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QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 10:46 PM) Pre-4G would be the best way to describe what is being pushed. 4G will barely resemble the slow mess that they are advertising as 4G. Think 1 gig to a stationary object, and 100 meg to a mobile device. Or at least 3G plus or something. 4G is like 10x as fast as what they have now.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 12:15 PM) Verizon is officially announcing their 4G network There is no such thing as a 4G network in the United States yet... it's all PR and marketing bulls***.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 09:12 PM) The problem is that HIS CRONIES are still in charge and won't do it. I know. Probably at the end of the day he's just gonna cave and they will end up being permanent. The odds of him facing a primary in 2012 will shoot up if he does this though.

I really wouldn't give a s*** if he just called the Republicans' bluff and let them allow the train to crash and everybody's taxes go up. The tax cuts weren't a good idea in the first place. No civilization in history has ever cut taxes before going to war.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 02:36 PM) Yep which is why I'd love to play the Bulls in the Conference Semi - Finals. Last night showed the Bulls still have a long way to go if they want to get to Boston, Orlando and Miami's level, more of a reality check then anything. The Bulls still match up well against Boston.

The national debt is never going to be repaid. Let's just own up to that now while we can.

Can't read all 34 pages, but this is a big deal. HUGE deal. If PK comes back too, there's no possible way for Ozzie to f*** this lineup up. The only glaring weak spot in it would be Teahen.

Did you know that "Dammit I'm mad" spelled backwards is "dammit I'm mad"?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 11:23 PM) Oh my. That is pretty awful. Did a 10 year old draw that up? There are some hilarious comments to that effect on my Facebook status I posted about it.

My friend got this tat and it's hideously ugly but she thinks it's hot. She asked what I thought of it and I changed the subject.

Right as I mention how good the Bulls are at rebounding they have a terrible game. 3rd quarter is almost over and Noah has 0 rebounds.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 05:35 PM) The driving point was the 'property rights' bulls***. At least he acknowledged that the Founding Fathers' original vision wasn't perfect. That s*** drives me nuts.

With the way the Magic like to chuck threes I'm really worried about the Bulls perimeter defense. But Boozer-Noah-Deng with Gibson coming off the bench... I don't think there's a better rebounding front line in the NBA. Not even Boston or LA.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Nov 30, 2010 -> 06:49 PM) There is no doubt in my mind that with all the same players and Rivers instead of Cutler, we'd be a better team overall. I don't buy the "average group of WR" and Mike Martz growing pains at all. Rivers is an elite quarterback who has impeccable decision making and has basically been league MVP without having Vincent Jackson, Malcolm Floyd, and Antonio Gates for extended periods of time. Hell, even Legadu Naannee and Patrick Crayton. Seriously, Seyi Ajirotutu was his #1 WR at one point this season. Rivers would have still gotten his ass kicked early in the season and he'd still have Johnny Knox occasionally being lined up on the wrong part of the field and blowing his routes to have the ball sail into some random part of the field. Would we be a better team... I dunno, probably, debatable, but that's not what I said either. He'd have taken some hard lumps just like Cutler did if he'd come onto the team under similar circumstances.

I didn't say QB wasn't the most important position. Nothing like that. I said there was too much focus on it, at least focus for the wrong reasons. The Colts would be 6-10 every year without Peyton Manning. At the same time Brady misses an entire season and is replaced by a complete nobody (at the time, and to see what I'm getting at look at Cassel's 2009 where he was in a different system, not this year) and they still make the playoffs. Commentators and casual fans gush over the QB and give him credit almost exclusively for things he didn't do when the team wins as if he did everything and blame him for things that were someone else's fault when they lose. Example, last year a Vikings fan was talking s*** about how at first she was jealous that the Vikings missed out on Cutler and she was so glad they had Favre instead. I said, in so many words, that she was retarded. She rebutted with the # of interceptions Cutler had to that point in the year (it was like 20 something). I pointed out to her that she was really coming across like she had never watched football before because Favre was the all-time interceptions leader and once threw 28 in a season (with only 20 TDs, at least Cutler had 27 TDs last year). If the Vikings had gotten Cutler last year, with that offense, he'd have had 30+ TDs and nowhere near 26 interceptions, and they still would've gone deep into the playoffs. Plus their season wouldn't be effectively over right now since he'd only be 27 years old and not 78 or however old Grandpa (literally) Brett is. QBs aren't just interchangeable, we Bears fans all found that out last year the hard way. If we traded for Philip Rivers in the offseason he'd still be playing behind this garbage line, throwing to an average group of WRs, and he'd have growing pains learning Martz's offense. He wouldn't just instantly bring his San Diego stats over with him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 30, 2010 -> 08:39 AM) Now, this is actually a topic that interests me and that I can legitimately respond to. Although I'm not convinced either way...the argument on the other side is that if a government realizes that its classification operation has simply become too big, if the numbers of people who have some level of security clearance that could allow them to access this number of documents is in the millions...even law enforcement penalties won't be enough to prevent large leaks of data. The 2 responses can be...classifying things further, which will potentially restrict information flow to people who actually need it, or opening up things that really don't need to be classified...like most of the documents in the Iraq and Afghanistan war files, for example. This pile, I'm not sure that I'd call them classified as much as I'd call them private...at the level of personal emails and such. So, I'm not sure they really tell me that much. Bolded - yes. I don't think diplomatic cables are necessarily classified, not something I read regularly, but they aren't meant to show to the public and it serves no practical purpose for anyone else to see. Of course Glenn Greenwald's crowd is all ecstatic thinking Manning did something heroic or whatever and they won't be convinced otherwise, but all of this is pretty pointless and its net effect on national security is neutral at best, if one is being generous. It's like if someone copied a person's PST from their Outlook at work and mailed it to the New York Times. Yeah you know all of that can be audited, but do people really expect the whole world to see it, the language they used, the exact work they were doing, etc.? The government does over-classify things, the mentality (especially in the military) is like "better to overclassify than to underclassify." But at times you'll see something where it's like "why the hell is this classified? what is so secret about this?"

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 30, 2010 -> 03:05 PM) nvm, Q Clearance is a DoE clearance, I thought it was more universal in the Federal govenment. Equivalent to DoD Top Secret. Oh, yeah I know what that is. No I don't have one of those. I have whatever you probably think I have, lol

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 30, 2010 -> 07:44 AM) You have q clearance, lostfan? Is q supposed to be a? I'm gonna cop out and not answer that directly but I'm sure I've implied it at one time or another

I'm not saying... but I am saying... There's a group I'm in on Facebook called "Derrick Rose is better than Rajon Rondo." At this point there's no point in even saying that anymore. Rose completely blows Rondo out of the water, and I don't know how someone with a straight face can say Rondo is better.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 29, 2010 -> 10:15 AM) http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/mia...tory?id=5862172 my favorite quote Waaaaaaaah, Lebron cant have any fun. I am so sad for this Are they really under the illusion that things are going to get easier if Riley takes over? It's going to be like boot camp for them. Riley doesn't f*** around.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 29, 2010 -> 03:12 PM) Looking at Kyle Orton's season this year...it's really ironic how his career has completely been turned on its head. Orton was always referred to as a "winner" when he was in Chicago, but nothing else. A QB which could manage the game for you. He would not lose it for you, but he probably wouldn't win it for you either. He threw 30 TD's against 27 INT's in his Bears career. Then he gets traded to Denver, and puts up outstanding individual numbers and flourishes in their system. He is on pace for like 27-30 TDs this year and almost 5,000 yards, against only 7-10 INT's. That is a Pro Bowl season. He's thrown 41 TD's against 18 INT's since being traded to the Broncos. And yet his record as a starter in Chicago was 21-12. His record for the Broncos is 11-15. Crazy. Just goes to show you how important defense and a running game are, as well as how misleading statistics can be. I wrote this on another board. He was a "winner" in Chicago even though quite often he really had nothing to do with those wins at all. Now he is losing games even though he is not responsible for those losses at all. That's just really ironic. This is another reason why there's often way too much focus on QB play in the last 10 years or so.

What the hell are we supposed to do with them? We have enough prisoners here as it is. How about Mexicans try harder at not being a failed state and we wouldn't have this problem.

I really think Assange is full of s***, and all the leaked documents don't mean what the already-convinced think they mean. Yeah, there's some interesting tidbits in there, I'm not at liberty to really say everything i think on the topic for obvious reasons but really, like Balta said, the vast majority of those documents say things that pretty much everyone already knew and/or it's just diplomats talking s***. Most of the "revelations" weren't anything the government was really trying to hide anyway. There are no "big lies" or conspiracies either - if there were, they aren't going to be classified "SECRET" so that a couple million people have easy access to it. Still, there's a reason that stuff isn't public knowledge. How would you look if someone forwarded your e-mail communications somewhere to make them public without you knowing that's what would happen? Assange recently has been trying to make the United States out to be some kind of hypocritical corrupt fascist police state but I fail to see how any of those documents make us different (or worse) than any other country. Iran finds out we're concerned about its nuclear program and we're trying to push others towards sanctions? Oh no! Medvedev finds out that our diplomats think Putin is really the one pulling the strings? Shocking! Spiegel self-righteously said America seems to be interested in securing its influence in the world. WELL NO s*** GUYS, WELCOME TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Now where is the evidence of war crimes? Of laws being broken? Of treaties being violated? Oh that's right there is none. Now, Assange, since you think it's so hypocritical of the U.S. to be making statements in private, tell me what purpose it would serve for Secretary Clinton and/or Gates to go to Moscow and tell them in public that we think they're a corrupt authoritarian state? And, since the whole goal is supposed to be to increase transparency, is this really going to help? No, if it has any effect it will be negative... democratic governments will become MORE secretive, not less. Western nations aren't the ones who need to be getting picked on anyway. What happens in Russia to someone who comes forward with honest-to-god evidence of corruption? Prison. China? If you even think about it, prison. Iran? Prison, then they murder your family in front of you, then you are executed. See where this is going... yeah, America has its problems with confronting actually wrongdoing by the government (see: half the Bush administration) but then again Manning leaked a bunch of s*** that served no practical purpose for the public to see.

The opening of this Yahoo sports article makes Vazquez sound like a huge p****. True though. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AilM...etvazquez112810

Jason Peters: “As bad as we played, we lost by five and they know we’re a better team." b**** please. Was that before, during, or after Peppers's dick hit you in the forehead? And which time was it?