MattPie

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

Somewhere, there's going to be a marketing report that people from WNY prefer the pink power ranger and a media campaign will be launched based on that data.

Sage gin and Fever Tree Indian tonic water makes a very fine G&T.

Lion's Head (out of Scranton) is popular too.

IIRC, Dumont was there the first year, but was traded for cap reasons after Danny Briere got his fat arbitration award. I could have that all mixed up though.

select passer_rating where player_season_number=1 and game_number<4 and game_number>0; As long as the data is in a database, getting it out isn't that hard. There should be a sort and average in there, but my SQL knowledge is very basic.

Cool! I saw a project somewhere to build one using a micro controller and thermal probe, but never got the motivation to build one. I don't cook as much as I'd like these days so I can only dream of learning new techniques.

Are you worried that your dog might become gay? :)

Good luck! RosePie was the same situation, other than they started the induction process at 8-9PM Sunday night. As for multiple kids: you got me. We have enough trouble keeping one alive. I'd recommend having help (even paid) if possible. MrsPie and I are on an island of sorts with no family or close friends nearby and it sucks. There's my complaint: a friend of ours just have a baby a the end of June (same birthday as mine, it's a good day) via c-section and she's already doing way better than my wife (certainly at the time, and in some ways even now 11 months later). MrsPie is fairly jealous as am I. Friend: "Oh, I feel bad that she's not eating enough when she sleeps 4-5 hours at a stretch." We would have killed for 4-5 hours, at most we got 2. And, because my wife was so drained with breastfeeding issues, I was up almost every time to clean up the pumping apparatus or bottle feeding.

I think it was because the scientist who discovered it chose to name it Xena and not stick with the Roman system. :) I love the names they're giving features on Pluto though: Cthulu, Balrog, etc.