StrangeSox

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jun 10, 2013 -> 01:21 PM) Hey get your rabbit ears out. If you don't watch hockey all year, are you really going to get pissed off when 2 games of the SCF are on NBC Sports Network? The whole playoffs has been on there, as have games all year. I'm going to get annoyed and not consume the product. I don't think NBCSN is OTA.

SONGS, the twin-reactor nuclear plant about 45 minutes south of LA, is heading for decommissioning. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-...-210565761.html Last January, during a scheduled refueling outage for one of the reactors, damage was discovered in the new steam generator unit. The other reactor was then shut down, and both have been offline since. It appears that there was a design flaw in the Mitsubishi steam generators installed in 2009 and 2010. Earlier this year, Kewaunee Nuclear Plant near Two Rivers, WI was shut down permanently for economic reasons. Progress Energy also announced earlier this year that they would be decommissioning their Crystal River plant in Florida. They damaged the containment building when attempting to upgrade their steam generators three or so years ago, and cost estimates to repair it were in the billions.

yeah GoT is a lot heavier on the drama and politics than your typical fantasy genre is. Like the difference between sci-fi that's used as a backdrop for a story (Alien) versus sci-fi-as-tech-worship

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Jun 10, 2013 -> 12:07 PM) yea only real fans allowed!!!!!11 youre not a reel fan unless u give comcast $100+ a month1!

some sort of weight-and-miles-driven formula would be best, but that's not exactly practical.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 10, 2013 -> 10:49 AM) Because brides just love that s***. A friend of mine had Jim Cornelison sing at his wedding.

gotta pay for the roads somehow. edit: but now that I think about it, I think the road wear from small cars is basically negligible and that it's larger trucks and semis that do almost all of the damage.

I've always wondered if it's possible to get soil moisture sensors integrated into the system so it waters it when it's necessary, not just based on a schedule. I'm sure we've all seen sprinkler systems running in a heavy downpour. Maybe not applicable to LV, though.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 9, 2013 -> 12:08 PM) Yeah, I knew from your initial post... Don't get me wrong, laziness/cheapness definitely play a role in my selection of plants. I don't want to have to water plants if we go a few days without rain. I've also been growing my grass to be more drought-tolerant.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 9, 2013 -> 10:15 AM) It's not even that as much as it is just I feel bad using these quantities of water just to keep my yard green...the bill will be obnoxious, but even more obnoxious is the entitlement to these quantities of water... I didn't want to go all environmentalist in this thread, but yeah, that's more important than the cost to me.

Obama admin. set to remove protections for the gray wolf in the lower 48. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/opinion/...-gray-wolf.html

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 6, 2013 -> 10:18 AM) Yeah, that will be one of the next big steps...although everyone is giving me s*** about it... hey, if they're willing to pay your water bill...

Read Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods, his story about hiking (part of) the Appalachian Trail. Really tempted to burn some FF miles, jump on a plane and head out east to do some hiking.

trick question, NSA has direct access to the google servers

Gotta wake up for work at 3:30am est tomorrow. I don't know how long I'll make it into the hawks game.

Despite similar usage rates, marijuana arrests four times as likely for blacks http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/ma...for-blacks.html This is what people mean when they talk about systemic racism.

got hosed there

their twtw factor is abysmal

welp

the only rumblings I've heard have been of Lisa Madigan but I haven't been paying attention

oh, bill daley

How have I missed that this game is PS3-only?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 03:24 PM) Closed on Monday, moved in yesterday...just got the internet hooked up, satellite is next...everything is starting to come together...this place is amazing...although I am already cringing about the water bill...i think we have about 100 different sprinklers coming off and on and all different parts of the day. switch to native plants that don't need to be watered constantly because you live in the desert

that'd have to go through Springfield I think.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 03:30 PM) If the Department of Justice is running Medicare, we have bigger problems than this ruling. I'm pretty sure you'd be flipping out, and rightfully so, if your insurance provider required you to submit DNA samples to their database.