Balta1701

Wish I could play Voodo Chile.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 10:02 PM) Does this apply to the 5-gallon bottled water services too, or is that tap water that is treated? Same basic mixture. Somewhere around 1/2 the companies that drive those big things up to your building just are bringing filtered tap water. The remainder are bringing some variety of bottled water, likely actually bottled at a spring source, but not tested or necessarily meeting drinking water standards. If anyone ever wants to panic about bottled water, drive 395 up Owens Valley, CA. Right on the side of Owens dry lake bed, which is for all practical purposes an environmental disaster area, you'll hit the "Crystal Geyser" bottling plant.

QUOTE (scotty22hotty @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 09:46 PM) Alexei is easily worth 12.5M a year seeing as hes entering his prime. According to his UZR/150 and WAR, Alexei was the 2nd best defensive SS in the MLB in '10 (1st in AL) and 4th best overall SS (1st in AL) If he was a FA this year, I could see the Yanks offering him a generous contract to replace Jeter... He's 29 right now, he's not "Entering his prime" by really any definition.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 09:17 PM) The major bottled water companies, Aquafina, Dasani, and Nestle just use the same filtered water that they make their pop with (Coke, Pepsi, Schwepps). Which is also originally just tap water anyway. The island of Fiji has had itself pretty much destroyed by the water company there.

Undone (the sweater song).

Please don't rag on optometrists!

New eyes are gonna be tough to come by these days. What with the whole ban on that.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 06:50 PM) More expensive than what? Drinking water from the tap, buying a brita/Pur filter, taking water from a local feces filled stream and purifying it yourself, and an equal volume of gasoline.

Lasik good enough, or do we need to go all the way to new eyes?

Just because you think you saw that doesn't mean you did. You need a stronger prescription to fix those eyes.

Linkity.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 05:56 PM) Who cares if they won a bunch of games once they were well out of the race to make their win total look decent? This was a team that underperformed most of the season when it mattered (save the insane 25-5 run). We won 90 games in 2006 with the entire pitching staff falling apart. Have we won 90 games since? The fact we won 88 games means absolutely nothing going forward. So if that end of the season run had started 2 games earlier, you'd think this was a great season?

QUOTE (flavum @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 05:05 PM) If the Sox signed Matsui and Pena and also got AJ back, I could live with this lineup: Pierre, Beckham, Rios, Matsui, Quentin, Pena, Ramirez, Pierzynski, Morel. There's some potential there, and the infield defense is real good. And they can do it without giving up starting pitching. My biggest problem with that lineup? the fact that I have to legitimately ask "Who plays RF, Quentin or Matsui" and not know the answer.

The first data from the "Audit the fed" amendment in Finreg is coming out. Others are sorting through the details, things like the Fed taking CCC rated loans back as collateral. Interestingly, somehow, Verizon received about $800 million.

This ethanol subsidy game is actually getting kinda interesting...legitimate bipartisan groups of 15 senators have sent letters opposing the renewal of the subsidies and supporting the renewal of the subsidies. The 15 opposed come from states like CA and the coasts, the 15 supporting come from Agricultural states. Moveon.org and Freedomwatch both support getting rid of them.

QUOTE (Tex @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 04:20 PM) Great, I have no idea as usual what people are talking about. Help your brain for a change and just type nonsense.

Don't forget Sisqo!

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 04:10 PM) Got my cities mixed up, though he did say western cities. And it's safer from violent crime, not necessarily life in general, which i should have clarified earlier. http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/2916220...nKids23.article I bet even if you count violent crime Kabul still wins by a lot...they probably just don't get counted. There's not a single precise number/statistic presented in that article, you'll note.

Balta is what I am.

Zelophobic I am of the people who don't do the X and Z./

Xylophones start with X and sometimes make interesting sounds.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 03:47 PM) Apparently Ken Rosenthal doesn't think that highly of Alexei, or at least isn't in his top 7 SS in baseball. http://mlbbuzz.yardbarker.com/blog/mlbbuzz...8?new_post=true WTF? When you include the fact that Alexei has been healthy and he has to qualify 3 of them, Alexei winds up 3rd on that list in my book.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) I also read a statistic the other day that children in Afghanistan are safer than children in the City of Chicago. Pretty insane. Again, I'm going to call BS on this until you back it up. We heard this over and over on Iraq...the problem was that they were just counting "Total murders" and not adjusting for per capita.

Very sad to report that we did as well.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 03:42 PM) First, I meant terms SERVED. Second, yeah, in most other countries, people actually convicted of murder serve longer sentences, from what I understand. But really, I meant they are shorter than the should be - I don't care that much what other countries do. Again, I'll state that this would thoroughly surprise me if it was true. I've spent about 10 minutes looking and found nothing in terms of realistic data. I'm open to being convinced.