southsider2k5

There is a place right across from the CBOT that sells the real sugar coke in the bottle. It is soooo far superior, it isn't even funny.

I remember when school didn't get called off for piddly little six inch snow falls...

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QUOTE (NIUSox @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 10:25 AM) It's gonna be hard because not only is Bolland coming back, but Burish as well. Burish was supposed to be March I thought?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 09:12 AM) You know as well as I do that in a lot of cases the other team is happy to cooperate because they get access to a player like Bosh without having to be fully under the cap. The team is basically trading his Bird rights. The only way that it doesn't work is if he jumps rapidly to a team that is already under the cap so far as to offer a Max deal. But...the team he's currently with can always offer more money than a team as a FA, so it's to his advantage to do the sign and trade route (That's probably a big part of the reason why Kobe isn't a Clipper, btw). The signing team might not want to give up players to get Bosh if they think they can get him on the free agent market, both for a smaller contract and keeping his new team intact with talent.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 11:37 AM) You don't think someone isn't eventually going to head out to mall with a grudge and an AK-47? Ah nevermind. I just saw your next post BS.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 09:08 AM) You really can't say that. You don't think someone isn't eventually going to head out to mall with a grudge and an AK-47?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 10:26 AM) We're supposed to have the longest period of below freezing tempratures in 25 years. 72 hours. That's actually crazy for Dallas. Now where did I leave my pity at?

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 10:57 AM) How about Kenny signs Arnoldis Chapman for 5yrs/25mil, then sends both the Danks brothers and (if necessary), Flowers or Hudson to the Padres for Adrian Gonzalez? Thoughts??? Hudson would be in the rotation ahead of Chapman.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 09:07 AM) If I could move Hinrich's contract I'd do it without the immediate extension. I could use Bosh in a sign and trade over the summer as well that way and use that as another way to bring in a piece while at the same time easily being able to offer 1 Max deal and another reasonably large deal. If Bosh and the other team were willing to cooperate...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 08:56 AM) I think this may be debating semantics at this point. Are you counting total ridership as "Total number of trips taken" or as "number of different individuals who use the service per year"? And are you counting both of them the same way? Or are you counting by miles traveled (where airlines will easily win because of distance/velocity factors)? Here's official numbers from the government. July 08. Link 2 the number of individuals who travel on trains vs the number of individuals who travel on a plane at least once during a year.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 11:09 PM) I'd get Bosh any way I possibly can and extend him in the off-season for as much money as we can afford. This could very well be a sign and trade type of deal. There is zero chance the Bulls trade for Bosh unless an extension is involved.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 08:10 AM) I think you are really stretching to protect your point here. They choose planes for all the obvious reasons, and its not because more people fly (since they don't). Actually you haven't proven that. You have proven that more people travel by train on any given day, but that was never my argument. More different people take planes over a year, than do trains.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 08:23 AM) I hate to be giving our government any credit, but does anyone think its possible that the reason they haven't tried any subway/train/mall/supermarket bombings is cause they have actually had a hard time setting up the bombers & explosives in the US? All the recent attempts have been based in foreign countries, and on 9/11 the only weapon was a box cutter. Maybe their opportunities to strike in the US are so limited that they have to make it something big to make it worth the effort? I could be completely wrong, it would require the feds to be doing a good job. No. Not for a second.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 05:20 AM) My son is a little too young for all that, but I have some of those on DVD too for when he gets ready to wean himself off Nick Jr. in a couple of years. I knew I liked you for some reason

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 01:17 AM) I rotate different cartoons to see what hits and what doesn't. This month I have rotated the "Pinky and the Brain" and the "Animaniacs" to the PS3. My son loves Pinky and the Brain, and has no use so far for Animaniacs. About 2 months ago I had rotated My Little Pony for my daughter and she loved it so much its pretty much the bulk of her Christmas toys that she got. She loves that show. Greatest cartoons ever.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 07:48 AM) SS2K5, the reason they choose planes has zero to do with how many people fly vs take a train. Further, your assumption is wrong: According to the US DOT, 2 million people fly per day. The NY rail transit system ALONE loads 7 million passengers a day. The CTA in Chicago is nearly a million day. That's just two cities, and doesn't include the other couple dozen cities with rail transit, or the tens or hundreds of thousands every day who use Amtrak. Rail transit has more people, every day, hands down. The reasons that terrorists pick planes are simple. First and foremost, bang for buck - a relatively small explosion can bring down an entire plane, killing 150 or 250 or more people in one act. That same explosion on a train might kill a handful, at best. Second, plane crashes are spectacular events, that captivate the world. Big balls of fire. All that s***. These are the reasons they choose planes - not because of the number of people who fly. Both of those places load the almost all of the same people every day on to trains. You can also look at the other side of the picture. How many major cities have zero train transit? Blowing up a train in NYC does nothing to scare someone in DFW, because they have zero rail traffic. Blow up a plane in NYC, and you shutdown DFW airport too. I already posted the numbers about how many individual people total flew per year, and I can't see the rail number being more significant. To spread fear, you need to affect the most of the general populace. For example, that is why AIDS was essentially ignored when it was a "gay" disease. But boy, once it hit the mainstream, it was a HUGE deal. Terrorism is the same way. You need something that puts fear into the most people for it to be the most effective.

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QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 08:08 PM) One minute into the Iowa St/Duke game, and I'll call it: Duke wins Hope you didn't step to far out on a limb for that one...

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 08:04 PM) They also take the trains like every day though. It's how they get to work/live. That's pretty killer to take away. Which would be an even smaller percentage, of a small percentage. Even in cities, most people still take cars to work. After that, buses are much more prevalent most places. Past that, a line only affects a certain part of a metro area. Shutting down O'hare would be much more damaging than shutting down Union Station. People who were trying to get into the city would have many more options to do so, than someone who was flying somewhere.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) That's what he said. This says he's not, but I he got the final say in Around the Horn on like the 4th or 5th and he talked about it then. I left my speakers at school and can't find any headphones, but if someone wants to verify, here's a link to the ATH podcasts. (sorry in advance for putting you through hell) I believe you when you said he said it. I also believe he could be lying through his teeth.

76 million people flew in 2002, which would have been about 1 in 3.5 people. I can't find anything for train traffic, but I have to imagine that it is less than that.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 07:50 PM) That deal sounds WAY too good to be true, especially if they could extend Bosh. Getting rid of Hinrich's contract alone is probably worth it as long as the pick is lotto-protected for the next couple of years. Like I said earlier, I am guessing if that is the package, Bosh has them backed into a corner, and this is their way of getting something for him.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 07:28 PM) Yeah but that's like an exceptionally rare occurrence. Blowing up trains, relatively speaking, is orders of magnitude easier and that's part of the psychological damage it does. The problem is that barely anyone uses trains. They are pretty much confined to old cities in the US, and that is about it. Rurally, they train passengers are about as rare as Cubs WS's.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 07:02 PM) I don't buy it ss, if an attack happened on a public transportation vehicle in a major metropolitan area, that scares the s*** on effectively everyone in THAT city, and frankly, EVERY city that uses public transportation. And considering a train attack on say, a metro train, would eff up the track, it also causes huge inconveniences from here on out. There are so many planes that run a day there will always be a "what are the odds", but when you start narrowing it down to train lines, it's a little bit more damning. Blowing up four planes shutdown the entire US air system for three days.