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has anyone watched this yet?

Sounds like China is pretty annoyed at the moment as well.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 11, 2013 -> 04:16 PM) I told a friend the other day, I honestly did not think that Kim Jong Un would be nuttier than Kim Jong Il. I thought the guy would actually have a little common sense seeing how he had some actual exposure outside of Korea. I was wrong He's trying to impress the army leadership.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 10, 2013 -> 06:52 PM) Here's a look at the article with well-deserved skepticism. While there was 1 key passage with that, there was a bunch of bloggy crap where they wrote their thesis before they sat down and were just cherrypicking to prove their point. Their logic is basically that if the NYT language was not condemning it, they were supporting it. Glenn Greenwald school of writing.

I'm having trouble linking on ipad, but I suggest reading nytimes article on al-alwaki assassination.

Anyone catch Crossfire Hurricane on HBO?

QUOTE (zenryan @ Mar 9, 2013 -> 01:23 AM) Him being a Canadiens player makes it believable IMO. And this is a terrible response.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 09:17 PM) NBA to add in HGH and blood testing. bye bye lebron.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 10:31 PM) Is it just me or is this Rose injury thing really getting strange. They are not going to beat the Heat, nobody is. So is he just quitting until maybe they can in a couple of years. When LeBron agreed to go to South Beach all hopes for other teams died. Really? Do you Really think this?

I hope things get interesting soon, this is boring.

WOW, this is fantastic! Still trying to figure out what these numbers mean, but I'm very pleased we can lock down Sale. If we are going to develop sparse talent, we might as well lock it down when we hit.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 05:29 PM) You, sir, are a bastard. Although, the NHL playoffs are a god damned marathon assuming one makes it to the Final round. 2-3 weeks would have him back in the 2nd round! The second half of this NHL season will be really interesting. I've actually been pleasantly surprised how fresh the players still look on these back to back to back trips. I'm hoping it can keep up, but I'm guessing the last few weeks of season we might see some teams grinding through.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 04:32 PM) Bad, bad news on Patrick Sharp. Hopefully he can be back for the playoffs. This, this is why I wished the playoffs had already started. Then he would be out for the playoffs.

I don't know where we are at this point, internet is too hard nowadays.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 04:47 PM) LOL. The head of You Can Play is calling it BS, so it sounds like another made-up Twitter rumor. BTW that was a great response made to the rumors.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 04:41 PM) Let's hope this is accurate. That's great news. Sometimes quotes seem so much more ominous in print, and that tweet about Q's response to Sharp being out for year was terrifying even though he denied it (technically).

Yeah, f***in a, I was thinking it was Frolik that got the puck around the boards that led to the Bickell goal. It was Stalberg.

So, if we don't lose the next game, we'll have gone the "first half" of the season without a regulation loss. /knocksonwood. Frolik had a game yesterday.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 6, 2013 -> 03:53 PM) But they still have pretty high inequality and there's widespread discontent with the government IIRC. And their privatized social security system has been a bit of a failure, too. What's wrong with saying Chavez was s***ty politically but that the way he used the oil wealth to help the poor was genuinely good when many other leaders have not? I'm not required to endorse everything he did or said in order to point out that he wasn't the universal evil he's typically portrayed as. Probably for the same reason people don't say, Sure, Mussolini was a bloody tyrant, but boy did the trains arrive on time. As I said, many other countries in south america have reigned in their natural resources to create better transfers of wealth.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 6, 2013 -> 03:25 PM) How much of Chile's progress in the last couple of decades are an offshoot of Pinochet's reign? They've done well after those neoliberal policies were implemented, but how egalitarian is their society? How does it compare to Chavez's use of natural resource wealth for the poor? Chavez did some good things while also having a toxic political culture. I don't know if that comes out to a net positive or if that even means anything anyway. But I think it's important to note what he did with the natural resource wealth when he could have easily done what's much more common. There's no question that he's harmed Venezuelan democracy, and for that he should be criticized. After Pinochet was removed, the former socialist party took over and have been a very good government. They have kept the best part of Friedman via Pinochet reforms, while creating a better floor for their population. They are a very-well run country with good government.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 6, 2013 -> 01:01 AM) Coworker just had that happen with chase past week. Wonder if something was compromised? The more I tell people about this, the more people claimed it's happened in last few weeks.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 6, 2013 -> 04:11 PM) Yup. The fact that the governing party is now in chaos with no leadership is a sign of the type of government he ran. For as much as he restricted free speech, though, I'd throw out there that he did depart from the typical SA "assassinate or disappear the opposition" moves, at least as far as I've ever heard, while some of the opposition still advocates for those tactics. South American governance has certainly turned a corner, but I prefer to hold up Chile and Brazil as the progress rather than their bad apple. Chile's tech scene is because of their government and people's initiative. The two go can go hand and hand and countries should always look for those opportunities and be accepting of failure in those cases.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 6, 2013 -> 01:40 PM) Chavez died yesterday. Mixed bag of anti-democratic measures, ego-maniacal leadership but also using his country's natural resources wealth to actually help the poorer citizens of his country. Many resource rich neighboring countries did the same thing much more effectively, without terrorizing the opposition.

whew. That was intense. Just had 3 $200 charges made on my account within 15 minutes. I had $100 alerts on luckily and was able to call Chase right away. They are a good bank to have for that stuff. I put a fraud alert on my credit as well. Hopefully contained any damage.

You are allowed to be lazier, so long as you are more productive. Productivity has continued, so it shouldn't be an issue.