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| emcee Member Level: 33     Posts: 61/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| If this just all of the sudden started happening without you making any changes to your settings in Photoshop, it's most likely something outside of Photoshop. Another program is probably interfering with your keyboard shortcuts. You should try shutting down any programs you installed or started using around when started having this problem. If that doesn't work, try shutting down all noncritical programs, and start Photoshop, if the shortcuts work, start everything up one at a time until you find the culprit. Also make sure everything is unchecked under the keyboard tab in accessibility options. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 62/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| This article uses the statement "a 10% increase in price causes an 8% decline in unit sales", to support its argument against this tax. However, if that statement is true than I would support this tax. If in fact this tax did lead to a 10% decrease in cigarette usage, the overall benefits would overshadow the negatives stated in this article. I just don't buy it though. Yeah, they found an economist that backs up that claim, but I'm sure there's 15 more that each give completely different numbers for price elasticity. Either way the idea that a 10% decrease in cigarette sales is seen as a bad thing is a bit ridiculous. And raising taxes on cigarettes without any expectation of a decrease in smoking, raises some ethical concerns, as in the only motive is to make more money of an addictive and deadly product. Increasing the price isn't going to get the vast majority of smokers to stop. Look at how expensive cocaine is. Believe it or not, nicotine is every bit as addictive as cocaine. If cigarettes go up $20 a pack most people will just pay $20 a pack. Increasing the price of cigarettes will do very little reduce the health cost of cigarette addiction, while increasing the financial costs. As for Obama breaking campaign promises. Yeah, politicians do that. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 63/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| I saw an advertisement for a reality show about becoming a pitchman that's suppose to star Billy Mays and a regular infomercial guy, whose name escapes me at the moment. Anyway, out of the two in the poll, I have to go with Mays. Offer is more of a novelty. Plus, Billy Mays says everything in rhyme, that has to count for something. I wouldn't buy either of their crap though. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 64/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| Huh. I thought this was normal. For me there is always an "in between" state before I fully asleep, where my sense of reality starts to go away. For the most part I'm asleep, but my eyes may not be closed, and I will quickly come out of it if someone disturbs me, and I realize that I'm not actually where I'm starting to dreaming about. The same thing happens when I first wake up. For instance if I played some video game for hours on end or watch a lot some television program, my dream may actually "take place" within the game or show, when I start to wake up I will normally know that I'm in my bed, but I won't realize that don't actually know the people I'm dreaming about, and what I dreamed about didn't actually happen. For instance, my dreams often involve someone I know dieing, and I don't actually realize that they're still alive, until I'm fully awake. Of course I didn't think it was normal to actually start interacting with people and things in this altered state of mind, as you describe, but I've done it on occasion. One time when I was younger, I was staying with grandma when she lived in an apartment complex. I was sleeping in the living room, and I for some reason in my dream had to leave the room I was in. So I actually got up and walked out the door of her apartment, into the hallway. However the second the door closed behind I realized what was going on. The trouble was, though, the door was locked so it could be opened from the inside, but not the outside, so I spent the next 2 hour in the apartment buildings hallway in my night clothes, banging on the door until my grandma finally heard me and opened the door. My mom used to do this a lot to. She used to work at a fast food restaurant, and would actually wake us up during the night and tell us we needed to refill the pop machine. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 65/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| I couldn't see watching an incomplete movie like this. I wouldn't get the full enjoyment out of watching it the first time because it's incomplete, and I wouldn't get the full enjoyment out of it the second time because I'd know everything that was going happen. I'm patient, I'll just wait. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 66/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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Originally posted by devin Sounds like self defense to me. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 67/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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Originally posted by Syaoran I don't think that's technically correct either. "Lego" is the name of the company, "Lego bricks" is their main product. Lego probably doesn't call the bricks themselves legos because it could lead to "genericizing". The same way people for awhile would referred all photocopying as "xeroxing", or the way it common in the South to referred to all soda as "coke", or how "photoshoping" has become synonymous with image manipulation. Companies try to avoid genericizing, because if it becomes too prevalent, they could actually lose their trademark. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 68/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| I've heard the Midwestern accents are annoying and nasally. I wouldn't know because lived in the Midwest all my life, so to me we talk normal, and everyone else has an accent. I'm not really annoyed by or attracted to any accents really, but there are some that I find humorous. More northern Midwestern accents are just hilarious (think Fargo). Also depending on what's being said Scottish accents can be quite funny, I laughed for a good minute when Carson on Stargate Atlantis said "My wee baby turtles!". The closest I come to being annoyed by an accent is certain dialects where they overuse a particular phrase. For instance, while I enjoy the "Northern Midwestern" sound of the way people in the UP (Upper Peninsula of Michigan) speak, their tacking "Don't ya know?" on to the end of every sentence gets old real fast. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 69/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| Dry itchy scalp? |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 70/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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Originally posted by 303darthbobby I have something that is somewhat similar. When I'm laying in bed trying to fall asleep, I play music in my head. However it not something that's happening on its own, I'm consciously making the music myself. The weird thing is that when I'm fully awake, I can very rarely come up with an original decent sounding tune, however when I laying there thinking of this music, I just making it up as I go along, and it all sounds great. Unfortunately I never remember how it went the next day. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 71/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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Originally posted by Tina Maybe, but there's not much challenge in selling a decent product. The test of a true pitchman is to sell useless crap at a premium price. For instance, whoever was selling those stupid robes that you wear backwards was a marketing genius. Or whoever realized they could sell a useless stick of wax as a headache reliever, just by saying "Apply directly to the forehead" three time in row. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 72/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| Amusement park rides. It's not really a debilitating fear, I'll go on them if pushed, but I always get a sick feeling in my gut before hand. Actually riding them isn't that bad. The really weird part is that I'm not the slightest bit afraid of heights. Actually, I love them. I use to spend all summer as a kid climbing trees, climbing out of windows, and walking around on roofs. I don't know what it is about fair rides. I'm also afraid of driving. But this isn't an irrational fear. I have pretty serious attention issues. I know if I spend long enough behind the wheel of a car, I will get distracted, or forget some detail and end up killing someone. Hence, don't I drive. I actually dream about tornadoes quite frequently myself. But they're not nightmares. Ever since I was a kid I've wanted to experience a tornado up close. Closest I've ever got was I slept through an F1. It touched down somewhere in my town, although I'm not sure where. There were a few down branches, and the screen house I put up in the backyard the day before turned up a couple yards over broken in four pieces. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 73/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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Originally posted by Reimu Oh, God, I didn't even think about those. I grew up in various rented apartments and houses and each one came pre-equipped with a varying degree of cockroach infestation. So, you'd think I'd be able handle them, but just seeing them on TV creeps me out. I'm glad I'm out of that crap. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 74/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| I guess I'm the only one who thinks this is a good idea. Right now there's no phosphate free detergent that works well because no incentive create one. As long as the normal stuff is available, most people will just buy that. Make phosphate free detergents mandatory, and every manufacture will be racing to be the first one to develop something that actually works. Doesn't really work on a small scale like this, since people will just go one county over, but you have to start somewhere. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 75/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| I guess so, because from here it just sounds like a bunch of whining. I don't even have a dishwasher, and I get by fine. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 76/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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Originally posted by Tina Did you pay for one, or do you pay for one as part of your rent? If so, I guess I'm telling that to you. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 77/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| It seems I'm below the threshold to even have an estimate for 5000 post in my profile. I figured it out though, taking leap years into account, I should reach 5000 posts on December 6th, 2112 at 9:33:29 AM EST. Of course that doesn't take into account the time I'll spend away from my computer fighting with the resistance against the robot uprising. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 78/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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| Ah, I see. It must work by calling localtime (or whatever the php equivalent is) on the seconds since the epoch plus the post per day multiplied by 86400. |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 79/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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Originally posted by Sakura Actually that's exactly right. People don't care if their environment is being destroyed if it isn't immediately effecting them. They especially don't care if it won't effect them at all, but instead will effect their children. Make them use slightly less effective dish washer detergent for a little while, though... |
| emcee Member Level: 33 Posts: 80/267 EXP: 223414 For next: 5765 Since: 08-11-07 Since last post: 1950 days Last activity: 1898 days |
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Originally posted by Tina If increasing the sale tax on cigarettes isn't actually going to get a significant amount of people to actually quit, then what exactly is the point? Is it just to bring in more federal revenue? If that's the case it goes back to the ethical issues, and also leads to the question, "why specifically cigarettes?". Or is it to somehow 'punish' people for getting addicted in the first place (as if their body isn't already doing that)? |
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