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    Does the US have the worst mobile service in the developed world?

    So I have sim cards and have used mobile service in Africa, Asia, North America, and Europe. The US has by far the worst service. Now before anyone says "It depends on your provider" let me say I've used a handful of different ones both CDMA and GSM over the years. Sprint blew...
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    Comcast Modem/Router for a 5000 sq ft house

    This is something I've been struggling with but I need to get the internet to work on all 3 floors. I also am switching to Comcast so I need a modem that supports the voice ports for the phone service. Any insight? I get the impression I need to get a modem, a router (or a combo), and an...
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    Budget LTE for global use

    Was hoping that a global version of the Moto G LTE would be announced. It might with the "UK version" imminent but are there any suggestions out there for a decent LTE capable phone with global LTE bands? The US ones are very limited.
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    Same sex marraige resumes in California

    The US Supreme Court apparently rejected an appeal. Stay tuned. I think this is great news!
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    Going to Indonesia again. Looking for tips!

    I'm heading back to Indonesia with the girlfriend for a month and looking for tips. Last time I did some of Bali (Ubud, Kuta, and drove around a bit), Gili T, overlanded it to Flores to see the Komodos, Bromo, Yogya, and Borobudur. Looking for something different. Definitely going back to see...
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    Things that could change the world overnight

    I was having a conversation with the girlfriend about what I would do if I invented teleportation. How would I stop the technology from being compromised, manipulated, militarized, or shelved? How would I get the information out there? What kind of money would I charge? My answer doesn't...
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    Can someone give me a general overview of smartphones?

    I know. I'm archaic. I'm still using a dumb phone though. Mostly because of the battery life but also because I have been moving between countries quite a bit these last couple years. I'd rather read a book than browse facebook so that helped postpone it as well. Recently my phone, which...
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    Divide and Conquer

    Been trying to figure out a way to bring this up. I'm tempted to leave it only with respect to politics but I think the issue is far deeper and becomes tied quickly into economics. Let me start with a story about some family friends and their SO's visiting from the states these last 2 weeks...
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    Multiple bombs kill 42 and injure 257!

    Except it's in Iraq. This Boston attack has had me thinking about my sense of human empathy. We lost 3 yesterday. The death toll might rise to something like 15 from the sounds of it. Maybe even more. Maybe less. It won't hit 42 though. Probably not even remotely close. Yet this is...
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    (NECRO) Finding Dory!

    http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/04/02/ellen-degeneres-to-star-in-nemo-sequel-finding-dory/ November 2015!
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    Prosecutors to try for death penalty. Worth it?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21996420 James Holmes offered to plead guilty and they turned him down so that they could try him and get him executed. Does this make any sense? Now they're going to have a drawn out legal process that's going to cost loads of money and take a decade...
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    USA Work and Quality of Life Issues

    Inspired by a thread in the P/N section. How do you guys feel about some of the things lacking in our American workplace? 1. Most people get 2 weeks vacation. This is incredibly low. I have friends with 8.5 weeks. I took like 5 months off last year. Standard in Europe is around 30 days...
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    Scopolamine - The world's scariest drug

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ8PWYnu04 This video sounds like the nightmare of all nightmares. Their description of Colombia is a bit harsh so I'm, once again, not sure if this documentary over dramatizes the drug but I'm meeting up with a Colombian friend tonight so I'll ask...
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    USA Survives Off North Korean Aid

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_E17nZIQ-4 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/alleged-north-korean-propaganda-video-americans-live-today-215322616.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_North_Korea I honestly can't tell if this is real or not but it's very amusing. We often hear...
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    Respecting an opinion?

    We've probably all heard this a million times. "Respect my opinion". Does this make sense though? Respecting someones opinion seems to be the final point in an argument where someone loses or tries to use their authority over you to win an argument. Sometimes you'll hear something like this...
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    What's worse, murder or gang rape?

    Met a guy last weekend from Acapulco and he was talking about how his family is dealing with the new level of crime there. It's scary. If you're not aware there was recently a gang rape where 5 men gang raped 6 women for 3 hours while letting a 7th go since she was Mexican...
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    Reliable news sources

    Thought we'd tackle our lack of news sources. I'd love to find new ones since I feel like a lot of the big outlets really use a formula to drive sales. An article about: 1. A murder or massacre 2. North Korea, Iran, or some other "rogue nation" and how they're a danger to the USA. Lately...
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    Catholic Church and human rights issues

    Such a large topic so to start I'm going to bring up 3 events: 1. Slavery 2. Nazi Germany 3. Homosexual rights Historically we would say today that if you were against women's suffrage, abolition, the civil rights movement, and pro Nazi Germany you were on the wrong side of history...
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    Pope resigns due to old age

    http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/11/world/europe/pope-benedict-resignation/index.html?iref=mpstoryview The article has old information so it makes no sense atm. He's retiring at the age of 85 though.
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    Read threads showing up as unread

    This has been a problem for a long time. I went out, got some food, came back, opened up my browser and dozens of threads that I've already visited show up as "new". Even ones I'm the last one posting in. This of course affects my ability to go to the newest post on a regular basis. In some...
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    Indonesia sentences UK grandmother to death

    http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/22/world/asia/indonesia-uk-death-sentence/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 So let me just paint a picture for you. When you land in Bali there are like 4 signs on the way in to immigration and customs that tell you how much shit you're going to get into if you try smuggling...
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    Pole Dancing! Amazing skills!

    Better link: Skips the first 55 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTMjzv22FuQ#t=55s I don't even know what to say. Fucking amazing though! I'll never look at a pole dancer the same.
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    Smart Phones and Social Media are causing people to become socially retarded

    Am I the only one that has noticed this? You go to a bar, club, party, barbeque, anything social... and a disproportionate amount of people are nursing their phones. You could be at a rave in Thailand and people are checking their facebook status and posting their retarded hipster Instamatic...
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    The way wars are fought today causing more problems?

    I'm not an expert on warfare but aren't we fighting them way differently than before? A cursory look at modern warfare seems to indicate that we've become way too concerned with civilians and not hurting anyone and it's drawing out conflicts much longer than needed. Looking at the Gaza...
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    2012 Polling Accuracy

    http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/which-polls-fared-best-and-worst-in-the-2012-presidential-race/ Look at the bottom of that list. As expected Gallup and Rasmussen were way off. I'm curious at which point some of these polling firms simply don't get used for the statistics...
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    51st state: Puerto Rico?

    They had some measures on their ballot calling for a change in their status. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/07/politics/election-puerto-rico/index.html?hpt=hp_c3 I think it would be a nice addition, and long overdue, if that's what they want.
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    An article I read said: Romney losing in the polls - not winning a single state

    So at lunch today I was reading the local newspaper - the one we get on the metro - and noticed a very short article about the upcoming election. They stated that in recent polls Romney was down by an average of 3 points and was not winning a single state. I can't find it in their print...
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    Overseas Americans and Non-Americans

    So this is going to be my 2nd Presidential Election where I am living overseas. I have found that my perception of the whole process is very different when I'm not at home. I have a feeling it's mostly due to the lack of mass media spewing American presidential politics into my ear. I can...
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    Power plugs around the world

    Does anyone know WHY there are so many different power plugs? It's insane. The whole world, for the most part, runs at 110-240V 50-60Hz. Yet the power plugs can be as small as the ones in North America to as large as the old British ones that are still used in former colonies. It's almost...
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    International Mobile Phones

    I could be behind on the times here but I want to buy a smart phone (not sure which one) that I can use internationally as well as domestically. So basically in any other country on the planet I just put my sim card in and I'm good to go. Whatever company the sim card belongs to dictates my...
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    Is "trying" enough to make a good leader?

    Been having this discussion rather often lately and thought I'd bring it here. Republicans argue that Obama is terrible because he doesn't do anything. Democrats argue that the Republicans are terrible because they block everything and have sworn to not let anything Obama wants pass. I...
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    Flesh Eating Bugs in your backyard?

    http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/10/student-fights-flesh-eating-bacteria-after-zip-line-fall/?hpt=hp_t2 What bacteria is this exactly and how do we get rid of it short of nuking it from orbit?
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    Top button

    disregard. I actually found it. Either that or you implemented it in less than 10 seconds. Good job.
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    REM calls it quits

    They were the first CD I ever heard. I saw them in concert. Pretty good band for their time. Repost. Anandtech Moderator Keithtalent
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    Why are you a [insert political party here]?

    Not so fast. I want to see if everyone can articulate it in no more than 3 sentences. No political rhetoric. Simply why you vote for a specific party. If you're independent that counts too. Sorry foreigners but this is probably less complicated if we keep it constrained to the US system.
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    European debt crisis explained

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXT5Yxo1KSA It's a funny video but pretty much lays it out. I just got back from Europe and it's not looking so good. Zero percent gdp growth, massive debt, the EU bank is dumping money into the system but running out, bond prices are rising, Germany is not...
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    Americans are stoopid

    I just had to say that we're all a bunch of morons for repeatedly voting these terrible politicians into office. How much money has been destroyed during the last 20 years? The American dream is for all intensive purposes dead. The worst part is people like you. People that post in these...
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    Who is actually responsible for the economic meltdown?

    Lately I've been discussing with friends how we got into this mess. I maintain that people just move their money into the next "get rich scheme" over and over again so we saw money move from Tech Stocks into Housing and when things started looking poorly there we saw heavy speculation in...
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    Something better than Win7 Backup

    Here's the problem. Win7 Backup appears to do 1 full backup and then incrementals. However after about a week I have no idea what it's doing. So I have 1.1TB of data that I want backed up and what I think it's doing is creating a Full Backup, Incremental, Incremental, and so on and then...
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    Which HD to use as a boot drive?

    So I used HD Tune Pro to check out speeds. I'm a novice at this but was just curious. Apparently I can't do the writes but here's the read data. Anything else I should look at? Am I reading this right that the Raptor is this outdated? Raptor 74GB: WD740GD-50FLA2 Read Min: 41.9 MB/s Read...