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BJs has a hilarious happy hour...Advertised half-priced apps but you get half-portion as a result. lol -- nm - Broot Jul 24, 16:22 1
- That ain't no happy hour ... that's a HALFY hour! -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 16:23
xbox Destiny beta goes wide-open today for gold members, apparently. Does this include 360? I doubt it. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 24, 16:10 4
- Should be for all 4 consoles. -- nm - Shaun Jul 24, 16:16 3
  - Actually nm. PS4 w/ PS+ and Xbone w/ Gold. -- nm - Shaun Jul 24, 16:20 2
    - thx -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 16:23 1
      - It says all 4 in the FAq that just got updated -- nm - eag Jul 24, 17:40
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if given unlimited time and guesses I would not have been able to name the current MNF theme song - prayformojo Jul 24, 16:00 1
- TNF song is shitastic. -- nm - Shaun Jul 24, 16:21
yikes speaking of water wasting, my hose was damaged by the lawn mower, i patched and placed the part that dripped by the roses to deep drip water - zeitgeist Jul 24, 15:56 2
- do the roses look incredible? -- nm - peglegpete Jul 24, 16:04 1
  - oh yeah -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 16:27
Mike Judge says Office Space helped rid the world of “flair” -- (link) - mara Jul 24, 15:30 5
- WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!? -- nm - Beaker Jul 24, 16:15
- damn it feels good to be a gangster -- nm - prayformojo Jul 24, 16:09
- snl? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 15:53
- Also, I don't remember a fax machine in the movie. A printer, yes ... was it also a fax machine? I don't think so. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 15:41
- "How can you be so sure people didn't just come to their senses on their own?" I would want to ask the creator of Idiocracy. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 15:40
Huh. Google SkyNet now automatically tries to figure out where you parked. -- nm - Reagen Jul 24, 15:19 5
- Selfaware? -- nm - Spawndroid Jul 24, 15:22 4
  - Shelfaware would be a good name for a book cataloging app. -- nm - TWuG Jul 24, 15:24 3
    - Agreed, like delicious library but with a better name -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 15:39
    - that's fantastic -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 15:36
    - Genius. -- nm - mara Jul 24, 15:32
Andie/whomever: Here's my reserved ticketing Thursday update for Hercules and Lucy - MDH Jul 24, 15:11 4
- 80!?! - Spawndroid Jul 24, 15:29 3
  - I was surprised by that as well -- nm - ty97 Jul 24, 16:18 1
    - I figured that was closer to the total that will end up seeing it Friday night. -- nm - Star-Lord Jul 24, 16:51
  - There are 9 showings, 80 tickets sold. Lucy has 3 showings, 101 sold haha -- nm - MDH Jul 24, 15:38
Now that's what I call music -- nm - prayformojo Jul 24, 15:10 1
- Volume 312.50 -- nm - Star-Lord Jul 24, 15:50
New produce/Arabic market up the street - really hope this one survives. - Meg Jul 24, 15:08 1
- pomogranet molassas for the win (and harrasa, tandoor other spices -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 15:14
Spawn...Capullo commited to Batman through issue #50..Snyder not leaving anytime soon either -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 15:01 1
- Sweet. He is the only artist I follow on twitter. -- nm - Spawndroid Jul 24, 15:23
Expend ables 3 has leaked online -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 14:56 2
- Is it any good? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 14:59 1
  - I have no idea. Dark Horizons just posted about it -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 15:00
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- "page not found" -- nm - IrishStephen Jul 24, 15:40
- And when you go to the typoed website... -- (link) - Cuzzin Todd Jul 24, 14:57 3
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  - that's pretty clutch -- nm - prayformojo Jul 24, 15:00
  - Winning. Totally winning. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 14:59
Nickelodeon star calls out Groiny....calls him gross.... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 24, 14:44
Can you believe JLo is 45 today? That's gotta suck for her... -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 24, 14:24 5
- My cousin, who was also born in the Bronx but yet is not a millionaire, turned 45 yesterday. - ty97 Jul 24, 14:26 4
  - but how is her ass? -- nm - groiny Jul 24, 14:31 3
    - All I know is that she could kick yours -- nm - ty97 Jul 24, 14:38 1
      - ^this -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 14:44
    - you're welcome -- (link) - Remlik Jul 24, 14:38 [youtube]
Top Gear's Fifty Shades of Grey -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Jul 24, 14:09
more road rage: I hate metered on-ramps (one car per green light). I don't see how it makes anything better and it reduces your gas mileage. -- nm - zork Jul 24, 14:00 11
- a highway can handle XX many cars per minute at YY speeds, when a lane slows down then it actually handles much less traffic per min - zeitgeist Jul 24, 15:03
- their purpose is alternating both lanes so the drivers do not hit eachother entering the freeway -- nm - peglegpete Jul 24, 14:02 6
  - even on single lane ramps? -- nm - zork Jul 24, 14:05 5
    - um :( -- nm - peglegpete Jul 24, 14:09
    - the purpose is *supposed* to be to spread out the incoming cars -- nm - zork Jul 24, 14:07 3
      - and to give cars exiting on the upcoming ramp [which many times follows a free entrance ramp] a chance to get in the exit lane - peglegpete Jul 24, 14:12 2
        
        that's not how they are laid out on the highway I drive in the mornings. -- nm - zork Jul 24, 14:13 1
        
        :)) -- nm - peglegpete Jul 24, 14:18
- In theory I see how it helps. In practice, I'm not as sure. -- nm - ty97 Jul 24, 14:01 2
  - Our highway system is just laid out all sorts of wrong. - TWuG Jul 24, 14:32
  - Either you just have to slow down again to merge (after speeding up from being stopped) or traffic is light enough that there are gaps to merge into. -- nm - zork Jul 24, 14:04
A sign music really is less special now? Ray LaMontagne chastises Grand Rapids audience for talking, storms off stage -- (link) - con_carne Jul 24, 13:56
Did we watch the 50 Shades trailer? Is that why we were talking? -- (link) - Star-Lord Jul 24, 13:50
Sting just made his first WWE appearance at a WWE panel at San Diego -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 13:46 2
- video -- (link) - Remlik Jul 24, 13:47 [youtube] 1
  - what you don't see in the video? he's already won the WWE heavyweight title . . . -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 24, 14:07
About just raising the gas tax to fill the coffers of the highway fund. -- (link) - spamlet Jul 24, 13:44 33
- it's a bad comparison, in that the federal gas tax isn't meant to cover *all* transportation spending - znufrii Jul 24, 14:01 6
  - He's trying to show what we would need to do now, so the inflation effect should be on there. - droidlet Jul 24, 14:10 4
    - but nowhere does he actually look at how actual spending has compared to any of the three indexing methods to know whether that number is realistic. - znufrii Jul 24, 14:33 3
      - The number he's trying to get to is the ASCE amount of what we need to spend on road building. - spamlet Jul 24, 14:39 2
        
        which is a completely different issue than adequately funding our current level of transportation funding by raising the federal gas tax. -- nm - znufrii Jul 24, 14:41 1
        
        current level of transportation *spending* -- nm - znufrii Jul 24, 14:42
  - that notwithstanding, he does have some interesting points. -- nm - znufrii Jul 24, 14:08
- somewhat related -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 24, 13:47
- Toll roads everywhere! -- nm - ty97 Jul 24, 13:45 24
  - I hate them - I try to avoid them but they are making it impossible -- nm - Epiphany Jul 24, 13:46 23
    - what is worse...tolls for 'singles' to drive in the carpool lane - zeitgeist Jul 24, 13:57 20
      - There are good arguments *not* to build new and expanded freeways as most studies show that traffic gets WORSE when highways are expanded. -- nm - spamlet Jul 24, 13:58 19
        
        we are still having kids, and the kids today will want to live in a house or apartment, so that means building more homes and apartments - zeitgeist Jul 24, 15:12 1
        
        And none of that "growth" pays for itself. What happens when the bridge needs to be replaced? -- nm - droidlet Jul 24, 15:46
        
        probably because they are built more slowly than the demand increases -- nm - zork Jul 24, 14:02 2
        
        You're missing what happens - Reagen Jul 24, 14:11 1
        
        I got that but as I mentioned below Toronto has never been close to having sufficient capacity for roads or subways -- nm - zork Jul 24, 14:12
        
        Yup. Obviously, highways are needed sometimes, but our single-minded philosophy that more roads will solve all problems.... - ty97 Jul 24, 14:00 13
        
        We get sold on the idea that more public transit will ease traffic congestion, but it seems that just enables people to get around more while - con_carne Jul 24, 14:26
        
        I rarely vote against tax increases but we have a sales tax for transportation increase that's all highways and boondoggles. - spamlet Jul 24, 14:19 10
        
        I need a true No Pork Politican -- nm - Epiphany Jul 24, 14:36 4
        
        Jewish who keeps kosher? -- nm - peglegpete Jul 24, 14:55
        
        I would argue that the massive reduction in earmarking (pork) is what has created the gridlock in Washington. - pmb Jul 24, 14:50 1
        
        Pretty much. The Law of Unintended Consequences. -- nm - TWuG Jul 24, 15:22
        
        and I need Santa Claus to bring me a pony. -- nm - znufrii Jul 24, 14:37
        
        I am (right now) more concerned about funding to maintain existing infrastructure than I am in adding more infrastructure. -- nm - ty97 Jul 24, 14:22 4
        
        I-70 truly needs a capacity increase across the state. It's a major national transportation bottleneck at this point. -- nm - spamlet Jul 24, 14:40 3
        
        *sees your I-70 and raises you the Schuylkill Expressway* -- nm - znufrii Jul 24, 14:52 2
        
        That's fine. I was talking specifically about the tax increase on our ballot in this subthread. - droidlet Jul 24, 15:12 1
        
        that's okay, you can pay for ours too! :) -- nm - znufrii Jul 24, 16:11
        
        in this area, they never built sufficient highways for the need. The 401 (often quoted as the busiest in N. America) ran over capacity (cars/lane/hour - zork Jul 24, 14:09
    - That's why they should all be toll roads, then you can't avoid them! - ty97 Jul 24, 13:52 1
      - hee -- nm - Epiphany Jul 24, 13:53
Amazon down 5% after another loss -- nm - Bacon via Google Phone Jul 24, 13:42 1
- Eat our dust, Amazon. -- nm - Dr Pepper Snapple Group Jul 24, 13:49
The Montana Senator that plagerized most of his Master's thesis says his PTSD is too blame. -- (link) - spamlet Jul 24, 13:39 1
- I guess I've heard worse (attempted) excuses - ty97 Jul 24, 13:40
Dozens of NYPD Detectives Searching for 5 Kids Who Might Have Planted Those White Flags on the Brooklyn Bridge -- (link) - spamlet Jul 24, 13:37 7
- offs. -- nm - znufrii Jul 24, 13:40 1
  - There's two bright sides to this - ty97 Jul 24, 13:42
- The overreaction to this is kinda driving me crazy. - ty97 Jul 24, 13:40 4
  - I'd rather an over reaction to public works and infrastructure than the opposite. - Mel Profit Jul 24, 13:56
  - Flag bomb. Very deadly. -- nm - Star-Lord Jul 24, 13:41 2
    - Flagassination -- nm - oblique Jul 24, 13:42 1
      - flagellation -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 13:45
Matthew McConaughey can't stand up on his own -- (link) - con_carne Jul 24, 13:36 [Image] 1
- LOL -- nm - Epiphany Jul 24, 13:53
... someone we know gave GotG 9 out of 10. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 24, 13:36
Dear Google Now, thanks for trying to get me out of work early by telling me that there is heavy traffic - oblique Jul 24, 13:34
has anyone heard / seen this yet? Dogecoin, a new alternative to Bitcoins? . . . - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 24, 13:29 17 1
- for small change you'll need some Necronomicoins -- nm - zork Jul 24, 13:56 3
  - ding -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 24, 14:07 2
    - to the 3-D printer! -- nm - zork Jul 24, 14:11
    - I should have capitlased the C, shouldn't I? -- nm - zork Jul 24, 14:10
- Uh, it's digital. That's the point. -- nm - mara Jul 24, 13:34 2
  - well, yeah . . . figured as much. i was just wondering if they're making physical copies of bank notes or if the image in the link ,.. - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 24, 13:35 1
    - You should post your question as a comment on the page. I'm sure you'll get many responses. -- nm - mara Jul 24, 13:42
- As I understand, anyone can fork bitcoin and brand it as their own currency -- nm - oblique Jul 24, 13:30 9
  - technically speaking, litecoin is the easy one to clone. I considered making a SlackerCoin, but snoozed and lost the domain. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 13:45 7
    - There are literally thousands of coins in existence already. -- nm - David Jul 24, 13:53 2
      - Another reason not to bother. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 15:39
      - I should hope so. -- nm - Spawndroid Jul 24, 15:27
    - I'm pretty sure jackholes pay to see search terms on registration sites and grab the ones that look promising so when you comeback you have to buy it -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 13:47 2
      - yep. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 13:47 1
        
        I even got an email from one offering to sell it to me for $1,000, he had grabbed and filled a page with links to usual spam crap -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 13:54
    - slacker -- nm - oblique Jul 24, 13:46
  - aka Spawn Points -- nm - Star-Lord Jul 24, 13:31
Wow. I have a board member that I am... not getting along with. - Star-Lord Jul 24, 13:27 10
- Don't worry ... - zork Jul 24, 13:54
- that's not glitter t&^ts is it? -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 13:31 6
  - Same board, different member. - Star-Lord Jul 24, 13:32 5
    - oh I bet that was fun -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 13:38 4
      - Indeed. That was a couple months ago. She is all "Sweetie" again now. - Star-Lord Jul 24, 13:40 3
        
        sales people. I love the way they pull crap -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 13:43 2
        
        Yeah. But I am not a buyer, here. More a competitor. But yeah. -- nm - Star-Lord Jul 24, 13:51 1
        
        sure...but she pulls that crap cause she'll want something from you in the future. -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 13:55
- B2? -- nm - oblique Jul 24, 13:28 1
  - There is no B2? -- nm - Star-Lord Jul 24, 13:29
Redmond - I own a bit (not much) of DAL. Was really surprised by the (good) UAL result today. - ty97 Jul 24, 13:27 3
- I am going to dump jblu after earnings tues -- nm - Bacon via Google Phone Jul 24, 13:35 2
  - JBLU is a tough one for me. I do love them as a passenger (great leg room, good amenities) but.... - ty97 Jul 24, 13:37 1
    - Thats good to know. And that is an issue with airline stocks. Very sensitive to fuel prices and weather. Thats why I dont like holding too long -- nm - Bacon via Google Phone Jul 24, 13:40
*erases B2* -- nm - oblique Jul 24, 13:25 1
- Favourites never die! -- nm - Star-Lord Jul 24, 13:28

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