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I still don't believe it's constitutional and it should fail.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 24, 2010 -> 12:45 PM) 6 Seasons of TV were built on these questions, the amount of time spent on Walt and Aaron demands an answer, and instead the Writers chose to have ignore these questions in favor of a metaphysical ending that demands guesswork and conjecture for the plot that drove the show sinces its inception. it really wasn't built on those questions.

and those were all imperative to my understanding of the show.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 24, 2010 -> 12:12 AM) I'm pretty sure the ever increasing tuition that IIT students have to pay is responsible for some of those iPads, if not all of them. Old school people like my dad (who b****es about dinning hall food prices) would probably throw a hissy fit at something like this. And I sort of don't blame him. It'd be great if the iPad had a more convenient stylus input function. That way, it can be really useful to take notes on, something that I hate to do on pen and paper because I barely bother reading my notes afterwards. tuition is going to go up regardless. I'd like to know why my tuition went up 33% with little special perks for me. (j-school was privately funded)

I've read fiction books before in my life. Sometimes they create fictional settings. Many times, while explaining how those fictional settings are and their properties, they don't explain the origin of it from the very beginning. Why? Because it's boring and irrelevant. You know what was a boring episode? The origin of jacob and smokemonster. You know what would have been really boring? Sidetracking the last episode for a quick crash course about who created/discovered the island.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 23, 2010 -> 11:07 PM) The mid-90s sell-off following the Cup thrashing at the hands of Lemieux, Francis and Jagr killed my budding fandom. Wirtz and his clueless front office didn't help either. Trading or allowing free agency to Roenick, Belfour, Chelios, Suter, Sutter, Amonte, Carney, Krivokrasov, Smith, Murphy, Nicholls, Matteau, Weinrich, Ruutu, Poulin and other guys for crap just stomped my heart flat. That said, good luck to the new 'Hawks in the Finals. Yeah, it was bad. What made it worse was beside thrashing the on the field product they were pissing away their fan experience. They'd f*** with the peanut vendors, jack up prices when we sucked, f*** with parking. It was like they were actively trying to drive everyone away. And they succeeded with me. I only started following again after we drafted Kane. Good timing.

hahaha

STANLEY CUP FINALSSSSSS... I don't remember s*** from 92, I didn't get into it until 94, one of my fav teams everrrrrrr... but nonetheless... YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I love every player on this team now. Huet...meh.

In the coming weeks I'd check out Groupon chicago for some stuff to do, just make sure they are good for holidays. They've done a lot of the stuff you mentioned recently for 90% off and stuff. (k...also a heads up, they are starting to do mlb tickets, check out next week for some sox ones.)

Kap does this all the time, you can't criticize any fringe right group without kap jumping on the grenade for them and acting hurt. If someone started talking s*** on code pink or the firedoggers I don't think I would care.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 18, 2010 -> 11:35 PM) Why not a laptop or an actual e-reader instead? Seems more like a marketing thing to me. I was pretty pissed off at the response to this. yeah, it could just be a deal with apple, but schools do these deals ALL THE TIME with TONS of other products. However, for all the money the school takes from students to do minor aesthetic updates and to buy more flat screen tvs to up their US and World Report rankings, at least the school is spending the students money on a device that could actually enhance their learning experience, and in regards to ebooks, save them some money. I applaud them. I wish so much of my tuition wasn't used in a way tailored to artificially inflate our ranking instead of saving some of our departments that were producing great professors but completely underfunded and would leave.

Depends if you ask someone in the south that.

Got a call from my friend yesterday "Hey man, wanna go to this music festival in Tinley Park, it's $25" "Eh, I'm trying to save my money and they'll rape me with the cost of beer, what's playing" "Don't worry bout the ticket, It's gonna just be some live music, the sun, some folk stuff" "Alright" Mother f***er tricked me into going to Country Thunder. While there was an extraordinary # of good looking women dressed in daisy dukes and letting their boobs hang out (who also all raised their hands when asked if there were any believers in the audience) The dudes were all absolutely hideous. Quite a conundrum. Also, I was doing fairly well when the sun was out, and we had some alcohol and I could just relax, but when the sun went down and I was forced to listen to the final act exclusively, Montgomery Gentry. And I can say, I understand most every other music and why it can appeal to people even if I don't like it...except for country. I really have no f***ing clue the difference between each individual song, why everyone sings in the same voice, and how the f*** it can be enjoyable to just talk about honky tonking and your truck. It was f***ing painful. Especially losing a saturday night to that.

To note, this could be an incredible day if: Sox sweep Hawks sweep Lost sweeps the world with kindness.

See, I think you are joking. But how do American textbooks not already talk about Jefferson Davis and Lincoln? And I was a student in America, we don't cover Davis terribly negatively nor the south, there's a bunch of innuendo that it wasn't about slavery, which it was.

WHY DOES OBAMA HATE BP SO MUCH THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE MONEY BY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF OTHER BUSINESSES AND POISONING OUR WATER WHY ARE THEY SO VICTIMIZED IS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE WHITE WHYYYYYYYYY

sure it does, one who was right and one who was incredibly wrong and believed in something terribly evil. But besides that they were both white men from the united states in leadership positions.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 22, 2010 -> 12:37 PM) Bulls chances at LeBron take serious blow: http://www.sportspickle.com/article:924/re...y-doable-knicks haha

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 22, 2010 -> 07:15 PM) Like it or not, either check the textbooks of the district your kid goes to or pay for a private school. Just no way around it any more. Texas doesn't think this country has enough Rand Paul's. With any luck, there'll be enough sane people in Texas to toss out half of the school board members there in elections later this year. Somehow though I doubts it. Arne Duncan said those worries about it being a national textbook were overstated.

f***ing hell.

We already had this discussion. And, once again, I whole-heartedly agree with SS2k5 You guys are just looking at the basics. Take the time to remember high school. Now be the person not constantly trying to be a dick, but instead be the administrators responsible for hundreds of people's kids every day. Now a group of teenagers comes into school and is clearly taunting a group of other students (every report confirms this), what do you do? Let it progress just because it's an american flag shirt? Or act quickly to neutralize it best you can. Asking them to turn their shirts inside out is NOT a big deal it happened EVERY WEEK at my school. But if the students refused they have every right and are correct to send them home before the kids make a big scene and try and rile up other students.

Nooo, balta, they are protecting BP from responsibility because they really want to step on their neck.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 22, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) Putting on his boots to step on the neck of BP. And selling out campaign dinners. He will not rest, though, until this crisis is over. poor BP, who is looking out for them?

QUOTE (The Critic @ May 22, 2010 -> 11:32 AM) I understand why people want to see more scoring from Hossa. I would, too, but he is doing a lot of things that end up helping the team. The way he can control the puck and make defenders exert energy and chase him around wears on the other team. It can also draw them out of position, which can lead to open ice for other guys and bring good scoring chances. He's been really good at clearing the zone, and hasn't made many bad passes. These are valuable things he's doing. Hossa is getting a few decent chances himself, but it seems like when he gets a chance in good scoring range he gets swarmed or the puck's at his feet most times. San Jose knows his reputation and they're checking him pretty tightly. If anything, I love the fact that the team is getting the job done without 81 filling the net, because the Law Of Averages says he's going to get his eventually. He's still a weapon, and another weapon is a great thing to have. I guess I can say it doesn't matter since we are winning, and if we weren't I'd probably be "WHAT DID WE PAY FOR" but plays like 2 or 3 nights ago when a sharks defenseman lazily skated back to clear the puck behind his net and hossa beat him to it out of no where and it directly led to a goal...s*** like that is just fantastic.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 22, 2010 -> 02:13 PM) BP checks the list of available dispersants. Finds one that a subsidiary company of its own produces. Checks the stats on that dispersant. Sees it is not the most effective dispersant. Sees it is much more toxic than other available dispersants. Begins purchasing and deploying massive quantities of that dispersant anyway. EPA turns its head for a month. EPA finally gets its head out of its arse earlier this week, after a lot of prodding from media/sciencey types who were saying "BP is using a more toxic dispersant than it needs to and it could be using better, more modern ones!" EPA orders BP to find another dispersant. Meanwhile, CNN finds a warehouse in Texas holding a few hundred thousand gallons of a less toxic, more effective dispersant, just sitting there. BP tells the EPA to s***w off, they'll use whatever dispersant they damn well please, it's their gulf anyway. s***w - what is this?