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Twitter doubles down on Trump -- (link) - budice Jun 3, 07:35
Elon Musk Predicts People On Mars In 9 Years, Apple Cars By 2020 -- (link) - ÜMLaut Jun 3, 07:24 2
- He also said we'll need to inject neural lace onto our brains to avoid becoming pets to rogue AI's - decline Jun 3, 07:28 1
  - whoa -- (link) - ÜMLaut Jun 3, 07:33
Canada golf represent! -- nm - CQ Jun 3, 07:16 5
- Japan golf not represent! -- nm - Strongbad Jun 3, 07:18 4
  - cut is at -1. I bet it goes to even par after the late rounds. -- nm - CQ Jun 3, 07:22 3
    - I'm down to 4 starts each with Spieth/Day. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 3, 07:23 2
      - yeah, I'm low on Kuch, that's why I didn't play him. Wanted to, but... -- nm - CQ Jun 3, 07:27 1
        
        Seems like A is a lot deeper than C this year. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 3, 07:35
Summer Stalker assignments are now out. Please let me know if you signed up but didn't receive your assignment. -- nm - kelly Jun 3, 07:09 4
- I didn't receive mi.......oh....scratch that. -- nm - Bacon Jun 3, 07:34
- LOL awesome -- nm - Roger More Jun 3, 07:31
- Got mine. Thanks for all you do with this, kelly. It's much appreciated -- nm - CQ Jun 3, 07:14
- Thx! To My stalker - I really don't want a Tshirt! Anything else local would be fun - TIA! -- nm - Diva Jun 3, 07:12
Hmm, we have 5 weeks to complete 12 sites. The offshore team cranked out 4 overnight... I might have to slow them down... -- nm - Ender Jun 3, 07:08
Woohoo! Summer Stalker assignment! - prayformojo Jun 3, 07:08
Wait, wtf? Why would Di Matteo accept a manager job with Villa? Not complaining, just odd -- nm - CQ Jun 3, 07:07
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- I went to cbsnews.com this morning. There was nothing about her speech or any specifics regarding what she said about Trump and foreign policy. There - Diva Jun 3, 07:11 2
  - FWIW, NBC was all over it saying it was one of her strongest moments of the campaign. -- (link) - pmb Jun 3, 07:39
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- It almost seems like they look at Hillary and they treat her like a legitimate candidate for POTUS. They expect policy, they expect specifics... - Jim Jun 3, 07:09 5
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    - What exactly should they be doing at this point? Is "Trump didn't offer any specifics" better than "Trump is a bat shit crazy fascist"? -- nm - Ender Jun 3, 07:31
    - Ya know, I kinda got it when this all started. We were 18 months out and there was NO way Trump would get the nomination - Jim Jun 3, 07:21 1
      - Trying to report on the substance of Trump's campaign is like pushing on a rope. -- (edited) - znufrii, dad. Jun 3, 07:26
  - there were plenty of specifics in her speech, contrasting her vision with Trump's lack of any. -- nm - senor dentista Jun 3, 07:11
I think summer finally got here. Gonna be over 90 today. 32 for you all up a nation. -- nm - CQ Jun 3, 06:57 1
- Luckily this is the last day of mid-to-upper 80's for us. Looking forward to a week of mid 70's. -- nm - Ender Jun 3, 07:03
For no good reason, it's cracking me up today that there are two Corys in the Senate - prayformojo Jun 3, 06:54 3
- They totally fight over which one gets to be Feldman, right? -- nm - Ender Jun 3, 07:04
- It's not that long ago that most Coreys had the profession of "teenage dreamboat" -- nm - Roger More Jun 3, 06:56 1
  - Right? How times have changed - prayformojo Jun 3, 07:01
First Taylor and Calvin, now Zayn and Gigi? Noooooooo! -- nm - Andie Jun 3, 06:49
Noooooooooo! - znufrii, dad. Jun 3, 06:45 13
- There would be riots in the street -- nm - Epiphany Jun 3, 07:01 1
  - It's called "progress". - znufrii, dad. Jun 3, 07:06
- You have a color printer? -- nm - spamlet Jun 3, 06:50 6
  - Not anymore... - znufrii, dad. Jun 3, 06:51
  - do people *not* have colour printers? -- nm - Andie Jun 3, 06:50 4
    - I assume marketing has one but I don't know where it is or what the name would be to print to it. -- nm - spamlet Jun 3, 06:59
    - we have 6 printers in this office, none are color -- nm - decline Jun 3, 06:56 2
      - do you people work in prisons?? -- nm - Andie Jun 3, 07:05 1
        
        Color is expensive. B&W cuts corners. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 3, 07:13
- Color is for closers. -- nm - Robert Barontheon Jun 3, 06:49
- what? who does that? -- nm - Andie Jun 3, 06:47 2
  - smh -- nm - Diva Jun 3, 06:55
  - ik,r? -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jun 3, 06:49
It's been so long I'm not sure how to trade stocks with this small of a port. - Krusty Jun 3, 06:33 15
- Turnover and churn. Buy stocks that are mentioned on the Movies board, sell at the end of the day. - Roger More Jun 3, 06:49 7
  - I have to read those ass ugly boards? Ugh! Thanks for the advice. -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 3, 06:52 6
    - I'm glad you finally appreciate that rich people don't understand poor people's problems. - Roger More Jun 3, 06:59 2
      - And the commission hurts. I didn't care about it for so long that I have to remember mistakes like going long instead of short hurt to flip. - Krusty Jun 3, 07:08 1
        
        I actually think that it's easier to make money now. In addition to the changes to openers, etc it's not unusual to see a stock move by $10 just on - Roger More Jun 3, 07:26
    - just listen to what mike255 says. Guy knows his stuff -- nm - CQ Jun 3, 06:59 2
      - omg -- nm - Diva Jun 3, 07:31
      - Noted. -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 07:23
- looking for the best short term roi percentage ain't easy sometimes :) -- nm - CQ Jun 3, 06:36 3
  - Yup. I have to be careful to not buy expensive stocks as well. Have they done a dead delist lately and if not is one due? -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 06:37 2
    - not woth putting money in and having it do nothing if nothing happens. it's only trading things with news and reason to move in immediate (like, - Andie Jun 3, 06:44 1
      - Yeah, I'm trying to get my money moving so that's a good point. - Krusty Jun 3, 06:47
- Pfffttt -- nm - Epiphany Jun 3, 06:34 2
  - I'm $5m behind you and climbing. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 06:36 1
    - Come and get me sucker! -- nm - Epiphany Jun 3, 07:00
Big recall on granalo bars, sunflower seeds and energy bars -- (link) - Beaker Jun 3, 06:26
Blizzard gets it. "Overwatch: Developer Blizzard Bans Thousands of Players for Cheating" - David Jun 3, 06:16 11
- Anyone know what the cheaters are actually doing? -- nm - Ender Jun 3, 06:47 4
  - using cheat tools made by other people and available on-line, probably -- nm - Roger More Jun 3, 06:55 2
    - But what does that get them? -- nm - Ender Jun 3, 07:05 1
      - Whatever they need in the game to level up and avoid grinding - high-powered characters, invincibility, better weapons, more game currency. etc - Roger More Jun 3, 07:30
  - cheating probably -- nm - decline Jun 3, 06:49
- I like this jackass listed here -- (link*) - Reagen Jun 3, 06:31 3
  - Hey, cheaters, thanks for the contribution to my bank account. -- nm - Robert Barontheon Jun 3, 06:37
  - Good. I hope more companies do the work to get rid of the cheaters that ruin the games. -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 06:35
  - I love that they posted the names of everybody they busted. -- nm - David Jun 3, 06:34
- yep, they're nuking sites from orbit - ÜMLaut Jun 3, 06:19
- Blizz don't mess. -- nm - Robert Barontheon Jun 3, 06:18
Milestones: 6 Billion on the HSX and reached 25 million last week in ika.com. -- nm - Diva Jun 3, 06:14 2
- that's a *LOT* of fake money. -- nm - Andie Jun 3, 06:24
- nice! -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 06:24
TMNT: 33% (21/43); Me Before You 49% (34/35); Popstar, Never Stop Never Stopping 80% (60/15) -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 06:05
FIFA lawyers say Blatter, Valcke, Kattner awarded themselves pay rises, bonuses totaling $80 million over 5 years -- nm - budice Jun 3, 06:05 2
- lol, FIFA -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jun 3, 06:18
- amateurs -- nm - IOC Jun 3, 06:06
I wonder if strange, unexplainable things have started happening to that Japanese family yet.... - Beaker Jun 3, 06:03 1
- changeling -- nm - Diva Jun 3, 06:06
FIFA same old same old. -- (link) - Beaker Jun 3, 05:56 1
- *smh* -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 06:11
The original NHL Winter Classic was more like The Longest Yard. The Red Wings scrimmaged against a prison team outdoors in 1954. -- (link) - spamlet Jun 3, 05:52 1
- Gordie Howe killed two guys with elbows to the head -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 05:53
French fries in imported goose fat...yes please. -- (link) - Beaker Jun 3, 05:39
US created just 38,000 jobs in May vs. 162,000 expected -- (link) - budice Jun 3, 05:37 8
- Record 94,708,000 Americans Not in Labor Force. -- nm - budice Jun 3, 06:17 3
  - frickin' lazy mooching toddlers. -- nm - Reagen Jun 3, 06:41 2
    - I am assuming toddlers have never been counted, thus they would have 0 impact towards this number increasing? - Strongbad Jun 3, 07:04 1
      - They wouldn't be counted - 94M/0.37 implies a population of 250M, which is about 60M lower than the total US population. -- nm - Roger More Jun 3, 07:39
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- unemployment fell to 4.7 percent. labor force participation rate, which fell to a 2016 low of 62.6 percent, a level near a four-decade low. - budice Jun 3, 05:42 2
  - Now that's a frogurt report if I ever heard one. - Robert Barontheon Jun 3, 06:18
  - Baby boomers getting old. -- nm - Roger More Jun 3, 05:44
How can I be expected to wait this long. -- nm - Todd Manning - 225 days till Monster Trucks Jun 3, 04:56 1
- ik, r? -- nm - The Razzies Jun 3, 05:33
June 3, 1889 – The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed. -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 04:52 2
- 1888 – The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in The San Francisco Examiner. -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 04:57 1
  - 1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 04:57
Did you know? There are about 2,900 species of snakes. Of these, 375 are venomous. -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 04:45 2
- So play the odds and just approach every snake you see -- nm - J Jun 3, 05:35 1
  - unless you live in Australia, then just assume it will kill you slowly -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 05:37
Meanwhile in CA: Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in a tight race as the campaign batters her popularity -- (link*) - Strongbad Jun 3, 04:24 1
- That last bit in your pull quote fried my brain a little. - Robert Barontheon Jun 3, 06:34
Walmart is developing a drone to manage inventory in their distribution centers -- (link) - Strongbad Jun 3, 04:23
King Tut had a dagger made from metal of ‘extraterrestrial origin’ -- (link) - Strongbad Jun 3, 03:56 1
- Bah, all metal is of extraterrestrial origin if you go back far enough... -- nm - Ender Jun 3, 06:39
TV PSA: Beyond the Tank, Masters of Illusion, Girl Meets World, Wynonna Earp, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 03:22 3
- Wynonna Earp is a show? -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 05:33 2
  - It's thoroughly entertaining. -- nm - David's iPad Jun 3, 05:34 1
    - I never heard of it before. I'll check it out. -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 05:34
It's National Donut Day - Covington Jun 3, 01:59
crystal blue persuasion -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 3, 01:52
FedEx package on its way to me arrived in Indy at midnight tonight -- nm - budice Jun 2, 23:01 2
- "We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time." -- nm - Chuck Noland Jun 2, 23:42 1
  - Time may change me....but I can't change time -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 3, 02:20
Which STer wrote this poem? -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 2, 22:51 2
- kelly -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 2, 22:58 1
  - Nooooonononono. -- nm - kelly Jun 3, 05:40
Sorry Jax Sean, I tried, but "Lady Dynamite" is just awful. I gave up at Ana Gasteyer playing the agent - amoxy Jun 2, 22:49
So they're just rebooting Canada AM with a new morning show? That seems kind of pointless -- (link) - Reagen Jun 2, 22:22 2
- If.they are going more entertainment news oriented, I wonder if they've talked to Sangita Patel - zork Jun 3, 04:41
- Yeah, my wife is super pissed; plus really to your im? REALLY? He'll beConservative leader in 10 years. -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 03:00
Ouch. -- (link) - Spawn Jun 2, 21:44 2
- They call this, the Reach-Around -- nm - budice Jun 2, 22:32
- They had to check if Iguodala's balls fouled him. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 21:47
Sandberg is funny, but it's all tactics - no strategy. - Beryllium, 29th-funniest STer Jun 2, 21:43 6
- I didn't really like him much before Brooklyn 99 and on that show I think I like the rest of the cast more than him. -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 05:35 2
  - B99 succeeds in spite of rather than because of him. -- nm - David's iPad Jun 3, 05:40 1
    - True. -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 05:50
- MacGruber is all tactics, strategy - no funny. -- nm - Spawn Jun 2, 21:45 1
  - I completely agree with all but the last two words. - Beryllium Jun 2, 21:48
- definitely not as funny as Shan Yu. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 21:45
A Beautiful life -- (link) - amoxy Jun 2, 21:31 [youtube]
"What is love?" -- nm - Spawn Jun 2, 21:25 11
- ~more than words~ -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 03:01
- Love is the answer -- nm - Todd Rundgren Jun 2, 23:51
- Baby don't hurt me -- nm - Karl_S Jun 2, 23:07 2
  - Don't hurt me. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 2, 23:10 1
    - No more -- nm - Epiphany Jun 3, 06:05
- Shrek. He's also life. -- nm - Qale Jun 2, 22:13
- An angel doesn't make love, an angel *is* love. -- nm - Max Jun 2, 21:52
- Don't hurt me -- nm - JD Jun 2, 21:46
- love is all there is. love is all there is ..... -- nm - the Beatles Jun 2, 21:43 1
  - what's love got to do with it? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 2, 21:52
- The square root of love? nm - ralph wiggum Jun 2, 21:29

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