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Lovie Smith press conference at 1:00, this should be a hoot. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 24, 09:04 1
- unless he throws cutler under the bus, then it will be boring. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 24, 09:10
Tech for China's stealth fighter may have come from an F-117 shot down during the Kosovo war. -- (link) - Mop (214 lbs) Jan 24, 08:58
David Fincher is, by quite a wide margin, the best director working today. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 24, 08:55 38
- Top 10 for sure. I tend to value directors who write their own material a little more, I think. nm - Dignan Jan 24, 09:04
- I really want to see The Game again, loved that movie when it came out -- nm - Guigue Jan 24, 09:00 4
  - TiVo caught it yesterday. It's on Showtime this month. -- nm - David Jan 24, 09:03 2
    - I *still* want to know (spoiler) - prayformojo Jan 24, 09:05 1
      - Enough to pay the Yankees payroll in the 2000s. -- nm - David Jan 24, 09:06
  - Interestingly, that's his only one I don't *really* like. But I should see it again too. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 24, 09:02
- Excluding Uwe Boll, right? -- nm - Ender Jan 24, 08:59 1
  - I thought that was clear. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 24, 09:00
- I'm sure I've seen some of his pics, but I couldn't name one off the top of my head -- nm - CQ Jan 24, 08:58 2
  - Se7en, Fight Club, The Game... -- nm - J Jan 24, 09:02 1
    - yeah, just check imdb. some good flicks, but not a lot of them. There's not one on the list I hate though -- nm - CQ Jan 24, 09:04
- I retired? - Christopher Nolan Jan 24, 08:58
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  - I'd say Nolan is better. The Coens are a little less consistent. -- nm - Kim Pine Jan 24, 09:05 7
    - I know Nolan has a lot of fans here, but imo he hasn't made a *great* one since Memento. Just good ones. - Don Homer Jan 24, 09:09 6
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        It's an opinion obviously. (I think Button is tremendous.) -- nm - Don Homer Jan 24, 09:13
        
        Those would be the two I'd pick out as "not great" as well. -- nm - Kim Pine Jan 24, 09:12
      - Rotten Tomatoes has him averaging an 87 in the last decade. Fincher's 84 with Fight Club. - Will Hunting Jan 24, 09:11 2
        
        James Cameron averages 89 from Terminator to Avatar. - ceregon Jan 24, 09:33
        
        I think Batman Begins, Dark Knight and Inception are all "great". - Kim Pine Jan 24, 09:14
  - "Coens" and "consistent" aren't exactly buddies in the same sentence too often. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 24, 08:59 12
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      - Their peaks are higher than most, but their valleys get pretty low for A-list. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 24, 09:06 4
        
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        They've had several misfires in the last 10 years. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 24, 09:12
        
        Sure, but they have shown in their careers that the drop off from one movie to the next can be gigantic. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 24, 09:11
        
        the valley that is the ladykillers remake is a valley where the sun don't never reach the bottom....nm - x Jan 24, 09:07
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      - Granted, their last one didn't deserve it. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 24, 09:04
      - But one of them in no way, shape or form deserved it. -- nm - David Jan 24, 09:04 2
        
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        Try speaking to it without swearing. nm - Dignan Jan 24, 09:10
    - Right. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 24, 08:59
  - I disagree, especially on Nolan. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 24, 08:58
- can't wait to see his version of TGWTDT -- nm - J Jan 24, 08:57
- you're wrong mara. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 24, 08:57
- Arguably. - con_carne Jan 24, 08:56
"I don't know who this player is or how he hurt himself, but I do know this video is about five Leslie Nielsen movies rolled into one." -- (link) - prayformojo Jan 24, 08:49 1
Besides football, I want to know what loosilu thinks of the Nissan Leaf commercial with the dude hugging the polar bear - oblique Jan 24, 08:49 2
- I wonder how much coal is burned to produce the electricity to run that car. Now we're just fooling the polar bears -- nm - CQ Jan 24, 08:57
- have not seen it. remind me later. (can't stream at work) -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:50
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- i don't do hats anymore, + if i did it sure wouldn't be over getting back to where we were 3 years ago.... - x Jan 24, 08:50 8
  - curious....why mexico? -- nm - Remlik on the 'droid Jan 24, 08:51 7
    - huge growth potential. lots of vibrant industries. growing middle classes. easy access to us markets. still fairly cheap....nm - x Jan 24, 09:01 2
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        yep. i re-upped in my index fund when it tanked on the swine flu scare. that ended up being a good move....nm - x Jan 24, 09:04
    - He's invested heavily in meth. -- nm - Mop (214 lbs) Jan 24, 08:55 3
      - then he would be investing in Missouri -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 24, 08:56 2
        
        laughing. or mifflin county PA (meth capital of the midatlantic represent!) -- nm - amanda jones Jan 24, 08:57 1
        
        random tangent - i actually have to deal with people in Mifflin at this job. -- nm - Andie Jan 24, 09:04
- this is a rather volatile week - lots of big earnings reports that can effect the overall market. -- nm - decline Jan 24, 08:49
More details from Moscow: Blast happened in baggage claim of international arrivals. -- (link) - loosilu Jan 24, 08:41 14
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  - It makes me uncomfortable to bring it up, but I'm constantly amazed that we don't see suicide bombings in the US. - Dignan Jan 24, 08:50 8
    - well perhaps the insurance premium is to hight????? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 08:58
    - I think 9/11 notwithstanding, US and international security services must be catching/obstructing many would be attackers, that more often than not, - Loyola Jan 24, 08:55 2
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        Did you catch Frontline's "Are We Safer?" episode last week? It wasn't optimistic. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 09:01
    - me too. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:52
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        Huh. I missed that somehow. nm - Dignan Jan 24, 09:01
  - I suddenly wonder if baggage claim will be behind security now. Anyone can walk in with a suitcase bomb now. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:45
  - How much does the average stick of dynamite weigh? a quarter kilo? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 08:43 2
    - never used dynamite but 50 grams of plastic is enoght to blow a train rail in two -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 09:09
    - 450 grams -- nm - Loyola Jan 24, 08:49
I'm gonna expand briefly on Amy's point from the B2 Hunger Games discussion (spoils, clearly) - TFox Jan 24, 08:40
"To anyone who believes on Global Warming; I invite you to come to Michigan so that you can finally discover how unequivocally wrong you truly are." - nubby Jan 24, 08:39 23
- It's been shorts weather in California the last week. -- nm - ceregon Jan 24, 08:50
- It's supposed to go up to 13 here Thursday so that proves how wrong he is. - Reagen Jan 24, 08:46
- In other weather news. Nunavut snowmobile race canceled due to lack of snow. -- (link) - znufrii Jan 24, 08:45
- Reply: "Just think - it's THAT cold, yet still the global average temperature is warmer than 2009." - Beryllium Jan 24, 08:42 1
  - Ah, I see. Your mistake is believing logic matters. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:47
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- sounds like the right place for him -- nm - Roger More Jan 24, 08:41
- at least he's not a scientist. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:41 14
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      - hmmm? - znufrii Jan 24, 08:54
    - also, the shift in referring to it as 'climate change' vs 'global warming' needs to speed up. 'global warming' is what makes people think it means - Andie Jan 24, 08:47 6
      - well global is larger then "here" -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 08:50
      - I think calling it "global warming" is absolutely a deliberate choice by some people. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:48 4
        
        global warming is a more precise term than climate change -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 08:54 3
        
        it is more precise, but i also think it makes it more discountable. - Andie Jan 24, 09:00 2
        
        a more precise term would be "civilization changing climate " -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 09:06
        
        it's also just plain wrong. We know it's not really "warming". -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 09:03
    - that would be a good start. It would be nicer still when belief in climate change doesn't line up along party lines. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:44 3
      - well, that and when people realize that the warming causes chaotic weather patterns, not tropical climes -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 08:45 2
        
        but that realization is tied to politcal agenda now, which is infuriating. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:45 1
        
        and shows how much weight some party people give scientific fact -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 08:48
- yes everything strarts and ends with michigan in this world -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 08:41
"Adam Jasinski was sentenced to four years in prison by a federal judge in Boston today after pleading guilty to ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 24, 08:38 2
- (The big brother winner from a few seasons ago. IIRC, I hated him.) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 08:38 1
  - yup. The Winter (strike season). aka the worst season ever. -- nm - Jovian Jan 24, 08:40
This is neat: Competition to design a "wildlife bridge" over a Colorado interstate highway. -- (link) - znufrii Jan 24, 08:36 1
- 2.nd best solution i guess -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 08:37
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- Haha that's pretty stupid. -- nm - Loyola Jan 24, 08:48 3
  - it's really not. Some federal agencies insist on keeping everything on DC time. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:49 2
    - I doubt the judiciary are that stupid. -- nm - Loyola Jan 24, 08:50 1
      - you're joking, right? It's not stupidity, it's control. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:51
- kinda stupid but understandable just to be sure. -- nm - Jovian Jan 24, 08:37
- the reall problem is to understand why people measure time with letters -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 08:32
- not confusion at all, really, but totally understandable to clarify regardless. -- nm - znufrii Jan 24, 08:31
- someone's working until 7 -- nm - CQ Jan 24, 08:31
- Understandable. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 24, 08:30
- understandable, and a lapse on the Judge's part. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:30 1
  - FYI: I'm doing work where everything is in Mid-America, but all of our times are given in EST. - loosilu Jan 24, 08:31
- understandable -- nm - TFox Jan 24, 08:30
Cutler has never thrown an OL under the bus, even after 10 sack games.... - groiny Jan 24, 08:25 4
- I haven't seen him much this year, but at Denver he would openly yell at his receivers and lineman during the game. -- nm - Inigo Jan 24, 08:29 2
  - I just don't understand why some quarterbacks do that. It's so damned childish. -- nm - David Jan 24, 08:31 1
    - he should have beat the shit of out Hester a few times this season. - groiny Jan 24, 08:32
- Agreed. If he was going to quit on the team it would have shown up in that Giants game. - pmb Jan 24, 08:28
*chuckles* -- nm - CQ Jan 24, 08:25
Matthew Lillard is 41. - nubby Jan 24, 08:22 5
- I'll be right back! -- nm - Beaker Jan 24, 08:24
- Good god. He's ancient. -- nm - Kim Pine Jan 24, 08:23 1
  - Right? Get out the ice floe. -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 08:27
- Jinkies! -- nm - Don Homer Jan 24, 08:22
- best Shaggy, Ever. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 24, 08:22
~I know you know that I'm not telling the truth~ -- nm - Beaker Jan 24, 08:21
Wally World, historians battle it out over Civil War site in Northern Virginia. - loosilu Jan 24, 08:21 5
- The designated construction site is not part of the park and already has numerous commercial buildings. It's anti-Walmart disguising itself as... - Mop (214 lbs) Jan 24, 08:46 3
  - I admit to being anti-Walmart. Keep them out of there. It ruins the neighborhood. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:48 2
    - That's fine. I'd rather not have a Walmart there, either. I just hate the two-faced nature of the argument. -- nm - Mop (214 lbs) Jan 24, 08:54 1
      - the preservation argument is a legal way to stop Wally. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:56
- if built it could either be a great Plotergeist type movie or potentially a Scooby Doo episode -- nm - Beaker Jan 24, 08:23
Between Xtina and BEP, I'm tempted not even to watch the Super Bowl. -- nm - nubby Jan 24, 08:20 4
- if Xtina does have any role in the Super Bowl, then I'm not watching ... I'd just feel dirty afterwards and shower for 2 hours -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 24, 08:34
- that's the only part of the Super Bowl I watch. -- nm - Hotkiss Jan 24, 08:27 1
  - offs -- nm - dead like pixie Jan 24, 08:28
- you could walk away during halftime. -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:22
I didn't know the Pirates movies were so polarizing. - ceregon Jan 24, 08:19 24
- They screwed up leaping on the "Let's make big epic two- and three-parters instead of nice tight concise one-off stories. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 24, 09:05
- They're slightly better than the Mummy films, I'll say that much. nm - Dignan Jan 24, 08:33 2
  - the first mummy was like ... yeah maybe you're right. I was going to say it wasn't *that* bad but yeah. yeah it was. -- nm - amanda jones Jan 24, 08:55 1
    - gun to my head though: i think i watch the first Mummy before i watch the first Pirates again. -- nm - Andie Jan 24, 09:06
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  - In my everyday life, I don't know anyone who dislikes them. -- nm - David Jan 24, 08:27 12
    - i don't even know what happened in #2. and i felt that way immediately after watching it. -- nm - Andie Jan 24, 09:07
    - Yeah, all my friends, even the stuck up academic ones like these movies. - ceregon Jan 24, 08:34 2
      - Much like the Matrix 3, I pretend that POTC3 never happened. - Will Hunting Jan 24, 08:35 1
        
        that's how I feel about Jedi (and the three prequels as well) -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:35
    - i watched the first one. that was more than enough for a lifetime -- nm - dead like pixie Jan 24, 08:31 2
      - yep. i thought the first one was painful, haven't watched any of the others....nm - x Jan 24, 08:35
      - There it is. -- nm - David Jan 24, 08:31
    - well Depp makes up for a lot of stupid stuff in them by only talking -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 24, 08:29 2
      - I'm so sick of his schtick -- nm - Hotkiss Jan 24, 08:32 1
        
        you are nuts. - groiny Jan 24, 08:33
    - #3 was a garbled mess, but it was still entertaining. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 24, 08:27 1
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- #1 is one of my 5 favorite action movies ever. #2 and #3 large drops in quality. - Will Hunting Jan 24, 08:20 5
  - This is my take. Also, #1 has one of my all time favorite movie entraces (for Johnny, of course) -- nm - loosilu Jan 24, 08:29 2
    - I never notice music....#1 has the best music I've heard in a movie. - Will Hunting Jan 24, 08:30 1
      - the music actually improves with each movie, just listen to the credits music from each one -- nm - ceregon Jan 24, 08:35
  - #3 is the biggest pile of shit in recent cinema memory -- nm - Jovian Jan 24, 08:26 1
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