UConn James

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They had ~ a 300-acre dairy farm east of Rachacha. I'm still available for an angus farmer family friend here in the Quiet Corner, but the haying fields are disappearing one by one.... Plus, more farmers are just moving to the round bales. "Marshmallows of the cultural landscape," as Garrison Keillor calls them.

With his 'Even if it was poop, the boiling water would disinfect it,' Tarzan gave away that it was indeed poop stains in his underwear. The gentleman doth protest too much. If I were Chelsea, I would've just gone apeshit on him. How is this dude a plastic surgeon? (Unless, of course, he's operating out of the back of a station wagon. That I could see.) Really enjoying how Troyzan is playing this game, and I'm rooting for him, Sabrina and Lief, even tho as Probst said, he was the worst person to send first in the reward challenge. Troyzan's idol find basically can put him in the final three if he doesn't absolutely up. But it will be interesting how the idols (the other being in the Kim-Chelsea and women alliance) are played against each other. Right now, (and especially if they win another immunity) the women can essentially own this game if they choose. After last night, the men's side is so divided it's not funny. Jonas goes into tribal when they'd all agreed on Kat, and he spills the beans and says he's voting for Michael. Holy stevestojan, dude! He may have done a lot around camp, but that's not something you can keep around. Nevermind that he has a kind of annoying voice, I can't decide b/w someone with Down's or a deaf person when they talk. Not ragging on these disabilities too much (I have hearing problems myself).

And to get to Dayman's point of why waste time and resources by repeal (estimates say that repeal will cost in the hundreds of millions), I would say... Well, whose ing fault was that? They passed something that enough people warned would be unconstitutional that they might have listened, but no. They passed something so they could say they passed something. Again, I reflect --- how would Obamacare being struck down measure WRT a defining/overarching moment of a presidency? Fifty years from now, how is this country going to remember the Obama Years? It would be for spending a lot of $/increasing the debt more than any other president and that he spent a lot of time, political capital, and public treasure on passing something that was ruled unconstitutional. Just thinking about the historical impact while we're in the moment. Would it be on par with a censure or is it roughly equivalent to getting publicly face-slapped?

I'm not sure this is something they do every year. There's not such turnover in fields that it really needs to be.... As I recall, it got good reviews from our players, and I don't remember other teams complaining about it. And even if they did, it would probably be due more to the weather's effects than anything, and that can't be changed short of a dome.

Why does/would Jay Leno not have a problem with this with his mega-garage? What about George Clooney's in-home movie theatre with huge-screen 3-D and like 100 leather chairs?People generally don't think they're *s just because they spend money on something they really enjoy. But these people are celebrities, so that means they can do things like this and be admired for it.... Whereas if it's anyone else who's earned a lot of coin, this opulence is looked down upon. Look, Romney's made a lot of money. At least he's not just sitting on it like Scrooge McDuck Warren Buffett. He's spending and putting it into the economy in a sector that has hit the snide since the recession. How is this a bad thing? I don't expect someone who's running for president to have the same circle of friends as myself, to have the same means as others if they're coming from the private sector where they've been successful.... All I give a crap about is if he's got better ideas on how to make America work better than the other guy.

Well, it takes some effort, but you have gravity on your side up there. It was a little stevestojanny of him to claim that part so quickly. And yes. I have some experience stacking hay myself --- summers at my grandparents/uncle's farm in WNY. (Which is pretty much how I became a Bills fan.)

I saw that on a hints page last night. I'm going to have to install iTunes on my computer, as up to this point I've been satisfied with Windows Media Player. Don't know how it's going to respond to some files WRT DRM stuff --- by and large I buy my music or I'm downloading a live performance off of YouTube or a version of something I already have on CD (or record in the attic). I don't think anybody's library is squeaky clean these days. Yeah the iPad 3 has the retina display. I don't have much to compare it to, but it's really nice. It definitely outdoes my laptops screen, though, which claims to be high definition. I watched an episode of Doctor Who on Netflix shortly after I set this up and the picture was pretty awesome. Got to say that I'm loving this text to speech option. I'm not someone who ever had a BlackBerry or was into texting very much, so anything that makes the transition a little easier is nice. Having to toggle between letters and numbers and then symbols on the digital keyboard is a bit of a pain in the butt. Then again, typing this out on my laptop with a mouse would have taken about a minute this has taken me about 10.... I suppose it will get easier.

There goes the first replier's argument against.... Especially with the New NFL, where the rules are bent over backwards in favor of the offenses and which will only see get more and more pronounced as the Rules Committee castrates defenses, changing the overtime rules so both teams have a guaranteed touch of the ball was only fair. Teams are now incentivized to score a touchdown, which was easier last year than it has ever been, what with three QBs eclipsing Marino and two years removed from Brady having 50+ TDs. What's wrong with encouraging touchdowns in OT as much as they have in regulation, if high scores are what they want?

It's taking some getting used to, that's for sure.... One of the suckiest things is no Lastpass log-in or saving password options that I've seen so far. Having to re-enter those every time is a PITA. Also, no AdBLock Plus for iPad Safari. Netflix looked pretty darn good. And I just used the microphone speech to text option to type this text. That's pretty awesome! Still have a lot to learn on this, tho.

Just picked up a "New iPad" at Sam's Club for $489 so certain people in the house will stop tying up my laptop. But, I may end up using it for a more portable Netflix viewer that I can prop right up on the windowsill while cooking and (hand)washing dishes. That should be a lot less clunky than setting up the laptop on the counter. We'll see how it works, especially vis-a-vis transferring song files over from Windows7 (is that possible?).

Last year's schedule release was 19 April. Several high-profile games are leaked in the few weeks before that.

If it is ruled unconstitutional, what's the historical impact vis-a-vis it being the cornerstone Obama legislation? Has an issue as central to a presidency (like this is) and with so much tonnage behind it ever been struck down? They might try to shrug it off, but does a presidency really recover? Not to mention it would be an albatross around Obama's neck going from the summer into November when independents and the average American busy with work/family/entertainment and/or who generally disdain politics finally starts to pay a little more attention. 'He tried to pass a law that was pretty blatantly unconstitutional in its federal over-reach.'

From the comments Justices Kennedy and Roberts (considered the swing votes in the case) are reportedly making in oral arguments, it looks like the individual mandate section is done for.

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Your second thought was my first thought. IIRC, the typical Afghani (man, I presume) makes ~$300 a year.

IIRC, that was a season-ender vs. the Pats. Snow, strong wind and super-cold. Almost every play was a run. The goalposts were listing ~20 degrees off-angle. As I remember, they kept trying to straighten them during breaks through the early part of the game, and then the announcers said they would only be straightened out if either team were attempting a FG.

That was the absolute right decision. Respected the fans and tradition but also made it a controlled take-down to avoid injuries. That's several hundred pounds of metal, that once it has no support/grounding, falls very fast. And there is still no Edit -> Undo button in real life.

Per Joe Paletta CEO of Spotlight Theatres, in Screen Trade Magazine, he thinks 2-D movie prices will be rising and 3-D movie price declining next year. Yea for trying to force 3-D down society's throats. As if ticket sales weren't already down. Looks like the studios are putting the screws to the people who are still going. Like the Laffer Curve in tax-economics, you've gotta ask yourself at what price point they have diminishing returns than if they just charged marginally less, but tons more people went.

The GOP second-ran is usually the front-runner in the next round. Not so for Santorum now. The time for he and Newt to drop out came and went. Now they're lingering to make more of a name for themselves so they can bank on the lecture circuit and cable commentary. I will not forgive him if this self-aggrandizement campaign of his contributes to another four years of Obama. I want a president, not a preacher-in-chief.

I was surprised to not hear her say "I hope I don't catch it...." But that doesn't mean it wasn't edited out. Also, on Monica's husband, I went with what was said upthread and it didn't raise any red flags to me. Brad Culpepper, not Dante.

Some delegate math. Link

+1 WRT fewer game delays. But there's also a thing to be said of taking the referees out of the decision from a conflict of interest point. Regardless that most NFL refs want to get the calls right, there is an appearance of/chance for impropriety. As it stands, it's like asking a burglar to decide whether his break-in was legal. No matter what, that ref is going to have a certain level of defensiveness whenever a red flag is thrown against him or his crew. The league can try to use all the language and training they want, but that initial "You're telling me I don't know what I saw? This is my job!" is still there. Better to remove it from ever being a factor. And it would be nice to not have to see pathetic whining to the refs as they're headed to the booth. (Note: the whining for a ref to throw a flag will not stop). Like it or not, this lobbying has the ability to put a thought into a head. If the replay comes entirely from upstairs, there's NO player-judge contact to influence a decision. The IR rules are also something that should've been instituted a while ago. Guys with a slight injury are cut because a team needs bodies. I'd also throw in to raise the roster limit by 2-3 players, especially if/when the league goes to an 18-game schedule.

Well, if you like cottage cheese....