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MustardFacial posted:
Of course, if you order a game through Steam it's pretty easy to get a refund nowadays, unlike before where they would only give you one refund as a gesture of good faith (which I used on Flatout 3...what a horrible game). meatpimp posted:There's a whole bunch of bodies washing ashore all over the Mediterranean Sea recently. It's horrid and you should not look at the images on liveleak. Once again we find ourselves in a situation where huge numbers of people are fleeing what can only be described as absolute horror where people are being butchered en masse, and yet again Europe and the rest of the world sits on their hands, hoping the problem will go away on its own. Don't we ever loving learn from history? MrChips fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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MrChips posted:Once again we find ourselves in a situation where huge numbers of people are fleeing what can only be described as absolute horror where people are being butchered en masse, and yet again Europe and the rest of the world sits on their hands, hoping the problem will go away on its own. Bu...bu...but immigrants. Humans loving suck.
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Sep 3, 2015 01:57
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nuke/meteor 2016 y'all
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Sep 3, 2015 02:03
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The cop who beat the gently caress out of me years ago just got fired from the department for severe misconduct.
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Sep 3, 2015 02:08
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Rhyno posted:The cop who beat the gently caress out of me years ago just got fired from the department for severe misconduct. And will get hired by another department elsewhere. We need a black book for bad cops.
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Sep 3, 2015 02:10
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Geirskogul posted:Agree with MustardFacial. If you want to think about how absurd game pre-ordering is (especially, but not solely, in this digital era), replace "game" with "box of cereal." It just wouldn't make sense - you'd want to taste the cereal first, or at least hear about how friends liked it, before you bought it. Yo that's a C10. I don't think they had 1/4T pickups in the 70s, anyway.
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Sep 3, 2015 02:15
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Hey, strict immigration policies and careful selection of who is allowed ashore is super important. Just ask the native americans. 
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CommieGIR posted:And will get hired by another department elsewhere. I don't have all the details yet but mt friend who is also (still) a cop says charges have been filed, he may be arrested by the end of the week. Some years back I was grabbed out of a crowd leaving a venue after a show, thrown across the hood of his cruiser, slammed to the ground where he then stomped on my chest and neck. When I woke up it was explained to me that I should just walk it off and not attempt any legal retaliation or else I would regret it. A few months ago he got hired as off duty security at the bar I used to work at so we had to stop hanging out there as well.
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Sep 3, 2015 02:18
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CommieGIR posted:I know, it just keeps making me hate our species more and more... And people seriously ask me why I am so cynical. The vast stupidity of war should be explanation enough.
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Sep 3, 2015 02:23
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Super Aggro Crag posted:All the sprinkler heads for the tiles are flush mount to the tiles. I blame it on some gently caress nut architect for the school who thot it'd look cool. It's pretty standard for sprinkler head covers to be flush mounted to the ceiling tiles
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Sep 3, 2015 02:25
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I need to have this in my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-uTtOBF54
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Sep 3, 2015 02:26
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Darchangel posted:I picked the '32 Ford looking thing, just to be different. I thought about Wild Hunt, but it's not the BoB, man (rear side windows aren't right). Besides, you can change bodies later on, I think. I almost got the Rolls body, just because offroad Rolls. I just got the Shovel Face, Furnace, and  SUPER SPECIAL PRE-ORDER BONUS RIPPER available on my save. The Shovel Face actually looks pretty fuckin' rad after a few upgrades, not gonna lie.
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Sep 3, 2015 02:47
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kastein posted:Hey, strict immigration policies and careful selection of who is allowed ashore is super important. The blackest burn I have ever seen went something along the lines of "with how many horrible tragedies happen almost daily in the United States, you'd almost think it was built on the top of thousands of ancient Indian burial grounds."
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Sep 3, 2015 03:01
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itd be funny if it wasnt true
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14 INCH DICK posted:The blackest burn I have ever seen went something along the lines of "with how many horrible tragedies happen almost daily in the United States, you'd almost think it was built on the top of thousands of ancient Indian burial grounds." Wow. gently caress.
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Sep 3, 2015 03:13
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14 INCH DICK posted:The blackest burn I have ever seen went something along the lines of "with how many horrible tragedies happen almost daily in the United States, you'd almost think it was built on the top of thousands of ancient Indian burial grounds." hahahaha 
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14 INCH DICK posted:The blackest burn I have ever seen went something along the lines of "with how many horrible tragedies happen almost daily in the United States, you'd almost think it was built on the top of thousands of ancient Indian burial grounds." Luckily, irony may hold out and we will all be gradually forced into lovely reservations in Idaho because foreigners wowed us with shiny trinkets they manufactured for cheap in their home country.... possibly end up trading away all our lands so we can buy more cheap stuff from them. For awhile, we will stoically hope that our trader friends are actually cool and nice because we don't want to acknowledge there's suddenly a shitload of them in our villages. One morning you might wake up and find they're demolishing your house with a smallpox-ridden Type 99 because they decided whatever deals we signed with them were stupid. I only hope the Chinese allow us to have casinos. Not all conquerors are so gracious. I tell my Chinese supervisor he better let me have at least a goddamn blackjack table. He laughs wildly because he thinks I am funny, and I stoically grin because he is actually cool and nice.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Luckily, irony may hold out and we will all be gradually forced into lovely reservations in Idaho because foreigners wowed us with shiny trinkets they manufactured for cheap in their home country.... possibly end up trading away all our lands so we can buy more cheap stuff from them. For awhile, we will stoically hope that our trader friends are actually cool and nice because we don't want to acknowledge there's suddenly a shitload of them in our villages. One morning you might wake up and find they're demolishing your house with a smallpox-ridden Type 99 because they decided whatever deals we signed with them were stupid. Too bad China's economy is mostly a paper tiger.
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Seriously lol if you think China is in any way going to dominate the world economically or otherwise. This whole mess with their stock market of late? It's probably only the beginning...they've been cooking their books for a long loving time.
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Sep 3, 2015 03:51
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MrChips posted:Seriously lol if you think China is in any way going to dominate the world economically or otherwise. No you see, China is going to dominate our culture and language because Firefly told me so...
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Sep 3, 2015 03:56
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God has a plan for everyone.
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You see, the national deficit is much like a household budget where you have a printing press in the basement and
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Just found that the blown 16v motor in the GTI is cammed. Now to figure out WHAT cams. 99% they're from Techtonics. All that said, any ideas on removing stripped triple square bolts from the head? Looks like they torqued it with a loving hex head.
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iwentdoodie posted:Just found that the blown 16v motor in the GTI is cammed. Now to figure out WHAT cams. 99% they're from Techtonics. How do you strip a triple square? Unless your answer is "intentionally"
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MrChips posted:Seriously lol if you think China is in any way going to dominate the world economically or otherwise. I love people that say OMG China is taking over the US. I'm like yeah that stock market crash they just had went really well. Its a loving shell game and they are in a mad dash to keep it going. The scary part is when it does crumble.
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MustardFacial posted:How do you strip a triple square? Unless your answer is "intentionally" Like I said, I'm guessing they torqued it down with either hex or torx heads. All of the bolts were a bit chewed up, but these two are basically circles.
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Find a random junk bolt that fits in the hole snugly, weld it down. Remove bolt. This does two things for you, the heat softens the metal and will let the preload drop to almost zero, meaning it requires way less torque to break free, and also puts a new head on it so you can get a wrench on.
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[edit]^^^ What he said.iwentdoodie posted:Like I said, I'm guessing they torqued it down with either hex or torx heads. All of the bolts were a bit chewed up, but these two are basically circles. Weld a hex head bolt to the top of the triple square.
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kastein posted:Find a random junk bolt that fits in the hole snugly, weld it down. Remove bolt. This does two things for you, the heat softens the metal and will let the preload drop to almost zero, meaning it requires bygway less torque to break free, and also puts a new head on it so you can get a wrench on. Worth a shot if I can get to a welder. Only issue is I worry about loving up the cylinder head itself. My other idea is to dremel a slot into the cap and then use pry bar to spin it.
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That probably won't work. Just cover everything except the area to be welded in anti spatter spray and/or foil tape or bits of scrap sheetmetal to keep spatter off of it.
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Nodoze posted:whats going on this fine night I have a loving cold and I really want to be out drinking because I don't have to work tomorrow but instead I'm sitting here drinking Theraflu, watching Youtube and transforming my plastic robots.
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Drinking heavily, watching nerd poo poo.
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kastein posted:That probably won't work. It'll have to wait till Monday if I can't get it out before then, in that case. I'll have to take the full block/head in to work. Shittiest part is they were juuuuuust starting to break loose before they stripped completely.
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Fitbit has already shipped a replacement Fitbit Charge for me. All of this over a wrist strap that's separating from the actual device. It's a shame they didn't make it so that you could replace the strap (like you could with the Fitbit Flex). I'm sure they have a ton of warranty replacements over this exact issue, and Google suggests it's a very common problem. They don't even want the old one back, just said I should find a company that recycles electronics. A+ on customer service, C on design though. I'll probably patch it up with some superglue and give it to my mom; her phone is too old to work with it (it doesn't support Bluetooth Low Energy), but the USB dongle will work with her PC. She's not nearly as active as I am, but she wants a pedometer, and also wants a way to track her sleep.  I'll just have to set the wrist (dominant/non-dominant) from my phone before I associate the replacement with my phone. Anyway...Got to work today. Notice an unfamiliar car where my boss's car normally is. Walk into work. Boss is there. That's unusual enough on a Wednesday, he's usually off. The usual Wed opening manager doesn't have a car. "You get a new car?" Boss: "I totaled my car on Sunday, that's a rental" Me: "What happened?" Boss: "Do you want the story that everyone else has, or do you want the truth?" .... I got both stories. AFAIK, the only people who have the true story are me, his wife, and his parents. I'm in the store with him more than anyone else generally is, so I guess he trusts me more than most others. I don't exactly plan to tell anyone either story, I'll just shrug and say "I heard he got in a wreck" if someone asks. The truth involves alcohol and blackouts. We'll leave it at that, and be glad nobody got hurt. He's in a rental that his insurance is covering for the next week, and getting enough for his high mileage econobox that he should have a decent down payment for something a bit nicer/newer. Hates having to go into debt for another car, but he just finished paying off all of his debt, so it's kind of a wash. And he's considering rehab; I've seen how he can drink (we worked together at a now-closed restaurant that also had a full bar), so it might do him some good if he actually goes through with it. I've done the rehab game before (and I'm currently doing outpatient rehab), so I can at least give him suggestions if he wants it. Picture from work that will likely make Motronic say  out loud. Apparently you can ground a phone system that has a dedicated ground connection to a ground block screwed into wood (the phone system is connected directly to a punch block, with no dmarc outside, so it's safe to assume the punch block is the dmarc... or at least functioning as one, there's just one giant bundle of wires coming out of the ground and going into the building). CharlesM posted:Last time I used the Windows Media Center Netflix app it was buggy as poo poo. Have they updated it in the past 5 years? Not much. They ironed out some bugs, but it's never supported surround sound properly, and its EOL is Sept 15th. As in it's supposed to disappear from WMC by then, not the usual "EOL = no official support". mariooncrack posted:Sounds like you're better off doing a clean install if you can. That's what I wound up doing, except with 10. I figure I'm going to have to learn it eventually anyway. The only important stuff on the laptop are my virtual machines, which are still on the drive - just need to install VMWare again. I do like how once it's been activated, you never have to enter a serial again, as long as it's being installed on that same machine (it'll ask for a key during installation, but self-activates once it matches your machine's profile to whatever WGA poo poo there is these days). But if you haven't actually installed it, and you're using an upgrade from Win7/8/8.1, you're kinda hosed, since you don't get a real key. What pisses me off though - apparently my Office 365 key got cancelled. It was a free license from my old university (up to 5 PCs), and everything still installed on my desktop is still working, but I couldn't do a new install or even put in the key that I had. I suspect the copy of 365 on my desktop will also go into "reduced functionality" mode soon.  Really irritating is the fact that I used that same key 6 months ago on the same laptop. I mean, yeah it was free, and I haven't been to that school in 2 years, but damnit.. had to dig out my old Office 2010 license.corn in the fridge posted:hello everyone the weathers getting colder already but I'm actually looking forward to autumn this year for some reason We only hit 94 today - I spent most of my opening shift (delivery) driving with the sunroof open. Have a little bit of a sunburn on my neck from that, but it was a really nice day. Hot enough that I needed the a/c, but not hot enough to have it on full blast (I had to turn the fan down to low at stops, otherwise I got too cold). I was down to just two black finned teteras in my aquarium. I've been trying to get back into the hobby... added 5 of the same fish today, and a few corydoras. Hopefully I didn't add too much at once, but it's a long-established (almost 10 years) aquarium, and it's a reasonable, if not smaller, size (20 gallon). The tetras, even the two old bastards, are schooling and really moving around. Added one live plant as well. One of the corys tried to kill itself by attaching itself to the filter inlet, I had to turn the flow all the way down to make sure the suicidal ones don't try that again. tl;dr it was a good day, and I'm in a decent mood. And I'm also looking forward to autumn. I'm especially looking forward to getting a decent bike and hitting some of the lesser-known trails around here before it gets cold; maybe I can find a decent Trek on Craigslist soon. Even if I don't, I really, really want to start jogging/running/hiking again. There are so many nature preserves around here, and plenty of hiking within even 30 minutes (tons more if you don't mind driving an hour to two hours; two hours puts you in Oklahoma if you're going north). There's a Greenbelt off of US-380 that I've biked from one end to the other, and back again, before - I don't know how the gently caress I did that in the middle of July, and wound up pretty dehydrated, but I survived it. I want to be able to do that again, just when it's not 100 outside. It's about 10 miles each way. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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MrChips posted:Seriously lol if you think China is in any way going to dominate the world economically or otherwise. Yeah I'm fully aware of that. The area I work in is majority Chinese though and my sup is 2nd gen so we joke about it a lot. The remaining old guard white residents fully believe basically what I posted, so being a tall white dude I get to hear theories along those lines all the time. It's pretty funny.
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 Rosie was once a normal cat just like any other. But with the war overseas at grandma's farm taking its toll on the strong male cats typically of the sort to sprawl on couches, she took one look around and asked herself can we do it? Can we make up for those who have fallen before, pick up the slack, and Catte back? YES WE CAN
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The buyback money I got for my Viper is already starting to burn a hole in my pocket. My random thoughts so far: - Ferrari 348 - Solstice GXP (seem the same price as NCs) - an already built Factory 5 818 348s are cheap enough that I can get one and have the funds to keep it running. I think 355s are rising in price, and pushing 348s down because of it. A 348 would tick off 3 things I want on my car ownership checklist: gated shifter, midengine, Italian. The 818 ticks MR and <2000lbs, and it's only $20k.
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kimbo305 posted:The buyback money I got for my Viper is already starting to burn a hole in my pocket. My random thoughts so far: I know you specified against the 355 but read this article. http://jalopnik.com/here-s-why-you-should-never-buy-a-ferrari-f355-1706976075
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360? Friend of mine bought one awhile ago, it doesn't go out much and I know nothing about them. It looks cool though: https://instagram.com/p/wxle08GR4AQgyhEdElEwh0kUxL71n2AvB8mZU0/?taken-by=ryannovak jamal fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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