Johnny Coli

Maggots will only eat dead flesh and bacteria, so I'm not inclined to believe these little factoids from the article: I would think maggot-infested wounds, while surely painfull, might not be so bad from a clinical point of view, although it's definately possible that the fly larvae weren't munching happily away on all the wounds. There's probably a lesson in there somewhere.

I'm looking at the CBS 1:00 game regional telecast map, and if the game is blacked out in the B-lo region hardly anyone will get to see that game. I don't see how the NFL corporate whores can justify not showing an NFL-ballwashee Vince Young-led team play a cinderella team on an improbable run to the playoffs. Scum bags. There has to be some way to make them pay. There has to be some way to ruin an NFL exec's X-mas eve.

Three more games suggests The Most Dangerous Team in the NFL wins out and makes it into the first round of the playoffs. Love the optimism!

That's almost cold enough for your spit to turn to ice before it hits Travis. Bills 27, breasts 13

No way I'm rooting for the Eagles. That site can go to hell.

I voted for him only because you guys recommended him for being a local kid. He included some blurb about the NE Paytoilets in his pitch, and said nothing about the Bills. What kind of crap is that?

A bit too new-agey for my tastes, but kudos to you for not posting the same drivel that some of these other people are trotting out there. Here's a great live clip of Lou Reed from 1980 doing two fabulously depressing songs from the deliciously miserable LP Berlin. "They're taking her children away..." Spectacular! Lou Reed "The Kids" / "Caroline Says" Florence 1980 And...from the dead junky genius category, Johnny Thunders doing "You can't put your arms around a memory". Also, another tune that'll make you reach for the straight razor is "Open up and bleed" by The Stooges, but I can't find a link to it. So, I'll put up and let you figure out why it's relevent.

Guitar Wolf's cover of Eikichi Yazawa's rock-balad "I Love You, OK" has always been a particularly sad-sounding song to me. This live version is especially haunting in light of Billy Wolf's death 18 months ago of a heart attack following a US tour. Seiji screaming "I love you!" into the microphone at the end of the song is pretty chilling. A gripping and emotional tribute to his friend and bandmate of almost 20 years.

Wow. It is absolutely freaking mental that this team still has a shot at a number five seed in the playoffs. More than a few chattering monkeys at ESPN/FOX/CBS/SI will have a hard time wrapping their brains around that. Round of appause for Marv and Dick, man.

So they outsold 19 other ballclubs yet it's still not enough for the NFL to let the people from WNY see their football team on TV. Pretty weak.

Feel about what? Drinking on the commuter rail? - I don't care either way, but the ban certainly will not be a slippery slope towards banning tailgating Tailgating? - I'm all for it When should tailgating start or end? - When the lot opens and when the lot closes Is this "fake liberal" thing a new type of insult? It's falling pretty short, Bill. There's not a person on this board that would consider me anything but a liberal.

That's not what he said, though. Maybe the individuals test closer to their true mean and in some cases their true mean would shift toward's the population mean, but the entire subset's mean should not shift. He was arguing that the group's mean would shift toward's the population mean upon further testing. That doesn't make sense. That would argue for the majority of the subset having tested wrong to begin with. That's insane.

Ah, now I see how these threads get so long. You change everything when someone points out that you're completely wrong. But in this case, you're still wrong. You have no idea who got "lucky" in the the high score subset. You're also assuming that the majority of those with high scores got them because they were lucky. They can't all be lucky, therfore the majority of high scores are correct, and the mean of the subset should not shift towards the population mean. Also, if that much data was skewed in one direction and then shifts, it stands to reason that the population mean would also be wrong because they all took the same test.

Just exactly how long is an acceptable period for tailgating? In Foxboro, you can show up as soon as the lots open, and party until several hours after the game. When I was at the Ralph for the GB game, people were still partying several hours after the game. Should they be able to tailgate from Friday to Monday? Or should they be allowed to tailgate whenever they want?

No. You're assuming the entire subset tested above the population mean because of "luck." That assumption is entirely wrong. Retesting the subset will give you a more accurate mean for the subset. The members of the subset have just as much chance of doing better than of doing worse upon further testing. The group's mean should not shift. There is no way you could definitively make the case that the subset's mean would move towards the population mean. If the entire group shifted lower then red flags and alarms should be going off that either your test is garbage, or the data from the first test for the whole population is garbage. To put it in simple terms, you can not take all the smart people in the room and expect that they will, as a group, test dumber the second time because they were lucky the first time. I'm done with this. Leave me out of your discussion. Ignore button, from hell's heart I stab at thee.

The point of the blackout was to force people to go to the games, rather than sit home and watch them. But if the league is going to use the "fill the seats" criteria, the Bills should not be penalized for having more of them for a smaller market. No where has the league said "We want you to generate this amount of money per home game, or we're going to black your populace out." It's a crap rule. Either force other teams to build equal size stadiums (which is absurd, because you can't build 26 new stadiums) or call a certain number of seats acceptable. If the Bills sell 70,000 seats, that's better than 19 other teams at capacity.

My point was that using a cellphone ban on a train to extrapolate a slippery slope towards the government silencing it's citizens is just as absurd as your hyperventillating over an alcohol ban on the same train and saying the next step is to ban tailgating. No one is taking your rights away, Bill. You can still tailgate. You can still eat your freedom fries. You can still buy cigarettes. Fake liberal. I don't think I've ever been called that before.

The problem is there's no usefull information that can be used in this example to form a reasoned response to. -What is the mean of the population? -How was that mean determined? -If it was determined using the same imperfect test how do you know you have a true mean? -What is the data range? -Are there any scores above 140? -Why are you choosing 140? Another huge problem is that you're testing according to what you want to see. You are setting it up to get what you want. If any of the 140 retest below 140, will you test them again, or will you be happy that they scored lower because that's what you want to see? What if they score higher upon a third test? Hell, what if they all test higher because they're getting better at taking the test? That's why I said you're not even approaching the problem from a scientific standpoint. You're already totally biased. Why the hell am I even involved in this thread?

You're asking me to make a judgement on the outcome of a test that not only have you knowingly made to be imperfect , you are also arbitrarily sectioning off an entire group based on the score they got on the imperfect test and making them take it again. So, not only do you want me to take you off ignore, you want me to make an informed scientific opinion on a test that has no scientific method behind it whatsoever. Here's a question for you....what is the probability that I am going to call you an idiot, put you back on ignore and go back to work?

UPDATE for anyone that cares: Here's the stadium capacities (Stadiums of the NFL). Twenty six of the other stadiums have capacities below that of the Buffalo Bills (if the website's numbers are correct).

Yup. I'll look for a list of stadium capacities for the entire league when I have more time, but I'm pretty sure 68,000 would be enough to fill a lot of them.

That was my point.

Someone PM'd me about this thread, and said I was mentioned in it. I did a quick scan and for some reason HA is calling me out, even though I've not been a part of, nor followed this stupid discussion for weeks. Hey a-hole, I made it pretty freaking clear a long while ago that my position was I would make a single post on the subject of eugenics, much like I've done with respect to Creationist threads, and be done with it. I have found in the past that "debating" with people like you leads to page upon page of wasted effort that doesn't change the other person's mind anyway. What a shocker that this discussion is well over 50 pages. You are using a less-than rudimentary knowledge of statistics to make an argument for eugenics (or at least that is what you were doing a month-or-so ago when this whole thing began). I have no idea what the hell it is you are arguing for now, but based on your track record I'd say there's a pretty good chance that you are dead wrong. How regression to the mean even factors into a eugenics discussion is a question I have no desire to hear your answer for. You may continue to go on thinking my silence proves you right, but in the reality everyone else resides in it's called "ignoring you." Any person arguing a pro-eugenics position is not worth my time.

I'm not making a case for the ban. I'm making the case that banning alcohol on a commuter rail is completely unrelated to whether people can tailgate with alcohol in a parking lot. Much like how your smoking ban will lead to the Blue Helmets marching down Mainstreet USA. I think the "no alcohol on the train" ban is dumb, but up until two hours ago when you made me aware of this I had no idea you people could drink on your commuter rail. Amtrack has a "quiet" car, now. Maybe we should all be up in arms because it's a slippery slope towards silencing The People.

You can't drink on the commuter trains in Massachusetts, and SHOCKINGLY the Pats fans are still allowed to tailgate with hotdogs and alcohol.