StrangeSox

Staten Island residents have been complaining of being largely ignored despite taking some of if not the worst of the storm.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Nov 2, 2012 -> 11:29 AM) So first I need to upgrade to a 64-bit Windows 7 (I run Vista right now), and THEN I need to go buy 8 GB of RAM? God damnit, I'm going to use up all my Xmas funds to do all that. Ha. step one should have been to get off of Vista 3 years ago.

I thought this was an important point on the employment numbers: Derek Thompson

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Nov 2, 2012 -> 11:35 AM) i have a fact that will likely shock you. 42.8% of voters in Mississippi voted Obama. so those would be southern democrats. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politi...tion2008/ms.htm You need to unskew those results. Only 5% of voters in Mississippi went for Obama after you take away all of the ACORN fraud.

The arguments to cut Social Security are nonsense and you can tell with how it's always conflated with Medicare. "If we don't do anything, SS benefits in 20-30 years will be reduced slightly, but still more in real dollars than they are today! Better cut our throats now and get it over with!" Privatization is an entirely separate disaster.

Several graphs showing the jobs/employment situation in the US http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/11/...71000-jobs.html

32-bit systems are gernally limited to 3-4GB of memory. There are ways to get around it depending on operating system and what processor you have. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_GB_barrier Windows XP and 2007 only supports up to 4GB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Addr..._system_support

Get Ready for the Phony Debt Fight "The Debt" is going to be used as an excuse to unnecessarily cut Social Security and Medicare regardless of who wins

Staten Island devastated

ADP =/= BLS, and Welch's and the rest of the right's paranoid rants were about the BLS numbers. edit: wasn't the ADP change due to a change in their methodology?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 2, 2012 -> 09:41 AM) Revised from 162,000 to 88,200 link? http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/mo...employment.html http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012...ment-edition-2/

Also the fiscal cliff is more of a gradual slope. There is time to work out solutions even after the date the sequestration kicks in, the Bush tax cuts expire and the temporary payroll tax cuts go away.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 2, 2012 -> 09:01 AM) That is pretty funny now after the September numbers were revised down by about half. No, it still remains paranoid delusions.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 2, 2012 -> 08:50 AM) 171k jobs added in October, beating everyone's expectations. 86k upward revision for August and September. UE goes up to 7.9 from 7.8 due to large numbers of people going back to looking for work. That's about as good as the news can get right now on the jobs market. Still not fantastic, but good progress. But all of this recent momentum in jobs, and in the housing market, is going to go down the tubes if we don't avoid the fiscal cliff. Oh of course, them chicago boys cookin' the books again!

His collapse in the polls came right after the first debate, where he was detached and boring. He rebounded with the later ones.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 1, 2012 -> 06:36 PM) If my Facebook feed is any indication, there are going to be a s***load of Bears fans in Nashville this weekend. Some of my friends are heading down

That guy who just cussed Trump is the VP of Product Development for Chrysler

The Romney campaign and Tea Party groups like "true the vote" are 'training' poll watchers with all sorts of incorrect information. I'm sure this will end well. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/0...hers/?mobile=nc http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2012/oct/31/...ing-questioned/

still not sure why they aren't facing substantial jail time

This made me laugh more than anything:

we had a wedding/masquerade party on saturday, so I went with the creepyist mask I could find. It was pretty similar to this

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 31, 2012 -> 05:00 PM) Well yeah, obviously the Jersey and NY shore areas were what got it the worst. I don't remember indicating otherwise. I'm just saying that i don't think pa was heavily affected, at least relatively.

It got hit by the storm for sure, but I don't think they had anything like the problems New York had. http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/mo...-fortunate.html

I thought Philly was largely unscathed while the more rural counties were hit harder with power outages? PA doesn't allow early voting, anyway, but Sandy is an excellent argument for greatly increased voting opportunities. What if this storm had struck next Monday or Tuesday? Should the results of so many elections hinge on who happened to be able to make it to the polls on that one particular day in the middle of a huge storm?