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OK NFL Draft nicks...Where will Tannehill land? -- nm - Capstern Apr 25, 08:35 4
- Miami -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 08:36
- Round 2 -- nm - decline Apr 25, 08:35 2
  - You really think there is any way the 3rd best rated QB falls to 2nd round? -- nm - Capstern Apr 25, 09:16
  - Undrafted -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 25, 09:12
Good Deadspin read on Bill Polian regarding the Loomis hidden mic issue -- (link) - The Incredible Budice Apr 25, 08:34
Happy birthday, Andie! Woo hoo! -- nm - Krusty Apr 25, 08:19 5
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - marcel Apr 25, 08:29
- wpp-hoo!! -- nm - Diva Apr 25, 08:26
- thanks all! -- nm - Andie Apr 25, 08:24
- Happy Birthday -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:22
- happy birthday! -- nm - kelly Apr 25, 08:22
*kisses Diva* -- nm - kelly Apr 25, 08:15 1
- :) - Diva Apr 25, 08:25
The Cardinals got screwed last night. Two blown calls that really affected that game. -- nm - Krusty Apr 25, 08:14
yikes. I see the buzz regarding The Hobbit footage that was shown, was not positive at all. -- nm - Jovian Apr 25, 08:09 28
- where is this footage? -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 25, 08:34
- And if audiences really don't like it, they can fix it by just playing it half as fast. -- nm - Reagen Apr 25, 08:24 2
  - Supposedly the studio is saying that both 24 fps and 48 fps versions will be hitting theaters? - TFox Apr 25, 08:32 1
    - it would have to since only a few theatres will be prepared for 48. - zork Apr 25, 08:36
- I've only seen positive. -- nm - Roger More Apr 25, 08:22
- some was, some wasnt. a lot of what i read is that it looked too - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 25, 08:11 22
  - the buzz that is bad, is *really* bad. If critics are bitching about the frame rates, the audience is going to loathe it. -- nm - Jovian Apr 25, 08:12 21
    - Oh, it's 30fps? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 25, 08:15 5
      - 48 -- nm - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 25, 08:15 4
        
        I've always said that 30fps seemed to lack gravitas ... 48 must be like helium. But if any movie can bring gravitas in another way, it would be that -- nm - Beryllium Apr 25, 08:25 2
        
        isn't 30 fps television and 24 is film? or am I misremembering? -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:33
        
        8 fps is more than enough! -- nm - Hiroshi Sasagawa Apr 25, 08:27
        
        there was a link yesterday about how this movie will change ... movies. -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:16
    - I think critics are like baseball writers and hate change. They want their movies to look like movies. -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:14 14
      - So does your average movie goer. I know I certainly do -- nm - Jovian Apr 25, 08:15 12
        
        High frame rates make stuff look like it was shot on security cameras -- nm - con_carne Apr 25, 08:35 6
        
        But if you compensate for the effect with good lighting, familiar angles, and stellar cinematography - it might overcome that effect. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 25, 08:37
        
        you can't recognise anyone in the picture? -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:37
        
        why is that? I thought high frame rates would look better. -- nm - loosilu Apr 25, 08:37 3
        
        Uncanny smoothness - con_carne Apr 25, 08:43
        
        The best DVD example I've seen in favour of 30fps+ is the opening credits to Nic Cage's gone in 60 seconds -- nm - Beryllium Apr 25, 08:40
        
        too smooth, no flicker apparently. -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:38
        
        I disagree. The Average movie goer has no idea what you are talking about -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 08:26 3
        
        The average moviegoer has a brain that tells them "omg what are my eyes seeing?". Whether that is good or bad remains to be seen. - Beryllium Apr 25, 08:29 1
        
        I have a feeling it will dowl people over in an Avatar way. If not, they can drop half the frames and show it at 24fps. -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:35
        
        "WTH? This looks like video, not film." -- nm - TWuG Apr 25, 08:28
        
        for me, it would depend on the subject, genre, etc. I'm certainly not against 48 and if all going forward were that, I'm ok. -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:18
      - agreed -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 08:14
Poll: What's your rank on HSX? me=261 - ceregon Apr 25, 08:08 31
- 327 bitches! (it's been a crazy week for making money. i think i'm up over $50 million since thursday) -- nm - pixitude Apr 25, 08:34 1
  - Yep, I'm about 67mil over 10 days. More progress than I'd made in months. -- nm - MojaveMeg Apr 25, 08:38
- I don't know. My account may be cleaned out. -- nm - Kim Pine Apr 25, 08:28
- #998. $1.2B -- nm - flavorize Apr 25, 08:25 2
  - Apparently, I bought Avengers at $43! -- nm - flavorize Apr 25, 08:27 1
    - woot! -- nm - Epiphany Apr 25, 08:37
- 376 -- nm - TWuG Apr 25, 08:24
- #38 - MojaveMeg Apr 25, 08:22 1
  - Miss the reset trading -- nm - Capstern Apr 25, 08:31
- 7 -- nm - Roger More Apr 25, 08:22 1
  - wow -- nm - ceregon Apr 25, 08:32
- top 1000 but not sure where (around $1.25 Billion) -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 08:20
- 456 1.9B Wow have fallen 56 slots in last year - bad dave -- nm - Capstern Apr 25, 08:20
- Just above #1k when I checked last week. -- nm - Krusty Apr 25, 08:16
- #30. 6.06bn. -- nm - LMS Apr 25, 08:16
- 26,887 -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:15
- 2422 -- nm - decline Apr 25, 08:14
- don't think I have an account any more. -- nm - loosilu Apr 25, 08:13
- #60 -- nm - Andie Apr 25, 08:13 2
  - errrr. #460 (big difference) -- nm - Andie Apr 25, 08:15 1
    - Man I better start trading a little and try to stay ahead of you :) -- nm - Capstern Apr 25, 08:21
- 1203 -- nm - MDH Apr 25, 08:13
- 58 (peaked at 51). And may as well milestone post here - Just crossed $5 billion. -- nm - pmb Apr 25, 08:12 3
  - The first $5 billion is the hardest! -- nm - Roger More Apr 25, 08:23 2
    - you don't think he already knows that? -- nm - prayformojo Apr 25, 08:25 1
      - He doesn't know how it compares to the next five -- nm - Roger More Apr 25, 08:35
- 1800-1900 -- nm - rollo Apr 25, 08:12
- 3850. Picked up steam in the last year. Raising limits on # of shares has helped -- nm - The Incredible Budice Apr 25, 08:11
- #573. 1.68B -- nm - volnelk Apr 25, 08:10
- HSX? What's that? -- nm - znufrii Apr 25, 08:08
- 253 -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 25, 08:08
pmb - thanks for the heads up about the Dyson! -- nm - kelly Apr 25, 08:04 1
- Not a Consumer Reports fan, huh? -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 25, 08:05
STIS: Is MLB.TV the service most people use to watch all of the games online? -- nm - MDH Apr 25, 08:03 6
- just remember that you can not watch games in your local market. So no Nat's games for you. -- nm - decline Apr 25, 08:04 4
  - Interesting. What if this person lives in NH during the summer (MD otherwise). Would he get Nats in NH? -- nm - MDH Apr 25, 08:06 2
    - I believe so. I am pretty sure the blackouts are location based -- nm - decline Apr 25, 08:07 1
      - Thanks! -- nm - MDH Apr 25, 08:11
  - which actually jacks the price up a little. -- nm - TFox Apr 25, 08:04
- i don't think there's an alternative service. -- nm - TFox Apr 25, 08:04
ika LYC - 42 round fleet battle - Iron Spawn Apr 25, 08:01 2
- now go pillage his ass in payback -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 08:01 1
  - He put an MWC in my island to do so. dignan has been toying with him and will do so now when his forge is back later today. - Iron Spawn Apr 25, 08:03
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- at least Mat Latos finally had a non-terrible game. - TFox Apr 25, 08:01
OFFS - oblique Apr 25, 07:58 8
- fight the power! -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 08:03
- so, did you get your printer? :) -- nm - znufrii Apr 25, 08:03
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- or maybe they're fat because they have a disability. -- nm - loosilu Apr 25, 08:01
- "this printer comes with a free gym membership and mandatory twice-weekly fitness sessions. The gym has a pool." -- nm - Beryllium Apr 25, 07:59
- maybe they have COPD, or arthritis, or lazyitis, or any other number of legit disabilities -- nm - sycor Apr 25, 07:59
- give 'em the crappiest printer you can find -- nm - decline Apr 25, 07:59
- Got this going on here too. There's a printer sitting just outside a small copyroom with a high-end 90ppm Canon Copier / Printer -- nm - The Incredible Budice Apr 25, 07:59
prm - the play was really good. - Andie Apr 25, 07:56 2
- thanks. i still have a hard time visualizing this working -- nm - prayformojo Apr 25, 07:59 1
  - it takes a few minutes for your mind to adjust as the puppeteers are just there, completely visible, but it doesn't take long. -- nm - Andie Apr 25, 08:00
This is interesting. I always assumed members of the military supported Republicans. -- (link) - mara Apr 25, 07:56 5
- Well, it is just one month. - Stephen Apr 25, 08:39
- Let's give Obama a little credit. He fricking dispatched bin laden. -- nm - con_carne Apr 25, 08:10
- Just as interesting - the Republican candidate who gets the most support is the one who talks most about America no longer being the world's policeman -- nm - Roger More Apr 25, 08:01 2
  - Thinking about this a little more - I suspect this has more to do with both Paul and Obama running grassroots campaigns - compared to Romney, Gingrich - Roger More Apr 25, 08:30 1
    - Anecdotal "evidence" only, but the military members that I know that support Paul support his domestic policy moreso than his foreign policy. - Stephen Apr 25, 08:41
USDA says the mad cow in California had a spontaneously-occurring version of the disease. -- (link) - loosilu Apr 25, 07:55 6
- Let's review. America's favorite meat comes from an animal that spontaneously breeds a deadly disease that can quickly get into the food supply, - con_carne Apr 25, 07:58 4
  - Wasn't this like the 4th time it's been found in a US herd in, oh, EVER? - TWuG Apr 25, 08:27 1
    - yes. -- nm - loosilu Apr 25, 08:30
  - except for the part where it can quickly get into the food supply. -- nm - loosilu Apr 25, 07:59 1
    - oh, and also, spontaneous development of the disease is extremely rare. Now go back to freaking out. -- nm - loosilu Apr 25, 08:00
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I married a wonderful man. That is all. -- nm - Diva Apr 25, 07:54 4
- Who dat? Carlton? =) -- (link) - The Incredible Budice Apr 25, 07:58 [youtube]
- He found tickets? ;) -- nm - MojaveMeg Apr 25, 07:55 1
  - oh I let that all go on B2. - Diva Apr 25, 07:56
- let me guess...two tickets to game 7? :) -- nm - znufrii Apr 25, 07:55
LIR: truman. Have you looked at Things? -- (link) - oblique Apr 25, 07:54 1
- no i havent. i was trying wunderlist, but it just doesnt work the way my mind wants it too. -- nm - tRuMaN, (not a knock off version) Apr 25, 08:05
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- Oh yeah? You think it's so frickin easy to drive a ca.... wait. -- nm - TFox Apr 25, 07:52
The Nina. The Pinta. The Santa Maria. - TFox Apr 25, 07:49 2
- MKF (nm) - howie Apr 25, 07:54
- *produces a quart* -- nm - con_carne Apr 25, 07:52
Prince Charles Cinema as added Flash Gordon and Ghostbusters to it's series of Quotealong screenings. Which film would you add? - LMS Apr 25, 07:49 36
- m a s h -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 25, 12:24
- My Dinner with Andre - pixitude Apr 25, 08:35
- Scott Pilgrim!!! -- nm - The Incredible Budice Apr 25, 08:14 1
  - This made me realize just how much I hate the casting person of the SATC prequel. - the wrong element, bad guy Apr 25, 08:24
- Metropolis - zork Apr 25, 08:10
- Supertroopers -- nm - decline Apr 25, 08:05 1
  - I like your choices. - the wrong element, bad guy Apr 25, 08:18
- Die Hard -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 08:05 1
  - Animal House, Caddyshack -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 08:08
- Eurotrip -- nm - decline Apr 25, 08:05
- original Planet of the Apes, Jaws -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:04
- Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz -- nm - LMS Apr 25, 08:04 2
  - Except I have only seen them once. -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 25, 08:05 1
    - "I'm not asking you which one you want to watch. I'm asking you which one you want to watch FIRST." -- nm - Beryllium Apr 25, 08:06
- Star Wars/Empire, Raider of the Lost Ark. Would planes trains and automobiles work? -- nm - zork Apr 25, 08:02
- Singles. -- nm - Andie Apr 25, 08:00
- Goonies -- nm - Minion #2 Apr 25, 07:58 1
  - sfan -- nm - sycor Apr 25, 07:58
- Heathers. -- nm - loosilu Apr 25, 07:57
- Pulp Fiction -- nm - flavorize Apr 25, 07:56 2
  - this -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 25, 08:02 1
    - Though FDTD has the best line from any of Tarantino's stuff. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Apr 25, 08:15
- Casablanca -- nm - volnelk Apr 25, 07:56
- Zoolander. Dodgeball. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 25, 07:56
- Ferris Bueller -- nm - flavorize Apr 25, 07:55 2
  - This. I could do a one man show and just recite the whole film. -- nm - volnelk Apr 25, 07:56 1
    - That would be hilarious -- nm - flavorize Apr 25, 08:23
- Lebowski -- nm - con_carne Apr 25, 07:55 1
  - You're in luck. -- (link) - LMS Apr 25, 07:56
- Waiting for Guffman -- nm - znufrii Apr 25, 07:52
- LA Confidential, Shawshank Redemption -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 07:51 1
  - I am dumb -- nm - Beaker Apr 25, 08:04
- Anchorman. Glengarry Glen Ross. -- nm - TFox Apr 25, 07:50 2
  - Plus the bar can serve scotch. -- nm - LMS Apr 25, 07:55 1
    - For both! -- nm - TFox Apr 25, 08:02
- Airplane -- nm - Bacon Apr 25, 07:49

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