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How does reinvesting dividends make taxes tricky? Is it the cost basis?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 8, 2011 -> 03:35 PM) Im actually a Rose/booz or Rose/Pip guy. Rose has that little floater that never misses. Rose isn't as good as he should be in that game... Rondo is actually better. :thumbsdown: Dwight Howard is unstoppable.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 9, 2011 -> 10:18 AM) I feel bad posting this: snopes.com - False I don't care if it's fake... lol... I already had a feeling it was when I posted it, but it still needs to be widely distributed

http://www.themedguru.com/20091206/newsfea...y-86131320.html

If LeBron had to take the last shot in WWII we would be speaking German or Japanese.

In NBA Jam the computer still cheats like a motherf***er.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Mar 6, 2011 -> 11:34 PM) Oh ya, forgot about that. Miranda's webchat on the dating site is very amusing as well. Apparently there'll be a new DLC called Arrival (to do with the Reapers obviously) that'll be announced, probably this week actually. They are supposed to be bridging the storyline between ME2 and ME3 with DLC packs are they not?

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Mar 6, 2011 -> 09:04 PM) Dragon Age 2 comes out this week. Am more excited for Mass Effect 3 later in this year (BTW played the Shadow Broker DLC, there is some quite humurous info at the end of it on the likes of Miranda etc.), but this should be a very good game as well. there was something about Kelly Chambers getting treated for an STD that was specific to vorcha.

lol, STFU and be a man Wade.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Mar 6, 2011 -> 08:46 PM) I think that is pretty silly to say, the playoffs are a whole new beast and that Heat team is definitely capable of beating the Bulls/Celtics in a series and it wouldn't be considered an upset in the least. As of right now, I'd say they definitely aren't the unstoppable force people were fearing going into the season though and with home court think the Bulls can definitely beat them. Correct, teams play halfcourt defense in the playoffs

It's not that nobody thinks the Heat are good because they are... they're just paper tigers.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 6, 2011 -> 04:21 PM) Some of that is the absolute udder crap that is Mike Miller. What the hell happened to that dude? He had at least 4 WIDE open 3's in which no Bulls defender was within 5 feet of him and bricked every one of them. And Haslem was a much bigger loss than many thought. My asshole puckered on a couple of those shots, and I went from puckering to LOLing

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 6, 2011 -> 03:57 PM) I watched him in the series before and when he got the 3 second call. He was just walking around, looking like he didn't care about the game while everyone sped around him. He didn't look for the ball, he didn't try to set up a pick, he just wandered around until they took him out. meh Noah looked like that his rookie year too

I gotta admit, I was expecting more out of AC Brotherhood... it seemed so short compared to AC2 even though the map was much bigger. It's like it was a really big DLC for AC2 or something.

The Heat's halfcourt offense is so meh... any of the potential opponents they face in the playoffs (save for the Knicks) have a rough halfcourt defense. You'd think that 50-some games into the season they'd have it figured out by now but they don't.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 6, 2011 -> 03:42 PM) Speaking of offensive plays...the Bulls were clueless on offense after they got the 6 point lead. There was one trip where everybody clustered at one spot and the clock ran down to 10 before they even started a play. Rose ended up air balling the shot. I don't know what the hell was going on, but this team was hard to watch offensively for about a whole minute down the stretch. Thank god for that foul on Mike Miller. And what a terrible game Mike Miller had. Missed numerous open 3s and committed a really dumb foul at the end. Rose got the call from Thibodeau late and it took them forever to get the play, Korver ended up having to unload at the buzzer off-balance

I like how both Wade and James failed to deliver at the end. We call this a "pattern"

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 08:10 PM) I guess that is where he loses me. There is no cognitive dissonance, because Ellsberg in no way shape or form was military. His job wasnt to handle confidential information and make sure that it doesnt get in the wrong hands. When you are in the military, you are not an ordinary citizen (and we arent even talking about a conscript, this was Manning's free will to join the military) and you are subject to different rules. Unlike Ellsberg who continually tried to get other people to act (he repeatedly asked Senators to disclose the information) and only leaked it after he exhausted all other avenues, Manning never even reported it. In fact an entirely different person had to tell the US govt what Manning was up to. Furthermore, Ellsberg was drawing specific attention to the fact that the US govt had explicitly lied to the people of the US and to Congress. Ellsberg was not just releasing every document he got his hands on, he was only releasing those that he felt legitimately were necessary for people to have. Furthermore, only excerpts were ever released by Ellsberg, it was Senator Mike Gravel who would publish the entirety. Conversely, Wikileaks is a clusterf*** of nonsense. Some important, some that has no meaning to the American people and should have absolutely not been revealed. You cant just carpet bomb with highly confidential information and expect that its going to be considered a good thing. I wonder what Greenwald would think if I ran his computer server and I had access to his Client Defense files (back when he was a litigator). Would he consider it "whistleblowing" if I published attorney/client emails that indicated his client was a murderer? When you deal with confidential information, there is an understanding that there is a reason that it is confidential. If he uncovered some evidence that the US govt was directly lying to the people of the US as well as Congress, and he only published those excerpts, youd be right, hed be comparable to Ellsberg and there would be a cognitive dissonance. The problem is that the cases are distinguishable, the only similarity is that they involve classified documents, which really is only a superficial similarity. Agree entirely

Michael Jordan's last shot in a Bulls uniform, which was a game-winner and the 6th ring (his time in a Wizards uniform only kind of half counts, and is only relevant for total career stats)

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 01:33 AM) Finally just played the original Mass Effect and now I can import my character into Mass Effect 2. Going all Renegade as usual. Very hard to try and maximise your Paragon score with that game I tell you. Nah it's really not, you have plenty of opportunities. You have to be a total dickhead to max out your Renegade score though. lol.

I like Greenwald (bought his books etc.), I just think he gets really carried away sometimes and he loses track of what the government's legitimate goals are, and he comes across like everything the government, especially the intelligence services, does is inherently evil and immoral and has no training or checks to prevent legal abuses whatsoever (which is bulls***). He starts losing me when he goes off on those rants, and if you ask him directly a version of the implied question I just asked in the previous sentence, of course he will say that's not what he's trying to do, but his blogs hardly ever address anything like that. He *really* loses me when he starts talking about Awlaqi - it is legitimate bulls*** that the government gives itself power to skip due process and assassinate a U.S. citizen, HOWEVER he at times (s***, most of the time) comes off like he's defending Awlaqi himself. Let's not lose sight of the fact that Awlaqi is a legitimate piece of s*** who needs to be dealt with.

I mean, if someone I work with takes a folder full of reports and analytical products I've done in the past year (which will have my name, and phone number at work on it) and burns them to a CD and mails it to Wikileaks and then I have to answer to a bunch of self-righteous media hacks about some s*** that was taken blatantly out of context, and where none of them even attempt to put it in its proper context, I'm going to want to punch that person in the face.

What whistle did Manning blow of any consequence? I mean really? What big secrets did he expose and what's going to change as a result of anything he did (for the better)? Some misguided hero-worshipping here. He just grabbed as much classified s*** as he could find, put it on a disc, and gave it away. f*** that.

I'm all about the "I am from the south side of Chicago therefore I am better than you" and talking about how there are 2 ways to do things, the way they're done in Chicago and the wrong way, but I put ketchup on my hot dogs and I don't give a f*** what you think about it.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 12:43 AM) It's games like these that are the little, and annoying, subtle reminders that while this team is good, they're not ready for primetime yet. I don't know, I mean, that s*** happens sometimes. Cleveland beating the Lakers, etc.