nanook

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  1. Again, have you had to perform in tear gas? Trust me. It's very hard to do a lot of things in this environment. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  2. To be fair, not one of those women, except one was around a 12. And even then, she wasn't wearing a bikini. Thanks for the retina burns though. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  3. Really? How would you do that in a darkened theater, with a gunman dressed in black who drops tear gas and is wearing a flak jacket? I'd aim for his fucking head. Especially when he stopped to reload Apparently he had 4 guns, and when one came up empty, he just switched. I bet he would have found it harder to stand there and shoot if someone was shooting back. Can you do this while there's tear gas irritating you? Have you actually practiced this? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  4. I agree with you in geography. This is a multi-national site. For the USA, I still say "no". If the question was asked "should you wear a bikini if you were over a size 10/12?", I would change my answer to yes as this deals with one's own confidence vice the original question which addresses what the observer would like to see. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  5. No. And I have liked Lucy Pinder for years (looks like she lost weight). She has the luxury of airbrushing done. A woman would have to be around 6 feet tall where porportion dictates a slenderness and firmness a 5'5" can't have unless she is some sort of extreme athlete. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  6. So we can put you down as wanting more licensed concealed carry holders to increase the odds of someone being onsite to stop things like this? No individual carrying around a 1911 was ever going to stop this guy. This sort of thing is not a realistic reason to carry a weapon unless somebody is suggesting carrying AKs. Please explain how you have come to state this as if it is fact? Why could't a CCW holder with a 1911 stop this guy? Body armor and the fact that in this audience it's highly likely there were more than one who was carrying, yet nobody stopped him, not even the police. The way this ended was the guy was sitting in the parking lot and just gave up. Didn't resist. I mean, I guess a guy could theoretically fire a magic BB, but the fact is with this guy as heavily armed as he was and wearing body armor, he wasn't going to realistically be stopped by even the better than average carrier. That is your opinion. not fact... we will never know and you do not know if anyone was carrying in that cinema. That is all irrelevant though... a person carrying a 1911 could have stopped him but that didn't happen. I wish it did but it didn't. I couldn't have stopped him. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  7. Nah. IRS has all that information as it is. Besides, Tax info is historical data. It doesn't tell anything about how much stock you actually own or other without a lifestyle audit. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  8. Ah. . . Octo-porn. Who would have thought? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  9. No, but they are always looking for the next big hip-hop artist. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  10. Status Quo . . ism? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  11. Well, it depends how they play with them. For instance: I think it's a 2-6-4 Baldwin. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  12. Adam UK gots it right. Those bottles were empty. About that experiment you saw: Probably what happened was the tasters were people who don't drink wine regularly. And if they do, rarely tried various levels regularly. You generally have to drink the good stuff for a bit to realize what is missing when you are drinking the "cheap" stuff. It rarely works the other way. The trick is, if you drink cheap wine and then drink something in the noble wine area, you may not know the difference (or if the top bottle is opened within their first seven years, it will taste bad to anyone). Usually, it's what you don't taste in a good wine that is glaringly obvious in your two buck chuck. That's just one point. many of the top wines change flavor, scent and sometimes taste from one glass to another. This change is remarkably different in complexity than the slight change of your regular bargain bin which changes due to you getting used to it. The moral of the story is: I was wasted off my ass on my favorite boxed wine ($15 at Target) when I posted this thinking how obscene and funny those three together were, oblivious to how snobbish this would look. Since those other two bottles were some that corked two years ago in an unfortunate moving incident, they had to be drunk then since they lost their value in one afternoon. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  13. Having fun with wine that cannot roll off the table. Can anyone guess the price diffrential? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  14. To be fair, credit default swaps are essentially insurance policies, but without all of the regulation, which, among other things, meant that they can be purchased by parties without an insurable interest and sold by parties who may not have has sufficient assets to pay the "benefit". Yup. And worse, they can and were used in the packaging of synthetic CDO's. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  15. As I understand it, Blythe Masters, whose background is in economics, "invented" credit default swaps. To whom are you referring? No. She was only responsible at J.P Morgan, but the concept of derivatives existed well before she ever came on the scene. In fact, people like Frank Partnoy were warning about them as far back as 1994, just about the time Masters was gaining power and designed the one with Exxon. But, like I said, they existed several years before that. My understanding is financial institutions hired out of work physicists (people particularly good with differential equations), to invent the derivatives that directly lead to the creation of CDOs. Interesting. I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to find a reference to a credit default swap (not CDO) sold before the late 1990's. Can you point me in the right direction? Arrgh. The fustration. I want to say that CDS predated the eighties. Now, I'm going to have to search myself. Yeah the real problem is one of scale and terminology. He's right that the term "credit default swap" doesn't really enter the lexicon until the Exxon deal, but I could swear deals like that had been made previously. Sort of a rose by any other name issue though. According to online sources, Exxon deals reflected modern CDS's. However, Banker's Trust was trading earlier, approximately 1991 or so. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  16. As I understand it, Blythe Masters, whose background is in economics, "invented" credit default swaps. To whom are you referring? No. She was only responsible at J.P Morgan, but the concept of derivatives existed well before she ever came on the scene. In fact, people like Frank Partnoy were warning about them as far back as 1994, just about the time Masters was gaining power and designed the one with Exxon. But, like I said, they existed several years before that. My understanding is financial institutions hired out of work physicists (people particularly good with differential equations), to invent the derivatives that directly lead to the creation of CDOs. Interesting. I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to find a reference to a credit default swap (not CDO) sold before the late 1990's. Can you point me in the right direction? Arrgh. The fustration. I want to say that CDS predated the eighties. Now, I'm going to have to search myself. (edit) Nope. Confusing the ISDA and Mark Brikell's work with defeating derivatives regulation. CDS's appeared to come popular in the early ninties. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  17. Woo hoo!! a choose-your-own-adventure thread! I haven't done something like this since "UFO 54-40". What a rip. Nah, the only boundaries I ever pushed seemed to be safety related rather than sport pioneering. I realized that and stopped being stupid. It one of those things in life when when you are "pushing boundaries" you need to take a personal look and make sure you are pushing the right boundary. Still gets me in trouble at work though. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  18. What boundaries are you specifically talking about? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  19. The former ;p Apparently being a misanthrope is not sexy.. Who'd have thought. I have about as much social grace as a Shah does modesty ;p Uh oh. . . Am I showing my antisocial assholism again? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  20. If I pick a fight with someone (even if I antagonize them into throwing the first punch) who is just minding their own business, and the start getting my ass kicked by that person, do you think I have a right to pull out a gun (that I'm carrying legally) and fatally shoot them without any legal consequences? I agree. Welcome back. Where have you been? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  21. Meh. She's only four. Luckily she doesn't know what McDonalds is. (She knows what starbucks is and I'm a bit annoyed with my wife right now) I'll do what I suspect my mom did for many years: the first box of froot loops was froot loops and was concurrently filled back up with the generic store brand version. You kind of catch on when you realize that you don't ever remember opening the "replaced" cereal box in over two years. "Hey Mom, this box expired during the Regan administration!" _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln
  22. well what's the fun in that! Less people will think you are an asshole Name one cute long legged, flat bellied, perky boobied amazing asses hottie who was not inlove with an asshole! And I can be that asshole! Now sush and eat your dinner!
  23. It isn't? Nope. . . This is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDMNHvnIxic _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln