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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 15, 2017 -> 12:31 PM) I think its a lot of things: Historical and current performance Reputation Recruiting base and performance Facilities Budget Theres a lot of factors that go into a program being elite. But I think the simplest way to boil it down is if every single program in the conference had a head coach opening at the same time. In what order would a coach choose each school (with no prior biases). I would think that PSU, Nebraska and Wisconsin are every bit as attractive as Michigan. Michigan has the exposure but also the headache of meeting expectations and playing OSU every year. Wisconsin and Nebraska can basically walk into the Big Ten Championship every year or every other year.

Yeah I think it's kind of silly to not have Nebraska as a top tier blue blood. They're a top 10 program and there's no reason to believe they won't get back there with Frost. They have a good, dedicated fan base and he's a good recruiter and they play in a weak division.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 15, 2017 -> 12:06 PM) Last mole Infrastructure isn't cheap or easy, Google has already largely abandoned their Google fiber project. Too bad a lot of states have passed laws banning municipal ISP's. Even then, Amazon or Disney would just be another huge corporation with strong incentives to engage in anticompetitive behavior. The real solution is to codify it into law like other countries have done. But they don't want to be reliant on Comcast/AT&T. If Comcast/AT&T are going to make it more difficult for people to get their service, ultimately costing them money, they're not going to play nice with them. They're going to want to compete with them and remove that reliance. Comcast and Disney are competitors anyway in a lot of different areas (Tv, movies, theme parks.) There's an incentive to go rogue, much like Netflix did with Hollywood studios. And frankly, there's a huge opportunity there for some silicon valley tech company to get into that marketplace. If Comcast and AT&T are going to dick people around, they'll look for another alternative if it's there.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 15, 2017 -> 11:49 AM) OSU was still top tier in conference during the Bruce and Cooper era, yes. (bruce won a conference title every other year he was coach) In the Big Ten Michigan and OSU are 1 and 1a in almost everyone's mind. Notre Dame isnt in the Big Ten and Nebraska isnt in the top tier and may never be. Are you saying historically? Or currently? I'd rank PSU ahead of Michigan today. Wisconsin too. IMO Michigan is up there with Notre Dame as one of the most overrated programs in college football. Good programs, no doubt, but not worth the attention they get on an annual basis.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 15, 2017 -> 11:52 AM) He was also nearly twice her age. This smacks of using your power/influence to get what you want...perception is just as important as reality in this environment. If they were both at the same level in the organization, it would be easier to agree. Then you have another overlapping cultural issue...the white exec flirting with a young African-American woman in a completely make-dominated industry. Once you reach a certain status/stature, you need to be increasingly cognizant of the risks you take when you flirt with a woman, especially when you have three younger children. Why does an older guy need to send a shirtless picture, anyway? It seems to happen all the time with politicians and pseudo-celebs. First of all he's not an executive, he's an on-air talent, just like her, only more senior. Second, age shouldn't matter here. They're consenting adults. Third, the problem is that at no point is she saying stop. She's not even giving a hint that she doesn't like it. She's repeatedly asking him out to dinner or to go to a concert together. Not only is she not resisting, she's actively INVITING his communications. also, the "risk" you speak of is being falsely accused of harassment. If we're going this far with it, then I have to teach my sons to basically never talk to women unless it's recorded and/or you get a consent form signed, because at anytime a woman can claim that despite her actions, she really didn't want X (sex, a photo, talking in a flirty way, etc)

The one hope here is that another major company - Google, Facebook, Amazon, maybe even Disney (via agreements) - comes along and offers up their own service to compete with Comcast/AT&T. If those ISP's are going to throttle service to popular streaming platforms, those companies (Netflix, Disney, Amazon, etc) are going to lose money. They have an incentive to find an alternative means to get their product out to people.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 14, 2017 -> 09:04 PM) The inside look into what an awful place that is. Didn't realize it was that bad. This is actually a pretty perfect example of the "witch hunt" fear that people have on this issue. http://thebiglead.com/2017/12/15/espn-text...ohn-buccigross/ ESPN produced the entire text message exchanged between the two, and while the photos were sent, and he used terms like #dollface and #longlegs, it's absolutely clear she was flirting with him non-stop and in no way provided even a hint that she was uncomfortable with how they communicated. At the end of the day she's pissed that she didn't get her contract renewed so she's filing her claim. This is the dilemma men are in. You have a woman of consenting age actively flirting with you, showing no sign that she finds what you say improper/unprofessional/unwanted, and then 2 years later she can complain about it and in the current climate you're automatically deemed guilty of harassment.

A friend just sent this to me. http://thebiglead.com/2017/12/14/stop-hati...asketball-play/ What an absolute, horses*** call. I hope Wisconsin loses every conference game this year based on this.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 14, 2017 -> 02:55 PM) Every single state is going to sue the FCC. Yeah this is going to be challenged and I doubt anything happens for another couple of years. And from there the telecom companies aren't going to change their plans right away. They'll want to pretend like they've been forced to do so due to increase costs of infrastructure or some bulls***. It'll be an interesting world in about 5 years. Disney, Facebook, Google, Netflix v. AT&T, Comcast and Turner. Who wins?

My litecoins are doing well. Run, run, run!

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 12, 2017 -> 01:21 PM) Your 5 year old runs web apps? Curious what he is doing (more since mine will be at that age). Related to that, what sorts of apps / learning techniques are people doing with their little ones relative to technology. We haven't done much with "screens" for our kids at this point. In fact, this holiday season is probably the most we've leveraged the screen (since the oldest is at the age where we are hyping up the Xmas theme). I meant websites with reading and math exercises. Not specific "apps." I was surprised how much they push it on the parents. The kids have computer lab at school and they each have their own account that you can log into from home that tracks their progress (and let's them continue from where they left off at school or at home). They want the kids to do the exercises 4-5 nights a week, which seems like a lot to me. We've been the anti-phone/tablet parents. I'm not sure why, exactly, but I didn't want to be the parents that let their kids stare at a screen during dinner at a restaurant or even at home. I would say in the last year we've been opening it up more, mostly because we also have a 1.5 year old and it's a nightmare trying to keep both quiet and entertained. My son's big into Pokemon so Pokemon Go was/is a huge reward we gave him for having good days at school. We push the legos/puzzles/books/toys as much as possible. The phone/tablet is for car/plane rides (movies) or for the special reward. I would say maybe an hour total a week, if that. Now Netflix on the TV, that's another issue...

Anyone own a Chromebook? My wife and I are looking into buying one for our kindergartner for xmas. Doesn't need to do much, just run some web apps for his school and then maybe some android games and Netflix. I'm looking at some of the cheaper options (like the Samsung Chromebook 3) but they all have crappy, non-HD screens. I wonder if that's a huge deal in the 11 inch screen size.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Dec 10, 2017 -> 09:15 PM) Underwood is a good, not great, coach. Based on what, exactly? I didn't watch the UNLV game, but every other game they should have won. They're scoring more points than they have in years, they're pressuring the ball and getting a lot of turnovers. If they would stop fouling and if the freshman would stop being freshman (obviously expected) they'd be undefeated right now. Yes, I realize that's a Tim Beckman "if you take away three of their touchdowns we're in the game" argument, but I'm just saying there's reason for optimism despite the losses. You can see the potential and you can see they're a much better team than the last several years. They're just young and inexperienced. At least they fight and stay in games. They're not getting blown out. Also, thanks to Groce, they have no size. That's not something Underwood can control.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 8, 2017 -> 04:41 PM) COPS ARE CIVILIANS they and society viewing them as anything but is part of the problem. they're not an occupying military force, they're not soldiers, they're civilians. This is nonsense. They're not just civilians. They're asked to do things civilians would never do. Hence, they get some leeway in their decision making.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 8, 2017 -> 04:36 PM) that's the thing, jenks. You don't know. You absolutely have no way of knowing how you'd react in a situation that intense with that much adrenaline flowing through you until you're put in the situation. You're generally more just reacting, not even thinking, and it may have just been an instinctual reach to hike up his shorts rather than anything conscience at all. I honestly can't believe you're attempting even a soft defense here. Watch that video, tell me what this guy did that was so wrong he deserved to die for it. Tell me why the cops couldn't have de-escalated and ended the whole thing at any point peacefully instead of making him play macabre simon says until he makes a mistake and gets murdered. Honestly i'm not sure if it was so easy. I'm not a cop. Neither are you. I don't know how easy it is to determine if a guy 20 feet in front of you has a gun in his pants and the best way to find that out. Maybe it does take 6 minutes and requires some instructions including crawling towards you. I'm very curious what the testimony was in regards to the procedure followed here. Did he totally violate procedure or did he follow his training?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 8, 2017 -> 04:27 PM) Dude, come on. The guy was laying face down on the ground and there were multiple officers there. Nothing about their actions is justifiable. They could have cuffed him at any time before they murdered him. So that's a failure in police protocol, procedure and training.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 8, 2017 -> 04:24 PM) He was shouting at the guy for four minutes straight with a gun pointed at him. Some of his commands included laying down, crawling, putting your hands up and keeping your legs crossed, all simultaneously. Why on earth do we not hold police, who had their service weapons personally engraved with "YOU'RE f***D," to a higher standard than we're holding the civilians they're murdering? How confident are you in how you'd react in a literal life-and-death situation with the adrenaline flowing while someone is shouting contradictory orders at you while telling you they're going to shoot you? I'm 100% confident that I would never, ever make it look like i'm reaching for a gun behind my back as cops have their guns aimed at me. My hands would be open and my palms would be facing towards the cops at all times. And I think we hold cops to a higher standard, but we also recognize that we're asking them to perform jobs that are inherently dangerous, something you and I would not voluntarily do. So they get latitude in making decisions. I think far too often hindsight is used against those guys unfairly. There are clear and obvious cases of murder out there. This, IMO, is a grey area and not the slam dunk you all think it is. I think a murder conviction would have been fair, but I'm not outraged he got off given the pretty clear order that if the guy put his hand behind his back he's going to get shot.

Also important to keep in mind the cops were called because someone was reportedly shooting a gun out of a window. So when they responded they assumed, maybe rightly, that this guy is the one with the gun and was hiding it. You make a move like that, it looks like you're reaching for a gun.

If you're that guy though, why on earth are you reaching behind your back?????? He just warned you 5 seconds prior that he would shoot you! I'm shocked he was acquitted, but would not have been shocked by a hung jury.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 7, 2017 -> 01:23 PM) If only the Bulls had someone, maybe something like a head coach, that could tell them what to do I was just listening to Bill Simmons' podcast with Steve Kerr and Kerr mentioned that he used an out of bounds play of Hoiberg's that he saw at Iowa State. So, there's SOME ability there. Hoiberg clearly isn't the long-term answer, but I do think he got a raw deal (to the extent someone getting paid millions and millions to coach a game can). He was brought in to play a run and gun style and was saddled with a roster full of b****y, whiny, old, slow guys. And this year he just doesn't have much talent to work with. The franchise is a mess. IMO Hoiberg is about No. 10 on the list of problems that need to be addressed.

Looks to me like it's Duke, Villanova and maybe Michigan State and then everyone else is just ok to bad.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 7, 2017 -> 09:49 AM) The crash is going to be staggering. The question is how far will this go. Bitcoin isn't based on anything but perceived value, and that value is being generated by demand. There's a huge amount of demand, but it's really just beginning and bitcoins acceptance, especially globally, is still growing. I find it hard to believe that suddenly, tomorrow, everyone just stops believing that bitcoin is something valuable. $16k valuable? i dunno, but there's really no rhyme or reason here. It could drop or it could rise to a million per. Anyone claiming to know is just guessing.

Good lord. Goodell re-signs for 5 years. Could be worth 40 mil a year if all of the benchmarks are met.

Kushner's plan is really out of the box thinking!

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Dec 3, 2017 -> 06:02 PM) damn Godless is a great western on Netflix Caught the first episode last night. I was totally lost for about 35 minutes but it came together at the end. I'm intrigued enough to keep watching.