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I won't go so far as to call Felser an idiot, but an annoying dofus, yes. On this particular one, I happen to agree w/ him. Montana, Elway, Starr, Unitas, Graham, Staubach, etc. (I'd put Kelly ahead of him.) I my opinion, there's a lot of QBs I'd rather have leading my team than Marino.

I don't think that proves too much. Just because a domain was registered on Sept 03 and the CURRENT administrative contact is someone, doesn't mean that he was the one that registered it. Losman has said that he basically went to school as a precursor to playing in the NFL. It wouldn't be a stretch that he, or one of his more techie/entrepeneurish friends had the forethought to register a domain name.

2 players at opposite ends of the spectrum. Like many others have mentioned, BJ (what does that stand for? ) Hobart & Bruce Smith (he did play post-SB era). I'll admit he was great, but in my feelings about him was that he was a great big ass as well. JMHO.

Geez, I'd never thought I'd be defending a union, but here goes. Basically, as I mentioned in my post above, it's that unions expedite market efficiency. Let's say through union negotiation the manager of a widget factory makes $50/hr. Let's say I'm willing to get out of bed & do that job just as well as him (subtle barb ) for $28/hr, in a non-union environment, he'd get fired & be out of work. Now, he's out of work (temporarily) and collecting unemployment benefits. Further, (although not as significantly although in my opinion more important philosophically) society as a whole is being inefficient. (Gee, hope I'm not sounding too Brave New Wrold.) W/ him being unemployed, other producers of goods have lost a potential buyer, so they need to reduce workforce &/or change their price structure (lower prices &/or lower wages). Now eventually, he'll find a job, displacing someone else, et cetera et cetera and EVENTUALLY we'll find an equilibrium. (In general most people would be okay if they're making 1/2 the money they were but everything costs 1/2 as much. Likewise if everything cost double & they're making 2x as much. Although roughly stable prices are best for all.) But in the mean time, there has been a cost paid by inefficiency. The theory behind unions is that by having workers, who otherwise don't have sufficient clout to negotiate a 'fair' wage/benefit/condition/etc banding together, the solution benefits all (including non-union people).

Philosophically, I'm opposed to unions, but I realize that in some instances, they're a necessary evil. We live in a capitalist or free market society, where the cost of things is determined by supply & demand. We have laws (anti-trust, monopoly) prohibiting companies from acting in a way counter to these intentions, yet we allow the work force to do so. It's most 'fair' if I'm able to freely negotiate my level of compensation (including benefits & working conditions) w/ my prospective employer. The reason that (in some instances) that unions benefit all is that they (hopefully) expedite the finding of equilibrium between supply & demand. The discussion of whether or not unions are good or bad is a very intensive one, but I think it's safe to say that they essentially serve the same purpose as insurance. Overall, they're detrimental (i.e. cost more than their benefit) but in the case of unions, hopefully their collective bargaining abilities to lessen the inefficiencies (& cost) of finding equilibrium is sufficient to offset their cost. For something like the NFL or NHL I think they're clearly a poor & unnecessary idea.

I don't know who the dumbest is, but it certainly can't be Joe Theissmann. He's a genius like Norman Einstein!

Playing SHAPE? For him, wasn't that kinda roundish? Seriously, if you're referring to his wrist or whatever problem he had, I don't know. BTW, my vote for JPs back up is Bledsoe. Say what you will about his deficiencies for a starter, but it'd be very difficult to find a better QB suited for BU duty behind a green, semi-rookie. Considering the cap ramifications of releasing him (& that I think you want a proven, competent BU behind said new starter), I'd like to see us hold onto him.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that airbags 'chopped' from stolen cars usually fetch a few hundred apiece. (That's obviously for the airbags alone.)

Are my #s right? The spped of light is ~186,300 mi/sec IIRC. This translates to ~6.7*10^9 mph. That means that the object will be falling for almost 21 million seconds which is like 242 days. In that time it will cover 335,340,000 or almost 4 trips to the Sun from here. As you can see, this is a theoretical question only, 'cuz 1)one can't create a vacuum that large, and 2) over that distance, obviously gravity is no longer constant and the object will be acted upon by several other bodies.

I've only seen about 1/2 the episodes, so I'm by no means an expert on the show, but this idea just occurred to me. (Brought about by the observation that there should be some signinifcance to the song in a thread below. What if the reason they haven't been rescued is that 'they are everybody'. i.e. there's no one left on earth, or maybe the world that they left (& maybe we live in) is only a figment of their imaginations? Just food for thought.

Congratualations on your upcoming child; Condolences on having to resort to a mini-van Minivan : Manhood Is Not Intact Vascectomized And Neutered.

AHHH Yes, I do. I looked under there but didn't see anything. Look a bit deeper & I found it. Well see what that does.

(That was hard to figure how to fit in the subject line.) I'm using Firefox 0.9.2 but also have the same problem w/ an older version of FireBird. (I've actually done my best to uninstall IE, so that's not an option.) Usually, when I click on the 'jump to new' icon in a link, it will only go to some previous spot that I've already read. Not always, though. Are others experiencing any similar problems? I'm guessing it's a cookie or something problem, but I can't find provisions to clear cache &/or cookies like IE has. Any insight or help would be appreciated, thanks. p.s. A similar feature seems to work fine on another site I frequent (yes, hard to believe that there's actually other sites on this WWW of ours) & don't know whether it's relevant, but I find I have to log back on to eBay far more often even though it seems to know who I am (i.e. it says, 'welcome esjaydee').

While we're quoting lines - "Fat, drunk & stupid is no way to go through life, son." Really? Why not?

San Fran? Tip : Be VERY careful if some guy at a bar asks if he can 'push in your stool''

I think you've got 2 out of those 3 correct. No disputing he's a good runner. He's also able to DEMOLISH people in pass protection & at least from my perspective, seems to always fulfill his assignments. As for the receiver, no I don't think so. He drops too many balls. He 'looks' more fluid & skilled than Henry & he's good once he gets into the open field (assuming he catches the ball), but he doesn't have good hands. Actually, back to the original premise of needing a Centers-type guy, I agree. I personally thought that Morris was if anything better than Centers, but considering he would have been relegated to 3rd string, I definitely see why he left. Now I sound like one of those wishful dolts, but if we end up tradin Henry to the Dullfins, maybe Morris will come back to be the 3rd down/2nd string RB.

I would think if you're a techie, you wouldn't use much paper. i.e. electronic bill paying, notes/ reminders on a Palm, newspaper read online, etc. Does it shred floppies &/or CDs?

How was it shipped? If it was regular parcel USPS (motto - if it absolutely, positively would be nice if it gets there, maybe, hopefully in the not too distant future) it wouldn't surprise me at all if it takes in excess of a week, maybe 2. When did he ship? Again, depending on the method, if it's more than 2 weeks ago & it's traceable, have him do so. I'm reluctant (& apparently so is everybody else) to leave negative feedback, but assuming he waited more than a few days to ship, I think that calls for a Neutral. As someone suggested though, it might be prudent to wait for him to leave your feedback.

One thing to consider, assuming these ultrasonic devices are actually effective (I have no idea), is what about other dogs in the neighborhood? Are there any in the immediate proximity? If so, it certainly isn't right to emit an annoying & offensive noise (to dogs) that they are subjected to just 'cuz of some other dog. For that matter, what if the noise (is it correct to say something ultrasonic emits a noise? ) aggrevates these other dogs to cause them to bark.

Look at it from a finanical standpoint. I'm not sure of actual facts (they tend to cloud an opinion ) but... $600m is roughly $40/head for NYS residents. Relative to what we're paying, that's trivial. Further, here's an important issue. Right now, I assume NYJ are a New JERSEY team, ergo pay NJ taxes. W/ their stadium in New York, we get to have income tax on their salaries AND sales tax on ticket sales, etc. Figure easily $70m/yr in salaries @ even 6% plus another 8% of perhaps $50m in ticket sales, etc. Right there, those revenues alone offset perhaps 20-25% of the cost. Those are direct costs. The don't take into consideration about tickle down effects not to mention the original $600m cost, which of course NYS will get a decent tax share of. Add to that additional property tax revenue. (Also, bear in mind, that revenues (& expenses) are distributed among several entities (county, town/municipality, state) but considering how we allocate things (state subsidies, etc) I really don't think that's an issue. Finally, if this indeed is sufficient to attract the Olympics, I suspect the impact of that would be VERY profitable for the State.

Ewwww. I'm trying to eat my beakfast, thanks. As for the appointment, yes, I've had those b4, in fact some have even been w/ doctors.

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Very sorry to hear about your dog (along w/ your nasty vet bill); hope he comes out okay. The guy promising to pay the vet bills is a good step, but by your description appears to be an empty promise. I don't know if he would actually be liable or not. Question - was your dog leashed? If not, it could be claimed that your dog was the instigator. (My dog got attacked by a pit bull in a similar situation.) If he was, I don't know. As suggested elsewhere, I would suggest contacting animal control. Depending upon what they say, it might be worth contacting the police. There's 2 important issues - the paramount one being that this dog needs to be controlled so that this doesn't happen again (or worse). If this means euthanizing or more desirably removing this dog from this man's custody, then so be it. Secondly, ideally, this man should be finanically accountable for the damage his dog caused.

Suicide Watch? Why, let him do it. He's already caused a great detriment to society (an action that resulted in the death of 11 & injury to 200 plus considerable $, both directly & indirectly). Have him do everyone a favor & save the expense & effort of a trial & either cost of life in prison or the even greater cost of convicting and carying out the death penalty. I won't go far far as to call him a POS as others have, but I certainly don't think he's worthy of compassion, either.

Sorry to hear about your situation. Sucks. Did you get a severance? If it was something other than Civil Service, say in an organization that was only interested in retaining superlative employees this might be an easy a way to weed out the less than stellar performers. But there doesn't seem to be that motivation at a gov't job (or at least not to me). Is it possible that this was some way around possibly hiring a 'contractor' or temporary position & the intent was to release you all along?