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amazon just sent me a videogame in a box that could have held like 25 videogames....nm - x Dec 15, 15:20
The thing I love about Survivor is that we only have to wait two months for the next season. -- nm - nubby Dec 15, 15:16 2
- Ooh: "This is the first season that applicants under the age of 21 are able to apply except in Mississippi and Washington, D.C." -- nm - nubby Dec 15, 15:17 1
  - They really are trying for the Lord of the Flies vibe, aren't they? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 15, 15:21
Bob McCown says Sundin to the Rangers. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 15:14
Oh, come *on*. - kelly Dec 15, 15:12 3
- Red Sox waiting room? -- nm - nubby Dec 15, 15:13 2
  - No. - kelly Dec 15, 15:18
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"NEW MOON" HAS OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE - 11/20/09 -- nm - David Dec 15, 15:07 5
- is that the follow up to twilight? -- nm - Remlik Dec 15, 15:12 4
  - Yup. -- nm - David Dec 15, 15:16 3
    - Well to be fair they need to crank these out as soon as possible with the actors aging. -- nm - Remlik Dec 15, 15:19 2
      - not to mention the fanbase. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 15:20 1
        
        very true. -- nm - Remlik Dec 15, 15:21
can someone give me the cliff notes version of the whole hsx / real money thing that has been eluded to on here? ,,, - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 15, 14:51 4
- And a link to the beta please -- nm - lileve Dec 15, 14:51 2
  - The orange! It burns!!! -- nm - Cuzzin the Red Nosed Todd Dec 15, 14:58 1
    - the orange was the only part I liked -- nm - Mario Batali Dec 15, 15:14
- google news search for Cantor Exchange. That should explain most of it. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:51
Unsealed documents suggest Microsoft knew about Xbox 360 disc scratching prior to launch - Stewie Dec 15, 14:46 15
- "if tilted or moved during play." Guess what? Your car will also explode if you drive it over a cliff. File a lawsuit. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 15, 15:20
- sure, they knew about a lot of the production problems. they also knew shipping early was worth it 'cuz this stuff wouldn't hurt them much....nm - x Dec 15, 14:52
- so what you're saying is, I should wait a month and then buy a big bunch of MSFT stock? :) - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:50
- Who cares? That was 3 years ago. -- nm - Shaun Dec 15, 14:49 10
  - "The motion, which seeks class action status for the lawsuit" -- nm - Stewie Dec 15, 14:54
  - I would imagine that the only people who care are the people who have had game discs eaten by the console. - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:50 8
    - $60 is a lot of money. -- nm - lileve Dec 15, 14:52 7
      - so is the few hundred bucks for the red ring boxes they had to get back... - x Dec 15, 14:55 5
        
        I'm still marveling at the November sales figures. - David Dec 15, 15:05 3
        
        the wii numbers are just ridiculous. half a million boxes a week for november, it's just insane... - x Dec 15, 15:11 2
        
        Oh, I think the PS3's next 6-8 months are all disastrous. - David Dec 15, 15:12 1
        
        yeah, it won't be good. ultimately though they'll make money on this box. but the market share loss really is damaging... - x Dec 15, 15:17
        
        I'm just commenting on the games being scratched. Not the console failures. Thats another cluster fuck. -- nm - lileve Dec 15, 15:04
      - It is, yes, but the only people who will be indignant about it are the ones who have had to pay it. - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:54
- uh-oh. -- nm - Remlik Dec 15, 14:48
Matty looked *much* hotter in Gabon. -- nm - nubby Dec 15, 14:45 5
- ...and so long, Matty's nipples. We were in love once. *sniff* -- nm - nubby Dec 15, 15:16
- He looked like DiCaprio in Gabon. In real life ... he looks freaky. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:46 3
  - (like, "disney lithe greek bad guy" freaky) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:46 2
    - (like plastic-face freaky) -- nm - nubby Dec 15, 14:50 1
      - Yeah! That's exactly it. Ken Doll freaky. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:51
Today is bonus day. Jeebuz - oblique Dec 15, 14:45
anti-kidnapping expert kidnapped in Mexico -- (link) - Reagen Dec 15, 14:45 1
- well now I just doubt if tiebreaker expert joe ferreira really knows what he's talking about -- nm - dogbert183 Dec 15, 14:49
Canadian PSA: Stats Can has put all the past Canada Year Books on its website for browsing. A must for history buffs....(link) - Walt_Disney Dec 15, 14:37
Worst case scenario on deflation preceding inflation. - Loyola Dec 15, 14:35
Doh. National Geographic 2008 photography contest winner = bad photoshopping -- (link) - oblique Dec 15, 14:31
PSA: watched Wristcutters: A Love Story - surprisingly well-made and clever film, despite the emo title. Tom Waits has a great guest role. -- (link) - Guy Dec 15, 14:26
Abbie the Cat Has a Television Show! -- (link) - mara Dec 15, 14:24 [youtube] 6
- Hah. My cat's name is Abbie. This post made me do a double take. -- nm - Redmond Dec 15, 14:28 4
  - You named your *cat*!?!? What kind of weirdo are you??! -- nm - secretslacker Dec 15, 14:31 3
    - He must name *everything*. In fact, I bet he named each and every one of his coffee mugs. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:33 2
      - Well, at least that makes some sense to me. How else would you tell them apart? -- nm - secretslacker Dec 15, 14:38 1
        
        Hrm, from that perspective, I guess cats only need a name when they look the same. Otherwise, "Hey Splotchy" will do -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:43
- We need a new agent -- nm - Puppycam puppies Dec 15, 14:26
Klaatu fun in Firefox ... - zork Dec 15, 14:17 2
- cute. -- nm - lileve Dec 15, 14:21
- There's another joke hidden in the source code. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:19
�What we need from the media is more skepticism and more engagement. Too frequently statements are taken at face value. Also, most journalists are - Loyola Dec 15, 14:16 8
- What we need from the media is access to Imelda Marcos' closet. -- nm - sheba Dec 15, 14:35
- As someone who works in the credit field I will say that my anecdotal experience supports the view that the credit markets had locked up. - pmb Dec 15, 14:30 1
  - Yeah I figured that report was solely put out to help banking buddies in supposedly heretofore "well capitalised" banks and who would seek to explain - Loyola Dec 15, 14:40
- more importantly, having journalists do actual reporting on their subjects would endanger the very access to those subjects that gives them anything - znufrii Dec 15, 14:20 1
  - (although this is probably more true in political reporting than finacial reporting... -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 14:20
- The IM is soooo true. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 14:17 2
  - *cattle prods you* write faster. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 15, 14:42 1
    - whimper -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 14:43
I am a bad wrapper. I am also a bad rapper. -- nm - Diva Dec 15, 14:14 5
- Well, I can't act, sing or take a joke ... so we're even. -- nm - 50 Cent Dec 15, 14:41
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- I'm a pretty good wrapper, but a terrible rapper. -- nm - mara Dec 15, 14:24 2
  - i just think about attempting to rap and i start giggling. -- nm - Diva Dec 15, 14:27 1
    - "I'm the Hiphopotamus and my rhymes are bottomless.........." -- nm - Guigue Dec 15, 14:28
erph, employee review meeting at 3pm today. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:13 2
- Interesting, they have it right after the xmas party where everybody gets embarrassingly drunk -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 15, 14:27
- I can't... I got a meeting with The Bobs. -- nm - Qale Dec 15, 14:14
I was only 458.82% off on my Delgo prediction and am 4th place over all with those who made 10 predictions or more. -- nm - Qale Dec 15, 14:12
Amazon has been annoying me a lot lately, but I have to say this is pretty cool. - David Dec 15, 14:11 1
- I've done pretty good. Can't complain. 90% of gifts through them so far -- nm - budice Dec 15, 14:11
If anyone wants to see a replay of the concert I went to: It'll be webcast here @ 6pm Pacific tonight...Offspring, Cure, Killers, Death Cab, Staind -- (link) - budice Dec 15, 14:10 3
- not sure why this reminded me but I saw together for $15: the who, heart, j geils band, nash the slash -- nm - zork Dec 15, 14:18
- How is the new Killers CD? -- nm - Danonezer Scrooge Dec 15, 14:10 1
  - killer -- nm - budice Dec 15, 14:11
The Spirit may stink, but I still may see it for Gabriel Macht. (though more likely on DVD since I have no time to see movies right now) -- nm - Danonezer Scrooge Dec 15, 14:10
for that person who *really* hasn't seen Julie Couillard's dress enough ... -- (link) - zork Dec 15, 14:10 3
- *marks post for "after work"* -- nm - TaurusII Dec 15, 14:14
- I don't think it's the dress that is drawing your attention - oblique Dec 15, 14:13
- yowza. -- nm - Remlik Dec 15, 14:11
Rommel-ian ale -- nm - black peter Dec 15, 14:09
Someone remind me after HSX cash outs to buy Twilight 3 for KIDS with delisted Bolt money. kthxbai. -- nm - Qale Dec 15, 14:06
I wouldn't mind if funding for the Manned Mars Mission saturn the back burner for awhile. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 14:05 28
- it's stupid to send people at this point. they should just be sending robots....nm - x Dec 15, 14:59
- I disagree. I think if this was given "Apollo" priority by the following administrations it could really help America... - Remlik Dec 15, 14:08 24
  - Let's put the squints to work on figuring out a car engine that runs on water and costs $10k. - Will Hunting Dec 15, 14:09 22
    - who's to say that won't come from it? -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 14:15 20
      - I'm not a big fan in times of economic challenge to ramp up the R&D budget for moon-shots. - Will Hunting Dec 15, 14:18 10
        
        I think, if done correctly, you can achieve both. But with current Nasa management I dont think it's possible. -- nm - Remlik Dec 15, 14:28 1
        
        I guess it comes down to : I want the govt to solve finite problems and I don't see NASA solving that niche at this point. - Will Hunting Dec 15, 14:31
        
        *shrug* the traditional solution is either a massive project (Hoover Dam style megaprojects, I mean), or a war. - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:24 6
        
        The Hoover Dam spent real money on real results. A moon shot is a science endeavor that isn't solving any one problem. - Will Hunting Dec 15, 14:28 1
        
        Good point on the bridges. Better get on that. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:30
        
        I think what he's saying is that there is as much if not more opportunity for a massive investment in infrastructure and technology here - znufrii Dec 15, 14:27 2
        
        I do agree with this. I'd much rather see a moon base than a mars mission. - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:29 1
        
        I certainly wouldn't suggest cutting back on it altogether, but I don't think it is anywhere near a top priority right now. -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 14:31
        
        going to Mars would be scattershot, but using just one shot -- nm - Roger More Dec 15, 14:27
        
        yup, you can't launch a moonshot from a rickety scaffold... -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 14:23
      - Exactly. Dozens of modern technologies would be impossible were it not for the contributions of NASA research. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:16 8
        
        War has been the main promoter of invention throughout history but it still sucks -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 15, 14:43
        
        No one disputes that NASA has delivered many advances. - Will Hunting Dec 15, 14:21
        
        but why would they come specifically from a mission to Mars? -- nm - Roger More Dec 15, 14:18 4
        
        it could come from a permanent base on the moon project or other massive mission that can galvanize the workforce.... - Remlik Dec 15, 14:31 1
        
        Exactly - if you can do it all at a permanent base on the moon, what need is there to go to Mars? -- nm - Roger More Dec 15, 14:34
        
        Val Kilmer being run down by robotic dogs for one. nm - Jovian Dec 15, 14:27 1
        
        doh, thought you said what would come specifically. nm - Jovian Dec 15, 14:28
        
        (And by impossible I mean "decades delayed at best") -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 14:17
    - Like that would happen. I don't completely disagree with that notion..... - Remlik Dec 15, 14:10
  - you're just pulling that idea out of uranus. -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 14:08
- my feelings on the matter are rather plutonic... -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 14:07
- That has been orbiting the trash bin for a while now -- nm - oblique Dec 15, 14:05
my super ex-girlfriend is pretty un-super. -- nm - candy canes love mandy lane Dec 15, 14:05 3
- I'm officially the only person on the planet who kind of liked that movie... - secretslacker Dec 15, 14:05 2
  - i did too - zork Dec 15, 14:07 1
    - I know why people hate it (both guys and women)... - secretslacker Dec 15, 14:15
What ethnicity is Blagovetch? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 15, 14:04 3
- Blagojovitch is Serbian. -- nm - pmb Dec 15, 14:05 2
  - So is Blagojevich. -- nm - mara Dec 15, 14:07 1
    - Ok, fine! -- nm - pmb Dec 15, 14:19
From the Berymander files, SHELF LIFE CLOTHING is part of a graphic, web, audio and t-shirt design studio, daringly based in glamorous Cleveland, OH." -- (link) - Loyola Dec 15, 14:01
SS Thanks: Dear Oregon St. Beaver, law-talkin, Nebraska-lovin' guy.... - budice Dec 15, 14:01
Any console gamers play the newest Prince of Persia and have a personal review? -- nm - Max Dec 15, 13:59 1
- not yet. it's on my list of things to get... - znufrii Dec 15, 14:05
The most notable sign that they gave the TDTESS remake an environmental theme: they changed the famous line to "KYOTO Verata Nictu"! - Dr.Vermin Dec 15, 13:58 18
- He used a reference from the 21st century? You're slipping, Dennis. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 14:17
- "barada nikto" is the correct spelling. -- nm - TWuG Dec 15, 14:00 16
  - also, have you checked on Dr S Talk to see if your stalkee has opened their gift and posted thanks? -- nm - Roger More Dec 15, 14:03 5
    - Yes, I have. In his/her defense s/he hasn't posted since last week, but post the package being signed for. - TWuG Dec 15, 14:06
    - Seriously, my SS gift may very well have arrived. our front desk sucks about giving me the notices. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 14:04 3
      - TWuG, just tell her if it's her already ;-) - zork Dec 15, 14:09 2
        
        No, I want to remain anonymous, it's more fun that way. -- nm - TWuG Dec 15, 14:12 1
        
        L3 -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 14:17
  - how do you know? aren't they words from an alien language? -- nm - Roger More Dec 15, 14:01 9
    - Because I'm a sci-fi geek and we know our shit. Trivia Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto where names given to aliens in Return of the Jedi. - TWuG Dec 15, 14:08 4
      - but how do you know how *their* names are spelt? - Roger More Dec 15, 14:11 3
        
        Because they had action figures! -- nm - TWuG Dec 15, 14:11 2
        
        heh -- nm - Roger More Dec 15, 14:15
        
        But you're relying on George Lucas! Nothing good ever comes of that!!!!! -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 15, 14:12
    - It's Alienglish -- nm - con_carne Dec 15, 14:02 1
      - *invents Esperaliengo* -- nm - zork Dec 15, 14:11
    - HE'S ONE OF THEM! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 15, 14:02 1
      - But he shows more emotion than Keanu Reeves.... so impossible! -- nm - secretslacker Dec 15, 14:06

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