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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 5, 2016 -> 11:03 AM) Transgendered people are a small minority, true. Creep-o's who stalk bathrooms but would go to the length of legally changing their sex on their drivers licenses to give very minimal plausibility when they're called out for creeping in bathrooms are a much, much smaller minotiry. Sure but what's it matter when both are very small minorities compared to the majority that are being affected by the rule? Again, totally agree. Unless you're fully trans (the number of which are even smaller), no one would be the wiser, which supports the argument of "why is this necessary?" No doubt, however, as I pointed out, using the example of the park district rule at the beginning of this thread, some of these laws/ordinances/rules basically say as soon as someone identifies as being transgendered, that person has a right to be in the bathroom. In a case with a man taking photos of women in a woman's bathroom, the mere fact that he's in there is criminal, and then anything he's claimed to have done in the bathroom is going to be easy to believe. But if he can claim he has the right to be there and he wasn't taking photos, he was just looking at his phone or whatever, the prosecution is much harder. And even if he's just present and making people feel uncomfortable, as in the case of the girls swim team, there's nothing that can be done. He's in there. Whether he's doing anything or not, they feel uncomfortable. Why is that an OK thing?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 5, 2016 -> 11:02 AM) And that guy went out of his way to declare himself a woman for all intents and purposes in his life. He has to answer that question when he gets on a plane, goes to a bar, every place this guy goes it will say female on his license. Is it really worth it to that guy? He's willing to go into a bathroom and take pictures of women pooping. If that gets him off, yeah, I think it'd probably be worth it to them.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:58 AM) You basically just nailed the reason why marriage laws shouldnt exist. I don't disagree, though I'll say not having marriage or some official designation of coupling creates problems when it comes to estate/property concerns.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:56 AM) well, if you want to be a female to everyone in the world then you can be a female. If creeping means so much to you that you no longer want to be considered a man, then there you are. This type of freak probably is already dressing up as a woman to enter bathrooms and locker rooms already anyway. Right, and the problem with giving people who self-identify the "right" to be there is that when it comes time to prosecute that guy, it's much more difficult because he has the "right" to be there.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:52 AM) Writing law around extreme edge case hypotheticals to the detriment of significantly more people seems like a bad idea imo. If a creep-o guy wants to troll womens' restrooms, that seems like an awful lot of hurdles to jump through to have some sort of really tenuous legal standing. Isn't that what this whole issue is about? We're "protecting" an extreme fringe of people to the potential detriment/comfort of significantly more people? Creep-o's will do anything. My wife's work (a major medical center here in the city) had a creep a couple of years ago that came into women's bathrooms and took photos under stalls. It happened frequently enough that they had to send a memo out about it, campus-wide. If you're willing to do something like that, I don't think having to put female on your DL is a big hurdle.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:50 AM) There's more documented cases of Republican men trolling bathrooms for on-the-down-low gay sex than transgendered people stalking womens restrooms. Keep in mind that the laws now sort of defacto allow transgendered people to use the bathroom of their preference, and this does not appear to have actually caused any issues. Laws like NC explicitly change the status quo. So why do we need laws in either direction? I don't support the NC law, but the laws/ordinances that are being passed that give transgendered people the right to be in certain places just invites more problems than it's worth IMO.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:33 AM) If it says male on your license you go to the mens locker room, if it says female thats where you go. If you do the opposite you get in trouble. Pretty much whats going to happen. Of course this depends on true trans people being allowed to put the sex they identify with on their license. What's stopping the creep-o guy we're talking about here from being able to designate that he's a female? It's not like you can perform a test to determine your gender identity.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 5, 2016 -> 09:54 AM) This whole "transgendered women are going to sexually assault girls in the restroom" is simply not a thing. To the extent this even happens at all, it doesn't happen often enough to deserve any kind of discussion. I generally agree with this, however, how many trans people have issues using bathrooms associated with their birth gender? I don't think it is, I think that's been happening, rarely, for a long time. You've always heard stories of random creeps hiding out in bathrooms and/or taking pictures of women. They're sick individuals and these laws aren't stopping that from happening. However, what the laws MAY do is shift the burden of proof such that prosecution on those cases is much more difficult. Instead of being charged with being in a woman's bathroom (presence is enough to establish guilt), those creeps can now claim they're transgendered and you've taken that easy path away. Now you have a he/she said, he/she said situation about what happened inside the bathroom.

Didn't she also escape from The Hound and then happen upon the boat heading to Bravos?

QUOTE (Tex @ May 4, 2016 -> 12:22 PM) Why? As a lifelong member of the other team I look at Trump and thing, wow, he does not reflect 75% of the Republicans I know. I don't see him as a reflection at all. What I worry about are Republicans deciding that he's their guy and that is the direction the party should be going. A large portion of the party is voting for him though. I understand there wasn't a great alternative, but at least with Kasich you had a semi-electable candidate. Republicans instead chose Trump and Cruz. I wonder if Romney is kicking himself for not running. I suppose he could just wait 4 years.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 4, 2016 -> 11:43 AM) This is so embarrassing. I'm embarrassed to be a Republican right now. +1

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 3, 2016 -> 11:20 AM) Menards lumber selection is pretty awesome, but the quality of a lot of their other stuff is a step below HD or Lowers. Tools comparable to Harbor Freight etc. My Menards has a piano that is automatic and plays music all day, except from like 12-2pm when an old guy plays live. Classy.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 3, 2016 -> 09:54 AM) I can't say I've noticed Menards remodeling? The stores in Bolingbrook, Homer Glen and Crest Hill or Romeoville are all laid out identically and the CH/R store is pretty new. Sports Authorities/Dick's etc could try to mimick something like Bass Pro but on a smaller scale instead of just being a big box. Sports Authority to me always looked like Circuit City back in the day compared to Best Buy. Everything about it screamed cheap, even though it carried the same crap as a Dick's or MC Sports, etc.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 2, 2016 -> 08:55 PM) 100% real and sexy. lol, so graphic.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ May 2, 2016 -> 04:50 PM) So, I'm in the process of moving, and I don't have HBO right now. I saw the first episode of GOT, but might not be able to catch up with the others for a little while. It's going to be hard to avoid knowing what's going on. I open up my homepage, and it seems like every other headline has to do with GOT. Sign up for HBO Now. It's free for a month.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 2, 2016 -> 04:42 PM) She'd sell them on the open market. In this case, if the company had a change of ownership, all of the options would be expensed at her books and she can do what she'd like with them. I don't know how the $50+M figure was calculated and clearly if the stock was in the tubes at the time and that value is based upon a current valuation, than the real world equation vs. actual cost could differ. What goes into the calcs and models to get to the value and expense figure is more complex but there is a real cost to that. End of the day though Yahoo! isn't paying her 52 million for those shares. They gave her some paper that has value to others. I guess you could say they gave away more of the company in stock to her and thus lost some value by having to issue more stock, but it's still not the equivalent of cash to her for the value of the stock.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 2, 2016 -> 04:36 PM) Those are all real financial statement expenses which ultimately impact the company and thus the shareholders. Those are accelerated options that she is granted, real money. She could choose to exit at that point and sell everything and get paid (depending on what the estimated $52M valuation was). That isn't some funny number. It is just as much the equivalent of cash and is something that absolutely will impact the financial statements of yahoo, reduce equity, etc. To who though? Is there are a requirement that Yahoo has to buy them back? Or is she selling them on the open market?

Did anyone else think Roose killed Ramsey at first? That was so unexpected/awesome.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 04:35 PM) Why is it a gigantic mess to clean up? What evidence is there to suggest that Tunsil is a loose cannon? On draft day, some a-hole hacked two of his social media accounts and the kid came off badly at an interview afterward. Putting myself in his shoes, I can't be too critical of a really bad interview performance. Was Randy Moss a giant mess to clean up? Sapp? Marino? Dez Bryant (on the impermissible benefits stuff)? If Tunsil plays to his talent level, he's not a distraction going forward. Around the league today teams are introducing their first picks and they are giving press conferences. One team is not because of a scandal. On day one they're already dealing with it. Whether or not it's his fault doesn't really matter. The scandal exists. I don't get why it's wrong that a team just wouldn't want to deal with it.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 04:16 PM) Isn't it way more likely that he was kept away from the mic at his introductory press conference because every question was going to be about his multiple hacked social media accounts? He wasn't going to get a single question about football. Still a gigantic mess to clean up. I'm not suggesting this is a 2 year old story. Some new scandal will come up. It will be forgotten. But it'll be a story this offseason, during training camp and maybe into the year if the NCAA does anything or if there's any news on his step dad. And you never know what he'll do in the future. Again, look how he responded under pressure in an interview. Not good.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 04:15 PM) If he was bad enough to smoke WEED as a teenager and take MONEY as a college athlete he's likely to be COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROOOOLLLLLLL Every player in this draft has done both of these things. They just don't have asshole stepdads ruining their lives on it. The pot issue aside, he's a f***ing moron for admitting that he took money in college. The right or wrong of it is irrelevant. He threw his college coach and school under the bus. If he's capable of doing that, imagine what he'll do to the Dolphins. I think it's 100% legit to question that part of him and decide that skills aside, he's not worth it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 03:49 PM) After watching Johnny Football self-destruct, I don't blame teams for being scared of drafting the next one. Yep, exactly.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 03:33 PM) It's really not. They'll protect him and answer some questions for a few weeks then for the most part it'll go away because the picture and text messages just aren't a big deal for Tunsil. This isn't over. It's going to carry on for a while. This is the NFL not the other professional sports. It's 24/7/365 coverage, especially with scandals. He's now a poster child of what's wrong with the NFL drug policy on pot, he's the face of the soon-to-be Ole Miss/NCAA investigation, he's being sued by his step-dad and there's a possible criminal case for the hacking of his phone. Oh, and he was either purposefully kept away from a mic at his introductory press conference because they're terrified of what he'll say next, or even worse, he was out too late partying last night and couldn't make it (no evidence of this, just my own speculation). All told just too much baggage to deal with.

PR nightmare.

I must be in the minority here. I'm happy the Bears ignored Tunsil. Not worth the hassle/baggage.