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[admin: User Scribbled -- click to view post.] - Mr. Havens Dec 1, 10:09
speaking of britney, it's not her new disc I had but something called intimidated. which I thought sucked, but - santa claus loves mandy lane Dec 1, 10:03
Reading CC feedback, I'm trying to figure out what people base rankings off of. - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:02 2
- could be people think 3 is average, and then go up or down based on how the game went/how they liked you. -- nm - colin Dec 1, 10:06
- If you take your turns and aren't a jerk in chat I'll pretty much give a 5. Sometimes I'll drop the strategy score. -- nm - Dano Dec 1, 10:05
Britney's UK performance Saturday. First US performance is tomorrow on GMA. -- (link) - CrankYanker Dec 1, 09:56 [youtube] 19
- Is it my imagination or didn't Britney used to be a really, really good dancer? It seems now she walks around and does a few poses and mostly moves - pmb Dec 1, 10:03 10
  - Her moves had more precision and "snap" to them, but she has improved since her disaster on MTV last year - CrankYanker Dec 1, 10:12
  - it's not your imagination, the intro itself makes it bleedingly obvious. she looks like she can barely remember the steps. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:03 8
    - But she used to be good right? That's the part I'm wondering if I remember correctly. It's been a while since she's really performed. -- nm - pmb Dec 1, 10:07 3
      - And that was her strong suit. She was never a particularly good singer. She was a performer. This was Britney in slow motion, at best. - sheba Dec 1, 10:11
      - as far as I recall she was a good dancer. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:09
      - good in a slutty way, yes. -- nm - zork Dec 1, 10:09
    - I realised several years ago that she decided not to practice or work hard any more. -- nm - zork Dec 1, 10:06 3
      - She worked her ass off most of her childhood. She's got an excuse for being lazy now. -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:09 2
        
        you either work or you quit working, IMO. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:10 1
        
        True. -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:11
- Hey.. - lileve Dec 1, 10:00 1
  - not my limo. I think that footage was shot in NY. But, you should watch the show, it shows how much she has progressed since last year. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 1, 10:09
- good grief, a one minute long intro? -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 09:58 5
  - well, it is good taht she no longer looks drugged, but this is a mere shadow of her former level of performance. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:00
  - Which is 45 seconds longer than it takes to get her sister pregnant. - HdnAgnda Dec 1, 09:59 3
    - back to Britney: She barely dances, just walks back and forth and lipsyncs, while people dance around her. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:02 2
      - I think she's still on something. -- nm - Butcher Pete Dec 1, 10:09 1
        
        maybe lithium? -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:10
today was student eval day in the class for which I TA. the linked photo is an actual student comment form, and - santa claus loves mandy lane Dec 1, 09:55 8
- You think that's bad, just wait until student evil day. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 1, 10:04
- oops. -- (link) - santa claus loves mandy lane Dec 1, 09:58 [Image] 2
  - Well, to be fair, the baby does look extremely sad. -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 09:59 1
    - That baby is a known drama queen! -- nm - Todd Manning Dec 1, 10:06
- where is the photo? -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:57 3
  - where is the love? -- nm - mara Dec 1, 09:57 2
    - in mels pants. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:59 1
      - Sounds like a safe place for it. -- nm - TaurusII Dec 1, 10:04
hey hyde, question for you - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:55 2
- i don't honestly know, off hand....nm - x Dec 1, 10:02 1
  - ok, some of us were trying to help mandy, and there was conflicting information found in the internet. - tRuMaN Dec 1, 10:05
More details on the Liberal-NDP coalition that's about to throw Stephen Harper out on his ass. -- (link) - Mop Dec 1, 09:54 13
- i will be PISSED if they do this and government shuts down for campaigning as well as the costs of ANOTHER election so soon. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 09:57 7
  - That's what you get for not having 18 months of campaigning. -- nm - Dano Dec 1, 10:02
  - there almost certainly won't be another writ dropped this soon. - Reagen Dec 1, 09:58 5
    - I'll take those odds if given a three-month window. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 1, 10:51
    - Harper wishes there would be. The Torys are trying to convince the public this is illegal. I don't think it'll fly, though. - Mop Dec 1, 10:01 3
      - I don't think there would be any issue if the Bloc weren't involved. - Reagen Dec 1, 10:05 1
        
        Agreed. This is the hang up. (And rightfully so.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 1, 10:52
      - if it functioned, that would be fine, but i think there would be so much posturing, and positioning, that the government would be completely ineffect- - El Fandie Dec 1, 10:02
- Your politics is way more fun than ours. That reminds me that I have to vote tomorrow. -- nm - Dano Dec 1, 09:55 4
  - it's certainly more surreal. - Reagen Dec 1, 10:00 3
    - Re: the IM (....because he teamed up with Ross Perot?) -- nm - Dano Dec 1, 10:01 2
      - and Lyndon LaRouche. -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 10:03
      - Something like that. -- nm - Mop Dec 1, 10:02
Oh man - I was just leaving a voicemail at an HOA in NV and gave them Will's cell phone number rather than my work #. - kelly Dec 1, 09:53 5
- very rarely I'll give out my old office number for some reason. - Mel Profit Dec 1, 09:54
- That explains why I just got offered a foreclosed property just off the Strip. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 1, 09:53 3
  - Woohoo! (nm) - kelly Dec 1, 09:56 2
    - *nods* Okay. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 1, 09:58 1
      - Looks like it'll be closer to 8 now. - kelly Dec 1, 10:00
RC still has several CC games that need players. (password = hsx) -- (link) - Dano Dec 1, 09:50 2
- Joined 4 of them. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 1, 09:55
- joined 1, now at my max of 4 games. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:53
NYTimes.com Front Page -- Breaking News 12:32 PM ET: It�s Official: U.S. Economy in Recession -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 09:41 8
- in other news, water found to be wet....nm - x Dec 1, 09:50 3
  - didn't you call this exactly? -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 09:53 2
    - maybe roughly. i've certainly been saying we've been in recession most of this year....nm - x Dec 1, 10:01 1
      - I seem to recall someone (I assumed you) saying that when they announced the recession, it would be way retroactive. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:06
- Can wait for them to officially annouce the 2008 Super Bowl winner next week :) -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 1, 09:43 1
  - the week after that: Cavemen finish their 2006 draft picks. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 09:44
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  - hmm, its hard to have all the data to know when a recession happened to years after the fact. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:43
Prepayed Rent Situation - ceregon Dec 1, 09:37 18
- If someone wants to pay rent for a certain time up front it shouldn't matter to you why. - lileve Dec 1, 10:08
- I would do it as well. if you don't, you might risk offending him. -- nm - santa claus loves mandy lane Dec 1, 09:57
- i'd feel a little weird about helping him screw the system, plus he's asking for another month free this year. -- nm - kare Dec 1, 09:57 1
  - (oh, sorry. i guess he's not asking for a full month.) -- nm - kare Dec 1, 10:10
- I don't see the downside -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 09:53
- You have to pay the whole year in advance? -- nm - Guigue Dec 1, 09:50
- sounds like win-win to me. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 09:45
- wouldn't paying down a mortgage save a ton of interest in the long run? -- nm - zork Dec 1, 09:42 3
  - Surprisingly no. I paid an extra $100 last month, and it reduced my monthly payment by a whole 50 cents. - ceregon Dec 1, 10:03
  - well, he still needs that rent to apply to his monthly mortgage payments i'm assumiing. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 09:44 1
    - if he used the money last year for something else, then I assume he doesn't -- nm - zork Dec 1, 09:48
- Is this the hot one who walks around shirtless? -- nm - Dano Dec 1, 09:41 1
  - Some people think he's hot. He's definitely buff and goes shirtless a lot. -- nm - ceregon Dec 1, 10:02
- Do it. Put the money in a CD, pay off a credit card and save on the interest, or something like that. -- nm - Mop Dec 1, 09:41 3
  - I have no debt other than my mortgage, and 30 years fixed at 6% is fine with me. - ceregon Dec 1, 10:00 1
    - It's guaranteed money. You're sure you'll get the money. No pestering for rent every month. And it helps out a friend. -- nm - Mop Dec 1, 10:03
  - What mop said. -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 09:43
- eh, i'd let him do it. you go the money and if he moves for some reason, you're set. -- nm - colin Dec 1, 09:39
ARG! I ordered something from thinkgeek this morning only to find a free shipping code 2 hours later. -- nm - Hotkiss Dec 1, 09:36
Question for smarter people: How would you compare the current bailouts to agricultural subsidies? -- nm - Dano Dec 1, 09:34 44
- they're both largely hypocritical wastes of money....nm - x Dec 1, 10:04
- What RM said, plus AG subsidies could go away and AG would be fine because there's nothing inherently broken with - TWuG Dec 1, 09:39
- The current bailouts are (in theory) one-off. Farm subsidies go on forever and ever. -- nm - Roger More Dec 1, 09:37 41
  - It's interesting that people seem angry about the current bailouts, but we bail out agriculture every year. I blame the Iowa caucuses. -- nm - Dano Dec 1, 09:41 40
    - People get more emotional about farmers than people working in the service industry. Hard-working, salt-of-the-earth folk who just need a break, etc - Roger More Dec 1, 09:44 4
      - Given that farmers are small business owners they have plenty of transferable knowledge. -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 09:51 2
        
        Yeah - I should have said that a farmer would face greater barriers to changing jobs than, say, someone working in the service industry - Roger More Dec 1, 09:59 1
        
        Not to mention - they'd be giving up the thing they know how to do best, and that they (probably) like doing -- nm - Roger More Dec 1, 10:03
      - heh, thats funny. - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:48
    - i'm okay with agriculture - people need food and if farmer's charged what was a realistic fair price, no-one could afford to eat. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 09:43 34
      - There are downsides too. It means more land is farmed, and less is left in its natural state. It also means that farmers in developing countries... - Roger More Dec 1, 09:48
      - at least certainly not using the food distribution model we currently have. - znufrii Dec 1, 09:46
      - I've always thought we pay farmers not to actually grow crops to keep prices artificially high - Will Hunting Dec 1, 09:46 10
        
        there's lots of different subsidies - Reagen Dec 1, 09:48 7
        
        ehh, crp subsidies is not that ridiculous. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:49 6
        
        *somebody* pays that down the line, though. -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 09:50 5
        
        sure, but if we over used the crop land, we would actually harm production down the road - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:52 4
        
        i also worry that, in order to be profitable, everyone would start growing corn for fuel, or other non-food crops. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 09:53 3
        
        supply and demand actually takes care of that pretty quickly. - Reagen Dec 1, 09:57 1
        
        disease and the loss of essential nutrients in the soil - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:58
        
        sure that has happened to some degree, but not as much as many people make it out to be - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:56
        
        i'll let Reagen answer this -he's the one here with some experience in this industry. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 09:48
        
        depends on the crop. -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 09:48
      - mm, yes and no - subsidies have really distorted the markets and have placed a lot of emphasis on growing certain products at the expense of others. -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 09:45 20
        
        you would know better than I, but my gut instinct is, if we have to subsidize an industry, agriculture is a hard one to argue with. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 09:46 19
        
        There's the crux: We don't "have" to subsidize ag. Ag works just fine and supply/demand would be effective in setting prices. - TWuG Dec 1, 09:50 18
        
        sure it does, but then, most likely most of the ag would disappear from the us. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:53 14
        
        So? -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 10:02 13
        
        well, there's the increased cost and energy use to transport food that's grown ever further from its intended market. for starters. - znufrii Dec 1, 10:04 3
        
        Increased transport costs may be offset by lower production costs. And foods are more substitutable than oil - if bread is too expensive, you buy - Roger More Dec 1, 10:09
        
        also kinda kills the movement towards affordable locally grown foods. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 10:07 1
        
        and if anything, we should encourage that rather than discourage it. -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 10:09
        
        well, see, you need to eat. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 10:03 8
        
        you can always buy what you need from other countries -- nm - Roger More Dec 1, 10:06 7
        
        but can you? (a) it costs more to ship it (b) you lose quality as it is harvested earlier to allow shipping time (c) if the countries you are relying - El Fandie Dec 1, 10:07 4
        
        Canada imports $22 bn of food a year - it's the reason supermarket shelves are stocked with off-season produce -- nm - Roger More Dec 1, 10:10 2
        
        i realize this. and have you seen the cost of produce in january? -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 10:11 1
        
        But people still buy it. Personally, I'd rather eat it fresh from overseas than I would Canadian-grown in a can - Roger More Dec 1, 10:15
        
        its the same issue with foreign oil really. - tRuMaN Dec 1, 10:09
        
        O RLY? *tightens the oil supply* -- nm - OPEC Dec 1, 10:07 1
        
        heh - see my answer above -- nm - Roger More Dec 1, 10:11
        
        though certainly not without pain - Reagen Dec 1, 09:52 2
        
        Farming is business, if a specific farmer must have government help to stay in business, then they shouldn't be a farmer. - TWuG Dec 1, 09:58
        
        and there would be lots of good farmer who would go under as well. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:54
Logitech Harmony 880 (New) + $5 towards amazon mps for $80 -- (link) - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:32
My going to hell moment of the weekend was when this guy goes to me "Jaysus I'll tell you something, that murder mystery weekend they had over in - Loyola Dec 1, 09:32 3
- someone clarified his reference to Indians as "the casino ones not the tech support ones" ... I didn't laugh. -- nm - zork Dec 1, 09:44
- your compassion and empathy are inspiring. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 09:33 1
  - I know. I'm going straight to hell. Do not pass go, do not collect 7 virgins. -- nm - Loyola Dec 1, 09:39
*wonders why con_carne always finds me so fascinating* -- nm - zork Dec 1, 09:31 2
- Cake and boobies are two of my favorite topics :-) -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 09:48
- The banana cream filling? -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 09:34
HdnAgnda, you never heard of rickrolling? - Mop Dec 1, 09:30 3
- Indeed it is new to me. I have heard of the phrase but never really checked into it. But it seems to be referenced everywhere now. -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 1, 09:53 2
  - Do yourself a favor and stop. Right. There. -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 09:55 1
    - I might have no choice but to check out TWuG's link on B2 once I get home. - HdnAgnda Dec 1, 09:58
hmm, metal band made up of 14 and 15 yr olds, seems strange. - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:30 10
- Keep in mind that kids this age today usually have big brothers/cousins who like this music -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 09:46 1
  - Kind of like why the Rolling Stones are still popular -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 09:46
- One of the finalists in last summer's "The Next Great American Band" was a bunch of kids doing metal. Not so bad. - Mop Dec 1, 09:33
- Isn't that the age of the target audience? -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 1, 09:32 6
  - that's the indoctrination age -- nm - zork Dec 1, 09:46
  - not really.. metal is more of a college - 20s crowd. - colin Dec 1, 09:33 2
    - so like the reverse of 20 years ago? -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 1, 09:34 1
      - well, if we're talking the new metal, like 3" of Blood, Devil Wears Prada, etc.. then yes. - colin Dec 1, 09:35
  - no idea. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 09:32 1
    - In the 80's that was the target audience for metal bands...figured things don't change that much -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 1, 09:34
For those who missed it, rumors (denied by all parties) that Microsoft is about to gut Yahoo. -- (link) - Mop Dec 1, 09:29 4
- Get to the important part. Does it say anything about fantasy football? - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 1, 10:01
- how is that gutting? -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 09:30 2
  - Kinda like backing a takeover of Microsoft that puts Windows in the control of another company? -- nm - Mop Dec 1, 09:31 1
    - Windows? Oh noes! -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 09:47
IGN (360) gives Prince of Persia a 9.3. -- nm - Shaun Dec 1, 09:28 4
- aren't they about 19 years late on this review? - colin Dec 1, 09:31
- What, the game? Isn't that like 5 years old? -- nm - Mop Dec 1, 09:31 1
  - there's a new title out this week for XBox (and PS3, iirc, but who cares about them?) -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 09:31
- *twitch* -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 09:30
Word. -- nm - Jim Dec 1, 09:28 1
- Of Mouth -- nm - Old Antarctic Explorer Dec 1, 10:10

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