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general mills recalling 1.8M boxes of gluten-free cheerios, because they may have wheat. nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 5, 17:44 4
- ^check if issue applicable and you have regular or honey nut varieties. -- nm - b. Oct 5, 17:47
- gluten sensitivity: still ain't a thing - ML Oct 5, 17:46 1
  - your IM is very important. for the people for whom it's an issue, it really is one. -- nm - b. Oct 5, 17:47
- Doh! -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:44
FF: Need 30 points from Wilson, Rawls, Megatron and Haushcka tonight. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 5, 17:36
This is gonna be a turrible MNF game, innit? -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 17:29 1
- I am skipping it. -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:47
"Todd Gurley had as many runs of 20+ yards in Sunday’s second half as Trent Richardson has had in 614 career carries." - ML Oct 5, 17:29
Q! -- (edited) - b. Oct 5, 17:10
DraftKings Employee With Access To Inside Info Wins $350K At FanDuel -- (link) - Beaker Oct 5, 17:04 33
- updating from below: yeah it was ownership %s -- nm - ML Oct 5, 17:27 2
  - As I posted. -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:45 1
    - I have you on killfile tbh -- nm - ML Oct 5, 17:46
- everything else aside, how dumb was he to win that much in such a short period of time? -- nm - b. Oct 5, 17:12 15
  - and of course do NOT talk about it to anyone. -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 5, 17:15 4
    - "I DID NOT WIN 350K THIS WEEKEND!!!" -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:16 3
      - finally, NO flashy expenditures -- (link) - Peglegpete Oct 5, 17:17 2
        
        "didn't I tell you - don't go buying anything?" -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 5, 17:41
        
        I’m serious don’t laugh! -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:18
  - Early retirement? - Spawn Oct 5, 17:15 9
    - Or most likely, he didn't think he would actually win that much. -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:15 8
      - "I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail!" -- nm - Michael Bolton si Oct 5, 17:38
      - in the nyt piece (the only one I read), it said that you can bet a range of $ amounts. he didn't win 350K by betting the low-end? -- nm - b. Oct 5, 17:20 6
        
        You can bet $1 and win a million. -- (edited) - Spawn Oct 5, 17:23 2
        
        thanks to you, too. I can't look at most gambling things at work. -- nm -- (edited) - b. Oct 5, 17:27 1
        
        He entered the millionaire maker. 229,885 max enteries this week. -- (edited) - Spawn Oct 5, 17:32
        
        $25 entry fee, he got second place. -- nm - znufrii Oct 5, 17:22 2
        
        thanks! -- nm - b. Oct 5, 17:25
        
        Thanks. -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:24
- As NY Times says and Deadspin steals... -- nm - David Oct 5, 17:11
- L5 -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 5, 17:10
- You could be next! -- nm - DraftKings Oct 5, 17:07
- Uhm, see below. -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:06 1
  - yeah missed it -- nm - Beaker Oct 5, 17:09
- ST thinks JackDawson should investigate -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 17:06 8
  - I'll bet MDH knows someone who can investigate them. - ReluctantCynic Oct 5, 17:26
  - While the two companies aren't publicly traded, don't their fantasy markets kinda sorta fall under SEC purview themselves? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 17:11 6
    - Nope not at all -- nm - decline Oct 5, 17:32 1
      - Huh. Well, I guess that gets The Player off the hook, too. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 17:32
    - I think this shows what they fall under. nm but: -- (link*) - b. Oct 5, 17:25 1
      - ^ I should have said that legislation is why they're exempt from gambling. -- nm - b. Oct 5, 17:32
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      - Nope. They're privately held. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 5, 17:25
turtle shaped tomb found in China -- (link) - Peglegpete Oct 5, 17:04 5
- I so misread that as bomb, not tomb. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 17:05 4
  - Entourage was Turtle's bomb -- nm - Beaker Oct 5, 17:11
  - Tomb is rarer these days -- nm - Bacon Oct 5, 17:11
  - word -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:10
  - yup -- nm - znufrii Oct 5, 17:08
Wow, another high school football player died, this time a local kid, of traumatic brain injury -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 5, 17:02
If two of the astronauts had been stranded on Mars instead of just Matt Damon, do you think one of them would have killed the other? -- (edited) - jangles Oct 5, 17:00 4
- They will choose to become gay -- nm - Ben Carson Oct 5, 17:32 1
  - Even if one of them was as a chick? -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 17:45
- Mann's Inhumanity to Man: The Saga Continues -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 17:05
- You could freeze the meat easily by leaving it outside, don't have to worry about raccoons -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 5, 17:04
Saints planning kicker tryouts this week -- nm - budice Oct 5, 16:59 1
- Scobee Time -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 17:01
This is what I have so far: "PPPAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNN" that's it -- nm - prayformojo Oct 5, 16:45 2
- I thought you really wanted to see Pan - Bacon Oct 5, 16:47 1
  - Yeah, take out that "I" and it's exactly the way it's pronounced in the ad -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:56
Indulge me please: off the top of your head, could you define briefly what Twitter is, who uses it, how popular it is, and its business model? - Max Oct 5, 16:45 12
- At least for Twitter and Facebook, their business model so far has been: ads - jangles Oct 5, 16:55 2
  - This is part of twitter's offering - promoted tweets. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:56 1
    - ... I'd edit that to remove the stupidity, but I'm lazy. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:56
- Twitter is a subway station full of people all yelling at each other, but you sort of get to choose whose yelling you listen to. - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:53 1
  - It's a hard line into the cultural, contemporal zeitgeist, man, and you can't stop it, you just can't. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:58
- Users seem to tend your younger vs older (no surprise) as well as anyone involved in/with media. There are other groups I'm sure. - ty97 Oct 5, 16:50
- 21'st century pony express..most everyone..way too popular..make $$$$$ -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 5, 16:48
- Social network messaging system allowing users to post 140-character message that can be read publicly or by a list of followers - prayformojo Oct 5, 16:48 4
  - I got into it with Marketplace because their last couple reports have been "Is it a tech company? Is it something else?" and being all chicken little - Max Oct 5, 17:23 2
    - Don't mess with Kai Rysdall sucka -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 17:24 1
      - I'm messing with Marketplace's Molly Wood -- (link) - Max Oct 5, 18:14
  - Also: cat gifs -- nm - ML Galaxy Oct 5, 16:49
Oh hi. *equips a 310 Graviton Forfeit* -- nm - Shaun Oct 5, 16:33
Trump hotels have been breached of customer info for the pay year. They are offering a year of identity protection. -- nm - zork Oct 5, 16:22 2
- err,past year -- nm - zork Oct 5, 16:22
- from Experian? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:22
My biggest question about The Martian (no real spoils) - Reagen Oct 5, 16:20 11
- Ruh? -- nm - ML Galaxy Oct 5, 16:20 10
  - The bit at the end - Reagen Oct 5, 16:41 9
    - Spoilers - David Oct 5, 16:50
    - Somebody ... - zork Oct 5, 16:46
    - Spoils - TWuG Oct 5, 16:45 1
      - I did as well. -- nm - iSpam Oct 5, 16:49
    - Oh. - ML Galaxy Oct 5, 16:45 4
      - You are not as deep into your agriculture knowledge as I expected you to be. -- nm - Reagen Oct 5, 17:20 3
        
        if what you say is true, I hate the epilogue even more than previous -- nm - ML Oct 5, 17:38
        
        he's still 5 or 10 years away from his post-law, whacko, hipster -- nm - zork Oct 5, 17:29 1
        
        sfek: career change -- nm - zork Oct 5, 17:29
Rogers will broadcast all Jays games next season in 4k. Until then they will do at least one hockey game a week in UHD. -- nm - zork Oct 5, 16:19 1
- and so it begins. -- nm - Remlik Oct 5, 16:23
Jays are getting screwed on start times for the playoff games (3:30 or 4 Thurs and 12:45 on Fri -- nm - zork Oct 5, 16:17
We were told we can find someone that goes by the name Mop on this site. Is that true? We just want to talk to him. Mop are you here? - Emarrt Motor Chevy Oct 5, 16:14
whine: my fault for not looking, as I almost always do; but grr nabisco. their veggie wheat thins have red dye and msg. boo! -- nm - b. Oct 5, 16:14
Marshawn inactive -- nm - ML Galaxy Oct 5, 16:10
already we have DFS fraud -- (link) - ML Galaxy Oct 5, 16:09 19
- Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft own stakes in one of the sites. That's all you need to know. -- nm - iSpam Oct 5, 17:02
- Draft king's employee — a midlevel content manager — won $350,000 at rival site FanDuel that same week." - Pippy Oct 5, 16:56
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  - Between the government and the class action that's now coming, you might get your wish. -- nm* - ML Galaxy Oct 5, 16:25 3
    - I remember playing online poker once. Until the government whacked it. - Bacon Oct 5, 16:33 1
      - it was so much fun! -- nm - Pippy Oct 5, 16:57
    - Ha -- (link) - ML Galaxy Oct 5, 16:28
- I wonder what type of insider information they had that proved -that- valuable. -- nm - David Oct 5, 16:11 5
  - Reading is fundamental. - Spawn Oct 5, 17:13
  - lots and *lots* of promo codes - prayformojo Oct 5, 16:15 1
    - I figure they have to win each other's contests just to pay for all the commercials. -- nm* - David Oct 5, 16:18
  - I'm guessing it's % start info. - ML Galaxy Oct 5, 16:15
  - Redmond's lineup -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 16:13
- Go get 'em Jack! -- nm - ty97 Oct 5, 16:10 3
  - neither is publicly traded, so I don't think that's his org's bailiwick. -- nm - b. Oct 5, 16:17 2
    - Well then. Go get 'em Meg! -- nm - ty97 Oct 5, 16:37 1
      - :) But I've been thinking about checking them out to see what all the fuss is about. -- nm - Meg Oct 5, 16:39
- "Someone's taken a massive short position on Jamis Winston" -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 16:10
- lol -- nm - znufrii Oct 5, 16:10
The facial expressions really make this work. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:04 [Image]
Martian poll: given your scientific etc. acumen, how many sols could you survive stranded on Mars? - jangles Oct 5, 15:58 14
- Is there a fast-food restaurant on the ship? -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:07
- I'm done once the rations run out. -- nm - Krusty Oct 5, 16:16 1
  - same -- nm - Beaker Oct 5, 16:39
- I would have died on takeoff. From Earth. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 5, 16:03
- I would not be stranded. Uncle Martin & his family are from there :) -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 5, 16:02
- About as long as Mark Watney. - ReluctantCynic Oct 5, 16:02 6
  - I would die before I resorted to eating quinoa -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 16:03 5
    - You really are an east coaster out of water on this coast. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:05 4
      - I would beat him at one thing though - jangles Oct 5, 16:07 3
        
        FWIW - Reagen Oct 5, 17:21
        
        Hmmmm... -- (link) - JD Oct 5, 16:48
        
        Constant masturbation won't really help you in that situation -- nm - zork Oct 5, 16:43
- My ass ain't ever getting dragged off this here earth in the first place. -- nm - ty97 Oct 5, 15:59 1
  - We could revive the Biosphere 2 project, you know ... . -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 5, 16:04
Pete, the Neal Adams original cover art to Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76 is in the Nov. Heritage auction -- (link) - Peglegpete Oct 5, 15:56 3
- what are they asking for it? -- nm - Remlik Oct 5, 15:58 2
  - there are no estimates until the catalogue comes out in a month. BUT I think it will do over $250K..maybe even double that. -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 5, 15:59 1
    - right on. We had him instore earlier in the year and a guy bought 2 pages of art for 8 grand. -- nm - Remlik Oct 5, 16:03
Today is the day when Bungie really misses Microsoft. - David Oct 5, 15:51
Meanwhile, there haven't been enough people attacking the science behind Hot Shots! - prayformojo Oct 5, 15:46 2
- I think that pitcher gives up on the elephant way too quickly. -- nm - Reagen Oct 5, 15:48
- Chickens make lousy arrows! -- nm - David Oct 5, 15:47
Project Greenlight is fun but there's no way it's not super scripted. That dude would never get hired after what people are seeing on the show -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 15:46 9
- so true. -- nm - Diva Oct 5, 16:49
- agreed...they clearly hired the guy for the TV show. - Mel Profit Oct 5, 16:07 3
  - plus, he just plains *looks* evil -- nm - prayformojo Oct 5, 16:08 2
    - he looks like a 4th Nihilist from "The Big Lebowski". -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 5, 16:09 1
      - he's an evil ginger -- nm - Remlik Oct 5, 16:22
- didn't people say that about Pete and John Gulager from the previous seasons? -- nm - Remlik Oct 5, 15:50 3
  - Plus spoils... - Remlik Oct 5, 15:51 2
    - They, Matt and Ben are... - Mel Profit Oct 5, 16:08 1
      - Yup..... - Remlik Oct 5, 16:16
Chomp -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 15:42 1
- well, so much for B2 . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael Oct 5, 15:43

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