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So the Senate approved the DTV Delay, but it allows television stations to switch if they're ready? - JaxSean Jan 27, 06:39 1
- Probably will have to maintain both bands. -- nm - lileve Jan 27, 06:41
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- that has to be like half the royals payroll over that time. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 06:40
- He's very rootable. - nubby Jan 27, 06:38
I think Drudge just wanted to pull out the Ye Old Flashing Siren� because the news story says absolutely nothing we didn't already know. -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 06:28
minor irritant of the day: I'm in bloody australia, but the australian open is still tape-delayed. booo! (but spoilers) - mafic Jan 27, 06:27
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- So...if the court won't appoint you a new lawyer, you should just smear poop on them and throw it at the jury...and that works? - JaxSean Jan 27, 06:29 4
  - sure, until eventually you're shackled in court, and facing additional charges for all the feces-smearing/flinging. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 06:31 3
    - Yeah, but maybe that carries a fine, and the home-invasion trial wasn't going so well. - JaxSean Jan 27, 06:33 2
      - I'm sure you could get feces-smearing classified as some kind of assault. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 06:39 1
        
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Billy Bob Thornton ensures he'll never be nominated for another Oscar: -- (link) - Reagen Jan 27, 06:08 6
- "Do you love fashion? I know I do. That's why I'm here to tell you about the only hat I'll wear: Kangols." -- nm - Billy Bob Jan 27, 06:34
- he's got a point. 'look how socially relevant and meaningful we are' is always a big part of the oscars. - mafic Jan 27, 06:13 1
  - Yeah, but I don't think it's a bad idea to be gracious towards people who recognize your achievements (which might have helped make him a bigger star) - kelly Jan 27, 06:21
- Eh. There have been others who don't like the Oscars who were still nominated. Woody Allen, for one. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 06:10
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  - Grammys > Oscars this year (at least in the top category) -- nm - TFox Jan 27, 06:33
Random Poll: What interstates border your location? - nubby Jan 27, 05:54 39
- I-84 is about a mile away and I-90 several hundred miles to the north -- nm - Trish Jan 27, 06:39
- 95 is about 1/8 mile west, 195 is a couple miles south, and 295 is probably 10 miles west. -- nm - TFox Jan 27, 06:35
- I live in the largest city in California that is not connected to a freeway - amoxy Jan 27, 06:27 2
  - yggm. -- nm - kelly Jan 27, 06:31 1
    - Back to you -- nm - amoxy Jan 27, 06:34
- I-95. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 27, 06:27
- 90, 294. 94 isn't too far. 190 to O'Hare. -- nm - oblique Jan 27, 06:18
- I-75, spitting distance to the East -- nm - ty97 Jan 27, 06:16 1
  - (head due north and hit I-75 again. No Interstates West or south) -- nm - ty97 Jan 27, 06:18
- 75, 70, 675 -- nm - Ender Jan 27, 06:16
- i85, i40, i95 -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 27, 06:09
- I-95 -- nm - decline Jan 27, 06:08
- 40 & 75. -- nm - Callisto Jan 27, 06:07 1
  - (there's also 640, 275 and 140 if we're counting those) -- nm - Callisto Jan 27, 06:21
- I-95 -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 06:06
- none. however, i have easy access to the 427/404/401/QEW -- nm - Andie Jan 27, 06:05
- 78, 478, 278, 495, 87, 95 -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 06:04 14
  - (If by bordering you mean the closest interstate in any direction from my current location. - znufrii Jan 27, 06:08 13
    - Yes. What interstates form a box around you. -- nm - nubby Jan 27, 06:13 12
      - although technically, 78, 478 and 495 are spurs into the box, so really, just 95, 87 and 278 -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 06:17
      - I can't find a decent map. -- nm - mara Jan 27, 06:14 10
        
        maps.google.com -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 06:17 3
        
        Yeah, it's just too hard to tell. Maybe the highways in Kentucky that look like interstates aren't really interstates. -- nm - mara Jan 27, 06:22 2
        
        The following interstates run through/in Kentucky -- (link) - ty97 Jan 27, 06:23 1
        
        Okay, the parkways aren't interstates. To my south is I-65, which meets I-24, which meets I-57, which meets I-64. -- nm - mara Jan 27, 06:30
        
        Of course you can't. You're too busy screwing around the Internet to know where anything is. -- nm - Steve114 si Jan 27, 06:16
        
        it's official, my world is collapsing. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 06:15 4
        
        Seriously, if I were at work, I'd use a printed map for this. -- nm - mara Jan 27, 06:17 3
        
        I'd just go with google maps. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 06:18 2
        
        It's not enough to show the highways. The map also needs to show the number. I dunno, maybe I'm just stupid. -- nm - mara Jan 27, 06:23 1
        
        Assuming you are south of I-70. If so, then if you are west o 65, then 64 is your southern answer. - ty97 Jan 27, 06:25
- The closest is I-64 to the north. Others that go east, west, and south of me are too far away for me to know off the top of my head. -- nm - mara Jan 27, 06:04
- 395,495,95,66,50 -- nm - prayformojo Jan 27, 06:04
- 395 outside my apartment. also 95, 66, and 495 (Capitol Beltway) -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 06:01
- just 80. I am in the middle of nowhere. -- nm - the year of the ox loves mandy lane Jan 27, 06:01
- the south coast highway, and the coolgardie-esperance highway. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 06:00
- I-35 E right outside my house - Epiphany Jan 27, 05:57
- 285 to the south, 75 to the west, 85 to the east -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 05:56
- Here....495 to teh east, i 66 to the south, 270 to the north, 95 to the east, - Will Hunting Jan 27, 05:55
STIMULUS! -- (link) - Strongbad Jan 27, 05:47 12
- Have you ever been to Sumter? They need it. -- nm - nubby Jan 27, 05:52
- Obama's earmark ban means nothing -- (link) - Strongbad Jan 27, 05:49 10
  - actually it means quite a lot. - znufrii Jan 27, 06:06 9
    - So in other words, the earmarks are still there, they're just called "ready-to-go local projects" ? - Strongbad Jan 27, 06:26 8
      - well, no. - znufrii Jan 27, 06:31 5
        
        allocations of revenue in a bill that are directed to a specific project or recipient typically in a legislator�s home state or district -- nm - Strongbad the Belittler Jan 27, 06:36 3
        
        Considering that this bill is specifically looking for state and local project to fund, you should probably take issue with the whole bill then. - ty97 Jan 27, 06:38 2
        
        All I'm doing is holding Obama to his "no earmark" policy. - Strongbad the Belittler Jan 27, 06:42 1
        
        And to be 100% accurate, I'm not holding Obama to it. Yet. - Strongbad the Belittler Jan 27, 06:44
        
        generally I think you've conflated earmarks with pork. -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 06:34
      - yep, it's exactly the same thing. - ty97 Jan 27, 06:27 1
        
        Woo! -- nm - Strongbad the Belittler Jan 27, 06:28
Smeg! Red Dwarf back for a 2 part special at Easter - unfortunately it's on the channel Dave. -- (link) - LMS Jan 27, 05:45
any SF people around? -- (link) - Marcel Jan 27, 05:39 [youtube] 1
- That car must be really shit if that's all they show if it! -- nm - LMS Jan 27, 05:43
Hmm, for some reason it is now taking Netflix 2 days to receive my discs, rather than 1. - kelly Jan 27, 05:33 6
- What's your shipping location, out of curiosity? Gaithersburg? -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 05:37 5
  - Yeah. -- nm - kelly Jan 27, 05:46 4
    - Hmm, that's weird. Maybe your local post office is being slow. I'm still on a 1-day difference with my Netflix returns to there. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 05:48 3
      - My Saturday return was received today - the one I mailed yesterday has not been received yet. - kelly Jan 27, 05:51 2
        
        **throttles you** - NetFlix Devil Jan 27, 05:58 1
        
        It's not a huge deal. - kelly Jan 27, 06:03
Proposed bill would "require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken." -- (link) - Don Homer Jan 27, 05:21 8
- if you're going to bother doing this, it should really be 'anything that can take a picture.' -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 06:02 5
  - yes and no. I use my phone to stealth-snap all the time. my camera looks like a camera, so I can't be as stealthy. -- nm - the year of the ox loves mandy lane Jan 27, 06:19 4
    - But a lot of handheld PDAs aren't phones or cameras. Like an iTouch. Would it be legal to have a silent camera on an iTouch but not on an iPhone? -- nm - mara Jan 27, 06:37 1
      - (Or am I being stupid again? Does an iTouch have a camera? Do other non-phone handhelds?) -- nm - mara Jan 27, 06:40
    - my point is more that you can get a lot of cameras that are pretty low-profile and don't look like cameras, so all you manage to do with this law is - mafic Jan 27, 06:36 1
      - or people can just use old cell phones for their stealth snapping. - Callisto Jan 27, 06:39
- Japan has this already - Marcel Jan 27, 05:41
- *delays by 4 months* -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 27, 05:31
Proposed constitutional amendment qould require special elections for Senate vacancies, similar to procedure in the House -- (link) - Strongbad Jan 27, 05:17 5
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  - States used to just appoint the Senators but we fixed that...This just continues the process of making it better -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 27, 06:46
  - My argument against it is states rights, yes. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 06:05
- I'm in favor of that. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 05:21 1
  - I think I support it, but I'm not strongly in that camp. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 05:26
80-gig PS3 is $349.98 at Amazon -- (link) - Jelly Jan 27, 05:16
My friend, who moved from Durham, NC to Natick, Mass, this past summer tells me the Boston area is getting ready for another foot of snow tomorrow. Is - HdnAgnda Jan 27, 05:15 3
- your friend is correct. -- nm - Diva Jan 27, 05:44
- We have a ways to go, but we're already ahead of the average for the season. -- nm - Jelly Jan 27, 05:16 1
  - Running out of places to put any new snow - nm - Harry Lime Jan 27, 05:30
For those with GHWT, Wiki has been updated with a few more upcoming track packs. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 27, 05:12
I love the Rich People Mall (Tysons 2). They don't plow the parking spots, only the valet stations. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 27, 05:08 7
- I like how all the morons were only driving 40 mph on 95, when it was barely flurrying at the time. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 05:09 6
  - I was one of those morons; my wipers stopped working and the salt spray was blinding me. - Will Hunting Jan 27, 05:10 5
    - There was an accident on 15S - one fatality. - kelly Jan 27, 05:18
    - Oy, no wipers is no good. So how'd long did it take you to drive in today? - Don Homer Jan 27, 05:12 3
      - Roughly the same, it was only really bad for me once I hit 495 for the last ten minutes cuz of the oncoming lights - Will Hunting Jan 27, 05:21 2
        
        Weird - there was next to nobody on the roads at 7:40-ish. I hit a tiny bit of traffic on 15, but hardly any compared to the usual traffic. -- nm - kelly Jan 27, 05:31 1
        
        Welcome to panic. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 27, 05:36
What!?!?!? A Bonnie and Clyde remake???? -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 05:07
5 pick winning streak!!! *flex* -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 04:30
New trailer for one of our co-productions - The Damned United with Michael Sheen -- (link) - LMS Jan 27, 04:27
Tintin has just become my most awaited movie, Daniel Craig and Jamie Bell have joined the cast and Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish co-wrote the script - LMS Jan 27, 03:43
"The president is choking on my gas bladder. What an honor!" -- nm - David Jan 27, 03:28 3
- "choke on that, causality!" -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 03:41 2
  - "That's good news. Leela, you really don't cook enough roast." -- nm - David Jan 27, 03:43 1
    - "don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to do it. in which case for the love of god, don't not do it!" -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 04:03
Well it took 2.5 hours due to their unstable server but I just applied for a Security job at Pixar :) -- nm - Stacy Jan 27, 02:54
netflix streaming video fueling strong growth in subscriptions -- (link) - pigby hearts the blart Jan 27, 00:22
sweet! apparently I had 1,800 microsoft points left when I left canada, which means operation: anchorage is downloading now! - mafic Jan 27, 00:17 10
- Do you do this from within the game (PC)? -- nm - oblique Jan 27, 06:20
- I think I'll get it later this week. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 05:08
- Ah Fallout 3. I just couldn't get back into it after my honeymoon so I ended up selling it. It wasn't fun to play anymore :( -- nm - Shaun Jan 27, 04:45 6
  - Dead Space is a LOT of fun. Think Silent Hill crossed with the Aliens movies. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 05:42 2
    - I've heard good things about it. I'll be in the market for a new game soon. Not sure what I'll end up with. NHL09 is a candidate though. -- nm - Shaun Jan 27, 05:49 1
      - My next purchase might be Star Ocean 4 -- nm - Strongbad Jan 27, 05:55
  - why not? -- nm - Don Homer Jan 27, 05:08 2
    - I just don't know. I just wasn't having fun playing it. -- nm - Shaun Jan 27, 05:12 1
      - Fable 2 on the other hand is/was incredibly fun to play. -- nm - Shaun Jan 27, 05:19
- *Googles "Microsoft points" and "Operation: Anchorage". Feeling out of the loop* - zunk Jan 27, 04:25
Stanford law grad who boasted she paid her way through law school as an escort, busted for tax evasion -- (link) - pigby hearts the blart Jan 27, 00:09 6
- memory refresher: she's the one who married the "ask jeeves" dude. -- nm - b! Jan 27, 00:16 1
  - luckiest search engine query ever - pigby hearts the blart Jan 27, 00:20
- agents searching her trash found "a law book containing $2,400 in hundred-dollar bills apparently used as bookmarks." - pigby hearts the blart Jan 27, 00:11 3
  - Gawd! Can't everybody just keep Wiggum alone?! *sob* -- nm - Trish Jan 27, 00:16
  - my brother once lost a 1,000 swiss franc note doing that. found it after about 8 hours of searching. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 00:16 1
    - lucky bastard -- nm - Uncle Billy Jan 27, 00:19
did they say in those news stories how many of the 40,000 jobs lost would be at The Melting Pot? - pigby hearts the blart Jan 27, 00:03
If anyone is offended, just call 1-877-SEAN-930 - Trish Jan 27, 00:01 2
- I'm busy calling 1-900-MIXALOT. -- nm - psilotum Jan 27, 00:04 1
  - is there a particular "like" of yours that you need to share with the class? -- nm - b! Jan 27, 00:17
*self-censors* ::moves along:: the news just told me to fear GIANT FLYING SQUID! can a sci-fi channel movie be far behind? -- nm - b! Jan 26, 23:30 5
- Honey, they did that last week on the SciFi channel and Adrian Paul (Highlander!) was the sea captain. - Trish Jan 26, 23:55 3
  - hee for im. i know they've had squid movies before, but.. - b! Jan 27, 00:04 2
    - They'd best not be eating my shrimp and clams! I'm calling Adrian Paul. - Trish Jan 27, 00:17 1
      - hmm, adrian paul... mrs. paul... ::sniffs for conspiracy:: -- nm - b! Jan 27, 00:21
- oo, they sometimes cannibalize, too. nm but: -- (link) - b! Jan 26, 23:39
[an error occurred while processing this digital switch directive] -- nm - Qale Jan 26, 23:25
In Bjorkland, all offenses are punishable by repeated listening to the Medulla album - Reagen Jan 26, 23:24 5
- In Bj�rkland, typical office wear will involve lots of feathers and makeup. - psilotum Jan 26, 23:32 4
  - All names will have ulmauts in Bj�rkland. -- nm - Reag�n Jan 26, 23:35 3
    - change the 7th letter and that is my last name. -- nm - BAD Jan 26, 23:38 2
      - Then you will become prime minister! -- nm - Reag�n Jan 26, 23:42 1
        
        back in Sweden, the name used to be Johnson...they changed it because Johnson was common...means birch grove -- nm - BAD Jan 26, 23:47
confound it! -- nm - pigby hearts the blart Jan 26, 23:19

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