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- This has been in the works for a while and is why they didn't really care about all the contracts they took in. - pmb Jan 28, 08:23
- Over how many years? -- nm - amoxy Jan 28, 08:21 1
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- How in the world is that even possible? -- nm - MDH Jan 28, 08:19 6
  - Seriously. Red Sox have 80% ownership of NESN, and I think the franchise is valued at $1B. - TFox Jan 28, 08:21 5
    - I don't see NESN in their team valuation - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:25 4
      - Read "The Skinny" section. -- nm - TFox Jan 28, 08:30 3
        
        Right, that seems to indicate that NESV owns both NESN & the Sox; and the 900mil valuation is only for the Sox themselves. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:32 2
        
        Sure, but even then, NESV valued at $1.2B, and that definitely includes NESN. -- nm - TFox Jan 28, 08:33 1
        
        So, NESN itself is only worth about 300mil at most? - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:34
in 2010 in Canada, to be considered as in the top 1% of income earners, you had to earn $201,400..... - Walt_Disney Jan 28, 08:07 31
- that really isn't that high *at all*. and how do people live on $28,000? -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:08 30
  - The WSJ has an infographic for that. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Jan 28, 08:52
  - My dude says he could live on $700 a month (but he owns his home outright, no mortgage). That might be a bit low, but $1000 for sure. -- nm - mara Jan 28, 08:28 2
    - Wont property taxes and maintenance take up a few hundred a month though? Thats why a lot of seniors struggle..own the house but upkeep can hurt. -- nm - Walt_Disney Jan 28, 08:34
    - sure, if you own your own home. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:29
  - I am not making much more -- nm - amoxy Jan 28, 08:25 3
    - it also depends on your cost of living where you live. when i had my first real job i made $22,000 - Andie Jan 28, 08:27 2
      - Yeah, when I see that number I think about places like Rankin Inlet and Atiwapiskat - Reagen Jan 28, 08:28 1
        
        (or retired people. I'm not sure, but my parents technically might not have that much in income) - Reagen Jan 28, 08:31
  - when I was in grad school I lived on $12k and didn't get loans or help from my folks. - loosilu Jan 28, 08:22 3
    - sure, that wasn't in 2010. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:23 2
      - probably wouldn't be more than $16K in 2010. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 08:24 1
        
        Yep, according to this inflation calculator, it's $16,677.32 in 2010 money. -- (link) - loosilu Jan 28, 08:26
  - I live on that. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 08:15 8
    - Thinking about it more, we live on a bit more than that but not a whole lot. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 08:16
    - i assume that's just you, and your girlfriend's salary is in addition to yours? -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:15 6
      - She only works part time right now and I work two part time jobs. We barely get by. - Krusty Jan 28, 08:19 5
        
        I applied for a third part time job on Friday. Gots to make more loot! - Krusty Jan 28, 08:20 2
        
        good on you for the school thing! - znufrii Jan 28, 08:24 1
        
        Thanks. I'm thinking CT tech. X-rays for everyone! - Krusty Jan 28, 08:28
        
        ah, yeah, if it's part time jobs, that can be tough. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:19 1
        
        I've never made good money on my own. My gf used to have a very well paying job at white shoe law firm. - Krusty Jan 28, 08:23
  - If I absolutely had to, I could probably get by on about 25k, but there would *nothing* beyond just surviving. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:12 4
    - what would that even be after taxes? -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:14 3
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        i think it would be after a refund, but they would still take deductions at source. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:16
      - ..fairly close to 25k, actually. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:15
  - they live in igloos -- nm - CQ Jan 28, 08:09 3
    - difficult to do in summer. :) -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:12 2
      - It's Canada, silly. They've got snow up there year round. -- nm - decline Jan 28, 08:14 1
        
        silly Andie -- nm - CQ Jan 28, 08:25
nobody cares, but the house across the street from me is for sale. -- (link) - amanda Jan 28, 08:04 6
- kitchen looks too small, but otherwise, cute! -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 08:16
- Am I correct that the front door opens directly into the living room? That would be a deal-breaker for me. -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 08:15
- the kitchen needs some work, but I like it. Lots of charm, yes? -- nm - CQ Jan 28, 08:08
- omg, that house is adorable, and what a deal. you should buy it. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:07 1
  - the layout is kind of wrong for me. I'll go look at it, maybe. -- nm - amanda Jan 28, 08:08
- *makes an offer* nm -- nm - groiny Jan 28, 08:05
A friend of a distant cousin is working on getting me Centre Court tickets to the first week of Wimbledon. - nubby, Astro-lord Jan 28, 07:57 4
- nice! -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 08:40
- That would be awesome! -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 08:25
- that would rock. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 08:00
- *Likes* -- nm - MDH Jan 28, 07:58
YDC but I went to an invite-only Dem/Farewell to Clinton Event this weekend, where they discussed the 2012 elections and onward. Some summary inside. - MDH Jan 28, 07:55 5
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  - B please, I know you didn't read that in less than a minute :-p -- nm - MDH Jan 28, 07:56 3
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      - Hahaha *smacks you* - MDH Jan 28, 07:58 1
        
        Cat fight! -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 08:15
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- I'd say a combo of C&D. - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:01
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  - Is there a chance of that getting kicked up higher? "extraodinary circumstances" seems like a thing you'd like to have nailed down. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:26 1
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  - Good news for those STers with basement captives. -- nm - Roger More Jan 28, 08:16 1
    - right. Invest that money you were saving for civil lawyers into thicker chians. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:17
  - I tried reading that. They need a version for the layman. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 08:14
  - That....wow. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:04 5
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      - Yeah, but that's amazing to me that liability in that regard could be so callously disregarded. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:07 2
        
        This -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 08:08
        
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  - Justice! The system works. Oh...wait... unbelievable. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 08:02
  - huh. and here is her story. -- (link) - decline Jan 28, 08:00 1
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- D -- nm - CQ Jan 28, 07:54
- I want it to be D but I'll guess C. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 07:54 1
  - Ditto. -- nm - MDH Jan 28, 07:55
- D. She was held in captivity, so was unable to bring any legal action. These are extraordinary circumstances. -- nm - Roger More Jan 28, 07:54
- C -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 07:52
i wonder if we could gather up some funds and buy krusty that clarkson "car" from top gear. - tRuMaN Jan 28, 07:51 4
- I really would. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 07:52 3
  - the benefit of its design is that you arms can easily be used to flick off all the cabbies -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 28, 07:57 2
    - And throw things at people that get in my way. I could get it on a train or a bus, probably. - Krusty Jan 28, 08:00 1
      - cant.stop.laughing at that image. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 28, 08:01
it goes without saying, if you knuckleheads in ika need something ping me here. - Mel Profit Jan 28, 07:48 7
- Not a huge deal but we have over 500 mortars at Legio. All spent. We are using rams. - WarMachine Jan 28, 07:56 4
  - Thanks. - Mel Profit Jan 28, 08:06 3
    - Yeah. Ika really needs to let you hover over active units and see the name of whose troops they are. - WarMachine Jan 28, 08:17 2
      - Interestingly, I got an email from Zic of Lux over the weekend... - Mel Profit Jan 28, 08:26 1
        
        Minor, but If they are keeping pirates, there needs to be a pirate advisor along with the other four. - WarMachine Jan 28, 08:35
- I wonder how many millions of resources have vanished now for no particular reason. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 07:51 1
  - If this goes on for awhile it will get noticed. Not to mention the spike in ambrosia purchases. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 28, 07:54
some times you do really silly things when you're drunk - znufrii Jan 28, 07:47 2
- Trust it was a Big Number . . . - OAE -- aka OAE Jan 28, 07:56 1
  - It was with the caveat that I'd question the sanity of anyone running a theater company who actually offered me that much. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 07:59
LYC: this is nothing but a white. Hurt my foot running last night. Based on internet self diagnosis, I believe it's a plantar fascia tear. - loosilu Jan 28, 07:40 4
- you should see a physician before you "don't run for six weeks." -- nm - amanda Jan 28, 07:50 2
  - it is far more likely that I will run before six weeks is over. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 08:06 1
    - (I'll be lucky if I make it a week) -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 08:07
- a white? a WHINE. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 07:41
i was in school. they called us to the gym to let all the children know, we saw some news footage, then we prayed for them and their families - tRuMaN Jan 28, 07:39 1
- this was supposed to be in reply to the challenger question below -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 28, 07:39
nmb ML... - Krusty Jan 28, 07:39 5
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  - You got it. Slow and steady is the only way to get it to spread everywhere. - Krusty Jan 28, 07:45 3
    - What game is this? -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 07:53 2
      - Plague Inc. for the phone. Just like Pandemic if you've played that. -- (link) - Krusty Jan 28, 07:58 1
        
        Thanks. There's an iOS version as well. Will check it out. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 08:06
LYCFML: I love the weather. As I (think I) have mentioned here, for our newest client, I do exterior meter reads the first of each month. - Spawn Jan 28, 07:37 2
- Today's high: 1. Tomorrow's: -19. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 07:39 1
  - we are at about freezing right now. tomorrow high of 9*C! -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 07:43
ST Poll: do you remember the Challenger blowing up? Were you watching in school perhaps? -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 07:35 41
- was at a wall portrait conference in santa cruz, went into the bar durning a break for a cup of coffee and it was on the tube -- nm - breaking self impossed silence Jan 28, 13:26
- I don't know why I was between classes, but I left one class at the time it was launching, and by the time I reached the other class, we were seeing - Max Jan 28, 09:10
- Yes. French class, Freshman year of HS. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 28, 08:43
- I believe I was working at the flying school then. We had a TV in the pilots' lounge but I'm not sure we were watching. -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 08:06 3
  - Thread Jack: What was Meg's Call Sign? - Mel Profit Jan 28, 08:10 2
    - Meg. Just... Meg. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:16 1
      - *laughing* right. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 28, 08:30
- Remember this very well.....in high school....watched tv coverage in the AV room. -- nm - Walt_Disney Jan 28, 08:04
- We had a snow day and I was watching the takeoff live when the tragedy occurred. - David Jan 28, 07:50 1
  - (I guess I was Myth #1.) -- nm - David Jan 28, 07:52
- Yes and no, eating lunch in the cafeteria when it happened (nm) - Brian Jan 28, 07:48
- I think I was at home having lunch before afternoon kindergarten. -- nm - Ender Jan 28, 07:47
- Yes, I was home sick with the flu. -- nm - Kim Pine Jan 28, 07:47 1
  - (I was taking a bath and my mom knocked on the door and told me what had happened and I went and watched the news.) -- nm - Kim Pine Jan 28, 07:47
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- Yep, watched it at school. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Jan 28, 07:43
- Yup, we were watching it in our English class. -- nm - Stephen, on a Quest for Six! Jan 28, 07:40
- I remember vividly... - Mel Profit Jan 28, 07:40
- Didn't see it live; still remember the principal coming into our class to tell us of the accident. - Will Hunting Jan 28, 07:39
- Yes, yes -- nm - ceregon Jan 28, 07:38
- Yes, wasn't on in school. I only remember my parents watching the news footage... I would have been a almost 8 at the time. -- nm - J-Nexus Jan 28, 07:38
- Yes and yes. It caused me (at 6) to determine that I didn't want to be an astronaut anymore. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 07:38
- yes. wasn't watching it live. went to my friends with her for lunch and her dad was watching the news and told us. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 07:38
- I was born nine months and one day after. -- nm - MDH Jan 28, 07:38
- Not exactly. Maybe. - Beryllium Jan 28, 07:37
- I was in school. Coincidentally the classroom I was in happened to have a TV and we watched the footage -- nm - decline Jan 28, 07:37
- yes. yes. -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 07:37
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    - the part about the crew *not* dying instantly is horrible. - Andie Jan 28, 07:58 1
      - the only solace I took from that was that they may have been unconscious. - Mel Profit Jan 28, 08:15
    - I think the point of the article is that nobody at home was watching live, but a lot of school kids may have been. -- nm - mara Jan 28, 07:58
    - We watched something in school, I assumed it was live. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 07:47
- Yes and yes. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 07:37
- yes, don't recall. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 07:36 1
  - pretty sure I didn't hear about it until I got home and saw it on the news. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 07:45
- yes, pretty sure, but not 100% certain -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 07:36
- yes, yes. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 07:35 3
  - changing my second answer. we had a half day of school and I was watching at home. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 07:40 2
    - So, you changed your answer from "yes" to "yes"? -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 07:42 1
      - no, knucklehead. I changed the second to "no". -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 07:44

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