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QUOTE (Wise Master Buehrle @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 01:40 PM) thank you! ok that name change is pretty damn good.

QUOTE (CryptviLL @ Aug 24, 2009 -> 08:36 PM) What do you mean by 'Forget it,' does this mean you attempted to make it happen, but something didn't work? It isn't really hard, just a simple sub forum or two... Even if you guys just start with a NBA subforum would be nice to see how it goes No, forget it means there's not likely to be a "subforum" anytime soon. Soxtalk's not intended for that.

QUOTE (Molto @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 04:02 PM) 1. Never said I'd root against them, just that the baseball fan in me would make it hard to root for them. I think baseball is too long of a season for a team to make the playoffs because of the luck of the division they are in. 2. Just because the Sox don't deserve to make the playoffs, doesn't mean the Tigers do deserve to make it. If both teams continue to play the way they're playing, neither would be worthy of making the playoffs, but one would be lucky enough because they played in such a weak division. Both teams (Detoilet and the Sox) have been a struggle to watch just from what I've seen.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 04:02 PM) I don't think that's unique to us. There's been numerous examples of political parties taking over on a great slogan (e.g. Peace, land and bread , makes the trains run on time) (Marxist) hope and change. I kid, I kid. I do think that "soundbyte" dilemmas are a lot more prevalent now then ever before because most Americans don't have a clue how to think critically anymore.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 03:51 PM) I'd rather have it come from the TARP funds than the stimulus funds anyway. Well, yea, I guess. It doesn't really matter. It's just ironic that the government was advertising their own programs, sort of, with tax payer money. Here's $4500 of tax money, being paid for by tax money, advertised by tax money, ... all for your CAR! It's just weird.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 03:42 PM) I thought it was stimulus money, not TARP money? The cash for clunkers was stimulus. But I betcha that the advertising dollars came from the original "bail out" money, or TARP.

QUOTE (G&T @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 03:34 PM) The thing about the waves is that their height is due to the shape of the rocks beneath the water as opposed to above. Also, we were heading into high tide which caused the situation to become dangerous fairly quickly. I have pictures of people sitting high on the rocks, then 10 minutes later, they were running from the water. All that said, the area these people went in was the most dangerous area and it didn't take a park ranger to figure that out. I've been there and I remember that place. If you get caught there, there's very little anyone can do very quickly.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 03:22 PM) 2009 sure as hell wasn't the only version that was a bad manager, hate to tell you. And I agree. How the hell do you NOT root for your team, especially if your post-season team has a rotation like the one we (presumably) will have? LMAO. That didn't take long for you to make an appearance after this was brought up.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 03:32 PM) Along that line, my mom used to sell Amtrak trips. She had more than a handful of people call in asking for the train to Hawaii. I'd be the first to board that bad boy. Talk about the view...

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 03:33 PM) I wonder if there was a net decrease in the prices consumers paid compared to a year ago or what not. No need for dealer or company incentives, so they made more, but I wonder if consumers actually paid less. Well, wait, I need to clarify I guess. $4500 for clinkers - that's a trade in. You're not going to get that for a typical car. That's why. Plus it was promoted with TARP money - yes even the advertisements.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 03:18 PM) That's the only reason you haven't been dinner yet.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 03:22 PM) I was just thinking, car dealers and manufacturers often have rebates equaling the Cash for Clunkers program. Why are those not as successful? Because it comes out of their pockets and not the governments and therefore isn't advertised as heavily.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 11:13 AM) Reading the story and learning about the poor girl was brutal, and knowing you were on-hand to experience that makes it even more heart-wrenching. Interesting to hear your first-hand account that there was very little warning as to the potential danger from the storm waves. It was certainly my assumption — and not necessarily due to media portrayal — that a fair degree of peril would have been obvious to anyone on the shoreline. I don't think people realize the pure power of those waves that are generated from storms like that. They look awesome, and neat, but there's so much power...

/Trolling and smart ass comment. Seriously, he likes the Sox, and I'm glad he doesn't put on a different uniform for every city (or stadium in some cases) he's in. At least he's consistent about that.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 02:52 PM) I think if you dig into the research methods it'll be clear what they were doing. These were follow-up interviews after initial surveys were returned. Got it. Still, this does raise some skeptical findings on THAT issue. I'll try to go back and read it later. Right now I need to go take an income tax test. This should be fun.

Tex self portrait.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 02:45 PM) for Kap: This “denial” category provides one clue to the survey findings of high rates of belief in a link between Iraq and 9/11: some respondents may make a mistake on the survey because of a general unfamiliarity with the region, even if they do know the current state of the evidence. By engaging in a dialogue with the respondent, we were able to show that he had a clear sense of the state of evidence, but slipped in his more general knowledge and mental classification of Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a finding that is not possible using simple survey methods. Seven interview participants out of 49 (14.3 percent) fell into this “denial” category. This suggests that polls asking about a link between Iraq and 9/11 may overstate the true level of belief in the link. ok, so then when the study was conducted, just the association of the question itself may lead people to say "9/11 and Iraq" were connected? I have not read the entire study but this part is sort of weird. I mean, I've conducted enough graduate level "surveys" to understand leading questions and trying to not get takers to be lead to an answer but ... ???

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 02:31 PM) It really was an impressive game. They went out and made very complicated, nuanced statements about how, to paraphrase "After 9/11 we can not allow men like Saddam Hussein to acquire the world's most dangerous weapons" or "Saddam Hussein supports terrorists and we can't allow that after 9/11" to subtly link Saddam and 9/11 for anyone who wasn't 100% paying attention to the exact words they were saying. Then whenever they'd be questioned about why 70% of the country thought Iraq was responsible for 9/11, they'd shrug their hands and then go and talk about how Saddam was an evil man. If the President were 1/4 as good at manipulating language as that game, we'd have a health care plan and a carbon trading plan and an immigration bill already passed. He needs to borrow that straw man from Bushie?

Well, there's a lot of the same players that's been here for a while - it seems like there's no mental fortitude at all.

LIFETIME. (I'm kidding).

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 02:17 PM) No, they weren't. They weren't explicitly claiming it, but it was implied and wasn't denied until after that time period. The rest of your post is absolutely true and that was the point of the study. There weren't any links but people made them up in their minds with a little help from a useless MSM and conservative pundits. edit: "they" refers to the Bush administration, not the intelligence community. During the election cycle, I'm almost certain that Bush himself was VERY clear in saying "Iraq did not have anything to do with 9/11". And yes, I'm quoting that.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 02:16 PM) I thought about buying AnyDVD, but I figured I'd ask around first. Can you make a .mp4 or .avi out of a decrypted file? LOL. That was my pm. It works great, but I got it back in the day when you didn't have to pay annuals - I got a lifetime license.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 01:26 PM) I still don't have a clue on how to rip DVDs. Copy protection, ugh. I want to archive my own s***, I don't see how that's unethical. See PM (I'm going to write it now)_.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 02:06 PM) The data for the study are from 2003/ 2004. They weren't actively denying links then. Actually, they were. The ONLY thing that was out there was Atta meeting someone in Baghdad, but that was it. And even that was pretty clear that 9/11 attacks and Iraq were not linked (that is to say, Iraq/Saddam perpetrated 9/11).

I still cannot believe that a lot of people believe this, especially when it was pretty crystal clear BY THE ADMINISTRATION ITSELF that this was not true. Even the favorite Darth Vader target Cheney has said over and over that there was no link between 9/11 and Saddam Hussein.