StrangeSox

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 09:26 PM) Bears lose tonight to GB with AR out just terrible. Qb doesn't matter when you can run at will

And following it up with some s*** run defense

Oh what the hell

These safeties are garbage

Well

Run defense much improved these last few drives Also lol that throw

Easy to run through a ten yard hole

Hahaha that was so horrible

QUOTE (chw42 @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 08:11 PM) s***ty special teams strikes again. Coaching, talent or both?

Huge swing there

This is not going to be the game I expected at all

Peppers!

This run defense is so embarrassing, the safety even cheated up

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 07:57 PM) That catch was ridiculous.

I think individual is meant to distinguish from group plans, not family or single person.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 04:43 PM) Also lets not forget, actually fixing something means they cant give their friends a bunch of money every year to pretend to fix it. Best to just say "structurally bad! Need forever work!" than to leave a perfectly good bridge sitting there without any lazy employees to stand around digging holes then filling them in again forever. I think I need to point out again that the ASCE, the group that gives out "grades" for our infrastructure, is a private, non-governmental group. You seem to have essentially zero knowledge of roadway construction, structural engineering or traffic engineering other than driving a truck.

The Black Rhino has now been declared extinct thanks to habitat loss and poaching. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/10/world/af...port/index.html

I take that as an admission that you have zero background information on the work ongoing at Snoqualmie Pass and why it's being undertaken.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 03:02 PM) I know, thankfully for now people are allowed to just do things themselves without the government getting involved. The government doesn't get involved in government projects and programs? Weird. Every second of your working day involves government projects, programs and regulations, duke.

huh sounds like a decent reason for some of the roadwork there at Snoqualmie Pass http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/News/2013/03/13_I9...nchebridges.htm

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 02:55 PM) I go from Salt Lake City into Seattle a lot. Ive never, not in rush hour or weekends or whenever seen enough traffic to jam up even 2 lanes. A third is nice for trucks because there are some grades. Its a works project, a nice check to some contractors to blow up the Cascades and stuff a superhighway in there. You've been driving a truck for something like six months, right? Been through that area in heavy snowfall yet? That could be a major motivation behind the expansion. Have you read anything about the project at all? Or is this just more "common sense" engineering? The funny thing about appeals to common sense is that they're really just circular arguments.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 02:50 PM) I'm sure all those other projects afforded a small fraction of Obamacares priority are very well managed with the best and brightest. Only the laws that hold an entire presidential legacy in the sway get staffed by the lazy, incompetent and wasteful. I don't think you read the same WaPo article I did? Regardless, plenty of projects and programs are well-managed and staffed by competent and dedicated professionals. Oh so you'd be criticizing the government regardless of what happened then.

No, you can't actually make a judgement of the structural integrity of the bridge just because you're driving over it. Infrastructure is a lot more than just roadways as well, and "repaving" isn't the extent of the necessary maintenance. Is the expansion of Snoqualmie Pass "needless"? I dunno anything about it, could you cite the traffic studies that went into the project? Because driving through something occasionally doesn't actually make you qualified to assess it technically.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 02:43 PM) This really doesn't make sense. The website was built by CGI Group, under contract, not civil service employees. CGI is a large international firm with experience in building similiar systems. They were the low bidder, as required by law. There are also several other firms, such as Quality Software Services out of Maryland that were awarded part of the program. What jobs went to politically savvy individuals with no technical qualifications and why would a company like CGI employ them? Ok I don't know if this happened here or not, but big companies hire politically savvy people (ex-legislators, ex-regulators, etc.) all the time. It gives them contacts and influence. Something like 40% of legislators move right on over into lobbying these days and get a pretty nice paycheck for it. Low-bid public contracting results in all sorts of horrible projects that inevitably cost much more and take much longer than taking an actually reasonable bid would.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 02:18 PM) But it just shows how these people in government cannot even begin something without bureaucratic expansion that just rewards the politically savvy with jobs they have no technical qualifications for. I mean Obama was convinced that one woman was like bred to implement Obamacare... how could he be so catastrophicallly wrong? The technical implementation of one (large, public, important) part of one law going very poorly in the first couple of months does not prove in anyway whatsoever that all government projects are failures.