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Thaddeus Matthews: ‘Get Your Stupid A**’ Out & I‘m Scared Your ’Whiteness’ Might Rub Off on Me

Gotta say that I was hoping for exactly this move when I heard that the Indy staff was being cleared. I also hope that Chan finally got that the TE --- when you get one who's worth more than a bucket of warm stevestojan --- can be a very important part of an offense as a dump-off target for a QB whose bread-and-butter is short-to-mid-range throws.

Putting the main focus on middle-income people and growing jobs will raise all boats, the "very poor" included, in the fastest way possible. Until jobs come back, the only way to "help" the very poor would be to give them hand-outs (that this country can ill afford) end-without-end-amen rather than giving them a hand-up. You really feel for people who have been put in such straits through no fault of their own... but as Romney said, the safety net is there and if it needs to be reworked, he'll do that. But the main focus has to be on what can do the most good for the most people by averting a fiscal debt and employment crisis that could put a lot more people into the "very poor" category if the most attention is not put there.

That's why I put "paying himself $47K" --- instead of $114K. Tho I'm sure he grabs a chunk of that $67K.

THIS HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST. RTFP --- I wrote "in previous threads." Like this one. Recommendations for which sellers to buy from. There've been other threads with direct links to Chinese counterfeiter ordering sites. I just don't have time to go through them all, but they've been on here. There've also been direct links to streaming game feeds. I'm sure the people that get busted all think that too. Some version of SOPA will be passed sooner or later. The point is that this site should not be put at risk. Appropriation / infringement / unfair commercial use = theft of patented trademarks and designs. You're going to split hairs over this?

Gingrich paying himself $47K from campaign funds Maybe he's gotta spring for some earrings for Calista? I'm sure his donors like to see Mr. Gingrich pocketing the money they send him to campaign with.

Touche. At this time, it is not illegal to purchase for personal use. I would say to those people who buy a number of jerseys for the bulk price, as I remember several people here said they do, and either give or sell (even for just the cost) jerseys to other people are committing a crime, according to lawyers on a few sites I've seen, as the text reads that this simple "distribution" qualifies as illegal in the flow of counterfeit material. But the point about the NFL not taking kindly to TBD not moderating threads that include links to Chinese counterfeiters and illegal game streams does stand. And this is subject to get much stickier whenever some derivative of SOPA passes.

Chef Jim has Beiber Fever.

Listen, I'm not interested in your justifications. Make no mistake that you committed a crime. The or selling and buying of knock-off anything is illegal. If you are caught with DVDs of ripped and burned movies (and you don't have an original; at that, the current law seems to be that you can have one copy) you can be arrested --- you see that FBI/Interpol warning at the start of movies? Same stevestojan. You saying, "But it's not a real movie --- it's a photocopied dustjacket and a Magnavox DVD-R!" isn't a legal excuse.

Correct. Don't think that the NFL isn't beyond shutting down sites. Look what the govt has done to other file-sharing sites like Megaupload. When they start cracking down, they're going to go full-bore. They see that TBD has hosted threads where posters have been allowed to say 'Use seller XY, it's spot-on!' and provide a link to that seller's store? Where links to illegally-streamed games are provided. Where a trademarked logo is used in the banner. Where users see ads and the site ostensibly makes some $.... There's a certain level of stuff they'll put up with in the name of it being like free advertising. But it's a dangerous thing to be treading on ground that hurts the NFL bottom line by being a conduit to / facilitating copyright infringement.

There's no link here. Just discussion. There have been threads in the past where Chinese counterfeit seller recommendations and links have been posted. In the thread title, even. Not to mention threads about where to watch games online illegally. I'm just trying to say that TBD needs to watch how it conducts itself. Those words "All accounts, descriptions, and rebroadcasts of this game are exclusive property of the NFL..." aren't there for nothing. It won't matter whether you think it's a freedom of speech issue; the NFL has more $, more lawyers and more politicians than SDS/TBD. How many "irregulars" do you really think there are? The hologram is a fake too. It's not the same as discount stores. Further, I doubt the NFL even allows the sale of "irregulars" rather than ordering to destroy them and scrapping a contract with a sub-par manufacturer. You don't see how many busts have been made in the counterfeit sports jersey market? It is rife here on the Internet, and even kiosks at events and some otherwise legitimate stores have been busted. There was one bust earlier this month in the Buffalo area. It's widespread and it's huge $. If you don't want to pay for an authentic jersey, then don't buy one, or buy a replica... and if you don't want a replica, then don't buy one. The 'Yippee! Cheap stuff! Who cares who gets hurt and what laws are broken in the process?!!?' attitude that pervades is sickening.

You're touching on a sore subject to me WRT the laxity of TBD enforcing direct links to illegal activity in the area of copyright theft. Count on the NFL stepping up enforcement, and just bear in mind that many things on this site exist on the good graces of the NFL and the Bills alone. If you're intent on breaking the law, then so be it. I can't stop you. But don't bring it to this site's living room. There's plenty of other places online to discuss it where they don't care if their site gets shut down.

As a tie-in with that, the Carolina Panthers were compelled to release their logo change early, as someone at Nike put out photos of the gloves that featured a changed Panthers logo (tho not the one they released) on a Facebook post. WaPo: Carolina Panthers unveil ‘more aggressive’ logo as Nike takes over NFL rights I dunno, but the anime-cartooning of logos is not something I'm looking forward to.

With Holder Testimony Set for 2 Feb., Emails Reveal That DOJ Initially Suggested Gun-Running I wonder if Holder is going to see his shadow....

Don't you have some sled dogs to feed?!?

Says the guy gettin' rich off of Alaska oil checks! [/...lybob voice] BTW, I'm a Wonka fan for the candy.

Well, the thing here isn't that they're trying to prove something is, they're saying that data used by various and sundry groups was wrong. If I have a problem with your cross-pollination experiment, and it's obvious to me that you used the savoy cabbage pollination stick rather than the Brussels sprout stick, then really, what can I do to disprove your findings by doing it properly myself? You'll be able to say that you got a different result rather than that you totally ed the goose with sloppy, inaccurate work. I must've missed the part where they claimed that this op-ed was a scientific paper. What they're charging is that the data set and predictions for GW studies were inaccurate by a statistically significant %. Then they offered a reason why this might've happened with the generally very reliable "follow the money trail." They're also saying that the conditions in the scientific community are such that anyone with differing opinion or who doesn't "Harumph!" loudly enough is committing career suicide, and so the result is that climate science as we know and love it is more about peer pressure than peer review. I don't think the WSJ is an especially bad forum for voicing these concerns to the general public.

Well, I did write "or such".... Gotta be careful in getting the model that qualifies. And just to note, I'm not doing this myself. Just saying that it could be done. I'm rockin' a cheapo 4GB Emerson MP3 player I got for X-mas. (Hey, at least it's not a Zune! )

For the inventive, one could go on ebay, amazon or such and buy one for ~$40-$50 and get one a new one with a $129 msrp. Just sayin'.

Yeah. I'm not really high on the whole CBS reality-show cross-pollination thing.

"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions that is hard!" --- The Fourth Doctor I mean, between the Cassandra Complex / 'We're All Gonna Die!!' set and the ones who shrug and say 'Meh!...' (both of which have their own agenda and funding conflicts) there had to be something. I have to admit I'm something of a fence-sitter on this issue. We don't know what we don't know. Hell, we don't even know what we think we know. All I know is, making predictions, nevermind policy proposals, under these these conditions can play the devil.

Probably someone who glanced at the headline of that and ran with it. The team will have him take a physical probably sometime in March before OTAs. If it looks good then, they'll start talking seriously. But for right now, you don't blindly commit to a 30-year-old RB --- in a league where RBs have an average career of under 2 seasons (a full year less than the career-length average for all players) b/c of the pounding they take --- coming off of a leg injury.

WSJ | Will Buffett Avoid the Buffett Rule? : The sage of Omaha is already positioned to shield most of his rising wealth from such a tax.

Lie Free or Pie Hard!

Bribes, Chinese Mob Ties Alleged at Casino of Gingrich's Money Man