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Has the Supreme Court ever decided on private sector drug testing of employees? Is there any current law on that? -- nm - Max May 1, 10:36 7
- I agree with ML. - ReluctantCynic May 1, 11:01 3
  - WAMU just did a story on an executive order issued by Reagan prohibiting drug use by fed employees vs DC's new marijuana law - Max May 1, 11:40 1
    - military is pretty firm about that, just because it ain't illegal in WA or CO doesn't mean you can ...even for medicinal purposes -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 11:59
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- quit smokin that dope -- nm - professor smartbrain May 1, 10:37
B3 CQ: I'm happy with Parker. Landry, Stills and Parker is a.. good WR combo. - Strongbad May 1, 10:32 3
- cool. you follow this stuff much more than I do so thanks. -- nm - CQ May 1, 10:37 1
  - When the Vikings didn't grab him, I was really hoping we would. -- nm - Strongbad May 1, 11:03
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I bought a new monitor yesterday to replace my old ASUS one that I've had for about 7 years. It's my primary PS4 display so I am excited. -- nm - Shaun May 1, 10:32
uh-oh - Tom Brady's headed back to the Derby. Hide yo drinks. -- nm - Diva May 1, 10:26 11
- Wes Welker isn't, but will still be told he attended when lucid on Monday. -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 10:27 4
  - CAUSE HE GETS CONCUSSIONS ALL THE TIME. -- nm - BIG BEN May 1, 10:32 3
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      - It was a concussion joke, but the Molly joke works just as well. -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 10:50
      - this -- nm - Diva May 1, 10:38
- They must have sweet waterslides there. -- nm - Shaun May 1, 10:26 5
  - oh f*ck, Gronk's on the plane too. -- nm - Diva May 1, 10:28 4
    - Did somebody say horse hung? Hey-oh! -- nm - Gronk at the Derby May 1, 10:39
    - heaven help us all -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 10:34 1
      - what are the odds he'll end up wearing a derby hat? And nothing else... -- nm - Diva May 1, 10:38
    - Yes! -- nm - Shaun May 1, 10:28
Maybe I should start wearing a suit ... -- (link) - ReluctantCynic May 1, 10:21 10
- i almost never wear them since moving here from the least coast and i never miss them -- nm - professor smartbrain May 1, 10:35
- I would feel silly wearing a suit and sitting at my desk all day. Here's what I'm wearing today. -- (link) - Beryllium May 1, 10:23 [Image] 4
  - WWGD.... -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 10:37 1
    - Work is taking us to Ultron today, so I felt the shirt was appropriate. -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 10:38
  - I was really hoping this my link again. -- nm - ty97 May 1, 10:31
  - I clicked on that fully expecting to see a can of whipped cream. -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 1, 10:26
- Like this? -- (link) - ty97 May 1, 10:22 [Image] 3
  - Maybe a bit smaller than that, sure. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 1, 10:33 1
    - "Where do they keep going?" -- (link) - Beryllium May 1, 10:36 [Image]
  - .... I shouldnae have clicked on that. -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 10:24
I watched Rubber on Netflix last night. What a strange movie. - Jovian May 1, 10:16 2
- speaking of netflix, suicide kings is on NF right now. I urge us all to rewatch. sash and I may watch tonight. -- nm - amanda May 1, 10:18 1
  - That movie is a underrated cult classic. - Jovian May 1, 10:32
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- "this year" -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 1, 10:32
- I agree. -- nm - Mel Kiper May 1, 10:04
the Roberts Court: free money speech for thee, but not for me -- (link) - professor smartbrain May 1, 10:01
New Yorkers - tell me again how easy/difficult it is to get to Manhattan from JFK? - Andie May 1, 09:58 8
- Airtrain to Jamaica. E train subway -- nm - CQ May 1, 10:05
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dawson is right, it's very easy. I tend to take the AirTrain to LIRR approach - ty97 May 1, 10:03
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  - hope so ! My friend Julie and I keep saying we need a weekend in New York this summer. -- nm - Andie May 1, 10:03 4
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      - i know. i was just seeing if i could find us cheap flights, and they are really not bad. -- nm - Andie May 1, 10:08 2
        
        It makes sense they would sell that leg cheap just to fill it. The plane flies Brazil-JFK-YYZ (and then back YYZ-JFK-Brazil) - ty97 May 1, 10:11 1
        
        yeah, it's awesome for us. :) -- nm - Andie May 1, 10:16
man, there's going to be a bloodbath on the exchange tomorrow. -- nm - amanda May 1, 09:56 27
- I am at 1500 ish, I don't think I will ever gain enough to get to 1000 -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 10:20
- My mythological chase for the top 500 continues. #502 currently. $4m off the pace. -- nm - volnelk May 1, 10:06 19
  - I was top 100 the first time I quit (in 01). Back up to 219 but it's been a long slog. - iSpam May 1, 10:28
  - I'm due to get passed and drop from 127 to 128 as early as today. -- nm - ty97 May 1, 10:12
  - my goal is top 1000. 1265 now -- nm - CQ May 1, 10:11
  - i'm 540. Top 500 is my goal too (a long long time ago, i was there.) -- nm - Andie May 1, 10:08 14
    - I *think* my lowest ever was 297. I'm 413 now. it's *so* hard to move up. my goal is 400 by EOY and I don't have a lot of confidence that I'll make it -- nm - amanda May 1, 10:17 13
      - I think I was #50 back in 2004 or so...I'm under 150 now and have gone up 30 spots since start of 2014. - Will Hunting May 1, 10:21 7
        
        I wish I knew what I was when I started playing again. -- nm - amanda May 1, 10:27 6
        
        check this thread.... -- (link) - Andie May 1, 10:34 [Backboard] 5
        
        Very Nice Tronning! -- nm - ty97 May 1, 10:38 4
        
        seriously, what did she google for? "assload"? note: maybe I"m not doing so baldy after all. right? -- nm - amanda May 1, 10:43 3
        
        35 matches all-time. In keeping with tradition, groiny is the most frequent user of "assload". -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 10:49 1
        
        I like that word. nm -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 10:58
        
        how short did you let them cut it this time? -- nm - professor smartbrain May 1, 10:46
      - you were probably higher than that/ -- nm - Andie May 1, 10:20 1
        
        I don't think I was. wouldn't I remember? -- nm - amanda May 1, 10:21
      - I made it into the 70s but have resigned myself that I will never see Top 100 again. - ty97 May 1, 10:18 1
        
        i am pretty sure i was Top 200 at one point. but, that's long gone in the fogs of time. -- nm - Andie May 1, 10:19
      - since we started playing again (so, close to a year now, right?) i've gone up about 78. but now it's a struggle for every spot. -- nm - Andie May 1, 10:18
  - I'm only 711. -- nm - Shaun May 1, 10:07
- If Avengers does that $250 or so, it'll be worse. - Will Hunting May 1, 09:57 4
  - I'm never going to get to $3bn -- nm - amanda May 1, 10:01 3
    - How close are you? -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 10:04 2
      - H$2,772,746,484.74 -- nm - amanda May 1, 10:19 1
        
        you do that by the end of summer, don't forget the summer rush, blockbust bonds, its xmas in july -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 10:42
- worse than playing Game of Thrones Monopoly? -- nm - professor smartbrain May 1, 09:56
Larry Wilmore eats pie with some Baltimore o.g.s -- (link) - professor smartbrain May 1, 09:53
Texas GOP Rep. Bill Flores Links Baltimore Protests To Gay Marriage -- (link) - ty97 May 1, 09:47 1
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I would pay money to see this movie. -- (link) - Shaun May 1, 09:47 [Image]
Craig Bierko (the smartass villain in Long Kiss Goodnight) apparently had the Chandler Bing part on Friends and passed (for the pilot Best Friends) - professor smartbrain May 1, 09:40
My Colin Firth film IPO's today. - LMS May 1, 09:35 6
- "Crowhurst was raised as a girl until the age of 7, given his mother's desire for a daughter rather than a son" - ty97 May 1, 09:42
- They tend to overprice a lot of IPOs nowadays, especially those that will clearly be limited. -- nm - ty97 May 1, 09:38
- Is it a Kingsman Colin Firth or a Pride and Prejudice Colin Firth? -- nm - amoxy May 1, 09:37 2
  - Nanny McPhee with a bit of Before I Go To Sleep and Darcy (as I assume he gets wet at some point). - LMS May 1, 09:42 1
    - He gets wet in Love Actually, too. - Beryllium May 1, 10:20
- David! -- nm - professor smartbrain May 1, 09:36
The saddest thing is all of this, regardless of culpability of lack thereof in his death, is that he never should have been arrested. - ty97 May 1, 09:28 2
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- thanks, war on drugs -- (link) - professor smartbrain May 1, 09:31
If you can't get in to see Ultron, my film Far from the Madding Crowd is released today too. - LMS May 1, 09:25 8
- they was just talkin bout it on NPR! -- nm - professor smartbrain May 1, 09:26 3
  - I hope they were saying nice things. -- nm - LMS May 1, 09:29 2
    - they was interviewing Carey -- nm - professor smartbrain May 1, 09:30 1
      - She's been working hard promoting it. -- nm - LMS May 1, 09:34
- I was going to say "go to the next biggest city" so you still have a large pool. I was surprised to see that is Frederick. - ty97 May 1, 09:26 3
  - Oh f**k. -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 09:30 1
    - Yeah, thought of you when I saw that. - ty97 May 1, 09:33
  - This should be down there VVVVVVVVV -- nm - ty97 May 1, 09:29
the bigger question is what venue the trial(s) ultimately get moved to - professor smartbrain May 1, 09:25 5
- Ferguson, MO -- nm - decline May 1, 09:27 4
  - I would ask that since we have a couple ST'ers who are close to the issues in Fergueson, that we avoid Fergueson jokes. - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 09:29 3
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      - I don't know about those posts about the protestors, I do know that..... - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 10:07 1
        
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ST Gut Check (about 35 minutes left to halt of options/warrant). There is one opener this weekend. - ty97 May 1, 09:24 17
- Long as I can get. -- nm - spamlet May 1, 09:42
- Long x3, Short -- nm - MDH May 1, 09:33
- Long on the stock, short on the put, dithering on the others but currently long on both. - VeraCharles May 1, 09:31 1
  - Long, long, long, short. Let the weekend sort it out. -- nm - VeraCharles May 1, 10:01
- i longed it all -- nm - Andie May 1, 09:30 1
  - clever girl..... -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 09:31
- I'm long on the OW, can't afford the actual stock - might jump in the short on sunday. short on PUT -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 09:30 5
  - You should look at SSKAR's bond. -- nm - ty97 May 1, 09:36 1
    - thanks -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 10:35
  - you can't afford the stock???? -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 09:30 2
    - I got a $ 15 mil dollar port - I reset a few years ago when I reached a billion -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 10:35
    - She needs an HSX sugar daddy. - Will Hunting May 1, 09:31
- LONG, LONG, LONG, SHORT - Will Hunting May 1, 09:29 1
  - I believe this will be 100% correct. -- nm - Shaun May 1, 09:33
- LONG, LONG, LONG. NM -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 09:27 1
  - Short the put; get your $25k off it if it goes over 215. -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 09:29
- massive short! -- nm - decline May 1, 09:26
Wow, Mike Trout could conceivably be in the top 350 players all-time based on WAR after this season. - Will Hunting May 1, 09:21 5
- have not been impressed with a young player on both sides of the ball like this since Griffey Jr. nm -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 09:24 4
  - Only knock I have on him is his strikeout's. Other than that, he is the best in the game -- nm - amoxy May 1, 09:35 1
    - well, we can always debate the issues with strikeouts. I look past them mostly, as long as he hits .300 ish. nm -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 09:36
  - He adapts pretty well. You'll like this. I was looking through some cards a few months back, and found a die-cut minor league card of his. - Will Hunting May 1, 09:34 1
    - nice. -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 09:36
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- "To The Sixth" -- nm - Reagen May 1, 09:27
- Damn these electric sex pants! -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 1, 09:19
- needs an IPO -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 09:17 5
  - it really doesn't. nm -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 09:18 4
    - have you seen Cube? it's good. -- nm - Andie May 1, 09:19 3
      - And much better than Sphere in the genre of geometrically-titled movies. -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 1, 09:21
      - it must not be what I am thinking of..... -- nm - Gjallergroin x 3 May 1, 09:20
      - truly - -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 09:20
Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular is Coming to New York -- (link) - LMS May 1, 09:14 1
- *twitch* -- nm - znufrii May 1, 09:39
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- I wonder which assassin he'll be playing. Ezio is a logical choice, but I can see Altair. -- nm - Shaun May 1, 09:22
- hopefully it's not just 2 hours of some dude jumping off buildings into haybales -- nm - decline May 1, 09:10 1
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David has hope after all... -- (link) - Shaun May 1, 09:07
Kick it! -- nm - LMS May 1, 09:07 1
- hey, um, that's our line . . . -- nm - The Beastie Boys May 1, 09:51

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