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    Want to build my son a comp

    Do you have a tube of thermal grease (Arctic Silver, etc.) lying around? If so, you can always test the heatsink using the stock thermal pad, then turn it off after a couple of minutes. It's unlikely the stock pad would melt too much in that amount of time, and if it does, you can just clean it...
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    Want to build my son a comp

    I wouldn't do it. There's so much risk that there's really no safe way to do it. To be honest, I've bought AMD processors exclusively for years, and I have yet to get a bad chip. I think that quality control is much better on processors simply because the binning process already requires the...
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    Specific day for a letter and package delivery?

    Well, depending on how much you're willing to pay for the service, you can always send it guaranteed overnight (USPS would probably be cheapest in this case). But you'll pay a pretty penny for it. However, I know that at least UPS Ground usually delivers on the exact day they estimate when you...
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    Deadliest Catch returns April 12th!

    Meh, I'm more interested in Mythbusters (returning April 6th!). Much more entertaining (and informative) than anything Deadliest Catch has.
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    Why is breastfeeding frowned upon?

    It's actually the law in Illinois (where I live) that employers provide time and a location for pumping. It also specifically says that a toilet stall is not considered an acceptable location.
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    DDR3 with white heatsink?

    I don't know what speed/size you're looking for, but it seems like the G.SKILL Eco series has something that at least looks like white (maybe more of an off-silver) heatspreaders and comes in a variety of sizes: NewEgg
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    Lost my Rx meds, now what?

    That's why I don't understand people who throw out the bottles to their medications as soon as they finish it. If you keep them, at least you can transfer some of the pills out into one of the bottles if you ever need to travel, and they'll still be labeled correctly if anyone questions it...
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    Bad memory stick - what to do?

    Why not just get an RMA and send it back to Crucial? The Ballistix line has a lifetime warranty, so all you have to do is go to their site and submit a warranty request, and once they receive and test the memory, they'll send you a new one. I've already done this once before with a Ballistix...
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    VIA VT1708S Sound

    While I haven't seen any sort of performance hit from that chip, I just recently switched to a motherboard with that chip and I can say that, at least in my experience, the sound on it is pretty awful. I moved from an ultra-low-end Audigy SE card to the VT1708S, and the sound seems very tinny...
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    Things that you DON'T miss from "the good ol' days".

    What I really don't miss is when everyone and their grandmother started discovering (and using) Frontpage almost simultaneously. More specifically, when it was the "in" thing to start using the marquee tag. Almost every page that you went to had at least 2 or 3 of those infernal scrolling text...
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    Cali Cop Threatens to Kill Anyone Openly Carrying a Handgun (Even if it's Legal)

    Lumping this guy in with liberals is like lumping any crazy far-right person in with conservatives. There's extremes on both sides, and as a liberal myself, I agree that this cop went over the line.
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    You Can't Make This Up

    I like how the press release spells the president's first name "Barrack" and refers to, of all things, an assassination attempt! It's also rather interesting that they refer to her as "attorney Dr. Orly Taitz," considering that while a JD is technically a doctorate, attorneys don't usually take...
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    House Minority Leader Boehner & Senator McConnell - Repubs. that can Stop Obama-care

    You do realize that a state law/constitutional amendment can't override a federal law, right? It's the same as a state passing a law saying "All residents of State X are exempt from federal taxation." All those laws are, are political grandstanding tools. It allows a state governor and...
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    People bitching about a nickel.

    Really? I didn't receive one in the mail. Oh, wait, you had to trade one in and just get a discount on a new one? I can see how that equals "giv[ing] everyone a car."
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    Fear related Propaganda.

    Just wait for the year 2038 (Y2K38?) problem to start cropping up a few years before that year, and we'll go through the whole scare tactic all over again, just as people forget about the non-events of Y2K and 2012. And if you're using a 64-bit Unix, you'll have to deal with the year...
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    How many wireless networks do you see right now?

    11, almost half of which seem to be 2Wire routers on channel 6 (bonus points for the person who set their channel to 8 - I'm sure that makes such a big difference). Hey, at least it leaves channel 1 all to me.
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    Funny how time flies

    When I joined here back in high school, I remember how exciting it used to be saving up money until I could buy that new processor or the new video card, then searching all over until I could find the best deal. I think that, now that I'm out of college and have work experience and jobs and...
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    Talk about grand standing......sheese the guy is dead!!

    And the people arguing against King are exercising their "free speech" thing too. The concept of free speech doesn't mean that you're insulated against criticism toward what you say. This seems to be a common misconception among a lot of people who have controversial views. As soon as people...
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    how "canadian" is buffalo ny?

    That too. After moving to Chicago, it's been even more grating on my ears to hear "pop" instead of "soda."
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    is Dexter supposed to be good, or get better?

    The first episodes of the first season are meant to be ambiguous. Trust me, it's all leading up to something. They're just laying down the framework for the twists that will come later.
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    I don't see how a question on a standardized test (SAT,GMAT,GRE,etc) could be racially biased

    Actually, the Supreme Court overturned New Haven's decision, technically. The promotion board originally threw out the test results, and the Supreme Court decided that they were wrong in doing it on the basis of fear of litigation. Note that this didn't actually decide whether the test was, in...
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    how "canadian" is buffalo ny?

    I went to school in Buffalo, and I can tell you that the only thing Canadian about it was the weekly exodus of students from our campus to Canada, where you could drink legally at 19. Not that being under 21 stopped anyone at my school from drinking in the US either, but that's a whole other...
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    Married People: Do you like your in-laws?

    My in-laws are, no kidding, some of the worst people I have ever met in my life. My father-in-law literally does nothing but sit around watching Fox News when he's not at work, pausing only to make snide remarks about my Democrat-oriented beliefs. If Bill O'Reilly says something is true, it's...
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    ummm....WTF Comcast?

    Let me guess, you have the cheapest ATT plan in Chicago (Basic, I think it's called)? If you can, upgrade that connection to the fastest (Elite) speed. I went from bare-basic Verizon DSL in NYC (512kbps - not my choice, either) to ATT Elite here (supposedly up to 6mbps) and I can't believe I...
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    Newegg Shipments

    If it happens again, I might consider it. I'll be the first to admit that I was more than a bit spoiled when I lived in New York, since the NewEgg warehouse in NJ would often ship things to me, and it'd arrive overnight, since it only had to go 20 miles or so. As long as things arrive within the...
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    Newegg Shipments

    To use days for examples: NewEgg ships package out to me on Monday afternoon. The local UPS distribution center (I know where it is, and it's not far from me at all) shows an arrival scan Tuesday evening (around 10PM) of the package. Normally in my area, if a package arrives by 1AM on a...
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    Newegg Shipments

    I knew this because I tracked it online, and I saw the arrival time at my local UPS distribution center way ahead of time. However, it didn't get marked as "out for delivery" until another day, even though it was at the distribution center in plenty of time to be put on a truck the second day...
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    Taking Back Sunday

    This kinda reminded me of a pretty funny, almost completely unrelated story. When I used to live in rural NC (tip: don't ever do this), my mother used to work with this woman who was one of those ultra-preachy types that seemed to see any get-together as a reason to proselytize to anyone within...
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    Newegg Shipments

    I wish my packages still did that. When I lived in NYC, they used to ship things 3-day UPS from California, and I'd still usually get it within 2 days. Now that I live in Chicago, everything's gone completely downhill with UPS, even though I'm now closer to every NewEgg shipping center except...
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    Glenn Beck reads a letter from a patriot

    BTW, can anyone explain to me what this "mandatory escrow fee to ACORN" thing is that "she"'s referring to? I'm not exactly up to speed on this issue, but I find the claim that ACORN somehow gains money on every real estate transaction to be unlikely at best. Also, when did "patriot" come to...
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    friend on suicide watch

    Then again, as I've pointed out before, how many people fit into the neat mold of perfectly rational, well-informed, and able to clearly see every possible option and evaluate it in a neutral manner, and then decide that suicide is the only true option (again, excluding euthanasia patients and...
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    friend on suicide watch

    Debt usually passes on to your heirs. It doesn't just disappear because you're dead. It just causes even more problems, since your estate can be captured by creditors, who can force your heirs to pay them first out of your own property, and then what's left can come from their pockets. Not to...
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    friend on suicide watch

    I think you'll find that the two options you portrayed are somewhat problematic when it comes down to it. In reverse order: 1. Killing yourself so others may live: How often does this come up, really? Maybe in wartime, or times of genocide, yes. But is this really what we're talking about...
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    friend on suicide watch

    As someone who's extensively worked with mentally ill people, some of which have attempted suicide, describing someone as "selfish" is extremely unfair. As mentioned before, in most cases of non-euthanasia related suicide attempts, people have severe mental illnesses that alter their normal...
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    friend on suicide watch

    Well, I'd argue that attempting/seriously threatening suicide doesn't often fit into the term "responsible" (though there are many people who would probably disagree with me). That usually indicates a severe mental illness (depression, bipolar disorder, etc.), and the state has an interest in...
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    friend on suicide watch

    Well, to be fair, based on experiences visiting people on suicide watches in psychiatric hospitals, I will say that the Wikipedia page is generally a pretty inaccurate portrayal of the process. Usually suicide watch is ordered when someone is considered in grave danger of harming or killing...
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    Nude Biking in the UK .. hrmm

    Actually, they are doing it here in the US today. There's actually a large number of cities doing it today (including my own). From what I've heard, though, most people end up just getting citations for public nudity (that is, if the police can even catch up to them).
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    Keyboard doesn't work for XP login

    I've had kind of a weird problem lately that I've been having quite a bit of a problem trying to fix. Recently my laptop overheated in the 100-degree NYC weather and automatically shut itself down. When I let it cool down and booted it back up, it got to the XP login screen, but the keyboard...
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    My computer turns on all by itself. I turn it off an in 10 secs its booting back up :-(

    Have you checked the switch on the front of the computer? It could be that it's intermittently hitting the contacts and eventually creating enough of a bounce to turn the computer on.
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    How are these headphones?

    The Grado SR-60s are amazing for a lot of different uses, especially music. You wouldn't believe how much of a difference there is between lower-quality headphones/speakers and the SR-60s. Definitely the best purchase I've ever made with regards to sound.
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