Balta1701

QUOTE(Soxy @ Jan 9, 2008 -> 10:25 AM) Last night my cat bit the hell out of my hand while I was petting her when she saw the dog. I got blood ALL over two towels and my just washed comforter. The dog then threw up repeatedly for the next three hours and the new dog had it flying out the other end. When I went to the doctor this morning because my hand is uber swollen, the prescription he gave me (apparently cat bites get infected a lot) wouldn't get filled because eff'n CVS wouldn't recognize the new carrier of my prescription plan. After two hours fighting with them and MedCo I finally got my damn augmentum. Ugh. Worst day. Best healthcare system in the world! Sorry. Had to. Hope things turn soon.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Jan 9, 2008 -> 10:11 AM) The sad thing is that Marshall and Gallagher are not worth Gio Gonzalez alone and Cedano is nothing. Unless the Mitchell report really killed Roberts's trade value, it's hard to believe that there's no team out there that would be willing to beat that price for Roberts. The Orioles must really like a couple of those guys to the point of thinking they're worth more than we do.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Jan 9, 2008 -> 08:45 AM) We have data, but that data is far more broad than the data we are able to keep by actually being alive on this planet. I'm not a scientist, and I'm not sure Balta is or not, but he obviously has a handle on this stuff...but would I be correct in saying that the data obtained from ice core samples gives us information to theorize ona much broader level? You can hypothesize what happened over a period of a hundred thousand years, or a million years, but that doesn't give you data on a year to year level? You can't look at ice core samples and definitively say in the years 17,500 BC to 17,300 BC the Earth was experiencing these kind of temperatures (as we are doing now). Would I be correct in saying that, Balta? The ice core record is absolutely magnificent. There are actually annual color bands in the ice cores that allow you...or well, let's say, allow the Grad Student who gets stuck with that job, to literally tell you within an error of a couple years what year the gas they're analyzing comes from. And more remarkable still, we have ice cores from both sides of the planet, totally independent of one another, that produce nearly identical small scale (100 year or so) fluctuations. And that's on top of the large scale signals (The 20,000, 40,000, and 100,000 year cycles that show up). The record of the atmosphere we have over the last 800,000 years or so is simply amazing. And because of the various types of data you can get, gas compositions, isotopic values, trace gases...you can actually make highly accurate estimates of what the conditions on the earth were, because isotopic fractionations are strongly temperature dependent. If I give you a graph where the data form a good line, where one axis is something I can measure in one of those cores and the other axis is temperature, I can take a new measurement and turn it pretty easily into a temperature. And in the Ice cores, we actually have multiple systems which give us several independent temperature estimates. We can also use other isotopic systems to calculate other variables, such as the amount of ice on in the ice caps relative to the size of the oceans. The ice cores literally are powerful enough to give you temperature estimates to within a degree or less, and atmospheric compositions to within the annual variation we see in the Mauna Loa record. Would I be able to do better if I was there and had a bunch of thermometers? Yes, but that doesn't negate how incredibly useful and detailed that data is.

QUOTE(A's fan @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 10:33 PM) chave has been hurt and hasn't really put in the time to become the best he can it seems. And, fairly or not, with anyone who's shown a dropoff in power these last few years, or who had historic power shots beforehand, there's always the PED issue to wonder about.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Jan 9, 2008 -> 03:41 AM) That's the thing, though. Using ice core samples (and I'm sure there's other methods), we have data for hundreds of millions of years. Fixed that for you.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 08:30 PM) Id rather take a flyer on a guy like Chris Simms or Joey Harrington Chris Simms I could understand, but I'd rather go Orton/Griese than Harrington.

The little bit of positivity I can find tonight is that both of them pull out 8 delegates. I still think this decides it for Hillary.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 08:10 PM) Ferraro? Carol Mosely Braun would be my guess.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 07:54 PM) Lol, sorry but Culpepper sucks and I want no part of him. I dont know if Rex is the answer or not... but Culpepper definitely isnt and I really want no part of him. We need to address O-Line first and foremost and hopefully keep Briggs would be ideal. Honestly, if Grossman were to walk, I could think of worse options than taking a flyer on Culpepper.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 08:03 PM) Losing to the Knicks at home should be a fireable offense. Seriously. I believe it already helped cost Skiles his job. And this is a good way for Boylan to not come back next year.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 07:47 PM) So Clinton's back as the favorite now I presume. What does Obama have to do to win the nomination now? Win most of the upcoming major primaries I assume. I don't think that winning Nevada and S.C. is going to be enough. Clinton will take Michigan, and even if Obama wins those 2, he still has to find a way to dent Clinton on Super Tuesday, and I don't think he'll be able to do that. Maybe if Edwards dropped out and endorsed him, but other than that.

Clinton Vs. McCain. My God, the media is going to go harder for the Republican candidate than they did in 2000.

QUOTE(Felix @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 07:37 PM) CNN doesn't want to call it yet because the college towns are still to go. The vote margin is now 6200 votes.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 07:30 PM) AP calls it for Hillary. And no this doesn't give Hillary the nomination. SC does. The rule I was going by was that Clinton would win the nomination if she won either Iowa or N.H. And I still believe that. She was so far ahead in the majority of the Super Tuesday states that the only way to make a race of it was going to be to pound her down from the start. This will give her the nomination.

NBC and the AP have called it for Clinton.

Over 5000 votes. It's been over for a while. And I think this gives Hillary the nomination too. Damn.

QUOTE(A's fan @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 07:25 PM) Agreed there I can see the skins making a play for him for a draft pick. do you think there is any you guys sign any big name FA's? I think culpepper would do good with you guys because if he has a good team around him I see playoffs. If I were in that spot, I'd spend some money on one of the available O-Linemen. Beyond that, I wouldn't do so, except to try to hold onto Grossman, but honestly, I have no idea what Angelo will try to do there.

QUOTE(A's fan @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 07:20 PM) your right I just found it here however angelo doesnt know if he wants to keep him http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpag...3&sport=NFL Angelo is too smart to let him walk for nothing. He knows how good he can be when he's on the field...but he doesn't want to take a $2 million cap hit on him next year given that you can't count on his health, so this is maneuvering to try to talk Brown into reworking his contract.

4465

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 07:05 PM) Durham (UNH), Rindge (I forget what school) and Hanover (Dartmouth) are the college towns still open, by the way. Add those up there are about 6000 registered Dems, in college towns. Right now they'd have to go more than 80-20 Obama for him to make up that gap.

Back up to 4100.

QUOTE(spiderman @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 06:50 PM) 54% in. Hillary maintaining a 2 point lead, per Fox News. 3400 votes currently.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 06:46 PM) I think if it was over they would have called it. They are waiting for something. I don't take anything from that. After 2000 they're not going to call a close one until they're certain, and this is clearly close.

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 06:36 PM) Darmouth - Hanover County (6000 votes), Durham - NH State, will determine the outcome. Those numbers seem to indicate Obama will squeek it out.... still a loss as far as expectations go. 4300 vote margin now. I think it's over.

Back up to 2900. I'm starting to think she won it.