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At this point, I'm guessing Apple was wishing they hadn't rejected the Google Voice app. -- (link) - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Aug 3, 09:10 2
- From everything I've seen, their policy with respect to the app store is draconian. I hope they get nailed to the wall for this. - decline Aug 3, 09:14 1
  - ::nails decline to the wall for lack of IM:: -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 09:14
Three US hikers detained in Iran are suspected (by locals) of being CIA agents. -- (link) - loosilu Aug 3, 09:08 9
- hell, they're expected by ME of being CIA agents - ty97 Aug 3, 09:08 8
  - I'd think CIA could come up with a better cover. -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 09:10 3
    - Three US citizens caught in Iran....a country we're not allowed to go too? - ty97 Aug 3, 09:11 2
      - that's why you hire local operatives. -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 09:12 1
        
        Everyone knows you recruit the best local operatives at the Tehran Hiking Club. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:13
  - actually, they went hiking in iraq and accidentally strayed too close to the border. - mafic Aug 3, 09:10 3
    - Who goes hiking in these countries? Stupid. -- nm - MDH Aug 3, 09:11 1
      - spoiler - ty97 Aug 3, 09:11
    - so they say. -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 09:10
The kid from Air Bud sure did grow up good. -- (link) - Dano Aug 3, 09:07 [Image] 2
- He was the Air Bud kid? Huh. (I only knew him from Transamerica.) -- nm - kelly Aug 3, 09:11
- yumyumyum -- nm - Hotkiss Aug 3, 09:07
I find it deeply counter intuitive that Consumerist, a site dedicated exposing bad customer service, is advertising deals for really cheap stuff. - ty97 Aug 3, 09:06
Hotkiss/Dawson: The Gaga rumor is false, and I wouldn't consider it a trend - MDH Aug 3, 09:04
LYC: I'm going to Second City tonight -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:04 2
- ::prepares to lock the gates:: -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 09:09
- It's fun. You'll have a good time. -- nm - pmb Aug 3, 09:06
Sweet, got my 2 tickets for the August 16th Amagansett Fire Departmesnt's chicken dinner. This is a big deal (not really) -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 09:02 4
- Winner winner! -- nm - HdnAgnda Aug 3, 09:09 1
  - (laughing) -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 09:10
- Can I touch you? -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 09:04 1
  - and they have raffles! you can win things. I basically drink beer all day by the beer tent. -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 09:08
Download Hulu.com Videos with this.... -- (link) - budice Aug 3, 08:59
The picture quality of Ghost Busters on Blu-ray sucks balls. - Mop (face it, the scale says 240 lbs) Aug 3, 08:57 3
- did you get it for $8? I saw that deal on slickdeals the other day -- nm - Hotkiss Aug 3, 08:59 1
  - Yup. Imagine my ire if I'd paid more! -- nm - Mop (face it, the scale says 240 lbs) Aug 3, 09:04
- "Why is Citizen Kane still in black and white?!" -- nm - TFox Aug 3, 08:58
SITWAP: NYC woman can't find job, sues her college for failing to find her one. -- (link) - Statue of Liberty si Aug 3, 08:51 11
- There's the problem: Information Technology Degree ! = Job - Scorpion Aug 3, 09:13
- Start working the corner. -- nm - lileve Aug 3, 09:04
- she should be shot -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 08:59
- This is amusing. Both for the news story, and the SI -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 08:55 2
  - I have to look down at these silly bitches every day! I'm the tired and poor one now! -- nm - Statue of Liberty si Aug 3, 08:56 1
    - what about us? -- nm - Huddled masses yearning to breathe free Aug 3, 08:57
- Any college that regualrly advertises on subway trains shouldn't cost $70,000 to get a degree... -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 08:54 3
  - please tell me she got a bachelor's, not an associates for that price - ty97 Aug 3, 08:58
  - Tuition is only $12,000. The other $58k went to the homeless guy out front who said he was the Provost. -- nm - Mop (face it, the scale says 240 lbs) Aug 3, 08:56 1
    - more likely, the school got kickbacks from a bank to peddle student loans to help cover living expenses, etc. in addition to tuition, and the student - znufrii Aug 3, 08:57
- what is this, France? -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 08:52
anecdotal evidence suggests that dealerships are selling cars for more than usual due to the cash for clunkers promotion. - Mop (face it, the scale says 240 lbs) Aug 3, 08:44 25
- Willing buyer, willing seller. IOW, so what? The dealers are going to make money and stay in business, keeping folks employed all the way up the food - TWuG Aug 3, 08:59 1
  - The dealers were already making money on the price of the new car before the program was initiated. Post initiation, their revenue increases by virtue - Loyola Aug 3, 09:06
- Auto sales are such a scam. Are car sales the same in other countries? - JaxSean Aug 3, 08:59 3
  - That's pretty much how it works here re new car prices. -- nm - Loyola Aug 3, 09:09
  - I'm not really sure they are a scam. We *feel* they are scam if we pay a dollar more than the lowest we feel the car could sell for. - ty97 Aug 3, 09:02 1
    - I guess it's not really a "scam," more just an outdated and crappy way to sell something, imo. - JaxSean Aug 3, 09:12
- Ummmm... so? Doesn't really seems any different to me than a factory rebate or incentive. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 3, 08:57 4
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    - Plus the point of the program was more to boost sales/economy than to get "better" cars on the road I think. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 3, 09:01 2
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      - six of one, half dozen of the other, I think. -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 09:02
- Fucking typical. -- nm - Loyola Aug 3, 08:54 1
  - This is a sign that the program is working as intended, IMO -- nm - con_carne Aug 3, 09:00
- I can't help but think of all the cars going to the junkyards as a result of this. But I guess you gotta break some - HdnAgnda Aug 3, 08:50 3
  - I expect to see a boom in the auto recycling business. - howie Aug 3, 09:06 1
    - as long as they don't need a new engine... -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 09:06
  - Ideally, all the cars going to the great junkyard in the sky are worth less than the rebate and are newer than 1984 - TWuG Aug 3, 08:51
- Um, this would have happened anyway! -- nm - Congressional Republicans Aug 3, 08:48
- Consumers probably aren't haggling as much because they are looking at the price with the $4500 taken off. -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 08:47
- not surprising, and not necessarily a bad thing. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 08:46
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- Nooooooo - surely not! -- nm - Epiphany Aug 3, 08:45
- Who's surprised? Anyone? -- nm - nubby in NC Aug 3, 08:44 2
  - At the rich getting richer? - Spawn Aug 3, 08:50
  - And - of course - they're using the "money's running out! BUY NOW!" excuse quite effectively. -- nm - Mop (face it, the scale says 240 lbs) Aug 3, 08:45
Police Arrest Dozens After LSD, Magic Shrooms Discovered At Church Event -- (link) - nubby in NC Aug 3, 08:41
LYC: The 2 groups that PATD split into are 2 completely different styles - MDH Aug 3, 08:41 8
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      - These are her positions -- (link) - MDH Aug 3, 08:54
      - My other gay friend is obsessed with Paparazzi too. I wonder if that's a trend. - Hotkiss Aug 3, 08:53 3
        
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        nmbl -- (link) - Hotkiss Aug 3, 08:55 1
        
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Hotkiss: 10.25% here. - ty97 Aug 3, 08:40 32
- Oh, wait! Are we doing sales tax? Those numbers are so absurd, I didn't realize. Here? 0%. -- nm - Mop (face it, the scale says 240 lbs) Aug 3, 08:53 1
  - but you're not allowed to pump your own gas. -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 09:15
- This talk is because of the tax holidays, right? - con_carne Aug 3, 08:44 4
  - Appears ours has been canceled this year. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 08:45 3
    - You are not alone. I was hearing on NPR that the tax holidays are meant for boom times, not recessionary times. -- nm - con_carne Aug 3, 08:46 2
      - I can see the argument. Then again sales tax holidays are aimed mostly at those people who are probably hurting more during a recession. - ty97 Aug 3, 08:47 1
        
        because consumption taxes are inherently regressive, and hit hardest those who are already hurting the most. -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 08:48
- 13% in Atlantic Canada. -- nm - Evil Beaker Aug 3, 08:43
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  - damn, and all you could do was pee on him? - ty97 Aug 3, 08:43 4
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      - ya know. - ty97 Aug 3, 08:46 2
        
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        Yeah, I had that wrong, as well. -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 08:47
  - A dong that's twelve feet long is no good for anybody. -- nm - nubby in NC Aug 3, 08:43 2
    - Flotation device, silly. -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 08:46
    - Speak for yourself sonny. -- nm - Statue of Liberty si Aug 3, 08:44
- 10.5%, baby. -- nm - nubby in NC Aug 3, 08:42
- crikey! -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 08:41 11
  - It bugs me how often percentage taxes (sales, income) are used to cover spending gaps. - ty97 Aug 3, 08:43 9
    - Or when people overall have less money and need more services is also when they spend less and create less sales tax. -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 08:45 6
      - That's why we should be saving during the good times, not spending to our maximum ability - ty97 Aug 3, 08:49 5
        
        We want more! We want it now! And we don't want to have to pay for it! -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 08:50 4
        
        I forget who come up with this theory, but it states that in a developed democracy, an increasing tax burden is inevitable, as people demand more and - znufrii Aug 3, 08:58 2
        
        Oh, I remember now! It was my pants! (Their book is coming out this fall.) -- nm - znufrii si Aug 3, 09:02 1
        
        step off, bitch, that's MY book. -- nm - znufrii's cat-pee-infused couch Aug 3, 09:03
        
        US Economics 101, yes -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 08:55
    - Death to the sales tax! -- nm - nubby in NC Aug 3, 08:44 1
      - *giggles* -- nm - Epiphany Aug 3, 08:45
  - (6.5% in my county) -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 08:43
- (p.s. are clothes still exempt in NYC?) -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 08:40 1
  - up to $110 purchases I think, yes -- nm - Hotkiss Aug 3, 08:45
Vortex Cannon -- (link) - CovingtonCat Aug 3, 08:39 [youtube] 1
- What level does my barracks have to be to build these? -- nm - Mop (face it, the scale says 240 lbs) Aug 3, 08:47
The video of the building implosion gone wrong on the front page of MSNBC is great. -- nm - pmb Aug 3, 08:36 6
- Whoops. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 08:42
- wow. -- nm - ty97 Aug 3, 08:41
- heh, dayam -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 08:41
- The rolling building in 2012 doesn't look so silly any more, now does it? -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 08:39 2
  - I think we know who is to blame in Turkey, now. -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 08:42 1
    - That's nobody's business but the Turks. -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 08:48
Of the three new wide releases last weekend, the one that had the lowest drop this week was Orphan. -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 08:35 6
- *smirks evilly* -- nm - Esther si Aug 3, 08:38
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  - Lucky Cheng's? -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 08:38 2
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      - ah, sorry I missed it. heh -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 08:47
- that's a shame. i wish wishing it ill.... -- nm - colinski Aug 3, 08:35
500 Days of Summer: A, Fifty Dead Men Walking: B+ nm - Dignan Aug 3, 08:35 6
- He's Just Not That Into You: C, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: B -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 08:37 2
  - We saw Sky Captain on my birthday in an empty theater. - Spawn Aug 3, 08:37 1
    - I would imagine it was. It had some great visual moments -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 08:48
- I liked Fifty Dead Men Walking a lot. (and Kevin Zegers was so hot in it too) -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 08:36
- ~Five golden rings!~ -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 08:36
- What, no Five Easy Pieces? -- nm - con_carne Aug 3, 08:36
LOST S1-4 available on Netflix Instant -- nm - budice Aug 3, 08:34 10
- So, what's consensus here, will it pay off in the end, or will it just end up being a jumbled mess of enigmas piled on upon conundrums? -- nm - znufrii Aug 3, 08:39 5
  - I don't think the finale will answer anything "important." And unless you remember every little stupid detail of everything that ever happened it will - Cuzzin Todd Aug 3, 09:03
  - It is getting there. -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 08:48
  - There's no payoff coming. Like, Alias, it's become a meaningless series of reboots. -- nm - David Aug 3, 08:47
  - It pays off every single week; I don't see why the end should be any different. -- nm - TFox Aug 3, 08:41 1
    - HA! - Cuzzin Todd Aug 3, 08:42
- Schweet - which one am I on?? *spoiler question* - Epiphany Aug 3, 08:38 2
  - 3 -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 3, 08:39 1
    - gracias - will cue t his up after we complete Dexter season 2 - I am in love with my Roku box -- nm - Epiphany Aug 3, 08:44
- they've always been on abc.com -- nm - colinski Aug 3, 08:35
You know what I get to do today? Go to the dentist! -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 08:32 6
- Didn't you have the filling that fell out / cracked tooth? Or was that someone else... -- nm - JaxSean Aug 3, 08:34 4
  - I think that was someone else. I do have 2 chipped front teeth from a dog hitting me, though -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 08:36 3
    - Uppercut? -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 08:37 2
      - with it's fat hard head -- nm - CQ Aug 3, 08:39 1
        
        CQ = Glass Joe! -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 08:43
- Does that mean the Dawson gets to have oral sex with women? -- nm - Dano Aug 3, 08:33

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