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    The Police State is Officially off the rails bat shit insane

    So much fail in this thread. The fact that the guy was joking should have been obvious to anyone who comprehends English. Obviously the human race has devolved to the point that it's possible to get yourself made a policeman or judge without having a mastery of the de facto language of the...
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    Looking for more 'intelligent' scifi movies? They're such a treat.

    Since Continuum has been mentioned several times, I'm going to thrown down Charlie Jade. A similar political premise except parallel universes instead of time travel, but MUCH MUCH darker.
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    Game of Thrones - TV Series (NO BOOK SPOILERS)

    Bran actually said "hodoring" in the scene you refer to. Also, all nouns can be verbed.
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    USB Dead Drops

    Nobody's mentioned Silent Tristero's Empire yet?
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    Scientists Create Gluon Laser, Discover Anti-Gravity and Warp Drive by Accident

    At one point, top and bottom were named truth and beauty. I don't know when or why they changed it. Maybe they wanted to return to "normal" names after charm and strange.
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    Outrage not found: Gay Florida Teen Charged for Underage Girlfriend

    The so-called "victim" should've refused to comply with her parents or the police. What could they do to her? Take her away from her parents? Sounds like her parents weren't treating her right in the first place, if she felt she needed to run away from them. It's a shame that the 10,000 or...
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    Outrage not found: Gay Florida Teen Charged for Underage Girlfriend

    The law is nothing more than the pathetic attempt of anti-sex forces to punish people for having sex. Society has matured to the point where it no longer allows them to punish adults, so they punish the only people that the law will still allow them to punish.
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    I think I have poison ivy in my yard

    If you're in a wooded area, look around for a huge hairy vine climbing up a tree. When they get that big, they bloom and produce berries, which birds will distribute.
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    Name this item on a power line (snowshoe/teardrop thing)

    It's not a power line, it's an optical cable. The snowshoe thing is to make a 180-degree bend in it without breaking it. I don't know what's in the round enclosure, probably some sort of repeater or something.
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    12-year-old brother of Leila Fowler, 8, arrested in her stabbing death, police say.

    This. We're talking about first-degree murder, not downloading music or something.
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    Binocular experts, recommendations?

    If your sky is decently dark and clear, you can do some enjoyable stargazing with average binoculars. Average meaning average real binoculars, not toys with more magnification than aperture -- but that's never a good idea in any case, and I think the OP understands that.
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    How ambidextrous are you?

    I can do everything except write with my left hand. Caveat: I can't throw, catch, or hit worth shit with my right hand either -- was never interested enough in sports to learn.
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    Pennsylvania House Bill 521 requires gun owners to carry insurance

    Register capitalists, not guns.
  14. J

    watching hitchhikers guide to the universe for the first time... i'm in love with..

    I saw the TV series long before I read the books, and I thought that the narration was hilarious.
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    IRS: Cheapest Obama Care Plan for Family of Four will be $20,000/year

    Wait a minute? How could somebody actually go about not paying this unconstitutional tax? I mean, other than not filing a tax return at all, which is the only way I can think of? Is it not true that the only way to avoid the tax is to submit proof of insurance with your tax return?
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    Do you use Google Chrome?

    Yep. I guess I just haven't had the urge to have the browser taking up my whole monitor since getting a widescreen monitor. Of course, I don't have as many tabs as you do, so even maximized I still have enough titlebar to grab to manipulate the window.
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    Do you use Google Chrome?

    OK guys, I'm perplexed. I'm using Windows 7, and my Chrome doesn't look like Ichinisan's picture, with the lack of space above the tabs (and what's that big inverted tab, and the smiley face on the left side?) Instead, mine looks like Jodell88's, except with Windows gadgets instead of whatever...
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    Is killing an alien legal?

    The way I remember it, the aliens shot first, and there weren't that many human survivors anyway. The only one who talked about it later ended up dead under mysterious circumstances.
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    Man posing as Doctor busted by police for...

    Krazy Glue was invented for sealing wounds on the battlefield, or at least that's what everybody says. As for the homebrew silicone injections, the only thing remotely newsworthy about it is that it's happening in the United States. It's been going on in other countries for decades -- I first...
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    Induction FTW?

    This is used for braking on high-speed roller coasters and some drop towers, to avoid the jerk of frictional braking (and also provide a degree of failure-proofing). Some idiot who was using it in industrial equipment decided to patent-troll the coaster manufacturers a few years ago -- I don't...
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    Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 Owners Thread

    I was wondering about something similar myself. The documentation for the Realtek audio chip on this board clearly states that any of the analog channel pairs can be used as input OR output, but I can't find any software support for doing so! (Luckily for my application, I did find that the...
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    I think its time for me to leave WindStream

    Shitty tactic on Windstream's part, but to be honest, you (assuming that you're more tech-savvy than her) could've got her a used modem on ebay or something for cheap. Windstream doesn't require anything proprietary on their modems (they may ship with something funky these days, but they don't...
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    I think its time for me to leave WindStream

    Anyone here doubting that Windstream both sucks and blows should just head on over to their forum on dslreports.com.
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    Using Quick Sync & Discrete Graphics

    I went from Conroe to i5 and all I had to do was reactivate online. I don't remember whether I'm using an OEM W7 though. (Really, it's a legitimate copy, I just really don't remember what the circumstances of buying it were. I *think* it was an upgrade version, but I'm not certain.)
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    Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 Owners Thread

    I don't know. I would've thought that the CPU would output a digital video signal of some sort, and the mobo would then transform it into the appropriate outputs, hence I wouldn't be getting a VGA signal either if the CPU was bad. But that's just an assumption. Can anyone confirm?
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    onboard graphics only works with VGA, not DVI or HDMI

    I posted this in the motherboard forum and got no responses, so I'm trying here. The motherboard is an ASRock Z77 Extreme4, the CPU is a Core-i5 3570k, and the monitor is a Gateway FPD2185W. I get output from the VGA port, but not DVI or HDMI. This is NOT a Windows problem, the BIOS does...
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    Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 Owners Thread

    I'm bumping this to say that I RMA'd the board, and the replacement does exactly the same thing! Does ANYBODY have any idea what might be going on? My monitor works on DVI with other devices.
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    Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 Owners Thread

    I just built a system with the Extreme4 and an i5-3570k. I'm using the integrated video only. I get output from the VGA port, but not DVI. (I haven't tried HDMI.) This isn't just a Windows problem, the BIOS does the same thing. Any ideas about what's wrong? UPDATE: I tried the HDMI port...
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    Saudi Arabia tracking women, warn male gaurdian. TX expels girl for not wearing RFID

    Actually not. This is hardly the first time I've heard Protestant fundamentalists claim that RFID tags are the Mark of the Beast. Before that, it was bar codes, and before that, it was Social Security numbers*. Mind you, they're pretty piss-poor fundamentalists, seeing as how their bible...
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    That clock is geared to the nines!

    They need to shorten the bar at the 5:00 position to get it off of the factorial sign, or throw parentheses around it. Took me a minute to figure out what the hell they were trying to do there.
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    Revolution already sucks (TV SHOW)

    I'd love to hear that. Something that stops the propagation of electron waves in metallic conductors, but doesn't affect any other form of electron interaction such as nerve action or indeed all chemistry, including the basic cohesiveness of matter? Shit, I prefer the warped physics of Flash...
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    Any Queensryche like sounding bands?

    I'm surprised nobody said Nightwish yet.
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    "Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the alps?"

    Ghostbusters: "Everything was fine til Wally Wick here shut off the power to the protection grid!" "Is this true?" "Yes, it's true, this man is some kind of rodent or something."
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    Moira Johnston, Freedom Fighter NSFW

    I knew that Ontario let women take their shirts off wherever men can, but when did that happen in New York?
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    buckyball magnet toys now banned in USA due to..

    If your child is too young and/or stupid* to keep non-food items out of its mouth, it needs constant supervision. If you can't give it constant supervision, you shouldn't have had it. *I remember reading a claim a few years ago that if you scale the fetal development of other primates up...
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    Anybody else get pissed at download sites that do this?

    Maybe because 99.999% of the time, the adware sites are what come up in a search engine?
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    Best cursing overdub ever broadcast on TV

    "Everything was fine til Wally Wick here cut the power to the protection grid!" "Is this true?" "Yes, it's true, this man is some kind of rodent or something. Or at least that's what I hear."
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    Facebook says it may sue employers who demand job applicants' passwords

    If women are allowed to take maternity leave, then men should be allowed to take the same amount of time for any reason they desire. After all, having a child is a choice, nobody is making the women do it, so why shouldn't we have the right to pursue our own hobbies without worrying about...
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    The 5 Most Spectacular Landscapes on Earth (That Murder You)

    It's probably not a straight drop. The Yorkshire area is a well-known example of extremely eroded limestone. Millions of years from now, assuming that England continues to get rainfall, it'll probably look like that site in Madagascar at the beginning of the article.
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    the 4th dimension has finally been proven!

    If they wanted a flat plug, they should've used the hermaphroditic plug that IBM used for token ring. Not so freaking big of course, I never did understand the reason for that, but the same design.