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Even the idea of giving the government the power to make that distinction is scary. You're basically taking away common rights. Imagine if the government had the power to deem Malcolm X a terrorist because he was both openly anti-establishment and Muslim.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 22, 2013 -> 01:09 PM) Why do you feel domestic terrorists deserve the same rights as regular U.S. citizens? More importantly, why should we take the moral high road with known terrorists? This kid brutally murdered and mutilated dozens of people, destroying numerous people's lives in the process. He did so with the intent to create as much pain and suffering as possible for these innocent people. Why does he get your sympathy when he took none on his victims? How would you feel if you were left a cripple or lost a loved one? I'm guessing you'd be singing a different tune. The moral high ground is always easy from an outside perspective. I'm not for prison rape or torture or anything else you may refer to barbaric, but unfortunately prison is a dangerous place and bad things happen to inmates all the time. If something bad happens to poor little Dzohkar, I will feel no sympathy for him whatsoever. Pure evil doesn't deserve our sympathy. How do you differentiate between a "domestic terrorist" and a normal citizen? Where does it begin and end? Is a gangbanger a "domestic terrorist?"

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 07:12 PM) Ticket sales wise at least the Sox benefit from when the Cubs are drawing 40,000 per because if you want to see a MLB game you have to buy a Sox ticket. I don't believe this at all. Can you prove it? The success of the Cubs has little to no effect on the Sox. The Sox won't lose fans to the Cubs. The Sox have a pretty good core of fans. Motivating them to come to the ballpark is the issue. Watching a boring team in cold weather isn't going to do it. The Sox need to worry about the Sox and figure out what it's going to take to get that core out to more games.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 20, 2013 -> 12:44 PM) Menard is a maximum security prison. A federal super max is much different.

I'm not familiar with Gacy's incarceration, but I'd guess his case wasn't federal, and he wasn't in a super max. All prisons aren't created equal.

Forced isolation is a horrible existence and drives most people to insanity. This kid will see hell, and live in it for the rest of his days. After some time, he'll beg for the death penalty.

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It's interesting in that the authorities can't do anything without being stalked by media. False information is a very good possibility.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 19, 2013 -> 05:30 PM) Im thinking he is getting help. Its the only reasonable reason why they would still be blocks away from where they committed a crime 3 days after the event. These guys are both dumb and clever at the same time. Last night they are committing high profile unnecessary crimes that lead to the police finding them. Today he is a ghost. I'm not a conspiracy guy, but there is definitely more to this than we know. I just can't believe this was a isolated incident carried out by 2 kids. Maybe it was, but it certainly seems fishy.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 19, 2013 -> 05:19 PM) Just to have him cornered in a gun fight and somehow he escapes. Locking down all exits to the down and barricading the town. Wonder if he is holding a family hostage or something. That would be my guess. Are the police physically searching every house?

Criminals escape the police on a daily basis. They don't show you that part on Cops though. It's not really surprising. They will catch him soon. There's really nowhere to hide.

I've never seen a hitter get more hits taken away by the shift than Dunn. It's easy to say poke the ball into left field, but hitting a baseball is a very hard thing to do.

I'm pretty much over Breaking Bad, but I did enjoy how they made Walter's character so hard to like. It goes away from traditional character development.

I can't take a thread seriously that includes Masset and Holmberg.

Fantastic thread. CF and SS are the "leaders" of the OF and IF. On pop ups and fly balls that 2 players have a chance at, it's their job to make the catch and call off other fielders. The IF defers to the OF because its easier to make the catch and get into position to make a throw while moving forward. RF and LF defer to CF on fly balls. All IF defer to SS. IF defer to OF. When kids start playing, the majority if the time, the best athlete will play SS. The SS gets the most balls hit to him and its the most physically demanding position. The position needs the best combination of quickness, speed, arm and glovework. One of the many beautiful things about baseball is that you never stop learning. It's truly unique.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 11:00 AM) There was something oddly fun about sitting on the floor in the corner of Blockbuster with 6 movies at in front of you trying to figure out which one or two you were going to rent. Hold on. You actually did that? That's kind of bizarre.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 10:56 AM) I'm sure others enjoy the newer characters more, but that's my main "problem" with his story structure - when you really don't care about certain characters, it can be a grind to get through. And for books 4 and 5 the main characters I liked were not doing much and/or were not in interesting places. After reading those forums, I found it bizarre how in love those people are with minor characters. There are so many characters that I couldn't identify, but they even know their back story's.

In retrospect, Dance was fantastic, though a bit boring. Jon Snow and Selmy are 2 of my favorite characters though.

Funnily enough, one of my few gripes with the book is the timeline and age of the kids.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 09:52 AM) Arya: She's like 7/8 in the book, can't remember specifically but it's pretty important for her to be at that age. I'm curious to see what the show does with many of the storylines since so many of them get dragged out in the books. I wonder if they change them up to add spice to some of the stories as the amount of legitimate action scenes definitely goes down in books 4/5.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 09:38 AM) I keep hearing this rumor, and I have no idea if it's true. If it is, then it sucks and HBO should be ashamed. The kid/teen actors are already outgrowing their roles, so they need to film as much as possible as early as possible otherwise it's not going to follow the story all that well. Sansa's actress looks 17+ years old, when in the book she should be about 13/14 at this point. Wait another year and that gap widens a lot for the same age. I actually think that's a good thing. It'll make the Stark kid's stories make more sense, especially Aria.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:42 PM) I don't think any laptop can run a VM farm effectively. But the hospital thing he was talking about can definitely work better with hybrids. I see. I'm speaking from a consumer, or even creative perspective. There isn't much you can't do with an i7/8GB computer, which a hybrid can be.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:34 PM) Not really. You are thinking too much Apple vs everyone else. Many of my architects run VM farms on their machines for development and testing. I dont think you will ever see a tablet or even hybrid be able to do that locally. At least not anytime soon. For me personally I need several machines for my work. And I connect all the data over the internet so I have access to data even if I am stepping down in form factor or computing power. Hybrids are underpowered to handle the software?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) I meant the "plug and play" capability. Lets say they have docking stations or something of the like. Dell will want all the components to be Dell, same with Lenovo, and others like Apple. They've tried the laptop converted to a tablet before and those were some of the obstacles. Personally I think there will always be two classes of users and not a whole lot of blending in the middle. I've helped Pharma companies deploy thousands of ipads to end users so they can securely access information and applications, but surprisingly there was still a HUGE need for laptops and PC's or enabling them to use they applications on a personal computer. IMO, data and computing power will move more to applications and the "cloud" then on the actual device. The need for an internet connection is the only downside of that model which i think will go away in the next 5 years. I believe you will be able to get wireless anywhere. Smartphones will become the identity store for most people as well as vendors, cars, etc begin to have the ability to read your identity off of the device. I've seen this in action and its incredible. With that technology I honestly believe that you will be able to walk up to a kiosk of sorts ANYWHERE in the world and it will authenticate you to your "desktop" and you can work just like you were at home or on the road. So the example that I've seen is in a german auto manufacturer. Essentially you open the door of any 2014 (example) and beyond model car of theirs and it knows exactly who you are and what you want. It adjusts the seats, temp, radio, pandora, email, texts, transmission mirrors etc. I think that will be adopted by PC's or computers in the near future. Even at stores where they know who you are, what you order and will take payment without you doing much of anything. You just made a great argument for a hybrid. Docking stations wouldn't need to be proprietary. That's coming from an Apple perspective. The majority of people are app-centric, but the idea with Windows 8 is that it should offer the best of both worlds in one unit. Both tablet and desktop style apps in one unit. The top of of the line Yoga is capable of handling anything you can throw at it, while being small enough to be mobile, and the ability to plug in to a monitor or sound card or whatever. The only reason to carry an iPad and MBP is that Apple wants you to.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 12:44 PM) What's the benefit of only being able to sync metadata? And Microsoft didn't get all of it, Windows RT tablets are yuck. The RT's do look awful and the Pro is overpriced. The Lenova and Dell hybrid's look great. The Surface might flop, but the concept is what matters. Microsoft is banking on the hybrid while Apple is sticking with the Air and iPad combination. It might be too late for Microsoft to convince people to buy their hardware, but the idea is more practical and innovative than Apple's. You can use Metadata to "prep" a track. You can grid the beats, analyze the bpm and set cue points. You sync that info to Dropbox, then open Traktor on your main computer and the info syncs to it. The app isn't ready to replace the full fledged version of the program, but that's where it's headed. Why lug a laptop around when you can use a tablet?