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^^^It should come as no surprise that I got that link from an Easterbrook column on ESPN.com. Joeboo, you mentioned hotels. Easterbrook cites a specific example where Jacksonville is giving $40M to Shad Khan to refurbish his stadium. They are paying for it by taxing local hotels. The money...

Trust issue. It's not your money and her money. It's your, you and her, money. You totally should feel guilty about dropping a few hundred on a stupid purchase. Just because it came out of a separate account from your paycheck doesn't mean it's ok. How do you two agree to buy something...

Totally off topic. Also, didn't check if posted yet. I'm not much of an NFL fan. I checkup who wins online, read some stats and columns, but that's about it. I don't watch any of the games. This goes the same for about any sport besides college basketball(and I realize that's a tad...

Uh, just about everything is fattening if you eat too much.

I'm not trying to whitewash Blizzard's mistakes with D3, but lets at least be accurate in our criticisms of them. 1.0.8 came out May 7th. I will say that the overwhelming majority of changes in RoS look good. The only one I'm mad about is that they seem to be backing off the idea of...

Unless you have lifestyles that demand you stay up late, why not adjust your sleep schedule instead? You don't have to get up when it's time to go to work. Our guy is 6 weeks old and instead of going to sleep when we want to, my wife goes to bed around 10 PM and I go to bed around 2 AM. Thus...

Did we have this discussion in another thread? I feel like we did. Married people with separate accounts, specifically so they can't see what you're buying, seems like a huge trust issue. She can still see that you're getting a new cell phone every year and doesn't need a bank account record...

Then actually say something. We're going in circles because you're stuck on this thought that voting for third parties(non local) actually makes a difference. It doesn't. Our electoral system simply doesn't allow for it. You can't just brush it aside with some platitudes like "now's the time...

How do you reconcile things like the 2000 Presidential election? Democrats voting third party in swing states basically won the election for Bush. I'm not going to argue which party is shittier because I agree with you that both parties suck, but in that specific instance, there's a clearly...

Mind linking that 100 cal bbq sauce? That seems a little excessive, even for bbq sauce. Either way, you should be making your own. It's really easy. Most sauces are that don't require fermentation(soy sauce, Worcestershire, etc) or hours upon hours of boiling and a grove(maple).

Are you missing the conversation I'm having with BrutulTM? Replacing elected officials(who aren't also beholden to corporate finance) is easier said than done. I'd really like for my vote to function that way, but it just doesn't work that way. There's some of what Pumpkin Thief is saying too.

BrutulTM, it's not simply an attitude, it's the truth. The critical mass required for a third party to make a difference on the state or national level is too large the spontaneously jump start a movement. First past the pole(and various other factors like the electoral college) are the...

Pontificating on the voting populace's ineptitude to not vote R or D doesn't actually fix the problem. You live in AZ right? How's voting third party working out for you? How many libertarians and green party have you sent to the House and Senate? And no, that's not just on them. That's...

Corporations are people, my friend. If the law actually treated them as amoral entities, we'd probably have a lot less problems. Voting third party on the state and national level is throwing away your vote. Get rid of first past the post and I'll vote for third parties the whole damn ticket.

Monsanto's list of shady deeds goes well beyond patent enforcement. Just a couple have already been listed in this thread. Basically sitting in on the FDA's upper layers. Getting a bill passed through Congress that tells the FDA to ignore court injunctions.

The point is that Monsanto is evil because it knows what it's doing is ethically wrong, who cares if the government lets them? And then they further reinforce that decision by using their lobbying power to block government regulation of their fucked up actions. Lions just gonna lion.

But edge lit LEDs are so thin!!!!

I understand the parent's good intentions with this, but I can't help but feeling they're going to wind up with the kids that are just a bit too old to still genuinely believe in Santa Claus. Or it will totally backfire and make them believe in Creationism. My wife and I are still debating...

Done already: GMO, Monsanto, organic dreadlocked nonsense?

Sausage, sauerkraut and...wine?

If welfare is cheaper than insurance, you should get rustled at the insurance, not people exercising the cheaper option.

Lots of new characters every book, characters coming back that haven't been around for 3+ books, character showing up with little to no backstory. That's Erikson's writing style. I wouldn't say they are one-off books. Every book is related to the overall plot of the Crippled God, it's just...

Don't click if you plan on reading the Malazan series:

u want sum fuk?

Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant with the Crippled God.

2 WPM at 8 hours a week is still ~100k words after 2 years...so scale it down a bit there. I do agree that Stannis and Tywin are better characters in the show. Stannis is more...relatable? Tywin is still a douchebag, just a better douchebag. I still don't see how GRRM is going to finish...

If it was really chorizo, that's probably why it wasn't that great. Jambalaya should have andouille.

It wasn't meant as an insult towards your intent, I was genuinely interested if anyone has broken down proceeds from sales and rentals. The pessimist in me says that very little goes to the people that actually deserve it. As for your thought that paying anything is better than torrenting...

Why Agraza? I'll admit there are definitely some major flaws in his later works but there's still some good character development and story telling going on.

"...physicist...the metabolism..." related:

Just in case you didn't know, the Malazan Book of The Fallen may be done, but Erikson isn't done writing in that universe. He's contracted for another 5 books. I was kinda disappointed by Forge of Darkness though. Hoping it will pick up a bit. And the Karsa trilogy is almost guaranteed to be...

Have you actually quantified that? As in, how much of the rental price goes to people that made the movie?

Skip the game and just fuck instead. They're playing Syracuse, game over in 5 minutes.

Looks like someone's eating a lot of eggs or crustaceans. Remember, if you set your goal as weight loss in that app, you're supposed to eat the suggested target, not further under eat it.

Links to those statements? I thought that was all just internet speculation at this point. I'd be very surprised if they can do VOIP over 3G. I've attempted that using a special codec(iLBC) and the quality was choppy at best.

I believe Titan_atlas had that small Ron Jeremy avatar back on the old boards. And he was the DK that became a running gag for a little while after he stopped showing up abruptly. He got in with that James' LETS INVITE EVERYONE fiasco and stuck around for a bit of cataclysm.

Yes, it's your wireless most likely. I moved back in May. At my old place, it was a wired connection from my computer to the router, wireless to the Boxee. Now it's wireless both ways and buffering issues have been cropping up. Audio stream content might be a factor too.

If Google can integrate gvoice in a smart fashion with Hangouts, that will be pretty cool. I'm worried about a couple things: -Hangouts only seems to let you (video)call people on your G+ contact list. One would assume that integrating gvoice with Hangouts would mean opening up the contact...

Depends on how old your TV is, technically. But since I doubt you have a TV with only USB 1.1 ports, you SHOULDN'T have a problem buying a N adapter. Of course, googling your TV's model and 'wireless adapter' will probably yield better results.

It's a machined aluminum unibody! That they managed that without fucking up the antennae gives me an engineering boner. If they were selling the HTC One unlocked at the same price(or nearly) as the Nexus 5, I'd buy the One instead.