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QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 19, 2015 -> 03:00 PM) I definitely need to get it fixed or fix it myself. I am certain it is AUX input as it's visibly damaged and I've tried different devices/cords. Unfortunately the AUX module is not one that pops right out. I would have to take the whole radio out. Do you think any shop would work on this? If it is integral to the head unit, I'd be looking at http://www.crutchfield.com/ picking one out and installing it myself. Their on line technicians and installation guides are top notch. It will probably be cheaper to replace than repairing. Crutchfield is where all the cool kids go for cheap prices on quality gear. If you want to try pull the unit and attempt to take it apart. There may be a youtube video showing how,

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 18, 2015 -> 04:28 PM) Literally no one is saying this, but I am more concerned with songs/movies/whatever talking favorably about white supremacy than with the awful, deplorable violence that noted degenerate Johnny cash sang about. I am not saying that anyone besides myself is saying this, It is a question I am proposing. Why is it OK to celebrate random acts of violence and murder against men, women, and children for entertainment? If we agree that the chanting exposed their character as racist, what does it say about the character of people who simulate killing for fun? How do we immediately know these kids are guilty and the frat boys playing a video game are OK? Both are being entertained by simulating murder and terror. Why do we find murder so much fun?

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 18, 2015 -> 02:00 PM) Who cares, you are deflecting blame. A chant is not entertainment. People don't start up chants for fun, they listen to music, video games, etc. One has nothing to do with the other. You are just performing a deflection of blame. There is a culture at issue here, and it isn't violent video games. I guess I am not explaining my point correctly. I place the blame directly on the kids. Let me try this again. They got caught by chanting. I believe they also should be in trouble for playing any entertainment with that theme. THEY are clearly wrong no matter the entertainment venue. Do we agree that a racists theme game (if it existed) would be wrong also? Now, if we agree that a racists themed video game would be wrong, we have now agreed that there are potentially themes that would be wrong on a video game. Next I propose that random acts of killing, no matter the motivation, in video games are potentially bad. The culture supports random acts of violence against innocent people. We can all agree that the racist killing of black people is wrong. Buy why is it OK to randomly kill blacks, whites, women, children, in video games? Or maybe this way. They are obviously wrong for celebrating the potential lynching of a black person. Why isn't it also wrong to celebrate the random killing of another person?

Arresting someone isn't always easy. I hope the solution is somewhere fair to everyone. Perhaps some citizens training on placing your hands on top of your head and following directions combined with don't abuse the citizens for the police. I would assume that once the decision is made to cuff someone each second after that becomes more stressful for the officers. I don't see much value in standing there arguing with someone for five minutes to put the cuffs on.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Mar 19, 2015 -> 10:16 AM) It's not the first time we've helped her out. We actually had temporary custody of her daughter for about a year a couple of years ago, so we are pretty close. I think we can get everything worked out. It's kinda of shocking to see how someone can get stuck in a downward cycle with almost no way out. It is really difficult to pull yourself up today. The classic strategy of get a job and work hard is nice, but one car failure, one illness, one financial misstep and years of gains collapse.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 17, 2015 -> 04:16 PM) My aux input is messed up in my car. It's all loose and alternates from working on the left side, to the right side, to both and to neither. Does anyone know what my options are as far as getting it fixed? It's an '08 Dodge Charger if that makes any difference. Options Live with it. Replace the unit yourself Have a shop replace the entire unit Repair just the input yourself Have a shop repair the input I would also check the output on the device you are hooking up and the cable just to be certain you have isolated the problem. Also, check how the input is wired. I have seen the input separate from the head unit. You could find one at a pick and pull and install that style very easily. If you are lucky the cable will unplug from the input module and a new input module will just pop into the dash.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Mar 16, 2015 -> 09:41 AM) By co-signing the loan we would essentially be buying the car for her. We just want to have her name on the loan to build up her credit. If all goes well, she’ll build it up enough that she’ll be able to re-finance the loan in a year or two under her own name. It’s not so much that she has BAD credit. It’s that she has NO credit. We would be sure that the monthly payments will be affordable to her as well as us if we ever have to take over. We already have some numbers in mind. It’s just a matter of finding a car to fit those numbers. Worst case scenario is that we take over the payments and let our daughter have the car. With her name on the loan and title you will have a harder time taking the car if she defaults. As long as you are cool with paying for a car that she is driving, go ahead. Imagine the scenarios of taking the car back. She has made two years of payments then stops. Will you pay her back for those two years? If taking the car back means she will lose her job, will you accept that? What if she can't take care of her daughter without the car? You are being very generous and I don't want to sound callous. I applaud what you are doing for her. I am just pointing out a few pitfalls that you are facing. Now think about this. She makes all the payments, repairs her credit, and the rest of her life and her daughter's is made much, much, easier because of your faith in her and generosity. That's pretty cool.

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QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 18, 2015 -> 09:08 AM) Uh, no, i don't think a lynching game would do be a good thing. No that that's out of the way... Now if a lynching game isn't a good thing, are other games with murder and violence a good thing?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 18, 2015 -> 08:31 AM) I don't agree that expulsion from a public university was appropriate. It seems like a pretty clear violation of their first amendment rights. I have no idea why you're talking about video games, but if they made a game that was explicitly racist as the song they sang and was essentially a pro-KKK game set in 1920's Mississippi or something, it would be even worse than the song just based on the effort of that versus singing a song. It seems like you're still thinking the biggest problems with the song are that they used "n*****" or that it was somehow speaking approvingly of generic, non-racist lynching or something. At least that's the only way I can get to you video game comparison. The problem with the song isn't some sort of generalized approval of violence, it's specifically the racially targeted, white supremacist violence. Is that the only violence that we should be concerned about and stop? We're ok with general random violence? Why is it ok to murder some innocent people and not others?

The idea that we shouldn't be concerned about anything in video games. Singing a song that these boys probably didn't write was enough to get them expelled. We all agree that was appropriate. Now if instead they produced a video game where the object is to kill as many people as possible by lynching, would that be ok? Or better still, would it be ok to play the game because after all it isn't "real" and we shouldn't blame any violence or acts in our society on video games.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 11, 2015 -> 09:45 AM) http://sfist.com/2015/03/07/terrible_human..._mariotti_h.php Reading this article, he is going back to the medium he said was dying 8 years ago when he went to AOL. It also says at one point he thought he was the one that got Obama elected. You cannot make this stuff up. The whole article is very tongue in cheek. In a befitting kind of way the sfist.com article you linked is really biased against Jay.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Mar 14, 2015 -> 11:13 AM) Sorry, but we don't celebrate disrespecting people for the color of their skin in our music, movies, & literature. And please name me one rap song that has a line about killing someone simply for being a different race. That s*** wouldn't fly in this day and age. If reasons are important is having no reason to kill someone really better?

And I believe it would be that way if they invented a video game that people played. If video games really don't matter than a game where the people drove around earning points by lynching people would be cool. We can't blame anything on songs, games, or movies. So a lynching game is totally cool with you guys? I really doubt it. Now if we decide that people who played that game would be wrong, then why is it right to murder anyone in a video game? Are we at the point where we differentiate which murders are bad and which are good? Guns and fantasy weapons OK, ropes bad? Killing them with cars = awesome Hanging = evil? Or are the victims what makes the difference? Are some lives just worth more than others? Do we differentiate in video games like we seem to do in real life?

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Mar 17, 2015 -> 05:01 AM) I would like to see Brian Anderson join the org in a similar role or in a scouting capacity, assuming he dosnent make the team. I mentioned earlier I believe he would make a great coach.

Jose Valentin's mustache /thread

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 16, 2015 -> 05:13 PM) Even with their new arena some day even that is now delayed, DePaul is so irrelevant. You take this job, you will be running away in a few years. Unless they can get someone who could recruit the Public League better than anyone has in many years, who is going to want to play at DePaul? It's been a couple decades since I paid any attention to DePaul. It seemed to me what looked like a positive, the move from on campus to the Rosemont Horizon, actually backfired and hurt the program. Plus the switch from Meyer the great to Meyer to lesser . . . Has there been any bright spots since then? It also seems that trying to recruit kids to stay home just isn't a great strategy. Get kids from small towns that want to live in a big city. Get city kids from other cities and have them want to be in Chicago. But getting kids to stay home who have a chance to move away from their parents, just never seems to work well.

the cockroaches.

After half the team was delayed in traffic and were given 9s on their first two holes (Texas Prep Max) my girls fought to a third place finish. They beat everyone that they should have. Our district tournament is in two weeks. We are one of the top three teams but only two advance. It should be fun.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 12, 2015 -> 10:29 AM) This always seems to be made more complicated than it is. Do personalities matter in a clubhouse? Of course, they are human beings. Can "chemistry" effect a team? Also, of course. Can it be measured or predicted? Absoutely not. We should just pin this and direct any threads on chemistry to this quote. I believe a more subtle thing may be how free agents view coming to the Sox. No body wants to pick a crappy place to work.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Mar 14, 2015 -> 03:23 PM) I meant to complaints from liberals when it was done to Bush. WhIle I can believe the 'horns' part can be a complete accident, given the logo, there have been many other times they have manipulated photos to appear one way or another. Darkening McCain with shadows to appear evil-like, making sure that the lights around Obama's head look like a halo, etc. Right, which is why I didn't think twice about the Time cover.

I hope he has cured his personal demons. Early in his career he was a really solid writer. He seemed to have several personal issues and he self destructed.

QUOTE (Chi Town Sox @ Mar 11, 2015 -> 01:43 PM) I was told that when it was checked with HR, that June starts are the cutoff date for bonuses with extensive apologies from the boss Consider if there are any non bonus issues that you could accept instead. I'm not certain about the details of your position but if the boss is apologizing, perhaps an extra week vacation? Better equipment, better working conditions, etc. Think what does he have authority to do that you would want him to do.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Mar 12, 2015 -> 10:35 AM) How long does it take for an old debt that has been paid in full to fall off a credit report? A friend of mine wants to buy a car but they couldn’t approve her for a loan because her credit score is too low. Part of the reason it’s too low is an old student loan debt that was paid off a couple of weeks ago when they seized most of her tax return. So her plans to use the tax return and just pay cash for a car went out the window. My wife and I have been trying to help her out and one option we have discussed is co-signing a loan with her. But we know there are risks involved with that as well. We both have credit scores of 800+ and don’t want to ruin them if something happens and she can’t pay the loan anymore. The only other option we’ve come up with is going to a buy here/pay here (no credit, bad credit, no problem!) car lots. I just worry that she would end up with a POS that would need repairs every other week. She is borrowing a car from another friend for the moment but that is a very temporary solution. She needs to get something within the next week or two. She’s a single mom with a special needs daughter making just over minimum wage and she can’t seem to any kind of help or assistance at all. They told her that she makes too much to get food stamps. Instead of cosigning consider buying the car, keeping it in your name, and allow her to make payments until it is paid off. Depending on how good of a friend she is you could even make a few extra points interest in the deal. Charge some of the difference in rates she would wind up with at a "Buy Here - Pay Here" place. Credit card level interest is the norm at those car lots. But if you cosign, plan on being able to make the payments if she cannot. Anything less with damage your credit. It shows poor judgement to lenders that you are cosigning without plans to assume the debt at some point. You know how close to financial peril she is, perhaps even more IRS problems. All the same reasons banks are running away from here are why you could be left paying on the auto loan. Imagine something happens to her child, are you going to demand payment and cause the child to miss a doctor's visit?

Dying after watching that.