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QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 09:32 AM) Actually the chinese have a great internet infrastructure, outside of the fact that you have to run through government controlled content filters, and the central firewall farm. We were able to get DSL at our plant in Suzhou with 2 3 meg circuits for dirt cheap. Their internet access for dialup is funny, you dial a 3 digit number and that is how you connect to the internet. Hope you are away from the big city there. Interesting thing is, once you get past the spots on the map that are just like 100 people, it seems even the small cities are 250,000 people. Everything is a "big city" here compared with the U.S., there's just that many people. You're in what would be a small city, you walk down the road, there's internet cafes, a dozen brothels within a few blocks, business districts, bazaars, and so on. The run down areas where the workers live seem to surround these central areas where we're staying, but everything seems to join togehter in a big city form.

Can someone on local time tell me how long until the game starts?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 09:26 AM) How's the trip? On geology field trips, I've found 2 good ways of evaluating how a field trip is going. The more epidermis missing from your feet, the better the trip is going, and the more beers in you, the better the trip is going. Based on both of those criteria, this is thus far a darn good trip. I just wish I could get any of my email services to work in this internet cafe. We have about a 10 hour drive tomorrow with a couple of stops worked in...we're crossing the full Tien Shan range again and stopping to look at a few key spots before we spend the next week on the north side looking at recent structures. So if I want to, I can literally spend 3 hours in the game thread, using gameday, sleep 4 hours, get up, and sleep more on the buses. I don't think I can resist. Just wish I had yi ping PiJiu (another beer) to make it all the better.

Ok, I don't know how the Hell, I'm pulling this off, but it's currently 12:20 local time, I'm in the middle of an internet Cafe in the city of Korla, China, i have 4 large chinese Beers in me, and I've actually got Gameday open for Jose shooting for his 10th win, and I'm posting in the game thread. This is damn amazing. Kick some ass Jose!

Hello from the middle of the city of Kuqi, in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China (Zhong Guo). Finally we got to 9 in a row! A feat not achieved even by the great 2005 Chicago White Sox! DESTROY THE PIRATES!

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 02:58 PM) Didn't Pujols say that he didn't want to DH? Either him or someone in their organization...gave the ol "If he's healthy enough to hit he's healthy enough to play the field". I'd say they're crazy. DH him for 4 games while you have the chance. Yeesh.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 02:38 PM) I wouldn't count on that just yet. MLB announced that Ozzie will be fined and will have to undergo sensitivity training over that matter, no suspension.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 02:30 PM) That's the first thing that comes to mind. But they can't be so stupid. They've been playing well without AP, except for the last two games, and they're still comfortably in first (with guaranteed-to-slide Cincy next up). And clearly not Pujols or Zeus could have made enough of a difference in the last two games. So you'd think the initial reports had to be exaggerated. I dunno, it just seems like they'd have to be 120% sure he's okay to bring him back tonight. Which is why I just can't figure out why they'd bring him back yet, even if he says he's healthy. The last thing they want is to lose him for another 2 weeks from him twisting the wrong way.

If Pujols reaggrivates that injury, they'll be regretting this move.

That would mean the Cardinals would need to make 2 roster moves today instead of the 1 to bring up their starter, IIRC. Maybe Edmonds hitting the DL after last night's concussion? Just guessing.

Freddy, if we lose this game, we're right where we were when we started this series. We win this game, and we're 1/2 game behind the Tigers. Take em out!

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 12:40 PM) 2) If they found a nuke, or something else that truely was capable of mass destruction, I think people would really change their opinion. But when the best you can find is antiquated weapons like Mustard Gas, or Sarin which can be made in your basement, it does not set a good precedent for when govt's can be over turned. The US stockpile of weapons is far greater, yet I doubt many would agree that China could invade us if we dont destroy all the weapons we have stockpiled over the last 100 years. If Iraq had an active program to illicitly produce and upgrade its chemical weapons systems after Gulf War 1, and in particular in 2002, there would have been a justification for the war, as Saddam was forbidden from having and producing those weapons. At some point, you have to admit that a few hundred old shells are just scraps, but if he was churning out new ones, Bush would have been correct. There's also no cease fire agreements banning the U.S. from producing or storing Chemical Weapons like there is with Iraq, so that argument doesn't really work. One other interesting thing in this case is the fact that we already knew the UNSCOM team didn't destroy every single chemical munition Iraq had. Some of them were in such a state that the team decided to just seal off the areas where those shells were stored, so as to avoid winding up killing htemselves if there was an accident during disposal. When the UNMOVIC team returned in 2003, the seals were still there, and the shells were unmoved. That's why it was important to get the UNMOVIC team in there and let it do its job. After the war unfortunately, a lot of those locations were actually unsecured and looted, to the point that these old shells have actually wound up in IEDs before.

Interestingly, it appears that the DOD is not standing by the statements of Santorum and Hoekstra. And I'm even citing Fox News, to make everyone happy.

Well, like any good liberal, I guess as soon as I get promoted, I take a 2 week vacation. Or is that like the President. Anywho, I'm off to Xinjiang Province in China for 2 weeks to take a look at the Tien Shan mountain range. Get f***ing Detroit out of first place while I'm gone, PLEASE! Adios everyone. Hopefully have some interesting pictures when I return.

Boy, here's a shocker...it appears now to be pretty likely that the 2nd part of the WMD investigation in the Senate, the part supposedly looking into the ways the Administration used the intelligence they had and whether or not they were appropriate...will probalby never be completed. Pat Roberts is already 2.5 months late on a deadline he set to release some information, and now it's being suggested it'll never be finished. This investigation, btw, was the reason Harry Reid shut down the Senate late last year. Good to know that did nothing.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 08:26 PM) I think the states should end their open defiance of federal law and prosecute people who break the f***ing law. Like, say, people who order illegal wiretaps?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 08:15 AM) No, when he goes into the draft next year, if the knicks are in last, we get their pick again. And Oden. Assuming the balls fall our way. In fact, the Knicks don't even have to finish last...it's actually pretty rare that the worst team gets the #1 pick. Anywho...YAY!

3 home runs, .426 average, 17 RBI's, a couple more dongs and Konerko's gonna be looking at a Player-o-the-month award.

QUOTE(CardsJimEdmonds15 @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 05:19 PM) Just painful.. Get Marquis the hell outta there.. put in Wainwright How many pitchers is your team carrying that they can take their starter out by the 3rd inning 2 games in a row?

If we outscore the Yankees today, we'll be officially the most prolific offense in baseball. We have good start.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 05:17 PM) Thome is JUSTTTTT missing these. He could have 25+ with some of the balls he has hit the last week... If you recall, that's what Jim was doing right before the final week of spring training...just missing a lot of balls. The next week, every one of them went out.

Scott only has 1 stolen base in the last week.

Pods better be on 3rd within a couple pitches.

That inning should go over well with CC's ERA

I'm pretty sure those are all slightly edited clips from the first two movies or other movies strung together to make it look like a trailer, and not a real trailer/preview for the film. In other words, I think it's a fake.