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The Aphasian posted:Is this a regional turn of phrase, or would anyone else think this is a strange way to say it?
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The Aphasian posted:I just spent 10 minutes searching the internet to see when Kevin Smith's daughter died because I misunderstood something he said on the Nerdist podcast. Referencing when he saw a movie he said "it was when my kid was alive". I took that to mean she had passed away, but apparently he meant "after she was born". It sounds to me like he just meant "Well let's see, the kid existed at the time, so it must have been after year such and such." It's a bit of an awkward way to say it, yeah, but I can see how it'd work. I don't really see how his religion would have anything to do with it 
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Very Strange Things posted:Smith is a very conservative born-again fundamentalist Christian now though, so he might have actually meant "after I thought about having sex with her mother."
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WillieWestwood posted:If he said this after being born-again, it means she didn't follow him into Christian fundamentalism. Or if she did follow him, she fell away. In either case, she's dead to him now. Of course, as noted above, his comment may not have anything to do with his faith, in which case I'd say it's a weird comment to make. I'm not even sure where they're getting that he's a born-again fundamentalist. He's always been upfront about the fact that he's Catholic, but only goes to mass before a movie opening or some such. And his newest movie is a horror flick with Christian fundamentalists as the villains, so... yeah.
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Very Strange Things posted:Smith is a very conservative born-again fundamentalist Christian now though, so he might have actually meant "after I thought about having sex with her mother."  Melicious posted:I'm not even sure where they're getting that he's a born-again fundamentalist. He's making a joke about when Fundamentalists believe life begins (the whole "when does a fetus become a person?" thing).
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how do I turn off the virtual keyboard/math input panel in woindows 7 I keep pressing alt in photoshop to use the clone tool but it makes the virtual keyboard take priorty over the window I have open. When i close the virtual keyboard it just slides to the left (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Wyatt posted:
No poo poo man, I get the joke, but it still doesn't explain why he thinks Smith is born-again or fundamentalist.
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Right. I see that now.
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I think it was meant to be a joke, albeit oddly placed and dryly delivered.
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Is there an easy way to map capslock to backspace in windows 7? I feel like in the Year of Our Lord 2011 this should be an easy task, but googling gives some registry hacks [which dont seem to work on 7] and some 3.5kb executables which hijack capslock and replace it with backspace. that doesns't seem trustworthy.
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Use KeyTweak. http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/ The .PDF will tell you how to use it.
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Pizer posted:Is there an easy way to map capslock to backspace in windows 7? Use this application from Microsoft http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665
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stubblyhead posted:I can personally recommend Bar's Leaks. I had some issues in and old car a while back, and this stuff helped immensely. You just dump it in the radiator or overflow tank or wherever you put the coolant and drive around until your thermostat opens up. It sounds like your thermostat may be busted though if your temp gauge is stuck on max. That stuff can gum up the wrong way and block or severely restrict coolant flow. It may plug up leaks, or it might block up coolant jackets and exacerbate your problems. I'd just keep an eye on things, especially the engine temp, to make it last through April.
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This is an extremely stupid question, but does anyone remember a cartoon (one that's at least 10 years old) that at any point had a bottle opener appear on the show that looked like this? Click here for the full 800x800 image. For some reason I have this extremely vivid memory of this bottle opener, no idea why, but it's been bugging me for years. I can't remember where it's from or why I remember it so well. I want to say it was something like Goof Troop or Duck Tales.
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kimbo305 posted:That stuff can gum up the wrong way and block or severely restrict coolant flow. It may plug up leaks, or it might block up coolant jackets and exacerbate your problems. I'd just keep an eye on things, especially the engine temp, to make it last through April. Seconding this on both sides. I have had it stop a car dead, and I have had it fix a car up. Either way, it should be more thought of a 'I'll try this before I give the car to a charity' rather than a 'This is the way to fix the car I depend on for transportation' thing.
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Dudebro posted:Is there any rationale or logic behind the 140-character limit on Twitter? Why not 150 or 200? I'm just wondering if there was some deep thought put into it or some strange algorithm to determine the limit. Is it related to cellphones or smartphones in any way? Yup. It's the character limit for SMS texts.
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Dudebro posted:Is there any rationale or logic behind the 140-character limit on Twitter? Why not 150 or 200? I'm just wondering if there was some deep thought put into it or some strange algorithm to determine the limit. Is it related to cellphones or smartphones in any way? Yes, cell phone texts are limited to 140 characters, and Twitter was originally designed to send tweets as text messages. efb by seconds
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Hmm, but when I type into google "character limit for text messages", 160 comes up, not 140. e: Oh, there's a 20 character reserve in some situations or something, for usernames and sender names. Dudebro fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Jan 21, 2011 |
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Dudebro posted:Hmm, but when I type into google "character limit for text messages", 160 comes up, not 140. http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born/ quote:They settled on 140, in order to leave room for the username and the colon in front of the message.
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Hmm, thanks for that. I have another question about domain names. I bought a domain name, but then I checked the url in a browser and I was able to go to a parking site with the same url. Is this normal?
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Why isn't the word "come" pronounced like the word "home"? I know the English language has its oddities; is this just another one of them?
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Dudebro posted:Hmm, thanks for that. Nearly every registrar will point the domain to their own parking service until your change the DNS. Parking pages is a large source of revenue for many of them.
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How much of the US is GSM850 only? If I have an EGSM900/GSM1800/1900 phone will there be chunks of the US where I have no signal?
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Sad Panda posted:How much of the US is GSM850 only? None, that I can recall at any rate. You're fairly likely to have trouble with 3G data in some regions though.
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silversiren posted:Why isn't the word "come" pronounced like the word "home"? I know the English language has its oddities; is this just another one of them? Why isn't 'home' pronounced like 'some'? English is pretty bad as far as orthography representing sound; just par for the course with come.
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kimbo305 posted:Why isn't 'home' pronounced like 'some'? English is pretty bad as far as orthography representing sound; just par for the course with come. In phonetics home is more 'correct'. Silent e makes the vowel before it long such as in words like rope, home and hope. Some and come don't follow that rule making them the exceptions.
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Sad Panda posted:In phonetics home is more 'correct'. English spelling and phonetics are unrelated.
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Also, when you try a few sentences with "come" in the middle the word ends up sounding really abbreviated "comb". Someone PM that really interesting professional linguistics guy with the medical diagram of the mouth and throat as an avatar. I forget his name but he had a good A/T thread about this stuff for a while.
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silversiren posted:Why isn't the word "come" pronounced like the word "home"? I know the English language has its oddities; is this just another one of them?
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John Q Russia posted:Also, when you try a few sentences with "come" in the middle the word ends up sounding really abbreviated "comb". quote:Someone PM that really interesting professional linguistics guy with the medical diagram of the mouth and throat as an avatar. I forget his name but he had a good A/T thread about this stuff for a while. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2693946
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I moved to California and I need to register my car here... 1) Do I get a smog check before or after registration? 2) Do I need a California license to register my car in this state? Or is it okay as long as my out of state license is still valid?
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Anyone know what a Vendor Management Team would do in a bank? I have an applicant giving this as the title of their current job and I have no idea what it entails. Edit: this is an Internet/call centre bank, not one with high street branches.
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darkbob87 posted:I moved to California and I need to register my car here... I'm not trying to LMGTFY you, but there are quite a few variables depending on your situation, but try here: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/vr/vr.htm
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hayden. posted:This is an extremely stupid question, but does anyone remember a cartoon (one that's at least 10 years old) that at any point had a bottle opener appear on the show that looked like this? Too vague, unfortunately. Corkscrews are used pretty frequently in cartoons.
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Clockwork Sputnik posted:I'm not trying to LMGTFY you, but there are quite a few variables depending on your situation, but try here: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/vr/vr.htm From elsewhere on this site: quote:If you become a California resident, you must get a California driver license within 10 days. Residency is established by voting in a California election, paying resident tuition, filing for a homeowner’s property tax exemption, or any other privilege or benefit not ordinarily extended to nonresidents. It sounds like you are considering yourself a resident of California now, so you should probably get yourself a new license anyway.
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A girl in a class of mine banged her knee on the desk so hard that she fainted. Why did she faint?
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935 posted:A girl in a class of mine banged her knee on the desk so hard that she fainted. Why did she faint? Sudden severe pain = drop in blood pressure = fainting
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stubblyhead posted:It sounds like you are considering yourself a resident of California now, so you should probably get yourself a new license anyway. Oh yeah, and I can tell you from experience, they that that poo poo seriously. I got pulled over for crossing a double solid yellow. Got a ticket for not having in-state license, fines + costs + whatever, totalled over $450. (But on the plus side, the cop didn't cite me for crossing the double solid.)
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What does it mean when a boy stares at you for more than 5 seconds? Yeah, it's a stupid question, but in one of those teen magazines it said that if a boy stares at you for more than 5 seconds it mean he likes you. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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