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"Win"

Or perhaps the scare quotes should be on "election"

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I'm not sure what to think about this. On the one hand, its an opportunity to show the Tories we won't put up with their shit anymore. On the other, the electorate are short memoried suggestible fools and a few Trump style lies will cement another 5 years of conservative destruction. I really wish I...

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Soupspoon wrote:But what I hate is "24/7/365",as a 'motto' or directive. The latter number should be more like 52, or thereabouts.

Right, or just 24/365

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7 hours a day, 11 days a week. We don't have 7 Elevens round these parts, but all the major supermarket chains have smaller stores that are generally open those hours (square-footage having relevance to Sunday trading laws). With the large 24 hour stores not able to open long hours on a Sunday, this...

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I play Lindsey Stirling when driving, and a surprising number of my passengers recognise her and approve, given how different our other musical preferences are.

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I got it, but not quickly enough to want to admit to it

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I don't see why posting elsewhere necessitates cranial nudity

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Rape can be seriously harmful to women (and men) in college.

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You didn't miss the connection, you just had to Wait For It!

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And how many giraffes-high are any of these proposed houses, anyway? I prefer my houses measured in blue whales. (It must be livable, mind you, though the plumbing and electrical wiring don't need to be gold) I'm not sure either of those would be an issue. Insulating your gold wiring from your gold...

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Dates for comics can be found as hovertext on the archive page.

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That's when you move to a bigger house.

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I've totally disposed of a bin by putting it in a bigger bin before.

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...and then immediately afterwards recalled the password I'd just had overwritten, and that I couldn't even reuse due to historic passwords being ineligible. I regularly try to change a forgotten password to the forgotten password. At least I can usually cancel the reset and log in with the freshly...

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My smoke detector is also 2F, supposedly using some form of heat detection alongside smoke detection to prevent false-toaster-positives. Doesn't work though (the false positive prevention that is, the detector works fine).

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I, too, ended up with a face way off my norm. But this is Ryder, not Shepard, and I like the change.

Xeio wrote:Patch coming on Thursday is going to add some nice things like skipping the in-system flight cutscenes.

That's welcome. It's nice to have when exploring but a drag when actually doing things.

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So delete apps before you travel to the US.

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airdrik wrote:From a biological perspective, bananas are yellow because over the course of evolution and natural selection, yellow appears to be the generally preferred color for such a fruit.

Although in the case of the banana, the selection wasn't so natural.

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Diadem wrote:I'm starting to develop a rather intense dislike for Spain and their ridiculous whining about stuff like this

Spain is being difficult because they're desperately trying to prevent some of their own regions from trying for independence.

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balthasar_s wrote:Left my bike at FFS.
I'm lucky that my FFS is almost next door to the main tain station.

I have a similar situation. It's very useful as - especially in this country - I would not want to leave my bike at a train station.

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But no AI will cut out the proper length of PVC pipe for the sink I have in my kitchen and repair my sink. Even if the mass-produced PVC pipe is good. It will take a human to do that. A quick drone-mounted laser scan and your smart-home AI will print an exact-fitting 3D printed replacement before y...

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I... I just topped 90 hours. Fair to say I'm enjoying this game.

Xeio wrote:Unrelated, is there an architect on every planet?

There seems to be one on each outpost world, same fight mechanics, plus the one in the main storyline which is a little different.

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Hi BlitzGirl!

I've been a little distracted of late (possibly related to Weight Manipulation: Far away), but still lurking. Thanks for dropping by and remembering my birtdip, Yappo, and happy Timiversary all!

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EvanED wrote:Was it at least obvious that you missed something?

Yeah, because there was a floating quest marker and no way to progress it. Also I knew the second wave was supposed to arrive because they'd just killed me the first time around (hence the sniping attempt).

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CorruptUser wrote:A half a billion pounds for a design?

To be fair, design "and produce". Still sounds like a lot though.

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I've had the same issue with a different quest elsewhere. If you want to go sniping, you have to get close enough to trigger the encounter first.

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In the UK, mostly "level crossing", though occasionally "railway crossing".

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Not sure if anything happens if you exile him and/or the saboteur but with the way the story is progressing I suspect they'll show up again The Exile enclave on Kadara probably has something with them, though likely just a throwaway line or two Pretty much. You meet him on Kadara and exchange a thr...

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Mutex wrote:"Terrorist" incident outside Parliament in Westminster. At least one person confirmed dead.

Reports are that the officer has also died.

It very much seems that the vehicle attack is the new vector of choice.

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Yeah, my dropbox is chirped as I mentioned. Part of the reason I trimmed my sig.

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A not annual, annual. My mother has a lot of those. Plants in her garden flower when they want to, not when they're supposed to. Unrelated, for prosperity: http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=37186 - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91011134/OTT/Award%20Funniest%20OTTer2_s.png - http://f...

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Fallout 4 35GB
Arkham Knight 39GB
Bioshock Infinite 42GB
Mankind Divided 59GB
Just Cause 3 62GB

Games are big now. (Flip side: VVVVVV 64MB)

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"Welcome"

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Same for me; Judging by the file path it's probably been that way since the forum software was updated.

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pogrmman wrote:Also, whatever happened about...

Something else happened to distract everyone.

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lmjb1964 wrote:It's been like summer where I am.

I went to the beach today. In a t-shirt. In March. In England.

ETA: Oh, it's happened. Dropbox have changed how sharing works and now aaaalll my links are broken

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bridge parapets, anti-terror bollards, railway buffers, impact resistant barriers I deliberately left regular crash barriers and standard bollards off the list, as those work differently. Have several sticks, spaced at intervals. Tie them together. The first will fail, the tie then spreads the impa...

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The same way we build bridge parapets, anti-terror bollards, railway buffers, impact resistant barriers, etc.

Make the stick stronger.

If you know which way the ball is coming from, put a strut behind it.

If there's only one ball, put something expendable in front of it.

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Mega85 wrote:You may say "trailer trash", but you wouldn't say "trailer garbage".

Only because it doesn't alliterate.

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Wee Red Bird wrote:The toll booths for the Dartford Crossing (down somewhere in England) no longer uses cash or electronic passes. It uses your numberplate and bills you later.

As do most of the road tolls in Norway. At least with those ones you do have weeks to pay.

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