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Google unveils its first batch of driverless cars -- (link) - znufrii May 28, 08:00 15
- It's great until it drives you into a sea crate bound for some tech billionaire's man-made island -- nm - prayformojo May 28, 08:03 12
  - Poor Jared (Donald). -- nm - Kim Pine May 28, 08:13
  - then it becomes SUPER GREAT. -- nm - Andie May 28, 08:10
  - There you go. I consider these to be self-driving golf carts. - Spawn Lord May 28, 08:05 9
    - I have to say I find the no-physical-controls concept to be very disconcerting - znufrii May 28, 08:07 8
      - I think that would be perfect, for old folks. Could give a lot of people their freedom back -- nm - Flavorize May 28, 08:10 2
        
        sure. the benefits in any sort of setting would be phenomenal - znufrii May 28, 08:17
        
        For kids, too. And of course as was shown, for the blind. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 28, 08:12
      - For low speed, short distance travel I think the can seel it. But not for more than that. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 28, 08:08 4
        
        I'd think high-speed, long distance would actually be the better use case. - Ender May 28, 08:17 3
        
        Psychologically, though, you do. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 28, 08:19 2
        
        and when the asshole who thinks he needs to weave through 5 lanes of highway traffic to get to go a little bit faster than everyone else cuts you off - znufrii May 28, 08:21 1
        
        Yeah, because what you really need then is a second person freaking out and randomly jerking the wheel into a third car... -- nm - Ender May 28, 08:51
- 25 mph! -- nm - Spawn Lord May 28, 08:01 1
  - you gotta start with something -- nm - znufrii May 28, 08:06
Two maps for the price of one: Where each state's largest immigrant population was born: 1910 and 2010 -- (link) - ty97 May 28, 07:58
Fiddy is really catching crap over that first pitch last night -- nm - prayformojo May 28, 07:40 5
- I was surprised to see that Fiddy was in Escape Plan. I assume he was the guy with the glasses. Didn't recognize him. -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 May 28, 07:53
- It amazes me. What adult can't throw a ball? -- nm - volnelk May 28, 07:42
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    - This always reminde me of Mariah Carey's first pitch, in stilletos. -- (link) - MDH May 28, 07:56 [youtube]
Kickstarter: Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere. -- (link) - ty97 May 28, 07:31 1
- I think I have to back this one. I was just playing with the app last night and even the free users got some good books. -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 May 28, 07:43
"Only 8 percent of blacks and 2 percent of Hispanics [in Chicago] would vote for [Rahm Emanuel] today." -- (link) - ty97 May 28, 07:25
At 16, Maya Angelou was San Francisco's first black streetcar conductor -- (link) - ty97 May 28, 07:23 1
- that is... awesome. -- nm - Andie May 28, 07:23
ah. there it is. Cubs threaten to move out of Wrigley Field if they can't get their way. -- (link) - spamlet May 28, 07:23 22
- it is really a shame, but they are handcuffed to that park, and the rooftop owners are killing them. nm -- nm - groiny May 28, 07:54 20
  - If they leave Wrigley they're just a crappy team that hasn't won in 107 years. - spamlet May 28, 08:05 7
    - ideally, they can make the renovations they need, but they are basically being forced to concede to local businesses. - groiny May 28, 08:07 2
      - No one wants to go the hood is the simple explanation. - spamlet May 28, 08:10 1
        
        it really is not the hood anymore though. nm -- nm - groiny May 28, 08:12
    - They are that, either way. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 28, 08:06 3
      - A lot of people go to games to go to Wrigley. It's a mostly true joke that most people at Wrigley are completely unaware there's a baseball game. -- nm - spamlet May 28, 08:10 2
        
        right, it is a day long drunkenfest for an overwhelming % of the fans at a game. nm -- nm - groiny May 28, 08:12 1
        
        It will be awesome when the Cubs leave and Wrigley continues to sell a huge amount of tickets to them. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 28, 08:13
  - Did i miss something? Are the Cubs suddenly not insanely expensive and profitable? -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:56 9
    - I, for one, would love to see them pick up and move to Rosemont. - groiny May 28, 08:00 5
      - Wrigley, does need an update. It's a historic park, but VERY out of date, in certain aspects -- nm - Flavorize May 28, 08:01 4
        
        It felt exactly like Fenway prior to all the updates done by the Henry Ownership group. - Mel Profit May 28, 08:08
        
        it is a terrible ballpark to actually get to. and no parking revenues for the team. - groiny May 28, 08:02 2
        
        The bathrooms alone...I've seen bus stations and gas stations with better facilities -- nm - Flavorize May 28, 08:08 1
        
        well, they had chunks of roof falling on fans. nm -- nm - groiny May 28, 08:09
    - they are not selling out every game anymore, and the management is trying to build a more solid - groiny May 28, 07:59 2
      - To the IM: they should try winning -- nm - ty97 May 28, 08:00 1
        
        well, that is a part of the problem, they were hanstrung for years with bad contracts. - groiny May 28, 08:01
  - Then they shouldn't have signed those contracts with them. -- nm - mara May 28, 07:56 1
    - right, but that was previous ownership, and they new management is really trying. nm -- nm - groiny May 28, 07:58
- good luck with that -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:23
I got 18/30 right on RM's James Bond Screenshots quiz, which I thought was pretty good considering - prayformojo May 28, 07:16 3
- I got 11. I never look at James Bond stuff the same way he does. - David May 28, 07:32 2
  - they are tough but very entertaining -- nm - prayformojo May 28, 07:37 1
    - Agreed. -- nm - David May 28, 07:39
nobody cares: my city is 4.5 square miles. -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:15 10
- 17.96 sq miles. Anaheim (next door) is a little over 50. All of our cities run together so we're part of a total of about 760 sq miles total for O.C. -- nm - Meg May 28, 08:12
- It's complicated. Atlanta is 132 sq mi. But I live in the 'burbs. Closest town is 22 sq mi. But I live in unincorporated, so 0 sq mi, really. -- nm - Banzai! May 28, 08:04
- 104.2 -- nm - Kim Pine May 28, 07:44 1
  - 14.3 square miles. We're a U.S. Census metropolitan area! Yay! -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 May 28, 07:55
- according to wikipedia toronto is 243 sq miles. -- nm - Andie May 28, 07:43
- Live: 21.23 sq miles. Work: 23.36 sq miles. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 28, 07:31
- 318.7. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 07:29
- 1 square mile here -- nm - znufrii May 28, 07:21
- 2.2 sq mi -- nm - decline May 28, 07:17
- Mine is reportedly 302.6 (who knew?) -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:16
HSX league stuff: I dropped out of the 500 Million Club...applied to the ST one - Flavorize May 28, 07:08 14
- I have decided I am not playing bonds. If it becomes that much work I will burn out. Will just have fun with movies and be done. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 28, 07:13 10
  - I dropped out of the top 1000, so I'll be working the star bonds, for a bit, to get my way back up there -- nm - Flavorize May 28, 08:11
  - Yeah I bought a few stocks but if I think I'm going to play halts, adjusts and bonds... I'm crazy! -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 May 28, 07:57
  - i only ever played bonds very very sporadically. -- nm - Andie May 28, 07:20 6
    - That howprofitable site linked on the BBs combined with kaigee make it relatively painless - ty97 May 28, 07:21 5
      - Yup, that's all I do. -- nm - spamlet May 28, 07:24
      - i know, but, the sitting and flipping isn't terribly fun... :) -- nm - Andie May 28, 07:24 3
        
        You and volnelk hit it. If it is work, I will grow tired of it way too fast. I don;t care about the star bonds, as they are not straight logic like a - Spawn Lord May 28, 07:29 1
        
        Right. Reading a chart isn't the same as forecasting an opening weekend. The game is supposed to be about educated guessing. -- nm - volnelk May 28, 07:40
        
        true -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:25
  - That's what I've alwasy done. I know ther eis money to be had, but it doesn't feel like a "game" to me. It isn't my opinion. -- nm - volnelk May 28, 07:18
- nmbFlavorize - Pippy May 28, 07:09 1
  - Thanks! -- nm - Flavorize May 28, 07:45
- you can be in more than one i believe. -- nm - Andie May 28, 07:08
what we're talking about at staff this morning: how big cities are. want to guess? largest US cities by land area. note that the top 3 are alaska. - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:04 38
- Nashville, San Antonio, Indianapolis -- nm - Spawn Lord May 28, 07:41
- Vegas? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk May 28, 07:35
- Chicago -- nm - volnelk May 28, 07:20
- San Diego -- nm - decline May 28, 07:18
- Phoenix -- nm - TWuG May 28, 07:18
- I doubt Denver is right, but I'll say, is Denver right? -- nm - prayformojo May 28, 07:11 1
  - Are you high? - ty97 May 28, 07:12
- El Paso, Santa Fe, Omaha -- nm - MDH May 28, 07:10
- Detroit -- nm - znufrii May 28, 07:09 2
  - teeeeeny tiny, really -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:10 1
    - As I recall, Miami proper is (relatively) tiny too. -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:12
- nYC has got to be in the top 20, if only just -- nm - znufrii May 28, 07:08 3
  - 24/302.6 -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:11
  - I figured we were too dense to make the list. - ty97 May 28, 07:11 1
    - your IM was my thinking, exactly. it's still a pretty big city, as dense as it is -- nm - znufrii May 28, 07:13
- Chicago -- nm - spamlet May 28, 07:08
- A-T-L -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:08 2
  - 71. it feels bigger because it's so ugly. -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:09 1
    - -20 SB Points -- nm - Strongbad May 28, 07:41
- Oklahoma City -- nm - Pippy May 28, 07:07 7
  - this surprised me; 8/607 -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:08 5
    - This is the one that I wonder 'how do they pay for the infrastructure in all the space' since the population is smaller - ty97 May 28, 07:09 4
      - they have state tax? -- nm - Pippy May 28, 07:14
      - right? that's why we started talking about it. list here: -- (link) - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:10 2
        
        Suffolk, VA? WTF? -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:13
        
        My anaconda don't want none if you a'int got buns hon. -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:13
  - oooh, good call. -- nm - znufrii May 28, 07:08
- Dallas -- nm - znufrii May 28, 07:05 1
  - 18/340.5 (how do these huge municipalities govern?) -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:08
- Jacksonville -- nm - Inigo May 28, 07:05 1
  - 747 sq m; the biggest. #5. -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:06
- probably San Antonio too - ty97 May 28, 07:05 1
  - 13/460.9 -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:07
- Los Angeles -- nm - Will Hunting May 28, 07:05 1
  - 12 /468.7 -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:07
- Houston -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:04 2
  - 9. 599.6. (I had no idea there were cities this big!) -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 07:07 1
    - I have driven through Houston both north to south and east to west. That shit sprawls like crazy -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:07
The Killing Season 2 spoils - blah - Inigo May 28, 06:59 3
- I don't think I really disagree with much of what you said, but I'll say this: Season 3 is pretty great (the best season easily) - ty97 May 28, 07:01 2
  - In fact, I'd probably be willing to suggest that someone who has never seen the Killing just watch Season 3 and they could maybe skip 1 and 2. - ty97 May 28, 07:02 1
    - Thanks. I may just skip to season 3, then. -- nm - Inigo May 28, 07:08
Bummed about Maya Angelou passing away -- nm - Pippy May 28, 06:57 2
- Oh, I hadn't heard.. :( -- nm - Andie May 28, 07:07 1
  - Well Remlik posted it on B2 so you know...... - Pippy May 28, 07:08
Egypt extends voting to third day as turnout isn't high enough to give the military the broad mandate it wants. -- (link) - spamlet May 28, 06:54
this week's what-if.xkcd is actually making me want to throw up. -- (link) - znufrii May 28, 06:51 2
- So you're saying we need to distill the blood first? -- nm - Ender May 28, 06:57
- You think it'd be great to be a vampire until you realize you actually have to drink blood. -- nm - Inigo May 28, 06:54
I accepted everyone that tried to get into the league and updated the description. It's not perfect, so please suggest edits. -- nm - spamlet May 28, 06:46 3
- #29/29. Darn you commission hit. -- nm - ty97 May 28, 06:53
- You guys are making me regret getting rid of my port. But I keep reminding myself I wouldn't really enjoy playing anyway. -- nm - mara May 28, 06:50 1
  - Same here. -- nm - kelly May 28, 07:55
This '00s group is annoying me. - ty97 May 28, 06:46 13
- Not as much as the answer will annoy you. -- nm - Jim May 28, 06:46 3
  - se ri ous ly -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 06:47 2
    - Hey...did you listen to the Spencer-cast yet? He's going to be a great guest moving forward. -- nm - Jim May 28, 06:48 1
      - right? oh my goodness? I listened to most of it twice even. he's so a repeat player. -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 06:57
- Yes, I linked the full list below. -- nm - MDH May 28, 06:46 8
  - Oh, that's a duh answer, how didn't I guess that. Also: CHER! - ty97 May 28, 06:49 7
    - Have I mentioned that I'll be seeing Cher (w/ Cyndi Lauper, I just found out) a week from tonight. - Jim May 28, 06:53 6
      - I saw Cher in 1999 (loved it). Cyndi was supposed to open but fell off the stage a few days prior and hurt herself. - ty97 May 28, 06:54 5
        
        Also, when you go to the show - ty97 May 28, 06:55 4
        
        I'm lining up all my wigs for costume changes. I think I'm gonna start blonde, then go jet black. I wanna save fire red for the encore! -- nm - Jim May 28, 06:56 3
        
        Also...I think I'm more excited to see Cyndi, than Cher. -- nm - Jim May 28, 06:56 2
        
        I see your true colors now Jim. -- nm - ty97 May 28, 07:06 1
        
        Well, girls just want to have fun and stuff. -- nm - Jim May 28, 07:06
From B2: I'm surprised, but happy for you, JD. :) -- nm - Inigo May 28, 06:46
thanks, MDH. that was fun. -- nm - the mystifying virtuoso May 28, 06:44 1
- No problem at all. Here's the full list, it's pretty interesting to see. -- (link) - MDH May 28, 06:46

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