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QUOTE (QuincyStandback @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 11:47 PM) I had my PS3 that came out in 2007, until a couple of months ago when I got that stupid yellow light. PS3 would get really hot and just shut off. I had the 1st Gen 20GB with no Wi-fi too. I just don't get why 360 is more popular. It took Microsoft a really long time to finally put wi-fi into their systems. You have to pay to play online and no blu-ray player. You get more for your money with a PS3. The PS3 got off to an abysmal start while the 360 was hitting full stride and cranking out games left and right. It was absurdly expensive at launch and they were being thoroughly hammered in sales for an extended period of time, then they finally had to drop the price to where they were losing money every time they sold a console (also at this time, Nintendo was slaughtering everyone else, but nobody gives a f*** about the Wii anymore because it's not a real gaming system). It's righted its ship right now, obviously, but they had such a big deficit to recover from that there are still more 360 owners than PS3 owners even with the debacle Microsoft had with all the hardware failures.

Man you guys are f***ed. Last year's East Coast blizzard was 2 feet plus, about what that forecast looks like. I believe the 24-hour record snowfall for Chicago is like 19.8"

BTW, trying to do a full backup of a 1 TB hard drive on my 250 GB external drive = FAIL

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 12:57 PM) Yeah, to confirm what other's have stated, you didn't come to a complete stop. There's no way you'll win either of these. My wife tried it in Baltimore, lost. Even though nobody else was at the intersection. Red light cameras are bulls***.

I think what I remember about 1999 was that the week before, the temp was like 72 degrees.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 10:25 PM) Odds I'll be stuck in Kansas City tomorrow? I was just on the phone w/a friend from KC and she was saying they're supposed to get hammered really bad too.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 10:04 PM) According to a article I read, this is the largest snow storm to hit Chicago since Jan of 1999, when my high school marching band was stranded in Paducah, KY, and they wouldnt let us into the state. The New Year's Day blizzard. That s*** was awful.

Not that I care about the Pro Bowl but the AFC is looking like a bunch of clowns.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 05:20 PM) GOP Sen. Rand Paul Urges Cutting Aid to Israel http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/28/...5.shtml?tag=dis Yeah, I see where he's going with this, never happening though. I don't care if Dennis Kucinich was elected president.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 05:23 PM) This is one of those things where I really couldn't care less what stats say, if I need a last second shot, Kobe Bryant is the one person I want shooting the basketball. Ray Allen says hi

Motoblur 2.1 (the one they use for the Defy) was too much for my phone. It's pretty sweet, for what it is, but my phone's CPU (Cliq, not a Cliq 2) just isn't fast enough to handle it. Rolling back to the old version

I honestly do not give a s*** about this game. It's been a while since I just blatantly did not give a s*** about the Super Bowl and I don't think I've ever said point-blank that I might not watch it. I like the Steelers, but watching them win a 3rd time is just... so lame. I don't like seeing the same damn teams in the game every year. I'm not about to watch Green Bay either.

btw his name is T-E-A-H-E-N

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 12:57 PM) Thing about Quentin's splits are...he's backwards. He has a career .857 OPS against righties and .773 against lefties. Teahen was almost Kotsay-like against lefties last year. Although Quentin hits right handed, he's a bad guy to put in a righty/lefty platoon. When have numbers like these ever stopped Ozzie from arbitrarily taking a lefty and a righty and throwing them into a platoon and saying "f*** the numbers"?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 06:30 PM) And I've always thought Katie Couric was hot. ^^ This. And she's still hot. Mmmmm cougar meat.

My wife's job waits until the last minute to send her W2. I hate that s***. Still waiting on a couple of other things though. My wife, however, is a moron. Last year we owed the feds and somehow an accountant turned that into a small refund (my wife is under the impression professional accountants have magic wands to make refunds, but I know what he did). The year before that we owed, too, and I find out it's because she has 6 exemptions on her W4. I explain to her, in so many words, that this is not okay because she isn't paying enough tax and she is f***ing us come tax time. She pouts and talks about she has trouble paying her bills as is... she doesn't, she's just financially retarded. She didn't want to reduce her paycheck and kept putting it off and "forgetting." Finally in August I tell her point blank, I'm keeping all of what's left over, which isn't much, if she didn't go to her HR the next day and take 2 f***ing minutes out of her day. She drops from 6 to 4, I wanted her to go to 2 like I have but I take a victory where I can. All of this was an empty threat anyway since it was too late, and I ran some numbers and we owe again and there'll only be about 300 in refunds left over from the state refund. Which she is getting none of. She started whining again and I cut her off. If we're talking about bills, that's one thing, but I'm not paying her god damn taxes at the end of the year.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 01:30 AM) Oh my....what the hell is wrong with him? This isn't just a bad picture. There are actually worse ones.

75 pages and about 30-40 of them are just filled with bulls*** and the wheels are spinning right now, so this time I'm making the call. Topic closed.

Palin has to face other GOP nominees and they will be f***ing brutal on her. Of course that's part of her charm package, that she is right and they are wrong, that only she and her supporters are the ones who REALLY understand America, but that base is very limited. It's immune to attacks from the "establishment" type candidates and under scrutiny from actual Republicans it won't disappear, but it will fade some.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 10:26 PM) The distinction is just a way of insulting me to get around the rules. It's the same as saying your wife is "acting" like a b****. Gets the same point across while leaving an escape to back out of. "I didn't say you were a b****, honey, just that you were acting like one." It's semantics. For the 900th time, Cutler's doubters aren't insulting anyone else or their arguments. His supporters in this thread are being beyond defensive. Wonder why. Not really. My point is that he is specifically talking about what you said and why he thinks it's invalid and you think it's a personal attack. I don't know why you think it's a personal attack but it's not. Calling someone's argument garbage is totally fair game. That is half the point of debating. Hell, you are doing it right now (what else is "His supporters in this thread are being beyond defensive" supposed to mean?)

Someone telling you your argument sucks (regardless of whether it's true or not) is not an insult.

Eh. I don't care. I skipped over many of these pages because it was the same thing over and over. I suppose if I wanted to get the full effect of them I could just go back 5 pages and read all posts on the page 25 times. /shrug

The Twitter revolutions in Iran WERE media narratives

If he wants to drink beer when he makes Youtube videos when he is narrating over game film (he does, in basically all of them) that's his prerogative. Of all things to criticize him for... that?

Roy is like the polar opposite of a meatball.