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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 12:16 PM) You discharge a huge capacitor through an antenna-like device. I don't see why it wouldn't work in space, it's just electromagnetic waves. Basically, it'd be a small-scale version of what a large solar flare pointed directly at our planet would do. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-huge-s...-satellite.html It could work in theory... but there's some problems. First, the fact that no one's ever succesfully demonstrated it as a weapon. Secondly, the problem of knocking out all the local electronics around the weapon.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 11:23 AM) The same ideas would apply in Chicago. Simply adding a second team isn't going to change many minds. They have to win before people will really switch loyalties. And winning one year out of every 3 or 4 like a normal NFL team wouldn't do it. You'd need a sustained, New England or Indy style period of true excellence to really engrain the 2nd team.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 11:15 AM) No idea, but I'd imagine it'd be easier to mitigate satellite causalities from that versus a fragmentation attack. You'd imagine its easier to mitigate casualties from a large nuclear air burst than it is from scattering debris?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 09:34 AM) Or the way more obvious answer... There is a difference between corporate and individual income. Therefore...it makes zero sense to look at whether or not individual income from any particular group can balance the budget, because you're ignoring 60% of GDP.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 09:22 AM) Been gone for a week with no access to internet/tv/anything. Serious question - who is the closer? What happened to this team? First answer: well, we haven't needed one in a few days. Second answer...Weaver, Haren, and Price was going to be a rough buzzsaw for a team playing good ball to hit, and the Sox haven't been pitching well enough to stand with that kind of buzzsaw. They haven't been blown out, but their starters have needed to throw 0-1 run games to give their guys a chance, and their starters haven't done that. Bats aren't hitting well, Adam Dunn still doesn't look like he's all there, and the team just generally is in lethargic-looking mode.

Someone ought to post this. To be perfectly honest, if I were voting in Texas, and it was him versus, let's say, Rick Perry or someone like that...I might well just leave that line blank.

By the way, happy 1 month birthday to the bombing of Libya!

QUOTE (since56 @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 08:53 AM) 2. Does this team need a new manager to wake up? They woke up last year without a new manager. Let's just be honest...we all know it's the division or bust here. Talk to me about a new manager late in the season. Maybe we'll get lucky and we can "Trade" Ozzie to some other team at the end of the year.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 18, 2011 -> 07:09 PM) wonder how much it would cost to do something like that. Blowing up a number of satellites is fairly cheap, less than a billion dollars. You just have to launch a vehicle that blows itself up carrying a bunch of ball bearings, and get the trajectory right so that it scatters those particles into the path of a group of satellites.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 18, 2011 -> 08:23 PM) So, it's a "trick"... but your "sources" are absolutely unbaised and absulutely truth, as always. Carry on. Please, tell me where my math is wrong. If not, then you're either rejecting the concept of "Addition" or you're just arguing to be argumentative. Anyway...note the difference here. I didn't just say "Oh it's from the WSJ, I don't have to believe it"...I actually pointed out why. You attacked...without giving any reason why I'm wrong, because the WSJ is on your side and it must be defended at all costs.

Everyone is a raging communist.

Ah, gotta love the d***ed if you do, d***ed if you don't feel of this article complaining about how Rose is now taking too much contact.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 18, 2011 -> 09:31 PM) Was every fan in New York required to be a Yankees and football Giants fan prior to the Mets and Jets arriving? I don't know the football timeline, but especially in baseball, that argument doesn't work. The Metropolitans appeared in the early 60's, less than 10 years after a pair of teams from NY picked up and moved to the west coast in the same year. If the White Sox left, would you immediately become a scrub fan? Or would you hold out and hope that another team appeared?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 08:12 AM) For some reason I think we'll play better on the road. 2 days off and an unhappy Thibodeau...

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 08:13 AM) The overreactions on this site are hilarious. No one here has any real news, yet everyone is suddenly a team physician with access to private information. STFU and wait a couple hours before you officially quit on Peavy and this team. Even as the Peavy optimist, I can't go this far. They've got a point. Guy's been attempting rehab starts for 2 months now and appears to be starting all over again. I said J4L was going to be wrong somewhere in one of these threads when he said June 1, and after today, that suddenly seems likely.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 18, 2011 -> 06:33 PM) That's exactly what I was going to respond with. "It worked so well with the Blackhawks." And yet...that's pretty much the model that a new Chicago NFL team will have to succeed with.

Reds pitcher Mike Leake was arrested for shoplifting $59.88 worth of clothing from a local Macy's.

Very long time it seems to have been since I last won a post race in here.

Until you can know for sure, here's a steak.

Someone ought to close this thread damn quick then, otherwise we're all ****ed.

Perhaps closing this thread would be best. At least I wouldn't feel compelled to keep posting in here.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 18, 2011 -> 04:04 PM) That's most likely becasue of the tough lefty pitcher going for the Rays-Price And because of the whole "couple recent days of struggles after coming back from surgery" thing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 18, 2011 -> 03:25 PM) Bill Wirtz? Let's face it, the NFL is a different beast than the NHL. There's a reason they enforce that rule even in places with relatively young and struggling franchises.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 18, 2011 -> 02:26 PM) Wouldn't the NFL give any relocating team a waiver on the blackout for 3 or 4 years? They'd need to build up fan base. That waiver would just hurt ticket sale revenue though.

Seriously tampa, 6:40 local time for your first pitch? Wha?