When that goes, it will be a long, long, cold night.  Say.... 6 months?

I'd pay top dollar to see the Mississippi River flow backwards.

Yep, if Yellowstone blows you can kiss your ass goodbye. We're not talking about just changing the face of North America... More like every mammal on earth dead within a year or two.

I'm sure some insects will survive....

I'd worry about this but I'm too gleeful that I don't have Time Warner.

Don't fuck with Sponge Bob...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_ … rner_cable

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ptah13 wrote:

Yep, if Yellowstone blows you can kiss your ass goodbye. We're not talking about just changing the face of North America... More like every mammal on earth dead within a year or two.

That's the worst-case scenario.  There are plenty of shades of awful between present conditions and the very worst a Yellowstone eruption could be, and most of those shades--as with New Madrid--involve environmental changes the U.S. could not weather intact.

And as for the Time Warner/Viacom pissing match, Nikki Finke is keeping the world updated, for those of you who are interested.*

Time Warner Cable customer service was unprepared for the onslaught of complaints from subscribers flooding into call centers. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many reps were unaware of the dispute with Viacom...

*Goddamn right I am interested.  I'm a subscriber.  Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and the South Park kids are being held hostage!

ptah13 wrote:

Zookeeper wrote:

ptah13 wrote:

I'd worry about this but I'm too gleeful that I don't have Time Warner. Don't fuck with Sponge Bob...

Viacom appealed directly to Time Warner Cable's customers, with TV ads in major markets. In Wednesday's New York Times, the company ran a full-page, color advertisement with Nickelodeon's animated bilingual heroine "Dora the Explorer" crying and clinging to her monkey pal, Boots.

"Why is Dora crying?" the ad asks. "Time Warner Cable is taking Dora off the air tonight!" The ad urges viewers to call Time Warner Cable and demand that their favorite shows remain on the air.

Emotional blackmail.  Those bastards.

Thank God the Daily Show and Colbert Report are in re-runs until next week.  The dust should have settled by then.

Good luck. One of the cable stations lost CBS (who show all the local Colts games, mind you) and didn't even negotiate for a couple of months. I believe this was just locally, though.

They offered free rabbit ears to their customers, so they wouldn't miss the Colts games. Those people I know who had that cable company now all have the dish (I say that like having the dish equates to a burning sensation when peeing).

It's hard to explain but you don't deny folks around here 1/2 a season of Colts. Funny part is, it was the first half when we went 3-4, before winning 9 straight, so they didn't miss much (I think it was resolved by the time the winning streak started). It was like Peyton couldn't give his all if he knew the fans were having to watch a snowy picture.

Can you imagine what a 42 inch plasma looks like with rabbit ears?

Be grateful you're not a Charter cable subscriber, and even worse, living in an area where local signals aren't available on DirecTV; otherwise, my household would've switched long ago...

As for the Time-Warner/Viacom situation, this is nothing normal...Practically every cable provider gets into a pissing match with both local stations and satellinte channels at this time every year...Here, the local CBS, CW, and Fox stations are threatening to pull their signals off Charter over transmission fees, and the folks in my area are really scared, with the Alabama Crimson Tide playing on Fox Friday night...Even more bizarre: in my town, we can't even get HD channels from the local broadcast affiliates!

Charter cable is really fucked up; as of this morning, their stock price was down to 9 cents/share...

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Taint wrote:

Interesting segue.

Segue, my ass.  That was nothing but classic ptah.  You'd think he didn't know how to create his own topics.

Dmtdust wrote:

Oh the highjacking!!!!! when will it ever stop????

Speaking of which, did you hear about the two paramedics who were forced to have sex with each other after their ambulance was hijacked?  Who cares if the story is 14 years old.

Dirckman wrote:

An update.....   http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-com … pdate.html

Unfortunately, scientists can't really predict when the next such eruption will happen, and the range of possibilities is large: from later today to a million years from now.

Well, that narrows it down.

sofaking wrote:

Dirckman wrote:

An update.....   http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-com … pdate.html

Unfortunately, scientists can't really predict when the next such eruption will happen, and the range of possibilities is large: from later today to a million years from now.

Well, that narrows it down.

I hate to say it, but I'm actually hoping it erupts....  It would most certainly spice up things a bit for everyone and we would no longer just be people that lived and died an otherwise boring meaningless existence, but people who witnessed one of the few great catastrophes of human existence.....  Something like this would truly bring meaning to our lives and make all of us historically viable...

Taint wrote:

Dirckman wrote:

sofaking wrote:

Dirckman wrote:

An update.....   http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-com … pdate.html

Well, that narrows it down.

I hate to say it, but I'm actually hoping it erupts....  It would most certainly spice up things a bit for everyone and we would no longer just be people that lived and died an otherwise boring meaningless existence, but people who witnessed one of the few great catastrophes of human existence.....  Something like this would truly bring meaning to our lives and make all of us historically viable...

Say, aren't you an inhabitant of Wyoming?

I don't live in Wyoming now, but I was born and raised there and live close to it....  I will always proudly consider myself a Wyomingite because I respect their culture of individualism above all else....  I also love Yellowstone National Park, the Bighorn Mountains and the Grand Tetons of Wyoming for their stunning beauty....

Dirckman wrote:

Taint wrote:

Dirckman wrote:

I hate to say it, but I'm actually hoping it erupts....  It would most certainly spice up things a bit for everyone and we would no longer just be people that lived and died an otherwise boring meaningless existence, but people who witnessed one of the few great catastrophes of human existence.....  Something like this would truly bring meaning to our lives and make all of us historically viable...

Say, aren't you an inhabitant of Wyoming?

I don't live in Wyoming now, but I was born and raised there and live close to it....  I will always proudly consider myself a Wyomingite because I respect their culture of individualism above all else....  I also love Yellowstone National Park, the Bighorn Mountains and the Grand Tetons of Wyoming for their stunning beauty....

So basically driving and fucking aren't giving you a fulfilling life, so you want a giant eruption to kill millions just so at least the aftermath of your life might be interesting?

You're doing it wrong.

I must confess to a small piece of mental illness. I love the idea of the apocalypse. I particularly get wood and beat my manhood like Sean Connery schmacking a bitch who won't keep her mouth shut, over the idea of Yellowstone blowing, asteriod impact, sun going suddely supernova, Vogon Destructor fleet. It wouldn't be our fault! We wouldn't be culpable, simply victims of dame chance. Some alien will talk up another in a bar, "Humans?, yeah I remember them. Over past Centauri. They were cool little guys, always ingesting medium chain hydrocarbons to cause short term brain damage and then start randomly smashing into each other with whatever appendage and/or primitive implement on hand. Their mating ritual, at it's best, looked like a drug-fiend retard playing "spoons" on his thigh. They were really cool."

So much better than us poisoning, nuking, fucking, or in some-way-I-never-would-have-guessed-possible-but-is-obvious-now-that-I-look-back-on-it sorta way. That's just so lame, like a step-dad who diddles his wife's kids, we all know something is going to knock on our door and we knew this day would come, but we just couldn't help ouselves.

Every night I say a silent prayer, "Dear God, I know you don't exist and this act of mine is simply a small ritual of Erisian Science, but I pray to you anywho. You, who do not exist, must think it would be really funny to prove me wrong by sending a small piece of space junk, like say, a space toilet, cause that would rule, to smash a hundred miles through the atmosphere and land directly into my apartment, killing me in my bed by being blown into a brown mist. This would be such a kick-ass way to die that I am ready to be your servant at this task or if you think of a better one, like more funny or just cooler, then totally bro, be creative. I Thank ye for your time and hope you are feeling much better. Amen."

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jealous?

I must confess to a small piece of mental illness. I love the idea of the apocalypse. I particularly get wood and beat my manhood like Sean Connery schmacking a bitch who won't keep her mouth shut, over the idea of Yellowstone blowing, asteriod impact, sun going suddely supernova, Vogon Destructor fleet. It wouldn't be our fault!

I don't consider that mental illness, I consider you a person who's honest with themselves....  If you look at the history of the world starting with it's violent, molten creation to the modern day you'll see a history of constant adversity....  From the competition of the Cambrian explosion, to the Permian extinction, to the KT impact to modern man it's been a struggle....  Right now those of us living in modern industrialized countries have lost our edge, no natural enemies, our number one health risk is obesity, and we spend our time concerning ourselves with things that really make no difference at all...  Here in the West we haven't even had a major epidemic since the Spanish influenza...  Our brains are programmed for survival and hence we have the need for adversity...  It's kind of hard to get that need satisfied when even our poorest people are overweight....  My mind may be warped a bit by this because I watched the Planet Earth series again yesterday...  I think this video sums it up.....

Emmeran wrote:

ptah13 wrote:

when we went 3-4

"we"??  What number were you wearing out there on the field??  And how was your plane ride home from San Diego yesterday?

George Orr wrote:

To get back on topic here:

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WE'RE ALL FUCKED

Then again, we may all freeze to death.