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Long Wang posted:Firstly, if I bought enough shares in a company, would I become the owner and manager of said company? For example, say that Amazon has 1 million shares, I then went and bought 1.1 million of them, would I then own Amazon? If a company has a millions shares, you can't buy 1.1 million shares in that company. I don't even understand how you think that could be possible. With 500,001 shares, though, you would have a controlling interest, and you would then essentially own the company. That's basically how hostile takeovers work. I mean, there's more to it than that, but that's the hard part. Rubies posted:...I don't like bed frames because they make too much noise when you're loving someone. My experience is that women are more enthusiastic about getting into a proper bed than a mattress on the floor. At least once you're past your early twenties. I've also found that most of the noise doesn't come from the bed frame, if you know what I mean. My sample size is way to small to be statistically significant, though.
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How is "I think therefore I am" a reminder? What is it a reminder of? Anyway, the phrase, "that just happened," is usually used to acknowledge that an event occurred, but that it was unexpected or otherwise difficult to process. Humans like to talk about things, especially things that happen. Sometimes humans want to talk about a thing that has happened, but they don't really have much to say about it except that it happened. Also sometimes there's an implied, "but I don't want to talk about how it came to happen, or who might be responsible for it happening." It's also probably more comparable to "it is what it is," than to "I think therefore I am."
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Aug 7, 2011 13:53
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I've been hearing "you're a gentleman and a scholar" for like twenty years and it started getting annoying the third or fourth time, but i have never noticed a spike or dip in its popularity. The first time I noticed "So... that happened," was Alec Baldwin in State and Main, which came out in 2000. I thought it was a pretty funny line. Does it predate that?
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Aug 7, 2011 17:44
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Sizzlechest posted:I'm going to replace the sink and faucet in my kitchen. I checked out Home Depot and Lowes, but their stuff feels very cheap. When I look at the reviews for the faucets on the website, they're all pretty low. There are stores that only sell kitchen and bath fixtures. I don't know what they're called collectively, but they generally have some pretty nice stuff. Tostito posted:I work for a small business, and my company's e-mails keep getting automatically captured by Junk mail folders. Is there a quick fix for this? Spam filters are catching your company's emails because your company is sending people spam email. The quick fix is to stop loving doing that.
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Aug 8, 2011 03:46
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But do you need a passport to travel in time? It's possible that time travel will be invented, but it will be so far in the future that they just don't give a poo poo about us. How many people would travel back in time to warn people about the Vesuvius eruption? Nobody, because it happened so long ago that nobody cares, and there's nobody left who thinks of that as something that "happened to us." Maybe by the time time travel is developed, the US will be a lovely poor country that nobody in developed countries that can afford time travel cares about. And what about various genocides? Everybody says they'd go back and stop Hitler, but nobody says they'd go back and help the indigenous people around the world who were casualties of European colonialism. Or if they did, would we really let them use our time machine? gently caress no.
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Aug 8, 2011 23:28
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Are you sure it's whale songs and not a theremin? If so, maybe they just didn't have access to a theremin.
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Aug 9, 2011 02:10
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Tipping is something you're never going to get a consensus on, especially here. I tip at Starbucks and places like that because I know what it's like to work in customer service. They get treated like poo poo for maybe a little over minimum wage. The least you can do is throw a dollar in their tip jar. Especially if it's a place you go to a lot. I never get charged full price for my coffee anymore, though, so it evens out.
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Aug 10, 2011 08:12
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KittenofDoom posted:Why do I seem to notice other women more when I'm in a relationship? Even when I'm happy with my girlfriend, I have more interest in ALL women. I'll never cheat, but what the gently caress? Do you feel significantly more confident and sexually attractive when you're in a relationship?
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Aug 10, 2011 11:04
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But you don't get caught up in those "what ifs" when you're single?
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Aug 10, 2011 11:19
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The neighborly thing to do would be for both of you to fix the fence together, Wagonburner.
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Aug 11, 2011 21:57
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If you can walk, you can walk twenty miles. The only question is how long it's going to take.
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Aug 13, 2011 01:38
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Captain von Trapp posted:On level ground, anyway. I'm in relatively decent shape, but a recent 8-mile hike with a couple thousand feet of up-and-down left me pretty much out of gas at the end. Yeah, but it didn't use up all of your walking. After you rest a while, you can keep walking again.
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Aug 13, 2011 05:54
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0089, nobody can even begin to answer that unless they know which geopolitical boundaries you reside within.
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Aug 22, 2011 06:58
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If it doesn't have any obvious cracks or anything, you should be able to fill it to overflowing without having to worry about it breaking. Is it made out of a particularly weak material?
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Aug 26, 2011 06:15
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"Help me identify a song" megathread
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Aug 27, 2011 14:27
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Yeah, it's not listed in the rules/megathread listing thread for some reason.
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Aug 27, 2011 14:52
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I think it's possible that "bouncy castle" is a more British term. I've only ever seen those things called "bouncy castles" on SA. When people talk to me about them in real life (in America) they call them something else, but I don't remember what.
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Aug 28, 2011 23:21
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Well, regardless, the sixth google result for "bouncy castle" lists all their prices in dollars, so...
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Aug 28, 2011 23:35
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Google knows where you are. If I enter the same thing, Google's auto-complete gives me results in my geographical area, which is nowhere near Illinois.
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Aug 29, 2011 03:05
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It changes it to "bounce house" just like yours does. I don't know how Google knows where you are. I assume they use the same internet magic as those porn ads that tell you lonely single girls in (nearby city) can't wait to chat with you.
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Aug 29, 2011 03:44
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I think you're talking about a parade inspection.
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Aug 29, 2011 11:09
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Venture Brothers has taken some pretty serious liberties with the biographical information of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Klaus Nomi. It's not exactly the same as what you're talking about, but I don't think they've gotten in any trouble over it.
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Sep 1, 2011 04:30
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Regular kitchen timers won't usually allow you to set seconds. Roomforthetuna, have you explored the app store for your cell phone. I found some stuff like what you're talking about when I was looking for something to do a running countdown until a specific event. Maybe this or something like it? Most of these types of apps are free, so just download a bunch of them and see what works for you. If you have an iPhone, I'm sure they have something similar.
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Sep 11, 2011 02:04
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This thread about changing banks from the BFC subforum goes into some detail about credit unions.
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Sep 13, 2011 18:28
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WillieWestwood posted:Has there ever been a Rubik's Cube made of metal (not just the screws and springs) for sale? Is there one out now? There are metal Rubik's cubes in existence. I don't think any have been manufactured on a large scale or by an officially licensed manufacturer or anything like that. I'm not an expert, though.
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Sep 14, 2011 22:41
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I think the emphasis on documentation is because it's much more convincing to say, "this is what happened, and I can remember specific details because I started writing everything down once I started to notice things were hinky, so I can tell you exactly what happened and when." than, "yeah, this has been going on for a long time and I remember some details, but some of it is pretty hazy, but I can paint a general picture."
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So, what's the best digital camera for shooting child porn? (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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