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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....

That was really stevestojanny what they were saying to Christina and how they were acting in not giving her room in the sleeping area. Really... telling someone they should just jump in the fire? Colton got a taste of his own advice shortly after. Instant Karma, B word! Colton was shouting and calling Christina a "stupid B word" for "not running" back to the group during the reward challenge. 1) !@#$ him. She may not have been in a full sprint, but she sure wasn't strolling. 2) His bellyaching (apt phrase) that she wasn't doing enough there holds little water seeing that Colton himself was !@#$ing useless. Tarzan was the only one showing any skill, and he was going up and down the stack of boxes like he was 90. If anyone was allowed to say anything about someone not giving their all, it would be him, not a dude who threw the coconut into the wood liner or got ~ 3 feet of bounce on his best throw. But even then, it was Christina who was there offering comfort to Colton and going to check up on him in the trees, while strategy was the first and only thing of concern for everyone else. Maybe now Jonas will be forced to grow a pair and it's nice to see Leif get basically a clean slate. Again, Colton shows his selfishness by keeping the idol as a souvenir. What a POS. I'm sure potential employers will be thrilled with his attitude of "If I don't like you, I'm not going to talk to you." This queen was so busy playing for after the merge that he didn't get that you have to have numbers post-merge and one idol will not necessarily save your ass. That said, is this not a very early merge? I think they saw the men-women thing wasn't working, mixed it up bit with the buff-down, and now that it's tied 6-6 again, they took this opportunity to bring the M-W thing back into play. I hate that Alicia might actually stick around in a woman alliance now. She is simply a disgusting human being. Nice Kim-Chelsea alliance after her idol find. Hot girls 'til the end, please!

I'll see that "in power" and raise you an "alive." Because at this point, two to three days after we're out of there, Karzai gets slowly beheaded with a dull machete. Which, with his attitude (particularly after the OBL raid when he said that if the U.S. and Pakistan went to war, he'd side with Pakistan), I am actually in favor of. When his head is being placed next to his belly, ask him who the demons are. But be quick about it. And what with not having a windpipe, have him blink once for one option, and twice for another.

How's that going to work? Unless they work on rotating shifts, the only thing that would matter is the top job. As it was famously described by someone in the office, the vice presidency isn't worth a bucket of warm stevestojan. Frankly, if you're relying on the people of the Internet to get a good choice, you are sadly mistaken. Have you read commentary under stories lately? I want to force these people to actually leave their beds/mother's basement before they get to vote. The two-party system pretty much sucks, and I've gotta say that splitting the difference won't make a difference. There needs to be different ideas, not just another re-combination of the same crap.

Buffett millionaires' tax would raise $31 billion over 10 years Even if "the rich" were taxed at 100% it wouldn't put a dent in the annual budget deficit, nevermind put anything toward the national debt. But still, it's just, "SOAK THE RICH!!!" from the left.