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    Actress sues Amazon for revealing age on film database

    Best guesses from that thread are Smith Cho and Ally Maki. I'd guess Smith Cho too.
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    Help! Bug from Hell on porch screen! What is it???

    Congratulations! You killed something that consumes just water and nectar as an adult! Hang onto that wasp killer as there may be some butterflies lurking around the corner!
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    My Chase Freedom dispute success story

    Just so you know if I'm not mistaken, the SOP here would be for the company to issue you a credit immediately after receiving your side of the story. They'll then give the locksmith a chance to give their side of the story. If the locksmith comes up with a better story, say a signed contract...
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    White House releases Obama birth certificate

    Easy, there's a birth certificate with "African" that has been released by the Director of Health from the State of Hawaii. It's accompanied by a letter from said director, attesting to its authenticity. That's already substantial evidence that when asked about race in 1961, if African was...
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    Alaska cop found to be illegal immigrant

    IANAL, but I suspect the arrest would hold regardless of his immigration status. People are usually arrested because they broke the law, so the particulars of the arresting officer is likely irrelevant. The main problem would be in those cases where he testified. Those cases might require...
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    Donald Trump releases his birth certificate, demands Obama does the same

    But he has already released documentation proving that he was born in the United States (Honolulu to be precise). If you agree that the Hawaii COLB is authentic, then you're agreeing that he's a natural born citizen. Showing anything else wouldn't change that fact.
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    Basketball etiquette...

    From the NCAA rules on personal Fouls: 1. A player shall not hold, push, charge, trip or impede the progress of an opponent by extending arm(s), shoulder(s), hip(s) or knee(s) or by bending his or her own body into other than a normal position; nor use any unreasonably rough tactics. If...
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    2011 Income Tax Refund - How much did you get?

    In addition to those refunds being an interest free loan to the government, you're losing out on the interest you would have earned. For example, let's say your refund is $1200, you get paid monthly, and get your refund at the end of April. If you were to instead put that money into an...
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    Is Buying Gold a Wise Investment?

    Yeah, I definitely messed up my math somewhere. Maybe I multiplied by the density instead of dividing by it. Maybe that statement was about right albeit a bit misleading given how dense gold is. Regardless of my inability to do quick math, gold's still a poor investment.
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    Is Buying Gold a Wise Investment?

    The number doesn't seem quite right to me either so I did some back of the envelope calculations. The US Mint says there are around 147.3 million ounces in Ft. Knox. I used Google to convert to kg, then used then density of gold to find how many cubic centimeters, then Google again to find...
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    Google image search is crazy! Could get someone fired...

    RA81 appears in the filename for that image of a topless woman. Dec is the month in which it appeared in that blog. The "Jesus finger" image comes up because it's some guy called RiseAbove81's blog. Google will link blogs that may contain questionable content. Provided they're not...
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    10% Tax

    Actually it's not that money's worth less, but rather that you get less use out of the same amount. That $5 is still worth $5. It's just that $5 more meant more then than it does now. So that diminishing marginal utility means that 10% tax on lower incomes is a much larger economic burden...
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    10% Tax

    I'll take a stab at this and suggest that he meant the law of diminishing marginal utility. Let's say I'm giving you $10 more to spend on your lunch today. If you've only got $1 in your pocket, that extra $10 can make a huge difference in your lunch. It makes less of difference if you've...
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    What play to see in NYC?

    I'd say just go for rush tickets. Part of the fun is the excitement of the draw. If you don't get 'em, just go TKTS. It's the slow season now so it shouldn't be a problem. It helps a ton if you're flexible.
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    Storm - American Gladiator - Homeless

    FWIW, according to IMDB, she appeared in 34 episodes across two or three years. There were 26 or so episodes each season. I can easily see her pay being $1500 per aired episode. Remember, she was one easily replaceable gladiator, out of the ten or so that appeared each episode. If American...
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    $12 million? No thanks, I don't deserve it

    I can honestly say that I would love have to make that decision of having earned $50 million and having to decide whether to accept another $12 million or not. I'm sad to say the closest I'll probably get to that is to be given $50 bucks to spend at McDonald's to feed myself and then having to...
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    2011 Income Tax Refund - How much did you get?

    If you're paying an accountant I'd hope they'd be able to answer the simple question of "what should I adjust my W-4 withholdings (Federal and State) to, in order to get my refund as close to zero as possible?" If payroll's nice enough, you can ask them what you need to set your withholdings to...
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    2011 Income Tax Refund - How much did you get?

    And if you can do the math just right, you want to owe the government just under $1,000 in taxes come April 15th (or the 18th with Emancipation Day). That way the government has essentially given you a free loan for that amount over the year. Of course the vast majority of tax payers can't...
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    WTH happened to the hot redhead from season 1 of American Idol!!???

    Drugs. Rehab. Married. Kids. Loss of a parent. Depression. A decade. Take your pick. Any and all could pack on the pounds. She definitely was hot.
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    San Francisco, when The Daily Show ridicules your nanny govt, you may wanna cool it

    There's an argument to be made that it should be defended on free speech rights. However it need not be as staunchly defended as the right to commercial speech is lesser category than say political speech. It's also my personal opinion that the right of commercial speech by a corporation is...
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    San Francisco, when The Daily Show ridicules your nanny govt, you may wanna cool it

    When it comes to protecting children from a potentially addictive combination of salt, sugar, and fat, and when the additional burden is placed upon large corporations with no real additional cost to consumers or the public at large, I've little problem with that line being nudged forward...
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    San Francisco, when The Daily Show ridicules your nanny govt, you may wanna cool it

    Actually it's not okay to force Ford to include a product from a seatbelt manufacturer in their product. It is okay to force the entire auto industry to abide by certain safety guidelines, such as requiring seat belts and airbags. Again, the San Fransisco ordinance doesn't specify McDonald's...
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    Mega Meeeeeeeellions up to $355MM. Time to pay the stupid tax!

    You may want to double check your math. There's a federal tax of 25% on the jackpot, the expected value was probably under $1.30.
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    San Francisco, when The Daily Show ridicules your nanny govt, you may wanna cool it

    I disagree. He just failed to come up with the right comparison. You can't force Netflix, a private company, to send out a particular DVD. That would be like forcing Ford to put an IPod into every F150 they sold. However, you can regulate that automakers must put seat belts into every car...
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    San Francisco, when The Daily Show ridicules your nanny govt, you may wanna cool it

    Aside for that food environment bit, I don't think he came off as that much of a moron. And I'm surprised that they didn't have two cameras on location. That use of single camera in the interview to mock up two shots was very distracting.
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    Mega Meeeeeeeellions up to $355MM. Time to pay the stupid tax!

    As I alluded to in my earlier post, it's not that hard to do. Not accounting for taxes, the expected value for a ticket with a zero dollar jackpot is a little over eighteen cents. This means the expected value on the jackpot has to only hit $0.82 for it to be worth buying. The break even...
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    Mega Meeeeeeeellions up to $355MM. Time to pay the stupid tax!

    Actually once the jackpot gets large enough, it's no longer a stupid tax but rather a "good" investment. Let's say we're betting $1 on a coin flip. If I pay out less than $2 on a winning bet, it's a stupid tax. If I pay out more than $2, it's a good bet. Same thing with lotteries (with the...
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    So 40% of the US believes God created us as is within past 10,000 years?

    Just to be nitpicky, that's not quite right. Everything with less than 1 SD from the mean on a normal distribution would be 15.73% of the population. A quarter of a SD away from the mean would be equivalent to 40% of the cumulative distribution function of a normal IQ curve. That's to say...
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    So 40% of the US believes God created us as is within past 10,000 years?

    I only skimmed Gallup's methodology, but as they are one of the largest and most reputable pollsters in the country, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. The cell phone only crowd shouldn't be a concern though as IIRC, they shot for a sample of 850 landlines plus 150 cell phone only. And...
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    So 40% of the US believes God created us as is within past 10,000 years?

    Once the sample size of yes/no questions gets large enough, the distribution approximates a "bell curve type sample". It ends up being the same calculation with a couple differences. The mean you used in your "bell curve type sample" is the proportion you expect to see answer "yes", we'll call...
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    Why did percolators fall out of fashion? They make such a good cup of coffee. . .

    I own two French presses (1 cup and 4 cup sizes), two pump espresso machines (a newer version replacing an older one that still worked okay after over 8 years), and a vac pot. You can of course get a wonderful cup of coffee with any of these methods, provided you use the appropriate coffee...
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    Had my first traffic accident last night

    Here's a hypothetical situation that could fit what the OP described. OP was northbound along a North-South road. The other vehicle was headed westbound along a East-West road. We'll give the other vehicle a stop sign and the OP the right of way through the intersection. The other...
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    Anybody loaned money to relatives against their better judgment???

    My suggestion? If you're going to loan money to family or friends, think of it as a gift. If you can't afford to or wouldn't freely give them that much money, without expecting it to be paid back, don't loan it to them. If they pay it back, that's great but if you're going to be counting the...
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    Texas Bill to Require Presidential Candidates to Submit Birth Certificate

    The problem is that wouldn't dispel all the conspiracy theories. You can never appease them, even when you meet their demands with facts. Conspiracy theorists claimed he wasn't a citizen. Obama had the copy of birth certificate the campaign obtained released. Conspiracy theorists said it...
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    Moving to my own place..anywhere that sells kitchen appliance "kits"

    If you're in a large enough of a metropolitan area, just hit a restaurant supply house. Here's Mark Bittman's NYT take: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09mini.html
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    Home Coffee Brewers: What are you drinking these days

    I do my best to find a local coffee shop that's willing to sell me smaller quantities of whole bean coffee. I just do a double shot of espresso in the morning so a quarter pound lasts me around 10 days or so -- right around the longest you should be keeping coffee anyways. When I lived in...
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    Places that are cash only bug me.

    Just a point of reference on those margins and why some places will be cash only. There's usually a $0.25-0.50 transaction fee for each purchase. On top of that, there's a percentage fee. Big businesses can qualify for a nice merchant account and will only be hit for 1-5%. If you're not...
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    how many times have you switched primary email addresses?

    I've switched three times. First was from my Cleveland Freenet address to my college address. Then from my college address to a Yahoo one. Finally to my Gmail one.
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    Contact lenses....

    In addition to what others have said, I like to just put a drop or two of solution in the lens. I also do it in front of a mirror and keep my eyes on the mirror and not the lens and finger getting closer and closer to my eyeball. It takes seconds (unless I wasn't paying attention and put in...
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    Fish Sauce Be Gone!

    Try using an enzyme based pet stain / odor remover.
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