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    As a lawyer, I wouldn't get married without a prenup, but not for the reasons people would think... mainly to protect the person I care about from what I could do to them if I got really, really pissed! :P



    So how long have you had this Jekyll/Hyde personality?:|


    birth ;)

    There must be an advantage to being able to hold
    two diametrically opposed thoughts at the same time
    or it wouldn't be so popular.
    :ph34r:

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    I thought the Detroit/Eminem/Chrysler commercial was awesome. If there was ever a town that needed a boost...



    advertising strategy - when the facts are in your favor, discuss the facts.
    if not, come up with an illogical emotional appeal.

    detroit is using a rapper instead of an automobile engineer.
    i prefer hot chicks for my car ads.

  5. for 90% of all relationship threads, there are some logical failures.

    1. marriage is only form of relationship.
    2. all marriages are defined as successful relationships.
    3. even if you are together for 20 happy years, you are not in a relationship.

    of course, the definition of marriage is the one used by Western countries
    since 1995.
    people who like a religious version of marriage, do not like the original, 1st century flavor.

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    marriage doesn't need to involve the state. it's like taking a vow. you should only do it when you're ready and you really want it.
    say you join the seals, I guess they take a vow to defend their country and their comrades. vows can be powerful aids

    example: say you go through a rough patch in your relationship. maybe if you've taken a vow you'll find that extra drive to make it work.



    i hereby nominate this post for worst analogy of 2011.
    :D:D

    it usually understood that the SEALs aren't fighting primarily among team members. :D

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    How would this affect future traffic...?



    it depends on the process that you use to move from the beginning to the end of the thread.

    read the thread. come back in and press the "last"
    button and it bounces forward to the 22,000th response.
    traffic may be the wrong word. i was referring to network traffic
    and the unnecessary busy work for the server which creates wait time.

  8. recurrent peeve - people who work primarily using email, but do not understand email.
    example - asking a question that should be specifically answered by one person. possibly answerable by 10 of the 25 people on the email list.
    then, not specifying a person, and clicking reply all.

    my new interview question "give me examples of using reply and reply all while ignoring the large stick".

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    I have mycophobia...seriously....



    I used to delight in antagonizing a co-worker who hated mushrooms, by eating them in front of him at lunch.:ph34r:
    And the really weird part was that he was a vegetarian.:S


    cooked mushrooms have the texture, look, and taste of over-heated pencil eraser. i think they are self -recycled practical joke that the French are playing on us all.
    "wadch ze seely peoples eat zis crap."


    You’ve tasted “over-heated pencil eraser”?


    not all women make good cooking choices.
    pencil erasers are the next generation of vegetarian cooking.

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    I have mycophobia...seriously....



    I used to delight in antagonizing a co-worker who hated mushrooms, by eating them in front of him at lunch.:ph34r:
    And the really weird part was that he was a vegetarian.:S


    cooked mushrooms have the texture, look, and taste of over-heated pencil eraser. i think they are self -recycled practical joke that the French are playing on us all.
    "wadch ze seely peoples eat zis crap."

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    I have mycophobia...seriously....

    Do NOT insert penis jokes here. :(



    that's too bad because i am a fun guy. ;)

    i love it when a woman uses "insert penis" in a reply. :)

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    I think it's an indication of how weak they're getting that no one's really talking about them the next day anymore.

    The VW ones were great, but IMHO they weakened the impact of the ads during the game by releasing them last week to go viral on YouTube. So when I saw them during the game it was "Oh yeah, been there done that."

    My personal favorite (though I definitely did not see all of them) was the Budweiser nod to Almost Famous, just because that's one of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite movies.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EZx5kFPB60



    i really liked the scene in Almost Famous and was emotionally charged
    because it pulled everything together. in the context of the beer commercial, it made no sense except to link it to a scene that worked. copying isn't a sign of creativity.

  14. one of the easiest ways to find informants/leaks is to look
    at the information that they had, and when they had it.

    without doing research, i suspect that is how they found
    the person in the US army who leaked it.

    if someone gives information to US intelligence services
    and the information is leaked to wiki, then opposing intelligence
    teams will isolate the leak in the same way.

    lack of security will cause sources to think twice before
    supplying information to the US intelligence community.
    such information may include planned attacks on the
    US military or civilian population.
    this has increased danger to the Americans both abroad and at home.

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    I was always curious what chewing the arm off after a "Coyote Ugly" night would really feel like . . .

    I have the same thought. 'cept mine is much mor terrifying cause it involves waking up next to you.B|


    How depressing if you just woke up next to the chewed off arm ?
    :ph34r:

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    I just find it interesting that no one has mentioned "Going In" or "Bouncing" yet, considering where we are posting.



    being a vegetable scares me more.



    No one said you had to die when you went in or bounced.



    Dieing doesn't scare me. Almost dieing scares me.

    (not going to re-type the grab-the-grass joke for the new people)

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    Yea, I was somewhat implying the same thing I think...as in the "it usually comes out anyway" comment. I guess those would typically be 'leaks' of some sort anyway.
    I guess I'm just concerned of truly classified information getting out - I see that as a risk to national security. Maybe it's a fine line sometimes.



    Do you mean correctly classified?

    By the way (and this isn't necessarily directed at you normiss) I'd recommend some people here actually read E.O. 13526 if you're not familiar with how classification works. It's long, but at least take a look at sections 1.1, 1.7, and 1.8.

    Other than that I don't have much to add beyond what I've already written on the matter.



    The only thing that truly concerns me is diplomatic correspondence.
    Most countries consider diplomatic communications
    to be a special class.

    If diplomatic text/emails/notes are made public, then
    it impacts what can actually be done.

    Sure, they can publish those notes, but then it cuts down
    on communication. Then, events that could increase
    trade, or stop wars, may be carried on in a different manner.
    If Wikileaks publishes items that create problems for diplomacy, then it is not harmless.

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    It's about time...women need to be seen more in that image on the silver screen, so perhaps the affect will sink into to real life roles.



    Real life is different and younger women realize it.

    Some people claim that men don't understand women.
    I believe it is simple. "Control of their lives" - however that is defined.

    My best friend is a woman who was recently appointed
    to a VP position at another firm (no college, just hard work).

    I see women achieving everywhere. However, movies
    are the stuff of dreams. Sometimes, even the most
    self-sufficient wants a little help. The movies are now
    making it "us vs them, and we win" instead of "me vs them, with the guy saving me".

    In an odd fashion, action movies are becoming romantic-action. They start to reflect the view that
    younger women have of themselves.
    In the 40s, the women of danger were nurses in a battle zone and that was the only way to portray that.
    Now it is in all facets of life.

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    i think its important to point out that wikileaks is not one man or anything close to it



    I would imagine that there is some kind of triage process.
    I would imagine that there are guidelines.

    He doesn't just put anything/everything that nutball-maximus presets as a leak about alien contacts.
    Otherwise, there would not be enough disk space in the world.

    So, he does have editorial guidelines and control.

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    The person who invented the Snuggie has made a bunch
    of money off of the product.
    The Snuggie was their greatest idea and now they have
    time to sit home and consider another idea that is not
    quite as good.



    Actually it may have been someone else’s best idea.

    http://gawker.com/5161355/snuggie-vs-slanket-war-a-sad-reflection-of-america



    It was bad enough when I thought only one person
    had that idea. Now it's two.

    There all whole teams of musicians who take boring
    music and make it calmer. Elevators and dentists office
    like calming music.

    A big fear is being trapped in an elevator for an extended time because of two problems.
    That stupid music and the need to pee if not rescued soon.

    Just a general question, how does one artfully start
    that discussion with the other occupants of the elevator ?
    "Can we designate this corner as the urinal ? "
    "A moment of privacy please? "

  23. Today, I caught the last 30 minutes of the movie Redeye on tv.

    The female lead was not surprisingly athletic and did not
    have special martial arts training. Typical attractive victim.

    However, she took things into her own hands and saved the day.
    She overcame the villain and fought back in a manner
    that a normal person would, with weapons of convenience.

    Not a bad change.

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    That's not a very nice guy. Master manipulator, I'd say. :|

    Pretty marketable skill set, though.:P



    I see those skills in use in the most interesting places.