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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 19, 2013 -> 02:23 AM) And if John Paxson doesn't hit the three in '93 who knows what happens (game 7 would be on the road)? If Rodman doesn't gobble up every rebound in site in games 2 and 6 in 1996 vs the Sonics what happens? If the Jazz don't get screwed out of 5 points in game 6 in '98 (with Pippen being all but done with a bad back and game 7 would be on the road) what happens? The Jordan myth has become bigger than reality, which is pathetic because the reality is already THAT good. Jordan never had a bad game. Jordan never got outplayed. Jordan never had a bad series. It's pretty pathetic now. The pressure LeBron has on him is unprecedented. Is some of it deserved? Yes. Not one, not two, not three, etc, was not the best thing he could've said. But the internet, social media, 24-hour news cycles, 8 billion blogs, etc, etc, dwarfs anything Michael or anybody before him had to go through. If LeBron wins, yeah, he's great, but he had to join two other stars. If LeBron loses, hahahaha, LeBron sucks, no matter what the other two do. I agree with what you say to a point, but I don't recall Jordan ever single handedly losing a playoff game (let alone a Finals game) by being too tentative in the last few minutes or by making moronic decisions with the basketball. He never no-showed in Finals games. He never whined to the refs about not getting calls as the other team ran down the court and scored. He never had a 30-10-10 game that felt like it was really a 15-5 game in terms of impact on the outcome. And Jordan had no comparative pressure? Are you insane? He was 10 times bigger than Lebron James will ever be. He was basketball for the entire world. The difference? He consistently delivered whereas Lebron does not. Who cares about blogs or tweets or anything like that. Lebron does't read all that crap and never gets exposed to it. I totally agree that the expectations for Lebron are totally unrealistic and too much of the blame gets put on him when he makes one or two bad plays in an otherwise amazing game. HOWEVA, that's because he has yet to reach his full potential and it's so painfully obvious to anyone that watches him play. He sucked for 3 quarters last night and then went into beast mode and destroyed everyone in his way for 5 minutes (before pissing down his league and getting bailed out by the Spurs and Allen). Why does it take his team being down 10 with a quarter to go for him to turn on a switch? He says he's the best but he plays like it only in spurts despite the fact that he has the talent and physical abilities to do it all the time. And because of his decision/personality/whatever that makes him play that way, it has cost his team not only games but CHAMPIONSHIPS. That is why he should never, ever be compared to the other greats in NBA history.

God dammit.

Wow, call a TO

f***ing Manu

Why the hell did they review that? Official was right there.

Sigh.

Just hit your damn free throws

Lebron choke job!

Parker. Wow.

Ugh, Spurs missing open shots

Spurs need a mini run

Lebron without the headband! A new man!

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 10:01 PM) Where are the ref complainers now? All the calls going San Antonio's way. Bulls***, they're not getting their typical bailout calls. Its game 6 of the Finals. Man up and play and stop looking for a call.

Ho hum, 25 and 8 for duncan in 1st half

He has no idea what to do out there.

Lebron with a choke job so far.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 02:17 PM) Im curious as to what merit Crawford has earned. The guy has been nothing short of controversial and confrontational his entire career, and he has changed games pretty much by himself. And this isnt even counting his grudge against Duncan. Will Duncan have 2 fouls by the end of the first quarter? My guess is yes To be fair, he's actually not a bad official MOST OF THE TIME. He just makes horrendous non-basketball related calls. Wasn't he the guy that ejected Duncan for laughing on the bench? He just injects himself into the game way too much, even if the majority of his calls are probably right. At the end of the day he's not going to be the difference. If Miami's defense shows up, they win. If not, they lose. I think if the Spurs can keep it close/lead a little by the 4th, they walk away with the win just like Dallas did in 2011. Miami will start to press, no one will know who should be taking the big shot and that'll be that.

I mean look, I agree that sadly a good number of Americans don't care about this stuff when they should. All i'm saying is that you're making the argument that no one cares and that's just not true.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/tec...rc=al_comboNE_b WHOA, hey, that faux-outraged Google is trying to make some changes in the wake of this fake fiasco.

Saying people don't care about their privacy doesn't make it true. People are outraged by this, and justifiably so. If people didn't care, this wouldn't be on the news. And why do you keep saying this is fake outrage? What evidence do you have that it's not genuine? The world has changed over the last 10 years. So have people's opinions about this stuff.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 01:40 PM) I think you're dreaming and need to wake up from this fantasy. If you walked down the street right now and asked random people about Snowden and the NSA, you'd be lucky if 2 in 10 knew anything about it, and you'd be even luckier if either person knew more than, "Yea, I heard about something like that..." However, if you ask them to name the cast of Jersey Shore, or who the current Bachlorette, or who just had a baby in hollywood, I'm sure 8/10 would know those answers. ...and that's why I maintain, this "dialogue" doesn't matter...and in a few weeks, it'll be long forgotten. You're nuts. They might not know the name but they'll know something about the NSA scandal. Certainly more people know about it now than a few weeks ago. And who gives a s*** if only 1000 people in the country know? It doesn't make it right.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 12:34 PM) Here is my issue with the whole "he created a national dialog" excuse...it's just that, an excuse to pretend we care for a little while. We didn't need this guy to create a national dialog that should have (and already did exist), it's just that nobody cared, and nobody spoke about it because it wasn't the story of the week. And they don't care now, either, they're just pretending to care while it's generating viewers/clicks, depending on the medium. As for the "people", they don't care about their privacy anyway, and they haven't for a while now. They can pretend too, but they don't, as these same people laugh at me when I tell them I don't like to use too many of one companies internet connected applications because I'm concerned about my private information. You don't really have to spy on these people in the first place...all you have to do is offer them a free app, or phone, or something on the Internet that's "free", and they'll just hand it all over, without knowing it, or worse, even caring. The political discourse in this country has become little more than day care for the uncaring. When they passed the Patriot Act, they did it while the nation was in a state of panic...fine, so when we all had the chance to calm our asses down and reassess the situation and the necessity of the law, as written, what did we do? Nothing. Actually, worse than nothing, because we collectively watched as they expanded the scope of the law, and passed it again. And what did we do when they took what was bad and made it worse? We re-elected the same people in the senate/congress at about a 90% clip, if not more. And what will we do now when we discover that *gasp*, they passed that very law which basically made this legal? Nothing. So, when it comes to this new dialog...nobody cares. And in a few weeks, or months, it'll be forgotten about. And come election time, they'll re-elect the same exact people again. Until the next scandal...then we can pretend we care again...at least for a few weeks. We did need the national dialogue because no one knew how much the government was digging and who they were targeting. You're glossing over that point and it's pretty important. 4 weeks ago had you asked Americans who the government was looking in on i'm guessing 90% (all of the non conspiracy theorists) would have said brown people/muslims and people who communicate with people in muslim countries. They had no idea the government was spying on your 85 year old white grandma from Kansas. That's a new discovery that we found out about because of this guy disclosing classified information.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 11:47 AM) What? EDIT: I assume that's a typo for "NSA" but it's still funny. Ha, yes. Sorry.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 17, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) I agree on the bold, wholeheartedly. But, this is what happens when you forfeit freedom for a false sense of security. And then continue to re-elect those that took those freedoms from you/us, again, all for a false sense of security. We allowed them to do it at airports, and here we are, years later with them continuing to use security methods and systems that have been proven to not work, and we are going to allow them to do this, too...because, well...it's legal. They're not doing anything wrong, technically...and since the people will re-elect the same people, nothing will change. The beauty of that law, now that it's in effect, is it's IMPOSSIBLE to judge in terms of effectiveness. They [The US Govt] can now come forward with hundreds of "thwarted acts of terror because of the Patriot Act", that will be impossible to disprove. Not only that, but the burden of DISproof will be laid on the table, which, as you know, disproving something is the opposite of what's supposed to be done, but that's exactly how it'll go down. And Google, and the rest of these glorified spyware companies (including Apple, but to a lesser extent than the likes of Goog/FB), are partially to blame with this "big brother is okay" mentality people have today. They've made it acceptable to give away unknown amounts of data for who knows what reason, for who knows how long...and nobody seems to care. Totally reminds of me that George Carlin skit... Yeah that bulls*** justification came out today when the NRA director said they've thwarted 50 something attacks but refused to go into detail. And they can do that indefinitely, "oh trust us, we're keeping everyone safe."

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 17, 2013 -> 01:50 PM) As a warning, if you came here for a Edward Snowden hero worship conversation, click back now. Forgive me, but I have to come somewhere to rant about this. Reddit and the rest of the circle-jerking hive mind Internet are heralding this guy as a hero of freedom for what, IMO, any intelligent person already knew was going on. First, I didn't need this "leak" to verify anything. It's not like this was a secret that the NSA spies on Americans via the use of the Patriot Act. This is why they passed the Patriot Act. Is everyone f***ing stupid? Did people just assume they passed this freedom snatching power trip of a law for no reason? The second they passed the Patriot Act, expanded it, and re-passed it, I figured everyone KNEW this was going on. Having some douchebag "leak" it, after he was actively taking part in it for who knows how long doesn't impress me. Stop electing a congress with an approval rating such as they have and maybe you wouldn't end up with such "surprisingly unsurprising news". Second, people like Snowden, Assange, and Manning cause more harm in the end than any good they do, as most of this is irresponsible, un-vetted opinions, OR carelessly released information. For example, this is hurting Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Apple, and most of the reason why is simply incorrect and stupid assumption. Based on this idiot's comments today, he says, and I quote, "Their denials went through several revisions as it become more and more clear they were misleading and included identical, specific language across companies. As a result of these disclosures and the clout of these companies, we’re finally beginning to see more transparency and better details about these programs for the first time since their inception. They are legally compelled to comply and maintain their silence in regard to specifics of the program, but that does not comply them from ethical obligation. If for example Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple refused to provide this cooperation with the Intelligence Community, what do you think the government would do? Shut them down?" This is such a load of bulls***, I don't even know where to begin. First, their denials haven't changed, at all. From the get go, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple denied direct involvement in PRISM, and the information they've released has all been done so on court orders. They haven't changed this message, either, as he claims. Second, he says they are legally compelled to oblige, which they are, but goes on to say that does not comply them from ethical obligation? What the f*** does that even mean? He goes on to say if one of these huge companies was to refuse to provide the information, under court order, what do you think the government would do, shut them down? Seriously? Did he seriously ask this? Is this guy like 13 years old? The government can make doing business, or getting anything done VERY hard when you don't comply with their legal court orders. Hell, they can make your life hard when you don't comply with them asking you nicely, let alone the fact that they have VALID f***ing court orders. Seriously, stop hero worshiping morons and start thinking for yourselves. The Patriot Act exists...it wouldn't exist if they weren't spying on you, you don't need idiots like this to "verify" anything for you. I don't know that this guy is a savior , but I don't think he's the worst person in the world either. And at least he's created a national dialogue about the issue. As to the bolded, I'm not sure that the majority of Americans realized their government was creating ginormous databases of everyone, not just people suspected of having terrorist leanings (at minimum) or frankly people that are brown and muslim (at maximum). Yes, the Patriot Act has expanded the role of warrantless wire taps, but I also assumed there had to be SOME argument as to how that warrantless tap was needed for national security. Literally the only reason they have now is "everyone is a terrorist."