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QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 07:23 PM) So (humble brag, btw) Ohio State is offering me a funded position into a PhD program there and when I told my dad the good news, the first thing he says is "now you can finally get that tattoo you wanted" Awesome. Toss out some details. It ain't braggin' if you done it.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 07:28 PM) I don't see the problem with the Spaghettio's thing. My guess is complaints follow the idea that you should not profit from tragedy. This looks like an ad for spaghettiOs not a dignified memorial. Most companies just place their name on an iconic image or some more subdued image. Having your mascot smiling in an ad is possibly over the top.

I just got back from the UT-Pan American v. UT- San Antonio game. Even small D1 college hoops is so awesome in person. I'm hoping once our conference schedule kicks in more people will show up to the games.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 01:51 PM) Part of the murkyness early for him was that weight lifting in baseball really didn't get going until the mid-80's. Until then weight lifting was considered wrong for players because it caused them to lose flexibility. This is also when steriods started to appear as well. So some of the difficulty was what is the benefits of weights and what was PEDS. It is interesting how weight lifting in all sports came into the spotlight in the 1980s. When I was running in the late 70s and early 80s my coaches would have shot any middle and distance runners they caught lifting weights. Then by the late 1980s milers had some muscle mass in the upper body.

I don't see them advancing without a win against Ghana. I agree it is possible with a tie, but it seems really unlikely. A loss pretty much ends the chances.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 06:36 PM) fixed Thank you.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 04:10 PM) December 7th. As Duke has taught us. Nothing wrong with the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor. They wanted the land and tried to take it. The only difference between European settlers and the Japanese is the European settlers won.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 05:26 PM) AmerIndians were no more or less inherently good or evil, though. Some were bloodthirsty, petty tyrants. Some weren't. They're human, just like Europeans or Africans or aborigines or Mongolians or Indians etc. etc. etc. Lumping all of this different groups together under one and then pointing to them as "inherently good" is exactly the dehumanizing thing. Even ostensibly positive stereotypes are damaging when they cause others to overlook the real, actual humanity in people and groups. Again, if it seemed I was using noble savage to describe the Native Americans that was not my intent. I never intended to group anyone together.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 05:18 PM) Sure, that's one way it's deployed. But then, look at how it's being used: tens of millions of people from vastly different cultures getting all lumped together as one for a philosophical argument. Pretty dehumanizing. AmerIndians were no more or less noble or savage than any other wide group of human cultures. Yet in the context that a group in isolation from other humans are inherently good, not evil is positive. I did not believe I was calling Native Americans noble savages, if I left that impression, I am sorry. I was trying to argue that it is possible for humans to not be blood thirsty racists out to take each other's stuff. That it is not an inherent trait.

Really? I've always seen it in the debate of whether humans are inherently good or evil. I've never seen the term used in any other way. I learned something today. Thanks.

I meant damming a river to generate electricity. You are swapping a natural river for a man made lake. Now, I love lakes and I love rivers. So in some cases I could be persuaded that a hydroelectric damn that destroys so much river habitat, while creating lake habitat may retain more beauty than say a wind farm. The wind farms I am seeing are miles and miles of turbines located on top of hills throughout Texas to Wyoming. I can only remember seeing one in farm fields. Whereas a coal or natural gas plant sits on a mile or much less of land, a wind farm goes on for dozens and dozens of square miles. I just do not like the aesthetics. I would not want to live near one.

Happy Birthday!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 03:19 PM) You're right, I should have said "nearly zero". There is some small bit of supplies and regular maintenance required to keep them lubriCated and running. It's similar to how you have to change the transmission fluid in an electric car even though it doesn't use gasoline - it's not 100% down to zero but the operating costs are several orders of magnitude less for similar power generation. The startup cost is high, the operating costs are minimal. Also, I misread your original post. There is a significant amount of fuel energy that is necessary to power any fuel burning plant. But another point to visuals and how we generate power. The only type of plant I believe some would consider as actually increasing beauty would be a hydroelectric dam. The argument could be made that a large mountain lake is more beautiful than a river running free. I would disagree, but I could be persuaded that it is less obnoxious than some of the others. I just really dislike seeing so much natural habitat destroyed.

That is a good point I was not considering in my reply. I was strictly considering the plant. The overall affect causes me to prefer wind to coal. Although I may prefer solar and natural gas to wind.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 03:02 PM) Yup. We took it all then gave some back. Its their fault for losing the war. Want the land? Win the war. So I understand, there is nothing wrong in fighting a war to take someone's land. You want it, you have the military strength, so go take it.

Here's your prize. A thread all for you. You asked for a prize, you got it.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 01:24 PM) 20,000! Where's my prize? Congratulations! I remember when 10,000 posts around here was a huge milestone.

In a bit of personal irony I am recalling a debate I had years ago with lowercaserepublican here about Kerouac and if he was a great author or not. LCR offered Nabokov as an example of a great author. I am writing a seminar paper comparing the two as outcasts who wrote road novels about the US.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 02:32 PM) The noble savage is an ignorant stereotype How so?

This was the major topic of conversation at lunch yesterday. I'm happy for Mexico, sad for us. Everything has to go our way to advance. I can't wait for the games to begin.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 01:59 PM) His racism wouldn't be any less disgusting if it were "phrased better." His ideas aren't the ones you've portrayed in that post. They're just dumb, ignorant racism from a child. No his racism would not be. I guess I didn't make my point clear. Because he did write in such a racist way we rejected everything that he wrote. If someone who was not a racist had written that Mandela was not always a saint, had done some things that would later be inconsistent with Mandela's own views, it would not have been rejected. or If someone different had mentioned some of the bad stuff Mandela did, we could have discussed it and placed those acts in the context of the man's life. Instead it became a discussion about what a racist ignoramus Duke is. or I guess what I am saying is that I believe it is possible to discuss Mandela's career, both the good and the bad, in a non racist manner. Duke failed at that, someone else could have succeeded. Unless someone wishes to make a case that any discussion of bad things Mandela may have done is by that very action racist.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 01:11 PM) I very much disagree with the claims here. The turbines do break yes on occasion, but they are extremely efficient if they're placed in areas where wind actually blows. They're not cheap to build, but they're incredibly cheap to operate because once they're up the fuel costs drop to zero. Compared to a fossil fuel plant...the plant is cheaper to build, but the plant needs a constant supply of fuel to operate (which, in many cases, comes in via train or ship as well). Drops to zero? That's interesting, I always thought there were electronic controls on them but I guess they could manage them with mechanical brakes. That actually might make more sense.

I think AJ is trying to honor Hawk the Bo Sox player not the modern cartoon Hawk.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 12:56 PM) "I guess what I'm trying to say is, if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change." Except Duke, I don't see that cat changing, ever.

I was thinking of pre-colonization and areas of the world where there were many nomadic tribes who were living in peace. The so called noble savage. But since we probably do not wish to debate the essential nature of man I will stick to north America. In North America I'll agree with Duke and Balta on the physical war between the Native Americans and the settlers. Most of the tribes, especially those west of teh Appalachian Mountains were skilled fighters. I will make the point that the war that the white man won, as much as the fighting, was in the courts and two very different understandings of land ownership. How treaties were ripped up once they were no longer advantageous to white settlers. The native Americans had a terrible understanding of these sorts of legal proceedings and how important the agreements would become. That is the war they had no understanding of. The same class war we fight today.