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QUOTE (juddling @ Mar 15, 2009 -> 12:55 PM) I would love to know when people in Chicago got such thin skins that they let these name changes drive them as crazy as some people get. Willis Tower???? Macys???? U.S. Cellular????? IT'S A NAME PEOPLE...GET OVER IT!!! If you are of the generation that still remembers the old names then that's what you're gonna use. There is no naming police that is going to force you to switch. The Marshall Fields/Macy's switch story was getting NATIONAL press and being from the chicago area i was embarrassed by the whining shown on tv. Wait until you hear the new name we have for you

Hmm, someone having pride in their native country. Shocking.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Mar 15, 2009 -> 10:39 AM) An interesting and extremely difficult moral question. However, one that is irrelevant to the subject of stem cell research. That depends on how strict you wish to consider the issues. I prefer to take a macro view to see what overall direction society is taking and fit stem cell research into the overall picture. It is part of a whole, and to ignore the impact that stem cell research will have on the overall moral and ethical debate is short sighted. Basically a slippery slope that at the minimum, we need to tread carefully on.

There is always a cost when we devalue human lives or begin placing relative values on one life over another. We already have a couple cures where a baby needs to be carried to full term, then later have body parts harvested so that both siblings may live. We have accepted that. I wonder how we will settle an ethical choice of terminating a life that was conceived to save another. The choices are not as clear as they may seem. There is this humanity that separates us from animals, we seem to be doing are best to eliminate those differences.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Mar 11, 2009 -> 11:31 AM) I think it is ridiculous that MLB teams require a college degree when so many people cheat their way through school these days. The position is more of a skill/passion. If I were running a MLB team I would hire someone with the passion cryptvill seems to have, not some schmuck with a piece of paper. How about someone with that passion and a piece of paper that shows he can make it through 4 years of college? To be harsh, because it is a harsh world out there, would you really hire someone who came to this forum to figure out how to be a Scout?

QUOTE (BearSox @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 08:53 PM) True, but you can't expect anyone to have to raise a child or even give birth to one when sex wasn't even wanted and have the mother reminded of the rape and the rapist every time she sees the child. If they want to keep the child, that's one thing, and more power to any mother who makes that choice. Like I said it is a compelling situation, however, if the underlying premise is the fetus is a human life, and should be protected, why should conception matter? This life will be protected, but this one will not, seems wrong also. What we are saying is if the mom does not wish to be reminded ( have the baby) she should have the right to abort. But now we'll tell the mom under what conditions she can feel that way? Tough call.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 02:43 AM) Fine you go celebrate that. More steak and BJs for me! I'll bet you have guys lined up around the block

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 01:42 PM) I love how everytime we talk about gov't being bloated, the response is to use the poor teachers,cops and firemen as examples. Give it a rest already. Everybody b****es and moans about how poorly companies are run, but when its the gov't doing a piss poor job its "Do we really want to lay off teachers,police and firemen?" No, that s not who we want to lay off. Does it really take three people or two for that matter to collect garbage in the city? How much money could be saved right there by having a one man garbage crew in the city? Can somebody explain to me why gov't cannot shrink? When a company is losing money, they cut expenses, with their largest being payroll. Somehow that doesn't translate into the halls of capitols. We do not like shrinking our highway department, military, etc. (I know that is also Federal). Companies can cut back because demand drops, in these times, the demands for government services actually increase.

As someone who is almost always labeled as "anti-stats" I loved the article.

QUOTE (The Beast @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 12:38 AM) The problem that I see with the communication major is that people have said Communication is a bulls*** major like philosophy and I could only get a retail job. I guess I am intrigued by areas of business, writing (journalism, not interpreting text), and psychology. UIC offers Communication, Marketing and Psychology. I think that this semester it might be beneficial to start on the Foreign Language requirements and knock out gen eds before considering what I should do. I probably should have had most of those hammered out when I was at EIU, but they had really crappy advising that forced me into the English cirriculum. So, instead of a complete waste of money for my sophomore year, I was thinking that I could stick with Communication and take business courses as well as English courses. OR, I could get out of Communication and save myself the Foreign Language requirement bull crap by going into Marketing. It's a fun situation. Maybe I'll try that method. It all depends on how you want to live your life. For myself, working a job I do not like, is never worth the money. It took me several decades to understand that, a serious amount of time wasted. I did not need the country club and vacations to have a happy life, I needed the country club and vacations to survive my unhappy, but lucrative, job. Make the most of every class, even the ones that you are struggling in. The most interesting people I know can speak on a wide range of topics and subjects. They seem to enjoy life more. Good luck

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 09:52 AM) And I have no problem with the redistributing it to them, but if you honestly think it's stops there, then they've got you fooled. It also goes into the pockets of the gov/mayor/other elected officials, their friends companies pockets, and 50 other ways to skim the systems pockets. Then, it goes to the people who sit at home, have 8 kids and collect welfare with absolutely no plan nor ambition to ever get off of welfare. A first class country wouldn't allow that system to be exploited such as it is. It's called fiscal responsibility. Our government, federal, state or local has no fiscal responsibility. And why should they, they aren't paying for any of it anyway...we are! They increase tax all the time, on everything, yet they're still in the hole. Fine, up the IL tax, I bet they're STILL in the hole and their budget deficit gets WORSE, not better as it should. Then, increase them some more...may as well, it's not like anyone will do much about it. Then, after that, increase them even more -- I look forward to 60% of my paychecks going to this kind of bulls***, because we're already headed that direction. First I'm taxed on what I make...then I'm taxed again on the SAME MONEY when I buy something...and then, heaven forbid I sell something, they'll tax me AGAIN. All good points. I disagree slightly about the severity, but we agree that there can be better cost controls in place. It's the talking point about "wealth distribution" that I object to. We have created a disconnect about why we pay taxes. It is about "wealth distribution" and to "stimulate the economy" but never about actually paying for the world class services we receive. I have spent a fair amount of time in countries with much lower tax rates, and no one here really would swap that for the US. If we are going to live at the Hilton, you cannot pay Motel 6 rates. And yes, that means the employees there get paid better.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 13, 2009 -> 10:23 AM) Oh maybe cut some dead weight from the state payroll, and have some pension reform with gov't employees. 1. Increase workers contributions to their pension plans. 2. Decrease workers benefits from their pension plans. 3. Increase (if they pay any) premiums for health insurance. 4. Increase state income taxes. I am certain that you would do this voluntarily for your company? Or perhaps take that super comfy government job? People keep wanting the greatest service from their government and pay bottom barrel prices.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Mar 13, 2009 -> 09:27 PM) I forgot its our patriotic duty so you can redistribute the wealth. Gotcha. How about this, spend less. Stop overcommiting your budget and then you won't have to increase taxes. Yes, they take your taxes and redistribute it to cops, and teachers, and highway workers, firefighters, and etc. etc. etc. Everyone wants to live in a first class country but pay third world tax rates.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 13, 2009 -> 05:23 PM) I can't argue with your point here, but the way the church put this basically made it sound like they were poo pooing the rape and saying how awful the abortion was. That sounds like nothing more than making the case political and using it as a platform for your own beliefs, and that's not something the Catholic Church should be doing. The Church must stand up for what it believes in, that is the entire point of a Church. It's the only way to root out the individuals that need to be gotten gone.

My almost foolproof method of picking a major. Get out the catalog and list every course that seems interesting to you. See what department most of the classes are in. Done

Awesome. About time. Imagine the fun catching a cab and asking to go to he Willis Tower . . .

The exception for rape victims is a compelling case, but it somehow then places a lower value on the life based on how or why the person was conceived. And that doesn't seem right either. I disagree with their decision. The same reason that the rapist is allowed to stay, is why the mom and doctor should be allowed to stay in the Church.

I set the thread to auto-close on September 1st, when their season is over . . .

shoot yourself from the boredom? Curse the fates that caused you to be there? TV?

The sports station and the news here all are reporting the 9 mil number. The team has shown a willingness to drop some folding money in search of past glory, so 9 mil would not be out of the question. A Super Bowl is worth many times that.

Locally I heard it was a bigger cap hit.

Its all about share of mind and branding. The part I do not like when we add a top level domain is the multiple address confusion it creates. Some brands will have to buy up that one, and it will have zero to do with the environment. But just like some copanies buy .com .org and .net, this may be another situation where they need it to block. The positive would be if those corps used it to highlight their environmental policies and results.

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 07:24 PM) My new Sony Bravia was working just fine. I now have a vertical green line on the right side near the edge. Any idea how to fix this? soft cloth and water > Ghostbusters

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 01:28 PM) Speak for yourself. I believe I did.

No one older than me should be tweeting . . .