StrangeSox

Monster cables are cheap compared to what some idiots spend. We're talking thousands or tens of thousands of dollars on speaker cabling, or replacing their receiver power supply cord with a solid copper cord (did they also re-wire their entire house and local transmission grid?) This page has a good compilation of tests of various audiophile claims: http://www.head-fi.org/t/486598/testing-au...laims-and-myths And you're right, there's no reason to buy "speaker wire" unless you want a nice, professional-looking installation. Just make sure it's the right gauge and material and you're good to go.

I picked him up on waivers in my other league after the first week.

So no legwork to back up your assumptions that allow you to hand-waive away the entire issue, then. Oh well.

Here's that HDMI cable test I saw earlier: http://gizmodo.com/266616/the-truth-about-...dgetsfieldnotes http://gizmodo.com/268788/the-truth-about-...-keep-upusually http://gizmodo.com/282725/the-truth-about-...finale-part-iii

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 1, 2012 -> 08:29 AM) I cannot tell you how often I've had this conversation trying to convince people there is no difference in HDMI cables...and you wouldn't believe how adamant they are that it makes a difference. I read a pretty in-depth review and test of some HDMI cables a few months ago but I can't find the link now. If you have a long run, say 50+ feet, it can make a difference. It's a digital signal, but you can still get bit errors if you have poor connectors or long lengths. But for most cases, where you've got a 1-2m cable going from your cable box to your TV all on the same stand, the $1 cable on Amazon will work just fine. As bad as the video cables are, nothing will ever come close to the lunacy of "audiophile" cables.

Oh sure and next you'll tell me that you can't see the difference between a $10 cable and this clearly superior $300 HDMI cable!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 1, 2012 -> 08:17 AM) Yeah, I paid a hefty price for him, and he's done nothing. At least Fitzgerald has been producing for a couple of weeks for me, but other than that every one of my players has been under-performing. I'll be about 200 points behind the league-leader after this week finishes up. I also have the highest points-against, but my team is so terrible that other than week 1, I would have lost to every other team anyway.

Another sub 60 week for my stellar team.

That must be it! Quick, get Unskewed polls on the job!

Peyton Manning is giving me a win in one league and a loss in another

It was your assertion, why don't you do the legwork to actually support something you say.

Btw focusing on one sometimes-affordable aspect of dental care makes it seem like you're intentionally ignoring the larger issue.

If by dental care you mean checkups only, then it is affordable for some people without insurance. That is not the full breadth of dental care, let alone health care. And for many, it's not a choice between mcd's or dental care, it literally is a choice between which bill to not pay that month every month and an additional $60 would be a substantial burden.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 29, 2012 -> 04:22 PM) The fatigue thing is awesome. The pussification of America has infiltrated baseball for sure. Thanks for benching AJ today. The fatigue thing is dumb. People have always and will always get fatigued.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 01:53 PM) So even when it is about relaxing you have to go to the extreme lol?

You do realize that this isn't strictly a dental check up clinic, right?

Your insight into both health care and poverty is impressive.

"stop eating out"

This is the reality for many Americans without health insurance:

Probably related to the deeper causes of the poverty-violence cycle: Chicago Is Still America's Most Segregated City

I'm going to link this again because it damn near brought me to tears several times. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/interrupters/

Malpractice amounts to something like 5% of all medical costs. This includes the insurance, litigation and payouts, iirc. Several states, most recently Texas, have enacted med-mal reforms that limit liability, but there has been no evidence that this has brought down costs. The price of med-mal insurance varies by discipline. Your family doctor isn't going to be paying nearly as much as a OBY-GYN.

Confirmation bias & motivated thinking are a hell of a drug

That may be so, but those emails are read and the claim is spread uncritically around the blogs, forums and websites.

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