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    Ebay question

    Heres the story. bought some new hockey gear off ebay, hate ebay but it was a good deal so i said screw it. seller asked me to get money order to him asap as he is moving and wanted it before he left etc. I ship the money order out the very next day via priority. He gets the money order...
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    Drugs now legal in Mexico

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193616,00.html MEXICO CITY ? Mexico's Congress approved a bill Friday that would legalize drug possession for personal use ? decriminalizing the carrying of small quantities of marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine and even heroin. The only step remaining is the...
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    Need the help of someone with Verizon Wireless!

    I need to test a verizon phone that I have to see if it works or not. I know if your signed up for verizon's online account you can change the ESN number of your phone online. Once changed, I need to make 1 call to myself to confirm the phone works. Shouldn't take long. Willing to pay for...
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    Anyone From/Been to Mendoza, Argentina?

    I'm going to be going to Mendoza, Argentina over christmas to climb aconcagua. I'm going to have a few extra days at the end of the trip, going to spend new years there. Anyone thats lived there or been there have any suggestions for interesting things to do there? I get off the mountain the...
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    Online Bike Stores?

    I recently got a used road bike from a friend, looking to get some new pedals and shoes for the bike. Anyone know of any good reliable online retailers? thanks.
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    Toshiba 5205 Series Hinges

    Spent the last few hours searching google and just trying to take the notebook completely apart to access the screen hinges to tighten them. No luck on google, it appears the hinges are underneath the 2 speakers and i've removed the screws holding them on but they still wont come off, feels...
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    Mob Pirates?

    RIAA is now claiming that the entire counterfeit CD production business in the eastern half of the United States "is now dominated by organized criminal syndicates intent on monopolizing the illicit market." Whats next? http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68490,00.html?tw=rss.TOP
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    XP activation problem

    First of all, just want to say this is a legit, retail version of XP pro that I bought, it's not off the internet or any of that crap. 1 of my desktop's broke a couple weeks ago, I just now got around to switching out parts to figure out what exactly broke. Well, now that I have the parts...
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    Birth Control

    Girlfriend does not have insurance anymore, so were looking online for somewhere to possibly get it cheaper. Anyone have any experience with any places online? Found a ton of places in canada etc, if anyone has ordered it online, please give me some feedback!
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    Russia - Tanzania - London. Pictures from recent trip.

    Finally got a chance to upload some of the many pictures I have from my recent trip to Russia, Tanzania, and London to climb Elbrus and Kilimanjaro. Bought the f10 a couple of days before I left to replace an older digital I had. Didn't have much time to play with it before I left...
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    Rent Canon Lenses Online?

    Anyone know of somewhere I can rent canon glass online? I'm going to africa for a few weeks and I'd like to get some good quality canon 200 or 300mm glass. Everywhere around my place rents really crappy stuff. If by any chance anyone on here is interested in letting me rent their stuff, I...
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    Books that Changed Your Life?

    I'm heading to Russia and Africa in a week for about a month. That means a sh*t load of time on airplanes and other various means of transportation. Looking for some recommendations of any REALLY good books that you may have read. Thanks!
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    Best Image Host?

    Looking for a hosting company that I can use to setup a picture gallery, pbase and other places like that wont work for me, I need 5+ gigs of space atleast. Hostpc looks good, as I can easily install the gallery software, they dont provide enough space though. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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    Need a headset

    Need to go out and buy a headset for my pc today, will be used for gaming/teamspeak. Can anyone reccomend me a nice one thats 50 or less?
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    Gmail down?

    Anyone else having problems accessing gmail?
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    Need Advice

    This will probably be a lot to read....... you've been warned. Some background info - in college right now, got out of a 3 year relationship a little over 6 months ago. First love, broke my heart, all that stuff, you know the story. About 2 months ago I started hanging out with a new group...
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    AIM not working?

    Anyone else's AIM not working all of a sudden? Mine sticks at verifying user/pass......... Worked a few hours ago....
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    Best way to get a loan?

    okay here's my story. Had my ninja 250 for about 6 months now, want to move up to something better, looking to get a loan for about 6k, want an r6 my buddy is selling. Here's my problem, I have no real credit history, paid for my car in cash, only thing I have is a bank account and debit card...
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    Mp3 downloads?

    I've searched and searched and can't find a thread that was going on awhile ago about a place that had cheap mp3 downloads and if you uploaded music they didn't have you got credits for it? A link would be appreciated! thanks
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    Second Life?

    Anyone played the game Second Life (www.secondlife.com)? Is it worth the 10 bucks? I just signed up for the free trial, no idea what i'm doing. If anyone who plays would be willing to show me a thing or 2 I would appreciate it. Also any opinions on the game would be great. Thanks
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    Welding - What do I need?

    I want to start welding and dont know much about it. Can anyone make any reccomendations as to what all I need/should get for a good starters kit? Dont want to spend more than 200 for everything. thanks!
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    Best Joystick?

    Anyone have any suggestions for a good joystick? Been awhile since I've had a need for one and I just realized while trying to install my force feedback joystick that microsoft has no XP drivers for it and dosen't plan to make any. nice eh? Does anyone else make anykind of force feedback...
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    Good High Quality Background Sites?

    Only one I know of is digitalblasphemy.com which has some pretty good ones, airliners.net has some cool airplane pictures but not high quality. Anyone know of any other sites with high quality pics I could use for a background on pc?
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    Sony Trinitron TV question

    I remember seeing a webpage about this problem with sony tv's awhile ago, if anyone knows of it I would appreciate a link. I have a sony trintron and sometimes when it's turned on it makes like a constant humming noise, warranty of course is up but I'm wondering if anyone has figured out...
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    All headphones on sale at Target B&M, YMMV

    Went to my local target last night, ALL headphones there were on sale, most were marked down to half price. They also had some decent dvd's for 4.99!
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    Monitor Broken?

    I've got a 19 inch sony crt monitor. Today when restarting it made a loud noise and then stopped working. Called sony, they say they have to repair it and without the reciept (which of course I cannot find) they want to charge 300 something dollars to fix it which is about what the thing cost to...
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    Best Mp3 Player/Picture Storage Device?

    I need an mp3 player and some kind of storage device for my pictures while on my upcoming trip. Does anyone have any opinions on what the best mp3 player to get would be that supports transferring pictures from a memory stick to it as well? Thanks chris
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    Newbie question

    Okay, I went here and followed all the instructions etc http://www.gygabite.com/smokeball/sigline.htm Everything is working fine, I've got it running on 2 computers so far, but when my screen saver comes up it's just blank... I thought the seti program displayed a screen saver that showed all...
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    Hardwarecooling.com

    I got in on the deal for the laptop cooler at hardwarecooling.com about a week and a half ago. Has anyone recieved their stuff yet? A week and a half later, I've yet to get anything, and after several emails, I've got no response whatsoever from them. Resellerratings looks pretty good for them...
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    Best Buy Pricematching

    Will bestbuy or circuit city price match online stores? I've looked on both websites and found pricematching policy's but haven't been able to find anything saying if they will or will not pricematch online stores. Chris.
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    Growth Hormones

    Okay, I know a lot of people say the growth hormone HGH does not do anything unless you get the injections which cost around 1k a month, so thats not going to work for me. 1 of my friends has been taking the pill form, the natural hgh as they call it, and says he has seen quite a diffrence. Is...
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    Need Advice on an injury

    I've been going to the gym about 6 months now. Anyways, all of a sudden I've been getting this pain in my right forearm. It's really weird, when I do exercises such as preacher curls, or whatever you want to call them, it will not hurt me when I'm actually lifting, but when I put the weight...
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    Savings Bond Help

    I've got a savings bond issued on 12/1997. All the sites I've gone to are telling me the 100 dollar savings bond is worth about 60 dollars. Is this correct? I've been told by other people it should be worth atleast 500? ?? It's an EE series bond. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Chris
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    Possible Scam?

    Got this email today, could this be a scam? Maybe I'm too paranoid, but sounds kinda fishy to me? Any comments from any of you? Hi, I noticed your post on the anandtech forums looking to sell your toshiba laptop: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=45&threadid=1176656 I noticed...
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    Vet question - Need help asap.

    Okay, I found a stray cat about 6 months ago. Called about a month ago to get her spayed. I bring her in today, and tell them I found the cat on the street awhile ago. I then proceed to ask if the cat has allready been spayed, we would be able to see some kind of scar, correct? They say yes, you...
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    What is best tasting protein shake out there?

    Got a great deal on 2 - 5lb 100% whey protein the other day, vanilla, and chocolate. Don't really like them much, anyone have any suggestions as to what would be better? I've tried the 100% whey with both milk and water, water was horrible in my opinion. oh, by the way, if anyone wants to buy...
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    Fedex Question *Update*

    Okay, quick question for anyone who has tried this. I've got a package that was sent to me last friday, it got to my local Fedex place on saturday. Its not DUE for delivery until wensday though. If I went to the fedex location, and tried to pickup the package myself, would they let me? Here's...
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    Use laptop screen, as stand alone screen?

    Does anyone know if it's possible to use the lcd on a laptop as an input, say to hook the the screen up to a regular computer? Reason I'm asking, is because I have a new rack setup, and I was thinking of buying a 1u, flip out type screen, but they are 700 + new, so I was wondering it there is...
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    Scorpionmods.net

    Does anyone have any experince with scorpionmods.net ?? I purchased a custom built case from Brett at scorpionmods.net over a month ago, he agreed to have it done and shipped within 2 weeks. It's over 4 weeks, now and I still have no case, nor will Brett or Juan from scorpionmods.net respond to...
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    Rack Mount Cable Modem??

    Does anyone know if a rackmount cable modem exists? If not, I can always get a shelf and just put the modem I've got now on it, but I'd much rather a rackmount one if there is such thing, I haven't been able to find one though. If anyone knows of any, I'd appreciate it if you could give me some...