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I don't think I've had Cheetos since I was a teenager

Lip reading of Game of Thrones. It has 3 million views for a good reason...


also:

and this is a slower, office connection

you probably couldn't even get a slower than 50mb connection even if you wanted to here

how can some of you live with internet that slow

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Originally posted by netroM Lip reading of Game of Thrones. It has 3 million views for a good reason...

outstanding.

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Originally posted by bananas how can some of you live with internet that slow

You get used to it. Besides, this is the "faster" connection from the office:



This is my lightning fast connection (except after people download more than 5 gigabytes here in the office, then the speed is decreased tenfold).

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Originally posted by Sushipunk I don't think I've had Cheetos since I was a teenager

I've had some Doritos last year... but I'm a junk food enthusiast, and all junk food is okay in my book (though I'm a Pringles person).

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Originally posted by Lira You get used to it. Besides, this is the "faster" connection from the office: This is my lightning fast connection (except after people download more than 5 gigabytes here in the office, then the speed is decreased tenfold. I've had some Doritos last year... but I'm a junk food enthusiast, and all junk food is okay in my book (though I'm a Pringles person).

There's a download cap on your internet there? Is it satellite? Also it's testing from a server that's 600 miles away so I wouldn't say that's the most accurate reading you could get.

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Originally posted by srussell0018 There's a download cap on your internet there?[quote] Yes, the 5 gb a month I mentioned... all shared among the staff and students [QUOTE]Originally posted by srussell0018 Is it satellite?

Actually, yeah, it is! Is it standard procedure in this case?!

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Originally posted by srussell0018 Also it's testing from a server that's 600 miles away so I wouldn't say that's the most accurate reading you could get.

So it's probably faster?

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Originally posted by Lira Actually, yeah, it is! Is it standard procedure in this case?! So it's probably faster?

Yeah satellite internet is regulated by governments usually. They tend to set a monthly bandwidth cap, and when you meet that it drops your speed down around dial up speeds until you buy "credits" to raise the speed back up.

And I'd imagine it would be slightly faster. The ping time would definitely be faster.

Basic Residential cable service at home, on wireless...

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Originally posted by citric_acid ...this is considered top of the line in this area

Fuckin' Hell...

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Originally posted by srussell0018 Yeah satellite internet is regulated by governments usually. They tend to set a monthly bandwidth cap, and when you meet that it drops your speed down around dial up speeds until you buy "credits" to raise the speed back up.

I had no idea. It got everyone here by surprise, because the kid that signed the contracts was fired the day he hired this service - I didn't even know we were switching services here!

We're now trying to switch back to the previous ISP. Sure, it wasn't nearly as fast, but this bandwidth cap thingy is terrible for a place where so many people share the same connection

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Originally posted by srussell0018 And I'd imagine it would be slightly faster. The ping time would definitely be faster.

Noice

lolchina

Haha, I win



My wife's farm. Chimney can download something like 5 megabytes to every kilobyte I download here

Not bad I guess

What happened in the 70's?!



Most common girl names (sorted by state).

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Originally posted by Lira What happened in the 70's?!

Apparently, Jennifer happened in the 70s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_(given_name)

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In the United States, the name Jennifer first entered the annual government-derived list of the 1000 most commonly used names for newborn baby girls in 1938, when it ranked at #987. Thereafter, the name steadily gained popularity, entering the top 100 most commonly given girls names in 1956, and breaking through into the top 10 in 1966. It gained even more popularity in the 1970s—Jennifer was the single most popular name for newborn American girls every single year from 1970 to 1984, inclusive.[4] Though its popularity is often attributed to the use of the name in the novel and film Love Story, Jennifer was already the number three name given to baby girls in the United States in 1969, the year before the book and movie were released.

That's a heck of a lot of Jennys.

It's interesting to see how names spread, and what the trends are. But, because they only show the most popular names, and we can't see the forerunners, it's like someone dropped a Jenny-bomb in the US in 1970 and it lasted for the whole decade! The Lisa era before that is quite impressive as well.

I wonder why no other name has reigned supreme after the 80's though. Even Jessica, which replaced Jennifer, fails to hold sway of whole regions like the previous names did...

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Originally posted by Lira It's interesting to see how names spread, and what the trends are. But, because they only show the most popular names, and we can't see the forerunners, it's like someone dropped a Jenny-bomb in the US in 1970 and it lasted for the whole decade! The Lisa era before that is quite impressive as well. I wonder why no other name has reigned supreme after the 80's though. Even Jessica, which replaced Jennifer, fails to hold sway of whole regions like the previous names did...

Im guessing it's because there was more of a homogeneous culture back then. Everyone read the same magazines (think Time, Life), listened to the same music, and watched the same movies. Now everything is so specialized. Millioms of cable channels. Netflix. Tons of genres of music. No one does anything together anymore like they used to.

IT'S SNOWING!

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Originally posted by Lira I wonder why no other name has reigned supreme after the 80's though. Even Jessica, which replaced Jennifer, fails to hold sway of whole regions like the previous names did...

Could have something to do with media saturation from more global sources perhaps that causes people to pick from difference sources? Plus during the 80's, that terrible era I went to school in, a lot of parents began a special snowflake naming for kids to give them an "independent identity" for lack of a better description.

That whole 80's-90's era was full of optimistic beans that kids had more opportunities and we'd have more genius's, astronauts and brain surgeons as a result... of course it was all copious amounts of smoke being blown up their collective arses, as we can well now see that 99.9% those kids are rotting on factory floors and in cubicles around the world, the same as their ancestors where 30-40 years ago.

Don't forget, people often name their kids after family members and ancestors, so back in the past there may well have been a lot of Jenny's running around and people might have named theirs after a favourite great aunt, grandmother or so forth. I got a special snowflake name as there was no family history with my name in it from either side, but it could be worse... look up what blacks and lower class poor whites call their kids in America and I think I got off fairly lightly really

Haven't met anyone called Sha'Dorito or La'Hershy yet, but I think its only a matter of time they replace the Shaniqua's, La'Quaysha's and Laquita's.

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Originally posted by Lilith I got a special snowflake name

I met a girl called "Icicle" last week

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