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NHTSA/NASA study on Toyota acceleration problem released -- (link) - Reagen Feb 8, 16:04 1
- "we just wanted the two agencies to do a joint study because their acronyms are really hard to pronounce together" -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 16:07
CBS local news "The Riverside D.A. will now be more likely to file assault charges against Lohan for an incident involving a worker at the rehab ctr". -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 8, 16:03
Pop quiz: The Super Bowl ad with Bieber and Ozzy... what were they selling? (spoiler) - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 8, 16:00 1
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Have a good time, all the time -- nm - prayformojo Feb 8, 16:00
Thora Birch, Darryl Hannah, Tom Sizemore to star in Chuck Palahniuk Porn Movie, Snuff -- (link) - Remlik Feb 8, 15:59 1
- "Oh, it's not actually porn. ... Right, I knew it wasn't." -- nm - all three of these actors Feb 8, 16:01
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- Mr. Pibb and Red Vines equals crazy delicious. nm - Dignan Feb 8, 16:08
- At the risk of starting a thing, who would eat Red Vines when there are Twizzlers? -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 15:45 14
  - Mr. Wigs is mad for Red Vines (his family ships them to us). I....don't get it. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 8, 15:54
  - Amen! -- nm - Mop (213 lbs) Feb 8, 15:52
  - When you compare something that is the original and the best with its pale new imitation, the original and best is usually superior -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 15:52 5
    - so a vote for Twizzlers, then? (they're almost 100 years older) -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 15:54 4
      - Doh! -- nm - west coast moron Feb 8, 15:57
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        I vote that it doesn't!!! -- nm - nubby Feb 8, 15:58 1
        
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  - this. -- nm - kelly Feb 8, 15:48
  - Who would eat either when there is good candy? -- nm - ty97 Feb 8, 15:47 1
    - Very much this. - Dr.Vermin Feb 8, 15:50
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  - west coast morons (i don't get it either) -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:46 1
    - Your conveniently shifting allegiances don't go unnoticed, pal -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 16:08
for-profit education recruiters trained to focus on pain and fear to get students to commit -- (link) - cupixie Feb 8, 15:43 2
- Well, sure. "Fear appeal" is used in every advertising medium. - Dr.Vermin Feb 8, 15:46
- The University of Cobra Kai -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 15:45
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- glad i got my "new every two" phone before they killed that -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:45 4
  - They killed it? -- nm - Spawn Feb 8, 16:01 3
    - have amy read this to you later: "Verizon used to have a popular �new phone every two years program,� - cupixie Feb 8, 16:04
    - told you. -- nm - Remlik Feb 8, 16:03 1
      - Screw them. -- nm - Spawn Feb 8, 16:07
Wow, I never realized how truly horrid phpBB 1&2 code could be -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:40 7
- i prefer liveblogs of Steve Jobs's announcements, i must confess -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:41 4
  - It's a shae that Bery is in a roomful of people who just don't know what a god he really is -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 15:44 2
    - Yes, this is true. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:55
    - sheesh - con_carne Feb 8, 15:44
  - You would, knave. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:44
- Quick, somebody post something to make Bey cackle uncontrollably -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 15:41 1
  - *hurries* -- (link) - ty97 Feb 8, 15:42 [Image]
Dammit. Two people I want to see are playing A) right before Hanson and B) right after Hanson. - ty97 Feb 8, 15:36
aa a Lee Tamahori Movie with Nick Nolte and Michale Madsen - Danedukenuuk Feb 8, 15:35
The next presentation: the history and future direction of phpBB. Neechay :) -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:33 3
- Oh, you're at a conference? -- nm - mara Feb 8, 15:33 2
  - Today is actually the first real day of the conference -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:37 1
    - corn dogs for lunch? -- nm - Remlik Feb 8, 15:52
I just got asked to make a 15 minute presentation on internet safety for families at a church meeting. In 30 minutes. Any last minute articles to - landbeck Feb 8, 15:29 2
- Not an article, more of a resourse that I came across this just today: -- (link) - mara Feb 8, 15:32 1
  - Great! Thank you. -- nm - landbeck Feb 8, 15:34
After having seen true grit, all I can say about this link is "that would be alright" -- (link) - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:29
what the. the livingsocial gift card I have is showing - tRuMaN Feb 8, 15:28 1
- ok, amaozn is stupid. nevermind. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 8, 15:30
Many ways in which the world is getting better -- (link) - con_carne Feb 8, 15:23
Roger Corman talks about the SyFy movie titles....Pirahanaconda starts shooting in March... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 8, 15:19 7
- That's a name I haven't heard in awhile - I took a friend to Roger's office back in the late 60's. She was auditioning for DeathRace. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 8, 15:33
- I can't wait for Moosacuda vs. Pengsquatch. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 15:21 5
  - You're hired. -- nm - SyFy Channel Feb 8, 15:22
  - starring Khloe Kardashian -- nm - Remlik Feb 8, 15:21 3
    - That's Pengsnatch -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 15:23 1
      - really she could play both parts -- nm - Remlik Feb 8, 16:07
    - A one-woman show! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 8, 15:22
SITWAP: Lollapalooza 2011 headliners will include: Eminem, Foo Fighters and Muse -- nm - MDH Feb 8, 15:15 4
- That's a hell of a headlining line-up. -- nm - ty97 Feb 8, 15:21 2
  - Those are only 3 of the 6: The rumors for the other 3 inside - MDH Feb 8, 15:31 1
    - Side note: If some of those bands did sign on it would be the biggest festival all time I'd say. -- nm - MDH Feb 8, 15:33
- sweet! - dogbert Feb 8, 15:16
Amazon Buy One & Get One at 50% off: Mass Effect 2 Xbox 360 $20, Dead Space Xbox 360 $20, Borderlands $20, Dante's Inferno $20, Fallout 3 PS3 $20 & - tRuMaN Feb 8, 15:11 6
- ok, suggest me on a second game. gonna order Dead Space and ? -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 8, 15:13 5
  - Does Dead Space have co-op? -- nm - David Feb 8, 15:19 4
    - no idea. let me look -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 8, 15:31 3
      - The answer appears to be No. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 8, 15:32 2
        
        Rats. -- nm - SyFy Channel Feb 8, 15:39
        
        Dead Space 2 appears to have some sort of multiplayer though. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 8, 15:34
i only caught a few seconds of Wael Ghonim's video on tv at lunch but that looked like powerful stuff -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:10
Guess what the new shark attack is? -- (link) - loosilu Feb 8, 15:09 8
- "This 2010 total of 79 unprovoked shark attacks was higher than the 63 unprovoked attacks in 2009" - dogbert Feb 8, 15:13 7
  - i wanna see the stories about the people who provoked the attacks -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:15
  - oops, forget it, the answer was in the second paragraph - dogbert Feb 8, 15:14 5
    - I do hope you read the patient notes more thoroughly than this. - Will Hunting Feb 8, 15:15 1
      - reading wastes time -- nm - dogbert Feb 8, 15:19
    - and by second and third, I mean forth and fifth - dogbert Feb 8, 15:15 2
      - You ain't *touching* me with a hypodermic. -- nm - loosilu Feb 8, 15:22 1
        
        oh no, I'm not falling for that set up.... next I'm supposed to say "you're right, that's not a hypodermic I'm touching you with". and then you say - dogbert Feb 8, 15:25
Rampart: A Game Description for CrankYanker -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Feb 8, 15:04
$60 for a 100GB data cap is silly. Adding $1 per gig beyond that is sillier. nm - Dignan Feb 8, 15:03 8
- Yes, this I can get the outrage for, as I said. -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 15:20
- bandwidth costs can fall... but the demand for it can rise much faster -- nm - stewie Feb 8, 15:05 6
  - Shaw isn't buying bandwidth from anyone but their own Bigpipe service. The UBB is a lie. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:11
  - It's a cash grab. nm - Dignan Feb 8, 15:07 4
    - I'm not commenting on the specifics of that plan, but it's inevitable that you pay for how much you use - stewie Feb 8, 15:09 3
      - I think throttle-based billing ought to be sufficient. That's what my position is. - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:15 2
        
        I think the net neutrality issue will force it to metered... which is easier to clearly define anyway - stewie Feb 8, 15:19
        
        (I'd call it Pay-As-You-Burst) -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:17
Romania about to get even tougher on witches -- (link) - cupixie Feb 8, 15:02 3
- Counter sues the church cause they refuse to prove my grandma went to heaven (or hell for that matter) -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 8, 16:10
- a dollar short and about 365,000 days late. -- nm - Max Feb 8, 15:06 1
  - "Queen Witch Bratara Buzea" look out, they've got a queen! -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:13
ST lawyers, is there notable court case history addressing a claim of "the contract should be void because I didn't read it even though I signed it"? -- nm - Max Feb 8, 14:59 16
- bo but there is a book called catch 22 -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 8, 15:15
- They signed to let you film the reenactment? -- nm - Spawn Feb 8, 15:14
- Google the term "Contracts of Adhesion". - pmb Feb 8, 15:07 3
  - i think max probably signed a piece of paper without even looking at it and now he's somebody's indentured servant -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:11 1
    - I thought he thought I was someone famous and I believed it. -- nm - Max Feb 8, 15:13
  - "If you fall from this I-beam to your death 20 stories below, you don't get to sue us." -- nm - Krazy Glue Feb 8, 15:09
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  - I'm specifically interested in the force of a handwritten signature. -- nm - Max Feb 8, 15:07 5
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      - (this is what I was looking for) How about if one claims "we negotiated this for months with agreed terms and then the other party maliciously changed - Max Feb 8, 15:20 3
        
        extrinsic evidence can be introduced to prove fraud -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:27
        
        That sounds like the McCourt battle over ownership of the Dodgers. -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 8, 15:27 1
        
        really, I didn't know Max was representing Jamie. ;-) -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 8, 16:00
- Max Devlin v. The Devil -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:01
- possibly if you do not know how to read. -- nm - peglegpete Feb 8, 15:00
- On Judge Judy and People's Court, yes -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 8, 15:00
Kinda interesting (though I don't know if there's really anything to it)... The Toronto and London stock exchanges are merging. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 8, 14:58 1
- Rather, they are in "advanced talks" to merge. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 8, 14:58
Slow motion kitten! -- (link) - Reagen Feb 8, 14:57 [youtube]
hey t-fox, wave a taco bell burrito grande under shefox's hoo hah - cupixie Feb 8, 14:54
So our (company) President suggested I find out what I need to do to get "SQL Certified." I have *no* idea what I'd be searching for. Any suggestions? - JaxSean Feb 8, 14:51 11
- MCDBA. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 8, 15:03 8
  - MCDBA candidate profile: - JaxSean Feb 8, 15:19 1
    - One of these: -- (link) - mara Feb 8, 15:30
  - How tough is it to get this cert? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 15:07 5
    - very. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 8, 15:21 4
      - Crap. - Will Hunting Feb 8, 15:22 3
        
        I took the classes last time I was unemployed. - groiny Feb 8, 15:27
        
        you need to learn everything on the server side, and SQL server. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 8, 15:26 1
        
        I'm going to cut you an email with some questions. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 8, 15:27
- Well, there are other tracks besides Administrator. Here's a page with an overview and ways to get started. -- (link) - con_carne Feb 8, 14:58
- i bet kilbo can certify your SQL if you know what i'm sayin -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 14:52
Interesting, after the last CA earthquake regulators changed the rules for moving companies. They used to impose a minimum charge - got rid of that - CrankYanker Feb 8, 14:48
Lohan to be charged with felony grand theft (link) - Jovian Feb 8, 14:48 8
- She is such a tragedy. -- nm - ty97 Feb 8, 15:07
- $2,500 vs however much coke Charlie was doing - Will Hunting Feb 8, 14:59 5
  - wait, wasn't Sheen in Vegas? -- nm - loosilu Feb 8, 15:04 3
    - not this time, he was at his house. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 8, 15:32
    - Stories here say he was rushed to the LA hospital and the LA County Prosecutors aren't pressing forward. - Will Hunting Feb 8, 15:06 1
      - got it. that's appalling, but not shocking. -- nm - loosilu Feb 8, 15:08
  - im thinking they have surveillance video to do this -- nm - stewie Feb 8, 15:02
- I think when you don't tell the person you're borrowing something.......yeah, it's stealing. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 8, 14:50
Subtitles: How Secondary Titles Inflate A Sense of Importance -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 8, 14:43 7
- As a nonfiction librarian, I can't tell you how much more useful modern titles are (Title: Subtitle) than old titles were. -- nm - mara Feb 8, 15:09 1
  - "Dumbasses I Have Known: Confessions of a Modern Librarian" -- nm - cupixie Feb 8, 15:12
- Sizzle: Why Some Ideas Pop While Others Merely Crackle -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 8, 14:48
- "Monster Cocks: The Last Book You'd Think I'd Ever Write" -- nm - Reagen Feb 8, 14:44 3
  - "Blank: 300 Empty Pages To Fill With Your Own F*cking Theories" -- nm - con_carne Feb 8, 14:47 2
    - The Cheers Effect: How and Why Everybody Knows Your Name (I love this one.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 8, 14:51 1
      - Last one for me: Stretch, What George Takei, a Toaster Oven and The Boston Celtics Have In Common -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 8, 14:53
Happy Truck Day!! -- nm - kelly Feb 8, 14:42

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