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QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 16, 2009 -> 08:20 AM) WTF? When AIG et al. hold their big conferences, we get huge lectures from you folks about how they absolutely need to hold those things, they're a complete necessity to meet with contractors, vendors, people they do business with, etc. Take note of the fact that SSA held this thing in Phoenix in the summer. You know why they might have done that? Because no one in their right mind wants to go to phoenix for a conference in the summer. It's 120 degrees every day. The only reason why you'd go there is that the hotels are really cheap. They paid like $85 a night. The feds have paid retention bonuses to single AIGFP employees that cost more than that conference.

You know that's actually kind of creative.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 08:04 PM) So Obama was booed because of his Sox jacket, yet George W. Bush in his video was cheered because _______. Fill in the blank. In 2001 he threw a strike. Without saying anything about the man, that was a hell of a pitch at that moment.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 07:59 PM) It's a red state, and I'm not just talking about the Cardinals. Look at their presidental voting results. Area ≠ population.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 07:21 PM) Here is the question... how many of those guys make their major league debuts in a uniform other than a Sox one, and who is the highest ranking one to do so? Dexter Carter.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 06:51 PM) How fast is his fastball now? Can he still hit 90? There were reports of him throwing in the low to mid 80's from some scouts who saw him throw in June. If he was hitting 90, he'd have had a good shot at the $5 million prorated he wanted, that's what he was throwing with the Mets.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 06:03 PM) Honestly, if you're speaking of something not in our lifetime, isn't that version of scientific opinion not much different than faith-based religion? "Well, we don't know for sure, but we believe in it even though we've never seen it." Science is plenty faith based. It's impossible without a strong belief in the concept that there are laws in the universe that are either fixed or vary in fundamentally systematic ways. Basically you're required to believe in inductive reasoning. Because I believe in that, it follows that I can assert that everything can be understood with enough data. The question is whether or not it is actually possible to gather that data on a reasonable timescale. I can't prove that, but nor can another person prove that there is data out there that we can't acquire or observations that we can't make. I just feel like history and my understanding of the universe backs me up;the constants and laws out there keep being constants and laws. The sun keeps rising every day. Reaction constants stay constant. Just because we hadn't figured out how to measure them before the first papers on them doesn't mean they weren't there.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 05:38 PM) I like it. Our top two young pitchers Hudson pitched today, or Hudson's considered old?

The 3 lefties in a row argues that all 3 lefties won't be there for long.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 03:56 PM) in a scientific sense; no one knows why there is reality, existence, time, space, or anything. probably never gonna know. Never say we won't know something. It may not be in your lifetime, but don't count us out.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 02:41 PM) 1 year prorated $1 mil. Hell of a deal for Philly if Pedro can produce. Considering he spent 3 months saying he wouldn't sign for less than $5 million prorated, I think the deal says something about how much they expect him to produce.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 02:29 PM) The problem is, they want to discuss her every "blunder" ad naseum. That has nothing to do with "having a thick skin". If people would STFU about everything Sarah Palin, she'd just simply go away, but it seems no one on either side wants to do that, so the drip gas gets added to every damn word that's uttered, and BOOM, it just keeps going and going. It's nauseating, on both sides. She's currently a strong contender in national polls for the 2012 Republican nomination and has said or done nothing that would indicate she won't be running. She's writing Op-ed pieces in the Washington Post, she's going on national media regularly. She's not simply going away. She doesn't want to.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 01:10 PM) So, does the Hall adjust its standards for election? And if so, would a consistent pitcher, who was probably the best pitcher of the era FOR HIS TEAM, get more consideration? Yes. But here's the weird thing...everyone keeps saying "This is the last guy to get to 300 wins" every time anyone gets there since Clemens. We just keep getting more. Let's say we actually go the next 15 years without anyone getting 300. Then there's 1 guy who hits 275. No one else is even close. That's an expression of the way the game has changed, and you might well note that when voting.

Talk to me if Mark makes it to the 275 win range.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 12:17 PM) After all, we're all just a clusterf*** of cells running around that evolved from a cesspool of rocks. Ameobas I'm sure came from rocks. Or something. We've got some good ideas and we're working on explaining how that happens.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 12:11 PM) See M-Theory for one possibility. I know that, but still, by a lot of definitions, you could certainly call the appearance of our universe due to the collision of 2 11-dimensional membranes the appearance of something out of nothing.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 12:10 PM) People who believe the universe appeared out of nowhere are retarded. So what does science say was there before the big bang?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 09:54 AM) As far as I know, those are highly inefficient in their current iteration. Doesn't mean they can't improve though. In any case, yet another reason to develop these new power sources. They're highly inefficient because they take an enormous amount of electricity. The problem with that is you can only do things where electricity is plentiful. If you can generate clean, cheap energy without using up your source of that energy (aka, the sun), then you're set. Also, more intelligent usage of water, reclaiming water from sewage, and so on make most of your water problems go away as well. Unless either you allow CO2 to hit 450+ ppm or you decide you want to process oil shale.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 09:41 AM) As I've said before, 50 years from now, when oil is less of an issue, the battles over fresh water will make the battles over oil look tame. If we can get ourselves off of fossil fuel energy and on to renewable energy, then ending battles over water is a simple matter of building more solar plants.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 14, 2009 -> 04:08 PM) But Jerome James is an insurance paid contract and a buyout is plausible thus keeping you away from luxury tax. At least that is my understanding. If I'm reading the numbers right, it will be nearly impossible for the Jazz to both match that contract to Milsap and avoid the luxury tax unless they can get their hands on Portland's cap space. They're at $73.4 million next year according to Hoopshype. The offer sheet for Milsap was over $10 million for next year IIRC. Boozer is at $12 million. Even if they paid absolutely nothing on Jerome James's contract, they can't deal him straight up for Boozer, because James is only signed for $6.6 million. They'd need to take back at least another $4-$5 million in deals from the Bulls (aka Tyrus Thomas) to match the salaries, and that extra money is all over the tax level if they match on Milsap.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 09:34 AM) I just think population expansion is getting too large and resources of all kind will be dwindling in no time. I'd counter that population expansion inside the U.S. isn't the problem (hell, we have a 10 year supply of affordable housing already built for them for some reason!). It's population expansion in the developing world, like it has been for the last 40 years.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 08:10 AM) He also shouldn't be in the Senate. Same for all these people elected in the 70's/80's and are still there. There's gotta be some sort of limit. As long as Seniority is so bloody important in the Senate, it makes more sense to have a well-preserved corpse/Strom Thurmond in a Senate Seat than it does to replace him with a rookie. Especially if the elder is a guy in the majority party.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 09:28 AM) Tyler Kuhn love anyone? Guy has put up great minor league numbers for a 15th round pick thus far. Could be a nice looking 4th outfielder or even one of those scrappy high OBP guys in time. Reggie Willits?

QOTM.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 05:57 AM) Definitely as problem. This is why the short term "stimulus" jobs aren't a real solution. We need to push forward into new technologies. Which is of course why some of us wanted MORE of that type of investment in the stimulus package. Like what is being done in China.