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okay so i want to have a seance. mostly to bring back some pirates such as blackbeard. i have absolutly no idea on how to host my own seance. can anyone whose done one before give me any tips on how to do it and anything i might need to know?

http://www.soyouwanna.com/SITE/syws/seance/seance.html

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When I maximize my windows, usually it "stops" maximizing i guess you'd say at the toolbar. Well suddenly, it started maximizing behind the toolbar. For instance, this window is maximized, and i cannot see the bottom arrow of my scrollbar, because it is behind my toolbar. Its not F11, because I've already attempted to press it to fix it. So, what I'm wondering is how can I fix this?

**Press ctrl+alt+del. Go to the processes tab. End "explorer.exe". Then, go to file>new task. Run "explorer.exe". I bet this will fix it. If not, ask me a private question and we'll try some other things.
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Right click the taskbar and select "properties". Click the checkbox "keep the taskbar above all other windows".

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Ok, I have Vista, like the new one, and I'm having trouble getting my Sims2 University to load...when I put the first disk in, it just doesn't do anything. I hear it trying to work, you know, the little noise it will make sometimes..., but it doesn't. I went to buy a new one at a store, but a person told me that there may be an update so that it can work with Vista, but I can't find one...does anyone know where to find them? (I found one, but it had to have University loaded on there...doesn't really help me)

And do you think I should go buy a new Sims 2 University game?
Thanks in advance!

Put in the disk. Open "my computer" and right click your CD-ROM drive. Select "autoplay". This will almost surely work. If not, please right click the CD-ROM drive and select explore, and list the names of the files in there to me in a private question.

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Hi! Well I'm not soo sure this goes in the right category but I've never gotten anything from Starbucks so I want to order something good but not something they would think impossible of making because then I would look like a total idiot (haha). So is this impossible:

Tall, hot, non-fat, double shot mocha frappucchino with extra foam and some of vanilla (if they can for the vanilla part)

Thanks

Yes, they can do that. They'll mix anything for you, you can even bring in your own ingredients and they'll blend it in.

Also, did you add an image to the start of your question?

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so this is me, [well an extremely bad picture of me.. but whatever..]

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j159/heysexyyy55/summer.jpg

and i am not that pale at all. at alll. does anyone of any like good photo editer thing, to make myself look tanner? and thats easy to understand, haha. or a good camera that i can just buy, that won't have me turn out pale.

Here you go, first one is a bit lighter than the second, third one is the second with modified colors so it doesn't look so red:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/74/summer1sg8.jpg
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/243/summer2un6.jpg
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/439/summer2cn4.jpg

I used irfanview for the first, and the GIMP for the others.

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Is it possible to overdose on marijuana? I'm f/16/47kg and very small. I was at a mates place on the weekend and they were passing round a homemade bong. I had tried it smoking weed in a very small dose before and nothing ever happened. I smoke cigarettes but even after one I feel dizzy for a few minutes. So anyway I smoked a cone and about 2 minutes after I did it I started tripping out so badly and I was panicking and I didn’t know what I was doing or saying and I didn’t know what was real. I couldn’t see and I think I kept slipping in and out of consciousness. I didn’t know how long it had been happening or what I was doing. It felt like I was having a stroke. It was the worst feeling ever. My head was hot and fuzzy, I couldn’t see, it felt like I was blacking out, my ears and mouth felt like they were bleeding, I had pins and needles everywhere and my thumbs and forearm muscles were clenched so tightly I had no control over my muscles. I had to get my friend to massage my arms and help me drink water. I didn’t know if I was hot or cold. People had to keep talking to me so I would stay awake. I was so scared. So what happened to me? Is it possible to overdose? Why did this happen?

No, it's impossible to overdose on marijuana. Don't take so much next time.

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its almost impossible for me to be open, so its hard to post this. I have been suffering from depression and anxiety for about five years id say. i NEED help. i dont know what to say to my mom, who has blown me off in the past, about this. i have a sever anxiety disorder and need treatment. i dont know how to go about getting this.

17/f

please help. thanks

If you go to school, talk to a school counselor. They'll set you up with an outside therapist if you need it, and will take care of everything for you.

If you don't go to school, your normal physician can connect you with a psychiatrist. This will usually be covered under your insurance. Good luck!

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How do u erase the websites you have visited off of your hard drive?
Im not supposed to be on MySpace,
but i got on and i deleted my memory,
but my step-mom is a coputer genius and im afraid she will find it.

Thanks'
Cody*

**Edit: get into safe mode by restarting the computer, and holding F8 as soon as the computer starts.**

Browser history can't be easily recovered after it's been deleted, but there are a few ways.

System restore will restore history. To delete restores, first make a new restore point(start>programs>accessories>system tools>restore). Then go to start, all programs, accessories, system tools, disk cleanup. Then the "more options" tab. Clear restores.

It's possible to recover the cache after it's been deleted, which would show things like the myspace logo. To permanently delete that, clear it in whatever browser you use(same place as history in IE), then install this:
http://www.fileshredder.org/
and "shred free disk space". Use the least amount of passes, 1 will be enough(I think it defaults to 3).

Even more unknown are index.dat files, which are hard to delete and contain all of your history and cookie info. To delete these, boot into safe mode, search for index.dat (include hidden and system files in the advanced search section), and delete them. Good luck!

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does anyone know how to hack into a comcast email account?? i forgot my password and i typed in something random for the security question so now im stuck!! what can i do?

Contact their support people, they'll fix it for you. It's close to impossible(and certainly beyond anyone here) to crack an account on a huge site like comcast.

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I just heard about the FairTax. I looked it up on WikiPedia, but it's so confusing the way they word everything.

Can someone please explain to me what the FairTax system is, and how it is different than the tax system we have now? And which one is better?

It changes everything into sales tax. So instead of the (around) 6% extra you pay for goods, it could be more like 25%. So people who buy more pay more. In the current system, rich people actually have to pay *less* taxes than the rest of us, this will reverse that. Our "representatives" are all filthy rich, so don't expect this to happen any time soon.

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I have a virus on my computer. I dont know what one. All I know is it makes Porn ADS pop up when Im on google or any other website then ADS for "free movie tickets" "free dinner" and such pop up and it gets annoying because I can not access a website without pop ups.

What can I download (FREE) to get rid of this virus?

Run spybot, ad-aware, superantispyware, and either antivir or avast. One antispyware rarely catches them all, so you should use at least two.
http://spybot.info
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html
http://superantispyware.com
-- http://free-av.com
|or
-- http://avast.com

In the future, always have an antispyware and antivirus running. If you don't use limewire, or similar programs, I recommend you run these programs all the time:
http://spywareterminator.com
http://free-av.com
http://personalfirewall.comodo.com
If you do use limewire, or similar programs, use this setup:
http://spywareterminator.com
http://avast.com

(Avast acts a bit like a firewall, so it's useful if you're not going to use one. You shouldn't use a firewall when using P2P programs like limewire. Antivir is a better antivirus, but it contains no firewall-like abilities. If you have a hardware firewall, you don't need COMODO or Avast)

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I was always wondering how you create your own web page, and design it and stuff. And free webs isnt what im talking about. If you know anything, I would appreciate your advice. THANKSSSS.

I'd be happy to create a website for you if you want one, for free. See my website at http://theymos.com . I'll even explain each part of the resulting website if you want to learn about it in the process.

Websites are created in html, css, javascript, php, asp, mysql, and others. Html and css are what you use on myspace. HTML looks like this:

CSS looks like this:
img{border:0}
You can learn basic html and css at http://w3schools.com .

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I always see people making like little music videos and they put a whole bunch of clips together and lip sych the words and add the song on and it looks like they're really singing.

How can you do that? Like how do you add the clips together and take off the sound and add the song?

What kind of program do I need to use?
Thanks!

Start>all programs>windows movie maker

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i dont really pay attention to ratings because i just started but i gave someone a detailed answer and he gave me a 3. its not so much his rating its his comment:
Thank you for your answer. I would give you a 4 but you didn't capitalize. Otherwise it was a good answer.
what does capitalizing have to do with anything?

Here's part of an answer by ammo( http://www.advicenators.com/column.php?u=ammo ), without proper capitalization:
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to be honest there's not really going to be anything you or your boyfriend can if your moms answer is a straight no - the kind that won't change no matter what. the thing with trust is that it's very easy to lose but one you have it can take a very long time to earn it back and even then - all you do is earn the trust back, not erase what previously happen. this might be exactly what's holding your mom back from letting him come along as well. i think the best way to go about it is to talk to your mom about this. it's really going to be the only way so you can find out why she doesn't want him to go (it may not even have anything to do with what happen between you both) and you'll be able to try and find a solution from there. it might be that your mom is the one you need to tell about how you made a mistake but you learned from it and you're not going to be making that mistake again, as well as how honest you've been with your mom about everything since then.
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The original is here:
http://www.advicenators.com/column.php?u=ammo

I personally think the uncapitalized version is harder to read, and less professional looking. The reason for capitalization is to have an even clearer border between sentences, to be sure one thought stops before another begins. Even with properly capitalized sentences, I've been completely thrown off when I don't notice a sentence has ended; this happens more frequently when there isn't proper capitalization. This quote from bash.org illustrates why capitalizing names is needed:
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Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
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Take a look at ammo's answer when I change it even more:

Only end-of-sentence punctuation:
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to be honest theres not really going to be anything you or your boyfriend can if your moms answer is a straight no the kind that won't change no matter what. the thing with trust is that it's very easy to lose but one you have it can take a very long time to earn it back and even then all you do is earn the trust back not erase what previously happen. this might be exactly what's holding your mom back from letting him come along as well. i think the best way to go about it is to talk to your mom about this. it's really going to be the only way so you can find out why she doesn't want him to go it may not even have anything to do with what happen between you both and you'll be able to try and find a solution from there. it might be that your mom is the one you need to tell about how you made a mistake but you learned from it and you're not going to be making that mistake again as well as how honest youve been with your mom about everything since then.
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Some chatspeak
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2 b honest theres not really going to be anything you or your boyfriend can if your moms answer is a straight no the kind that won't change no matter what. the thing with trust is that it's very easy to lose but 1 you have it can take a very long time to earn it back & even then all you do is earn the trust back not erase what previously happen. this might be exactly what's holding your mom back from letting him come along as well. i think the best way to go about it is to talk to your mom about this. it's really going to be the only way so you can find out why she doesn't want him to go (it may not even have anything to do with what happen between u both) & you'll be able to try and find a solution from there. it might be that your mom is the 1 you need to tell about how you made a mistake but you learned from it & you're not going to be making that mistake again as well as how honest youve been with your mom about everything since then.
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No punctuation
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2 b honest theres not really going to be anything you or your boyfriend can if your moms answer is a straight no the kind that won't change no matter what the thing with trust is that it's very easy to lose but 1 you have it can take a very long time to earn it back & even then all you do is earn the trust back not erase what previously happen this might be exactly what's holding your mom back from letting him come along as well i think the best way to go about it is to talk to your mom about this. it's really going to be the only way so you can find out why she doesn't want him to go (it may not even have anything to do with what happen between u both) & you'll be able to try and find a solution from there. it might be that your mom is the 1 you need to tell about how you made a mistake but you learned from it & you're not going to be making that mistake again as well as how honest youve been with your mom about everything since then
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Extreme chatspeak, misspellings, and all-caps. I've actually seen this kind of answer on Advicenators before.
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2 B HONEST THARES NOT RILLY GONG 2 B ANYTHNG U OR UR BOYFREIND CAN IF UR MOMS ANSWAR SI A STRAGEHT NO DA KIND TAHT WONT CHANGE NO MAT3R WUT TEH THNG WIT TRUST SI TAHT ITS VERY AASY 2 LOSE BUT ONE U HAEV IT CAN TAEK A VARY LONG TIEM 2 3ARN IT BAK AND EVEN THEN AL U DO SI EARN DA TRUST BAK NOT ERAES WUT PREVIOSLEY HAPEN THES MIGHT B 3XACTLEY WUT HOLDNG UR MOM BAK FROM LATNG HIM COM3 ALONG AS W3L! I THINK DA BST WAY 2 GO ABOUT IT SI 2 TOK 2 UR MOM ABOUT THIS ITS RILLY GONG 2 B TEH ONLEY WAY SO U CAN FIND OUT Y SHE DOESNT WANT HIM 2 GO IT MAY NOT AVEN HAEV ANYTHNG 2 DO WIT WUT HAP3N BTWEN U BOTH AND U B ABLE 2 TRY AND FIND A SOLUTION FROM THER3 IT MIGHT B TAHT UR MOM SI TEH ON3 U NED 2 TAL ABOUT HOW U MAED A MISTAEK BUT U LEARN3D FROM IT AND UR NOT GONG 2 B MAKNG TAHT MISTAEK AGANE AS W3L AS HOW HONAST U BEN WIT UR MOM ABOUT 3VERYTHNG SINCE THEN
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You can see that as proper spelling, punctuation, and capitalization deteriorates, the message is more unclear and unprofessional. Even if you don't notice capitalization problems, other people do, and it makes it harder for them. Finally, the people who invented and maintain the Internet recommend in RFC1855 that you use good capitalization; that should be enough of a reason for anyone:
"Use mixed case and proper punctuation, as though you were typing a letter or sending mail."
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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I don't have any Aloe, and I'm badly sunburnt. Anything else I can use?

Put a rag soaked in milk on it. Don't stand in front of a fan, since that will dry out your skin and make it worse. Don't put lotion on it. Take a painkiller and drink water.

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Well my computer is running out of space because I download so many eposodes of dramas.

I'm thinking of burning them onto a disk so I could then remove them form my computer and save some space but it won't allow me to because it says that my Nero Fast CD-Burning Plug In (from my media player) says it can't work with AVI stuff but WMA, and some others.

Is there a way to change the type so i can burn it?

**Edit: The program Antnorwe links to is shareware, and I wouldn't recommend it. Neither of us link to viruses. I can convert things for you if you really want to take the time to upload everything. If you do, upload it to gigasize( http://www.gigasize.com ) and send the link to theymos@lycos.com **

I'd usually recommend zamzar( http://zamzar.com ), but since you need to convert a lot of files, use this:
http://www.topdrawerdownloads.com/download/104302

Converting video takes a long time, about 2x longer than it takes to watch it.

You can use this free tool to burn any file to a cd or dvd:
http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

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ive had the hiccups almost all day today. could this be serious? what causes hiccups?

**Edit: From the article I linked:

"Hiccups may be caused by pressure to the phrenic nerve by other anatomical structures, or rarely by tumors and certain kidney disease."

An agitated nerve is nothing to be worried about; it is, in fact, what causes the tingling sensation in your legs when you sit cross-legged for a while.
**

They're caused by an agitated nerve. It's never serious unless it lasts weeks. Everyone has one remedy that works for them, here's a list(and look at this article for more info):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccups#Home_remedies

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here are these to really great girls im trying to find out which one i should date, i cant choose!
i need help sooo bad

okayy #1 is Jessica

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=5zm2kgl


#2 this is Haley

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=5xhrxuw

which one? i dont know, im having a SUPER hard time

ALSO PLEASE TELL ME WHO IS PRETTIER I CANT TELL THAT STUFF IDK WHY BUT IM HAVING A HARD TIME pleasee help

thanks!!

Jessica, but I'm not a fan of either, and it's hard to tell with these close-ups.

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what is it like to be inside a hurricane or tornado? i've always been wondering.. i mean part of me wants to see what its like but part of me knows its really stupid and i could die.. lol like when your spinning in one like.. after you get flung off somewhere? i dont get it.

A hurricane is just a really bad storm, nothing too spectacular.

Hardly anyone survives actually being *in* a tornado, the debris is worse than being shot at with a machine gun. You aren't lifted up into the tornado, you're pushed mostly horizontally. Almost everyone who dies from a tornado dies from the flying rocks and hail. Tornadoes are invisible except for the debris, so up close it look like a bunch of stuff spinning in a circle really fast. Usually in a tornado-producing storm, the sky turns an extreme black, darker than night, so you can't see anything. Hail(big chunks of ice, sometimes the size of baseballs) fall from the sky and smash everything around the tornado. Before and after the tornado, the sky sometimes turns an unnatural shade of purple or orange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone

(Your eyes won't be sucked out of your head in a tornado. There are actually a few people who have survived passing through one)

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I have mcaffe 2005 virus scan and it dont work anymore, where can I download a good virus scan and firewall off the internet for free that actually works?

Fill out the form and follow the instructions here for free avast antivirus:
http://avast.com/eng/home-registration.php

It's completely free, no ads or spyware, and will work forever.

Here's my comparison of free firewalls:
http://firewall.theymos.com
For you COMODO will be the best one:
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

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