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Obama/Congress and the public need to stop being so damn reactionary to every news story - ty97 Mar 19, 13:28 6
- Heaven help us if Octomom gives the Octobabies a bonus. -- nm - Ender Mar 19, 13:30 1
  - Octomom sounds like something from Futurama. -- nm - Loyola Mar 19, 13:31
- Sen. Jolie is introducing a bill to tax 91% of the babies and return them to the US taxpayers. - TFox Mar 19, 13:29
- Way to go. Your post just caused a major policy shift. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:28 1
  - I've got the power -- nm - ty97 Mar 19, 13:29
- *points to ty* I'll have what he's having. -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 13:28
Anyone remember the formula for calculating "standard deviations from the mean", if you know the stdev and the mean? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 13:25 5
- This help? -- (link) - TWuG Mar 19, 13:28
- If the data point is 10, the mean is 7, and the stdev is 1, you're 3 stdevs from the mean. - nubby Mar 19, 13:28 2
  - so there's no "minus one" trick or anything? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 13:28 1
    - It's been a while, but I think that's it. -- nm - nubby Mar 19, 13:29
- wiki -- (link) - Roger More Mar 19, 13:27
FYI for ML: THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE 8/14/2009 -- nm - David Mar 19, 13:23 1
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Purdue/No Iowa is getting interesting in the last minute. -- nm - Reagen Mar 19, 13:23 3
- Nooooooo. Hope it gets boring very fast. -- nm - trouble. DreadPR Mar 19, 13:23 2
  - You are nothing but trouble. - Spawn Mar 19, 13:24 1
    - Heh. Always forget to change that back. -- nm - DreadPR Mar 19, 13:35
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- Not yet, on the phone with the mortgage group. - Will Hunting Mar 19, 13:29 1
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OMG OMG OMG OMG.... Simon and Garfunkel reunion tour. -- (link) - TFox Mar 19, 13:16 12
- Saw the last tour. It was very good. -- nm - pmb Mar 19, 13:22
- One of the better shows I've been to... -- nm - kelly Mar 19, 13:21 2
  - I know this will be a hot ticket -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 13:23
  - Simon last summer was *amazing*. -- nm - TFox Mar 19, 13:21
- Garfunkel is grateful -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 13:20
- (sorry for Dawsoning out right there) -- nm - TFox Mar 19, 13:18
- Hopefully Garfunkel leaves the stage after their handful of good songs. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:17 5
  - *jaw drops* - TFox Mar 19, 13:18 4
    - You realize they did more than one album, right? - Spawn Mar 19, 13:19 3
      - I think I own every song they ever recorded, more or less. -- nm - TFox Mar 19, 13:20 2
        
        I am now trying to remember what Amazon offers you jumped at and I was shocked you did not have, yet you own them? - Spawn Mar 19, 13:23 1
        
        I have all 5 S&G studio albums, the Concert at Central Park, the Old Friends box set with additional demos.... - TFox Mar 19, 13:24
The ep recap I read on last night's Lost did not speculate on one thing (spoils) - HdnAgnda Mar 19, 13:15 3
- I read a recap with comments that did. It speculated. . . - jnine Mar 19, 13:26 1
  - spoiler - nubby Mar 19, 13:30
- Counting is hard. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:17
My town's happiness is now 69 -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 13:13 16
- 90 for me but I'm holding back wine. I could increase it to 18 per hour but I don't want to run out of wine too quickly. - Krusty Mar 19, 13:23 9
  - I have a large surplus of wine. Whaddya got? - Reagen Mar 19, 13:26 8
    - I could use 500 wine. I can send you 500 sulphur, if you'd like -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 13:27 7
      - my boats will be back from a raid in about a half an hour. -- nm - Reagen Mar 19, 13:28 6
        
        No worries. What are your coords? -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 13:30 5
        
        Reagen strikes me as a B Flat. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:30 1
        
        with an augmented fifth and a minor 9th. -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 13:31
        
        66:51, Hemskyia. -- nm - Reagen Mar 19, 13:30 2
        
        Cool, that's not *too* far -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 13:32
        
        Crap. - Spawn Mar 19, 13:31
- 124 for mine. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:15
- Why wouldn't it be any town's happiness? ;^) -- nm - TaurusII Mar 19, 13:14
- What a bunch of slingers! -- nm - JaxSean Mar 19, 13:14 3
  - yogurt? -- nm - nubby Mar 19, 13:22 1
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  - I'm guessing they've got plenty of wood there. -- nm - TaurusII Mar 19, 13:15
Nate Silver was a keynote at SXSW this weekend. Anything good come of that? Also, is Obama's bracket biased towards swing-state teams? -- (link) - Mop Mar 19, 13:12
So, who's going to be treasury secretary in 6 months? I'd put money on it not being Geithner. - znufrii Mar 19, 13:11 4
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  - it would help to go back in time to change either Geithner's apparent complicity in obfuscating the bonus program last year - znufrii Mar 19, 13:15
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  - He's having enough trouble filling the main positions. -- nm - TaurusII Mar 19, 13:14
oh, man... whoever came up with the 90% tax is my hero today -- (link) - Guy Mar 19, 13:07 16
- yeah because converting the tax code to a political tool is always a good thing -- nm - decline Mar 19, 13:17 1
  - The tax code has been a political tool since its inception. -- nm - TWuG Mar 19, 13:20
- Interesting that Republicans voted against it 87 to 85 -- nm - DreadPR Mar 19, 13:10 8
  - Silver had something on that, too. Speculation on whether Boehner failed to whip the caucus into line. -- (link) - Mop Mar 19, 13:13
  - For once, the majority of them got it right. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 19, 13:11 6
    - Not sure if this will all stand up constitutionally. It seems to me that taxing one person at a different rate than another is asking for legal -- nm - trouble. DreadPR Mar 19, 13:22 5
      - how is it different than taxing capital gains at a different level than other income? -- nm - Reagen Mar 19, 13:23 4
        
        Because they're not taxing all bonuses at this level, only those for certain companies. -- nm - Ender Mar 19, 13:26 2
        
        Those companies have the distinction of being the recipients of federal tax dollars. They aren't like other companies. - TWuG Mar 19, 13:30
        
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        Its a lot more specific right? Its not just all bonuses. Its bonuses paid to employees who work for companies that got TARP ... -- nm - trouble. DreadPR Mar 19, 13:26
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- Other than it having some constitutional issues and basically opening Pandora's Box down the road..it's a perfect solution to Congressional fuckups. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 19, 13:08 1
  - OPEN THE BOX!!! -- nm - Pandora Mar 19, 13:09
- I love that local and state taxes will take care of the other 10%. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:08
- *grabs the popcorn* -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 13:07
LIR: I'll be curious if stimulus money will go to schools/her district - con_carne Mar 19, 13:07 1
- (You know, I think this is my first friend I know of that's been laid off in the current economy. -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 13:19
From Movies: The "Sorority Row" Remake Trailer - MDH Mar 19, 13:05 2
- I want them to remake every single one of the 80's horror classics - Epiphany Mar 19, 13:17 1
  - Stop being part of the problem, bitch! -- nm - David Mar 19, 13:28
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- well, the GOP should've thought about that before driving the economy into the ground. :) -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 13:28
- compared to the deficits Bush falsified by not including war expenses? -- nm - Stewie Mar 19, 13:08 6
  - You can't just admit that tacking on an extra $8.5 trillion to the existing $11 trillion national debt isn't good? -- nm - Ender Mar 19, 13:25 3
    - If we knew what the existing debt really was this discussion would be a lot easier - Stewie Mar 19, 13:31
    - *shrug* at least he's honest about it. -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 13:30 1
      - (Except for the part where he underestimated it by 20%.) -- nm - Ender Mar 19, 13:32
  - Is that your answer to everything? Fine. Compared to Stalin, Bush was brilliant! -- nm - Loyola Mar 19, 13:23 1
    - I dunno.................... - ty97 Mar 19, 13:24
- Medicare Advantage is so effed. -- nm - TFox Mar 19, 13:08 6
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    - It would be nice if we could stone up and fix healthcare now, while there is still a little bit of money left... - TFox Mar 19, 13:15 4
      - I'm just going to start learning Chinese. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 19, 13:17 3
        
        I have an alliance request in, BTW. -- nm - Reagen Mar 19, 13:21 1
        
        woo hoo! *hides under Mel's skirt, doesn't look up* -- nm - Reagen Mar 19, 13:30
        
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Apparently, I'm late to the party on this crazy bitch. I thought toxic wife syndrome was a joke until this video. -- (link) - Mop Mar 19, 13:01 [youtube]
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- Yeah (spoils) - DreadPR Mar 19, 13:02
new Xbox 360 flaw "E74" not covered by the 3 year extended warranty - Stewie Mar 19, 12:57 8
- So, this is basically a 1 in a 450,000 issue? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 19, 13:11 2
  - Nobody knows that yet, but it's happening with a much higher frequency these days -- nm - Stewie Mar 19, 13:15
  - And Remlik has taken care of three or four of them. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:12
- glad we don't have a warranty here anymore! - Danedukenuuk Mar 19, 13:02
- Am I the only one that reads "Red Ring of Death" and thinks of it being an illness (of humans). -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 12:59 2
  - ~ring around the rosy ~ -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 13:00
  - Uh, yeah. -- nm - Mop Mar 19, 13:00
- We're gaining momentum now!!! -- nm - Ken Kutargi Mar 19, 12:58
LIR: Because its one of the most important statements in American political history - DreadPR Mar 19, 12:57
horsepoopy! - Reagen Mar 19, 12:55 6
- two words that go well with "cock"? -- nm - nubby Mar 19, 12:57 4
  - "cockapoopy?" -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 12:58 3
    - tangent: Lord help me if I ever own a cockapoo, and don't die laughing. -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 13:00 1
      - cockatoo? -- nm - nubby Mar 19, 13:21
    - ty97 just got turned on and doesn't know why. -- nm - nubby Mar 19, 12:58
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BSG related Dilbert comic. -- (link) - lileve Mar 19, 12:54
[an error occurred while making elephant noises as I skoosh toy elephant cross the top of ST] - Epiphany Mar 19, 12:53 10
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  - Wait, it was a skoosh? - Spawn Mar 19, 13:06 3
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      - Cool. I could not imagine sleeping with a skoosh. - Spawn Mar 19, 13:21
    - survey says......? -- nm - Epiphany Mar 19, 13:15
  - I can just see her stopping in mid trumpet and looking at you like - Epiphany Mar 19, 13:00 3
    - Aww, did I miss an adorable Claire story? - kelly Mar 19, 13:04 2
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        So cute. -- nm - kelly Mar 19, 13:14
- Hee! -- nm - mara Mar 19, 12:54
The fairest thing to do at this point is to just have another election. -- nm - Loyola Mar 19, 12:53 24
- We will, in 2012...that's what is great about America -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Mar 19, 13:01
- Welcome to the year 2000! -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 12:56
- ummm...was there something wrong with the last one? - znufrii Mar 19, 12:54 18
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    - *hyperventilates* *passes out* Success! -- nm - Mop Mar 19, 13:02
    - and I'm obviously just playing along with it. - znufrii Mar 19, 12:57 14
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        bah! - znufrii Mar 19, 13:02
      - I am trying to figure out which of you is David and which of you is Maddie. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:00 11
        
        Znu is the Broadway theatre producer and Dawson is Fran Drescher -- nm - Roger More Mar 19, 13:09
        
        That's an insult to Moonlighting. - Will Hunting Mar 19, 13:06 3
        
        But your lack of nm is an insult to ST. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:11 2
        
        ST'll get over it. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 19, 13:12 1
        
        And Moonlighting will never know, so all's well. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:24
        
        In an odd twist of fate, they are both Maddie -- nm - ty97 Mar 19, 13:03 5
        
        huh? -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 13:04 4
        
        He may be right. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:07 3
        
        That's as may be - znufrii Mar 19, 13:09 2
        
        A great tv show called Moonlighting. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 13:11 1
        
        I think i've heard of that. - znufrii Mar 19, 13:12
  - as if thats not a good enogh reason???? - Danedukenuuk Mar 19, 12:56
- my words exactly - Danedukenuuk Mar 19, 12:54
- I agree. Nixon was gipped the first time around! Revote!!! -- nm - Ender Mar 19, 12:54 1
  - I still think A Hopkins as Nixon was tons better than that guy who got nominated this year. -- nm - Loyola Mar 19, 12:56
*nominates Kwadzo Ahelegbe as 'name most likely to have been pulled out of a Scrabble bag'* -- nm - Reagen Mar 19, 12:52
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- /me falls off -- nm - B2 Mar 19, 12:51

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