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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.

Will be at the game tomorrow. First Bears game (at Soldier Field, went to Champaign way back when)

Naturalized Americans would be just fine. While I think the system is right to not trust the general public on some things, I think the public can figure out if a guy is American enough. President Schwarzenegger 2016

Gerrymandering and first past the post elections make this make complete sense. The people being jagoffs in this scenario (GOP, particularly the far right of it) are actually improving their personal chances of re-election

I've always wondered about that. Also the 4.1 to 4.2 to 4.3 changes are not that big. I just went from 4.1 to 4.3, and the real most user-facing changes were changes to Sense and not so much related to 4.3

In my town, I've set three different tube TVs next to the curb. Each time they were gone within the hour. Only once did a kid who may have been a high schooler take it (our high school-aged kids like to take TVs and chuck them at stuff)