StrangeSox

It still looks like a story where pretty much every authority figure involved should be ashamed of themselves/removed from their position. How could it be a "hoax?" The kid claimed it was a clock from the start. There's been no deception on his part. Even if the father was attempting to "make a point," that would still require the teacher, school administration and the police to all act stupidly and in concert in order for it to actually result in anything. Also, lol a link to Pam Geller. eta: as for "where's the media coverage now?!?!" the story happened, it's pretty much over. what do you think they should be covering?

Agreed, more CEO's need to get a shave from the National Razor.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 12:00 PM) But it was more of an increased risk situation than a known death/murder situation. To me something like the GM situation is even worse. You know when people drive that car there will be deaths if the engine turns off. Here, yeah, you can assume based on the numbers people will get sick, but i'm not sure you can say death is a very likely result. Perhaps i'm underscoring the severity of salmonella though. I guess the real problem is the peanut industry isn't as good at lobbying the government not to file criminal charges like the auto industry. 124 deaths not as big of a deal as 9, apparently. http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-charges-gm...itch-1442502075 About 400 people die annually from salmonella in this country. Deaths are a pretty easily predictable outcome.

His actions literally killed multiple people and sickened hundreds of others. I'm fine with 28 years.

Yeah, that's really gotta suck for the 500,000 people with new/newish cars who suddenly have lost tons of resale value. Jalopnik has a little article on "what should I do if I'm a Volkswagen TDI owner?" The worst possible spot to be in would be your friends' spot, though. Wonder if they could get a local media campaign going and pressure VW into giving them a new, larger replacement free of charge or something? Still, what a head ache. VW has admitted that this "cheat" is in place on 11 million engines worldwide. Most other countries don't have as stringent NOx emissions controls as the US does, but it still represents a major problem for them. eta: some interesting info from the article's comments. Back in the 00's, there was a similar scandal involving large diesel emissions cheating. Many states don't have a strong enforcement mechanism or even any emissions testing at all in some cases to force compliance with the updates, so these "unfixed" engines have actually been appreciating in value (because they're more efficient and powerful). Something similar could conceivably happen with VW TDI's in states that don't do any emissions testing.

28 years for salmonella: Peanut exec gets groundbreaking sentence

Here's to 0-4!

even among elite QB's, Aaron Rodgers stands out.

His numbers have been steadily sinking into "margin of error" territory. I'll admit being completely wrong about how he'd do on the national stage.

For reasons that still aren't clear, Volkswagen had deliberately implemented controls on their TDI diesel cars that could detect for vehicle emissions test patterns and would then turn on the required emissions controls. The rest of the time, the car would be polluting far more than legally allowed. This impacts almost 500,000 cars, and VW could face fines as high as $18B. http://jalopnik.com/your-guide-to-dieselga...ng-c-1731857018 edit: really glad I didn't end up going with the Jetta TDI I considered last year.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 21, 2015 -> 11:13 AM) Check out Page 32 of this polling data. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/09/12/iranpoll.pdf Apparently 15% of Democrats and 14% of Liberals think that Obama is a Muslim. I have seen enough to know what the right fringes think, but I can't believe 1 in 7 from his own party think that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Pa...primaries,_2012 On May 8, 2012, Keith Russell Judd, an inmate serving a 210 month sentence, won 41% of the primary vote in West Virginia against incumbent Barack Obama, a higher percentage of the vote in one state than any other primary opponent of Obama had hitherto achieved in 2012.[11][12] Shortly thereafter, attorney John Wolfe, Jr. won 42% of the primary vote in Arkansas after widespread speculation that Wolfe could possibly pull off an upset of the state.[13]

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 02:21 PM) This sucks. I knew they'd be bad but I was excited for some new players to watch. This is as unwatchable as last year. Yep. Took the time to clean out the fridge and shampoo the carpets.

well at least they're keeping it interesting!

down two td's, gotta try to get some points before the half

going downhill really quickly

nice missed facemask

Anyone here have experience building a house not in a subdivision? We're considering doing this in 3-5 years but I wouldn't even know where to start trying to find a home builder/general contractor who doesn't want to build $500k+ homes.

really nice job taking advantage of some breakdowns in Arizona's defense on this drive

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 10:42 AM) I know he has me hooked with the 18 trillion in new spending. I was wondering who'd actually fall for that.

lol

While I think a permanent Democratic president is a bit premature, individual races like the Senate or especially the House don't necessarily give a great indicator of national races. Republicans have a solid lock on the House for a couple of reasons, mainly that they controlled the redistricting last done in 2010 and that Democratic voters tend to cluster together more naturally (urban vs rural). Senate is similar in that conservative states with population less than a decent sized city in most other states still get two seats each. Mid year elections are also always much better for Republicans, at least in recent history.

Also brand or even model-specific forums can be a huge help.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 07:12 AM) That game made me sick last night. Andy Reid has got to be the most consistently atrocious game caller in the league. Opening drive, moving the ball well, Charles running well, get down to the 2. Let's run three straight passing plays in which none of the primary routes even get into the endzone! Result: Turnover and loss of 3-7 points. End of the half, up 7. Sure, let's call a risky out route instead of just running out the clock. Result: Turnover and 7 points to Denver. Late in the 4th quarter, again moving the ball well, what the hell was that WR reverse option pass play? Seriously? Not the time to get cute. One play later, turnover. I'm not going to fault him for the end of the game thing, you expect your star player to hang on to the ball there, but the odds of an inside draw from your own 20 and 30 seconds left (1 TO) leading to anything promising is very remote. KC had 5 turnovers (2 in Denver red zone, 2 in own red zone), went 0-for on 3rd down, dropped probably 3-4 balls that should have been intercepted and had almost 100 yards in penalties. And still should have won that game. Just a complete f***ing disaster. You can't give away games in the NFL like this. I'd bet a good amount of money that KC misses the playoffs by one game again this year. Just watch. It's so remote that it's better to just kneel the damn ball. NFL coaches are so risk adverse but they can't even play the odds correctly.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 12:59 AM) I'm more impressed that Mike Powers also used that book. Michael Riley "Doc" Powers (April 22, 1870 – April 26, 1909) was an American Major League Baseball player who caught for four different teams from 1898 to 1909.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 06:54 AM) If you can do it without discomfort, you can tape the inured and neighbor toes together. It will help the healing to occur more quickly. That's what I did when I broke my big toe last year. Cotton balls between it and the next toe and then some athletic tape around them.