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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 04:44 PM) Yeah, none of those fakes were included in the buzzfeed I posted (just an fyi). One was!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 04:25 PM) http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/proof...scape-right-now Just click it and enjoy. Trust the photos coming directly from athletes' phone cameras, there's a lot of fakes floating around already http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/8-viral-soc...lies-1517429839

edit: otoh http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/02/most...t-sochi/357807/

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 01:34 PM) How about a live action Olympics thread that clearly states spoilers could be had? Makes it easy to not click in. That could work. Reading threads with spoiler tags on a phone is really annoying. Does IP.Board support spoiler tags like this?

The results are going to be everywhere. I don't see a need to hide them here.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 11:03 AM) There are no Sochi bathroom issues. How do we know? Russia checked the bathroom spy cameras... Russia Says Its Sochi Bathroom Spy Cameras Show No Plumbing Problems Spycams? What spycams?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 11:51 AM) So a womans downhill jump was closed today after 3 of the first contestants said it was too intense, and one woman injured both knees when she landed. http://deadspin.com/womens-downhill-skiing...-big-1517321814 fwiw

I noticed a bunch of giant-ass snowblower tracks on my driveway when I took out the trash this morning. Thanks anonymous neighbor!

Brazil isn't looking particularly hot with the FIFA World Cup preparations. 2016 might be just as much of a debacle. London had security staff issues but was more or less well-prepared. I don't recall China having these issues, either.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 11:06 AM) I think one benefit from the disaster that is the Sochi Olympics is that all three of the Winter Olympics, Summer Olympics, and World Cup will be returning to the US soon. Next time the USOC will be submitting a bid will be for 2024 or 2026.

OTOH the US is no stranger to convicting people of murder on only shaky-at-best circumstantial evidence.

QUOTE (Jake @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 08:22 AM) A good friend of mine got a tungsten ring, was boasting of its unbreakableness, then dropped it onto their tile floor as we all watched it shatter. I don't know if he got jipped or what I had something similar happen to mine. I was washing my hands off with cold water in the utility room, walked out into the garage, shook my hands and my ring shot directly under the open hood of my car. It managed to catch on a stud somehow, so I was able to find it, but the one side of the ring had shattered (there's three bands on the top). The jeweler replaced it under warranty at least.

I'd assume TV ratings

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 5, 2014 -> 06:40 PM) Yea, the target hack that originated in Russia And I'm not saying that hacks don't originate in the US, it's just funny you picked one started by a Russian hacker Check out this guy http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez lol whoops

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Feb 5, 2014 -> 06:01 PM) Most people are not entrepreneurs, geniuses, artists or novelists. Most people don’t have big ideas. Most people get by and advance in small steps, not giant leaps. Jobs are the principal way people improve themselves, their lives and the lives of their families, and leave their children better off than they were. More long-term unemployment, even the unemployment of people who leave the workforce willingly in order to “pursue their dreams,", means more people stuck on the lower rungs of the economic ladder. That does wonders for income disparity, which this administration seems to bring up every other week. Where I see people mired in economic dependency, you see reliable Democratic voters. The CBO found that unemployment overall would decrease, and that some people will voluntarily choose to leave the work force because they can still have health care. This doesn't mean more long-term unemployment or more people stuck on the lower rungs of the economic ladder. Where you see economic dependency, I see enhanced freedom and agency and something that's a baby-step closer to how the rest of the modern world functions.

It's also loosely based on a real player who was shot by a crazed fan.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 5, 2014 -> 05:09 PM) I have a number of friends working on the medical staff. The texts are hilarious but at the same time disturbing about the conditions. They obviously very concerned about the health of the athletes from many different aspects. did they at least not f*** up the condom supply?

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Feb 5, 2014 -> 03:32 PM) Yes being hacked by the Russian mafia and having your identity stolen is very similar to the NSA as they have been known to sell your personal information on the black-market to make a buck. I have no issue with the NSA and how they work. Target hack anyone? I mean I'm all for making fun of Russia's corruption here, but it seems like people are just sort of piling on now with little or no reflection for how their own countries operate. People in the US get hacked all of the time.

possibly something with cache/cookies?

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 5, 2014 -> 04:01 PM) And your mom can be pissed at her doctor, but she can't sue them! That would make her greedy and ridiculous and cause our healthcare system to spiral out of control. Tort reform!

Artists and Obama volunteers: the only people who would like to do something else! You never, ever hear about people saying that they'd start their own business and become the vaunted Small Business Owner/Job Creator if they didn't have to stick to their job to get health insurance. It's lazy moochers all the way down. edit: also why should Balta's mom be pissed at her union? Sometimes your body breaks down and there's not a whole lot medicine can do for it. If she wanted to keep her union insurance, she needed to keep working until she reached full union retirement age, otherwise she would have been paying huge Cobra prices. Even if it was the doctor's fault for a bad procedure, she still had to keep working and putting a lot of wear on bad knees just to keep health insurance. On what planet is this a good, desirable system? Why doesn't any other developed country in the world envy it?

Eh I'm not sure how much the US media should really harp on the Russian government about that given all of the NSA programs that have come out over the last year.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 5, 2014 -> 12:52 PM) I was reading the transcript of their debate. yeesh. Bill Nye casts doubt of the ability of a family of 7 to build an Ark large enough to carry all of those animals and withstand a massive flood, and Hams response was "Well, I never met Noah, and neither have you Bill." That's the root of his entire argument and the "historical science" thing, really. "I wasn't personally there, therefore literally anything is possible." But if you're starting from the premise that miracles are real things that actually happened, then there's no reason to even argue about scientific proof of that position.

Shaun White is pulling out of the slopestyle event to focus on the halfpipe after injuring his wrist yesterday.