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I've argued with quite a few people on here, but I'm not sure I'd call them a "beef". As hard headed as I can be at times, my opinion has been changed by people on this forum on certain subjects, and I others I simply disagree with them, but that doesn't mean I hate them or think they're stupid.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 5, 2016 -> 05:09 PM) Y2HH and I have gotten each other banned at least once. No real beef there though. Hell yes!

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 5, 2016 -> 04:36 PM) Can someone translate that to English for this simpleton. Jk I know splitters hurt signal, was wondering if technology had an end to where one didn't. Will signal be leaked on those above if now all 4 outputs are used? No, all four ports will receive the same boost.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 4, 2016 -> 06:02 PM) I think the splitter I'm using from Xfinity is slowing up my internet and screwing up my cable signal on that TV. Are there good splitters out there? Better than the ones Comcast gave me? Splitters always degrade signal, either by -7dB or -3dB, what you're likely looking for is an amplifier. Depending on the type of modem you have, you can check your signal levels and power. For example, regardless of what your IP scheme is, for Arris modems, going to 192.168.100.1 will show you these signal levels. What you're looking for: Downstream: Power: -5 to +5 dB SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio): ~32.5 - 40, usually a solid safe range, anything below 32 will start to cause retransmission errors and slow speeds. Upstream: Less than 50dBmV, anything above 50 and the signal is too strong to hold connection. Amps to purchase: This one will help fix upstream signal levels being too high as well as boosting downstream signal: https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Signal-Boos...cable+amplifier This one will help fix downstream signal levels (if your upstream power levels are already ok, use this one): https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Signal-Boos...cable+amplifier The drawback to these amps is there is no way to "tone them down", they will boost your signal a certain amount and that's that. These amps are solid because they don't add a bunch of noise to the line. Often, cheap amps will boost power but also add line noise to the signal, which isn't ideal.

Well, that Brexit ding on markets lasted a whopping two days. I hope there were no suckers here that sold into the panic. DOW already back to 18k.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 1, 2016 -> 02:13 AM) I understand what many of you like ptatc is saying. So it costs the hospitals money? Well don't have interns then. I know I'm inflexible on my opinion here, but I think a place of business that expects interns to report for duty and do actual work should pay the interns some money. It doesn't have to be more than minimum wage by a dollar or two, but don't have an internship program if you don't pay anything. The fact you get a handful of credit hours is worth something, yes it is. I just think in a great country like America everybody who does work for a company that actually benefits the company should make a few cents doing it. I mean I worked for a golf course several summers as a high school and college kid. They could have refused to pay me and instead given me all the free golf and swimming my heart desired. If I loved golf I guess I probably would do it, but it would be wrong of the golf course even though that's worth a lot of money in green fees. What free golf is is a nice perk for employees but thankfully they paid me and I got to keep my tips, too. You're conflating the idea of on the job training exchange for work and working for free on something that's not career related. That's apples and oranges. People are often willing to do free internships because the job experience is more valuable to them long term than a simple paycheck. I would agree if this "internship" was flipping burgers at McDonald's, but internships aren't utilized for such positions. They're utilized in specific fields of study where you can get exposure to everyday life on the job, IE, real world experience for a job that will someday require real world experience. There is a reason so many college grads cannot find work as easily as they thought they could...most jobs in my industry require experience, which just happens to be something college kids do not have much of, if any at all. Now, if only there was a way they could have some experience...oh, that's right...they could! It's called internships. Some pay, some do not...but it's still up to the individual to CHOOSE this path. Not everything in life is about today...sometimes it's about tomorrow, and planning ahead.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 03:13 PM) I'm surprised you don't see anything wrong with putting people to work, benefitting from them and not paying them anything. A lot of companies used to expect to pay 1-2 interns a summer, but then jumped for joy when colleges came up with this plan to give a couple hours credit for work. To me, it's just more of what America has become. Not many opportunities to make $$$ for the little guy. They ARE being paid something, though. It's valuable real world experience, and quite often, these unpaid internships turn into something more. Money isn't the only form of reward in this world...don't get me wrong, it's the goal because it makes life easier, but sometimes in order to get to point Z, you have to walk through the alphabet. And again, nobody is holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to do these unpaid internships. They're choosing to do so. As I previously stated, I did an unpaid internship in college...would I have rather been paid? Sure. But I wasn't...and I did get to see what an IT job looked like, gained a bit of experience, and moved on in life. And there are plenty of opportunities for the little guy to make money. I'm was one of those little guys. I grew up in Bridgeport to parents that (combined) never made more than 45,000 a year. We weren't rich but we weren't poor...mostly because we did without things many take for granted. For example, we never had cable television or a VCR growing up. We never vacationed anywhere tropical, or to theme parks. We went camping because it's what we could afford. So, by almost all definitions of the word, I was a little guy. Yet somehow I found multiple opportunities to make $.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 03:51 PM) That sounds nearly identical to anti-Mexican feelings in this country, which definitely carry a racial component. Anti illegals yes, anti Mexicans no. Stop repeating this lie. The masses you speak of in such a generalized way are not anti Mexican whatsoever. Though I'm sure it makes your white guilt feel better...it would be nice if you finally recognized that just because you're white and not a liberal snot, it doesn't mean you're a racist.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 05:51 PM) True I'm sure there is some racism in any bias however over there its not just a group, its anyone who isn't German. Didn't matter the color of the German's skin, it was the fact that another national was taking their opportunities. It just had a very different feel from the racism here which is directed as much inward as it is outward. Do you consider the hate against Muslims racism? Since that's a religion and not a race, anyone that thinks it's racism is a f***ing idiot.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 02:52 PM) I understand the course credit is nice, but didn't you ever feel like the place you were interning were cheap bastards? I mean getting all that free work ... did they ever take the interns to lunch at least? Let me answer that ... nah. Not really. If you don't want to take an unpaid internship in exchange for real world work experience which looks nice on a resume...there is this insane idea I have: DON'T TAKE IT.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 10:16 AM) No doubt, but devaluing would help with that. But it also goes against the idea that the brits were bailing out lazy greeks. It's a common European stereotype that most countries in the EU consider Greece lazy. While this story/poll is a few years old, it highlights this feeling among the EU: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archiv...-the-eu/257764/

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 10:09 AM) https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS Greece's annual hrs worked per worker much higher than enterprising Germans and English. Devaluing their currency would allow them to pay back their debt faster and cheapen their exports and increase unemployment. That has a much larger impact on unemployment rate than personal industriousness. Longer hours, yes...but not very productive ones. Greece's productivity is actually pretty low in comparison to others who work less hours.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 09:46 AM) I like how some are saying the Brexit "could trigger a euro financial crisis" as if the EU wasn't already mired in a financial crisis with multiple countries moving into insolvency if not outright being bankrupt. In many ways, I can't blame the UK from exiting, seeing as they have a 5% unemployment rate -- meaning their citizens are working -- meanwhile, Greece has a population that largely doesn't care about work and the UK's citizens get to pay money to float them. I'd want out of that bulls*** deal, too. Replying to my own comment. I really should be more fair to the wonderful fantastic Greek people out there. No, not all of them are lazy, non-working slugs. A lot of people in Greece would probably love to work, as a matter of fact, they tend to work long hours...just not super productive ones. The issue is a lot of these nations have different views on work ethic, retirement, etc...you can't have one nation with people retiring at 50 and another at 65. Otherwise one nation ends up floating the other...which is essentially what's happening across the EU, and some of these "richer" nations are growing weary of this. I've long thought it was a bad system destined for collapse...and this is just one of them admitting it.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 09:41 AM) http://www.vox.com/2016/6/29/12052494/brex...u-euro-disaster I saw his tweet yesterday wondering whether we would look back in 30 years and view countries leaving the Euro (hypothetically) as equal to when they left the gold standard to get out of great depression. As they move toward greater integration, you have to wonder whether there will be an alt movement to pressure to get rid of Euro. I like how some are saying the Brexit "could trigger a euro financial crisis" as if the EU wasn't already mired in a financial crisis with multiple countries moving into insolvency if not outright being bankrupt. In many ways, I can't blame the UK from exiting, seeing as they have a 5% unemployment rate -- meaning their citizens are working -- meanwhile, Greece has a population that largely doesn't care about work and the UK's citizens get to pay money to float them. I'd want out of that bulls*** deal, too.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 09:35 AM) I know multiple people who have gone into the trades, both friends and family. It can take years on the wait lists to get into places like the pipefitters or electrician schools. That's the point I'm making. The government should have programs to expand these schools, or create their own programs to compete with them, as this type of investment is in the best interest of the country and it's citizens. Instead, we pile on the student debt load for college degrees that are often worth less in the job market than the tuition paid to get them...because college or bust!

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 27, 2016 -> 09:22 AM) From U of I's public affairs site: Freshmen 2013-2014* $11,834 2012-2013* $11,636 2011-2012* $11,104 2010-2011* $10,386 2009-2010* $9,484 2008-2009* $9,242 2007-2008* $8,440 2006-2007* $7,708 2005-2006* $7,042 2004-2005* $6,460 2003-2004 $5,568 2002-2003 $5,302 2001-2002 $4,410 2000-2001 $3,724 1999-2000 $3,546 1998-1999 $3,408 1997-1998 $3,308 1996-1997 $3,150 1995-1996 $3,000 1994-1995 $2,760 1993-1994 $2,486 1992-1993 $2,486 1991-1992 $2,236 1990-1991 $2,130 1989-1990 $2,130 1988-1989 $2,070 1987-1988 $1,470 1986-1987 $1,406 Yikes. A lot of this upward pressure comes from us. Politicians, parents, etc. We've allowed ourselves to become convinced that unless you have a college degree you cannot make a living in this world, and thus we've told our kids its ok to go deeply into debt in order to furnish that degree, regardless of what useless subject matter it's in. And by the way, it's completely untrue. There are many trades that require no such degree, and quite often pay better...but when you live in a nation that puts zero emphasis on those trades...what you get is no trade schools. Let me be clear, there is nothing wrong with going to school if it's being done for the right reasons, which will equate to a return on that investment. That's what higher education is. It's investing in your own future. And we need to start treating it like any other investment. Don't invest in garbage. I'm sure every Lawyer would love to graduate from Harvard Law, unfortunately, they don't have the space, and some of us cannot afford it. And that's ok...there are other schools out there, and plenty of great lawyers that came from them. We've created an entire financial product system (student debt) to furnish these degrees, which are often worth less than the money invested in them. That's called a poor investment. The more people that do something that has a finite amount of space (schools), a finite amount of those qualified to teach (teachers), the more upward pricing pressure that's created. And since we've successfully convinced every young person out there they need to go to college even if they cannot afford it...well, this is the result. Upward pricing pressure. What this country needs to do is turn some focus on trade schools. Not everyone will become a doctor or a chemical engineer...and that's ok. Carpenters, plumbers, electricians are also necessary, now more than ever since so few are qualified to do these jobs anymore. What we need, to counteract the upward pricing pressure on higher education is competition in the form of trade schools. There is nothing wrong with being a hair dresser, or a construction worker. There is, however, something very wrong with parents telling kids it's ok to borrow 100,000 dollars for a degree in human resources. We also need to tell kids to go to an in state school they can afford, or perhaps even start by going to a jr. college to knock out some of the prerequsits without having to borrow a bunch of money in order to do it. We're doing our children a great disservice by having them graduate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, starting their lives so deep in a financial hole they feel like they're drowning.

I liked Batman v Superman already but holy damn the directors cut makes me feel bad for Snyder. The studio f***ed him with that theatrical cut. This ultimate edition is so much better it feels like a different movie. It's also even more brutal than the original. They should have shown this in the theater.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 03:05 PM) Yeah, the Republicans have no interest in finding anything out about Hillary. They didn't even try. They blew 2 years and a couple million dollars on blow.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 12:04 PM) The latest BENGHAZI! investigation report was released today. Shockingly, it found pretty much no new information and nothing important after 2 years. They should issue a new report on Obama's birth certificate while they're at it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 10:59 AM) Yes, I do want to inject timelines into it because it's a pretty big difference if you change your stances over the course of years/decades versus over the course of seconds/hours. I agree that Trump's stroking his ego, but he's still the Republican nominee and has a (outside) shot at being President. Clinton, like every candidate for President ever, knows that they won't get 100% of their agenda put into place. She'll almost definitely have to deal with a Republican House and possibly with a Republican Senate. Running on a policy platform that can't be completely enacted isn't "pandering" to me, but that's just a semantic quibble. She's otherwise fairly upfront with what she wants, and her history gives a pretty good indication of how she'd govern (center-left but moving more liberal, hawkish). Trump is playing the game of ego-stroking reality TV star narcissist who spouts nonsense and hate pretty much non-stop. I'm convinced Clinton is a lock. Trump may get a short term bump at some point, but just let him talk...the more he talks, the more he buries his own chances. That said, fine, with the timelines I agree...but I'm also no fan of Trump. I'm still weary of another member of the US Monarchy, however...that being of the Bush/Clinton monarchy. I think she will govern close to how her husband did, to be honest. She's not the worst candidate I've seen -- despite what a lot of people want to claim -- but the idea of another member of the royal us family bothers me. What Clinton means to me is more of the same...nothing major will change, and if it does, it'll become some bastardized version of what they wanted ala the ACA.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 10:49 AM) This is only true if you don't actually look at how frequently Trump and Clinton change their policy positions. Trump gives a different policy at different times on the same day. Sure, if you want to inject timelines into it...but I've been around long enough to have seen Hillary pander, too. Trump is just another animal, and my opinion on him is clear as day around here, and has been from the start...he's a troll, and I STILL believe he's doing this for nothing but ego stroking fame that keeps his name in the news. I can't take him seriously as a presidential candidate regardless of his policy stances, whether they change from minute to minute means nothing since I don't take them seriously in the first place. That being said, I don't take much of what Hillary Clinton says at face value, either...she's just a professional on an entirely different level than Trump is. She's in a different league. Trump is playing the game of politics. Hillary Clinton was practically born into politics, molded by it...kind of like how Bane was born into and molded by darkness.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 10:32 AM) That's basically the same as a guy who changes his policy positions mid-sentence. Where do we stand on the Muslim Ban today? All Muslims? Some Muslims? Some Muslims plus anyone from "terrorist" countries? It changed over the weekend between the 14th and 18th holes, and it's changed a couple of times since then, too. This fantasy world you live in where Hillary Clinton doesn't pander to her crowds...where do you find it? I know, everything Trump says is a lie, and everything Clinton says is fact...again, what drugs are you on? No, seriously.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 10:30 AM) Clinton has run on basically the same platform as 8 years ago minus all of the health care items. She has had 3-4 major policy pushes this campaign that get zero coverage. She's been in public policy on a national level for 25 years. The point was she's just as guilty of pandering as Trump is. And that's what Trump is doing, he's pandering. As for her policy, it's easy to push policy you know won't get passed, it's quite different when you're pushing it as president.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 27, 2016 -> 08:45 PM) Do you (or anyone, for that matter) honestly have an idea where he wants to take the country? Which candidate? The primary one? The one the last 6 weeks or so? The Democrat from 10-15 years ago? This was all kinds of awesome. But the same can be said about Hillary in a way. She will say whatever you want to hear, and then do whatever she wants. For example, this being a baseball website, how she morphs into a Cubs fan whenever she's in Chicago.