The Republican Party facillitated the actions of dirtbag hacker/sextortionist by affording him the perfect cover of an elephant costume on the Gingrich campaign.
This clearly did irreparable damage to the Stomper name brand, which has been carefully cultivated for years to build market value based on innocence and purity. Hella lost revenue damages. Also loss of consortium…who’s gonna get with an elephant with a pervy reputation? Sue ’em!
We publish all manner of stories here. Some are serious, some are frivolous, some are dumb. I am not going to make a case that the future of the Republic rises or falls on the ability of the general public to watch a video of Hulk Hogan fucking his friend’s ex-wife. But the Constitution does unambiguously accord us the right to publish true things about public figures. And Campbell’s order requiring us to take down not only a very brief, highly edited video excerpt from a 30-minute Hulk Hogan fucking session but also a lengthy written account from someone who had watched the entirety of that fucking session, is risible and contemptuous of centuries of First Amendment jurisprudence.
http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-po-481328088
stop distracting me, I have work to do
Who says I don’t
Gawker has gotten so good recently.
Yes, although this post about One Direction fandom as a gateway drug toward jihad has me concerned.
Boy bands, terrorists, same thing pretty much.
That’s… a judge over stepping his authority.
Her authority. #sexism
Jeb’s appointment of Terry Schiavo’s parents’ lawyer to the bench really should disqualify him from the presidency, btw.
so should his last name
Ha! Before I saw your comment I was ready to type those exact words. His family has done enough damage to this country thank you very much.
Barbara Bush agrees:
“There are other people out there that are very qualified, and we’ve had enough Bushes.â€
I saw that! I was a little disappointed that she thought he’d actually make a good candidate though.
Enough? Or too many?
Yes.
So whats the matter with Kaep? all the time now?
Nothing, I hope
This is great news…I would submit even for A’s fans who don’t care for the Raiders, in that it incentivizes the station to continue to build its East Bay brand, which should enhance A’s coverage.
As one of those A’s fans, I agree.
yup
Yes
I could never figure out why they were on Live 105.
My periodic 24 Hours of Lemons link: How-to turn a Cessna into a race car, with step-by step fabrication instructions.
that is awesome.
Like.
I know that guy, Jeff Bloch. Bet him on a cruise a few years ago.
And by “bet,” I mean “met.” Although he (and everyone else) kicked my ass at poker every night.
Can’t wait to see it tonight!
Dammit. I planned on going because of the swingin A”s pin, but I have to work on something that I know isn’t going to happen, but I can’t be unprepared
what is the over/under on the Te’o mentions in round 1? 45.6 bn?
I’d take the under on that. I don’t know that he’s seen as a first round guy post-controversy/combine.
Maybe I’m wrong.
Amazingly enough, Hawk did not read Moneyball:
Yeah, I think I’ve already heard enough from that guy.
I have, too, and I didn’t press play yet.
I’m never pushing play.
“THE WILL TO WIN”
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VORP sighting!
Also, why would you need to read something have an opinion on it? Who has time for that?
Wooo! Power outage, but only for 6 picks.
DFWAS
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/04/24/death-letter-blues/
Judge not lest they be gay themselves.
A woman was fired from a kindergarten director position in Germany a while ago, because she got divorced from her husband. It was a Catholic kindergarten, but it is state funded one as most all are – the church is basically just a subcontractor. So much for the separation of church and state…
Indeed.
Is separation of church and state a thing in Germany?
Pretty incredible story.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/25/carjack-victim-recounts-his-harrowing-night/FX6CAnypP1NbrMuPFb6zTM/story.html
Now we know the answer to Ed’s question about who admitted doing the bombings. It was Tamerlan.
Interesting testing method.
(h/t Sully)
achy breaky linky…
Unbroken
chainlinkthx
Relevent.
Wow, he did not look good in that. I’m pretty stunned at the way they kept playing through it.
That’s pretty brilliant. It’s all much more conducive to a real world environment that these students would work in. No one ever gives test/quizzes in the real world, they give assignments and it’s up to you to figure out how best to do them and work within your business to get it done. And just like game theory, it plays out with it’s own set of rules. In his next class, the results could be equally unpredictable as the players change.
like he admits at the end, this isn’t cheating, it’s playing a different game.
what i’m taking from it is that it’s keeping afloat with the way cooperation is changing in the world via the internet (or has already changed and we’re figuring out how to think about that change). all he’s doing is group-sourcing with very few rules, aka, just another day at FK.
it’s funny thought that competition is seen as the opposite of cooperation. isn’t competition a form of (co)operation?
I wouldn’t say competition is a form of cooperation, though it is fair to say that many competitions (e.g. baseball) require cooperation in terms of agreeing on the rules of play.
it’s funny because all these words really mean the same thing but we shade them so differently.
co-operation (operate together)
com-petition (dictionary says strive together. i’da guessed ask together. “petition.”) (and this one’s funnier because “com” is slightly more “with” than “co,” or am i shading too much now?)
co-laboration (work together)
in my mind, i can arrange them as co-operation being the umbrella term that the other two fall under. i mean, in a large sense, cooperation means more than one person acting at the same time toward a common goal. so i’m taking it as an umbrella term that includes people acting together and people acting against each other. take a national election for example. the goal is to have a president. and yeah, the activity is to bring down the other side, but the result has always resulted in finding a prez. so i think of competition as a equilibrium-seeking cooperation–much like two fingers hold a pencil in place in the air by acting against each other from either side, or by acting together both from the bottom.
It’s not really petition, it’s pete. “with” + “seek”. By itself it’s not really, for lack of a better word, antagonistic. It’s only when you compete against that it creates a rivalry relationship. Otherwise the competition is simply like-minded in their pursuit.
well, pete, petere, would be the root of petition, right?
but yeah, sorry. i said ask. “ask for” is more precise and in line with what you’re saying, seek. they’re definitely related in this particular word. that aside, i did mean that it’s not necessarily an antagonistic word.
I think you’re taking competition to be only the organized kind, such as a sporting event or an election, to use your example. Here’s one of Merriam Online’s definitions: active demand by two or more organisms or kinds of organisms for some environmental resource in short supply
Now, some organisms may benefit in their competition for resources by cooperating against a common opponent, but to me that doesn’t make them the same thing. Maybe opposite sides of the same coin is more like it.
i think i’m calling the coin cooperation and labeling the sides with the leftover terms. i think we agree in the conceptual but not in the use of the labels.
but i’m not only thinking of rule-organized examples. sperm toward egg. a competition (race) at first hand, but looking at the goal, purportedly the advancement of the best traits in the species (and without getting into what really is better for a species), by competing, all the sperm are collaborating toward that goal, and they don’t even know the rules.
been thinking more about this this today. and i think why keep defining cooperation and competition together is that they both involve more than one actor. that alone, to me, makes them way more connected and similar to each other, in terms of ultimately arriving at a self-validating synthesis or outcome, than the difference in how these two multi-actor mechanisms work.
It’s a great learning experience I’m sure, but isn’t testing more about ranking students for future schools/employers than checking if they’re getting an education?
So I heard “also, too” for the first time on the radio the other day, and now I can’t stop thinking about how much it bothers me.
Also, too: Ric Bucher is a putz. “Agreeance.” Bleh.
I’m willing to bet that Sarah Palin was a better sports broadcaster than Ric Bucher is.
Also too Glen Kuiper.
All of them…any of them.
Supposedly Sarah at least got to “know” players she covered.
She may be a moron, but if she was a man would these kind of insinuations be made?
I think so, yes.
There are tons of men who are politicians that sleep around. We actually know that McCain dumped his crippled wife to marry a heiress to finance his political campaigns. How often do we talk about that?
well, it depends on whether the republicans are trying to completely subvert a second term or not.
I could have sworn that came up when he was running for president.
it did in the circles that didn’t like him. but didn’t get much play in the MSM.
I have only heard the briefest of insinuations of Ms. Palin’s infidelity.
I may be mistaken, but wasn’t there a recent male democratic politician that had bad press because of marital infidelity? Maybe 88? 92? 98? 2008? I don’t quite remember
As with Palin, the left talked about it and the right didn’t. I seem to recall a minor stink being made about Bill Clinton in regards to his sexual escapades…
read the thread ed
to your defense, the comment in question was at least an inch from where you answered
I think not. Unless he was sleeping with the men.
It’s not just an insinuation. It happened. Glen Rice told everyone.
The ex used to say that. Just one more way that bitch ruined my life.
Merky News has a nifty little interactive housing map showing current real estate values vs the peak of the market. A couple of things that jump out:
1. The rich get richer – check out Atherton (94027).
2. In Sunnyvale, check out the differences between 94087/94086, and 94085/94089. The Caltrain tracks divide more than just the roads.
3. The data for 94303 (Palo Alto) and 94024 (Menlo Park) includes the area east of 101, and are very misleading. There is no way the median value of a house in East Palo Alto $1.1M.
The difference between northern and southern Sunnyvale has always been that way. It was an eye-opener for me when I went to HS and started visiting people who lived on the other side of the tracks (literally).
Yeah, and that’s why Sunnyvale High School was closed in 1982, and Fremont High was not.
Yep.
I’m surprised that there are parts of San Francisco that are still in the negative category.
I think it has something to do with density. The green areas are higher density than the red.
SUBURBS SUCK!
#dfaschoolboard
The Suburbs: All Bad Except for that Arcade Fire Album
Oops – forgot the link.
I lived right over the bridge on the East Palo Alto side of things last year. The difference a creek makes between neighborhoods can be…startling.
North Livermore
South Livermore
Fuck me. :(
Thanks, and go As.
live in N Livermore?
Can I have $410,700?
Thanks, and go As.
Try finding a place in Novato under that that isn’t more or less an apartment.
Doesn’t that mean that you need 40,000?
Can I have $40,000?
my raise isn’t that big.
Hey, did you get the new job?
They offered it to me. We are negotiating about whether or not I will have to move to LA for more than the 3 months initially and if they will float my rent for those three months. I expect to hear back on my counter tomorrow, but I know they want me and I want them so it should work out.
:-)
Sounds good, I hope the negotiations get resolved favorably.
Its over 2500 bucks. At the end of the day it is unlikely to torpedo the deal, but would be nice to have.
Hey if I can just pay the damn thing off in one fell swoop, why not.
also, more like 100,000. 20% down plus all the fees and shit.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah, by the time it was all said and done my down payment was about $50,000. I say that because it was higher than expected due to conflicting appraisals leading to the lender only agreeing to fund around $185k. The side benefit now is a lower monthly payment, which has been pretty important at times.
We had that happen on this condo when we bought it. That was back in the early post-crisis days and appraisers just would. not. return. real. numbers.
The problem we ran into was something my agent pointed out to me at the first property we looked at. I’m literally a few hundred feet from the road that separates Elk Grove from Sacramento and he said the same Elk Grove property will tend to appraise around $20k higher than one in Sacramento for various reasons (schools, etc.). So, our comps reflected that.
Of course, the third-party appraiser insisted on using comps within the city of Sacramento itself and there was no budging when it came to funding. It was make up the difference or lose the house and have to go back to fighting with other buyers for everything out there.
Fortunately I had the ability to get things done.
Part of the problem is that the lender doesn’t get to choose the appraiser any more (which obviously had its own problems) but we were re-appraised by a company from Santa Cruz who had no idea about Oakland.
Fortunately with Redfin et al you can pull your own comps now, so I did just that and the appraiser re-adjusted up by $100K (oh, you mean that multi-unit crack house next to the liquor store on 3-lane Oakland Avenue isn’t a good comp for a single family craftsman backing onto a creek?)
Wow, they readjusted that much?
Our last appraisal was equally bad (oh, you mean a 9 month old sale in an exploding market requires adjustment, especially when it’s in a TOTALLY DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD?)
FHA is 20%? I thought it was 10. Interesting.
FHA can be as low as 3.5% but you will have to pay PMI if you are less than 80% LTV
Thanks, and go As.
And you’ll get a significantly better rate at 20% down.
I also know that PMI used to not have a tax incentive.
My rate’s 4.5% for a 30-year fixed, but even that seems a little high relative to what others have been getting for a while. Still, it’s good.
True that everything is crazy low in general terms.
You should be able to get closer to 2.5% now.
If I was in a position to refinance, maybe. Not sure I am.
My rate is higher (something like 5.5%), but since we only have 4 1/2 years left on our 15-year fixed, I’m not going to bother. Also, our payment is ridiculously low given the value of houses in the neighborhood.
Even with the accounts I have to set aside money each month for property taxes and insurance, I’m under $1000/mo for my mortgage stuff.
Damn. I can’t even find rent right now for double that.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah, I’m extremely fortunate. But then, I know my situation is much different.
You also live in Sac.
Technically not, but close enough. I sure wasn’t going to be able to buy in the Bay Area.
PMI?
Private Mortgage Insurance
Can I just vote that someone just gives mike a house?
You can. Not sure how it helps.
♥
Thanks, and go As.
“Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn’t we keep the PC on the QT? ‘Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we’d all be put on KP.”
BS
Some of your TLAs are too short.
And you need to put the coversheet on top of the TPS report BEFORE it goes out now.
What does ‘BEFORE’ stand for?
This is based on what I just ran for my zip code in Elk Grove.
Peak: $477,000 (Nov 2005)
Low: $212,000 (Mar 2012)
Current: $263,000
Down 44.9% since the peak, but the low was down 55.5%. Increase of 24.0% since the low.
My house:
Peak: $410,000 (Apr 2006)
Purchased: $203,000 (May 2009)
Low: $160,000 (May 2012)
Current: $182,000
Down 55.6% since the peak, but the low was down 61.0%. Increase of 13.8% since the low.
Of course, this is Zillow’s estimate.
Trulia’s estimate puts my house at $200,000 now and that’d be down 51.2% since the peak with an increase of 25.0% since the low.
The important thing is I’ve never really been close to being underwater and I’m building some equity back up. Not that I’m looking to sell any time soon, but comps in the area for similar places have been around $190,000 over the past few months.
what did you buy in at?
Purchased: $203,000 (May 2009)
Oh duh.
Thats a pretty significant haircut.
I bought around the time values were bottoming out, so it’s not too bad.
And I mean that in the sense that it had a dip lower not long after I got the place, then stayed in the $160-170k range for a while before surging back up in the last few months.
If you put any stock into formula-based estimates that are often just reflections of what’s available on public records, that is.
That $203,000 price in 2009.
That was for DFA…
well I feel less stupid for my stupid question because of the reply fail. Thank you for being kind.
Not like that Dan