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"Vote with your dollars" - a breakdown of political contributions by american corporations ... -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:45
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Livick told Camp Hill police he is no longer friends with Matt Zeigler... That was why, police said, he hit Zeigler on the head with a hammer. -- (link) - Dano Sep 14, 11:40 1
- There's a generation of serial killers coming up that society just isn't prepared to handle. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:44
Kris Jenkins tore his ACL (again) and is out for the season (again). Hard Knocks, indeed. -- nm - David Sep 14, 11:38 7
- They need to put an airbag-ish device on football lineman legs so they don't fall back on their knees so violently. -- nm - Inigo Sep 14, 11:42 1
  - Instead of pads, all football players should have to wear those inflatable sumo wrestling outfits. -- nm - Dano Sep 14, 11:43
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  - Do owners go ahead and lock those guys out now or what? -- nm - David Sep 14, 11:42
- CuesTO: Is it just me or are there a lot more injuries this year? -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:39 2
  - it must be the day after Week 1. (just you.) - TFox Sep 14, 11:40 1
    - I know, and am kidding. - Spawn Sep 14, 11:41
The Guy who made "Arlington Rap" has made a video about DC Metro -- (link) - MDH Sep 14, 11:38 [youtube]
Hmm. Local Gamestop had nearly 200 Halo:Reach units moved after midnight. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:37
Today's Dilbert is great. -- (link) - David Sep 14, 11:36
BTW... Didn't log in this weekend due tot he whole Vegas thing, but Reagen..... - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:34 2
- enjoy your 5 win season (which will probably get you into the playoffs. Yeesh, the CFL this year) -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 11:35 1
  - Twas a rebuilding year from Day One, so we won our Grey Cup game 31 to 2 measely little kicking pts this year. - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:37
tell me, do you think this basement bedroom window is fake? I do. :) -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:33 [Image] 5
- It may be or it may be one of those artificial sunlight thingees. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:36
- i bet it's a real window, but i also believe that on the other side is a window culvert - ie a dig out around the window and the window is essentially - Andie Sep 14, 11:36 1
  - I hereby declare that this feature shall be renamed "lightpump". -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:38
- looks suspicous to me -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Sep 14, 11:34 1
  - I wouldn't consider it a major detractor, at least. (Theatre room! :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:35
alright, the edgar martinez argument. next up: was babe ruth really any good?....nm - xi Sep 14, 11:33 1
- Circus sideshow act. - David Sep 14, 11:34
so I need to order pizza for a work thing - thin/wood-fire-type or thick crust? - b. Sep 14, 11:30 14
- thick crust pizza is the devil's work....nm - xi Sep 14, 11:34 4
  - Do not badmouth thick crust pizza. I will fight you over this. (nm) - musubi Sep 14, 11:41
  - it's the non-deep-pan chicago style. burn the city! - b. Sep 14, 11:36 1
    - ha, i can't deny i'm beholden to east coast style....nm - xi Sep 14, 11:40
  - ! -- nm - Kim Pine Sep 14, 11:34
- thin. That way the diety types won't bitch and the overeaters will eat the rest of it. -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 11:33
- are you paying out of your pocket? - groiny Sep 14, 11:33 2
  - no. and seriously? I looked around online and thought 15 would be enough. -- nm - b. Sep 14, 11:34 1
    - don't mind me, I am stress eating. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 14, 11:35
- thick or both. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:31 2
  - unfortunately, it's one place or another, so it's a choice. - b. Sep 14, 11:33 1
    - thick, then -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:34
- thick, and yes, that's plenty. (i wish you ordered for our meetings. stingy.) -- nm - TFox Sep 14, 11:31 1
  - we're making people do physical activity with food as a reward. -- nm - b. Sep 14, 11:38
my schedule was booked until 9 pm, now someone else wants me to do something in the evening - No respect for Reach release date! -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 11:30 4
- Her stats are really suffering this season. Did you tell her it's a contract year? -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 11:33 1
  - its not her - - crash davis Sep 14, 11:37
- Tell Trish you can give her 5 minutes at 9 -- nm - oblique Sep 14, 11:30 1
  - 3 minutes of prep, 2 minutes of pep. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 14, 11:33
To put that particular house in perspective: Normally the only thing showing up in that price range is townhouses. - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:27 33
- Not that you need to answer, but what kind of salaries are people making up there that an average family can afford a $500k+ house? - oblique Sep 14, 11:29 30
  - I believe average household income is typically in the $70-$80K range. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:32 21
    - *household*? that would be low. -- nm - Andie Sep 14, 11:37 11
      - A little high, it seems. Unless you mean the average in that area, not the whole country. -- (link) - mara Sep 14, 11:39 1
        
        2 year old numbers though. -- nm - Andie Sep 14, 11:41
      - Not by much according to Statscan. Just found it. -- (link) - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:39 8
        
        two income family, in 2008, average was $74,000. Cross country. i guess that's fair. in a city, that is REALLY low. -- nm - Andie Sep 14, 11:40 7
        
        well, my household is slightly above that average. But only slightly. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:42 2
        
        you know your math better than i, plus i'm a renter, but that just seems undoable to me. - TFox Sep 14, 11:45
        
        my household is higher than that by a decent amount, and I could not sniff a - groiny Sep 14, 11:44
        
        I dunno about this. The number of non-gov't $50K/year jobs is a decreasing percentage every year. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:41 3
        
        it's really really location specific. a receptionist, with no experience, makes $45,000 here. -- nm - Andie Sep 14, 11:43 2
        
        Yes, but not many Canadian cities can claim that. I'm a not-generously-but-decent-for-the-market paid lower manager here and I can't crack that. - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:47
        
        *moves to Canada* nm -- nm - groiny Sep 14, 11:46
    - yes, this -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:35 8
      - Ok, but for a $500k house, 30 year mortgage, you're still paying what? $2500/mo? That's nearly 50% of the salary -- nm - oblique Sep 14, 11:41 7
        
        depends what you put down. you don't buy a $500K house without a down payment. - Andie Sep 14, 11:42 6
        
        Either way, with most lenders preferring a < 40% debt-to-income ratio by what I can tell, that's ridiculous -- nm - oblique Sep 14, 11:45
        
        also, do you pay property taxes there? nm -- nm - groiny Sep 14, 11:43 4
        
        of course. -- nm - Andie Sep 14, 11:44 3
        
        see, I can afford a 400k house here, I just can not afford the taxes on it. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 14, 11:44 2
        
        though from what I understand, they're much much lower here. - Reagen Sep 14, 11:46 1
        
        That's also varible. Winnipeg, which also includes a portion of property taxes for schools, would be three or four times that. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:58
  - Canadians are all millionaires due to the health care system. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:30 6
    - honestly this is part of it - Reagen Sep 14, 11:33 5
      - See, I try to interject some learnin' in my posts. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:34
      - for most of us, that's a non-factor, because our boss pays our premiums and we pay a little sliver. - TFox Sep 14, 11:34 3
        
        Yup. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 14, 11:42
        
        Yeah, your IM kinda negates the thought. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:35 1
        
        i wouldn't say negate. most people still pay significantly less than half their premiums. many way way less than that. -- nm - TFox Sep 14, 11:37
  - i am also wondering this. -- nm - TFox Sep 14, 11:29
- i'm trying to fathom the rents that would make buying at those prices feasible. -- nm - TFox Sep 14, 11:28 1
  - Most Canadian cities don't have this problem, but Toronto, Calgary and lower mainland BC are pretty expensive to live in compared to the rest. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:30
I almost wish Schatz didn't seem to enjoy her current boarding kennel so much...they're beginning to piss me off ... - MojaveMeg Sep 14, 11:27 1
- how dumb. grr. -- nm - b. Sep 14, 11:32
hmmmmmmmm. Could this be a house for amanda? -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:25
ML you got a link on that Sanders story? -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 11:22 10
- As an aside, the way google works now, if you type "Bob Sanders torn bicep" into a search, you'll find it. - David Sep 14, 11:29 2
  - Yeah I just realized that they've updated the search engine by a huge degree. -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 11:31 1
    - I'm in awe of it. -- nm - David Sep 14, 11:32
- FRAK!!! -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:28 3
  - We've reached the point where a healthy Bob Sanders is a key sign of the apocalypse. -- nm - David Sep 14, 11:29 2
    - Please to be linking me to a chart showing how much $ he had made per minute played. - Spawn Sep 14, 11:31 1
      - Remember Micheal Young? He said:Well he made it 10 plays this season. So, thats $750,000 a play. Not bad...not bad at all. -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 11:32
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  - thanks ML! -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 11:32
- found it. nevermind. -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 11:23
LIR: Bery. -- (link) - lileve Sep 14, 11:21 [Backboard] 2
- thanks :) Yeah, most of that was on my mind as well (I don't like stucco, and I had an eye for the crooked line on the garage) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:22 1
  - Also... - lileve Sep 14, 11:24
The Hall of Famer in question: .418 OBP, .933 OPS. Mark Grace: .383 OBP, 825 OPS. - David Sep 14, 11:19 10
- An aside, if you took the prime of others careers and compared their OPS and OBP to Edgar he'd drop significantly. - Inigo Sep 14, 11:32
- half the strikouts, comparable runs and rbis, more hits, and gold gloves - dogbert Sep 14, 11:24 1
  - All of this but golden glove factors in with the OPS stat. It's the meta. - David Sep 14, 11:26
- Mark Grace was a stellar defender, who didn't sit for 90% of the game. (nm) - musubi Sep 14, 11:20 6
  - It's fine that 70% of the readers at the best baseball site on the net say you've been wrong about this all along. - David Sep 14, 11:26 5
    - The best website for data, true. The best for analysis...eh, it's good, but not he best. - musubi Sep 14, 11:32 4
      - The good news for Edgar is that as small minded people such as yourself get overwhelmed by stats gurus who appreciate Edgar's greatness, he'll get in. - David Sep 14, 11:33 3
        
        Stat gurus are just as split on Edgars value. It has nothing to do with Stats vs non-stats. it's just how big a HOF you believe there should be. - musubi Sep 14, 11:40 1
        
        For the second time today, I'll say that if there are more than 100 hitters in the Hall, one of the best 100 hitters should be in. - David Sep 14, 11:44
        
        I just do not think he is/ was good enough. - groiny Sep 14, 11:36
Putting this on the board: I will sleep by 10pm tonight. - ty97 Sep 14, 11:17 3
- Throw it on the board, see if it sticks. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:20
- What time zone? -- nm - amoxy Sep 14, 11:17 1
  - Hawaii, perhaps -- nm - ty97 Sep 14, 11:33
Bery, there was a lovely house for sale across the road from the cruise dock. Sit on the porch and watch the tour busses go by all day :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Sep 14, 11:16 4
- or this -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:19
- oh, maybe this one -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:19
- this one? -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:19 1
  - I don't think any of those. It was older, colonial style, similar to the second one, but I don't think it was that. Corner lot. I believe. -- nm - MojaveMeg Sep 14, 11:30
yes, 447.9K for that house ... and it would need a few thousand in cosmetic upgrades, if it passed home inspection. - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:15 30
- WHOA. That looks like a very nice house, but... not *that* nice. (what's the exchange rate these days?) -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 14, 11:22 9
  - Close enough to 1:1 to think of it as 1:1. (Today it's US$1 = CAN$1.02.) -- nm - mara Sep 14, 11:23 8
    - Then, yikes. - Dr.Vermin Sep 14, 11:25 7
      - Well, yours is in Alaska. Kind of has an affect on the value. -- nm - mara Sep 14, 11:26 3
        
        (effect) -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 11:31
        
        aka "the American Canada". -- nm - TFox Sep 14, 11:27 1
        
        I thought Canada was The American Canada? (nm) - musubi Sep 14, 11:29
      - It needs a few thousand (by which I mean tens of thousands) of dollars in renos. - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:26 2
        
        Hmm. That would be fun! - Dr.Vermin Sep 14, 11:28 1
        
        I don't enjoy that kind of work. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:39
- Is that on your crazy private island? Beachfront? - musubi Sep 14, 11:19 3
  - no, it's just victoria. It's about two blocks from where I live now. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:19 2
    - It honestly doesn't look bad. But it seems awful small for that asking price. - musubi Sep 14, 11:23 1
      - actually, most houses that size in my area would sell for $500K+, so ... there's something wrong with this one, and I think it's that basement. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:24
- i don't understand why Canada has such crazy house prices. -- nm - TFox Sep 14, 11:17 4
  - My house is worth almost twice what I aid for it 6 years ago...it is crazy. -- nm - Beaker Sep 14, 11:31
  - Rapidly becoming one of the most urbanized countries in the world (if not already), few major cities, generally strong middle class still remaining... - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:24
  - well, victoria's high because it's on the south end of Vancouver Island and it's surrounded by mountains and water. - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:20
  - our bubble never popped. -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 11:20
- You should rent it. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:17
- Is that in Pesos? -- nm - oblique Sep 14, 11:17 9
  - No, Canadian dollars. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 11:17 8
    - Is that normal for a house that size? That seems wickedly overpriced relative to what I'd pay here in the US for a house that size - oblique Sep 14, 11:18 7
      - it's the low end of high. -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 11:19 6
        
        is it because you're running low on land up there? or wood and other building materials? - TFox Sep 14, 11:20 5
        
        Running low on land? L4 -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:21 4
        
        we have lots of land. What we don't have lots of is land close to major cities. -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 11:22 3
        
        Use that powerful Canadian dollar and make more major cities! -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 11:29 2
        
        Metropolitian Moose Jaw.... -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 14, 11:33 1
        
        "Soon to be a suburb of Calgary" -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 11:34
Slumlord Millionaire -- nm - zork Sep 14, 11:14
/rents B2 -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 14, 11:13 4
- Shoots Vermin in the back of the head -- nm - amoxy Sep 14, 11:16 1
  - Boondock Renters? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 14, 11:23
- Lease Terminator 2: Moving Day -- nm - zork Sep 14, 11:13 1
  - Shoots Zork in the back of the head -- nm - amoxy Sep 14, 11:17

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