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    Hey what's the best pepper spray system?

    Sister's going to college soon. Want to give her a pepper spray system. Have considered like a stun gun, but batteries do degrade and in all honesty there's a good chance the gun will be neglected until it's really needed. Or are there any other options out there?
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    Gun Nuts Vehemently in favor of allowing abusive men to keep their guns

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/us/facing-protective-orders-and-allowed-to-keep-guns.html?hpw&_r=0&gwh=58A15659E0BBDF1F3B3CECEBE7A1D1A4 Good job, guys. Way to be serious about responsible gun ownership.
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    Gun Nuts probably suffer from lead poisoning

    http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/01/lead-shooting-ranges-osha That probably explains the aggression, impulsivity, and paranoia that so many gun nuts exhibit. They're breathing in lead vapor everytime they fire the weapon.
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    SDXC cards, SDHC cards, and exfat

    I have a nook hd. I mainly use it to watch movies. Looking into getting an sd card to expand it. SDHC is cheaper than SDXC. However, it is also slower (problem for hd movie) exfat is important because fat32 has a 4gb file size limit. This is a problem for high resolution movie files...
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    The US gives 3-4 billion each year to Israel

    Why? They're rich. There are plenty of countries in africa for whom just 100 million would increase life expectency by like 10 years.
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    Everyone should watch Mark Kelly speak

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnwojVR8iY
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    Here is the wise and great Senator Feinstein of CA's Assault Weapon Ban proposal

    You were infracted for trolling. Now you're banned for 3 days for removing a Moderator's note from your post. No trolling is allowed and NEVER edit out a Moderator's note. If you have a concern or complaint about moderation there is an appropriate sub-forum for that. Fern Super Moderator...
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    Let's draw parallels between Tim McVeigh and the NRA

    For starters, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh - Tim McVeigh. That's right, Tim McVeigh is making the argument that in the big scope of things, killing 168 people in OK City is no big deal. In that year it was probably a fraction of all deaths by car accidents and drowning...
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    Call of Duty Black Ops has better character/story than Mass Effect

    Discuss. Stop trolling. Anandtecgh Moderator KeithTalent
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    COD:MW vs BF3

    IMO COD is the better game. Frostbite 2 is the better engine, but the art direction, handling of weapons, and characters in COD are better. That's for SP. For MP, COD is still better. Because BF3 maps are so big, you often die without getting a glimpse of your attacker. Theoretically there...
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    Computer completely dead. PSU?

    Last night the computer worked fine. It has always worked fine. I shut it down last night. This morning it won't turn on. Nothing has changed. I looked inside and there is no LED light on. Did the PSU die suddenly? Specs: i5 ivy bridge 3450 Nvidia GTX 560 ti 448 8gb...
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    What's so great about Deus Ex?

    It's on steam dd and it's highly rated. I dunno, the game doesn't look all that appealing to me. Like, I don't see how the game rewards "creativity" at all. All of the options are thought up beforehand by the map designer. Otherwise looks like a ho-hum shooter and a tediously slow stealth...
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    Intel RST problems

    1. I partitioned my SSD into two. It doesn't see the new partition 2. I already have stuff installed on on the hard disk. Does enabling RST mean that the hard disk has to be wiped?
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    Games need more scarcity. Death to quick Regen!

    Fast regenerating health makes a game feel like a series of quicktime events that you need to hit before hitting the next section of the on-rails narrative. No regen makes each fight matter, from the earliest to the middle in order to finish it all.
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    Kohan 2 wasn't all that bad

    In many ways, Kohan 2 is a better version of civilization 5. - You have set "cities" and resources you need to develop - you move your armies around to attack cities - there are "goody huts" scattered around the map - when you capture an enemy city, the citizens remain the same as...
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    Hard Drive "stuns" system

    I have a new system with a 120 gb SSD and 2tb hard drive. the hard drive occasionally seems to stun the system. It will make this clicking sound and hte entire system will freeze up for a moment. Sometimes this results in program crahses. what is going on?
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    Coolermaster heatpipe coolers are awful things

    Had a coolermaster hyper 101i cpu cooler. Replaced it with a ZALMAN CNPS5X Performa. The Zalman is so much better it's not funny. Install is MUCH MUCH smoother. Coolermaster CPU cooler has one of the worst installs ever, since you have to push a pin down in a confined space and more...
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    Had to Reinstall Windows. Programs?

    Really annoyed. Had to reinstall Windows. because I have 2 hds...program installs are saved, but a windows install is awful. Lots of steam games especially. I could just redownload them, but that would be a lot of bandwidth and I'd rather not. So how to?
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    Open Primaries?

    Okay, I don't get the thing about open primaries. I mean, the Republican party and the Democratic party are basically private organizations, right? So if the organization decides that the way they're going to select candidates is through a vote, well, the consequence for like Mike Castle...
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    Uncharted 3 MP is better than Counterstrike or COD or BF3

    It's pretty much perfect. Fast action that is balanced between staying still and running, varied game modes, good feel for guns. What people criticize as "floaty" aiming is the fact that UC3 doesn't have auto-aim implemented at all so it's actually a challenge to hit stuff. With thumbsticks +...
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    system will not work with RAM in dual channel

    If I have dual channel ram installed and try to turn on, I get a long string of beeps and then a reboot and a long string of beeps. If I have only one stick it boots. If I have the sticks in separate channels it boots. any idea?
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    Shit, constant beeps, no video, no post

    Any idea? I'm afraid the MB might be dead.
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    America's Army is looking pretty good

    Lately I've been looking for a more realistic shooter. I think I've found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFNr2k1NiR4 :) It's not like a shootfest like the COD or MOH games, you have control breathing for better aiming, and it appears that the developers of the game actually went...
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    A better defragger?

    Is there a defragger out there that is noticably better than the default windows defragger? I've used like defraggler and I couldn't tell a difference.
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    Okay, politics aside, how would *you* fix the USA?

    and pull it out of this recession? Me, I would print money. Seriously. I would print so much money that inflation would be like 10-15% a year. That would make the real impact of debts much lower. It would also screw over foreign holders of debt and stimulate domestic manufacturing.
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    multiple BSOD in a day

    Hi, I recently assembled a new system. Gigabyte h77 mb, i5 3450 cpu, ssd, hard drive, 8gb ram. Getting multiple BSOD. 4 so far today. It's something driver sqrl less than equal. I ran memtest 86 on the ram and it came out okay. Any ideas?
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    Is there any way to store executables on an SSD, assets on a hard drive?

    It appears to me that most executables for programs, say, GTA4, are like 10 mb, while the bulk of the 10gb install is for art assets and the like. Is there any way to store executables on a small SSD for fast loading, while keeping game assets on the larger hard drive?
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    What'' the best free antivirus?

    Priorities: 1. lightweight 2. unintrusive 3. effective. AVG still good? Any newcomers?
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    Very High Temperatures on i5. What's going on?

    Ivy bridge 3450. 40% utilization and 62 celcius. What's going on?
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    H77 Chipset. How do I enable hybrid SSD/Hard Drive?

    I got it almost all setup and running. Core i5 Ivy + H77 chipset. Just waiting for the video card to arrive. I have a 120 gb ssd drive. It has windows installled on it already. I want to partition it into two 60gb drives. Existing windows drive will be on 60gb. Other 60gb partition will be...
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    How about this for an FPS controller: Gun attachment + LCD screen

    Gun attachment has gyroscope and other motion sensors to detect movement and position in a 3d space. There are like 4 wii sensor bar-like devices that surround the player to determine his orientation. All action takes place on like a 5 inch LCD screen attached on the "gun" mount. eh?
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    Dinesh D'Souza's Roots of Obama's Rage

    http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-R.../dp/1596986255 I'm wondering what conservatives think about the idea? I'm generally an Obama supporter, and I think that the essay is pretty wrong, but there are some glimmers of possibility in it IMO. It is possible that Obama on some level even...
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    So what is *the* best modern FPS campaign?

    I'm talking like story, innovative gameplay elements, setting, atmosphere. What is the best modern FPS campaign? Modern Warfare 1, MW2, MW3, BF3, MOH, etc etc.
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    tip: always choose "gift" option when buying steam games

    Because with a gift tied to your account, you can 1. trade it for something else if you change your mind about the game 2. still "gift" the game to yourself for your own enjoyment.
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    Mafia 2, a good game?

    It looks like a 1940's GTA.
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    So Demon's Soul isn't shutting down after all

    The company was going to shut down the servers a mere 2 years after launch. Then they changed their mind. How much does it cost to run those servers?
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    Firmware Update, no post

    MSI Z68 ED55. Updated bios to the latest firmware. it restarted, but now won't even post. Power might have gone out, I dunno. What to do? The fans power on but there's nothing on the screen.
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    Infamous.

    Should I start with one and then two, or should I just start out with two?
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    Coolermaster hyper 101 cooler. How do I reverse the fan?

    http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Cooler-Master-Hyper-101-CPU-Cooler-Review/1224 this is what I have. The fan blows into the radiator. I figure that over time this will be a negative, since dust will accumulate in the little fins. It would be better probably to pull. But...the...