StrangeSox

Great post!

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Feb 22, 2014 -> 03:22 PM) It has been a brutal winter for most of the airlines. Yeah, my mom is a customer service rep for southwest. Every single week, there's been some sort of weather screwing everything up. Lots of mandatory overtime. I had to call southwest last week, and their regular line was just a busy signal and their a-list preferred line was a 45 minute wait.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Feb 22, 2014 -> 02:59 PM) 1 Southwest 2 Southwest 3 Southwest

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 21, 2014 -> 07:20 PM) Don't they generate like 400M in revenues. That is an absurd multiple. None of this recent tech stuff makes sense. Drop box valued at $10B. I thought I read $20m.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Feb 21, 2014 -> 05:13 PM) It was necessary to text foreigners, but it's not anymore. I now have unlimited international texting with Verizon, I'm sure the others will follow suit. They did it to combat their massive loss of teens/youth more than they did it for foreigners, as that app isn't used in China, it's competitor is, and if it's numbers you're interested in, you want China. Foreign plans are often structured differently for texting, so it's not so much a thing for the US market (or least that's my understanding of what it was ).

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 21, 2014 -> 08:37 PM) I wish you had a compelling reason for calling two 30-minute sessions of lifting to absolute failure per week, along with eating a ton a gimmick... The outrageous claims are enough to let you know it's a gimmick. Legit things don't need fantastical claims.

Yeah, apparently it's big internationally where SMS text plans are often expensive, especially if they're international messages. But still, $19B? For a messaging app? User bases come and go all the time. It's hard to see how they could make their money back on this.

Facebook paid $19B for WhatsApp (I thing I've never heard of before this week, probably means I'm getting old). To put that into perspective:

And Surrogacy Makes 3 In New York, a Push for Compensated Surrogacy Tex, I think your claims that puppy mills are "more regulated" than human babies or surrogacy is pretty dubious. I'm also unsure as to what you'd like to see regulated that currently isn't, or how that relates to the pretty clear anti-LGBT intentions of the proposed Kansas bill.

surrogate mothers are just like puppy mills?

The hardware stores around here have plastic tumblers for about $100.

welp

must have caught her skate

brutal missed chance leads to another penalty

I'd imagine it's aimed at stopping gay couples who have a surrogate mother carry a baby for them.

ridiculous

There's always the tumbler types

It's not fair to Jordan Davis to be killed because Michael Dunn was wrong. edit: we don't allow wives to kill their husbands who have no history of abuse because they think they might be abused imminently.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 02:21 PM) I agree with you. HOWEVA, there was SOME evidence (however strong or credible) that the guy thought the kid pulled a gun out. I don't believe it based on what I've read, I think it's totally discredited by his wife who testified that he never told her about a gun, but whatever. I'm not about to sit here and claim that based on my reading of other peoples' summaries of testimony/reaction that I know exactly what evidence was offered and how a reasonable person should have voted. See, here's the thing. There shouldn't be any possibility whatsoever of Dunn's actions being legal. It is absurd to think that it could be legal to kill someone because you confronted them over loud music, went back to your car to obtain a gun, confronted them again and then shot them to death.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 02:21 PM) the murder conviction is just a technicality at this point. I wonder if you would feel the same if your kid had been shot to death for no reason.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 02:16 PM) He was convicted of three counts of attempted murder, meaning the jurors didn't buy that he shot those three kids out of self defense. It didn't work. But at least one juror bought that he shot and killed Jordan Davis out of self defense. edit: put another way, if you apply the juror's (or jurors') logic to a similar scenario where Jordan Davis was the only one in the car, Dunn gets convicted of nothing.

It did for at least one of the jurors.

whoops, I'm an idiot, nevermind!