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QUOTE (BobDylan @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 05:58 PM) Disagree on Vista, agree on Thinkpad. QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 06:22 PM) The problems I have had with Vista have nothing to do with how much memory I have. Its OS controls. USB ports for example... I start up with various USB items plugged in or not, different each time (may or may not have certain iPods hooked up for example). This causes Vista all sorts of problems with the way it addresses ports. Another example, it takes forever to start up, BUT ONLY if I have the backup drive attached. If not, its lightning fast. Turns out that is because of the Windows Search engine, which insists on scanning certain things before starting up - not a function of RAM, just bad OS component design. Plus a wide variety of other issues, OS just plain fails at times, services fail for no apparent reason, and that irritating and idiotic design where every time a program wants to show you a message or act, you have to tell Vista "no, I really mean it", or "yes, show me the message", at which time it feels the need to stop everything else and just show you that. Vista = garbage OS. XP Pro was just so, so much better. Vista is s***. Total s***. The resource allocation alone makes it so, and I won't get into the other flakey crap.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Apr 11, 2009 -> 11:58 AM) Scary, only 37% of people under 30 support capitalism, while 33% support socialism. The other 30% is apparently clueless. And I would contend that the 33% that support socialism is even more clueless. And, a lot of people polled under 30 probably don't even know what it all means, anyway. This was discussed in the Dem thread, very nicely, I might add.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 11, 2009 -> 10:44 AM) But that also means, with COBRA, you have to pay up front until coverage begins. Hard to do with tens of thousands of dollars for surgery. Really though, I don't see this article as an illustration of a major problem with health care here. I just saw it as a sign that, apparently, Zales is a lousy place to work, and this regional manager (or whomever made the decision) is an asshole. Honestly, it depends. True. You would have to theoretically "up front" the costs, but a lot of places will work with you on this.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 10:18 PM) A perfect example of how broken our health care system is. Not only does a person lose her job, not only does she nearly wind up dead because of the bureaucracy, but on top of that, a company loses an excellent salesperson because she had the misfortune to get sick. The only reason this person is still alive is that a newspaper got involved. You may not like a national system, but if employers are the ones who have to bite the bullet, it's never going to work. This is an absolute bulls*** article. There are so many misrepresentations in this... it's about as bad as Glenn Beck fearmongering. Here are the FACTS. Zales does have 45 days to give out COBRA paperwork from date of termination. You can elect from 30 days from there. And it is 100% retroactive - that is REQUIRED by law. If this lady had the surgery, it would still have been technically covered by insurance. In reality, Zales is still on the hook for the medical payments if in a self paid plan. If they do not have self-funded plans, they still will get the amount figured into their premiums for the next year. It really pisses me off that articles like this come out and totally misrepresent what the truth is. And then people like you, Balta, fall hook, line and sinker and scream "our health insurance suckssssss..." That's not a knock on you, it's a knock on misrepresenting the facts about how a program really works. Her first mistake is telling your manager ANYTHING like this. Go to HR first. Anyway, I know how this law works very thouroghly, not only because I'm going through it now, but from a management perspective.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 11:46 AM) Or it could very well be..."Republicans think Socialism is bad, Republicans were in charge for the last 8 years, Socialism must therefore be good because they screwed everything up." Either way... Exactly. And it shows how ignorant Americans are (in general).

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 11:49 AM) we should dress up like the chevy pride crew and use potato canons and launch s*** at his house. DA brings up a good point, though. People DO become absolute idiots for a "FREE!!!!!" T-shirt.

Two years later? Weird. And the quote from the lawyer.... "I think it's a fairly serious injury"... WTF? Asshole lawyer right there. You don't know that it is, you think?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 11:35 AM) I never said that. I just said that because the Republicans are trying to apply the word to him...it's improving the popularity of the word. Doesn't mean he actually is one. Key note of that data is that Ras didn't define Socialism, so it was entirely a question of how people were viewing the word, not necessarily whether they agree with the policies it would entail. I know you didn't say that. Hence the . But yea, your point of equating "Obama" to "socialism" and therefore, "socialism" must be "good", because "Obama is good", is just amazing. I know this is a terrible grammatical sentence...

QUOTE (T R U @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 01:22 AM) I will not. I am an excellent drunk driver, and when you see stories like this there is always a main cause (I.E. blowing through a red light) that is totally unnecessary. Sorry, but I see no harm in driving 2 miles to my house from the bar at 2:30 in the morning when there is rarely a car in sight aside from people leaving the bar and cops, a lot of them, and I have never been pulled over. Why? Because I drive the speed limit, I stay in my lane, I don't run red lights or roll through stop signs. There has only been one time in my life when I was too f***ed up and couldn't drive home and that was after getting hammered at the bar and then taking some colossal rips off the bong and even THEN I was smart enough to tell myself, while extremely f***ed up, that I was too gone to drive and I didn't. Other than that, I am a very coherent drunk.. You are? Your comment in the ShamWow hooker thread disagrees with this comment.

QUOTE (GREEDY @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 06:45 PM) Who was he riding with? Did a 16 year old fat girl pick him up on the way home from mini-putt? Wow. Just wow. You remind me of a poster we used to have... hmmm...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 11:28 AM) This is a fascinating and unexpected result. For months now, the Republicans have decided to tar a popular president with the label "Socialist!", clearly setting up themselves as opposing socialism (by, conveniently, sounding exactly like the previous President). Instead of this hurting the President with anyone except the Bush 24%...President Obama's popularity is actually improving the popularity of Socialism. I saw this, and it's absolutely pathetic. It tells me that the GOP is totally screwed up in the head, and if they would EVER get a real leader to explain why capitalism is the engine that made this country great COMBINED WITH fiscal restraint at the government levels, that it would finally stop this nonsense. As I've said before, GWB's biggest legacy was to start us down the path of this nonsense, Obama's just finishing it off. After all, it's what the people want. By the way, thanks for clarifying the point that Obama's a "socialist".

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 09:23 AM) Well, rather than cashing it and getting hit with the penalty, you can open yourself a Rollover IRA with any broker, E*Trade, Schwab, whatever you happen to use, and roll it (tax free) into that account, and then you can openly trade with that account tax deferred for the life of it, until retirement. I did this when I left my last two companies and rolled both of my 401k's from those companies into it...I still have it now. The bad news is you're basically cashing in shares, however, since the shares are equally low on the other end, just find an equivalent fund (index fund preferably) and sink the money right back into it. I am going to use it for COBRA. I can take it penalty free since I've been on unemployment for 12 weeks - I'm going to roll it into an IRA and then withdraw it. I still have to pay income tax (which at this rate I will get it all back anyway because I'm going to be on the lowest bracket possible if I never get to work). If I get a job in the next couple of weeks, then I'm probably going to use it to pay for my wife's college, same deal... no penalty.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 08:47 AM) There's always that one lazy idiot holding up the people with purpose in their lives. I remember southsider's posts about that on his blog one time. That would annoy the crap outta me, kinda like driving slow in the left lane.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 07:52 AM) Yes, it was hard to watch my 401k go from what it was to what it is, however, there is a silver lining to all of this. If you are lucky enough to work for a company still doing a match or partial match it's even better. But just think that you're not buying into these funds for less per share than you were when the market was riding high, so now you're share count in these funds will rise faster. Don't worry about where the market is right now, worry about where it's at 20+ years from now when your 401k matters. It would be more of a worry if you were one of the unlucky ones that's right near retirement and had this happen, but this is good for us, it gives us a rare opportunity to buy low. I'm actually out of work, that's why I have to cash it. My 6 months is almost gone. If I would ever get my COBRA credits that we were all promised, it sure would help.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 8, 2009 -> 02:53 PM) When you go to San Fran you should check out Fort Worth. You are f***ing dork.

Well, soxtalk nation will be clamouring for him for now until the proverbial cows come home... we have scored 1 run in 18 innings, but if Beckham was here, we'd score 20 runs!!!!#@$!#!!!! Oh what a joy this board's gonna be for a while.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 04:37 PM) No you didn't. What you did say is that a manager is not responsible for every win a team has. You say this because you do not want to give credit where credit is due. When the sox win several in a row you will be no where to be found, and if you are around you will be on a very low key. When the team is going good they are quiet as a mouse. When the team loses they (people that are pessimistic for the sake of it) are as vocal as can be, always. You will respond saying something along the lines '' i'm not that guy'' but i have yet to see someone day in day out back up their dislike for ozzie whether it is a win or a loss. I also do not have to insult people left and right to try and make my point more valid like yourself. Keep them coming, i get a kick out of it. I am glad you are back. Seriously.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 04:04 PM) We are 1-0 in games Wise K's three times, Fields goes 2/3 with a RBI, Ramirez strands 3 men on base, and Dotel throws a WP I luuuv it when you analyze.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 04:03 PM) Well excuse me for not saying "Yay, Ozzie" after every win (and since when is a manager always directly responsible for every win?). Trust me, I give credit where it is due and I actually rather like Ozzie's baseball attitude, but his constant mismanaging and stubbornness overall is a big hurdle for this team and you simply can't deny that when he makes mistakes, they are so terrible that even average joes like ME on this board can point them out and say, "WTF?!" And he makes them OFTEN. Uh, you kinda DID. You said Ozzie bashers come into threads after games like these. Ozzie was in the discussion; I never said anything about Ozzie doing any bad managing today. As a rule, they do. When they win, it's pretty quiet. And I posted my comment to a post where you were b****ing about Ozzie. So, whatever, on that one. It's a silly argument that overall doesn't matter a damn bit. I was just making my point about it, I'll leave it at that.

QUOTE (almagest @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 04:00 PM) After looking it up, the Sox had 3 8 game winning streaks in 2005, and only 1 7 game losing steak. Looks like I had a selective memory. Seriously, watching games like this is frustrating. I tend to think that many here live and die too much on every single pitch and game, but that's just my opinion. It's all good, if we win.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 03:59 PM) We are 0-2 in games where we fail to hit a homer. That's remarkable! That's actually funny... you are right, though, this team is going to be the same as the 2008 team, most likely.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 03:56 PM) Ah, because every time the Sox win a game, Ozzie is directly responsible. Sorry I don't praise the man every time we win a game. Have you ever considered how many games the Sox HAVE won in spite of Ozzie? How many games Ozzie's ridiculous mistakes have costed us games? Probably not. There is simply NOTHING anyone can say as an excuse for Ozzie's constant mismanaging on the field; NOTHING. The irony is, no one really tries, just tries arguing around an argument rather than try to support a point, but I guess I can't blame them since there ISN'T one. And I'm just talking in general. I never cursed Ozzie once during today's game so take your assumptions elsewhere. I didn't say you did, did I? So don't go saying something I didn't say.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 03:56 PM) Ah, because every time the Sox win a game, Ozzie is directly responsible. Sorry I don't praise the man every time we win a game. Have you ever considered how many games the Sox HAVE won in spite of Ozzie? How many games Ozzie's ridiculous mistakes have costed us games? Probably not. There is simply NOTHING anyone can say as an excuse for Ozzie's constant mismanaging on the field; NOTHING. The irony is, no one really tries, just tries arguing around an argument rather than try to support a point, but I guess I can't blame them since there ISN'T one. And I don't think the Ozzie supporters give Ozzie credit for every game, either. There's more to managing a team then pure situational numbers in a vacuum, which is what a lot of you "haters" (not picking on you, just using the phrase) like to do. The ultimate "credit" is wins and losses. Period.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 03:53 PM) So you're denying it? I love how the Ozzie supporters always act like they're the smart ones when they can never provide a solid argument. I'm sorry, Ozzie sucks. I guess it's not enough that I bring up examples every time this "argument" comes up. You're right, it IS pointless because there IS no argument. Ozzie is a bad manager; simple as that. And Ozzie detracters come running in these threads every time we play one of these games. Funny, I never see you when they win.

QUOTE (almagest @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 03:51 PM) What's your evidence? You made the claim, but apparently can't support it. Your opinion is no more or less valid than mine. Holy s***. He gave you evidence (win streaks, etc.)... just stop it.