I'm fairly certain they bring their own statistician; every now and then when they're giving shout-outs to the production team they mention "our statistician"
>7. If the other stanley cup finalist has an european captain they will lose.
That's, in part, why I wanted to see Detroit play Ottawa in the Finals this year. Two teams with Euro!Captains, how could they both lose?
I think the real problem is that people on both sides are using the courts as an end run around the legislative process in order to advance their agenda.
That assumes that over that time span the Red Sox spent at or near the level of the Yankees, which I don't believe is true. Before the mid-90's the Sawx were something of a penny-pinching operation. They didn't really start flexing their monetary muscle until the acquisitions of Pedro and Manny.
For that matter the Yankees' payroll only got X-box hueg six or seven years ago. It was "reasonable" when they were actually winning championships.
It's not that the Allmans are against giving their shows away, it's that they are for establishing a sense of community through the distribution of their shows, and they feel that electronic methods like archive, bt, ftp are too impersonal. DMD used a similar justification when they had their shows removed from archive.org
Not true, the Dead never said anything about trading recordings of their shows, that was still kosher. What they yanked was the ability to go to a single resource, archive.org, and download a copy. bt's were still viable, as were regular old snail-mail trades/B&P's. Now, to the best of my knowledge, you can still trade the sbd's, you just can't download from archive.
It's not really that big a deal since there are plenty of bands that allow taping but don't allow their shows to be hosted on archive.org (phish, DMB, ABB to name a few).
The only time you see combined US teams is at the Olympics, and then only Basketball and Baseball (Ice Hockey at winter olympics).
So I was just imagining Team USA's strong play in the last World Cup? US national teams do compete in the various world championships, it's just more emphasis is put on Olympic participation.
Did you see the last Olympics? Team USA Basket Ball got their asses handed to them at the start before clawing back for bronze, hardly world champions, and Team USA for Baseball didnt even make it to the olympics.
It'd be nice if for once USA baseball could field a team of it's best players, unfortunately the seasons don't line up right so they have to roll with minor league players. Field a team with the top US talent and see how they do. The same is of course true for the various Carribbean nations that feed their talent into the MLB. How did Venezuela or the Dominican Republic do in the last Olympics? And USA basketball is going to win the gold in 2008.
International play isn't as important in the US because the best players in the world come here to play in their respective leagues -- I'm thinking primarily the NBA, MLB, NFL, and the NHL(when they're playing). Those leagues are the apex of their respective sports and the champions of those leagues can take on any national team.
Hollywood is... remaking every moderately successful flick from the 60's and 70's - they're out of "product" and unwilling to take risk,
Not true, Hollywood has always been in the rehash business. Just look at Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, His Girl Friday, Maltese Falcon, etc. The current spate of sequels and retreads is nothing new. Before the days of television/VHS/DVD Hollywood would simply remake films every few years and peddle them off as new. If anything they're less blatant about it now.
If Bush said "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating clean hydrogen powered cars." People would jump all over him...and at least in that case he earmarked some $6 billion over a period of a several years.
Of course GWB never served in Congress so that claim would be a straight up lie.
Wouldn't it be more like this:
"We have a foul on the Poster. Overused refrence to played out movie! 5 karma point penalty! Replay the post! *Whistle*"
Do you really think that Lucas is criticizing the US (Old Empire...) as suffering decay and decadence? While I believe this (that the US is going the way of Rome), I'm not so sure about Lucas. If Lucas doesn't believe this/desire to portray it, then I think that your earlier readings of epI-III are slightly...generous to Lucas.
Back during the run-up to Episode I or II there was an interview with Lucas in Time where he said just about exactly that. He's fascinated by the Fall of Rome and how seemingly invicible civilizations go splat.
If you think that a Mac is a PC, I suggest you go to macmall.com or pcmall.com. You'll be the only one confused about "why isn't there Mac stuff at PC Mall? Isn't a Mac a PC?"
Go read Apple's press releases, at the bottom of them they all say something along the lines of "Apple ignited the Personal Computer industry in 1977(?) with the release of the Apple II..." Seems to me that Apple considers their products to be PCs in the sense that PC == Personal Computers.
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The difference though is that the iMac had zero legacy ports. That move created quite a market for USB peripherals.
I'm fairly certain they bring their own statistician; every now and then when they're giving shout-outs to the production team they mention "our statistician"
There is a remarkable sameness to Yahtzee's work that, quite frankly, grows tiresome after a while.
Huh? How is automatically pushing down firmware updates keeping me from playing MLB 10: The Show, or watching Mad Men blu-rays?
yes, i've heard she is.
That was the goal of the original Mac clones. It didn't end well.
>7. If the other stanley cup finalist has an european captain they will lose.
That's, in part, why I wanted to see Detroit play Ottawa in the Finals this year. Two teams with Euro!Captains, how could they both lose?
I think the real problem is that people on both sides are using the courts as an end run around the legislative process in order to advance their agenda.
Fittingly "Wonderboy" just started to play as I read this. Further proof that The D rocks!
That assumes that over that time span the Red Sox spent at or near the level of the Yankees, which I don't believe is true. Before the mid-90's the Sawx were something of a penny-pinching operation. They didn't really start flexing their monetary muscle until the acquisitions of Pedro and Manny.
For that matter the Yankees' payroll only got X-box hueg six or seven years ago. It was "reasonable" when they were actually winning championships.
DDS tape up to 90m in length worked perfectly fine in DAT decks.
It's not that the Allmans are against giving their shows away, it's that they are for establishing a sense of community through the distribution of their shows, and they feel that electronic methods like archive, bt, ftp are too impersonal. DMD used a similar justification when they had their shows removed from archive.org
-samNot true, the Dead never said anything about trading recordings of their shows, that was still kosher. What they yanked was the ability to go to a single resource, archive.org, and download a copy. bt's were still viable, as were regular old snail-mail trades/B&P's. Now, to the best of my knowledge, you can still trade the sbd's, you just can't download from archive.
It's not really that big a deal since there are plenty of bands that allow taping but don't allow their shows to be hosted on archive.org (phish, DMB, ABB to name a few).
-sam-sam
So what about going from a 32-bit PPC to a 32-bit Pentium? Since that's what's going to happen first.
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So I was just imagining Team USA's strong play in the last World Cup? US national teams do compete in the various world championships, it's just more emphasis is put on Olympic participation.
Did you see the last Olympics? Team USA Basket Ball got their asses handed to them at the start before clawing back for bronze, hardly world champions, and Team USA for Baseball didnt even make it to the olympics.
It'd be nice if for once USA baseball could field a team of it's best players, unfortunately the seasons don't line up right so they have to roll with minor league players. Field a team with the top US talent and see how they do. The same is of course true for the various Carribbean nations that feed their talent into the MLB. How did Venezuela or the Dominican Republic do in the last Olympics? And USA basketball is going to win the gold in 2008.
International play isn't as important in the US because the best players in the world come here to play in their respective leagues -- I'm thinking primarily the NBA, MLB, NFL, and the NHL(when they're playing). Those leagues are the apex of their respective sports and the champions of those leagues can take on any national team.
-sam
Can you name a league that plays the game at a level comparable to the NFL? Otherwise the description is apt.
-sam
Not true, Hollywood has always been in the rehash business. Just look at Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, His Girl Friday, Maltese Falcon, etc. The current spate of sequels and retreads is nothing new. Before the days of television/VHS/DVD Hollywood would simply remake films every few years and peddle them off as new. If anything they're less blatant about it now.
-sam
Of course GWB never served in Congress so that claim would be a straight up lie.
-sam
"We have a foul on the Poster. Overused refrence to played out movie! 5 karma point penalty! Replay the post! *Whistle*"
-sam
Stand By Me?
-sam
Back during the run-up to Episode I or II there was an interview with Lucas in Time where he said just about exactly that. He's fascinated by the Fall of Rome and how seemingly invicible civilizations go splat.
-sam
That's because the eMac is targetted at schools and the like. e = education.
-sam
Go read Apple's press releases, at the bottom of them they all say something along the lines of "Apple ignited the Personal Computer industry in 1977(?) with the release of the Apple II..." Seems to me that Apple considers their products to be PCs in the sense that PC == Personal Computers.
-sam