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Priority one task this morning upon arriving at work: Put the Hawks rally on the lobby TVs :) -- nm - oblique Jun 18, 07:02
I am not happy with the plan to remove Hamilton from the $10 bill. I do want a woman on a bill but leave Hamilton alone. Take Jackson off the $20. - Krusty Jun 18, 06:32 56
- i think (and I need to chec k myself to be sure) that some countries have bills w/ different images on the same denominations . . . - call me Ishmael Jun 18, 07:05
- I didn't realize they were putting Hillary on a bill already. -- nm - ty97 Jun 18, 07:03
- You guys need $1 coins. Big time. -- nm - Shaun Jun 18, 06:56 21
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    - Are there bars and restaurants that are cash only? I haven't seen that anywhere. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 07:05 7
      - Around here it's just the diviest of dive bars. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 07:10 1
        
        aka mary's favorite bars. -- nm - amanda Jun 18, 07:12
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        L3 at Flaming Saddles. -- nm - Inigo Jun 18, 07:11
        
        That seems like a bad idea. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 07:09 2
        
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        Exactly. I'm not likely to go back to the bank to get more money if I run out. Bad idea. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 07:13
    - Moving away from CC feels like ice skating uphill. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 07:02 5
      - restaurants here are moving away from interac, because their fees are higher than the CCs. So they have those ATMs in the space - Andie Jun 18, 07:03 2
        
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        we still have credit cards everywhere, but less debit (and Canada loves debit cards, we use them for, oh, everything) -- nm - Andie Jun 18, 07:08
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      - It's strange, but I've noticed this trend with local business in cities (Chicago, Austin, here in NYC). -- nm - ty97 Jun 18, 07:03
  - We have them, no one likes them and two have a woman on the face. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 06:59 3
    - They'd get used if we'd ditch the $1 bill. -- nm - TWuG Jun 18, 06:59 2
      - I really don't think the problem is people not wanting to use them as it is that nobody gives them out. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 07:02
      - If they had no other option, sure. But carrying around $1 coins sucks. I get them from the Metrocard machines at train stations when - Krusty Jun 18, 07:00
  - we have them. -- nm - amanda Jun 18, 06:57 1
    - Then you clearly need $2 coins! -- nm - Shaun Jun 18, 07:02
- It sounds as though they'd have changed whatever bill was next in line to update. Plus Hamilton isn't being removed, he's sharing the bill. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 06:53 6
  - He's being removed. He won't be the face of the bill. I don't care that it's next in line, they can wait to do it to the $20. - Krusty Jun 18, 06:57 3
    - If he's on the bill, he's not removed. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 06:58 2
      - If he's not the face he's being demoted or basically removed. It's not okay and kind of sounds worse to me. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 06:59 1
        
        Him being on the reverse seems to be just one of the options. Sounds like it's possible there could be bills with the woman AND different $10 bills with Hamilton on them. -- nm* - Ender Jun 18, 07:12
  - That sharing thing irritates me more than removing him does. -- nm - TWuG Jun 18, 06:54 1
    - I have to agree. Kind of patronizing. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 06:56
- I'd enjoy a refresh that rotates people of distinction every 5 or so years. -- nm - TWuG Jun 18, 06:46 13
  - I think so too, but I'd suggest every ten-fifteen. You guys have seven notes, and you don't want to change them too quickly. - Roger More Jun 18, 06:48 9
    - Americans are almost pathological in their fear of change to their currency and coinage. - TWuG Jun 18, 06:52 8
      - I'm from a country that got rid of its pennies and converted $1 and $2 notes into coins 30 years ago. You don't have to tell me ;) -- nm - Roger More Jun 18, 07:01 1
        
        i had a penny in my wallet's change compartment this week. and i was annoyed. "where the hell did i get *that*?" - Andie Jun 18, 07:06
      - the all-one-colour thing is really not user-friendly. You know who has awesome currency? Norway! -- (link) - Andie Jun 18, 06:54 5
        
        We've added color to our new bills. They look cool but a bit weird still. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 07:02
        
        I remember seeing a design contest and one of the best ones had the Bill of Rights spread across the different bills. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 06:56 1
        
        don't go spreading radical ideas -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 11:01
        
        The Euro is done really well. Bright color AND the larger the denomination, the larger the physical size of the bill - TWuG Jun 18, 06:56 1
        
        the pound does as well, (right?) -- nm - Andie Jun 18, 06:58
  - Not a bad idea but would likely be expensive. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 06:48 2
    - They have a new "series" every couple of years anyway, which denotes some change to the bill. Any change requires new plates, so make the change - TWuG Jun 18, 06:51
    - Notes have to be upgraded for new security measures anyway. And the UK does this, so it can't be that expensive. -- nm - Roger More Jun 18, 06:49
- Everyone is blowing up the internet saying the same thing. Hamilton is a founding father or democracy, Jackson - meh. -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 06:43 1
  - That they're saying the $10 is the next up to get redesigned is not a good enough reason to make this change. I'm really bothered by this. - Krusty Jun 18, 06:45
- Jackson's personal history, while being of his time, is pretty bad from our enlightened vantage point. He should come off. -- nm - rollo Jun 18, 06:41
- Without knowing more, which woman is going to join the bills? - Will Hunting Jun 18, 06:39 5
  - They're going to take input over the next few months. I love the idea but I don't want to lose Hamilton. - Krusty Jun 18, 06:42 1
    - It would make lazy Sunday outdated! -- nm - Roger More Jun 18, 06:43
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  - To be determined. -- nm - Roger More Jun 18, 06:41
  - Tbd, but Harriet Tubman is being pushed as the front runner -- nm - znufrii Jun 18, 06:40
- Yup, Hamilton definitely deserves it more. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 06:36
- I for one look forward to a Kardashian being on the $10 bill -- nm* - Beaker Jun 18, 06:33
guys, I'm up 5 more spots at the hsx today. five. I was barely up 7 mill yesterday. -- nm - amanda Jun 18, 06:32 3
- Up 2 from yesterday. -- nm - Shaun Jun 18, 06:49
- i only moved 1 today. but that's still 20 spots since Saturday. -- nm* - Andie Jun 18, 06:40
- I was only up 6mil yesterday -- barely staying ahead of the 143/144 rankings....it's a race to 5bil. - Will Hunting Jun 18, 06:35
RIP La Boulange Cafes -- (link) - ty97 Jun 18, 06:27
trivia tonight. if jay is any good, he'll have a JP round. do you have anything you'd like to tell me about jurassic park? or dinaosaurs? -- nm - amanda Jun 18, 06:25 28
- Lost World's opening weekend of $72M was the highest ever, until Harry Potter. So 2 JP movies can claim highest openings ever. -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 06:52 7
  - this is a crazy fact. what was official opening weekend gross? that might be my tiebreaker. -- nm - amanda Jun 18, 06:56 2
    - World: $208,806,270, Lost World: $72,132,785 Jurassic Park: $47,026,828 -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 07:01
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    - Yes, it was. Beating out Batman Returns, iirc. -- nm - Inigo Jun 18, 06:54 2
      - The Lost World at $72.13 million beat out Batman Forever at $52.78 million. -- nm - Inigo Jun 18, 06:59 1
        
        these are crazy facts too!! -- nm - amanda Jun 18, 07:12
- book vs movie spoils - Roger More Jun 18, 06:44 5
  - The Malcolm part is debatable at best. He was still alive in The Lost World. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 07:06 2
    - resurrection by retcon. -- nm - Roger More Jun 18, 07:15
    - Which was ludicrous (book spoils) - Will Hunting Jun 18, 07:13
  - for your IM - first movie should be book -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 06:48 1
    - Ooops, yeah -- nm - Roger More Jun 18, 06:50
- Game Warden (in #1) Robert Muldoon. Hunters in 2: Roland Tembo and Dieter Stark. -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 06:42 1
  - Cartoon character: Mr. DNA, the grandkids: Tim and Lex. -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 06:43
- Isla Nublar is movies 1 and 4, Isla Sorna is movies 2 and 3. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 06:37 4
  - In movie 2, the city that the T-Rex runs through is San Diego. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 06:38 3
    - Jeff Goldblum's Ian Malcolm returned for the second movie. Sam Neil's Alan Grant returned for the third. (With a brief appearance of Laura Dern's Ellie Sattler) -- nm* - Ender Jun 18, 06:40 2
      - The company's name is InGen. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 06:40 1
        
        oh, good one -- nm - Andie Jun 18, 06:42
- read the list of sponsors! Indominus Rex. Beta (called Blue - his fave), Delta, Echo, Charlie. -- nm - Andie Jun 18, 06:28 4
  - ah, right J*P*. Character names? Where the island was located? (Costa Rica, right?) -- nm - Andie Jun 18, 06:29 3
    - Isla nambla? isla nublar! nambla is something else. -- nm - amanda Jun 18, 06:31 2
      - The islands in the first two movies were Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna, respectively -- nm - prayformojo Jun 18, 06:32 1
        
        *this* will be a question. I bet you. (watch on periscope the find out for sure!) -- nm - amanda Jun 18, 06:37
- The girl is now all grown up and pregnant. -- nm - amoxy Jun 18, 06:28 1
  - i thought she ws in jail -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 11:03
Octopus Adorablis! (perfect name. it's a super cute mini octopus.) -- (link) - Andie Jun 18, 06:25
Well, this SC shooting story is just terrible. -- nm - ML Jun 18, 06:16 4
- That he sat in the church for an hour before opening fire, maybe he was having some doubts? -- nm - amoxy Jun 18, 06:27 2
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  - Supposedly told a lady he would leave her alive so she could tell everyone. Oh, and made kids watch. - ML Jun 18, 06:29
- yup. terrible (especially as the killer is still at large) -- nm* - Beaker Jun 18, 06:19
Best. Cards. Ever. -- (link) - spamlet Jun 18, 05:58 1
- heh, awesome -- nm - Beaker Jun 18, 06:10
Funny Story about live streaming: - Lady AnteRoo Jun 18, 05:56 1
- *duck and cover!* -- nm - Pippy the Low Sparrow Jun 18, 06:14
June 18, 1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on Great Britain, Canada, and Ireland. -- nm - Beaker Jun 18, 05:35 2
- 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher - Beaker Jun 18, 05:36 1
  - 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets. -- nm - Beaker Jun 18, 05:36
Arnold pranks fans as The Terminator. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 18, 05:32 [youtube] 1
- "Of course it isn't called Genisys, what do you think we are crazy?!" -- nm - Beaker Jun 18, 05:40
SITWAP: Halo 5 ditches split-screen coop. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 18, 05:06
What SCOTUS decisions are expected today? -- nm - TWuG Jun 18, 05:03 9
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  - Why did they even take the Texas case with no lower courts or really anyone having an issue with the act? - Krusty Jun 18, 06:51 2
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      - I hate this court so much. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 07:08
  - So you're saying I should avoid the area around the SCOTUS next week? -- nm - spamlet Jun 18, 06:11 3
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      - Yeah, we're doing the DC thing next week. - spamlet Jun 18, 06:36
      - Exactly. Get out there in there your rainbow pantsuit spammy! -- nm - ty97 Jun 18, 06:24
Wake up -- (link*) - prayformojo Jun 18, 04:59 [Backboard] 2
- And the recursive isn't as impressive in the editable era. -- nm - spamlet Jun 18, 05:05
- Sorry I'm already go-going. -- nm - spamlet Jun 18, 05:04
538: Best airlines, airports and flights -- (link) - Strongbad Jun 18, 04:56 12
- Similarly, WSJ had an article yesterday on most delay prone routes. Chicago-Knoxville is worst, and 9 of the top 10 are O'Hare routes. - ty97 Jun 18, 06:18 1
  - *beaming with pride* -- nm - Kim Pine Jun 18, 06:22
- I saw this yesterday old man. Seriously though, no real surprises. - ty97 Jun 18, 06:13 8
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    - FAA really needs to update their systems (apparently they are working on it) to reduce the impact of LGA, JFK, and EWR being so close to one another. - ty97 Jun 18, 06:26 5
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        I wish. There are some who have proposed closing LGA in the past. -- nm - ty97 Jun 18, 06:29 3
        
        Problem is, all three are packed. If we close any of them, where does the traffic go? SWF? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! -- nm - ty97 Jun 18, 06:30 2
        
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        Yes please. Also, can we secede from NYS? -- nm - ty97 Jun 18, 07:01
  - Take this and put it down there VVVVVV. -- nm - ty97 Jun 18, 06:13
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tonight one of my myvegas 'friends' posts some crap about how he's glad his state now requires drug testing for welfare recipients blah blah, I go to - zeitgeist Jun 18, 02:36
I really hope that iCloud invitation declines don't notify the inviter. Pretty sure that invitation I got was spam. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 22:55
the Hong Kong legislature today basically told Bejing where they can stick their "elections" -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 17, 22:51 3
- I had just read about it and I'm happy they made that decision. We think our system sucks, I can't imagine living under China's rules and laws. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 06:34 1
  - that's what I keep saying! -- nm - Trump Jun 18, 06:34
- Storm's a-comin' -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 22:52
OITNB season 3 question ... - Beryllium Jun 17, 22:20
This tavern is showing Caddy shack on the the big projector -- nm - z on the go Jun 17, 22:08 3
- Caddyshack should be redone in 3d -- nm - budice Jun 17, 22:18 2
  - And with an all transgender cast. -- nm - Tumblr User Jun 17, 23:43 1
    - You know I sentenced a juvenile to the death penalty. I didn't want to do it, but I felt I owed it to him. -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 11:30
the new Supergirl Canada tv trailer has scenes not seen in previous releases -- (link) - Peglegpete Jun 17, 22:08
Niners fans, amoxy, Pippy, Redmond...it's been a long off-season already, so I bring you some levity... -- (link) - IrishStephen Jun 17, 21:58 3
- Hah! -- nm - Bacon Jun 18, 07:20
- heh -- nm - Beaker Jun 18, 05:43
- As good an explanation as any -- nm - z on the go Jun 17, 22:07
Julio Jones says he won’t be conducting a “selfish” holdout -- (link) - budice Jun 17, 21:55 2
- *swoon* -- nm - David Jun 17, 22:37
- It'll be a totally unselfish holdout -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 17, 22:00
Catching up on OITNB - season 2 finale. "Always so rude, that one." -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 21:50 3
- "Run Nuns Run!" -- nm - amoxy Jun 17, 22:11
- Fear the reaper -- nm - budice Jun 17, 21:53 1
  - Word. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 21:53
You ain't nothing but a hound dog, and I ain't feeding you no more -- nm - z on the go Jun 17, 21:35

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