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I'm not sure why you're so hung up on human extinction, though. There's a whole shitload of horrific scenarios that we should be looking to avoid that still stop short of extinction. Why do you keep coming back to it? It's not just New York. It's damn near ever major city on the planet. And sea...

The concern is that the changes would be so catastrophic that we would be likely to see a collapse of civilization. Mad Max type shit, with a huge fall in human population. And if humanity was reduced to a few scattered city states in the extreme Northern and Southern parts of the world, the...

For fuck's sake, at least do a proper Space Balls reference.

Finally got out this past weekend for my first downhill days of the summer. Couple days at Silverstar in Vernon. Forgot how much fun that shit is when your bike is behaving itself, you've got a good group to ride with, and you're feeling good about your riding. Strava tells me that the total...

I can't say I've seen someone "stop working" because of a raise. But I have definitely seen an employee's performance significantly decline after being given profit sharing bonuses, because his ego got in the way. Suddenly he figured he was king shit of turd mountain, and started dumping on...

Completely, utterly, and totally disagree. For the most part, I'd say that the overall political culture of this board is socially progressive, fiscally middle of the road, and libertarian. Just look at discussions of gun control. If this board was composed of "a bunch of hippies", why is it...

I couldn't imagine trying to collect payment from the general public, ugh. It's bad enough trying to get paid by large corporations that actually have money.

I wasn't even really getting in to the underlying mechanics. I was just talking about styling. The silohouettes of equivalent Audi and VW models are damn near identical. Maybe the body panels aren't entirely interchangeable, but they're damn close.

Eh? The article you linked mentioned an Avant A4 all over the place. All Avant means is wagon. My dad's got an A6 Avant (2010 I think?), and my mom used to have a 2006 A4 Avant. So there'll be an A4 Avant in NA by the looks of it. The only question is whether they release a hotted up S4 or RS4...

Really? Doesn't look much different from the previous version to me. I really find Audi's styling for the most part to be really, really fucking boring. Not to mention that they look waaaaaaaaaayyyy too similar to the equivalent VW models. All will be forgiven if they start selling an RS4 or...

I'm likely going to be in Portland for 3-4 days, somewhere around August 14-17, with the special lady friend. I would appreciate recommendations for a hotel to stay at (not looking for anything ridiculously swank, but something nice and central and with more character than a Best Western)...

Every year I pay around 15k for our various Oilers season tickets, and every year, they miss the playoffs. I could do without this ritual.

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Shin splints can be a total cunt. And once you have them, they can be a nightmare to get rid of. I picked them up a few years ago from too much mogul and terrain park skiing, and it took nearly two years for it to finally go away entirely. Never had it from running, for whatever reason.

Draegan posted about it before. It's something server side. The only way to change it would be to reset everyone's "new post" counter or whatever.

Shit is broken on these boards, it only goes back 10 days.

Saw the live show in Edmonton a couple years ago. It was indeed pretty incredible.

Well no, actually, we didn't know that planets were plentiful until Kepler. That realization has literally only had truly scientific evidence to back it for about the past 5-6 years.

Further to 2a), while we can't see planets with the transit method if their axial plane is lined up with Earth, scientists can extrapolate Kepler's numbers to get an idea of what the frequency of particular types of planets and orbits are throughout the galaxy. The other thing to consider is...

There's guides out there to go back and check all that shit to make sure it configured properly. But yeah, I'd agree that you're better off just doing a fresh install. Save the SSD upgrade for the next time you're doing an extensive system upgrade if you don't want to spend the time.

I've been quite enjoying my Corsair K70 and K95.

If it's based on market cap, then it shouldn't. This is VT, which is basically an ETF that is supposed to mirror the entire planet's cumulative stock market more or less:https://personal.vanguard.com/us/fun...tExt=INT#tab=2 China is 2.5% of that. Even if you take out North America to make it...

He's being paid for past performance. No question he's been a very good second line center for the past 6-7 seasons. But that's just it: his best seasons are behind him. He's 30, and the past three seasons he's been a 45 point guy, not a 60-70 point guy. 6.875 million is a big, big number to pay...

My special lady friend has been off the pill for like, 4+ months now, and her menstrual cycles still haven't come back. That's kind of fucked up. It's also fucked up that I've been having to use condoms this entire time. I'm considering a vasectomy, because this shit is bullshit.

It's an all inclusive, so I just wanted some singles or small Mexican notes for tips. And generally using a Visa in Mexico is rolling the dice, best to use only cash in most cases unless it's at a big chain/corporation.

Yeah, I was talking with my bro today and apparently dealers are charging way over MSRP for the i8 here. Agreed on the limitations of a Model S. He also said like you that this is the E63's last year, it would not be a wise purchase since it'll be updated soon. And finally, yeah, the RS7 might...

Yeah, a couple weeks after I did cache partition deletion/format, my Nexus 10 is back to being a piece of shit again. Chrome has crashed at least half a dozen times for no reason. Pretty ridiculous that physically it's pretty much spotless, but it's quickly becoming useless because of shit software.

Relevant: Marriage and The Power of Divorce - Page 26 Marriage and The Power of Divorce - Page 26 Also especially this:Marriage and The Power of Divorce - Page 31 Marriage and The Power of Divorce - Page 32

Hope everything works out, but this shit is not going according to plan man! Is her family not going to disown her? Baby out of wedlock for JW's is a huge no-no, I would imagine. Oh, what a difference two years can make:

Jane Fonda is 77, I'd probably bang her. Just saying.

No idea, haven't actually talked to a dealer or anything. That's insane if true. I'm so so on them. Not as practical as some of the other ones I mentioned, and the E63 is faster. Neat technology though. I'll probably just wait for my bro to break down and get one, and just borrow his.

To be clear, I was talking about real estate agents in general terms, not this specific example. As others have said that shit just doesn't make sense at all, from anyone's perspective.

Here's an old NYT article about Levitt's work:Log In - The New York Times

Meh. There's an entire chapter in the book on the subject. Below is a small clip from an article that came before the book that looked at it. From a real estate agent's perspective, they are far better off getting a quick sale and moving on to the next one than trying to squeeze another few...

Been kicking around the idea of maybe getting a Tesla Model S, BMW i8, Mercedes E63 AMG wagon or something similar. But my condo building's underground garage (Canuck: parkade) was never intended for that use, and I can barely fit my 2009 BMW 5-series wagon in my stall as it is, and both of...

Also: send it, you fucking pussy.

Real estate agents do not give one fuck how much or little a place sells for. The marginal difference in their commission in most cases is tiny. The only thing that matters to a real estate agent trying to min/max their commissions is having as much turnover as possible. Freakonomics More...

Actually, most of the cool kids at Whistler, Silver Star etc. don't even wear body armor. They wear a full face helmet, maybe some gloves, skinny jeans and a plaid flannel shirt. It's the older, fragile fucks in their 30's like me that rock the armor. DH really is super fun, but yeah the...

The other thing with Timonen is that he barely played in the playoffs. He was playing less than 10 minutes a night, sometimes only 5 (Kimmo Timonen, Blackhawks - Game log - NHL.com - Players). And in his 34 games with the Hawks, both playoff and regular season, he had a grand total of 0 points...

My Nexus 10 tablet had been running like shit for a long time, and doing a factory reset and clearing the cache from within the settings menu didn't really do much, although they did seem to help to some extent. But then after some Googling I found some suggestions to go ahead and clear/format...