MattPie

The best revenge is a life well-lived. Money helps. I had a friend that was assaulted while running in Philly. Apparently this guy's MO was some honka-honka to female runners while passing by. they actually caught him and she testified and the whole deal. Dudes are weird.

I thought about going here. There's a lot of ways people cope and how they're affected. Travelling the world for a year might be better therapy than "well, they guy is in jail". I think it's up to the individual to make that call, and judging on it is in the same league as judging other people relationships. You can't tell me what should make me happy. That being said, I'd think she could also file a civil suit either way, right? I think, realistically, there are a lot of crimes that require someone to press charges. The DA *could* go ahead without the victim, but as mentioned upthread it's rare and really difficult to win that case.

Aud: Right. As with most of this story we don't really know the facts. Maybe she was a gold-digger holding out for more money (and when the case started lining up, Kane's team offered a ton). Or the other way is the case was already borderline and she figured (or was advised) this could go either way and might as well get paid for the suffering even if there's a chance at justice. It's a tough call: being set for money for years vs. a 50/50 shot at putting someone away.

Is that the new flavor from Yancy's Fancy?

Interesting, while the picture quality is generally good for me, it's not as good as "real" HD when it comes to motion. On a PS3 or PC, and the motion isn't as smooth as HDTV (OTA or cable). It's very good, but not perfect It'll be interesting to see what happens this year; they may make big changes with the switch to hosting via MLBAM. Negatives to GameCenter: anything that you could get on cable in your area (including premium sports packages) will be blacked out for 48 hours. So the games on NBC, NBCSN, NHL network, and the local team's network (Comcast Sports Flyers, for me) cannot be streamed live. I think that adds up to 10-15 games per year for the Sabres. Also, if the game ends before you start streaming (or if the stream gets interrupted), you can't start watching again for several hours. But as long as you have the stream up, it's fine for hours (you can "rewind" back to the beginning, etc.). As far as I know, this is when the NHL servers go through and edit out the commercials for the replay version. You'd think they'd keep the unedited version up until the replay is ready, but whatever. That may change if MLBAM is doing it this year. All in all I'm pretty happy with it, although the blackouts are really annoying. And, more than a few times I missed the chance to watch a game the night it was played because I didn't get it started before the end of the live game. It's been well after midnight and the replay wasn't available yet. EDIT: Searching the for Forum for "gamecenter" will turn up a bunch of info over the years, BTW>

I always think of this song when Halifax comes up. It also runs through my head whenever I pass by Halifax, PA.

Upthread, the story is two women (friends) when home with Kane and his friend. Friend #1 and Kane's Friend went off into another part of the house, and left Kane and Friend #2 alone, when the alleged rape happened. At least that seems to be from the more legitimate reports.

From the context above, it sounds like the franchise owns the rights to develop the site of the Civic Arena (the Igloo). If you look on the map, that's a significant hunk of downtown real estate, which in PIttsburgh actually has real value. :)

I don't understand why you wouldn't just melt some coffee ice cream. :)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, the family friendly outdoor movie at a local park yesterday. For those that haven't seen it, it's the heart-warming tale of seven brothers whom, after starting a fight during a barn-raising and being run out of town, return and forcibly abduct six women with the intent to marry them back at their family mountain compound. After causing an avalanche to thwart the perusing townsfolk, of course. I remember watching the movie repeatedly when I was a kid, but it didn't strike me how strange it was at the time.

Mayor of East Aurora, in my case :) The license application has to happen a certain time before the wedding in NY (either 24 hours or 3 days, I forget). That's a waiting period like for buying a handgun. Make sure you've had a chance to sober up.

Maybe we should submit it to Mythbusters.

I've always thought of marriage as two *people* that wanted to get hitched. In practice, it was always man and woman, but I can't think of a particular time that I thought it *had* to be a man and woman. I may concede your point if the government switched entirely to issuing ONLY civil union licenses and banished the word "marriage" from the process. I suspect though, that wouldn't be good enough for the religious conservatives who would then rail at the government for being too secular and gnash teeth that they couldn't get "married" in the eyes of the law. It's pretty simple: the government can't create rules that say "these two consenting adults can do one thing, these other two cannot do that same thing". I suppose incestuous marriage flies in the face of that, but too bad. :)

The legal rights of being married are significant enough that you need to keep track of it, I'd say. If you don't want the extra rights, no one is stopping you from getting married however you choose just not in the eyes of the government. Don't expect the government perks, like tax benefits, simplified estate management, etc. though.

I'm working at home today, so it feels like Friday. What's the problem? Tomorrow when I wake up I'll be pissed that I have to work.

If that was written in there, the Republicans in Congress would try to score points that Obama is circumventing the constitution again. Just the like the Democrats would in the opposite situation. It'd be interesting to see if there's a "war clause" in other treaties or if this is something the Right made up to get people angry about the deal. I find it a little hard to believe that any country would sign a treaty that essentially says, "we accept that we'll be attacked if we don't follow the rules". And, if the Iranians are as scheming as everyone seems to think, they'd manipulate that into drawing the US into a conflict at a time of their choosing or showing the US up by breaking the rules and not ending up in a conflict. There's no winning solution to a war clause for the USA.

Iran doing whatever it wants under sanctions vs. a fairly rigid inspection scheme. I tend to say we're better off. I'm not sure there's a better deal out there, but it's good to remember the US is the only player. The other X countries involved in the deal are moving forward.

McCoy, or whomever is running, as the Bills probably won't beat anyone in the air.

It's unfortunate that all the economic systems require people to respect each other, and that's in short supply in the USA as a whole. Maybe capitalism is a little better when there isn't any respect, where the other cultures you mention can get away with more socialism as fundamentally the power that be have a tougher time pitting groups against each other.

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There's three Timmy Ho's within walking distance of the house, that had to be a factor.

Doubly so in the Sabres case, as they don't have a stock of high-end RW. I'm still not sure about the trade, but a top-3 RW is going to be an issue in the next few years.

For some reason, last week I got into a Metallica mood and listened to the first four albums for the first time in probably a decade. I'm not a big fan of Justice, but Blackened has been in my head since.

Hands-on experience breaking stuff and fixing it will take your kid far if he's good. Look at me, I'm living proof! :) If I can make a recommendation, I see more and more Linux stuff in the office, so throwing a copy of some Linux system (like CentOS since it's enterprise-y) would be a great learning experience. If he's going to get into any sort of IT or development work, odds are he'll brush up against Linux at some point and being "the guy who knows some Linux" is a valuable tag to have.

FWIW, a clean install of either will probably be fine. Upgrade installs (and rolling back) is always fraught with peril unless the roll back is using images taken before the upgrade.