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| 2005/8/1-2 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38902 Activity:kinda low |
7/31 Btw, how are those charges against Rove coming along? I haven't been
following the news lately.
\_ Everything is speculation at this point, with no big revelations
after the story about the Air Force One memo and so forth. Either
Fitzgerald and the Grand Jury are much better at controlling leaks
than Kenneth Starr was, or there isn't much going on.
\_ Reporters covering it say the former.
\_ Bush bashers are failing. Democrats are fucked and Republicans
are winning: http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/bushbashingfizzles
are winning: http://lin.kz/?vprls
are winning: http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/bushbashingfizzles
\_ is US News a conservative news source?
\_ Duhhh...
\_ Strength through Purity! Purity through Faith!
\_ Stupidity through Partisanship!
\_ Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Partei!
\_ Yeah, that 43% approval rating is just knockin' em dead!
\_ Faith Based Politics. Actual results don't matter, just
faith in your leader.
\_ Commodisation of news-- if Rove reports are not selling, move on.
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/fellows/papers02-03/shaw.pdf
http://lin.kz/?i3myr
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/fellows/papers02-03/shaw.pdf |
| 2005/8/1-2 [Uncategorized] UID:38903 Activity:nil |
7/31 the new burger king commercials with fucking punk chickens
is annoying enough that i never will darken their door in the future
\_ I don't have a TV, can you please describe the commercial?
\_ You're totally right. as if it wasn't shitty enough, it has
to be a super long commercial, too. |
| 2005/8/1-2 [Computer/Rants] UID:38904 Activity:kinda low |
8/1 Another nice economist article on china, which among other things,
provides some investment insights:
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4221685
"the entry into the world economy of China, India and the former
Soviet Union has, in effect, doubled the global labour force ...
The new entrants to the global economy brought with them little
capital of economic value. So, with twice as many workers and little
change in the size of the global capital stock, the ratio of global
capital to labour has fallen by almost half in a matter of years:
probably the biggest such shift in history. And, since this ratio
determines the relative returns to labour and capital, it goes a long
way to explain recent trends in wages and profits."
\_ China has been making huge investments in capital. The former
Soviet Union had a lot of capital. I don't think a shortage of
capital is the problem. I think it has more to do with the ratio
of consumers to producers. That is, those countries produce more
than they consume. I'm speaking of course about the types of globally
desirable products that bring in profits, like iPods, and not
commodities like rice.
\_ nah, china, russia and india doesn't have much capital. that's
why they all try to grab the fdi from the west, and japan,
korea, taiwan. china/india pop >> usa, but china/india cap <<
usa.
\_ It's not about population or about comparisons to the USA.
China has a large (and getting larger) manufacturing
capacity, perhaps even too much. If China had the
manufacturing capability of the US it would make things
worse, not better. I believe the problem to be (as I stated)
that China (and India for that matter) produces much more
than it consumes. If the domestic populations of those
nations consumed at a higher rate than they do now there
would be less product to export and more desire to import
high quality products. It's not a numbers game in terms of
ratio of workers to capital, especially since most of the
populations of these countries can't seriously be counted
as 'labor' by Western standards.
\_ why does it have a "larger [and growing] manufacturing
capacity"? because capital rich west and developed
asia keeps pumping in capital to exploit the abundant
labor.
\_ I think maybe we are working with two different ideas
of capital. I am thinking capital in terms of
equipment, not in terms of dollars. The two are
related, in that dollars can procure capital, but
not identical. The West is investing in China, agreed.
However, I am not sure it is relevant where the dollars
are coming from. I would also replace 'abundant' with
'cheap'. There is no labor shortage even in the US. Why
is the labor so cheap? Because they are not consumers
in the way US labor is.
\_ yes, I am referring to dollars when I say capital.
there may or may not be a labor shortage in the US,
but wages are not growing even though companies
are doing well, which is the point of the article.
wages are not growing in the US because 3 book
keeping kindly grandmas who don't like to touch
computer can be replaced by one indian college
grad paid at 1/5 their salary. big winner:
US capital holders, countries with lots of natural
resources; small winner: labor in
developing countries; big loser: labor in developed
countries.
\_ But *why* is the Indian grad willing to do a
grandma's job for 1/5 the salary? I would argue
it is only partly a supply/demand issue and has
more to do with standard of living. It's not
that capital is static and labor has increased.
The labor has always been there, right? For how
long will that Indian grad accept a 3rd World
lifestyle?
\_ Or for some kinds of labor it has to do
with being in countries where you can
get away with killing people who try to
organize unions.
\_ Thanks for the link. I'll need to read it again and think a
bit more about it, but it's definately an interesting article. |
| 2005/8/1 [Uncategorized] UID:38905 Activity:nil |
8/1 Has anyone in history ever escaped the Alcatraz prison? |
| 2005/8/1-2 [Finance/Investment] UID:38906 Activity:low |
8/1 I placed a limit order on eTrade to sell at $20.80, and later it was
exercised at $20.85. That's nice. eTrade could have bought my shares
at $20.80 and sold to the other party at $20.85, pocketing the $0.05.
\_ Um, that's what traders do all the time. That's one of the ways
they make money.
\_ So eTrade decides not to make money this way?
\_ how do you know they didn't exercise it at $20.95 ?
\_ No I don't, but the point is that they could have satisfied my
order by giving me only $20.80 in exchange of my share.
\_ nah, I don't think they can do that. you can see the
bids and asks right? however, etrade does (or at least
used to) play games with orders made before the market
opens. they say datek doesn't do it, but datek is
now part of ameritrade, so I don't know if it's still
true.
\_ I don't know about this, but I read that some brokers do the
thing where if they see large number of buy orders for a stock
placed during the off hours, they would place their own buy
order first, and then send in the larger number of buy orders.
same for sell orders (or they would buy after first sending in
all the sell orders).
all the sell orders). that's why you should place your orders
only during market hours, and try to avoid the first hour
after market opens, and possibly also the half hour before
market closes. |
| 2005/8/1-3 [Health/Disease/AIDS] UID:38907 Activity:nil |
8/1 Does anyone here participate in FightAIDS@Home? I've been running it
for about a year. But its web page never changes except the timestamp,
and my mail to support@fightaidsathome.org always bounces back. Is the
project real?
\_ AIDS KILLS FAGS DEAD!!11!!!! --Fred Phelps
\_ But it kills others too.
\_ Collateral damage
\_ Heh. When/if an effective HIV vaccine becomes available,
you can bet your bottom dollar the Christian Right will
opppose it.
\_ I have a hidden wish that all creationists who want
the state to teach it to children are struck by a
drug-resistent bacterial infection.
\_ It's God's will whether an antibiotic be found to
save the children.
\_ Why hidden?!
\_ I consider myself a Christian conservative and do not
oppose an HIV vaccine. It could do wonders in Africa.
-emarkp
\_ But they only get AIDS when they commit adultery!
\_ Or get raped. Go away troll. -emarkp
\_ Raped? That doesn't stop the abortion crowd.
Anyway she was asking for it. Women should
be completely covered outside and be
accompanied by a male at all times. Go ahead
and fight AIDS, it's merely the warning!
\_ The trolls are really dumb today. You
must be more subtle in your baiting,
Daniel-san.
\_ You are aware that in Africa it's a widely
held belief that having sex with a virgin
will cure you of AIDS? And that children
are being raped because of this?
\_ I take it back, I guess people ARE
dense enough to fall for this
trollbait. +1 for the troll. |
| 2005/8/1-3 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:38908 Activity:nil |
8/1 What's a reliable website that tells me approximately where an
ip address is from?
\_ whois -a will give you the ARIN registry entry.
\_ use <DEAD>dnsstuff.com<DEAD> - danh
\_ use http://lin.kz/?u4f1e - danh
\_ use <DEAD>dnsstuff.com<DEAD> - danh |
| 2005/8/1-2 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:38909 Activity:nil |
8/01 And the JEWS are POISONING your BANANAS!
http://csua.org/u/cvq
But I guess it's a step up from learning to kill Jews at summer
camp:
http://csua.org/u/cvr |
| 2005/8/1 [Politics/Domestic/Gay] UID:38910 Activity:nil |
8/1 Is eBay a gay friendly company? Their logo is so... gay.
And whatever happened to Apple's gay friendly logo in the 80s? |
| 2005/8/1 [Finance/Investment] UID:38911 Activity:nil |
8/1 Tell me if this is legal and feasible. We all know about the
housing boom and possible bubble. The bubble hasn't happened
yet, but if it happens, it'll burn a lot of individual
investors. Since it's a risky business, how about starting
a corporation that borrows money from banks and from individual
investors to buy up huge amount of properties, and maybe even
buy sections of big cities? They can make huge profits by
renting out properties or flipping them to other individual
investors? If things go sour, the corporation shares the risks
so no one gets burned badly, and worst case comes they can
always declare bankruptcy. Is this legal? Possible? Can
corporations buy blocks of land or buy cities and make huge
profits since they have no competitors? |
| 2005/8/1-2 [Uncategorized] UID:38912 Activity:nil |
8/1 The healthy human flesh alternative.
http://www.eathufu.com/home.asp |
| 2005/8/1-3 [Consumer/Audio] UID:38913 Activity:nil |
8/1 Bush Alba Corporation to make MP3 players for kids:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000633052745 |
| 2005/8/1-3 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:38914 Activity:moderate |
8/1 I'm surprised there has been no Bolton discussion yet. Any bets on
how China will react when our UN Ambassador is taken out in handcuffs
for his part in the Plame matter?
\_ Let me get this straight, if the Congress doesn't want to approve
a nominee under any circumstances, the president can just say, "oh
well, we'll just wait until those pesky lawmakers go home" and
appoint him anyway? Am I the only one whom this strikes as a
bit, oh, I dunno, REALLY FUCKING DEFECTIVE? -John
\_ Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. -jrleek
\_ Yeah, it's part of the legacy of the constant give-and-take
between Executive and Legislative branches; the correct
response of a responsible congress would be to block all
nominations made by the President until he withdraws Bolton
as Ambassador; this would send a clear message reminding the
President that he is, in fact, a President and not a King.
Odds of this happening? Zero to none.
\_ Because Bush is the first prez evar to use a recess
appointment.
\_ But he _is_ on target to use it the most. Also, Clinton
did 140 or so. Can you name any of them other than
the gay Ambassador to Luxembourg? I can name a number
of Bush's..
\_ I remember Bill Lann Lee's appointment by Clinton.
Here's an old article on recess appointments
http://slate.msn.com/id/1002994 . Interesting
recess appointments include Thurgood Marshall,
Earl Warren, William Brennan, and Potter Stewart.
\_ You mean you got this slate article on your
first google hit (rather than "remembering BLL").
If you had just said "Bill Lee" you wouldn't
sound so phony.
\_ Bill Lann Lee has always been referred to with
his full name. I'd be the phony *if* I called
him "Bill Lee" (and, indeed, I probably would
not have remembered his name were he plain old
Bill Lee). Try googling "Bill Lann Lee"
him "Bill Lee". Try googling "Bill Lann Lee"
if you wish. I take it you were unaware of
his confirmation drama.
\_ Comparing the ambassador to Luxemborg with the
ambassador to the UN really only demonstrates how silly
you are.
\_ Now, if only we can decide which post is the more
important...
\_ Burn. -- ilyas
\_ There is no real evidence that Bolton has anything to do with
the Plame investigation, just a lot of speculation.
\_ Okay then, how 'bout when he's cuffed for perjuring himself
in his confirmation hearing by saying he wasn't interviewed
by Fitzgerald
\_ No no no. Perjury is ONLY bad when a D POTUS does it.
\_ And then only if it's about something that has zero
to do with running the country, say, hypothetically,
consensual oral sex between two adults.
\_ You know, people always make this remark. But I think
it's fairly natural to think the POTUS, in some sense,
'represents America.' In particular, the POTUS ought to
conform to American cultural norms, which involves
avoiding things like infidelity and borderline perjury.
-- ilyas
\_ See, this is where I'm always surprised at your
idealism, ilya. I have never expected personal
perfection from a politician. This remark does
color the validity of impeachment. He did not
misuse the office to perform his bad act. He did
it all on his own. It tarnishes _his_ presidency,
but not _the_ presidency. I agree with your choice
of "ought". Yes, the president ought to behave,
but Clinton was wrongly impeached and rightly not
removed.
\_ I don't expect personal perfection from a
politician -- far from it. But it is surprising
that the bar is set so low that those Bad Things
I mentioned 'get a pass' so to speak. I mean does
it really take so much character to avoid
compulsively lying and sleeping around outside
your marriage? -- ilyas
\_ Who said to give him a pass? A more
appropriate action would have been censure.
I bet they could even have worded it to get
it to pass unanimously.
\_ I don't understand. Tarnishing 'his
Presidency' deserves censure, but
tarnishing 'the Presidency' deserves
impeachment? Are these things written down
somewhere, or is this just your personal
opinion on what should be done? -- ilyas
\_ Of course it's just my opinion.
\_ You know, there sure as heck was a lot
of criticism of the EVIL REPUBLICAN
WITCHHUNT at the time, and even now,
for a matter that reduces, ultimately,
to a matter of opinion. Thanks for
discussing this civilly, Ben.
-- ilyas
\_ Stop harassing that nice man from the oatmeal commercial!
\_ Appoint Bolton as ambassador. It's the right thing to do. |
| 2005/8/1-3 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:38915 Activity:nil |
8/1 The China thread below is interesting. Why is it that neither of the
major political parties seem to talk about globalization from any
perspective? This is probably the most important issue we face as
a nation and a planet at the moment, yet nobody talks about it besides
some nutty neo-Marxists. It seems to me that the first political
party that articulates an effective response to the uncertainty we
are faced with will reap huge benefits...
\_ Peak oil is actually the most important issue we face, followed
closely by global warming.
\_ I disagree. A substitute will be found for oil and there's
nothing we can do about global warming, if it's even real. Terrorism
is important, but fundamental. Globalism is something that
affects us now and will affect us in the future. It is the
nothing we can do about global warming, if it's even real.
Terrorism is important, but fundamental. Globalism is something
that affects us now and will affect us in the future. It is the
largest looming threat to "the American way of life".
\_ Yep. Now again my question - why isn't anyone really
addressing this? --op
\_ This substitute for oil better show up real quick because
many predict global oil production peak within 5 years.
\_ People predict all kinds of things.
\_ there are many substitutes for oil already. it's
just that it wasn't cost effective to use them
when oil price is low. that's not to say I don't
support energy conversation.
\_ The Democratic Party opposes NAFTA, CAFTA, etc, mostly because
of union pressure. The Tancredo wing of the Republican Party
is always griping about immigration. These are two facets of
what are you calling "globalization." If you read The Economist,
every other article is about globalization. But you are generally
correct, both parties don't really want to talk about it, probably
because it is too complicated to expliain in 10 second sound bites. |
| 2005/8/1-3 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38916 Activity:nil |
8/1 People keep talking about "BushCo" but is he actually a CFO
or chairman of something? I'm not talking about Cheney/Halliburton
but Bush/Some-other-real-company. ok thx.
\_ Motd will not do your homework for you. But here's a hint.
google for "ceo president"
\_ Nope, no evidence of him running a Halliburton-like company,
nothing of the scale or the threat. I only find info that
he was a failing CEO at insignificant companies. No connection
to Walmart or huge threatening corporations. This BushCo
phrase is catchy but false. It should be updated on factcheck.
\_ You're an idiot. Motd is disappointed, but not surprised.
You will be forgiven if you can show you were in Jr. High
in 2000. |
| 2005/8/1-3 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:38917 Activity:kinda low |
8/1 Fuck you. go speculate on real estate somewhere else.
\_ To repost the original question... "Tell me if this is legal and
feasible. We all know about the housing boom and possible bubble.
The bubble hasn't happened yet, but if it happens, it'll burn a lot
of individual investors. Since it's a risky business, how about
starting a corporation that borrows money from banks and from
individual investors to buy up huge amount of properties, and maybe
even buy sections of big cities? They can make huge profits by
renting out properties or flipping them to other individual
investors? If things go sour, the corporation shares the risks
so no one gets burned badly, and worst case comes they can
always declare bankruptcy. Is this legal? Possible? Can
corporations buy blocks of land or buy cities and make huge
profits since they have no competitors?"
\_ Why not just sell crack, you worthless fuck?
\_ You seem to have a lot of anger. What's wrong?
\_ I've had to move three times in three years because of
places that were bought out by real estate speculators
who drove all the tenants out. In one case, a place I moved
out of three years ago is still vacant because the soulless
motherfucking cunt ass shits who bought the place are simply
sitting on it, presumably to sell later. I know, I should
have just bought a place like everyone else, blah blah blah.
Well, I'm sorry I commited the crime of wanting to get
an education and delaying my entry into the workforce at the
time whenn all the bloodsuckers decided to fuck low income
renters with their little speculative shitfest.
\_ I'm sorry you hate the spirit of capitalism that makes
United States the best country in the world. If you
\_ We lived in my grandfather's basement until he
asked us to leave. She couldn't find an
apartment. She had some savings and used them
to buy a cheap house so we'd have a roof.
She didn't "owned her own successful business",
she took over my grandmother's failed business
and made it work again with 16-20 hour days
when said grandmother died and my father
divorced her and she had to move back to the
US. She made it, I made it, and I know people
whose family had far more than we ever did who
got financial aid. Enough of a sob story for
you? Who are you to ask? -JOhn
hate America so much, you should get the fuck out of
my country and move to Commie Europe. !williamc
\_ Go fuck yourself. I couldn't get a financial need
scholarship because my mom bought a cheap house with
all of her savings so we'd have a roof over our
heads while she spent 20 years resuscitating a
failed business (successfully) that she'd taken over,
only to have it triple in value. You're not a
capitalist investor, you're a third-rate
opportunistic tick. -John
\_ Your mom owned her own successful business
plus her house was paid for, yet you still
felt entitled to financial aid? Who are
you calling a tick???
\_ We lived in my grandfather's basement until he
asked us to leave. She couldn't find an
apartment. She had some savings and used them
to buy a cheap house so we'd have a roof.
She didn't "owned her own successful business",
she took over my grandmother's failed business
and made it work again with 16-20 hour days
when said grandmother died and my father
divorced her and she had to move back to the
US. She made it, I made it, and I know people
whose family had far more than we ever did who
got financial aid. Enough of a sob story for
you? Who are you to ask? -JOhn
you? Who are you to ask? -John
\_ Reading comprehension 101, padawan. "Cheap
house" + "failed business" = "no $". "Cheap
house" + "resuscitating a failed business" +
"real estate speculators" = "expensive house" +
"no $" + "people with far more but who didn't
grow up not believing in debt getting financial
aid". Enough of a sob story? I'm calling
you a tick, assuming you're the op. -John
\_ This is the anger one feels when having to spend $600K
for some crap place that's still kind of far from work.
\_ ObIGotIntoTheMarketInTimeGloating.
\_ People are unlikely to change their investment habits
and it's a waste of energy to get angry, so how
you get your ass in an investment club and start
investing? If you don't have enough capital, there
are lots of time-shared flipping clubs you can join
these days. You can buy 1/4 of a house with 4 other
members and flip the house for 1/4 of the profit
(minus club fees), I've made a lot of money in the
past 2 years this way, and now have enough to flip
a few houses of my own. If I can do it, SO CAN YOU!
Don't wait! Do it while the market is still hot. All
indications show that sales of homes rose AGAIN in
June. Despite liberal naysayers yapping about the
bubble, the Bush economy is really working and
things are looking really good.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8758416
http://lin.kz/?mbl19
\_ Erhehehahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah
Didn't any of you LIVE through the late '90s?
\_ To answer the original poster, it seems this is done with corporate
space. E.g., Arden Realty owns a whole bunch of class A office
bldgs in SoCal.
Big real estate companies owning lots of single-family homes is not
as natural, since home buyers get a big tax break that frequently
goes into the hundreds of thousands of dollars if they live in the
house for two years, and if you're the big company, you don't get
\_ Could you go into detail on this? I'm not quite at the point of
buying a house yet (esp. in this market), but considering it. I
wasn't aware that the savings were in the hundreds of thousands?
\_ http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/050726/16039.html?.v=1
\_ http://lin.kz/?40lym
\_ http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/050726/16039.html?.v=1
the tax break, so you're not as competitive.
Persons or small/mid-size companies owning lots of apartment bldgs
is more common.
\_ True, rental real estate does not get the 250K/500K tax free
treatment of residental real estate. However, you do get to
roll one rental unit over to the next rental unit and put
off paying taxes on your profits. I've always assumed that
there are not companies owning and renting out many residential
units because the business doesn't scale well. And of course
being a new landlord today is just awful for cash flow.
\_ so let's come back to the original question. Can rental (apartment)
companies as well as land-owning companies merge to form a single
land owning mega corporation? Can companies own and run their own
cities? Will the CEOs be like kings and the people who rent or
\- like Disney?
pay exorbitant city fees and association fees be like... peasants?
\_ isn't that what a REIT is?
\_ Yes. Also, look up Irvine Land Trust.
\_ There are also lots of real estate investor's groups doing
this. Someone forms a LLC and each investor puts up $x .
Usually it is for office buildings and the like, but
investors have been doing this for residences on a large
scale in places like Arizona, Florida, and Las Vegas.
\_ I never understood this spectre of corporate feudalism that
people are so afraid of. The government is a much more dangerous
entity as far as sliding back into feudalism is concerned.
-- ilyas
\_ Insofar as govt. is given broad central powers, sure. But in
terms of actual legal implementation of serfdom in the US,
look no further than Walmart.
\_ You load sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go....
I owe my soul to the Company store. -Kentucky folk song
I owe my soul to the Company store. -West Virginia folk song
\_ http://www.ernieford.com/Sixteen%20Tons.htm
\_ http://lin.kz/?fmdj3
\_ http://www.ernieford.com/Sixteen%20Tons.htm
\_ It is important to remember in discussions with ilyas that
he is a tax payer supported grad student.
\_ This is a similar red herring to saying tom holub or psb
is a college dropout. -- ilyas
\_ I don't remember either of them espousing an extremist
ideology that equates dropping out of school with
evil. If they had, it would certainly be relevant.
What if you found out one of our local religious
conservatives worked at an abortion clinic? Would
that be a red herring?
\_ ilyas reminds me of those old shredded wheat
commercials. "The whole grain libertarian in me says
'FUCK POOR PEOPLE! POWER TO THE CORPORATION!', while
the frosted side of me in the real world loves the fact
that MEN WITH GUNS are forcing poor slobs like meyers
AT GUNPOINT to pay for my quality education!" -meyers |
| 2005/8/1-4 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38918 Activity:low |
8/2 "When the left attacks kids, you know it's in bad shape."
http://tinyurl.com/9ldmy
\_ A Fox News link! Thank you sir, may I have another?
\_ Here's the editorial that the above link is criticizing.
http://csua.org/u/cvx (Washington Post)
The FOX link is pretty dumb, but I have to admit, this
editorial is pretty stupid too, and deserves criticism.
\_ Do you know what makes an editorial, an editorial?
\_ Stupidity and pettiness?
\_ Wrong and wrong.
\_ The Wash Post editoritial is moronic. Would they have been happy
if the girl was dressed up as a little hooker and the
boy as a gangsta? Could we please concentrate on the abuses
of power going on the administration and not the dress code
of family members of nominees?
\_ You people have no sense of humour.
\_ At least they didn't call anyone The White House dog, like
Limbaugh did back when Chelsea was in her awkward phase.
Limbaugh did back when Chelsea was in her dog phase. |
| 2005/8/1-2 [Uncategorized] UID:38919 Activity:nil |
8/1 I take back (almost) everything I ever said bad about NYC. The
people are generally nice and well-dressed, the food is really good,
you can always get cabs, and I haven't encountered anyone who tried
to bite me or who eats babies yet. Three thumbs up, it's expensive
but a really cool place. -John
\_ Obviously, you never lived there for a long time. How long were
you there? NYC, great to visit, not so great to live.
\- in my experience something really changed there post-Guilliani
\_ good or bad?
\_ It depends on your politics.
\_ Good lord no, I thought that was pretty clear and obvious. My
friends here are paying $4200/mo. for a 2rm. apartment, along
with people who pay others to walk their dogs and can't find
parking, EVAR. I was just commenting on how it was a nice place
to visit. -John |
| 2005/8/1-4 [Reference/History/WW2/Germany] UID:38920 Activity:nil |
8/1 Why Germans stink, literally:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050801/od_nm/germany_fungus_dc
\_ it's a glorious day for the gay community.
\_ Looks like a Nazi Penis. Big, white, and stinks.
\_ Heh. http://a9.com/Phallus%20impudicus
\_ it's a glorious day for the gay community.
\_ Looks like a Nazi Penis. Big, white, and stinks. |
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8/1 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050802/ap_on_re_us/lesbian_country_club Up yours emarkp, it's a glorious day for the gay community. \_ My anonymous troll is back! And he's making less sense than ever. Hi anonymous troll! -emarkp \_ Somehow I kinda doubt emarkp wants it "up his." \_ You'd be surprised \_ Silly anonymous troll. Homophobia is just fine here on motd, glad you could join. -emarkp \_ Dang, the trolls just get lamer and lamer. [Oh, and please don't delete my responses if you leave your troll, Mr. Anonymous Troll.] |
| 2005/8/1-4 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Display] UID:38922 Activity:nil |
8/1 Somehow I've been delegated by my boss to buy a big plasma screen
for the department, for about $2000. The size is not specified,
but he says to get it as big as possible with good resolutions.
What is a good deal nowadays?
\_ Are you sure it was plasma and not LCD? $2K may not be possible,
or so cheep it defeats the purpose. Anyway, according to the prices
in the "Best-buy LCD and plasma ..." URL it might be possible:
http://reviews.cnet.com/Televisions/2001-6475_7-0.html?tag=ont.tv
\_ You can probably by a decent 32" LCD TV or a really crappy 40"
plasma from a no-name brand.
\_ With coupon passed out instore for 8/8 to 8/16, Costco is selling
the Maxent 42" plasma for $1699. Link to product, but not at
Costco.
http://www.monitoroutlet.com/M10551.html
\_ That claims to display 1280x1024, but is that stretched to 16:9
or does it remain 5:4? |
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