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What kinds of stores will fall at the blade of the internet and which will survive. I'm thinking three stores will probably always be around on a local basis, grocery, clothing, and building supplies.

I'm sitting here thinking that 50 years ago, someone going to prison over the death of dogs, would be unimaginable. I wonder if some future society will look at mouse traps with scorn, wondering how we could have condoned such behavior.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 11:22 AM) No sir!! Their first year football coach Randy Shannon has laid down the law!! He is kicking ANYBODY who is convicted of a felony off the team immediately. (And no, I'm not kidding. That's an ACTUAL policy there now, it's amazing they need it, but the new policy helps support my point since the team no longer has felons on it). he's gone in three and the new guy believes in redemption and forgiveness Somewhere, someone, will take a chance on his "young" football body. Fresh legs, etc.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 11:13 AM) Most techies I know don't even bother going into stores anymore. Everything is ordered online. And CompUSA wasn't going to be competitive with the PC and hardware companies, or the amazon's and buy.com's of the world. What few people buy this stuff in stores now go to Best Buy, or Abt or the like - glitzy electronics stores with wonderful toys. This was inevitable. I disagree, technies are the guys that have to have it now. A card goes out, they are upgrading, etc. It's the average consumer that walked away because of Best Buy, etc. I liked CompUSA because they price matched and gave a store credit instead of a rebate. I always walked in there with Best Buys ad.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 11:17 AM) That's not how it works here. Since this is a federal case, he has to serve at least 85 percent of the sentence, which in the case of 23 months, 85 percent is at least 19 and 1/2 months. He could, in theory, serve the last month of that in a halfway house, and he did start his jailtime about 3 weeks ago, but the earliest Vick could realistically even be a free man is the summer of 2009. Now, of course, by then he will not have played an NFL game in almost 3 years, be 29 years old (which isn't young by NFL standards) be nowhere near in playing shape, and not be on any team since sometime after June 1st (at the latest) of 2008, the Falcons will cut him to save the cap hit. Unless Bruce Weber coaches an NFL team, I doubt he plays in the NFL again when you consider all that and other than good ol' Bruce, I'm unaware of many (or any) convicted felons who are on the roster of major athletic squads. Miami

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 10:53 AM) The minute they built a Fry's in Downers Grove I forgot that Comp USA even existed. Hell Microcenter > Comp USA. Speaking of computer stores shut down, who here remembers ElekTek. Now that shutting down made me sad. I knew they were toast when I walked into a CompUSa needing an I/O card for a PC and the clerk didn't have clue, nor did the manager. I miss Egghead Software

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home I remember in the early 1990s hanging out there looking at all the cool tech.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 10:29 AM) So he will serve less than a year, and be back in the NFL for the 2009 mini/training camps. Wonderful. beats the house arrest I was expecting or 2 years probation.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 10:00 AM) Wow 23 months!! That's almost 14 dog years!! /obligatory So much for him getting off easy because he's famous, damn. I hope he enjoys the clink and finds a nice boyfriend though. I will put the over/under on the angry "that's racist" columns on espn.com at 7, starting of course with Jemele Hill and Scoop Jackson. potm worthy

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 09:45 AM) Blue Moon is no world-class beer to be sure, but it's easily the most interesting beer the Coors company has ever produced. It's actually not an altogether terrible megabrew Belgian witbier interpretation, but I think it's a little too perfumy and not quite acidic enough to be considered fully authentic. I'll drink it in a pinch, and happily so if the only alternative is adjunct-loaded megaswill. The rotten lime flavor you allude to is likely the bittter orange peel added to the boil, and the coriander also gives citrusy notes. If you try a Belgian Hoegarden or a Wit, or an American Allagash White or a Lost Coast Great White and don't find them enjoyable, it's priobably more of a stylistic impasse than Blue Moon's lack of merit. Who took my FlaSoxxJim to English dictionary? I need it, this seems important!

In the Vick gets sentenced thread QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 10:00 AM) Wow 23 months!! That's almost 14 dog years!! /obligatory

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 05:49 AM) I think its kind of funny that people get all worked up when Ozzie or Kenny say these sorts of things. What do you expect them to say? My guys suck?! Heck, if anything, this tells me its likely that one of Danks or Floyd might get moved in a trade. Ding Ding Ding

QUOTE(Vance Law @ Dec 9, 2007 -> 10:37 PM) Seriously, Olajuwon had a f***ing cannon in right field. and a hell of a reach.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Dec 9, 2007 -> 07:09 PM) I think I would like Rosetta Stone for Spanish. And a new job. Maybe teaching English. In Korea. Learn Spanish, to teach English, in Korea?

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 01:24 AM) If this person/people are serious I wouldn't think they'd write down a date and a place and then actually go to that place on that day. Anyways, stay safe and hopefully nothing whatsoever comes of this. Amazing as it seems, some do. Sometimes it is a friend figures out the scheme and alerts police. Other times they are mentally sick and for whatever reason call it in. Small percentage for certain, but it does happen. What you have to be careful of, for example, in bomb threats, in areas with high violence terrorists have called in a bomb threat to a building, waited for the building to empty, then bombed the people outside.

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QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 9, 2007 -> 04:24 PM) +Donations to the CU Crisis Nursery +Hopes that my junior high's canned food drive raises more than our goal of 1,000 lbs. of food for the local community center's food pantry so we can stick it to the mentality that only negative things come out of the town +My parents sponsoring a kid from the Christian Children's Fund +Some Chikara DVD's +Some Kurt Vonnegut books +Money +Ed Wood DVD Anything else would be pretty cool. Wow! Our lists are the same, except I really want world peace, if only for one day. ANd I'd like everyone to be blessed by the God of their choice.

new Oreo's packaging. Best product enhancement in years.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 7, 2007 -> 10:01 AM) The NFL is the wrong sport to reference in this case. They suspend people for off of the field problems They suspend people for drugs and prefomance enhancers They enforce the intergrety of the game by making rules to keep their sport classy MLB wishes it was the NFL, because at least the NFL has integretity. The NFL, unlike MLB and the NBA market teams much better. Take the star crap out of advertising and it makes your sport a bit more insulated from needing that star power to sell tickets and in a better position to suspend anyone.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Dec 9, 2007 -> 05:12 PM) I wish I were that good Of course, studying for that little time might just make me study for a while. Shall I suspend your account for a couple hours

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Dec 9, 2007 -> 04:49 PM) Ugh, I'm crazy hungover today, and I can't make myself get out of this chair and do some homework. This sucks. Just study for 10 minutes.

I didn't see a certain basketball player turned baseball outfielder who went on to win a few championships in the NBA and is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

The defense will mention, as often as possible, and is as many ways as possible, that these guys were, OMG! illegal aliens. The government should probably save our money and not even try to prosecute. No way in hell he gets convicted. If this was some middle class white kids stealing on a lark, the guy would never see the light of day. Many times it isn't what you do, it is who you do it to.

A couple Spring Breaks ago I was at a locals bar on South Padre and some obnoxious dude was annoying all the women by hitting on them with the worst lines (are there any good) and annoying all the guys by telling them he could drink like an entire case of beer without getting buzzed. I looked at him and said, "too bad man, I feel really sorry for you." "whaaat? " "you can drink a case of beer and not get buzzed, yeah, I'm sorry for you dude" "cause I'm a real man and can hold my liquor?" "no cause you would waste $100 buying beer and not get buzzed, seems stupid to me. Hell, I've had four and I'm feeling really happy right now, kind of mellow, nice buzz." I've been sampling a lot of wheat beers lately and when I go back to some regular cheap domestic, it tastes like crap.