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Do you know what I don't have installed? 

A Mischa Barton Blocker.

Coup in Turkey.  This has been a long time coming for Erdogan.

This gets worse before it gets better.

vansmack wrote:
Coup in Turkey.  This has been a long time coming for Erdogan.

This gets worse before it gets better.

Erdogan is reported on a plane outside of Turkish airspace and not "captured." Going to be interesting to see if Germany lets him land and who acknowledges which government when.

Julian, wrote:
Erdogan is reported on a plane outside of Turkish airspace and not "captured." Going to be interesting to see if Germany lets him land and who acknowledges which government when.

If he is outside of the country, then it's over already.

obviously we'll have to watch Turkey carefully…..I dont' think we know enough.. I don't know enough to say much…

Former State Department Undersecretary Nicholas Burns is someone I listen to carefully…. he really should be the next Secretary of State…but of course career State Department officials are often bypassed in favor of politicians…

Gotta have the brass.

vansmack wrote:

Julian, wrote:
Erdogan is reported on a plane outside of Turkish airspace and not "captured." Going to be interesting to see if Germany lets him land and who acknowledges which government when.

If he is outside of the country, then it's over already.

you were saying…?

vansmack wrote:
PokemonNo! Blocker Chrome Extension

And it actually works!

nice…very similar code to the "atomic-blocker."

sweetcell wrote:
you were saying…?

Yep, premature. I thought he fled as opposed to being on vacation and that the top leaders of the Military were orchestrating it.

That was a poor coup attempt, even by Turkish standards.

I think social media changed things… when the president went on facetime or whatever on facebook and asked people to take to the airport and i don't remember what else (TV channel?) and he basically said he was still the president… man that's just a whole new thing.. in the old days you would see the tanks in the street and be like "oh well, guess its a done deal"… and you'd think the president might be dead or something…

sweetcell wrote:

vansmack wrote:

vansmack wrote:
At 11:15 a.m. PT, Netflix's stock was trading at about $169 a share, down $39 or 18 percent.

$112.58

Good time to buy?

hope you bought, 'cause looks like this ship just might be turning around:

Netflix abandons plan for Qwikster DVD service
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/10/technology/netflix_qwikster/

"Basically, these guys are desperate, and this confirms it," said Tony Wible, analyst at Janney Capital Markets. "While this move doesn't solve the company's long-term issues, in the interim, at least it can try to accelerate some positive catalysts for customers and its stock price."

Shares of Netflix (NFLX) rose 7% following the news.

Rinse.  Repeat.

Netflix stock price tanks as customers quit over higher prices

Absolutely consuming me at the moment:

NY Suit against VW/Audi

Page 19, section D of the complaint has all the fun staff (page 21 of the PDF).

vansmack wrote:
(page 21 of the PDF).

is it page 23? ("23 of 90" at bottom of page, and 23 per my PDF reader…)

"Volkswagen?s Defeat Device Development and Implementation Was Not an Isolated
Event but an Iterative Process Across Different Emissions Control Systems and
Different Lines of Vehicles Over Ten Years "

wow, if that's true, 'scuse me while i go short more VW stock…

sweetcell wrote:

is it page 23? ("23 of 90" at bottom of page, and 23 per my PDF reader…)

"Volkswagen?s Defeat Device Development and Implementation Was Not an Isolated
Event but an Iterative Process Across Different Emissions Control Systems and
Different Lines of Vehicles Over Ten Years "

wow, if that's true, 'scuse me while i go short more VW stock…

Sorry, yes, Page 23 of the PDF and the next 10 pages.  Just brutal stuff about how, after they got away with it in one iteration of an engine, just to avoid paying a license fee to Mercedes-Benz and because their own internal solution failed, they repeated it 5 more times in the next 5 versions of diesel engines.  All in an effort to outsell Toyota because they were so much further ahead in Hybrid technology.

Audi - Green Police Commercial  Even features my car down to the package. 

vansmack wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

vansmack wrote:

vansmack wrote:
At 11:15 a.m. PT, Netflix's stock was trading at about $169 a share, down $39 or 18 percent.

$112.58

Good time to buy?

hope you bought, 'cause looks like this ship just might be turning around:

Netflix abandons plan for Qwikster DVD service
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/10/technology/netflix_qwikster/

"Basically, these guys are desperate, and this confirms it," said Tony Wible, analyst at Janney Capital Markets. "While this move doesn't solve the company's long-term issues, in the interim, at least it can try to accelerate some positive catalysts for customers and its stock price."

Shares of Netflix (NFLX) rose 7% following the news.

Rinse.  Repeat.

Netflix stock price tanks as customers quit over higher prices

Most of these analysts seem to think the churn after ungrandfathering is a temporary blip.

There are very few times when I say "I love Facebook" but old people on Facebook is one of them (I have altered the names):

——
‎George Walker‎ to DJ Roben
42 mins ·

DJ it's been a while I was just wondering if you were engaged yet, if not, what the hell are you waiting for, ANNA is so wonderful and perfect, time to pull the trigger buddy
—-

George is the father of DJ's college roommate (DJ is 40 years old now).  I think/hope he thought he was sending a PM or that things on the wall would not be seen by all.   We're 45 minutes in, 35 comments have been made busting DJs chops and no word from DJ, who may not have seen it yet.

vansmack wrote:
There are very few times when I say "I love Facebook" but old people on Facebook is one of them (I have altered the names):

——
‎George Walker‎ to DJ Roben
42 mins ·

DJ it's been a while I was just wondering if you were engaged yet, if not, what the hell are you waiting for, ANNA is so wonderful and perfect, time to pull the trigger buddy
—-

George is the father of DJ's college roommate (DJ is 40 years old now).  I think/hope he thought he was sending a PM or that things on the wall would not be seen by all.   We're 45 minutes in, 35 comments have been made busting DJs chops and no word from DJ, who may not have seen it yet.

My father in law thinks that everything on his wall is a personal message to him.  On the one hand he feels very important and popular with all these personal messages he's getting, but he can't figure out why all these people feel the need to message him about what they had for lunch.

My father thinks every facebook post should be responded to with the word "Yeap!" (a word I have never heard him say once in my life) and as a result I set up a friends group without him and set it to my default so he never sees any of my posts. I feel simultaneously horrible and savage af all at once.

since we're sharing: my dad thinks that FB is a place of pure evil.  he probably saw some sensationalist report about a kid who was lured by a predator using facebook, so he now thinks FB is full of pedophiles and worse.  my sister occasionally shows him the good side (pix of his grandkids, jokes, family updates, etc) but he won't budge.  being anti-facebook is a weird point of pride for him.

Facebook es una mierda.