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| 2008/2/25-26 [Uncategorized] UID:49228 Activity:nil |
2/24 What the hell is up with all the celebrities having babies?
\_ Some convenient store in Hollywood carrying faulty condoms?
\_ Motherhood isn't the death of a career like it used to be.
\_ Conservatives are winning the culture wars and white Christian
women are going to start having babies again. Hallelujah!
\_ Some shouldn't be having babies. c.f. Britney |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:49229 Activity:nil |
2/25 http://tinyurl.com/yuv7hh (chicagotribune.com) Foreclosed home purchased at auction came with skeleton of son of former owner |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Consumer/Camera, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:49230 Activity:low |
2/24 Who is hotter, Amy Murphy or Jackie Johnson?
\_ Jackie Johnson. But Lisa Guerrero is hotter than both.
http://www.hottystop.com/lisa-guerrero/4.jpg
\_ Who are these people? That photo can't be real.
photo is NSFW btw. - motd boob guy.
\_ Weather forecast girls.
\_ The photo is real, the boobs aren't.
\_ Lisa *was* hotter, but I saw her recently and while she's
an attractive woman shes 43 and cannot compete with a young
hottie (29) like Jackie Johnson.
\_ If Jackie's 29, she'll sure to fatten up considerably
when she reaches 40, since she's already pretty full.
\_ So? |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Uncategorized] UID:49231 Activity:nil |
2/24 Which State has the highest and lowest meat intake per capita?
\_ My wild guess is TX and CA.
\_ I think they eat even more meat in the Midwest, but TX could be.
Guesses for less meat might be Hawaii, Alaska, or somewhere
in New England like Vermont. Are you counting fish as meat?
\_ Does spam count as meat? |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:49232 Activity:low |
2/24 CBS affiliate in northern Alamaba "mysteriously" goes dark during
Karl Rove/Don Siegelman segment:
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002487
\_ How do you think Rove was going to create a Permanent Republican
Majority? You don't really think he expected to win electiond
Majority? You don't really think he expected to win elections
did you?
\_ This segment on this one affiliate in northern Alabama going
dark was key to Karl Rove's plan to rule the world!
\_ Someone didn't read the url or watch the video, yay!
\_ keyword: ignorant |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Uncategorized] UID:49233 Activity:nil |
2/24 re-read-cryptonomicon-because-i-am-a-big-nerd-guy here.
- Do Rudy and Bischoff die at the end, or is their escape another
drug hallucination?
\_ Pretty sure they die due to being too far down to make it out
and survive the pressure differential.
- Does Sergeant Shaftoe actually receive a mission from Douglas
MacArthur, or is that another drug hallucination?
\_ He actually receives the mission from MacArthur.
- Where does all that gold sitting out in the open, in the
Filipino jungle (not underground) come from? There was a 50
page different font chapter in the book about that probably,
but I skipped it.
\_ you forgot
- How can you read such a shitty ass book TWICE!
\_ I just started reading this book for the first time after
reading big nerd guy's first post about it. The book is
actually not that bad. I could see how one might want to
re-read it once a decade or so.
I will say that I think the book should probably have
been edited to make it a bit shorter. There are long
dry sections that are quite tempting to skip, e.g. the
chapter that consists of a single long email.
\_ Dude, it is that bad. |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:49234 Activity:nil |
2/24 Clinton campaign caught circulating photo of Obama in traditional
Somali garb:
http://drudgereport.com/flashoa.htm
Clinton campaign non-denial denial:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/179989.php
\_ Is that a fake photo?
\_ Nope, it's from a 2006 congressional delegation to Somalia
\_ Nope, it's from a 2006 congressional delegation to Kenya
Senators and reps do this sort of thing all the time - go to
foreign country, try on the traditional outfit. The slime is
in the suggestion that there's anything wrong with the picture.
[just keep on deleting and I'll keep restoring] |
| 2008/2/25 [Uncategorized] UID:49235 Activity:nil 90%like:49236 |
2/24 Your Black Muslim bakery on 60 Minutes
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3870543n&channel=/sections/60minutes/videoplayer3415.shtml |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Uncategorized] UID:49236 Activity:nil 90%like:49235 |
2/24 Your Black Muslim bakery on 60 Minutes
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2lwwwg (cbsnews.com) |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Health/Skin] UID:49237 Activity:nil |
2/24 groin pimple update:
still there! hasnt burst! been over a week! doesn't
seem like herpes! dunno what the hell it is then. it's
not a wart. stupid body.
\_ MRSA (google this.)
\_ Syphilis chancre
\_ cancer
\_ molluscum
\_ pimple
\_ GRIDS
\_ Visit medical doctor. |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Consumer/TV] UID:49238 Activity:nil |
2/24 Satellite that was shot down was already a boondoggle
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/that-satellite.html
\_"...widely believed to be..."
\_ Key word!
\_"...widely believed to be..." a humorless fuck who keeps deleting
the KEY WORD! |
| 2008/2/25 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:49239 Activity:high 80%like:49243 |
2/24 Facebook comscore numbers slipping
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/22/facebook-fatigue-visitors-level-off-in-the-us
Over to you, dans
\_ dans doesn't work at facebook
\_ No, but slide feeds at the trough which is facebook app spam
\_ Slide feeds at the pig trough which is facebook apps:
http://adonomics.com/company/Slide |
| 2008/2/25 [Uncategorized] UID:49240 Activity:high |
2/24 Omar RIP
\_ [Re: The Wire] |
| 2008/2/25-29 [Politics/Domestic/California, Transportation/PublicTransit] UID:49241 Activity:high |
2/24 so who here is up for giving FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS to
AC Transit so they can completely foul up east bay city traffic by
making bus only lanes up and down shattuck all the way down
International, closely mirroring BART (why? no clue), and
to give San Francisco 1.5 billion to 6 billion dollars to
build a 3 stop subway from Chinatown to the ballpark (they
claim it'll cost 1.5 billion, this thing is going to go under
the most densely populated spot on the entire west coast, yay
sure it'll only cost 1.5 billion.
\_ Roads are fucking expensive. Traffic costs a shitload of money
to deal with. That's why the "trains aren't efficient" idiots
don't have a leg to stand on.
\_ Trains can be efficient, but you keep trying to cram that
square peg into round holes. In *most* instances, trains are
poor solutions to transit problems. There are *some*
instances where they work, but they are few and far between.
\_ yes, those few and far between places are called "cities"
\_ Cities of a certain size and density that are also
built around a central core of which there aren't many.
\_ yeah, cities with downtowns are so rare. uh, not.
\_ How many factors did I cite? Cities that possess
all 3 are rare. For instance, LA and San Jose have
only 1 of the 3 (size). Many have downtowns but
not size or density. The concept of a downtown
is a turn of the century idea and the concept of
people commuting from suburbs to a downtown for
work is from maybe the 1930s and 1940s. It
hasn't been that way for a long time. How many
people out of the Bay Area population commute to
downtown SF for work? Not that many. Not even Tom.
Isn't it like 5%? (350K out of 7M) And that's
for a dense city with lots of high-paying jobs.
(Note: LA and SJ obviously have downtowns, but
these exist mostly in name only.)
\_ Seriously, I bet I could name hundreds. Do you
really want me to start? Anytime you have enough
density of population trains are the way to go.
\_ Just name 5 in CA.
\_ SF, LA, SD, Sacramento all could benefit
from significant rail infrastructure. Oh
no, that's only four in CA! You must be
right! -tom
\_ All of your cities are too big and lack
a real city center for a real train
system. Trains can supplement an auto
system but never replace one. The idea
is simply ridiculous.
\_ Oakland. There, that's five.
\_ Yay! What do we win? -tom
\_ Are you kidding? I didn't say to
just list names of cities in CA.
\_ Those are all cities in CA which
were built on rail transit. It's
absurd to suggest that rail transit
can't work in them. -tom
\_ Sacramento's farebox recovery
ratio is 20%. You call that
working?!
\_ Better than the 0% that the
roads bring in. Farebox
recovery is a red herring. -tom
\_ Roads are not 0%. Every
car on the road is
contributing through
fuel taxes and through
the purchase of the car
itself.
\_ If you count taxes,
the train system is
doing just fine, right?
Enough with the
irrelevanices. -tom
\_ That's a disingenuous
response. You know
damn well that fuel
taxes are equivalent to
train fares as a
'use tax'.
\_ And what percentage
of the total cost of
auto usage is
recovered by fuel
taxes?
\_ I dunno. Feel
free to calculate
and share.
\_ Oh, so *now* you come up with a new
requirement. Any city built before 1950
is probably going to be dense enough to
support rail. That does exclude most of
California's flash-in-the-plan unsustainable
California's flash-in-the-pan unsustainable
suburbs.
\_ $400M just for marking the lanes or paving new lanes? URL please?
\_ I'm not a big fan of the BRT proposal. I'm not sure about the
Chinatown proposal; it would be better if it went a little further
into North Beach. $1.5 billion is not that much money for a major
infrastructure project; the Bay Bridge east span is costing
four times that much (before they calculate the overruns). -tom
\_ $400M is also the ballpark for the Caldecott fourth bore and
the Devil's Slide tunnel. -tom
\_ It was stupid to build the caldecott with 3 tunnels and it
was stupid how much politics has gotten in the way and
increased the price of the 4th bore over the last few
decades everyone knew it was needed.
\_ Obviously the free market didn't think it was needed,
then or now. -tom
\_ Why should the free market provide what the gubmint
provides? You cannot compete with the government.
\_ The Caldecott was completed in 1937; the third
bore was added in 1964. The free market had 40
years to put in a tunnel there. Why didn't they?
The Bay Bridge could have been replaced, another
toll Bay crossing could be done privately. Why
aren't these things done? Because they're huge
money-losers.
\_ So if they are money-losers then why does
the government waste money on them? Sounds
like you are wising up.
\_ The purpose of government isn't to make money.
-tom
\_ Sign I saw today:
"Paved roads: yet another example of
government waste."
Maybe the government should consider what
makes financial sense before committing to
spend money that isn't theirs.
\_ If it's making investments on behalf of the
public, the investments should have some
real value to that public. Of course the
problem again is accurately quantifying the
benefit of such shared resources, who
receives that benefit, and who should pay.
And what other things might we use those
resources for?
Do I, living in the South Bay, really give
a shit about the Bay Bridge? I wouldn't
personally pay to use it. Would it stimulate
economic growth of the area? I don't know,
maybe it just screws with the natural
market-driven path of development in other
directions.
\_ There's no such thing as a "natural
market-driven path". It's a tautology.
Yes, the government should evaluate
different ways to invest public money
to "promote the general welfare"
(remember that bit?)
As I've already noted many times, the
cost/benefit equation is much better
for rail than for roads; the analysis
has been done. The only reason the
U.S. doesn't build more rail is
politics and the power of the
corporations. -tom
http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/winston/200605-aeijc.pdf
Every $1.00 spent on highway construction returns
11 cents in congestion reduction benefits. -tom
\_ No point in drilling an extra bore. New roads
become filled to capacity almost immediately
anyway, mostly with frivolous trips. There is
an almost unlimited appetite for "free" ways.
\_ I like the way you think. Since there's no
point in providing a service that will *gasp*
just get used(!!!) we should only provide
services people don't need or want. They won't
get used and we'll save a lot of money. Bravo!
\_ Why didn't they? Because government regulations
make it impossible for non-government to do such
a thing. Duh. You can't just build your own
bridge anywhere you damned well feel like it.
You're just trolling now, right? You can't
actually believe this stuff.
\_ Perhaps you could list all the proposals
private companies came up with for building
new tunnels and bridges in the Bay Area.
Surely there would be some interest in a
new Bay crossing, even if it required a toll.
And private industry is (ideologically) so
much more efficient than government, they
should be able to do it cheaper, right?
Why didn't they try to supply the demand?
-tom
\_ You are right, they should spend twice as much and run it all
the way to Fisherman's Wharf. Someday they will, I am sure. We
spend more then $1.5B in Iraq every week.
\_ Iraq? Yawn. Has nothing to do with anything. "We've spent
money on dumber things before!" is not a reason to spend money
on some other dumb thing, even a somewhat less dumb thing.
\_ Stop wasting all that money in Iraq and we will have money
for all kinds of useful things, like transit. |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Politics/Domestic/HateGroups] UID:49242 Activity:nil |
2/24 The most awesome and heartwarming example of the Internet's ability
to bring people together in harmony:
http://www.jdunderground.com/thread.php?threadId=11218
\_ [Racist provocation] Is there more to it than just that?
\_ Just another data point on this wonderful invention called
the intarweb. |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/SpamAssassin, Computer/SW/Security] UID:49243 Activity:nil 80%like:49239 |
2/24 Facebook comscore numbers slipping
http://preview.tinyurl.com/24p9n8 (techcrunch.com)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2hug7v (hollywoodreporter.com)
Over to you, dans
\_ dans doesn't work at facebook
\_ Slide feeds at the pig trough which is facebook apps:
http://adonomics.com/company/Slide |
| 2008/2/25 [Uncategorized] UID:49244 Activity:nil |
2/24 I meant 'Omar becomes a Mormon and lives out his days nonviolently
surrounded by his loved ones!' It's amazing what they can pack
into one episode. |
| 2008/2/25-26 [Uncategorized] UID:49245 Activity:nil |
2/24 [Can't you wait at least a few days before posting major spoilers]?
\_ Spoilers for what?! |
| 2008/2/25-29 [Recreation/Computer, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:49246 Activity:nil |
2/25 Are there any DVD players that will remember the position of the
last X movies played? I know most remembers the one currently
being played, but what about previous ones? Thanks.
\_ DVD Player in MacOS X remembers the last played position for
all of my DVDs.
\_ Yes. My old Sony player (second generation) remembers the
positions of up to 5. |
| 2008/2/25-29 [Transportation/Bicycle, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:49247 Activity:nil |
2/25 Hey tom, how did you ever become such a fan of big government
socialist? Is it from riding bike or hanging out with hippies?
\_ hey anonymous coward, fuck off. -tom
\_ by any chance are you an illegal immigrant sympathizer?
\_ and why do you hate america? |
| 2008/2/25-29 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:49248 Activity:nil |
2/25 Why Obama Hates America
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
It's even better than you think.
\_ Wow, just wow. Fortunately he's pretty good at responding to this
tripe.
\_ I think he prefers tendon, rare steak, brisket, and finally
tripe in that order.
\_ There's never a rare steak, brisket, flank combo. Irritating.
\_ You obviously don't eat Pho.
\_ This the magazine that ran the editorial "Why I Hate Blacks"
http://www.nbc11.com/news/11128382/detail.html |
| 2008/2/25-29 [Recreation/Dating, Academia/GradSchool] UID:49249 Activity:nil |
2/25 The Campus Rape Myth
http://city-journal.org/2008/18_1_campus_rape.html
\_ My girlfriend was raped while in college at a conservative
school in Missouri. The perpetrator was a guy she knew who
was friends with friends of hers. He went on to rape two
other students there before being reported and caught.
This article is a load of reactionary slop, particularly
because it ignores well known facts about the psychology of
rape victims. The author, Heather Mac Donald, is a fellow
at the Manhattan Institute and regularly writes for
National Review and the Weekly Standard, so I'm not
surprised to see the ideological bent. She also wrote a
book with the title, "The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern
Intellectuals Misshape Our Society."
\_ Ummm.. the article doesn't claim that it never happens,
just that the issue is way overblown, and raises questions
about how you define rape. She does, however, over-state
her case. she doesn't seem to acknowldge date rape as a
possibility, which is obviously wrong.
\_ Girl I dated briefly upon walking past random dude I'd never
met: He's a rapist!
Me: What? Who?
Her: Him! That guy! (pointing)
Me: OMG, what happened? Was it reported? (changes direction
to go find phone/authority_ figure/dunno_what)
Her: Oh, uhm, well not like that....
Me: Huh? What do you mean? If he raped someone he shouldn't
be walking around!
Her: Well, like he saw my friend across the room at the party
on Saturday and was leering at her and raped her with
his eyes!
Me: ....
\_ Hi, lost interest in this after page 30 or so... this article
is pretty long and i have work to do. I will chime in here with
City Journal is a well known right wing journal with a bone
to pick with people, so of course the writer wants to offend
someone. Plus my gf got raped once in college (NOT BY ME).
I will happily jump to conclusions about anyone who writes
regularly for the Weekly Standard and National Review,
what a bunch of tools.
\_ This is a good article. -city-loving liberal
\_ This is a good article. -liberal |
| 2008/2/25-29 [Recreation/Food] UID:49250 Activity:moderate |
2/25 http://www.wfp.org/english Donate to the World Food Programme! I just got involved and I'm very proud of it. Stop the hunger, donate now! \_ Aren't you actually perpetuating it by creating dependency on donations and screwing up the local economies for food? Besides, I already donate a lot of food through taxes and federal food programs. \_ Seconded. The problem isn't about giving them fish, but to teach them how to fish. By giving them fish, they'll never learn and create MORE hungry mouths that require you to feed them and the problem will compound through time. I understand it's only ethical to stop the hunger, but by helping them, there will be more hungry mouths to feed in the future. It's more effective through economic education, birth control, etc. I hope Christian missionaries will help in this regard. \_ Exactly. I'll donate to the African Rational Food Markets program so the countries stop panicking and withholding food from each other. The continent actually produces enough to feed itself. It's something to keep in mind when we talk about lifting US and EU agriculture tariffs (which I support): how are they going to get the food to use if they can't get it to markets on their own continent? \- would you also support no public assistance for anybody who lives in a place that has had a hurricane in the last 20 years? i mean that just perpetuates living in hurricane territory. besides, they should be getting insurance. do you think we should stop all agri subsidies by thanksgiving or give'em till Xmas. Can we drop any smokers from using public dollars on any harms that are likely to have been caused by smoking? etc. \_ Exactly. I'll donate to the African Rational Food Markets program so the countries stop panicking and withholding food from each other. The continent actually produces enough to feed itself. It's something to keep in mind when we talk about lifting US and EU agriculture tariffs (which I support): how are they going to get the food to use if they can't get it to markets on their own get the food to us if they can't get it to markets on their own continent? \_ I hate to be Malthusian, but isn't giving them food without doing anything about population growth just putting off the whole hunger problem to the next generation, and making it bigger for them at the same time? Hunger is just nature's way of saying 'there's too many of you!' \_ Except the birth rate has actually gone down in those societies which have become more food secure. \_ Donated food is not secure. By that standard, people on various forms of welfare should be doing great. \- google for causality. your brain has been classified as: puny \_ I am in pretty good company: http://www.csua.org/u/kwv (The Economist) \_ Limiting population growth is a good idea, but the main problem with most countries with famine/food supply issues tends to be distribution, not some magical lack of the resources (or resources that can be traded for such). \_ Specifically: wars. Africa has had several regional wars where one or more sides cut off food to the other, or worse, the local warlords grabbed all the donated food for their men and the black market to buy more weapons. Sending more food to areas like that only hurts the civilian population who rarely sees any of the food. |
| 2008/2/25-29 [Uncategorized] UID:49251 Activity:nil |
2/25 GOOG stock tanking, still holding on to it?
\_ I will be vindicated! -GOOG short 100 guy
\_ I bought more. -tom
\_ Yeah!! -- sour grape guy |
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