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QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 04:15 PM) Do you know how few people are actually found insane?? You literally have to be bat s*** crazy and still the chances are you won't be found insane in court. There is no doubt she is going to prison and there is also no doubt she will be in prison while waiting for a trial don't see what your issue with the legal system is.... only thing that won't happen is the death penalty. And, by the way, being institutionalized is no fun thing. In many/most cases, a sane person would be much better off in prison than in a mental health facility. Faking it will offer limited benefit.

My dad made a good point about this -- he says he knew the GOP was full of s*** when they decided to pay the back pay owed to the federal workers during the shutdown. If they wanted to shut down the government as a means of fiscal belt-tightening like they claim to be doing, why promise all those workers their pay? They like to treat the federal budget like a house budget, so why don't they put their money where their mouth is? If you "shut down" your home budget to the essential services to save money, you don't go spend the saved money once it is all over. Also, the money used on research in the federal budget is practically inconsequential (to the budget). We're talking about 2% of the budget. No reason to hammer this part of the budget.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 09:42 PM) I would say, more accurately, that he made a number of errors both in the field and on the base paths and that fact seems to have a disproportionate emotional impact on many fans. He was not one of the worst baserunners in baseball. Fangraphs has him as our 3rd best baserunner after Rios and Ramirez. Fangraphs has him as the 25th most valuable baserunner in MLB for 2013. Fans don't get actively angry at Adam Dunn or Paul Konerko for being terribly slow since they can't help it. They can't help it, but it does make Paul Konerko the worst baserunner in baseball, and Adam Dunn the 16th worst. He did have a bad year defensively- made a lot of errors. Players have good and bad years defensively. All of that plus his offense adds up to 2.2 WAR- 3rd best on the team- and all for the bargain basement price of about $2 million. I agree with your general sentiment, but I wouldn't give us so much credit as to think we didn't resent Dunn and Konerko for being slow, lol QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 06:55 AM) Unfortunately no one has an outs on bases stat that is sortable. BR has it for individual players. De Aza had 19 outs on the bases this year (OOB+CS) vs the 20 SBs he had. 11 of those were baserunning mistakes that were not deemed as CS's. For contrast Ramirez in his 30 steals, had 15 outs on the bases this year, 6 of which weren't CS's. Alex Rios had 5 OOB this year that weren't CS's. Yes De Aza had as many outs on the bases (not including CS's) as two of the biggest idiots in baseball combined in Rios and Ramirez. Again, any baserunning stat that tells me De Aza was a good baserunner has problems. The truth is that he is fast and, while often losing bases by being stupid, also often picked up bases by being fast and aggressive. I'm not going to say he's an amazing baserunner, but just being fast and aggressive in today's game will make you a good baserunner. The stat he is citing is based on the amount of bases you get compared to what is expected on a given play -- so it docked him for the bad plays and credited him when he did well

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 08:17 AM) Two weeks ago I was up 40 going into the Monday night game. He had Sproles and Colston. I lost. Last week, I went up against Tony Romo, who threw for 500 yards and 5 TDs. I lost. This week, I went up against Jamaal Charles, Brandon Marshall, and Vernon Davis. I lost. This season blows Did you go up against me? I have all those players...but it says my opponent is knightni

And pretty much any other in-progress experiment that was running on federal grants had to shut down as well, nationwide. Most of these can't exactly be paused

QUOTE (scs787 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 07:11 PM) I'd prefer the BoSox as well, just because of Peavy, but...Idk how much money this Illitch(Tigers owner) fellow has but is it possible if the Tigers don't win it this year he opens the wallet even wider next year? I'd imagine that happens either way -- and that's a good thing because it will further f*** them in the medium-term

Pats aren't that good, but Saints are seriously overrated. And Brady is awesome

QUOTE (flavum @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 06:19 PM) Well, the 2006 World Series was terrible, so hopefully a Tigers-Cardinals series this year would be better. Anybody but the Red Sox. I'd much prefer the BoSox to the Tigers. The Tigers just need to blow it one or two more times before their window is pretty much closed

Unfortunately, we still have the best schools - so STEM folks have to choose between institutional quality and the possibility of receiving federal grants.

I hope NU falls out

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 06:13 PM) Too bad academics aren't able to adapt to the present conditions. I guess I thought more highly of them. They have by making part-time lecturers into 40% of the labor force while eliminating tenure lines, all while public schools are essentially operating as private institutions because they have lost so much public funding. This is, of course, why losing valuable research is so devastating. It is so hard to find a tenure-track job that losing one chance may very well be your only chance at getting one. Once you are out of grad school and not in tenure positions, you may never get the resources to build your research portfolio again

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 06:13 PM) Too bad academics aren't able to adapt to the present conditions. I guess I thought more highly of them. huh?

When that person comes up for review, they'll remember and consider that they lost this project in progress. Unfortunately, that doesn't take the place of the publications they need to prove their competence. Publishing is hard, especially in the sciences where you need funding to do much research, so there just may not be such a good opportunity again. It's so hard to land a tenure track that it could feasibly set back this person's career permanently. Likewise, as Balta mentioned, the time it takes to get stuff researched and then published is very relevant. Like the grad students who need publications before graduating, this researcher has to have publications before tenure review comes. Sometimes it can't be made up later, because later never comes.

I feel like we were just talking about how there was too little info to judge whether he was a negligent father

AP is clearly in a weird position since he probably had little knowledge of this child beyond a rumored recent paternity test. Doubly weird since pictures of his other son are being passed around as if that child is the one who was killed. I'm not going to judge too harshly at this point. I'm sure this is pretty disturbing for him, but also feels a little bit different than losing a son that you had been raising yourself. Maybe he should have been raising this child, I don't know, but there's no way to make that judgment given the available info. The way we report news like this has exposed the weirdness of this, since a bunch of people released their collective breaths when they found it was "just" his illegitimate son. Many had internalized the way we determine if something is newsworthy as the way to decide if it was worth public grief rather than whether the thing that had happened was a tragedy

....and there's two goals for NY

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 04:25 PM) No, unless you save them. Do you have any large games (GTA, any Gameloft or EA games, etc.) on your phone? No, not really. All pretty uninvolved, non-graphics heavy games. Someone has suggested that it could be texts - do you think that's it?

Not rooted, not doing anything particularly out of the ordinary. That is roughly how much I have stored on Google Drive, are those files being stored on the phone for some reason?

I'm looking at my storage breakdown and I can't figure out what is meant by "other" and why it is so big: Apps = ~4GB Music = ~814MB Photos/Videos = ~7.17GB Downloads = ~50mb Other = ~8GB What the hell is "other"??? I don't necessarily need to free the space just yet, but I can't figure out what could be taking up all that space.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 02:15 PM) Senate? I don't think the Senate would be nearly as obstructive as the current House is if there was a GOP president. Obamacare is also, well, an Obama issue and they may not feel like risking too much to save "his" program

I don't want to wait

2011 was totally different than any other year he's ever played. The things that were going wrong we just different. He simply wasn't hitting with power - he hit the right amount of fly balls, but they weren't getting out. Dunn's bad streaks this year often involved his BB rate going way down and a high groundball rate.

Had a good time at the Bears game. Met Ditka and shook his hand at his restaurant before the game, sat up there with the Waddle and Silvy show. Had some Iron Mike Ale, which isn't as bad as I thought it might be (brewed by Leinenkugel's I found out). Da Coach was about as nice as a grumpy old guy who keeps having dudes walk up to him and ask for things can be. Getting from Ditka's to a parking spot in a cash lots at the field took about an hour and 15 minutes, and I was surprised to find out that it costs 50 god damn dollars to park. Info on where to go was woefully low, so we ended up having to do a big loop-around to get back to the street we needed. Sat in section 440, pretty good view for (relatively) cheap seats. IMO, better view/experience than watching at home. When you watch baseball or watch football from the endzone or something, it is often much better to watch on TV. Fans were cool, nobody being too obnoxious. I feel like there wasn't quite the edge to the atmosphere that you'd hope, but playing an 0-5 team can have that effect. We pretty much all knew we were going to win, which is nice from a stress standpoint. The only moment when it looked like we were probably going to lose, we had the big INT to save the game. Getting out and onto I-55 was surprisingly easy. Pretty good day, pretty expensive, but a good time.

s***, didn't realize there were still viruses like that good thing, I do weekly backups on an external drive (which is not connected the rest of the time)

I despise Cardinals fans. They all act like they've never won anything before. I have seen this quote twice on my facebook regarding the series win "words cannot describe how I feel right now" Jesus, act like you've been there before. If the White Sox won a single playoff series this year, I'd have been pretty happy...but words would have described it.