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Stalker shirt has been sent today. -- nm - HdnAgnda Aug 11, 07:34 2
- mine will be as well. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 11, 07:46
- mine too! -- nm - Elf Andie Aug 11, 07:38
Kim Clijsters wins her first match back from retirement. - Danoslam Aug 11, 07:34
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- I'd love to see how those same respondents perform on a quiz of what the health care reform bill actually contains. -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 07:40 3
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    - that too. -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 07:42 1
      - but really I'd like to see if and how support for the plan correlates with knowing what's in it. -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 07:48
- I am fortunate and thankful to have the coverage I have but also know one incident can turn it all upside down. Should be interesting to see what - HdnAgnda Aug 11, 07:40 1
  - *denies your coverage unexpectedly* -- nm - Don Homer Aug 11, 07:44
- well no wonder. I hear it involves taking money from Medicare to give boob jobs to illegal immigrants. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 07:40 2
  - don't forget killing your grandma. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 07:46
  - Actually, I'd think that'd gain the bill some support. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 11, 07:45
- We'll never get anything passed. Whether you like this plan or not it's too easy to get people riled up over any major overhaul. - Danoslam Aug 11, 07:36
ST roll a poll - nubby style - when is or what is the last time you Nubbied something - see definition. - Epiphany Aug 11, 07:32 6
- I don't think "blow it off" means what you think it means. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 11, 07:39 1
  - Hey there sailor. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 11, 07:46
- I guess you could say I am nubbying my deck cleaning. Too hot. Pain in the butt. Rather enjoy the weekend doing fun stuff. Maybe in the Fall. -- nm - HdnAgnda Aug 11, 07:36 1
  - I will ditto this entire post :) -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 07:43
- I Nubbied working out all last week. However, I motivated myself and didn't Nubby out yesterday. -- nm - Redmond Aug 11, 07:36 1
  - I'm with ya - back on track this week. -- nm - Epiphany Aug 11, 07:42
oops! a news article about Papua New Guinea slipped into the African daily news digest here at work. heh. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 07:24 18
- the invasion plans have leaked! -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 07:32
- So? -- nm - jhamaker si Aug 11, 07:30
- plane crash? -- nm - mafic Aug 11, 07:29 2
  - yes indeed! -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 07:37 1
    - you don't bury survivors! -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 07:43
- When do I begin? -- nm - Papuan Aug 11, 07:29 1
  - HA! -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 07:37
- understandable - znufrii Aug 11, 07:29
- "Hey, they're brown people. How'm I supposed to know?" -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 07:27 1
  - "I thought it was next to all those other Guineas" -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 07:34
- that's right next to Washington DC, right? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 07:25 7
  - sure, if that's in Brunei. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 07:27 6
    - brunei's about as close to PNG as sydney. -- nm - mafic Aug 11, 07:32 5
      - closer than Africa. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 07:38 4
        
        just looked at map. ok, further than I thought. But at least I got the right continent. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 07:41 3
        
        Nope - PNG is part of Oceania, Brunei part of Asia -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 07:46 2
        
        ^^inserts "considered" above -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 07:46
        
        grrrrr. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 07:46
ML --- The New Madrid 1811/12 earthquake book you recommend...is it the Mississippi Ran Backwards? one? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 11, 07:19 6
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  - What's that alt-history series you and Mel always talk about? - Will Hunting Aug 11, 07:35 4
    - Axis of Time, by John Birmingham -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 07:36 3
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        Yeah, I broke my "wait until the series is written before I start reading it" rule for that one -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 07:38
      - link to the first book -- (link) - Roger More Aug 11, 07:37
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Long, but very interesting article, "What's a Big City Without a Newspaper?" focusing on Philly newspapers. -- (link) - Don Homer Aug 11, 07:04
Major labels are introducing their own music file format. -- (link) - Don Homer Aug 11, 07:00
Passive Agressive Notes: The last example in why facebook is going to get you fired is great -- (link) - MDH Aug 11, 06:59
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- Hopefully we aren't far away from a decent sized car with similarly impressive mileage. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 11, 06:58
- That's great but then... 2 years later the car breaks down. - Don Homer Aug 11, 06:56 11
  - it's the Sarah Palin edition? -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 07:06
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    - projected sticker price of the volt is nearly $40k. - tRuMaN Aug 11, 07:02 6
      - okay - why in the world would it cost that much to make it? -- nm - Epiphany Aug 11, 07:18 4
        
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        The development costs are probably relatively high -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 07:21 2
        
        and at such small production to start, you've got a lot of specialized parts, which cost a lot of money to make with no economy of scale -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 07:23 1
        
        thanks guys - that makes sense. -- nm - Epiphany Aug 11, 07:24
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  - And with your bad back, you shouldn't be throwing ANY cars. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 11, 06:56 1
    - "So *that's* how it is in that family." -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 06:58
- provided you charge it every 50 miles or so, sure. -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 06:53 20
  - umm, no. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 11, 07:00 5
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      - yeah, I don't expect the highway number to come anywhere near this. -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 07:05
    - That would be my interpretation of the process as described here -- (link) - znufrii Aug 11, 07:03 2
      - Yep. It's really 90miles on a gallon. The inital 40 on the electric; and then it goes 50miles on the gallon. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 11, 07:04 1
        
        or even less if you include the fuel used to generate the electricity to charge it in the first place - znufrii Aug 11, 07:06
  - (and it also doesn't include the fuel cost of the electricity to charge it in the first place) -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 06:54 13
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      - I meant in terms of fuel efficiency -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 06:55 11
        
        but we can extrapolate here. - znufrii Aug 11, 07:01 10
        
        My entire commute for 1 gallon a day? Sign me up. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 11, 07:02 9
        
        How far do you drive in one day? -- nm - JaxSean Aug 11, 07:17 5
        
        85 miles. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 11, 07:19 4
        
        assuming you could plug it in at work, you'd be hardly using any gas. -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 07:20 3
        
        Yeah, that's not likely to happen at work. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 11, 07:21 2
        
        just run a reeaally long extensions cord from your office to the parking lot? -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 07:22
        
        might be worth it to ask, they may have a program or something to promote fuel efficiency -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 07:22
        
        Word. I would dig having one of these...rarely do I have a trip long enough to drain the charge. -- nm - Jim Aug 11, 07:09 1
        
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        I'll take it, sure. -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 07:04
Daily leaguers: David Wright is getting the day off today. -- nm - nubby, Astronauts champion Aug 11, 06:43
I love to hear stories about how Baseball Player A has been claimed on waivers and fans commenting about how that's insane to put him on waivers - Will Hunting Aug 11, 06:33 1
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I find it hilarious that the NHL deems Jim Balsillie untrustworthy based on who they have let in as owners in the past (and recent past) -- (link) - Beaker Aug 11, 06:21 3
- So becuase you made mistakes A, B, C in the past, you should willingly make mistake D? - Will Hunting Aug 11, 06:42
- all the more reason to not just give him the team now. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 06:38
- he's unworthy because he's trying to avoid the process. has been for years. - mafic Aug 11, 06:37
SITWAP: Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies -- (link) - lileve Aug 11, 06:17 1
- My goodness, she is like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. -- nm - HdnAgnda Aug 11, 06:18
Lego does not go to 11. -- (link) - znufrii Aug 11, 06:13
Nice $100 seats at the ballpark are nice. -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 06:03 3
- Shea? The new one? I want to go. -- nm - lileve Aug 11, 06:05 2
  - these were at New Yankee Stadium - znufrii Aug 11, 06:07 1
    - Sweet. -- nm - lileve Aug 11, 06:13
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  - Excellent. - JaxSean Aug 11, 06:35 1
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LIR: TV Fire, our house was gutted by a fire started by a tv. Stacy is not crazy on this one. Nothing like watching your house in flames because of a - lileve Aug 11, 06:02
2 Free Tacos at Jack in the Box today: -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 11, 05:56
In the "I did not see that coming next for video games" department, "touchable holography." -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 11, 05:54
Your animal photo for the day. (Walrus) -- (link) - CQ Aug 11, 05:43 [Image] 1
- big toofus -- nm - Epiphany Aug 11, 05:51
Roku video player now streaming live HD baseball games from MLB.tv. -- (link) - Don Homer Aug 11, 05:16 1
- That'd be awesome for NFL games. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 11, 06:39
Sorry, Sarah Palin - rationing of care? Private companies are already doing it, with sometimes fatal results. -- (link) - Don Homer Aug 11, 05:15 39
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  - One problem. The bill cannot pass and the Democrats have the numbers to do it. A lot of them are not on board. - Redmond Aug 11, 07:17 1
    - that's really the big problem getting obscured by the coverage of the crazies - znufrii Aug 11, 07:25
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    - There's also Newt's tactic of "making shit up". -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 06:50
    - the crazies come out regardless. -- nm - znufrii Aug 11, 06:45
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  - it feels like the last couple of days have seen some pushback. - Reagen Aug 11, 06:33 3
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      - part of it is that I don't think they really could have been prepared for how crazy they were going to get. - Reagen Aug 11, 06:35 1
        
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- Some of the bullshit tactics in that article make my blood boil. - Reagen Aug 11, 06:23 1
  - It's criminal. The heads of these companies are murderers. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 11, 06:26
- my parents' next-door neighbor is slowly dying of liver failure and Kaiser wont cover the cost to give him a liver transplant. It's frickin bs. -- nm - Stacy Aug 11, 05:22 25
  - Do you know what the insurance company is telling him? Like, why they won't cover it? - Jim Aug 11, 06:11 19
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        why would you want to give a liver to someone who will be dead in a short time frame anyway when you could save someone who will live for years? -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 07:35 1
        
        reading further I don;t think you meant this so nevermind. -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 07:36
        
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      - Hence my question... -- nm - Jim Aug 11, 06:27 12
        
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        Ultimately...they don't want to pay out the thousands of dollars for a transplant. The reason for that could be anything... - Jim Aug 11, 06:38 4
        
        exactly -- nm - Don Homer Aug 11, 06:40 3
        
        And I didn't say that right. I meant tens of thousands of dollars. -- nm - Jim Aug 11, 06:41 2
        
        Yes, though they also deny plenty of less-expensive procedures of course. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 11, 06:42 1
        
        Word. And it's up to idiots like me to make the claim forms so perfect they can't find a reason to deny. nm - Jim Aug 11, 06:45
        
        it might have something to do with his age, he is in his 70's. -- nm - Stacy Aug 11, 06:37 5
        
        Yeah...that'll do it. Extreme age for a procedure like this...the success rate has to be incredibly low... - Jim Aug 11, 06:40 4
        
        It's always a tough call, how much care are they entitled to when they're not going to be around very long to enjoy to benefits of it, regardless? - znufrii Aug 11, 06:44 3
        
        Is he paying his premium? - BB Aug 11, 06:58 2
        
        Unfortunately, that's not how it works. The docs would have to provide a pretty persuasive argument as to why they would do an organ - Jim Aug 11, 07:06 1
        
        I know what we have now. I'm saying what should happen. - BB Aug 11, 07:13
  - Get the local news involded. Get Michael Moore involed. Get the word out. - lileve Aug 11, 06:06 4
    - the hospital claims that only 7% of liver transplants are a success and with a cost of over 300k they feel it is not good enough chances to cover. -- nm - Stacy Aug 11, 06:13 3
      - Tell them to google Steve Jobs. He just had one. -- nm - lileve Aug 11, 06:14 2
        
        So? - Will Hunting Aug 11, 06:19 1
        
        Very true. -- nm - lileve Aug 11, 06:30

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