StrangeSox

This recent story loosely ties into your thread: US scientist charged with attempting to sell military secrets to Israel

Yes, but he earned that money! How dare you try to rob him with your socialist greed! Those union chumps, however, are just organized crime. Extorting the hard-working industrialist at all opportunities. How absurd for workers to band together to share some collective power when they would otherwise have none! But, once we have good wages for American workers, we're right back to what ss2k5 said earlier: we don't want to pay for the cost of those workers. We'll just buy cheap Chinese crap instead. It seems like keeping American manufacturing jobs has a few options: heavy protectionism and large tariffs, waiting for the standard of living and pay to rise in China/ India/ etc. to levels comparable to America or reducing American manufacturing wages to Chinese levels.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 08:08 AM) Fixed for ya. The exchange-traded derivatives market, the one much more commonly used, is highly regulated, and wasn't a contributor to the meltdown. Thanks for that extra detail I missed.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 08:02 AM) Nevermind. This isn't going anywhere. You ad hom'd the source without bothering to comment on the content.

Frontline is showing an interesting piece on the regulation (or completely lack thereof) of the derivatives market and why everyone ignored/ shouted down Brooksley Born.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 08:58 AM) Apparently you had some issues in Addison with tickets (which you seem to have gotten a lot of). But your experience is not my experience, at all. They throw out stuff all the time, though you may have to still pay court costs in some cases, or go on probation/supervision. And giving a reason why the ticket is wrong will not make things worse on you, that I have ever seen. Yeah, I had my only ticket thrown out of court (held in a 4-H barn in New Lenox ) simply for showing up. And I was a dumb 16 year old doing 50 in a 35. There was some probationary period. I've been pulled over 3 or 4 other times but was always let off without a ticket. Even when I was pulled over on rt 53 doing 55 in a 45 in the rain. The cop asked if I knew the speed limit on the road and I said "its 55 here, right?" He just started laughing. It wasn't until he walked away that I realized I pulled over right in front of a speed limit sign. Still didn't get a ticket, though.

Now CNN is covering the coverage of the story. Reminds me of their Pulitzer-worthy look back on their own Michael Jackson coverage. What a garbage network. Why does anyone waste their time with the cable news media?

I think they need to run Wolfe up the middle on first more often. It's bound to work eventually!

QUOTE (SnB @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 09:47 PM) disappointed in the wedding episode. It seems like whenever they're counting on a bigger audience, the show really dumbs it down. They did it for the episode after the Superbowl last year, too.

Either way you go, pride or injury, it just doesn't make sense to keep running it up. What's the potential reward for the very significant risk of keeping your multi-million dollar stars out there?

There are plenty of nutjobs out there making it perfectly clear that they would embrace an armed revolution to overthrow a legitimately elected President who has broken no laws.

This is a very boring game. 5 TD's in one half is pretty funny, though.

Yes, but what would sports be without pointless arguments over subjective rankings? I love watching sloppy games in the snow.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 18, 2009 -> 03:36 PM) Why did the Colts barely beat the bad Jaguars 14-12? Why did the Colts need a last second TD pass to beat a mediocre Miami team? It's the NFL, using margin of victory as a debating point is ridiculous. The Vikings are 6-0, the best team in the NFC North, and that's just how it is. The Bears are still in great shape to make the playoffs if they win tonight and that's fine. The Vikings are a better team than the Bears. That's not my argument. TRU's just using special pleading in all of his arguments -- what counts for the Vikings doesn't count for the Saints and what counts against the Saints doesn't count against the Vikings.

If the Vikings are so versatile and superior and well-rounded, why did they need a last-second miracle TD to beat a mediocre 49ers team and a missed FG to beat a mediocre Ravens team? Why couldn't they just dominate them?

The Bears are going to have a very difficult time winning this division.

Damn it.

I think the Saints are better but I'm perfectly willing to accept an argument that the Vikings are. I won't accept them being such an obvious favorite, though.

QUOTE (T R U @ Oct 18, 2009 -> 03:14 PM) Yeah well guess who the Saints play next week. Well see how great they are next Sunday. Yeah, but we'll just be back to you not accepting the Saints being the best. They'll completely dominate, but it will be against such a crappy team that it won't mean much.

Because they put away teams and don't require last-second miracles against mediocre opponents missing their best weapons and let teams come back from 17 down in the 4th quarter to probably lose the game.

I think we can all agree that the Miami Dolphins suck.

QUOTE (T R U @ Oct 18, 2009 -> 03:07 PM) Yeah, here come the excuses. Hey remember when the CBS broadcast team put together a video package highlighting thee "home run" plays against the Ravens? Man, just making excuses!

Ah damn it. I hate you, Brett Farve.

TD Ravens. LOL.

Percey Harvin's shoulder is messed up again. That's what you get for arguing about how superior they are