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Anybody else surprised to learn that the first NFL preseason game is this Sunday!!??
Alex Scrivener, Bill Rawlinson, Mark H and 10 other people liked this
Happy is the word :-)
- Duane-PreppyDude
Bills & Titans on NBC starting at 7pm central.
- Ben Hanten
+1 Duane
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Thrilled is the word for me!
- Craig Eddy
I'm getting the Sunday ticket for the bar this year, adding more TVs, doing three fantasy leagues, and I have season tickets to the Chiefs. This will be a big football year.
- Ben Hanten
I hate that I pay so much for premium NFL and am still subject to blackouts. Grrrr
- Bwana ☠
Only wish it was teams that I actually care about.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Did you watch?
- Ben Hanten
Yeah, Poor Vince Young... it's hard to watch him struggle
- Bwana ☠
Young is a mess right now. His recent comments about winning a SuperBowl and the Hall of Fame doesn't really help....
- Ben Hanten
Dickbuttkick, zooz, Jacob and 14 other people liked this
♫ jump around...jump up, jump up and get down ♫
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
lol! imagine the shock he would've got. hahahaha!
- vijay
Ultimate Mac 'N Cheese with Bacon - http://bigblackdogs.blogspot.com/2009...
Mrsth, Alix Whitmire, tinypants - Hagitha of FF and 35 other people liked this
"I made this recipe exactly as written except I substituted 5 green onions, including the tops, cut into fine coins for the chopped yellow onion. And I used sharp yellow cheddar in place of the white cheddar and added about 6 large fresh basil leaves to the topping. Yes, this Mac 'N Cheese has a topping and that is what made it so good and of course the 4 cloves of garlic!"
- Admiral Anika
from Bookmarklet
Turkey bacon of course. The big thick apple-smoked slabs from the butchers...YUM!
- Admiral Anika
I just may have to make this this weekend. Sounds positively coma-inducing.
- Admiral Anika
This may even rival my own homemade mac & cheese... Wanna' duke it out in the kitchen, Anika?? :-D
- Lisa L. Seifert
Oh, *I* didn't make this (yet), the quote above is from the site.
- Admiral Anika
Off to buy some turkey bacon so I can make this. What? My only other option is clean my house. *That* doesn't sound like fun. :)
- Admiral Anika
Oooh! Let me know if it's worth making!
- Lisa L. Seifert
You have honestly made me hungry for mac & cheese now. ::puts laptop down and runs to kitchen::
- David Cook
No problem. I'm thinking of giving it a Mexican twist, with salsa and cotija cheese. And peppers. I'm going to roast some habeneros and pacilla peppers for this bad boy.
- Admiral Anika
Duuuude. I will babysit for you as long as you cook for me. Deal?
- Lisa L. Seifert
Okay. If we wind up moving up there, I'm totally taking you up on that offer. LOL
- Admiral Anika
Omg. Now I'm drooling on my iPhone!!
- sean808080
Looks yummy. I might even enjoy eating the onions in this configuration.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
STOP THE MADNESS!
- BEX
Whaaaah, I can't have cheese or bacon at the moment.
- Molly, "sorry"
...and am now eating teh Mac & Cheese. Thanks for the idea! =)
- David Cook
It's nowhere near as tasty as yours looks though.
- David Cook
David, that's not my photo it's the final product from the link above. I am making mine right now. Got the water on the stove. I'll take pictures.
- Admiral Anika
Oh, well either way I just had Kraft Mac & Cheese. Yours will still be tastier. :)
- David Cook
Did you follow her recipe? I used 8 slices of bacon on mine and think it still needed more.
- Admiral Anika
Forgot About Dre by Dr. Dre - http://www.pandora.com/music...
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elroy, David Cook, Derrick and 2 other people liked this
Twelve Monkeys (1995) - http://www.imdb.com/rg...
elroy, Chrimmus Tad, Anne Bouey and 3 other people liked this
One of my all time favorite movies (it's disturbing how many bruce willis films I like).
- Jason Toney
Love it! Terry Gilliam FTW!
- Chrimmus Tad
I think I saw this, but I was wholly distracted at the time. I have seen the short it's based on (La Jetee) numerous times, though. Should rent this again.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
didn't see it
- tiffany
Hugs befo u go? - http://naurunappula.com/z...
Nia, Victor Ryden, elroy and 7 other people liked this
That's my new twitter avatar, and facebook :-)
- Richard A.
Richard, "Hope it's not too offensive..." :D (how could it be=)
- Jemm
swissmiss | Coolest. Doormat. Ever. - http://www.swiss-miss.com/2009...
Kim, WiseYoda (aka Patrick), Adarsh and 118 other people liked this
"Enter Doormat by Pieter Woudt - made from recycled rubber. I want!"
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
WANT !
- embee
@Nia had seen that doormat in gift corner shop at 1st (street) floor in Forum ;)
- A.T.
WINS!
- Alp
Now where's that "any" key?
- Paul W. Swansen
I just saw this at Bed, Bath, and Beyond over the weekend and thought the same thing!
- Jennie Lin
Oh wow...
- Michael W. May
Okay, if BB&B has 'em, I may need to go check it out. My wife's always complaining I don't buy anything for the house...
- Roger Benningfield
the HOME key would be apporpriate too
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Shey: Good call. I love technerd home design!
- Rebecca Sun
just bought both - Enter and Home.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
that is damn cool
- Zee.
I want this doormat!
- tomit
@Shey actually there is a Home key version of this mat. I blogged about it few days ago.
- Dee S.
Beware the person who has an "Escape" doormat.
- Mark Trapp
Mark +10000!! LOL
- Susan Beebe
dopeness. im so ordering one.
- Liz
SO Awesome! So glad to see you around again, Polly. :-)
- Lisa L. Seifert
hi, lisa! :)
- edythe
oh, very cute! :-D
- Anna Haro
Re: /socnets: BackType Beats Disqus to Implementation on Social Media Reactions - http://rizzn.com/socnets...
Christopher Golda, Paul Jacobson and elroy liked this
"Always fun seeing my face jump out at me while I browse the web.... your avatar setting in the comments are HUGE! :-) I took a look at the Backtype plugin (hey Chris!) and it works pretty well. The BT guys are smart and there is lots to love about their service. Their approach what we call "social media reactions" is very similar, which is perfect for people not using Disqus. We're keenly aware of what we can do improve and it's all part of the day to day improvements."
- Daniel Ha
Every website that uses j/k for navigation is my favorite website.
dario, Jérôme Flipo, Paul Buchheit and 2 other people liked this
Like Big Picture (http://www.boston.com/bigpict...), but not like Antartic Fox (http://antarctic.fury.com)
- Jérôme Flipo
I would like a way to re-collapse a conversation after I read it. It takes up a lot of space in the middle of the screen to have a 50 comments open in the middle of the page.
Voyagerfan5761, Darren Heydon, Ahsan Ali aka. Slick and 4 other people liked this
agree.
- Karoli
I think if you actually refresh the page, it re-collapses.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
TIna - That's how I used to do it, but I like the whole real time thing. And it sort of bursts my real-time bubble to do refresh. :)
- Andrew
Friday the 12th - http://thedw.us/post...
binic, Phronk, Mashkee and 20 other people liked this
Thanks for the giggle. :)
- Trish Haley
Heeee! :)
- adf
Pic missing - http://naurunappula.com/z...
mjc, mohammadk, Ňicķ and 50 other people liked this
That's hot.
- Mona Nomura
very clever
- Chieze Okoye
God! How I used to HATE when this pops up. Still do.
- vijay
amazing!
- Dieter Schwarz
ABC'View' and What Frightens Bill O'Reilly is Twitter - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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elroy liked this
Anybody else feel weird about agreeing with Elizabeth Hasselbeck?
- Mike Doeff
What are the first five tabs you open each day?
Mitch, AJ Kohn, Todd Jackson and 22 other people liked this
Mine are iGoogle (browser homepage), Gmail (work mail), Gmail (personal mail), Google Reader, and then it depends on what I plan on spending time looking at first.
- DeWitt Clinton
My iGoogle page is basically empty except for the Google Bookmarks gadget and the Google News gadget. The bookmark list itself is short -- it has all the above links, plus FriendFeed, Google Finance, Google Calendar (work), Popurls, and Techmeme. That's it.
- DeWitt Clinton
When I see the word "tabs" my first thought is still of LSD. I'm way too 60s.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Edit: what are the first five *browser* tabs you open each day?
- DeWitt Clinton
Flickr stats, my Wikipedia watchlist, gmail(personal and corp), jaiku
- Adewale Oshineye
iGoogle, FF, Twitter (if TweetDeck isint running), Gmail, Google Reader.
- Roberto Bonini
gmail, reader, reddit, FF, twitter
- Brett Cannon
gmail, reader, friendfeed, twitter, and Moveable Type (for RWW)
- Sarah Perez
FriendFeed, whatever four links on FF interest me most. :o
- Meryn Stol
friendfeed, twitter, flickr, zooomr, my blog
- Jeremy Brooks
my.yahoo.com, g-mail, g-calendar, g-reader, g-docs, ff (ok, that's six, but that's my morning opener)
- MikeAmundsen
FF, Gmail, Flickr, GReader, Tumblr
- JA Castillo
gmail, reader, calendar, friendfeed, local newspaper site
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Yahoo, FF, Twitter, Facebook, and Google.
- Nurse Katie
This assumes that I actually close my browser. Even when it opens, it restores everything I had open. Otherwise, it would be: gmail, greader, ff (always open in a taskbar Fluid window).
- elroy
I'm finding this fascinating -- I want to like my own post just to encourage more people to answer.
- DeWitt Clinton
Five tabs? I rarely have more than two open at once.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Gmail, Google Reader, Facebook, Friendfeed, Twitter
- Dread Pirate PJ
Actually, I prefer Diet Coke.
- Morgan Haley
Thanks, Morgan. Now I have the song from the old Tab Cola commercials going through my head. Gah!
- Ladybug Heather
Twitter, Friendfeed, Gmail, Skate and annoy, Hype machine
- Iain Baker
I've got 7: CNN and Fox, LJ Friends, Fark, Facebook, Friendfeed, and GMail.
- Great Scott!
work webmail, work wiki, work jira, greader, twitterfox, (does that count as a tab?)
- Bill de hÓra
Gmail, Greader, Ganalytics, start.io, whatever local development site I'm working on.
- Robin Cannon
from Alert Thingy
Twitter, Gmail, GCal, (production admin dashboard), (current dev project)
- Daniel Shaw
Google Apps Gmail, Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious (technically the first two are opened in a Google Chrome application shortcut, also most Delicious network links arrive in Reader)
- Marsh Gardiner
Netvibes, Yahoo! News, Google Bookmarks, Google Reader and Friendfeed.
- Alejandro
technologyquestions.com, thechembook.com and branches from there
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Gmail. Google Reader, Flickr Recent Activity, FriendFeed, Facebook
- Michael Hocter
gmail, greader, ff, index.hr (local news site), youtube
- Ivan Zuzak
iGoogle (home page), and then whatever email/news stories/blog posts look interesting there (I basically use it as my rss reader). Then kotaku, twitter and friendfeed.
- Jasmin Patry
Gmail, Google Reader, Twitter, Friendfeed, ??? (varies)
- Duane
gmail, g-calendar, g-reader, friendfeed, facebook
- Jorg Jansen
ff, mail, chaz2b.mp
- chaz2b
I pop onto the BBC News site (via it's ticker), FF, Gmail and possibly deviantART and Flickr (but only to very quickly check for activity - a proper browser is usually vis GReader later :-))
- Kol Tregaskes
Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!Mail, Yahoo!Mail(JP), Zenbe Mail
- rawwell
What do you mean open? MBP is always on.
- AJ Kohn
I don't. I've got it down to 3 by integrating my gmail screen w/3rd party
- Melanie Reed
FriendFeed, gMail, JP news, none, none :)
- vijay
iGoogle (homepage), Gmail, Reader, FF, Facebook
- Jérôme Flipo
corp gmail, home gmail, news.yahoo.com/i/578, google reader, memeorandum
- Paul Haahr
Best thing I've read on AIG bonus issue is Jake DeSantis' resignation letter http://www.nytimes.com/2009... nothing like hearing from the front lines
Roberto Bonini, elroy, Ben and Jennifer Dittrich liked this
Funny video: How Blackberry (and other phones) gets back at iPhone http://www.youtube.com/watch... @samlevin
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Food: The 4489 Calorie, 1.66 lb Burger - http://consumerist.com/5182201...
Jeff P. Henderson, Felix, Jauder Ho and 13 other people liked this
whoa
- Imabug
My heart twinges.
- Pete Delucchi
from fftogo
This is why I have trouble keeping weight off. Most normal people would think "ewww, this thing makes me sick", but I'm thinking "I'm hungry".
- Tudor Bosman
eep
- Josh Haley
*urp*
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I'm hungry
- Paul Buchheit
from BuddyFeed
wow
- Rachel Lea Fox
Achievement Unlocked - http://www.splitreason.com/product...
Derrick, Nathan Chase, Great Scott! and 38 other people liked this
We know it's hard, but you can do it! A word of advice however: There is this large glowing disk in the sky that is generally obscenely bright. Do not stare at it directly. It may cause permanent damage to your eyes, and prevent you from unlocking future achievements.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
from Bookmarklet
Any screenshots?
- Jemm
1000 points rewarded
- Alfredo
But how many gamerpoints is it worth? EDIT: Well, Alfredo, for 1000 points, I'd have to consider it!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I need this.
- Admiral Anika
@Anika The gamerpoints, the shirt, or to leave the house? :P
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Um...yes? ROFL All 3 please.
- Admiral Anika
BTW, my gamertag is shey05
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I'll add you right now. I'm ajdenton.
- Admiral Anika
ITBlogger for anyone who hasn't added me
- Alex Scoble
We have to do a FF gameparty on Xbox one of these days. We just need to find a game everyone has...that isn't Uno.
- Admiral Anika
@Anika: Worms! :) (JemmFI)
- Jemm
Left 4 Dead!
- Alex Scoble
Added you Shey. BTW, you can log in and add friends through the browser. http://live.xbox.com
- Rodfather
I'm really backwards about Xbox Live. I'm on there (Susurrant Echo), but I guess I'm too shy to just jump in and start playing/interacting, though I'd like to. Although lately I haven't time to even game alone...
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
We don't have L4D. :( I also don't have Worms.
- Admiral Anika
Still working on that one... :)
- Walt Ruppar
Worms is now just 400 MSP at the Marketplace, btw :)
- Jemm
What do you have, Anika?
- Alex Scoble
I usually don't play with others either. Just Call of Duty in the past since other friends were playing it. Rock Band would be cool if everyone could hear the singing.. maybe.
- Rodfather
If you don't have L4D you should get it. don't ask questions, just get it. My GT is Rjcc but my list is full
- Richard Lawler
Alex, let's just saying 'nothing current'. I think the last new game we got for the Xbox was BioShock. I also have no idea what you can play online and what you can't. I'll flip through the binder to see what we have, though.
- Admiral Anika
Holy crap, I just got this!
- Mike Nayyar
I'm Rodfather74 btw. @Richard: There's a limit for your friend's list?
- Rodfather
I think 500 is the limit.
- Alex Scoble
100 is the XBL friend list limit. Some people get around that by making a fake friend, then everyone friends that one account, so you can find out who is online in the group by checking their friends list, we could do one for Friendfeeders.
- Richard Lawler
Here's the Xbox Live Arcade list. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US...
- Rodfather
100? That's uber lame.
- Alex Scoble
Adium to Integrate Twitter by IM - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
denise, Hasham Malik, Brian Bufalo and 41 other people liked this
That is going to be awesome! I <3 adium
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
Seems cool to me, but what about a cross platform Adium, it's to cool to be Mac only
- Allards
Trillian already supports twitter
- farzaam
So does that mean that everytime a new tweet arrives, you get a notification? Because that would get quite annoying pretty quickly.
- Vincent van Wylick
it's not annoying at all, especially if you use a filter for what you receive via IM. Adium rocks.
- Karoli
farzaam, but Trillian doesn't exist for the Mac and Adium doesn't exist for the PC.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I nearly always have Adium running and wished that the Twitter IM service would return so this is great news. I like the fact that Adium give you access to your Facebook chat too.
- Chris Marshall
Very cool! Air apps just don't do it for me and I'm not a fan of the current crop of cocoa clients. Already have Adium open all day, so this sounds great!
- Derek Gathright
Palringo is a true cross platform IM service: it works on both Mac and PC PLUS most major MOBILE platforms (windows mobile, symbian,java, iphone, blackberry, Android (coming). You can move from computer to mobile and back and all of your contacts/chat sessions will be synchronised. it connects to all of the IM services PLUS Facebook chat. so check it out as an alternative to both Adium and Trillian. And Twitter integration is coming....
- kerry ritz
I would use adium if only it didn't crash all the time.
- Richard A.
I'll stick with Adium as it evolves and gets even better. It has not crashed on me even once since I got my Mac last August. I'm running the latest versions of Leopard and Adium, and have not enabled the Adium option to "download the latest beta version when available". On my Adium wishlist: better file transfers and audio chat.
- Siddharth Deb
Then you're lucky. Gave up on it two or three years ago.
- Richard A.
Wow, in all the years I've used Adium, since about 2001 or so, it has never crashed on me. In fact, I've never heard anyone complain of crashes until now.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Does the video chat work on Adium? I have trouble at times. I use meebo web based and it works quite nice. They are coming out with an iphone app (and other mobile platform apps) as well. I need to test video chat w/meebo though.
- Amani
Why Facebook is Failing Me - http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah...
Riaz Kanani, Jason Nelson, Brad Davis Seal and 53 other people liked this
FriendFeed hasn't fully addressed this issue either, though rooms help.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I also ended up using FB for personal network only and stopped using Twitter bridge. However this is not enough. One of my problems is that (same in FF) it is a global network, not everyone speaks English, so I annoy one part of my friends no matter which language I use. There needs to be better tools, may be status messages for specific groups, etc.
- berkay
@berkay: I love the idea of status messages for specific groups, wish they had that now - great idea!
- Sarah Perez
Sarah this is such a great post. You articulated frustrations I'm sure MANY are feeling. -sigh-
- Mona Nomura
I feel like this too - my friends fall into three or four groups, with the smallest one being people I've actually met. I don't want to cancel my connections with the others, but filtering would be great.
- Sharon Hurley Hall
@mona: thank you!
- Sarah Perez
Great, great post. I think Facebook should realize that in order to become the one social platform for all, they need to allow us users to customize and slice people. I recently erased all my social friends who I've never met from Facebook, cause I didn't want to spam them with personal stuff and my Spanish-speaking family with geeky Twitter comments ;)
- Jorge Escobar
I've been using FF for tech and FB for non-tech for a while, but this is a lousy solution. I'm not sure that slicing friends on a single platform is the right approach - what we're actually talking about here is wanting to slice _yourself_ into different aspects then people can sign up to whichever one (or three) they're interested in. When posting something on whatever platform you'd be able to indicate which aspect it's for (kind of a me-tag).
- Yan
I'm very conservative about what personal information I supply to FB in the first place, and aggressively use lists and privacy settings. But the control granularity for the Friends list and Wall posts are almost non-existent, as are good controls for Profile | Basic | Personal info.
- LogEx
I have the same issues. I've created lists with different privacy settings but my biggest beef is that I can't control who sees what content I create, especially imported feeds.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I love Facebook
- sofarsoShawn
For a lot of things I have two accounts - one for professional stuff, the other for hobbies-and-daily-life stuff. It's a mixture of conveniences and inconveniences but works pretty well for me.
- Deborah Fitchett
Hmm, didn't Plaxo have some sort of "Personas"/self-slicing feature? I'm sure that Facebook could always pinch that, although of course, there's the Wall/Friends granularity problem that's been hashed to death...
- Tyson Key
I decided to use Facebook only for a very small circle of friends and family. It's quite a nice platform still. And handy that it's not on the public web.
- Meryn Stol
Agreed, although I was happy on Twitter and Friendfeed and didn't want to go onto Facebook ;-) In the end I went on to network with mainly offline or old friends.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Awesome CNN Headline
Louis P., Derrick, Morton Fox and 11 other people liked this
And the link for this important story: http://www.cnn.com/video...
- Patrick Jordan
HAHAHAHA. Duh duh duh duh duh Dora!
- Trish R
@ Trish - LOL - and that'll stick in your head all day :)
- Patrick Jordan
@Patrick. It was worth it to get to see the headline "Dora goes skank." LOL!
- Trish R
Classy CNN, classy.
- Christian (Simply X)
They'd better offer that one on a t-shirt!
- Jim Norris
Jim - I'd wear that - but might have some splaining to do for my daughter :)
- Patrick Jordan
Casual Language
David Erickson, Will Higgins™, Lori Reed and 4 other people liked this
Is that on an ATM?
- Hao Chen
Hey...How you doing?
- John Flynn
JetBlue?
- Steve Garfield
from twhirl
Just wait til they start spelling it wrong.
- Will Higgins™
As well as being weird, the Japanese would appear to be lazy - http://www.inquisitr.com/18490...
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Flight of the Conchords Ep 12 Bret's Angry Dance - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Twitter Gets Another Round of Founding: Raises $35 Million - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Sidharth Dassani, Gavin and elroy liked this
I give up. Twitter doesn't need a monetization strategy. They'll just keep raising money until the end of time.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Surprising that they were actually approached by these two funds. They must have something pretty big up their sleeves to get that kind of a valuation.
- Gavin
You really think so? I get the sense that the guys at Twitter are in some sort of vapor-lock. They have a bunch of ideas for making money, but the only ones they seem to get excited about in interviews are the ones that make me yawn like when Facebook introduced pages.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Epson's tiny GPS receiver will make everything location aware - Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
epson's? or infineon's? :)
- A.T.
Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Dear Netflix CEO - http://www.glennbeck.com/content...
bcultral, Brian Ries, Brandon Titus and 19 other people liked this
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix has reached out to President Obama and asked him to raise the taxes of anyone that makes over million dollars to 50% per year! But what Hastings may not know is that he can already pay more taxes. Print and then cut-out the sheets below and include them when you send back your DVDs, let him know he CAN pay as much as he wants!
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
It amazes and horrifies me that people actually watch Glenn Beck's show.
- Richard Lawler
haha, never seen it. Didn't even know he had a show.
- Thomas Hawk
I only saw it because I was visiting my parents, they only have basic cable and nothing else was on at 2 a.m. Dude knows how to use a straw man argument, unfortunately it's his only trick so it quickly got boring.
- Richard Lawler
Richard, Glenn Beck is one of the smartest people around. He's the one talk show I listen to because he doesn't cozy up to any one party's agenda. Of course, I'm guessing you would say that anyone who disagrees with you is a right wing lunatic. Hope you prove me wrong.
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
This is brilliant, Raising taxes on the people that create jobs, who thinks that's a good idea?
- Robert Hafer
No, I don't have a problem with people who disagree with me, I have a problem with people who are liars, and Glenn Beck is an outright liar. The only way you can ignore that, is if you agree with his political stance. A lie is a lie no matter who tells it.
- Richard Lawler
"This just taxation the millionaires ... have so far escaped, but their day is coming. The hoards of millionaires should be so treated, not as a punishment, but for thier good, because it is just, and justice alone insures general contentment." - Andrew Carnegie, 1912 [http://bit.ly/1dHK3A] (PDF)
- MikeAmundsen
If you really do the math, a lot of us already pay 50% (in total).
- Anthony Citrano
I've disagreed, sometimes vehemenently, with Glenn Beck from time to time (I don't agree with his immigration positions), but I don't think he's a liar.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
He intentionally misrepresents the stance of anyone he opposes, over and over again. You can read it in this statement "reached out to president Obama" reads slightly differently than "wrote an op-ed column". "Suggested raising taxes instead of capping compensation" is a bit more informative than "asked him to raise taxes." He wants to rile up his viewers against the big government and those others coming to take what's theirs, and he doesn't seem to think he needs accurate information to do it.
- Richard Lawler
I hate this argument. I hear it all the time from people on the right, starting with Gov Huckabee. It goes something along the lines of: "If you're in favor of raising taxes, then go ahead and write a check to the government." That's ridiculous. A valid comeback is "okay, and if you want to invade Iran, then get a gun and a plane ticket." The point isn't that people don't deserve to have money or that people should be fighting, it's that big issues like this need to be handled at high levels.
- Blake Caldwell
IMO, Glenn is a living example of 'link-bait' he exists to drive traffic.
- MikeAmundsen
(continued): Reed Hastings' personal check won't make a difference. If this suggestion makes it into law and every rich person does it, then there's a difference. What a ridiculous argument to make. And... every single person that says "well go ahead and send a check" carries that ridiculous, smug grin on their face like they know everything. LOL, sorry for the rant.
- Blake Caldwell
It's not ridiculous, Blake. This is America, and last time I checked, we still have something akin to a representative democracy, aka a Republic. That means, if a majority of our elected representatives think they can keep their jobs by re-assigning wealth from everyone to people who they think need it more, it'll happen. If lone nuts want to affect that change for everyone, then it's more appropriate for them to just write a check.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
(continued) ... and yes, he's a lone nut if he thinks 50% taxes is a good idea in any way. See - http://friendfeed.com/e... and http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I just thought it was funny sending Netflix back something in those little red envelopes. ;)
- Thomas Hawk
Mark: Non-sequitur. I understand how our republic works. What's appropriate and not is not in question. I'm not taking a side either way on the 50% thing (I assume you're making > $1million/year). I'm saying that Hastings is lobbying for changing the system, just like all of us do when we write our congressmen. The proper response from the other side isn't "good idea, write a check" - it's whether or not that proposed solution would work. Responding with "write a check" doesn't address the issue.
- Blake Caldwell
I don't see it as non-sequitur, and it's completely not what you characterize, i.e. rational lobbying. It's a self-destructive effort by someone who doesn't understand economics. It's self-destructive for him personally as well as the country. De-incentivizing achievement is poor policy no matter how you slice it. "Write a check" is a perfect response - mostly because he's likely the only one who possibly thinks turning the American dream on it's ear is a good idea....
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
... put another way, "he's lobbying the government like we are when we call our congressmen" isn't an apt illustration. He's not lobbying to simply "raise taxes" as you say. He wants to make it so there's no point in achieving financial success above a certain level. Absurd proposals deserve absurd responses.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I'm fine with your criticizing his idea of 50% tax for those > $1 million. You might be right - it might be a stupid idea. Answering it with an absurd response is one way to answer. I guess this just hit a nerve with me because I know people that think it's a clever and serious response. If you're saying "write a check" instead of saying "you're an idiot," that's fine.
- Blake Caldwell
On a side note - and I can't believe I'm not just quitting with the previous comment - it's silly to say that a 50% tax rate for every dollar you make above $1 million equates to "no point in achieving financial success above a certain level." It's a bad point on two levels - first that we're talking about extreme wealth here. Let's remember that. Second, every dollar you gross, you'd net $0.50 instead of $0.67. Keep that in mind. We're not talking about people making more money grossing $999,999 than $1M.
- Blake Caldwell
Isn't the point that rich folk like the Netflix CEO are always volunteering to pay more taxes on behalf of a pay bracket that often extends far lower than their own income (think Warren Buffett) - the point is, it may be affordable at their pay level but not for someone earning rather less. If they think they ought to pay more taxes, let them, but don't let them make the decision for everyone else. I think that's the point of these mailers.
- Jan Dawson
Jan - Again, we're talking about people making over one million dollars per year. I'm not necessarily on board with that proposal, but will argue on its behalf to some extent. I can't accept that a 50% tax bracket for every dollar over $1,000,000 will make life unaffordable for anyone. It's fun to say that he's lobbying to extend this far below his own income, but don't get crazy and include people making $100,000 in that reasoning.
- Blake Caldwell
It would suck to make exactly $1,000,000 and know that people making $1 less than you have a bigger take home pay at the end of the year.
- Bryan Clark
No, the point of the mailers is to rile up people who don't bother to actually read what the Netflix CEO said.
- Richard Lawler
Bryan, isn't that the case with all tax brackets? It's not like our system is flat right now.
- s t e v e
You know, its not a matter of whether or not people can afford to live on 50% tax for income over $1 mil. It's whether or not they deserve to pay that much tax. We're talking about people who (most likely) are fueled by entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, creativity, business genius -- why do they deserve to get punished with taxes?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Another way to ask that, Shey, is to think about being in a restaurant with Mr. Hastings. He could afford to buy everyone in the place dinner. But no one expects him to just because he can.
- Craig Eddy
*looks at Netflix Q4 earnings* ok, business genius, I see it. *looks at so many other companies recent earnings reports* Just not finding the genius here. and if you --- again this is the point -- read original article by the Netflix CEO, you know that's not what he was getting at.
- Richard Lawler
The problem isn't taxes. It's a fact that government income has increased with the lowering of taxes. The problem is spending. Nobody should have their taxes raised to pay for pork bills like this so-called "stimulus" nonsense.
- Spencer
@Richard So you're using earnings, in today's economic climate where EVERYONE is taking a hit, as a gauge? FAIL.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
You're not reading the original article and reaching an intelligent informed decision. FAIL that. and amazing, Netflix seems to be doing ok, and they're not the only ones. Thriving during a time of economic crisis, that's not what a business should aspire to be doing, I can't believe I was so confused. He should've done what many million dollar per year earners did and fluffed profits in the short term on overly risky ventures. That's the ticket.
- Richard Lawler
I'm not defending Beck -- just not agreeing with the idea of the tax. Companies like Netflix will do well in these times, as more people stop going out [to the movies] and stay in.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
and I'm sure that's all there is to it, just wait for bad economic times step 2 ??? step 3 = profit. I don't agree with the idea of the tax either, however if you read the original article, the overall idea that simply capping CEO salaries is a misguided effort that hasn't and won't work I do agree with.
- Richard Lawler
Bryan Clark - You have a common - yet serious - misconception of how tax brackets work. This is one of the biggest problems with all public debates on the topic. You NEVER have less take-home when you earn another dollar. You might pay more taxes on that next dollar than you did your previous one, but you NEVER take home less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Blake Caldwell
To elaborate - if Hastings is lobbying for a 50% tax break for those making over $1,000,000 per year, that 50% only applies to every dollar you make OVER $1million. Keep in mind that they're already taxed 35% for every dollar over $357,000. This means that this huge argument we're having is over whether or not people making $1,000,000 are going to pay an additional $0.15 per $1.00 they make over a million. See how silly this outrage is now?
- Blake Caldwell
Personally, I think taxing higher incomes at a (much) higher percentage is not a bad idea at all, Look at the Scandinavian countries, where tax brackets can get as high as close to a 100% (Abba actually moved away from Sweden for a while because they got taxed a 100% of their income!), but the quality of life for every citizen of those countries is much higher than it is in the USA ...
- Rene Wirtz
... continued. But, I don't think it will work, simply because then all of a sudden everyone who makes over a certain amount, say $1mio, does not live in the US anymore, nor is their company headquartered there anymore. Everything will be located in Bermuda, Isle of Man and other tax havens.
- Rene Wirtz
I can't laugh hard enough at people in low tax brackets (like myself or I would assume any of you) arguing on behalf of people of extreme wealth. I think JZ or Donald Trump's lifestyle wouldn't change a bit if he got taxed $0.15 more per $1.00 after $1,000,000. I also don't think he'd say "screw it, I'm not working anymore, there's no incentive." I imagine people get outraged about this type of story because (well, first, they don't understand tax brackets) they think...
- Blake Caldwell
(cont)... that "someday, I'll make a million bucks per year, and I shouldn't have to pay 50% of that money to the government!" when in reality, you'll NEVER make that kind of money... let alone that, if you did, you wouldn't even notice the minor incremental taxation on that last few bucks of extreme wealth we're talking about here. Get real, folks. Countries are expensive to run - take a look at how much that new bridge near your house cost your state. Look at our deficit and national debt.
- Blake Caldwell
If you are the Sole Prop. of a small business making $1 mil, raising taxes means less operating budget which less employment. Unless every small business pays taxes like Giethner.
- Robert Hafer
Robert Hafer - I'm no tax expert, but I believe a Sole Prop doesn't pay taxes on business expenses (http://www.nolo.com/article...). They only pay tax on the profit. That diffuses your argument.
- Blake Caldwell
Blake Caldwell - not all expenditures count as expenses, that's why CPAs make money
- Robert Hafer
Robert Hafer - thanks for the clarification. That's interesting. Looks like an expense is anything directly incurred in the process of earning revenue. I would imagine that includes salaries, supplies, etc, right? I'm willing to be convinced that such a tax hike would kill a small business, but would like to hear how.
- Blake Caldwell
Blake Caldwell - paying more taxes means less cash on hand, that has to come out of the budget somewhere. That won't kill all small businesses, but reducing payroll is the most effective way to cut budgets. Even if the cut in cash can be absorbed, it will slow down expansion; so less jobs. (There an old adage: "In business, like nature, if you're not growing, you're dying") In all "get the Rich" schemes, it's the people who work for the Rich who get hurt.
- Robert Hafer
@Blake Caldwell, you taught me something today :)
- Bryan Clark
Blake: Regarding the point which seems to cause you so much entertainment (folks making less than $1M arguing against high taxes) - your reaction misses the point entirely. Firstly, you're completely ignoring an entire class of business that can easily attain that level of income but would certainly be killed once they suddenly lose half their income. Second and more importantly (and telling) is your attitude that somehow none of us will "EVER make that kind of money." I find that attitude ....
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
... insulting and presumptuous. You don't know me from Adam, and I'm guessing you don't know the rest of us either. There have been years in my past when I've earned well over a few million, and years when I've lived under the poverty line. It's amazingly easy to move your income level around in this country, and for there to be an incentive for us *not* to achieve - well, that's just absurd.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Mark - I sincerely didn't want to offend anyone. I apologize if I did so. However, you can't fault me for my 'crazy' assumption that none of the dozen of us have made $1,000,000 a year. Please, it's not like I just assumed everyone here was white or in their thirties.
- Blake Caldwell
@Bryan Clark - cool! Yeah, I would imagine most people don't understand brackets. I was surprised when I asked around here at work.
- Blake Caldwell
@Robert Hafer - I might agree with you that certain situations of taxing small businesses could amount to hurting the company. There's certainly a difference (in my mind) between an individual making $1,000,000 per year and a small company. I would be in favor of making a distinction in the tax code.
- Blake Caldwell
@Mark - One more point though. If that tax increase was enacted, people wouldn't suddenly lose half of their income. A 50% tax bracket at $1,000,000 would mean you'd lose an additional 15% of your income for every dollar over a million, since the 35% bracket is in effect for every dollar over $357,000.
- Blake Caldwell
@Mark (cont) - so right now, if you make $1,000,000, you'll pay $329,000. If you make $2,000,000, you'll pay $679,000. If this 50% tax bracket went into effect, you'd sill pay $329,000 if you made $1,000,000. If you made $2,000,000, you'd pay an additional $150,000 of taxes: $829,000 instead of $679,000.
- Blake Caldwell
Glen Beck... ugh. What a hack.
- anna sauce
Hack or not, Beck just pwned the CEO of Netflix. Pwned I say.
- Mike Lewis
Except he didn't.
- Richard Lawler
Yeah it doesn't really make sense. I mean, the CEO gets a bunch of little discount cards in the mail saying he can pay more to taxes? Oooooh, scary.
- anna sauce
Nah, not pwned. LOL, he doens't have a 'passionate desire' to pay more taxes, just like anyone that has an opinion about where to send troops doesn't (necessarily) have a passionate desire to shoot people.
- Blake Caldwell
Nothing Glenn Beck does makes sense. He had this anti-communist (!) episode the other day, that was 1/2 in Cyrillic. A friend & I translated it, it was just nonsense. Oooh, scary the Russians are coming. Putin's rearing his ugly head! Glenn Beck is the Tara Reid of the celebrity crowd.
- anna sauce
Well then I'm waiting for the Glenn Beck drunken nipple slip :). Wait, errr....
- Blake Caldwell
What's disturbing about the nipple slip was that it revealed a botched operation...
- anna sauce
That tara reid nipple slip almost ruined "accidental" flashings for everyone.
- Richard Lawler
Tara Reid? OH, right, she had a nipple slip too. What a coincidence :)
- Blake Caldwell
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