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QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 28, 2012 -> 11:05 AM) To be fair, it's pretty clear that Scalia does hate gays. I think he views that as a social issue that should be decided by the states, not 9 people in robes. He's pretty consistent with that general philosophy in his opinions.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 28, 2012 -> 10:01 AM) In discussing compromise, remember: Republicans lost the election snippet: Lol, seriously? 2 years ago I should have written the same article that Obama and the congressional democrats needed to abandon their political ideologies because the nation overwhelming supported the Tea Party movement. I'm sure you totally agree with that!

That's part of the reason why I feel there's a big over reaction to this tragedy. There wasn't this much debate after the mosque shooting last year. But now it's imperative that we ban all guns lest we all get shot by a stray bullet commuting to work.

Those are laws of punishment so....not really the same as a law banning a gun to prevent a crime in .00001% of cases.

Grim milestone: Austin shooting apparently 500th homicide in Chicago Just think if we registered and fingerprinted gun owners! And banned handguns! Problem solved.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 27, 2012 -> 03:50 PM) Some would argue that rooting for the Bears this weekend is not very logical as making the playoffs would hurt the long-term health of the franchise. Just sayin' I don't see how. I think if Lovie makes the playoffs and loses the first game he's still gone. Tice for sure will still be gone. If they miss the playoffs they're still in the middle of the pack, so the draft pick isn't going to be much better.

The argument isn't whether google making it faster to research is the problem, it's the critical thinking aspect that's the problem. In my field (law) it's obviously 1000 times easier to do legal research via online databases than physically picking up books from a library shelf. The issue becomes when I start relying on secondary sources where other people have done the step of reviewing the cases for me. I start relying on what other people think and write and stop doing the work myself. That can happen in school environments constantly and it's setting up kids to not think about what they're doing because they can rely on someone else to do that for them. Edit: if you graduated law school then you'll know what i'm talking about. I can either research a topic of law on my own, or I can rely on secondary sources like American Jurisprudence 2nd or Illinois Civil Practice and "learn" the issue, but not fully.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 27, 2012 -> 03:44 PM) But there is a payoff to that at the same time...you can accomplish much more in a shorter period of time by being able to access the information more quickly. In instances where you might want to work through a math problem or something, I can see the utility in doing in yourself rather than looking up the answer, but in terms of having to go to the library and research something, I don't really see the utility in that. English professors would disagree with you. There's a lot of critical thinking that you just don't need to do anymore with literature. If you have a book report project, you go read the internet for 10 minutes, get about 100 ideas for your report, and you just use those ideas. You don't need to sit down and think about the text anymore. I think it cuts both ways. I think it's amazing you can get those 100 ideas from different people so quickly. But at the same time you do lose that basic, fundamental ability to think on your own as well. It's the same argument about teaching math versus just giving a kid a calculator. At some point it becomes pointless to do long division or whatever by hand when it can be done in 2 seconds with a calculator. But you still need to teach those skills up to a certain point.

Can't come back soon enough.

QUOTE (Tex @ Dec 24, 2012 -> 07:23 AM) 100%. Dead serious and probably the #1 reason I all but abandoned the Republican party. The GOP believes guns are our best defense against a tyrannical government, I believe a free press to watch over the government and courts to overturn any laws that are unconstitutional are much more effective. But the GOP has waged a three decade war against both the press and the courts trying to stop the watchdogs and the judges. They label any decisions they do not like as activist judges, regardless of the law. They want the public to dismiss any negative reporting by calling it liberal bias. So what happens when the press is ignored and the courts are powerless to stop unconstitutional laws? We hand over the keys to the country to the currently elected representatives and they can do whatever they wish. Willing to read a well reasoned and intelligent reply. This is crap, frankly. Both sides cry foul when they lose a case, and for both it's because of activist judges. Scalia, Alito and Thomas are just hard line conservatives that hate gays, women and freedom in every decision they make. And liberals whine incessantly about Fox News and how awful and biased they are. b****ing is part of the American way and everyone does it. I despise the fact that people think that's one sided.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 27, 2012 -> 02:14 PM) I believe I've read that he still likely will be. Eh, without more I'm not sure that rises to the level of sexual harassment. You can be raunchy without it being harassment. The key is her proving it created a intolerable, hostile environment. It's actually a good decision from a legal perspective. We don't want to expand gender discrimination into a hot or not contest. Way too subjective.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Dec 27, 2012 -> 03:36 PM) I get it to a certain point. You don't have to work your brain or memory as much. Instead of trying to figure something out or remember a fact, someone just looks it up immediately. Instead of trying to figure out where something is or how to get somewhere efficiently, you just throw it into a GPS. That's what I was getting at. And my wife does the GPS thing. She relies on that thing totally. We could go to the same place 10 times, with the same route, but she refuses to pay attention and learn where she's going. "Why do that, the GPS tells me where to go."

What about old timey pistols? I mean, really the accuracy of those things is very poor, and it takes forever to reload. Maybe those would be acceptable to own (though not in working order, of course!)

Shotguns too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...ity-skills.html Perhaps it's my old ass 30 years on this planet, but I totally get his point. I think the internet/google is an amazing tool that is making people smarter (no more need to debate over certain facts, just look them up instantly on your phone). But on the other hand, kids/people look stuff up on the internet instead of thinking for themselves or creating something for themselves. Thoughts?

Better to get rid of her than have her deal with sexual harassment because he's unprofessional/a perv.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 27, 2012 -> 10:35 AM) Does this happen with Google's Gmail app for Android? I've never noticed since I've always had a custom signature. Yes, both my Droid Razr phone and Asus Infinity Tablet add that signature automatically until you change it.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 27, 2012 -> 09:01 AM) While I can agree there may be a couple of head scratchers on their list but The League and Sunny on the best of 2012 list? Ha! Mediocre television at best. You can't tell me that as as you were watching Ruxin, Taco, and the boys running around the Cowboys training facility like keystone cops you were thinking "wow, this is some of the best television out there right now!" Well sure, every show has cringe-worthy parts. Every Leslie/Ben scene in Parks and Rec is like that. But the episode with Rafi at the pool was easily the funniest episode of television this year. I'm not sure anything can top it. And just about every other episode has been solid.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 26, 2012 -> 02:16 PM) Yes, "decrees" usually contain weak statements like "seems" I was referring to the "the absurdity of anti-gun control arguments" comment, as if every anti-gun control argument is wrong. It's great you think that way. Other reasonable and intelligent people disagree.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 26, 2012 -> 09:45 AM) a thread about yet-more gun violence seems to be an appropriate place to comment on gun control and the absurdity of anti-gun control arguments. And so StrangeSox decreed ... all hail the all-knowing StrangeSox!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 26, 2012 -> 01:10 PM) The Onion AV Club's best of 2012 After 1 and 2, what an awful list. Louie at 3? His show went from a must-watch to an "eh, I guess we don't have anything else on the DVR list." Girls is awful, I still don't see the love for that show after giving it three episodes. Boardwalk is way too low, that's one of the best shows on TV right now. I like the love for Archer, but no The League or Sunny? The League has been dynamite and Sunny, while not as good as it once was, is still better than Bob's Burgers.

He's racist.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 21, 2012 -> 02:49 PM) Yup, blow, slam, play. It's even better reading the prior post that I quoted.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 21, 2012 -> 02:15 PM) Only if you did it right. Quick, hard, left to right blow out, and then you throw it back in. I did the blowing thing and then slammed the game in as hard as I could. Worked MOST of the time...

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Dec 21, 2012 -> 01:59 PM) http://www.gophermods.com/ Save yourself the hastle and go there. My PS3 was one of the 5% that was so burned out they couldn't repair it and didn't charge me anything other than shipping, then they paid for shipping when they thought reballing it would work. Still didn't. Eventually, one of my friends fat PS3's AV ports and stuff became broken. They were able to transfer that processor to my old PS3 which allowed me to retrieve all my saved data. (Friend got the old PS3 because I had gotten a slim at this point). I think i'm just going to wait until the new consoles come out. The Last of Us might force my hand, but otherwise I just upgraded my PC and might go back to PC gaming. Damn technology.