StrangeSox

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 31, 2009 -> 09:33 AM) Ditto universal healthcare, welfare, war on drugs, war on poverty, guns, etc. I'll give you drugs because I think we make things worse with that. But healthcare, welfare and poverty prevention (which are all closely related anyway) impact more than a few hundred/ thousand lives a decade.

What comprises enemy areas? By wipe them out in total, do you mean eliminate all life? How do you think this will actually make things better?

What value does Hester have for other teams? It looks like he's simply not smart enough to fully understand an offense and be a difference-maker at WR and he hasn't had a kick/ punt return TD in two years now. Two years ago you could have gotten something for him but not now.

My dad has a master's in taxation from DePaul and enjoyed the program there.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Dec 30, 2009 -> 05:10 PM) Yeah, we're not talking state-on-state conflict like that though. Strategically that's just not sustainable. People are trying to solve 21st century problems with 20th century ideas of massive warfare. We could "do what it takes" to "win a war" in Iraq or Afghanistan but that isn't going to solve a single problem and will likely, as you've already pointed out, make matters worse.

The Kite Runner was good but not up to the hype it got. Seemed like another one of those "the book was better" movies.

QUOTE (KipWellsFan @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 12:09 AM) Haven't gotten the tv yet, but something has me worried by watching large LCD tvs at the homes of friends and family. It's hard to describe but the picture on movies is weird. I'm not sure it's a bad thing, maybe my eyes aren't used to it. But the flow seems weird. It's almost like everything was shot on a handheld camera. Or that it's trying to do everything in 3d or something. The strange effect was evident during a television broadcast of the most recent Die Hard movie and a Blu-Ray copy of The Perfect Getaway starring Milla Jovovich. Both were on large LCD televisions around 46 inches. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Are the settings wrong on the tv? Or are my eyes just not used to it? Other people watching the movies noticed the same thing. Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. I've never had that problem with my 40" Sony LCD at home, though. Maybe they're leaving the TVs on the overly-sharp, overly-bright store settings. There's good info out there on calibrating your TV.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Dec 21, 2009 -> 12:01 PM) He's being mocked because all he does is talk about improving how the government operates, he doesn't actually do anything to back up his promises. This is pretty accurate.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 20, 2009 -> 08:04 PM) They are a federally based program. What they are doing without saying this is what they are doing is setting the market so that private insurers will still get the shaft. You all keep talking like all these people that are getting mandated are going to private insurers. That's not what is going to happen because there's no profit in these policies. No profit, no private insurance. Yea! That's what you want anyway. Good. I am 100% behind any bill that f***s private insurers right in the ass as of last week. More seriously, I would be 100% opposed to any plan that mandates me purchasing something from a very limited number of private companies. I may not think socialism is the best idea, but it's not as bad as corporatism.

FYI we don't give Presidents lifetime secrete service protection any more, starting with Bush. It's only 10 years now I think.

please STF about jeff george.

I wonder if this loss will be legitimate or not.

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 20, 2009 -> 05:05 PM) We are so untalented and poorly coached fify

fun bad.

What's wrong with co-ops?

Just for you, Kap: "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?"

Off to another fantastic start. Another redzone INT for Cutler. Awesome.

12/12 on the Pew poll.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 18, 2009 -> 11:26 AM) Looks like all the climate talk is falling apart as other nations are showing what I thought all along -- they don't give a crap if it's going to cost money. another factually incorrect statement.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 17, 2009 -> 03:23 PM) You, sir, are on the wrong side of history. You know, there were those who thought we need to slow down when it came to slavery. There were those who thought we needed to slow down when it came to women's rights to vote. There were those who thought we needed to slow down when it came to civil rights. Come on, now is not the time to slow down. FULL SPEED AHEAD, BABY! You know utopia awaits those who agree with me! There were those who thought we needed to slow down when it came to not destroying the ecosystem, and then there was big business and the GOP and conservatism in general with its head firmly up its ass. You guys should have a kap-off to see who can make the most absurd, logically flawed and inconsistent arguments. Y2HH took a big lead in this thread.

Nickelback was named Billboard's "Band of the Decade". WTF is wrong with Billboard?

How do they pass it without changing or breaking rules?

I've had a 40" Sony LCD for about 18 months now and its great. I've only heard great things about Samsung as well. I'm pretty sure they manufacture the screens for several companies. Analogue cable on an HD TV looks like garbage. It will look worse than a 10 year old CRT. That will be a moot point soon as Comcast is slowly switching everyone over to digital-only signals. Non-HD Digital Cable/ Satellite doesn't look any different than on a regular set, at least to me. The bigger the screen, the more the flaws will be noticeable, just like blowing up a photograph. This is fixed with an HD package. Don't know anything to comment on LCD vs. Plasma.

It's not ridiculous to look at a 120 year window if you want to examine what's happened since the global industrial revolution. Also, 1880 is typically the data cutoff for when there were enough meteorological stations around the world. I don't think that we're any less sure about someone from 1880 taking down an accurate temp than we are about someone taking one today. Thermodynamics and temperature measurement were well-developed by then. We have data sets from all over the world to compile and given year; if someone from the 1880's was getting bad data, it would appear as an outlier to everyone else's.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 16, 2009 -> 01:08 PM) You must note I said "warming trend", that very data shows what I said was in fact, factually correct. Based on the 1990's, as the years went on, the temp tended to rise -- peaking in the early 00's and going back down, hence why 2008 was ranked near the bottom since the early 90's. I didn't say it wasn't hotter -- I said the trend of rising temps stopped, and it did. Cutting out 2005 and 1998, being odd years, the trend reverses itself, as shown by 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, being in order of decreases. If you look at the 90's data, they are almost always on the rise as the years progress. Look at the 5 year moving average of Temperature Anomaly. It is clearly showing a warming trend in the 2000's. You are still factually incorrect.