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Quote from: powen01 on April 29, 2010, 10:52:24 AM

Quote from: thehawk on April 29, 2010, 10:32:36 AM

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on April 29, 2010, 08:33:39 AM

Quote"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.

"That's why we haven't put them in our airport," Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world.

Those Israelis are pussies.  They don't even arm their pilots with guns!  How is their record against hijackings?

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001213

Oh.

The El AL model works for El AL, but it isn't very scalable (cant find numbers, but American probably flies more flights per day from O'Hare than El AL flies overall):

http://www.businessinsider.com/sorry-the-el-al-israeli-security-model-will-never-work-here-2010-1

And that article doesnt get into the fact that the Israelis have marshalls on every flight (who appear to be much more professional than US marshalls (who are on only a small percentage of US flights))

It may make sense to hold off buying the scanners if they don't work (TSA/HS is becoming the new military industrial complex, and we still have the old one), but our air systems requires some level of technology.

Let's also not forget the perfunctory military service of every able-bodied Israeli citizen...  I would imagine that when looking at a plane full of fat, slobby American citizens versus a plane full of Israelis who may or may not be two years removed from the top of their IDF Krav Maga class in basic; a terrorist may consider the former a slightly softer target.

Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts? We use Krav Maga. We've got an ex-Mossad guy. He comes in on Thursdays. Tuesdays he does a really rigorous spin class.

Quote from: Bort on April 29, 2010, 08:52:07 AM

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on April 29, 2010, 08:33:39 AM

Quote"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.

"That's why we haven't put them in our airport," Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world.

Those Israelis are pussies.  They don't even arm their pilots with guns!  How is their record against hijackings?

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001213

Oh.

That's it. I'm suing G-D.

Better get yourself a good prophet.

Just read this pleasant news...

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/04/blackhawks-look-to-buff-up-canucks-luongo.html

Quote...Byfuglien shifted back to a forward line during Wednesday's Hawks practice and, perhaps most significantly, back to the front of the net on power plays.

"I think he was a factor in that series and he was last year in the playoffs up front," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "On a need basis, he was on the blue line, and maybe we're getting some options in the course of games of putting him back. But up front is where he's going to begin, and hopefully he can be the presence at the net and be physically doing his thing."

Four Original Six teams left.

First time more than three have made it out of the first round since 1992*, if I'm not missing something.

(*STFU, CHiHP.)

Quote from: CT III on April 28, 2010, 08:37:49 PM
Down goes Washington.

Likes.

Quote from: Brownie on April 28, 2010, 12:52:28 PM

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on April 28, 2010, 12:44:39 PM
Nice job pixelating out the address and the MICR line on thecheck.

Didja notice the fractio below the check number?

Is Chuck instructing us how to commit check fraud?

I think he's fishing for a lawsuit.

Quote from: morpheus on April 28, 2010, 11:21:30 AM

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Quote from: Gilgamesh on April 27, 2010, 05:40:19 PM
BEST. IDEA. EVER.

The Admiral Theater was my neighborhood theater when I lived in Albany Park in the 1940's.  Cost me .14 cents to go to a Saturday matinee to see a double feature, cartoon and a newsreel.  What does a Saturday matinee cost now?  (Penicillin shot not included)

Stew's contributions are of tjhe highest quality here, and this is no exception.  Awesome. 

0.14 cents seems a bit low.

http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/

Quote from: Bort on April 27, 2010, 04:15:03 PM
Just torrent it.

I dress right, am right handed, wipe right (while standing and saluting).

What hand do you salute with, you right-dressing rebel?

Quote from: Canadouche on April 27, 2010, 12:19:42 PM

Quote from: Andy on April 27, 2010, 09:01:14 AM
I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to get sued for?  For correctly pointing out that Al is selling a $22 t-shirt and giving $1.50 to charity?  His own lemmings figured it out and started badgering him about it.

I don't get it.  Somebody photoshop it for me.

The way it was explained to me, you are the one who's "hosting" this site.  Unless Desipio is an entity separate of Andy Dolan (ask Byron what I'm talking about) then you can be deemed culpable for what anybody says here.  If TDubbs posts animal porn, you get in trouble for it.  If somebody acts in a way that can be deemed harrassment, or libelous, by allowing it to happen in your capacity as a moderator, then you can be held responsible.

Your dozen-or-so regulars have demonstrated a blind ignorance toward the damage that their words can do.  Anybody, from Al Yellon, to CubbieJulie, to the Rally Carp, can drop a lawsuit on you at a moment's notice.  

I personally have no interest in doing that because -- I know, you don't believe it -- I don't care.  But in all seriousness, Andy, with no maliciousness intended, if you haven't turned Desipio into an LLC, you should consier it.  Particularly since the content here can be somewhat volatile.  

Did you go to Hollywood Upstairs Law College, too?

Quote from: powen01 on April 27, 2010, 09:57:35 AM

Quote from: Oleg on April 27, 2010, 09:53:46 AM
So, here's one.  I found a couple of cassette tapes of some stuff I'd like to get transferred to a digital format.  Anyone have any idea who may be able to do this?  I do NOT own a cassette tape player any more.

No, they're not Grateful Dead shows.

By the time you pay someone else to do it, you'll come close to covering the cost:  

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/digital-conversion/9778/

Or...

Buy a cassette deck at a Salvation Army store.

Buy whatever audio cable it takes to connect said cassette deck to your computer audio input (RCA-to-mini-jack or whatever).

Record, edit and save digital audio with free software such as Audacity.

Dress left, write right, wipe right/sitting.

Quote from: Gilgamesh on April 27, 2010, 08:45:11 AM
I do too, and I am right-handed.  And I have converted to the sit-down wipe utilizing my right hand.  Odd.

Given up on the LA showboating now that you're back in the Heartland, huh?

Quote from: Canadouche on April 27, 2010, 06:39:11 AM
Speaking of actions that may eventually bring authorities down on this place, and of things that only complete dorks would do, shouldn't you be cyber-stalking a girl right now?  I figured you'd be too busy sending her cryptic messages about how you "know her" to bother with losers like me.  

Facebook users can (and often do) block TDubbs if they so choose. If she didn't want to get repeatedly friend-requested by a Chad, she shouldn't have been flouncing around with that sexy short-cut "Add as Friend" button.

She was totally asking for it.

Quote from: Eli on April 27, 2010, 07:42:40 AM

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Quote from: Eli on April 27, 2010, 07:38:34 AM

Quote from: Canadouche on April 27, 2010, 06:39:11 AM
Speaking of actions that may eventually bring authorities down on this place

I feel a Tank-lik honest curiosity about what you think the authorities will find actionable at Desipio.

Ghey.

Agreed.

That's it. I'm calling my lawyer.

Quote from: R-V on April 27, 2010, 08:31:05 AM

Quote from: Canadouche on April 26, 2010, 09:39:56 PM
Take your own piece of advice and stop taking it so personally.  Stop acting so outraged when I tell one of you to fuck your own face -- FYC, among many others, has been a meme here since some of you were still freshmen in university or younger.

We're not outraged because your insults are too edgy or cutting or insightful for us to wrap our tiny brains around. We're outraged because you've achieved a level of painful unfunniness that could only be duplicated if scientists developed a mutant hybrid of Jim Belushi and Jay Leno.

Either:

a) Kurt doesn't care if twats like you think he's funny

or

b) Kurt totally wasn't trying to be funny, you stupid, obnoxious twats

Quote from: Gilgamesh on April 26, 2010, 11:37:51 PM

Quote from: Internet Apex on April 26, 2010, 11:32:54 PM

Quote from: Wheezer on April 26, 2010, 09:11:35 PM
I hereby endorse the UFO Raspberry Hefeweizen. So there.

This may be LRZP but - St. Bernardus Prior 8.

Boom.

The rasberries make me puke. Not necessarily a bad thing. The 'Pex will puke and rally you into the drunken playoffs time and time again.  

Just got hammered off Leinenkugel's BerryWeis at a bar here in Peoria.  The cute bartender endorsed it wholeheartedly; the other patrons began to call it Schmidt's Gay.  Whatevs.

Any bartender that wholeheartedly endorses Leinenkugel Berry Weiss is a bartender I'd never trust again. I'm curious how you managed to finish a single bottle, let alone got hammed on that shit.

To summarize: IAN would probably love it.

Golf clap.

Quote from: Canadouche on April 26, 2010, 07:39:53 PM

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Quote from: Internet Apex on April 26, 2010, 06:15:39 PM

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Quote from: Andy on April 25, 2010, 06:11:26 PM

Quote from: Canadouche on April 23, 2010, 09:43:20 PM
Oh goodie.  Another manufactured reason to hate Al Yellon. 

Don't worry Kurt, we'll never need to a manufacture a reason to hate or loe you.

And that's why you're such a funny writer -- you never make a play on the obvious. 

Legit question.  Why do you come here?

Because if I try hard enough, maybe someday you all will like me!

No.

ROTFLMAOUIVUD!  You guys kill me.

But, seriously: back to the question at hand....

You geniuses are confident that you have me -- and my motivations -- figured out, so why should I bother to explain to you why I come here?  It's because I think I am hilarious, and I know that if I keep trying you guys will like me.  I'm doing it for the Lulz!

But maybe you -- all of you -- should take a page out of your own book and stop taking everything so personally, and (while we're at it) perhaps you could refrain from acting so ridiculously butthurt every time I insult one of you?  Maybe, when Dolan points out what a piece of shit one of my shitty photoshops is, and I respond back by calling him a shitty writer, you can refrain from acting like I started shit with him? 

Maybe?  Maybe not?  Maybe I think most of you are usually about as funny as a bag of Scottish Haggis-flavored potato chips?

I'm being totally serious.

You constantly say you don't think we're funny.

You constantly say you don't care if we like you or if we think you're funny.

Indeed, you constantly say you don't care what we think about you at all.

So why waste any of your time here?

No sarcasm, no snark, no assumptions... I'm honestly curious.