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We were this close to seeing CNN get sold off, y'all:NYT posted:The media giant 21st Century Fox, the empire run by Rupert Murdoch, made an $80 billion takeover bid in recent weeks for Time Warner Inc. but was rebuffed, people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday. (...)
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I missed South Africa chat but in my limited experience, SA men are identical personality-wise to German old women.
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Jul 16, 2014 13:21
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R. Mute posted:dutch is a beautiful language, though. incorrect opinions itt
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Jul 16, 2014 13:24
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Warcabbit posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Trading_Commission#Crude_oil_derivatives_and_futures:_speculation_or_fundamentals Interestingly, that article's been waylaid- the exceptions at issue were never "secret", according to the cited and underlying documentation.
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Jul 16, 2014 13:42
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ufarn posted:We were this close to seeing CNN get sold off, y'all: Honestly, it's dubious whether CNN would be worse if it got sold off to Murdoch.
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Jul 16, 2014 13:44
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CNN and Jeff Zucker deserve each other and you're crazy if you aren't interested in seeing how far they'll go together.
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Jul 16, 2014 13:48
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Taeke posted:You guys are talking about the voiced/unvoiced velar and uvular fricative. I read that as "vulvar fricative" and spent a whole minute in bemusement.
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Jul 16, 2014 13:50
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Holographic research would still be in the 90s if not for CNN.
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Jul 16, 2014 13:50
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I can't wait to see what they'll do with the 2016 primary debates. There is a non-zero chance that Newt Gingrich will moderate one.
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Jul 16, 2014 13:55
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Tony Jowns posted:incorrect opinions itt
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Jul 16, 2014 13:58
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Joementum posted:I can't wait to see what they'll do with the 2016 primary debates. Lord willing from his moon base.
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Jul 16, 2014 14:05
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If y'all don't read The Toast you should.
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Jul 16, 2014 14:30
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comes along bort posted:Lord willing from his moon base. Or at a zoo, with all the candidates holding adorable critters on their laps. Just keep Romney away from the small varmints.
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Jul 16, 2014 14:37
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Got off the phone with my cousin about a half hour ago. Pretty weird hearing a grown rear end man cry on the phone. His unemployment ran out about a month ago, I guess there is no extension options out there, and it doesn't look like anything will be passed for it either. I'm gonna pay his rent and internet bill this month. But I can't afford to do that poo poo on the regular. I will just pretend this as a tax increase caused by republicans specifically on me, so I can continue to hate them as I normally would. Poor guy. What a depressing conversation. He sounds pretty screwed. And that is my depressing chat thread post of the day. Dirt fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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Jul 16, 2014 14:39
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Where we're going, we don't need roads.
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Jul 16, 2014 14:51
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Dirt posted:Got off the phone with my cousin about a half hour ago. Pretty weird hearing a grown rear end man cry on the phone. His unemployment ran out about a month ago, I guess there is no extension options out there, and it doesn't look like anything will be passed for it either.
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Jul 16, 2014 14:54
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What's Obama doing in Darrell Issa's garage?
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Jul 16, 2014 14:59
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Joementum posted:Where we're going, we don't need roads. In the future we will all drive Saturns. They make them again. Everyone apologized for not buying them, and they started making them again.
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Jul 16, 2014 16:18
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Do they still let any employee pull the stop-the-assembly-line rope if they spot even the tiniest defect in quality? Why does my brain maintain so many records of a 15 year old patronizing ad campaign?
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Jul 16, 2014 16:22
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zoux posted:Do they still let any employee pull the stop-the-assembly-line rope if they spot even the tiniest defect in quality? I imagine their stop-all-assembly rope is only connected to a trap door under who pulls it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryYltZTpXY
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Jul 16, 2014 16:49
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I'm thinking of starting a Education & Politics thread. Anyone have anything that we should cover or include? I know enough about Texas Education but is any other state doing something incredibly stupid with their? Also, any thread title ideas?
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Jul 16, 2014 16:54
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It's probably safe to assume that every state is pursuing stupid education policies
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Jul 16, 2014 17:06
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Michael Gove has just been demoted from Education Secretary to Chief Whip having changed the English education system for the worse and pissing off every teacher in England, so there's definitely something in that.
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Jul 16, 2014 17:33
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i assume education policy is made according to the lewis black method: "I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!" "AND I CAN MAKE IT EVEN SHITTIER!"
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Jul 16, 2014 17:34
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R. Mute posted:i mean, if you have to listen to dutch people talking - yeah, it's kind of bad. but the language itself is just wonderful. languages sort of have personalities, things they're just suited to. like how french is the language of love and german is the language of hitler-y shouting. and to me, dutch is just a very cheerful and light-hearted language. it's great and i love it quote:Graf te Blauwhuis It can be just as baroque as any other language though. Reve is a king in combining the two 'moods', but especially older poetry does not feel 'light-hearted' at all IMO Antwan3K fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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Jul 16, 2014 17:57
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Dutch sounds like people speaking at a high school German level.
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Jul 16, 2014 17:59
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Public school is probably the most depressing subject you could possibly discuss with people *argument to remove funding from schools goes here* "Buuut... you sent all eight of your daughters to public school????????_?????????" 
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Jul 16, 2014 17:59
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Antwan3K posted:It can be just as baroque as any other language though. Reve is a king in combining the two 'moods', but especially older poetry does not feel 'light-hearted' at all IMO
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Jul 16, 2014 18:10
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Also I'm forming a petition to rename "Dutch" to "hollandaise".
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Jul 16, 2014 18:14
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every dutch-speaking person outside of the provinces north and south holland would hate you forever.
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Jul 16, 2014 18:22
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Hello, I know very little of TV news quality. How good is Al Jazeera America compared to MSNBC/CNN/BBC
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Jul 16, 2014 18:23
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Dante Logos posted:I'm thinking of starting a Education & Politics thread. Anyone have anything that we should cover or include? I know enough about Texas Education but is any other state doing something incredibly stupid with their? Education and Politics: Dumb and Charter.
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Jul 16, 2014 18:24
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zoux posted:If y'all don't read The Toast you should. Agreed.
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Jul 16, 2014 18:24
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Peta posted:Hello, I know very little of TV news quality. How good is Al Jazeera America compared to MSNBC/CNN/BBC infinitely better
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Jul 16, 2014 18:38
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Peta posted:Hello, I know very little of TV news quality. How good is Al Jazeera America compared to MSNBC/CNN/BBC Impossible to say, it's never been broadcast.
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Jul 16, 2014 18:41
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Jul 16, 2014 18:45
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Mallory Ortberg's Objectivist Harry Potter series loving owns.
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Jul 16, 2014 18:47
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zoux posted:Mallory Ortberg's Objectivist Harry Potter series loving owns. Ortberg's one of my favorite internet writers.
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Jul 16, 2014 19:26
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Peta posted:Hello, I know very little of TV news quality. How good is Al Jazeera America compared to MSNBC/CNN/BBC It's loving awesome. They even do science reporting well.
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Peta posted:Hello, I know very little of TV news quality. How good is Al Jazeera America compared to MSNBC/CNN/BBC It's like comparing the sun to your mom's hemorrhoids.
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