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As is my understanding, there's nothing in these bills about creating some sort of program to get people photographic voter IDs.

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"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Voter fraud is a big deal....

Where? There's never been any evidence presented that this is actually a problem.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

For those of you not in the know, several Republican governors/state legislatures are attempting to institute laws that require photo IDs to vote in elections, thus disenfranchising many members of the urban poor, students, and the elderly. Coincidentally, most of the groups affected over this tend to vote Democratic. Hmmmm.....

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/03/ohio_house_approves_legislatio.html
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_5aa8adfa-7845-11e0-82be-001cc4c03286.html

And all this over a problem that no one has evidence actually exists.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Not too late. Just ask Eugene McCarthy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries,_1968
The New Hampshire/Wisconsin Democratic primaries were probably the biggest electoral achievements in recent American history, tbqh.

Be careful what you wish for though. Never know when you might have a slimeball like RFK who sits back and lets someone else do all the hard work, before trying to swoop in and take the benefits for themselves.

Third parties are never going to do well if they try to jump ahead and enter the presidential race. Start local and move up. Look at Vermont. They have a relevant third party in their state's politics, and it has elected representatives to national office (OK, just the one, but it's not like Vermont has a ton of Congressional seats at play here.)

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"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec11/twitter_07-06.html

Yes, let's make politics even more about 10 second/140 character soundbytes than it already is. God forbid we have a thorough discussion about something.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Black people commit more crimes because poor people commit more crimes, and demographically speaking black people are more likely to be poor.

I'm assuming that this is what TimJab means.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Ulti's just going to break the rules that people helped set up and make the topic early because he "deserves" to for some reason, so good luck at any one else trying to get it.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kardashian

I don't get the people going "Oh, that's mean, her dad's dead." It's not like they're making a joke about his death.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

The problem is not that women are unfairly presumed to be innocent. The problem is that men are unfairly presumed to be guilty. Scott Peterson was convicted of murder with basically no evidence.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

I wouldn't say this is a failure. It's not like there was DNA evidence like in the OJ trial, at least I don't think there was. I think she was probably guilty too, but in a case like this it just comes down to whether the jury can believe the prosecution wholeheartedly. As long as there's some sort of reasonable doubt as to whether or not she killed her daughter, you can't convict.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

I stumped him with Tracy Bacon from Kavalier and Clay, although he guessed Joe Kavalier, so pretty close.

Edit: Also stumped him with Rosa from the same book, but he got Sam Clay fairly easily. Also stumped him on Lila Crane from Psycho, but he did guess Marion Crane at 30.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

I constantly see Peter X Lois ads on this one site I go to.

Hmmm, it might actually be Brian x Lois now that I think about it. I tend to try to ignore these ads as best I can.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Indiana Jones?

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Sure.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

No one's ever been able to find any traces of this record having existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_'N_Steady

Interesting.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Oh, never mind :(

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Yay! Best BB12 contestant to return!

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Yes! Definitely one of the more depressing series finales that I remember.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Snoopy

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Thanks for the advice. I had only had 8 options to list, so I went with these.

Carbonated Water
Cola (Coke/Pepsi)
Cream Soda
Flavored Cola (Cherry Coke/Dr. Pepper)
Fruit Flavor (Grape/Orange Soft Drinks)
Ginger Ale
Lemon-Lime/Citrus Flavors (Sprite/Mountain Dew)
Root Bear

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

What is your favorite type of carbonated beverage?

Citrus Flavor (Mountain Dew/Mello Yello)
Cola (Coke/Pepsi)
Cream Soda
Diet Cola
Flavored Cola (Cherry Coke)
Fruit Flavor (Grape/Orange Soda)
Ginger Ale
Lemon-Lime Flavor (Sprite/7 Up/Sierra Mist)
Root Beer

Any ones I'm missing or worded improperly? Dr. Pepper's my favorite, but I had no clue what category it would be. Flavored Cola?

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Brendan and Rachel more entertaining than the brigade?

Yes. You don't have to be likeable to be entertaining. What did the brigade do that was so entertaining? There's a reason why this past season is considered one of the worst in Big Brother history.

Brendan and Rachel more entertaining than Evel Dick/chilltown?

I wouldn't say they are more entertaining than those two. Just better people I guess.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

It's not that there's anything surprising about the show being good, but yet people in certain demographics who are notoriously intolerant to anything perceived as unmasculine have gravitated towards it. Progress, I guess.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

I'm not saying I like Brendon and Rachel per se, but at least they are entertaining unlike personality vacuums Hayden/Enzo or just horrible human beings like Chilltown/Evil Dick.

It's kind of sad now that Michelle from BB11 won't be able to bring her crazy trainwreck of a self to the show this season. Hopefully next year is a full on all stars.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Movies and games are very different. The movie industry purposely puts money into artsy movies for the health of the industry. Gaming cuts out those types of things, usually. I would hesitate to compare the two in this way.

How much money do you think it would cost to bring a game over here and market it, how much would Nintendo want to make on it, and how much would they lose sending money back to Japan?

The game industry should put more money into artsy games. I don't disagree that they don't at this point though. But it's not just artsy movies that get released like this. There's plenty of crap that gets released on DVD all the time.

Nintendo wouldn't have to market the game too much. Not any more so a film company does when they re-release a classic film on DVD or something. They wouldn't have to lose any money, although how much they make would be up for question. I understand why Nintendo doesn't want to release the game, but considering they already have it translated, I'm not sure what they have to lose.

Or any company really, not just Nintendo.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

There's manufacturing and shipping costs as well, but that's true for cheap bottom of the barrel DVDs and those still get released. Of course it'd probably cost slightly more to do this with a video game, but video games cost more as well.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

People might not like British accents as much as American ones, but the British version of The Office was still released on DVD here and shown on cable, so I'm not sure what the point of that is? I think most well received British products have still been released in America in some format.

Secondly, I agree with the sentiment that I don't get the whole "This game has to sell 100,000 copies to justify its release." The making of the game and the localization has already been done. How much money would Nintendo be spending on release in the United States? Movies get released all the time that probably see less than 100,000 people see them in the theaters, and video games cost way more than movie tickets. If not I don't see why some smaller company couldn't just release it instead. It's not like you need advertising to release the game. I don't go around seeing advertisements for the DVD of Dogtooth everywhere, but that never stopped someone from releasing it.

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"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

yeah, like how we were so united back in the 19th century when going from one state to another took a week-long stagecoach trip

I bet you people who lived in towns and cities were certainly more united.

The culture of today is increasingly fractured as people retreat into their own private spheres.

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"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Good, we need less of an emphasis on cars.

They are a waste of money that serves to isolate people from each other and society.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

One of my favorite tumblrs:

http://holymaurymotherofgod.tumblr.com/

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

This is your objection to Maury, huh.

It's my objection to Maury today. Let's take these things one day at a time.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Maury: If my children were dating anyone 2 years older than me I would be very upset.

They actually insinuated at one point that the father of a 27 year old should have to approve her relationship with a 58 year old. What is this, the 1800's? She's a grown woman. Sure the age gap is big, but the show was insinuating that there was something morally wrong about this kind of relationship.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Rattlesnake. It was pretty deep fried though, so I couldn't taste much of it.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Cowboy continually getting rejected is one of the best ongoing Big Brother subplots.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Anyone else notice the scene of Rob just missing his mark in that target game he made. Someone on Ometepe even made a comment about it. Normally I hate it, when people overanalyze throwaway lines like that, but the fact that it came right after a comment about Rob being in control, makes me think there might be something there.

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"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Peggy and Lisa are great characters. The only real time Lisa was a ***** was the BBQ episode. And the one comment she makes to Marge in the Angel Episode, although I could understand being peeved in that situation too if I were her.

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