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Wow. Did not expect this.

Anyone else watching on Fox 32 ota completely lose the signal? edit: just came back, every other channel worked fine, damn you Fox

looked like he had the 1st to me

It's just a dumb marketing gimmick by the weather channel.

Not sure if this should go here or the video games thread... The Breaking Madden Superbowl

FWIW the guys at my work are running 2-3 year old Lenovos with docking stations for dual 21" monitor outputs and are mostly working with internet browsers, excel/word, and AutoCAD. We're all randomly out on the road so that's why we need the laptops.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 08:09 AM) But her "partner in crime" does have to go back to jail because he is in Italy, right? Yes, plus there was some random African immigrant convicted for the murder a couple of years ago.

Everything I've read about the prosecution's case has been pretty ridiculous. She won't be extradited from the US, but she probably can't set foot in thy eu.

Trolling people who take themselves way, way too seriously can be good.

The entire 2007 season, but that's probably for the best

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 09:55 PM) Probably had something to do with Kaep not making choke signals at people and shouting in his on field interview His choke signal was his horrendously poor decision to throw that ball.

A lot of people at my work have laptops with docking stations. It works well for them.

poor motorola, they've been in a death spiral for over a decade now.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 04:40 PM) http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/richard-sh...+Top+Stories%29 “If I throw that ball one foot farther, it’s a TD and now you’re the goat, Richard Sherman.” ^ Greatest worst trash talk of all time. "Man, you'd sure have egg on your face if I didn't make a dumb, bad throw!" I don't know if Sherman's going to be able to recover from that mentally by Sunday.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:56 PM) I agree with all of this. There was a supposed KOTR online that was supposed to come out and it never really got off the surface. Let Blizzard do the MMOs. Star Wars: The Old Republic has been out since 2011 and is now free to play. Bethesda wanted $60 for the TES mmo plus $15/month, lol.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:30 PM) I'm in the Elder Scrolls Online beta. The game is awful. There's two people on another board I post at that are in it. They were giving it a chance at first, but can't believe all of the dumb pre-order crap they just announced. Their impression is that it will basically ruin any of the lore in the game and that it also looks like a desperate move. MMO's are garbage anyway, so hopefully it fails quickly and TES goes back to doing what it does well.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:23 PM) It is a handout when they've been "paid," but the argument is "not enough." This isn't a coal town situation. There's a decent argument that a big chunk of student athletes who get scholarships are getting something much more beneficial than the monetary cost of that scholarship - they're going to college, something they'd never be able to afford without one. That's a very distorted definition of a handout. Disagreements over what constitutes fair compensation aren't people asking for handouts. Cartel doesn't make sense when talking about the government really because governments have sovereignty. The government has absolute authority that derives from sovereignty but it's not really the same thing conceptually. "Cartel" doesn't just mean mandates certain things but that it controls certain markets. If you'd like, we could call it a monopoly instead as it's a market with ridiculously high barriers to entry controlled by one group that sets universal rules for the entire industry. You've said yourself that the NCAA is s*** but you seem to want to defend all of their rules.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:34 PM) The "Summer Olympics" are officially just called the "Games of the [roman numeral] Olympiad" and don't actually use the word summer, but everybody calls it that to distinguish them from the "[roman numeral] Olympic Winter Games". Regardless of the season in the host country at the time of the event, the sports being contested are "summer" sports so they are still referred to as the "Summer Olympics" Yeah it's just about the set of sports being played.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:31 PM) I have a hard time seeing the Winter Olympics ever being in the Southern Hemisphere. Very few SH countries participate, and only New Zealand has ever won a medal. Maybe Chile? They've got the Andes and participate every year (though they've never medaled in the winter games). But most of the SH is about 2/3's of Sub-Saharan Africa, 3/4's of South America, the SE Asia islands, and then Australia and New Zealand. It's also very much about the corruption and money and sponsors, so it's no surprise that most games are held in wealthier Northern Hemisphere countries.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:16 PM) So, like, how does it work when a country in the Southern Hemisphere hosts the Olympics? Do they host the Summer Olympics in December? Or the winter games in July? Seems rude to make them adhere to Northern Hemisphere rules. I know Sydney hosted the 2000 summer Olympics. Was it held during OUR summer months, or theirs? The 2000 Summer Olympics were held in September and October (their early spring). Sydney's pretty temperate even in the middle of their winter, and average highs in those months are in the 60's. So it still tries to follow the Northern Hemisphere, but it does adjust a few months here or there. I don't see a single time that the Winter Olympics have been in the Southern Hemisphere, and the Summer Olympics have only been there twice*. *thanks LH

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:32 PM) Yeah, we can ask, and when our employers say no we don't keep complaining about it and pretend like some big injustice is being done to us. We start our own firms. We go solo. We don't extend the hand. Or you unionize or leave for somewhere else. I think it's pretty silly to frame attempts to get better pay or better workers' rights as "extend[ing] the hand," as if they're asking for "handouts" So hopefully you can see the difference here and why the NCAA is like a cartel.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:18 PM) I just think it's fair to point out that there are a lot of dangerous/unhealthy jobs out there, including those where you don't physically tackle people with helmets. Yeah but a lot of workers in dangerous industries unionized, often in the face of brutal violence, to get better working conditions and pay. Why couldn't we apply the same argument of "hey, you knew the terms when you took the job, f*** off" to them?

Most of us "choose" to work and are "at-will" employees. Is it wrong that we might ask for a raise, better working conditions, better benefits, more time off, etc? Does the ABA control your employment rights and rules at every law firm in the country? eta: a decent health insurance plan should cover mental illness problems and substance abuse therapy!

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 01:46 PM) Ok, but you're not going to change the status quo. Universities aren't going to start lowering salaries. If you don't have a competitive program, you don't win games. And if you don't win games, you don't make money. And if you don't make money, the school itself becomes damaged. So, what will happen is that X millions will have to be allocated to provide, fight legally, and administer X millions for "long term effect" injuries not currently covered and the school will say "well, i have a choice between lowering coaching salaries, or increasing ticket/merchandise prices." Or if the numbers are that serious, perhaps AD's start cutting sports (http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/...-234783781.html) If they could increase revenues simply be rising prices, they already would have done that. These sorts of benefits would represent new costs, and in the short-term there could be budgeting issues, but long-term things would even out. If new revenue streams don't magically appear (if they could raise prices and increase revenue, they'd do it regardless of new costs), then schools won't be able to spend as much on future coaching/AD/executive salaries. And it's not just schools here but all of the people that run the various conferences that often make very nice salaries. Telander mentioned on Mac & Speigs the other day the "bowl sponsors" who can get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars basically just to glad-hand corporate sponsors at the bowl games. There is more than enough revenue within college sports to pay for what the NW players are asking for without crippling other sports or programs. It's just that the people who benefit the most from the current system don't want to give up any of those benefits.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 01:48 PM) That's really the crux here for you: coaches makes millions, players get nothing. Unfair. The crux is that many people, not just coaches, make personal fortunes off of the billions of dollars collectively generated each year by the NCAA and that it is obviously and unquestionably unfair that the overwhelming majority of the labor force generating those billions of dollars is largely locked out of not only the money the generate directly but also forbidden from generating money on their own. That statement wasn't a fully fleshed out policy proposal or something, just pointing out that while immediate medical coverage for injuries is provided, longer-term care or even medium-term care won't necessarily be.