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  LOL @ Quebec. Sucks to be a gamer there. : Fred Garvin
  • Also, I know someone the learned English from videogames. : Fred Garvin
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  Canadian shackers live in other provinces of canada as well. : r3ckless
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    yeah, I meant to type "living in Quebec" in there but my brain thought faster than my fingers can type. : Prozium
    • Finglexia. : r3ckless
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  I was just about to post this. Paging razlebol. Thoughts? : paroxym
  • It was pretty much like this already anyways except for a few titles. The English only titles will still ... : razlebol
• ah gotta love that section 32 of the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms. fucking Not Withstanding... : -=kodiak=-
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  Lame. I just hope it won't affect online services and ordering from other provinces. : Geoffrois
  • But really I rarely bought games from brick and mortars stores anyway so I don't mind it that much. But I... : Geoffrois
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    it shouldnt. Because the rest of the country still has to be bilingual. So there will still be french ins... : -=kodiak=-
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      typical thinking from someone living in the ROC... : Enigme
      • truth hurts though, dont it? :P : -=kodiak=-
• stupid article. nothing changed. English-only devs should stop being lazy and do localisation properly... : MrLobo
• quebec is actually not awesome : Luminair
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  Are french instruction manuals not enough!? : Gojirah
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    They are a waste of paper that goes immediately into the trash. : stump
    • seriously, its wasteful to the point of being offensive that they're included in most games and a minute ... : veras
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  waaaah doesn't this go against the charter?? : HeXoN
  • Uh. I honestly do not our Charter off the top of my head but the number of special exceptions given to Q... : Moonbase Commander
• Ugh. I do <3 my french-packaged 'Boite Orange' though. For some reason that's all they had when I bough... : gigaduck
• Speaking of this, I hate how Nintendo manuals are now in 3 languages. You get this thick manual and ... : pigvomit

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• time warner? : DrFlammable
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  Apparently Time Warning is sucking balls if that's your ISP. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19585... : DOOManiac
  • wow, not only are they raping you for money, but they can't even provide working DNS? Sounds like rogers ... : terath
  • when TW's dns goes apeshit, shacknews is usually the ONLY site i can get. google, etc takes me to th... : smax
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  yeah, i did, changed my DNS server to 4.2.2.1 and am good to go. : g0nk
  • Oh look, I just did the same with, with the same results! Fucking Time Warner. : Arcanum
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  www.opendns.com : TabsAZ
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    ^^^^^ Im on time warner and everything seems a but speedier since I switched to opendns. Though I do miss... : Jenings
    • create an account on opendns, you can do cool stuff like create a shortcut such as 'shack' that automatic... : smacknca
• God dammit I thought the shack was down all night since this was the only site I couldn't get to. Just ha... : DarkWolf5
• I had 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 as my dns and couldn't get to the shack for hours yesterday, I changed one to m... : shotgun1
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  yeah shacknews doesn't resolve on cablevision either. : festivalman
  • yeah :( - I has to change my DNS to openDNS to view the site this morning. I knew it was a DNS issue whe... : TroZ
• DNS Providers Under Attack: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6121&rss : MisterClaw

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  Was it an Apple? : SiW.
  • Clever boy : zebosausamite
  • Vic 20 : guido anchovy
  • http://www.instantrimshot.com/ : abovedefault
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    In this subthread we describe the Apple laws of physics : aeg1x
    • "Expensive" and "shiny" : zebosausamite
    • Form > function : SiW.
    • If it's shinny with round corners, mac fags will buy it. : voodooraze
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      If Steve Jobs drops an apple, millions of users will get hit on the head (because they're sucking his dic... : Phil
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        in the preceding story Steve Jobs dropped an apple because of the advanced muscular atrophy his AIDS has ... : boring gegtik
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          sprinting faster than the cars on the highway I race for my safe haven. Hang on, Steve. Hang on. : boring gegtik
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            It's too late -- he has succumbed to the most cruel disease. I cradle his lifeless skeletal body... who w... : boring gegtik
            • Very moving, gegtik. : ArcKnight
  • PS3 : ass-street
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  "The research is being heralded as a potential breakthrough for science in the Petabyte Age, where comput... : abovedefault
  • No, that will just create a third faction, the cyborg race, then it will be humans vs cyborgs vs robots. ... : one random winner
• I for one welcome our Robot Overlords : cptstern
• That's pretty damned awesome. : Colleton
• Sure, but can it slice a cucumber in equal sizes and angles without spending a fucking year with a spirit... : Kolpath

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• ESex? Yah, think I've done that.. umm.. ah.. oop. : Kolpath

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• ..i'd use firefox if the text looked the same in IE... I switched to the same fonts listed in IE but the ... : dignan
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  By that you mean Firefox and/or Chrome is running great and you haven't had the slightest desire to use I... : jingletard
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    firefox , text looks like crap. chrome, no drop down address bar. IE does what i want and looks good : dignan
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      you know you can just turn on cleartype in windows and then firefox's text will look the same as ie's : electroly
      • ^ this will fix it. : jingletard
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        where do you do that? if i changed the fonts to the same as IE's inside Firefox - why wouldn't that wor... : dignan
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          it's not the font, it's the antialiasing. go to the control panel, under display, then go to the appeara... : electroly
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            ok, that worked but now all the windows fonts are thicker , which = weird looking! firefox looks great ... : dignan
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              use the cleartype configurator in IE: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/2.htm you... : electroly
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                i had to turn that stuff off, numbers looked weird - smushed together. text hurt my eyes a bit, i'll ch... : dignan
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                  Well, aren't you the hot house orchid. : CRasterImage
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                    what the hell is that? : dignan
                    • An overly delicate flower. : CRasterImage
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      ....wow : Bantis
      • what? : dignan
    • i think cleartype looks like crap. you lose so much contrast with it. : gyokuro
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      Opera wins : johnlocks
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        Dude, Opera is not cool around here. Everyone acts like a jock from a bad 80's movie bherating the class ... : stuka
        • NERD ALERT : Danny5225
        • I don't know why it gets no respect its been around for a while and people don't even mention it (yet chr... : johnlocks
        • *swirlie* : Cihte

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  Double check to make sure it's seating correctly, also make sure your BIOS is setup (may be in advanced) ... : one random winner
  • never thought of this : Dravenport
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  How old is the PC? I had a PC one time that would only read the video in the top PCI slot. PCI video car... : quazar
  • I actually assumed he meant PCI-E. : Githyanki

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  you're not alone, anything goes wrong within the first hour of a reinstall, start over from scratch : dignan
  • yeah you might as well, os installations are so quick these days that it doesn't really matter. : electroly
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  Sweet, fourth install now and fourth time it's rebooted after installing NIC drivers. After it clears the... : king_darius
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    Perhaps you're running into something I did once. As it turned out the BIOS update I installed some time ... : Marauder IIC
    • I've had this PC for about 4 1/2 years now and it's the first time I ever had problems installing its dri... : king_darius
• nForce. : GreatGooglyMoogly

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  you should read that anandtech review where he says it doesnt matter : Luminair
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    My gut feeling is it matters that most of the games I play seem to have nvidia logos tagged on so I alway... : Lightzout
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      I don't think I can respond to this without nerdraging. : S1ing B1ade
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        does your nerdrage get branded with nvidia or ati nerdrage, since the logo obviously means something besi... : TimeDoctor
        • Bump-mapped nerdrage is beautiful. : zebosausamite
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      http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3539&p=23 : mafu5150
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        serious question, how many people run at 2560 x 1600? That seems like a ridiculous resolution to conside... : smacknca
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          They need to reach the point where the graphics cards have to actually work at it, and are not being held... : mafu5150
          • Yeah, software needs to catch up to hardware at this point (with a certain company who's name starts with... : one random winner
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  isnt the nv card just a paper launch? the ati card is out everywhere so id say thats where its at : smacknca
  • yah the GTX275 isn't out yet... Newegg has 6 on the website, but they are just listings. Can't place o... : Shadowdane
• 4890. : warcrow
• I just wanted to see which way the Shack swings... so to speak... I'm hanging in til the GTX275 launch... : etherboy
• 4890 is 9.5" and loud fan, a bit faster... GTX275 is 10.5" and runs hot, low OC : Sixcos
• HardOCP says the 4890 is cheaper? : Rice-Rocketeer
• get the one you can find cheapest : moshman
• If you want DX10.1: 4890. If you want PhysX and better driver support: GTX275 : matthaeus

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• Good thread here: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19552841#itemanchor_19552841 : thejm4n
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  4870 1gb : boomstickah
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    GTX 275 just came out and its a tad faster. : Mr.Finkster
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      He said right now. Find it in stock somewhere. : boomstickah
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        Newegg has the radeon 4890s in stock for $230 after rebates. According to all the reviews they're about e... : Prozium
        • Yeah the 275s aren't in stock yet. : boomstickah
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  You can get a GTX 260/216 for right around $200 right now Pretty much the best bang for the buck at th... : carbontree
  • The 4870 1GB is about the same performance wise, and can be had for $170~ http://www.newegg.com/Produc... : aggressor
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    Seconded, 100%. Personally I would go for the EVGA Superclocked GTX 260 (core 216). This is a fantastic c... : at0micgarden
    • ^^ this is the card I have and it smokes everything I throw at it. : rmjackson
    • I concur. I've gone one of these, as well. The only word of warning is that the card is gigantic, extendi... : aasyranth
• ATI HD4870 1GB or NVIDIA GTX260/216. The new HD4890 runs a lot cooler, and the new NVIDIA GTX275 card ... : szimm
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  Another computer hardware related question. When would be the best time to update my Core 2 Duo before... : razlebol
  • You'll see a huge increase with an 8400, and now or within the next 3 months is probably a very good time... : at0micgarden
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  On a similar note, what's the top of the line video card these days? I haven't followed this shit in ages... : Entity
  • The GTX 295 is Nvidia's highest end (Dual-GPU, single board solution), followed by the GTX 285 (Single-GP... : one random winner
• ZZF has a Radeon 4890 for $229 AR http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10010262 : Sylvanus

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• The drums are going to be pretty fucking brutal on that Bullet for My Valentine song. : TheNiXXeD
• Wish they had picked Hearts Burst Into Fire for the Bullet for My Valentine track : Begawkiness

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  (i answered 4-2-1-3) : Pantene Pro-V
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    You should have said they were all equally important and refused to arrange them. : trOmblyj
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      and then punched the person who asked you to arrange them : Degenerate
      • and then told them they lack discipline : Ride-My-Rocket
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  I would have gone 4-2-3-1 : JohnnyRey
  • And I would have gone 2-1-4-3. : ArcKnight
• 4 2 1 3 : Big Luke
• Without more knowledge of the specific job and circumstances, I'd say they're all equally important. : Arcanum
• I'd have argued their equal importance, then gone 4-1-3-2 : SiW.
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  Int, Dex, Con, and then Cha. : zebosausamite
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    no no no, its str, dex, con, wis, int, cha (ironically the important order is almost how its listed on th... : Sparticuse
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      Really depends on what your class is though. If you're rolling a sorcerer, cha is not going to be your du... : ArcKnight
      • srsly, Clerics/Paladins need some Cha loving too. : one random winner
• 3-1-4-2 And that's probably why I'm not a professional software developer... : boofy
• 5) Profit : TheNiXXeD
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  the only wrong answers put 1 first. : biskits
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    The way I approach it is to take it to the extremes. What good would be a bunch of very cooperative, uncr... : FiReaNG3L
    • That second one is any company that only hires "superstars". : SiW.
    • Answers: The shack. Also The shack. : cerealSAM2
• 4 2 3 1 : SockMonkeh
• I probably would have said 4, 1, 2, 3 but this is a pretty bs question : Begawkiness
• 2-1-4-3 : Colleton
• 4231 : Sylvanus
• He's trying to see if you'll guess his PIN, if you do, you win a cookie. : one random winner

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  Superpoop is messing things up... :-( I don't really like it... : Degenerate
  • Report as abusive! : zebosausamite
  • He ruined the game I was just in, my first game. :( : voodooraze
• If you get a pic of poop, I suggest treating your text as if starting a new game : SiW.
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  I abandoned that website a while ago. Every one of them gets ruined like that now. We need a similar webs... : SockMonkeh
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    They should add private "groups" to BPT where you invite friends to a group and only they can participate... : zebosausamite
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      they have that. : azenmaster
      • oh wait, just per game. : azenmaster
• Real life stories: Angry man punches hamburger while laying on bed http://www.brokenpicturetelephone.com... : fishbone
• I had someone put "Captain Picard" to me twice in a row too. I fucking hate that shit. How is that even... : ass-street

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• You should switch to OpenDNS. : buroja

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  What's that Asian chick doing there : fishbone
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    Why, you think they have natrually hairless pussies? I assure you good sir, they do not! : Awun
    • More like why is she there because she's not going to shave it anyway. : ArcKnight
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  I just saw an ad in the US that was similar (it featured bushes) but more subtle. : SiW.
  • Yeah me too! I was like "WTF?" and then faped. : voodooraze
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  i think you and dahanese are getting the same sources... : carnivore
  • Yeah but I only responded to gegtik because I wouldn't have to think about the poster using the product. ... : SiW.
  • oh no : boring gegtik
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  pfft, it probably looked up the answer on google : Ziz
  • o_O : voodooraze
• That's awesome. : cerealSAM2

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• Jesus would never steal your pen. : abovedefault

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  that cats not so great : boring gegtik
  • Least it isn't boring. : breadsticks
  • Yeah it is. It's like a baby bobcat or something. A real bobcat in the house is a bad idea, because it : mafu5150

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  you still in argentina? : moshman
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    I'm at Rio Tropic :) : filthysock
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      this is confusing, lets keep to one thread hehe : moshman
      • just do some tweets we can all follow along : Sludgehead
• I just assumed google is always "maybe" in talks to buy twitter, but this time someone else is talking ab... : Luminair
• I kind-of like the idea of my gchat away messages being twitter posts away - programming away - takin... : kaddar0
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  They'll call it Gitterdone.... : voodooraze
  • I'm sorry, that was just wrong. : voodooraze
  • Yeah right, it's Google. They'll call it Gitterbeta...forever : vitaminzach
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  What makes you say that they are? I've seen zero correlation of this from any news sources : geedeck
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    my local news had it on the crawl, $250 million offered, supposedly. : Fyunch Click
    • thats fucking crazy : feek
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    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10211253-93.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 : RikiTiki2
    • why the hell would they wait two years until it's finally popular to buy it? now they have to pay a ridic... : feek
  • Off a TechCrunch article. :( : sgtsanity
• I hope they buy it and replace it with a splash page that just says TWITTER IS RETARDED. : CapnChaos
• Google somehow monetizes search info, right? Twitter (especially the trends feature) is a goldmine for ag : transmetal
• Battelle spelled it out pretty clearly a bit ago, I think: http://battellemedia.com/archives/004832.ph... : sgtsanity
• http://twitter.com/timeline/home#search?q="Buy+Twitter"+OR+%23Twitter : aeg1x
• Why would they buy something that CANNOT make money?? Twitter might be the dumbest thing ever conceived o... : quazar

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  tell your family to stop fucking up : maulla
  • http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3482938 : maulla
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    wife and 3 daughters, so they are already a bit handicapped. ;) : FormerHPB
    • That and they're related to you. Poor bastards. : SiW.
• haha you have a minivan : fishbone
• E HONDA! : boring gegtik
• If your first line was deliberate that's really clever and I'd like to shake you by the hand. : peanut-
• My Honda's dome light shuts off automatically, but I've never left the headlights on to drain the battery... : helvetica
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  How old is Minivan? : kikilupo
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    It's an 05. my car is an 04 and does this. : FormerHPB
    • I dont know what to tell you other than tell your family to turn off the lights. :P : kikilupo
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  just buy american cars from now on : arizona bay
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    they tend to explode if you leave the dome light on : cptstern
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      mine turns off after 15 or 30 minutes. the kids left a light on in my car once and it didn't drain the b... : FormerHPB
      • only to prevent the car from exploding. it's a feature of the car : cptstern
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  So you're blaming Honda for your family's fuckup? : pancake humper
  • formerhpb's schtick is to talk about how shitty japanese cars are compared to chevrolets and saturns : arizona bay
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    a minivan has like 10+ lights that can be turned on inside the thing. minivans= kids. What are the odds... : FormerHPB
    • Cut off your kids hands : pancake humper
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  Buy a portable jump starter and leave it in the van, problem solved. Look how easy that was. : silaslang
  • That's a $150 solution though! :( : FormerHPB

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  June can't come soon enough.... I miss my Conan : HeXoN
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    this is so awkward and funny. it's like im watching a 1.5 hour long last call with carson daly. : arizona bay
    • unfunny : arizona bay
• Remember the promos where they said all of the kinks had been worked out and Jimmy was ready? I would hav... : byorn
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  I saw part of an episode a while back where he was doing this audience Facebook status thing and it was s... : freshyk
  • The Ayn Rand book vendor bit was one of the most painful things I've seen on TV...I think last week? : Sturm08
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  Fallon was never funny. He is nothing more than that 2002-2005 TALK LOUD AT THE CAMERA AND ACT LIKE EVER... : team meyew
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    actually, along with the onset of all of the hilarious digital shorts, they've been doing wonderfully. : the city
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      I can't stand those digital shorts. There was a time when one tuned into SNL because it was funny, but th... : team meyew
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        There's a bruno trailer??? : Sturm08
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          http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=54171 : team meyew
          • LOL, thank you sir. "How do you defend yourself against the man who has 2 dildos?" : Sturm08
      • they're the only thing i like these days : EvilDolemite
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        so many people view old SNL through nostalgia-colored glasses. It was funny because you were 13 and you'... : DonkeyPopsicle
        • ^^^ this. Yeah, Wayne's World was funny, but if you go back and actually watch one of those episodes as i... : weaselmeister
• Yeah, I've watched 2 or 3 shows now and all are awful. It's like the SNL skits that don't make the cut. I... : Sturm08
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  lol theyre blowing bubbles what the f is this : Chandler55
  • 'OMG Grrr gor ca ga ga' I can't talk i'm Jimmy Fallon. : team meyew
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  His band is 9 million percent more charismatic and likable than he is. I would just watch an hour of the... : johnwissinger
  • I didn't realize they were the house band. They are amazing live. : h o s t i l e
• I could barely stand to watch the commercials. : Ride-My-Rocket
• wow the jimmy fallon show is terrible , this is my first time watching : SiW.
• Conan was terrible as well starting out. We'll see how it works out. : Crimsonbeak
• I saw the first episode where he payed teens from the audience to lick things on stage. It reeked of Nick... : Jenings

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  Halon is still used? I thought that shit was toxic : phate81
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    Still in use. Less toxic than before. : Fyunch Click
    • Oh we have the old kind, the toxic kind. I am very glad it didn't work. : Patch-e
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    Still toxic, but there are few options for areas that you must be able to extinguish fires in and absolut... : Arcanum
    • Not as toxic as I was thinking - maybe not at all in actual application: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... : mafu5150
    • getting locked in a data center when the fire suppression system goes off is a scary proposition, althoug... : jasoncrowley
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  Reality, it wasn't you, sorry there bud. : one random winner
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    But the firemen narrowed it down to the smoke detector closest to the toaster. And then I got in trouble. : Patch-e
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      it probably cost the place thousands of dollars for that many police/fire come out for a false alarm I'm ... : Patch-e
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        its not your fault, if its a faulty or over-sensitive system then it is the responsibility of whoever own... : trelain
        • They have come back and said it was faulty, but no details about what exactly "faulty" means in this case : Patch-e
        • I blame the jews for inventing bagels. : cerealSAM2
    • no more bagels for you. : Fyunch Click
• I did this with popcorn at my dorm It would have been amusing except it was at 2am. Thank god it was the ... : lightly inclined
• A friend of mine was cold one morning at work, so he went to the thermostat near his desk, and turned it : Githyanki

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  After searching for 9+ months, my boss had finally found a solid mid-level ASP.NET developer who also had : Ride-My-Rocket
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    Damn. I hope you guys find someone soon. During all this time you could probably have just scrapped wha... : zebosausamite
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      Rewrite 4000+ ASP pages in 9 months? Maybe, if we dropped everything else, but there's no way the busine... : Ride-My-Rocket
      • Plus, my boss is cool with looking for skilled .NET candidates, provided they're OK with working on some ... : Ride-My-Rocket
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        It doesn't seem like the app's upgrade is mission critical, i.e. it's been sitting around for 9 months. ... : zebosausamite
        • You're correct on both counts. The fact that we've gone this long without undertaking a rewrite means it... : Ride-My-Rocket

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• Dammit! : guido anchovy
• More like damn you Japan for region-locking the DSi. : SiW.
• They always have cool things :( : breadsticks

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• I always found that placing tin foil around the crust of pies helps insure you don't have burnt crust whe... : breadsticks
• *legit* - Sheesh. Nice typo. >:( : Sylvanus

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  They're the same thing. No linking needed. I just logged in to WinLive with my 360 account when I want to... : geedeck
  • Yeah but how does it know it's the same thing? I have to tell it somewhere. I'm not talking about GFW... : Dynotaku