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elfenix

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  1. 18 hours ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

    Trump had a 104 weeks with those conditions and never made the wall this kind of priority until the Dems controlled the House. Hell just 2-3 weeks ago the border was a 'humanitarian crisis' according to Trump.

    it's not about the wall

  2. 2 hours ago, SurlyORama said:

    I saw on Amazon where the support folks at the manufacturer say you shouldn't do that. Will it be ok? Maybe.

     

    interesting.  i remember reading on instantpot's faq page that you could.  maybe people did it and they decided to change the answer

  3. On 1/12/2019 at 12:11 PM, pops said:
    One tip is I rarely use the saute feature. Just can't put out enough heat to really brown any protiens. I always brown the meat on the stove then throw it in. Makes for a better end product. 

    Take the inner pot out and out it on the stove. Then you don't dirty 2 pots.

     

    edit years later: don't do this unless you have the new ones that are specifically made to go on the stove.  with the regular one the stove can warp it and then it doesn't work. 

  4. 5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    That's his big problem.  Even folks of middling intelligence understand in a hostage situation, who the hostage-taker is.

    Trump is the terrorist has put a gun to the head of the Federal government, its employees, and everyone who depends on a functioning government, and said "gimme this thing that I want or I'll kill you."

    And we've got the biggest pussies in the world, the GOP, telling us "OH LAWD JUST GIVE HIM WHAT HE WANTS!" 

    And of course, we have the Trumpkins who -- like in any other case of nutbar zealot terrorism -- are the folks who sympathize with the jihadist.  That's our dynamic: the terrorist, his supporters, and the gutless cowards who want to negotiate with the terrorist.

    And the Dems, who say "fuck that shit, you hurt people, it's on you.  We aren't going to reward and encourage future terrorism."  Which is the only right answer here.  Yes, people are going to suffer.  Badly.  That's what terrorists do.  The proper response is to then eliminate the fuck out of the terrorist movement.  This is a relatively long game.  The Dems need to play for the ultimate win, not the short term pain relief.

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  5. your XP disc is most likely a 32 bit disc.  64 bit was a separate disc, with a different key (i have one somewhere).  the drivers for a lot of your hardware probably don't support any version of XP (windows driver model changed for vista/7 and again for 8/10, iirc).  it can't deal with all the ram you have (48 gigs like whoa), it can't deal with all the processor cores you have (dual cores were becoming commonplace on the high end during XP's run, you probably have 8 logical cores if not more). 

     

    either use a VM or build an old computer.  core2duo w/ 4 gb ram, and an x1900xtx would be killer for anything you'd want to run on XP. 

  6. Just now, Onboard 2.0 said:

    You have zero grasp of reading comprehension. My comment was pretty straight forward. She has accomplished nothing other than getting elected. You can play your sarcastic games all you want, the fact is Hugos statement was way off base, and your comment did nothing to help his case or hurt mine.

    That's called impotency.

    did you miss GSU's post at the very top of this page?  she's moving the conversation. most dems don't do that. john cornyn was tweeting out articles in favor of a carbon tax.  you don't get there without AOC making GND a big deal. 

  7. 1 hour ago, longhornmatt said:

    I’ll stipulate that proposing single payer healthcare isn’t extreme given its prevalence in much of the western world.

    Federal government paying for everyone’s college is extreme.

    i dunno that one of those can be not extreme but the other be extreme:

     

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    Only one country spends more per student, and that country is Luxembourg—where tuition is nevertheless free for students, thanks to government outlays. In fact, a third of developed countries offer college free of charge to their citizens. (And another third keep tuition very cheap—less than $2,400 a year.) The farther away you get from the United States, the more baffling it looks.

     

    https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/

  8. 1 hour ago, Drew said:

    What strikes me as strange is he's not the first person from up north that has said they were a little worried about those high interchanges we have.  Is it only common in the south?  I'd figure they'd have even more of them up there...

    Oh and it's only HALF of Dallas stations.  Not 75%

    as said above, they shut down quick when there's snow or ice.  why would you expect them where there's snow or ice for long stretches each year?

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    21 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    Regardless, the fiat money system is insane and one day the debt bubble will burst.

    this is nothing but supposition.  i'd rather not tie up useful materials if that's the alternative.  further, i'd rather the market decide what a currency is worth, rather than some arbitrary peg.

  10. On 1/7/2019 at 1:09 PM, spystud13 said:

    Also, this. The first minute or so to fix a simple typo doesn’t need the notation. It’s pretty irrelevant. 

    i doubt that's something that's changeable. 

     

     

    for tapa issues, if you haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling tapa, do that first.

     

     

    On 1/6/2019 at 4:59 PM, George said:

    Curious if there’s a way to increase the font size. It’s hard to read the Surl while driving with my fading eye sight and random pedestrians on the sidewalk jumping out in front of me. 

    on firefox and chrome use ctrl and + to make things bigger.  works on a per site basis and remembers.  i've got this place set at 120%. 

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