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    Legal right

    We'll I think my parents are finally in the brink of seperation. My dad is talking about moving to our house in florida while my mom is going to stay up here, rent an apartment and life with me (I'm 18). My mom want's half of the house in florida because it's in her name and she's been fulling...
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    WOA, 3 months and I'm free and clear!!!

    I've had crohn's disease since the age of 11. Damn has always flared up around september. This year I took my dad's advice and my sister's advice (who knew a kid with crohn's in Brazil, did the same thing) to cut milk from my diet. Heh, I'm a person that used to drink a gallon of milk every...
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    MURDER!!!!!

    Who the hell would release a dvd in a widescreen letterbox? What's the freaken point. Most dvd players can easly convert a 2.35:1 dvd to letterbox. I felt like watching Armageddon today on my 37" HDTV LCD TV but those idiots at the production studio felt like crippling their own movie. My...
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    Shiz.. HS going down dumps

    Basicly, freshman year my class was about 490 kids. Now at the beginning of Senior year, we're down to 280. Bastards... It dropped my rank from the Top 5% to Top 10%... Woa that's a 43% reduction. WOW
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    TV shows that shaped your childhood.

    I remember rainy days in front of my childhood antique wood UHF TV. In the days after we just immigrated to the U.S. my parents held 2 or more jobs so they never really "raised" me. In essense TV raised me. Reflecting now on my self years ago, I see "The Yonder Years" as the show which most...
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    Image funkyness

    Dunno why I keep getting this. This is a fresh windows xp install. I tried diver ATI x800xl drivers, codecs and media players. Nothing works. What gives? I didn't have this problem on my last install.
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    Notebook Stylus

    I bought an Asus W3V this summer and feel in love with it. I've been using it for notes/projects and such but in economics it gets hard to switch back and forth between graphing on a piece of paper and typing notes on the laptop. I found that Microsoft Onenote takes care of both by combining...
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    WTF

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051103/ap_...u=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA-- Wtf does Thailand have to do with Latin America?
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    High End equipment in Dorms?

    Well I finally completed my Yamaha RX-2500 (I know the RX-2600 was just released. But it only had HDMI over the 2500. I do my hdmi/dvi switching externally. Plus the price of the 2500 dropped :) to half of what it used to be.) Axiom VP150, 2x M22ti, 2x M3ti, 2X QS4s, Velodyne DSP1000 and a...
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    Raid 5

    I have 4 400gig Sata seagate 7200.8 drives which at the moment are not raided. I really don't want to loss my data if one of hte drives decides to fail so. I could just connect them to my motherboard's (MSI neo platinum 4 ultra) 4 port onboard raid card or if I should buy a seperate card (which...
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    Boston University

    What do you guys think of the school? I love the fact that it's smack in hte middle of boston and on commonwealth ave. How's it like living the dorms?
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    Just saved myself $300 bucks

    I had added to my cart one of the new 30gig video ipods. My id pushed me far, but not over the cliff. I restranted myself and closed the window, putting my credit card away. Praise the superego!!! -Felipe
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    Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Well it has come to my attention that college tuitions/expenses in the US (boston) is rediculous. And being a Brazillian national, that expense is much greater. So being a Brazillian national though I can recieve free tuition at UFRJ. I'm just wondering if there are any brazillians here that go...
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    Mood post break up.

    We've all been through breakups. Most, it seams, end on a bad note. With one or both parties uneasy about something. But there are rare occasions which neither party are upset. I just want to see the amount of one compared to the other. Please be truthful.
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    Well how many gfs/SO did you have in HS and College?

    I've had 1 so far (sophomore year) lasted for a year. I'm a senior now in the brink of finding another care bear.
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    WOOT!!!

    This is fraking awesome. I'm sitting here wearing a long sleeve dress shirt freezing my ass off. It must be at most 60*. I should get a cold and sue sovereign bank for millions on "temperature negligence". WOOT! Felipe
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    Modern King of England?

    I always here "Queen Elizabeth II" blah blah blah. But is there a living king of england? If there isn't, what happened to them?
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    Anti-war rally on the Boston Commons tommorow

    I was thinking of skipping school to go. I've never been to a rally and dunno when the next major war will happen in my life. Please, no Pro-war or anti-war fanatics on this thread. Just reply if your going or if you have any non-politial reasons for going. I want to go but my senior pics are...
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    A question of morality

    Woud you, the old and wise folk of anandtech, consider "helping" a recently divorced women sexually an evil thing? I mean the woman's hot (sorry no pics), though about 10 years older then I am. She recently went through a divorce and needs some "special company" since aparently her husband...
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    E-penis ^^

    My new baby!!! baby Just got her today.-
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    Immigration in this day an age.

    After doing some research on how to immigrate to Japan, brazil, Australia, Canada and the USA I was REALLY surprised to find out that immigration is extremely difficult now a days. Its not like it was in the 1900s... where you could just get off a boat and find a job. I find it hilarious that...
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    Considering Suicide...

    Well I'll start with my story... I immigrated to the US in 1988 (I was 1) along with my mom because my dad's importat business collapsed and because he decided to get sassy with a 14 year old... Well because my mom was frustrated she never thought of getting my papers through. Soon she's turning...
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    Sushi?

    While I was checking out the frozen diner section at my local shaws I happened to notice a sushi bar/section. I thought to my self "hey this would make a great lunch, it's cold and ready to eat plus it does'nt taste too bad". So If I picked one of these up (9 to a package) every night on my way...
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    Ahhh the calm before the storm

    Well it's 7:30 now with t-minus 11 hours until I have to haul my ass out of bed at 6:30 am. So I'm in front of my comp at work connected to a T1 blocked up the wazzo (no gamage :'() with my frozen chicken/gravy dinner on the left and a bottle of water on my right. Co-workers are cracking some...
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    Hemp Clothing

    Bought a pair of yago pants a cinch backpack a belt and a wallet. Being all made of hemp I'm assuming It'll beat the pants off of cotton/leather in terms of durability? Heh should of thogh of that before I placed the orders, but they do look very snazy. http://www.rawganique.com/
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    Snazy

    I think it looks pretty damn good. I have a black top caot from last year that goes down to my ankles... Makes me look like I'm in the mafia. This looks WAY more "typical" http://www.bananarepublic.com/browse/pr...=320865&mlink=7848,149864&clink=149864
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    Onboard Raid Usage

    At the moment I have 2 400GB, 1 200GB SATA and 1 300GB ATA100 seagate 7200.8. I'm planning on eventually buying 2 more 400GB to form a 1.6TB raid 5 array and use the 300 ata100 as my main drive with hte 200 going into my future fanless SFF. I'm wondering if I use my MB's (MSI neo plantinium 4...
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    Damn bike got stolen...

    I usually use my bike to go from home to the Quincy Adams train station. I go to that station instead of Quincy Center specificly because it's a quieter station. It's mainly used as a parking garage and all the residential areas are cut off from it by a large road so dead beats usually get off...
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    Looking for a visco foam mattress

    After some diggin I found this What do you guys think? should I get it? It comes with two pillows for $540 shipped.
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    Bedroom Setup

    Give a read? Could you get this a read? I'm having a hard time picking something out.
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    Women

    girl: I have a bf me: WTFOMFG?!?! Why did you let me touch you? girl: I don't know... all my guy friends do that. me: :Q
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    WOOT!!!

    I just got this job working for sovereign bank. I basicly work at the head quarters in boston and make sure the couriers bring in the atm deposits from various branchs. I sign them off as recieved. Great job, I get paid 385 gross a week, 367 w/ taxes. Work 5pm-9pm M-F. Woot! Senior year with a...
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    Bluetooth stereo headset

    I just found this neat product while searching for a bluetooth mini mouse for my future laptop. Anyone know if this will be sufficient for online gaming/movies/music? I'm especially interested in using this for VoIP games like BF2 and for Teamspeak. Any ideas? Wonder if there's a similar product...
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    Laptop/notebook suggestion

    Alright I've narrowed my choices to 4 notebooks. They are the: Sony S460 Acer Travelmate 8100 Acer Travelmate 3000 Asus W3V First of all, as long as the notebook is under $2k I'm fine. Second I want a pentium m system. Next my priority is wieght then power. Out of these 4 I like the...
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    What does hunger do to you!

    that you went out to a shaws to buy and consume an entire chicken? I was hungry around 8 at work so I just walked over to the shaws next door, browsed around for a while then came to the chicken rotissery section. I felt bold so I picked up an entired chicken. It's good to be satisfied! Fraking...
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    Business painting software

    My dad recently got his painting business off the ground and has many houses lined up for the summer but he needs help writing up estimates and contracts. He's not very proficient in English so I was hoping that there?s a program in which I can input all the parameters like prices and extras in...
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    Burntmail Emails

    I have an account with burntmail "felipes@burntmail.com". I tried chaning my forum email to that but everytime I tried it says I don't have permision. But when changed it to another comcast email that I have it worked. Are burntmail emails allowed? I hope that they are because it's my primary email.
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    Prescription Drug plans

    My health care unfortunitly only covers visits and procedure. Currently I spend about $450+ a month on prescriptions. I'm wondering what's the best prescription plan out there?
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    Video Card with HD tuner?

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    HD Movies

    Where can I get HD movies encoded in 1080p. I know The Matrix Reloaded/Revolution and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones are made in 1080p. I saw some torrents of them that's why I'm asking. But I'd like to buy the dvd or whatever of it. Anyone know how people put those torrents up?