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QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Feb 16, 2011 -> 11:50 AM) Last year we were all excited for "JFP" Jake Peavy.. This year we're all hopeful that "JFP" turns into JFP and not JFP For the green part I'd say "FJP" if that goes bad

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 02:39 PM) I'm strictly talking about his music. I eat, sleep and breathe hip hop and never liked his music. He's like the white version of Jay Z. Oh nooooooooo. Jay-Z might be the most overrated, overexposed artist out there. You want to have the difference between Eminem and Jay-Z illustrated for you clearly just listen to Renegade. They're not even close.

I've had the first AC since 2007 or 2008 but only finished it a few months ago.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 12:45 AM) Hmm, I didn't know of that problem. That's brutal. At that point you might as well just youtube the ending lol. QUOTE (jphat007 @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 02:34 PM) That's what I would do for sure. Most of the stuff in Rome is just story cutscenes anyway, with a couple fights. It actually only took me about 3 days to do the game again, it's a lot less time when I'm not chasing the game to completion and looking for the glyphs and doing those god damn puzzles. I wanted the last 2 achievements. The ending was pretty bad ass though, I thought. The first was a good game but this was soooooo much better, my wife got me a $20 Gamestop gift certificate to Gamestop so I'll be heading there today to buy Brotherhood. Can't wait. I lol'd at the end when Ezio tells the Pope "vai a farsi fottere" because it means "go f*** yourself"

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 08:46 PM) Bioshock is the greatest game of all time. That's all you need to know fellas. I had that on launch day and never finished it. When I get off Soxtalk I was actually planning to go play it (right before I read this post)

I'm pretty irritated, I made it to the last mission in Rome in Assassin's Creed 2 then I left to go do something and turned the game back on and a glitch in the game made me unable to finish the game. So... I need to start the game ALL OVER AGAIN. Sigh. BTW if you want to play the added content, download and play that BEFORE going to Rome.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 12:46 PM) Lost, how long have you been married? And how on earth did you convince your wife that your monies should remain separate? a) will be 5 years this spring B) because she is a walking financial disaster, everything she touches turns to s***

Whenever one of the yahoo sports bloggers makes a post, all of the commenters talk about how much the article/author sucks or they hang onto a typo the author made before he edited it. But hardly ever about the actual article. Yahoo users are incredibly stupid.

lol, she mentioned that she might need some of my money to do repairs on her car. Fine, whatever, the car is in my name. It took her like 2 months to convince me she needed that one. As long as there's nothing wrong with it she's not getting another one. if i can ride out my loan so can she. I just spent like 15 minutes answering questions about what I was doing with the tax return (using almost all of it on debt). I was rolling my eyes because I know her questions were stemming from the fact that she was planning on a spending binge, or at least using some for her own debt, and I wouldn't let her. Let's see, remove debt to avoid interest in the future and free up cash flow or buy more s*** we don't need? Hmmm

I got a letter from the bank yesterday or the day before saying congratulations, your loan is scheduled to mature on 3/1/2011. Meaning that is my last car note on a 72 month loan, yesssssssssssssssss. i'm not undoing the setup I had though, that money goes into a separate savings account and the difference will be that I'm not having a payment come out of that every month, and it'll accumulate really fast. So the only thing I'm going to use it for is repairs and whatnot and it's my next down payment on my car. Also my cable bill isn't $300, now that I think about it. It's more like $180 and that's with 35/25, a landline, and most premium channels. Not a bad deal. Still if I was single the only thing I'd have is basic cable with the internet and a phone.

it's sort of like how a CPA can't claim ignorance on tax laws. you're expected to know better.

Taxes become a pain in the ass when you have several investments, I had something like 76.8 shares of BP (total between 2 accounts) and transferred them to my main brokerage account, ironically to make it easier to keep track of in a single account. You can only transfer full shares of a stock so they cut me a check for the partial share, one was worth $29.96 and the other $19.09 (but they gave it to me in one check). It actually didn't even occur to me at the time that this $50 bucks or so was taxable. So I had to enter those miniscule amounts, and the tax withheld, and THEN find the cost basis, which wasn't even on my 1099. How annoying, I have no f***ing idea what the cost basis is so I had to look up what the cost of BP stock was on the date of the last dividend before I transferred the shares. A friend of mine told me though "as an auditor I'd say you're safe." At least next year, I'll have ONE 1099-DIV and not 3 or 4 like I was doing.

BP is back to paying dividends. Nice.

Ugh I really wish my wife didn't insist on having the max cable package from Verizon. She is the one who doesn't get this, not me, although in life I have had to remind myself a couple of times not to spend money just because I have it. She would be a financial disaster without me. Still, if you want to argue that the inflated costs of housing isn't probably the most significant factor out of all of them, you're probably arguing with a wall. Real wages HAVE declined relative to X number of years ago and probably starting around the early 80s or so. My dad was a steelworker while I was growing up, I think the year I was born and when I was a baby in the early 80s he made about $30k, give or take a couple thousand. Back then, that was decent money to support a family in the suburbs. Then as the years went on we know what happened to that industry. His salary never went up to match the cost of living, and by the time I was ready to go to high school... he's still making the same wages, hence, we were always broke, trying to figure out which bill to let float, going long periods of time without cable or hot water, eventually losing the house to foreclosure (the house being in very bad shape because he couldn't afford to do routine maintenance).

It's actually really, really hard to get into the FBI.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 11, 2011 -> 02:36 AM) She found ME. You like all of the large-breasted black women on my Facebook.

I lol'd.

Female logic: "if it makes her happy it doesn't matter how much it costs to send flowers." Male logic: "what a waste of money this is, I could accomplish the same thing by laying money out for a week before burning it."

I type so fast it usually doesn't matter.

Danks. Best positional player overall, Rios, Alexei gets an honorable mention.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 12:04 PM) There's actually a real issue here...If the Congress wants to make a law reacting to the things Wikileaks has done...or if the intelligence service wants to evaluate what impact it has had on say, the Tunisian uprising...how do they do that if it's illegal for them to look at the documents? The Congressional Research Service's official job is to investigate issues at the behest of Congress to help Congress make laws, but they're not allowed to view the Wikileaks cables. So how can Congress possibly react to those events if they're not allowed to gain any information from them? The intelligence services already are reviewing the documents. You may have heard of the CIA's version of it, the Wikileaks Task Force (WTF). BUT, if the government wants to make those documents accessible to people who ordinarily don't have security clearances/authorization to view them they will do it. What I said only applied to everyday rules for the 2 million or so people that have security clearances. I'm allowed to look at all those things, I just can't do it, say, right now, while I'm at home.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 03:59 PM) F***, I'm just off lately. If I read a Wikileaks document, have I committed a crime? For me, it is. Not actually reading it (because in most cases I have legitimate access), but accessing it via an unauthorized medium (the commercial Internet). Just because classified information appears in public doesn't mean it's de facto declassified so if I started browsing Wikileaks at work it'd be treated like any other security violation.

QUOTE (T R U @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 03:58 AM) Except Call of Duty has been steadily improving from Modern Warfare to Black Ops.. I buy Madden and NCAA every year, but lets be honest its almost always the same game At least CoD offers a new experience in each game whether that be the time frame of the game (Vietnam, Modern, WWII) updates to the multiplayer, the guns, perks, equipment, killstreaks, customizability (sp?) It improves but not drastically enough to feel like a different game. I mean there was definitely a difference between Call of Duty 2 and CoD Modern Warfare, but MW2 felt like I was playing mostly the same game. That kind of killed my interest in Black Ops. I get FPS fatigue after a while.

Olajuwon was like a guard in a center's body. He was ridiculously athletic. The closest comparison I can come to him from today's players is Stoudamire.

Why do people assume all vegans are weak and sickly? That's just not true. I eat meat, I love meat, and I will probably never stop, but it's not like there's anything inherently healthy about eating it, either. Think about it. You are eating a rotting animal carcass.