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Comcast may start offering a 105mbps service (10mbps up) in June...argh - oblique May 26, 08:26 1
- how much money? Verizon's high-end plan is uber-expensive. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:27
ABC clarifies last Lost images (spoils) - Jovian May 26, 08:24 4
- ABC further clarifies that the character of "Man in Black" was not actually a part of the show but instead was a commercial for the 2012 movie "Men in Black III". -- nm - Ender May 26, 08:29
- I still don't get how some people interpreted it (spoiler) - Guigue May 26, 08:28 1
  - agreed -- nm - Jovian May 26, 08:29
- "Go away, nerds. The show's over." -- nm - ABC May 26, 08:26
For whatever reason, on days when I feel exhausted, they are the only days I really get a hankering to stretch. - TFox May 26, 08:19 1
- Take a meeting. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:23
The Gulf Environmental and PR Disaster: 7 Suggestions for President Obama -- (link) - mara May 26, 08:16 8
- "The truth is, we all own a piece of this disaster in the Gulf." yea okay.. -- nm - Jovian May 26, 08:28
- #2 and 6 really piss me off. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:18 6
  - Really? I thought they were good suggestions. -- nm - mara May 26, 08:19 5
    - Exactly. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:20 4
      - (I meant that 2) BP shouldn't have any say on press access and 6) forget the offshore drilling bs right now.) -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:21 3
        
        Gotcha, you meant the points addressed by those suggestions. I'm an idiot. -- nm - mara May 26, 08:22 2
        
        yeah, sorry. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:26
        
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- take the risk. you're early in your career. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 08:28
- At your current age I would pick A - as Andie said, upside outweighs downside....if you were older (mid 40's) then I might have said B -- nm - Walt_Disney May 26, 08:28
- Open a bar? -- nm - LMS May 26, 08:28
- run off and join the circus. -- nm - znufrii May 26, 08:26 2
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    - enjoying it so far. -- nm - znufrii May 26, 08:30
- I think the wasting key/crucial years concern is somewhat overstated. Not sure what options you're considering, but time spent elsewhere is not - pmb May 26, 08:25 1
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- A. -- nm - Andie May 26, 08:18 1
  - (only because the downside isn't as big as the upside.) -- nm - Andie May 26, 08:18
- Does "potentially very rewarding" mean financially? -- nm - mara May 26, 08:16 1
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I watched the first episode of Spartacus last night. I love how over the top the violence is. And Haldir's wife is *smoking* hot. Full frontal rules. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 08:10 1
- oh dude, you have no idea what your in for. The show is most excellent. - Jovian May 26, 08:30
Halliburton built the well casing. Oh my. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 08:03 11
- ooh, here's a worst-case estimate from Wikipedia ... - Beryllium May 26, 08:05 10
  - How's BPs stock looking? -- nm - Gwaahjo May 26, 08:10 2
    - down more than 25% since the spill. -- (link) - Don Homer May 26, 08:12
    - up 10% year-over-year. - Beryllium May 26, 08:11
  - so worst case we're looking at nearly 80,000 barrells a day. -- nm - Remlik May 26, 08:07 5
    - plus the SECOND leak.. -- nm - Andie May 26, 08:08
    - Actually the worse case would be 84k + 25k = 109k. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:08 3
      - Which would be about 4.5M gallons per day. In 35 days, that's 160,230,000 gallons. Still not as bad as Kuwait, but would be #2 worst ever. -- (link) - JaxSean May 26, 08:13 1
        
        (and the Ixtoc 1 took almost a year to cap. Yeesh.) -- nm - JaxSean May 26, 08:15
      - yup -- nm - tRuMaN May 26, 08:11
  - every 3.5 to 2.4 days? jeez. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:07
The thing that is pissing me off to no end is the amount of time and money being spent trying to figure out what caused it and how much is dumping - Jim May 26, 08:03 18
- it's pretty easy to do both. it's not like they're pulling people off recovery operations to testify before congress. -- nm - mafic May 26, 08:24
- i agree, which is why i am happy that the Feds are trying to investiage this while BP trys to stop the leak - tRuMaN May 26, 08:12 2
  - Your IM is important. Obama can't just snap his fingers and fix it. You wish they didn't need BP but they do. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:14 1
    - ayup. and you cannot really undergo a good investigation of something while you rely on the same people to fix the problem - tRuMaN May 26, 08:15
- A company as big as BP can do more than one thing at once. Sure, fixing the leak should be the main priority, but it's not as though throwing more - Roger More May 26, 08:10 1
  - Exactly. There's nothing simple about it. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:11
- i sort of figured that the people doing that reporting and calculations aren't qualified to work on the actual problem. -- nm - Andie May 26, 08:07 1
  - yeah, I don't see how an independent examination would interfere with efforts. That argument doesn't hold water, IMO -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 08:10
- it's a gusher a mile down, underwater - wheezy May 26, 08:05
- Technically they are fixing the problem. Aren't they digging the relief well? That will just take months. -- nm - Dano May 26, 08:05
- Of course it matters how much is being released. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:05 5
  - sure. How else will the administration know how much to fine BP when all is said and done - znufrii May 26, 08:08
  - Once it gets to a certain point - and it's probably already well past that point - there's not much they can actually do. The efforts are just tokens. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 08:06 3
    - i don't agree with that. ask someone who's been in a flood. that extra foot of water DOES matter, for instance. -- nm - Andie May 26, 08:07 2
      - Oh, it does matter. For sure. There's just nothing you can *do* about it. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 08:09 1
        
        right. at the moment, the only practical purposes for exactly quantifying the flow is to know how to deploy dispersants (spoiler: a shitload) - TFox May 26, 08:11
- 100% agree. -- nm - TFox May 26, 08:03
- Well...this was supposed to be below...but I guess it's a new thread. *shrugs* -- nm - Jim May 26, 08:03
mandy news network: Kaplan instructor in California tells students they can't speak Spanish in class -- (link) - wheezy May 26, 08:02
TV Questions: Is anyone watching the new episodes of Dr Who and is familar with the orginal series (pre 1996)?..... - Walt_Disney May 26, 07:56 2
- My thoughts - potential spoilers - LMS May 26, 08:14
- you're not.... - Remlik May 26, 08:01
The bizarre sex lives of the angler fish, told in excellent graphics. -- (link) - mara May 26, 07:46 4
- are they stuck in oil sludge? -- nm - Gwaahjo May 26, 08:04
- is it showing two baits? -- nm - zork May 26, 07:49
- Humpday has taken a strange turn. -- nm - Fuzzy May 26, 07:48 1
  - Speak for yourself. -- nm - Charlie the Tuna May 26, 07:48
It's Complicated: C+ Way too slow. -- nm - MDH May 26, 07:44
National Geographic channel is doing a documentary about the oil spill tomorrow. -- (link) - mara May 26, 07:42
Wow - Detroit's average household food spend is super low - about $6.15 per day -- nm - Roger More May 26, 07:40 6
- According to the Chicago Tribune, the median price for a home sold in the month of December 2008 in Detroit is $7500!!!! - Walt_Disney May 26, 08:05 2
  - It's fun to go to realtor.com and just search for city and price range. -- (link) - mara May 26, 08:11
  - but why would you want to? -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:08
- There were estimates that Detroit's unemployment rate hit nearly 50%. -- nm - Dano May 26, 07:55
- what are they eating? oatmeal 3 meals a day? -- nm - Andie May 26, 07:52 1
  - spam and ramen noodles -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 07:52
was there a link to the food spender answers? -- nm - workmanda May 26, 07:39 2
- Yep, On B2. here it is again -- (link) - MDH May 26, 07:40 1
  - I kiss you. -- nm - workmanda May 26, 07:42
"a film about robot boxers in the future" -- nm - David May 26, 07:38 7
- prediction: This film is going to make Van Helsing look good. -- nm - decline May 26, 07:52
- Robot Jox? -- nm - Dano May 26, 07:50
- Hey, a tentpole's a tentpole -- nm - Roger More May 26, 07:42
- apparently she doesn't mind the acting gig that much... -- nm - Mel Profit May 26, 07:40 3
  - she has said she wants to back to her missionary roots. - loosilu May 26, 07:42 2
    - Ill get her back to missionary alright... -- nm - Jovian May 26, 07:46
    - I know... - Mel Profit May 26, 07:43
Restrepo (Sebasian Junger doc about Afghanistan that won Sundance award) trailer -- (link) - Dano May 26, 07:38
"Hassan Chop!" -- nm - Mel Profit May 26, 07:37
it's been doing that for 5 weeks? I can't even comprehend the damage that's been done. -- nm - decline May 26, 07:36 56
- and the lack of leadershuip once again from the White House, when it concerns the Gulf is criminal. - Remlik May 26, 07:59 1
  - true. but we also only have so many feet of oil buoys to stop the spread, and so many ships to clean it up - tRuMaN May 26, 08:14
- I'm really pissed this is happening considering it's a limited, non-renewable source (in addition to doing incredible damage to the ecosystem) -- nm - zork May 26, 07:48 2
  - Depending on what the exact flow rate is, it might not even rank in the top 10 worst in history. -- (link) - JaxSean May 26, 08:03
  - It's maddening. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 07:51
- heck they cannot even agree (scientists, the gov, BP) on how much actual oil is being spilled -- nm - tRuMaN May 26, 07:44 3
  - BP seems to be refusing to allow independent experts to examine the pipes to make their own estimates, so there's a lot of confusion -- nm - Roger More May 26, 07:47 1
    - yeah, a lot of guess work is being done based on the video of the underwater leaks - tRuMaN May 26, 07:48
  - We told you, ninjas. -- nm - ICP May 26, 07:46
- this is slowed down, right? like, they've made *some* progress? -- nm - workmanda May 26, 07:41 1
  - not really. the one measure that worked - tRuMaN May 26, 07:43
- I know I don't understand but like...there isn't a shutoff valve anywhere? - Mel Profit May 26, 07:40 41
  - there is, supposedly, but it failed. - tRuMaN May 26, 07:42 40
    - It got all messed up when the platform sank and dragged the pipe connected to it along with it. -- nm - Ender May 26, 07:44 10
      - yeah. you would have thought someone would have thought of that when designing the thing for the worst case scenario stuff -- nm - tRuMaN May 26, 07:45 9
        
        What I don't understand is why they didn't implement the shutoff in the time between when it caught fire and when it sank. - Ender May 26, 07:48 8
        
        maybe they were too busy running for their lives... -- nm - znufrii May 26, 07:51
        
        well, the way npr explained it, its automatic based on a signal from the platform - tRuMaN May 26, 07:50
        
        I thought the same thing but didn't post it because I figured there was a reason. - Mel Profit May 26, 07:50
        
        I think the fire may have prevented them from doing that. And, of course, eleven people died - that may have affected things, too -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 07:49 4
        
        Then that's a piss poor crisis response team those people have. - Will Hunting May 26, 07:51 3
        
        the rig exploded and sank in pretty short order. it's not like they had heaps of time sitting around, wondering "hey, did anyone hit the shutoff?" - mafic May 26, 08:28
        
        I do feel sorry for BP in the sense that they were the company unlucky enough to have it happen on their platform - znufrii May 26, 07:54
        
        I think any doubt of that has been washed out to sea. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 07:52
    - I guess I just can't wrap my head around the fact that after 5 weeks we can't stop it. -- nm - Mel Profit May 26, 07:44 21
      - This just proves we need to keep drilling. baby. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 07:48
      - Honestly I can't believe it took them 5 weeks to come up with the idea of cramming a bunch of junk and cement in the hole. - pmb May 26, 07:47 19
        
        because in doing so, they cap the well forever (supposedly) - tRuMaN May 26, 07:48 18
        
        Obviously I'm no geologist/engineer, but there's no ability to tap the well from a different spot? You can't drill again 200 feet away and get there? - pmb May 26, 07:51 16
        
        I drink your milkshake! -- nm - Epiphany May 26, 07:55
        
        My understanding is that they are doing this, but it's a process that takes months -- nm - Roger More May 26, 07:55 1
        
        Oh hang on, you're asking something completely different -- nm - Roger More May 26, 07:57
        
        I don't think that would stop the flow from the first hole. I'm sure they are losing so much product that preserving costs is not on the table now -- nm - zork May 26, 07:54
        
        Not to mention the enormous costs to their image (which, rightly or wrongly, was that of the "green" oil company). -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 07:51 11
        
        yeah, once this is done, they will totally have to change their logo (and possibly their name) -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 07:53 10
        
        I don't think image matters that much when you produce the thing the entire world runs on. -- nm - mara May 26, 07:55 8
        
        good point especially since they haven't had retail BP stations for years AFAIK -- nm - zork May 26, 07:56 3
        
        Here's a search for finding one near you... -- (link) - Don Homer May 26, 07:59
        
        That's not true at all. There's one right near where I live, for one. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 07:57 1
        
        and not only that, they just spent a few million rebranding themselves entirely about 4 years ago -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 08:00
        
        they make batteries?? -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 07:55 3
        
        i'm really annoyed at my brain for instantly doing the duracell chime thing when i read your post. - Andie May 26, 07:57 2
        
        The Intel jingle is the worst. - Mel Profit May 26, 08:00 1
        
        does that toyota ad with the 'when i think of you my heart goes beep' song play in the US? it's PAINFULLY earwormy. -- nm - Andie May 26, 08:05
        
        xfinity! -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 07:54
        
        there's the answer. -- nm - Mel Profit May 26, 07:49
    - blowout preventer. -- nm - znufrii May 26, 07:43 6
      - funny name for something that didnt work -- nm - tRuMaN May 26, 07:44 5
        
        Or possibly didn't exist. They got a special approval, I heard, to skip one safety system completely. For a savings of $500k. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 07:45 4
        
        it's what happens when you effectively allow the industry to regulate itself. - znufrii May 26, 07:47 3
        
        Indeed, this post preaches to my anti-corporate choir ... -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 07:48
        
        see also: baseball -- nm - tRuMaN May 26, 07:47 1
        
        Baseball should start taking batting practice directly into the stands... - Mel Profit May 26, 07:51
- I think that entire ecosystem will be destroyed, for real. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 07:38
- yeah, i have a hard time wrapping my head around it. -- nm - TFox May 26, 07:37 1
  - if only you could, the problem would be solved! -- nm - zork May 26, 07:47
Live BP oil spillcam! -- (link) - Don Homer May 26, 07:33 3
- I wonder why it needs a plugin -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 07:38 2
  - ironically, I can't install the plugin. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 07:38
  - *golf clap* -- nm - SyrDragon May 26, 07:38

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