Balta1701

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 10:41 AM) They can't adjust to the facts that some government supported research was halted and work around it. According to Balta, the careers and lives of academics have been shattered. There will be a mass exodus of researchers leaving this country for green pastures where funding is more consistent and guaranteed. I believed that people could make adjustments and understand why certain research was suspended. Yeah, it was suspended because of a group of complete idiots in Congress. Tex, you went to grad school, I believe, correct? Here's the scenario. You're 2/3 done with Grad School and suddenly you're told "you have to start over and there's no money available to assist you so it'll cost you another 2 years and $30,000 a year". People are just going to quit. That is the right adjustment to make. Would you extend your graduate school career by 2-3 years and pony up your own money for it because Congress destroys the program you were relying on, or would you say "screw it I need to do something with my life"?

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 09:53 PM) Unfortunately, we still have the best schools - so STEM folks have to choose between institutional quality and the possibility of receiving federal grants. The Sequester is working on that.

Basically all he's saying is that academics either need to change careers or leave the country because a career in education is untenable in the United States. And like I've said, plenty are trying.

0/4, 4 K's for Puig.

A solid baseball comparison might be Jared Mitchell. All the talent in the world, lost the equivalent of 2 years right at the key moment in his career when he needed to be doing as much learning and growing as possible, very good chance his career is entirely ruined because of it.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 06:20 PM) When that person comes up for review, they'll remember and consider that they lost this project in progress. Unfortunately, that doesn't take the place of the publications they need to prove their competence. Publishing is hard, especially in the sciences where you need funding to do much research, so there just may not be such a good opportunity again. It's so hard to land a tenure track that it could feasibly set back this person's career permanently. Likewise, as Balta mentioned, the time it takes to get stuff researched and then published is very relevant. Like the grad students who need publications before graduating, this researcher has to have publications before tenure review comes. Sometimes it can't be made up later, because later never comes. My guess says that the number of grad students who will not graduate...ever...because of this is in the hundreds. People will have their lives hurt by this 40 years from now.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 06:04 PM) How are careers ruined? The rest of academia can't adjust to delays, even whole years? There's a recently-hired tenure-track faculty member in the building next to mine who was funded for field research in Antarctica this year. That research program probably would have set her up for several publications which would basically have put her on the path to tenure. Now she's spent the money in the grant, doesn't have that money again, and will lose a field season that would have produced several years worth of work. Tenure at universities is based on the work you achieve during your first 4-5 years. If the University isn't extraordinarily flexible, this will cost her tenure, at which point she'll leave the university after it is denied. That will happen to dozens, hundreds of people. Similarly, she has grad students, as do most of the hundreds of scientists heading down there. Those grad students are in school for 2-5 years depending on the program. If those students lose the data they were relying on getting...they can't graduate. "I couldn't go because of the government shutdown" isn't an excuse. They're losing multiple years of their lives preparing for projects that won't happen. The numbers of those people will be in the thousands. Schools will not simply come up with money to keep these people in school for longer to make up for the government screwing with them. That's not how it works. Some of them will just switch to other projects, but those projects need funding for extra students...and this years' funding has been destroyed by the sequester already, so the funding for students to start new projects simply doesn't exist. And mind you, the grants to fund those students and faculty members were already paid. The government spent hundreds of millions of dollars saying "You're a great person to go get this data", gave them the money, and then said that the money had to be spent turning around and doing nothing.

HAHAHAHAHA You know what's hilarious? Ruining people's careers while still wasting a couple billion taxpayer dollars. After all, I might have to go back more than 3 posts to find you complaining about the government wasting money. But hey, it's wasted by this shutdown, who cares.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 04:56 PM) Yard sale did NOT go as I expected. Rain cut me short and oddly enough, none of my athletic gear and workout equipment sold. Still made a pretty good amount of money for just sitting around most of the day, and I still have a decent amount of stuff that I might try and sell again on a sunny day. If anyone is interest, I have a White Sox 2005 WS bags/cornhole set that I'm looking to move, as well as a used Paul Konerko jersey. Used by you or game-used? Size, condition, and price?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 04:44 PM) i will fix that too, as a personal favor to you You literally can't. They've spent the last week evacuating the base. The money spent to get there was already spent, now the operations funds are being spent to send everyone home. The money for the year is lost. It was spent for nothing.

Some soreness probably should be expected. It's a shame there wasn't any basketball happening say, 9 or 10 months after he had that injury initially so that he could have been out on the court working through it then.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 04:04 PM) sure i'll do that right away and i'll fix all of the insanely bad software Obama has paid a billion dollars for. That's still a helluva lot less money than your shutdown wasted just on destroying this year's Antarctic research program for no good reason.

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 01:09 PM) While he certainly could be as important to our future as Avi I think Garcia is a much surer bet. While I really doubt it happens I think we have to move on from Beckham but it seems Semien at 3B is the plan. I don't think they've decided on a plan for Semien yet, nor should they have. There's a strong chance that a Keppinger + Gillaspie platoon at 3b and Semien at 2b could produce a lot more offense at a lower cost than Semien at 3b and Beckham at 2b. And there is still time for them to decide to keep Semien as a SS as well. I still think Marcus should start next year at AAA unless a really good trade comes along and the decision time should be the trade deadline next year.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 10:09 PM) complete system architectural failure? simply a minor issue according to the regime and the regime controlled media. nothing to see here. You want that to get coverage? Open the rest of the government.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 08:10 PM) actually a majority of Democrats in the Senate voted for the Iraq war and more than a third in the house did. In the House, 82 Democrats voted in favor of the Iraq debacle resolution, 126 voted against it. I see you've adopted the definition of a "majority" used by the U.S. Senate.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 06:47 PM) Beckham just regressed back towards the mean, it wasn't the injury that was messing with him and there's no reason for me to think otherwise. I'm ok with the wrist injury as an excuse for the lack of power, that one makes sense to me, but the rest I lean towards you being right.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 05:51 PM) It's that simple. Now who the f*** is that??! We have an opening at 1b and there's a Cuban 1b available. I can't get past that. The fit is too good. If you can fill that spot, then it all becomes up to management about which guys they hold. Do they think Phegley can be legit in his 2nd year or Flowers can be a lot better after surgery? Do they think Beckham can stay healthy and his problems last year were injury only? Do they think Viciedo and Garcia can hit? Do they think De Aza can remember how to run the bases and so on? And what's available in trades that would be better than those guys? I can make guesses about those but those are the things Rick Hahn has to decide.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 05:28 PM) He's saying if we stay put we aren't competing until then anyways. Staying put next year could be a way to give the kids additional playing time and decide who to spend money on the next offseason. It could also add 2 years of top draft picks in and save money that could be spent down the road. Dunn might be finally moved to save more, and who knows what else could become available. That said, I don't think it's the right move with the FA market as it is this year to just "punt" on the year, but several people here have advocated doing so, and even if next year is a lost cause, Chris Sale will still be under contract for 5 more years afterwards.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 04:16 PM) I might be the only one who giggles at the irony, but the Twitter IPO filing is 120,000 words long. I think you should set up a twitter account and gradually tweet your way through it.

I always assumed other was the OS?

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 03:28 PM) You might as well trade Sale then 2019

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 03:43 PM) What? The idea that democrats doin't believe in democratic policy is somethin else. But they're generally pretty happy to roll over once they lose an election. That's how the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts were passed, that's why 1/3 of the Democrats voted in favor of the Iraq debacle.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 03:22 PM) I can't imagine a Democratic Senate agreeing to scrap the biggest piece of Democratic legislation in several generations. But they'd probably sign off on a budget that defunds it.

Seriously, can we put together a rule saying "you can't complain about the team's fielding and suggest signing Peralta in the same post"?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 10:04 AM) There are about 50-100 other examples. Hitters do have a tendency to just find their stroke and explode. Which is why it shouldn't be that hard to avoid "guys who just served 50 game suspensions".