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    Wheel of Time series

    I didn't really get into the eye of the world until about a 3rd of the way through it, when they got to Shadar Logoth. After that it got pretty good.
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    Parent Thread

    Our doctor told us that we should wake our kid up every 2-3 hours too feed him. We would set alarms to get up during the night
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    Parent Thread

    We used pamper swaddlers until about 10 months and now we've switched to pampers cruisers. We tried the target brand but my wife didn't like those because she thought they didn't absorb well enough.
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    Parent Thread

    My kid just hit the one year sleep regression phase. Last night was up at 3 but thankfully went back to sleep pretty quickly. The night before, it was an hour before he went back to sleep. He thinks its fun to throw all pacifiers out of his crib and say uh-oh but then he cries when they're all...
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    Parent Thread

    We went with the chico keyfit 30 to start with, that had a light weight frame to snap the car seat into. When my son was about 7 months old, we moved up to the nextfit zip by chico. its nice because it has a removable cover that can be washed. He should be able to use that one until he's ready...
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    I would think the difference is that T-mobile isn't exempting just it own the service but that of competitors as well. Comcast is exempting only its own service from data caps, while enforcing data caps from its competitors.
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    I don't see this going over with the FCC very well. Pretty much proves the data caps all bullshit. http://stopthecap.com/2015/11/19/com...own-data-caps/
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    Chromecast - the new Google TV

    You can get $6 in playstore credit per chromecast device Chromecast and Android TV owners can get $6 in Play Store credit | Android Central
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Its very possible that a lot of people don't know how much data they are using but I'll side with the consumer every time over Comcast, a company with a history of screwing over their customers. The fact that comcast will let people buy their way out of the caps for an extra $30 a month, just...
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Yeah but we should certainly trust comcast, who doesn't have a history of fucking over its customers at all. Maybe those people that finally find themselves capped by comcast can pay the extra $30 a month for unlimited data, which comcasts own metering software tells these people that they are...
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    I've seen people say that Comcast's meter is widely off on data usage. Like the day before they implemented the caps, a person was a at 162gb, the day after, 292gb. I wouldn't be surprised to find out Comcast is purposely misstated data usage in order to generate more profit for themselves.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Get her one of those pandora bracelets, then you have a built in gift for lots of future occasions.
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    Van Helsing

    Van Helsing Genre: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First Aired: 2016-09-23 Overview: Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that...
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    Van Helsing

    Title: Van Helsing Genre: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2016-09-23 Creator: Neil LaBute Cast: Kelly Overton, Jonathan Scarfe, Christopher Heyerdahl, Paul Johansson, Rukiya Bernard, Vincent Gale, Aleks Paunovic, Trezzo Mahoro, Missy Peregrym Overview: Vanessa...
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    They are doing that to satisfy wall street. Wall Street: Broadband is Underpriced - Slap On Caps and Usage Billing to Kill Cord-Cutting
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Its cities that will bend over backwards to appease Google. Its why google fiber won't touch the northeast because the layers of local government that make the red tape a nightmare.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    My wife painted a pumpkin teal, that's apparently the international symbol to let parents know that you are allergy friendly. She bought a bunch of stickers an stuff to hand out to those kids.
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Buy the competition, stop promotions and raise prices, capitalism! http://stopthecap.com/2015/10/27/att...-raise-prices/
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    Parent Thread

    Man, I feel really lucky, my kid is working on his 5th tooth and he's still been sleeping through the night. He's gotten a lot fussier though at times but nothing like what you guys are describing.
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    Smartphones

    I'm not sure about the oneplus but on my nexus 6, the gmail app handles 2 gmail accounts and an exchange for me without any issue. In the actual gmail app there are unread counts on the different accounts but not outside of the app
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    This is why we need more municipal broadband in this country http://stopthecap.com/2015/10/15/mun...d-299-a-month/ Comcast's 2gbps service is $299 and has a $1000 install fee
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    Parent Thread

    My kid started getting into stuff, like playing with an electrical outlet that we had one of those baby proof covers on at around 10 months, we told him No then and he stopped. We haven't stopped saying No since then.
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    If you don't take care of it, they'll throw you to collections and fuck your credit. That's the way Comcast rolls.
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    Smartphones

    They've all done away with subsidized phones, in favor of the pay monthly model. I was able to get my nexus 6 subsidized by switching out the sim card of my old phone, same with my mom who has unlimited still. When I'm in Maine, on a capped plan, it would probably cost me an extra $20 or $30 for...
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    Smartphones

    My contract with Verizon runs out in May of 2017, so I have at least until then with the unlimited data. At that point, I'll probably jump to fi. The only time the unlimited data really matters is when I'm in Maine and I stream netflix.
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    NAS

    I currently have a server with my media but its getting up there in age, about 6 years or so and I'm considering going with a NAS. The server is running 4 4tb WD green drives. Does red vs green matter much anymore in the grand scheme of things? I've read a little bit about people using idletools...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Who was watching your kid? Last wedding we went too, the kid was up at his usual time at 6 am. Not a whole lot drinking
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    Chromecast - the new Google TV

    Sounds like anticompetitive behavior to me
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    Parent Thread

    My kid was like that too, had the stranger danger when he was about six months old. Did not care for loud environments either. At 10 months he fell asleep in his stroller at va wedding reception. There's an app called the wonder weeks that gives a good approximation of what to expect week by...
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    Home buying thread

    Well after reading 47 different revisions of the flood map on fema's website, I found the one that removes the entire subdivision from the flood plain from 2008. Basically the lender didn't do any work, said, oh you were in a flood plain in 1996. I guess that's the problem using a no cost...
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    Home buying thread

    My house was built in 2014. The entire subdivision was built since 2008. So it was well after the shit in the mid 2000s. We had friends that just did a refi a couple of months ago and no flood insurance. I posted on on subdivision webpage about it and not a single person said they were ever told...
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    Home buying thread

    What's strange if I look up my address in the floodsmart.gov, it says I'm in a flood plain. Pretty much says my entire subdivision is in a high risk to moderate risk for floods but no one I've talked too was required to get flood insurance.
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Fuck comcast. Glad I don't live in their service area
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    Home buying thread

    So I started a refi with one of these zero costs lenders and they are claiming I need flood insurance because a FEMA map from 1996 says I'm in a flood plain. I built and bought the house in 2014 and we weren't required to get flood insurance then and neither the lender or the builder or my...
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    Chromecast - the new Google TV

    I have 2 of those and a nvidia shield. They all work pretty well for streaming and live tv using the hdhomerun tuners. I did have to put the dev preview of android M on the nexus players for the hardware mpeg2 decoding though.
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    Minority Report

    Show got a 1.1 rating. I would not expect it to survive long.
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    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    I had issues with a circuit board going out twice on an optoma hd20. While optoma covered it, it was enough to make me switch to an epson 8350
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    Windows 10

    I've been beta testing the silicon dust dvr software, its pretty good so far, no drm channels yet and they have stated that they'll miss their oct release date but I'm switching to it as soon as drm is live. I've already moved most recordings over to it and dropped two htpcs in favor of nexus...
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    Big Brother 18

    No one in jury really likes Vanessa but it seemed only Shelly respected her game
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    Big Brother 18

    If they don't take Vanessa out next week, she'll win. She's been playing the entire house, making sure she seems all innocent when people are sent to jury, so they don't bad mouth her.