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How come in Star Trek VI, Christopher Plummer says that you haven't read Shakespeare until you've read it in the original Klingon? Does he think that Shakespeare was a Klingon?
 
How is it that Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has the most hilarious credit roll names ever? Let's go to the tape:

Rip Torn, Nick Brimble, Harry Innocent, Derek Deadman, Dick Strange, Pen Densham, W.C. "Chunky" Huse, and the hits just keep on coming!
 
Jokergrin said:
How come in Star Trek VI, Christopher Plummer says that you haven't read Shakespeare until you've read it in the original Klingon? Does he think that Shakespeare was a Klingon?
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How do you know Shakespeare wasn't?
 
Hey I need some help. Someone broke into my apartment and stole my home computer. On the computer I had saved all my passwords inside firefox. If I change these passwords will firefox still allow whoever stole my computer into my accounts. I am talking about accounts like steam, gmail, itunes, etc.
 
Daheza said:
Hey I need some help. Someone broke into my apartment and stole my home computer. On the computer I had saved all my passwords inside firefox. If I change these passwords will firefox still allow whoever stole my computer into my accounts. I am talking about accounts like steam, gmail, itunes, etc.
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No, if you change your passwords on all of them then they won't able to get in. But I'd change them as soon as possible of course.
 
lobdale said:
How is it that Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has the most hilarious credit roll names ever? Let's go to the tape:

Rip Torn, Nick Brimble, Harry Innocent, Derek Deadman, Dick Strange, Pen Densham, W.C. "Chunky" Huse, and the hits just keep on coming!
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:lol
 
Is it just me or is GAF allowing a lot more PM storage. Before I think they allowed for like 20 stored messages but now it's at 1000 messages.
Finally, I don't have to delete peoples messages to keep my inbox from getting full. I'm so popular that I was getting too many PMs for my box to hold.
 
Hey GAF so I'm about to subscribe to this live Mangas channel but it's in france. They charge 3 euros per month, but I only have a US bank account. What do I do?
 
In a little over 2 months I'll be studying in Japan for a year. In the city where I study, Polysics (who are finally back from hiatus!) will have a gig in October. Obviously I'd like to go see them, but getting tickets for this seems kind of difficult at first sight.

I went to the homepage for tickets. From what I understand I need an account on this site. Then I need to click the venue I'd like to go to, and then I'll participate in some kind of lottery. Then I wait until some time in August for confirmation whether I "won" or not. If I read it correctly an account is free, but does participating cost anything?

And if I do win, I'll have to find a "Loppi" machine somewhere, of which the procedure doesn't look that difficult. My question concerning this though is; until how long can I wait to go buy this ticket from this vending machine? I'll arrive in Japan at the end of September, and the "lottery round" last until August 2nd. Will it be too late for me to get my ticket?

And honestly, I'd rather skip all of this trouble and get my ticket in a less convoluted way. On Polysics' website at the gig I want to go to is written:

"前売：3,500一般発売：2010/08/28(土)"

It looks like this is the normal advance sale. Does anyone know how and where I need to do this? Is this also through a Loppi machine?


Sorry, a lot of questions, but there must be some J-Gaffers here who have already done this type of thing.
 
Jokergrin said:
How come in Star Trek VI, Christopher Plummer says that you haven't read Shakespeare until you've read it in the original Klingon? Does he think that Shakespeare was a Klingon?
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I expect he's just being an ass.

Though the books have run with it a bit. I've seen one briefly mention that some historians argued about his planet of origin, and a Klingon Hamlet was actually released.
 
Is a popped balloon still a balloon?

I think not, as it neither has the capability of becoming an inflated balloon nor is it an inflated balloon.

I think it's a bit of rubber.
 
ultim8p00 said:
Hey GAF so I'm about to subscribe to this live Mangas channel but it's in france. They charge 3 euros per month, but I only have a US bank account. What do I do?
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Do they take paypal? I use it for AUD > USD transactions.
 
anybody ever take any of these??
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or
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thinking of getting one of them but i am stumped of what to get. im leaning more to the first one........can anybody give me some good feedback on these???
 
Trent Strong said:
Is Microsoft Security Essentials a good enough anti-virus.....thing? Or should I buy something like Norton?
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The logic I've heard is that the only dangerous viruses are the brand new viruses because even the expensive antivirus software can't protect against something it doesn't look for. thus, free ones with regularly updated antivirus definitions like MSE make good antivirus software, especially with competent web browsing.
 
fredrancour said:
The logic I've heard is that the only dangerous viruses are the brand new viruses because even the expensive antivirus software can't protect against something it doesn't look for. thus, free ones with regularly updated antivirus definitions like MSE make good antivirus software, especially with competent web browsing.
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Yeah, I'll probably go with MSE since it's free. To bad my web browsing isn't competent.
 
Trent Strong said:
Yeah, I'll probably go with MSE since it's free. To bad my web browsing isn't competent.
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Then turn on UAC, maybe even create a whole new guest-level login just for web browsing, and use Opera or Firefox.
 
Phone question

So my step dad got a new BlackBerry and gave me his BB Pearl. I have Verizon, and the phone says Sprint on the bottom. I am not sure if it's just a meaningless logo, or if the phone is tied to Sprint only (I don't know dick about phones) but can I use the phone on my Verizon plan?
 
Fusebox said:
Is a popped balloon still a balloon?

I think not, as it neither has the capability of becoming an inflated balloon nor is it an inflated balloon.

I think it's a bit of rubber.
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I say its still a balloon. If you come across a fallen a tree you don't call it 'wood' just because it's laying on the ground do you? It's still a tree.
 
Mr Sandman said:
Phone question

So my step dad got a new BlackBerry and gave me his BB Pearl. I have Verizon, and the phone says Sprint on the bottom. I am not sure if it's just a meaningless logo, or if the phone is tied to Sprint only (I don't know dick about phones) but can I use the phone on my Verizon plan?
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Put your sim card in and find out. If it doesn't work you'll know it and the phone is probably locked to Sprint.
 
Neverender said:
Put your sim card in and find out. If it doesn't work you'll know it and the phone is probably locked to Sprint.
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I didn't know what a sim card was so I looked it up (pretty cool tech). My env3 doesn't have one I guess. Ah well.
 
Is it possible for someone to finish puberty seven years after they initially went through it? I know it sounds kind of ridiculous but a girl at work said my she thinks I'm going through puberty again because my shoulders looked broader than before. :P I doubt that's why I looked that way though, since yesterday I was feeling more confident than usual and so I probably put my shoulders back and had better posture than I typically do, but still.
 
The Skater said:
Is it possible for someone to finish puberty seven years after they initially went through it? I know it sounds kind of ridiculous but a girl at work said my she thinks I'm going through puberty again because my shoulders looked broader than before. :P I doubt that's why I looked that way though, since yesterday I was feeling more confident than usual and so I probably put my shoulders back and had better posture than I typically do, but still.
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She wants you.
 
The Skater said:
Is it possible for someone to finish puberty seven years after they initially went through it? I know it sounds kind of ridiculous but a girl at work said my she thinks I'm going through puberty again because my shoulders looked broader than before. :P I doubt that's why I looked that way though, since yesterday I was feeling more confident than usual and so I probably put my shoulders back and had better posture than I typically do, but still.
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In males puberty usually ends between the ages of 18 and 25 depending on your genetics.
 
Jokergrin said:
How come in Star Trek VI, Christopher Plummer says that you haven't read Shakespeare until you've read it in the original Klingon? Does he think that Shakespeare was a Klingon?
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That's a joke...the Klingons and their adversarial relationship with the Federation were patterned on the Soviet Union and the Cold War with the west. Soviet propaganda was famous for claiming that most of the great inventions were made by Russians.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/88802.stm

In 1961, the Soviet Union became the first country to put a man into space.

It was a crowning achievement in a century studded with Russian scientific discovery - and some memorable inventions, like the lightbulb, the radio and the television.

But hang on a minute - weren't they invented in the West? Didn't Marconi have something to do with radio and wasn't it a Scotsman who gave us the television?

Not if you're Russian they didn't.
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The children shown around the Moscow Polytechnical Museum, home to an impressive collection of technological exhibits, are visibly impressed. When asked, they can name a mind-boggling list of Russian inventions - rockets, cars, parachutes, steam engines and aeroplanes, to name just a few.

But television presenter Alexander Gurnov doesn't stop there. We may not know it in the West, but Russian inventions have become an insidious part of our daily lives.

"You're English and you say 'Buy British' because you know that by buying British you stimulate British industry," says Gurnov. "By buying foreign we still buy things invented by Russians.

"They're just produced abroad. Neck ties from Italy, jeans from USA - they're all Russian inventions. So there's no such thing as being unpatriotic by buying a BMW, because a BMW was founded by a Russian engineer."

For journalist Masha Gessen who was brought up on Soviet post-war patriotic songs claiming Soviet science led the way to the skies, it was a shock to learn that fiction had often been blended with fact.

"What you learn as a child really stays with you," she says. "And sometimes it's a revelation to me now when I find out - now, in my 30s - that something has its origins elsewhere in the world when I was convinced the whole time that it had its origins in Russia."
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Neverender said:
Put your sim card in and find out. If it doesn't work you'll know it and the phone is probably locked to Sprint.
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I have Verizon and Verizon phones don't take sim cards.

Was your dad using this Sprint -badged phone on the Verizon network somehow, or is he on Sprint and you're not?

If he's on Sprint, I think you're pretty much out of luck.
 
So I'm having some issues with Xbox Live. With Modern Warfare 2 specifically. I can only last a few minutes the game before I start lagging out. My dude jumps around the map for about 10 seconds before I get disconnected from Live. I have an open NAT and all that. 360 is in a dmz. Using the wireless adapter but I've tried wired and have the same issue. Anyone else experienced this?
 
SuicideUZI said:
how do i fix my avatar to show up at the correct proportions?
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Well it looks like its 35px × 45px (scaled to 90px × 116px). So I think the proportion is correct, you just don't want it scaled up at all? If it wasn't animated I'd do it for you.
 
Computer expert GAF, you're my only hope.

So I go to turn on my laptop yesterday and it won't start up. ...
It goes to a black screen that lists some text, most notably it says that the Operating System Cannot be Found. That's as far as I can get, it just stays at that screen.

What the hell? I've tried going to the boot up menu but I can't see anything that I can do with that to fix it. I only use it to browse the web so I don't know what I could have done to cause this. It was my only computer so now I'm stuck using the PS3 browser for my at-home internet needs.
Woe is me.

Any idea of what could have caused this and what I can do to fix it?
 
Snuggler said:
Computer expert GAF, you're my only hope.

So I go to turn on my laptop yesterday and it won't start up. ...
It goes to a black screen that lists some text, most notably it says that the Operating System Cannot be Found. That's as far as I can get, it just stays at that screen.

What the hell? I've tried going to the boot up menu but I can't see anything that I can do with that to fix it. I only use it to browse the web so I don't know what I could have done to cause this. It was my only computer so now I'm stuck using the PS3 browser for my at-home internet needs.
Woe is me.

Any idea of what could have caused this and what I can do to fix it?
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Sounds like your hard drive isn't working; check the connection. If you still have problems boot the computer up with your Windows disc and see if you can repair your OS... or even just format and reinstall it. If you have a recovery partition on your drive you may be able to boot into that as well (try pressing and/or holding F11 on boot-up).
 
How do you get baked-on non-stick spray residue off a glass pan? I see instructions to boil it in bleach water, but that would be difficult with the fumes and size of the pan.
 
can a girl be attracted to a fat guy, if she fell in love with him/became attracted to him, before he was fat? could that distort a girls image of a guy.. even if he became chubby/obese?


I am serious gaf.
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
can a girl be attracted to a fat guy, if she fell in love with him/became attracted to him, before he was fat? could that distort a girls image of a guy.. even if he became chubby/obese?


I am serious gaf.
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yes, so long as she gains an equivalent weight throughout the duration of the relationship.

my question. why does everyone have so many questions?
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
can a girl be attracted to a fat guy, if she fell in love with him/became attracted to him, before he was fat? could that distort a girls image of a guy.. even if he became chubby/obese?


I am serious gaf.
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Yes, she could still be attracted to him. It's very common for people to "let themselves go" once they're in serious relationships.
 
Aad said:
Recommend me some epic samurai movies please.
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Anything by kurosawa! But my favourites are probably kumonosujo (throne of blood) or sanjuro.

Kumonosujo : www.imdb.com/title/tt0050613/ (epic but could be considered a bit of a chore I think)

Sanjuro : www.imdb.com/title/tt0056443/ (a bit more easy going)

The popular classics by him would probably be seven samurai and yojimbo I guess.

A great modern samurai film is zatoichi (www.imdb.com/title/tt0363226/) this one is great but the sequel is bollocks. There is also a long running series with the same character running from 1962-89 but they are a bit hit and miss and some are a bit of a chore.

Lastly, old skool again, not strictly samurai, but sort of, lady snow blood (www.imdb.com/title/tt0158714/).I love this film, it influenced kill bill HEAVILY.
 
In Windows 7, how do I make it that Windows Live Messenger being open doesn't count as a "Window" and put it in the system tray?

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How do I get rid of the left icon. If I close it, it closes messenger, but if it's open then I gotta click twice to bring up a convo, kind-of annoying.
 
I noticed in the past week that firefox have been freezing up my pc or nearly locking me out of the task bar due to it's terrible slowness. Is anyone else having these issues? Would anyone know what I need to do to fix this? I hate to go back to internet explorer not like nothing is wrong with it I just like FF better and I am too lazy as hell to remember all of passwords.
 
SuicideUZI said:
how do i fix my avatar to show up at the correct proportions?
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Download and install GIMP. A completely free image manipulation program. Supported by both PC and Apple.



parrotbeak said:
How do you get baked-on non-stick spray residue off a glass pan? I see instructions to boil it in bleach water, but that would be difficult with the fumes and size of the pan.
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Isn't non-stick spray usually just oil? Did you try just soaking it in warm water for a few hours?
 
Laughing Banana said:
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Why is this?
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They're all special characters for different file systems. Some are directory separators, some are sort of 'tool' characters (like, * is a wildcard, and can mean anything when it comes to file directory traversal).
 
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