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February 25th, 2009

GraceHead said :

Regarding your answer:

Thank you. Your contribution to the question was timely and needed.

November 3rd, 2008

bodyhead said :

hah! At least you’re a good sport when I argue with you. I’ll probably keep doing it so it’s important to get friendly early. I always try to attack the argument but never the person. You put together a nice concise final in the same sex marriage thread. Just because I don’t agree with you doesn’t mean that you can’t explain yourself well.

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• 2 months ago

  Arguing for the sake of partisanship?

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• February 28th, 2009

  What is the most important thing to you?

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• February 28th, 2009

  Igor Panarin's prediction of US collapse?

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• February 24th, 2009

  Microsoft Excel Question?

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• February 4th, 2009

  Is this acceptable fluthering?

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• 3 days ago

  Does anyone know where on the internet I can find the Oprah/Palin interview?

  @pdworkin: I know I can’t stand listening to Oprah!
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• 4 days ago

  How do you feel about the "modern life cycle"?

  The problem is that this is such an oversimplification to the point you eliminate all those things that truly make us happy. I love to play soccer, but if somebody was to say go on that patch of grass kick a ball around for 90 minutes, do some wind sprints and let me kick you in the shins about 10 times, I wouldn’t ever want to play. Happiness comes from those details like cprevite stated. What about getting married, raising kids, relationships, etc.
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• 1 week ago

  How hard is it to rewire a house?

  It is not terribly difficult to rewire a house, however it is extremely time consuming. You’ll generally try to accomplish this by doing as little damage to your drywall as possible. If your breaker box is in the basement and you have an unfinished basement then you can fish your wire up to the first floor without too much heartache (very time consuming though). If you have a second floor you’ll likely end up cutting drywall out somewhere to aid in fishing your wire up to the attic and then fishing it back down into each room. It all depends on how your house is layed out. The wiring that is already there is somewhat irrelevant because you won’t be following what was already done, and you are going to have to keep all the old wires in the walls, because of the romex and staples that are used, unless you want to tear apart a lot of drywall and then you have to worry about a lot of patch work and painting. If your friends understand how to calculate loads per circuit breaker then you shouldn’t have a problem with them helping you however this is something that should be done. Also you may want to look at upgrading your breaker box. I assume it is a breaker box and not a fuse box. If it is a fuse box you def want to upgrade to a breaker box. I assume your box is a 100 amp breaker box, and if so you may want to change it to a 200 amp box if you are adding outlets or lights to many of your rooms. So generally speaking, it can be done, it is not terribly difficult, but it will take some time to complete. If you are a bit nervous letting your husband and some friends do it you may want to try and hire someone that will calculate all your loads, evaluate your circuit box to see if it needs to be upgraded, but will allow you to fish all of the wire yourselves. This is the most time consuming part. If you can find someone that will let you do this then all that the electrician will need to do is to hook up all of your outlets and lights and hook up the breaker box. When fires start they generally occur at connections. The only time they ever occur at some point in the wire is when you accidentally cut the dielectric which allows for it to short. Connections and load calculations are the most critical part to wiring, so if your hesitant let the electrician do all this and run the wire yourself.
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• 2 weeks ago

  What do you think of Al Gore's challenge?

  I find Al Gore to be incredibly hypocritical. Al Gore With that said, I don’t see any way to accomplish this in 10 years. The immediate cost to homeowners alone to incorporate these renewable energy sources is incredibly high. Second, there aren’t enough companies capable of installing these systems over a ten year period.
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• 2 weeks ago

  Why, in baseball, do we run the bases counter-clockwise?

  Upside-downwise?
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