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What to make of the IRS's latest Obamacare move (re:"employee dumping") -- (link) - ty97 May 26, 10:39 7
- I tried to tell people that this would do to employee health care what 401ks did to pensions. - droidlet May 26, 10:47 2
  - I never doubted your prediction. - ty97 May 26, 10:49 1
    - The problem is we have no plan for the cons other than "pretty please" -- nm - droidlet May 26, 11:18
- I can only hope that Obamacare becomes the same sort of prescient project that the Interstate system was. - Beryllium May 26, 10:42 3
  - To this day, the Interstate system (or at least the least the implementation thereof) has its arguable pros an cons. - ty97 May 26, 10:47
  - have you seen that Solar Roads thing? that's a *brilliant* idea. -- nm - Remlik May 26, 10:45 1
    - They've already exceeded their $1 million funding goal. -- (link) - Inigo May 26, 10:47
heading up to my brother's this afternoon - he found a few pounds of morel mushrooms (YUM) - having a "Birthday dinner" for my niece and I've decided - JenBro May 26, 10:38
If you are in DFW and want to go to Philly or vice versa, there are dates available for $148 RT -- (link) - ty97 May 26, 10:31
ST help: Can you find a Scooby Doo Mystery Machine van besides the one linked? -- (link) - Inigo May 26, 10:08 7
- Four (Lunchbox) -- (link) - Beryllium May 26, 10:14 3
  - Okay, now you're showing off. I think #1 will work. Thank you. :) -- nm - Inigo May 26, 10:16 2
    - I tried taking it to an even five ... but apparently canada post killed their ecommerce aggregation service. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 10:19
    - np :-) -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 10:18
- Three (is this a lego knockoff?) -- (link) - Beryllium May 26, 10:13
- Two (this might be the same one as yours) -- (link) - Beryllium May 26, 10:13
- One -- (link) - Beryllium May 26, 10:12
I'm at Artsfest and there's this really cool metal sculpture of a piranha for $169. Talk me out of it. -- nm - Dano May 26, 10:07 6
- make one yourself, just wait till your transmission blows up and you'll have all the parts you need, ITMT take a welding class -- nm - zeitgeist May 26, 12:14
- this opportunity will never come up again... -- nm - Andie May 26, 10:35
- "Talk me out of it?" Have you met ST? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 26, 10:23
- Buy it, and have it sit next to you at any movie you go to. -- nm - Inigo May 26, 10:12
- We'll do no such thing -- nm - con_carne May 26, 10:08 1
  - Right? How long has he hung out here? -- nm - droidlet May 26, 10:10
The Americans Season 2 last episode spoiler - amoxy May 26, 10:05 3
- agreed.... - Remlik May 26, 10:10 2
  - also - amoxy May 26, 10:17 1
    - oh yeah. -- nm - Remlik May 26, 10:39
WWE signs The Rock's cousin.... - Remlik May 26, 09:57
Heh, this is amusing -- (link) - Beryllium May 26, 09:53
"ABC sports; Where showing you the wife/girlfriend of the race winner is more important than showing the actual Indy 500." -- nm - Beaker May 26, 09:26 3
- well, you know, people can take only so much of watching a car drive in a circle. It's not like they'd pay good money to sit there and . . . - i'm not dead yet ! May 26, 09:35
- link to their coverage -- (link) - Beaker May 26, 09:27 1
  - That's pretty terrible. -- nm - droidlet May 26, 10:36
Breaking the tradition of not having new programming on holidays, the JD show is going a drastically different direction as one level we're done - JD May 26, 09:20 43
- Dammit we need edits. Veronica and I are done -- nm - JD May 26, 09:21 42
  - that just sucks - sorry you are going through it - glad you have ST :( -- nm - JenBro May 26, 10:19
  - Sorry to hear. -- nm - amoxy May 26, 10:16
  - I'm really sorry to hear this. - droidlet May 26, 10:09
  - So sorry, man. :-( -- nm - Krusty May 26, 10:05
  - Wow. so sorry. -- nm - Tim May 26, 09:56
  - we can go get a drink sometime in downtown again or something -- nm - con_carne May 26, 09:54 2
    - I'll more likely than not take you up on that one -- nm - JD May 26, 09:55 1
      - If you find yourself on the other coast, same goes, would happily buy you a drink. - ty97 May 26, 10:40
  - That's rough, JD. Stay strong, and be around friends and family as much as possible. -- nm - Inigo May 26, 09:48 23
    - Thanks. It has kind of been one of the problems as friends weren't around and holding off on the family part for the time being - JD May 26, 09:52 22
      - Also, here's a support email list I've linked in the past. - Inigo May 26, 10:04
      - You don't have to give your family *that* detail. You should still reach out to them, man. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 26, 09:54 20
        
        We'll see Now that I'm starting to come out of the alcohol haze that was pretty much a constant since Friday night, Talking to my brother who's here - JD May 26, 09:59 2
        
        Several thoughts. - ty97 May 26, 10:04 1
        
        Noted. Noted. ummm..I have some thoughts. Was supposed to be a figure of speech - JD May 26, 10:13
        
        Yeah, say it's a guy if you have to, or keep the cheating out of it. -- nm - Inigo May 26, 09:56 16
        
        I understand the advice. But on any level, I don't want my parents to but in the position of having to withhold any level of information - JD May 26, 10:04 15
        
        your IM sounds like the right thing to do - as much as that sucks for you. -- nm - Andie May 26, 10:07 2
        
        (as long as that happens sooner than later.) -- nm - Andie May 26, 10:07 1
        
        or, what ty said, basically. -- nm - Andie May 26, 10:08
        
        As a corollary to my post above - ty97 May 26, 10:07 11
        
        No I don't know when but I feel that it will be indeed really soon - JD May 26, 10:16 8
        
        Just in case, put a deadline in your head. - ty97 May 26, 10:22 7
        
        Stop posting with ty97's login, Andie -- nm - con_carne May 26, 10:29 6
        
        Don't you just hate it when I am rational and mature? - ty97 May 26, 10:32 5
        
        bro97 -- nm - con_carne May 26, 10:46
        
        :) -- nm - JenBro May 26, 10:36 3
        
        Someday you too will witness rational, mature ty - ty97 May 26, 10:42 2
        
        ok - but just for a couple minutes ok? -- nm - JenBro May 26, 10:50 1
        
        As if rational, mature ty could ever continuously exist for longer than that? :) -- nm - ty97 May 26, 10:56
        
        You rock, ty. Great advice. -- nm - Inigo May 26, 10:10
        
        We DO need an edit button. when **she** plans to tell her family -- nm - ty97 May 26, 10:09
  - Crap. Very sorry to hear this. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 26, 09:42
  - sorry to hear this. -- nm - Remlik May 26, 09:35
  - Maybe a "lesbro?" -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 26, 09:30 1
    - Truly LOL over here. - JD May 26, 09:31
  - sorry to hear that -- nm - pippy bells May 26, 09:28
  - oof, very sorry dude -- nm - Beaker May 26, 09:26
  - :-( -- nm - Meg May 26, 09:24
  - Very sorry to hear. -- nm - ty97 May 26, 09:24
  - Yeesh. Really sorry to hear this, JD -- nm - prayformojo May 26, 09:24
  - dude, i am so sorry to hear that. -- nm - Andie May 26, 09:22
as long as we're talking about movies this morning, I watched Sucker Punch last night after picking it up from the $5 bin at Wal Mart . . . - i'm not dead yet ! May 26, 08:44 9
- I'm jumping in here to say that Ride Along was truly awful. - pippy bells May 26, 09:20 4
  - i watched Godfather, I, II, III. -- nm - Andie May 26, 09:21 3
    - but did you like them? -- nm - pippy bells May 26, 09:29 2
      - One and Two, great - as expected (liked One better). Three was a mockery. Also, as expected. -- nm - Andie May 26, 09:31 1
        
        Good answer. :-) -- nm - Krusty May 26, 10:07
- The soundtrack is good. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 26, 08:49
- the only good parts are the fantasy segments. those are terrific. The rest of it is a huge mess. -- nm - Remlik May 26, 08:47 2
  - totally agree . . . spoilerish observation IM . . . - i'm not dead yet ! May 26, 09:07 1
    - I agree. Oh and I *really* like the soundtrack -- nm - Remlik May 26, 09:35
TV PSA: 24, The Bachelorette, American Ninja Warrior!, Master Chef, Louie, NHL/NBA playoffs, other stuff -- nm - Beaker May 26, 08:39 1
- yeah . . . I have a couple of hours blocked off tonight for Ninja Warrior . . . it's about time that the summertime shows cranked up !! -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! May 26, 08:45
MLB trivia: How many players were killed serving in WWII? -- nm - droidlet May 26, 08:35 3
- 12? -- nm - Krusty May 26, 10:05
- you don't bury survivors -- nm - Beaker May 26, 08:36 1
  - 312 -- nm - Beaker May 26, 08:37
at last 6 serious bidders for the Clippers emerging -- (link) - Beaker May 26, 08:29 3
- "least" -- nm - Beaker May 26, 08:29 2
  - Simmons says the flow for bidding is $1.8 -- nm - Volnelk May 26, 09:48 1
    - 'floor'. Struggle thread. -- nm - Volnelk May 26, 09:48
ST Poll: Who is off work today? -- nm - Beaker May 26, 08:26 15
- raises hand (and yet here I am at my desk at the office?) -- nm - JenBro May 26, 10:20
- I had a meeting with a new client for a half hour, now I'm done. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 10:06 1
  - did you lock that shit down? -- nm - pippy bells May 26, 10:11
- Me. But at the same time still answering emails and will probably end up getting some additional work done as well at home -- nm - JD May 26, 08:43
- I went in for a little bit to reboot the accounting server. Was there for an hour -- nm - amoxy May 26, 08:33 1
  - Ah, the pants optional pop-in -- nm - con_carne May 26, 10:27
- Only took one conference call and responded to 7 e-mails. That counts as off -- nm - ty97 May 26, 08:29 1
  - par-tay -- nm - Spawn Lord May 26, 08:38
- ... people are at work? -- nm - Spawn Lord May 26, 08:27 3
  - yes. because people shop on thier days off. -- nm - Remlik May 26, 08:33 2
    - Crazy. -- nm - Spawn - has not left the house/yard since Saturday May 26, 08:37 1
      - hey some of us have to save the economy. -- nm - Remlik May 26, 10:34
- Have been off since before Vegas... but back to work tomorrow. - Cuzzin Todd May 26, 08:27 1
  - I stupidly only took Tuesday/Wednesday off ... should have taken the extra days to have an extra long break -- nm - JenBro May 26, 10:21
- our day off was last week, so not I -- nm - Beaker May 26, 08:27
5 Things They Don't Tell You When You Leave the Army -- (link) - Beaker May 26, 08:19
you know what's hard? being asked to write a recommendation letter for someone when you have absolutely zero idea of what their job entails. - Andie May 26, 08:17 1
- "They suffer from a lack of planning..." -- nm - Spawn Lord May 26, 08:28
Travel insurance doesn't pay for these bank customers -- (link) - Beaker May 26, 08:09
Anti-EU parties storm to the front in European elections -- (link) - Beaker May 26, 08:07
This poor family (the whole thing is awful) - mother of killer in California contacted police before shootings -- (link) - Andie May 26, 07:19 8
- the sheriffs actually went to his house earlier, but he convinced them he was ok...tricky - Beaker May 26, 08:36
- Oy, that's awful on numerous levels. Huge therapist fail there. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 07:44 6
  - Disagreed, unless you're suggesting the therapists should have been able to "cure" him. The police were called but didn't detect anything unusual. -- nm - Mop on iPad Air May 26, 07:47 5
    - I'll admit I skimmed it, but did the therapists make the calls to the police? I thought just the parents did. - Shaun May 26, 08:31 4
      - 5th paragraph: "It was the second time in recent months that Rodger's mother tried to intervene. In April, she had called one of her son's counsellors - kelly May 26, 08:40 3
        
        but what could they do other than what they did? they visited him talked to him and he seemed "shy" to them - Beaker May 26, 08:42 2
        
        I'm not arguing anything at all, just answering Shaun's question over whether the mental health professionals called the police or not. -- nm - kelly May 26, 08:49
        
        And unless someone has inpatient mental health care their condition doesn't show up in a gun dealer's background search. -- nm - Meg May 26, 08:45
Now Playing: The LEGO Movie -- nm - prayformojo May 26, 06:33
So I had a dream last night which involved calling David for a reason that I can not recall...in my dream David did not have an accent. - Walt_Disney May 26, 06:15 3
- It's funny you say this. One of our new friends on the trip was from South Carolina. - David May 26, 07:12 1
  - David's Dreamland Adventures, volume one -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 07:16
- 1-900-BYA-DVID -- nm - Roger More May 26, 06:24
Magneto helmet!! (link) -- (link) - Buzz May 26, 05:13
Wow, ok, that was a hell of an ending to the Justified season finale. -- nm - IrishStephen May 26, 00:22
Hmm, diedrich bader was a less crazy choice than I thought for the brave and the bold; kevin conroy and him basically sound the same. Heh. -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 23:08 1
- I love seeing him pop up in shows and movies (loved him as Oswald on The Drew Carey Show) -- nm - Beaker May 26, 05:23
the Rio added a zipline between 2 of their towers -- (link) - peglegpete May 25, 23:05 8
- They're hoping to have the Olympics moved here. They could use the same promotional materials. -- nm - Mop on iPad Air May 26, 07:49
- Ah... was wondering what all those outlines that looked like splattered humans were doing on the side of one of the Rio's buildings... -- nm - secretslacker May 26, 03:33
- Oh Lord - I'd have to do it wouldn't I? -- nm - Meg May 25, 23:11 5
  - everyone but Jenbro :) it's about $25 in the day, $40 at night -- nm - peglegpete May 25, 23:13 4
    - hell to the hell no - ty97 May 26, 09:29
    - That is relatively cheap -- nm - Pippy May 26, 07:02 2
      - About the same as the High Roller. -- nm - Meg May 26, 08:25 1
        
        Plus this gets people into your hotel, which is good for making more $. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 26, 09:18
Wow. First Class was not as good as I remembered. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 25, 23:02 8
- I just picked up a physical copy yesterday for $8 as it has a coupon for $8 off a ticket to DoFP. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 06:40
- At the risk of being chastised here as my friend John did last night, I'm only giving the new X-Men a B. - JenBro May 26, 06:06 6
  - (Remlik and I only gave it a B+). -- nm - Spawn Lord May 26, 08:14 2
    - it just missed A by a touch. I liked First Class a bit more because it showed the X-men really impacting history. -- nm - Remlik May 26, 08:19 1
      - Uhm, I would say they impacted history a million % more in DoFP. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 26, 08:40
  - A B?!!! How dare you...?! -- nm - Mop on iPad Air May 26, 07:48 2
    - we might have to sit her in the "David Level Crazy" section now -- nm - Remlik May 26, 07:50 1
      - well it wouldn't be the first time I'm there ... I think Pixie claimed me DLC once before for something -- nm - JenBro May 26, 10:23

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