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QUOTE (He_Gawn @ May 24, 2012 -> 08:56 AM) http://www.thelantern.com/campus/gene-smit...36#.T749t9VjNkT Sheesh... Seems Gene Smith should have also gone. Why is this in the football thread? None of the minor secondary violations he mentioned are coming have anything to do with football.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ May 2, 2012 -> 12:55 AM) Just bought the GOT books.. got hooked from the show. Now have to read them. Looking forward to them. Almost done with Storm of Swords. Unreal book series with great surprises.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2012 -> 10:01 AM) I really liked the Modern Family season finale, outside of the stupid soap opera thing. I liked the soap opera thing, it was awesome. And I should post this in the book thread but the Game of Thrones series are the best books I have read in a long time. I am already almost done with Storm of Swords and I cant put the s*** down.

QUOTE (G&T @ May 23, 2012 -> 04:48 PM) Uh...where was this? Sister lakes in SW mich. Spent the night in Paw Paw county jail QUOTE (greg775 @ May 23, 2012 -> 04:49 PM) OM fricking gawd. This is almost barbaric. WTF? Did your lawyer say you could sue? Not to be gross but did you just piss on the floor? I'd think you could sue. If you got to go, you got to go. Were you found guilty? Or plead down? I just sat there bored as hell for the entire night until I blew a 0.4. When I went to court the judge literally laughed and said we dont get too many of these, I paid 250, had my boating license suspended for 4 months dec-march and pled down to OWI which is like driving a lawnmower drunk. I spent over 7k on the entire thing. QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 23, 2012 -> 05:16 PM) My dad used to live on one of the Fox chain lakes(Pistakee), and there was a massive change in the approach to lake DUI's. The thing that really sucks is cops can board your boat and search, no questions asked. They basically have free reign to board and bust, so you better hope that you don't catch their eye and that you are doing everything right while driving or anchored. We have seen plenty of people busted for being loud and rowdy, yet at Blarneys island every thursday there are boat races and wet t-shirt contests and you could probably have a 95 percent breathalyzer fail rate from everyone involved. It is a very uneven enforcement of the law They literally can board whenever wherever. We've never had cops on our lake until recently and they basically ruined the 4th of july fireworks show by boarding almost every boat parked on the lake. Mind you this is a lake where generations of people have been on it and alot of us are southside chicagoans who know each other, we have basically no outsiders and its been self policed my entire life. QUOTE (greg775 @ May 23, 2012 -> 05:25 PM) Good god. They allow the boat races with drunk boaters and bust the normal Joes who had a couple beers. Cmon. Drunken boating? If you get a lake DUI can it affect your driving privileges on land, too? Yes, they very well could have stuck me with DUI in mich and illinois and stripped my license.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 23, 2012 -> 04:39 PM) 2.) Drunking boating and you were anchored?? You must have been FURIOUS at the cop. Pontoon boat, not even moving, bunch of 30 year olds not really making much noise at all. I've been on my lake driving boats since i was 8 legally since I was 12. Never seen anything like that EVER. They handcuffed me to their boat, took me in without a shirt or shoes on, strapped me down to a bed and took blood then handcuffed me to the floor of the jail for 14 hours without being able to get a drink or piss. All for sitting on my pontoon celebrating someones bday and unfortunately being the only boat out there at 5pm.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 23, 2012 -> 04:01 PM) I can't come to a conclusion as far as the "badness" of DUI. Where does it rank among other things we consider crimes -- theft, assault, rape/sexual assault, murder? I don't know. While on one hand there may be less malicious intent, there is a serious lack of security thinking about people operating a car in such a manner that may result in seemingly random, unmotivated deaths. We enjoy a certain amount of security because we feel generally certain that we have to give someone motivation to murder us or steal from us (having nice things available) or rape us (even if it is just being a woman that motivates). The generally systematic choice of victims in these crimes is in that way comforting. There are things about me and my life that make me not fear certain crimes...but every time we get on the road, there is reason to fear a drunk driver. So you have random victims yet very much non-random offenders. People are doing something that they know may result in random death when they do it. This is the part that makes me understand why they should be dealt with harshly. The lack of malicious intent (I would classify this as careless) makes me more okay with less jail time. Instead they get parts of their lifestyle taken away -- money, ability to drive, and by extension oftentimes employment. I think oftentimes folks are required to have their drinking habits/psychological state scrutinized, but I'm not sure of this. A DUI can almost be like firing a gun blindly on the street at times, it can kill many innocent people.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 23, 2012 -> 02:49 PM) I have clients who are bar owners. Trust me, they NEVER lose money on those deals. I dont trust you because i've done the books for parties like that. They dont often lose money but they can. We usually would serve the booze we got for free for those parties and limited the beer to gross old keg bud light. Still the fine ruins all of that if someone from the board deems it against the ordinance. Thats a major reason that only a few places (mostly lincoln ave) does it and the others dont. The funny thing is that you can just add in free food in your "happy hour" offering and there is no big deal of that bringing in people to drink. I still wish we could have a true happy hour like when I was in boulder a few weeks ago and basically everything was a dollar the entire night, f***ing great.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 23, 2012 -> 02:45 PM) Easily avoidable with the wristband deal since it's not a per drink payment system. Again, dumb law. Yes, but bars can lose money on those deals and if they are found out to be doing that "party" with the general public for specific time frames they can be fined. Any "happy hour" type specials or parties can get you in deep s***. Losing your liquor license in Chicago is the kiss of death.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 23, 2012 -> 02:41 PM) What a worthless law. Someone define happy hour. A designated time where prices are reduced? I've been to HUNDREDS of bars with wristband deals, how is that not a happy hour? A specific time period where liquor prices vary. Thats pretty much the way they word it. Wristband parties kind of get around it somewhat but there are issues with that as well.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 23, 2012 -> 02:38 PM) It's illegal in Illinois I'm pretty sure. . Its illegal in illinois to serve a drink at a different price at one time of the day than typical, but you can still have "half price wed" Chicago's ordinance is a bit tougher but they both basically succeed at getting rid of happy hour and really any good drink specials. They use to do 2 for 1's all over the city until this was in place.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 23, 2012 -> 12:26 PM) All I know is my brother got a DUI (BAC .18 blood test) in CO and it will not be fun on first offense. He's already lost $10k paying for random BS related to the case. Before he is allowed to have permit to drive to work, he has to be completely driving-free for at least 30 days. I am going to move in with him to drive him to work so he doesn't lose his job. Also has to have a breathalyzer in the car for 3 years (not free!) He isn't even out of the woods yet for jail time. I can't even imagine how much a pain in the ass 3 would be. Might as well just quit and reevaluate your life. I know my brother keeps thinking about how many thousands each beer he drank that night cost him...I can't imagine someone who isn't dealing with a serious addiction could repeat offend. My favorite thing that my brother has had to pay for is for the paramedic they dispatched when he was pulled over. Since he blew a high number on breathalyzer, they decided to take him to a hospital. Paramedic may not have even left the garage, but still $1200 bill for that. I got arrested for drunken boating on a lake where I have been driving a boat legally since I was 12. I was anchored and roughly 50 feet from my dock. I blew a .2. It cost me almost 10k to get a slap on the wrist (rightly so) and I have to wait a few more years for the OWI (now) to get off my record. If the jail time/suspension doesnt scare people, its at least 10k per DUI out of your pocket not to mention the horrible alcohol classes and the horrific night in jail. QUOTE (Tex @ May 23, 2012 -> 02:09 PM) No one is advertising drink to excess and drive yourself. Laws have restricted advertising of alcohol. Bars have had restrictions on happy hour drinks. Why should there be any infrastructure for being drinking too much? Know when to say when. Have a designated driver. Don't order six drinks. And society has offered a ton of warnings and deterents. I believe you would have a better case if DUI was cheap. That would be society saying hey it's no big deal. Instead the penalties are plastered on bill boards and everyone knows. Happy hour is actual illegal in Chicago, and this is one of the main reasons.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:26 PM) I think that's mostly due to people who have been on the season-ticket waiting list finally getting their chance to buy tickets. They are buying them now and trying to get rid of them so they will be around if/when Theo makes good on his promise in 3-5 years. The Sox don't have that many available simply because our season ticket base is smaller. Those are mostly brokers, and they cant unload them at all. 5 bucks will buy you a lower level seat at Wrigley. When was the last time that was the case?

Meanwhile the Cubs who has thousands of tickets being sold on stubhub aka their box office served lunch to the police district. Wow, way to go all out.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 23, 2012 -> 12:48 PM) I just saw this. I am assuming that like my school's internal site several of the menus and features use flash. So when trying to post here, quick post works but not the full feature post. Theres actually an adobe script that runs from time to time on this site and it craps out and freezes your page. It must be in the adds at the top.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:04 PM) They aren't filling it consistently now. They sold out only 1 of 3 against the Sox. Tues the 29th has almost 4,000 tickets available on stubhub starting at 6 bucks. For comparison's sake lets take thursday's sox game at home against Minny: 827 tickets left starting at $16 They have over 2k tickets available for every game in the schedule I am looking at, we never get to 2,000 available.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2012 -> 10:22 AM) Someone doesn't understand IPO's. Once a company enters a lock up, they are not allowed to make any forward statements about the company's financial situation. The CEO of I want to say Groupon (or maybe Linkdin) got in trouble for this a while back. Amazon kind of got in trouble with that as well. Groupon may be rebounding a bit because of their latest financials, but because of that IPO I stayed away from facebook's.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 23, 2012 -> 11:44 AM) No, my position is that I respect Harrelson's 50 years in the game, and while I don't always like when he is whining about calls or talking about the '67 Red Sox, I have heard enough other pbp men to realize that the overall product we have is pretty solid. I respect him as well, but his act is tired. If Rooney/Stoney could do the broadcast my ears would have orgasms.

....waiting for us to be called fake sox fans

Big Ten scheduling is incredibly dumb. OSU doesnt see Neb for like 6 years after this one and michigan and MSU are forced to open conference play with each other a few times.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 23, 2012 -> 09:27 AM) Oh for a franchise 'tender. I was talking about this last night. Left in the playoffs are 4 teams with hot goalies. Phoenix ran into a hot goalie with an actual team around him. And its hard to root for LA since their fanbase is awful, but I hate both teams in the east.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 23, 2012 -> 11:29 AM) Im not really well versed on mormonism, but I am curious, can Jabari Parker forgo his mission and just go to college and play? Or is that a "sorry, you are no longer mormon" dealbreaker Yes, Steve Young and Danny Ainge did this.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2012 -> 10:46 AM) Interesting. One and done has never really been Izzo's style. True, he could have one this year as well. I've heard everything from northwestern to kentucky, lately its been MSU. Who the f*** knows with this kid. The downside is that his coach is a huge mentor for him and he seems to have his hand out to big time programs to advance his career.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 22, 2012 -> 10:15 PM) The Cubs have a really really bad baseball team. I just can't imagine how they will fill that ballpark all summer. I know people go to Cubs games for reasons other than baseball, but still. It's a pathetic team. I'll go because tickets right now are under 5 bucks and drinking in the sun is fun.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 23, 2012 -> 10:11 AM) Jabari Parker is a Mormon? How did I never know that before? Yeah, me either. I also heard that MSU is his leader right now, bad for the Big Ten.