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Need to vent -- we have a corporate software team of 6 people. They had a 40hr upgrade this weekend - Will Hunting Jan 28, 07:30 4
- Dude. They worked on the weekend. Of *course* they are taking Monday off. -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 07:34 1
  - "I'm drunk right now" -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 07:34
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  - word -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 07:34
LYC: so my wife's parents just bailed out her sister and her husband from their debt problems, now it looks like we will be doing the same for her bro -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 07:26
Adam Schefter: Dallas Cowboys hiring Derek Dooley as WR Coach -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 07:23
How temp jobs took over the economy -- (link) - znufrii Jan 28, 07:10 9
- The world needs ditchdiggers too. -- nm - Judge Smails Jan 28, 07:29 2
  - What are you looking at? You're a laborer, you should be laboring! -- nm - TWuG Jan 28, 07:30 1
    - dig up stupid! -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 07:34
- Relatedly, it's important to remember that employers were going the temp/part-time route to avoid providing health insurance long before Obamacare. -- nm - mara Jan 28, 07:15 5
  - This is actually a huge point that is consistently left out of any discussion on this topic. -- nm - Jim Jan 28, 07:22
  - Which is the real reason we need a national health insurance system. Tying insurance to work leaves too many out of the pool and ties people to jobs - TWuG Jan 28, 07:19 3
    - So true. It was my one reason for trying to hang on to my job as long as I could until my Medicare kicked in. -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 07:33
    - yup. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 07:23 1
      - and it would certainly make certain decisions I am contemplating a lot easier if I didn't have to worry about health insurance. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 07:34
Dear Greenpeace spam: I'm not that kind of liberal. -- nm - David Jan 28, 07:09 1
- Dear MoveOn.org... ditto. -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 Jan 28, 07:13
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AMR, US Air deal to come in next two weeks? -- (link) - spamlet Jan 28, 06:54 8
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  - I know, right? -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 07:17
  - Oh, and off topic, I'm waiting on a webcast dealing with the final FATCA regulations. I know you miss this. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 06:58 4
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      - Final regs were released a couple of weeks ago. I don't think any major changes but some liberalization of the account identification requirements. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 07:01 2
        
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        I'm not exactly sure on the FFI side. I think they may have bumped some deadlines but most of the analysis so far has been account analysis - spamlet Jan 28, 07:08
  - Word. We fly American and have heard bad things about US Air. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 06:56
Gun-Control Debate Hits $16 Billion Toy Industry.....notably Hasbro which makes Nerf products such as guns....(link) - Walt_Disney Jan 28, 06:40 5
- meh. the toys are not the problem here. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 06:46 3
  - Nope. It's the video games. nm - Jim Jan 28, 06:54 2
    - Whew, we skate through this time. -- nm - Angry Music Lyrics Jan 28, 06:55 1
      - word -- nm - Violent movies Jan 28, 07:23
- In other gun control/Nerf news -- (link) - Strongbad Jan 28, 06:42
I know where I'm going on Wednesday after work -- (link) - znufrii Jan 28, 06:32
obviously I want this -- (link) - amanda Jan 28, 06:31
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So then...i could use alpha on my pc...and beta on my phone. I likey. -- nm - Jim Jan 28, 06:06 4
- Except on my phone, I can't see a post count...how in the hell will I know when to say "Word"? -- nm - Jim Jan 28, 06:07 3
  - Use the force. -- nm - Was Bar Was Jan 28, 06:15
  - its not in the top right of the top of the page -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 28, 06:12 1
    - I've gotta figure out how to make it collapse to a button bar -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 06:20
I think �How do we make life work better?� will be much more productive for the GOP than "How do we defeat Obama?" -- (link) - znufrii Jan 28, 06:04 4
- I'll believe the GOP is serious about that when they drop their blind allegiance to supply-side economics. - TWuG Jan 28, 06:15 3
  - I'm not saying they'll let themselves come up with any better answers, but at least they're asking themselves better questions... -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 06:29
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    - This. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 06:26
The shape of a compromise on immigration reform is coming together -- (link) - znufrii Jan 28, 05:56 3
- @SeanTrende: Gonna be great chuckles when GOP passes imm reform, nominates Rubio, still gets 30% of Latino vote. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Jan 28, 07:27
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- 4 D's and 4 R's (including McCain and Rubio) have developed it. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 05:58
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X Games is crazy -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 28, 05:48 1
- That journalist's English spelling is horrendous. -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 Jan 28, 07:17
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the Weather Network has for our current weather, "Messy Winter Storm". Accurate, but, not verbiage I've heard before. - Andie Jan 28, 05:34 1
- get yo shit tight, storm. -- nm - TFox Jan 28, 05:41
The most stressful part of my day is between 8:14 and 8:17. Will I make my bus connection or no? My life is almost too easy. -- nm - Amanda Jan 28, 05:19 1
- total tangent - co-worker, not in today. - Andie Jan 28, 05:20
Financial regulators don't have to consider cost-benefit of their regulations even though other Federal agencies do. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 28, 05:18 11
- "Benefits: less risk of gigantic economic collapse. Done" -- nm - Regulators si Jan 28, 06:41
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- Not in my opinion. Measuring benefit against cost is useless if it only addresses monetary costs and monetary benefits. - TWuG Jan 28, 05:25 8
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    - This. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 06:40
  - Useless? It may not tell the whole story, but in finance, the financial and economic impacts would be the primary concern, not a useless one. -- nm - TFox Jan 28, 05:28 5
    - The things I would find positive in government regulation generally wouldn't be whether the direct monetary cost of a policy resulted in equal or - TWuG Jan 28, 05:34 4
      - Well, as the link states, that's precisely the kind of stuff that other agencies do attach dollar values to. - TFox Jan 28, 05:38 3
        
        My complaint is that a dollar value has to be put on that stuff to make it "valid" as a reason to regulate. I think it is a flawed way of doing things - TWuG Jan 28, 05:45 2
        
        The converse argument is if a piece of regulation would keep 100 people in their homes, but cost $50M to implement, it's stupid. - TFox Jan 28, 05:51
        
        Everything can have a dollar value. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 05:48
One thing I've learned from the Mali conflict: The real-world location of Timbuktu - TWuG Jan 28, 04:56 3
- I always thought it was somewhere near Kalamazoo -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 06:05
- I often confuse it with Kathmandu. -- nm - Was Bar Was Jan 28, 06:04 1
  - I think that's *really* where you're going to. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 07:23
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Jan 28, 1958 � The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today. -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 03:46 2
- 1965 � The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament. -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 03:46 1
  - 1986 � Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission � Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board. -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 03:47
I added underlines & changed the link/visited link colours on the beta version ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 00:13 3
- no underlines in my browsers right now. -- nm - Max Jan 28, 01:39 1
  - I think the CSS might be caching - same thing on my phone :/ -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 07:29
- It doesn't have tiny text yet, but I just did a quick test and I found a way to make the tinytext get progressively more miniscule. It's funny :) - Beryllium Jan 28, 00:19
After talking about the duck pond earlier I walked by there and took some photos..... -- (link) - Meg Jan 27, 23:23 [flickr] 2
- The roosters steal the show -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 00:20
- very nice :) Quite a selection -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 23:44
Ah Hah....no computer shall outwit me...PC won't read the card from my old camera. Switched card to the new camera and uploaded with the USB cable... - Meg Jan 27, 23:16 1
- *seals you out of your house* -- nm - HAL 9000 Jan 27, 23:17
I've only seen Casino Royale (craig) on FX....now seeing it on BBC, fx cut out the whole defib scene? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 27, 23:10 1
- BBC trimmed the ball smashing scene by multiple lines. -- nm - Max Jan 27, 23:33
Hmm, I heard that the Glee people responded to JoCo. "They told him he has no rights and he should be 'happy for the exposure'" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:48 2
- Fuck them. What exposure? They gave him no credit or mentioned that he arranged the song. - Krusty Jan 27, 23:06 1
  - This is almost exactly what he said about the situation. In order to get exposure, someone has to be...exposed. -- nm - David Jan 28, 07:01
I must be out of touch with "celebrity" culture; I have virtually no idea who Dean McDermott and Johnny Weir are ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:25 3
- Weir is a figure skater, Dean left his pregnant wife for Tori Spelling IIRC -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 04:37
- I saw bethenny and jason all over the people/us magazines when I was back. I'd never heard of them before. - mafic Jan 27, 22:54 1
  - Bethenny is a former Real Housewife of NYC and developer of Skinny Girl franchise - Strongbad Jan 28, 06:20
Chris Brown & Frank Ocean fighting at a recording studio per TMZ. Cops called - ST. Epiphany Jan 27, 22:24 5
- Chris still upset that Frank owned him on Twitter. - TFox Jan 28, 05:39
- Chris better hope Frank don't whup his ayass -- nm - charlie Jan 27, 22:34
- which one is the woman? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 27, 22:30 2
  - "@Rayke: Two years from now Frank Ocean will be taking Instagram selfies sitting on Chris Browns lap." - @Rayke on twitter -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:38 1
    - (I keep forgetting that twitter does that part for me) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:38
Jericho has signed a new deal and now Brock Lesnar has signed a two year deal -- nm - Remlik Jan 27, 22:08
Whoa. Just backboarded and found ST Beta. It take some getting used to, but if it's better on the phone... nice. -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 21:57 1
- Watch me sell 10 copies of the ST Beta Band -- nm - Rob Gordon Jan 27, 22:01
Saw a Maserati in town yesterday. It's a small town. 50k people. No way that's local. -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 21:48 4
- 50k town? so small. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jan 27, 22:42
- Beautiful, right? Someone that lives near me has the 2011 Quattroporte. Love them! -- nm - Krusty Jan 27, 22:09 2
  - Certainly made me do a double-take. It must have been a Quattroporte. It was a black sedan. -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 22:32 1
    - Yeah, if it is a 4 door then it is the Quattroporte. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jan 27, 22:41
Israel admits to giving long term birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consent -- (link) - amoxy Jan 27, 21:47
Man, that was a crazy game tonight. nm - Dignan Jan 27, 21:37 5
- Pro Bowl? i know -- nm - charlie Jan 27, 21:40 4
  - PIXIE YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT LOL nm - Dignan Jan 27, 21:42 3
    - (Read that in Warren's voice from Something About Mary.) nm - Dignan Jan 27, 21:43 2
      - like i ever haven't been? -- nm - charlie Jan 27, 21:44
      - (And then die in an electrical fire.) nm - Dignan Jan 27, 21:44
"Better a silly girl with a flower, than a boy with a horse and a stick." ... "It's called a _lance_, hellooo." -- nm - Max Jan 27, 21:28
*Sarah Palin/Fox News parody of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together* -- nm - Idea File Jan 27, 21:24
LIR Dano please don't miss this week's Neighbors. Heelarious -- nm - ST. Epiphany Jan 27, 21:20 2
- I was actually trying to watch it *again* -- nm - Dano Jan 27, 21:48 1
  - " she's pretty fast & loose with the excuses to make mimosas" -- nm - ST. Epiphany Jan 27, 22:12
Maggie Smith, you are amazing. -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 21:12 2
- I believe her full legal name is now The Amazing Maggie Smith. -- nm - Reagen Jan 27, 21:20 1
  - should actually be The Amazing, Dame Maggie Smith -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 21:23
"...then the Swiss, the Italians, the Brazillians, the Turks, the Japanese, the Fijians and the Somalians. Surprise me on the order." -- nm - Reagen Jan 27, 21:08 1
- "Wait, wait, wait; in what world do we not elect Morgan Freeman as POTUS?" -- nm - charlie Jan 27, 22:03
I got a lot of people here who look depressed cause their war just ended, so write me a god damned song already -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 27, 20:57 1
- Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming.... -- nm - peglegpete Jan 27, 21:06
If I know one thing about computers, it�s that you probably shouldn�t bounce balls off of them. -- nm - Spawn Jan 27, 20:55 4
- You know you�re not an important character when you die in the trailer. -- nm - charlie Jan 27, 20:57 3
  - what's the trailer for ST look like? -- nm - Max Jan 27, 21:55 2
    - Chris ventures out on his own, and returns as the prodigal zombie -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:08 1
      - (how did I get Chris from Charlie? Went by username, I guess :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:09
I just got home after missing the SAG awards. Is there a speech or moment worth checking out on the dvr? -- nm - Max Jan 27, 20:35 6
- The Pro Bowl was moderately entertaining. -- nm - Spawn Jan 27, 20:38 2
  - I can't believe Argo won the Pro Bowl -- nm - Dano Jan 27, 20:52 1
    - And 4 out of the last 5 Pro Bowl winners have gone on to win the Oscar. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 27, 21:02
- No. It was pretty dull. No memorable speeches. -- nm - Dano Jan 27, 20:37
- not that i saw -- nm - charlie Jan 27, 20:36 1
  - I do like the opening "and I am an actor" vignettes. -- nm - Max Jan 27, 20:41
I see this was already posted but Inside Llewyn Davis trailer. (new Coen Brothers and starring Oscar Isaac!) -- (link) - Dano Jan 27, 20:22 [youtube] 2
- He looks absurdly like Jake Johnson (Nick on New Girl), but I thought it was David Krumholtz in the trailer. -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 20:40
- "You have not heard one good thing about me" -- nm - charlie Jan 27, 20:23
Two men arrested for chicken wing heist, week prior to Super Bowl Sunday -- (link) - Qale Jan 27, 20:11 2
- well, there is a shortage of them :) -- (link) - peglegpete Jan 27, 20:40 1
  - Yeah, we usually run way low for several weeks past the Bowl. -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 20:41

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