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thrakkorzog posted:Since Christmas is coming up. Does anybody have suggestions for what to buy a 5 a year old girl that already has everything, within a reasonable price range. How about : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0545498562/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0545561663/ref=s9_acsd_hps_bw_c_x_3_w
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Dogfish posted:Utah went in the opposite direction and legislated a FIRING SQUAD as their plan B. yeah Utah loves that poo poo, firing squads were their plan A up until 2004. The potential shortage of lethal injection drugs is just an excuse to bring it back.
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Earwicker posted:yeah Utah loves that poo poo, firing squads were their plan A up until 2004. The potential shortage of lethal injection drugs is just an excuse to bring it back. i live in a death penalty state and frankly if i'd really done something to deserve it a pistol to the head would be preferable to gas, lethal injection or the chair you go out quick and the executioner(s) have to see it death penalty sucks because it has killed a lot of innocents but every governor should pull the trigger if they want to enforce it e: if you're in washington state you have to watch dancer in the dark and not cry
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syscall girl posted:i live in a death penalty state and frankly if i'd really done something to deserve it a pistol to the head would be preferable to gas, lethal injection or the chair Firing squad isn't a pistol to the head though, it's rifles and they aim at the heart. And one of them is randomly given blanks so no one is sure whether they fired the killing shot.
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Earwicker posted:Firing squad isn't a pistol to the head though, it's rifles and they aim at the heart. And one of them is randomly given blanks so no one is sure whether they fired the killing shot. well, vietnam did it best but it's nice that the riflemen get a pass
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What is the deal with those "I'm looking for X, can you please tag them" pictures? Like, I get that there annoying, but is that why everyone hates them?
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ineptmule posted:Can anyone explain the meme 'hosed up tiny horse'? I have seen it around the forums and tried googling the phrase but didn't find anything useful. poo poo, I was around for ground zero of that story but I don't remember what it was actually about. It's an SA thing, at least.
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thrakkorzog posted:Since Christmas is coming up. Does anybody have suggestions for what to buy a 5 a year old girl The Midniter posted:My wife and I are buying a home
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Why did the guillotine go out of fashion, anyway? You can botch shooting, hanging, gassing, electrocuting and injecting, but it seems really, really hard to screw up "drop sharp heavy blade onto neck"
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Hyperlynx posted:Why did the guillotine go out of fashion, anyway? You can botch shooting, hanging, gassing, electrocuting and injecting, but it seems really, really hard to screw up "drop sharp heavy blade onto neck" Triggered the special snowflakes of the new aristocracy.
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Hyperlynx posted:Why did the guillotine go out of fashion, anyway? You can botch shooting, hanging, gassing, electrocuting and injecting, but it seems really, really hard to screw up "drop sharp heavy blade onto neck" Science revealed that your still alive after getting cut off.
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syscall girl posted:i live in a death penalty state and frankly if i'd really done something to deserve it a pistol to the head would be preferable to gas, lethal injection or the chair I like that nuclear weapon code plan that got tossed around decades ago. The president still has the dude with the suitcase following him around, but instead of the codes being inside the suitcase, they're in a capsule in the guy's belly and the suitcase contains a knife. The idea being that the man who wants to brutally kill millions of people with bombs should have to brutally kill one person first.
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tuyop posted:I like that nuclear weapon code plan that got tossed around decades ago. The president still has the dude with the suitcase following him around, but instead of the codes being inside the suitcase, they're in a capsule in the guy's belly and the suitcase contains a knife. It's the people at the launch silos, on the submarines, in the bombers that actually have to make the decision to accept the order and do the killing though, so really you'd need thousands of dudes to be killed by the officers in charge on those things...
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fishmech posted:It's the people at the launch silos, on the submarines, in the bombers that actually have to make the decision to accept the order and do the killing though, so really you'd need thousands of dudes to be killed by the officers in charge on those things... Of all the shows that are being remade I can't believe we don't have Wargames: The Only Way 2 Win.
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syscall girl posted:Of all the shows that are being remade I can't believe we don't have Wargames: The Only Way 2 Win. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames:_The_Dead_Code
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Hyperlynx posted:Why did the guillotine go out of fashion, anyway? The only reason the French stopped using the guillotine was because they banned the death penalty entirely, in the 80's. Until that point, it was their primary method.
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Not having seen that I can't tell if the wiki article is worse than the direct to video movie it's describing.
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Baron Porkface posted:Do people in Gibraltar or the Falklands have an accent or use now-archaic British phrases? Everyone has an accent, mate.
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Which is the best thread to go and ask computer related questions? My internet keeps breaking (I'm plugged in via ethernet) once or twice an hour and requires me to restart the PC to get it to work again. It gives me the god awful error of "Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings" and then I'm stuck without internet until I restart. It's been nonstop and is driving me insane. It used to only occur once or twice a week, but now it's happening every hour! Windows 10 is a pile of poo poo.
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Loopoo posted:Which is the best thread to go and ask computer related questions? My internet keeps breaking (I'm plugged in via ethernet) once or twice an hour and requires me to restart the PC to get it to work again. It gives me the god awful error of "Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings" and then I'm stuck without internet until I restart. There's a whole subforum for that http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=170
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Super Dan posted:There's a whole subforum for that Actually it's a sub-subforum they're looking for. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3651663&pagenumber=115#lastpost
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Also it may be related to Microsoft breaking DHCP in a recent patch. Restart the machine (do not shutdown) and see if that fixes it.
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Do services like LightSail and DigitalOcean have much of a compelling advantage over just hosting a VM at home, for personal programming projects, loving around and the like? (e) Only thing I can think of is that I have a domain name so theoretically I could host something??? Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Dec 16, 2016 |
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 Can anyone tell me what flavour(s) these are? The English sticker on the box just says "fruit lollipops" and they don't really smell like anything.
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Is it normal to get lots of dips in your internet speed when downloading stuff?
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I remember back in the 80s some TV shows were made by a company whose logo was a green tree made of horizontal scan lines. Does anyone know the name?
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Kurzon posted:I remember back in the 80s some TV shows were made by a company whose logo was a green tree made of horizontal scan lines. Does anyone know the name? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBWJ0BS7Hgw The Ladd Company
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Turtlicious posted:Is it normal to get lots of dips in your internet speed when downloading stuff? Yes, especially if the network is being used for multiple things at once.
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Does anyone have any handy tip for reliving dental pain temporarily? God drat molars god drat killing me.
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504 posted:Does anyone have any handy tip for reliving dental pain temporarily? Bourbon
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Ill be trying "the beer solution" shortly
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Trastion posted:What kind of cruel parents does this child have? Thank you, that is exactly the kind of the toy I'm looking for for my genius niece. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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504 posted:Does anyone have any handy tip for reliving dental pain temporarily? Anbesol or another such rub-on anesthetic can tamp down that pain until you can get to the dentist. You can get it at most pharmacies and supermarkets.
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504 posted:Does anyone have any handy tip for reliving dental pain temporarily? Bite down gently on an aspirin until it dissolves. Clove oil, available at drugstores.
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I want to make a gif of an few seconds of a TV show I have in .flv. But I am on a mac so I can't use Gooncam. What can I do instead? I also have photoshop cs6 if that helps
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My Wireless network says 'connected, open' and has a little (!) next to it. Can someone give me a basic rundown of WEP keys and other necessary network security tips/steps I should know? I really don't think I would enjoy getting hacked.
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Sjs00 posted:My Wireless network says 'connected, open' and has a little (!) next to it. Can someone give me a basic rundown of WEP keys and other necessary network security tips/steps I should know? I really don't think I would enjoy getting hacked. Don't use WEP anymore, it's not 2005. Go into your router's manual or support website and look up how to switch it over to WPA2. Switching to WPA2 is all you need to do.
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fishmech posted:Don't use WEP anymore, it's not 2005. Go into your router's manual or support website and look up how to switch it over to WPA2. Switching to WPA2 is all you need to do. Thank you for the reply, I will take another look at it tommorow
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Business jargon: I'm puzzled by the term "as of." Comes up a lot in accounting and financial circles. Is there ever a good reason to use it in place of "on" or "from"/"since"?
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Vegetable posted:Business jargon: I'm puzzled by the term "as of." Comes up a lot in accounting and financial circles. In English, "since" is usually used to denote a time starting in the past and extending to the present: "He has been absent since last Monday." "As of" usually refers to a condition beginning in the present and extending indefinitely into the future: "Dr. MacDonald will be Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as of 1 January 2017." "On" usually refers to a single, discrete date. "I will be out of the office on Boxing Day." "From" is usually part of the phrase "from...to," as in "I will be at the conference from 27 February to 4 March," but occasionally is used to replace "as of," as in "Lauren will be managing this team from next Monday onward."
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