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This moves "taking one for the team" to a whole new level. -- (link) - Reagen May 18, 11:44 3
- The funny thing is, those kids still "hit that". -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 11:48
- Best. mom. ever. -- nm - Neighborhood Boys May 18, 11:46
- the ad off to the side is a nice touch... - Mel Profit May 18, 11:45
Watch them shoot the new Ashton Kutcher movie. -- (link) - Dano May 18, 11:29
Current video on demand market share is up to 12%. Blu Ray is stuck at 7%. It's in trouble. -- nm - David May 18, 11:18 42
- st is such an eletist tech group, its not even funny. - tRuMaN May 18, 11:32 19
  - You're probably right that death is not exactly knocking at Blu-ray's door, but... - Dr.Vermin May 18, 11:48 1
    - sure, but telecom companies have been worried about people dropping landlines for, what, 2 decades since cell phones came out - tRuMaN May 18, 11:53
  - 50 years? I would estimate that within 15 years the majority of rentals will be viewed online/streaming/downloaded as opposed to going to a dvd shop. -- nm - Loyola May 18, 11:46
  - The CD is already on the way out - video is just a matter of scale. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 11:41 6
    - I agree with this. I haven't bought a physical CD in prob....oops, I just remembered I bought one last month. - JaxSean May 18, 11:44 5
      - Not me. I have purchased a grand total of 1 song in MP3. - Spawn May 18, 11:46 1
        
        i typically get the cd then encode it in a much higher - tRuMaN May 18, 11:55
      - What's interesting to me is that we took a downgrade in quality with the mp3. - Reagen May 18, 11:45 2
        
        yeah, that always got me, sure we can buy it in digital format, but we lose all that quality. -- nm - tRuMaN May 18, 11:48
        
        it's the same dynamic playing out of quality versus convenience -- nm - znufrii May 18, 11:48
  - I'm not sure why any of that data suggests TT is tech elistist. - musubi May 18, 11:37 6
    - that was more of a truthfull statement to get people's attention really -- nm - tRuMaN May 18, 11:38 5
      - I still fail to see your main point, and your little subterfuge doesn't help. - musubi May 18, 11:40 4
        
        i'm saying that this argument is pointless. dvd/bluray/whatever will be here for another decade, - tRuMaN May 18, 11:47 3
        
        the whole video market. -- nm - tRuMaN May 18, 11:54 1
        
        meant this to be a reply to znu, sorry -- nm - tRuMaN May 18, 11:54
        
        majority of which market? the entire home video market? or the hidef subset of that market? -- nm - znufrii May 18, 11:50
  - Don't forget that some of the scummier internet providers are putting caps on the amount you can download in a given month. -- nm - Don Homer May 18, 11:34
  - but what do I know, i only worked in the telecom field for 4 years. -- nm - tRuMaN May 18, 11:33
- Betamax will get its big break any day now! -- nm - znufrii May 18, 11:22 13
  - screw betamax. 8mm is the only way to watch a movie -- nm - decline May 18, 11:24 12
    - This reminds me: ST Poll: First medium you saw porn on? - Mel Profit May 18, 11:32 11
      - Hustler, I think. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 11:44 2
        
        a 70s episode of Club really...really opened my eyes. -- nm - Mel Profit May 18, 11:47 1
        
        or something like it. - Mel Profit May 18, 11:47
      - Non Magazine. -- nm - Mel Profit May 18, 11:43
      - *tries to fine tune channel 2 to pick up the Playboy Channel in squiglypurplevision* -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 11:42
      - scrambled tv -- nm - decline May 18, 11:40
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      - The old fashioned magazine. (nm) - musubi May 18, 11:38
      - vhs -- nm - Don Homer May 18, 11:34
      - besides glossy paper, or purple squiggly? - znufrii May 18, 11:34
      - Mime -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 11:34
- The a/v quality of downloads concerns me greatly, as does the vast bandwidth issues. -- nm - Don Homer May 18, 11:20 3
  - I think the overall segment of the audience that would be affected by these concerns is relatively small. - znufrii May 18, 11:28
  - Unbox is downloading HD now. Quality is fine and speed is surprising. Price is the biggest issue at the moment. -- nm - David May 18, 11:26 1
    - Fine isn't good enough though, relative to how great some blu-rays look and sound. - Don Homer May 18, 11:30
- Is there any doubt on the outcome of this? - Mel Profit May 18, 11:19 3
  - There will always be a market for archival video, although it will be forever shrinking. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 11:46
  - Before Stewie shows up? -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 11:24 1
    - Heh, I was just going to post: "and Stewie in 5,4,3,2,1......" -- nm - Trish May 18, 11:27
The results of that Toronto Star winningest sports city contest are out. -- (link) - Reagen May 18, 11:18 10
- Like there was ever any doubt? -- nm - Spawn May 18, 11:28
- In retrospect, it makes sense that it'd be a city without MLB. - musubi May 18, 11:22 6
  - Yeah, just going strictly by percentages is flawed. And there should have been points off for not having full state of teams in a city. -- nm - Don Homer May 18, 11:23 5
    - MLB is a relic. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 11:39 1
      - kid, your *face* is a relic. -- nm - znufrii May 18, 11:40
    - Oh I don't know. It makes sense if all it's measuring is how much a locale's teams wins. - musubi May 18, 11:26 2
      - Some sort of standard deviation applied by sport would have made it better. - TFox May 18, 11:27 1
        
        Not sure how you'd implement that, or why it'd make it better though. - musubi May 18, 11:35
- they really need a larger/clearer graphic or table -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 11:21 1
  - Since when is Kansas City in Illinois? -- nm - Ender May 18, 12:02
I don't know what's more laughable; Greg Paulus or Syracuse football - Will Hunting May 18, 11:17 1
- Syracuse. -- nm - Don Homer May 18, 11:31
Canada gives Japan the swineflu. -- (link) - Loyola May 18, 11:13 1
- Janet Napolitano: Hurry! Close the border to Canada! -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 11:44
the big picture returns: Hubble's final servicing mission - prayformojo May 18, 11:12 4
- #18 - had to be quick there "they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds" -- nm - marcel May 18, 11:25
- #27 is teh awesomes -- nm - znufrii May 18, 11:18
- #16 - wow -- nm - Don Homer May 18, 11:16 1
  - great to scroll through -- nm - marcel May 18, 11:23
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- Ask Wolfram Alpha. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 11:13
Ike: since the patch, it looks like the 'send cultural treaty request' option has disappeared from my diplomatic message drop-down menu. - Dr.McVermin May 18, 11:05 9
- My Treaty page says Cultural assets agreement (12/13) - Dr.Vermin May 18, 11:24 3
  - if you click on a museum it should list whether you have any pending requests out. - znufrii May 18, 11:24 2
    - You are smart. Thank you, sir. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 18, 11:29 1
      - took me a while to figure it out myself -- nm - znufrii May 18, 11:30
- Go to the Diplomacy page and click on the treaty tab to see if you have any outstanding treaties. You may need to cancel some. -- nm - Dano May 18, 11:07 3
  - hate, *hate* that outstanding requests count against your total now. -- nm - znufrii May 18, 11:09 2
    - It makes more sense this way. The old way, you could "bank" cultural treaties, without having space available for them. (nm) - musubi May 18, 11:28 1
      - I know it makes sense, it just makes it horribly inconvenient. :) -- nm - znufrii May 18, 11:29
- It is there. You must not have an open spot for the artifact. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 11:06
Free live Coldplay album for download. -- (link) - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 11:04 1
- Still a rip-off. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 11:05
Men's high end couture has gotten as ridiculous as women's. I can't imagine anyone wearing this, except for Mop, maybe. -- (link) - Trish May 18, 11:02 1
- I'd need a bigger codpiece. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 11:04
i love the headline picture they use with this: "Bradley Cooper denies dating Jennifer Aniston" -- (link) - prayformojo May 18, 11:02
Bones seasons 1-3 at amazon.com for $70 -- (link) - Beaker May 18, 11:02
Wolfram Alpha tells me the elevation of Victoria, BC is 26 ft. -- (link) - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 11:00 3
- It doesn't know what my cat's breath smells like, though. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 11:07
- Wolfram Alpha is sooo behind -- (link) - marcel May 18, 11:06
- That's hardly high enough for when the flood comes. Move higher. -- nm - Loyola May 18, 11:06
"I don't talk trash. I talk smack. They're totally different. - prayformojo May 18, 11:00 3
- I talk meth. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 11:04
- "Were your parents first cousins who were also bad at ping pong?" (nm) - musubi May 18, 11:00 1
  - the floppy-haired girl you date won a point -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 11:03
Redmond: I checked my messages. The first was mostly incoherent. the second one was mostly you chanting LIAR LIAR LIAR! - loosilu May 18, 10:58 13
- I want ST to send us to Maui for our romantic getaway -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 11:00 12
  - the only worse matchup for me would be pixie. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 11:02 5
    - For Pixie -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 11:05
    - Yay! I'm better than Redmond and Pixie! - tee-woo-gee May 18, 11:05 3
      - did you get unmarried and not tell us? -- nm - loosilu May 18, 11:10 2
        
        I have to be unmarried to be better than Redmond and Pixie? This is a cruel, cruel world. -- nm - tee-woo-gee May 18, 11:13 1
        
        no, silly, you're just not included among the choices. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 11:14
  - no no no. it should be a secluded cabin in the woods, 100 miles from anyone - tRuMaN May 18, 11:02 5
    - Tru. stick with the plan, do not allow yourself to be sidetracked. -- nm - Trish May 18, 11:26
    - where you can work on your manifest? - zeitgeist May 18, 11:22 1
      - it's like an inventory. a manifesto is a declaration of your guiding principles and beliefs. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 11:25
    - no one would find his body for months. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 11:02 1
      - I think doth protest to much -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 11:06
"You should be wearing these constantly." -- nm - David May 18, 10:57
SCOTUS upholds California's medical pot law. -- (link) - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 10:56 3
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- Good. -- nm - Don Homer May 18, 10:57
- That surprises me. -- nm - tee-woo-gee May 18, 10:57
New reearch suggests: low tar cigarettes may increase cancer risk -- (link) - Beaker May 18, 10:53 1
- "Winston! Now with MORE TAR! Studies show TAR to be an active cancer fighting agent!" -- nm - tee-woo-gee May 18, 10:56
Remember when Rosie first got her talk show? She was the "Queen of Nice". -- nm - Reagen May 18, 10:53 5
- I hope this means Ellen isn't going to turn into a belligerent psycho. -- nm - Dr.McVermin May 18, 11:02 4
  - "I hope this *doesn't* mean Ellen is going..." -- nm - Dr.McVermin May 18, 11:03
  - the important info here is that Rosie has always been a belligerent psycho. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 11:03 2
    - She just used to hide it better? -- nm - Dr.McVermin May 18, 11:04 1
      - she must have. I had heard for several years she was a nightmare. - loosilu May 18, 11:05
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- I'd say, while you could successfully argue they are doing some things "better" now, it's not like a 180 degree course change. - TFox May 18, 11:00
ATM company: Called. - Mel Profit May 18, 10:52 3
- what's the backstory, missed it -- nm - Beaker May 18, 10:54 1
  - There's an ATM at work begging to be taken advantage of. - Mel Profit May 18, 10:58
- This IM made me giggle. -- nm - ty97 May 18, 10:52
*bitch slaps the Tamil Tigers* -- nm - Sri Lanka May 18, 10:51 6
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  - Read a story a couple of weeks back about how Chinese backing made this possible. - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 10:54 4
    - Tamil supporters were blocking traffic in TO this week...really endeared themselves to the rest of the city in that way. Plus promising more... -- nm - Beaker May 18, 10:57 3
      - The sooner this is over, the sooner we can close those horrible refugee camps and legitimately address the concerns of minority Tamils. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 10:58 2
        
        You're cute. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 10:59 1
        
        I have heard that Canadians are cute. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 11:01
I've been out of pocket a few days: What is Wolfram Alpha? (I thought it was a computer game at first) -- nm - ty97 May 18, 10:51 11
- Computational Knowledge Engine (NOT a search engine) -- (link) - tee-woo-gee May 18, 10:53 9
  - The demo was cool, but I'm not sure I'd actually use it. -- nm - Dano May 18, 10:57 5
    - I can see using it to figure math stuff - tee-woo-gee May 18, 10:59 4
      - it doesn't recognize my last name at all. converts it to a city in Malaysia. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 11:04 3
        
        I don't even get an island for my last name -- nm - znufrii May 18, 11:20
        
        I'm an island in Indonesia. - Reagen May 18, 11:06
        
        Not to a city in Italy? -- nm - Dano May 18, 11:06
  - Whoa, it's like a number search engine? - ty97 May 18, 10:54 2
    - It aggregates statistical data. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 10:55 1
      - Yep, and mathematical formulas -- nm - con_carne May 18, 10:56
- I thought it might be an Angel spinoff or something -- nm - Jovian May 18, 10:53
New boards bring such hope -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 10:49 8
- PDXstravaganza! -- nm - ty97 May 18, 10:50 7
  - to be shortly followed by Son of PDXstravaganza two weeks later -- nm - znufrii May 18, 10:57
  - Public Display of Transgendereds? -- nm - con_carne May 18, 10:54
  - Another new STer to meet. Met two this week -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 10:52 4
    - And for some reason I really hope there is a STer Idaho camping trip this year. -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 10:54
    - Do we have an itinerary from Cruise Director Cynic yet? -- nm - ty97 May 18, 10:53 2
      - I was going to ask you. RC where and when and it better not involve Embers -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 10:55 1
        
        I have no idea what Embers is - ty97 May 18, 10:56
Mel - you may want to reconsider touching that ATM -- (link) - marcel May 18, 10:49 2
- well, that's not so much about the ATM as it is about the overzealous paranoid doucebags who let any semblance of authority go to their head - znufrii May 18, 10:55 1
  - It's an aftereffect of the security hysteria plague. -- nm - Don Homer May 18, 10:56
Dell panders to women, unleashes "Dell-a". (I dare you to find the term "Dell-a" on that site, though) -- (link) - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 10:49
Jon Gruden will replace Tony Kornheiser on Monday Night Football this season. -- (link) - David May 18, 10:48 1
- Tony K seemed like a different person to me between PTI and MNF. No where near as fun on MNF. -- nm - Beaker May 18, 10:49
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- that's hillarious -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 10:49
I hate everything! -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 10:48
Wal-Mart to test E-Play game kiosks - David May 18, 10:48 1
- EB/Gamestop should just fold up shop now. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 18, 10:50
HIMYM fans, from the promos tonight it looks like they'll finally get to the deal with the (sp) - prayformojo May 18, 10:48

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