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  1. BrutulTM

    Survivor 25: Philippines

    I'm pissed off at Lisa and Skupin. Taking Abi to the end and voting off Denise was a no-brainer. That "We need Denise to beat Malcom" was retarded because Denise will beat them just as bad as Malcom. You could tell Abi knew she was going home when she started calling Skupin an idiot over...
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    Parent Thread

    Set consequences and enforce them. Don't argue with her. Tell your wife to stop yelling at her. Arguing and yelling is just giving her power. Teenagers are shitty though, especially girls. I wish you strength. Oh and Famm has the correct solution to the shower issue.
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    Dexter

    These are from S1 and I swear she's lost weight since then.
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    Dexter

    Deb is Ethiopia skinny. Remember the episode where she's in her pajamas and Dex is staying at her house? Where her legs meet her torso must look like 3 2x4s coming together. She has no ass, no legs, no tits.
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    Home Theater In a Box ?

    I have the Monitor 50s that are very similar to those. What I did was to buy the little kit with the sub, center channel, and 4 satellites and set it up as a 5.1 system and then down the road got the floor standing speakers and used the two extra satellites as my 7.1 speakers. I'm very happy...
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    Gunman opens fire at Oregon mall outside of Portland

    I am not the least bit interested in the opinion of people outside the US on what US law should be.
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    Gunman opens fire at Oregon mall outside of Portland

    Based on this graph, does it seem like now is the time to take drastic action in the US?
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    Gunman opens fire at Oregon mall outside of Portland

    Comparing UK to the US is apples and oranges. England's murder rate was far below the US before they banned guns as well. The US murder rate has declined far more since the UK's gun ban than the UK's has. Show me where violence has significantly decreased after a large gun ban. (Hint, the...
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    Gunman opens fire at Oregon mall outside of Portland

    Even if this were true (I don't know if is) murder follows almost the same profile. If gun control is some sort of panacea for crime then we should expect a drop in murder after a huge ban right?
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    Gunman opens fire at Oregon mall outside of Portland

    LOL, you just linked an article with a graph that is one of the best arguments against the effectiveness of gun control that anyone can make. Chart from above BBC article: You know what year the UK banned all handguns? 1997. Worked great didn't it?
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    Home Theater In a Box ?

    The HDMI board on my Onkyo Receiver conked out after like 2 years. First it was just one bad input, then two, until finally I just had one good one that I had to crawl behind the tv and swap cables to switch inputs. Just replaced it with a Yamaha that I got half off on an Amazon Black Friday...
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    Cali & LV

    I forgot to say, if you do wind up driving up the coast, Monterrey is worth a stop to check out the aquarium.
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    Dexter

    I took it as "you should have killed me, cause now I'm going to put you and your sister in jail".
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    Dexter

    I'm just glad we found another retarded debate to keep this thread going during the week.
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    Ethernet over power lines

    I don't know if anyone really wants a lesson on electrical wiring, but the reason there are two sides to the breaker box is that you don't actually have a 240 volt line running into your house, you have 2 120 volt lines that are 180 degrees out of phase, so you can get 120 volts off of either...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Fuck. I am ruined.
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    Soda Stream

    I have heard you can buy it in 1 gallon quantities at beverage distributors but I can't personally verify that.
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    Gunman opens fire at Oregon mall outside of Portland

    I heard an interview with Micheal Moore a while back where he said that he realized while making "Bowling for Columbine" that US violence would probably not be solved by gun control. According to him, Americans kill more people with knives, clubs, etc. than our European counterparts even though...
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    Do you have health insurance?

    It's not "free". It's part of your wages.
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    TV over the internet???

    ^^
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    Ethernet over power lines

    That makes more sense to me. And yes the breakers are just switches running to different parts of the house so you can short/overload something in one part of the house without turning off the power to everything. I wouldn't think that there would be much resistance in the breaker that would...
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    Gunman opens fire at Oregon mall outside of Portland

    I hate this argument. There are tens of millions of gun owners in the US and the vast majority of them don't do violence with them. I own a bunch of guns and never used any of them for violence (against humans at least) and never intend to. Why did I spend my hard earned money on these things...
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    Ethernet over power lines

    Just checked my breakers and the outlets I would use are on the same phase, but not on the same circuit. I don't think it's that unusual to have outlets on different circuits in your house. You don't really want to blow a breaker because you're trying to cook a waffle and make coffee and...
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    Ethernet over power lines

    Do they have to be on the same circuit? I've heard it's faster if they're on the same phase but having to be on the same breaker makes them kind of useless.
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    Ethernet over power lines

    Anyone tried this? http://www.amazon.com/ZyXEL-Powerlin...bxgy_pc_text_z I have a cat 5 cable draped through my living room atm to my HTPC/Xbox/etc. Would this thing be a viable replacement for it? Do they suck if your wiring is old? This seems like it would be a great option for me but...
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    Gunman opens fire at Oregon mall outside of Portland

    Banning assault rifles would be pointless because like <1% of murders are done with assault rifles. Is the goal to prevent killing or ban things that sound scary? If you really want to reduce the US murder rate you would be legalizing drugs and trying to stamp out poverty.
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    Your Own Photography

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    Do you have health insurance?

    If you are young and healthy and paying for your own insurance then go for a big ass deductible. As much as you can afford without it being a financial disaster for you. I currently have a $3000 deductible and it costs me around $279 a month. When I worked in a corporation my insurance was...
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    2012 NFL Season

    If the god damn Pats go to the SB again I think we will have to banish Belichek and Brady for the good of the league. At least the Steelers had the good taste to go in the shitter this year.
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    Airbnb

    Have not tried it myself. There have been some horror stories with people renting out their places though: The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User's Home Is Utterly Trashed Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: "There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere" That said, I think that is a pretty rare...
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    Cali & LV

    Are you really into theme parks? If you want to go to a half dozen theme parks then LA is the place to be, but other than Disneyland and maybe Sea World I wouldn't bother with the rest of them IMO. I had some friends that tried to do all the parks in LA in a week and the woman was getting...
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    Kids? or No kids?

    It's 100% true that one person deciding not to have a kid will not have any measurable impact on the environment on a global scale. It's not about one person, it's about a global trend. That's not what I said. I do care about the environment because we have to live here, just not for the sake...
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    What do you do?

    I worked as an electronics engineer designing circuit boards for the Department of Energy for 10 years before moving back to Montana to take over my family cattle ranch (where I grew up). Upside to the engineer gig was that I love building things and it was an 8-5 job that paid well and gave...
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    Kids? or No kids?

    This is true in a way, but it's simplistic. It sort of depends on your situation in life. Generally the more educated someone is, the less kids they have. Those of us that are in our 30s and have no kids because we were busy going to college and having a career are not causing the global...
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    Investing

    Mutual funds and IRAs are not exclusive. You would start an IRA, and then the funds in it will be put into a mutual fund or a variety of mutual funds. Roth vs. Traditional IRA just means whether you pay taxes when you put the money in or when you take it out.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Hey guys I put 2 slices of cheese on my hamburger. I call it a BrutulTM burger and now you have to too.
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    Kids? or No kids?

    I know people that have told me they had kids because they wanted someone to take care of them in their old age. What would you say is an unselfish reason for having a kid?
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    Tablets

    Not to mention the weight factor. I haven't tried it, but I can't really imagine reading for a long time on a full sized ipad. The kindle weighs almost nothing and you can easily hold it in one hand.
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    Dexter

    If they brought back Doakes I would personally fly to LA and take a shit in their mailbox.