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Man, I feel for Coach Buttermaker Gailey. Just nothing to work with at all.

I think both of these download rates (3.8 and 5.5 mb/s) should be sufficient for good streaming. Of course, that rate may fluctuate and may cause buffering occasionally. I'm beginning to think that my video card is holding me back a bit. I purchased the DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket streaming service. I can watch at MEDIUM quality and it works very well. But as soon as I try to go to HIGH, it's very jerky and never gets smooth. I would really love to be able to go to HIGH, because when I send to my big screen TV, the difference is significant. My laptop has a good dual core processor and good memory and my download rate is very good. The only other thing I can think of is that damn video card.

Nice post. Arguments well thought-out and well supported. I guess I'm just so mired in the decade-plus long abyss of SUCK that I can't even tell up from down anymore. This team has problems in so many areas, I don't know who to blame or where to begin to get better.

You know what was awesome? The early nineties.

It's not so bizarre. Dogs are friends to us. That's the thing right there. They like us and we like them. They have many traits that have made them close to humans for thousands of years. They are extremely social animals and they are loyal and loving. And they have boatloads of personality.

I don't eat beef or chicken. And I happen to think Vick is scum. And Bill Simmons' moral arguments do not hold water in my opinion. Vick and his partners knew perfectly well that what they were doing was illegal and they knew what the public reaction would be. That's why they took measures to hide their actions and then lie about it when it was found out. And the whole "we all love us some delicious veal, so let's not judge dogfighting" argument is ridiculous. That's just misdirection. Should someone like this be given a second chance? Maybe. Vick is getting his. I don't disagree with that. It's just that I don't like the guy. I look at his eyes when he says that he sees the error of his ways and he now loves animals. I don't believe it. I think he's lying. I think he's doing what his paid PR team tells him to so he can have what he wants. I think he regrets getting caught and that's it.

He shoulda got her a birthday present. What the hell was he thinking?

Me too. Over five hundred times.

Hey everybody, check out that really interesting diversion over there... ZOINK! (i win)

My company gives promotions only to the most incompetent, so this would actually be an improvement.

Kinda nice here in Atlanta. So nice to be done with the 90's & humid every day thing. This is my favorite time of year.

My utterly amateur opinion is that it's a cool idea. I can imagine tons of people wanting to sign their kids up for this. Obviously, insurance would be a concern as far as overhead goes. But the potential for a successful business is clearly there I think.

I guess it's not so bad, really. It just annoys people because they just keep putting out so many different versions of these movies. George Lucas is kind of taking advantage of the loyalty of the fans. These people are such completist geeks about it that they will buy anything new that comes out, even if it has some tiny little trivial nugget of something different that was not available to them before. It seems likely that they'll have this new 3D version at a premium price. Then a year from now there will be some Collector's Edition with a "new & improved" version of the 3D movie, also a premium price. Then, they'll put out the same thing again and call it the Deluxe Anniversary Edition, with some little collectible stickers or some crap... It's like, how much can you milk from these poor suckers? I guess you can also look at it like these geeks could get a life and just stop buying this crap. But I think we all know that's not gonna happen.

Esquire? The last time I picked up an Esquire, it had an article telling single guys what hip books to strategically place around your apartment so girls would think you're deep. Not which books to READ, just which ones to buy and how & where to sort of casually leave askew on your end table. Like, "oh, how nice of you to drop in--I was just perusing some Sartre and taking notes on existentialism. Now let's go get sushi and check out some reggae!" And the rest of the magazine was ads for garish overpriced watches. They don't get to talk to me about stadium food.

It's true, they were pretty rad.

I poop on the entire stupid franchise.

I understand that Bon Jovi is being considered for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I think this is a very bad sign for humanity. Bon Jovi is so lame, it's hard for me to even think about it in the right perspective. Inevitably, I think about the vastness of the universe. I imagine thousands of civilizations of intelligent life on distant isolated planets that have come and gone long ago. I imagine that in each of these civilizations, there was a turning point in their history when their evolutionary relevance began to wane. And that for each there was a period of decline, during which there were many tell-tale signs of the impending unavoidable extinction. I think that if an anthropoligist could observe and compare the histories of all these doomed civilizations, they could pinpoint in each one a definitive "Bon Jovi" moment which marked the critical point of no return.

I recognize the words you're using as words from the English language. And I know the meanings of these words. However, I do not understand why you've placed them together here at this time. As I consider this unlikely word pairing, an image is conjured, but beyond that I cannot make out the relevance or purpose of such an utterance. I can only conclude that you are either a poetic genius or a senseless raving moron.

I don't think Elmo has any authority on the subject what kind of attire is appropriate. He doesn't even wear pants!

Wow, I guess I'm all alone on this one. It really is a good movie though. I'm not making it up.

That's excellent. The Tom Waits one made me laugh. ("Captain Beefheart for girls") Here's mine... Led Zeppelin: 1 Willie Dixon. 2 &4 J.R.R. Tolkien. 3 Roy Harper. 5-8 They have their own airplane. 9 John Paul Jones. 10 Oh, here's some more old crap we found.

Gladdest of tidings on this first day of Fall! Make sure your freshly painted rutabagas are prominently displayed for the neighborhood kids to heckle at and explode with cherry bombs in your mailbox. Namaste! :beer:

I honestly don't know. For the answer to that, we'd have to see the transcript from Chan Gailey's late night hunched-over, head-in-hands mumble-to-himself sessions. I imagine it's something along the lines of, "Oh, sweet Jesus, what have I got myself into. No talent, no effort. I've made a terrible mistake!" In that vein.

That's the benefit of drinking the good stuff! "Sad to drinking to perplexed in 30 seconds!" Jameson should take that as their new slogan!

I don't put no damn bag over my head for nuthin'! I'm a Bills fan. Anybody doesn't like it, they can go take a flying !@#$ at a rolling donut!