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Fitbit to acquire Pebble? -- (link*) - spamlet Dec 1, 06:35
the web is too slow for amazon to move data, so it's switching to trucks.... - x Dec 1, 06:32 5
- 26 years. It would be lovely to get a backup if needed.. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 1, 06:38 1
  - Well, with the trucks the backups are MUCH more literal... -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 07:42
- Breaker breaker 1-9, we've got an accident out here on the turnpike. There's data all over the road. -- nm - Baron More Dough Dec 1, 06:37
- (Pr0n) -- nm - budice Dec 1, 06:35
- I feel like there's a plot for a future Fast & Furious movie here -- nm - prayformojo Dec 1, 06:35
buses pulled off the roads, big mall closed...hunger setting in, may have to resort to cannabilism shortly -- nm* - Beaker Dec 1, 06:27 4
- And Trump's not even President yet! - ty97 Dec 1, 06:32
- you have kids, right? you're all set -- nm - decline Dec 1, 06:32 2
  - they're at home, I'm at work and was supposed to use the bus to get home today!! -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 06:36
  - they taste better, too....nm - x Dec 1, 06:33
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- Well done! -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 06:47
- what happens when the US goes bankrupt? -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 06:25 1
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- Nice! -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 06:25
- yonh! -- nm - Diva Dec 1, 06:23
- good for you! -- nm* - decline Dec 1, 06:20
- giggle, you keep thinking that moocher -- nm - GOP Dec 1, 06:19
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Dec 1, 06:17
- Yay! Happy anniversary of being the man sticking it to the bad men! -- nm - ty97 Dec 1, 06:15 1
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So, Under Armour has 2 different stock classes. The original stock trades around 30, the C-class trades at 25 - Will Hunting Dec 1, 06:12 6
- it's irritating, since I owned it before the split and selling and rebuying to consolidate would pointlessly add fees - Reagen Dec 1, 06:33 1
  - Selling A and buying C would net you about 15% more shares before tax considerations. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 1, 06:39
- Class C stock is non-voting -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 06:15 1
  - From what I read, it's moot -- Kevin Plank controls majority of the voting stock. - Will Hunting Dec 1, 06:28
- just a guess, but the share classes could have different dividend payment structures -- nm - decline Dec 1, 06:15 1
  - it's a non-dividend stock. -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 06:32
Android version of "Ticket to Ride" is free today -- (link) - ML Dec 1, 06:09 2
- It sucks they released a new iOS version and made you buy it again to play online. -- nm - spamlet Dec 1, 06:16
- It's a great game and I would love to have more people to play with. -- nm - Krusty Dec 1, 06:13
Walked past Ed Balls on my way in to work this morning. - LMS Dec 1, 06:09
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- Trump trolled the living shit out of these poor rust belt voters. -- nm - MDH Dec 1, 06:08 1
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- need a subscription -- nm - decline Dec 1, 06:04 2
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    - WooHoo! Let's bring back 2008!! Goldman Sachs rules! -- nm - decline Dec 1, 06:09
Heh -- (link) - ML Dec 1, 06:02 2
- I want to go to there -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 06:24
- That's fewer calories than I'd have guessed. -- nm* - mafic Dec 1, 06:08
Dudes. It's December. 2016 is *almost* done. - Andie Dec 1, 06:00 2
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  - yeah. my 1st thought was "the sooner the better. let's reset and start all overagain." -- nm - call me Ishmael Dec 1, 06:50
Classy. Electoral College voter "I'm getting death threats" -- (link) - Strongbad Dec 1, 05:48 9
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  - I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS! - Beaker Dec 1, 05:57
  - Well, it *is* CNN. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 05:52 4
    - And also twitter. -- nm - mafic Dec 1, 05:54 3
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        ST usually doesn't "make" news. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 07:04
        
        More that I don't take death threats on twitter seriously. -- nm - mafic Dec 1, 05:58
- The more of 2016 that happens, the more I think that mankind is mostly a failed experiment.. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 1, 05:50 1
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That’s right, the NFL executive responsible for player health and safety is not a physician (spoiler - he's an anti-trust lawyer). -- (link*) - Beaker Dec 1, 05:40 4
- Brain imaging exams performed on high school football players after just one season revealed changes in both the gray and white matter that correlated - Beaker Dec 1, 05:57 3
  - And from everything I'm reading, soccer needs to be investigated as well because they're not liking what they're seeing in their brains either. - Krusty Dec 1, 06:16 2
    - I'd take that over the punishment football players get any day -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 06:19 1
      - There's no doubt the NFL players taking beating unlike other sports but I was speaking only of brain injuries which - Krusty Dec 1, 06:29
This might be the greatest "lifehack" I've seen -- (link) - oblique Dec 1, 05:20 5
- I feel, like most lifehacks, that this takes longer to set up than the time it saves - Guigue Dec 1, 06:05
- "a picture of a fat cat can really liven up a room" -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 05:47 2
  - hee! -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 05:58
  - ha. -- nm - university of amanda jones Dec 1, 05:48
- OMG genius -- nm - Loyola Dec 1, 05:47
A technician with the Cirque du Soleil Luzia show who died after being hit in the head by an aerial lift Tuesday is the son of one of the founders -- (link) - Beaker Dec 1, 05:13
TV PSA: Cowboys@Vikings, Legends of Tomorrow, NBA, Rosewood, BBT, Great Indoors, Pitch, Project Runway, Great American Baking Show, Mom, Supernatural, -- nm* - Beaker Dec 1, 05:04 3
- -20 SB Points for not including season premiere of Top Chef! -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 05:13 1
  - I always say other stuff! -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 06:25
- Life in Pieces, Falling Water, Pure Genius, Top Chef, other stuff -- nm* - Beaker Dec 1, 05:05
Damn. Roy Williams blasted UNC fans last night in a loss to Indiana. -- (link) - Strongbad Dec 1, 04:08 3
- UCLA has had this problem for years. The students used to be on the bottom on one side of the court, now they're up high in a 1/4 of a side. -- nm - jnine Dec 1, 08:57
- I'm sure they'll get right on moving the cheap student seats to the area where they can sell big money tickets to alums. - iSpam Dec 1, 05:42
- ACC wins the ACC-Big10 Challenge 9-5, first time in 4-5 years I think. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 04:09
Record cold coming to ‘almost entire USA’ – Low temperature records set to be SHATTERED -- (link) - Strongbad Dec 1, 04:05 2
- Thanks, Trump! -- nm - mafic Dec 1, 04:17 1
  - Perfect time for my cruise to leave in 9 days! -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 04:32
Zimmer needs to coach as a Pirate tonight. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 03:58
Cabinet Rumor: Palin for VA -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 03:55
What was your favorite "All-Star game decides home field advantage for the World Series" moment everyone? - Beaker Dec 1, 03:35 1
- 2016, obviously. The Cubs able to play Schwarber in 4 games. -- nm - zunk via drone Dec 1, 04:49
NO SCHOOL!! 2nd day in a row -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 03:33 1
- Pfft! I'm approaching 5000 days in a row without school... -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 07:37
Beaker: that fall of Rome guy makes me appreciate that you need to be a bit of a performer to make a good podcast. - mafic Nov 30, 23:21
Jim Delligatti, creator of the Big Mac has passed on at 98 -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 30, 23:09 1
- Don Gorske must be very sad. -- nm - Qale Nov 30, 23:12
So ... I have little airport lounge experience, but Fiji has had some really great lounges - both here in Fiji and in Sydney - the one in LA that I - JenBro Nov 30, 22:17
Officer shot on a domestic violence call, just died, ahole still holding out firing shots. every cop in the state is in town -- (edited) - zeitgeist Nov 30, 22:16 1
- :( - just terrible. -- nm - i.b! Nov 30, 22:52
heads are gonna roll over the soccer team plane crash. -- (link) - Reagen Nov 30, 22:02 1
- Wow. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 30, 22:18
Lulz. Tried to upgrade the OS on my raspberry pi and apparently bricked it. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 30, 21:49 4
- There goes the ST search engine -- nm - budice Nov 30, 22:05 3
  - Good. Now nobody will ever find out that last Summer I saw the Ghostbusters movie and thought it suuuuuuuuucked. -- nm - Eric Cartman Nov 30, 23:14
  - Looks like I only bricked the OS on the SD card, not the whole machine, so that's good -- nm - Beryllium Nov 30, 22:15 1
    - But now the rest of the machine is cursed. -- nm* - mafic Dec 1, 05:57
The Amazing Race returns friday April 21 -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 30, 21:35 1
- That's quite a delay. -- nm - Mop Nov 30, 22:58
Oh, hey, yesterday was TWuG's birthday! Happy birthday!!! -- nm - kelly Nov 30, 21:20 10
- Happy birthday! -- nm - decline Dec 1, 06:08
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 05:02
- Thank you, everyone! -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 04:53
- happy birthday, tee-woo-gee!! :) - -- nm - i.b! Nov 30, 22:51
- Happy birthday, TWuG! Woo hoo! -- nm - Krusty Nov 30, 22:10
- cheers! -- nm - mud Nov 30, 22:06
- HBD!!! -- nm - JenBro Nov 30, 22:00
- Seems like it's still yesterday in my time zone, so happy birthday twug. :) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 30, 21:45
- (Or still today, depending on which time zone you're in) -- nm - kelly Nov 30, 21:21
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 30, 21:21
Redmond, I got the offer on the confirmation screen immediately after placing my order. - kelly Nov 30, 21:11 1
- Thx -- nm - Bacon Nov 30, 21:37
the groom tonight was bald with a full scalp tat of the predator - zeitgeist Nov 30, 20:48
I'm behind on fake celebrity news because I just don't care. I did not know Tila Tequila is now a Nazi -- (link) - crash davis Nov 30, 20:36 8
- didn't she also have a flat earth thing a while back? she'll do whatever it takes to generate page hits. -- nm - mafic Nov 30, 21:41
- We had a thread about this. I think it was entertaining. -- nm - Bacon Nov 30, 20:42 6
  - Linky -- (link) - Bacon Nov 30, 20:43 [Backboard] 5
    - ah, from Nov 19th so I'm not that far behind on my fake celebrity news. -- nm - crash davis Nov 30, 20:47 4
      - News about fake celebrities, or fake news about celebrities? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 30, 20:52 3
        
        news about people on the periphery of my consciousness, Hilton, Kardashian, etc -- nm - crash davis Nov 30, 20:53 2
        
        she's way below them -- nm - Remlik Nov 30, 21:04
        
        so, the former -- nm - mud Nov 30, 21:00
Last week's Survivor tribal council was freaking devastating. Spoiler question. - Mop Nov 30, 20:33 2
- I believe that…spoiler - Volnelk Nov 30, 20:34
- spoil - crash davis Nov 30, 20:34
zork, thanks for the hug, but soccer is not my thing, honestly I don't even understand the standings and playoff and whatever :) -- nm - Guigue Nov 30, 20:30
whoa, Trevor Noah is fighting with a guest. - Max Nov 30, 20:30 3
- She's a young white blonde internet version of Bill O'Reilly -- nm - JaxSean Nov 30, 21:06
- Like, in a kiddie pool full of jello? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 30, 20:31 1
  - She's hideous on the inside but blonde and bosomy on the outside, so I guess I'd watch that. -- nm - Max Nov 30, 20:34
I don't know how accurate this is. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 30, 20:25
Anyways, have smart phones only been around since 2007? -- nm - crash davis Nov 30, 20:23 14
- ST Fun Fact - Dano's was the first iPhone i ever held and saw how it worked in real life. -- nm - Andie Dec 1, 05:53
- depends how you define it. Some people push it back to 1999. -- nm - Reagen Nov 30, 20:53
- 2002 at least. I won't cut Apple slack on this. - Mop Nov 30, 20:46 4
  - To Apple's credit, they took something that existed, like MP3 players and tablets, and made the world believe they invented it. -- nm - Mop Nov 30, 20:47 3
    - I always wondered why they got so much credit for the iPod -- nm - crash davis Nov 30, 20:48 2
      - Not so much the iPod as much as iTunes. Did as much to kill Napster as the RIAA. - Mop Nov 30, 21:02
      - cool design -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 30, 20:50
- Google Chrome turns 8 years old in December. -- nm - Max Nov 30, 20:34 1
  - I can't explain it. That seems about right, but smart phones seem older to me -- nm - crash davis Nov 30, 20:38
- And I just saw my first trailer for Man Down which evidently opens Friday. I'm learning all sorts of things not forwarding through commercials. -- nm - crash davis Nov 30, 20:26
- No. But good ones, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 30, 20:26 3
  - What does that mean? The first iPhone? -- nm - crash davis Nov 30, 20:27 2
    - Yes. Before that there were things like the UTStarcom 6700. Not great. I wanted one, though. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 30, 20:30 1
      - My gf had the Treo which was pretty close to today's smartphones. -- nm - Krusty Nov 30, 20:44
I have a confession to make. - Beryllium Nov 30, 20:19 10
- i have a confession to make. i hate aggregated scores....nm - x Dec 1, 06:22
- i look at aggregate scores *before* i see films, if i loved/hated something i read the reviews after. Too much spoilery info for me to read beforehand -- nm - Andie Dec 1, 05:54
- I just go see what I want and damn the consequences. -- nm - Qale Nov 30, 23:16
- other than trying to catch weekend movie grades on ST - I only stumble across movie reviews otherwise - don't really seek them out - I ask friends fir -- nm - JenBro Nov 30, 22:07
- Heathen -- nm - . Nov 30, 21:23
- I'd expect this to be true for the vast majority of movie watchers. -- nm - Mop Nov 30, 21:04
- the state of reviewing is rather terrible these days. -- nm - Reagen Nov 30, 20:22 1
  - It's not that, it's just that it doesn't enter into my consumption equation. - Beryllium Nov 30, 20:27
- Oh...if we're doing confessions - JD Nov 30, 20:21 1
  - I've been liking quite a bit of it, too. still a few to go, iirc. -- nm - i.b! Nov 30, 22:56
I'm watching a special on Real Vikings. Actor Clive Standen who plays Rollo on Vikings is taken aback when a museum curator. out of the blue. asks - crash davis Nov 30, 20:19
"Social experimenter" gets his windshield bashed in after blocking traffic in NYC. Or is it just another prank? -- (link) - Mop Nov 30, 20:12 1
- What exactly did they think was going to happen? -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 05:39

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