Quote: Originally Posted by Lornecherry Two blocks from the dealership, he was T-boned by another Toyota, also with three 8's in its license plate... proving that one's belief in superstition is purely accidental. But if they didn't have so many 8's, the accident would have been...

en·thu·si·ast –noun 1.a person who is filled with enthusiasm for some principle, pursuit, etc.; a person of ardent zeal: a sports enthusiast. Don't see why changing your own oil is necessary to be a car enthusiast. Do you need to build your own violin to be a music enthusiast? It seems...

No one can memorize enough moves to play chess off memory alone. A computer can store a large opening book but it is limited in how far it can go. As soon as it leaves the opening book, it calculates out all possible positions that can arrive from the current position (i.e. all possible...

sry not all of us have time to proofchek everything we write. noone cares neway xexcept nerds

In summary, the Lamborghini car is obviously better. And if the manufacturers of the two cars were switched, the Lamborghini would still be obviously better in all ways including "soul".

You'd be better off converting to mp3 straight from disc, assuming the disc is an audio CD and not a data CD which happens to have wma files on it. As has been said before, mp3 is not a lossless format. What happens if you try to convert from wma to mp3, is first a wma to wav conversion...

My family often spoons (alternatively, lifts up the plate and pours the sauce wholesale) into the rice and I can't imagine why someone would want to take offense at it. If these duck eggs are the 1000 year egg or whatever where the outside is translucent black and the middle is a grayish...

Also I remember there are a decent number of buffets in Taiwan, and the Chinese buffets in the States commonly have more Chinese people than non-Chinese, I've never heard anyone complain about authenticity and I think it may be the case that non-Chinese care more about their food being authentic...

Quote: Originally Posted by crazyface I'm going to stir-fry today, and had a question about cooking chicken. At various Chinese restaurants that I've been to, they succeed in cooking the chicken to be very soft, moist, and tender - almost as if it had been braised with meat tenderizer...

I thought negation was used for like, boolean operations. Granted in that case it's unclear to me how it would interact with multiplications and divisions and so on. Ahh, math, you can get ridiculously complicated.

For some reason the only xiaolongbao I've ever really liked were those ones where there is broth inside the thing. Those were quite spectacular. I can't remember the name of the place in Taiwan that sold those though.

One dish that I particularly like is Salt & Pepper Shrimp, I'm not sure how to do the romanization, it should be something like Jiao Zian Xia (椒鹽蝦).

I am not amazed to see someone at last pull out the argument that the government should not concern itself with stealing as long as people are being murdered.

So if he didn't donate any money at all to anyone, you would have massively higher respect for him? Not sure what your indignation is about. As said before, he will probably be dead before any donation he makes results in any benefit to him, therefore it is irrelevant exactly what disease he...

Did Nogueira look all that good when he was in Pride? I think not looking good is just like an inherent trait of his.

It should be noted that you don't eat the entire $3k truffle in one meal ;0 I think 1 pound of truffles is enough for quite alot of truffle based dishes. Sort of like how saffron is super expensive by weight, but the amount needed per dish is low, so it's affordable for normal people.

You can email the IRS and ask them about it. I would check if the link actually goes to what it says. E.g., you can have a link <a href="http://www.irs.gov">http://www.givememoney.com</a> - although that would only apply if you actually have html emails for some unknown reason.

I think in such cases you could consider the music as being analogous to software abandonware. I've never heard of anyone complaining about that and I don't see any reason to.

I think it is self evident that artists benefit from people buying their CDs for the obvious reason that if they didn't, they wouldn't enter into contracts with record labels to have CDs produced. They may benefit more from people going to their concerts than from people buying their CDs, but...

Well, that is just how it is, how the human brain works. We are all affected by these sorts of things, it does not make us weak minded or gullible. That is why even though we normally trust our senses, when it comes to serious business like head-fi placebo arguments, its better to try and take...

Actually, I think it is worked out to a decent degree of certainty that the Sun is going to turn into a red giant barring something truly spectacular.

The Internet is real. Head-fi is real. The people who post on head-fi are real. Their posts are real and reflect what they want to say. The only difference is that it's easier to be a real retard here.

Enchanted Typewriter for 1 minute. I got a net speed of 134 wpm, gross was 136.

500 points on my second try. I believe this makes me the fastest typer yet on this thread ;0 Edit: Just did it again. 533 pts, 738 char/min, 134 correct 5 wrong.

It's also possible to do a FLAC->FLAC conversion with replaygain being added on the conversion to alter the volume level of the files, in which case the volume of your songs still gets leveled out without need for replaygain player support. Of course, that's FLAC and not ALAC, but you can adjust...