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I have had a few anchovy pizzas and cannot remember any of them be particularly greasy or oily.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 11:29 AM) Nice to meet you. There's no more oil in the anchovies than there is in sausage and pepperoni, however you made that pie you did something wrong. It does give the pizza a rather strong taste, but it's a nice salty-fishy-oily flavor. I don't prefer anchovies on real Chicago pizza, but on the NY style pizza I'm stuck with down here anchovy and mushroom is a great pie. My guess is they did not rinse, drain, and thoroughly dry the anchovies before adding them to the pie. Anchovies are the only pizza where I will opt for a different cheese. I prefer something with a slightly smoky flavor. I also prefer a little bacon tossed on top as well with the little fishes.

Just wondering again, How would the economy look if all those "bad" mortgages had not been made? I assume the home building industry would be down, as would the various spin offs in furniture, etc etc and just to toss a log on the fire If the economy is in trouble because of bad decisions made by lenders, were did government regulations help/hurt the situation.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 09:01 AM) Why not get the money you can? To recap, so far, you convinced me that a separate download was a good idea. I was initially against it, but your argument won me out. Here is where it gets interesting. IMHO your most compelling point is the promotional potential of having the song available for download. I think that is far better than the profit argument. I wonder what the promotional budget is for a Star Trek movie. My guess it would be in the tens of millions. So why either send people to iTunes or similar to download the song for .99 or set up customer service, tech support, etc. to sell it yourself for .99? Instead you could offer it for free at your website. Promote the movie and have hundreds of thousands of downloads instead of thousands of paid downloads? It seems if you are going to use the song to promote the film, the few dollars in profit you may earn would be better spent as an advertising cost.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 08:28 AM) The trailer promotes the movie, and trailers as a standard are free. Music on the net, nowadays, is going towards pay-per-track, so you can play it later as you want to. You and I are just going to disagree here. I think its a win-win situation for minimal cost and some decent revenue, you think otherwise. Further, I think the companies doing this is one of the reasons the illegal downloading is occurring, since many of those people would do it legally if they could. Kids are walking around with multiple thousands of tunes on their iPods. Those were not paid for. I think you are way low in your expectations for a movie song. Perhaps it is different than other tunes, but when artists struggle with Top 50 tunes to have people pay, I just do not see them paying for something less popular. OMG, you are a Trekkie

And if you put it on an already existing web site, they are not coming to your web site to see the trailer. Give the song away. If they put it on their website, who handles these calls "I bought this, but the file is corrupted" "My credit card was charged twice" "I accidentally deleted the song and want to download it again" Give the song away for coming to the movie web site or seeing the movie. Have a redemption code print on the tickets.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 08:16 AM) Cost to put an mp3 up on an already-existing website for download: a few hundred bucks in labor, at most. Potential revenue at $1 a pop: tens of thousands, or possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars, for Paramount and the artist/label. Added marketing and promotional value: value-added, for nothing. No business should turn down a quick buck at that high a ratio, if they have their s*** together. Easy money. They could also make some money selling the trailer. But they do not. Wouldn't your quick, easy profit analogy hold true there as well? No business should lose focus on what it is they are selling, in this case a movie which cost hundreds of millions to produce. To sidetrack that in a quest for what will really be much less than $100,000 in profits, is possibly not worth it. Look how fast you received help in downloading that for free. You may get one in a thousand to pay for it, especially when it is free on the trailer. Think about all the hard drive and flash real estate in those iPods and etc. How much of that do you think is filled with music that was paid for, and how much was pirated, and shared peer to peer? They would have to set up a checkout, accept payments, then add customer service, tech support, etc. More than a couple hundred dollars.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 06:57 AM) I'm one of those people who feel veggies have no place on pizza, ever, and that includes black olives, which I love. We'll be ordering separate pizzas Sausage, mushroom, green pepper, and onion. I'll probably also toss a little extra oregano on top and ask for a small ramekin of pizza sauce to dip the crust. and plenty of beer. Oh, and I probably should not even have to mention it, but living away from Chicago for so long I know I should, cut the damn thing in squares, not pie shape.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 08:06 AM) Allowing the song to be downloaded also helps Star Trek, vis a vis the trailer and integrated marketing, PLUS they can make money doing it, which is ultimately what Paramount gives a s*** about. Its institutional stupidity. Compared with what they will make off of Star Trek, the song is mouse sweat profit. Pretty soon there will be no connection in your mind between that song and the movie. Probably even better is giving the song away, if you watch the trailer. Have it for free download on their website. But selling it? Bleh. Not worth the few bucks they would make.

Perhaps, and I would not want to put words in Maggs mouth, that he understands that a system that fits for the US, might not also be the correct fit for every country? The best analogy I could give is trying to run the local car wash the same as IBM. Some systems may fit, others would not. I do not know what philanthropic projects Maggs has in his home country, so if you know he is not doing any of that, I am sad. I believe everyone should work towards the betterment of their community. And as I have said before, embracing the system that would benefit him the most personally would be the American way. Me First!!!

Good brick and mortar analogy, but let me give a movie analogy. You spend $$ to have a song produced for your movie and you now own the rights to that song. You use the song in a promotion for your movie. You allow anyone to hear the song, as long as they also download a bit of what you are selling, your product, which is the movie. The assumption is without the movie download, you will soon lose the association between the song and the movie, thus not helping the people who own the rights to the song. Your assumption is Paramount gives two s***s about the song or the artists. They care about Star Trek.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 02:36 PM) I think its different when its a company doing the leasing. In this particular case I live in chicago but found a great leasing deal in michigan if I title the car at my vacation cabin in Benton Harbor. I just dont know if thats legal. I believe it would depend on how your vacation cabin is titled. If you are the owner, and it isn't a time share kind of thing, I could see it working. Think about who would want to catch you. The cops really are not that interested. The biggest issue may be insurance. Your insurance company would care if you are paying Michigan rates and incurring Chicago risks.

of course that was the next thing I did

Happy Birthday!!

cliche time! If anyone can do it, he can.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 12:42 PM) I'm always a fan of Pepperoni, Mushrooms and Green Peppers Who asked you California boy

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 10:04 AM) Think about this, Konerko has more homers as a White Sox, a higher OBP, a higher slugging pct. than Harold Baines as a White Sox, was an ALCS MVP and a WS hero and he's marginal getting his # retired. Baines even accumulated more stats AFTER his number was retired. There obviously is no criteria for getting the number retired. Its more than just stats. I think coming up through the organization, like Baines did with the Sox and Maddux did with the Cubs should mean something in the decision, even if a lot of career totals were accumulated elsewhere. Its not like Maddux was a Cub for 2 or 3 years. It's a tough bar to set. The AJP stats were an eye opener. I'm with Yas, SJP has been a rock for this team. Which is why he is probably my favorite position player on the team. Buerhle would be #1 overall. And SS has it right as well, Ozzie, barring something well "oz-like" is a shoe in.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 12:15 PM) So I have a specific legal question regarding leasing/buying a car. SO the Chicago taxes are ridiculous when it comes to leasing and adds a couple of hundred bucks to the monthly payment over what you would pay in another state like Michigan. So heres the question: If I lease a car in Michigan, and title it at a Michigan address that is not my permanent residence, is it legal? I save almost 200 dollars a month on a payment. Not certain if this helps or not but years ago, when I was still in Illinois, the company I worked for leased all our vehicles from Selig Leasing in Milwaukee (our headquarters) and at least two of them went to employees living in Illinois and Indiana.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 22, 2009 -> 07:53 AM) Soxtalk.com needs a drug testing policy. We have one, no experimenting with drugs and alcohol . . . If you don't know what the hell you are doing, do not post unto you do.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 11:47 AM) Two faced about coming here and having no problems getting rich while supporting a system that wouldn't have allowed him the same freedoms that allowed anyone to even know who he is. Good point. He would certainly be more American if he embraced whichever system would benefit him personally over all others.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 11:30 AM) I have no idea what you are even arguing anymore. Who is criticizing all of Venzuela? I am calling Maggs a two face, I don't believe I have ever mentioned the entire country, or even anyone else in it. Two faced about embracing his home country and living here?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 11:33 AM) The US has embraced the 'race to the bottom'. Bingo, maybe that is the nagging feeling I could not put my finger on.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 11:21 AM) Yup. Thank you.

So there are no winners, all that would be happening is spreading out the losses.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 10:09 AM) I've never tried to approximate Chicago sausage for fear of suffering an Icarus-like fate and flying too close to the sun in a foolhardy quest to recreate the Food of the Gods. Does that make Lou Malnatti King Minos?