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- I hate that trade too. - TFox Dec 8, 11:24 6
  - You should love it. it should take them out of the Halladay running. - Will Hunting Dec 8, 11:25 4
    - (I don't have strong feelings about it, in reality. And I never thought the Yankees were in the Halladay running for real.) -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:26 3
      - They have just enough blue-chips (or blue-chips considered) to get it done. - Will Hunting Dec 8, 11:27 2
        
        But I love Granderson. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 8, 11:28 1
        
        Dude, back off or a restraining order -- nm - Curtis Dec 8, 11:32
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Good to know: The Region 2 (UK) version of "Almost Famous" on Blu-ray is the Untitled cut. -- nm - Mop (230 lbs) Dec 8, 11:21 2
- But without the DVD's extra features. -- nm - David Dec 8, 11:22 1
  - That is what I feared. Dammit, when will we get Untitled on Blu-ray?! -- nm - Mop (230 lbs) Dec 8, 11:23
Oooo. Something like this is what I should get my brother and sister-in-law for Christmas. -- (link) - mara Dec 8, 11:13 4
- two years ago i go my brother and sister in law one of those crank powered radio/flashlight/charger things. - Elf Andie Dec 8, 11:15 2
  - I'm mildly annoyed that I paid $25 for mine and they're down to like $8 now. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 11:17 1
    - are they? yeah, i paid more than that... -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 11:17
- they've started a new life under the sea? -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:14
LIR - I too call shenanigans on the HWDYK Star Trek quiz - Roger More Dec 8, 11:13 17
- Regarding your first point... - David Dec 8, 11:21 2
  - Thanks - may Gaila reappear in the sequel -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:25
  - Adjust my score! - Remlik Dec 8, 11:24
- to your second point... - Remlik Dec 8, 11:14 11
  - spoils - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:14 10
    - There was a flashback...when.... - Remlik Dec 8, 11:16 9
      - Circle gets the square. -- nm - David Dec 8, 11:18
      - Oh well, I stand corrected -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:18 1
        
        I agree with your 1st point though. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 11:22
      - (technically, a flash-forward. :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:17 5
        
        Well a Flash Back for Spock-Prime and a Never-was for the new timeline. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 11:22 2
        
        (spoils) - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:23 1
        
        that's a good point.... - Remlik Dec 8, 11:25
        
        depends on your point of view. - mafic Dec 8, 11:18 1
        
        I was just thinking about that - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:19
- That's like saying "So and so doesn't die in the movie, we only hear about it" -- nm - oblique Dec 8, 11:13 1
  - I'm not really serious - it was a choice between two interpretations, and I chose ...poorly. But those were the only two I got wrong -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:16
From BB's: The Greater Toronto Area has a number of "community standards" laws based by the local municipalities for homes..... - Walt_Disney Dec 8, 11:10
I am really having moments that this job is making me nuts... - Capstern Dec 8, 11:09
Huh, Mark Beuhrle is just about the exact average HOF pitcher at age 30. - Will Hunting Dec 8, 11:05
Speaking of Christmas lights... I have enough decorations for 3 or 4 Christmas trees. -- nm - Mop (230 lbs) Dec 8, 11:04
I really, really like *5* of the 7 most popular songs of the decade in terms of radio play. -- nm - David Dec 8, 11:03 12
- Can someone repost this list? Thanks! -- nm - MDH Dec 8, 11:15
- nickelback makes the baby jesus cry. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:05 8
  - so do poopie swaddling cloths -- nm - Claire Dec 8, 11:11
  - LOVE that song. -- nm - David Dec 8, 11:08 6
    - well good news on the next 25 songs! -- nm - Chad Kroeger Dec 8, 11:13 2
      - Alas, the new CD is too much of a change for me. This is the first one of theirs I didn't love. -- nm - David Dec 8, 11:17 1
        
        well you can always get the latest Creed or Alterbridge cd. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 11:23
    - Waaaaahhhhhh!!! -- nm - baby jesus Dec 8, 11:11
    - mumblemumblemetoomumblemumble. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 8, 11:10 1
      - oh gosh, what is that site that had the nickelback spoof? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:12
- *writes you a love song* (nm) - omg stop tickling nubby Dec 8, 11:04 1
  - *misreads this as "love snog"* -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:10
and in related global cooling news: -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:01
Vermin: Energy reduction is one of those "good ideas" I mentioned. Like water usage reduction. - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:01 55
- A boot on your neck is 'downward pressure' on an unwanted trend, too. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:06 48
  - Desalination is highly pollutant and impactful on marine life. And you do realize it takes more than water to "grow plants in the desert", right? -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:16 21
    - "pollutant and impactful" - hence the need to improve the tech. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:18 19
      - unless we get a significant technological breaktrugh Las Vegas IS lost - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:25
      - Why this specifically instead of just, say, better solar panels and other renewable energy sources? You're adding a pretty high degree of difficulty - Reagen Dec 8, 11:22 3
        
        [shrug] Solar has funding. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:30
        
        he may as well aim for farming the moon -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:26
        
        if they were good at adapting they wouldn't be endangered. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:24
      - desert (usually) makes pretty shit farmland even if you irrigate the pants off it. - mafic Dec 8, 11:22 7
        
        Related: I would give the climate crisis hysterics more credit if they occasionally listed some of the benefits of warming. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:25 6
        
        btw, it is not impossible to grow food in places like that. Iceland is littered with greenhouses. - Guy Dec 8, 11:32
        
        I think climate change in either direction will have benefits for some. - mafic Dec 8, 11:31
        
        because the "benefits" are overshadowed by the global impact - Guy Dec 8, 11:30
        
        spoils - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:28
        
        in general, almost none of it. it'll just turn into marsh. - Reagen Dec 8, 11:28 1
        
        most of it already is marsh. in the summer, anyway. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:32
      - and the idea of growing plants in the desert is a bit like robbing peter to pay paul - znufrii Dec 8, 11:19 5
        
        not to mention that the soil is usually lacking in nutrients - Guy Dec 8, 11:22
        
        for the most part, desertification is an example of ecosystem destruction. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:21 3
        
        that's not entirely true. it may have been the 'destruction' of an ecosystem as it is beneficial to humans - Guy Dec 8, 11:24 1
        
        thats also not true - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:29
        
        and you might actually get as much effect by sending free fencewire to africa -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:22
    - not to mention the CO2 we need to worry about is not the stuff on the surface that would be "sucked up" by increased vegetation -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 11:17
  - well it's not really a win/ win/ win - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:14 10
    - regarding your IM ... you could technically have a solar powered desalination plant for super-cheap -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:15 9
      - sure you can, and reseach to invest in a hydrogent producing plant at the same time and..and and - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:16 8
        
        I don't mean solar *electricity*. I mean solar power, in the traditional sense. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:18 7
        
        traditionally "power" = "energy" and "electricity" = "power" - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:20 6
        
        you're forgetting about condensation. Use solar heat to evaporate saltwater, then condense the evaporated water on a surface, and bam! fresh water. - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:21 5
        
        essentially, a giant still. -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 11:24
        
        no that method has been done it is not really working unfornatly - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:24
        
        aka: the water cycle. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:23 2
        
        yessir, but hijacked in a contained environment for the benefit of mankind. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:24 1
        
        the enviromental containment IS the big problem in the system -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:26
  - Allocate all carbon taxes to a tax rebate, equally split among all Americans. -- nm - psilotum Dec 8, 11:11
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    - What vermin is proposing is like bridge/highway tolls that go for paying off the cost of development ... -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:10 11
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        ... and then let citizens set how much they want to "donate" to each tax. - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:17 8
        
        NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!1 -- nm - US Military-Industrial Complex Dec 8, 11:18 7
        
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        0.0074% of a fighter plane -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:22 5
        
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        I actually did the calculation :) $135M is the price of an F-35 and I assumed $10,000 in taxes -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:28 1
        
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        or else vermin is a lot wealthier than we think :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:25 1
        
        or it's an older type of Figher plane -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:26
      - yaxes are BAD unless they do like i want then they are OK? - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:15
    - kid, your face is fungible. -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 11:09
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  - I guess it all comes down to: At your core, are you a selfish person? or a selfless person? - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:06 4
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      - hmm ... I was trying to steer the climate debate onto the same track as the healthcare debate ... -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:08
    - the ideal position is when the selfish act and the selfless act are the exact same thing. -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 11:07 1
      - Taxation often helps there -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:08
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- Lost Season 1 on dvd. Closest to an Island you can afford. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 11:03 2
  - They sell tropical island DVD screensavers... -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:03 1
    - ooooo! and a copy of Juggs magazine and Dawson is golden. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 11:17
- if it were my mom... - znufrii Dec 8, 11:02
- season 1 of Nip Tuck gets the last 2 and maybe the second one depending on how they like their men. -- nm - Beaker Dec 8, 11:00 1
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- postcard of an island in the pacific, Ken doll, g string for Ken doll, turkey baster. done. -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:00 1
  - and sunscreen -- nm - zork Dec 8, 11:04
- Put a big bow on your wang -- nm - oblique Dec 8, 11:00
- can you get them a tropical island themed stripper? -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 10:59 3
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    - ah, then i'd get them some tropical booze - coconut rum, and a joke glass to drink it from, -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 11:04
    - For $25?! I'm free every night that week! -- nm - znufrii si Dec 8, 11:01
- Can of paint stripper and a note, "Don't be a dick next year." -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 8, 10:59
The Playlist's Top 11 of 2005. - Dano Dec 8, 10:56 20
- 7/11 - 4 I would give an A, 3 a C. -- nm - AJRimmer Dec 8, 11:22
- 8/11 - this is their worst list yet imo -- nm - Don Homer Dec 8, 11:18 1
  - I think Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Good Night and Good Luck and Junebug are all terrific. - Callisto Dec 8, 11:23
- 7/11 -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:17
- 5/11 -- nm - Callisto Dec 8, 11:15
- Seen 4 and 11, never finished 3. -- nm - Jelly Dec 8, 11:12
- 3/11. Cache is the one that had the most impact -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:09
- 5/11. - kelly Dec 8, 11:07
- 3/11. Squid and the Whale really stuck with me. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:00 1
  - I liked that movie a lot, and not just because it was set in the neighborhood I was living in in Brooklyn at the time -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 11:10
- 4. (applies #9 directly to the forehead) -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 11:00
- "0" -- nm - oblique Dec 8, 10:59 2
  - that actually means all of them, right? -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:00 1
    - I have not seen all of them - oblique Dec 8, 11:01
- 10/11 -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 10:58 1
  - And I would give an A or A- to 7 of them. -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 11:10
- 1/11 (and I saw it just a few weeks ago) -- nm - Mop (230 lbs) Dec 8, 10:58
- 1/11 -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 10:58
- 4, 6 and 11 seen -- nm - Beaker Dec 8, 10:57 1
  - and #11 is in my top 5 all time -- nm - Beaker Dec 8, 10:59
Speaking of popular environmentalism, a coworker just wondered why he hadn't heard any messages like "take it easy on the Xmas lights, people"... - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 10:55 24
- id say its not just "lights", but the over-the-top displays that could power a whole effin neighborhood -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:19
- we should be retiring the old style in favour of LED lights, but I don't think anyone's really hammering too hard on them - Reagen Dec 8, 10:59 10
  - LED increse energy usage? - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:07 6
    - Think of a fat guy eating three 'diet' meals at once because, hey, they're low-fat! -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:11 3
      - so if you make the price of energy higher people will save on energy - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:18
      - but *only* during the holidays. :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:13 1
        
        (and in place of previous years, where the fat guy ate 25 bacon double cheeseburgers every night, because there wasn't an alternative) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:14
    - Christmas lights increase energy usage, not LED specifically -- nm - Guigue Dec 8, 11:11 1
      - true i don't use christmass lights anymore -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:17
  - plus the impact of manufacturing, transporting, etc. of the new lights and the disposal of the old. - zork Dec 8, 11:06
  - the last line is the key. i agree. -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:01
  - It will start (and for good reasons) in mid-january when people still have their Christmas lights on. -- nm - Guigue Dec 8, 11:00
- I saw a commercial the other day (Target, maybe?) advertising low-energy LED Xmas lights. -- nm - kelly Dec 8, 10:59 2
  - I bought my first set of regular LED bulbs. I actually ended up putting the outside our house but they're not as bright - oblique Dec 8, 11:05
  - yeah. now that I think about it I'm pretty sure the ads I saw featured canadian tire guy. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:02
- last time I was in canada around christmas there were ads about switching to LED and using timers. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 10:59
- well most people save energy becourse it pritty good business -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 10:58
- my guess it because a few people who do this for a few weeks each year isn't really as much a drain as millions of people leaving chargers plugged in - Elf Andie Dec 8, 10:57
- Incandescent christmas lights = bad. LED christmas lights = good. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 10:57 2
  - yep, plenty of places (ontario hydro, home depot, etc, do exchanges that they will give you free LEDs if you bring in strands of your old lights. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 10:58 1
    - good idear -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:00
- Why do you hate Baby Jesus?! - znufrii Dec 8, 10:56 1
  - And I'll point out that I have LED lights on my house! -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 10:58
- Poopies makes baby jesus cry -- nm - oblique Dec 8, 10:56

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