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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 09:34 AM) With the move of the accounts to Discover, the current rate is now 1.35%. It was as high as 5% at one time with E-Trade, when the markets were running wild, so that gives you an idea of the bounds it will work within. But in the case of Discover, I don't know if they will increase it the way E-Trade did. So I'll be shopping around at other rates now, to see if anyone is significantly higher. 1.35% is still very good for savings accounts, which is why I have it there -- and for convenience of it being linked to my other E*Trade accounts, I login to one account and have access to all 3, makes stock buying easier when I do it.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 9, 2010 -> 01:01 PM) My wife is originally from the suburbs of Detroit and she keeps me updated on developments like these. It completely makes sense. They could just knock those buildings down and evacuate the area -- in 20 years the Earth will have done the job for us, for free. Look at Chernobyl.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 9, 2010 -> 09:10 PM) Not anymore - E-Trade sold their savings accounts to Discover. I know because I had one, and just got the info in the mail. As long as it remains linked to my Etrade account and continues to pay interest, I don't care who owns it. heh

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 9, 2010 -> 10:12 AM) I know you're a Mint fan, but I don't see that being any more (or less) secure than Quicken on a PC. Quicken files are encrypted, password protected, and have a self-destruct feature. Mint or other online solutions have protected and encrypted servers. Both connect securely with financial institutions to move data back and forth. Online solutions provide more chance of being hit by baddies, but home PC's can be stolen or destroyed. There is risk in either case, just different kinds of risk. And either one, by the way, is more secure than what most people still do - checkbooks and paper statements. If it's being done online, it's less secure. In addition to the secure connections between Mint and 3rd parties, they also have to maintain a connection to the user -- when using Quicken locally, that extra connection isn't occurring. Also, it's much easier to target a known source than random unknown sources for such information. For example, Mint.com is a known source, you know what they transmit in and out, you know what kind of information they store and deal with, random users on the internet may or may not ever transmit such things so Mint.com is an obvious first target. All could be susceptible to man in the middle and other various attacks.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 9, 2010 -> 10:13 AM) agreed, if only they get hogan out of the way Not happening. And there are plenty of guys people have wanted "out of the way" for years. I personally like Hogan, and hope he stays.

Bigger banks also tend to offer better online banking and bill payment options, too. I have a checking account for nothing but bills/spending money -- my ATM is attached to it. My savings is in my Etrade account, as well as one of my IRAs and my brokerage account.

Well whatever the case may be, TNA on Monday is better for wrestling.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Mar 9, 2010 -> 09:19 AM) or followed any sports team? Half the fun is dissecting the shows. Like I said in my last post, it was actually fun to watch all the mistakes TNA was making with their "big opportunity". I want them to succeed, because historically Vince McMahon only steps up his game when he has legitimate competition. There's always something good to watch on each program, but even in the down times there's fun to be had criticizing the product. B****ing about a sport that occurs in real time with without predetermined outcomes and b****ing about a fake wrestling show are WAY different things. Wrestling is like a stage play. It's physical, yes, but it's not a contest. I don't watch House MD and then b**** about how bad it is -- if it's that bad that I complain about it *every* week, I stop watching and find something better to do. I still enjoy a sprinkling of wrestling from time to time as long as it seems fun, WWE has a few cool things going on, so does TNA, neither are great though. I'm happy TNA moved to Monday, however, as at least it will force WWE to do some things they otherwise wouldn't bother with. I hope it sparks off a new golden era in pro wrestling.

I don't know why most of you even watch wrestling anymore, all you do is waste two hours (if not more) watching something you dislike/hate and are bored with, then get on soxtalk.com and b**** about how crappy it was, whether it be TNA or WWE. Usually when a show gets bad, people stop watching it. Maybe it's time to start looking into that. I realize it's your own time to waste, but seriously. It's like *every* modern wrestling fan watches wrestling just so they can b**** about how crappy it is and everything that's wrong with it.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 2, 2010 -> 07:41 PM) My segway comment was a joke. I think Tesla Roadster's would be fantastic for police, since it would cut down on gas. And there are plenty of bad cop drivers...ones that swerve, run red lights by turning their lights on then right off, and in Anaheim I literally saw a train of policeman do a U-turn in a no u-turn area...without their lights on...and one sticking his head out the window laughing... Police that do that have some issues, as they shouldn't be breaking the law. I have no sympathy for cops that abuse their authority or break laws just because "they think they can". I have plenty of gripes about how the Chicago Police Force is run from the top down, and the purchasing of some new SUVs is one of the least important things on the list. It's akin to complaining that the floors at McDonalds were dirty, but ignoring the fact you got food poisoning from the burgers.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 2, 2010 -> 11:09 AM) 1. You shouldn't assume that people don't know what they are talking about. 2. I think its interesting that a poster who has repeatedly railed about government spending, doesn't want to see a lens put on a government agency and how it uses money. Police are, for the most part, funded by taxpayer dollars, and therefor the taxpayers can and should have some say in the way they conduct business. 1) I said 99% of you don't have a clue...and that remains true. Most have no idea how the Police department operates or why and what they're dealing with on a daily basis. You only know what you've read in papers or heard the Mayor tell you second hand. The other 1% of you know someone IN the department, and have some sort of idea how it actually works so what I said doesn't apply to you in that case. 2) Police are underfunded by taxpayer dollars, if anything. They have no contract, and haven't for years. They're understaffed to an unsafe level, which is why most on nights are solo now, yes, they're riding solo...at night, in dangerous neighborhoods. That's really safe. And I agree taxpayers should have some say in the way they conduct business, if they care to educate themselves how the department actually works so they can have a valid opinion on the matter.

Nothing like reading a thread full of arm chair quarterbacking opinions on how a Police force should function, perform their dangerous jobs, how they should look, dress, talk, what they should and shouldn't drive, etc., and how everything they do should be done and done better. And I'd guess 1% of you know what the hell you're talking about. My brothers a cop. My brother in law is a cop. His father is a cop. His fathers father was a cop. My friends father was a cop. My neighbors are all cops. Friends are cops. And I'd say I still know next to nothing about what it is they go through, and I hear about the latest stories every single day of my life. As for the new Tahoe's...my brother has been a cop for more than 10 years, and has yet to drive in one.

CF Rudy Law RF ...wait...wrong era. I think it's just a matter of time before Rios is shifted to RF and Jones takes over CF -- as Quentin will be injured.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 01:35 PM) Huh? He's kinda poking fun at Detroit...since everyone's abandoning it and there are no people left there, with money, to buy drinks for anyone. At least I think.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 11:38 AM) Their single greatest advantage now is that they have 2 of the best hitters in all of baseball. I guess we'll see now that they're Domeless.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 11:34 AM) Even if you believe that, Damon isn't going to propel the Sox to a pennant and the Sox aren't going to want him for more than one year. Looking at the big picture, Damon isn't all that valuable. If the Sox surprise during the first half and look like they can actually compete with the Yankees, Red Sox, etc., guys like Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez will likely be available. Both are higher-impact players than Damon and the Sox have enough young talent to trade for them. Damon is valuable because of his consistent bat, his ability to get on base.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 11:32 AM) I'd like to agree with you, but they're the Twins. They're always there. Always. Besides, the Twins of 2010 look more like the older Sox teams than they do themselves. They should adjust to their new park just fine. Again, I say...no matter how well they adjust to the new park, they HAD, undeniably, the greatest homefield advantage in baseball and now they no longer do. No matter how well they adjust to the new park, the advantage they had will never be quite as drastic as it was. ...and IMO, they were "always there...always" because of where they played. I repeat, their single greatest advantage over the Central is now gone.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 11:27 AM) You do realize that the Tigers took dramatic steps backwards, and the Twins not only improved their team, but took steps to make sure they can compete in their new ballpark, right? I do, but I also realize that baseball is a funny game...and making changes that look good on paper don't translate to great performance. The Twins, regardless of their attempt to retool that team to play without the dome, will NOT have a good of a home record anymore. The Dome easily gave them 5-10 cheap free wins EVERY season that they will no longer get. You don't go from playing the kind of baseball they've played, relying on the field as they did to stock their home record such as they've ALWAYS done and switch it up overnight. The Twins are going to crash and burn in that new stadium for the first year or two before they get used to it. No matter what case you make, the Twins lost *** THE GREATEST *** homefield advantage in baseball...and retooling a team to a new stadium won't bring that advantage back to them.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 11:10 AM) My react-o-meter is currently exactly halfway between "f*** that guy!" and "Hooray!" so I guess we'll see. I don't like the sound of Kenny's comment either, but it could also be that both sides have made their final offers and are awaiting a decision by Saturday. In the meantime, Kenny has s*** to do. I see the current AL Central situation like this: 1. Twins - slight favorites 2. Sox - solid #2, very close to Twins 3. Detroit - solid #3, a few games worse than the top 2 and a few games better than #4 If Damon signs with us then IMO it makes us the immediate favorite in the division. If Damon goes to the Tigers it closes the gap considerably between the Sox and Tigers, setting up a 3-horse race for the division. Hopefully Damon's wife leads him by the finger in the right direction. She doesn't like that f***hole called Detroit, and who can blame her? I don't. The AL Central will be Sox vs Detroit this year. IMO, with the loss of the Twins 10th player, their home record isn't going to be as stocked with free wins anymore.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 09:44 AM) That's a useless number if you don't have a scale to compare it to. 0.01% could be a lot if it only takes 0.000001% to kill you. I can attach a scale. For example, the Vermont Yankee power plant I cited a few pages ago shows tritium concentrations near the plant of 70,500 picocuries per liter, 3.5 times the EPA's current allowable standard. A 2005 NSF study concluded "The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionizing radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial." I was pointing out the same thing. You gave a 25% leaking statistic, but never said how much Tritium that they're actually leaking, nor what harm it can do, if any. The fact that regulatory limits on Tritum in drinking water exist show that small amounts, in fact, cannot kill a person...otherwise the limit would be 0.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 07:52 AM) How about when I start it with "25% of the U.S.'s current nuclear plants are leaking tritium"? How about when I finish it with "nuclear fission creates the byproduct tritium at a rate of 0.01%"?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 17, 2010 -> 02:00 PM) They bought the bankrupt remnants of Chrysler. They basically bought Jeep. It's the only thing Chrysler has that does well.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 17, 2010 -> 09:18 AM) I can go there in two words. Agent. Orange. Talk about the mother of all pre-existing conditions. My father was in Nam and exposed to agent orange, so let's say I have a unique perspective on this. Do you know what he'd have to go through to collect on that? His friends did...and it's so red-tape filled that by the time you start collecting you're probably dead or dying...that's how awesomely efficient the VA is.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 15, 2010 -> 08:14 AM) Except in the case of health care, where the private providers dominate the Feds in those categories. Because the feds haven't had a chance yet. And before you try to say how wonderful medicare is, it's not. So just don't. Same goes for the VA. Just don't go there, because it'd show you have no clue what you're talking about. It's amazing how little people actually know about the health care industry, yet everyone's an expert at fixing all of it's woes, and they all end in the government running it when the government is bankrupt in 48 out of 50 states and overall beyond bankrupt on a national scale. 2+2 doesn't equal 5 no matter how hard you all try. Again. I repeat. Hospitals send the bills. Insurance companies pay them. In no way am I saying ignore the insurance companies, as there ARE things that can be done, however...they are NOT the primary target. If you want lower insurance rates, tell the f***ing hospitals to stop sending insane bills for insane procedures that shouldn't cost what they do to the insurance companies. Instead, what you will do, is again ignore what I just said and fall back on blaming the insurance companies for everything. It's old.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 16, 2010 -> 11:44 AM) LINK Maybe the dinosaurs left their cars running after they all went extinct, which caused it back then. And the cavemen of that era were known to abuse aerosol hair sprays.