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Re: Okay, another question. This time about stamps. - Yesterday

Quotetronnei Stamps are tax-free only if purchased from the USPS. Buy from anyone else and the tax applies. Interesting, I didn't know this. They sometimes ask me at Costco if I need stamps but I never bought from them.

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Re: Sorry belty. - Yesterday

no idea what this thread is about. some football game? Ohio State versus???

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Re: Weird problem with a Dell monitor ... antialiasing? - Yesterday

it just works

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Re: Weird problem with a Dell monitor ... antialiasing? - Yesterday

well, great you found a solution. I would probably avoid having to go and mess with system integrity protection (or whatever is called). Also, really 300k unread emails???

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Re: Okay, another question. This time about stamps. - Yesterday

Quotewurm It's explained here: I was surprised, too. In fact, just yesterday I created a listing for something I wanted to sell, and I was unable to uncheck the box for charging sales tax (I'm in MA). Bummer. yes I saw that. But my question is why is a stamp is taxed when bought from eBay but not taxed when bought from USPS? It does not seem right. Also I want to make sure that the tax I pa

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Re: Va. man arrested at inauguration checkpoint says he was lost and didn’t mean to bring gun, ammo to D.C. - Yesterday

suspicious, especially with such a high load (500 rounds?? WTF?). Also did he try to get in or he just stopped to say hi, I am lost I need directions. How does someone get lost with cell phones and GPS these days?

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Re: Okay, another question. This time about stamps. - Yesterday

I was about to buy one roll for $41 but I noticed they charge tax. I don't recall paying tax when buying postage. Why does eBay charge tax?

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Re: 99 bottles of beer on the wall?!....Happy 99th birthday to Betty White.....!!! - Yesterday

Quoterjmacs Why announced the day before her birthday? some people like premature excitement

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Re: Happy Birthday Betty White - Yesterday

Oh man, I was hoping this was the 100

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Re: Weird problem with a Dell monitor ... antialiasing? - Yesterday

That is strange, I have never seen anything like this before. I am curious if there is a simpler way to do this, like press Option when opening display preferences to show hidden resolutions or something. It shouldn't need to go into terminal to fix monitor problems.

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Re: Bill Mahar: A fair, I think, look back at some problems with misplaced grievances - Yesterday

let's try to spell names properly

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Re: iOS 14.3 OK? - Yesterday

I installed 14.3 about a week ago in original iPhone SE purchases in March 2019. I had a few instances where the phone shut down unexpectedly when the battery was at 20-25%. When I plug it in, it show 10%. I unplug it, phone shut down. I plug it back in, it shows 25% and I let it charge all night. I am not sure why it is so flakey. Battery health shows 84% which seems low for a 2 year old phone.

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How to stop TRUMP from running again even if he is not convicted - Yesterday

if Democrats could pass a law or amendment which says: Every person running for US Office shall release their tax records No person who owes money to foreign entities is allowed to run for US Office. That should apply to those running for President and Congress as well.

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Re: Weird problem with a Dell monitor ... antialiasing? - Yesterday

you have 300k unread emails????

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boooring! - 2 days ago

no tweets? what are going to do now?

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Re: Weird problem with a Dell monitor ... antialiasing? - 2 days ago

in the monitor, reset to factory settings

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Re: Selfish friends? - 2 days ago

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt

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Re: Are there any changes or improvements in next M1 Airs or Minis that are inevitable? - 2 days ago

QuoteN-OS X-tasy! Quotespace-time At some point they will probably add RAM slots for Mac Pro and iMacs. Yes, I know the RAM on this System On A Chip is fast, very fast, but it is limited to the size of the chip. Right now the options are 8 and 16 GB. Maybe they will do 32, 64 GB, but there are pros our there that use much more than that. I would imagine they could agree 2 or 4 RAM slots and yo

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Re: Trump and political allies have railed for years against what they call “Big Tech,” alleging bias against conservative voices without proof, get banned from social media, misinformation drops 73% next week - 2 days ago

I was just thinking that it's getting kind of boring lately, no more obvious lies, not much talk about him after the second impeachment... the next 4 years are going to be boring. the good kind of boring.

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Re: Newest addition to house: wall-mounted, voice-enabled, quartz space heater - 2 days ago

QuoteOmbligo Thanks, that may be perfect for our trailer to avoid propane cost what is more cost efficient, electricity or propane?

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Re: Okay, another question. This time about stamps. - 2 days ago

they're all estimating shipping between the 27th and 29th. is this shipping date or price? I am not really sure what you're asking to be honest

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Re: Help! My new 6Tb HD only shows 1.6Tb after formatting in my OWC enclosure - 2 days ago

yeah, I suspect you need some new cases or docks. I have a USB 3 Orico dock that I used once in a while but I never tried it with large drives. I think you can get a good dock for around $50 these days.

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Selfish friends? - 2 days ago

A good friend told me that our parents, in Romania, if they are over 65 (they are), can go online and schedule a Covid vaccine. The government just opened the web site a few days ago. As soon as I found out, I forwarded the web site to about a dozen or so friends. Most of them were grateful and went online to register their parents. My parents are scheduled to get the shot on 1/15 and the b

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Re: Do you think Trump will try one last trick to stay in power? - 2 days ago

I missed that video

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Re: New Jersey, BAGEL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD - 2 days ago

QuoteCary Quotespace-time Poland??? That's where bagels are originally from. A short history: Bagels intersting. I didn't know that! We had something similar in Romania, the shape of a bagel (with hole in the middle) but the consistency of a pretzel. It was thin and the hole was really large, more like a bicycle tire. I remember being a kid and putting my hand through them, I was wearin

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Re: Giant missing piece of the puzzle in the attack. Where were the guns? - 2 days ago

I am surprised only one person got shot. I believe that is how the first person died. the others died later from being crushed with fire extinguishers or other objects.

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Re: Delete key and two arrow keys not working - 2 days ago

try to reset PRAM, SMC. try a new or guest user account try an external keyboard

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Re: Speaking of MagSafe - best retrofitted version I've found to date - 2 days ago

QuoteNewtonMP2100 .....wouldn't you rather date a woman....than an adapter part.......???? Depends. If she wears Depends, an adapter may be preferable.

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Re: Are there any changes or improvements in next M1 Airs or Minis that are inevitable? - 2 days ago

I really wonder if the majority of users would see a benefit of 64GB. There are engineering/scientific applications where you just need more RAM. I am not talking about consumers. My PC at work has 128 GB and I am considering asking for 256. Not sure if they can fit that much RAM in that Dell Tower that I have. EDIT: it's not about the speed of the RAM, it is about how many nodes you can

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Re: Are there any changes or improvements in next M1 Airs or Minis that are inevitable? - 2 days ago

At some point they will probably add RAM slots for Mac Pro and iMacs. Yes, I know the RAM on this System On A Chip is fast, very fast, but it is limited to the size of the chip. Right now the options are 8 and 16 GB. Maybe they will do 32, 64 GB, but there are pros our there that use much more than that. I would imagine they could agree 2 or 4 RAM slots and you can supplement the SoC RAM with

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