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America’s 11 Homes Listed At $100 Million Or More Right Now -- (link) - ty97 Oct 3, 15:17
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- Jays versus Nationals -- nm - . Oct 3, 15:32
- Wild card: Mets, Jays - Tim Oct 3, 15:15 2
  - wrong spot -- nm* - . Oct 3, 15:29
  - I agree on the last 3 - groiny Oct 3, 15:18
- I think we have an all Theo World Series. -- nm - groiny Oct 3, 15:08
- Indians vs. Cubs. The world ends before the series ends. -- (edited) - Krusty Oct 3, 15:04 1
  - I don't think the Indians have enough with their pitching injuries to get past round one. -- nm - groiny Oct 3, 15:07
DJ Lemahieu riding the bench for the weekend and five of the last seven games is a bush league way to win the batting title. -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 14:50 9
- I think I have heard of that rapper before, but your lingo is over my head -- nm - con_carne Oct 3, 15:30
- to be the man, you gotta beat the man. - groiny Oct 3, 14:59 6
  - Real men go out and play and don't hide on the bench. Teddy Ballgame went out and played a double header with .400 on the line. -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 15:03 5
    - in the snow with bare feet? - groiny Oct 3, 15:04 4
      - It's a really weak way to win the title. I get it but I couldn't do it. -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 15:05 3
        
        Yeah, he should just buy it. -- nm - Spawndroid Oct 3, 15:35
        
        IIRC, and my memory is not great, Pendleton won a batting Title and sat out the final day - groiny Oct 3, 15:10
        
        it could backfire just as easy though. - groiny Oct 3, 15:07
- agreed -- nm - Beaker Oct 3, 14:57
Jeff Flake amazingly coming around on the idea of Justice Garland -- (link*) - mr monkey Oct 3, 14:43 1
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Lester Holt has been named NL pitcher of the month -- nm* - mr monkey Oct 3, 14:36 1
- They do both have Chicago connections. -- nm - . Oct 3, 14:40
on the GSN rebroadcast of the $25,000 Pyramid, there's an actor with a last name pronounced "Bonners" - prayformojo Oct 3, 14:24
I was hoping they'd shake up Weekend Update this season. nm - Dignan Oct 3, 14:24 8
- emily blunt? alicia vikander? -- nm - university of amanda jones Oct 3, 15:01
- I like Che, the other is the weak link. -- nm - . Oct 3, 14:48
- Weeknd Update -- nm - Spawndroid Oct 3, 14:45 1
  - Got a haircut. -- nm - GregW Oct 3, 15:03
- I was hoping the war in Syria would finally end peacefully -- nm - mr monkey Oct 3, 14:40 1
  - I was hoping for a pony for my birthday. -- nm - Qale Oct 3, 15:01
- ...Dad? -- nm - Colin Jost Oct 3, 14:31
- I like the pair. But, I've liked almost every weekend update iteration. - Beryllium Oct 3, 14:30
Happy October 3rd. Mean Girls musical to debut in DC in Fall of 2017. Tina Fey and her husband are collaborators on the piece -- nm* - Diva Oct 3, 14:22 2
- What day is it? -- nm - Spawndroid Oct 3, 14:47
- I'll go see this -- nm - prayformojo Oct 3, 14:23
Quick, someone bubble wrap nubby -- (link) - ty97 Oct 3, 14:22
Did anyone get Raaj's digital codes over the weekend? I did not. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 3, 14:09 4
- I did. -- nm - spamlet Oct 3, 14:15 3
  - hmm. I just emailed him. Thanks -- nm - JaxSean Oct 3, 14:21 2
    - Do you want me to forward? - spamlet Oct 3, 15:13 1
      - Sure and cool -- nm - JaxSean Oct 3, 15:34
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- There's 2 things I'm confused about. First, is this his personal return or company return? It seems like an awfully large loss on his personal - pmb Oct 3, 14:51 11
  - that last bit seems to be forming as the takeaway, FWIW -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 15:26
  - From my limited understanding, most of his stuff (at least now) is structured as pass through so it's technically both. - spamlet Oct 3, 15:11 4
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      - I'm not under selling it. The first half is literally all we know. - spamlet Oct 3, 15:17 2
        
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    - My undertstanding from the articles I've read was that it was from his losses in the casinos and the purchase of the Plaza. The things you're - pmb Oct 3, 15:04 2
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        I don't know. It's possible. -- nm - pmb Oct 3, 15:09
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- Is it legal for them to be publishing the returns in the first place? -- nm - Strongbad Oct 3, 14:17 9
  - Better than even odds it's Marla who sent them, so... -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 14:25 2
    - It could just be someone in her circle -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 14:30 1
      - I'm Eric. -- nm - Eric Oct 3, 14:38
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  - Likely so, but not 100%. Pentagon Papers and all that. The certain illegality lies on whoever anonymously mailed them to the NYT in the first place. - ML Oct 3, 14:19 1
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  - Yes. -- (link) - TWuG Oct 3, 14:19 2
    - "The Times broke no law by publishing the returns. And even if it had, the First Amendment would obviously protect it from any penalty." yikes. -- nm - Max Oct 3, 14:20 1
      - Yeah, it's not so conclusory as Slate would have it. -- (edited) - ML Oct 3, 14:22
- I'll bet they're erring on the safe side to avoid any sort of defamation/libel claim. - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 14:07 2
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    - I dunno, maybe it's human nature. I just assume someone is acting legally until I have a good reason to see they've behaved illegally. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 15:22
- Are they in the clear if they accuse him of potentially illegally avoiding taxes, without papers to back up the claim? -- nm - Max Oct 3, 14:05 2
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    - He turned OPM and his paper valuation into a billion worth of write offs. Meaning money he earned after is tax free - zeitgeist Oct 3, 14:11
Navaro Bowman season ending Achilles injury. Damn! Damn!! He has already had to deal with coming all the way back from that devastating injury - Bacon Oct 3, 13:58 1
- :-( -- nm - ML Oct 3, 14:00
Dismantling Trump's claim of a "fiduciary duty" to avoid paying taxes -- (link*) - znufrii, dad. Oct 3, 13:53 2
- I disagree with their hyphenation quibble. -- nm - mara Oct 3, 14:04
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I like reading artist bios on Spotify. I detect a slight wink in the eye of who wrote this for metal band Bathory - con_carne Oct 3, 13:46 5
- I think Spotify would be a pretty cool place to work. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 3, 14:00 4
  - their bios are from rovi (iirc, that's part of the tivo world). I think it'd depend on the department for working for spotify. - b. Oct 3, 14:11 3
    - They do a lot of code pushes. Have you watched the Vimeo videos on their engineering culture? -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 3, 14:14 [vimeo] 2
      - Thanks -- nm - con_carne Oct 3, 15:24
      - I haven't, thanks. (if there was a good alternative that would let me port my lists, I'd already have left them.) -- nm - b. Oct 3, 14:17
Dave Stewart has reportedly been fired as Dbacks GM. -- nm - ML Oct 3, 13:38 7
- Manager Chip Hale also future-endeavored. -- (link) - ML Oct 3, 13:56
- AS he should have been. He's terrible. - spamlet Oct 3, 13:45
- Arizona finished half a game ahead of Atlanta. #Dansby -- nm - David Oct 3, 13:44 2
  - That Miller trade is going to pay dividends any day now. -- nm - ML Oct 3, 13:52 1
    - What's amazing is that Stewart tried to deal him at the deadline, but ownership interceded. -- nm - David Oct 3, 13:57
- he lasted longer with the Eurythmics -- nm - Beaker Oct 3, 13:41 1
  - Sweet teams aren't made of this. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 13:52
director Paul Feig appears in the Ghostbusters expansion pack for Lego Dimensions.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 3, 13:34 [youtube]
Discuss this ethical quandary from Italy: Author has been writing books for years, has given written interviews but no book tours, wants anonymity - Max Oct 3, 13:29 42
- Ultimately, my thinking is that this isn't much different from what a legal investigator would do when, say, verifiying an insurance claim. - Roger More Oct 3, 14:39 3
  - yeah, I could agree with that in this case. Less so in the case of Primary Colors. - Max Oct 3, 14:44 1
    - for me, the only possible unfairness towards james frey was how she went at him as if he had done something truly heinous vs. being a liar in what was - b. Oct 3, 14:49
  - The link within the link covers this a bit... -- (link) - . Oct 3, 14:43 [Backboard]
- I think my views are hypocritical. I side with celebrities and anti-pap laws. Hulk Hogan may be scum but he deserved that win. - Max Oct 3, 13:44 11
  - And a purpose of that brand was to protect her privacy. -- nm - . Oct 3, 13:52 10
    - If you're in witness protection hiding and want to draw out your potential killer, by all means release a video of yourself on the internet (B99) - Max Oct 3, 13:54 9
      - If she's always written under that alias your argument doesn't hold water. -- nm - . Oct 3, 13:58 8
        
        It's the "I sought privacy by drawing attention to myself" argument that doesn't hold water. - Max Oct 3, 14:03 7
        
        And would you put the whole truth in a fake bio if you wanted to remain to remain private? -- nm - . Oct 3, 14:21 2
        
        no, I *would not create a bio* if I wanted to remain private. -- nm - Max Oct 3, 14:27 1
        
        In all probability the publisher did it because it's expected and not having one would be more of note. -- nm - . Oct 3, 14:38
        
        Is there a link to that interview? -- nm - . Oct 3, 14:14 2
        
        It was on BBC radio, played over WAMU.org this morning - see if they have an archive. -- (link) - Max Oct 3, 14:18 1
        
        this partially , the journo reasoning does him no favors.. -- (link) - . Oct 3, 14:29
        
        Then by your reasoning maybe she wanted an excuse to retire from writing. -- nm - . Oct 3, 14:10
- I feel bad for the author, especially if there were some reasons (personal safety, etc.) for the anonymity in the mix; but it's not reasonable - b. Oct 3, 13:43
- It's a simple request to honor someone's privacy. The journalist failed an unwritten exam on job ethics. - David Oct 3, 13:43 6
  - What if the book has controversial things like racists views, misogynistic themes, but still fiction. And there was a desire to know who it was? - Bacon Oct 3, 13:57 3
    - There are no absolutes. If the book depicted a terrorist act eerily similar to one that had previously transpired... - David Oct 3, 14:12 2
      - ...then I'd be looking at Catherine Tramell. Looking real close. -- nm - Max Oct 3, 14:14
      - fair enough -- nm - Bacon Oct 3, 14:12
  - The journalist, or the editor who published his article? -- nm - Max Oct 3, 13:45 1
    - I'm not crazy about either one, but the answer depends on who chose the story. -- nm - David Oct 3, 13:45
- Her books are public, she has made a point of being private - . Oct 3, 13:39
- screw the journalist -- nm - CQ Oct 3, 13:39
- I feel bad for the author, but anonymity is never a guarantee. I side with the journalists. - ML Oct 3, 13:37 13
  - But what's the public interest in this case, exactly? -- nm* - Roger More Oct 3, 13:47 12
    - Anything in commerce is in the public interest, even if it's mundane. Ask the question: should there be a law limiting free speech to analyze art and - Max Oct 3, 13:51 6
      - No - because as you said when you started the thread, this isn't a legal issue, just an ethical one. -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 13:53 5
        
        I think one begets the other. But, I can see that argument compared to the ethics of reprinting the end of a novel or a movie. -- (edited) - Max Oct 3, 13:55 4
        
        So the journo wanted to be famous for uncovering her real identity. -- nm - . Oct 3, 14:26
        
        I don't think so. If you tell me a secret and I tell it to a journalist, who then publishes it, what legal recourse do you have? - Roger More Oct 3, 13:59 2
        
        I tacked on a statement above, but what I meant was that looking at the law can help reason out the ethics. -- nm - Max Oct 3, 14:00 1
        
        The law is pretty selective at what it looks at, and it doesn't have its basis in ethics. -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 14:07
    - The ID of a writer of very popular books. Did ya'll have a problem when the Sunday Times unmasked Robert Galbraith to be JK Rowling? -- nm* - ML Oct 3, 13:50 1
      - The purpose of that nom de plume was probably different. - . Oct 3, 13:55
    - Journalism does not have a public interest test it needs to meet. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Oct 3, 13:50 2
      - It doesn't, but if a story doesn't appeal to the public it won't be written. - ML Oct 3, 13:51 1
        
        Thanks, I was asking to get an understanding of what definition of public interest you were referring to. -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 13:55
- A lot of people want things but they don't always get them. I side with Journalist. -- nm - Bacon Oct 3, 13:36
- #TeamJourno -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Oct 3, 13:35
Spawn sucks. - groiny Oct 3, 13:28 1
- Do you even read these boards? -- nm - Spawndroid Oct 3, 14:49
What about Amy Poehler's Clinton ? Always thought she did it well, like her Hill better than Darrells Bill -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 13:24 1
- See B2 or 3. -- nm - Spawndroid Oct 3, 14:58
Nihilist Arby's went a bit dark. -- nm - Spawn Oct 3, 13:23
pixie is a racist. -- nm - Spawn Oct 3, 13:20
*dead silence..............dead silence.........*"HAH! $500 for a 10yr old bottle of Pappy??!" -- nm - office transcripts Oct 3, 13:19
Oh, are we not doing the talent portion? -- nm - Tina's Palin Oct 3, 13:18 1
- “And now I'd like to entertain everybody with some fancy pageant-walkin'” was my favorite line in her run. -- nm - Max Oct 3, 13:20
SMOD got a writeup in the Houston Chronicle -- (link) - ML Oct 3, 13:18 4
- So now the joke is truly played out. -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 13:25 3
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  - damn, Houston Chronicle! every time! -- nm - Max Oct 3, 13:26
  - 33 days! -- nm - ML Oct 3, 13:25
Sir Neville Marriner, 92 - znufrii, dad. Oct 3, 13:08 2
- Local classical station plays his work a lot, along with the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields -- nm - con_carne Oct 3, 13:52
- :( - -- nm - b. Oct 3, 13:17

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