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DragonFireKai said...
Regardless of the translation, the fact remains that not only did Blizzard post a cheesy response to a question that didn't need to be put in there, but their answer was wrong on multiple levels. They referenced a patch that did not exist, and there were taunts that were still missing, despite their assurances that "patch 3.9" fixed it all. All these flaws in an answer to a question that didn't recieve 1/10 as many votes as many more qualified questions that didn't make the cut. The majority didn't think that taunts miss, hell, not even the palty dozen upvotes required to highlight a post as highly rated were tallied. That question slipped through because Blizzard failed to properly weigh their input sources. You vote simply didn't matter as much as the votes that got that question on there. Which is contrary to their stated methodology prior to this firestorm.
People aren't angry because Blizzard put out some amazing brief that left out a question they wanted answered. They're angry because the document was done in a very unprofessional manner. It was fundamentally flawed from the ground up, not only in the manner in which they chose the questions that were posed to the developers, but in the manner in which those questions were asked. It was not proof read, it was not given any degree of fact checking, it didn't ask the questions that the majority voted on, it didn't answer all the questions that it posted. People are angy because Blizzard hyped this as our only chance to get assured time with the devs on these topics, and Blizzard made the absolutely minimal effort that could still be considered having actually done something. They were either lazy, or incompetent, and the fact that there are people like Allison Robert pointing this out is a serious indictment on the value of the whole AtD system.
If Blizzard is smart, they'll cut their losses and not even release the DPS Q&A if they follow the same half assed methodology.


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Slow year, eh TMZ???
congrats TTT :D
Incredibly biased, TMZ. I guess there's no need for anyone who would like to see Lindsay turn her life around to post anything positive or kind because you obviously love the disparaging and obnoxious comments about her more. You know, the ones you consider "The Best Ones"? Well done.
I'm surprised you don't delete the comments you disagree with. Oh, wait. You can't because you want something to laugh at and mock, don't you?
TTT, top three. Honorable mentions, Bubba, Angeleyes and Jenny.
Way to go.
I hope I win! Is there a cash prize? Because Mel's shekel check isn't going too far these days. I'll split it with my buddies -- the other fraus that haunt the Mel Gibson threads.
I hope I win! Is there a cash prize? Because Mel's shekel check isn't going too far these days. I'll split it with my buddies -- the other fraus that haunt the Mel Gibson threads.
Posted at 4:11 AM on Dec 29, 2010 by Tellthetruth59
I'm rooting for you! Go Team Tellthetruth59!
LOL TTT, you are nuts.....glad they saw the humor too.
I was wearing my CORDS on the concord in accord with the pepsi generation and the next thing I remember I wake up and it`s 2022 and jeery steinfeild is working for spilberg as a 2nd AD and old JEERY has a short graying beard wears only designer suits and small glasses.HE says dreamwork`s spilberg is grooming him to take over dreamworks.So I go back to sleep for about ten more years.When I awake this time sure as spit JEERY was taken over dreamworks and has put on about 30 pounds in the weight room and has a muti-billion dollar movie productions going so this time I ship off to my moonie house and drink the greatest water on the moon and set in to be frozen and cloned as the frogs swim in my moon swimming pool I think to myself this could be the ENDO?
But than I`am unfrozen and JEERY has a gun pointed at my ice cubes and he is saying I`am taking over your MOON shot home is now mine and I say or yea you and what clone or clones and it is than that it hits me I`am a clone of a long since dead clone of howard hughes and as those bullet hit my cubes I can see though time space and ice and I thank GOD that I get the right to die after all these years as most earth people are locked in to forever clonedum.I don`t know why JEEry shots me but as I`am dieing I see a WHITE LIGHT sign blinking off&on and some snow cat eating some cat food and I`am 20 years old agin back on the concord wearing my CORDS with a pepsi in hand.
#3 LOL, TMZ deletes comments all the time. It's no secret. Harvey is scared of lawsuits by once-an-actress Lindsay Lohan's dad and her stay-at-home mom Dina (who stays at home several states away).
I would like to thank the academy... for this nomination... Michael Jackson (RIP) Joe Jackson and the entire money grubbing family... piano cat, Phoebe Price (shout out to Michael K at Dlisted!), Maynard James Keenan, the Festivus pole, and last but not least, Antoine Dodson. I would be nothing without you.
You couldn't find any comments where the person could actually spell?
Really TMZ, these are "Comments of the Year"? Gawker may not know jack squat about how to treat their readers or protect their technology, but at least they know what funny is! I was expecting witty yet insightful comments to be chosen, not ones that clearly reinforce the views you already shove down our throat with the evidence that is convenient to you (Oksana's a whore, Mel's anger is justified, Tiger's a joke (actually, the Tiger's Neck comment was worthy of being on this list), Lindsay's a danger to society and the Jackson family could give a crap about Michael being dead as long as they get his money.
Your New Year's Resolution is to try and obtain a sense of humor - both for the staff & Harvey at TMZ (Airplane or poop jokes will send me into a grand mal seizure) and the over-sensitive, preachy commenters who are now basking in the approximate 2 minutes of internet glory it takes a person to get through this post. Also, way to make the commenters' names are to read with the 'Next' buttons hovering over their screen names. Give credit where credit is due. We may not (all) be the smartest people wasting time on a gossip site, but we are the reason that you're able to sell ads. Think about that.
In other words, TMZ is trying to drum up more comments for next year and keep the sheep trying to be the wittiest they can be.
If they actually monitored their comments, they'd know people are getting sick of Harvey and the site's new direction of spinning the news instead of reporting it. The Manipulation Zone is what it's turning into. They've always done that a little, but they have really bumped it up lately where you can't even trust what is being reported as real. Like they did yesterday with that Alf thing...total spinning for drama instead the reality it was that anyone with an IQ over 70 could have figured out.
"I was expecting witty yet insightful comments to be chosen, not ones that clearly reinforce the views you already shove down our throat with the evidence that is convenient to you (Oksana's a whore, Mel's anger is justified, Tiger's a joke"
That about nails it! That is precisely what TMZ's 2010 has been about...spinning those stories and then acting shocked that the polls reveal the sheep vote they think that way too. It's ridiculous. I think Charles is the only one at TMZ who is kind of getting that because he's been calling Harvey out more and more lately when he goes on his narcissistic off-topic benders. Little trucker hat guy shows up and reinforces Harvey, so does Mike.

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Two Elinchrom Ranger Quadra specials at Adorama
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noun (plural principesse /ˌprɪntʃɪˈpɛseɪ/)
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With a sharp knife, make several slits in the pork tenderloin. Inset garlic slivers into slits in roast. Place pork loin or tenderloin in a deep large bowl or very large zip-lock plastic bag; add enough brandy or apple cider to cover roast thoroughly. Add brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce to brandy or apple cider, blending well. Cover or seal bag and refrigerate for at least 4 hours to develop flavors. Drain pork but do not discard marinade. While pork is marinating, prepare sauce.
Arrange pork roast on a rack in a roasting pan; bake, uncovered, in a preheated very hot oven (450 degrees F.) for 10 to 25 minutes (shorter time for pork tenderloin and longer time for pork loin) or until pork is lightly browned. Reduce temperature to slow (300 degrees F.); sprinkle roast lightly with salt and pepper. Remove rack from under roast. Add about 1 cup brandy or apple cider mixture from marinade) to roaster; continue to bake, loosely covered with aluminum foil, until meat thermometer inserted into thickest part of roast registers 155 to160 degrees F. (time will vary according to thickness of roast). Baste pork roast frequently with brandy or cider mixture during roasting time. Drain off pan drippings, keep warm, and reserve to spoon over slices of pork roast.
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An appellate court judge has voided a Florida mogul's adoption of his longtime adult girlfriend.
Third District Court of Appeal Senior Judge Alan R. Schwartz wrote that the adoption of a "paramour" or lover has no purpose and cannot be confirmed by a court.
Forty-nine-year-old John Goodman founded the International Polo Club in Palm Beach. Last year he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for a fatal drunken-driving crash.
A lawyer for the crash victim's family says Goodman's 2011 adoption of 42-year-old Heather Laruso Hutchins would shield his fortune. Goodman's attorneys said he wouldn't benefit from the adoption of his girlfriend of four years.
The appellate court also ruled Goodman committed fraud by not giving enough notice of the adoption to the mother of his children.
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Daniele Watts said she was detained by police on Thursday because they thought she was a prostitute.


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Haywood Community College (HCC) instructor Shannon Rabby and more than 100 of his students are trying to save flying squirrels.
Rabby, 48, is an instructor for the Fish and Wildlife Management Technology program at HCC in Clyde, N.C. And he and his students, like many other teachers and students across the country, are doing their part to study animals affected by climate change.
"Many types of wildlife cannot adapt to climate change because their habitats … will shift when things cool down or heat up," he said.
Animals across the country are having a hard time adjusting to climate change because it's happening quicker than ever before, USA TODAY reported. The National Wildlife Federation said the warning about affected animals is not based on computer simulations, but rather real-life happenings.
Wildlife clubs — such as HCC's, for which Rabby is an adviser — and Wildlife Society student chapters, which are spread out across U.S. college campuses, are noticing these trends. The Wildlife Society is a non-profit organization looking to conserve wildlife and habitats.
There are more than 120 student chapters in the U.S. and they are made up of students and professionals on college campuses, according to the Wildlife Society's website.
The flying squirrel, Rabby said, is just one animal he and his students, who are training to become biology technicians, are researching in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Rabby and his students have found climate change already affecting animals in this region.
Farther up north at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., associate professor Uma Ramakrishnan studies coyotes and white-tail deer. She said she hasn't seen an impact on those species because of climate change.
"It still follows the regular cycle," she said. "I haven't seen any variation in the two species I've working on."
Charles Bartlett, an assistant professor at the University of Delaware (UD), said non-mobile animals and animals that live in unusual and discreet environments might suffer more than others.
Bartlett said he mentions ideas of conservation in some discussions with his students, but his class structure doesn't offer the opportunity too often. He said, though, there are classes at UD that specifically focus on climate change for wildlife.
Ramakrishnan said she didn't know what could be done to help out ailing species.
"I'm not sure what we could do at a local or regional level. I couldn't think of anything. I certainly don't have a way," she said.
For Rabby and his students, providing a local effort is the most anyone can do.
"It's a local thing and what they can do to preserve the species that are here," he said. "And that makes all the difference."
Bartlett said some species will die out no matter the effort.
"We're just going to lose some of them," he said. "We're going to lose them without an extreme amount of effort."
Rabby was a little more optimistic.
"There is definitely a whole generation coming up," he said, "that wants to make sure we have everything from white-tailed deer to a flying squirrel for future generations."


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Clean PANCAKE STACK!
Gluten & Dairy free!
Perks of being on exam block, only having to go to school when i have an exam = breakfast in bed!
& it's healthy! Perfect procrastination from studying..
1/2 cup almond meal
1 egg
1 egg white
1 tsp organic vanilla extract (not completely clean and possibly optional)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 mash banana
Water as needed to make like a pancake batter.
My toppings today were a drizzle of raw honey, loving earth chocolate coconut butter & other 1/2 of the banana
All you have to do is mix or blend ingredients to form a pancake batter and then heat a fry pan with coconut oil pouring in desired sizes of batter and cook like a normal pancakes (until bubbled, then flip)


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12SecondCommute Users Review
12SecondCommute makes two claims of it's autoresponder and associated services:
1) That the tools all successful marketers need to have are high quality, and represent excellent value for money for anyone wishing to ramp up any online or offline business.
2) That, for those who choose to promote 12SecondCommute as an affiliate, the blend of regular training, ease with which it can be promoted and commission structure provides strong and long lasting residual incomes.
So are the tools within the 12SecondCommute good value and are the affiliate residual commissions worth the work? Or is it all smoke, with little depth and no fire?
I'll try, as a user, to give you both the good and any bad I've found in both the 12SecondCommute Online Tools and it's associated Income Opportunity, then it's up to you to decide.
A Brief Company History:
The 12SecondCommute is the latest project from Darryl Graham, and follows his successful development of 2TillProfit over six years ago. 2TillProfit provided great tools but it was never designed to be a massive income earner for his affiliates, being intended to just to cover the affiliates costs once they had introducing two other members (hence the name 2TillProfit), a job it achieved and exceeded easily.
Let me give an example of 2TillProfit earnings in this screenshot.
Now $770 a year looks pretty pathetic doesn't it? But remember what 2TillProfit was designed for – just to cover costs.
In this year to date, a year in which my commitment to coaching students in my role as the StartBusinessMentor left me no time to promote 2TillProfit in any way, shape or form, I still happily received $770, when my cost to use all the tools, which I did on a daily basis, only cost me $90
So, while it surely isn't retirement income (I used my other earnings to fund that happy situation) 2TillProfit earned me $680 Thank you 2TillProfit and Darryl Graham! <grin>
Lets move on now to the 12SecondCommute
The 12SecondCommute ( 12 Second Commute ) builds onto this success with even better tools and, most importantly, by coupled them with a three level, highly front loaded commission structure that is producing substantial residual incomes for many of it's members.
Who's the 12SecondCommute most suitable for?
==>> Anyone using the Internet to promote any of the following businesses:
Any online MLM, Affiliate or Niche Business – especially if they want to use professional tools that are good value for money and to develop ongoing monthly commissions by promoting them to others
Any Brick and Mortar business (Legal, Mortgage or Loans, Real Estate Retail etc) wishing to attract more business by promoting their services online.
Affiliate marketers sick of 'one sale, one commission' model with it's ongoing costs to bring in new sales all the time.
MLM (Network Marketing) distributors wanting to escape the slavery of the 'Autoship' and other 'you have too each month' requirements and transition into promoting high quality Internet tools that everyone MUST have to be successful.
Any web hosting etc business paying out less that $10 per member per month to it's members (ie GVO or GDI)
==>> And it's not much use for?
Anyone not willing to invest some time to learn how to use the tools properly – the learning curve, while gentle, does still exist to some extent. Happily the owner, and some other leaders, provide live webinar training weekly and the internal training videos and other materials are very clear and easy to understand.
Anyone seduced by the 'do nothing, make gazillions by next month' crowd. The 12SecondCommute has the potential to provide excellent ongoing income, allowing people to dump the job and 'work' from home (hence the name 12 Second Commute) but there is work involved and a good 'retirement' income could well take six months or more to achieve.
12SecondCommute – What is it? What's included?
==>> The 12 Second Commute Professional tools:
12SecondCommute includes all the tools and resources everyone online must have in order to build a successful business, all in one easy to use account.
Ad and Link Trackers
URL Rotators
Capture Page Creator and Hosting
Contact Manager
Prospecting System
Training Center for Newbies (and not so new ) with live weekly training webinars
Hosted Blog
Live Conference Centers for all members to use.
Affiliate Center
Comprehensive activity and result statistics
The 12SecondCommute Commission Plan:
A three tier, heavily front loaded, 60% total, commission structure which provides those members who choose to promote the 12SecondCommute an immediate reward for each new member who takes up an account, and long term residual incomes as all their members monthly subscriptions fall due and they receive a further commission on the renewals.
Retention was high on the old 2TillProfit package and is even higher with the new 12SecondCommute because of the expanded and even higher quality tools suite, and due to the substantial improvements in the rewards coming back to the affiliates.
What's good about the 12SecondCommute?
The 12SecondCommute includes all the tools every online marketers needs, all in one easy to use package, coupled with a substantial multi tier (not MLM) commission plan, providing substantial residual incomes.
I like the way you're not overwhelmed by complexity on arrival at the 12SecondCommute and the way the tools are introduced in simple steps as you need them. You are able to get the very best out of the tools without having to tear your hair out in frustrating as you learn how to deploy them. A good example of the 'Keep It Simple, Stupid' principle
I'm also very impressed with the owner Darryl Graham. In the over four years I've used his services he has always over-delivered – often to a surprising degree. In developing this new tools package and the powerful commission structure that goes with it he made a smart move in soliciting the opinion of his super affiliates at every stage and the final package reflects this combined effort.
What needs improvement within the 12SecondCommute?
I'm still not sure letting people join via a free trial was the best way to go, as it attracts a few 'tire kickers' who 'take all, do nothing'. You know the ones – here in New Zealand we call them 'hangers-on' (and other things somewhat less polite <grin>)
Fortunately, after the free trial everyone joining will have to elect an upgrade level starting at $14 a month, which weeds out the 'sleepers'.
The services are clearly worth much more than $14 a month, even without the associated ability to earn substantial residual incomes, so maybe I'm just a bit hard nosed in thinking everyone should have been required to invest from day one. In the long run it makes little difference in practice anyway.
What does the 12SecondCommute cost:
All the services and tools are available beginning at $14 a month. Choosing to upgrade to one of the other three levels simply gives more, optional, services. ie. ad and link tracking larger capacity hosting, larger email lists, more capture pages etc.
From my experience most new members will be very happy with what they get for $14 a month and it will only be when their businesses have grown quite large (and therefore quite profitable) that they may see a need to upgrade to get more capacity or additional services. Certainly the base level autoresponder and page builder service is clearly priced at a level to compete with and undercut the price of any other supplier and is superb value for money.
As a user I'm very happy with the effectiveness of all the tools in the 12SecondCommute suite, and many affiliate members are reporting that the commission structure is producing regular and ongoing incomes for them.
Clients (who are using the tools to promote other online or offline businesses, and not promoting the 12 Second Commute) are reporting high levels of satisfaction.
The high levels of satisfaction being reported by both affiliates and clients has lead to the expected high levels of retention being achieved and provides reassurance that the residual incomes being produced from both types of memberships will be strong and long lasting.
My recommendation:
Is that you take up the free trial , give all the tools and the training as good thrashing and then decide for yourself whether you think enough of 12SecondCommute to make the move to upgrade to one of the levels that best suites your situation. Frankly, I don't think you'll be disappointed with what you see
But whatever you decide, be aware, you WILL NEED all these tools if you really want to make it online, and you will not get them at a better price anywhere else. Don't overlook the value here because it's only $14 a month.
My second recommendation:
Is that you attend the live weekly training webinars, especially the one(s) done by the owner Darryl. Get to know the other members, their willingness to assist you, and their integrity, and let that knowledge form part of your decision.
The link below will allow you to join the 12SecondCommute as one of my personal members, and I offer the following additional, exclusive to my members, bonuses should you choose to do so:
A free copy of the acclaimed 'Six Simple Steps To Wealth' Guide – a $47 value
Full, and free, lifetime membership of the StartBusinessMentor Training Center.
1-on-1 personal coaching with me (limited to 1/2 hour a week) and direct access to my 12SecondCommute introducing member, the owner of 12SecondCommute, Darryl Graham.
You can get your free guide and all your additional bonuses HERE, then you will be redirected to 12SecondCommute where you can take up the FREE trial – no credit card or other payment details required – to check it out further.
If you promote, or wish to promote, any business providing residual incomes, for example any MLM (multi-level marketing) program or, even better, a multi-tier affiliate program such as 12SecondCommute's and others, look particularly for details on the exclusive Prospecting System that's exploding peoples incomes.
(the StartBusinessMentor)