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Please deposit your effervescent and irresistible charms into the repository provided below. Anyone up for some monopsony this weekend?
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
Florence, SC

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have a good weekend..

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ARGONAUT
Have a nice day.
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join:2006-01-24
New Albany, IN

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Fully Automatic Assault Rifle at 18,000fps

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· 3k#t=256
gaforces (banned)
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA

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Monopsonys want to secretly charge 10x market value for access to thier cust

How much is enough? 7+ Billion a quarter already?

YukonHawk
join:2001-01-07
Patterson, NY

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Finally.....

The snow has begun to melt!!!

jazzlady
join:2005-08-04
Tannersville, PA

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Re: Finally.....

Woo hoo!

Upper 40's here today and I'm ready to break out the shorts! Feels great! lol

backfeed
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join:2002-12-16
Peru, IN

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Re: Finally.....

hi Jazz.... Warmer here also.. Snow melting.... Enjoy your weekend!!

YukonHawk
join:2001-01-07
Patterson, NY

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We reached the upper 40's as well and you're so right....it felt great.
simon726
join:2006-12-21
Ajax, ON

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Canada has quashed the Americans in a semifinal!

If you were the lucky folks who watched the Sochi 2014 olympics earlier today, Canada has quashed the USA in a 1-0 semifinal in Mens' hockey!

To commemorate this, I'm leaving you with a (somewhat of a) patriotic video:

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· wBwBL4Qo
Crookshanks
join:2008-02-04
Binghamton, NY

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Re: Canada has quashed the Americans in a semifinal!

There's never any shame in losing a hockey game to the Canadians or Finns.

At least we quashed the Russians. On home ice. With Vladamir Putin in attendance. This American hockey fan can live with that.
biochemistry
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Quash: to put down or suppress completely

Canada won 1-0. That's called squeaking by, not quashing.
chgo_man99
join:2010-01-01
Sunnyvale, CA

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Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

this will never happen, what's he smoking?

»news.yahoo.com/plan-divi ··· 451.html

Some similar crazy ideas earlier before about separating Cook county and Chicago from the rest of Illinois or Separating Long Island from Upstate New York.

workablob
join:2004-06-09
Houston, TX

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Re: Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

It can work and we don't have to change the flag. Simply combine Vermont, New Hampshire, Conneticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine into Super England.

Rogue Wolf
An Easy Draw of a Sad Few
join:2003-08-12
Troy, NY

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Re: Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

I've long been of the mind that we really don't need the Dakotas as states and that they should be converted into one really large paintball arena.

workablob
join:2004-06-09
Houston, TX

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Re: Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

LOL. Or we could just combine the Dakotas into Super Dakota.

Of course paintball would be the state sport.

Blob

AnonMe
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said by workablob:

It can work and we don't have to change the flag. Simply combine Vermont, New Hampshire, Conneticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine into Super England.

It would be a cold day in hell before you got NH and Maine to agree to become one again with MA. I assume VT feels the same way.

Lots of (not all) MA folks want to move to NH to get away from MA, then they want to change NH to be just like MA. No thanks!
biochemistry
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Or how about just call it "New England" since it already has a name?

workablob
join:2004-06-09
Houston, TX

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Re: Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

said by biochemistry:

Or how about just call it "New England" since it already has a name?

I did think of that but I prefer Super England.

Blob
Happydude32
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I would be overjoyed if one of two things happened.

1) California finally breaks off from the rest of the continental US and floats away to somewhere in the Pacific Ocean and is never heard from again

2) NYC succeeds from NY State. New York is such a shitty state and we would be much better off with out the burden of downstate.
chgo_man99
join:2010-01-01
Sunnyvale, CA

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Re: Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

said by Happydude32:

I would be overjoyed if one of two things happened [...]

California pays into federal taxes more than receives. Texas and many other states in South receive more from the federal government than give. Texas is China of the United States with cheap labor and lack of regulations. Lets give those parasites away to Mexico. lol

Bill Maher's message for conservatives:

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· Gky6IyV4
Happydude32
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Re: Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

Billy Boy is a disgusting asshole. I will not watch that scumbag.
Kommie2 (banned)
join:2003-05-13
united state

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Re: Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

Love your closed mind. Don't venture out of the bubble much?
CXM_Splicer
Looking at the bigger picture
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NYC

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NRA = Nuts, Racists & Assholes HAHAHA, I like that one
Happydude32
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Re: Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

Nothing racist, nuts or assholish about protecting freedoms that Hussein Obama wants to take way.

Kookafornia, home to Hollyweird and San Freaksicko. It's the great Granola State. Home to all the nations fruits, nuts and flakes.

ilikeme
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Stafford, TX

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If Texas is such a "Parasite", then explain why so many people are wanting to move here and get out of California! Dont get me wrong, I like California, but it really is the land of fruits, nuts, and overpriced everything!
chgo_man99
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Re: Silicon Valley enterprenour proposes to divide California into six states

Corporate welfare California, New York and other blue big states have to subsidize in addition to state social welfare programs they fund on their own. Whether mismanaged, abused or not doesn't change the fact southern states with less taxes take advantage of their big tax neighbors in north.

mr sean
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join:2001-04-03
N. Absentia

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Bastard Operator from Hell

The fact that it still exists, after all these years, always makes me feel better about the inter-webs: »www.theregister.co.uk/20 ··· isode_2/
trollscience
join:2013-12-14
Carrington, ND

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Wikipedia Article Vandalism Frenzy

I vandalized five wikipedia articles Including Alex Linder, Comcast, Craig Cobb, Prussian Blue, and Neo Nazism.

your name
@comcast.net

your name

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Re: Wikipedia Article Vandalism Frenzy

said by trollscience:

I vandalized five wikipedia articles Including Alex Linder, Comcast, Craig Cobb, Prussian Blue, and Neo Nazism.

Why are you being an asshole?

workablob
join:2004-06-09
Houston, TX

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Why?

bmccoy
join:2013-03-18
Port Orchard, WA

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The Comcast one was pretty funny, I have to admit.

Still, don't be such an asshole.

IowaCowboy
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Springfield, MA

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Grandma's Recovery and upcoming appointment

Grandma is recovering from her hip fracture quite well. She has an appointment with the orthopedic surgeon next month for a follow-up. I found out that the chair vans that take them from the nursing home rehab facilities are NOT covered by Medicare. I'm not sure if they're covered by her Medicare supplement (she has the one from AARP), so we're debating if we'll take her in the car or pay for the chair van. There is me and my 58 year old mother so their is two of us, but the chair van might be cheap insurance if something happens. She is not yet able to put full weight on her right leg quite yet.

My car is a 2001 Dodge Stratus, if the nursing home was on a bus line I would just take her on the bus as we could just put her in a wheelchair and take her on the bus as the buses are low-floor wheelchair accessible but the home is in Wilbraham which is an affluent community where the people own luxury cars. The bus would take the wheelchair transfer issue out of the equation (the bus has a wheelchair ramp that comes out the front door, and they have the tie-downs) but the car is much faster and you don't have to change buses at that dangerous (crime ridden) bus terminal.

Too bad I couldn't rent a wheelchair van and drive her myself. I'm sure wheelchair vans cost as much to rent as the medical transportation itself.

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amenite
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Ridgewood, NJ

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Forget that Pennsylvania rodent Punxsutawney Phil

Ice dams are just about melted away, and the squirrels are having sex. Springtime is upon us!

why60loss
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Google Fiber deploy to us all

Deploy your fiber goodness to all 34 city's and then to the rest of the nation. Wipe DSL and cable off the face of the USA. We need to become a all fiber to the home nation. Vote why60loss 2016.

Google rebellion against the ISP's has truly began!!!!

YukonHawk
join:2001-01-07
Patterson, NY

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Re: Google Fiber deploy to us all

Watch out...too much fiber can give you the runs!!
biochemistry
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I don't want them to wipe them off the face of the USA. I want all 3 of them deploying fiber in every neighborhood.
Happydude32
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1 Minute and Six Seconds

That's all it took for my girl to go 9-0. Winner by TKO with a knee shot to the liver.

You rock Rowdy Ronda!

DrugTrade
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World's biggest drug lord arrested; does it matter?

Mexico arrested the world's biggest drug lord, but does it really make any difference? They had him before and he just bought the guards to let him escape. Even if they keep him locked up, will it make a dent in the drug trade and non-stop murders in Mexico?

Yes:
»edition.cnn.com/2014/02/ ··· l-chapo/

No:
»bostonherald.com/news_op ··· o_effect

I agree that it will have little to no effect on the drug trade.

FastiBook
join:2003-01-08
Newtown, PA

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Re: World's biggest drug lord arrested; does it matter?

People using drugs in the US fail to realize that they are the largest reason why these cartels exist.

Titus
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Netflix to pay Comcast for bandwidth

»www.marketwatch.com/stor ··· 24491012

PlusOne
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Re: Netflix to pay Comcast for bandwidth

Which Netflix should have done all along, but refused to because they had a better transit deal with the cheapo Cogent middleman.

Good: Netflix streaming improves greatly with Comcast.
Bad: If Netflix has to do same deal with Verizon and AT&T, then their costs go up and their monthly subscription fee will go up. Instead of $8/mo, maybe I'll have to pay $9. A fair tradeoff in my opinion.
Happydude32
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The Great American Race

One of the biggest moments of the year is here. One of the things on my bucket list is to see this in person. Been to over 20 NASCAR races, never been to the Big One. Nothing like the pre race flyover, the National Anthem, the Command and 43 cars X 850 horsepower getting the green flag.

God Bless Daytona!

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Secyurityet
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untied state

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Mardi Gras ParadeCam

Courtesy of nola.com

»www.nola.com/paradecam/