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  1. Eomer

    Selling My Car - How To Make Sure I Don't Get Screwed

    Make sure you get all their information so that if they do counterfeit a draft, you can pursue them and/or turn the info over to the police. And better yet, go to the bank with them when they get the draft.
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    Buying a car?

    Yeah, I'm sure it's the same here. And you know what? 20 years ago, let alone 70 years ago, that probably made good sense. It really doesn't today.
  3. Eomer

    Buying a car?

    heh, just agreed to buy a new truck from a leasing company, and it shows me how fucked up the car dealership industry really is. I've often heard of people bragging about buying a car for "invoice", or doing cartwheels because they bought slightly under it. We were approached by this leasing...
  4. Eomer

    Big Picasso's thread or BPT for short.

    Ah, construction workers and poop/pee. Good times. We've actually had drywallers (because they are the scum of the earth) shit in bathtubs and showers that are installed right after framing, but before they've been hooked up to drainage. Fucking animals. Pro tip: never, ever fucking touch a...
  5. Eomer

    The Astronomy Thread

    I would imagine a combination of other asteroids, planets etc. and probably a lot of inconsequential dust and interference.
  6. Eomer

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    What the fuck? Are you Barney Stinson?
  7. Eomer

    Selling My Car - How To Make Sure I Don't Get Screwed

    Certified or cashier's check basically is cash. But you're the only one who can cash it. Personally I wouldn't actually want cash in such a sale. And I think the fee for a certified check is like $5 or $10. No brainer.
  8. Eomer

    Desktop Computers

    IMO, if you don't want to break the bank, your CPU is still pretty decent. Just get a new mid range GPU. This is from a gaming perspective, anyways. See this article: AnandTech | Choosing a Gaming CPU October 2013: i7-4960X, i5-4670K, Nehalem and Intel Update Even if you got a super fast...
  9. Eomer

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah, that gif is pretty swell.
  10. Eomer

    Desktop Computers

    The one caveat I would give regarding the whole "buy a mid range card for $300-400 today and then SLI it in 12-18 months" plan that you outlined above is that it can be tough to fine the right card in that timeframe. I've got a 680 in my desktop and a 670 in my HTPC, and while I'm not really...
  11. Eomer

    crossfit?

    Good friend blew his Achilles doing crossfit. True story.
  12. Eomer

    Thanksgiving!

    wow, that escalated quickly
  13. Eomer

    Desktop Computers

    So I think, if there's some good deals tomorrow (Black Friday has only recently become a "thing" in Canada), I'll be picking up a new CPU, mobo, memory and maybe SSD. CPU I've decided on a 4670K, as that seems like the sweet spot. Probably won't bother trying to OC much, but whatever the K costs...
  14. Eomer

    NHL 2013 - 2014 Season Thread

    I agree that the influx of money is on the face a good thing. But it might actually hurt some of the threshold teams by raising the cap and floor further, although I would think that is more than offset by the extra revenue. Nice to see MA Fleury up to his usual tricks tonight!
  15. Eomer

    Smartphones

    Google has butchered 4.4 just fine all on it's own. They still haven't released a fix for this shit:https://code.google.com/p/android/is...etail?id=61785 Again, I cannot understand how this shit made it through QA. It's extremely widespread, and affects one of the most fundamental features of...
  16. Eomer

    Are dating websites profitable?

    Better question: how stupid do you have to be to even ask the above question?
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    Desktop Computers

    treefiddy
  18. Eomer

    Anchorman: The Legend Continues

    Well, this should be interesting:Burgundy to join TSN's Rauter to call curling from Winnipeg Not sure how this will turn out. It'll certainly bump up the younger demographic watching TSN's coverage, but it might piss off a lot of purists.
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    NHL 2013 - 2014 Season Thread

    So, thoughts on the huge Canadian TV deal? That deal alone is enough to raise the salary cap by about 3-5 million. I'm not thrilled about it personally, because TSN is mostly getting shut out and Rogers/Sportsnet is fucking atrocious by comparison. Their on-air people are almost all terrible...
  20. Eomer

    Health Care Thread

    Not quite a religion, but these idiots have been stirring up some trouble in Alberta lately:Freemen on the land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia They're basically a bunch of fucking children. This is from a legal judgement against one, and the judge went to town on him:
  21. Eomer

    Big Picasso's thread or BPT for short.

    45% marginal tax rate? That hurts bro.
  22. Eomer

    Describe your poop with a movie title.

    Shawshit Redemption
  23. Eomer

    Watch and frisk at the movies?

    Keep in mind that the studios keep a lot less of the revenues from overseas box offices than they do in North America. I don't know the exact numbers offhand, but just because a movie "made" 100 million overseas doesn't mean that the studio will see much more than a third or a quarter of that money.
  24. Eomer

    Gravity (2013)

    Anyone who has smashed as much smoking hot pussy as Clooney is allowed to be a smug douchebag all they want.
  25. Eomer

    Kanye West - Yeezus

    Is that song indicative of the rest of Kanye's music? Because that shit is fucking terrible. And I mean the music, not the abortion of a music video.
  26. Eomer

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    I was going to check both as well, but I ended up just going with "owning one". While the PC upgrade cycle has significantly lengthened, it's still there. My mobo/cpu (Q9550) in my main desktop gaming rig is approaching 5 years old now, but it has a fairly new GPU (680), so it can play current...
  27. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    My answer is that I legitimately don't know how to cook, not that I can't. If I invested time and effort I'm sure I could learn, but I could give a fuck less about it and am perfectly fine eating the half dozen or so meals that I am capable of making in under 10 minutes over and over again. If...
  28. Eomer

    Upgrading Video, need advice

    Yeah, I don't really agree. Comparing a i7-950 to an i5-2500 on Bench and there's not a huge difference in performance in CPU limited situations:AnandTech | Bench - CPU Unfortunately if you change the comparison from the 2500 to a 3xxx or 4xxx series they don't have any gaming benchmarks. But...
  29. Eomer

    Tablets

    Dunno. My Gmail/Google Apps accounts are working fine (sort of, see below). They use the Gmail app. But I have an ISP email account that was set up with Exchange in the Email app, and it's completely fucked. One of my Gmail/Apps accounts did shit out yesterday and this morning. It wasn't...
  30. Eomer

    Tablets

    Even if you can get it, you might want to wait. Google fucked the dog on 4.4 and broke Exchange:[Bug Watch] Exchange Email Badly Broken For Many Android 4.4 Users, No Single Cause Yet Determined [Update: Fix Coming] I've had to disable my one personal Exchange account, otherwise my Nexus 4's...
  31. Eomer

    Smartphones

    [Bug Watch] Exchange Email Badly Broken For Many Android 4.4 Users, No Single Cause Yet Determined [Update: Fix Coming] Jesus Google, how the fuck does this shit happen? Since I updated to 4.4 I've had to disable my personal email account from my phone, otherwise it continually tries to sync...
  32. Eomer

    Nine Inch Nails - New album is done

    Yeah, that's a hell of a live show they put on. I've seen them 4-5 times in the past 5 or 6 years, and they lighting just keeps getting more and more mind blowing. I nixed eating some mushrooms being that it was a Sunday night, and I'm kind of glad I did, as I think my brain would have melted.
  33. Eomer

    Describe your poop with a movie title.

    Aliens
  34. Eomer

    Social poll

    Yeah, I've got my the few family I'm friends with on a limited profile list, and have them largely blocked from showing up in my newsfeed. I spent a couple hours a few months ago pruning the shit out of my friends list and segregating my "true" friends off from people I'm just sort of friendly...
  35. Eomer

    Social poll

    Only reason I ever logged in to Google+ was to disable all the fucking obnoxious emails it keeps sending me. I want nothing to do with it. I do use Facebook on a daily basis. Linkedin I have a profile on, and occasionally log in to accept invitations from people I actually know, but I'll be...
  36. Eomer

    Weight Loss Thread

    I can easily "overeat" on booze alone by a couple thousand calories a day when on vacation.
  37. Eomer

    Justice for Zimmerman

    Dude is a first rate moron, all the shit he keeps finding himself tangled up in.
  38. Eomer

    NHL 2013 - 2014 Season Thread

    Nice conventional goaltending right there.
  39. Eomer

    Desktop Computers

    Nice? That video card is a heap of shit.
  40. Eomer

    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    GMO foods are to liberals/left-leaning people as climate change is to conservatives/right-leaning people. For whatever reason, both of those issues short circuit a lot of otherwise intelligent people's brains, who let ideology and ignorance replace their rationality and intelligence.