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ibroxmassive posted:Can you get a youtube clip of it? not sure if the link will work but... http://www.letmewatchthis.ch/extern...b20=&loggedin=0 once the promos stop you can skip to 6:45
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I think I'm running more on superstition than reason here. I need a reality check on something pretty basic.  How much danger, exactly, do lightning strikes pose for my home PC? Should I worry about anything more than direct hits (implausible in this terrain)? Will a surge protector help any?
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greazeball posted:not sure if the link will work but... http://www.letmewatchthis.ch/extern...b20=&loggedin=0 I get a lovely picture of policeman cartman telling me I can't see it.
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scamtank posted:I think I'm running more on superstition than reason here. I need a reality check on something pretty basic. There is always a chance they can be damaged. I've had computers start to have issues after lightning storms, at home and at work. If you're really worried get a UPS (uniterruptible power supply), one that says it protects against lightning. Although you'll never be 100% safe.
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ibroxmassive posted:I get a lovely picture of policeman cartman telling me I can't see it. It's because you touch yourself at night
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Guys, someone keeps signing up for WoW-type stuff with my email address.  How do I fix this? All these websites require so much stuff to get into the account, and since I didn't make it I have no idea. Also, I can't find any contact for any of the sites (battle.net, wow, other stuff) besides support tickets that you have to be logged in for. I'm so tired of getting these weird emails.
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Anyone have a recommendation on drive away services in the US? I'm looking to get some quotes on transporting a car from Missouri to Los Angeles, and any personal experiences anyone has would be helpful.
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john mayer posted:Guys, someone keeps signing up for WoW-type stuff with my email address. just hit reply, type "unsubscribe" -> send.
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john mayer posted:Guys, someone keeps signing up for WoW-type stuff with my email address. Are you sure they aren't scam emails? I get like one phishing email a week trying to get my WoW account info. Problem is I have never played that game in my life. Scammers just send emails out en masse and hope you have an account.
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Jeffrey Colon posted:Are you sure they aren't scam emails? I get like one phishing email a week trying to get my WoW account info. Problem is I have never played that game in my life. Scammers just send emails out en masse and hope you have an account. Well, I went to battle.net and tried to sign up with my email, and it says it's already registered. Plus the headers on the email look pretty legitimate. I don't know why any scammer would want to actually sign up as me. There's no unusual login activity in my email, so obviously they're not actually using my email.
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scamtank posted:I think I'm running more on superstition than reason here. I need a reality check on something pretty basic. A surge protector is good enough, unless you have some really, really super important files somewhere. (Not your torrented Naruto fansubs. Like things you might be held legally liable for losing, or the only copy of your doctoral thesis and all of the backing research.) For these, your best bet is probably an offsite, or at least external, backup. Spending more than, say, $40-60 on a surge protector isn't going to get you much, and an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) doesn't offer you any more protection from surges than a surge protector does. It just gives you a few minutes of backup power to save/shutdown properly, which the average consumer doesn't really need. john mayer posted:Guys, someone keeps signing up for WoW-type stuff with my email address. I'd guess it's spam. About 1/8 of the spam I've received in the past 30 days is WoW related. If you're really, really super sick of getting these emails, block them, create a filter, mark them as spam or something. It is riskier to click on the links in a WoW email than it is to just let the deluge of spam continue.
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john mayer posted:Guys, someone keeps signing up for WoW-type stuff with my email address. The sad fate of asdf@gmail.com 
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Click on "lost my password". Receive a new password in your email. Profit. I once got a few months of xbox live gold or whatever it is with my really easy email-address (not telling). Too bad I've never owned a console so I couldn't take advantage of some lazy gently caress who didn't want to deal with his own spam. Also received: porn site subscription (cancelled before I could activate the account) and some legit invitations to some wedding on the other side of Finland. SnowblindFatal fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jul 23, 2011 |
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greazeball posted:not sure if the link will work but... http://www.letmewatchthis.ch/extern...b20=&loggedin=0 It sounds like a really poor imitation of a Scottish accent to me.
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I ordered a couple of books on Amazon Prime on the 16th with free two-day shipping. One still hasn't arrived here, no problem. The tracking on the other one says that it was signed for at the door on the 20th. I didn't sign for anything and there's nothing in my apartment's mailbox. Who do I contact about this?
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Seriously, Amazon has great customer service. The last time that happened to me, they sent me another one out no questions asked.
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I took three undergraduate and one graduate course(s). Does the 's' belong?
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Yes, because you took four courses.
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I have the "digital starter" package from Comcast, not because I want cable but because that's what's paid for by my HOA. Of course I have no HD from this unless I get an HD box that is $10/month. What I don't understand is why companies like this have no problem you buying your own equipment for your internet service (i.e. a cable modem that's not rented) but you aren't legally able to buy equipment to get a HD signal? It especially seems like a scam because I can at least get local channels in HD with a simple antenna, but no channels in HD with their digital packages by default.
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actionjackson posted:I have the "digital starter" package from Comcast, not because I want cable but because that's what's paid for by my HOA. Of course I have no HD from this unless I get an HD box that is $10/month. What I don't understand is why companies like this have no problem you buying your own equipment for your internet service (i.e. a cable modem that's not rented) but you aren't legally able to buy equipment to get a HD signal? Well you can sort of get digital cable without their equipment, but some features won't be available. Google "cable card" to see what I mean.
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actionjackson posted:I have the "digital starter" package from Comcast, not because I want cable but because that's what's paid for by my HOA. Of course I have no HD from this unless I get an HD box that is $10/month. What I don't understand is why companies like this have no problem you buying your own equipment for your internet service (i.e. a cable modem that's not rented) but you aren't legally able to buy equipment to get a HD signal? Your cable account is not authorized to receive HD channels through the cable. Even if you bought an HD cable box, the cable box would only access the standard def channels and hd channels in standard def until you ponied up the cash to pay for HD.
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fishmech posted:Your cable account is not authorized to receive HD channels through the cable. Even if you bought an HD cable box, the cable box would only access the standard def channels and hd channels in standard def until you ponied up the cash to pay for HD. Yes I understand that. What I don't understand is why they don't let you purchase the needed equipment instead of only being able to rent it, which is what they allow for internet service.
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actionjackson posted:Yes I understand that. What I don't understand is why they don't let you purchase the needed equipment instead of only being able to rent it, which is what they allow for internet service. Who told you you can't purchase the equipment? We purchased our HD DVR box from Comcast flat out instead of paying the rental charge.
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fishmech posted:Who told you you can't purchase the equipment? We purchased our HD DVR box from Comcast flat out instead of paying the rental charge. It doesn't make a whole lot of financial sense to buy it, for $10/month by the time it equals out your box is out of date anyway.
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Newf posted:I took three undergraduate and one graduate course(s). I don't think it does, because you end on a singular. Why not reword it? 'I took three undergraduate courses and one graduate [course]'.
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Or 'I took one graduate and three undergraduate courses'.
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In English, why do we say eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fifteen instead of oneteen, twoteen, threeteen, and fiveteen? Four of the numbers 11-19 are one way and five are another. What causes this?
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Newf posted:I took three undergraduate and one graduate course(s).  : either way this isn't a grammatical sentence. (It might be syllepsis, but it doesn't quite fit, and anyway the non-grammatical pairing isn't used for rhetorical effect.)Each adjective needs to agree with the noun it modifies. In this case we don't care about "graduate" and "undergraduate"; we're talking about the numeric adjectives "one" and "three". "Three" requires that the noun be plural; "one" that the noun be singular. So "three undergraduate course" is as incorrect as "one graduate courses". You can, however, rhetorically "cheat" with syllepsis (as marshmallard suggested) and get the same meaning in the same number of words just by moving the noun: "I took three undergraduate courses and one graduate." The rules of grammar allow the first "courses" to imply the second, and since the second noun is implied it can be whatever number it needs to. (The reverse is prohibited for reasons of comprehension - the reader is already thinking "courses" when s/he reaches "course" - and because the rules for implied successor nouns are different from the rules for implied predecessor nouns, which must follow stricter guidelines.) (Incidentally, numeric adjectives don't count when you're listing adjectives. It's not "six, small, brown puppies", Mrs. Tornabene, it's "six small, brown puppies".) cheerfullydrab posted:In English, why do we say eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fifteen instead of oneteen, twoteen, threeteen, and fiveteen? Four of the numbers 11-19 are one way and five are another. What causes this? In the case of thirteen and fifteen, it's just elision - they were originally "threeteen" and "fiveteen", but it's easy to slide from those into the modern pronunciations, and thus the modern spellings. "Eleven" and "twelve" are a little different: they're that way because three is a magic number. No, really. "Eleven" and "twelve" are relics of our base-ten counting system. If you have eleven items, you count to ten and then have one left over; the Old Frisian (part of proto-English) word for "one left over" was "ellefne" (the "el" part is elision again, from "ein"; our English "one" came from the same root, but became "an" - you might recognize that article! - in Old English). "Twelve", similarly, was "two left over", or "twelef". At thirteen, or "three left over", since three was a magic (meaning "culturally important") number, you couldn't just refer to what was "left over"; you needed actual names for the numbers. So they used "three-ten", which became "three-teen", which became "thirteen". SneezeOfTheDecade fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Jul 24, 2011 |
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Does anyone know where the myth that police officers have to identify themselves when asked or else it's entrapment originated?
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Eyeball posted:Does anyone know where the myth that police officers have to identify themselves when asked or else it's entrapment originated? Probably spread around by hookers back in the day.
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Maybe. But wouldn't they figure out that it wasn't true after they constantly got arrested by cops who denied being cops and the charges stuck? I know plenty of prostitutes and by and large they're not very smart, but they're not that stupid.
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There are always people who are that stupid. A friend tells me about people who go to jail, are told "your phone calls WILL be monitored", and then proceed to incriminate themselves over the phone on a regular basis.
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Is there a thread or other relatively bias free source of info comparing the iphone to android os features? I checked in "Inspect your gadgets" but didn't see a thread specifically about what type of needs the iphone meets best compared to android, and I don't trust a lot of what comes up on google to not be completely slanted one way or the other.
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nesbit37 posted:Is there a thread or other relatively bias free source of info comparing the iphone to android os features? I checked in "Inspect your gadgets" but didn't see a thread specifically about what type of needs the iphone meets best compared to android, and I don't trust a lot of what comes up on google to not be completely slanted one way or the other. They have roughly the same features. You need to try them both out to decide.
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Really? They both have almost the same application compatibility (pdf, flash, etc), customization ability, app costs, community support, etc? Its all and good to go to a store and putz around for a few minutes on them but that won't tell me what I can and can't do with the device, unless they really are that similar that there virtually is no difference except in the UI.
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nesbit37 posted:Really? They both have almost the same application compatibility (pdf, flash, etc), customization ability, app costs, community support, etc? Its all and good to go to a store and putz around for a few minutes on them but that won't tell me what I can and can't do with the device, unless they really are that similar that there virtually is no difference except in the UI. You can do far more with an Android device than with iOS, since there's tons of Android devices and custom ROMs etc. Obviously if you care about that stuff you can't have an iPhone.
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If you're not getting a top of the line Android then just get an iPhone. Getting anything other than the Google branded Nexus S seems frustrating because of bloatware and stuff.
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Dudebro posted:If you're not getting a top of the line Android then just get an iPhone. What you call bloatware a lot of people call useful.
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