StrangeSox

I've found Jack ok lately, but I think just about every Lost fan was cheering when Kate was shot.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ May 14, 2010 -> 10:30 AM) Balta, is there any idea what the size of this reservoir is? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14oil.html Take with large grains of salt. QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 14, 2010 -> 10:56 AM) BP CEO: Assuming he weighs a buck-eighty, and a .50 cal bullet weighs only about .1 lbs, why, that's hardly anything at all!

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 14, 2010 -> 11:32 AM) Occupied America: A History of Chicanos Yeah, that sounds all inclusive and stuff. Crack open a standard US history textbook and let me know how much a Chicano (or really any ethnic minority) is going to learn about their culture or background. You go Mesopotamia->Egypt->Greece->Rome->Medival Europe->Colonialism->US. That's fine, and it's an important part of history. There's nothing wrong with seeing certain aspects of history from a US-centric viewpoint. But you can't pretend it somehow covers all cultural backgrounds or is "all-inclusive".

Seriously, isn't White Male Christian European History good enough for them? Why do they need 'ethnic' studies that only serve to divide?

Over/ under on new characters to be introduced in the next two episodes? 3?

LOL awesome play.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 13, 2010 -> 12:55 PM) It has an awful lot of uses in electronics and other industrial applications. So does copper. It's intrinsic or useful value outside of "looking pretty" isn't really all that much, which is why I don't get the people who think going back to a gold standard is the solution to many problems.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 13, 2010 -> 11:53 AM) X2>X1, Spiderman 2 > Spiderman 1. IMO, in some of these superhero movies, the sequel is actually set up to be better, because you don't need to spend 45 minutes introducing the character, you can assume the character exists and start off with a plot line. One of the complaints about Iron man2(have not yet seen it) seems to be a lot of dithering at the beginning. The reviewer on NPR summed up the plot line as a dispute over patent claims.

I see Jordan Danks is a member

why the hell do we value a shiny rock so much, anyway?

That's awesome. I wish we had one somewhere in Chicago.

"Hey! We're still relevant! Come on! Pay attention!"

Them court rulins' is just fancy, librul actavist judges banning the Bible!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 12, 2010 -> 05:08 PM) I guess I'll be the one to post it, just padding my post count. Someone was gonna post it eventually. It's a legitimate campaign ad from Alabama. Yes, we live in that country. Byrne's response: :facepalm:

Comcast. No other option and I hate it.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ May 12, 2010 -> 12:33 PM) Whatever...I got his point... I don't need hard data... His point is wrong because of the data. Why is that hard to understand?

REplay confirms that that was a terrible call.

That looked like a terrible call.

boo.

beckham with a hit here. maybe starting to turn it around? He crushed one yesterday but it died in the air thanks to the weather.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 12, 2010 -> 12:04 PM) There's really no evidence that the Egyptians ever explored that part of the world though. Polynesians were exploring the Pacific in the late BCE (ie 300 BCE-0BCE), but the people on the island looked more like germanic europeans than asian or even mediterranian.

Our point is that you have nothing to actually back that up.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ May 12, 2010 -> 12:01 PM) I prefer a method of going after business that hire illegal workers. I don't buy the "I didn't know they was illlegal!" argument. They know, and if they don't they are idiots and they deserve to go out of business. Which means they won't take the risk of hiring anyone who might be a foreign national (mostly mexican, maybe polish around this area) unless there's strict Affirmative Action measures.

Not to mention, the lady destroyed that well with the wheel. Did someone else dig it up and find the wheel and rebuild it for some reason? I'm sure that will never be explained.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2010 -> 11:35 AM) They already tied it back to the modern times in the last couple of minutes. There is no way that they can ditch the modern time, that is the crux of the entire story. Everything else is just background. He said end of pre-modern times, meaning we will only see the current timeline on the island and maybe the flash-sideways, but no more island back story. So we're left with a bunch of non-answers that didn't make any sense.