Balta1701

Is anyone else on lists that are getting these? I don't know who is writing the campaigns for the Democrats but I've hit the unsubscribe button on various lists like 3-4 different times in the past day motivated by this campaign.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 30, 2014 -> 10:36 AM) Not really sure what else could have been done. I guess you could put the responsibility on his therapist to deem him too dangerous to own a gun, but maybe he/she never got an understanding of all of his psychotic manifesto stuff. That was an issue in the Colorado movie theater case too. The parents called the cops because of the videos and stuff he was saying, so are you going to place the responsibility on them? They called the cops, not sure what else they could do. Or do we blame the cops for not following up enough? If someone alleges you're crazy and a danger, is the allegation alone enough to warrant that you can't buy a gun? Shouldn't there be some kind of adjudication on that issue (hey, like the law requires?). And even then, we're talking about a very rare case where the crazy person has shown signs of being crazy. So again, absent an absolute ban, this s***'s not preventable. Crazy people do crazy things. At some point you have to stop regulating and infringing on the rights on the 99% of people that use/own/operate weapons legally and responsibly. Neither the parents nor the police actually had the right to do anything about him having a gun. The parents literally couldn't have known since he was an adult, and I'll admit I don't know if the police who went to his door would even know that information. Given how our gun laws are written by people paranoid that the government is coming to take their guns, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the police who went to his address had no idea he was armed. As I noted though, there is now a proposed law in Cali that would have covered this case, allowing a family member or acquaintance to request a "firearms restraining order" for a person who is believed to be at risk. Of course, then we'd have the problem of it being impossible for the family to know that they needed to do so because there's no published information on who is stockpiling weapons, but in this case, that proposed law would have had the potential to stop it.

Is Kershaw available?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2014 -> 09:52 AM) I don't ignore the argument. I have stated it many times. You just like to ignore it. The argument is 4 years and $50 million and a second round pick is IMO going to be cheaper than what it will cost for a similar pitcher next offseason as prices rarely go down and the compensation becomes a 1st rounder. You have responded to my position several times. Why are you saying I am ignoring it? Please. This is silly. We will see where Jimenez is at when the season ends. IMO he would have helped the White Sox this year and in the future. Then by all means call me a fool. I couldn't care less. And the last time this argument was made, I went back 5+ years looking at the kinds of contracts similar middling level pitchers got in the offseason. There were people like him getting contracts on the order of 3-5 years, $12 million a year every offseason since about 2005-2006. The only way to think there's a lot of inflation in those deals is to think that Ubaldo Jiminez is a whole lot worse than say, Jeff Suppan, who got 4/$40 from the Brewers at age 32 in 2006, or Carlos Silva, who signed 4/$48 in 2007 at age 35. Those deals happen all the time for right around that same number. If there's inflation, then that means Ubaldo Jiminez

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 29, 2014 -> 11:28 PM) So it seems my one medium cup of hot coffee with one sweet n low and one dip of cream is not that fattening. I'm shocked about the juice thing. Guess I'll stop drinking orange juice now. I'm kind of pissed. I'm 6-foot-2 and shockingly now 240 after gaining 20 pounds the past year somehow. I haven't had a beer in 6 weeks; gave up all soft drinks, gave up coffee. Haven't had a potato chip or pretzel in 6 weeks aside from a small bag of baked chips if I go to Subway or somewhere (before that I was buying Lays chips late at night and sometimes gobbling almost the whole bag). I'm Eating just one full meal a day. Breakfast is a banana and juice (I'll stop the juice), lunch is an apple and I'm not losing the weight. I was walking/light jogging for a month straight, 3-4 miles a day is all, and sensed I was doing pretty well. Then, as has been my wont, I broke a bone in my foot (only a brace from my orthopod not a cast) 4 weeks ago and haven't been able to walk/run. I don't know what's going on, but the weight isn't coming off and now I want the coffee back. Possible to do any biking/work on a stationary bike?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2014 -> 09:04 AM) With the White Sox, but you cannot dismiss the rest of his work. Most of his runs were given up in early innings. It had nothing to do with not being stretched out. Jimenez gave up some runs late during his first few starts. Should those not count? At the very least I can dismiss the work he did with Texas, and IMO it's almost as silly when comparing the two to count runs he gave up in those first couple starts when he hit the 4th and 5th innings and kept pitching to stretch his arm out.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 30, 2014 -> 12:06 AM) So then someone in the CA system screwed up by not flagging him enough to prevent him from getting a gun and passing a CA background check. It seems you already had the rules in place to stop him, if they were followed. Here are the reasons why a person can be denied a firearm in the state of California. None of those would have been true in this case. If he didn't tell a psychotherapist about the threats and he wasn't actually admitted to a mental health facility then it was entirely legal for him to purchase and possess whatever arsenal he wanted. His family was freaked out about him, sent police to his place, but because he wasn't admitted and didn't open up about violent to a therapist, sure here have all the guns you want. But please tell me again about how California's gun laws are so strict.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2014 -> 08:13 AM) Noesi didnt. Now Danks doesn't. Love him or hate him, Jimenez would have been the 3rd best starter on this team. With the White Sox Noesi absolutely does. And that even undersells how he's been for us since he gave up some runs due to not being stretched out.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 29, 2014 -> 10:12 PM) Oh you have a 4 not a 4s, probably 90$ trade in these days. Yeah, the goal is to make this one last a few extra months then do a legit 2 year contract family plan in Oct/Nov. just need like 4 months to get there.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 29, 2014 -> 09:55 PM) Yes, t-mobile can. Any clue how much that'll run me? Activation and monthly fee?

One more. Have an iphone4 that was on ATT. About to become unlocked when employer doesn't want it back. I'd love to be able to use it for a couple months and then buy a 6 this fall. Need for both minutes and overall data is low. Is there a way to convert this to a monthly minimal plan and what would I have to do for that? I know Verizon can't be swapped into this hardware but can tmobile?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 29, 2014 -> 09:08 PM) This isn't always true. You have to consider the laws as they are, not laws as you wish the would be. The second amendment will NOT be changed within our lifetime and that's that. If anything, it's gotten stronger the past decade, so a sudden weakening of it just isn't reality and there is no point in adding it to the discussion. And the answer to that is to yawn when this happens again in a few months. Which is pretty much what happened this time.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 29, 2014 -> 07:36 PM) What is the gang activity in those 4 cities? I can't figure out how you guys think this somehow gives you an out.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 29, 2014 -> 07:35 PM) Like armed guards in schools? Sure, let's do that. Except when that was last proposed many on the anti side s*** their pants at the mere thought of a gun in school, regardless of who was possessing it. Of course, UCSB actually employs an armed police force, like most schools do.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 29, 2014 -> 07:32 PM) No, it's not if you actually thought for yourself for a minute. Of course we aren't taking about rocks here so maybe you're out of bounds. The sheer societal complexity a massive population adds CANNOT be normalized. So as stated, try harder. If we just focus on the metro areas, Sydney and Melbourne have about 4 million people each. The murder rate in Sydney is about 1 per 100,000, the murder rate in Melbourne is closer to 5. A metro area in the U.S. with a similar population is Phoenix. It reported 123 murders per 100,000 people last year. Another similar comp in size is the San Francisco Metro Area, with 70 murders per 100,000 people. Same sized cities. We're gunning ourselves down like crazy, they don't.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 29, 2014 -> 07:29 PM) Kind of the opposite of his point. At this juncture, stop talking, as you aren't even reading. I agree. But if you're going to make fun of how pathetically weak our ability to control where people take guns is, which is what laughing at the "gun-free zone" signs is, then it certainly seems like any reasonable person would say "hey what happens if we tried something a lot stronger".

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 29, 2014 -> 07:20 PM) Sorry but you can't just "normalize" something like that. That's one of the silliest statements I've ever read.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 29, 2014 -> 07:21 PM) Funny how in his rantings the killer mentioned that he seeked out a gun free zone. Guess those pesky signs didn't deter him very much. Great, so you'd be in favor of much stronger measures?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 29, 2014 -> 06:53 PM) You're operating on a bad premise that 4/$50M is a contract the Sox couldn't work around if it went bad. This is a very poor answer to the question "please prove that Jiminez = playoffs". It's roughly comparable in quality to the answer "apple", or "horses are pretty too". They answer the question equally well.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 29, 2014 -> 06:37 PM) ...with less than 20% of the population. You're a smart guy Balta, but this is another instance of posting an apples or oranges comparison because it fits your argument. Unfortunately, population size and density matter in cases such as this, whether you wish to ignore it or not. Allow me to reiterate... AUSTRALIA HAS ~ 23 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING ON A LAND MASS NEARLY THE SIZE OF THE US. THE US HAS ~ 315 MILLION. You can't possibly believe that I gave a number that wasn't normalized for population, can you?. I even gave the link if you were seriously that confused. Murders per 100,000 people: United States: 4.8 Australia: 1.0.

Washington R*dskins ask people on Twitter to "tell us what the team's name means to you". Yup.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 29, 2014 -> 06:08 PM) Well yeah, they have smart attorneys, doesn't mean an arbitrator or court of law have to agree with them (unless rooftop owners had to sign off on those plans, I'm not sure what has beend one, etc..). It's not a capital "E" in the contract, that's the sticking point. It can get bogged down in industry norms, etc. I think it should pass, but rooftop owners can make a legit case that a new jumbo-tron is not an expansion since it really doesn't exist now. Also, a factor will likely be what side drafted the contract. Isn't it completely fair to say that the only reason the Roofies have any say whatsoever is that the Cubs were previously willing to negotiate this contract? So if the Cubs wrote it in a way to benefit themselves and the Roofies weren't smart enough to have lawyers find loopholes in it, then I can't see why it should matter. The industry norms and everything else would say "the people who do not own the franchise have no legal standing without authorization from the Cubs" as far as I can tell.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 29, 2014 -> 04:51 PM) Wasn't the buyout supposed to drop as time passed? Or am I thinking of someone else. Regardless, that makes him a great piece to potentially package up for a Love or Melo deal, or someone who might fit in afterwards if we can do it right. It was supposed to drop yearly but this report says it will be a lot less than people thought it was, making it much more affordable to him if he pays it.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 29, 2014 -> 06:14 PM) Because nobody gets mass murdered in Australia. So say hi to Australia, Reddy, as they went from doing it with guns to doing it with arson in the recent years. But the fact is they still do it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia ...and let's keep in mind Australia is the size of the US in land mass with a population of ~24 million, as compared to our ~315 million. And they do so at 20% of the rate of the United States. If the United States had Australia's murder rate, there would be about 250,000 fewer homicides per decade in this country.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 29, 2014 -> 06:06 PM) It actually would. Comparatively Compared to who? We have 5 starters with a better ERA than that. Noesi, Rienzo, Sale, Danks, Quintana.