Trying hard today gell?

In general, hardly trying.  Don't need to.  Thanks for asking though!

It's simple.  I rarely visit poll sites from any other referrer outside of Drudge, Gamingtrend, and Twitter.  I
The methodology each poll uses is of no concern to me. They're irrelevant to me.  Prior to you all's commitment of focusing on poling methodology and which polls I look at, I gave them little thought.  I could care less about Nate Silver or whoever else.  Historically I've used polls to gauge  momentum or shifts.  This,conversation started because I posted in response to the idea that Obama has some big lead, I posted proof that things have shifted drastically. Are there still polls with O leading?  Of course, but my point that started this sideshow discussion garbage, was and still is accurate.  Anyone that thinks this is in the bag for either candidate is delusional.

The issue is, you started off with the stance of 'it's not in the bag' (which I think most reasonable people with agree with) but constantly chime in with posts like "Looks to me like Romney's momentum continues, and he has drawn even in Ohio.  In addition, his lead amongst independents cannot be denied" and "Romney is leading in most reputable national polls, and in those polls, plus the lesser known polls where he is losing he is within the margin of error and LEADING amongst independents" and "Whatever though, I'm more encouraged by Romney's lead amongst Independents in almost every poll than I am anything else" with rarely any links to any credible data and THEN post things like "The biggest fallacy of his entire presidency is how "intellectual" you all think he is" that makes me really wonder if you are a) really this fucking stupid or b) playing the role of "dumb political whacko on the internet" to a tee.  

Either way, you seem to be enjoying it, which says more about you than you realize.

I rarely visit RCP, I visited it for the first time ever when Romney took the lead in  the Electoral College.  That started your word vomit about RCPs no swing electoral college poll, which lead to an attempt at wit on your part.

Translated: I rarely visit any polling site that doesn't agree with my POV, until it does, which then turns it into the sole voice of truth.

Secondly, on one hand you all spout nonsensical gibberish accusing me of focussing too much on national polls and how superior sites like RCP are and the other you state that I'm some how a diehard fan of RCP.  Can't have it both ways.

You sure can't, buddy.  You sure can't.

WOW WOW WOW.

I don't know if this has been done before, but to be facing elimination in both seasons, and then sweep the favored team has to be a first. Or rarely done. What a post season ride.

Looking back to 2010 and this series, I have to say I enjoyed the 2010 more only because it was our first one since 52, and it was my first time seeing it happen. But this series seemed like we* beat out all the odds.

*when I say we, I mean the Giants

I enjoyed them in different ways.  In 2010, I was a ridiculous nervous wreck, especially during the NLCS against the Phillies. When Wilson struck Howard out, I'm pretty sure I nearly threw up.  I went to every home game up until the World Series that year.

This year, my expectations were lower and I was way, way less nervous.  I only managed to make one game.  I had tickets to Game 6 of the World Series if they got that far.  I watched Game 3 on an airplane back from the east coast.  But last night, a buddy of mine from Australia was in town and we hit the mission to watch the game and then wandered around for an hour before things got too retarded out there.  That was awesome.  Watching the game in a packed bar with everyone hoping for the same thing and then finally getting it, it was really great.  Walking my neighborhood giving and getting high fives and hugs from randoms, even better.

So probably just as good, but different for me.

Colbert has issued a challenge to Trump in response:

   
Nation, I am so moved by this generous offer, that I have an offer of my own, right over here. Mr. Trump, I will write you a check for $1 million from Colbert super PAC - you know I’ve got it - to the charity of your choice, anything, save the children, feed the children, put the children on "Child Apprentice," whatever. One million actual dollars if you will let me dip my balls in your mouth.

    But, but, but, this dipping - and I hope you're listening very carefully, Mr. Trump - this dipping has to be to my, and more important, my balls' satisfaction. One caveat, my balls must be in your mouth no later than 5:00 p.m. Oct. 31. My balls have a thing that night.

    Nothing would make me happier than to write this check. And nothing would make America happier than to have something going into your mouth instead of coming out of it.

I love that man.

Ditto.

The biggest fallacy of his entire presidency is how "intellectual" you all think he is.

LULZ.

Regarding the new iMac, yum!  I was afraid with all the thinness (which I really don't care about although it looks cool), they'd sacrifice the high end graphics, but instead they went pretty aggressive with the GTX680MX option, so it looks like I will definitely be upgrading.  I also like the idea of the fusion drives, hopefully they will work in Bootcamp as well.

Complete, 100% agreement.  Excited for December.

I WINZ.

i still have a love / hate relationship with my heavy, especially as the rockets become less effective

Don't tell me this. If rockets become less effective, then they are basically going to become useless...

Situationally they are effective.  Shooting a rocket directly at an enemy is never going to be an awesome.  Shooting a rocket at a car that the enemies are all near... that works out pretty well.

My typical mission is 1 Support, 1 Heavy, 1 Sniper, 3 Assault.  I am impatient.

I just wanna watch Eco blindly punching out things after Obama gets reelected.  Watching him implode is one of the few things I've enjoyed about this campaign.

The awesome part is that I have more Democrat and Republican friends who will be doing the exact same thing when their candidate loses.

American Politics: No matter who loses, I win.

Fingers crossed.

My two observations from this debate:

1)  Obama destroyed the first half or so.  It looks like Romney is evening things out a bit towards the end, but he got absolutely killed to start.

2)  Why can neither of these assholes wear a suit that fits right?  GET YOUR SHIT TAILORED PROPERLY, YOU ARE ON TELEVISION.

Obama makes me wish I had a freaking punching bag next to my couch...  I truly cannot comprehend anyone in their right mind supporting him:

I think that tells more about you than it does the people supporting him.

I'm fairly certain Apple is going to target this as a direct nutshot to MSFT's Surface and a defense against the Nexus 7.  My bet is $249 for the low end version.  $50 Apple premium over the Nexus.

All of my heavies are USELESS!

They're only as good as their commander.

I can't pull the trigger for them, man!

I know they have lower AIM ability, but in a lot of cases, they don't hit anything unless they're firing a rocket. I've now just started using them for suppression, overwatch or the occasional close combat high probability hit.

Suppression is hugely useful.

I guess it breaks down to this:

If you use iTunes and Apple stuff for a lot of things, want a truly consistent experience through and through then probably stick with iPhone.
If you use GMail and google services,  like messing with your phone and more customizeation options go Android.

All things being equal, this. 

Well, if it makes you Nats fans feel any better, the Cards winning solved my potential dilemma of having to choose between going to the Niners/Bears (and the all day tailgate) or the potential Giants/Nats game on Thursday.

Thankfully now that game is a game @STL, so I can go to the tailgate/football game with no regrets.

How that would make you feel any better, I have no idea.  But hey, yay me.

For you guys with the black iP5, are you seeing a lot of wear and tear from normal use at this time?  Chipping, scuffing etc?  I have a reservation that I am scared to go through with due to all the reports I'm reading about light use causing signs of wear.  I am a caseless 4S (and previously 4) user, and my phones look brand new after months of use.  I'm concerned the 5 won't be the same and it'll drive my OCD nuts.

I can understand this way of thinking for something like a nice watch (I'm totally this way myself), but for a phone? Come on. Is it really that important. If it's not on the screen who cares what it's like.

Yes, it's really that important.

But it really shouldn't be.

It's a device that costs several hundred dollars.  It's more than many people spend on a watch.  For many of us, it is a watch.  I'm not sure why it's okay for one and not the other.

Fundamentally for me it's because it goes through so much peril as a part of its everyday use. It's a losing battle to expect it to be perfect.

As a more extreme example, cars cost significantly more and I, as a city dweller, certainly don't freak the fuck out over the most recent scratch or door ding. It's part of the deal. Shit happens.

I feel the same about my watches, btw. Or my shoes. If I want something to stay pristine, it's something I only use for special occasions with extremely low risk of disaster.

For you guys with the black iP5, are you seeing a lot of wear and tear from normal use at this time?  Chipping, scuffing etc?  I have a reservation that I am scared to go through with due to all the reports I'm reading about light use causing signs of wear.  I am a caseless 4S (and previously 4) user, and my phones look brand new after months of use.  I'm concerned the 5 won't be the same and it'll drive my OCD nuts.

I can understand this way of thinking for something like a nice watch (I'm totally this way myself), but for a phone? Come on. Is it really that important. If it's not on the screen who cares what it's like.

Yes, it's really that important.

But it really shouldn't be.

Why am I forced to deal with a second rate Zeke when the original is still out there?

I don't necessarily want to encourage, but I have to admit I lulzed.

It's sad to me that their are so many people that can't realize what a fucking disaster this president has been.

I mean it hasn't been good, but it's nowhere near the disaster of the preceding eight years which I'm sure you were just as critical of as well, AMIRITE?

I think he really blew it during the Libya section though.  Surely you all that support this administration can admit that this Libya debacle is an enormous issue.

It is literally the least of my concerns.

Well the VP did better than his boss

I don't think anyone expected that at all going into debate season.

All because I felt the latest jobs numbers were suspect you waggle your tail and show your ass.  Fun times👍

All I've ever said about the polls are that I believe it will be neck and neck until the bitter end.

To be clear, that's not the only reason I am mocking you.

In case anyone was wondering, I mean.

You're just mad because he's a better dresser than you are.

I've never once seen how anyone on this forum dresses, so I can't speak definitively.

However, I sincerely doubt it.

All because I felt the latest jobs numbers were suspect you waggle your tail and show your ass.  Fun times👍

All I've ever said about the polls are that I believe it will be neck and neck until the bitter end.

To be clear, that's not the only reason I am mocking you.

In case anyone was wondering, I mean.

B B B B B B I PICK B.

I'm still a no case guy.  Owned an original iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S with no case on any of them.  No damage on any of them either.

Drop of 8.1 to 7.8 August to September?  Why, that's a huge 0.3% drop.  We haven't seen that since ... December 2010 to January 2011 when it dropped 0.3%.  Or, y'know, November to December 2010 when it dropped 0.4%, both of which would have been to late to impact the midterm elections. 

Your assertion that the jobs numbers have been falsified is ridiculous. 

Yeah, I don't know where he got that "20+ years" notion. I read (sorry, too lazy to hunt it down) that there have been 12 adjustments of 0.3% or more in the past 10 years. Which is to say, a little more than once a year.

Look, you guys.  He meant the raw #s, not the %.  Those are more meaningful anyway, duh.  Especially when they match the point he is trying to make, you guys. 

Stop being intentionally obtuse, you crazy liberal fucks.

Maybe instead of acting like a bunch of tools we can all be happy that the numbers are going down, something that's , you know, GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY regardless of political ideology.

Don't be silly.

The best part of not giving a fuck is no matter who wins, I get to laugh at the butthurt on either side.  CAN'T WAIT.

Would not at all be shocked if there was no season.

THE LOS ANGELES KINGS, YOUR 2011-2012 AND 2012-2013 CHAMPS.  That's how it works, right?

While I think the Maps app is a pretty big disappointment, I'm very impressed with how fast it is when moving the map around.  Google didn't seem to cache their map tiles at all, causing the occasional "black hole" because the program was having a problem loading that tile (even at home on wifi).  Apple maps (maybe due to carrying less data) is responsive as can be when scrolling.

Either way, I tend to use Waze more than either program because the traffic reporting is much more accurate (thank you fellow commuters!)
 

There's actually a technical explanation in the way the two different apps render tiles... but basically yeah Apple Maps is faster and uses WAY less bandwidth.

And the positive side to all of this is that I learned about Waze a week or so ago, which is ridiculously awesome.

[none of it would ever cost anybody anything.]

I didn't watch. Did either of them solve all of America's problems...or at least promise to?

Oh, over the course of ninety minutes, Mitt Romney promised the American people his presidency would deliver 20% lower taxes, higher wages, superior benefits, fewer regulations, more military spending, better healthcare, smarter schools, cheaper gas, green energy, zero deficits, and permanent fixes to Social Security and Medicare, and none of it would ever cost anybody anything.

Nothing he ever said or did prior to 9:00pm last night ever happened, and anyone suggesting otherwise was simply confused.

It was *amazing.*

-Autistic Angel

Well the bolded part is untrue.  It'll cost some people something.  Just not you.  He promises.

Content wise I thought it was pretty neutral, but Romney was better at delivering his points, I thought.  Obama was surprisingly not on his game.

It's like beating my head against a wall.  I just don't have time.

I'm in the first area after leaving the prison or whatever that place is... if I go one way, I run into skeletons which I literally cannot kill.  If I go the other way I end up in this city of the undead or something... I go along fine for a while, but then I have to fight through a bunch of guys only to get to the top of a wall and hit a boss, which I've made it to ONCE, and he destroyed me in seconds, which is fine for a boss the first time, I guess... except that I then have to go back through all of those other dudes again to get to him, there is no save point near the boss, which is idiotic... so I'm reduced to just grinding away at the same enemies over, and over, and over, and over again so I can try to slowly level up enough to make it to the boss... on what planet is that fun?

Welcome to Dark Souls!  That is literally the entire game.  ENJOY!

By "people like you all" I simply mean people that are actually going to vote for Obama.  I'm blown away by it.  I have quiet a few Democrat clients, all who have told me they will not bee voting for him again. 

I'm voting for him for the first time because I believe he is the lesser of two retards.

I really don't think they needed to get specific.  Candidly, the American Public as a collective aren't very smart.  The *something/magic* plan would have carried him to the White House.

No, The Mitt Train to Failtown has done much, much more than the 47% video.  Or much less depending on your view of it.  The video posted (that you clearly did not watch, good job!) spends about 10 seconds on the 47% video and the rest of the other 5 mins or so laughing at the other dumbfuck things the campaign has done.

Honestly from a moderate point of view, and I've said this before, it really reminds me of the Gore campaign.  What should be a 'COME ON, just look at the economy/dumb shit the White House has done the last 4 years... DO YOU WANT THAT SOME MORE?' slam dunk campaign has instead turned into a shitshow of retards saying some of the dumbest shit they could possibly say.  If Romney literally just repeated my line above anytime anyone asked him anything, his campaign would be doing better than it is now.

The fact that it's *remotely* close is only because the current office isn't any good either.  It's not something to be proud of; it's something to be ashamed of.

Hence, Barack Obama is the Luckiest Dude On The Planet.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-25-2012/democalypse-2012---every-which-way-but-lucid

Yeah that about covers it for me.

So he's established a very reliable pattern that you have discussed with him that you don't like.  And then he continues to follow that pattern.

He's unable and/or uninterested in changing.  My suggestion would be to either accept the relationship as it stands or walk away from it entirely if it bothers you to the point where you don't value the positive aspects of the relationship over the negative.  He's not going to change.

Hoooooo boy.