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recommended gadget of the day: SD card for your camera has built in wireless to transfer photos -- (link) - Max Jul 16, 08:32 1
- i so need this. my photo life is so cumbersome lately. -- nm - blueberries and blackberries love mandy lane Jul 16, 08:34
Is anyone here watching Hung? Thoughts? (spoilers) - znufrii Jul 16, 08:30 1
- Tell the females in the room that just like with Boogie Nights they can't give it up right away. Certainly not by Ep 2. - HdnAgnda Jul 16, 08:32
how have the HP reviews been? cow orker says it was the worst of all of them -- nm - Guy Jul 16, 08:25 16
- cow orker is one of my least favorite ttisms. blech. it makes me cringe. -- nm - blueberries and blackberries love mandy lane Jul 16, 08:31 4
  - *ding* -- nm - Spawn Jul 16, 08:36
  - We are so in sync today. - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 08:33
  - more than jamming? ps... - Guy Jul 16, 08:32 1
    - actually, I think she likes jamming. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 16, 08:35
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  - This pleases me, as PoA was the best. -- nm - Spawn Jul 16, 08:30 3
    - I think Goblet is mine, but POA is close. - groiny Jul 16, 08:32
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      - Snape is my favorite character with Black a close second. -- nm - Spawn Jul 16, 08:33
- 88% -- (link) - ty97 Jul 16, 08:26
- it's like 85% out of 150 reviews or so at RT. I liked it a lot. I put it behind #5 as the 2nd best movie. -- nm - Jim Jul 16, 08:26
- last I heard it was high 90's on rotten tomatoe -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 08:26
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  - ST Metacritic! -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Jul 16, 08:32
  - sorry, i meant ST reviews. i havent been paying much attention, but i was surpised how emphatically disappointed he was - Guy Jul 16, 08:32
So, I don't suppose "Rescue Me" got any emmy consideration? - Mel Profit Jul 16, 08:20 4
- i need to get last season on dvd. thx for reminding me. -- nm - blueberries and blackberries love mandy lane Jul 16, 08:33
- Just Guest Actor for Michael J Fox. -- nm - Ender Jul 16, 08:21 1
  - While I'm pleased for MJFOX...there's alot of good stuff going on with the show. - Mel Profit Jul 16, 08:27
- MJFox got a guest actor nod -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 08:21
I just split my pants. -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 08:13 8
- Couch jumper. -- nm - Spawn Jul 16, 08:22
- Stacy? ... oh wit, you said SPLIT your pants - zork Jul 16, 08:18 1
  - err, wit => wait -- nm - zork Jul 16, 08:18
- A fool and his pants are soon parted -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 16, 08:16 1
  - Who you calling fool, fool?!?!?! -- nm - Banzai! si #7 Jul 16, 08:20
- And no girl ever wants to dance with a fool who went and ripped his pants. nm -- nm - Jim Jul 16, 08:15 2
  - Oh, heven help me, I know where this is from. -- nm - TWuG Jul 16, 08:22 1
    - OPH YEAH!!!!! nm - Jim Jul 16, 08:25
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- race, gender and socio-economics... -- nm - Diva Jul 16, 08:23 4
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    - ugh. -- nm - Diva Jul 16, 08:40
    - So you mean ALL drunk gay Mexicans aren't really gay? nm - Jim Jul 16, 08:28 1
      - If you get them drunk enough. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 08:33
- That question is quite offensive even to me. -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 08:21
Words I never thought I would see in the same sentence..."Christian Fiction Booms with Amish and Vampire Tales ."...(link) -- (link) - Walt_Disney Jul 16, 08:06
Buffy S5 comments (spoilers) - con_carne Jul 16, 08:02 11
- Angelus was the best. Spike/Dru second. Glory third. -- nm - Spawn Jul 16, 08:32 1
  - Could very well be, because - con_carne Jul 16, 08:34
- probably my favorite season finale -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 08:22 2
  - Which I also have waiting for me @ home. Squee! -- nm - con_carne Jul 16, 08:24 1
    - "@"? Frickin' texting habits. -- nm - con_carne Jul 16, 08:24
- She's one of my favorites big bads as well, but I think a lot of people didn't like her. - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 08:04 5
  - I kind of think it might be a little spillover from the whole giving her a little sister in the middle of the series thing. -- nm - Ender Jul 16, 08:24 4
    - But I like the way that was handled really. - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 08:30 2
      - I agree, I was never in the "Hate Dawn" camp. -- nm - Ender Jul 16, 08:33 1
        
        I was never in the "Hate Riley" camp either, likely because the first season I watched was #4. - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 08:35
    - Dawn might be why I wasn't totally thrilled with the first half of S5. - con_carne Jul 16, 08:28
The new issue of EW is their second annual ComicCom preview. And here is the cover. -- (link) - HdnAgnda Jul 16, 07:45 9
- " Did you miss me?" - Epiphany Jul 16, 07:54 1
  - Hell yeah, I did. -- nm - Spawn Jul 16, 08:34
- Scarlet Jo with red hair?! - groiny Jul 16, 07:53 5
  - She is something else, but for my money my top ScarJo looks are that red gown she wore to some awards show and a scene in Match Point when she was in - HdnAgnda Jul 16, 07:58 4
    - Golden Globes -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 08:00 3
      - Yeah but what awards show? -- nm - HdnAgnda Jul 16, 08:01 1 1
        
        nice -- nm - Guy Jul 16, 08:16
      - Yes they are. -- nm - pmb Jul 16, 08:01
- WANT. -- nm - Diva Jul 16, 07:48
So apparently the housebreaking/training with Darwin only included the upstairs. - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 07:43 1
- Did you specifically say not to pee in the basement? I don't think so. -- nm - Darwin Jul 16, 07:44
Ugh. Looking like any "public" health care insurance option would be restricted to those who don't already receive coverage through their employer - Don Homer Jul 16, 07:41 9
- that's all well and good, until employers stop providing coverage, knowing that the government is there to take up the slack. -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 07:56 7
  - That's why any overall reform needs to required employers with (X ) or more employees to provide coverage -- nm - ty97 Jul 16, 07:59 4
    - I haven't read up on this enough. When employers are required to provide is it solely at the employers cost or can it continue to be a shared cost - pmb Jul 16, 08:05
    - However that may lead to many companies suddenly having "contractors" at their business and so not having those people covered.... - Walt_Disney Jul 16, 08:02 1
      - yup, that the danger in regulations that are inherently arbitrary in their application. -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 08:03
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  - That's where I think this will be going in time. Maybe not for 10 or so years but sometime after that. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jul 16, 07:59 1
    - And I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to have happen, provided we radically rethink our approach to funding health care in the mean time. -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 08:00
- What if elect not to pay for them through our employer? -- nm - Epiphany Jul 16, 07:55
sometimes I love cricket commentator just now "right, the question now is: can Strauss get his century before tea?" -- nm - mafic Jul 16, 07:41
British Open spoilers - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 07:35 5
- Bunch of low scores first round. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 16, 07:38 4
  - A guy on Mike and Mike (can't remember who) was saying that the weather was perfect and the course was playing great today. - Jim Jul 16, 07:43 3
    - My guess is that it was Mike who said it. -- nm - Darwin Jul 16, 07:44 2
      - heh...no, it was one of their guests on the Subway Fresh Take hotline. nm - Jim Jul 16, 07:49
      - Wow, Darwin is a smart dog. -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 07:45
I only drink beer/wine/liquor. -- nm - mafic Jul 16, 07:32 3
- why limit yourself is my question. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 16, 08:01
- Well, in Australia, when you ask for water, don't they give you Fosters? -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 16, 07:45
- I highly recommend Land Shark Lager. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 16, 07:33
In a (glowing) article about IBM's replacing pension with a new, improved 401K, I found these scary statements about the future - ty97 Jul 16, 07:27 43
- To be honest, the whole concept of an employer providing health benefits to its employees very strange. - Roger More Jul 16, 07:31 38
  - You're Canadian, right? Most employers here provide extended health benefits. - Subversive Jul 16, 07:46 13
    - he's a damn dirty australian is what he is! stealing our health benefits! -- nm - mafic Jul 16, 07:47 11
      - Yep. In Australia there's a Medicare system, but if you earn over a certain amount ($40,000 or so) you have to purchase private health insurance. - Roger More Jul 16, 07:50 10
        
        You are only "required" (ie, taxed extra if you don't get it) to get private hospital cover. Non-hospital cover is entirely optional. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 16, 07:54
        
        the private health insurance is cheap as chips too. even for the good stuff. -- nm - mafic Jul 16, 07:52 8
        
        Are you pissed as a parrot? nm - ralph wiggum Jul 16, 07:56 3
        
        he's allergic to alliteration. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 07:57 2
        
        why do people never talk about consonance? -- nm - zork Jul 16, 08:19 1
        
        They are inconsonant. -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 08:20
        
        "cheap as chips" - it's really rubbing off on you -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 07:55 2
        
        heh. I know. - mafic Jul 16, 08:02
        
        and yeah - because the private health insurers have basically been given an oligopoly, government regulation becomes more stringent -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 07:56
        
        I'll take dill pickle. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 07:54
    - Yep, this is true. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 16, 07:47
  - It's all we know here. If you're employer doesn't offer benefits (they are not free, btw, but subsidized), then you don't get any. -- nm - ty97 Jul 16, 07:37 14
    - I think that's why healthcare is so difficult to reform (anywhere). It's seen as too important to experiment with, and people like the familiar. -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 07:51 1
      - or, here at least, our entire health care system seems to be to get someone else to pay for it. - znufrii Jul 16, 07:53
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      - my family plan is damn near a grand a month through work. -- nm - groiny Jul 16, 07:41 5
        
        This is why I scoff when people bitch about Canadian income taxes. - Reagen Jul 16, 07:44 4
        
        Exactly. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 16, 07:48
        
        granted, I have a very good insurance plan now..... - groiny Jul 16, 07:46 2
        
        Is the hoopital where Cindy Lou was born? -- nm - Diva Jul 16, 07:53 1
        
        hoopty. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 16, 07:54
      - You have to be in a certain poverty level for MA to insure you. And you earn too much money you lose it. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:40 4
        
        and a living wage is probably considered too much money. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:47
        
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        In MA if you can afford it but don't have it they put a fine against your income taxes. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:46 1
        
        if the state thinks you can afford it rather. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:52
  - Henry Ford started it. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:31 8
    - The whole concept was started by the Germans during the start of the Industrial Revolution... - Mel Profit Jul 16, 07:38 6
      - People have been screaming about socialized education. There have been efforts to varying degrees to get rid of the Department of Education. -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 07:42 5
        
        While I agree this is true... - Mel Profit Jul 16, 07:43 4
        
        Aren't vouchers the first step towards free market education? -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 07:47 2
        
        perhaps...you have a point. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 16, 08:00
        
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        Education is considered a human right. Health care is not sadly. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:46
    - well... there you go! -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 07:32
- link to article overall, for those interested. It's titled "IBM reinvents the 401k -- (link) - ty97 Jul 16, 07:29
- yo, my 401k went *bananas* quarter. up 16%, now up 10% on the year. - TFox Jul 16, 07:28 2
  - this shit is bananas. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 16, 07:33
  - (insert "last") -- nm - TFox Jul 16, 07:29
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- um... yeah... an aunt. -- nm - mafic Jul 16, 07:34 1
  - Aunt Bruce -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 07:36
- yes, it's SA -- nm - ty97 Jul 16, 07:28
- or znufrii -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 07:27
well I love to see the love for Flight of the Conchords, but I just dont get how Entourage gets an Emmy nom. - Jovian Jul 16, 07:27 3
- I don't see how THAT last season of Lost gets one. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 07:29 2
  - you mean the BEST season of Lost? - Jovian Jul 16, 07:33 1
    - No, I wasn't referring to season 1. - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 07:40
I'd love to see Tom Watson hang in there to the end this weekend. -- nm - pmb Jul 16, 07:26 1
- Me too. I had a chance to spend some time with him and his lovely wife once and they were both so sweet. - Diva Jul 16, 07:40
Zombie Mouse! -- nm - Redmond Jul 16, 07:24 9
- Yeah, that's pretty much all I've caught that is out of the ordinary! -- nm - kelly Jul 16, 08:18
- I caught two more Pirate Mouses last night -- nm - amoxy Jul 16, 07:49
- GRRRRRRRRRR! - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 07:25 6
  - Kelly caught one last night!!! Where is yours? -- nm - Redmond Jul 16, 07:27 5
    - I'm getting boned on mouse types. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 07:29 4
      - Get a stone base as soon as you can. It keeps the cheese really fresh. It was the best upgrade for me. -- nm - Redmond Jul 16, 07:32 3
        
        I did. Back tracked to the target base for the attraction bonus this morning to see how that goes. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 07:38 2
        
        if you really want to know -- (link) - mafic Jul 16, 07:43 1
        
        Thanks for the link, a cool little tool I'll try to use only sparingly. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 07:54
*jerks knee* -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 07:24 8
- *knee tickle* -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:30
- *jerks ribs* -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 07:26
- *jerks JackDawson* -- nm - TFox si Jul 16, 07:25 2
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    - it was a solid comeback. like "where did you get that suit? at the... toilet.... store?" -- nm - TFox Jul 16, 07:29
- The knee jerk store called and they were out of you. -- nm - George Castanza Jul 16, 07:24
- *asks for a tissue* -- nm - Subversive Jul 16, 07:24 1
  - only one? - groiny Jul 16, 07:34

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