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QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 11:26 AM) or, ya know, put money and resources into improving the schools in those areas? You could put a brand new state of the art school in the middle of the Austin neighborhood, fill it with the best teachers in the country, and it wouldn't change a thing. This myth of the lack of financial resources is a liberal pipe-dream that's decades in the making and it's continually shown to be false. We spend more money per student than anyone in the world and we have little to show for it.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 11:28 AM) lol The irony is that Indiana is the team who actually injured someone on Wisconsin by being overly aggressive. Kaminsky still is not okay after being slapped in the face by an Indiana player. You also must not watch a lot of Wisconsin games, because they dont slap at the ball and arent overly aggressive. They defend with their legs/feet Bobby Knight style. Its the reason why they are consistently one of lowest teams in terms of personal fouls per game. http://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketbal...-fouls-per-game Youll notice that Wisconsin averaged 14.2 fouls per game this season and last. In comparison, Purdue (ultra aggressive) averages 18 fouls this year, 17.7 last year. Michigan State averages 16.5 this year 17.5 last year. Indiana a very slappy team averages 16.8 this year and 17.6 last year. And Penn State, averages 21.7 fouls this year, 19.8 fouls last year. You really hate Wisconsin, because you just make s*** up that is completely indefensible. Wisconsin is one of the LEAST aggressive teams on defense. Their entire system is built on not slapping or reaching for the ball, staying in front of your man and using your legs/feet to stay in front of your man forcing them to take a contested jump shot. But Im sure you believe that is some sort of Wisconsin conspiracy, that the NCAA has some sort of love affair with Wisconsin and thats why you have to go back to 05-06 to find the last time they averaged over 17 fouls per game. Care to make up any other tall tales? I have a good one, Wisconsin is hard to watch because they are too athletic. Wisconsin is to hard to watch because they play to fast. I guess anyone can say anything on the internet. They body people. They do it constantly, so the refs either let them play that way, or they are calling fouls every trip. They're not the worst - Butler and Purdue IMO are the worst - but Wisconsin does it too. You don't have to slap or reach to be overly aggressive on defense.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 11:12 AM) I'd agree with this, but mostly because of their defense. I just can't stand to watch Wisconsin and Penn State play defense. Beating the s*** out of teams until the refs stop blowing their whistle, or decide to call nothing the entire game is not defense. It's unbelievable. I used to think Purdue was bad. Their nothing compared to those two. Win/Lose, I feel overjoyed when no one on Indiana walks away with an injury. Brad Stevens says hi.

What a frivolous lawsuit. Hope that thing gets dismissed soon.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 10:30 AM) There are certain aspects of what you might call "black culture" (I know, reductive) that contribute to the disproportionate crimes rates and even some of the poverty problems. Unfortunately, these are problems made by white people for enslaving, segregating, and discriminating against these people for the vast majority of their time spent in the USA. There are issues beyond getting them to make more money since we basically forced a huge group of people to live in and accept poverty, for sure, since not everyone can simply decide they want the WASP dream of college, car, house, wife, 2.5 kids when that isn't part of the culture they grew up in. I'm sure the most efficient way to fix this is still to get these folks higher paying jobs. I'm interested in some public housing research that has been done and I assume is still being implemented. Instead of housing projects, they do housing vouchers and try to focus on locating these poor folks in middle and higher income areas. In the research I've been privy to see, the children raised with public housing vouchers in middle or high income areas have had much better rates of behavior, academic success, and other important factors. Interestingly, the parents didn't have any significant improvements in terms of crime rates, income, etc between those placed in low-income vs middle and higher. In other words, it is important to raise at-risk children in such a way that they are exposed to more successful role models. Once they get older, it gets much trickier. So this will be a slow process but a big first step beyond a policy focus on ending poverty is ending segregation. This has been mentioned on here before, but Chicago is a perfect example. It is extremely segregated and we are at a point where the people in bad parts of Chicago are raised too far removed from the great parts to see a legitimate way out. You are what you grow up with. I think the only true way to eradicate this problem is to ship those kids off to different areas of the state/country and get them out of that environment. Unfortunately, that's a harsh measure and will never be a serious option.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 11:13 AM) Poll taxes and literacy tests were "colorblind." Advocating for a "colorblind" state when there's still structural racism is advocating to cement that structural racism in place. You don't have to agree that there is structural racism, but that doesn't mean you can distort what that quote was actually saying. I still find this idea of structural racism to be ludicrous. Structural racism sounds as if the system is rigged. It was, 100 years ago, and it f***ed up the future prospects for a lot of minorities leading to the problems we have today ("Free the blacks!! Oh, but we don't want to live next to them. Put them over there and they can fend for themselves.") The system today, however, is not "structured" such that it's racist. If we're talking about problems with labeling or putting these things into context, i think this is equally problematic. Minorities are a disadvantaged because of past policies, not current ones.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 10:34 AM) Or Torii Hunter. Bias and sub-conscious racism occurs. Yes, a white cop is more likely to be suspicious of two blacks. If a black cop is just as suspicious of two blacks doing it, is it racist, segregated, or even biased then? What if it is a latino cop? To suggest that cops are out to get black people and minorities in general is just as short-sighted and wrong as suggesting no bias occurs. They are looking to stop crime. And they may be (or are) biased and go after the groups of people who typically commit the crime, even when they do not have just cause. I'm not arguing that it's right, I'm merely suggesting why they do it. They are fighting the symptoms of the problem, rather than the cause. It's fun to discuss this issue with my white Chicago cop friend who works in the gang unit. He'd argue it's impossible to not stereotype given the day-in, day-out stuff he deals with.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 09:56 AM) Nope. edit: do you get why Colbert is always lampooning being "colorblind"? I don't watch Colbert, so I wouldn't know.

I'm going a step further with it, but that's basically the import of what she's saying.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 12:19 AM) Yeah, wtf is up with this team? Really makes you play the what if game regarding Crawford. That said, it's still a team that lost to UIC so... Their style of play is worse than Wisconsin. It's unbearable to watch. Teams just have to be patient and not get frustrated at the slow pace. That's why Illinois lost, and that's why Minnesota lost last night.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 06:35 AM) The deeply flawed nature of colorblindness, as a governing principle, is evidenced by the fact that the public consensus supporting mass incarceration is officially colorblind. It purports to see black and brown men not as black and brown, but simply as men - raceless men - who have failed miserably to play by the rules the rest of us follow quite naturally. The fact that so many black and brown men are rounded up for drug crimes that go largely ignored when committed by whites is unseen. Our blindness also prevents us from seeing the racial and structural divisions that persist in society: Ye segregated, unequal schools, the segregated, jobless ghettos, and the segregated public discourse - a public conversation that excludes the current pariah caste. Our commitment to colorblindness extends beyond individuals to institutions and social arrangements. We have become blind, not so much to race, but to the existence of racial caste in America. — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow So when a black person commits a crime we should excuse it on account of their history? Seriously?

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Wow

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 04:22 PM) Placeholders. So THQ auctioned off their assets today. Take Two is going to take over the WWE license. Surprised they outbid EA. Other stuff Relic Entertainment Makers of Company of Heroes Winning bidder: Sega, $26.6 million. Runner-up: Zenimax Media, $26.3 million. THQ Montreal Makers of 1666 and Underdog, titles under development. Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $2.5 million. No runner-up. Evolve (title in development at Turtle Rock Studios) Winning bidder: Take-Two Interactive, $10.894 million. Runner-up: Turtle Rock Studios, $250,000. Volition, Inc. Maker of Saints Row Winning bidder: Koch Media, $22,312,925. Runner-up: Ubisoft, $5.4 million. Homefront Released 2011; due for a sequel. Winning bidder: Crytek. $544,218. No runner-up. Metro Series; due for the sequel Metro: Last Light. Winning Bidder: Koch Media, $5,877,551 Runner-up: Ubisoft: $5.175 million. South Park License; South Park: The Stick of Truth is due for release March 5. Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $3,265,306 No runner-up. I know a couple of guys that work at Volition, based in Champaign. I always wanted to work there but i'm not a designer or creative person. That and they make crappy games.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 02:56 PM) About the only reason 1/2 of the central plains are arable right now is water out of the ground. Sure, but humans can alter their behavior as they are doing now - changing crops annually, changing irrigation patterns, water conservation, etc.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 03:01 PM) hahahahaha Groundwater doesn't come from rain/runoff? Water magically appears underground?

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 02:53 PM) ....yyyyeaaaahhhhh that's not really how it works these days. Water comes from another place? News to me.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 02:34 PM) you try living on Antarctica or in Siberia and get back to me. lol Not sure why we'd have to do that. There is plenty of land elsewhere.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 02:20 PM) Where are you getting the water for these things? Particularly with what we're doing to the atmosphere, that's going to be your biggest issue for the foreseeable future in developing that kind of territory. The sky?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 01:22 PM) Running out of food and water is part of destroying the planet/ourselves. It's not "one food resource," it's the ability for a chunk of land to produce food at all. All of that unoccupied land in the Sahara, Gobi, Arabian, Atacama etc. deserts can't really support much life at all, so it's meaningless to talk about it. And, of course, global warming is only going to make desertification worse. What huge chunks of the US are "unused" that could support human development and farming? What water source for most of the US agriculture is there "right around the corner" if the Ogallala is drained? I've been west. There are huge areas of unhabited/undeveloped land in the dakotas, wyoming, colorado, etc that could support crops. Even if we've literally used up every last inch of arable land, we can shift resources. The vast majority of our farming is for non-food related products or for food product ingredients (corn starch, for example). We could easily change our diet (perhaps a good thing).

It's still relevant. There are huge areas - i.e., millions of square miles - in the US that are completely remote and unused. Americans inhabit something like 95% of the land here. Just because one food resource or water source gets emptied doesn't mean there aren't others right around the corner. Or that humans can't do something in response. This is the urban sprawl argument from the 90's all over again. Much ado about nothing. We will destroy the planet/ourselves long before we simply run out of resources like land or water or food.

I thought I read somewhere that the Earth is about 30% land, and humans inhabit less than 1% of that. So, we have a long way to go. I think it's much more likely that the human race goes through another plague and subsequent dark age before we literally run out of land or water and are forced to move to Mars.

Sigh....terrible charge call, unwarranted tech on Groce, and then a turnover.

Omg!!! An extended offensive run!! We might get over 1 ppp in this game.

If Griffey gets more than 5 minutes of playing time Groce should be fired. This game and every game going forward.