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"Go through the absolute beginner section on chordie. It has lots of recognizable and easy-to play tabs. Have fun!" [
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9 days ago
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"Do I simply sign up with the new provider, they transfer my number for me, and Verizon sends me a bill after the fact?
Yes, exactly.
As long as the early termination fee is paid, there will be no negatives attached to my credit
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2 weeks ago
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"You're right, verbal threats don't earn you respect. You earn respect by following through on your words with actions, by displaying mastery of your subject, by treating your students with respect and demanding nothing but the best from them...." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by woebot, HighTechUnderpants, ms.v., salvia, chicainthecity, zippity, lumosh
4 weeks ago
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"excessive use of anti-germ products does lead to bad outcomes in terms of resistant germs
That depends. Products which use alcohol to lyse the bacteria aren't going to contribute in any meaningful way to resistance. See previous answers here and..." [
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Last month
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"Personally, I'd prefer noon, but anytime after 9:30 or so works. It's at that point when I stop cursing at you for being an asshole, and start cursing at myself for staying up so late/drinking so much...." [
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Last month
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"BAT QUESTED?
BEAT QUEST DAY?
May I humbly suggest that omitting all vowels may not be the best solution in the future?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
2 months ago
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"Isn't it like the situation with vitamins: possibly helpful in food, virtually no benefit shown when taken in a capsule?
There's little benefit to vitamin capsules because we're getting pretty much everything we need in our diet. if 100% of your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by asuprenant
2 months ago
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"jlowen, Go here to turn that privacy-nightmare of a feature off"
http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=feeds&tab=external" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
2 months ago
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"You can use an iPod Shuffle in this manner if you download iPod shuffle Database Builder. (You'll have to install Python first, which is an easy installer too). Then, you just copy your files, double click on the script, and bam - you're good to go...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
2 months ago
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"Here's the Featured Articles page. These have been reviewed as the best articles on the site." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
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"Also, this is metafilter, so expect lots of people to tell you to get a Mac. As a fellow computational scientist and Ubuntu user, I'll suggest that you ignore them. If you're a comfortable linux user, a Mac probably isn't your best bet...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mphuie
2 months ago
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"I'm pretty sure they just planned on waiting a while for us to stop paying attention then resume their scummy business as usual.
Much like an elephant, MeFi never forgets...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by aeschenkarnos, luazinha, cass
2 months ago
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"My wife asked me about this a few weeks ago, and after grabbing some of the literature, I boiled it down to this:
There have been studies that showed a small increase in risk for stroke associated with use of oral contraceptives (OCs). OC's,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blacklite
3 months ago
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"Mike, I'm in the exact same situation. I've been contacted several times, both by local districts looking for help, and by this latest NESA search. I always send them a polite but firm letter. that is some variation of the following:
I am an..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ikkyu2, arcticseal, caution live frogs
3 months ago
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"Sell your spot for whatever you damn well please. After all, you're only one guy, and it sounds like they're selling lots of spaces. One customer gets a deal, and then they can continue hosing people for however much they want to charge...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by arcticseal, hulahulagirl
3 months ago
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"If you're willing to pay, buy some webhosting and install wordpress yourself (it really isn't hard). Then you can install whatever wordpress theme you want. (The same goes for movable type)..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by toekneebullard, terrapin
3 months ago
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"I'm a fellow Crohn's patient and biomedical researcher. I've combed the literature pretty extensively, and there is little clinical evidence that supports the use of most "alternative" treatments in CD. In fact, I've never even heard of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
3 months ago
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"coffeee beat me to the Blackbird suggestion - it's finger-picking fun.
Some others that I play, off the top of my head:
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
December - Collective Soul
Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
Kielbasa - Tenacious..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mosessis
3 months ago
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"Do you have colleagues who might have to debug your code someday? If so, using the language that they speak (whether that's spanish or english) will make life easier. Descriptive variable names aren't helpful if they're in a foreign tongue...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 months ago
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""I could care less", used to mean "I don't care at all". (instead of the proper "I couldn't care less")
That one drives me nuts.
And yes, I do judge people who use bad grammar...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Baldons, andraste
3 months ago
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"You know those uncomfortable silences that sometimes happen in conversation? Well, with the right person, those are no longer uncomfortable.
Stop worrying so much...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly, melorama
3 months ago
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"Oh Jesus Christ, just be an adult and ask him out already. If he says no, you'll get over it. If he says yes, go have a good time.
Ditch the catty approach and stop reading too much into everything. What you suffer from is not a lack of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
4 months ago
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"Increased transparency. There's no reason why all kinds of internal data from government agencies shouldn't be available to us. This goes double for budgetary items, because where we should know where our money is being spent. I don't mean the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by limeonaire, grouse
4 months ago
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"It's probably some auto-formatting junk in hotmail. Are you sending your messages in plain text mode? Is he viewing them in plain text mode?
Whoever decided to cruft up email with HTML mode was ruining a good thing...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by loiseau, limeonaire
4 months ago
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"It has now been __ / _ \ | | | | | | | | | |_| | \___/ days since the last stupid MeFi callout
Think Safety!" [
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favorited 27 times, recently by flibbertigibbet, deborah, arcticwoman, rooftop secrets, theredpen, Ambrosia Voyeur, scrump, porn in the woods, nasreddin, shmegegge, tommasz, Mayor West, Malor, Tube, nooneyouknow, DevilsAdvocate, R_Nebblesworth, dismas, The Light Fantastic, JDHarper, dirigibleman, waraw, five fresh fish, iamkimiam, winna, misha, lukemeister
4 months ago
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"Well, you're half right. As jessamyn suggests, Bilirubin is one of the substances that makes your feces brown. It comes from the breakdown of hemoglobin, which, in turn, comes from the breakdown of old red blood cells.
I'm not a doctor, and it's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
4 months ago
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"Two easy options:
1) Download Eraser, and use it to delete anything sensitive from within windows.
2) Boot off of a linux live cd, and use the shred command to delete the files and directories you want to erase.
Both methods erases a file,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
4 months ago
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"A new keyboard costs $20. Why bother trying to fix the old one?
Because this kind of disposable-everything lifestyle is what's raping our environment and using up our oil reserves needlessly...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by pompomtom, Miko, Solomon, Dreama, loiseau
4 months ago
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"jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj, I'm surprised that you didn't mention East St. Louis. In my experience growing up in STL, parts of the North side are a little shady, but nowhere near as dangerous as East StL after dark. It's perennially on top of the most..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mynameismandab
5 months ago
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Is MythTV any good? Is TiVo worth the crazy costs?
favorited 13 times, recently by Ziggy Zaga, altcountryman, shinyblackdog, sgass, Country Dick Montana, zazerr, Fins, JimN2TAW, ruevian, Ferrari328, santojulieta, ick, the dief
5 months ago
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"Sorry for the mini essay, but there's a lot of analysis floating around to cover.
Don't be sorry - great in-depth post." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phire
5 months ago
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"Well, if you're overseas but your debt isn't, then you're set. Just quit paying and don't come back to the US for at least 7 years (until the problems drop off of your credit report). Make sure that your creditors don't know your address.
Yes,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hjo3
5 months ago
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"And then read this piece by Carl Zimmer which explains why this development isn't all that exciting. It's an important step, but raises as many questions as answers...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shavenwarthog
5 months ago
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"Use openoffice, and then save it as a pdf file. PDFs are designed to look exactly the same on any computer you open them on. Word documents are not." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mimi
5 months ago
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"First of all, you should be talking to a health professional about these problems, not to an internet message board. A good psychiatrist or trichotillomania specialist will be able to give you much better answers. I think going to a nutritionist..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by buka, mykescipark, grouse
5 months ago
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"I think you've lost sight of what the issue is here. You're looking for someone who you will be happy with. If gratuitous cursing is a turn-off to you, then there's nothing wrong with that. It will be up up to you to decide whether her positives..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by anildash, phrontist
6 months ago
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"If the encryption explanations aren't enough for you (and they probably should be!), you can set up your own backup server relatively cheaply. Find an old computer, slap a big hard drive in it, and stick it in your parent's (or trusted friend, etc)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
6 months ago
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"Most mutual fund companies offer target date retirement funds. (Target 2030, or something like that). They reduce the amount of risk in the fund over time, by shifting your money from stocks to bonds.
If you stuck 30 or 40 grand in there, you'd..." [
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6 months ago
