Texsox

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 26, 2007 -> 11:03 PM) It's turning out that the custom-made books is a real racket and that the publishers are tossing the schools and profs a few bucks to adopt the custom strategy. So when does your book come out? I am hearing discussed buying an older edition, pros? cons? stories? One Prof said buy the older if the savings were big, the other, a grad student teaching Test and Measurements (sound familar Soxy ) wanted the current.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 27, 2007 -> 07:27 AM) The topic says it all. Flaxx, Rex, Balta, et. al are going to be in glory bliss today. You forgot me

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 26, 2007 -> 03:28 PM) Hmm, so what you are saying is that the illegals are going to take over our entire country, slaughter most of us, and imprision the rest of us. I don't think that will calm groups like the militiamen. Awesome SS. A tip of the comedic cap

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 04:19 PM) I would love to see the google search Irish did to find that gem.... who would do that to a sheep?!?!!? It's standard wallpaper on a Mac

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 11:39 AM) if you're serious, please ask the question again. Why do you not believe him? There is a difference between knowing there is a chance, and knowing it would happen.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 02:26 PM) Its not our fault, they dress like sluts.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 02:33 PM) OMFG. Greg, come on, you're not this stupid. A stupid little email going around on the internet, versus a United States Senator, on the floor of a Senate, holding up a newspaper with headlines on it saying "Bush knew"... which is going to last for the duration of time? It's only in the record of the senate. Yes, the email is stupid. Hilliary is not. Now let's stop with the pettiness, shall we? Which gets your attention? Something on the Senate floor or an email in your box from a friend? Which is more important, OJs being found not guilty or the public perception? And Balta, you are correct. Had President Clinton kept his pants on he could have done more. At that point in time if he had made a big case about Binny, I could hear all the GOPerheads, led by Rush, hollering tail wagging the dog. His immoral actions costed us dearly.

We do treat different animals differently. If we ate dogs, like we do cows, pigs, and chickens, we wouldn't be nearly as upset over Vick. BTW, interesting side note. As humans, we have not domesticated a new species on thousands of years. Cows, pigs, dogs, cats, etc. were all done a long time ago.

QUOTE(Whitewashed in '05 @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 10:18 PM) Baltimore pitching allowed 30 runs to go along with 11 K's... How the hell did they K 11? Couple Ideas: 1. Exhaustion from running all those wind sprints around the bases . . . 2. Laughing too much 3. Sympathy

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 10:14 AM) from foxnews.com give me a friggin' break. Why don't you believe him?

QUOTE(Beastly @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 06:03 PM) EIU, my university, rents books to the students. My bill for books is a whopping...$152.00! I have one Psy text that would cost that new.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 10:42 AM) I would retort some of this, but of course it would be a COMPLETE waste of time. However, one I will comment on. The "knowing about 9/11 before it happened" bit is just pure bulls***. I get so tired of seeing how Bush knew about 9/11 and it's a conspiracy and he allowed it to happen, yet read in the next sentence about how stupid Bush is. You can't have it both ways, and it just feeds the hate mongering that goes on every single day in this country. Thanks for playing, and have a nice day. Of course President Clinton should have known and stopped Binny years before. Ahhh, how we protect "our players" Thanks for playing . . .

My son has had three iPods crash and burn, but decided when he went off to college he needed a Mac Book. I'll admit I liked the packaging and the look and feel, and I imagine after a learning curve I could grow to love a Mac, until today. His "D" key stopped working. Less than a month old and a keyboard failure. damn them. Of course he didn't take the packaging with him, and now I'm trying to help from a few hundred miles away.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 03:37 PM) I was thinking he could remove his daughter's name if he is able to show the bank that she is unable/unwilling to pay, and that he will make the payments until he can sell the vehicle. There is no reason for the bank to remove her name. They lose one potential, albeit, poor chance at payment. I doubt the state would alter the title without a court order or bill of sale. Unless she is cooperating, that probably isn't going to happen. This is a classic case of why you should think twice before co-signing for anyone.

Don't make the same mistake I made, this isn't about Bea Arthur, they want to take you out of the US

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 02:13 PM) It's perfectly legal. Twenty "lawers in training" on this site and the MBA answers

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 21, 2007 -> 01:06 PM) It appears someone is finally going after the Thompson campaign's dirty little secret: it's a campaign. The issue/benefit for Thompson here? He has a few months after he declares to begin meeting disclosure requirements for his campaign donors. Supposedly, if he goes past Sept. 6th without officially announcing, he won't have to meet disclosure requirements until Jan 31st of next year, and thus he won't have to do so until after Iowa, NH, Michigan, South Carolina, Florida, etc. I don't have a problem with a candidate working the rules as hard as he can. In fact, I don't have a problem with a President doing the same. He's surrounded, no doubt, by attorneys helping in. Bottom line for me, small procedural thing that does not matter.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 21, 2007 -> 02:23 PM) What do you do with all the insurance company people that will be out of work? Do they now become government employees? I would imagine that many would, in fact, they could compete for government contracts for case management, etc. I also think we have a much too low opinions of government workers and too high an opinion of private sector employees. Unions are in both the private and public sector, as are good and bad employees. I've had many more poor experiences with clerks in stores than postal employees, for example. I've met many more good cops than bad. Then there is Nuke, so maybe our opinion of government workers sucking off the public teat is valid

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 21, 2007 -> 04:23 PM) How drunk would they have to be before they'd want to hook up with Tex?? [Not that there's anything wrong with it. . . ] I Kid, I Care, So There® Mexico is too close. Kind of like when WI was 18 and IL 21. Road trip.

Happy Birthday!! Always thought provoking.

At the root of this, is a very pleasant fact. We have such a complecated system and soooo many attorneys, because we have soooo many rights as citizens. And that is a damn good thing. BTW, I am a big fan of attorneys who work on both sides of the aisle. The system works best when the defendant is able to mount a vigorous defense.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 18, 2007 -> 09:17 PM) I don't see his hip (contract, trade likely) allowing him to play 8 more seasons with the White Sox. I don't expect anyone to sign a second contract with the Sox, so a third would be amazing. Edit: Then again, maybe with Bonds trainer he could do it in three years

When I was growing up in Chicago, I wondered how people could be caught by a hurricane. People talk about them for days leading up. How could you not be prepared? Then I moved to the Gulf Coast. This is about the tenth hurricane that *may* hit me. So far, we've had two big rains, but for the most part nothing. So once again I'm not doing anything to prepare, until last night. Driving back from San Antonio I passed over 100 Military Humvees and support equipment. Once I arrived in McAllen, I discovered about 500 buses, from school buses to nice coaches, lined up at our civic center and filling an old walmart parking lot. And I'm 80 miles from the coast! I guess we've learned some lessons. Hey Kap, room at your house? I'll bring the beer

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 19, 2007 -> 11:57 PM) There are a lot of online places to buy textbooks for cheap, like half.com, valorebooks.com, bookbyte.com, etc. Personally, I keep my textbook costs down by thoroughly abusing the system and requesting preview copies from the publishers. telling them I'm considering adopting their text for use in a course. When they think it might lead to a sale of 10-20 copies, they are very quick to get a preview copy out to me. In truth, I have adopted a half-dozen different texts for various classes over the years, so I guess I'm not such a bad abuser of the system after all. How would you like to teach a few Psychology course?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 20, 2007 -> 05:45 PM) You lost me right about here... There have been plenty of people who have picked and choosed the good things about Cuba as reasons we should drop the embargo, and their health care system is always one of them. I have heard plenty of univeral health care advocates point to Cuba, Canada, and lots of the Scandanavian countries as well sited examples. Commie lover I'm not certain how dropping the embargo ties into a Cuban style health care system in the US. I also believe we can put together a single payer system that allows for patient choice. Actually, I see that as the only way for any changes to move forward.