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get the Remasted Nirvana song "About A Girl" from the upcoming 20th Anniversary release of Bleach.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 20, 09:14 1
- god, i'm old. -- nm - Andie Oct 20, 09:15
US Navy sets up Tiffany's registry for silver for the soon-to-be-commissioned USS New York -- (link) - znufrii Oct 20, 09:13
Backboarding, amoxy's hotties of the day. No.1. No contest. -- (link) - Loyola Oct 20, 09:09 [Image] 1
- 2, hands down. -- nm - Ender Oct 20, 09:12
Having never seen that David Gale movie and the 5 billion references today, somebody spoil me, what's the dealio? - musubi Oct 20, 09:09 10
- summary (complete spoils) - Beryllium Oct 20, 09:14
- spoils - Roger More Oct 20, 09:12 6
  - Whaaaaaaaa? - musubi Oct 20, 09:15
  - movie pooper is right. -- nm - TFox Oct 20, 09:13 4
    - No, movie pooper is wrong. (spoils) - Beryllium Oct 20, 09:15 3
      - yeah, but the movie is a pooper. -- nm - TFox Oct 20, 09:16 1
        
        This is true. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 09:16
      - (okay, the first half of the paragraph is wrong :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 09:16
- "The dealio" is slang for "the deal", but that's not important right now. -- nm - Ender Oct 20, 09:11 1
  - Surely you can't be serious. (nm) - musubi Oct 20, 09:12
Birthday MFK: Snoop Dogg, John Krasinski, Viggo Mortensen -- nm - Dano Oct 20, 09:03 10
- MKF -- nm - MDH Oct 20, 09:15
- K, Who?, M. -- nm - lileve Oct 20, 09:14 1
  - Jim from The Office. -- nm - kelly Oct 20, 09:17
- M,K,F -- nm - Qale, meteorologist Oct 20, 09:10
- MFK - musubi Oct 20, 09:06 3
  - MLTSDC? nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 09:06 1
    - I was under the impression you don't get to F your M. So more like MLTSDPot -- nm - Qale, meteorologist Oct 20, 09:10
  - yep. -- nm - TFox Oct 20, 09:06
- KMF -- nm - kelly Oct 20, 09:05
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Took on the city council last night -- discrimination against... - OAE Oct 20, 09:00
Daughter's daycare closed today due to swine flu so I'm on daddy duty. Still wanted to post... - Mop on iPhone Oct 20, 08:55 2
- well done. -- nm - Andie Oct 20, 09:15
- very nice. I do not know how much weight, but I am down 2 pants sizes! nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:57
look, you might think your halloween costume is kick ass, but did you build an animatronic costume? -- (link) - tRuMaN Oct 20, 08:54
Daddy, daddy, it's Shoot The Criminal Dead Day Eve! -- nm - Baby Beaker Oct 20, 08:54 2
- and who ever started using DP for Death Penalty gets a cookie. -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 08:55 1
  - I smirk a little each time. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 08:59
Frak, I'm late to Death Penalty day on TT. - musubi Oct 20, 08:52 18
- Your punishment is death. -- nm - Dano Oct 20, 08:53 7
  - Or to watch The Life of David Gale, the choice is his. -- nm - Ender Oct 20, 09:10
  - *files appeal* (nm) - musubi Oct 20, 08:57 5
    - that's cool, you have about 20 years before you have to worry about it. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:58 4
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        I am sure it is not a plesant place. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 09:00 2
        
        "good night, sleep well, we'll most likely kill you in morning." -- nm - Detah Row prison guard with a sense of humor Oct 20, 09:01 1
        
        we can not kill you until you are in perfect health! nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 09:02
- yep, too late to talk about that, not too late to talk about a certain WAC game this upcoming weekend -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 08:53 4
  - Your state-eponymous potato boys beat my home staters, and you wanna talk about the *coming* week? - musubi Oct 20, 08:56 3
    - I thought we wouldn't review the past weekend because I'm mad at your other team for winning by only one touchdown -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 08:58 2
      - Can I rant for a second about NBC's coverage? Thanks. (rant inside) - musubi Oct 20, 09:03 1
        
        good point about that 'confidence in a receiver' line -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 09:16
- actually... -- (link) - znufrii Oct 20, 08:53 4
  - Rats, he was my second guess. - musubi Oct 20, 08:55 3
    - that would be the Perfect Storm of unicorns and tatoed penii -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 08:56 2
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        lies! -- nm - znufrii Oct 20, 08:57
Rihanna has debuted her new single "Russian Roulette" I hate how they call it a comeback -- (link) - MDH Oct 20, 08:50 1
- ~She been here for... months!~ -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 08:51
Secret Service stretched thin by increase in threats to Obama -- (link) - znufrii Oct 20, 08:50
Did the Life of David Gale teach you all nothing? - prayformojo Oct 20, 08:46 5
- sucked ass. -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 08:50
- Bruised women aren't hot. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 08:50
- Who the hell is named Bitsey? -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 08:47 1
  - (Bitsey Bloom, for that matter. Sounds like she belongs in a Beatrix Potter story.) -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 08:48
- Kevin Spacey likes little boys. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:47
so when I get borderlands this evening (on my way home) are there gonna be people to play online with? - tRuMaN Oct 20, 08:44 3
- I want to get it. I need to wait a week or two though. -- nm - lileve Oct 20, 09:02
- I'm going to wait for the ST reviews so it might go on a Christmas list or wait for a price drop -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 08:50 1
  - ok, will let you know. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 20, 08:54
there's been so much I've learned along the way - tRuMaN Oct 20, 08:37 5
- well I've learned that if I spend two hours on a Firefight to see the achievement slip away at only 2700 points away - crash davis Oct 20, 08:41 4
  - umm, less than that actually, more like 2400 points. - tRuMaN Oct 20, 08:42 3
    - yeah, there were a few deaths on the earlier rounds I wish I could take back - crash davis Oct 20, 08:47 2
      - i think the trick with turrets, especially with catch on - tRuMaN Oct 20, 08:53 1
        
        yeah, and to not get so hyper that you push to hard on the control sticks when your control scheme is green thumb - crash davis Oct 20, 09:01
What I would like to see is a % breakdown in relative terms the ratios of white people put to death versus African Americans and Hispanics, using only - Loyola Oct 20, 08:37 16
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  - Interesting. -- nm - Loyola Oct 20, 08:53 3
    - "Justice Lewis Powell, when asked by his biographer if he wanted to change his vote in any case, replied, "Yes, McCleskey v. Kemp" - Loyola Oct 20, 09:01 2
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        Maybe this one sticks in his memory because he wrote the majority opinion? -- nm - Roger More Oct 20, 09:05
- don't you have to account for the crimes committed as well? If one racial segment commits more capital crimes than obviously they will get the DP more -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 08:46 2
  - That's why I said "in relative terms" - Loyola Oct 20, 08:49 1
    - gotcha. -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 08:51
- I'm more interested in who has public defenders and who has private. -- nm - mara Oct 20, 08:46
- if we applied this line of thinking to sentencing for all crimes... holy crap. -- nm - TFox Oct 20, 08:39 4
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  - That's not such a bizarre notion. Such arguements were made about DNA testing around the time that was starting to catching on. -- nm - con_carne Oct 20, 08:44
  - agreed. There's a similar bias in all prison populations. What are you gonna do, shut down the judicial system? -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:41
  - white people do not commit crimes. - groiny Oct 20, 08:40
- here's a starting point -- (link) - Roger More Oct 20, 08:39
- oh, there's a definite bias. -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:37
College costs are rising, report says. Average cost at 4-year public colleges up 6.5 percent from last year. -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:32
LIR - Subversive - Shmap is using one of my Valley of Fire pics on the Vegas page. Yes it's fun. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 20, 08:27 3
- I'm excited! -- nm - Subversive Oct 20, 08:43 2
  - I picture someone at schmap whose sole job it is to browse through flickr looking for shots tagged with the name of the cities they're setting up.... - MojaveMeg Oct 20, 08:48 1
    - Totally, sign me up too! :) -- nm - Subversive Oct 20, 08:50
I have a question and it's not trying to be all fighty...it's that I don't know. Are there a lot of innocent people being convicted every year? - Jim Oct 20, 08:24 37
- That David Gale movie sucked ass and spoils - Beaker Oct 20, 08:45 1
  - I think there's general agreement here that that movie is the worst possible argument against the DP. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 08:46
- I find sites quoting 8-12% of state prisoners, 4% of federal prisoners, are innocent. Nobody links to the source, though -- nm - mara Oct 20, 08:32 3
  - 8-12% my ass. -- nm - Jovian Oct 20, 08:43
  - I would have doubts about any numbers claimed. how can they know? -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:41
  - Kinda makes you wonder how we can get it wrong so many times, doesn't it? -- nm - Jim Oct 20, 08:40
- not a full picture by any means, but there have been 244 convictions overturned through DNA evidence in the last 20 years. -- (link) - znufrii Oct 20, 08:29 18
  - 17 of which were on death row. -- nm - TFox Oct 20, 08:31 7
    - maybe not if it was a one week stay there. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:32 4
      - uh, yeah. Then these innocent people would be dead. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 08:35 3
        
        they probably would have stopped looking at evidence. - groiny Oct 20, 08:37 2
        
        so we need the DP in order to get people to look harder at whether we've convicted the right people, but they only get a week to do it? - Reagen Oct 20, 08:40 1
        
        *laughing* - groiny Oct 20, 08:43
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      - nope, i'm not trying to imply anything of the sort. i know that the reason for the ratio is how few death row convictions there are. -- nm - TFox Oct 20, 08:32
  - Of course, in many cases there won't be any DNA evidence. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:30 5
    - this is why I leave traces of my seed everywhere. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:30
    - I believe in *most* cases there is no DNA evidence. which means there are probably a great many innocent people in prison. -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:30 3
      - "� 22 percent of cases closed by the Innocence Project since 2004 were closed because of lost or missing evidence." -- nm - znufrii Oct 20, 08:31 1
        
        so 78% were overturned for DNA evidence, which means DNA evidence is the best basis for overturning. -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:32
      - No doubt. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:31
  - so 12 a year...... nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:29 3
    - of those are just the ones that get overturned, not a full measure of everyone wrongly convicted. -- nm - znufrii Oct 20, 08:31
    - the majorit of them are in the last 10 years. -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:30
    - oh, that's not so bad then... -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:29
- In a recent poll of prison populations, the number came out at 101%, plus or minus a percent. -- nm - Ender Oct 20, 08:27 1
  - actually, that number is way too high. There are plenty of inmates who admit guilt. - groiny Oct 20, 08:28
- some numbers here from the Innocence Project. -- (link) - loosilu Oct 20, 08:27
- my bad. Are we all good? - lawyer Oct 20, 08:26 4
  - in general, wrongful convictions are worth millions in settlement. - Reagen Oct 20, 08:29 3
    - more tax dollars well spent. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:30 2
      - "Gee, you're kind of all over the place there, Homer." -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 08:32 1
        
        lol. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:32
- Not many, but we'll never know for sure in some cases. One recent one though in Texas... -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:26 3
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    - Yes. Agreed on both counts. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:33
  - Here is a long - but very good - recent article in The New Yorker about it. -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:27
Manny's Grab, Clutch Hit Helps Dodgers Tie NLCS -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:23
HWDYK PSA: through Halloween, we're running (virtually) nothing but horror movie quizzes - prayformojo Oct 20, 08:22
You can now click on the percentage ranking for a user on the Boxoffice Prediction game to see their complete history -- (link) - oblique Oct 20, 08:22
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You know that pig grinder machine in Saw III? Yea, that should be used in Death Penalty cases. - Jovian Oct 20, 08:19 1
- Especially if they don't make your sandwich the right way! ;) -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:20
Darren Stevens should have quit Larry Tate's company and joined Sterling/Cooper. -- nm - Remlik Oct 20, 08:19 1
- I was thinking of this last night. Bewitched is still a year in the future in Mad Men world. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 08:24
there are few things creepier than hearing Abby walk down the hall in the middle of the night, stop at our bedroom door, then - prayformojo Oct 20, 08:17 12
- Would there happen to be any... Estonian in your family tree by any chance? -- nm - con_carne Oct 20, 08:21
- she's checking to be sure you're you, and not something else. -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:20
- remind me of the Dawn of the Dead remake. -- nm - Remlik Oct 20, 08:19 1
  - loved it, that beginning was pefection. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:21
- Heh. Andrew just started sleeping in the big-boy bed 2 weeks ago. Fortunately he can't open doors yet. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:19 1
  - Go Andrew! -- nm - Deevil Oct 20, 08:23
- Have you seen Paranormal Activity? I think that would be a heart attack inducing event after seeing the movie. -- nm - Ender Oct 20, 08:19 1
  - uh-huh. -- nm - Deevil Oct 20, 08:21
- My brother used to sleepwalk and it freaked the hell out of me. I can imagine how this would be incredibly creepy -- nm - MDH Oct 20, 08:19
- Have you seen Paranormal Activity? -- nm - Deevil Oct 20, 08:18 2
  - this is why i can't go see the movie. Abbynormal Activity notwithstanding, we hear a *lot* of odd noises through our house at night. - prayformojo Oct 20, 08:20 1
    - I think I recall you mentioning this before. You'd better stick with "Good Hair". : ) -- nm - Deevil Oct 20, 08:22
Mmm... lunch. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:17

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