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Mob Wars poll for those that play - Do you bank your income or leave it in cash? - CrankYanker Jan 7, 10:10 4
- At first, I always banked it. Now, never. - con_carne Jan 7, 10:12
- Buy property. The more property you own, the more it costs for someone to put - TWuG Jan 7, 10:12
- When I was building up, I banked it. Now that I have $34B I don't bother. -- nm - Dano Jan 7, 10:12
- I bank it out of habit. I need more mob members. I'm constantly being attacked by bigger mobs. level 99 -- nm - CQ Jan 7, 10:12
Magical realism!!!!! -- (link) - Todd Manning Jan 7, 10:05 [Backboard]
Looks like Season 9 for Smallville is a go.... - Remlik Jan 7, 10:03 8
- Possible concern about the Smallville Justice League. - the wrong element, bad guy Jan 7, 10:16
- Is Lana dead or not appearing? If so, yippee....if not, booo! -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 10:09 1
  - she's popped up on a couple of episodes this year and has been good....(when she's been evil she was excellent).... -- nm - Remlik Jan 7, 10:11
- Just curious -- are the characters now eight years older than they were in the first season? -- nm - mara Jan 7, 10:07 2
  - They're in that realm, yes. jokey spoils - Will Hunting Jan 7, 10:11
  - they've progressed through High School and College and should be in the mid 20's or so. Clark *just* started work at the Daily Planet. -- nm - Remlik Jan 7, 10:11
- Of course when they made the "no flying" rule they probably had no idea the show would last this long. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 7, 10:05
- Die Lana die! -- nm - Trish si Jan 7, 10:04
Ok, so to go along with Will's post below...is there a way to take torrents and burn them to a DVD to watch on a player? - Jim Jan 7, 10:00 4
- Two ways: DVD creation software that converts the video file into a VOB and burns it onto a DVD (any DVD creation software will do this). And... - Mop Jan 7, 10:11
- yes. I use Nero to do this all the time -- nm - decline Jan 7, 10:10
- Generally speaking, most DVD burning software of any quality can import a variety of video formats. Otherwise, use a video converter to change it - oblique Jan 7, 10:03
- just make a data cd/dvd and of the file(s) and try it. your player might support the file format. if not, things like TVC and such can convert formats -- nm - zork Jan 7, 10:02
LYC: MY City is holding wood chip parties this Sunday where you can recycle your Christmas Tree to wood chips and have hot chocolate and a bonfire... - Walt_Disney Jan 7, 10:00 4
- I love how you capitalized the word 'my.' It makes it come across as so elitist. :) -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 7, 10:01 1
  - Heh......That was not meant to be capitalized but my city does have a summer events campaign called "My City" :P -- nm - Walt_Disney Jan 7, 10:09
- bonfire does not seem appropriate for this. -- nm - zork Jan 7, 10:01 1
  - I miss the cacophony society tree burns where folks would drive around and collect truck loads and burn a huge stack on the beach -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 7, 10:06
disney princesses at found magazine -- (link) - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 7, 09:59
I am enjoying my cup of Rooibos tea - amoxy Jan 7, 09:59
ST Poll: You are given the power to ban one thing from ST for-ev-ah, what would it be? - oblique Jan 7, 09:56 41
- The way pent up rage will outpour upon one person in a flood snarly nasty bitchyness -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 7, 10:09 1
  - or 'firsting' especially with something totally lame like 'word' instead of a cleaver quote or other effort -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 7, 10:10
- Treatises on the origins of democracy in agrarian society. -- nm - Dano Jan 7, 10:03
- Nothing -- nm - amoxy Jan 7, 10:02
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  - with boners, or without? -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 10:03
- HOUSED -- nm - Strongbad Jan 7, 10:01
- The term "hatey boner." -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 7, 10:01 1
  - i'll change my answer to this as well -- nm - prayformojo Jan 7, 10:02
- OAE -- nm - CQ Jan 7, 10:00
- the lack of simpsons trivia -- nm - prayformojo Jan 7, 10:00
- the "your face" posts - zork Jan 7, 10:00
- carnies. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 7, 10:00
- JEGAR jokes, obviously. -- nm - nubby Jan 7, 10:00 8
  - (But every time I complain, it gives the jokesters more reason to do it. So I shouldn't have mentioned it.) -- nm - nubby Jan 7, 10:01 7
    - Jokester is a loose term for using something that is what, seven years old now? - HdnAgnda Jan 7, 10:05
    - TT jokes/memes never die. Best bet is to ignore, if you don't like them. - ty97 Jan 7, 10:03 5
      - All this I know. -- nm - nubby Jan 7, 10:13
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        Just stop. No matter what you say or try to rationalize, we are *never* going to believe you're "faking" your heteroness. You can't reverse psycho us -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 10:06 1
        
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      - Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 10:04
- The JEGAR horse jokes. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 7, 10:00 5
  - As soon as she stops looking like one the jokes will go away. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 7, 10:00 4
    - Please. Tara Reid's backside deserves an infinite amount more bashing than this. JEGAR is a sweetheart. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 7, 10:02 2
      - Tara Reid? Who? nm - Jim Jan 7, 10:04
      - She looks too slightly downsey for my tastes. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 7, 10:03
    - (truth) -- nm - Don Homer Jan 7, 10:01
- polls!....nm - x Jan 7, 10:00
- Poll-takers that don't answer their own polls. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 09:59
- People, people, people. This is your space to hate. So, out with it! - con_carne Jan 7, 09:59
- The topless beach. Let's be honest, people, we're not all swedes. -- nm - Max Jan 7, 09:59
- I would ban banning. -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 09:58
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  - your nefarious plan to keep me off ST and under your desk all day won't work -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 10:00 2
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      - damn I'm good. -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 10:02
- the concept of banning things from ST. - ty97 Jan 7, 09:57 1
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- Making fun of Amy. - Amy Jan 7, 09:57 1
  - damnit! -- nm - Remlik Jan 7, 09:58
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- By family, you mean wife. - the wrong element, bad guy Jan 7, 10:08 1
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- Family=Money according to Tex -- nm - amoxy Jan 7, 10:01
- L4.5 -- nm - Strongbad Jan 7, 10:00 3
  - This article actually makes my perception of him worse. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 7, 10:03 2
    - That makes him and his 180 million dollars sad. -- nm - Diva Jan 7, 10:06 1
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- coughbullshitcough -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 09:57
Today is the 1st time I am wearing a shirt I got for Christmas. It is a chocolate brown button down with thin tan-ish pinstripes. Pinstripes appear - HdnAgnda Jan 7, 09:54 2
- Light khakis would be fine, always better to wear darker color on top than on bottom, particularly if you're trying to disguise anything gut-wise. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 7, 10:07
- I think the very light khakis would work. (I call them buff but I don't know if others do -- is that sand?). -- nm - mara Jan 7, 09:56
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- uh-huh -- nm - JFK ID checker Jan 7, 09:56 3
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    - You wish. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 7, 10:00 1
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- *HEIMLICH MANEUVER* -- nm - con_carne Jan 7, 09:51
- I'm loving Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos lately. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 7, 09:51 1
  - I am hating the price of chips and similar lately. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 7, 09:55
D'oh! That sucks. A coworker (and one of my former supervisors) is a few months pregnant but now must be on bedrest. - Don Homer Jan 7, 09:49 5
- my best friend swife endure this for 5 months plus with both their kids. Nuts. -- nm - CQ Jan 7, 09:51 4
  - friend's wife. I don't have a friend named swife -- nm - CQ Jan 7, 09:52 3
    - Oh good. That's my girl's name choice. -- nm - Amy Jan 7, 09:58
    - You're drunk, aren't you. -- nm - mara Jan 7, 09:56 1
      - I'm not used to this keyboard, heh. It's my first lap top ever! -- nm - CQ Jan 7, 10:02
sitwap. Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck welcome 2nd baby girl to the world. - Diva Jan 7, 09:44 5
- Did the baby triple crown? *rimshot* -- nm - VMan Jan 7, 09:49
- *random cappy joke* -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 09:46 1
  - *random horse joke* -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 7, 09:47
- I shunned CQ yesterday for it. -- nm - nubby Jan 7, 09:45 1
  - you've been shunning me forever, heh -- nm - CQ Jan 7, 09:46
hand carved turkey and stuffing sammy. So effin good -- nm - CQ Jan 7, 09:43
kx, why are you ordering an airport express? -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 7, 09:43 1
- I bought the wife a laptop for Christmas so I need to share her printer that used to be on her PC, plus I'd like to upgrade to 802.11n PLUS I have the - oblique Jan 7, 09:44
Got a friend request from a one-night stand I had in NY back in 1980. Turns out she has a son but never married. - CrankYanker Jan 7, 09:42 15
- Like the opposite of me, first girl I slept with sent a friend request - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 7, 09:51 2
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  - Spank bank -- nm - con_carne Jan 7, 09:52
- deny deny deny -- nm - CQ Jan 7, 09:44 8
  - too late. I figured she was happily married with a family and was just reaching out.... then, she posted a status - CrankYanker Jan 7, 09:46 5
    - How do you know she never married? -- nm - Roger More Jan 7, 09:50 3
      - I'm assuming again. Relationship = "Single" and she's going by her maiden name. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 7, 09:54 2
        
        It seems just as likely that she restored her original name after a divorce. -- nm - mara Jan 7, 09:57 1
        
        yes, could be. I was just thinking of her remembering me enough to do a search after 28 years.... scary to me that she has a son, so I was thinking - CrankYanker Jan 7, 10:05
    - You did not figure, you assumed. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 7, 09:48
  - Block User -- nm - con_carne Jan 7, 09:45 1
    - Rookie. - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 7, 09:46
- 2 and a half Crankyankers? a similar episode was just repeated -- nm - zork Jan 7, 09:44
- Gotta love Facebook. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Jan 7, 09:43
- Uh oh. -- nm - nubby Jan 7, 09:43
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- Yeah, that last phrase of the first sentence is key and changes the whole tenor of the alarmist headline. -- nm - nubby Jan 7, 09:44
SITWAP: There's so much snow in Minnesota (how much snow is ther?).... -- (link) - TaurusII Jan 7, 09:42
taste life!....nm - x Jan 7, 09:40 1
- salty. - nubby Jan 7, 09:43
I really do not like my job, but seeing ST'ers and other friends without jobs, I am thankful I have one -- nm - amoxy Jan 7, 09:40 4
- I like my job quite a lot, but even more than that, I feel really lucky that I have no significant debt and my living expenses are so low. -- nm - mara Jan 7, 09:47
- I *love* my job. I'm so lucky to have it, even if the pay is horrible. -- nm - Amy Jan 7, 09:43 1
  - I want a job like this. -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 7, 09:49
- Me too. -- nm - lileve Jan 7, 09:42
What is the preferred format of video files from other media? Like DVDs or TV shows saved to disk to be played back? - Will Hunting Jan 7, 09:40 11
- i would think avi. lots of stand-alone dvd players can play them too. -- nm - zork Jan 7, 09:41 7
  - lots of torrenters use this and they usually have good reasons for the file formats they use -- nm - zork Jan 7, 09:42
  - AVI is just a container. It can hold many different video codecs/formats inside it -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 09:41 5
    - good to know -- nm - zork Jan 7, 09:43 4
      - Torrenters (in your example), typically put Divx or Xvid (which are MPEG-4 video derivaties) inside AVI because it has great compression ratios -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 09:45 3
        
        yup. mpeg-2 is much bigger comparatively -- nm - decline Jan 7, 09:48 2
        
        It's still my format of choice on my MythTV. Never have audio sync issues when transcoding to it using Nero, even with AC3 audio tracks - oblique Jan 7, 09:49 1
        
        yeah, me too. -- nm - decline Jan 7, 09:52
- That really kinda depends on what player you're going to use, but MPEG-2 is what DVDs and HDTV is basically -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 09:41 2
  - Okay. Thank ya. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 09:43 1
    - Divx/Xvid (MPEG-4) video would be the next most popular (see zork above) in an AVI container -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 09:46
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- Richard Dawkins is a poor poster child for atheists!!! -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 09:46 1
  - That's IT! Where's my L'il Frankenstein home kit? I'm resurrecting Bertrand Russell and sicking his zombie corpse on Dawkins. -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 09:52
- Sounds more like the agnostics. -- nm - TaurusII Jan 7, 09:42 1
  - I was thinking that too. -- nm - mara Jan 7, 09:48
- brilliant -- nm - znufrii Jan 7, 09:42
- hasn't this been done a couple times before? -- nm - zork Jan 7, 09:40 1
  - uhm, yes, but probably not on this scale -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 10:11
- That doesn't sound very sure of themeselves -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 09:40 8
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    - I guess if I'm going to do an ad campaign for atheism, I'm going to darn well say "There is no God" - oblique Jan 7, 09:42 6
      - Read the article. It covers this in the last couple paragraphs. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 7, 09:45 2
        
        bah, who has time to read articles. Less reading, more snarkiness -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 09:46 1
        
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      - apparently they wanted to, but had to change it to meet advertising guidelines. -- nm - znufrii Jan 7, 09:44 1
        
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We have to go back! -- nm - CQ Jan 7, 09:38
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