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Jitters said:
I wanted to change my email, but it said I can't because its a free email. Is there a way to get around this?
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I think if you pm a mod/admin directly asking they are usually happy to do so for you. The whole free email thing is really to limit the people getting on, not stop people who are already members.
 
Professor Beef said:
Do you have a work, ISP, or school email you can use?
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Yeah, thats how I got the account, but I might not be able to access it soon.
Toppot said:
I think if you pm a mod/admin directly asking they are usually happy to do so for you. The whole free email thing is really to limit the people getting on, not stop people who are already members.
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Ok, that is what I thought. Just any mod will do? They all have the ability?
 
Thinking of a book cannot for the life of me remember the name of it. The name of the book is after the main character, I believe it's told in journal entries. Don't remember much about it only that the guy is very much a wuss, is "melancholy" or described as such a bunch, and is in love with someone who either can't be with him or doesn't know he exists. It's placed I wanna say in the 1800s? But I really am not sure about that. The main thing I remember is that at the end he shoots himself, but unfortunately he only paralyzes himself and has to wait to bleed out very slowly.

Very random question, anybody know this book?
 
izakq said:
From their site:



You should be good to go, especially since you have a good reason for returning them as you got bad advice from their employee.

I returned open items a couple of times because they weren't compatible with the item they were supposed to be used with and they took them in, as long as they weren't damaged.
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Thanks man. They did take them.
 
Roku vs. Apple TV. I need to buy one of these.

Is there any reason, aside from price, to go with Roku over Apple TV? Apple TV covers everything I need (streaming movies and TV) + can do cool stuff with my 4S.
 
msdstc said:
Thinking of a book cannot for the life of me remember the name of it. The name of the book is after the main character, I believe it's told in journal entries. Don't remember much about it only that the guy is very much a wuss, is "melancholy" or described as such a bunch, and is in love with someone who either can't be with him or doesn't know he exists. It's placed I wanna say in the 1800s? But I really am not sure about that. The main thing I remember is that at the end he shoots himself, but unfortunately he only paralyzes himself and has to wait to bleed out very slowly.

Very random question, anybody know this book?
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The Sorrows of Young Werther.
 
Why do US news stations when reporting from countries that speak another language use translators from that country with a thick accent, to translate it to English, rather than letting an US English-speaking person do the translation from the other language in their standard US accent?
 
joedan said:
Why do US news stations when reporting from countries that speak another language use translators from that country with a thick accent, to translate it to English, rather than letting an US English-speaking person do the translation from the other language in their standard US accent?
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Generally speaking, it is probably easier to find a foreigner native to a language that also speaks English as a second language than it is to find a US citizen who speaks any given foreign language that isn't Spanish or French.
 
My boss bought everyone turkeys for Thanksgiving. A co-worker of mine never claimed hers and took months off for maternal leave. There's a big fat beautiful turkey in the freezer waiting for someone to adopt it and I am going to ask if I can have it. Would it still be ok to cook and eat or did I miss that boat?
 
Outside of the whole "Slippery Slope" argument, is there any justification in NOT using the Crackdown (2007 360 game) kill on sight method in dealing with street gangs?
 
TacticalFox88 said:
Outside of the whole "Slippery Slope" argument, is there any justification in NOT using the Crackdown (2007 360 game) kill on sight method in dealing with street gangs?
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Does kill on sight mean something else in that game? Because it seems pretty inhuman to kill someone for being in a street gang. Police aren't (suppose to be) executioners and everyone has the presumption of innocence. I'd imagine that the vast majority of gang members aren't even violent offenders where that kind of action would even be remotely necessary. Not to mention the likelihood of mistaken identity.
 
I don't know if it's just a Pittsburgh thing, but Subway seems to always be run by and staffed by Eastern Europeans around here. Anyone know why this is? Is it like this everywhere?
 
TacticalFox88 said:
Outside of the whole "Slippery Slope" argument, is there any justification in NOT using the Crackdown (2007 360 game) kill on sight method in dealing with street gangs?
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Having the police constantly engaging ingun battles with gangs isn't really conducive to the safety of the public.

Futureman said:
I don't know if it's just a Pittsburgh thing, but Subway seems to always be run by and staffed by Eastern Europeans around here. Anyone know why this is? Is it like this everywhere?
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Here in Ohio we have sandwich artists of all ethnicities.
 
Futureman said:
I don't know if it's just a Pittsburgh thing, but Subway seems to always be run by and staffed by Eastern Europeans around here. Anyone know why this is? Is it like this everywhere?
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Here (western NY) they tend to be Indian or other Middle Eastern ethnicities. (Or college kids, in terms of staff.) On the managerial level, I think it's just the relative ease and low expense of opening a Subway franchise that makes it somewhat appealing to immigrants.
 
wouldn't "cloud" computing becoming popular be bad for startups?

seeing as it'd turn into a service and tech war on their side rather than having the tech borne by the consumer.
 
How come certain paired words sound more appropriate in a particular order?

For example:
  • Mom and dad
  • Brother and sister
  • Bacon and eggs
  • Salt and pepper
  • Peanut butter and jelly
  • Black and white
 
BigEvilTurtle said:
How come certain paired words sound more appropriate in a particular order?

For example:
  • Mom and dad
  • Brother and sister
  • Bacon and eggs
  • Salt and pepper
  • Peanut butter and jelly
  • Black and white
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It's just the way you grew up hearing them. You've been conditioned to hear things a certain way. For example one of yours doesn't ring true for me. To me it will always be Eggs and Bacon.
 
WhatRobEats said:
It's just the way you grew up hearing them. You've been conditioned to hear things a certain way. For example one of yours doesn't ring true for me. To me it will always be Eggs and Bacon.
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Why were they consistently put in this order in the first place, though? If at some point they were said in either order, why did only one end up sticking?
 
BigEvilTurtle said:
Why were they consistently put in this order in the first place, though? If at some point they were said in either order, why did only one end up sticking?
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Someone's always gonna be the one to start a trend and then others get conditioned. I'm not even a native english speaker and I'm still conditioned to agree with your examples :lol
 
During above-ground atomic testing, you'd always see those smokey, wavering parallel lines next to the blast. What causes that?

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Lucky Forward said:
During above-ground atomic testing, you'd always see those smokey, wavering parallel lines next to the blast. What causes that?



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I always wondered what these were. I think I remember someone saying they were smoke trails fired up as the bomb exploded so you could visualise the shockwave, or something like that.

Might not be true, but it kinda makes sense I guess.
 
Need some guidance on how to uninstall ubuntu 11.04 from my hp laptop. Single boot, and I want to install windows xp by disk after. Any link or simple tips would be extremely helpful.

Also, Cyan is a mod now? cool beans :P edit: was always a mod, I'm just an idiot.

Anyway, format drive? I literally have never used ubuntu before. erase partition from the main hd - master boot record?
 
Is there a way to set quality at high on youtube. So I don't have to manually change it for each video.

Because there is such an option in the settings - playback, but it has never, ever worked for me...
 
I have this fairly old Samsung HDTV, I think it's called M86, bought back when cod4 came out or so. I have my pc connected to it and I have wake-on-lan activated via a phone app. The problem is that the tv doesn't turn on by itself. Is it possible to fix that somehow? Maybe I've missed the feature or tv's don't do this normally? Wake-on-lan is kinda pointless if I still have to go over there to turn on the screen xD
 
Does Amazon's pre-order price guarantee take effect when the item ships, or as soon as the product's price changes? I pre-ordered season 2 of Game of Thrones back when it was $35, but yesterday/today Amazon changed the price to $29.99. However, my price is still listed as $35.

Will my price change to $29.99 once it ships, or should it have changed already?
 
Jack Scofield said:
Does Amazon's pre-order price guarantee take effect when the item ships, or as soon as the product's price changes? I pre-ordered season 2 of Game of Thrones back when it was $35, but yesterday/today Amazon changed the price to $29.99. However, my price is still listed as $35.

Will my price change to $29.99 once it ships, or should it have changed already?
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From Amazon:

Pre-Order Price Guarantee
Amazon.com's price for not-yet-released items sometimes changes between the time the item is listed for sale and the time it is released and shipped. Whenever you pre-order a book, CD, video, DVD, video game, or software item, the price we charge when we ship it to you will be the lowest price offered by Amazon.com between the time you place your order and the end of the day on the release date. The order summary in Your Account will reflect the lowest price within 24 hours of the price change.

If your order enters the shipping process before the release date and the price is lowered on the release date, we will automatically refund your credit card for the difference between the price you were charged and the release-date price within 48 hours of the release date. If you didn't use a credit card to pay for your order, please contact customer service through the Contact Us button on the right side of any Help page.

Our Pre-Order Price Guarantee applies only to items sold by Amazon.com, and not to items (or prices) offered by other sellers on our site.
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BigEvilTurtle said:
What time is Sony's "conference" or whatever it's supposed to be this Wednesday? Also, where can I watch a live stream of it? Thanks!
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Pretty sure it's 5 p.m. CST. I'm sure several of the regular places will be live-blogging it at a minimum. Not sure on live streaming.
 
What is a good site to post your views on specific subject? Would Tumblr be that? Like certain opinions, gaming and anything else really. Thanks.
 
Stupid question time again, didn't want to start a new thread.

Did some googling and I can't convince myself either way, but I got a thing in mail that said I was eligible for $365 in computer parts or $67 in cash because of an emachines class action lawsuit. And that all I have to do is mail a copy of my DL in with the form they give me. Googling, I couldn't find any seemingly legit sites about it, (something like actual news or the like).

Scam or no?

Edit: Yes, I've owned emachines.
 
Fiction said:
Stupid question time again, didn't want to start a new thread.

Did some googling and I can't convince myself either way, but I got a thing in mail that said I was eligible for $365 in computer parts or $67 in cash because of an emachines class action lawsuit. And that all I have to do is mail a copy of my DL in with the form they give me. Googling, I couldn't find any seemingly legit sites about it, (something like actual news or the like).

Scam or no?

Edit: Yes, I've owned emachines.
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Looks legit to me. http://www.emachinesfloppydisksettlement.com/Documents/EMS0001/SettlementAgreement_EMS_WEB.pdf

And from the site:
The copy of the photo ID that is required to make a claim may mask (black out) all private information and need show only the name and photograph. That is, you may black out the personal information on the copy of your ID, but your photograph and name must be legible.
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So you should be fine.
 
Kokonoe said:
I think that would be it, yes.
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You could try Google's blogger i guess. Or Tumblr as you suggested, though it is "microblog", apparently. There are many blogging services, are there not?
I'd me more worried about attracting readers than the actual service.
 
Has the process of oxygen absorption through lung tissue been patented? Seems like I could make a lot of money if I could get royalties every time someone breathed.
 
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