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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 23, 2010 -> 04:33 PM) I have made my position crystal clear. Take away the incentives to come here. That is how you fix the problem for the most part. The incentive to come here is to live in a better country and have a job to feed your family.

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 22, 2010 -> 07:25 PM) I'm probably reaching here, but anyone ever listen to Mr. Bungle? One of my friends was really big into them (and Mike Patton in general) a while back.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Nov 22, 2010 -> 10:20 PM) lol at the Heat, that is all I don't know what's better, the schadenfreude of the Heat or of ESPN's "Heat Index"

My Pioneer receiver decided to stop working last night. Was watching TV, switched over to play some Xbox and no sound. Switched back to TV to check, everything ok. Switched to Xbox, worked for a few minutes and then it shut off. Will not turn back on at all (tried different outlets, disconnected everything, checked the internal fuse). Of course, it's about two months out of warranty.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 22, 2010 -> 01:11 PM) Away from the people? What about this scenario where the bomber, indicated by the red X, is surrounded by a snaking line with at least 100 people surrounding him? The blast and shrapnel will be absorbed by the people closest to the bomb. People 10 feet away have a wall of flesh and bone they're behind.

Crazy finish in the Jets-texans game.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 19, 2010 -> 05:23 PM) It is significantly less radiation than you receive from an X-Ray. It is significantly less radiation than you receive from being in an airplane at cruising altitude.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Nov 19, 2010 -> 11:45 AM) Thank you for directing me to this website. I've just spent the last 20 minutes being entertained by "autocorrects." Brutal:

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 19, 2010 -> 09:35 AM) To be fair, I think one could find lots of people who legitimately oppose this treaty for whatever reason. Simply saying that "Iran and North Korea" disapprove and therefore we should approve it is poor logic. If Iran and North Korea were to be in favor of such an agreement on the grounds that it could potentially free up loose Soviet Nuclear Material on the black market so that they could buy it, that wouldn't make us suddenly want to block the treaty. We should approve it because failing to do so is idiotic. Yeah, it's ad hominem. It's like crazy libertarians saying public schooling is bad because HITLER! started it (even though he didn't)!

I pay about $66/month for single coverage, decent plan. Employer covers about $300.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 18, 2010 -> 08:03 PM) Cutler underthrew Hester juuuust a little but Hester still could've had that. That ball went a long way in the air. Hester should've had that.

Miami seems to think their biggest accomplishment is beating the Bears in '85.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 18, 2010 -> 06:25 PM) My friend just quit her job to move to Texas, she hasn't left yet but she gets every resume applying for her job. She said it's been like 150 since they announced the vacancy. My fiance left her job back in August to go to school full time to finish up her teaching certificate. Her boss stopped bothering to check the email account after 200 resumes, but it was up around 500 when she left.

Black Power’s Gonna Git You Sucka: Right-Wing Paranoia and the Rhetoric of Modern Racism Tim Wise can be a tool, but this is a decent article imo demonstrating what is meant by "white privilege"

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell multiple times 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller multiple times 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 76 The Inferno - Dante 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare I've read a bit and seen the play once or twice edit: trimmed down to save space

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Nov 18, 2010 -> 10:16 AM) This is bull. That is your opinion. He has every right to say that. If you don't like reading it or have a different view, I think you should be the one to leave. NSS is admin, so I think his opinion on what flies in the forum counts.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 18, 2010 -> 08:34 AM) Really? Show us. I do know there are a few people who post in here who have derided all religions as a group. Some people find the very idea of religion as repugnant. I've also seen people criticize the catholic church for specific policy or doctrine, just as people do so regarding Islam. No problems there. What I haven't seen anyone do is "much worse" than calling a major global religion a cult. What would be worse than that, anyway? I'm sure the Catholic Church has been raked over the coals a few times here over the pedophilia issues and how they handle it. But they deserve that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 18, 2010 -> 07:42 AM) Really, you correlate "Unionization" with "Crappy service"? No, Unionization=Evil

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 10:17 AM) Moderate success? lol wut. The 4 candidates she gave the most support (O'Donnell, Angel, Fiorina, and Miller) all took what should have been a lock and lost. Hell Miller was in her own state! A Republican still won AK, so that's not the same as some of the other candidates.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 08:59 AM) Great, we're 2% more secure than we were a year ago. So your odds of being killed on a plane due to a terrorist attack went from one in a billion to one in 990 million. Good excuse to force everyone to go through this crap. FWIW I agree with what you're saying here, I just don't think your earlier constitutional arguments hold up.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 09:25 AM) I all fairness, he might have gotten his feet tripped up. But he never mad an effort to get back up and into the play. Yeah, that's the bigger problem. For some reason the announcer saying "Adam Archuletta just fell down!" from a Bears game a few years ago (where he literally just fell over for no reason near the goal line and the receiver or RB walked in) is stuck in my head. If he would have gotten up, the man blocking him wouldn't have been able to block 99, who may have had a shot at Vick.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 04:51 PM) WHo come back with Muslim names, long beards and other things that could also be profiled.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 04:50 PM) I didn't say 'would'. Rean next time before climbing on your horse. I'm not following what you're saying here. Regardless, aside from being racist, profiling is not an effective method. Is it a video of a three year old being groped by TSA?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 04:38 PM) Why do I need to analyze that. Doesn't it depend on peoples personal habits. Not my job to analyze your own habits. I was talking about the economic reports you mentioned in your first post, sorry that wasn't really clear at all. I was just poking fun at you saying incredibly convenient twice in two sentences.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 04:36 PM) I think me saying that body scans and pat down searches is over the line is your answer. What more do you want? How do we prevent people from carrying dangerous non-metallic items onto planes?