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Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 09-12-2006, 03:41 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
more user-friendly.

except that he omitted teh part on how you identify what it is you love (and that pays money).

Hank Chinaski · 09-12-2006, 03:41 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
What is going on? I think I don't know either.

shouldn't you be thinking lunch? Today Polish. Duck blood soup, Keilbasa and stuffed cabbage.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 09-12-2006, 03:46 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Should we comment instead on her ploy to spy on board members? (493 male CEOs are kicking themselvs for not coming up with that plan . . .)

Don't cry for her - I understand Bush is already courting her for a soon-to-be available cabinet post.

greatwhitenorthchick · 09-12-2006, 03:47 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
except that he omitted teh part on how you identify what it is you love (and that pays money).

good point.

I suppose I thought it was more user-friendly because it appeared fueled by passion and not bitterness. Not that I think Sebby is a bitter person at all -- just sometimes some of his rants are a little.

nononono · 09-12-2006, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
except that he omitted teh part on how you identify what it is you love (and that pays money).

I was hoping that was in installment #2.

NotFromHere · 09-12-2006, 03:49 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
She was one of what, 7? female Fortune 500 CEOs, and she has stepped down, and all you can do is make a comment about her looks?

Yes. You get what you give.

ThurgreedMarshall · 09-12-2006, 03:53 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Is this surprising???

He needs to correct a misquote.....

When he says...

“There are two levels of guys,” Andreu said. “You got the guys that cheat and guys that are just trying to survive.”

It should be.....

“There are two levels of guys, You got the guys that dope and get away with it and guys that get caught doping.”

The guys who are just trying to survive are called Cat 1s.

Here is why I can't stand Armstrong:

"Multiple attempts to interview Armstrong for this article — through his lawyers, his agent and a spokesman — were unsuccessful. His agent, Bill Stapleton, wrote in an e-mail message yesterday that Armstrong would not comment because he was attending a meeting of the President’s Cancer Panel in Minneapolis."

Whenever questions arise about his doping, he wraps himself in the cloak of cancer fighter. In every interview I've seen in the past few years, this has been his approach.

"Lance, additional allegations have been brought against you concerning your use of performance enhancing drugs. Can you address these new concerns?"

"As a cancer survivor, there isn't much I can say, except to tell all those kids out there to keep fighting."

Right. Okay, Lance. He's full of shit.

TM

Replaced_Texan · 09-12-2006, 03:57 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Best part of the football season? More TMQ.
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By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2

Man, let's hope you enjoyed that first-of-a-kind Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN. Airing those games cost ESPN only $129 million. And that's just for the rights fees. Cameras, techies and announcers are extra: ESPN had about 150 production personnel at each game. Typically, prime-time network programming costs a couple million dollars an hour. This year, ESPN is paying $1.1 billion for the Monday Night Football package, which works out to $65 million per contest and about $20 million per hour. Ten times the normal cost of prime-time programming. Sure hope you liked those games!

Question: Is anyone in this country going to actually be able to watch both games? The first game was well into the second half when I got home (admittedly I had a class to go to that didn't get out until 7:15) and I had to go to bed well before the end of the second game (admittedly I had a 5:30 class to go to this morning).

Hell, the first game started well before the end of business on the West Coast. Seems sort of weird that the monday night game isn't going to be watched by the whole country.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 09-12-2006, 04:02 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Question: Is anyone in this country going to actually be able to watch both games?

Are you in the time machine again? It's only this week.

I think they did it to give ESPN 17 games, since there's no MNF the last week of the season. (All is quiet on New Year's Day)

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 09-12-2006, 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by nononono
Example in the work context?

To one partner: "This firm's billing requirements are fucking asinine." That one wasn't appreciated.

On the day that an associate was let go (when tensions were extremely high):

Partner: "Can you do that for me by next Friday?"
Coltrane: "Yes. Assuming I haven't been fired."
Partner: "What does that mean?"
Coltrane: "I don't know what that means."

Replaced_Texan · 09-12-2006, 04:05 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Are you in the time machine again? It's only this week.

I think they did it to give ESPN 17 games, since there's no MNF the last week of the season. (All is quiet on New Year's Day)

Ah... I was asking someone about it this morning and they assured me it was every week. I felt sort of bad about it, because that meant 32 Monday Night games the Texans aren't involved in, not 16.

ltl/fb · 09-12-2006, 04:05 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
To one partner: "This firm's billing requirements are fucking asinine." That one wasn't appreciated.

On the day that an associate was let go (when tensions were extremely high):

Partner: "Can you do that for me by next Friday?"
Coltrane: "Yes. Assuming I haven't been fired."
Partner: "What does that mean?"
Coltrane: "I don't know what that means."

Why was the other associate booted, I mean, "let go"?

robustpuppy · 09-12-2006, 04:05 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
To one partner: "This firm's billing requirements are fucking asinine." That one wasn't appreciated.

On the day that an associate was let go (when tensions were extremely high):

Partner: "Can you do that for me by next Friday?"
Coltrane: "Yes. Assuming I haven't been fired."
Partner: "What does that mean?"
Coltrane: "I don't know what that means."

Oooh, how delightfully aggressively passively aggressive!!!

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 09-12-2006, 04:08 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Ah... I was asking someone about it this morning and they assured me it was every week. I felt sort of bad about it, because that meant 32 Monday Night games the Texans aren't involved in, not 16.

The thing to get worked up about is the games on the NFL network, that plenty of cable systems don't carry.

Fugee · 09-12-2006, 04:10 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Purely so they can have a self-satisfied holier-than-thou smirk. There is absolutely no reason that the early admission program inherently creates barriers to disadvantaged. Rather, it was Harvard's greediness to increase its yield rates by taking loads of students early that creates the problem.

If they wanted, they could take fewer students early, and make sure that there were plenty of spaces left for students who might not want to apply early (or might not be aware or otherwise couldn't get in) and take them during the regular application process.

Maybe I should scroll before posting, but the disadvantage is that many schools with early admission require students to make a binding commitment before they have a chance to compare financial aid offers from several different schools. Unless your family has the means to foot the whole cost (or the combination of your credentials & family poverty virtually guarantee that any school you choose will give you a free ride), you can't afford to take the chance.