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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 23, 2011 -> 12:20 PM) I'm with you on this. I would like to quote this post to prove your awesomeness. It's frustrating... we all know we have this world-class starter on our favorite team, but the guy just can't get out there. It will be very rewarding if/when he is able to put some starts together and dominate. Until he tore his back in half last year, he was doing just that -- dominating in his recent starts. I hope he can get back out there and continue where he left off, sooner rather than later.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Mar 23, 2011 -> 10:02 AM) It's called the Big N' Tasty now. McDLT = Arch Deluxe = Big N' Tasty. Which is basically McDonalds version of the Whopper.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 23, 2011 -> 09:19 AM) I am digging Firefox 4.0. The only thing that makes Firefox good is the extension NoScript. Other than that, it's a decent browser with severe memory consumption issues. I'm not a fan of Google, but Chrome is the industries best browser right now, but on the other hand, doesn't have NoScript, which is a problem in and of itself. Other than Chrome, Firefox is my #2 browser of choice.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 23, 2011 -> 09:06 AM) Wow! You can tell all of that by 1 screen shot? Um, yes, because that's the screen you are on 99% of the time. Well, that an the fact that if it's an android game, it was ported from iOS, usually in a s***ty fashion. iOS version: Ohhhhhhh, colors! Ohhhhh, superior layout!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 04:24 PM) If I could drive everyone in the country past the "Crystal Geyser" bottling plant, the bottled water industry would end. Forever. You mean where they fill the bottles out of a unfiltered garden hose?

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Mar 23, 2011 -> 12:33 AM) http://www.androidcentral.com/oregon-trail-android-app-ctia Looks like a crappy port of the iOS version to be honest.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 02:50 PM) Political correctness Which needs to go away.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 02:33 PM) 1) BigSqwert 2) Bad modern remakes that slowly erode my youthful memories of awesome. 3) Steve Balmer 4) 100$+ Oil #1 mission accomplished.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 02:35 PM) Not the f**king McRib sauce, that's an easy one. It's not a stereotype when there is non-chain BBQ restaurant every 50 feet down every road. No, I do not dip, that's disgusting. Fake ass southerner. You're so north, you may as well tell us you're Canadian from Canadia.

1) BigSqwert 2) Bad modern remakes that slowly erode my youthful memories of awesome. 3) Steve Balmer 4) 100$+ Oil

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 02:28 PM) For Oregon Trail. You have died of dysentery.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 02:28 PM) Never. It's awful. It tastes like a hot dog covered in awful barbeque sauce. Remember, I'm from the south. Two things I know are barbequed pork and barbeque sauce. What's a good BBQ Sauce then? I use sweet baby rays. :/ And since you are stereotyping that everyone from the south knows BBQ/Pork, do you also dip...cuz everyone from the south should dip.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 02:26 PM) I'm thinking an open world, sandbox, survival horror game for consoles. It's called Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2.

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 01:09 PM) I agree with SS that tax incentives are tax incentives and those incentives and other regulatory issues need to be weighed against job creation. What makes this kind of different is in theory sales taxes are a pass through for the business. Yes, there is some expense in tracking and sending payments, but it isn't exactly like property taxes that they would need to pay regardless of sales volume. Also, near as I can tell the bulk of these affiliates are about the same as eBay sellers and really not contributing to their state's revenue. I wonder if Amazon announced they were ending their affiliate program if states would line up to offer Amazon an incentive to keep the program in place. I would have an easier time justifying a state offering Internet businesses who locate in their state being allowed to continue to ship tax free inside the state. Currently two Illinois based business, each shipping to customers within the state, could either have to charge sales tax or not if they were shipping through Amazon or someone else. That doesn't seem right. But that is really a side issue to solving the real problem of a significant percentage of consumer spending that was generating revenue for states and local communities that are going away. My daughter buys almost all her non perishable items from Amazon and receives free delivery to her apartment. No lugging cases of water up two flights of stairs. Why do people buy cases of water...when you can buy a cheap water filter and save all the plastic.

Crystal Pepsi died because it sucked, and needs to stay dead. The McRib is back every year for a month or so, it was just back recently...I had one, and it was good. f*** off vegans (BigSqwert), I don't care if it's bad for me! Charlie Sheen is bad for me, too...but I'm high on Charlie right now, too...just like Charlie is...perhaps you can tell in my writing here. Oregon Trail is back on the iPhone/iPad, I beat it a few times now...it's better than the original game, mostly because the original game sucked for everything other than nostalgia. Tapper (the game) was also just re-released in an updated version on the iPad...and it is awesome...and cheap! 1.99$! What truly needs to come back is the world series trophy.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 02:12 PM) Dude seriosuly, you really are like that crazy guy in the picture someone posted a while back. "June at the absolute earliest"? Come back to earth, man. Late April/Early May IMO.

N00bs shalt not touch my lawn.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 09:43 AM) Yeah, I have a hard time saying that prices are increasing, when the reality is that apples to apples, prices have decreased. people are getting more service and paying more for it. To me, that isn' a price increase, that is an upgrade. Spending more for a bigger package isn't price increases. That is akin to saying going from basic cable to the full package is a price increase. Especially when you can still get really crappy phones that can do nothing more than text and make calls for free and the server plans attached to them wouldn't cost much. It's just that nobody wants that garbage now heh.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 09:05 AM) Here's specific data on the spending increase I was referring to. The bottom line is people are getting more for less, however they're tending to use more and do more, thus why they pay more...as they should. I have no issues with tiered data plans, to be perfectly honest, I don't see data usage/consumption as much different than any other consumer product/commodity. If you use a lot, you should pay more than the guy that hardly uses any. It's that simple. These one size fits all unlimited plans never made sense to me. If a person uses 300 GIGAbytes of data per month, they SHOULD pay more than a person that uses 35 MEGAbytes. However, I feel that the data plans should be cheaper than they are, or have many more/better tiers. The fact that you can buy 200MEGAbytes, OR 2 GIGAbytes is silly to me...and kind of pigeon holes you into having to buy the more expensive 2gig plan. None of this is surprising to me, though. Verizon said they aren't even going to bother contesting the AT&T-Mobile acquisition, either...and further, they have zero interest in Sprint.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 07:48 AM) I'd know a lot of details about the company. Know the brands they carry. Visit their website. Know if they're in one city, a lot of cities, etc. If you happen to be able to drop a random corporate detail during the interview, it can't hurt, as long as it's correct. If you can find out what selling points they use beforehand, learn them (i.e. if you go for an interview into an Ethan Allen store, don't spend your time focusing on price cuts, sell based on quality first and second). These are excellent suggestions. In addition to this, they will also be looking at how you dress and your personality. In how you dress, make sure you are comfortable looking. Remember, uncomfortable looking people are uncomfortable for customers to talk too. Just as importantly, your personality will be on display here...salespeople have to have a likable quality to them...or again, they're annoying to talk too.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 07:51 AM) Honestly reading Jake's quotes and the organizations quotes, that is how I was thinking that this went down. We always hear that pitchers have soreness, so how is he supposed to know that this specific soreness is something bigger, until it becomes something bigger. They also told him to expect soreness, so when it happened, why would he be worried about it? Its a catch 22 from the way I read it. It is, either way he was damned by the same fans that are damning him now. If he had told the Sox he was hurting after his first session of the season, these same people would be calling him out for having an injury history, or even better, claim he's being overly protective since the injury, and lost his edge. No matter which way he did things, he was going to get called out by the same crowd. I call this the baseball hindsight crowd...every team has this annoying variety of fan, and what they specialize in is examining things after the fact. They're really good at making multi-edged predictions, increasing their chance to "guess right", and then claim to have "told you so" when one of the 50 possible predictions they made comes true. Let's be real here. Nobody on this board had any realistic expectations that Peavy would start the season with the Sox. N O B O D Y. Everybody expected him to start late April/early May. E V E R Y B O D Y. Now get over it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 21, 2011 -> 07:20 PM) The trade off is jobs. City's make that decision all of the time by subsidizing businesses to come to their communities. Interest free loans, property tax breaks, incentives... I don't see sales taxes as any different. If states are willing to forfeit them in the pursuit of attracting jobs, it is their right. Exactly, no different than how Chicago handled Boeing. It just hurts when neighboring states use your new law against you...as they are in cases like this.

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 21, 2011 -> 07:12 PM) Duh, that's what I'm saying. If you continue to allow on-line retailers to ship tax free into your state, you will keep losing sales tax revenues. Ten years ago on-line sales were less than 1%, now they are 15%, where will they be in 5 years? Under the current system, states will continue to see revenues from sales tax to fall as more people shop on-line. What should they do to maintain that revenue stream? I see what you said. But the problem remains that even changing the current system only works if every (or a vast majority) of states also pass it. The problem is, for states begging for business/jobs, this effectively incentivized them to NOT enact such a law. They'd rather have the jobs, businesses and people than the sales tax...the prior 3 combined easily pay more in taxes than that one sales tax will ever bring in. Maybe you guys can't grasp what I'm saying because I'm saying it wrong...I don't know anymore. I really dont have another way to put this.

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 21, 2011 -> 07:06 PM) Indiana has the sales tax on *everything* that Amazon sells in Indiana to gain.Again how many companies will you allow to be in your state without paying taxes? To keep people from buying on-line, why not eliminate sales tax? States have nothing to gain by charging sales tax. This shows you don't understand how amazon works. If you buy something from amazon out of Indiana, they ship it from another state, not from your own state...so you don't get taxed. However the affiliates in Indiana ship to other states, and in these cases, do not have to pay that tax. The law simply forces the affiliates to pay that tax to their home state, even when shipping out of their own state...which amazon obviously wants no part of as it raises their prices and lowers the discount. I'm not arguing that what amazon is doing is right...but I is within the law in most states.

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 21, 2011 -> 07:00 PM) How much should states give up in sales tax to keep Amazon's program going? When on-line sales equal 50% of total consumer spending, should states look elsewhere to replace that income? Where? The point remains, IL gained nothing. Amazon simply doesn't sell out of IL affiliates anymore...this hurts the affiliates...it didnt hurt amazon. Amazon can ship the same merchandise out of an Indiana affiliate now, still tax free. Indiana has little incentive to pass such a tax.