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nm -- nm* - budice Dec 6, 07:04
United Technologies investing $16 million in Carrier plant Trump "saved", to increase automation and cut jobs. -- (link) - znufrii Dec 6, 06:57 3
- Doh -- nm - budice Dec 6, 07:05
- Basically, if your job can be done by a robot it soon will be. - TWuG Dec 6, 07:01
- They have a broad restructuring plan in place which they slightly modified for Trump's PR scam. If I was any one of those 1100 jobs 'saved' I wouldn't - decline Dec 6, 07:00
Nationals beat writer says they have made a "take it or leave it" offer for Sale. -- (link) - spamlet Dec 6, 06:42 1
- Giolito ++ would be a fantastic haul -- nm - ML Dec 6, 06:59
Guys, was there a rumor during the GOP primary that Rubio was gay? I don't recall it, but apparently Flynn's son was involved in spreading it? Maybe? -- (link) - ty97 Dec 6, 06:36 5
- I only remember the thing about the boots, but I'm sure that played into it. -- nm - znufrii Dec 6, 06:52
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  - very much so. -- nm - Diva Dec 6, 07:05
- yes, but it got very little traction and died away when Rubio dropped out. -- nm - Reagen Dec 6, 06:40
- (note: this isn't a post about the rumor itself, but about the spreading of a rumor. I just don't have any recollection of it.... - ty97 Dec 6, 06:38
Weird arctic blast coming: Philly will be warmer than Memphis -- (link) - decline Dec 6, 06:36 3
- Pattern shifts! There's usually a few times a year where MN is colder than most of Alaska. -- nm - ML Dec 6, 07:00 2
  - and you voluntarily live there? -- nm - decline Dec 6, 07:01 1
    - but our Septembers are *divine* - ML Dec 6, 07:02
Trump wants to cancel the next Air Force One order from Boeing, $4B cost -- (link) - budice Dec 6, 06:26 27
- And just randomly, it should be noted that Trump's own 757 was built in 1991 so it's going to be due for replacement. - ty97 Dec 6, 06:54
- So is he maybe tweet-negotiating to try to get a better price? Regardless, what an odd battle. -- nm - ty97 Dec 6, 06:46 3
  - I wouldn't be surprised if he upended a lot of these kinds of contracts not out of any real plan but just because - oblique Dec 6, 06:50 2
    - and he thinks it makes him look good -- nm - decline Dec 6, 07:02
    - "I'm doing stuff! That's what presidenting is about!" -- nm - TWuG Dec 6, 06:53
- Obviously an AF1 747 has some special needs that drive up cost, but this article says that a new 747 costs $367.8 million -- (edited) - ty97 Dec 6, 06:42 3
  - the contract calls for 3 747-8 -- nm - decline Dec 6, 06:48
  - Special comm equipment, EMP hardened, defensive measures (chaff, etc). Though even with that the $4 billion - TWuG Dec 6, 06:46
  - Two planes for starters, plus I would imagine a metric shit ton of security features, custom fit-out of the interiors, bitchin' paint job... -- (edited) - znufrii Dec 6, 06:44
- Let me guess, he'd rather fly his own planes, and bill taxpayers for it? - znufrii Dec 6, 06:28 16
  - More importantly, how many manufacturing jobs would be lost if he did this? - znufrii Dec 6, 06:36 15
    - It's....a couple of planes at most...so none -- nm - ty97 Dec 6, 06:39 14
      - (I say a couple because I think they build a decoy too, don't they?) -- (edited) - ty97 Dec 6, 06:39 13
        
        Not a decoy, but a second aircraft. Both are "Air Force One", which is a call-sign used only while the president is aboard. - TWuG Dec 6, 06:43 9
        
        Thanks. I would expect both should be replaced. 1990 planes aren't ancient, but they are aged and due soon or soon-ish for replacement. - ty97 Dec 6, 06:45 8
        
        And it should be noted that United, Delta, European airlines, really all airlines, are retiring their 747-400 series aircraft in the near future - ty97 Dec 6, 06:47 7
        
        AF-1 are 747-200's -- nm - decline Dec 6, 06:50 5
        
        Technically they are VC-25As. :-) - TWuG Dec 6, 06:56
        
        ewww. why? -- nm - ty97 Dec 6, 06:54 3
        
        Because they're 30 years old. -- nm - Ender Dec 6, 07:04 2
        
        I meant 'why did they order -200s rather than -400s' but it looks like these were actually built in 1986 -- nm - ty97 Dec 6, 07:05 1
        
        And I meant "they ordered -200s rather than -400s because it was 30 years ago". -- nm - Ender Dec 6, 07:08
        
        Actually, I may be wrong about production shutting down soon. The cargo haulers tend to like the freighter version. -- nm - ty97 Dec 6, 06:49
        
        "In January, Boeing won a contract to start preliminary work on a new fleet of Air Force One presidential aircraft. " -- nm - decline Dec 6, 06:42 2
        
        You expect me to actually read the article, don't you. - ty97 Dec 6, 06:43
        
        (nor do I see anywhere that $4B cost. The initial payment on the contract was $26M) -- nm - decline Dec 6, 06:43
- *Starts Trump Aerospace* -- nm - Total Seperate Family Company Dec 6, 06:27
Astro-standings, final version - ML Dec 6, 06:26 13
- you guys had 2 below .500 teams make the playoffs! -- nm - Beaker Dec 6, 06:39
- *flexes* -- nm - oblique Dec 6, 06:36
- Vamps standings - Baron More Dough Dec 6, 06:28 10
  - holy shit, you guys had 3 below .500 teams make the playoffs -- nm - Beaker Dec 6, 06:39 6
    - when 2/3 of the league makes the playoffs, that's to be expected -- nm - ML Dec 6, 07:05
    - 9 of 12 teams were outscored by their opponents. -- nm - Baron More Dough Dec 6, 06:42 4
      - Krusty's team must be a force given his points scored. yikes -- nm - Beaker Dec 6, 06:43 3
        
        Arguably the #1 valued RB + the #1 pick (Zeke) -- nm - Strongbad Dec 6, 07:06
        
        😎 I had a very good regular season. It's all thanks to my tandem of Zeke and Johnson at RB. They've done so much damage to my opponents. - Krusty Dec 6, 06:48 1
        
        woof, 2 good keepers there too -- nm - Beaker Dec 6, 07:14
  - Caveman Standings (only 1 below .500 team made the playoffs and he was the 3rd highest scoring team) -- (edited) - Beaker Dec 6, 06:37 2
    - Up until this week I also had the most points against. -- nm - Todd Manning - 38 days till Monster Trucks Dec 6, 07:09
    - Also, we will need a new Caveman. Shaun is retiring -- nm - Beaker Dec 6, 06:42
"Is it a Macintosh computer??!??" -- nm - prayformojo Dec 6, 06:15
I am docking myself -20 SB Points for this embarrassing moment watching Westworld this weekend. - Strongbad Dec 6, 05:49
Peter Vaughan has died aged 93. RIP Maester Aemon. -- (link) - LMS Dec 6, 05:39 1
- You can't really blame me for this one -- nm - 2016 Dec 6, 05:46
Random question, but does anyone have a guess as to why the ticker for Rogue One is SW16? Am I missing something? -- nm - volnelk Dec 6, 05:00 3
- 2016, probs. -- nm - university of amanda jones Dec 6, 05:06 2
  - yeah I think it was a placeholder symbol before the name of the movie was even known -- nm - Beaker Dec 6, 06:11
  - I don't feel dumb at all, so that's cool. -- nm - volnelk Dec 6, 05:37
UFC star Conor McGregor will appear in a future episode of Game of Thrones. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 6, 04:48
wake up! - prayformojo Dec 6, 04:14 9
- I'm still in my pajamas and reading the news. :-) -- nm - Krusty Dec 6, 05:49
- Thanks. I am about to get up. -- nm - Spawndroid Dec 6, 04:57
- 15 minutes? I'm already 45 in. -- nm - volnelk Dec 6, 04:25 6
  - this. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 6, 04:26 5
    - what do you people do for a living? -- nm - university of amanda jones Dec 6, 05:07 4
      - tell people ' no' when they fall and go boom -- nm - Epiphany Dec 6, 06:22
      - Educate future generations....very early. -- nm - volnelk Dec 6, 05:36
      - I try to keep cars from crashing into things. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 6, 05:25 1
        
        Interesting. And how exactly do you keep women from driving? nm - Dignan Dec 6, 05:29
FF: Happy, 4 of 5 teams in the playoffs. Now the goal is to get at least 1 championship. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 6, 04:00 3
- (seeds: 1, 2, 5 and 6) -- nm - Strongbad Dec 6, 04:00 2
  - Nicely done and good luck. I got the bye in my $ppr league, so I'm happy. - Crashquick Dec 6, 05:52 1
    - the 2 seed is my $$ league, love that 1st round bye -- nm - Strongbad Dec 6, 05:56
TV PSA: Flash, SHIELD, Brooklyn 99, NCIS, Middle, Voice, Smackdown, American Housewife, New Girl, Bull, Fresh off the Boat, No Tomorrow, Teen Wolf, -- nm - Beaker Dec 6, 03:20 1
- Curse of Oak Island, This is Us, Chicago Fire, Scream Queens, Real O'Neals, Aftermath, Ink Master, Leah Remini vs Scientology, NCIS NO, Shooter, Drunk - Beaker Dec 6, 03:23
And if Linear B tablets are mostly lists of items owed to the palace, shouldn't the Civ series place accounting early in the tech tree? - crash davis Dec 5, 23:08
Anthropologists are too fricking serious for people who can't absolutely prove their point. What if the joke drove human development? - crash davis Dec 5, 22:42 1
- the most dominate adopter of new tech is p0rn...so.....yeah fertility, that's it -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 5, 23:03
Rogue One premier will close some L.A. streets for the next week -- (link) - Meg Dec 5, 22:34 5
- bastards -- nm - decline Dec 6, 06:17
- This is why we have to fight, before the Empire closes down all the streets. -- nm - Max Dec 6, 03:23
- The Pantages is a strange place for the premiere. Does it even have a screen or are they putting something in just for this? It is so beautiful. -- nm - jnine Dec 6, 00:29 2
  - I just googled. that place is amazing. -- nm - university of amanda jones Dec 6, 06:31 1
    - There's a surprising amount of incredible theaters like this in downtown LA. It was so unpopular for business, they didn't tear them down for new - jnine Dec 6, 09:14
watching a show I recorded off PBS, it makes me wonder: "Who was the first human who thought, 'hey why don't I save these small things and put them into the dirt to gather more plants next year'" -- (edited) - crash davis Dec 5, 22:32 15
- Please, aliens dude. -- nm - jnine Dec 6, 00:31
- ancient man had a wide range of pharmacuticals, so observation and experimentation of that sort would include seeds, birds and bees -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 5, 23:05 7
  - and that makes me wonder "Who was the first human to get high?" -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 23:14 6
    - also: bears eat magic mushrooms, like on purpose, so it's not a uniquely human thing. - mafic Dec 5, 23:59 1
      - rats and squirrels get crazy drunk eating rotting apples...omg its bizzare -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 6, 02:06
    - "hey, Thnog, you know that cave in the valley everyone says smells funny? If you go way inside and breathe deep, you will see some serious shit." - howie Dec 5, 23:49 1
      - "Whatever, dudes, you go hunt, I'm going to stay here and get baked." "Yeah, you guys go on. I'm with Gary, we should grow more of this stuff." -- nm - Max Dec 6, 03:26
    - We know this one. Tommy Chong. -- nm - Mop Dec 5, 23:37
    - the myth around the discovery of wine has its initial inventor murdered because everyone thought he was poisoning them. -- nm - mafic Dec 5, 23:34
- I always imagine it was mostly accidental. like people kept some seeds to eat later, and then they sprouted, or they threw all the inedible seeds away - mafic Dec 5, 22:43 5
  - This is in line with current anthropological theory. - Mop Dec 5, 22:56 3
    - But there is that one person who first made that connection. That is who I wonder about. -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 23:05 2
      - This will only serve to frustrate you further, but it's quite likely that it happened many times in many places over many hundreds/thousands of years - Mop Dec 5, 23:36 1
        
        But it did happen first somewhere, I wonder about that person. -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 23:50
  - fermentation - Beer, the world's happiest accident -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 22:44
I had a Sugar Crush on Candy Crush today that easily lasted 10 minutes. It just kept going and going. -- nm - Mop Dec 5, 22:29 1
- that makes me mad - I need to be to the next level as soon as possible -- nm - Epiphany Dec 6, 06:23
snow! -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 5, 22:20 [flickr] 2
- cat! -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 5, 22:20 [flickr] 1
  - "Why are you bothering me, Bery?" -- nm - cat Dec 5, 22:28
I wonder if I'll ever get used to the sound of the train whistles when they blow through at all hours of the day. - kelly Dec 5, 22:00 10
- You will get used to it. We live about 3 blocks from tracks and it became background noise very quickly - TWuG Dec 6, 06:24
- We've got a commuter train with several grade crossings, and freight tracks across the river that are used regularly. - znufrii Dec 6, 06:13
- We lived less than a mile from the tracks in the town I grew up in. It won't take long. - iSpam Dec 6, 05:35
- That sounds kind of charming. -- nm - Loyola Dec 6, 05:14
- We have trains + an air force base. Give it time and you will forget they're there. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 6, 04:47
- I used to hear the horn for the new Exposition Line when they were testing it. Since it's been in operation, never. I live about 3/4s of a mile away. - jnine Dec 6, 01:00
- they have been converting the commuter rail line that is only a couple blocks, to a high speed main line -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 5, 23:10
- I used to live about a block from an emergency department. I got used to the ambulances, but never the helicopters. -- nm - mafic Dec 5, 22:28
- We have a spur line a couple of miles from us that I hear very rarely during the night. -- nm - Meg Dec 5, 22:20 1
  - It's not like it's all that loud, but since it's a new sound I'm aware of it every time the train rolls through. -- nm - kelly Dec 5, 22:35
In case you're wondering, yes, that's Elon Musk voicing his own character on South Park. -- nm - Mop Dec 5, 21:57
(more spoilers) - ReluctantCynic Dec 5, 21:52 11
- Look, I understand that you're upset with Matt Forte (and Spawn/who isn't?). Still, you're in danger of putting your entire paycheck in the swear jar. -- nm - David Dec 5, 21:58 10
  - Is there a middle finger emoji? If so, maybe he can just post that to all of us. -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 22:05 9
    - Well he also pretty much laid an egg this week in FJS as well - eag Dec 5, 22:16 1
      - Oh man, multi-league pile-up on RC! -- nm - David Dec 5, 23:02
    - It's not our fault we picked better kickers. -- nm - David Dec 5, 22:07 6
      - The truly painful part is that the argument he had at the beginning the season was about valuing Gostkowski. Guess who was Spawn's kicker? -- (edited) - crash davis Dec 5, 22:21 5
        
        Who has been a mediocre fantasy kicker so far this year - Reagen Dec 5, 22:26 4
        
        Week 12 tells the tale on why RC's currently on the outside looking in. - David Dec 5, 22:51
        
        until this weekend, I think I see a black fly in my chardonnay -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 22:27 2
        
        *puts up a middle finger in front of a huge spotlight Batsignal style* - ReluctantCynic Dec 5, 22:42 1
        
        I'll gladly take a middle finger since you worked the Batsignal into it :) -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 22:43
And thinking about geography, actually ML is part of Astronauts West and Spawn is part of Astronauts East. - crash davis Dec 5, 21:39 6
- The world's round. East and West don't truly exist. -- nm - David Dec 5, 21:40 5
  - social convention makes the world go round, David. -- nm - mafic Dec 5, 21:41 4
    - ~you spin me right round, baby~ -- nm - Strongbad Dec 6, 03:55
    - Said like the bloody southerner you are! -- nm - David Dec 5, 21:43 2
      - we prefer 'antipodean' -- nm - mafic Dec 5, 21:55 1
        
        I have that gun in Destiny. - David Dec 5, 21:58
Tommy wants a gaming mouse. Recommendations? Something not stupid like those 12 button mouses. -- nm - Mop Dec 5, 21:35 6
- get him a stuffed on and glue some buttons on it -- nm - decline Dec 6, 06:18
- Generally I like anything Razer makes. This is the one I use at work. -- (link) - Strongbad Dec 6, 04:40
- Also needs a new gaming headset. -- nm - Mop Dec 5, 22:01
- I'm really enjoying this one. David may have gotten it for me. -- (link) - Tim Dec 5, 21:40 1
  - Design wise, it's pretty tame. Is the charm in its functionality? -- nm - Mop Dec 5, 22:00
- Ask Tim. I just got him one for Christmas. -- nm - David Dec 5, 21:39
*laughs and claps like a wind-up monkey banging the cymbals at RC's last post on B2* -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 21:31
Snow! -- nm - Beryllium Dec 5, 21:29 1
- We had a few flakes this morning. Everyone was grinning ear to ear. -- nm - Mop Dec 5, 21:31
This past New Girl is firing on all cylinders... except for Jess. - Mop Dec 5, 21:28 2
- every episode, every season. -- nm - Max Dec 6, 03:28 1
  - They are consistently A episodes with some A+ thrown in. I don't know which I like more - the improv or scripted bits. - Mel Profit Dec 6, 05:29

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