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I'M GONNA CHOKE A BITCH!!! - Mop Mar 22, 10:54 3
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  - "Gay cat fighting". Is that like the gay counter to Michael Vick? -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:56 1
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ST Poll: Have you ever heard of the TV show Cheers? -- nm - ty97 Mar 22, 10:45 27
- That's the Frasier prequel series, right? -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:57
- Is this a real question? -- nm - Volnelk Mar 22, 10:51
- Wow, Kirstie Alley is a *LOT* older than I would have guessed. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 10:48 3
  - Sam's original encounter with Rebecca is still golden. - Mop Mar 22, 10:54 2
    - Rebecca was a certain upgrade from Diane. -- nm - groiny Mar 22, 10:56 1
      - Indeed. -- nm - Mop Mar 22, 10:57
- where everybody knows your name? -- nm - groiny Mar 22, 10:47
- Uhm ... yes. - ReluctantCynic Mar 22, 10:47 11
  - It is kinda super-oblivious given how popular two of the main actors are in recent years. -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:49
  - JackDawson claims he has never heard an Elton John song before. - ty97 Mar 22, 10:48 9
    - And you came up with Princess Di? Didn't you ask him if he has seen The Lion King? -- nm - crash davis Mar 22, 10:50 7
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        "I don't know that I know an Elton john song!" - Jack Dawson, 15 minutes ago -- nm - ty97 Mar 22, 10:55 1
        
        it keeps getting worse..... - groiny Mar 22, 10:56
      - My first question was 'Tiny Dancer' b/c who does NOT know that song? -- nm - ty97 Mar 22, 10:51 2
        
        Hold me closer Tony Danza! -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:52
        
        GayDH brought up Lion King. -- nm - ty97 Mar 22, 10:51
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  - *annoyed gays* -- nm - ty97 Mar 22, 10:47 1
    - Kylie Minogue is no big deal. -- nm - Shaun Mar 22, 10:52
- kelly kelly kelly kelly -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:46 4
  - Why? Because... -- nm - kelly Mar 22, 10:47 3
    - heh..... -- (link) - groiny Mar 22, 10:49 [youtube] 2
      - so much 80s hair in that episode -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:51 1
        
        love it - groiny Mar 22, 10:52
House passes Omnibus funding bill. Senate must act by midnight Friday to avoid a shutdown. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 10:42 1
- If you care, tidbits from inside the massive Omnibus funding bill in Congress -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 22, 10:46
If someone over the age of 40* (fine 35) swears they have never in their life heard Elton John's 'Candle in the Wind," would you believe them? -- nm* - MDH Mar 22, 10:38 24
- No. -- nm - Shaun Mar 22, 10:51
- Let's all note that the guy with the Titanic handle (released in 1997) claims he never heard the biggest song of 1997 and the 2nd biggest single ever -- nm - MDH Mar 22, 10:50
- I don't know it by name. I would guess I heard it, however. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 22, 10:50
- possibly. though I'd cut that age line off at 45. -- nm - Remlik Mar 22, 10:46 2
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    - you've always been the smart one here! -- nm - Remlik Mar 22, 10:52
- Are they gay or not? -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:45 3
  - Very. -- nm - MDH Mar 22, 10:46 2
    - Then no, I don't believe them :) -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:47
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- How long were they in the coma? -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 10:44
- I might believe them if Princess Di were still alive. -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:43 1
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- No. -- nm - Andie Mar 22, 10:40
- Hate you, I was about to poll -- nm - ty97 Mar 22, 10:40 1
  - We have the text receipts! -- nm - MDH Mar 22, 10:40
- If the person was an Amazonian rain forest tribal member, yes. -- nm - crash davis Mar 22, 10:39
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  - HAHAHA. -- nm - MDH Mar 22, 10:40 5
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      - woo-hoo! - ty97 Mar 22, 10:43 3
        
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        OLD GAY - ty97 Mar 22, 10:50
        
        I'll go. -- nm - MDH Mar 22, 10:46
Dickcheese tells reporters that Dowd left because he didn't want Dickcheese to speak with Mueller, wereas Dickcheese is looking forward to talking w him. -- (edited) - Jovian Mar 22, 10:31 3
- Trump isn't coming out of his interview with Mueller without handcuffs on. -- nm - Mop Mar 22, 10:46
- It's magnificent that the stupidest man in the world somehow believes he's the most clever. -- nm - Mop Mar 22, 10:32 1
  - Stupid people don't typically know how stupid they are. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 10:37
STIS: Does pizza freeze/thaw well? -- nm - kelly Mar 22, 10:27 5
- Assembled but not baked? Or already baked? -- nm - mara Mar 22, 10:36 1
  - I was curious about already baked, but it turns out to be a non-issue now. :) I ordered a pizza for my friend but wasn't sure if I should look for a - kelly Mar 22, 10:47
- Not in my experience. -- nm - Krusty Mar 22, 10:29
- I eat frozen pizza all the time :) -- (edited) - just oblique Mar 22, 10:29 1
  - same, we make our own and pop them in the freezer for later. -- nm - Beaker Mar 22, 10:35
Another day, another way for hackers to steal credentials -- (link) - just oblique Mar 22, 10:27
crash weird poll #1007 - Wintergreen, Peppermint, Spearmint, or Afreakwhodoesnotlikethese? -- nm - crash davis Mar 22, 10:25 13
- boycotts this poll as it ignores the best mint of all, MINT -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 22, 13:00
- Spear, Winter, Pepper -- nm - eag Mar 22, 10:47
- Wintergreen. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 22, 10:46
- winter, but when I buy my gum I get a pack of minty & a pack of fruity so I can mix with a stick of each, it's the best. -- nm* - mud Mar 22, 10:43
- Burn them all (except Scotch mints) -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 10:41
- Wintergreen. I dislike peppermint and can only tolerate spearmint. -- nm - mara Mar 22, 10:34
- 3>1>2 -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:31 1
  - personally, I'm 1>3>2 -- nm - crash davis Mar 22, 10:33
- checks bag in desk drawer: Wint-o-green -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:27 2
  - Guess who has two thumbs and just got a big bag of Wint-o-green Lifesavers for his desk? - crash davis Mar 22, 10:30 1
    - Following up on my poll from a while ago, I go through roughly a bag a week now. -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:44
- wintergreen, no contest. -- nm - kelly Mar 22, 10:27
- Spear -- nm - groiny Mar 22, 10:26
Just landed at Pearson :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 22, 10:23 2
- i apologize for the cold weather. -- nm - Andie Mar 22, 10:26 1
  - I’m still on the plane :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 22, 10:35
W/o googling, do you know the song playing during this scene? -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 22, 10:22 [Attachment] 15
- Is it - Tim Mar 22, 10:27 3
  - And, as I suspected, I now have an earworm. -- nm - Mop Mar 22, 10:32
  - Yup -- nm - Spawndroid Mar 22, 10:30
  - that's it -- nm - prayformojo Mar 22, 10:30
- Yes -- nm - Spawndroid Mar 22, 10:26
- yep! (or at least I think I do) (spoilers) -- (edited) - kelly Mar 22, 10:25 2
  - Yep (like others I can remember the scene but not the song) -- nm - prayformojo Mar 22, 10:30 1
    - I added it to itunes after seeing the movie. - kelly Mar 22, 10:31
- I feel like it should be... - Mop Mar 22, 10:25
- If it was Amy Adams in the park with the cartoon bird, I would. But I don't know this one. -- nm - crash davis Mar 22, 10:24 3
  - Watched Taladega Nights last night with my son and he was "where do I know her from"? - just oblique Mar 22, 10:28 2
    - Has he not watched any of the DC movies with her as Lois Lane? - crash davis Mar 22, 10:31 1
      - Maybe, but he's watched the office far more -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:43
- Shots? -- nm - groiny Mar 22, 10:23
- I know the scene, but no. -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:23
B2 demonstrates that -- yet again -- crash davis is wiser than me. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 22, 10:09 7
- Spawn really is wiser than you -- nm - ty97 Mar 22, 10:20 2
  - Now that is going too far. I was about to say that I would move to NYC under that 50% raise scenario -- just to hang out with you. But now ... - ReluctantCynic Mar 22, 10:21 1
    - True for most here, silly. -- nm - Spawndroid Mar 22, 10:30
- he is indeed Cheeseburger. He is indeed -- nm - Remlik Mar 22, 10:16 3
  - Are you calling RC a diabetic murder bear? Or are you calling me a diabetic murder bear? -- nm - crash davis Mar 22, 10:20 2
    - yes. but I'd probably call you porkchop -- nm - Remlik Mar 22, 10:27 1
      - RC, here is the link to the video about Cheeseburger -- (link) - crash davis Mar 22, 10:38 [Backboard]
They offered me 50% off our next order. (before i even emailed them.) -- nm* - Andie Mar 22, 10:00 4
- And always check orders before leaving the restaurant or drive-thru window. -- nm - budice Mar 22, 10:07 3
  - ? is that for me? - Andie Mar 22, 10:07 2
    - nmbandie - budice Mar 22, 10:11 1
      - :) -- nm - Andie Mar 22, 10:11
Here's the video of the Uber self-driving accident. WTF..?!! - Mop Mar 22, 09:57 42
- A car going 45mph takes approximately 146 feet to come to a complete stop. -- nm - Shaun Mar 22, 10:59
- I absolutely understand why the human didn't catch it. Sure seems like the car should have. She didn't jump off the curb, she was 3/4 of the way across the street. -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:01 33
  - Also... "Our cars remain grounded..." Well... yeah... they've always been on the ground... -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:06
  - Exactly. This is what is meant to sell self-driving cars. They're supposed to be smarter, safer. -- nm - Mop Mar 22, 10:05 30
    - They are smarter because they don't vote GOP. Not much in other ways yet. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 22, 10:51
    - What makes you think they aren't? -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 10:09 5
      - There doesn't seem to be a good reason why the lidar laser sensor didn't see her. -- nm - mara Mar 22, 10:12 3
        
        Agreed, not yet. - Strongbad Mar 22, 10:17 2
        
        40 K!!!! Ban cars!!!!! -- nm - groiny Mar 22, 10:19 1
        
        License drivers! -- nm - Mop Mar 22, 10:23
      - I'm sure they are. I just don't see how the lidar couldn't see what clearly my eyes missed. -- nm - Mop Mar 22, 10:11
    - while i agree with this, it's not like a human driver would have likely been able to stop in this instance. -- nm - Andie Mar 22, 10:06 22
      - Uber's cars don't just use cameras though, they use a radar array to identify obstacles and avoid collisions (as well as lidar, but I don't think - Roger More Mar 22, 10:15 6
        
        oh, i agree. but in *this case* i am just saying it's not like a human driver would have been safer. -- nm - Andie Mar 22, 10:16 5
        
        Oh sure, sorry. -- nm - Roger More Mar 22, 10:21
        
        this is one of the times where I think we are trying to not blame the victim...... - groiny Mar 22, 10:18 3
        
        Yeah... the car should've seen it better than a human driver... but the pedestrian was still jaywalking directly in front of a car she should have seen. -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:21 2
        
        No question. An aware pedestrian is going to see the headlights coming from what I could see on the video. Of course, people are very often impaired - just oblique Mar 22, 10:22 1
        
        does not excuse them from responsibility. - groiny Mar 22, 10:25
      - probably not but really the argument is two-fold - just oblique Mar 22, 10:08 12
        
        does the car have the tech to stop faster when going over a certain speed? - groiny Mar 22, 10:11 7
        
        Take visual sensors out of the mix, any kind of radar or non-visual sensor should have seen an object moving left to right before they crossed into - just oblique Mar 22, 10:12 6
        
        My money's on "the computer got confused by a person walking behind a bike and failed to classify it as either a bicyclist or a pedestrian". -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:18 4
        
        Confusion might be a good time to brake until more information is gathered/interpreted. -- nm - psilotum Mar 22, 10:20 3
        
        Sometimes, but there IS a threshold. A car driving down the highway can't come to a complete stop for every tire tread and cardboard box. - Ender Mar 22, 10:30 2
        
        This was a five foot tall, and five or six feet wide at the base so whether it was human or merely trash, a driver wouldn't ignore it -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 22, 14:17 1
        
        "This is speaking more broadly and not specifically about this instance. This clearly should have been above that threshold." -- nm - Ender Mar 23, 08:14
        
        sometimes, people get run over. -- nm - groiny Mar 22, 10:13
        
        i don't know if it was a phone, i think it might have been the dash they were looking at. (2) is the issue. -- nm* - Andie Mar 22, 10:09 3
        
        I probably don't have an accurate sense of how often I do that while driving, but it was pretty remarkable to see on the video how frequent and how - just oblique Mar 22, 10:11 1
        
        because he isn't really driving. it would make sense that he'd be looking at the info on the dash more. -- nm - Andie Mar 22, 10:11
        
        That's my thinking too. -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:10
      - correct, it was pretty dark, and I did not see her on the video until the car was right on her. - groiny Mar 22, 10:08
      - Absolutely. If I was driving in that situation, I don't see how I save that woman's life. -- nm - Mop Mar 22, 10:08
  - this -- nm - just oblique Mar 22, 10:03
- sometimes, people get run over. -- nm - groiny Mar 22, 10:01
- You need to read this NYT article if you haven't yet. -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 22, 10:00
- It's already been mathematically proven that it was physically *impossible* for that outcome to have changed. - Shaun Mar 22, 09:59 4
  - It looked a whole lot less on the video like "person stepping out into traffic" than "person in street" - just oblique Mar 22, 10:02
  - Steven Shladover, a UC Berkeley research engineer who has been studying automated systems for decades, sees it differently. -- (link) - mara Mar 22, 10:02
  - That is what you think. -- nm - Dr. Samuel Beckett Mar 22, 10:01 1
    - I've tried everything. -- nm - Phil Connors Mar 22, 10:05

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