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      • aCiD2
        Hehe

        • 2007-05-09 12911, 2007

      • yllona
        your parent may be able to take a tax credit

        • 2007-05-09 12912, 2007

      • ruaok wishes he had the internet when he was 17

        • 2007-05-09 12919, 2007

      • ruaok
        aCiD2 lives in the UK.

        • 2007-05-09 12924, 2007

      • aCiD2
        So what does that mean - I don't have to donate? Or my donations don't get taxed?

        • 2007-05-09 12931, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Ya, I'm UK

        • 2007-05-09 12939, 2007

      • yllona
        aCiD2: pretty much the same in UK.

        • 2007-05-09 12939, 2007

      • ruaok
        you can't take your donations off your income tax.

        • 2007-05-09 12912, 2007

      • yllona
        ruaok: in the UK you can't write off donations?

        • 2007-05-09 12915, 2007

      • ruaok points aCiD2 to http://metabrainz.org/contact/index.html

        • 2007-05-09 12924, 2007

      • aCiD2 is already there

        • 2007-05-09 12939, 2007

      • ruaok
        yllona: not sure, but you can't write off donations to US charities, that's for sure.

        • 2007-05-09 12949, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Tempted to do the $20, but I already have hosting to pay, and an eMusic subscription - so all my standing orders are stacking up xD

        • 2007-05-09 12903, 2007

      • ruaok
        emusic. hehehehe.

        • 2007-05-09 12918, 2007

      • aCiD2
        It seeemed like a good idea... until I realised there's not really anything good on there

        • 2007-05-09 12918, 2007

      • ruaok
        back in the day. shoveling money into the furnace.

        • 2007-05-09 12921, 2007

      • ruaok
        ahhh the days.

        • 2007-05-09 12924, 2007

      • yllona
        ruaok: you can take a tax credit for charitable donations in the US

        • 2007-05-09 12927, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Think this month will be my last month :P

        • 2007-05-09 12931, 2007

      • ruaok
        aCiD2: there is, you just need to look. :)

        • 2007-05-09 12944, 2007

      • yllona
        it just needs to be sspecific portion of your total income

        • 2007-05-09 12952, 2007

      • ruaok
        I've gotten sooo much shit off emusic.

        • 2007-05-09 12952, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Sure... but I'd rather spend my money on breakbeat.co.uk :)

        • 2007-05-09 12959, 2007

      • ruaok
        but free access for 2 years helped that a lot.

        • 2007-05-09 12903, 2007

      • aCiD2
        :o

        • 2007-05-09 12929, 2007

      • ruaok
        http://mayhem-chaos.net/hair.html

        • 2007-05-09 12931, 2007

      • ruaok
        :-)

        • 2007-05-09 12933, 2007

      • ruaok
        see the top one.

        • 2007-05-09 12941, 2007

      • aCiD2
        ahhh

        • 2007-05-09 12947, 2007

      • aCiD2
        didn't know you got a nice freebie for that :)

        • 2007-05-09 12949, 2007

      • Aankhen`` joined the channel

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      • ruaok
        yerp.

        • 2007-05-09 12914, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Ok, setup subscription - you should have it and my mail address from it

        • 2007-05-09 12933, 2007

      • yllona
        aCiD2: talk to your folks.. a "like or in kind" gift for your effort should be okay. otherwise fundraisers public radio stations (like NPR) wouldn't be possible :)

        • 2007-05-09 12952, 2007

      • ruaok
        thanks aCiD2 !

        • 2007-05-09 12956, 2007

      • aCiD2
        np :)

        • 2007-05-09 12901, 2007

      • yllona
        for instance when i donate to NPR, i always receive a "gift"

        • 2007-05-09 12903, 2007

      • ruaok
        should I send the ram to that addy?

        • 2007-05-09 12909, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Please :)

        • 2007-05-09 12917, 2007

      • ruaok
        k

        • 2007-05-09 12926, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Any personal taste on the chocolate front?

        • 2007-05-09 12949, 2007

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      • sylvinus has quit

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      • ruaok
        the good stuff, please. :-)

        • 2007-05-09 12921, 2007

      • ruaok
        some dark, some milk.

        • 2007-05-09 12928, 2007

      • ruaok
        more off the beaten path the better.

        • 2007-05-09 12944, 2007

      • ruaok
        no cadbury. no green & black (loves G&B, but had a lot of it)

        • 2007-05-09 12957, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        ruoak: you tried the new "specialty" bars, with like 99% coco?

        • 2007-05-09 12906, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Hehe, I'll see what I can find, not much of a chocolate fan though :)

        • 2007-05-09 12908, 2007

      • ruaok
        99???

        • 2007-05-09 12911, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        yeah

        • 2007-05-09 12913, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        99% is nuts

        • 2007-05-09 12917, 2007

      • ruaok
        yep.

        • 2007-05-09 12919, 2007

      • ruaok
        where?

        • 2007-05-09 12919, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        i tried 70% once, and it was too much

        • 2007-05-09 12928, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        they actually come with warning labels not to eat more than 2 or 3 pieces at a time

        • 2007-05-09 12929, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        or 72, or something

        • 2007-05-09 12934, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        surprisingly enough, Hersheys

        • 2007-05-09 12943, 2007

      • ruaok
        booo!

        • 2007-05-09 12946, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Wow, I've really messed my ears up already :/ Just alternated between right and left channels on my headphones - left ear can't really hear any of the kick :/

        • 2007-05-09 12957, 2007

      • MBChatLogger
        Impeach GWB NOW!

        • 2007-05-09 12957, 2007

      • ruaok
        once bush gets impeached, modbot will have something to say about hersheys

        • 2007-05-09 12906, 2007

      • ruaok
        er, mbchatlogger

        • 2007-05-09 12913, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        yeah, but these must come from somewhere other than the normal Hershey's plants - these are better than Gihardeli

        • 2007-05-09 12921, 2007

      • ruaok
        wow.

        • 2007-05-09 12911, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        what do they call it?

        • 2007-05-09 12917, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        it's not that "special dark" stuff, is it?

        • 2007-05-09 12922, 2007

      • yllona
        BrianFreud & ruaok you can order "real chocolate" direct from hershey's in Pennsylvania

        • 2007-05-09 12924, 2007

      • Kerensky97
        It's the high quality stash you have to get in the back alley.

        • 2007-05-09 12948, 2007

      • ruaok shudders

        • 2007-05-09 12948, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        no, not special dark - let me see if I can find it online...

        • 2007-05-09 12953, 2007

      • SenRepus
        SenRepus has joined #Musicbrainz

        • 2007-05-09 12958, 2007

      • ruaok prefers his chocolate to come from the old country

        • 2007-05-09 12902, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        ok, just wondering, i had seen that around recently, but never looked at it

        • 2007-05-09 12918, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        yeah, I'd seen some in west virginia, just starting to see them sold here in NY

        • 2007-05-09 12925, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        there are a few specialty shops not far from where i live where there's all kinds of chocolate i've never heard of

        • 2007-05-09 12934, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        starting at like $8/lb

        • 2007-05-09 12945, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        er, bar

        • 2007-05-09 12951, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        probably more like $25/lb

        • 2007-05-09 12923, 2007

      • Kerensky97
        They started doing that here. All names I remember from when I was in Germany.

        • 2007-05-09 12948, 2007

      • yllona
        ruaok: if you'venever been to the hershey's plant in PA, check it out

        • 2007-05-09 12904, 2007

      • yllona
        ruaok: http://www.allchocolate.com/

        • 2007-05-09 12920, 2007

      • ruaok shudders

        • 2007-05-09 12941, 2007

      • yllona
        ruaok: don't knock it until you've tried it.

        • 2007-05-09 12952, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        They don't list some of the extreme concentration ones here, but they're in the same "product family" : http://www.hersheys.com/cacaoreserve/

        • 2007-05-09 12901, 2007

      • yllona
        that would be l ike saying that there are no good beer sin the US

        • 2007-05-09 12917, 2007

      • ruaok
        I just distrust hershey's in general.

        • 2007-05-09 12932, 2007

      • ruaok
        and don't like their product much either.

        • 2007-05-09 12942, 2007

      • ruaok
        and I believe in voting with dollars.

        • 2007-05-09 12950, 2007

      • Kerensky97
        grainy chocolate.

        • 2007-05-09 12904, 2007

      • yllona
        why? the stuff in the grocery is ffor shite, but they've always made a high grade of baker's chocolate :)

        • 2007-05-09 12913, 2007

      • yllona
        and they also distribute some very high-end designer chocolates: http://www.dagobachocolate.com/ is one

        • 2007-05-09 12914, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        check this:

        • 2007-05-09 12915, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/…

        • 2007-05-09 12922, 2007

      • ojnkpjg
        Candy giant buys Berkeley chocolatier Scharffen Berger

        • 2007-05-09 12914, 2007

      • yllona
        yes, hershey distributes Scharffen Berger, has done so for quite some time, the may even own SB as a subsidiary now.

        • 2007-05-09 12914, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        that article's from 2005... wonder if that's where the new lines at hershey's are coming from

        • 2007-05-09 12925, 2007

      • ruaok never liked scharffen berger either

        • 2007-05-09 12931, 2007

      • Clint
        yllona: they do

        • 2007-05-09 12937, 2007

      • ruaok
        yllona: this is why I boycott hershey's: http://contracostatimes.com/business/ci_5816816

        • 2007-05-09 12943, 2007

      • Clint
        yllona: or rather, nestle does

        • 2007-05-09 12945, 2007

      • ruaok
        fucking evil bastards!

        • 2007-05-09 12921, 2007

      • yllona
        ruaok: like what i said earlier... what you'll boycott beer next? :P

        • 2007-05-09 12921, 2007

      • BrianFreud
        yeah, that whole "chocolatey" bull@!#$...

        • 2007-05-09 12935, 2007

      • ruaok
        yllona: I have.

        • 2007-05-09 12943, 2007

      • ruaok
        I only buy microbrews.

        • 2007-05-09 12905, 2007

      • ruaok
        most notably, I'm into Nectar ales, which is 30 miles away from my house.

        • 2007-05-09 12907, 2007

      • yllona
        ruaok: do you realize that many micro-brews are distributed by the majors?

        • 2007-05-09 12918, 2007

      • ruaok
        not the ones from Paso Robles. :)

        • 2007-05-09 12948, 2007

      • yllona
        nectar is about to lose it's micro-brew status, it's determined by number of barrels produced

        • 2007-05-09 12911, 2007

      • yllona
        but yes, nectar is *very good*

        • 2007-05-09 12954, 2007

      • yllona
        i forget what the next level of designation is, but it allows for local brewing, with regional/national distribution.

        • 2007-05-09 12919, 2007

      • yllona
        teh micro-brew designation has absolutely *nothing* to do with recipe or craft

        • 2007-05-09 12933, 2007

      • yllona
        purely number of barrels produced

        • 2007-05-09 12936, 2007

      • ruaok
        overall, i am watching very carefully where I spend my money these days.

        • 2007-05-09 12943, 2007

      • ruaok
        hence a lot of it goes to TJs :)

        • 2007-05-09 12951, 2007

      • yllona
        hmm, hershey also does joseph schmidt confection :)

        • 2007-05-09 12929, 2007

      • yllona
        ruaok: i know a couple of the distributors for TJ's and it's definitely "big business".

        • 2007-05-09 12952, 2007

      • ruaok
        and big business is not always bad.

        • 2007-05-09 12900, 2007

      • ruaok
        and you can never really tell.

        • 2007-05-09 12919, 2007

      • yllona
        especially for produce. the same produce vendor for TJ's also supplies Vons/Ralphs/Safeway

        • 2007-05-09 12926, 2007

      • ruaok
        but when you know some company is evil, avoid it.

        • 2007-05-09 12941, 2007

      • ruaok
        I usually get veggies at the local farmers market.

        • 2007-05-09 12948, 2007

      • ruaok
        apples from see canyon. :)

        • 2007-05-09 12956, 2007

      • yllona
        ruaok: we're lucky to be in SoCal, where local produce/poultry/beef/pork is easy enough to achieve year-round. not so easy in the reast of the country / world

        • 2007-05-09 12911, 2007

      • catgroove sighs

        • 2007-05-09 12912, 2007

      • ruaok
        agreed.

        • 2007-05-09 12917, 2007

      • catgroove
        tom uch talk today...

        • 2007-05-09 12920, 2007

      • ruaok
        speak of the devil.

        • 2007-05-09 12923, 2007

      • yllona
        that's why you have "seasonal" gardens, and thus recipes

        • 2007-05-09 12927, 2007

      • catgroove
        o_O

        • 2007-05-09 12929, 2007

      • catgroove
        what me?

        • 2007-05-09 12934, 2007

      • ruaok
        I guess now I have two reasons to go to the post office.

        • 2007-05-09 12944, 2007

      • ruaok
        see if the crack beats me to .no

        • 2007-05-09 12952, 2007

      • catgroove
        :o

        • 2007-05-09 12956, 2007

      • catgroove
        :D

        • 2007-05-09 12930, 2007

      • catgroove
        you said something to/about me?

        • 2007-05-09 12946, 2007

      • catgroove
        should I scroll up? to where?

        • 2007-05-09 12910, 2007

      • yllona
        catgroove: noone mentioned you :)

        • 2007-05-09 12915, 2007

      • catgroove
        o_O

        • 2007-05-09 12927, 2007

      • catgroove
        well hi both of you anyway

        • 2007-05-09 12939, 2007

      • catgroove
        ruaok: can I talk with you for a sec in PM?

        • 2007-05-09 12954, 2007

      • ruaok
        ya

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      • Freso has quit

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      • aCiD2
        mornin catgroove

        • 2007-05-09 12912, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Fixed your font problem, cause I'm nice like that :)

        • 2007-05-09 12959, 2007

      • yllona
        aCiD2: have you completed exams?

        • 2007-05-09 12904, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Naw

        • 2007-05-09 12911, 2007

      • aCiD2
        Got em in a few weeks

        • 2007-05-09 12921, 2007

      • yllona
        when is your school year over?