mr_genius

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 08:45 PM) This is everyone's chance to BEAT Ozzie as bullpen manager? Assuming NOBODY would go with Linebrink next inning (assuming we don't score in the top of the 9th), who would you use? Pena? Dotel? Contreras? I really would seriously think about giving Jose a shot over Linebrink, as long as he's starting the inning. The odds are it wouldn't work, but I'd rather try that than our usual fail scenarios with Jenks/Linebrink/Dotel in tie ballgames. Rivera with an ERA below 1.00 in save situations this year. dotel

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 08:41 PM) 40 pitches now for Thornton. We might have to rest him two games in a row. still, i like keeping him in. we have so little room for error (linebrink)

BAM

just throw a strike. he'll be gone

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 07:56 PM) You can be the most talented engineer in the world, if you can't talk to the business your career will only go so far. QFT. Unless you are a top coder type and an ACM competition stand out in school, having business knowledge to go with your tech work is where you want to go IMO. Hard core tech skills are still in demand, but understanding the core business of an organization is very key.

QUOTE (DonkeyKongerko @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 07:21 PM) Hmm can we still waive Rios? i hated getting rios from the start. didn't say anything, but really the guy is not worth the money.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 06:59 PM) I'm looking to get involved in city and local government. I eventually want to be a City Administrator. I am having a TERRIBLE time finding a job, mainly because of the economy and the lack of experience. It's great not being able to get a job because of lack of experience, but no one will hire you to get experience. It's not just you if that's any consolation. Things are a lot harder, IMO, for young people just getting started than it was for me in the late 90's and way harder than it was for the boomers whom were basically guaranteed a job if they got a college degree. You are going to be competing against experienced people for entry level jobs when unemployment is this high. You still have your youth and energy working for you, try to remain positive even though I know it must be hard to do. Just my 2 cents.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 06:20 PM) Ok, as long as you were kidding. don't tell me what to do

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 06:08 PM) No need for that either please. knightni, it was a joke. SAP is a very large ERP software provider, I wouldn't be surprised if they were the 5th largest software co in the world. I figured that was where RockRaines worked. I'm pretty sure Sqwert knew that, so my response to sqwert wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 03:45 PM) So I am looking into IT Governance as a future career and I am currently studying General Management with a double major in IS/IT. Im not sure yet what the IS/IT classes will offer me in the technical side of the field, and though I am more interested in the management part I feel that entry level positions will require more technical knowledge. Ive taken the basic computer programming class (mysql, vba for excel, html, etc). Any other suggestions for classes that I should take to prepare me for future jobs (if any). Thanks y'all. get a PMP certification. It's pretty easy to get and holds some weight. Try to get an entry level job in a viable industry, as knowing the tech and specific business rules is important. Work your way up. As far as education, it all depends. I got in with a computer science degree, not sure if that is a good idea now a days; but if you go to a top school you'll be in for sure though. But the curriculum isn't easy, yet even in shops that heavily offshore, they still want someone on site that actually knows what is going on and has management skill. A business degree is pretty wide open, possibly more entry level opportunity.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 12:43 PM) No need for name calling. don't tell me what to do

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 03:38 PM) wut? Barney Frank had a gay prostitution ring headquartered in his home. They're not making this up. But Barney wasn't personally running it, some guy that lived with him was.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 11:24 AM) Let’s play a game it’s called imagine if Bush tried this: Bill would give president emergency control of Internet“The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license” http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html Obama is outsourcing sensitive data to India. He doesn't give a f*** about 'security'.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 27, 2009 -> 01:07 PM) Is it that hard to just take a new picture with 3 white people in it? lol right I guess that's the only picture Microsoft has of some business people sitting at a table

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 27, 2009 -> 12:49 PM) Town hall meetings aren't a Constitutional right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly So you are going to have a government sanctioned town hall open to the public where people can voice their views, but check those ID's first? I'm surprised you endorse this action by proxy, strangesox.

Dems demand to see ID if you wish to speak at town hall meeting http://www.breitbart.tv/congressman-demand...-hall-question/ LOL! but showing ID to vote is out of the question.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 24, 2009 -> 02:23 PM) I sell enterprise software to a few major fortune 100 companies in Illinois. I work for the 4th largest software company in the world. (figure that one out) SAP?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 26, 2009 -> 05:12 PM) Eh that's another issue entirely. I was just talking about gov't spending and tax policy. Not necessarily, the predictions to pay off the debt took into account job growth and increased tax income. I don't see that happening. Of course globalization is going to happen, and it should be embraced; the issue is if you take an anarchy approach that Greenspan preaches. His economic policies may be bubblelicous, but they are long term disasters.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 26, 2009 -> 05:06 PM) IIRC, Clinton had a plan that would've eliminated all of our debt by 2012. Didn't he inherit a deficit? I'm not looking at a graph right now so I don't know, but I know Reagan was all about deficits. Gore wanted to follow up with this in the 2000 campaign, so did Bush but he wanted to cut the hell out of taxes the whole time he was in office which really kind of blunted it. Then that all went to s*** when he invaded Iraq. His plan would have failed. The globalist theory failed. The US has a massive trade deficit and has actually lost jobs over a decade.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 26, 2009 -> 03:16 PM) And which country paid to rebuild France, (half of) Germany and the UK? Oh yeah, the United States. Where's the complaining about the deficits that we ran up in the post-war period which came before the historically unprecedented growth in America during the immediate post-war and the 50's? U.S. debt dropped off in the 50's.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 26, 2009 -> 04:14 PM) And which country ended up getting paid back a whole lot in spades through trade and other mechanisms? exactly, countries owed us money. people don't understand that these debts have interest.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 09:43 PM) And instead of a huge fraction of the wealth being concentrated in the hands of a very small and shrinking few, the U.S. emerged from that war with the strongest middle class at any point in the last century. There is no sign anywhere of that purchasing power reappearing. Agreed, that is also a big factor.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 09:21 PM) That would rock, except we wouldn't have anywhere to get our cheap crap from anymore. Then what would we do? Those $5 dollar Walmart T-shirts would probably cost $10 noooo

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 09:16 PM) And it took us pretty much until the 40's to recover totally. And that recovery was with a much less competitive global market; WWII completely wrecked major economic power houses. The US homeland went basically untouched as Germany, England, Russia, ect took tons of damage. I guess we need China and India to destroy each other.