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Christopher Harley

Twitter me this, Einstein.

February 18 - Comment - Like - Share

Drea, Nispell, Aaron Draczynski and 43 other people liked this

A reason for a retweet if I ever saw one! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

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Awesome - Ben Jackson from twhirl

still funny - Richard Lawler

nice - James Tenniswood

Hahahaha :) - Danielle Closs

Why Don’t Teens Tweet? - Christopher Harley

Mel Buckpitt to Mel's feed, DSLR

4 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a 50mm Lens » Photography Bay | Digital Camera Reviews, News and Resources - http://www.photographybay.com/2009...

August 4 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Ronald, Chip Mayhugh, Mr Saturday Morning NFG and 33 other people liked this

"When we buy our DSLRs, chances are that we mostly shoot and grow with using just the kit lens provided for us by the manufacturerers. What some of us DSLR users don’t realize until we’ve grown enough is just how wondrous and useful a good 50mm lens with a wide aperture is" - Mel Buckpitt from Bookmarklet

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What about a 35mm? I just bought the Nikkor 35mm f1.8 and I've been told that lens as well as the 50mm are the top two "must have" lenses for DSLR - Johnny

Johnny: You make a good point. The main advantages of a 50mm is its almost the FOV as the human eye on a full frame camera. The 35mm FOV is closer to the human eye on a cropped sensor camera. - Mel Buckpitt

Mel: So it would make more sense to go with a 35mm on a DX and a 50mm on a full-frame - Johnny

Yep!!! - Mel Buckpitt

Would there be any benefit to buying a 50mm for cropped sensor camera? - Johnny

I think so, the 50mm lens tends to suffer less from distortion than the wider angle lenses. They are great fast lenses and also cheap, although the Nikon pictured in the article is not. I use both but keep the 50mm on the camera because I feel comfortable with it. I shoot with a D300 - Mel Buckpitt

The 50mm on a DX is amazing for portraits. - Johnny Chadda

Johnny, I don't have a full-frame camera and I still adore my 50mm. - joey

What does the wide aperture part mean again? Educating myself on FF. - Steve C

Actually the bigger the number the greater the depth of field, the smaller the number the more light gets in. Also the shorter the lens the greater the depth of field at the same F Stop. - Jeffrey Stephen

Cecily: I agree but get too close with 35mm and most will distort, particularly faces. Everything is a compromise I guess - Mel Buckpitt

The only problem with a 50mm lens (a regular one that is) is it really isn't a true 50mm lens on a digital camera. I would go a little bit wider if possible. I did buy a 50mm myself, but would like something closer to human vision, as it were. However, I love the clarity that comes with fewer pieces of glass in the lens, so I still would recommend it. Not to mention, considering how much lenses cost, a 50mm is one of the very cheapest that you can buy, they easily pay for themselves in the end... - Danielle Closs

Danielle Closs

School's Out for Summer: A Gem in the Jobs Report (via feedly) - http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

August 11 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Interesting article, but more interesting are the facts that are pointed out in the comments, such as younger workers taking less pay, etc... - Danielle Closs

Danielle Closs

Are you putting yourself in the way of success? - http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2009...

August 10 - Comment - Like - Share

Yes, you have to decide to be successful. Yes, you have to believe that you deserve to be successful. Yes, you have to expect that success will come to you eventually. But that’s not enough. - Danielle Closs

Christopher Harley

VOTE NOW: Slurpee or Icee?

January 30, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Derrick, Rodfather, Iván Abrego and 24 other people liked this

Icee! - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

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Slurpee. No question about it. - Joey Gibson

Definitely Slurpee. - Flora

100% syrup slushy FTW! - Alex Scoble

Slush puppy. - Jeremy Brooks

slurpee - Imabug

SLURPEE!!! - Justin Korn

Yeah, Jeremy! Slush Puppy is fun in a cup! - Lindsay is in 20-ten

I mix 'em - best of both worlds. :) - Mona Nomura

Squishee! - Jennifer Dittrich

SLURPEE, not even a question! - Josh Haley

slurpee - anna sauce

Icee, definitely. - Admiral Anika

Icee! - Katie is Frittering

Icee - Daniel J. Pritchett

Icee - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

Icee - Sarah Peterman

Slurpee - Morgan Haley

Slurpee - David Cook - 2010!!!

Coke icee - Brandy Lea

There's a difference? - Jess

I'm glad that Jess opened that up for Mark. - Christopher Harley

Icee, since they always seemed to be consistent. Slurpee strength varied from store - store. - Peter Ghosh

Slush Puppy! - Tyson Key

Slush Puppy! - Vicky

icee - Aykut Karaalioğlu

I haven't had a Slurpee in over 20 years, so I'll have to vote Icee cuz I can go get one in less than 5 minutes. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Slushy! - Michael Forian

Icee...Coke style! - JA Castillo

A slushy one for me. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Oh definitely Icee. - Trish R

Icee - jamar78

I honestly can't tell the difference. I'll say Slurpee since 7-11 is closer than Quik Stop - Rodfather

Can I vote Slush Puppie? - Shawn Farner

slurpee (duh) - Jennifer Van Grove

Icee, and now I want one! - Michael Fidler from twhirl

slurpee - Mattie Kenny

Snuggie!!! - B. Hatin

Blue Icee ... but I call them Squishies. - ::Kristen::

What about slush puppies? You can add your own syrup and make your own flavours! - Kendra <3 Three Lions

Definitely Slurpee. - Rochelle

Slurpee - Shevonne

My husband says neither, slushpuppies! :) - Danielle Closs

Icee. - Louis Gray

Does Squishee count? - Jeff P. Henderson

Raspberry slurpee. - laurel

Anyone ready to choose again? - Christopher Harley

Ask the folks out in the Seattle area! - Jordan Hofker

Why? We have them beat by 8 degrees! It's still 103 in Portland. - Christopher Harley

Icee!!! - (jeff)isageek

Slurpee!!! - Christopher Harley

I've only had a slurpee and it's been years. Where to you find Icee's? - BEX

They were hard to find before but now BK has them. - Christopher Harley

Slurpee (as if this were even a real question!) - Brett Kelly from iPhone

Yes! - James (!?)

Slurpee - Herb Hernandez

neither...eegee's..... - dafire

Icee!!! - Christopher Harley from iPhone

7-11 is closer than Quik Stop. Slurpee :) - Rodfather

ICEE! - Nathan Chase

+1 Rodfather - Nicholas Kreidberg

Slurpee is the king. - Joey Gibson

slurpee - Imabug

Icee!!! - Christopher Harley from iPhone

icee! - Anna Lynn M.

bourbon - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Slurpee!!! - Christopher Harley from iPhone

The last Icee I had kicked the last Slurpee I had's ass. - Derrick

Kol Tregaskes

I haz a job!!!! :-D

July 24 - Comment - Like - Share

Ludwik C. Siadlak, Snipergirl, Mark "Mr Bolivious" J and 208 other people liked this

I start next Friday and able to work from home for the majority of the time. It's an admin role for 3 months but it's better than nothing, which is all I have now. :-) And back to the previous company I worked with doing the task I did several years ago - so in my comfort zone. Thank goodness, such a relief! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

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Congrats Kol! - Travis Koger

Thanks, Travis. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

WELL DONE - Mo Kargas

Yay! - Kandeezie

Ta, Mo! - Kol Tregaskes

Yay! Awesome news Kol, congrats! - Charlotte M

Yippee. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you, Charley. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats! Great news! - Wang Yip

My current job started 3 months then became perm. Never know what will happen - Mo Kargas

AWESOME. Congrats, Kol. What a way to kick off the weekend, mate! - Derrick

Mo, the contract might get extended but I don't think it's a role I'd take on perm unless they give me something more to do. - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations!!:) - K.D. from Shawshank

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Nia

Derrick, agree. I can chill out for a bit. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

YEAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!! I am so happy for you! - Shevonne

Thank you, K.D and Nia. - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome, Kol! Congratulations!! - Holger Eilhard

Shevonne, I'm pretty happy too, hehe. Thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Ta, Holger. - Kol Tregaskes

Yay!!! Congrats Kol =D - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

WOOT!!!! - ha3rvey (wants confit)

Congrats! I'm so happy for you! - Michelle Martinez

I'll be keeping an eye out for another role in 3 months but glad to have something after such a long time and so much searching. And in the end the job comes through my previous work, i.e. of word of mouth. The best way, by far, to get work. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks, Tina, Michelle. Woot indeed. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

woohoo! awesome! - Imabug

AWESOME! congrats Kol!!! :D - vijay

Thanks, Vijay. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Well done Kol. Someone needs to tell K.D to get busy living or get busy dying - Toby Graham

Thanks, Toby. - Kol Tregaskes

I am so happy for you Kol! Break a leg! ;) - Jorge Escobar

That's great. Congratulations! :) - jan geronimo

Awesome!! Congrats Kol :D - Praveen Vasudev

Jorge, ta. - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you, Jan, Praveen. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I'm going to sleep well tonight. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations, Kol! - Brome

Congratulations, man! - Admiral Anika

Thank you very much, Brome and Anika. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats :-) - Rene Wirtz

Ta very much, Rene. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats. - Meryn Stol

Woo hoo! Good for you (and anyone else that lands a job after being out of work)! - Larry Hawes

Congrats! - AJ Batac

Congratulations! :) - Niki Costantini

Thank you, Meryn, Larry, AJ and Niki. I'm not sure I'll be around much: http://ff.im/5F6us - Kol Tregaskes

Hurrah! - Iain Baker

oh wow! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! This is so great! I'm overjoyed for you... it couldn't happen to a nicer or more deserving guy. Maybe it will turn into something longer term with increased responsibility? Now all you have to do is post a PICTURE of you doing your new thing. ;-) - Jim in Real Time

Jobz Good! - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

Awesome congrats :) - Rodfather

Iain, :-) Jim, thank you!!! Hehe, you'll be lucky. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yep, Karnatos. :-) Ta, Rodfather. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats, Kol. - Louis Gray

Thank you, Louis. No more Spymaster. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Sincere congratulations, Kol! Please don't stop posting, though, ok?! - Zackatoustra

Thank you, Zackatoustra. I'll be posting very little I'm afraid, certainly no much during the week: http://ff.im/5F6us - Kol Tregaskes

Good news, well done :) - M F

Thank you M F. So this surely must deserve me know your name now? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations :) - Eric Logan

Thanks, Eric. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yay! - Tyson Key

Gratz! - Rasmus Lauridsen

Ta Rasmus. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Good "job"! :) - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Hehe, thank you, Steve. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I'm chuffed for you, Kol, well done! - Andrew Terry

Gefeliciteerd :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Thank you, Willem. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

congrats! that's great news - William Harryman

Thank you, William. Indeed it is. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Good for you :) - Joe

Ta, J. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Sweeeeeet! At least it takes the pressure off for a few months. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Jandy, yeah but hopefully next week's activities might ease things if I'm out of work again but that's another story for then. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations Kol. You worked really hard for it, you totally deserve that. Hey, see if your office lets you use bit of friendfeed during work time ;-) - mridul

congrats on the new job kol - (jeff)isageek

Yay!! Now can I babysit? - Myrna

mridul, thank you. I'll be at home but won't have any time during the day for anything other than work. It really is a bum-on-sit role admin role. - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks Jeff. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

oh guess Kaz doesn't need a baby sitter then. - Myrna

YAY! - Alix Whitmire

Yea! Congrats! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Yay!!! Hope I hear back from someone soon as well. - tomit from iPhone

Congratulations! - joey

Hehe, Myrna, he's staying right next to me. Thank goodness I can work from home. I'll still be able to walk the dog at lunchtime. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

ALix, :-) Thank you, Tut and Joey. - Kol Tregaskes

Tomit, good luck to you! - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats! - Bill Sanders

Thank you, Bill. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Whoo hoo! - Justin Korn from iPhone

Hehe, Justin. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations! - Brett Kelly

Thanks, Brett. - Kol Tregaskes

Yay for Kol. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Yay indeed, Jack. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

HURRAY!!! Congratulations!!! - Anna Lynn M.

Thank you, Anna. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Finally! Congratulations! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats:) - अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das

I am so happy for you! Congratulations! - Anne Bouey

oh wow!!! That's wonderful news...congratulations! I am so pleased for you! :)) - Emma

Thank you, Abhishek, Anne and Emma. :-) Emma, how about you? Any news? - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats! - Nation Hahn

yayyy.. congratulation :) - Gtp19

Thank you guys. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

awesome news , hope they extend the contract ,,, showing them your worth keeping - johnpiercy

congrats - Jaap Willem from fftogo

CONGRATS! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Awesome! - Rutger Blom

Good stuff Kol - hope even better things will follow on from this stint. - Patrick Jordan

Way to go Dude. Hope your good luck rubs off. - Brent - Loving Life

Congratulations! - Alex Scoble

Congrats! - Mike Reynolds

John, hope so but also hope that I can find a longer and better job in the meantime. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thatnks, Jaap, Dobromir. It certainly is, Rutger. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Me too, Patrick, Brent. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks, Mike. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

That's excellent, Kol. Congratulations. :D - Bette Cooper

Congrats! That's good news. - Alex Hellstrom

Thank you, Alex, Bette. Yeah great news. At last! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yay, Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :))) - Susan Beebe

yay - Caroline

Wow. Congratulations - James Myatt

That's wonderful news! - Kisha, Well Conditioned from BuddyFeed

Woo congrats Kol!! - Simon Wicks from iPhone

I haz congratz fer U :) - directeur

Congrats Kol! :) - Dee S.

Sweet, Kol, congrats! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Congrats man. I have an interview on Monday, wish me well :). Happy for you - LANjackal

congrats Kol. - Oğuz Serdar

CONGRATS - Bindu Reddy

Awesome!!! Congratulations to you Kol!!!!! - JA Castillo

Missed this...congratz man. Good luck with the new spot. - Carlos Ayala

CONGRATZ! I will hopefully be making a similar announcement in the near future. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

congrads, mr tregaskes - chaz2b

you deserve it, hope it's just the beginning! - Charlie Barone

Yay, nice one. - Timothy Griffin

Yay! So good to hear. Congrats! - SportyGeek Adj.

congratulations :) :)) - Sajida H Khan

Right on! - Jeremy Brooks

Congratulations! - LB - all new for '10!

Thank you, Susan, Caroline, James, Fikisha, Simon, directeur, Dee, LAN, Oguz, Bindu, JA, Carlos, Rah (I'm sure your announcement is not far off), Chaz, Charlie, Timothy, Sporty, Sajida, Jeremy and Laura. Gosh, thank you everyone! Hope I didn't miss anyone there? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Way to Go - Kim Landwehr

Kim, :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome! - CW™

Congrats, Kol! What a blessing! - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ from iPhone

Indeed, CW. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Chris, I couldn't agree more. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats! - Phil G

Congratulations! - Mona Nomura

That's just wonderful! - Bonnie Foster

Thank you, Phil and Mona. - Kol Tregaskes

CONGRATULATIONS, KOL!!! :-D - Ladybug Heather

Wahooo! Kol. - Micah Wittman

Congrats!!! - Lu Tao

Great news, I'm really happy for you. - Michael Fidler

Thank you, Heather, Micah, Lu and Michael. I celebrated by listening to the live ffundercats podcast for the first time ever: http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations Kol :) - Bhowmik Shah

Thank you, Bhowmik. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats Kol! - Amit Morson

Ta very much, Amit! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Hmm, bit late to the party but want to add my congrats anyway. Well done :) - Nicola Quinn

Hey, Nicola. Thank you very much! Hope you're well? - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats! - Ton Zijp

Thank you, Ton. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

YAY KOL!! Go kick some booty! - Helen Sventitsky

Congratulations :) - Vicey

Thank you guys! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

muchas gratzias Kol. - Mark Essel

Thanks, Mark. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats!! - Nicholas James

Congrats Kol ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I missed this earlier - congrats Kol! - Andy Bold

Thank you, Nicholas, Ahsan and Andy! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

CONGRATS!!!! - Live4Emma (L4S)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!! \\O// - rowlikeagirl

Thank you Carlos and rowlikeagirl. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yay, congratulations. It's nice to hear. And I hope you can soon move to your dream job, we talked about. :) - Carlina Xavier

Carlina, me too. Thank you very much! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah doing well thanks. What's this 'Johnny' business? - Nicola Quinn

Nicola, see Johnny's comment here: http://ff.im/5IIKz ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

lol got ya :) - Nicola Quinn

I thought this was your job - Noah David Simon

LOL, Noah. Alas not. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

That is great, and helps to give the rest of us a little hope. - R. Ferguson

Congratulations Kol!! - Dan Smith

Attaboy, Kol :) - Ivan Zuzak

Ruth, I hope so. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you, Dan and Ivan. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Nicola, see what Johnny has done: http://ff.im/5KCp0 :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats! I'm glad to see companies are still hiring. I'm still looking, but this is encouraging! - Danielle Closs

Congrats!! :) I'd have commented earlier but my only net access is via iPhone and I can't stomach the slowness enough to be checking up on ff as much as I used to. - alphaxion from iPhone

Danielle, thank you. It's an urgent requirement and only for 3 months but I'm not complaining. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

alpha, no worries. Thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

can you be my suger daddy - sofarsoShawn

Congrats Kol! Nice to have some money to pay the bills... - Mitchell Tsai

Hehe, Shawn. - Kol Tregaskes

Mitchell, it will be but I have a long wait, I get paid a month after my invoice is put in and that's a month away. So at least a 2 month wait! :-( - Kol Tregaskes

at the very least - could work on other income producers in the time - long time to wait but if the money is worth it, [correction sent to wrong one] - Ray Marr aka Knatchwa from IM

Raymond, much easier said than done. It's worth the wait. - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats, Kol! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Thank you, Thierry. - Kol Tregaskes

oh, sorry, I missed that - of course big congrats from me also, kol! I guess you had a super-weekend :) - esther ♥ ♫

Thank you, Esther. It was a far more worry-free weekend, for sure. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

AJ Batac

This image is messing with my brain - http://www.kottke.org/09...

June 4 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Felicia Yue, flaimo, Kol Tregaskes and 18 other people liked this

Wow, I really like that, it's interesting to look at... How is it messing with your brain? - Danielle Closs

Nope not messing with mine. It was just the post title. ;) - AJ Batac

M F to M's feed, British & Irish Residents

Dragonfly crop circle appears in Wiltshire - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...

June 4 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Rick Kaiser, Emma, Chieze Okoye and 24 other people liked this

"A 150ft long crop circle depicting a dragonfly has appeared in a barley field in the village of Yatesbury, Wiltshire." - M F from Bookmarklet

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I for one welcome our new 150ft long dragonfly overlords... - Johnny Worthington

And this is the jellyfish one (with video) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news... - M F

+1 Johnny. They're finally revealing themselves to us. - CAJ, somewhere else

Wow.... /speechless That is really cool. - Danielle Closs

Very cool indeed! - Kol Tregaskes

Kol Tregaskes

@anastasiavixen I have my feeds in FriendFeed now, so reading them in there and 'liking' the interesting stuff. :-)

June 2 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I've been thinking about doing that, but I like that I can separate the content by app. Maybe someday... - Danielle Closs

Kol Tregaskes

Just about to stop using Google Reader.

June 2 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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What's making you stop using it? - Danielle Closs

Lindsay is in 20-ten

flash card pack - El Paraguas by spacedogstudios - http://www.etsy.com/view_li...

June 2 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

edythe and Danielle Closs liked this

That's a cool idea... Need to make some of these for my kid... "Flash Packs are a small handmade books, measuring about 1.5 x 3.5 inches, with 30 blank sheets of heavy weight, blank white, bristol paper hanging on a metal ring. Designed to be used as flash card sets, these books are just the right size to carry in your pocket for memorization on the go. Learn that foreign language the old fashioned way, or study for an exam in style!" - Lindsay is in 20-ten from Bookmarklet

I made something like this for color schemes... - Danielle Closs

Tad is trying to teach Avynn some music theory, and we have the on-going battle with math... a few of these might come in handy for both of those. Also we go over the Japanese terminology with my Aikido kids, I wish I had time to make them each a book with the words in it... that would be cool. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Carmen - Happy 2010! to Carmen's feed, ART ROOMََََ

Inspiration: 35 amazing pieces of Lego art - http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009...

June 2 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Lars Clausen, Mladen Srdić, Kol Tregaskes and 12 other people liked this

Wow, I love the 300 one, it's more vibrant/active :) - Danielle Closs

(jeff)isageek

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers vs. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - http://www.flickchart.com/FB38F40...

May 26 from Flickchart - Comment - Like - Share

Nathan Chase, Kol Tregaskes, Flickchart and Jeremy Thompson liked this

oh this is a tough one.....NOT!!! :) Two Towers - (jeff)isageek

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yeah that one took all of a 1/2 second :) - (jeff)isageek

Is there ANY way these two films are in the same category? - Jared B. Luther

I agree, this is a no brainer... Two Towers FTW :) - Danielle Closs

Ugh.. Jesus, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sucked.. I walked out of that movie so disappointed. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Crystal Skull was the only Indy film where Indy could've skipped the entire thing and the plot would've concluded in exactly the same way. - Jeremy Thompson

Two Towers, Indy was ruined by the over the top ending. - Kol Tregaskes

Lord o/t Rings. - Ton Zijp

lotr2 - Fancy Fembot

2 Towers - Bryan R. Adams

Nick DeNardis

WTH? Im Driking Vernors? Did I just age 50 years in the last hour?

May 26 from Facebook - Comment - Like - Share

What's wrong with Vernors? - Danielle Closs

Hehe, for me it just reminds me of my great grandparents, it was the only pop they had in their house :-x I actually enjoyed it! - Nick DeNardis

Gabe

Colorado Calf Born With Two Spines, Seven Legs - http://www.foxnews.com/story...

May 26 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Lysender, Luca Sofri, vijay and 8 other people liked this

Spider-calf, spider-calf - Gabe from Bookmarklet

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too bad it doesnt have a better picture - bob

@bob, the calf only lived for 10 minutes, they probably couldn't get a better pic. - Danielle Closs

Why couldn't it have been born with extra filet parts? Like a second spine or something. Then we could finally prove evolution. - Andrew

Most probably it was supposed to be a twin or something. Weird. - Burcu Dogan

@Danielle, true but pictures taken after it stopped being alive would be similarly informative - its sufficiently different that without good pictures its hard to tell whats going on exactly - bob

Bill Romanos

A CD spectrometer - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zhuxj...

May 26 from StumbleUpon - Comment - Like - Share

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Very interesting :) - Danielle Closs

Tweet Feeds

From what people post on FriendFeed, I would guess that the average age range on FriendFeed is maybe 35 to 40. How old are you?

April 28 - Comment - Like - Share

Mitchell Tsai, Marko Saric, Micah Wittman and 61 other people liked this

23 - Dee S.

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37 - Alex Scoble

19 - Jalada

I'll be turning 43 in two weeks. - Bora Zivkovic

29 - acedanger

From what you chose as your avatar, I would guess you need to git off mah lawn! Damn kids! j/k. 35 - Rodfather

29 - Johnny Worthington

37 - Rob Sellen :o)

Above average -[ - Chris Loft

38 - DGentry

30 - Alix Whitmire

28 - Joe Pierce

27. - Rochelle

41. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

30 - Kamilah Gill

27. Damn it, I had a birthday a few weeks ago. 28. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

37 - AJ Kohn

30 - Justin Korn

33 - Michelle Martinez

Recently 38. - CAJ, somewhere else

46 - Kevin Johnson

34 (i think) - Amani

31 - Christian (Simply X)

32 - Penny

30 - Heather Solos

26 - Geoff Schultz

38 - chaz2b

33 - Jason Wehmhoener

30 - SAM

44 - Steve Lowe

34 - Kevin Whalen

I just turned 49, but I'm really 14. - jcunwired

35 - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I'm 73. Geez, I'm hanging out with kids here - Jack DeWitt Smith

43 - Eric Logan

24 next month - Penguin It's Cold Outside

31 - tomit from BuddyFeed

old fart here! 44 :) - BEX

40 - Alan Simpson

35 - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

29 - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

17 - Zach Flauaus

50 - mike "glemak" dunn

On an age-related note, my English teacher way back in HS had the same birthday as me. For some reason he didn't find it as amusing as I did when it turned out he was 34 when I was 17. :P - CAJ, somewhere else

52 - Paul from twhirl

32 - Rob Haas

27 - David Cook - 2010!!!

46 - Jeff P. Henderson

35 - Morton Fox

41 - ha3rvey (wants confit)

Mad props to @JackDeWittSmith... 73 and FriendFeeding! sweet! - .LAG liked that

25 Also what .LAG said. - vijay

36 - Derrick

26 - Alejandro

24. - mjc

41. I love not being average. I'm looking forward to being able to answer '42' to these questions :) - WorldofHiglet

35 - Bren -- Making Contact

I turn 40 in June - Bastard Operator From FF

Hi Bren! Long time no see! :) - WorldofHiglet

32 - Michael McKean

28 - Katie is Frittering

38 - holly

34 - Jason Toney

39 - Michael Hocter

32 Come October, interest to see the ranges. - Ray Marr aka Knatchwa

44 - Robert Scoble

34 - mikepk

31 - René Clausen Nielsen

42 - Mark Krynsky

41 - Andy Davies

23 - Dobromir Hadzhiev

32. - Kol Tregaskes

43 - Allen Harkleroad

26. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

51 - Mel Buckpitt

42 - Willem (@wim66) ☠ from twhirl

26 - Simon Wicks

28. - embee

34 - Fernando

16. I think I'm the youngest here :) - Bryce Roney

56 - Is this like an auction? I've just added anyone over 50 and Bryce R too. - Chris Loft

27 - James Myatt

23 - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

43 - April Russo (app103)

36years young :) - eric

44 - Sally Church

33-ish - Thomas Bøhm

25 - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

30 - Jamie Vidamour

35 - Brome

30 - Martin Bryant

42 - Niki Costantini

21 - Charlotte M

Will be 53 June 1st - Sharon McPherson

30 - jamar78

32 - clarke thomas

23 - Will Higgins™

31, but I act my shoe size of 10 1/2 :P - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

35 - I just made it ;) - Kim

58 - Greg Guitarbuster

34 - Dennis O'Neil

59 - Brian Sullivan

27 - Bec Rowe @d0tski

32 - I expect full statistics on this later, STDEV, STERR, Mean, Etc. - Matthew DeVries

33 - Danielle Closs

25 and @Jack DeWitt Smith, I think that is awesome. - Sarah Peterman

36 - ♥patricia♥

31 - mark

18 - Wesley Robin Guerrero

I'm 44. Just saw Jack DeWitt Smith's comment. Aweswomesauce! - Helen Sventitsky

37 - RAPatton

Dirt? We had to wait for dirt to be invented! - Michael R. Bernstein

I'm actually 39. - Michael R. Bernstein

28 - Bryan Clark

43 - Iain Baker

44 - Baard @ Pixum

32 - Carmen - Happy 2010!

31 - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

27 - tehKenny, Dork

21. - Daniel Rowley

26 - Guillermo Esteves

Older than my skin, and a little older than my teeth. - Steven Perez

60 VAL D. MAIONE - VAL D. Zone

27 for a little bit longer - chrisofspades

55 to raise the average... - François Granger

Okay, I can remove this now. It looks like that person got edited out. acedanger, I hope you're not implying that I can't respond to people making ignorant comments like that person did. - Kamilah Gill

30 - Shevonne

Older than that :) - Charlie Anzman

nice follow-up shevonne :P - acedanger

I've been 39 since 2002. - Pat Rice

I'm 38. m9m is 63. - Nine

26 - andy brudtkuhl

25 - Brian Bufalo

too close to 40 for comfort :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

18, looking forward to graphs of this poll. - Raphael, Raphael

ooh - yes! graphs, plz :) - WorldofHiglet

30 - orionstarr

average age so far: 34.7 - someone else can do the graphs ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

41 - Olivier Castets

61 - Tom Landini

45 - Ton Zijp

19 - Diego Espinoza V.

Come over to my site and answer the poll I setup: http://www.s-consulting.no/polls... - Frode Stenstrøm

38 - Lisa L. Seifert

45 - Robert Kenney

This is going to be analysis via populations creepy method of hitting on a metric assload of people at one time. His next thread is going to be /sex?/ and then a thread called /location, finally "what are you wearing". Dude is going to cyber with 600 of us at once. - Matthew DeVries

105 when i was your age we just had paper. - orionstarr

42, but my knees are 93 year old curmudgeons - William Harryman

35 - Mary DeSive

31 - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

29 - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

39 - Morten Breivik from twhirl

http://www.s-consulting.no/polls... - Frode Stenstrøm

32 - Jens Christian Freund

45 - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

43 - Daniel Cornwall

163 - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

"The curious case of Glen Campbell" - Micah Wittman

35 (12,943 Days) - Micah Wittman

58 ~ Loving it. - Russellreno

34 - Bill Romanos

49 - Pete Gilbert

51 Has anyone averaged these yet? - Mark Traphagen

25 - Ryan Dadey

Charlie Anzman, no fair! :) - jcunwired

Average: 34.5 (taking out a few centenarian peeps, and only counting entries that started with a number) - Micah Wittman

Meh, i'm 18, 19 soon. - Gordon Swaby

I'm 24....yall nosie as hell - Icecrush54

25 - Mo Kargas

39....I would expect that the demographic is very similar to that on Twitter. which is about 35-50 IIRC - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

46 - John D Reasor

46.75 - Mike Nencetti

51 - Molly

I'll be 39 on Monday. - Joey Gibson

23 - Jérôme Flipo

39 - Nathan Rein

41 - Thomas Hawk

50. but in my head, i'm 25 - Karoli

20 - Stanislas Jourdan

Oh, sorry, thought you were asking for IQ. I'm 48. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

This is a poll where I prefer to be below average. - Michael McKean

24 - Kirk

29 - Beau Liening

37 wheeh...avg at last. ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

26 - Brandon Mendelson

49 - big party at my place in September :) - Janet

24.5834 earth years. - Parth Awasthi

Never ask a lady her age! - LeighaB

134 in Internet years. - Chris Luckhardt

My poll at http://www.s-consulting.no/polls... shows that the avarege user is about 30 years. - Frode Stenstrøm

40 - Susan Beebe

34 - SolidSmack

31 - Jason Williams

22 =P - guilherme

35 - (jeff)isageek

27 - Darren Heydon

40 - Bryan R. Adams

43 - Rick Cogley

Hangin' on to 49 ... 50 on July 4. - Allison Kipta

53 and 5/12ths - I may be getting older but I refuse to grow up. - Brent - Loving Life

61 - Bonnie Foster

Danielle Closs

Is it time to leave insecure Adobe behind? - http://www.daniweb.com/blogs...

April 29 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Curious, what go you think? - Danielle Closs

tehKenny, Dork

Back by popular demand: last post in this thread wins.

February 9 - Comments disabled - Like - Share

mjc, Chris, Taskerrific Guy, Tatty Gibson and 55 other people liked this

THIRD! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

677 more comments

LAST - Nine

You seriously starting another of these? We already have the mammoth one that won't die. - Alex Scoble

I win! wait, oh....nevermind.... - Morgan Haley

I already called last, Alex >:( - Nine

STOP! - Steven Perez

Wins what? - ♥patricia♥

lalalala.. I'm still last - Nine

BOO! - Steven Perez

YADA YADA YADA. - Steven Perez

THIS SPACE FOR RENT. - Steven Perez

NARF! - Steven Perez

DAMN YOU, STEVEN PEREZ - Nine

YA! - Steven Perez

what's that? - AJ Batac

is this still going? - Morgan Haley

IT NEVER ENDS! - Steven Perez

Ha ha, everyone is going to comment on this thread now, it's genius! :) - Danielle Closs

CTRL-ALT-DEL. - Steven Perez

hello? is this thing on? - Morgan Haley

SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH. - Steven Perez

I LIKE PIE. - Steven Perez

42 - LogEx

WASH YOUR HANDS. - Steven Perez

NIN - Outsanity

KILL DA WABBIT. - Steven Perez

I like Steven Perez because he likes pie. - Alex Scoble

THAT'S MY RED STAPLER. - Steven Perez

Hahah this thread cannot end well - Roberto Bonini

(Why, yes, I would like another Red Bull, please.) - Steven Perez

ROSE BUD - JA Castillo

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? - Steven Perez

I AM SPARTACUS. - Steven Perez

WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT. - Steven Perez

MY GOD IT'S FULL OF STARS. - Steven Perez

WHAT WOULD JESUS DRIVE? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

MY HOUND HATH NO NOSE. - Steven Perez

I AM THE WAY AND THE LIGHT. - Steven Perez

What's a SLUB?! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US - JA Castillo

TIME FOR LUNCH. - Steven Perez

I'm not wearing any pants. - Ben Jackson from twhirl

hey! look over there! it's a hairless dog! *sits down at the end of the post* - Morgan Haley

DON'T TASE ME, BRO! - JA Castillo

If it's tread does that mean we're all in a rut? - Admiral Anika

there's still time to edit: "tread" - AJ Batac

Hmmm do I get a cookie if I'm last? :) - Danielle Closs

Can I come back in a year and trump? - Craig Eddy

*stands in the doorway of the thread* 'buh-bye. bye now. bye! goodbye. bye-bye. toodles. no, thank YOU! buhbye! - Morgan Haley

no time limit? - Kenton

Yay Me! - Morgan Haley

No he doesn't...I contest the result to the supreme court which I, of course, have in my pocket. They declared me the winner! Take that Al Gore! - Alex Scoble

What have I done? :::commits seppaku::: - tehKenny, Dork

I'm sorry sir, you are going to have to exit the thread now...Sir? SIR!!! - Morgan Haley

Nothing to see here, ya lookieloos! - Alex Scoble

I officially declare this the final comment. - Joey Gibson

look over there! --> - Simon Wicks

Excuse me sir? Did you drop this? - Morgan Haley

*waves arms wildly* - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

FALCON PUNCH!!! - Alfredo

DOH! - CW™

I win - Craig Eddy

No you don't. - Nine

Duck Season! - tehKenny, Dork

A copy of the home game "Pointless FriendFeed Thread tehKenny just made up!" - tehKenny, Dork

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... <- last comment sorted alphabetically. I win! - ·[▪_▪]·

I called "last" all the way back at the start, y'all. Keep going all you like. Because, if you take it literally "The LAST comment in this thread wins". My comment was "Last". - Nine

Me, me, me! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

You know, Nine has a point there. - Jason Wehmhoener

*waves hand like a Jedi* This is not the thread you want to comment on. - Phoenix

This thread is going to go on FOR-EV-ER! - Danielle Closs

Tread? - Jordan Hofker

Alex is eating lunch. - Alex Scoble

It's dead, Jim. - ha3rvey (wants confit)

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! - tehKenny, Dork

-------------------------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------------------------- >8 - LouCypher

last - Nine

NUTELLA RULEZ! PEANUT BUTTER DROOLZ! - Steven Perez

It appears that someone is eating my comments. - Alex Scoble

DAMN THE TORPEDOES. FULL SPEED AHEAD. - Steven Perez

AND SHE'S BUYING A STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. - Steven Perez

Picture comments in Friendfeed = 4Chan. - tehKenny, Dork

MAMMA MIA MAMMA MIA!!! - AJ Batac

CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? - ha3rvey (wants confit)

MUST ... HAVE ... THE PRECIOUS! - Steven Perez

First! - AJ Batac

Not even close. - Alex Scoble

Pizang! - Alex Scoble

fully expect this thread to still be going on in the morning - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

If it's not still going in 5 days, it's a massive friendfeed FAIL - Alex Scoble

HA! I'm gonna crash friendfeed right now! - Meryn Stol

Oh no I know, I'm just gonna hide the thread. Got you now! - Meryn Stol

Crash? What be that? - tehKenny, Dork

Sorry but your hide button has been hidden. - Alex Scoble

I just ate a chocolate eclair - Matt Harwood

I predict someone will need to gas up this thread at around 115 Comms., based on past mileage. - Micah Wittman

Huh?? What crash? I can't bother expanding the comments. - Roberto Bonini

This thread is already the most commented thread for the day. - Alex Scoble

The next person to comment after me is a complete failure and will never amount to anything (still wanna post, ey?) - Matt Harwood

Not even close, Matt. I have my failure shields up. - Alex Scoble

Matt: May you live in interesting times. :) - Roberto Bonini

Bahhhh! Worth a try I guess. Reminds me of when school kids used to say "Twats Say What" really quick, of course... you could do nothing but say What?! ;) - Matt Harwood

:) - Danielle Closs

i win! - Cardeen Martinez

iWould Die4 U - Josh Haley

The Cake is a Lie - CW™

there was cayke?! - Simon Wicks

*Fillup* ... *Windshield Wash* ... *Fresh Tires* ... *GO! GO! GO!* - Micah Wittman

The end. (Hey, it's worth a try.) - Ontario Emperor

Not yet. - Alex Scoble

I like Puppies - CW™

I like dollar cost averaging. - Alex Scoble

Who doesn't like puppies? - Jason Wehmhoener

Something non-sequitor - Josh Haley

I like puppies, but I like kittens the most. - Alex Scoble

Why do like dollar costs averageing, Alex? - Roberto Bonini

It's a good way to minimize risk buying in to a down market or selling in to an up market. Since you never know where the bottom or top is. - Alex Scoble

I agree in principal but disagree with the statement - CW™

That makes no sense, Chris. - Alex Scoble

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? I googled "Who will win this thread" - Lo and behold an automotive forum thread was started March 2, 2006, has 3 comments just today (Feb 9, 2009), and has 975 comment pages totaling over ==> 14,600 COMMENTS <=== (and counting) http://forums.motortrend.com/70... - Micah Wittman

Exactly - CW™

Well. Seems we have our work cut us for us, then. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

so im last ? - Simon Wicks

ME! - Brandy Lea

wasnt me then, my bad - Simon Wicks

How many times will I post a comment in this thread?? - CW™

anybody else hear that dripping sound? - Morgan Haley

Bookmarking now and putting a reminder to check in a few weeks. - Rob Haas

is this a race? - Live4Emma (L4S)

It's a race with no end. - Joey Gibson

So, more of a death march, then? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I have a bad feeling about this ... - timepilot

*singing* 'always and forever...' - Morgan Haley

Let's get this party started for real this time. American Football, Baseball, AND Basketball are all complete rubbish. You may create your mosh pit now - Matt Harwood

no mosh pit, circle pit!! - Simon Wicks

As US citizen I completely agree with Mr. Harwood. European Syncronized Diving (football) is the only real sport. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I agree, Matt. Formula 1 FTW! - Alex Scoble

Ok folks! That's it! Drink up and get out! You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here! Everybody out! Thanks for coming! See you tomorrow. Don't worry, I'll lock up.... - Morgan Haley

Someone tried this on Fark once, And Drew/Mike/Some coder there set up their post to always be at the bottom with a 1 second later time stamp than the latest post. - Matthew DeVries

Hrm...it's possible this thread will never die - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Matthew: wow, really? - Morgan Haley

Morgan, you can take a break now - AJ Batac

Oh noes, an 'h' snuck into the title. =P - Admiral Anika

Somthing like that Mark. - Roberto Bonini

somebody call me? no? huh...that's weird... - Morgan Haley

ROFL - Alex Scoble

I concur - Morgan Haley

It ain't over 'til it's over. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

cue the fat lady - Morgan Haley

Worst. Thread. Ever. (in the voice of comic book guy from Simpsons) - David Bisset (sn)

And that's the news for tonight. Good night America. - Morgan Haley

oh i go this! - Live4Emma (L4S)

YOU'VE GOT TO GET MAD. - Steven Perez

*drops pants* - Johnny Worthington

Wake me up before you go go. - Morgan Haley

You had me at tread... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

this thread is awesome - andy brudtkuhl

I'm not even going to bother to participate in this obvious attempt at comment-baiting. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

I'M MAD AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!! - Matt Harwood

Who? - Steven Perez

*Picks up his ball* 'Screw you guys! I'm going home!' - Morgan Haley

seriously guys, I GOT THIS - Live4Emma (L4S)

CAN YOU DIG IT? - Steven Perez

"Tatsumaki-Senpuu-Kyaku"... YOU WIN!.... Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding... Da-Na-Da... Vrooom... - Johnny Worthington

ROFL - Alex Scoble

Seriously Flippity....UNDER CONTROL - Live4Emma (L4S)

Thank you Fans!! We love you!!! Good night! - Morgan Haley

Is this thing on... *tap tap* - Far

No...it isn't. Stop talking in to it. It's a banana anyhow. - Alex Scoble

Will this thread ever finish? I - Johnny Worthington

Bam! - Holger Eilhard

Will this thread ever end? I'll discuss it here: - Johnny Worthington

look it, y'all...IT'S SECURE...I GOT IT - Live4Emma (L4S)

1. No - Johnny Worthington

But L4S, are you sure? If not, more than willing to step in and take charge of this - Matt Harwood

Humbuckers! - Alex Scoble

i went away for a while, has anyone won yet ? - Simon Wicks

tehKenny “The last comment in this t*h*read wins. GO!” 4 hours ago - Comment - Like - Hide - More Josh Haley, ·[▪_▪]·, Haggis (Sean), Rahsheen ™, AJ Batac, Steven Perez, Alex Scoble, Far, andy brudtkuhl, Ontario Emperor, Ethan Baker, LouCypher, Kol Tregaskes, VC Freak, Alfredo, Simon Wicks, Just Katie, Ben Jackson, Morton Fox and Morgan Haley liked this - Johnny Worthington

Johnny won! Congrats! - Live4Emma (L4S)

I am clear to take the shot! I'm taking the shot! Fox 1! - Morgan Haley

It's just another Manic Monday.... OHHOOOOOOHHH - AJ Batac

Boobs - Johnny Worthington

SHE'S A SUPER FREAK, SUPER FREAK - Matt Harwood

A LONG TIME AGO, IN A FF THREAD FAR, FAR TOO LONG...... - Morgan Haley

i give up - Live4Emma (L4S)

*burp* - CW™

im watching xmen, what are you doing? - Simon Wicks

I admire the sticktoittiveness that you are all showing... but i must warn you...i have no life and winning this is the only thing I got keeping hope alive....come on man, please! just please let me have this one tiny little victory....please!!! - Morgan Haley

pish - Nathan Rein

I 'pish' on your grave Nathan! :-) - Morgan Haley

The day, the MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSIC DIED - Matt Harwood

Pfft :p - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

ok, i guess i'll just let you guys have this one...i'm gonna leave now...good luck...bye....*footsteps get fainter*.... - Morgan Haley

Oh no, not this again. - Carmen - Happy 2010!

i know...it's almost sad now...the pathetic little attempts to post *anything!* sheesh... - Morgan Haley

*runs after Morgan to give worldly advice in a Morgan Freeman voice - Matt Harwood

*sits down to listen to the advice offered by Matt "Morgan Freeman voice" Harwood - Morgan Haley

Oh my God. My Internet went down. Came back up.... AND THE TREAD IS STILL ON! - tehKenny, Dork

Well now, I remember when I was a boy, and I came to a crossroad in my life, similar to you. You see Morgan, there's no greater destiny, no greater accomplishment in life, than writing the last comment. Now my thread, my thread died. But yours, yours will succeed. Now fetch me a sandwich. - Matt Harwood

*Rises up with a renewed sense of purpose. Fetches a sandwich for Mr. Freeman. Realizes that there can be only one. One final comment. One victor. **begin training montage to 'Jukebox Hero' by Foreigner...** - Morgan Haley

BLOODSPORT II: FRIENDFEED. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

*Enjoys sandwich* Thank you, partner - Matt Harwood

you are welcome. but please don't comment after me on this thread. i'm trying to win a free trip to Japan with my band class. - Morgan Haley

Japan is awesomesauce! I want some miso negi ramen! - Alex Scoble

b-cuz - Morgan Haley

SECOND! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Wind? - Alex Scoble

whats this doing all the way down here ? - Simon Wicks

That's what she said... - Johnny Worthington

and DEEP too! - Morgan Haley

hahaha brilliant idea :) - Zee.

Danged if I know. - Alex Scoble

The last comment in this t*h*read wins - CW™

Is any one getting this on video? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

No, Mark, no one is getting it on with their video...oh wait, what? - Alex Scoble

game on! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

FIRST! EDIT: LAST! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Everyone comments after John. - Alex Scoble

I'm usually a thread killer... maybe i'll win! - Jason

I am bowing out of this thread. Good luck all you peeps. - Morgan Haley

John who? - Jeremy Brooks

Which John? - Admiral Anika

Me? - Johnny Worthington

I'll believe that when I see it, Morgan. - Alex Scoble

im scared to hit the 242 more comments button - Simon Wicks

Which thread? This thread? - Lisa L. Seifert

No, your other thread, Lisa. - Alex Scoble

Oh. Thanks, Alex. - Lisa L. Seifert

You guys are sooooooo immature, I'm going to end this right now with my comment (hehehheee) - sofarsoShawn

LANDSHARK - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Candygram. - Alex Scoble

WAAAASSSAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUP! - Steven Perez

WAAASSSSAAAABBBIIIIII! - Alex Scoble

Hut 1, Hut 2, Hut 3, HUT! Old Dirty Bastard, Live and Uncut! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Stop. I win. - Lisa L. Seifert

Nuh-uh, I do. - Admiral Anika

Hooooooooold on just a second... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

DAMN YOU, JILL & ANIKA! *shakes fist* Edit: and Mark. *cough* - Lisa L. Seifert

I just realized why Friendfeed comments don't allow white space: ASCII art. - Jason Wehmhoener

Don't try to change the subject Jason. And Lisa, :P - Admiral Anika

Give it up. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Not in this lifetime, Glen. :) - Alex Scoble

There was a subject? - Jason Wehmhoener

Glen, you're not the boss of me! >.< - Admiral Anika

Hello. I've come for an arguement. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Hahaha, omg, 269 comments now? It's the neverending thread... - Danielle Closs

The only way to win is not to play. - Andrew C

Still has a ways to go. It will never get to 560. - Alex Scoble

It will eventually stall out like this thread http://friendfeed.com/e... - Alex Scoble

pish - Nathan Rein

is there a time limit? - Simon Wicks

When it stops showing up on the front page. - Alex Scoble

what do i win? - Trent Olson

Carolanne! Go to the light! All Welcome! - Morgan Haley

You actually have to have the last post, ever...to win....welcome to the Thunderdome. - Alex Scoble

Are we there yet? - Morton Fox

i'm going to bed. i hope this is still here when i get back. I trust you my overseas friendfeeders. - Simon Wicks

Just around the corner, Morton. Put your seatbelt back on. - Lisa L. Seifert

it lingers like the smell of wet dog - Morgan Haley

Is this a secret way to get us all to test hide? - Robert Scoble

You mean you haven't hidden this post yet, Robert? Isn't this type of thing the very definition of noise to you? - Alex Scoble

I believe this is a total waste of time and resources that could be used in making me cake. Now get to it! - CW™

Let them eat thread! - Morgan Haley

I feel victorious. - Andru Edwards

Andru: yeah, you and everyone else! - Morgan Haley

I win!! :) - Susan Beebe

Nope, sorry. :-D - Jordan Hofker

BOOOOOYAAAAA! GIMME DA LOOT! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I'm the winnnna!!!! - Mathew™ one of a kind

No your not. - CW™

uh. HAI! what did I win? - Trish Haley

If post after me, I WILL CUT YOU! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Yes you will! - CW™

I think I need a surgeon.. - CW™

I think I need to win this thread war. - Alex Scoble

position claiming comment - Morgan Haley

Great! Now all suckers line up after this one ;) - Ashish Rangole

You calling me a sucker? - CW™

Oh my.. 315 comments! - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

damnit i didn't win - Cardeen Martinez

tehKenny wins? - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Can someone please explain tentacle porn to me? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

NUTELLA! - Steven Perez

Yes, I declare Gabe the winner. - Admiral Anika

comment - JA Castillo

I don't think this thread will ever end, here's why. - coldbrew

I DON'T WANNA WIN!!!!! - vijay

Don't worry Vijay, I already declared Gabe the winner. - Admiral Anika

What thread? - Amit Nangare

What do I win? I don't want to participate till I read all the terms and conditions (no purchase necessary, void where prohibited except on Tuesdays and Thursdays, etc..). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I'm down with a mango. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

WINNER! - Mathew™ one of a kind

A winner is me! - Tad

Tad loses! I win! - Jeremy Brooks

I warn you. I won a previous thread-killing thread (http://friendfeed.com/e...). I'll keep commenting, and commenting, and commenting. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I just posted another comment to demonstrate that I'll keep commenting. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

It's like a staring contest, and my eyes do not dry out. Well they do, but I just suck it up. - Jeremy Brooks

Is this over yet? - Jason

No...it's not. - Alex Scoble

Not yet. - Vince DeGeorge

Is there a limit to comments in FF? What's the highest you've seen? - David Bisset (sn)

We have no idea, Bisset...and like 555 is the most we've seen. - Alex Scoble

Hello Dolly - CW™

O HAI - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

The next comment will be the one directly after mine. Seriously. - Derrick Burns

Word. - Alex Scoble

Anyone win yet? - Jordan Hofker

Nope. - Alex Scoble

oh - Tamar Weinberg

FTW - Darren Heydon

This is the thread that never ends, and it goes on and on my friends - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

It will probably last well beyond just the nighttime, Jill. - Tamar Weinberg

IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK? - ha3rvey (wants confit)

comment comment comment - Jeremy Brooks

Whatevsies. - felicious

44,000+ comments (going since Aug 2001), named " This thread now has its own gravitational field " http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums... - Micah Wittman

what do I win? - Bryan Clark

tentacle pron? does that involve cthulu? - Trent Olson

>YAWN< - ha3rvey (wants confit)

Whoa. A forum dedicated to Rush (yes, that one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ) has a thread starting with "I'm Bored" which is up to 412,374 posts http://www.rushmessageboard.com/cpmb... Back-story here: http://www.urch.com/forums... - Micah Wittman

Rush rules!! - Josh Haley

morning you suckers, still trying to win? - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Throw out your hands. Stick out your tush. Hands on your hips. Give 'em a push. You'll be surprised, you're doing the French mistake....Voila! - .LAG liked that

*p00p* - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

this is madness! - Mladen Srdić

No it isn't. Congress is madness - CW™

FIRST! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Heh. - Roshni

We're gunning for a new record in # of comments, a record that this post has (550): http://friendfeed.com/e... - Hutch Carpenter

i hear jerusalem bells a' ringing, roman cavalry choirs a' singing... - .LAG liked that

*THIS THREAD HAS BEEN LOCKED/UNDER MODERATION.* Please "Hide" - Andrew Smith

Josh with his "Rush Rules", and then -crickets- for 45 minutes. I was staring at it and simple couldn't comment further. It had its own force shield. - Micah Wittman

Sir, Yes Sir! No problem! Will HIDE immediately. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I LIKE PUDDING. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Bacoonnn!!!! - Alemsah Ozturk

Somebody's trying to break Friendfeed - bad! :P - Susan Beebe

What... Huh... Where am I? - Brian Roy

393 comments? That's it? :p - Josh Haley

i kissed a girl. and i liked it! - .LAG liked that

*I'm* not gonna break friendfeed. - Trent Olson

Serious? I need to find a chick to kiss...lol - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

:P'''''' - CW™

( | ) - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

http://friendfeed.com/e... - Johnny Worthington

Damn straight Christopher - Threepwood

I'm not budging - sofarsoShawn

you're no stranger to love. you know the rules...and so, do, i!!!! - .LAG liked that

bwaaahhha ha ha!!! ... oh sh!t... no wait - "last" - I win... - =SNAZ= from twhirl

the secret to everlasting FF posts....:) - WorldofHiglet

A NEW CAR! dat dat dunnuuuh! dat dat dunnuuuh! dat dat da diiih dadiiih dadiiih dat dat dat daaaah - Josh Haley

you guys stink, like poo, I almost clinched it w/ flippity - sofarsoShawn

Andrew edges into the lead.... - Andrew Terry

And alemsah reaches for the stars!!! - Alemsah Ozturk

:) - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau

Holy crap that was a good idea! - Ciaoenrico

I wonder how many comments will end up here...? :) - Andrew Terry

Its still alive! - Simon Wicks

*Bump* - Tyson Key

rats..! I thought I had this in the bag... please stop adding comments!!! :-) - Andrew Terry

Never! - Vince DeGeorge

allo! - sofarsoShawn

46 mins and no new comments. do i win? - Simon Wicks

pish - Nathan Rein

If you love stupid and mean people that eat kittens and park in your spot, comment anything below this comment. - Jemm

Bump again - Baard @ Pixum

FTW - Joe Dawson

Comments are now closed. - Phil Boiarski

Ok... move along. Nothing here to see. - AJ Batac

The masked commenter strikes again! - Alex Scoble

you know what? - Simon Wicks

We're going for broke! - Tyson Key

this thread sucks! - Tamar Weinberg

wow! that's a lot of comments - Bryan Clark

What? - tehKenny, Dork

Only 1,000,945,323 to go! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Whee! Lalalala - Tyson Key

I wonder if there's a limit to the number of comments? 2^32? - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Could this thread eventually suck FriendFeed into a wormhole and break the space-time continuum? - Tyson Key

I'm not giving up - Hutch Carpenter

What's the prize? Oh wait, don't anyone answer that.... - Kevin C. Tofel

The next person who comments is a big poo poo head. - Tad

The next person to post is a poopy-head. (Pass the loot!) - david beckwith

Gabe already won! >.< - Admiral Anika

Heh; david called Anika a poopy-head... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Does this thread have the most comments evar? - B. Hatin

*Castle Thunder* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Micah Wittman

I thought it was a rule that only Scoble could have threads this long. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Have you ever seen tehKenny and scobleizer together in the same room? Exactly. - Micah Wittman

I have just been compared with a Scoble... AND it's not the "Alex" one? What have I done? - tehKenny, Dork

@tehKenny just be happy it wasn't Maryam... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

do i win? - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

Maybe. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

JD - No. - Russellreno

@tehKenny/scobleizer I'm afraid you spawned a FriendFeed -inside- a single thread. That's right, a "µFF" service. For better or for worse (*danger* ...http://www.fborfw.com/strip_f... ) - Micah Wittman

No one wins. We all win. It's the same thing. - Alex Scoble

Yo dawg, I heard you like to Friendfeed, so I put a Friendfeed in your Friendfeed so you can Friendfeed while you Friendfeed. - Jason Wehmhoener

So, Alex... FriendFeed is zero-sum? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Zero-sum or infinity-sum? You decide. As long as Tyson has time to burn, we all win by virtue of his "likes". - Alex Scoble

One day, the world will click on the link to open the rest of the comments, while pleading "Save us!", and FriendFeed will simply answer "No." - Josh Haley

I only have 425 comments! Look like blocking changes out what numbers you see. - Admiral Anika

@Josh while black ink spreads across the FF logo. - vijay

This thing is still goin? - andy brudtkuhl

@andy No, it isn't. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

never gonna give you up. never gonna set you down. never gonna run around. and. hurt. you! - .LAG liked that

<('-'<) ^('-')^ (>'-')> KIRBY DANCE!!!!! - Alfredo

We're a competitive bunch, eh? - Jordan Hofker

FALCON PUNCH!!! yes we are - Alfredo

then get the heck outta here ;) - Alfredo

SHORYUKEN!!!!! how bout now? - Alfredo

I concur with Flippity. - vijay

I disagree. I'll discuss it here: - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I agree with Flippity and vijay. - Admiral Anika

Hi Jilly! Much better. I'm healing up pretty fast. :) - vijay

483 - Simon Wicks

What does one win? - Ian May

Absolutely Jilly :) I think I've had enough extreme sports action to last a long time =P - vijay

Hrmmm... Just realized I had yet to click 'Like.' - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Mark, thanks for reminding me to *like* this myself. - vijay

WHAT! - Steven Perez

DAMN YOU STEVEN PEREZ!!!! - vijay

she's alright. she's alright. that girl's alright...with me... yeah! - .LAG liked that

But way better! - Alex Scoble

This challenge is like a puffer train in the game of Life (as in cellular automata). It is structured to go on forever. Does FF have the server capacity to handle an infinite thread? - Tim Ostler

Somewhere soon a database table is going to cry. - David Bisset (sn)

This thread is still going???????? I think they do, but don't blame me for a buffer overflow. - Roberto Bonini

This thread is pretty close to catching up to the other never-ending thread. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Alex Scoble

Comment #501. - Joey Gibson

I WAZ HERE - Shey, Jamaican of FF

NO YOU WUZN'T! - Alex Scoble

IZ HERE - Canada's Web Shop

OH HAI! I CAN HAZ REKURD? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

No way Mark! -

Stabbity! - Alex Scoble

The last comment. - Phil Boiarski

This is the thread that never ends. It just goes on and on my friend. Some people started writing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue writing it forever just because this is the thread that never ends... - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

I SEE LONDON, ... - Steven Perez

"The last comment in this thread" - Phil Boiarski

I SEE FRANCE. - Admiral Anika

Hey i see france every day. They are a lot closer. ;) - Roberto Bonini

I SEE FRANCE - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I'M NOT WEARING UNDERPANTS - Alan Simpson

MY EYES MY EYES..... - Roberto Bonini

[ogles Alan's love sac] - Admiral Anika

Wow Anika, just wow :) - Mattb4rd

Mark and Anika, I'm IN FRANCE. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

You better watch out Matt, or I'll start ogling yours too. ;P - Admiral Anika

:p - cjmart

DAMN YOU TIM GEITHNER! - Alex Scoble

pssst, I'm getting my hair did - sofarsoShawn

It's done, not did you dolt. - Roberto Bonini

I come from the hood man, watch it! - sofarsoShawn

This is still going on? Wow. Keep up the good work all! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

I just can't read 523 posts! - Kelly W.

Just kidding. :) - Roberto Bonini

chupacabra - Alfredo

I have chicken in my teeth. - Admiral Anika

"OOOOOOHHHH YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" ~ Cool-Aid Man - Alfredo

My cat's breath smells like cat food. - Tad

pish - Nathan Rein

It's "Kool-Aid". LOL - Admiral Anika

"OOOOOOHHHH YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" ~ Kool-Aid Man (fixed ^_^ ) - Alfredo

Never quit! Never surrender! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

sorry, that won't do - sofarsoShawn

Me? Why thank you. I'll use my powers for evil...er...I mean good. - Admiral Anika

YOU CAN'T STOP A MOVING TRAIN. - Nine

What about the kool-aid? - Roberto Bonini

You must be joking. This thread is far from over. - Alex Scoble

I won't accept that. -

"OOOOOOHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" ~ Kool-Aid Man - Alfredo

I demand a recount. - ronin

when did the new title come around? - Simon Wicks

I'm sorry, but as the king of England I do not recognize this victory. - Alex Scoble

When I frickin' FELT like it, Simon. :P :) - tehKenny, Dork

“The following thread will go on. But just so you know Anika won.” ~ BLASPHEMY - Alfredo

tehKenny has had his power to determine the winner of this thread stripped by the authority vested in the friendfeedosphere. Sorry man, but it's the last person who comments on this thread, ever. Not who you determine is the winner. - Alex Scoble

Why did Anika win?? - Roberto Bonini

I CALL SECOND!!!! SHORYUKEN!!!!! - Alfredo

*crickets* - Alfredo

Second? You have no authority to make these rules! I proclaim your rules to be weaksauce! - Alex Scoble

aOh good Lord, I finally opened up this thread AND read it. My scroll finger hurts and y'all are crazy. - Admiral Anika

and what's the prize anyways? - WorldofHiglet

I don't even bother opening the thread. Don't want RSI. - Roberto Bonini

Bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop! - Alex Scoble

HEY! You can't take away my title. I WUZ ROBBED!! - Admiral Anika

Click here http://friendfeed.com/e... and you won't go further, thus this comment is really the last one :) - directeur

This thread brought to you by Mathew Ballard's photography on Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Mathew™ one of a kind

Nice try, directeur...I'm too clever to fall for your schemes. - Alex Scoble

http://friendfeed.com/e... - Alfredo

I want my title back. QQ - Admiral Anika

27 hours and it's at #3 best of month .... - tehKenny, Dork

Nyah nyeah nyean yeah! - Alex Scoble

I believe that this is now the most commeented thread of all time!!!! - Alex Scoble

We're only at #3? Come on, we can do better than that! Let's be #1 of all time! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

last, last , laaast! - Alemsah Ozturk

pish - Nathan Rein

Not last. - Alex Scoble

I'm a little scared to load the 569 more comments. O.O - Kevykev

We are at #1 of all time. - Alex Scoble

It's okay Kevykev. It's painful. *less* I mean painless. - Admiral Anika

Bleem bleem bleem bleem bleem! - Alex Scoble

<('-'<) ^('-')^ (>'-')> KIRBY DANCE!!!! - Alfredo

Alfredo: You sir just made my day. Kirby FTW! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Okay, I'm willing to *share* my stolen title with Alfredo for the Kirby dance. AWESOME. - Admiral Anika

Yay! - Alfredo

*zoink* - Alex Scoble

this is evil. pure evil. - Chieze Okoye

which post? - Jesse Stay

pish - Nathan Rein

damn, I thought I had that. - Chieze Okoye

someone say something? - Simon Wicks

*chirp* *chirp* - Alex Scoble

Wow, I think this sucker is up to or passed 600 comments now. - Alex Scoble

pish - Nathan Rein

Bloody hell. - Joey Gibson

OMGWTFBBQ - Steven Perez

wow this is close to 600 comments now :) - Susan Beebe

According to FFHolic this will be the 607th comment. - Alex Scoble

when you were mine, i gave you all of my money. you were so fine. you did me wrong! - .LAG liked that

600! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Your comment was actually 609, Mark. This is 611. - Alex Scoble

Mark frowns upon those who tell others how to count on FriendFeed. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

You frown a lot, Mark. Your cat is not amused. - Alex Scoble

gonna go for it again. - Chieze Okoye

Nice try. - Alex Scoble

It is now 11:22 AM PST. If no one comments on this thread by 11:30 AM PST (you have 8 minutes) I declare myself the winner of this thread. - Alex Scoble

It is now 11:31 AM PST. You did not post anything. I did. So I win. Thanks for playing. This contest is now over! - Alex Scoble

I love being king of the internets. - Alex Scoble

I must get my PRECIOUS from the fat one! - Morgan Haley

I'm not liking where this is headed. - Alex Scoble

*streaks* - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Mine! - Alex Scoble

Don't challenge me. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Mine! - Alex Scoble

Hrmm - Rob Haas

What's the prize? - Anthony K. Valley ©

Oh, OK. Internet fame. Is that good? - Anthony K. Valley ©

Mine! - Alex Scoble

Not any more! BOOYAH! - Chieze Okoye

Mine, again. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Mine! - Alex Scoble

Kol's - Anthony K. Valley ©

Nope... Alex's - Anthony K. Valley ©

This is never going to end. - Chieze Okoye

I believe that you are right, Chieze. - Alex Scoble

uh... - Josh Haley

Win - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

sweet - Josh Haley

Oh no you don't Haley! - Johnny Worthington

*belch* - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Oh noes! It's teh Bec Rowe and her power belching from down under! Somebody save us! - Anthony K. Valley ©

600 comments! - Alex Scoble

and then some - Josh Haley

still going, huh? - Chieze Okoye

Yup. - Alex Scoble

80085 - Josh Haley

No. Way. - LogEx

Nup - Mo Kargas

Never will die. - Mike Nayyar

Losers :oP - Katie is Frittering

ICE CUBE RAWKS. - Steven Perez

*dances* - Mo Kargas

DAMN ME STEVEN PEREZ! - Steven Perez

Kilroy was here. - Alex Scoble

pish - Nathan Rein

posh - Alex Scoble

I win! :) - Susan Beebe

no - Nathan Rein

No one wins...not today. - Alex Scoble

Considering that I'm the last person to comment in this thread for over 24 hours, I hereby, once again, declare myself the winner. - Alex Scoble

But by doing so of course, you have re-ignited the contest. Catch-22. - LogEx

Well it's obvious which of us is OCD. - Alex Scoble

I like macaroni. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Lets get to 666 - Josh Haley

NOT AGAIN!!!! - Steven Perez

Bork bork bork bork! - Alex Scoble

666!!!!! This Thread is now offically EEEEEEEEEEVIL! No! The power of Scoble COMPELS YOU! The power of SCOBLE COMPELS YOU! - tehKenny, Dork

gib it up, folks - Nathan Rein

Aww, Nathan...I didn't get a chance to post to this yet! - Scott of Two Countries

bam! - Chieze Okoye

This thread isn't evil. This thread is full of WIN! - Alex Scoble

pish posh - Nathan Rein

Gak. - Alex Scoble

non - Josh Haley

la derriere, c'est moi - Nathan Rein

I got your derriere right here - Josh Haley

i meant dernière, i think - Nathan Rein

Still mine, I'm afraid. - Alex Scoble

pish - Nathan Rein

Mine! Get off! - Alex Scoble

non - Josh Haley

DAMN YOU STEVEN PEREZ! - Alex Scoble

I win? - Matthew DeVries

Nope. - Alex Scoble

:p - Josh Haley

Heh, Josh. - Alex Scoble

684. - Alex Scoble

There was once a thread like this on Fark, that got so big everytime anyone would call it, it would kill the servers, they eventually just had to kill it. - Matthew DeVries

win - Josh Haley

these guys are smoking this thread anyway http://friendfeed.com/e... - Josh Haley

Yeah, this thread is weaksauce now. :( - Alex Scoble

BEEP - Aaron Baer

oops, just BUMPed into this thread. I cant believe this is still floating around - Threepwood

shouldn't feed this. this is madness. I think you set a record, tehKenny. I'm probably the 50th person to say so... a bit scared to open & see, but I will..... ok, no, amended per what Micah said. 14,600????? good luck touching that one. you set an FF record though, for sure - Kamilah Gill

I'm still here. - Alex Scoble

I win - Tyler (Chacha)

try again Chacha! - embee

You woke me up! - Simon Wicks

Watchmen - AJ Batac

why not - Keith - @tsudo

What do you win? - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

first! - Josh Haley

*cough* - Bec Rowe @d0tski

I won :) - Alp

nope - Josh Haley

oh god no. - vijay

WIN - Mike Nayyar

LOSE - Josh Haley

someone say something? - Simon Wicks

unicorn poop glitter! - vijay

Yay! I win! - Tad

think again. - vijay

I don't remember every demanding this returns. Have to check back through my memos... - Mark Traphagen

first! - Josh Haley

Wow. - tehKenny, Dork

So I can be a winner?!??!! I guess that is right up until the next person posts. - Christian (Simply X)

yes. - vijay

Whut? - Steven Perez

I refuse to give up. - Christian (Simply X)

Won? - CW™

no - Nathan Rein

not gonna stop there either - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down... YOU=ME... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

what constitutes as "popular demand'? - MicahBear78

Where? - Steven Perez

not here - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

STOP the INSANITY! - Christian (Simply X)

Ping! - Tyson Key

Pong! - Russellreno

mine - Josh Haley

NOT. - Steven Perez

Me me me!! - Kevin Nordmand

Just passing through. - Carmen - Happy 2010!

Who started this one again? ;-) Oh, we need more likes for this one: http://beta.friendfeed.com/funny-p... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

looks like i am staying up then lol still - Tatty Gibson

no - Nathan Rein

someone has to win this - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Claiming victory! - LB - all new for '10!

I' will never day die. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I kill all threads! - CAJ, somewhere else

no - Nathan Rein

uh huh - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I WIN. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

No, you don't - LouCypher

I'm so going to be the last ^^ - Toni @ NavinoT

wewt - Josh Haley

WOOOO - mjc

nope - Nathan Rein

nice - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

When's it end? - Kevin Pedraja

Is it over yet? Oh. - Morton Fox

Las Post. - Michael R. Bernstein

Ppp-pick up a Post! - Tyson Key

o hai - Josh Haley

meep meep - Kevin Johnson

this should be renamed to FriendFeed boundary testing - You.

what? - Steven Perez

huh - Simon Wicks

ok - Baard @ Pixum

sweet - Josh Haley

I am glad I won - Mike Nayyar

You did? - B. Hatin

So..... who won? :) - Kevin C. Tofel

me! - Simon Wicks

gee - Josh Haley

and? - Baard @ Pixum

tomatoes - Josh Haley

wrinked ping skin! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

What? - Jordan Hofker

No. I did. - Steve Lowe

Danielle Closs

The Argyle Sweater — Gocomics.com: Comics, editorial cartoons, email comics, comic strips - http://www.gocomics.com/theargy...

April 21 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Click to read, it's cute :) - Danielle Closs

Danielle Closs

High IQ Linked To Reduced Risk Of Death - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...

April 21 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Things that make you go hmmm.... - Danielle Closs from Bookmarklet

Danielle Closs

Fisheye iPhone Lens Balances Its Ridiculousness with Equal Parts Charm [Photography] - http://i.gizmodo.com/5203960...

April 8 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

how many of you went out and bought one, just to play with? :) - Danielle Closs

(jeff)isageek

Bunghole - http://g1988.blogspot.com/2009...

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I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE!! ARE YOU THREATENING ME??? - Tac Anderson

Link to this piece: http://g1988.blogspot.com/2009... - Danielle Closs

Cee Bee

Sales double of Thunderbirds-style pop-up garage that sinks into your drive - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...

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"A £50,000 Thunderbirds-style pop-up garage has become the latest home-improvement craze. The garage uses a hydraulic platform which can be hidden under a water feature, flowerbed or patch of gravel – or even a second car. The futuristic parking option has drawn comparisons to the Thunderbirds aircraft hangar deep beneath Tracy Island. . Eight underground garages have already been built, four are in production and more than 10 are on order, with interest highest in Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Ealing, Dulwich and Highbury. The waiting list is already four months long and experts predict demand will continue to grow as families choose to improve their home rather than try to sell in a weak property market. Cardok managing director Alastair Soper said: ‘It's 100 per cent secure, far more so than a garage or driveway, and the vehicle's completely protected from the elements. ‘It goes down well with insurance companies. One man with a Bentley had been charged an annual premium of more than £5,000 w - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet

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I want one. - Alex Scoble

i once browsed some high end car forum with some of the members showing off their subterranean installations similar to these. it was really awesome - Cee Bee

I have this drawn into one of the plans I drew up for our dream house awhile ago. I still want it in this house. - Admiral Anika

Meh! - Andrew C

apparently andrew c rides a scooter - Cee Bee

want, but I'll probably wait until it goes on sale. - Kevin Johnson

Andrew C rides the bus, and he likes it that way! Except for all the misanthropy public transit generates, but I suspect I would also hate people if I drove every day... - Andrew C

Looks like a pretty tight squeeze for that porsche... Maybe they should think about making these things big enough for normal cars??! - LarchOye

Cool. Better upgrade that back-up home generator or else your walking. Get one of these. http://www.cumminsonan.com/residen... - Robert Kenney

Robert, that's exactly what our friend (he's an architect) said when I showed him the plans. I'd have to agree after getting stuck in our garage when the power went out because our landlord didn't have them on manual. - Admiral Anika

so fucking awesome! - sean percival

worth every penny. every penny i will never have to spend on this sort of thing. - mike fabio

I want one! neat :) can i have the porsche too?! - Susan Beebe

Dan Tana on that TV show Vega$ could have used one of these - Neil Bernhart

That is cool, but I wonder, what happens if the system that lifts the top breaks? - Danielle Closs

It's to hide those expensive cars that execs bought with their multi-million dollar bonuses from angry mobs. http://tinyurl.com/cuvjyp - Kandeezie

so fake... not believing it. - Kamilah Gill

ha ha. I don't believe half of the stuff that the Daily Mail says. They're like the Enquirer. - Kamilah Gill

I perfer teh Garundian (pun indented) - Dread Pirate PJ

it's real. there are lots of companies that do these installations. - Cee Bee

that great garage...but problem is went break ... - acn.markting

I would so get one of those garages for my desktop computer. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Cee Bee, I'm sure that the garages exist, but I doubt that there really is a significant rise in the number of people buying them. There isn't a statistically significant number of people buying them in the first place. I'm guessing the owners barely number in the hundreds... it's just too ridiculous. - Kamilah Gill

or okay, if sales "double", what if the original number was only like, 150. 300 garage owners, then. So, what? Daily Mail seems to puff stuff up all the time. - Kamilah Gill

that is pretty cool. i would be more impressed if the system used those recycled cargo containers that were discussed in the NYTimes this week. - Lou Paglia

I dunno this kinda scares me....like what if you are in the car and you get stuck and you go underground. OR what if you;re on the top part and it moves up. hahah I dunno overanalyzing. I'll just stick with a normal garage - *Tiffany Diamond*

Tiffany, you're not in the car when it's being put away or taken out. - Admiral Anika

This is awesome! - Nicholas James

Awesome, yeah. I got one for my pickup truck & liked it so much I got another built in the backyard for my cross-country bike. I had a three extra feet of concrete added, and a tunnel over to my WWIII shelter, so as long as the electrcity is on I'm ready for anything. It's also cool because my outdoor BBQ is built on top of the bike hatch, so while doing steaks & dogs on Saturday, I can elevate up 8 feet and catch the backyard view. Highly recommended, no home should be without two. - Douglas Hopkins

Cool but what about rain or snow? Wouldn't work in Chicago :-c - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Boss, sorry, I'm gonna be late for work; my garage won't start. [wanting this as I give my smart-aleck response] - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Kol Tregaskes

My first computer MEME: Acorn Electron - what was yours? #shareit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

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And yes I had the extra ROM cartridge on the back of it. Exile was (at the time and on this computer) and amazing game. Technically so much better than anything else. Post your MEME links here if you like... - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

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Oric-1 here. Later with a 10cm (yes, cm) wide 4-pen plotter... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Alexandros Georgiadis

First programmed on Apple IICs IIEs TRS-80s. First machine in home was a Tandy 1000TX. First console was an Atari 2600. - Andrew Badera

Sinclair ZX81. Started programming in Basic, later on a little assembly. Oh the days of cassette tapes as storage device! I learned how to adjust the tape heads even before I became a studio engineer :-) - Henk de Kruyff from twhirl

The best game on the Acorn Electron (and my favourite game ever) is Bug Blaster. What is yours? (My best game MEME is here: http://friendfeed.com/e...). - Kol Tregaskes

I bought my first computer in 1983, when I was 13. It was a VIC-20, with the cassette tape drive and a supply of 10 minute tapes for storage. I used a 9" color TV as the monitor. - Joey Gibson

The Macintosh/Macintosh 128K - Soup

IBM PC-AT 286 compatible, 1991. I was late to have a computer. - LouCypher

trash 80, followed by commodore 64. - grant fox

Apple IIe - Jennifer Dittrich

Coleco Adam. Because the Commodore 64 was so popular I couldn't find it in stock anywhere and I was an impatient brat back then. Thing was horrible. Think it turned me off on computers until my Macintosh IIsi in college. - ronin

TRS-80 Color Computer with 4k of memory and a cassette player to load/save programs. My friend later got an Atari 800 which was a really nice machine so I spent a lot of time at his house! - David Ward

My uncle had a TRaSh-80 monochrome terminal/computer with cassette player, but I was the primary user. The first computer that was purchased specifically for me was a TI 99 4a. - Peter Ghosh

@ Joey Gibson - My first was also a Commodore Vic-20. - Mike Reynolds

Tandy 1000 FTW! - Carter Rabasa

IBM PCjr, 128K, 1985 (RIP). My daddy bought it for the family, and it was top of the line back in the day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - rowlikeagirl

Commodore 64 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - J.D. Deutschendorf

I had an electron too (could not afford a BBC Micro) but had a ZX81 first. - James Macgill

Started with a Sinclair ZX80 (our neighbors) then moved to the US and got some odd "Interact Computing" machine. Then back to UK and got a ZX81, Dragon 32. Back to US and got a Commodore 64... - Warren Harrison

Gosh some really old machines here. hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

My mom had a computer before I was born (1979ish?, I was born in 1981), but I didn't get my first computer which I alone owned until I was 7, a Zenith word processing laptop. - fn (fairnymph)

I started on a Texas Instrument computer, it looked something like this one: http://oldcomputers.net/ti994a... - Danielle Closs

Nathan Chase

between Feedly, TweetDeck, and Friendfeed, I can see just about everything in my view of the online world - on 1 screen.

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anyone else do something similar? is there something else indispensable to keep up with it all that you prefer? - Nathan Chase

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No taskbar? - Raphael, Raphael

@Vezquex, I just left it out of the screengrab - Nathan Chase

<3 Feedly! - Michael Fidler

@Michael - Yeah, it makes for a great RSS feed reading experience. - Nathan Chase

now I just need to figure out a way for all of it to be in a single stream. FriendFeed can take care of the tweets, but importing my OPML as imaginary friends, having save for later functionality, or the ability to email a friend a story are still beyond the capabilities of what FriendFeed can do as of yet. - Nathan Chase

How often in one hour do you "view" this scenario? Once an hour, twice, 3 times a minute? How much time is - enough? - Ron West

I have 2 other monitors that are for work. I glance back at this one whenever I'm waiting for something to happen. So probably several times a minute I'll glance over, see if there's anything particularly interesting. If there's something long that I'll want to review later, I'll either favorite it in TweetDeck, Like it in FriendFeed, or star it/save for later in Feedly - Nathan Chase

What are you using to show FriendFeed in the sidebar? - Brian Sloane

Ah I found it. It's the realtime view when opened in the mini window. Awesome! - Brian Sloane

@Brian - http://friendfeed.com/realtim... - I'm also using the "Slim Edition" Stylish theme: http://userstyles.org/styles... - Nathan Chase

Netvibes, in one tab I have friendfeed,facebook, twitter, feedly, to as much as one wants... - sofarsoShawn

@sofarsoshawn, would you mind taking a screengrab of what that looks like for you? just curious - Nathan Chase

I like Feedly. Wish it worked with Safari. - Chris Baskind

@Chris - Yeah, I wish it worked with Chrome. In due time, I'm sure. - Nathan Chase

I use all 3 of those also, but only one at a time. - Carmen - Happy 2010!

@Carmen - yeah I've just recently been trying the all-on-one view... it seems like too much at first, but I think I'm getting used to it. - Nathan Chase

Feedly is on the verge of fully integrating Google Reader, Friendfeed and Twitter in an optimal way, with smart ranking of new items by personal relevance and global importance. From my perspective, Friendfeed has let a huge opportunity slip through its fingers. - Sean McBride

@Sean - agreed - all that's left is to figure out deleting duplicate stories - it would be awesome to have some sort of mechanism that hides any future retweet, repost, retelling of stories across news readers, FriendFeed, and Twitter so that all you ever see is the source. I'm sure it will happen - eventually. - Nathan Chase

omfg thanks for this post, feedly rocks!, been having fun with it all morning, so easy to share things its ridiculous - Kyle Weller

@Kyle - nice... yeah it gives Google Reader a LOT of expanded functionality - Nathan Chase

Nathan -- when I try to imagine the ultimate apex of news reading, I see the integration and deduping of feeds we have just mentioned, combined with a super-crisp and super-minimal display: 50 simple headlines on a screen in two or three columns, no graphics, items ranked in priority order, with a single click to dismiss the screen as read and to refresh. From there on, it will be all... more... - Sean McBride

nicely done. - Jim in Real Time

Feedly kicks ass. - Meryn Stol

@Sean - I do happen to like graphics & photos associated with posts, as that's how we've viewed news in magazines, newspapers, and television for years. It's natural. And as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes an image will draw me in to a story more than a headline ever could. - Nathan Chase

Nathan -- including or not including graphics definitely should be options. Pick your style of news display. Feedly's current style of including graphics with stories is brilliant -- the best display system out there. - Sean McBride

@Sean - absolutely. Feedly's definitely doing quite well in that regard - allowing a lot of "under the hood" customization - Nathan Chase

Feedly indeed kicks ass, I use it exclusively for all my feeds now. - Nick

I would love to see Paul Buchheit and Edwin Khodabakchian get into some friendly but furious coding competition. At the moment, it seems to me that Feedly development is being driven more powerfully forward than Friendfeed. - Sean McBride

hmmm... gonna have to consider this - Jim in Real Time

Meta! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Here is the feedly roadmap http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... that says pretty much - Kyle Weller

Beautiful -- where is the Friendfeed roadmap? I have been very impressed by Edwin Khodabakchian's energy and openness in engaging with Feedly users about the future of Feedly. - Sean McBride

Feedly has a high-powered dev team for sure. - Meryn Stol

missing spot for porn? - mjc

@Michael - just subscribe to some of your fav adult feeds - :) - Nathan Chase

wow, thats awesome....they mention iphone at the bottom, i'd love a feedly iphone app. - Nick

hehe, id love a android g1 app, you can post suggestions here: http://www.getsatisfaction.com/feedly - Kyle Weller

I have either Feedly or Greader and the FF sidebar, I also I keep a tab with FF in case I want to investigate something that appears in the sidebar. I open Tweetdeck very rarely these days. I don't need much else as I have the feeds for all sites/blogs/forum that interest me in either Google Reader or FF. - M F

M F is what is known in the biz as an early early adopter. - Sean McBride

I'm very disorganised in my "real" life so I try to be organised at least when I'm online :) - M F

@sean & @nathan... How many feeds do you guys manage in feedly in how many genres? I fond feedly's effectiveness has an upper limit in terms of how many categories it can effectvely display. - David Wynn

@David - I currently have 29 categories. 297 sources. - Nathan Chase

رونوشت به رضا مقدری :) - mhmazidi

David -- just over a thousand feeds, and a few dozen categories. My Feedly My Digest page has become the stickiest page on the Web for me, because the recommendations are so good. I tend to read and process a Feedly My Digest page slowly, with great care. Two or three Feedly My Digest pages are a feast -- my mind feels full. - Sean McBride

I am not sure if mhmazidi's comment was written in Arabic or Farsi, but, again, I wish that Friendfeed would offer the option to automatically translate all foreign language comments. - Sean McBride

@Sean - yeah I was trying to find some sort of translator. would be nice to know what he said - Nathan Chase

And, conversely, not get anything done during the day, right? :P - Danielle Closs

@Danielle, it's there when I need it... if I've got my head down focused into completing a task, obviously checking it all out is not highest priority :) - Nathan Chase

@Nathan Maybe I'm the only one with the problem then. I tried a setup like this, and well, I had a hard time NOT looking at it, if I kept it up all day. So, it is good to have when you need it, but then, you don't NEED it up ALL day. Therein lies the problem. When it comes to work, for me at least, I have to turn it off a good portion of the day. To each his own right? :) - Danielle Closs

@Nathan And btw, I was only making a little joke :) - Danielle Closs

@Danielle - I know. :) I think it's definitely tough to do. I consider staying abreast of the latest news (especially in design/tech/web) as being part of being a good designer and knowing what resources are available to me. I've found so many incredibly useful tools and articles that have become essential to completing my daily work tasks. - Nathan Chase

@Nathan Don't get me wrong, I am very much grateful for the chance to grab important goings on in my field of study, and also general news, it's just that, for me at least, I need to limit the amount of time I have it up, or I will not get anything done! I do get a great deal of useful information from social networks, and they do help me with my work as well. I really wasn't trying to belittle the good of the resources, just my inability to deal with it in front of me all day, is all... - Danielle Closs

Thank you for all the kind words: it is a great pleasure for us to see feedly showcased next to such awesome apps! - Edwin Khodabakchian

@Edwin - thanks to you for your continued engagement with your users. It's paying off! We're glad to continue to help you make the best product possible. - Nathan Chase

I use Twhirl as you will see at the end of this post,. I use it for Twitter, FriendFeed, Identic.ca and to search for anything involving the word "Apple or "Microsoft" Or "News." So I have just about everything I need in one client. The problem for me with TweetDeck is that it uses up too much memory, at least for me it. That's the only reason I don't use it at all. - Patrick from twhirl

@Patrick - I agree that the TweetDeck memory usage is quite high, but then again, so is Firefox's. I've tried Twhirl, but even with all of the different color schemes, it still doesn't feel "right" as a UI to me. Something about it is just off. The FriendFeed integration in particular is just weird. - Nathan Chase

@Nathan Twhirl is very nice for twitter. I can look someone up and add them as a friend from Twhirl, However I can't do the same in FriendFeed. I can look someone up but I have to subscribe to them from the website, if you ask me it defeats the purpose. - Patrick from twhirl

@Patrick - I usually prefer to see their twitter.com/username page - see what kind of background they have, follow/followers count, etc. - so visiting the site doesn't really seem like a bother to me, but an imperative viewing to determine if I'll follow someone or not - Nathan Chase

@Nathan I will do that too, now that I have auto follow on (without sending a dm) I will always double check to see if it's a spammer or someone who is trying to take over my account and I can't really do that with Twhirl. I do it with the website. - Patrick from twhirl

^_^ - Tyler Durden

I'm a bit late, but I do something like this, too. I also have FF Real Time up and using the Stylish 'Slim Edition'. Then, I have Twhirl running in the background and I click to it every once in a while to catch up on Tweets I missed. Plus, I have Netvibes open in a tab to catch everything from Flickr, FF, Twitter, LJ, Facebook, GReader, Myspace, etc. And when I really need to get work done I close the other two and leave only Netvibes on to look at every once in a while. - Araceli

That's awesome, I sometimes get lost in the haze of information overload. How did you go about setting the real time friendfeed updates in the sidebar? - deakaz

@Craig D - http://friendfeed.com/realtim... - I'm also using the "Slim Edition" Stylish theme: http://userstyles.org/styles... - Nathan Chase

I had a Facebook chat side bar until I saw this. Real time FF is much better. Awesome Thread. Thanks, Nathan - Eric Logan

That's great, thanks for the response Nathan! Should help me to keep up alot better. :) - deakaz

Jim Norris

How do you win an argument on the internet?

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By comparing someone to Hitler or the Nazis. Godwin's Law and all that. - Mark Trapp

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I haven't figured out how. If you do let me know. Personally, I think you are better off trying to learn from discussions on the internet instead of trying to "win". - Alex Scoble

by agreeing with the other party... no matter how wrong they are. - Ted Roden

By finding out where the person lives and going to their location and saying, "In your face!" - Mathew™ one of a kind

Perhaps I just need to recognize that the point of most arguing is to win, not to be right. - Jim Norris

http://rationalwiki.com/wiki... - Michael Scarpelli

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. - Michael Scarpelli

Excellent use of an Aliens quote, Michael. I'd tell you that you win the internet, but Akiva already did that for the night. - Alex Scoble

BY USING ALL CAPS AND A LOT OF EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!! - David Cook - 2010!!!

NO YOUR ALL WRONG!!!!!111one - Jim Norris

By being first! - Ted Roden

@Michael S I love your link! - Anne Bouey

Don't try to win an argument. Learning is the win. - ·[▪_▪]·

+10000 ·[▪_▪]· - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Hire someone to off your opponent. Then they can't answer your last argument and you automatically win. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

The only winning move is not to play. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva has the answer. The way to win is to no participate at all. - Christian (Simply X)

Yeah, but that's no fun. - Alex Scoble

By telling a story. - Meryn Stol

bamboozle them with your tinyurl research arsenal - Josh Halliday

by getting more and more and more and more outrageous in your counter claims until they finally realize that you are not arguing with them at all but rather mocking them. The longer it goes on the sillier they look. You can throw a couple of trolls into the argument to agree with you making even more outrageous claims. If it's too early in the process you can dial the outrageousness back if you think you need to to keep them going just a little longer. - Thomas Hawk

+1 Akiva. War Games rulz! - You.

Dave Barry has some thoughts on the subject: http://www.digitalroom.net/humour... - You.

BOOM! HEADSHOT! I PWNED U NOOB! - moo. bye.

I do this: http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh - Onur Gündüz

Probably the same way you do in real life, if you think about it. It may be a bit harder without body language, but the other tactics still work the same. - Danielle Closs

you don't - Thomas Power

/thread Well done, Thomas Power. - Lisa L. Seifert

You win by getting the *other* party to make a comparison to Nazis/Hitler. - Michael R. Bernstein

Do all arguments really need to be "won"? - Victor Ganata

By not wasting time getting into an argument in the first place. - Admiral Anika

There may be no way to win but there are many, many ways to lose. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

True that, Mark. When Godwin's Law gets invoked, it means everyone loses. - Victor Ganata

By punching my monitor right in the mouth. - Steven Perez

1. Classical Rhetoric: "be clear, be forceful, be concise, be emphatic" http://collaboratory.nunet.net/dsimpso... 2. Shouting Match: volume + persistence (but at best you can win a battle, not the war) - Micah Wittman

I usually play the internet like I play chess. Without trying to win, while not letting them win. Usually ends 8 hours later with the other guy just slapping the board across the room, or he makes a dumb mistake and it's mate in 5. - Matthew DeVries

Most people on FF, you just gotta keep em talking, feeding them rope, they hang themselves 10 times over. - Matthew DeVries

Yes, all arguments need to be won, largely because an 'argument' is inherently confrontational. And also because the winners write history, as well as the rules. However, if you're not prepared to make the effort to win an argument, don't get in arguments in the first place. - Michael R. Bernstein

By which I mean, if you are entering into an argument in a half-assed way, you'll likely lose. Do you really want your side (assuming you have one) to lose? Better to ignore the argument (and your opponent) in the first place. - Michael R. Bernstein

The thing is, what exactly do you win? Or lose? In the real world, in particular situations, obviously there are tangible consequences to winning or losing an argument, but on the Internet? Not so much. - Victor Ganata

If someone changes his mind and admits to it, I'd say that's winning, with a tangible, worthwhile outcome. - fn (fairnymph)

If discussion degenerates into argument, nobody wins. - Rebecca

I wonder how many people you have to argue with on the Internet before you actually convince someone that you're right. I suspect that if you did a cost benefit analysis, it's almost never worth it. - Victor Ganata

By calling everyone else that disagrees "gay" and blocking them ;) Oh.. that was how you lose... - Jemm

Don't even start one - Shevonne

Most forms of arguing accomplish nothing except to make the participants more determined than before to defend their original positions. At that point, no one is listening. My question is always: is the aim to serve your cause or to pump up the ego? - Rebecca

I find that making a satirical comment works best. It diffuses the anger and short circuits the brains of the reactionaries. - Ryan Garns

Ryan, yes, that can be effective as long as it's very clearly satirical, not always an east task to pull off on the Internet. Great to see when it does, though. - Rebecca

You win by going out and getting laid while your opponent is still replying to you vacant keyboard IMO. - Geoff Schultz

First, you have to get one of @dstevens's tshirts that says, "I'm not going to waste time debating you. Does this look like the internet?" - ha3rvey (wants confit) from fftogo

Geoff...you win!! - jamar78

Jemm

The Passive-Aggresive Door-Holding Game - http://naurunappula.com/z...

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LOL! - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Been there, done that :) - Danielle Closs

Thomas Hawk

Getting By On Just $53,826 A Week - March 19, 2009 - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...

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"David, pictured at right, is a former chief executive at United Technologies worth more than $325 million. His wife is a former banker who has been described as a Swedish countess. Below you'll find a financial affidavit filed three months ago in Hartford Superior Court detailing how Douglas-David spends $53,826 every week. Maintaining several homes (including a Park Avenue apartment and a year-round Hamptons rental) and dropping $4500 for clothing, $8000 for travel, $1000 for "Haircare/skincare," and $650 on dry cleaning bills every week has a way of adding up. Apparently. Douglas-David's affidavit also, sadly, reflects the sorry state of the newspaper and magazine business. She only spends $30 per week on publications, or just .055735147 of her weekly nut." - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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This makes me sick. Starting in April, I will have to get by on CA state unemployment, and my wifes 3-day-a-week paycheck. GRRRRRR - Neil Bernhart

Obnoxious. I feel like I work JUST to pay off my student loans, and I honestly don't know how I've gotten by paying that. /broke - Derrick

but why is that wrong, unless he stole the money a la Madoff, AIG, et al.? - grant fox

Not only does it make me sick that this woman feels like she needs that much money a week to live, it makes me sick that she's a gold-digger who's taking her husband (more than twice her age) for every penny he's got. Not to defend his inordinately high salaries, but it does appear he actually worked for his money. - mike fabio

Sick. :-( - Ladybug Heather

grant, I didn't say it was wrong, I just said it was obnoxious. - Derrick

oh I agree nobody needs to live like that and it's crass, but to each their own as long as their hand isn't in my pocket. - grant fox

you know. If you taxed estates above $5 million at a 90% tax rate you'd eliminate a big part of this problem and be able to distribute an awful lot of this type of wealth back to lower, middle and upper middle class. The problem would still exist during people's lifetimes but at least it wouldn't transfer inter-generationally. - Thomas Hawk

these people are the new villains by the way. The super rich would do well to be far less obvious and ostentatious with their wealth over the course of the next few years. - Thomas Hawk

I know if I had that much money, I'd hide it in my mattress or something, or spread it around, or push some into buying currently low cost stocks... I definitely would not be flashing it around, that's for sure... - Danielle Closs

these people are probably pretty bummed that this is on The Smoking Gun today. - Thomas Hawk

Click through a few pages to find out that she spends more on her horse ($1570/wk) than my family has to spend on three people and a dog. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive... Oh, and here's Chamaco's competition record: http://www.sport-horse.org/cgi-bin... - Daniel J. Pritchett

By taxing estates >$5M at 90% you'd solve this problem? I don't really understand what the problem is. I'm not saying I'd want to hang out w/ these people on the weekends, but if they've earned their money honestly, shouldn't they be allowed to spend it as they wish? Isn't that what America is all about? Should the government take most of the money away from their families so they don't act like spoiled brats? This seems way over the top to me. - Matt

A $5M estate isn't enormous by modern standards. It's great, but not astronomical. I've been responsible and started socking away $ in my 401(k) when I was 23. By saving some each year, I should reasonably be able to reach $5M by the time I retire. I don't want the gov't taking that away from me and giving out freebies. That creates a moral hazard in society. - Matt

By estates he means inheritance. IOW, first-generation earners live like kings, their children inherit $5M or less rather than billions. - Daniel J. Pritchett

yes I mean estate as in inheritance. I think the cost of passing on billions of dollars to subsequent generations is too high a cost. When someone is born into wealth they are given every advantage. The best schools. The best standard of living and medical attention. That and about $5 million or so ought to be fair and sufficient for them. They of course can use their advantage in life to earn more on their own. Simply to give billions to heirs though is too high a cost for the rest of society. - Thomas Hawk

Interesting how far the pendulum is swinging from the "greed is good" aesthetic. Personally I don't favor such limits. I'd like to keep the capitalist dream of building a dynasty alive. I want my kids or grandkids to inherit billions and do great good with it. - Stephen Mack

Lindsey, We must have a different understanding of the definition of "earned". Having Daddy give you money doesn't really seem all that much hard work. - Jeff Jones

there should be some penalty for inherited wealth. don't ask me what is should be, that statement isn't well thought out. - grant fox

Jeff, but SHE earned it, and it shouldn't be taxed twice. - Stephen Mack

I'm all about using what you've been blessed with to make the world a better place. But bottom line is that I trust my children (which at this point are merely figments of my imagination) to so use my future wealth far more than any slime ball in Washington. - Matt

Were I a gajillionaire with a desire to pass my money on to my kids for philanthropic reasons I'd set up a foundation and put them in charge of it. If you *really* want them to do good things with the money, I see no reason to just cut them a check for the full amount. - Daniel J. Pritchett

It's a complicated issue, especially for family farms. It's less and less possible for farm transfers to allow generations to remain on the farm, especially with mis-assessments of farm land as either development value or some other incorrect classification. A relatively small farmstead with a few hundred acres, a barn, a house, a couple outbuildings and any sort of natural feature... more... - Bob M. Montgomery from twhirl

Like Matt, I see no reason to give that check to Washington instead, taxing legitimate income twice. - Stephen Mack

Given the limited amount of real estate on the planet and the ever-growing global population, is it really reasonable to expect a plot of land purchased in 1900 to stay in the family for eternity? That plot's relative share of the planet's bounty increases with each passing generation. - Daniel J. Pritchett

The problem is not in spending... the problem here is she tries to milk her former husband for more and more. 53K per week is not a limit, she could spend a million, if there were such money available. It seems, this is another case of "will divorce for money". - Pavel Senko

Conversely, Daniel, the food producing capability of that plot of land should be held in higher value as the population increases. However, that's not the case: it becomes over valued because it's being assessed as 100 acres of quarter acre plots to live on, not 100 acres of food producing resource. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

@Pavel: She dropped out of the workforce six years ago in a mutual decision. Surely she is entitled to some fraction of the total growth in their net worth in the last six years. Whether or not her current lifestyle exceeds that fraction, I can't say based on the TSG PDF. - Daniel J. Pritchett

the rationalization for taxing estates is easy. What if I told you by taxing the top 100 estates in the United states over $1 billion that you could save the lives of millions of children all over the world. Is it moral to allow people to keep more money than they can possibly spend in their enitre lives when the cost to the rest of society is so high? One child is born in Africa. Another 12,000 miles away to a billionaire. Is it moral that one hordes money and the other dies by the luck of birth? - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, you're justifying your means with an end. Thinking of starving children in Africa doesn't necessarily excuse whatever taxation plan Senator Robin Hood comes up with. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Here is a good site on the issue of the estate tax: http://www.responsiblewealth.org/tax_fai... - Michael R. Bernstein

If you were sitting with a mother holding her dying child and had a choice to save that child right then and there saving the child and their mother immeasurable sorrow if it meant that Paris Hilton only got to keep $999 million instead of $1 billion would you do it? - Thomas Hawk

You can also turn up some very interesting interviews and articles by googling 'bill gates estate tax'. - Michael R. Bernstein

or would you let the child die arguing that Paris' dead father's right to not have his money double taxed was the greater good? - Thomas Hawk

...New York magazine is all over her for her spending (http://bit.ly/iAFbR) too. - JA Castillo

Come on Thomas, that's a weak emotional appeal. Why aren't we debating "If you were sitting with a mother holding her dying child and had a choice to save that child right then and there saving the child and their mother immeasurable sorrow if it meant that [famous person] was ground into sausage and used to feed the poor would you do it?" - Daniel J. Pritchett

Stephen, Money is taxed twice ALL THE TIME. I earn a paycheck, taxed, I buy a product with that money, taxed, let's say I have a lawn service and pay them, taxed again, they pay taxes on it too, then when THEY pay their workers it's taxed yet again. So why should money inherited be treated any differently? - Jeff Jones

To me, the issue is pragmatic: When the USA recycled it's elites ruthlessly, we got incredible economic growth and a more egalitarian society. When inherited wealth accumulates, we get rising economic inequality and economic stagnation. - Michael R. Bernstein

Michael, I agree. I think the problem with our economy and with wealth inequality is that we don't buy enough pitchforks and torches in this country. Metaphorically speaking of course. - Jeff Jones

"The Tree of Economic Growth must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of Aristocrats and Enraged Peasants." - Michael R. Bernstein

Thomas, the point is that it should be Paris Hilton's responsibility to save that kid's life, not the bureaucracy that is our government. She's obviously an extreme example of wealth wasted on a spoiled brat. But there are plenty of wealthy people who help people more efficiently than any government ever could. It boils down to a big vs. small government question, I think. - Matt

certainly Paris Hilton, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates etc. ought to be given an opportunity to redistribute the wealth. And I can say I think Gates and Buffett are doing an admirable job at that. I see nothing wrong with allowing an individual to earmark what worthy societal improvement their estate dollars go to. But if they won't make that decision then I think it's Govt job to look after the greater interests of society and do it for them, the cost to not do so is too high. - Thomas Hawk

of course, there is the massive problem of governments forever expanding their spending. If they taxed their friends and cohorts that much do you really believe it will go on clandestine projects or would it just go back into their friends pockets or used to blow up other countries? Fix corrupt and bloated governments first, then address this issue afterwards. Surely slicing down the budget requirements for running the country then cutting the tax would benefit the poor orders of magnitudes more. - alphaxion

The government in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Matt

Matt, part of the point for a high estate tax is that it creates a huge incentive to give the wealth away to whatever they consider a worthy cause. This actually is a pretty efficient allocation mechanism that bypasses the inefficiencies of government. - Michael R. Bernstein

Yeah, anything is more exciting than just leaving it all to the kids. Why not invest it back in the family business or stand up a charity or any number of things - you can still put your kids in charge of those things and at least they get to be involved rather than just rich and bored. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Thomas, the greater interests of society only work when society has as much of a say in it as possible. Why does no one see that the free market is made up of people, including you and me? The only real change we will see is when we decide where our money immediately goes (and to whom it goes!) and not think "Oh well, it can wait four more years." Government bureaucrats are not the answer--they do not serve the greater interests of society, they serve the interest of getting reelected :) - Michael Ryan

@Matt, interesting to see someone in Govt. call the University of Florida the best academic school in the U.S. I think some might disagree with her. ;) - Thomas Hawk

Michael, the point is that if you put a 90% estate tax on estates over $5 million this would encourage almost everyone with such an estate to give much of it away on their own without Govt. To make it even easier you could craft tax credits for giving it away during their lifetime if you wanted it to happen faster. The cost to let people create estates worth over $5 million exacts too high a toll on the rest of society. - Thomas Hawk

Here's a 2007 report putting UF as the #2 value for the student's public education dollar, so that's something: http://www.unc.edu/news... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, probably, but I think that if people don't give it away then you turn it over to the bureaucrats of Govt. it's certainly better for people to do it themselves though but sometimes they need a carrot and a stick to do the job if they won't do it voluntarily. - Thomas Hawk

So children should be forced to sell a farm or business to pay the taxes because the inherited asset isn't cash? And if the economy happens to be doing poorly at the time they are forced to sell and they only get half what they should? What good reason is there to say that someone who worked hard to build a business and paid taxes along the way shouldn't be allowed to have their children continue to work and grow that business? - LogEx

I just want to know how you spend $481 per week on a cell phone? How many minutes do you get for $2,000 per month? - gfurry

By the way, a business worth $5 million typically generates only a small fraction of that as income for the owners. - LogEx

gfurry, they are either calling internationally or they are travelling abroad and using the phone outside the US. - Alex Scoble

LE, your hypothetical seems to assume that the children don't have the cash to pay the taxes outright. There ought to be a way to pass along the cash required to pay the estate taxes without having to carve up the illiquid assets. I know of some folks who gifted their family business to their children bit by bit for years in their 60s and 70s. Once they died the estate taxes were presumably less onerous than they might otherwise have been. - Daniel J. Pritchett

The moral hazard is you forcing people to give up their property for your own purposes at gunpoint. They are pumping a full years salary or two back into the economy every week. Someone makes those clothes, flies their planes, maintains their houses. You'd have the government strip them of their own property because you know better how their wealth should be spent better than they do? The government would squander the money and put it into their buddies pockets and put all those people out of work. - John Rubier

My guess on the phones is paying $100/mo. for 15 phones issued to staff, plus a fancy new phone every month for someone or other. - Daniel J. Pritchett

She's not the only who's this high maintenance - why is she getting all this publicity? - Mona Nomura

Daniel, I know there are good ways of estate planning to avoid that scenario in many cases, but should it be so difficult? Why shouldn't it be OK to do just what I outlined? Also, it's probably not safe to assume that someone with a $5 million business has another $5 million laying around in cash to pay the inheritance tax. - LogEx

Thomas: What is the toll? That we are not getting wealth we did not earn? (I am going under the presumption that all money earned by rich people was done honestly, but our "too big to fail" government isn't set up that way at all) All I see it doing is destroying incentive to work with us, to not earn capital out of rational self-interest. Taxes usually do that, and a 90% tax would especially do that. :\ - Michael Ryan

LE: Certainly not, but do you want the law to err on the side of redistribution of wealth or protection of a descendant who might only be getting $1.25M to keep at the current rate? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Mona, because the smoking gun and other publications like page views and advertising dollars and the fact that a divorce is a legal proceeding makes these kinds of documents public when the more rational of the wealthy arbitrate privately behind closed doors maintaining their privacy. it's not every day that you get this kind of glimpse into the world of the wealthy to gawk. It's like a bad accident on the freeway, you can't help but look. - Thomas Hawk

@Daniel, You are right. My assumption was based on a fact that they have reached $43 mil agreement before (means, she was aware of her lifestyle and expenses and decided that $43mil would be enough), and now she just wants more. - Pavel Senko

I'd err on the side of letting the core of hard-earned and already-multiply-taxed money to stay where its owners want it. I'd be more amenable to a graduated inheritance tax rather than some arbitrary cut-off. It's like the $250k figure that gets used for everything these days. If you make less, you're poor, if you make more, screw you. - LogEx

"I consider myself ungodly lucky. I won the lottery. You people in this room are lucky. You ahd a 1-in-30 chance of being born in the U.S. In 1930, when I was born, I had a 1-in-50 chance of being born in the U.S. I had a 50 percent chance of being born male. And I had a 1 percent chance of being born male in the United States. My friend, Bill Gates, said if I'd have been born 1,000 years ago, I would have been some animal's lunch." Warren Buffett. - Thomas Hawk

Michael, the toll is death, starvation, malnutrition, under educated populations, etc. This is the toll for allowing billionaires to pass along wealth the way that they do. That money could be redistributed to help so many more people. Bill Gates has saved an enormous amount of lives through his philanthropy. How many children have been saved from malaria because of the money that Bill Gates has been spending to try and eradicate the disease entirely? - Thomas Hawk

What is the higher good? That Paris Hilton inherits a billion or that malaria is eradicated? - Thomas Hawk

And the government, arbiter of all good on Earth, will eradicate malaria? Thomas, don't get me wrong, I want most of the same ends as you...just not the same means. - Michael Ryan

Michael, the tax is a disencentive towards oversized inheritances, not a plan to take the money of the rich and redistribute it. Again, set up a foundation like Gates or donate to one like Buffett. Just don't try to keep it and give ten billion to your kids. - Daniel J. Pritchett

...Mostly because those means don't tend to work. A group made up of people who act out of self-interest don't miraculously become selfless simply because they call themselves "government." Instead, you have pooled a large portion of money that could be up for the taking if you win an election or strike a deal. And even if they do have the best intentions (good people do exist, I admit :P) government just can't run things as efficiently as individuals. - Michael Ryan

So preemptively give the money to someone other than the government or your children. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel: Or just an incentive to try to find a tax loophole. Or evade the tax. Or move somewhere where you don't pay the tax. - Michael Ryan

Very little evidence exists that accumulated wealth is a serious problem for our country as a whole. Remove the "fairness" or "class-envy" arguments and the issue goes away. Redistribution of wealth happens everyday though market forces. Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Berkshire as examples. Force the issue and we end up with Central Planning and the USSR. No one has an incentive to work under Socialism, and the country our Grandparents worked so hard to create is gone. - Robert Kenney

Daniel: And if they don't? Who will take the money? Who will distribute it for them? - Michael Ryan

No one has an incentive to work if their estate is capped at $5M? That's an odd implication. I think nearly all of us work for less than $5M already. Ryan - the government, if they choose not to redistribute it in their own chosen way. We could always set up laws redirecting inheritance taxes to public works or something. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel: Public works are run by government :\ - Michael Ryan

Michael, Daniel's point exactly. Most people would rather redistribute their wealth themselves rather than leave it to the Govt. Bill Gates of course is the model example for what billionaires ought to do with their wealth. The tax is an incentive to help them do the right thing with their wealth. If you wanted to ensure people did even more you could give them greater tax credits for doing it while they were alive. - Thomas Hawk

Right, so these efficiency genius multimillionaires will probably be able to set up a foundation that handles the wealth better than the government does. If they don't, then the government will have to suffice. I'm not seeing the issue here other than "if your plan in any way involves the government potentially having access to money I am against it". Edit: Whoops, I'm getting out of sync with comments being pushed up before I finish typing mine. - Daniel J. Pritchett

That's a bit of a conundrum, Lindsey. Legislation, judicial interpretation, and police enforcement are what make things "legal" or "illegal". Certainly Thomas and I aren't directly responsible for the perpetuation of the justice system but as citizens of a representative democracy we are surely welcome to debate the pros and cons of the system. - Daniel J. Pritchett

see, the thing is this. Look at the way this woman lives. What if you took half of what she spends and saved 1,000 kids a year. Would society be better off? I think it would. If Govt is the wrong vehicle to do it then build greater incentives to force people to do it. Bump the charitable deduction to 110% for instance instead of 100%. There are little ways we could make progress with this utilizing the U.S. tax laws but I'd like to see more steps in this direction towards redistribution. - Thomas Hawk

Daniel & Thomas: That is my plan--government, a body we delegate the use of force to, shouldn't use that force to "create incentive" for people. That doesn't sound like creating incentive, it sounds like violating individual rights. - Michael Ryan

I look at it like taxes on cigarettes. The government disapproves of your habit and they levy some hefty taxes when you insist on practicing it. Smoking is unpopular with enough of the electorate that the taxes stand, even if they might be considered unfair. At least the government's left you the option to smoke if you really want to. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I usually don't quote her, but: "The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others." Ayn Rand - Michael Ryan

Tax credits are the opposite side of that coin: The government rewards people for buying hybrid cars and having children. These rewards might not completely offset the cost of the aforementioned practices, and they might not be fair to all segments of the populace (i.e. non-parents of all stripes), but they are out there and they do help to encourage "desirable" behavior. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Certainly, Michael. All you've got to do now is to convince everyone that >$5M inheritances and unfettered transfer of property are "rights". - Daniel J. Pritchett

And what happens when they stop becoming desirable? Well, you have to propose a bill. And the bill goes to committee. And if it passes committee, which can take months, it goes to be scheduled on the House calendar. They vote on it--it might be rejected. You have to cut a few deals, keep a few things in to get it passed. It gets sent to the Senate. They reject it. The process goes on until it goes to the President. He may veto it, starting the whole thing over again. Government was not meant to be the - Michael Ryan

...leader of morality, it was meant to slow down the possibility of tyrrany. - Michael Ryan

well Michael all taxation is a violation of someone's rights to property, no?. So then under that logic all taxation would be a violation. Are you saying no income tax or sales tax or estate tax at all ought exist? We're really only arguing degrees of taxation here. - Thomas Hawk

The crux of this debate is that some of us believe that the government should be allowed to interfere with the property of citizens and others of us do not. The rest - specifically our recent foray into incentive structures - is economics. Edit: Thomas works in finance, I don't. Beaten again ;) - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel: There's tons of people who already believe that you have a right to the wealth you create. We created the country to protect that right. - Michael Ryan

Ryan: Sure, we can agree to that in a broad sense. Then we've got to determine rights of succession. Do all of your descendants fit under the heading of "you"? Can you claim sole rights to the creation of all money you get your hands on? Does the society or government infrastructure get some credit for your successes? How about the minimum-wage support staff at your office, day care, and diner? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Thomas: Hm. Maybe. I don't think so at the moment, because government is meant to provide for national defense and to protect our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are necessary public goods that we create government for. - Michael Ryan

But the very definition of "obscene" has to be arbitrary, Lindsey. Say you agree to focus exclusively on the percentage of net worth for your definition of obscene, and set it at anything over 50%. Now take a look at the percentage of net worth various income brackets spend on room and board versus the percentage of net worth they're spending on further wealth generation. A dollar means different things to different people. So too does "50% of my net worth". - Daniel J. Pritchett

Lindsey, I think a 90% tax on estates above $5 million is just the sort of stick the Government needs to force people to follow the examples of people like Buffett and Gates and redistribute their wealth voluntarily. I think our entire population would be dramatically better off for it while doing very little to reduce a very high standard of living for both the wealthy and their heirs. But I'd rather see heirs fly first class instead of on private jets if it meant saving thousands of lives. - Thomas Hawk

In other words, Thomas is very slightly cramping the pursuit of happiness for ten people while saving the life and liberty of a thousand others. Edit: At least that's the theory ;) - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel: Not if you've taken bailout money :) But if you have made a voluntary contract with the people you work with, you have seen something of value owned by another, you have agreed with him or her to do something for it, and if everyone benefits from this exchange, then wealth is created. But when the exchange is forced? Not quite. To take away that money is to stop recognizing the good of voluntary exchanges, those contracts between two people. - Michael Ryan

Daniel: Fine, we'll start with you. :) Anyway, it's been fun, but I have AP English homework to do. Ta ta! - Michael Ryan

I think we're repeating ourselves again - both of the two comments above are effectively arguments against taxation. Edit: ok, the two above the one above this one. I think it's time for me to get back to work. Thanks for taking the time to discuss this with me, folks. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Ok, I'm a billionaire and a 90% inheritance tax is passed. I don't agree with it and want my kid to have all of my money when I go. Don't I just move to another country sometime before I die? - Tony, Paradox of FF

Yes, but then you have to deal with various other tariffs and taxes, I imagine. I've personally never tried to transfer funds offshore. - Daniel J. Pritchett

@Tony, I'm pretty sure there was a law passed in the 70's that slaps punitive taxes on people trying to take their wealth to another country. - Joey Gibson

Some people do leave the U.S. as it is now Tony, yes, you'd lose some to that. John Dart renounced his citizenship. But most people don't and I think the net positive would still be towards philanthropy. - Thomas Hawk

actually it was Kenneth Dart not John Dart and it appears that simply moving out of the U.S. to avoid estate taxes isn't as easy as you'd think. http://www.azstarnet.com/sn... - Thomas Hawk

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House to Vote on 90 Percent Tax on Executive Bonuses (Update1) - Bloomberg.com - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...

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"March 19 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. House Democratic leaders plan to vote today on a proposed 90 percent tax on executive bonus payments by companies receiving more than $5 billion in federal bailout funds. The bill is a response to the national furor that erupted this week when it was learned that American International Group Inc. paid $165 million in bonuses to 4,600 employees, including many in the financial products unit whose investments brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy. “I expect it to pass in overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, told reporters yesterday in Washington. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said, “The American people are very upset about what they’ve heard about bonuses.”" - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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The 90 percent tax would apply to people with overall income exceeding $250,000, including bonuses. The tax would apply to bonus payments made after Dec. 31, 2008, and it would cease when the U.S. government’s investment in the company fell below $5 billion. The tax wouldn’t apply to any bonus returned to a company. - Thomas Hawk

The bonus stuff is ridiculous but shouldn't they worry about the future instead of passing laws for 4,600 people? 250K is a lot in most places. Not if you live in parts of the east coast. Most of those people were doing their jobs as directed. - gfurry

What a dangerous precedent this sets. - William Beem

and where does that tax revenue go? this is BS all the way around. - grant fox

It's reactionary, obviously. The congresscritters are doing something to make sure they get re-elected. This has nothing to do with prudent or moral, only a response to polls. How Pavlovian... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

If companies need to be bailed out to such extents, they shouldn't be paying bonuses, and the would-be recipients should be glad they're not out on the streets looking for a new job while liquidators sell off the smoking remains of their former companies. - Andrew C

it's part of a new backlash against the wealthy. It's probably going to continue to get worse as long as our economy falters. - Thomas Hawk

Why do you say backlash against the wealthy? If their company doesn't make money (far from it because they are asking for that much in bailout money), why should they get a bonus for doing a good job? They didn't do a good job, so they shouldn't get the bonus, simple as that. If the contract states otherwise, that was stupid on the company's part. I don't get how you can run a business like that, and have it be successful. - Danielle Closs

You say "backlash against the wealthy" like it's a bad thing. - Eric P

None of this would've been an issue if we hadn't bailed out AIG. The Federal government already owns 80% of it. Might as well nationalize it and kick them all out. - Morton Fox

Actually I don't think a backlash against the wealthy is a bad thing. Hopefully it can finally get some serious estate tax reform done. - Thomas Hawk

Jason, if those 'legally binding contracts' don't have outs that AIG could easily invoke **if they wanted**, I'll eat my hat. (TPM has already noted that in fatter times, AIG fired people and then ensured they would *not* get bonuses, but then again, maybe contracts weren't quite as sacrosanct a few years ago...) - Andrew C

if you use history as a proxy, any backlash against the wealthy turns into upheaval. - grant fox

FF needs to one-up Facebook again and incorporate a "Don't Like" button. These dolts didn't even read the effing bill that they signed and now they're playing the victim. Approval for the AIG bonuses is written in the facking thing. - Mattb4rd

the "wealthy" should be penalized because the cost of their wealth to the rest of society is simply too high. When babies are dying daily in Africa and generations like the Hiltons amass more wealth that they can possibly spend in their lifetimes it raises a moral issue. Our natural resources are a zero sum game. The more the wealthy have the less the poor have. The question is is it better for the richest to go without some of their perks if it would save thousands of human lives? - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, absolutely. - grant fox

The cost of passing a law, and all the following administration changes etc. afterwards is going to absorb almost all the money taxed. This is just knee-jerk, "oops we messed up here but we need to do something else public opinion will be upset". Not smart - and just like they didn't realise what they signed back then, who knows what collateral damage will happen via that law? Most of... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

@Jason: While the wealthy already pay the lion's share of taxes, their tax burden is not too far off from their share of the wealth: http://www.project.org/images... I wish I had a more reputable source, but this graphic at least shows that there's some correlation between share of wealth and share of taxes. - Daniel J. Pritchett

The wealthy should be penalized?? For what? Being successful? That's NOT what this nation was founded on. Freedom to exercize the rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is what has made this country great. Take that away, and it will no longer be the U.S.A. Period. - Mattb4rd

Jason: the 'wealthy' here are being "penalized" **because their company fell over a cliff**. AIG has effectively gone bankrupt, which is why the government had to bail it out over and over again. And in real bankruptcies, contracts like bonus payments get voided. - Andrew C

Also, no, Jason, the top 1% pay 39% of the income tax. They earn 21% of all income. That said, it is always an incomplete picture to talk about taxes as SOLELY income taxes; the poor pay a larger share of their income in payroll taxes, sales taxes, and so forth. - Andrew C

Jason, this only takes into account federal withholding taxes. If you add in all taxes paid (Social Security, sales, state income, auto registration fees, property taxes, etc.) the wealthy pay FAR less as a percentage of their income as middle and lower classes. Considering only one kind of tax is disingenuous at best. - Jeff Jones

Joelle: for me, the outrage is in seeing AIGFP, the most catastrophically run division of AIG, in line for $450M in bonuses. - Andrew C

Wealth creation by any means necessary should NOT be accepted in this country. Those who seek to get wealthy on the backs of the rest of us and offer no value to society whatsoever should be punished. A successful bank robber is still a crook and that's basically what these guys are...very successful bank robbers. They might as well be speaking German and fighting against Bruce Willis. - Alex Scoble

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No value to society Mr. Scoble? WTF? They E M P L O Y peolple. That employment enables them to pay for goods and services to elevate their lifestyle to a level that they would not be able to achieve without it. Wealth by any means necessary is NOT accepted in this country, ask Madoff. What you meant by that is "I, Alex Scoble, should be consulted before your business is allowed to engage in commerce. - Mattb4rd

Matt, the idiots at AIG and a lot of these banks have created a huge net negative impact for the economy and are STILL getting paid huge sums of money. Sorry, but the amount of people they employ does not make up for that. These guys truly have destroyed any value they added to society. Then again apparently you think that robbing banks is ok too as long as you are employing people to do it. - Alex Scoble

Jason, no, if they had done their jobs to the best of their ability, AIGFP would not have racked up contracts insuring trillions when they couldn't possibly cover them. They should be grateful they're not in jail already. - Andrew C

Nice ad hominem, Alex. I thought you a more worthy word warrior than that. Perhaps the application of your own God-given sense would aid you rather than relying on Google? - Mattb4rd

On that note .. far more important than this group-form mental masturbation is that Meagan Fox is indeed hot. - Mattb4rd

Ad hominem? No, that wasn't an ad hominem. You are taking the side of crooks, liars and thieves. That's what these guys are. There's nothing noble in what these guys did to the economy. Then again maybe we are having separate conversations. I'm talking about the fat cats that got rich while building schemes that would ultimately lead to devastation in our economy. If you are talking about guys like Bill Gates, we are having two different conversations. - Alex Scoble

"far more important than this group-form mental masturbation" - yeah, I'd say that too if I had no leg to stand on. - Andrew C

Jason, no, that's the thing. AIGFP sold those famous credit default swaps and booked no assets in reserve against having to pay out. That's why their profits were so high in the boom years. That's why Cassano (head of AIGFP) stonewalled AIG's auditor when corporate tried to investigate what was going on. And that's why I say AIGFP execs don't deserve bonuses. - Andrew C

Yeah, Andrew. They deserve jail time and to have all their assets stripped. - Alex Scoble

This sets a VERY dangerous precedent. I want to see if there is an actual drop dead date set into the bill they just passed. If not then what's not to prevent these hypocrites in DC from imposing it on some other group of people to make themselves look good in the name of the people. I remind you Thomas that in the past eight years alone the U.S. sent over twenty BILLION dollars in aid to Africa for such examples as you mentioned. - Mark Powell

Alex, Senator Dodd admitted that he lied and took out the language that would have prevented those bonuses to occur. Time to start spreading the blame on more than who were working under contract. Innocent or not they may be. - Mark Powell

NO, don't do this crap - who's to stop the govt from doing to to all companies? not just federally funded ones. - clarke thomas

@clarke: who's to stop them, indeed....seemingly no one. - Craig Eddy

mark, $20 BILLION in aid is a good start. We could do more and do better though. Let's tax the estates of billionaires in the U.S. and start redistributing that wealth not just in Africa but all over the rest of the world as well including even the poor here in the U.S. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, spoken like a true Chestertonian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Not a complete solution but a good dent...and I like that last part. We "bury" our poor in this country (both working and abject and all the shades inbetween those two) and pretend they don't exist in order to support the ideal of the "American Dream". We just don't even think to look at them so they become invisible. Photographs from Africa have impact to be sure. But.... - Melanie Reed

But it should also be remembered that the poor in those countries are not poor because they have no money in those countries at all. They are poor because of the same distributivity problem: The money in those countries is being held in a small number of hands and it is very easy to blame the US for their troubles rather than hold the gov elite and elite of their own responsible. - Melanie Reed

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