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Tracy Morgan might not fully recover from "traumatic brain injury", says lawyer -- (link) - Andie Nov 19, 08:18 2
- I had a friend who likewise suffered this from a collision accident - it takes a very long time for the brain to recover - and there was no way to - JenBro Nov 19, 08:58
- IPO Simple Jack 2? -- nm - budice Nov 19, 08:21
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Kirk Cameron's latest cinematic dump sounds sociopathic. -- (link) - Reagen Nov 19, 08:05
The easily fillable map has been popular on my fb lately: Here's all the US states that I have been to -- (link) - MDH Nov 19, 08:03 11
- mine using Ender's criteria - would be less using Pippy's -- (link) - JenBro Nov 19, 09:06
- Mine - i am missing the middle-top area. -- (link) - Andie Nov 19, 08:24 1
  - oops - mine -- (link) - Andie Nov 19, 08:25
- Mine... -- (link) - Kim Pine Nov 19, 08:21
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  - I use the criteria "anywhere I, or the vehicle I was in touched the ground". *NM* - Ender Nov 19, 08:19 1
    - I am going to do mine later - cause internet explorer hates me - but I'm using " have I stayed a night there" -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 19, 08:21
- Mine, but I'll add probably 6 states this year. -- (link) - spamlet Nov 19, 08:14
- here's mine -- (link) - Reagen Nov 19, 08:12
- mine -- (link) - decline Nov 19, 08:09
- Mine -- (link) - Ender Nov 19, 08:09
ST Poll: Xmas songs. What is your fave traditional song? Fave non-traditional song? - Shaun Nov 19, 07:50 25
- Traditional: Let It Snow Non-Traditional: Fairy Tale in New York -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 19, 08:44
- My favorite is WAIT UNTIL AFTER THANKSGIVING -- nm - Max Nov 19, 08:23 1
  - there was christmas music when i came in downstairs. it has begun. -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 08:25
- Traditional: LDB, Non-traditional: Father Christmas - The Kinks -- nm - Inigo Nov 19, 08:19
- Andy Williams version of O Holy Night -- nm - eag Nov 19, 08:17
- non-trad: a party for santa claus. (would we consider elvis traditional? I like blue christmas.) -- nm - sheriff peggy ann Nov 19, 08:04
- O Holy Night (no fave artist for this) & Christmas Time by Salsoul Orchestra -- nm - Covington Nov 19, 08:03
- Trad: We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Non-Trad: Mariah - All I Want For Christmas Is You -- nm - budice Nov 19, 08:02 7
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    - Which ones? -- nm - Spawn Nov 19, 08:11
    - Maybe some just look past the IM and use their definition of Traditional -- nm - budice Nov 19, 08:09 3
      - So you're actively breaking the rules of my poll!!?!!?!? Dammit! -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 08:10 2
        
        For the record I do notate Silent Night. -- nm - budice Nov 19, 08:16
        
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  - Honorable Mention: Silent Night -- nm - budice Nov 19, 08:02
- my friend's a capella arrangement of O Holy Night, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 07:59
- Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is You" - earworm time! -- nm - MDH Nov 19, 07:58
- O Holy Night (I like Josh Groban's version) and White Christmas (Bing, clearly). -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 07:58 1
  - Honourable mention to Christmas is All Around. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 07:58
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  - (that's my ringtone this time of year) - spamlet Nov 19, 07:57
- Trad: Go Tell it on the Mountain Non-Trad: Christmas Wrapping - spamlet Nov 19, 07:55
- Feliz Navidad, Who's That Up on the Roof. -- nm - David Nov 19, 07:54
- Today? LDB and Christmas in Holis. -- nm - Spawn Nov 19, 07:53
- LDB is my favorite, Christmas Wrapping non traditional. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 19, 07:52
Does anyone have any more of those new Google InBox invites left?.... - Walt_Disney Nov 19, 07:50 3
- FYI for others, I have a few -- nm - oblique Nov 19, 07:58
- sent -- nm - spamlet Nov 19, 07:56 1
  - Thanks very much :) -- nm - Walt_Disney Nov 19, 07:56
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- They also told him they would be signing AP. - Spawn Nov 19, 07:49
fast food workers looking to take minimum wage protests global -- (link) - znufrii Nov 19, 07:38 2
- I thought the rest of the world was nirvana for minimum wage workers. You could buy a yacht and a country estate on minimum wage! -- nm - Mop Nov 19, 07:40 1
  - No, that's just Denmark -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 07:42
It's quiet at work today. Too quiet -- nm - oblique Nov 19, 07:28
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: I hereby declare that the Little Drum Boy Challenge (the LDBC) has begun! - Andie Nov 19, 07:17 31
- I'm in! -- nm - JenBro Nov 19, 08:53
- I'm in. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 19, 08:43
- I'm in (didn't play last year). -- nm - LMS Nov 19, 08:31
- I'm in. - Mel Profit Nov 19, 08:21
- I'm in! -- nm - kelly Nov 19, 08:16
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  - I still haven't heard the song since last year's challenge started. -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 08:01
  - yes, I did at least. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 08:00
- I had to google this to find out what it was. Am I out? -- nm - Loyola Nov 19, 07:40 2
  - Yes, but not becuase you heard it, but on principle that you didn't know the song. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 19, 07:41 1
    - Flip it. Until next year, little drummer boy. -- nm - Loyola Nov 19, 07:43
- Thought we were gonna change songs ? -- nm - eag Nov 19, 07:24 17
  - it's better this way, I think. -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 07:36 1
    - my ultimate plan is to instill a lifelong deep and foreboding fear of the song. - Andie Nov 19, 07:45
  - there's no worse Christmas song, so... -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 07:33 10
    - Oh you are so so wrong I can think of a few - eag Nov 19, 07:38 9
      - I guess Christmas Shoes, but I don't even really count that. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 07:48 1
        
        oh god, that song. -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 07:50
      - But how often do you hear that versus LDB? I actually like LDB but know why it's used for the challenge. - spamlet Nov 19, 07:46 2
        
        Chestnuts roasting on an open fire is the song I've heard the most so far this year. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 07:48 1
        
        I've only heard one Christmas song this year. - spamlet Nov 19, 07:56
      - Run Run Rudolph -- nm - TWuG Nov 19, 07:41
      - :( I really like that song. -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 19, 07:41 2
        
        Me too -- nm - JaxSean Nov 19, 07:42
        
        Don't mind him. Greatest. Song. Ever. -- nm - Loyola Nov 19, 07:41
  - do you honestly think we could come to any sort of agreement on that? -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 07:25 3
    - It would quickly descend into ear-worm battles. -- nm - Roger More Nov 19, 07:30
    - I just remember a few people saying we change the song every year but im good with what the mob says -- nm - eag Nov 19, 07:26 1
      - "At Christmas no-one can hear you scream" :) -- (link) - Andie Nov 19, 07:30 [Image]
- Sol 37... So close, i may get out of this alive. -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 07:22
- "Day 1: Still good, taking it one breath at a time . . ." -- nm - call me Ishmael Nov 19, 07:20
huh...10 years ago it was Malice at the Palace as Pacer Ron Artest went into the stands to fight.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 19, 07:16
ST: Caption this groiny photo -- (link) - oblique Nov 19, 07:15 [Image] 6
- heyyyyyy maca rana AYE! -- nm - JenBro Nov 19, 08:56
- Son, if you are my son...when you hit puberty, they'll be down to here. -- nm - Loyola Nov 19, 07:22
- Groiny demonstrates the proper form to lift a plastic crate from the flood waters. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 19, 07:19 3
  - That's cold. -- nm - Mop Nov 19, 07:39 2
    - see, we all have our things...... -- nm - groiny Nov 19, 07:41 1
      - You know I'm joking, right? - Will Hunting Nov 19, 08:17
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- Yesterday, too. Mop found it! -- nm - Spawn Nov 19, 07:50
- Nice one, thanks. -- nm - Loyola Nov 19, 07:24
- Huh, I set it up months ago on Spotify -- nm - amoxy Nov 19, 07:22
- I got it yesterday, its cool driving music -- nm - certainly not pippy Nov 19, 07:20 5
  - I just got it may listenn to it on my way to work -- nm - eag Nov 19, 07:24 4
    - Ok yeah its pretty awesome love it so far -- nm - eag Nov 19, 08:24
    - " And now for our long distance dedication - this one going out from Pippy to Eag and she says things will always be better tomorrow" - Oooh Childe -- nm - Ghost of Kasey Kasem Nov 19, 07:34 2
      - where are my pictures? Can someone get Don on the phone? -- nm - Casey Nov 19, 08:11
      - Jean Kasem would disagree with you - eag Nov 19, 08:08
Huh, even Tasker can't turn off mobile data in Lollipop. - spamlet Nov 19, 06:59 6
- Looks like it's in the same place, but now it's 'Cellular Data' instead of 'Mobile Data'. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 07:03 5
  - But it doesn't appear to be editable by third party apps/widgets right now. - spamlet Nov 19, 07:09 4
    - Ahh. About your battery thing, I'd try to call Google/whoever you bought it from as it's definitely an issue. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 07:11 3
      - Yeah, I was holding out for Lollipop as they were some indications it might be a 4.4.4 thing but it's not. - spamlet Nov 19, 07:22 2
        
        Good luck with getting a replacement. I had that problem with my Nexus 4. Rebooting all the time was a pita. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 07:24 1
        
        It's a T-Mobile device and I had to go in Saturday to get a new SIM because I kept getting a "SIM card added" error and needing to reboot my device. - spamlet Nov 19, 07:31
See, this is why we need an ST newsletter. - oblique Nov 19, 06:53 8
- All the important people were told. -- nm - spamlet Nov 19, 06:54 7
  - I see. As long as I'm still above Inigo, I'm good -- nm - oblique Nov 19, 07:07 6
    - Kilbo is a top. -- nm - Mop Nov 19, 07:41
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      - SFEK - I'm not FB friends with you, doppleganger. - Inigo Nov 19, 07:36
      - I' -- nm - Inigo Nov 19, 07:34
      - Who did he sleep with for that to happen?!? - oblique Nov 19, 07:11 1
        
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Just so we're clear, Don Lemon suggested someone bite Bill Cosby's dick off, right? -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 06:51 3
- Not necessarily off, but basically yeah -- nm - oblique Nov 19, 07:08
- yes. and? -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 06:57
- Somebody should have. -- nm - David Nov 19, 06:55
You can't see the airport from the road it sits on. -- nm - Diva Nov 19, 06:29
7 of the top 30 US corporations paid more to their CEOs than they owed in taxes -- (link) - znufrii Nov 19, 06:26 37
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  - Is that really the argument? I know that it is for personal tax rates (job creators!), but I thought the argument on corporate tax is more about the - pmb Nov 19, 07:48 1
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  - Particularly when (not to pick on) Apple has something like 150 billion in cash just sitting around. - Reagen Nov 19, 06:35 31
    - (And that cash is probably not even here, is it.) -- nm - JaxSean Nov 19, 07:03 22
      - No, it's overseas. They'll pay 35% in tax if they bring it back. -- nm - spamlet Nov 19, 07:23 21
        
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        why won't they? -- nm - groiny Nov 19, 07:38 19
        
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        It's not about effective tax rate, it's about marginal rate. - spamlet Nov 19, 08:01 16
        
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        There has been one repatriation holiday and companies did bring back a lot of money when the rate was 5% instead of 35%. -- nm - spamlet Nov 19, 08:11 9
        
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        Understood, but there was more tax revenue. That has value on its own. -- nm - pmb Nov 19, 08:17 5
        
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        I was mostly explaining yesterday, but as always I do care about fairness, but also practicality and effectiveness. - pmb Nov 19, 08:29 2
        
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        First, I understand that it's not 35% of nothing (but in many cases it is or is close). My point is that if we can effectively get more revenue for a - pmb Nov 19, 08:48
        
        a pragmatic " better than nothing ". -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 08:27
        
        The argument in your IM was that companies would not bring money back when the rate was lowered. They did and would. -- (link) - spamlet Nov 19, 08:16 1
        
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        But they would pay 50% (in your example) on bringing the cash back. That's the effective tax rate on bringing the money back. -- nm - spamlet Nov 19, 08:10 3
        
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        $50 in tax on $100 in income is a 50% rate. -- nm - spamlet Nov 19, 08:15 1
        
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    - We need an "idle assets" tax. -- nm - TWuG Nov 19, 06:59
    - Apple should spend some of that money on R&D instead of pumping out stale tech. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 06:40 2
      - If they thought it would be more profitable than their current business model, they'd be doing it. -- nm - Roger More Nov 19, 06:43
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      - the bigger mistake may be in assuming that people making this argument are arguing in good faith - Reagen Nov 19, 06:49 1
        
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      - yeah, we know! :) -- nm - the choir Nov 19, 06:39
- also, if you're going to write an article about a study, it might be useful to your readers to have a link to that study. - znufrii Nov 19, 06:27
- ^Only -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 19, 06:27
Pipster: I actually saw SM on the road this morning while I was driving. Talk about chance. -- nm - Roo-Murderous Christmas Intent Nov 19, 06:26 1
- crazy -- nm - certainly not pippy Nov 19, 06:32
*adds word 'Hoth' to Outlook dictionary* -- nm - Diva Nov 19, 06:25
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- These euphemisms are getting ever more obtuse. -- nm - Mop Nov 19, 07:44
- I will raise you my 40 inches and add in a burning police car -- nm - Cheektawaga NY Nov 19, 06:26
- re B2: For sure. Diet plus an active lifestyle will maintain the body. Sadly I fall into none of those categories. I am so out of shape... -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 06:19

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