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QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 11, 2015 -> 02:07 AM) I listened to Trump on the Herman Cain show tonight. Folks, if our choices remain crap, why not give a businessman a shot at it? He definitely has his opinions and he definitely wants to fix the economy which none of the traditional leaders have a rat's ass chance of doing. What harm can Trump do more than the traditional candidates who all suck? He actually sounded like he had a plan. Why not give Trump a shot? If he sucks at least it'll be funny as hell and I doubt one man can single handedly bring our country to its knees. How bout a Trump-Carson ticket and victory? Again, what harm can it do? If it's not them you seriously want Hillary-Biden to run the show? Boring.... True.

I am perfectly ambivalent whether he stays or goes. He has taken me to a place of I don't care. He's like a clean white wall. You know it could be better, but it isn't a moldy, dirty mess, either. He's like a bowl of vanilla ice cream, you want to add something, but nothing is sounding right. I'm bored but don't want to move. Meh, keep him around.

QUOTE (Rooftop Shots @ Oct 8, 2015 -> 01:46 PM) I don;t expect it to be his final tour. He has said emphatically that he would like to die in the announcers booth. The only way that I see it being final for him is that the wind git taken out of his sail so much this year after all of the hype, that maybe he really doesnt see us being a REAL contender any time soon, and sick of using whatever time he has available and getting all bummed out and announcing for continual losers. Then trveling home and gtting up and doing it all over again only to get bummed out some more. I REALLY wonder if he is really taking the time off because he may really BELIEVE that our situation is not REAL Fixable anytime soon into turning us into a DOMINATING consistent threatening MLB team. If we were dominating.......there is no way he'd leave the home booth. With Laroche and Danks (real contract sucker-uppers) and young guys that haven't really shown that they will develope into consistent powerhouse batting stars, plus having so many holes to fill with a limited budget.............. why would he come back? I really think it is his (behind the scenes way) of saying "I have had enough of the same putridness year after year after year with no end in sight." "If I would have had a real reason to stay... I would". You don't always get your choice.

The only road games makes sense to me. Perhaps his final tour. All the years as a player and announcer doing the travelling. As a grandfather, no, 6 months a year is not enough time. Not even close. But I didn't read anywhere that Hawk cited that as a reason.

Thank you. This is probably been the busiest time I have ever experienced at work. I think I worked shorter hours at a couple start ups. Plus trying to find time to see the little one.

Rank Mark wherever you like on the all time lists. What I believe we all can agree on is his approach to the game, his personality, work ethic, and class was first rate and I'm glad he was a Sox player. Every sport needs guys like Buehrle.

A couple weeks ago we welcomed our first grandchild into the world. He is the cutest baby, ever. :-) I've been a little busy since then with school starting and finding excuses to visit.

I thought they used the officer's gun to kill him. They probably wouldn't be any DNA on the bullet but his own. I'm surprised that no cars were reported stolen in the area. Perhaps they had one near by. I grew up near there and could remember most of the places they were talking about. Damn, that really sucks.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 09:46 PM) How will they identify stolen/rogue/ill-intentioned drones from the "good" or seemingly harmless ones? Basically the same issues as handguns, albeit even more difficult to track...do we have radar all across the US in less densely-populated areas capable of tracking them effectively? How much would that cost? Seems prohibitively expensive, and if you take the FAA or air traffic control people and mix in drones with their work...or retask the military to it, you're wasting lots of money/valuable resources. Exactly. Which is why I said earlier, people will get rich off of this. New technology, etc. Or perhaps ban them. Either way the government is getting involved, I do not see a private industry initiative to fix this.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 07:05 AM) What was that cop thinking? I'll just totally lie about everything cuz nobody will look at my body cam? A couple things in his defense, before I mention I hope he is in prison for a long time. There have been many studies how wrong people get chains of events in their mind. It seemed this all happened in less than a second. He truly may have felt threatened for that second. He could not identify the person. The guy could have been a criminal with warrants. But again, I'm guessing a middle aged white guy who forgot his license would be alive today. On the b.s. side, the cop was fishing for something bigger than no front license plate.

People who actually spend time in the habitat that these animals live in have a huge stake in maintaining the habitat. I was a leave No Trace™ trainer and outdoor enthusiasts do our best to take care of the wilderness. It seems a little unfair to later be labeled as anti-wildlife and habitat.

I don't believe we can have people shooting down drones, that's crazy and unsafe almost everywhere. Instead we will start down ways of tracking drones and identifying where they fly, etc. Lots of government regulations, etc. I'd like to here a small government solution.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 06:01 PM) Just cause their are other atrocities situations that are worse, doesn't mean that when something like this is brought up, you ignore it. And I obviously still eat meat, however, I am a huge proponent in the more humane (or I probably should say, slightly more humane) methods of raising them (free range). I agree. But I believe there is one common factor here that makes the comparison valid, how humans kill animals and why. Perhaps by exploring why and how we will better understand the situation and make changes if necessary.

Possibly found a piece of the plane in the Indian Ocean. Was it planted by whomever took the plane?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 03:35 PM) I didn't really want to get into the gun aspect of this case. I'm much more worried about the privacy/property rights issues. If somebody's going to fly one of those things that slowly that close to the ground, I can whack it with a bat (unless I'm Tyler Flowers, then I'd miss). I didn't either but earlier Balta mentioned what if the bullet hit someone, he didn't use a rifle and he used really small shot. It also kind of confirms his version that it was really close. I wish the police confiscated the video to accurately tell what they were looking at.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 05:56 PM) Anyone got any outrage left for the 30,00 other murders in Zimbabwe? Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe’s death squads have reportedly killed at least that many and buried in mass graves, They even had names too, just like the lion... Or the humans being killed by capital punishment in our country as well?

I compare the hundreds of millions of cows, steers, pigs, chickens, fish etc that each year are factory raised and killed for our consumption with the few trophy hunts of animals in the wild. Morally and ethically I am more troubled by the process of artificially inseminating, raising them in pens, and killing them the cheapest way possible method of food production. I'm not bothered enough to stop eating meat, but I do feel that morally the vegetarians among us are probably on better ground.

And seriously, Cecil wasn't as famous as people were making him out to be. Who here really heard of him before he was killed?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 03:31 PM) This specific one was at least in a protected area and thus shouldn't have been exposed to that hunt. However you're right that this def. goes on all the time otherwise. For those areas, it's an exploitable natural resource. My understanding is if a lion wanders off that area they can still be killed. This one was collared, so it would never be legal. But a lion which is baited off a preserve and into an area where the landowner has he necessary permits is fair game. On a much smaller scale landowners have this dispute with neighbors all the time. Encouraging animals to leave one property for another. Hunts in the US adjacent to protected areas often are at a premium.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 02:52 PM) If you want another interesting case, several drones interfered with firefighting in L.A. about 2 weeks ago and as a consequence several loads of fire retardant were dropped away from their targets. The fire in question hopped the 15 freeway and destroyed a bunch of cars, so they literally produced hundreds of thousands of dollars of damages. I also saw a video of firefighters knocking one out of the sky by shooting water at it. Can we guess the path drone regulation will take? Step 1, the industry will claim they can take care of it through education programs and no government interference (laws) are necessary.

I've been on guided fishing trips to Mexico and Canada I assumed the guides were having me fishing legally. I guess I could have hired a lawyer first and had them check I've been on guided excursion in National Parks, Wildlife Areas, again I trust the people taking my money that the program is legal. So if, and that is a big IF, the hunter was not aware the hunt was illegal, and again my spidey senses tell me otherwise, I see him being somewhat innocent of the technical charges against him. The lack of quota in that region, the landowner not having a permit, etc. Even the ethics leaves me shaking my head, but the laws do allow for baiting lions (with proper permits). That exact same hunt could have been made legal with the proper paperwork. Has anyone really paused to think about that? The hunt would have been legal with the proper permits and in a different area. Then no one would have been outraged?

Wouldn't it be amazing if everyone who was so outraged by the killing send in $20 for lion preservation? Problem solved. Upwards of 600 lions are legally killed each year in Africa. If this one didn't have a name, no one would care. Having said that the methods used are reprehensible. I can't believe anyone could take pride in that safari. What was illegal in this hunt is the lack of permits (money to the country). The fact that hundreds more will be legally killed IMHO should outrage more people than one lion with a human name. As humans we take from nature what is valuable. We destroy wetlands to build homes. We destroy birds for wind power. The factory farms and processing that produce your cheeseburger are on a scale well beyond Cecil. But the millions of cows that will be slaughtered this year do not have names and cute marketing stories. Our most durable leather comes from old dairy cows that are not normally eaten by humans. We don't care, they don't have names. But we like the leather. Think about the sweet baseball mitts we all broke in. The beef didn't feed humans.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07...r-his-backyard/ He used #8 birdshot. If they had fallen on someone it would be far less than getting hit by hail. But it's a gun and they are all the same to some people. The thing had a camera attached. peeping on people. Anyone think that doesn't go over the line?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 02:13 PM) If the bullet were to hit someone on the way back down, would he face extra charges for that? He should. Flying ten feet off the ground peeking under roofs? I hope they were laughing at each other saying "what are they going to do, shoot it down!" The point is how do you investigate and charge someone with flying a drone in an unsafe, harassing, manner? We sometimes talk about all the new laws that get created and we don't need any more laws. Here is a prime example. Drones. Registration? Permits? Training? Identifying signals? Tracking? Flight plans? Limit the size and range? Some lawyers are going to be making bank in this industry.

I've been waiting for a case like this. Read the article before responding. The drone was not just flying over, it was hovering over people's homes and even flying low enough to look under a patio roof. At some point that seems like an unreasonable amount of spying. I don't advocate at all shooting it down. I think the home owner will, and should, be punished based on discharging a firearm in the city. But there needs to be some laws written regulating these drones.