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Canadian politics: If you were thinking about running for mayor of a small town in Canada, what would you do? How would you prepare?
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at 9:01 PM on July 6, 2008
(11 comments)
Languages: 'I'm coming' versus 'I'm going' in response to 'Come here!'
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at 2:35 AM on May 27, 2008
(33 comments)
So Hunter S Thompson's dead and I don't really know which writers to turn to, as the American election year gets underway, who can bring the mad skills, the savage wit, and the dedication to cutting through the usual bullshit. Wanna-be gonzo schtick I'm not so excited by; clear, fearless, honest voices for the win!
Drug references optional.
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at 9:00 PM on January 3, 2008
(25 comments)
In America, you have to be born there to be President. Is there a similar law in Canada? Do you have to be Canadian-born to ever be Prime Minister, or just a citizen?
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at 10:49 PM on November 29, 2007
(28 comments)
Investment timing: what do you think of the timing at the moment for dropping money into China funds, or
BRICs?
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at 4:27 PM on November 13, 2007
(24 comments)
Is there any connection between eating meals close to bedtime and elevated risk of developing diabetes?
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at 5:43 AM on July 6, 2007
(15 comments)
What tends to happen to a large, international company's stock price post-hostile acquisition in the case of the acquired company?
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at 7:34 PM on May 29, 2007
(14 comments)
Can anyone help me with escalating past first-level support on Paypal? It's an old old story with Paypal, apparently, but I'm almost at the end of my rope.
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at 9:12 PM on May 17, 2007
(11 comments)
Can anyone offer advice for going back to the gym after a back injury and six months of downtime?
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at 8:49 PM on March 11, 2007
(15 comments)
English grammar: 'could be Xing' versus 'can be Xing' -- how can we explain why one is correct and one isn't?
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at 6:20 PM on December 12, 2006
(23 comments)
Possibly a longshot : can anyone recommend an accountant in Vancouver?
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at 5:51 PM on September 14, 2006
(5 comments)
Recommendations for places to buy good quality, reasonably-priced men's clothing in Vancouver?
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at 9:05 PM on September 3, 2006
(15 comments)
If you're interested in Korea, what would you want to see in a Korea-centric website?
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at 10:01 PM on June 21, 2006
(29 comments)
Hard drive password: the Samsung laptop my wife uses suddenly started asking for HDD 0 password on bootup. Checking in the bios confirms that a password has been set on the HDD. She swears she didn't do it, and has no idea what happened. What to do?
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at 5:03 AM on May 20, 2006
(15 comments)
During a recorded history lecture I was listening to recently, the professor mentioned in passing that Plato had said something to the effect that 'the Greeks never invented anything (but perfected what they borrowed)'. Can anyone point me to or quote the actual text in question, if it exists?
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at 6:56 PM on April 20, 2006
(5 comments)
Are there any reasonable scientific explanations for the fact that the width of the moon as viewed from the surface of the Earth is precisely the right width to match the apparent width of the sun, and give us total eclipses? It does seem
spectacularly unlikely that it turned out that way by mere chance.
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at 8:34 PM on March 29, 2006
(50 comments)
What's a cheap and reasonably quick way to get from Vancouver to Nova Scotia (and back)? Are there any?
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at 12:45 AM on December 12, 2005
(18 comments)
Has the Bush administration been cutting or curtailing benefits to active duty soldiers and veterans, and if so, can you point me to non-opinion sources that would back up such an assertion?
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at 2:39 AM on November 18, 2005
(6 comments)
How/where can one find average home-sale prices (and other related data) for regions or towns or neighbourhoods in cities, in Canada?
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at 11:12 PM on October 11, 2005
(8 comments)
Someone's been sending emails to me with virus attachments from what appears to be my domain, from non-existent email addresses there. What is happening, and can I stop it?
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at 5:10 PM on August 13, 2005
(5 comments)
I'm looking for a freeware playlist-file generation tool for a large mp3 collection on Windows XP.
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at 12:32 AM on June 24, 2005
(5 comments)
The American administration is ratcheting up the rhetoric again about North Korea. Hostilities may or may not break out, of course, but if they do, what happens to the value of the South Korean currency?
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at 5:21 PM on June 2, 2005
(20 comments)
In Korea, the thinking seems to be 'the bigger the piece of fruit or vegetable, the better'. In western countries where I've lived, the opposite tended to be the case -- people seem to value the little tender baby ones the most. Is this merely fashion, or is there any nutritional basis to the preference, either way?
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at 10:18 PM on December 13, 2004
(10 comments)
Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan. There seem to be quite number of MeFites who live (or have lived) in Japan, and I'm extremely curious about their take on this book, if they're read it. [more inside]
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at 4:55 PM on December 5, 2004
(4 comments)
If you had US$100,000 drop into your lap (I wish), and you were employed and debt-free, how would you put it to work to make a bigger nest egg or retirement fund? How would your strategy differ if you had high or low aversion to risk?
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at 6:26 PM on November 23, 2004
(28 comments)
What would be considered a reasonable 'going rate' for technical document translation from one language to another? Do these things tend to be per page, or time and materials, or what?
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at 11:43 PM on November 18, 2004
(8 comments)
How did East Asians do math before the adoption of arabic numerals, which are universally used today? Were there a variety of local systems? When did the switchovers happen? [more inside]
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at 7:16 PM on October 14, 2004
(19 comments)
Where you come from, do men blow-dry their testicles? [more inside]
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at 11:06 PM on September 20, 2004
(37 comments)
Physicists and Environmentalists : what's the downside to
this? Is there one (other than the disposal of depleted pebbles)? Seems pretty hope-making to me, layman that I am.
posted to Ask Metafilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 10:54 PM on September 16, 2004
(16 comments)
Who, in the wonderful world of personal websitery, makes you laugh? You know, deliberately. [a few examples inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 1:31 AM on September 8, 2004
(36 comments)
re :
this. This has been bugging me for a while - is there any way to use Google (or another search engine) to search Metafilter for the exact string "Metafilter: "?
posted to Ask Metafilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 5:46 PM on July 25, 2004
(5 comments)
Mefi biologist types : is
this bollocks? I suspect so, but hope springs eternal.
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at 1:26 AM on April 28, 2004
(13 comments)
Does anyone have any advice, resources or experience they can share on declaring bankruptcy, particularly in Canada?
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at 10:12 PM on February 3, 2004
(4 comments)
I have some questions about getting a non-fiction book published. [more inside]
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at 4:32 PM on January 27, 2004
(9 comments)
I have a old PC. I want to buy a big new (non-boot, second) hard drive. Will I have problems?
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at 5:03 PM on January 14, 2004
(7 comments)
My
folks are selling the fishing lodge they've been running for the last 7 years or so, and I really want to help them, though I'm half a world away. Does anyone know of free, relatively high-traffic places on the net to put the word out for something like this, or other strategies to find a buyer?
[more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:29 PM on January 12, 2004
(25 comments)
What's the best code-centric, css-aware HTML editor, or failing that, what's your favorite, and why?
[more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:01 PM on December 18, 2003
(41 comments)
