StrangeSox

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 04:49 PM) People, in general, don't know much about basketball pre 1980 in general. I'm not even sure that's a bad thing. The ones we remember were important culturally, or have stayed around the game long enough that we recognize them from that. I couldn't even tell you what Bob Love looks like. Norm Van Lier is a crazy guy on the post game show. I can't think of a single other team I follow that I know so little about before a certain point. probably hawks pre 60, but I'm not even sure if that's true. Bob Love came to my grade school! This is the extent of my Bob Love knowledge.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 04:49 PM) Oh my goodness. Again, Rip is awful. He's old, unathletic, can't create a shot for himself or anybody else, and is a hack defensively. He's better than Keith Bogans so that's an upgrade? lol. The Bulls were not 62 wins good last year. Their division was terrible. It might be terrible again. Who knows. They still have nobody to take the scoring/playmaking load off of Rose. They have nobody that commands a double-team inside. Boozer, even when healthy, is a hack defensively. Athletic front-courts eat him for breakfast. And the Knicks now have the best front-court in the east. Even with the Knicks' deficiencies last year, they're a 50+ win team with 'Melo. Amare/Melo should be even better this year now that they've had a chance to mesh some. Tyson Chandler changes everything. Talk about Dirk all you want. Tyson's elite defensively abilities were the difference between last year's Mavs and all the other chocking teams they've had in the past. Their backcourt is not terrible. Fields > Rip. No question there. I can think of a lot worse PGs than Douglas. Knicks, Bulls can go either way. But the Knicks have improved. The Bulls simply haven't. If bogans replacement is better than bogans, then by definition it is an upgrade.

QUOTE (MAX @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 11:34 PM) Ok I agree with all that, but the individuals who are making millions pay millions in taxes (or at least I'd like to think so). Uncle sam in this case is partly themselves. But they pay a much lower rate than you or I thanks to low capital gains and dividends taxes.

Prosecutors should be looking to convict the right person, not just any person.

another informative illustration of Newt's plan:

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 01:29 PM) Ok, even I don't know what I'm supposed to see in that graph. I think I have a very vague idea of what it's showing. The green band is 1-sigma and the yellow band is 2-sigma confidence levels, and it plots expected vs. observed energy?

Nerdy explanations: A 125-126 GeV Higgs? Today’s Higgs Results Higgs Update Today: Inconclusive, As Expected

Oh and Rivera's conviction was overturned by an appellate court recently:

This is a nauseating article. Closeted, echo-chamber worlds, a complete disregard for justice over winning, and some of the most bizarre theories I've heard. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine...ribonucleicacid Thankfully, this SA is resigning.

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QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 11:12 AM) I see the Broncos offense with Tebow kind of like the wildcat offense that was all the rage a few years back. It will do ok for a while and than teams will adjust to it. This is a throwing league. The Bears dominated that offense for about 52 minutes. Then they went with soft zones and really dumb/bad offensive plays that gave the Broncos the ball back.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 13, 2011 -> 10:05 AM) I think those are just lights. There are lights in the hoover dam... Looks like a couple of windows to me?

The one I see is the Nov 8.6% number being charted at the same height as the 9.0% right next to it.

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/12/...ngrich-tax-plan Why are any of these plans taken seriously?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 07:57 PM) Hmm. I'm not sure I agree with Mr. Southsider here. I think most people really don't understand the underpinnings of the American financial system. Maybe I'm naive. Did anyone really understand all of the mortgage-backed securities?

I'm going to dump another "lol Fox" screen cap here. Like I said, you can't really compare their level of ridiculousness to anyone else.

QUOTE (Tex @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 01:47 PM) I have. Awesome book. It pains me that they crossed so unprepared. Any first year Boy Scout would have survived that trip. My wife had him for a border lit class at UIC. Supposedly they were in the process of making a movie, but I never heard much about it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 01:37 PM) Enjoying a kid who is going to have autism? Damn dude. Yeah but dumb ideas like what those parents have lead to other children who can't be vaccinated becoming seriously ill or even dying. So I get the "I told you so" attitude.

It's not like the Packers have blown everybody out. They've had some close games and have some obvious flaws.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 12:03 PM) If Cutler doesn't get hurt they are probably 10-3 right now. So I don't really think that was bathing in kool-aid. They were playing well. Playing anything above "completely terrible" on offense would have won each of the last three games.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 11:00 AM) I'm not saying he's the best ever or anywhere close. I was mostly just giving Bear fans a hard time. Why? No one in this thread has done anything but acknowledge GB's dominance this year.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 10:51 AM) This gives me a thread idea... Ways in which our broken financial system more closely resembles a casino?

Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Dec 12, 2011 -> 10:39 AM) So Aaron Rodgers isn't that good? He just has really good WR. Aaron Rodgers is ridiculously good and has he really good WR's.

Tex, have you ever read The Devil's Highway? I think you might enjoy it.