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"A general tip for lectures that I've discovered over the years (i'm not a law student, but I imagine it's universal): it can be tempted to space out during a lecture, especially if you are given the material ahead of time as lecture notes or printed..." [
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"Posted on behalf of my girlfriend, who reads MeFi but doesn't have an account, and first wondered if this might be a cultural thing:
I am from a Muslim country with very traditional sets of values, especially when it is concerning women, marriage,..." [
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2 days ago
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"They've either caused or exacerbated a tendency to see women not as people, but as a means to an end (sex, "a little son") and as types who need to be assessed and manipulated by category in order to reach those ends
Exactly what I was..." [
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4 days ago
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"Fuck. Late to the thread and I might have been able to contribute something. Oh well.
I just want to say that this thread captures the worst of Metafilter and it means I will never, ever share anything that really moves me, because I don't think..." [
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10 days ago
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"Earnest, joyful singing can be endearing and warming. Cutesy, goofball singing can be really aggravating.
Like, imagine you're on a bus and someone starts singing along to their headphones and it's like, I don't know, "Satisfaction"..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Not a lawyer but I found lots of stuff on Google. See Law FAQ. Melgy appears to be correct in that he is allowed to detain shoplifters outside the store. See also this story which came up in my Googling in which security guards tackled a..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"A CD-ripping party. Invite 15 or 20 of your friends over on a Sunday and tell them to bring their laptops. Each person gets a stack of 100 CDs to rip. Afterwards they can dump the results on a network drive. Provide entertainment, food, and drink...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
3 weeks ago
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"Oh hey, you know what's always bugged me about Reboot, at least in the early days? The ending of the opening sequence.
"They say the user lives *outside* the web. No-one knows for sure... but I intend to find out." Reboot!
Except the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last month
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"God dammit. I was expected a poignant thread filled with emotional stories that would bring me closer to all of my fellow mefites. Instead we get Yoda snark. Well fine, I'll keep my own emotional story then...." [
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Last month
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"Kind of speculating here but this quote brings lots of interesting ideas to mind.
Imagine an island close to the mainland that wants a bridge. The bridge is built and all sorts of wondrous things are expected. But a generation later, the island..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
Last month
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"Actually, I've been thinking about this and I tend to agree with straight, to a degree. Music may succeed at doing what it is supposed to do, and thus we should call it good music; yet we may not agree that the music's purpose is valuable. I would..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hal incandenza
2 months ago
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"fourcheesemac, I would definitely subscribe to your newsletter. And if you write a book about this stuff, I will buy it (when I can afford to buy books again).
Seconded! This was one hell of a thread. I also skipped over it since I didn't feel..." [
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2 months ago
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"P.S. I wasthinking more in terms of environmental problems but it could apply to the economy as well. I was talking to someone about the prospects of some kind of environmental doom or collapse. He said, "what would collapse look like if not..." [
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2 months ago
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"Did anyone notice this? Some 89 percent of persons known to have AIDS are homosexuals or intravenous drug users.
Drug users and homosexuals are lumped together. So really the amount of homosexual AIDS cases could be as high as 89%, but could be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
2 months ago
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"According to the article the original sign said "Caution" only - I didn't catch any mention of "Prohibido". Presumably it was added later on. Which is fascinating, in fact. The sign has two interpretations, depending on who you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arcticwoman
2 months ago
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"xkcd comes through with the most sophisticated rickroll ever. First read this comic, it's the recent one about marching band kids falling over when you pause the background music: comic
Now imagine you're a musician and you see the music he's..." [
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3 months ago
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"I don't see anything wrong with saying "I would appreciate a decision with two weeks", whether there is another offer to back it up or not. You're not willing to sit in limbo forever, right?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zeph
3 months ago
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"I can't help but think of the awesome Polysics show in Vancouver I saw last year, featuring such heavily-accented-English gems as:
"Thank you VanCOUVAAA!"
"We are Polysics, from Tokyo, Ja-PAAAAAN!"
"We are going to rock..." [
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3 months ago
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"Yeah, this is the trouble with AskMe. Often you get answers to the questions you didn't ask. You did ask for what to put in the drawer. You did not ask if your boyfriend would enjoy such a gift.
The thing is, like katillathehun says, people try..." [
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3 months ago
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"The sextant is awesome.
When I saw the five sponsors I kind of winced. Because coffee mugs and t-shirts are great, but if they have logos all over them I feel kind of silly using them. I wonder if you could print a little card with the five logos..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
3 months ago
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"I like that article. Did you notice the title, or how he threw this in at the end in the middle of a paragraph? There's a blaze of light in every word, it doesn't matter which you heard, and every song contains a thousand possibilities—or, at least,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spongeboy
3 months ago
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"I was staggered when I first found reference to this online. Because, of course, as a child I was a regular watcher of Pinky and the Brain and I had seen the short, which was called Yes, Always. I was maybe twelve. It was one of the more bizarre..." [
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4 months ago
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"I can't help except to say that I am 100% this was an episode of Law and Order. This was McCoy's brazen strategy. They had two defendants both accused of the crime and while both were there, only one pulled the trigger; the defendant's lawyer..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sperose
4 months ago
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"God I feel so sorry for this kid. So many of us know what it's like to be weighed down by other people's expectations. Any overachievers in the crowd? I know my parents bragged when I was accepted to a respected engineering program. Every family..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by dabitch, zeph, koeselitz, ShawnStruck
4 months ago
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"This reminds of me of a project a friend of mine has been doing for a little while: The Anonymous Photo Project. He leaves packages that contain disposable cameras and an addressed stamped envelope in public places. People take cool photos and mail..." [
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
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"That video is awesome. Especially Adam's maniacal, triumphant laughter as the plane takes off." [
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5 months ago
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"well, first of all my band is not called the Black Fridays. In fact we're so new we don't have a name yet. But my last band was called Speaking of Devils. Second, we played at Hoko's Sushi and Karaoke Bar, not the Lunchbox, though I can see how..." [
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5 months ago
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"I personally think about it this way. Sooner or later I or someone I care about is going to be stuck in a hard spot and will be counting on the generosity of a stranger to help them out. I would like to live in a world where such help is offered..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by herbaliser, nooneyouknow, sgobbare
5 months ago
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"stbalbach, I was hoping when I got back to my desk that the discussion would be about "doomer porn" - great term - and not about peak oil. Unfortunately it seems the train has left the station on a different track. I guess peak oil is..." [
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5 months ago
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"Actually I think this is a very good topic for discussion. I don't think there is any serious way anyone could argue that our oil supply will not run out sooner or later. But a number of peak oil believers have predicted the end of the world so..." [
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5 months ago
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"I'm really curious about this book too actually, I've heard conflicting reports about it from sources I trust. Comments like Rash's don't really provide any useful information...." [
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5 months ago
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"As an engineer I like to imagine professionals as little parts of a big system. The only way such a system works is if the little parts are well characterized - you know that if you provide certain inputs, the part will work its magic and produce..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sondrialiac, limeonaire, fox_terrier_guy
5 months ago
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"It's a subtle question, which I discovered when I sat down to bang out an answer and decided I needed to do some research first.
I will refer you first to the introductory slides [pdf] for a Stanford electrical engineering course on the topic...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by drezdn, teraflop, sien, ErWenn, saeculorum
5 months ago
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"What about the poor sap who's second in line for fellowship B and would get it if not for this backhanded deal? He should at least be brought into play here so they can have a bidding war.
If all parties think there is nothing ethically wrong..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by The World Famous, hjo3, Meatbomb, clarahamster, kurtroehl
5 months ago
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"Tex: Maybe it is my Canadian upbringing but I find your perspective rather baffling. The main difficulty with health care is that anyone anywhere can become ill or injured and require intensive care; often the person has no control over it...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by moonlet, marble, sondrialiac, Grangousier, klangklangston
5 months ago
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"I've thought about it some more and I can think of one ethical reason against it.
- From Fellowship B's perspective, no problem, they get the candidate they want.
- From my perspective, financially I come out the same. Perhaps I lose a little..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
5 months ago
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"that's lame, I'm sorry. It took forever to load and it wasn't very much fun." [
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5 months ago
