MattPie

If only there wasn't a baby in the equation; I'd so be there. My wife likes beer a lot too, she'd probably suffer the drive (and drunk me).

Engineering Research: "the physicists gave us a bunch of math that kind of makes sense, but assumes everything is a sphere in a vacuum; we have to do research on how make any of this useful in the real world."

True dat, it's one of the few careers left you can make a go of with a bachelors.

You have a point, until the moment he shuffled off his mortal coil, a lot of people would have been happy to see him sell the team and never be spoken of again. As it turns out, he did well by the city with the way he structured everything so no harm no foul.

I'm not sure I'd hire someone with a doctorate fresh out of school, unless they had a lot of real-world experience to go with those fancy letters.

Surely if we're talking about traffic and gun deaths, you have to include accidental deaths by guns in those numbers, right? But even with your numbers, you've proven my point: you're 2.5 times as likely to be killed with a gun than by a texting driver.

That's cool.

That's actually false. There are roughly the same number of gun deaths in the US per year as there are total automobile deaths. I doubt every automobile death is the result of texting. I'll agree that text should be put on a higher level of infraction, but you don't need hyperbole to get there.

Ick, especially if the lines are clear letting the light get to them. I like my local place, they have around 12 taps and seemingly only get a keg or two of each beer before they change to something else. Even when I went there a couple times a week it was rare that they'd have the same set of beers on the list as the last time.

The Pizza Plant up in Amhearst NY likes to argue that if you have that many taps, you're probably going to be serving some "dusty" beer since you won't be able to turn over enough volume to keep things fresh. Maybe they're using sixtels instead of full kegs for the oddball stuff or something.

I know a few people who have gone through the "proper" immigration channels, so I tend to agree that illegal immigration should be curbed. I'm not sure how much a fence will do, since there's lots of ways to immigrate illegally that don't involve trekking through the desert. It might be one of those situations like drug testing welfare recipients where the cost for the testing is way more than the number of positive hits are saving. Is it worth spending $1B to build a fence and several $M per year to staff it if it only stops 10% of illegal immigration? (I'm just throwing numbers out, I have no idea what the real ones are)

Fixed! :)

Right? No deal and they just keep going with no one watching over their shoulder. This deal seems to but some serious brakes on nuclear development for the next 10-15 years, which by then the west can negotiate a new deal or (hopefully) there will be a less cantankerous government in place. It's not even a one-line spectrum for many things, especially politics. There are at least two major axes in US politics, fiscal and social, and people fall somewhere on that grid. The current Republican platform tends to be socially conservative and somewhat fiscally conservative (the tea party libertarians are pushing the Republicans further towards fiscal conservative, but they love to spend money as much as the democrats, just on slightly different things). Bernie Sanders (on the surface, I haven't looked real hard) appears to be fiscally liberal (taxes spent on social programs) but with a strong libertarian slant. Those things aren't mutually exclusive as some would have you think, it's possible to believe the government can be a force for economic good while still being strongly for personal freedom. This is why the two-party system sucks, you can't have a candidate with "diverse" viewpoints on things; a pro-corporate tax, pro-gun, pro-environment, and strong military candidate crosses too many lines and can't be nominated by either party.

Top 4 from each and the best 4 after than, no east/west seeding. 1-16, 2-15, etc.. I suppose top 5 from each and 1 wildcard too. :)

Several years ago, apparently the judge in either Broome (Binghamton) or Tioga (next to Broome) county just flat refused to sign CC petitions even if everything was in order. That's just stupid.

Indeed. Detroit wanted to be in the East for a long time and has way more clout.

Thanks. Maybe my statement is a little over the top, but the primary reason many people give carry a gun in public is to protect themselves. I'll admit that there are places in this country where that's a valid concern, like the inner city. However, it seems like a lot more of the people that "need" to carry a gun everywhere are going places where the chances of needing a gun to protect oneself is exceedingly low.

I'm not sure how rational the fear that there's a boogeyman with a gun hiding behind every lamppost is for the people that feel like they need to carry a gun everywhere. I think this has been touched on here already: how far do you figure someone who looks Latino, middle eastern, or is black gets trying to open carry in Texas?

Agreed, the population should be questioning what the military is up to. The quote in the article "He then went on to write that he “can’t wait to kill thousands” of “these f*cks libs, conspiracy nuts and 90% of these useless f*cking Americans.” is why the country seriously needs to consider its policy on guns though. Yeah, it'd be great if everyone was responsible and learned proper gun safety and wasn't crazy, but based on how people use cars and computers, I'm not very confident that guns would be any different.

Yep, that's 2nd/3rd line money, and depending on revenues and expansion, it'll likely be 3rd line money in the last year of the contract.

They only support the military when the correct guys are in office at the top. Otherwise, you get this ######: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/jade-helm-watchdog-leader-cant-wait-useless-americans-video/ (excuse the slant of the article, there was a more even-keeled one that I can't find at the moment)

I think the no education advocates are the people that feel the government will use the course enrolment lists as the first stop when it decides to force us all into a police state and camps (I don't believe this, I'm just relaying it). There's a faction of gun owners that truly believe the government is going to storm into their houses at night and take all their guns. As a second, many of those people also feel that any limitation on owning guns will be used by the government to deny guns to people who think "wrong things" (like how evil the government is). Again, I'm just relaying.

I put him down for the 20s, and I see I'm in good company. In 2016-2017, I could see 30 if the team starts really clicking and age doesn't catch up with him. EDIT: Thinking about it though, I bet 30 puts him in the top 30 LW for goals, so that might be a bit high for a 32-33 year old on the second line. A string of a few 15-25 goals seasons is more likely (and completely in line with other "good" teams). I took a look at Chicago and their LWs scored 23, 16, and 14 goals.

I think the East/West divide and large US markets without teams will have more to do with it. It's a tough sell to say QC will do more for the LEAGUE than Seattle, KC, Vegas, SLC (hat tip to Chris), or even Houston. I have no doubt QC would have the best atmosphere and fan support though.

It could be about the longest sudden-death bowling match ever played.