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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 10:35 AM) Anyone use a Nest? I have a cheap, $20 programmable Honeywell, but my wife just found that ComEd/Nicor has a $120 rebate if you buy a Nest. New ones are like $250. My wife likes the appeal (i.e. look and fancy functionality). Anyone with reviews? I'm not sure how much cost savings i'll get since we already have the house scheduled to increase/decrease temperature depending on if we're home and if we're asleep. The Nest seems to be a LITTLE more fluid than a strict schedule, but really other than the ability to change the temp on your phone, what's the appeal? Anything else? My local electric monopoly here in SA paid us $150 to install a programmable, internet enabled, thermostat in our home. It works really well because my wife and I have fairly predictable schedules. The only downside is during extreme periods of electrical use the utility has the option to raise our temperature a couple degrees to ease usage. Of course we can override the temp.

It's the same for me every year. Sox -> AL Central -> AL Lately a couple NL teams could take the place of an AL team. Any Texas team because they are covered so much here. The Cardinals. Basically I don't want to give Cub fans the satisfaction of losing to the eventual WS winner. I'd rather see the Mets swept, badly.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 01:00 PM) The market cap for Facebook is now larger than the market caps for Johnson and Johnson as well as Wells Fargo. That is crazy. At some point in time there will be a great short play.

QUOTE (shipps @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 04:50 PM) My buddy is opening up a brick oven pizza place within the next year or so (near the Cell). Lately he has been hitting up a lot of the ones in or near the Chicago area to check out the soon to be competition and find out what is good/not good. I went with him to Sono on Clybourn and it was great. He said that it ranks up there with Cold Fire (His top rated so far). What are your recommendations? He will definitely try it and I will probably go with him. He doesn't want to leave any stone un-turned. Ha! How will he be powering that stone?

So a Dem president puts up a huge stop sign for businesses to reinvest their profits?

On some boards this thread would have been in code.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 12:26 AM) For some reason that made me laugh. I'm glad I have some money saved (knock on wood). My second pet peeve hit today. So I get a bill for 120 bucks for my eye doctor. I have one eye exam the last 3 years, yes my prescription changes, and apparently my work's insurance company isn't paying. This country is f***ed up, folks. If it's not Blue Cross, it's a s*** company. I mean WTF. I'm supposed to get one free eye checkup per year. Obviously the insurance company rejected the eye doctor's fee if I got this bill. I am sick about America. I would say working as an insurance company claimsperson now is probably the worst white collar job in America. I just know those people are under pressure to REJECT parts or all parts of claims. What a joke. You can't even get an eye exam on there in a three-year span. What if I had glaucoma? I guess I'd have to pay for that as well. Now this all makes sense. Can you really see the people's reactions to your stopping routine? Maybe they are smiling but you eyes turn that smile upside down? In the bid to have this thread hit 100 adding the element of eyesight and s***ty jobs may well assure that happening, but technically we may have to rule theses posts as ineligible. In a side note I started counting to three and I noticed people thanking me. One person gave me a thumbs up. Well he tried for a thumbs up but because of the way he was holding the steering wheel he could only manage to raise his middle finger. But I knew what he meant and thought of you.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 03:52 PM) Sure, load up the bandwagon. I think we do a disservice to casual fans.

I'm only half way through writing my thesis, I have about 50 more pages to get done in the next two weeks and tequilla really ficking helps the writing process. Just saying

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 07:05 AM) So let me tell y'all a story. Anyway, I already hated my sister, and now I have an excuse to not bother to see her at all. Obviously she needs some sort of help, but I'm not going to be the one to give it to her. She has a system filled will enabling idiots who think she's the greatest person on the planet, so I'll let one of them figure it out. /weekend Don't you hate being the normal one? BTW he was covering for his wife, which is an interesting thought,

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 10:43 PM) . I'm sort of accusing the cop of wanting to raise $140 for city coffers and get a pat on the back for obtaining such money for the city, cause I think that's true. And you nicely offered an opportunity by breaking the law. But lost in all this, I do agree if anyone deserved a break, it was you. But you didn't get one. And for the $140 we were able to forget the crappy baseball season and discuss your ticket. I think the city and soxtalk.com won. Sorry, but you lost.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 01:09 PM) Like I said, it's kind of scary because 90 percent of people don't come to a complete stop. I was just out and about and again, people appeared mad at me for taking so long at the stop signs. Somebody coming up right behind you is scary cause they appear to be very close to banging into the bumper. I have never noticed this and I come to a complete stop, always.

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.