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Goddamn ping of 2ms it the most impressive part of all of that. I have pretty decent speeds on my cable here in the middle of the US, but I'm never below ~50ms ping to anywhere

The only things you'll find in the 80-90 inch range that is reasonably priced are the hugeass Mitsubishi DLP HDTVs. Can get a 92" for under 5 grand. Its basically a rear-projection HDTV, screen quality is about on par with a middle of the road LCD(probably better than a projector)...

Yep, been playing the last couple hours. Working on my archer/mage. No clue if that is as effective a combo as it was back in the early days of UO but fuck it, it's what I'm good at

I think the most reasonable scenario is: 1) He's gay 2) His football teammates were always wondering why he wasn't out bangin' chicks around campus like the rest of them 3) He makes up some lame excuse about a "girlfriend back home" 4) As they press for more details he makes up more...

So tempting... Might have to get my friends together who I used to play UO with and do some old-school trap boxing. We used to put a deadly-poisoned chest on a noob character with no gear. Annoy/steal from someone until we went grey and they could beat the noob character down. When the...

My wife used Nuvaring for a couple years, it worked well.(as mentioned above though, you can sometimes feel it depending on its positioning) Used it for probably 2 years or so and never had any pregnancy scares or anything. I've had previous girlfriends that just used the pill and never had...

IPT has blazing speeds since they track seeding. I can regularly get 7000kbps download speeds on a popular file with hundreds of people seeding it. Can grab a 10 gig 1080p movie file in like 20-25 minutes, and a regular 1 gig dvd-quality movie rip in like 2-3 minutes. I've never gotten speeds...

Good luck man, I did all my insurance licensing about 10 years ago, but I thought our states Life & Health exam was WAY more difficult than our property & casualty exam. Theres just so god damn many health bills, regulations, and laws that its hard to keep them all straight, their official...

You have a damn cheap dentist. Back before I had dental coverage I tried out probably 4 or 5 different dentists as I moved around different areas of my city. Cleanings without insurance were probably $90-$100 on average, and a composite filling for a cavity was like $250ish. Not to mention...

Same here, we are going to find out in about a month(right at end of first trimester now). Mainly for planning/budgeting purposes. My wife's brother has a 3 and 7 year old boy, and they have TONS of hand-me-down clothes and toys and such for boys, but nada for girls, so we want to budget ahead...

The 2GB card has a slightly faster memory clock speed. You really won't see any noticeable difference, and both can be overclocked well past their default speeds anyways if you want to mess with that. I'm showing a $60($499 and $559) difference to get the 4GB card, which still isn't huge...

Ditto, everyone I know has a 50" or bigger LCD/Plasma, and no one uses 3D even if it's a feature on their TV. In everything I read about the CES this year, 3D was pretty much ignored, no one featured it or really even mentioned it. Maybe the horrible trend is finally about to go away.

Insurance is a racket? Have fun paying for that surgery if you end up needing it without insurance. The price of it will probably be greater than your average yearly income. I'll admit that the health insurance industry is far from perfect, but trying to claim that you are better off...

I've had a LG Plasma for a year and a half or so now, and no issues with burn-in/retention. About the worst I've seen is when I leave ESPN just running all day long during college football or basketball season, with the damn ESPN scroll along the bottom with a never-changing ESPN logo. It'll...

Microcenter was carrying a 27" 2560x1440p monitor for $399 back around Christmas(little more expensive than the Korean ones, but you're dealing with a local merchant with a return policy), but it is nowhere to be found on their website right now.

That's goddamn brutal, I'd have to move. I regularly use 300-500GB of bandwith a month on my home ISP

I think it's pretty reasonable for teachers, maybe not so much for firefighters or police though. It's hard to attract decent teachers to work in an inner-city school district. The 'burbs pay more and are easier to work in to boot. Something like this is needed to get most horrible inner-city...

I have to assume they were either inherited, or he had so much money to start with(also family/inheritance) that he could just throw money at the problems at make them work. With a BS in Comp Sci, he's not even out of college until age 22ish, so to open one very successful restaurant every year...

My experience in management is dealing mostly with people in their teens and 20s when I worked for Gamestop, very few of my employees were over the age of 30. A few were, but not many. From my experience though, most women can not take constructive work criticism well at all. They take it as...

I spent that much on the Genesis version of SFII because not only did I have to buy the $70 cartridge, but I also had to buy 2 new 6-button controllers. I think it ended up costing a good $120-$130 or so. One of my favorite fighting games(great in the arcade, pretty shitty on consoles but I...

The people in the US who go to the emergency room for the FLU, or even pregnancy tests are the ones with no insurance or medicaid who aren't going to pay the bill anyways. You walk into a private doctors office with no insurance and no way to pay, you're getting turned away, whereas an ER...

I'm over in Lees Summit(suburb of KC), we might never get google fiber. Sucks to be so close to it yet I can't get ahold of it. Crappiest part is that I lived in North KC up until 3 years ago, and that area is due to get fiber later this year. Time Warner out here is decent, I pay $60 a...

Do it in August if most of your friends are big college football fans. Inevitably, someone is not going to want to miss their team playing on any given Saturday from Sept - Nov. Of course, August is hot as balls, but early September isn't much better anyways in the Midwest/South.

The problem with this flu that is all over is that I believe it is a strain that wasn't included in the flu shots this year. There are thousands of strains of flu, and the yearly flu-shot is just a guess at the most likely couple dozen that might affect the US in any given year(they look at...

Yeah, you don't need to run a pool pump all day long while you are using the pool. Get a timer and have it kick on for an hour or 2 a few times a day and you should be good. Obviously it varies a bit with weather and how much you use it, but in general you don't need it running anywhere...

Same here, I'm in my mid 30s and I've never got a flu shot. Ever since I've been out of school(germ heaven) I rarely get sick. As a kid/teenager I used to get damn sick almost every winter, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, whatever. I've only had maybe 1 instance of flu in the last decade now...

I love how the web page lists "1080p HD" as a primary feature and then the first line of info is 1024x600 screen. Lol

This is a hell of a deal if you qualify for it. I have a couple firefighter friends who have taken advantage of it in the past few years. It used to just be 20% off after 3 years, now that it's been bumped up to 50% it's an absolutely crazy deal. Decent homes can be in pretty limited supply...

I didn't think Obamacare had anything to do with dental coverage.

LEGO anything. Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman, Lego Lord of The Rings, Lego Indiana Jones, etc. I have 8 and 4 year old nephews and they LOVE these games. The 4 year old isn't very helpful but at least they can both play at the same time. Bonus is that they are actually really good games, I...

The problem with the current state of movies is either you are a huge blockbuster release with 10s or even 100s of millions of dollars spent on advertising and you're shooting for an opening week record of some kind, or no one has ever heard of the movie, there's not much in-between. The Oscars...

Someone recommend me a good router that has a strong wireless signal as well. I know I've seen recommendations for some good ones but I can't remember if it was here, back on FOH, or what thread they were even in. I'm sick of my D-Link DGL-4500, it has to be reset about once a week, just...

Really, this is the 2nd bad year in a row for good dramatic movies. 2011 was pretty crap with The Help, Tree of Life, Hugo, War Horse, etc. 2010 was incredible, with the likes of Inception, The Fighter, Black Swan, Social Network, True Grit, King's Speech, Winter's Bone, etc. Had any one of...

2013 SEC Schedule(several teams still need to add 1 more non-con opponent to get up to 12 games)

That's Goddamn awesome

Probably true, but but I do worry about the possibility that 5 years from now, easily torrenting anything and everything you want might be a hell of a lot more difficult than it is now. Hope not, but it's possible, so I'm getting as much as I can while I can get it

Is there anyway to keep all nations from withdrawing? Even playing on normal I always lose 1 or 2 nations before I can get full satellite coverage. Is it just pure dumb luck, you have to hope the same areas dont get attacked multiple times while you don't have satellites there to detect it?

Has anyone used the Carbonite back up service? I see their home plans can be anywhere from $59 - $149 per year, and they all say "unlimited GB" backup, but I wonder how true that is. Are they going to balk if I try to backup my 5-6 TB of videos? I notice the business services have size limits...

Not sure what stores you have in Canada, but most stores that sell makeup will sell badger-hair brushes. Even places like Target or drug stores like CVS/Walgreens here in the US all carry basic badger hair brushes, you just might have to check in the cosmetics area. I've even seen them in some...