. It goes something like this:
1) Unattached, you have a life pattern that is acceptable, but borderline boring. Maybe you have casual friends, a decent..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Coffee snobs will argue that this is a lousy idea, because it allows freshly ground coffee to oxidize for hours before brewing, but I put a loaded coffeemaker with a timer outside my bedroom, set to start brewing 15 minutes before my alarm is set to..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"One of the things that made LeFaro great wasn't his bass playing at all - it was the relationship he forged with Bill Evans. Evans was deeply into heroin by then, and LeFaro was one of the few people Evans really connected with in that period, on a..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"I have a couple of set of friends, in long term arranged marriages, and while I think none of them would say their marriages have become particularly romantic, they work for other reasons. So, on behalf of those pragmatic folks, I can say that..." [
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