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My Lovely Horse posted:So what's the gameplan here? 95% of a smartphone's functions are plain not going to work without the networks in place. Whatever works locally is going to last as long as the battery does. Reverse engineering? The way these things are glued together taking it apart has a good chance of destroying it, and you couldn't reproduce one anyway with 1980s (?) production technology. About the only thing you could do is carefully study every aspect of it for as long as it works, then dedicate your life to becoming an engineer and being the first to have the idea. Or just buy as many stocks as you can in whatever company has its logo on the back. I bet they'll play around with it until the battery dies, then try to charge it using 120v AC power. Poof! Historical paradox averted.
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My Lovely Horse posted:So what's the gameplan here? 95% of a smartphone's functions are plain not going to work without the networks in place. Whatever works locally is going to last as long as the battery does. Reverse engineering? The way these things are glued together taking it apart has a good chance of destroying it, and you couldn't reproduce one anyway with 1980s (?) production technology. About the only thing you could do is carefully study every aspect of it for as long as it works, then dedicate your life to becoming an engineer and being the first to have the idea. Or just buy as many stocks as you can in whatever company has its logo on the back. The battery has the voltage printed right on it, so as long as you aren't a total moron you can keep using it with a normal voltage supply Nevets posted:I bet they'll play around with it until the battery dies, then try to charge it using 120v AC power. Poof! Historical paradox averted. So yeah this.
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The Tiffany/Gunther arc is probably just a way to get back to the status quo with Rosa - but not before she battles Tiff for Gunther's heart, because Luann loves to reward lovely people.
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Nevets posted:I bet they'll play around with it until the battery dies, then try to charge it using 120v AC power. Poof! Historical paradox averted. That's a thought. "Get the hammer. This barrel plug isn't fitting into the charger hole."
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann  Taear posted:So when roughly did Dick Tracey stop being about people with thalydomide poisoning?
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Tunicate posted:The battery has the voltage printed right on it, so as long as you aren't a total moron you can keep using it with a normal voltage supply
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Ghostlight posted:Gunther's holding hands with a woman Look at her eyebrows in the last panel. This is going to be one of those "She's attracted to him because he is the only man to never pursue her" things. Especially since Gunther is now so anti-social with his stubble and black untucked shirt but still a really nice guy cause he doesn't try anything with her even though she wants hi 
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Slammy posted:Thank you! As that's downloading - looks like Fritzi had some rarebit herself (1931, click for big): Those Martians are really Groening-y
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Mokotow posted:The Tiffany/Gunther arc is probably just a way to get back to the status quo with Rosa - but not before she battles Tiff for Gunther's heart, because Luann loves to reward lovely people.
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Spiderdrake posted:Gunther is the only one of the three that seems lovely but he's just immature and has mommy issues. Frankly that three-some barely stands up to Luann's douchebag counselor friend, who does nothing but poo poo on her every chance she gets. And Brad. gently caress Brad. Yeah, Rosa was a "good" character in Luann but unlike most protagonists she was actually a decent (if incredibly dumb, giving up her chance to go to college to go do volunteer work that, quite frankly, probably doesn't help as much as her being there, eating food, and using other resources costs the people there) person. Also not 100% white if I recall correctly, so she had to be written out of the comic, much like Delta.
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (August 29-30, 1927)
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Apologies if this has been posted before but I found a fingerpori archive - I hadn't seen it before so there might be others who haven't! http://www.expat-finland.com/living_in_finland/fingerpori.html
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GorfZaplen posted:The Phantom Doesn't matter what he does, he'll still lose.
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Bloom County 2015 Skippy, in which Uncle Louie's presidential bid runs into money troubles. (June 6, 1928)  Peanuts, in which it's all about perspective. (August 7, 1968)  Funky PutUsOutOfOurMiseryAlreadyBean  Dude had one of those Doctor Who phones and he just gave it away. Figures. Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (August 31-September 1, 1927)   Thimble Theater (February 21, 1929)  Ohhhhh, nononononono. It's 1929, and there's no way in hell any of us thought we'd get off that easily, at least this early on.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Zits That is such low hanging edit-fruit that it loops back around through the earths core and back out the otherside.
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Dear god in heaven. This is amazing. Enjoying Popeye's debut I just wasn't expecting it. Jesus.
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greatn posted:Dear god in heaven. This is amazing. Enjoying Popeye's debut I just wasn't expecting it. Jesus. I pretty much want Popeye to just leave the three of them on that island, and him and the whiffle bird go off on adventures. My head canon is thats how he got that attic full of pirate treasure. Popeye needs someone decent. Olive has been a shrew since day 1.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I pretty much want Popeye to just leave the three of them on that island, and him and the whiffle bird go off on adventures. Olives only experience with him is him grabbing her and taking her topside to rat her out, then holding her prisoner at her rear end in a top hat brother's bequest, then rubbing the chicken raw and beating up her other brother. Note of course he was completely justified in all those actions, but she didn't know that.
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Thought I'd share this page of comics I found used as padding while unboxing china from my mother's first wedding. Apologies for the heavy wrinkling, I tried weighing the pages down and stretching them, and this was the best I could get.     
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Seems like the guy from The Dripples would be really into big sandwiches if you catch my drift.
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Darthemed posted:Thought I'd share this page of comics I found used as padding while unboxing china from my mother's first wedding. Apologies for the heavy wrinkling, I tried weighing the pages down and stretching them, and this was the best I could get. drat... now I need to know about this orbiting money! Thanks for those! '66, I was a whopping 4 years old, pretty much ready for kindergarten, so I wasn't really reading the comics.  My grandparents used to read them to me a few years later though.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann To be fair, Advanced Arabic when you haven't taken introductory is in fact a bad course
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Oh man, "Eek and Meek". One interesting thing is that, while the characters all started out as mice, the cartoonist decided to change them to humans later on.  I have a stack of 1970s and 1980s Sunday comics from Chicago Sun-Times. I posted a bunch here a year or two ago, but if anyone's interested, I can scan some more stuff. Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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Tambaloneus posted:Apologies if this has been posted before but I found a fingerpori archive - I hadn't seen it before so there might be others who haven't!  The chess piece which in English is called knight is horse in Finnish. Meanwhile the act which is capturing in English is eating in Finnish. Ie. "black pawn eats white horse". This translation just doesn't work.
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Endless Mike posted:I want to take a welding class. Ist can be surprisingly fun! But most metal/woodworking tasks are fun when you have someone to help you who knows what he's doing and some good tools. Of course it helps if you don't expect some great masterpiece on your first tries and just enjoy tearing up some stuff with some awesome machines.
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Stone carving is also really fun. Most of the practical craft skills are if you're not being bothered by things like "being paid for it".
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Yeah I like soldering random electronic things for no reason. It comes in handy with guitars and things where you can replace a shoddy op-amp in a pedal (really common, actually) to reduce noise or change around the circuit for the knobs on the guitar to do a different thing. Hobbies is cool.
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