MattPie

In this case, there are some other factors in play. Many people wake up and think, "man that was stupid", but not as many have the option of crying foul and standing to get a lot of cash out of the deal. Or if the alleged victim is underage and her parents go all "where were you last night, who were you with, etc.". Until there's facts siding either way is illogical, unless you figure past performance guarantees future results. Even more so when a celebrity and money are involved.

Everyone gets the benefit of the doubt until the facts are out. There's a lot of scenarios that fit what we know right now.

No kidding, same here. I don't think I've ever even thought of a craft beer as swill. The only one I can recall really resisting drinking is Magic Hat's Circus Boy Wheat. I thought it would be a Bavarian-style hefe (I was just getting into wheat beers) but it was not good, far too "lagery" for me. Other than that, I see some beers that are very good, and the rest are "fine, but I'm not going to search them out". That goes for flavored and gimmick beers too, they're fun to try. Essentially, it's the same attitude I have with food: if someone things it was good enough to produce I'll give it a shot.

New Windows 10 laptop last night. In the little I got a chance to use it, I like the interface for 10 a ton more than 8. It's not nearly as "hey look, I'm a tablet!". If it weren't for big brother, I think they'd have a solid hit. I still need to do the deeper privacy stuff, but I did turn off all the options during the initial setup.

You have answered well, level-up!

I agree with most of what you said, other than Edmonton. IMHO, Edmonton isn't where they are because they keep drafting skill players, they're where they are because they keep drafting the exact same skill player. They really need to trade one or two of their top-skill guys for skilled, gritty, scoring forwards.and skilled D.

That's excessive, the should have went for a sacrifice fly or bunt to make it interesting. :)

I've been to the Buffalo location a few times, but was terribly impressed. I think that's mostly down to preference, as they focus on lager styles which aren't my thing. Their dark/hoppy beers were OK but nothing to write home about.

I get what you're saying, but I bet that if you watched some team's #2 RW for an entire season you might be frustrated that player too. I'd say Stafford is a borderline #1 RW, but I don't think he'd be out a place on most teams top-6 as long as he's not expected to be the top-2 or 3 players on the team as he was in Buffalo. EDIT: and we're just talking goals here, obviously there are other factors that go into a player's performance.

15 goals is pretty solid 2nd line wing in today's NHL. The #30 RW in goals netted 18 (as did Stafford at #31), #60 had 10, and #90 had 6. 15 goals from a 3rd liner means you have a *very* strong team. It's not unreasonable to think Stafford could creep up in the low-20s in goals playing with a better team than the this year's Sabres and legitimately be a top-30 RW.

I just realized how spoiled I am; Victory in Downingtown has seven lager-yeast styles on tap today, a couple are small-batch keg only. Or, I would be spoiled if I drank many lager beers. http://www.victorybeer.com/brewpubs/downingtown/

Good point. But, it could be a number of things. Maybe this summer the trade really sunk in and Armia is a new man. Maybe the observers in the Peg are seeing what they want to see. Maybe Armia is Drew Stafford with less drive.

Works for me, I rarely drink any of the lager styles. That being said, Victory Lager and Prima Pils are both palatable to me which says a lot.

So we're supposed to call him "Meh Cassel"? Yours truly, MehPie.

Wasn't there a candy draft here awhile back? I assume we were stealing content ideas from WGR at that point, and not the other way around.

You'd be surprised how divided companies can be internally. It sounds like MLB runs the advanced media group like a subdivision and it has a fair bit of autonomy to chase business on it's own terms. It's a classic business concept, taking a "cost center" and making it a "profit center". MLB looks and says, "hey, or digital media group is doing a great job but costs us a bunch of money. I wonder if we could sell the same service to other companies and make some of that money back?" The end game for this is often a non-core business subdivision like this will either be spun off into their own company or sold to another company. For instance, in this case Netflix could buy MLBAM because it'd get them into live sports streaming. It wouldn't change how MLB or the NHL (or HBO Live, since they're also a client) controls the content they produce. EDIT: and then I read more of the linked article above: /EDIT. While it's impossible to know what's in the legal documents right now, the NHL would be foolish to cede all say in how *THE NHL'S* content, logos, and trademarks can be used. Granted I don't have a ton of stake in this, but based on the posts above, I'll worry about MLBAM putting shackles on user content when I see it.

Keep posting. Although generally speaking, I find the hockey knowledge here to be top notch and above and radio call-in show. I can't even listen to the callers; it's not fun when I can't reply that they're wrong wrong wrong.

MLB has to do that. There's not much else to watch in a baseball game than the 2-3 minutes of highlights.

That's quite the impassioned post, well done. But I haven't seen many people (if any) saying that we should be trading futures for assets now. I think most people here are at least a little uncomfortable with the number of futures the Sabres have shipped out (Murray was robbed!) even if the talent coming back has been solid. I certainly don't expect to see the Sabres in "win now" mode come February, as GMTM has said a few times that there's a timeline he's working.

Article about Windows 10 Privacy: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/03/windows_10_privacy_defaults/ Based on the comments, it sounds like it's a pretty involved process to turn all the phone-home stuff off, including registry tweaks and process killing. Maybe even some GPO work to make sure MS doesn't reverse the changes with future updates. Between buying a new laptop that I can't boot whatever software I like on it and this nonsense, I'm really starting to hate computers. Which is unfortunate since it's my job.

Also, in my experience making Thai food for a lady is always appreciated.

I think JJ upthread said he tried that and the system wasn't returned back to it's original state. Missing apps, drivers, etc. And that assumes the the upgrade goes well enough that the system will boot and you can get to that menu. Always make an image before you do something like this, or be prepared to put a lot of effort into fixing your computer if something goes wrong. I use Clonezilla and an external USB drive to do images, but it's not the most user friendly thing on earth. It is. however, free. http://clonezilla.org/

I saw an article yesterday about Rubio et al., John Kerry, and Iran. Granted there is cherry-picking there but none of them came off in a positive light. The Republicans in the committee seemed to be spending a lot of badgering and trying to win political points, although I'm guessing that's pretty much par for the course these days. Hopefully if those guys end up in power next time around, that's all grandstanding and they'll have more of a clue when they're actually dealing with the international community. Ah, here's the article. Granted, Slate, but if those quotes are even close to true, I'm really hoping they're all bluster now and up for the task if put in charge. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/07/iran_hearings_the_congressional_grilling_of_john_kerry_and_ernest_moniz.single.html

Fixed. I don't think MacOS is particularly touchy yet, and there's a slew of Linux desktops that are more traditional. I know that doesn't help most people, but with the short experience I had with a Windows 8.1 laptop (I boxed it up this morning to return it), I'm not thrilled with the prospect of running Windows past 7. If only my wife didn't need Photoshop I'd probably be able to switch to Linux full-time. Which brings up something else: the laptop, with it's "Secure Boot" BS won't boot off anything other than the internal disk. I was going to install Linux on it before shipping it back to see how it ran but after an hour of poking around on Dell's support site and Google I couldn't find an obvious method to disable that nonsense. It seems that some systems it's just not possible, but I didn't look hard enough to know if that was the case for that system to be sure.

I meant that to point out how most people (myself included) only get news from stock set of sources. It's a bad turn of phrase in this context and I shouldn't have used it. There wasn't supposed to be a judgement there, much like saying "add the protein of your choice" when making a stir fry. I will say though that the feel I get from your posts is that you might as well watch Fox News, since your arguments almost always line up. I'm not saying that in a negative or inflammatory way, just my gut feel. I'm sure other posters have similar thoughts about my posts that I line up with some other agenda. That is, if I've written anything on here that's been worth considering (the jury is out on that, and my defense lawyer is sweating). Racism is racism. There's no need to add any additional words to denote who is doing to who. You could argue that feeling the need to point out that it's "reverse" essentially admits that there is a "standard" racism in this country, and it's white on whomever. I'm also trying to dance around that pretty much all the people I've heard use that term have be at least mildly racist, but I didn't want lump you into that group. Essentially, some white people are racist. Some black people are racist. From what I understand, almost all Japanese people are racists towards Koreans. Is it also reverse-racism if a Korean hates Japanese? What about Catholic French hating WASP English people? "Reverse racism" implies there's only two kinds, and that's way too simple of a way to look at it. How do you feel about "Know Jesus, Know peace"? Is that a threat too?