StrangeSox

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 25, 2010 -> 08:56 PM) The fun part is actually going back and reading the Katrina threads... [/b] Great work. Balta, you can't excuse government ineptitude in either case. Neither the various government agencies nor BP were equipped and ready to handle this situation.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 25, 2010 -> 01:46 PM) All thought I have to laugh at the comparison between NOLA and this. Katrina was a natural disaster in which the federal government told the people to hold on for three days before they could respond, and then still pretty well blew the response. This was a man-made disaster, which the government has been complicit in from the very first steps, all of the way to having all kinds of time to prepare a response, with the only response being for BP to take care of the problem, with the federal government knowing exactly what was happening and what was going to happen. Yet one defines a Presidency, and one gets the governments role in all of this pretty much ignored by the media in general. Well, sure, because ultimately, BP (and any contractors) are responsible for this. There's no one else to blame for Katrina.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 25, 2010 -> 11:46 AM) Somehow I think NK has more to lose than SK in all of this... NK has untold numbers of weapons pointed at Seoul. If this escalates, it'll be ugly for everyone.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2010 -> 03:40 PM) And yet, Median wage didn't follow, at least for the last "expansion". Yeah, just about everything I've seen has shown that real wages for a majority of Americans have remained stagnant for over a decade now.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 24, 2010 -> 07:11 PM) "get better students" Assuming that those who would be swayed by "Hey, cool! an iPad!" would be the better students. I'm not being very critical of the move, I just don't see the iPad as some great educational tool.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 24, 2010 -> 10:19 PM) Not beating Ocarina of Time is a sin. Far and away the best video game of all-time and will probably be that way forever. I still remember getting that Thanksgiving weekend and beating it in about 2-1/2 days.

I don't think England or British people in general are still upset about the colonies, but I could be wrong. Cinco de Mayo isn't a Mexican holiday. It's celebrated in the US and one province there.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ May 24, 2010 -> 08:33 AM) I didn't see this, but I guess people threw things on the ice in the 3rd period? Thats such a cubbie/redwings thing to do. . . keep the ice clean unless someone scores 3 goals. That is all. Red towels were thrown on the ice late in the game (after the empty net goal, I think).

I'm not that far into the game yet (close to getting into Mexico, I think), but the variety of missions is much better than GTAIV so far. That game got incredibly bland and repetitive about half way through.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 23, 2010 -> 10:52 AM) I was pretty pissed off at the response to this. yeah, it could just be a deal with apple, but schools do these deals ALL THE TIME with TONS of other products. However, for all the money the school takes from students to do minor aesthetic updates and to buy more flat screen tvs to up their US and World Report rankings, at least the school is spending the students money on a device that could actually enhance their learning experience, and in regards to ebooks, save them some money. I applaud them. I wish so much of my tuition wasn't used in a way tailored to artificially inflate our ranking instead of saving some of our departments that were producing great professors but completely underfunded and would leave. I don't have a problem with the school giving out computing devices. I don't think the iPad is the best device, and it seems like it was done, at least partially, as a way to market towards potential students. "Hey, I get a cool iPad if I go to IIT!"

Way too much executive power, imo.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ May 19, 2010 -> 12:47 AM) But Kate was not crossed out in the Lighthouse (Jacob's) list, only the Cave (Smokey's) list. Or did Jacob use the cave too? I thought that cave was Jacob's? You're right, that doesn't make sense for them, but that's the explanation he gave. Maybe he was expecting Jin to be alone on the flight?

Not much offensive pressure from the hawks since their last goal

Crowd's out of it completely now.

So, what's the rule in hockey? All the way past the line for a goal or just "break the plane" like football? Sharks are losing their composure.

I think the general point of them focusing on minutia for abut 4 1/2 seasons and now just hand-waving it all away with BS is spot on.

They explained why he took her off the list pretty clearly. Everyone on the list was a loaner struggling with a lot of issues. Kate became a mother, so Jacob took her off the list.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2010 -> 09:42 PM) I wonder how big Ben was supposed to be when this show started? I can't imagine this program without him. A lot of the article/ interviews around the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd seasons stated or implied that the "Ben" character was originally a small role, but that the performance was too good not to keep going.

I had enough time to install RDR to my HDD and watch the intro.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 18, 2010 -> 08:58 PM) Seriously, why bother posting? Did you see me making some straw man argument? Did you see me regurgitating some talking point? No. You saw me simply point out one factor to consider when looking at the future in energy.

Much better episode tonight.

Why not a laptop or an actual e-reader instead? Seems more like a marketing thing to me.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ May 18, 2010 -> 05:28 PM) How did you guys know what Jack's tattoo meant? I got them all right but that one. Was that brought up in the show? There was an entire episode in season 3 with Jack in Thailand for the flashbacks. That's where he got the tattoos.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 18, 2010 -> 12:27 PM) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/b...i_n_578803.html Wow. I would have guessed one of the F&F retards or just some random person-on-the-street, not Brit Hume. Glad they've got their next narrative lined up, though. It's not even as bad as natural seepage! It's not even that bad at all! Identical in style to the volcanoes-CO2 canard.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ May 18, 2010 -> 12:21 PM) Too be our manager has no balls and won't ever make any real changes. What changes can be made? You've got a roster full of crap or seriously underachieving players.