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are NY'rs less deserving of privacy than suburbanites? anyone shooting photos into people's homes around here would be arrested for peeping - zeitgeist May 28, 13:03 1
- It's part of the charm of living in NYC, I guess. (nm) - spamlet May 28, 13:08
Kelly Rowland's new single 'Dirty Laundry,' airs her thoughts on Queen Bey, and an ex-bf -- (link) - MDH May 28, 13:03 4
- Meanwhile, new Destiny's child single -- (link) - ty97 May 28, 13:05 3
  - Kelly had a local show the other night, when interviewed about it she went "It is NOT a DC single, it's ME featuring Beyonce and Michelle." -- nm - MDH May 28, 13:08 2
    - fwiw, I think good for her for "dirty laundry" and her honesty; and I read that quote, but it came across better with context. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 28, 13:14
    - Apparently being full of yourself is a prerequisite for being in Destiny's Child. -- nm - pmb May 28, 13:10
An old college friend is going to start writing for Raising Hope like, tomorrow. I guess I'll have to start watching it. - Diva May 28, 13:02 4
- tell him to push the Burt material. -- nm - Max May 28, 13:05
- That's pretty cool! -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado May 28, 13:04
- go back and watch it from the beginning. - tRuMaN May 28, 13:03 1
  - I wish I had the time. -- nm - Diva May 28, 13:04
Arrested Development spoilers - amoxy May 28, 13:00 1
- Syndication? Continuity? *shrug* -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado May 28, 13:01
arctic ice, who needs it? -- (link) - charlie May 28, 12:55 6
- Do you have an answer to your question? - Dr.Vermin May 28, 13:04 3
  - I thought not. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 28, 13:09
  - are you f*cking kidding? -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 13:08
  - hee, cause it's a big liberal hoax! -- nm - charlie May 28, 13:06
- nothing to see here, move along. -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 12:56 1
  - it's not like we can do anything about it anyway -- nm - mara May 28, 12:56
U.S. Disc Jockey General Urges Americans To Get The Led Out -- (link) - con_carne May 28, 12:50 2
- �And now here�s Pete with traffic and weather together,� that's our remlik! -- nm - charlie May 28, 12:52 1
  - Traffic and weather are now done out of the Chicago offices. But I still encourage people to get the Led Out on the weekends! -- nm - Remlik May 28, 12:57
Video of the explosion after the train derailment (around 1:04 mark)... -- (link) - Don Homer May 28, 12:45 [youtube] 7
- Wife left work early to try to avoid more traffic later. She said she could see the smoke. -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 12:53
- People are idiots. Oh let's go stand 10 feet away from it. -- nm - MDH May 28, 12:52
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- And another one... -- (link) - Don Homer May 28, 12:48 [youtube] 3
  - good ol Bawlmer County folks - charlie May 28, 12:50 2
    - nice to see the kid was at least in a child seat - zork May 28, 12:57
    - and people need to learn to hold their phones the other way for video! -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 12:51
Random Q: nobody plays myVegas on facebook right? MGM e-mailed me about it - MDH May 28, 12:44 4
- I do. It takes a long, long, long time to get anything worth redeeming. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado May 28, 12:57 3
  - Ah okay. Is it fun, or not worth the time? - MDH May 28, 13:00 1
    - I'm not a big slots fan, so I liked it better once I unlocked Blackjack. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado May 28, 13:01
  - But... - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado May 28, 13:00
This is a HELL YES! Issue of Consumer Reports. - David May 28, 12:42
Meeting ty97 for dinner Thursday if Portland area folks are intersted give me a FB message - Bacon via Droid May 28, 12:41
Interesting lawsuit. New York artist takes photos of neighbors in their homes using telephoto lens. Makes art exhibition. Neighbors sue. -- (link) - ty97 May 28, 12:31 23
- On a reasonable expectation that your upper window is out of sight, I side with the suit. Caught in public: side with the artist. -- nm - Max May 28, 12:41 2
  - let's just say i know who lives in the unit in the building that faces yours - charlie May 28, 12:44 1
    - ~woo~woo~woo~woo!~ -- nm - Max May 28, 12:48
- Peeping Toms gotta eat! -- nm - Beaker May 28, 12:36
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  - My issue is that they were on the fourth floor. He didn't just walk past a ground floor apartment with their shades up. - Krusty May 28, 12:41
  - what about the 'expectation of privacy' I mean you can't put a camera on your shoes and shoot up ladie's skirts -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 12:38 16
    - what if she was naked? -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 12:55
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      - On the fourth floor, probably. On the ground floor, no. -- nm - Krusty May 28, 12:42 12
        
        in New York though? -- nm - colin May 28, 12:44 11
        
        I would expect the people who live across the street to be able to see in but not people on the street. - Krusty May 28, 12:45 10
        
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        I wonder how far away his building was and if he needed a special super zoom lens. - ty97 May 28, 12:54 6
        
        I would still side with a suit from one 50th floor window to another, on the concept that the public would have never had access to view the 50th - Max May 28, 13:00 4
        
        But if the 50th floor windows are next door to each other, would you have an expectation of privacy? - ty97 May 28, 13:07 1
        
        Not to them but to the public as a whole, similar to the concept of making it illegal to record someone's conversation without their approval, - Max May 28, 13:12
        
        you can side with whoever you want. i'd recommend getting out your checkbook -- nm - charlie May 28, 13:01 1
        
        What if I bid on my own blackmail to make the price newsworthy? -- nm - Max May 28, 13:03
        
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        You're right. I thought some were from the street but they were all shot from his apartment. - Krusty May 28, 12:50 1
        
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    - errr.. you can't? -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 12:38
Diva is a great french movie, but probably the greatest of all time would have to be Children of Paradise - zeitgeist May 28, 12:28
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LYC: Fixing all of these ripped to digital CD's tag data is going to be a chore and a half. -- nm - Qale May 28, 12:21 4
- can't something like soundhound figure out all your songs for you? -- nm - colin May 28, 12:33 3
  - I could give it a whirl. A majority of them were easily identified, but I got a ton of promos thanks to my old stream team efforts also DJ promos - Qale May 28, 12:36 2
    - just make something up.. close enough. -- nm - colin May 28, 12:43 1
      - Otherwise known as the James Wan method. -- nm - Qale May 28, 12:44
Oh sh*t no! BAD Google! BAD! You changed your search page! - Mop (190 lbs) May 28, 12:21 1
- Ah but you see, my Chrome bar is not my Google search bar. It's my Swagbucks search bar. -- nm - Qale May 28, 12:22
Pixie News: How does the man of Steel Shave... -- (link) - Remlik May 28, 12:21 2
- next, how does he clip his nails? -- nm - peglegpete May 28, 12:27 1
  - the amount of collateral damage they've covered up from that is staggering -- nm - zork May 28, 12:52
STPSA: Free one night stay at Harrah's AC - through FB fan link -- (link) - MDH May 28, 12:14 1
- (the deal is that you only have to stay one night in AC) -- nm - charlie May 28, 12:15
AOL e-mail has been hacked!! Haven't used it for anything important in years. I wonder how it happened? Is "passw0rd" not a secure pw? - James Bond (aka Igor) May 28, 12:09
ST Parents: FWIW I hear Netflix just lost all of its Viacom titles (Nickelodeon) for instant -- nm - MDH May 28, 12:05 2
- *just*? Yeah, it was part of the May 1 massacre. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 28, 12:16
- yeah, they let the contract expire. They want to buy indiividual shows rather than have a blanket contract that includes - decline May 28, 12:14
math is hard: Miss Universe Canada judges crown the wrong winner -- (link) - charlie May 28, 12:05 1
- d'oh! google images search likes the actual winner -- nm - zork May 28, 12:13
It amazes me sitting through product demos how much bashing of competing products there is. - spamlet May 28, 12:05 11
- car salesmen always sound stupid when they pointedly mispronounce the name of a competitor -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 12:19 1
  - I've never been fond of this in politics. Obozo! or Rapepublicans! It's just rediculous. -- nm - Qale May 28, 12:33
- I love sitting through product demos. I've been known to make vendors cry. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 28, 12:17 4
  - so YOU'RE that guy. -- nm - loosilu May 28, 12:34
  - now do a time share pitch weekend -- nm - charlie May 28, 12:24 2
    - I would literally have to be forced at gunpoint. -- nm - loosilu May 28, 12:35
    - I endured a meeting a couple of weeks back... - Mop (190 lbs) May 28, 12:33
- just like politics. most things that are sold anymore are so mediocre, easier to sell it in comparison to something even worse. -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 12:10 2
  - Eh, taking customers away from the competition is a legit strategy -- nm - con_carne May 28, 12:13
  - It's more that there are literally three products in the space. - spamlet May 28, 12:13
- It's a huge turnoff for me in commercials. If they bash a competitor I think less of the company. -- nm - Krusty May 28, 12:08
Bizarre...I was just playing on the Amtrak website and the ticket I was pricing is more for AARP and AAA than for regular adult? - Meg May 28, 12:04 6
- Regular bathroom, handicapped stall, garage. No mention of a cabin upgrade for those prices? -- nm - Max May 28, 12:06 2
  - No, this is just a short train ride in a regular seat...and AAA members come in all ages. -- nm - Meg May 28, 12:21 1
    - No they don't. (nm) - spamlet May 28, 13:09
- "old people are dumb, they won't know any better." -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 12:05
- Amtrak hates old people -- nm - decline May 28, 12:05 1
  - well, not just Amtrak - charlie May 28, 12:06
Does This JCPenney Teapot Look Like Hitler? -- (link) - con_carne May 28, 12:02 9
- I always thought he was more tinpot. -- nm - Was Bar Was May 28, 12:42
- Yup. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 28, 12:15
- And no matter what they say, it's not a teapot it's a tea *kettle* -- nm - Meg May 28, 12:06 3
  - "Teapot" is funnier, because of the song -- nm - con_carne May 28, 12:16 2
    - Allow me my British indignation :/ -- nm - Meg May 28, 12:19 1
      - *steps away from con_carne slowly but with purpose* -- nm - Mel Profit May 28, 12:34
- oh come on Internet -- nm - ty97 May 28, 12:04
- heh. yes. -- nm - decline May 28, 12:04
- laughing. "You know who else also raised his little pinky finger?" -- nm - Max May 28, 12:03
Arrested Development watchers, would it have affected your enthusiasm for the project one way or another if the release of the new episodes had been - prayformojo May 28, 12:00 1
- Nope. Having the show back is all I wanted. I didn't expect them to be released this way so it's just a bonus. -- nm - Krusty May 28, 12:11
that bridget jones "boy" had better be a kid. then the social stuff could be mommy boards and blogs, etc. - b. May 28, 11:57 2
- i kind of assumed so until i read the thing about no drunk texting - charlie May 28, 11:59 1
  - yah, the concern; but could fit in, too. - b. May 28, 12:03
Guige, are you thinking of Steve Martin dragging his leg on the sidewalk in All of Me? -- nm - Max May 28, 11:57 6
- I don't even know that movie... :( Honestly, maybe I'm thinking of a dream... - Guigue May 28, 13:05
- +u -- nm - Max May 28, 11:57 4
  - (Steve Marutin?) -- nm - charlie May 28, 11:58 3
    - Aull of Me. It was French. -- nm - landbeck May 28, 11:59 2
      - Gaul of Me -- nm - Max May 28, 12:00 1
        
        Haole of Me (it was hawaiian) -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 12:06
Is Mostly Martha a French movie? If so, that's my favorite. -- nm - kelly May 28, 11:57 1
- Oops, nope. It's German. - kelly May 28, 11:58
Toronto Deputy Mayor says he believes the Rob Ford crack video exists, but also believes Ford's denial -- (link) - Reagen May 28, 11:57 3
- he thinks it's Chris Farley's younger brother in the video. -- nm - Diva May 28, 12:02
- when do they get to vote his ass out of office again? -- nm - charlie May 28, 12:01
- He went on to say that he believes that water is wet, but also that water is dry. -- nm - Spawn May 28, 11:57
DaneDukeNuuk alert: What can we learn from Denmark? -- (link) - Krusty May 28, 11:56 1
- how to make those little butter cookies. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:57
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- Does Seattle still have a shot at getting a team? They really deserve one. -- nm - Krusty May 28, 12:09 2
  - it's the NBA. Anchorage has a shot at getting an expansion franchise -- nm - charlie May 28, 12:12 1
    - Ha! :-) -- nm - Krusty May 28, 12:27
Has it really been twelve years since the train caught fire in Baltimore's Howard Street Tunnel? Train derails in White Marsh. -- (link) - landbeck May 28, 11:53 14
- a couple pics on here from somebody who works right by it... -- (link) - Don Homer May 28, 12:08
- Wife works not far, near rt 40. Her building shook. -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 11:54 10
  - I was just idly speculating I might start taking the train to work again soon. Man, like a shark attack the week before a beach trip. -- nm - landbeck May 28, 11:58 9
    - Devil's advocate: Do you feel this way whenever there is news of a pile-up on the highway? -- nm - ty97 May 28, 12:02 4
      - Nah, I'm a stats, guy, so I'm like, "The last accident was 12 years ago! So I'm good for at least the next decade!" -- nm - landbeck May 28, 12:05 3
        
        exactly. you drive past an accident on the road and you can be pretty confident your probability of being in another accident just dropped to zero -- nm - charlie May 28, 12:07 2
        
        until the guy in front of you who is rubbernecking suddenly stomps on the brakes -- nm - zork May 28, 12:15
        
        It's why always take the time to get a good luck at the accident. -- nm - landbeck May 28, 12:11
    - you hop the freight trains like a hobo? -- nm - charlie May 28, 11:59 3
      - Heh, MARC line goes through the train yard this explosion is in (and the Howard Street tunnel, too). -- nm - landbeck May 28, 12:00 2
        
        ah yes. many a hot summer day spent on a stopped MARC train waiting for the tracks ahead to clear -- nm - charlie May 28, 12:01 1
        
        Actually, I take it back, this was on the CSX line, which is parallel to the MARC line until about a mile West of the accident site. Yay! -- nm - landbeck May 28, 12:04
- man that was a hot day -- nm - charlie May 28, 11:54 1
  - that was about five or so days before we moved down here. -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 11:55
you're a monster, Zod -- nm - charlie May 28, 11:52 3
- I wonder if they go to any exotic locations. Sahara Zod, anyone? -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 11:54 2
  - I'm hoping for an after-credits scene with Michael Shannon and Terence Stamp as... - Dr.Vermin May 28, 11:57 1 1
    - OK, that'll get you exiled -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 12:04

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