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Are we remembering that Obama kicked Clinton's ass in 2008? I remember that it took him a boatload of primaries to get the nomination. - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 14:50 9
- The Clintons had every advantage in the world. It's like when Appalachian State beat Michigan. It shouldn't have happened. - David Sep 4, 14:58
- He clinched the nomination in early June (Romney clinched in late May). -- nm - mara Sep 4, 14:57
- Obama won a number of caucuses which Clinton supports argued wasn't as valid as Clinton's primary wins. - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 14:56
- Why is 2008 relevent given the reality that has occurred in between? - Will Hunting Sep 4, 14:53 4
  - No, I agree. It was just David's phrasing that I wasn't squaring. - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 14:55 3
    - We'll let the election results determine the relative strength of the president. -- nm - David Sep 4, 14:59 1
      - Dubya won twice and he couldn't come within the same zip code as his daddy. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 4, 15:41
    - He did a masterful job at campaigning in 2008 vs the Clintons. - Will Hunting Sep 4, 14:57
- agreed, I remember being in Tennessee in April of that year and people were discussing whether she might get the nom. -- nm - loosilu Sep 4, 14:51
They just shut off the pumps outside...suddenly it's vewwy vewwy quiet. - MojaveMeg Sep 4, 14:48 1
- The shutting off of the pumps can only mean one thing....Revolution!! -- nm - Mop si Sep 4, 14:49
Couple of spots open in the Cantina -- nm - amoxy Sep 4, 14:44
widespread use of sophisticated, off-the-shelf computer espionage software by governments with questionable records on human rights -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 4, 14:41
Frank Conniff is the new George Takei on FB -- nm - amoxy Sep 4, 14:41 1
- Minus the great photos and funny posts? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 4, 14:46
I've decided that the day Arrested Development premieres on Netflix, Netflix will crash... if not the entire Internet. -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 14:38 18
- The average season three episode of Arrested Development garnered a whopping 3.9 million viewers. - David Sep 4, 14:43 16
  - It still amazes me that you don't like the show. No Arrested Development --> no Archer, no Better Off Ted, etc. -- nm - Roger More Sep 4, 14:51 7
    - I know that people here love it but the writing is unbearably incompetent for me. - David Sep 4, 14:56 4
      - You'd never see Archer repeat jokes. -- nm - Roger More Sep 4, 15:00 1
        
        I don't know if you ever picked up on it but Tobias acted kinda gay. -- nm - David Sep 4, 15:01
      - "We're not breaking into a Jamba Juice here, Michael" - Beryllium Sep 4, 15:00 1
        
        Some would be wrong to argue that telling the same joke 17 times makes it funnier. -- nm - David Sep 4, 15:00
    - Oddly, all 3 shows you mention wouldn't find enough audience to stay viable on NBC. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 4, 14:54 1
      - Oh yeah, I don't see any as a viable network show - which is a shame. -- nm - Roger More Sep 4, 15:01
  - I think our sample size needs to be "all subscribers of Netflix Watch Instantly". -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 14:47 3
    - It really doesn't. Like most of America, I have no interest in watching the new episodes. - David Sep 4, 14:50 2
      - We have netflix streaming and won't watch it. Never seen a single episode -- nm - Bacon Sep 4, 14:51 1
        
        Crap, I'm going to have to watch it just so I don't agree with you two jokers. - spamlet Sep 4, 14:52
  - So...4.1mil. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 4, 14:44 1
    - err, put this under Bery's. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 4, 14:54
  - and add the DVD sales and streaming newcomers ... -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 14:44 1
    - And allow for the fact that the show lost 33% of its viewers from season 2... -- nm - David Sep 4, 14:49
- If it was THAT popular it would not have been cancelled. -- nm - Bacon Sep 4, 14:41
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The next recipe I see that calls for a dutch oven is going to make me cranky. -- nm - ty97 Sep 4, 14:35 1
- *toots* nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 14:35
Full pilot to NBC's Revolution available on Hulu. Didn't we already know this? -- (link) - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 14:31 4
- Is that the stupid looking show where the power goes out, or the stupid looking show with the submarine? -- nm - Bacon Sep 4, 14:32 3
  - Power goes out. I've been raging against the premise for days now. -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 14:33 2
    - Really, it's just Robinson Crusoe with a bigger cast - Beryllium Sep 4, 14:36 1
      - Bigger than The Wilderness Family?? -- nm - Bacon Sep 4, 14:47
that trailer for hansel and gretel, witch hunters is something. - tRuMaN Sep 4, 14:30
Amanda, I'm in the bookstore but don't see any Encyclopedia Brown or similar :( - MojaveMeg Sep 4, 14:28
hmm, there is a rumor about iron man 3 (maybe spoils?) - tRuMaN Sep 4, 14:26
so the Wii-U will be out in november for $250, with the ps4 and xbox720 expected next fall. - tRuMaN Sep 4, 14:20 4
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  - I'll take $250. -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 14:38
  - Those could just be placeholders for different prices of the same bundle. They'll release details Sept. 13th. -- nm - Inigo Sep 4, 14:26
  - yeah, i should have supposedly for the Wii-U. gamestop thinks we will get one console in 2012, 2013, and 2014. - tRuMaN Sep 4, 14:24
I'm on the bus. This driver's choice of music is *not* family friendly. -- nm - Amanda Sep 4, 14:16 3
- Does he like big butts? -- nm - Roger More Sep 4, 14:33 1
  - *stands and salutes* -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 14:40
- The fancy veggie mart I go to, usually older middle class shoppers, at night the clerks are playing hip hop, I wonder if sales are down -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 4, 14:29
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if you decided to not pre-order borderlands 2, then you should know that the - tRuMaN Sep 4, 14:07 1
- that sounds like particularly bad nerd porn. -- nm - Reagen Sep 4, 14:14
Yeah, I'm gonna say I like Star Wars Detours. Maybe some of the jokes are old and rote, but so what? -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 14:04 2
- i wonder if i can watch that online (hulu?) -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 4, 14:05 1
  - WIkipedia says no details on network or date yet. -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 14:09
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- Deshields was my favorite player in the Expos when I was a kid - Guigue Sep 4, 14:52
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- yeah, not hearing about it has nothing to do with the fact that he's in the *minors*... -- nm - znufrii Sep 4, 14:03 2
  - where do you think the other guy was? -- nm - Reagen Sep 4, 14:05 1
    - if not for ML, I wouldn't have heard about him either. -- nm - znufrii Sep 4, 14:07
- He will be the cornerstone of my new Montreal Expos franchise. And as many Alou's as I can get my hands on. -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 13:58
Speaking of taxes: my brother may be doing some contract work so they may not withhold any taxes from his pay. How does that work? - ty97 Sep 4, 13:56 13
- he's considred self-employed, and will have to cover both sides of the payroll taxes, iirc. - znufrii Sep 4, 13:59
- Yes, he will have to pay the self-employment taxes with his return. - spamlet Sep 4, 13:58 2
  - Thanks. He got a sizable refund last year (lots of mortgage interest and taxes) so he has decent buffer before he goes into estimated taxes I think. - ty97 Sep 4, 14:25 1
    - Probably to your IM. - spamlet Sep 4, 14:41
- yes, he would get a 1099, not a w-2 - tRuMaN Sep 4, 13:58
- of course. he's a contractor. I don't have taxes withheld from one of my jobs. -- nm - amanda Sep 4, 13:56 7
  - How does one go about paying payroll taxes (not income taxes) if it's not withheld? - ty97 Sep 4, 13:57 6
    - http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesse s-&-Self-Employed/Self-Employed-Individuals-T ax-Center -- (link) - mara Sep 4, 14:06
    - i did this for 15 years. just keep copies of all your invoices. also, you can write more stuff off as deductibles. -- nm - Andie Sep 4, 14:01 2
      - yeah, you want to keep receipts for *everything* - znufrii Sep 4, 14:02 1
        
        yep - *Everything* -- nm - Andie Sep 4, 14:05
    - you report the income. the fed tells you how much to pay. -- nm - amanda Sep 4, 13:59
    - on your 1040, self employment income attachments. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 4, 13:59
Sammy Hagar with Chickenfoot do "Rock 'n' Roll" w/ guest vocals from David Coverdale... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 4, 13:53 3
- there's no way he's that old. that's crazy. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 14:53
- banana bookmark -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 13:59
- Oh... my. -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 13:54
I nearly typed the name Brandi as... - Mel Profit Sep 4, 13:51 1
- Oh Be-have -- nm - Austin Sep 4, 13:52
WTF Illinois? How is already time for another estimated tax payment? - ty97 Sep 4, 13:48 10
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- I imagine the last one was 5 or 6 months ago? -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 13:50 8
  - Three months. Estimate income tax payments. - ty97 Sep 4, 13:51 7
    - how do I know when to do this? -- nm - Epiphany Sep 4, 13:55 1
      - Mine is for state income tax (which wouldn't apply to you) because I'll owe too much at end of year otherwise. - ty97 Sep 4, 13:56
    - cause its due quarterly. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 4, 13:51 4
      - no, we pay real estate tax twice a year. - groiny Sep 4, 13:53 3
        
        aww. that. boring. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 4, 13:59 2
        
        well, they are often late in assessing them, so sometimes it is June and August. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 14:03 1
        
        And of course we're paying for like 2010 now -- nm - ty97 Sep 4, 14:04
Since I commited genocide on poor fake electronic people, I have a Breaking Bad question (spoils from last night) - Jovian the Genocide Sep 4, 13:40 2
- spoils - amoxy Sep 4, 13:42 1
  - ahhh (spoils) - Jovian the Genocide Sep 4, 13:44
Berry, did you see the Amazon announcement of Glacier? -- (link) - oblique Sep 4, 13:39 6
- *scrolls up to check that the date of the article isn't April 1* -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 14:00
- Yes. It's interesting, although I don't have a need for it at the moment. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 13:44 4
  - The photo backup possibilities are intriguing -- nm - oblique Sep 4, 13:47 3
    - I'm backing mine up to S3, because I am planning to create an interface to them ... - Beryllium Sep 4, 13:48 2
      - I'd say the majority of my "backups" are catastrophic storage in that I would never really need access to it except in a total disaster - oblique Sep 4, 13:50 1
        
        Yep. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 13:51
Huh, Ikariam finally got around to permitting other browsers? - Will Hunting Sep 4, 13:34
Inigo post about the Hobbit to Mel and Kim prompted me to look up the girl duo from the 80s. Sad: Mel died of cancer in 1990. -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 13:33 16
- Also, none of Jackson's Hobbit material is original to Jackson. It's all based on Tolkien. If you've read the Hobbit recently... - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 13:34 13
  - Is Beorn going to feature in the movies? -- nm - landbeck Sep 4, 13:51
  - Oh, and one last thing (with big story spoilers) - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 13:40 2
    - Five armies. That fight could last for an hour. -- nm - landbeck Sep 4, 13:52 1
      - Yep. I expect it to rival the battle in Return of the King (more spoilers) - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 13:56
  - the sum total of what I remember about The Hobbit is as follows: - Reagen Sep 4, 13:36 8
    - I was very surprised at how much I remembered everything that was about to happen. - Kim Pine Sep 4, 13:48 3
      - I think I remember it rather clearly. 25 years ago, for me. -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 13:51
      - never read it, but I vaguely remember an animated cartoon when I was young. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 13:49 1
        
        yeah, there was an animated movie with singing -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 4, 14:23
    - I remember spiders and kegs -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 13:38 3
      - And Dwarfs...lots of Dwarfs -- nm - amoxy Sep 4, 13:43 1
        
        and trolls -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 13:49
      - (And if they do a portion of that sequence in the Limbo style, it will be seriously disconcerting) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 13:38
- I don't feel dead. Ithink I'll go for a walk... -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 13:34 1
  - send......more......paramedics! nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 13:36
Phew...they're draining/cleaning the pond outside the library... - MojaveMeg Sep 4, 13:31 2
- Amelia Pond? -- nm - peglegpete Sep 4, 13:48
- we told ya not to stash the bodies so close to home -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 4, 13:37
I am so sad that I let my little Ikariums down and left them to go poof. Like a fart in the wind. - Jovian Sep 4, 13:29 21
- i'm surprised they deleted an acct on vacation. -- nm - Diva Sep 4, 13:32 5
  - It was a bloodbath on Ika this weekend. Tons of accounts purged. -- nm - Mop on Mac Pro Sep 4, 13:34 1
    - i saw that. need about 5 extra CTs now. - Diva Sep 4, 13:36
  - Vacation only lasts a few weeks at most. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 4, 13:32 2
    - hm. -- nm - Diva Sep 4, 13:34
    - yeah, I've had that problem on .org and another .com server. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 13:33
- .com or .org? -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 13:32 14
  - And Mel sorry that I let it go poof. I thought you had a couple months at least in Vac mode. -- nm - Jovian the Genocide Sep 4, 13:47 8
    - Oh, no. It is quite short, then you go inactive. From what WIll said, it sounds like ika went a little nuts. Even now, it won't let me accept new - Spawn Sep 4, 13:49 4
      - Does it stll show me as VAC or IA on both servers? -- nm - eag Sep 4, 13:52 3
        
        vay-cay on org... -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 13:53 2
        
        and com, too. -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 13:54 1
        
        thanks. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 14:02
    - absolutely no worries. I stupid little game. - Mel Profit Sep 4, 13:48 2
      - nah. not now anyway. I literally am upset that it is gone. Couldnt start over or even take over an account. - Jovian the Genocide Sep 4, 13:54 1
        
        I know the feeling. - Mel Profit Sep 4, 14:02
  - Must be .com -- nm - spamlet Sep 4, 13:34 4
    - *marge noises* -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 13:35 3
      - do we have any accounts there availabkle? I'm back as of now -- nm - Beaker Sep 4, 13:39 1
        
        let me talk to Rince. - Mel Profit Sep 4, 13:41
      - I say that because I'm only on org and I didn't get any messages. -- nm - spamlet Sep 4, 13:35
summer timeeeee, and the living's easy, the fish are jumping, and the cotton is highhhhhhhh -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 4, 13:28

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