StrangeSox

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 24, 2010 -> 04:45 PM) So we go back to Nashville down 3-2. Wow. Not so fast! Of course, I pick that time to flip to the Sox game to watch Freddy give up a run and miss the goal.

Think of another person, group or institute who had their emails hacked and published.

we're not exactly talking soft goals, here.

I'm no hockey expert, but that 2nd goal there wasn't much Niemi could do.

Exactly why I don't want a device like the iPad, completely controlled by Apple: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/apple-bans-satire/

That doesn't excuse this ridiculous policy.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 07:11 PM) Everything's a straw man to you. Everything, that is, that you don't agree with. Whether it is or not. QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 09:38 PM) stop posting.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 10:48 PM) I argued with some Birthers today on Slate. I don't even know what the f*** they were doing there, it's not exactly their turf, but they came out of the woodwork anyway. I felt the same way I would feel after kicking the s*** out of a 4th grader. Obviously I won easily, but I feel bad for even fighting in the first place because of my massive advantage. But the difference is, a 4th grader doesn't usually deserve to have the s*** kicked out of them. These dudes are fascinating and creepy though... logic, facts, and deductive reasoning carry no traction whatsoever with them. It's not like this is a new phenomenon in political discussions, but they literally make up facts as they go along, if you comprehensively debunk something they claim, they don't admit you debunked it, they just move on to something else. They invent laws and legal precedent out of thin air. It's hilarious. I love the claim that you can't get a passport with a "certificate of live birth" and only the original birth certificate (that Hawaii doesn't even issue anymore, I don't think). One went so far as to say that even Little League won't accept the certificate Obama released. lol, that's funny to me. I have a "certificate of live birth" that my parents specifically ordered in 1994 so I could play in Little League. I used that same non-valid piece of paper to join the military, obtain a security clearance, work for the government, etc. Oh and to get a passport. Right. But it's not valid. Creationists and pretty much all pseudoscience practitioners do the same thing. Read Morton's Demon: http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/feb02.html

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 05:51 PM) The bill requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there's reason to suspect they're in the United States illegally So, if they pull over an old van packed with 14 hispanic looking people in it for speeding, nobody speaks english and they don't have a drivers license or state issued ID, you don't want them asking if they really belong here? You really think your given scenario will be the only time this is used? If you're brown, don't drive in AZ. Unless you want to be harassed.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 08:02 PM) And so is every liberal arguement. Every debate, on both sides, is built from a house of straw. It just depends on who you want your straw man to be. stop posting.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 01:33 PM) 50's/60's - Fallout shelters? Probably overkill, but really, how wide-spread? Straw man This one belongs in the 60's. AIDS wasn't really an airborne concern by the late 80's. And global warming is still around. Yeah, there was legitimate reason for the first two. Also, it's still GW. It leads to CC. SARS/ bird flu was overblown in this country, I'll give you that. The whole thing is an illogical argument, anyway, but it's also stuffed with straw.

Hahaha excellent, maybe we'll actually get a 3 hour room-full-of-whiteboards explanation from them that I've been hoping for since the end of the third season.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 11:49 AM) I'm not sure what this proves except that the last time Jones was significantly better at hitting righties was 7 years ago. to me, this isn't useful information for Ozzie. I'm not sure how you missed the point so badly: "Clearly he has been pretty consistent from LHP to RHP, or at least has never shown a reason to say "Wow, this guy can't hit righties". He has maintained similar averages while keeping the power up. So why is Ozzie so stuck on Andruw never seeing a RHP?" It wasn't about Jones crushing RHP, it was about him being more or less identical vs either LHP or RHP.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 08:09 AM) Kotsay didn't play. We're talking about the fact that Ozzie says he has a set lineup now against RH and LH, which seems to mean that Kotsay will be starting 70% of the time. This is the epitome of dumb managing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 09:29 PM) People who did things wrong, did them because there was little to no chance of them getting caught. There are laws on the books, and adding to them isn't going to aid the enforcement of things there are already laws against. All it will do is add to the workload and make sure laws get enforced even less. There is no reason it should have taken three years for one violation to be found by the SEC. Ok, I think I generally agree with that. You've never been a fervent anti-all-regulation guy here which was the position I was driving at.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 04:08 PM) So aren't you essentially saying the same thing... that government is the problem? They let it happen. No, the people who did really dumb things are still ultimately at fault. Those who let them do dumb things are also responsible, but aren't the primary cause.

If the problem was ineffectual law enforcement, then it doesn't seem like less regulation would be the answer; when left to their own devices, this is what they come up with.

Timing of the announcement aside (which has obvious political benefits), what are the feelings on the legitimacy of the charges? From the story laid out on NPR, it sounds pretty obviously illegal.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 06:07 PM) I'm amused that Ranger is close to sounding depressed/despondent. Hard to get really really upset anymore when we've been predicting this for months. You're seeing the apathy already setting in throughout the message boards. The talk in the first week about being buried in the month of April is becoming a frightening possibility. 2007 is still fresh in his mind, I'm sure. It'll be a long season of post game shows.

pre-ordered Red Dead Redemption the other day through Amazon.

THIS.TEAM.IS.DEAD.

They don't get the difference between weather and climate. Or science in general.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 08:41 PM) ib4 no u oh, wait edit: ss2k5 and others often have relevant posts. You just troll these days with one or two sentence non-sequitors or straw men. QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 08:53 PM) Eyup. And others just troll these days with 1,000 word non-sequitors or straw men. I guess it depends on your point of view. And for lf, the point is you don't see Democrats devouring their "own networks".

It's a shame that he gets to walk away. Again.

ib4 no u oh, wait edit: ss2k5 and others often have relevant posts. You just troll these days with one or two sentence non-sequitors or straw men.