@KUSTEVE You need to read more thrillers. They probably were worried that the smut was being used as a secret code to organize a revolution led by oppressed solar astronomers everywhere.
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@DanR Nah, no alien would be interested in that stuff. After all, we know from all those lurid pulp sci-fi magazine of the 40's and 50's that bug-eyed tentacled monsters only go for long-limbed buxom adult screaming women.
@drgnslayr "Beats the heck out of tripping down Senility Road, or whatever it’s called!"
Yeah, you can get lost leaving Memory Lane....
@bskeet The last 2 weeks have been big surprise upsets to me, but my definition might be a lot looser than most when it comes to KU.....
@Crimsonorblue22 I wish they would stop talking to offensive players so much! "Hey! You think you are tough just cuz you got 25 yards on 3rd and 15? Remember that big hit I gotcha with after you broke 6 other tackles!!! Yeah, you're my bitch now, fool!"
@bskeet Geez, you are so young...my last KU memorabilia actually dating to the 70's disintegrated in the 90's--assuming my degree should not now be considered memorabilia since I do not remember 95% of what I allegedly (reputedly!) learned to earn it.
@JayHawkFanToo I believe your posts in particular also provoke the famed "howling!" reply.
@KUSTEVE Actually, this thread merely provoked my question because the word was used in the subject matter, not because I think my most recent comment is highly applicable. You remember, when you are waiting for a storm to hit, the mind ranges far afield! We escaped your experience, though...this time.
Technically, the center of the remnant of Florence is around here right now. The expected 35 to 45 winds overnight mysteriously disappeared. It is still dumping all over NC and NEast SC, but we will likely just get a couple more inches of rain. Thanks to everybody for your concern!
Despite our good luck, other people really got slammed and NC will be dealing with massive flooding for days, if not weeks. I am hoping this convinces my wife once and for all that retiring to NC's shore is not an optimum plan!
One source says possible sunflare that could be strong enough to damage solar observatories, which would not have anything to do with an evacuation or the FBI. Same self-styled reporter's Youtube blog said two post offices nearby were also closed. I remember well the anthrax scare in DC when mailed white powder killed one person and they cautioned all of us to handle unknown mail with gloves whiled wearing masks. No idea how reliable any info is. FWIW:
@dylans I saw the clip. It is funny! Believe it or not, the clip probably does not show any faking by the reporter. He is bracing for gusting (and has been standing out for hours), plus his rain gear is flapping around catching any wind. In addition, these gusts can be very localized even separated by 100 feet, depending especially on what buildings may be blocking it. I remember a clip last year or the year before where they showed exactly the same contrast--reporter seeming to struggle while someone walked blithely by in the background--and then the walker got slammed to his butt and went sliding about ten feet.
I haven't tempted fate by saying anything about how we only have some wind under 30 mph so far, and only a half inch or so of rain. Supposed to get some 40 to 50 gusting later with periods of sustained 30 to 40 mph. Expecting rain today and tomorrow of 4 up to 7 inches.
Not many losing power around here. But now that you have instigated this "we have been lucky" comment, I will hold you responsible of we get slammed!
@BShark Of course, our franchise tends not to keep their franchise players.
@approxinfinity I wondered because in areas where I think his theory may be thinly supported, it seems that he uses it to dispel that suspicion by making it sound like many people are adherents.
Spent many years dealing with objections based on "assuming facts not in evidence."
@jaybate-1.0 You misread my intent. I asked because in the past you have sometimes denied that an idea was yours personally, and that it was just thrown out for discussion. I wondered if "reputedly" was reserved for the ones not held or believed by you. If yours, then why use the word? It can change the meaning, and the impact.
For example, if you believe the recruiting system is corrupt, then using "reputedly" makes it seem as if you question that assertion, which would undermine your intent, I think. If you believe it is not corrupt, then you are taking a theory you don't believe and generating discussion from it.
@jaybate-1.0 Point of clarification for my edification: What do you mean by "reputedly"? I always thought it means something generally believed ("reputation") but it seems that many of the things you describe as "reputedly" are not necessarily accepted as facts by many people. Sometimes it is a fact or a theory I have never heard before from anyone. I cannot tell if your use means you, yourself, believe it, or if you are saying someone believes it.
In either case, it often serves as an assumption underlying something contentious that generates lots of comments. Are we arguing about something, or nothing, that you are actually positing as a fact or theory?
Thanks! We should be fine. Most things that would get us are in the pain in the neck variety, like if the roof leaks. Even if we lose power, since we are in the capital we don't think the power would be out for more than a couple days. Time to grill all those frozen Nathan's hot dogs!!
@justanotherfan I don't count them as really winning. They are supposed to be National League, so it devolves to the Rangers instead.
That doesn't work? Well, ok, . . . my bad.
Okay, here we go! Florence will be in my area for about the next two days. Wind now about 14 mph, gusts up in the 20s, but no rain yet. 689,000 without power already in the Carolinas. Living in Columbia, the radar makes me feel kind of like one of those food pellets in PacMan (let it load):
@justanotherfan @Gorilla72 @Kcmatt7
This warrant appears to be the work of the Dallas police in a bald-faced attempt to protect their own. The investigation of the cop actually is being done independently by the Texas Rangers. They took 3 days to finally arrest her on a manslaughter charge, which has brought major criticism that any civilian involved in a suspicious shooting would not have remained out of jail while it was investigated. The county prosecutor has laid all responsibility for favorable treatment on the Rangers, saying his office could well bring more serious charges.
Well, what did we expect? I would think if you farm out a homicide investigation to an MLB team, they are likely to screw it up. Winning the WS is no substitute for police training.
Absolutely the most plausible explanation!
@JayHawkFanToo Thanks for the shout-out! I was about ready to post something.
Florence turned toward us last night after several days of assuring friends and family we were not a target. Right now the projected track goes right over our heads (Monday, I think) after hanging out near its namesake (Florence, SC, at the intersection of I-20 and I-95) for a long while. By the time it gets to us, the winds should be down to tropical storm force, but the bigger problem for the whole interior of the state will be rain anywhere from 10 to 20 inches, with spots near the coast up to possibly 30 or even 40.
We had devastating floods in Oct 2015, when over 100 dams in this area failed or were topped. A close friend lost her home when 16 inches in 6 hours topped a dam nearby and another one on Ft Jackson failed (disclosures since then show the commanding general had the lake behind his house raised several feet despite warnings it would make the spillway ineffective--he wanted a better view; wish I was licensed down here). And there was no potable water for about 10 days, during which we happened to go to Cancun (anyone remember my joke about being the only people going to Mexico to find safe water?). So people here are prepping like crazy. Sam's is out of water and bread; Lowe's is selling out generators and flashlights; the highway from Charleston to Columbia was made 1 way for all 114 miles to aid in evacuating. After 2015, and Matthew in 16, and the two last year, everyone is no longer casual. My wife's VA hospital is receiving dozens of patients from some of the 177 hospitals and care facilities evacuated from the coast.
Fortunately, our house is not in an area likely to be flooded, although many roads nearby could be closed. I have my generator, a room a/c if we need it (all temp forecasts are mid-90's); lots of water and buckets to save rain water, and a pool to provide water for flushing for us and the neighbors (assuming the sewer system works); extra cell phone batteries and standby charging packs; lots of ice; gas for my grill; and many nonperishable goodies to consume if necessary. The two biggest trees nearby were cut down last fall after part of one almost took out our power line.
We almost replaced our roof due to its flapping shingles this past spring, but couldn't quite swing it--that is the biggest question mark now. I will tie down our outside furniture tomorrow since this forecast seems to change so much, and if the hurricane doesn't stall at the coast, we could get a full wind blast after all.
Much more detail than anyone wanted, but I will cut and paste this for updates for relatives, too!
It seems to me that a survey like this, asking people nationally about restaurants, is bound to deliver an extensive chain as the winner. How many national Mexican restaurants are there? Chipotle is more SW "fusion" in offerings, Moe's SW Grill is pretty limited, and there aren't that many more that aren't really just regional. So, even if Taco Bell were to be 3rd or 4th in any given region, those numbers can add up.
We saw the beginnings of 5 Guys in the Washington DC area, and it was still only in the mid-Atlantic by the mid to late 90's. I had no idea they are now in 35 states, but their stuff is so good that I see how even a limited market got them to the top. No frills, just good really dangerous stuff.
@jaybate-1.0 So far, Billy hasn't even scored this season.
@approxinfinity From what I read, there is virtually unanimous agreement among tennis players that despite acting much more abusively than Serena toward refs and umps, bad boys McEnroe and Agassi (and others) never were penalized a game by the chair. Nadal himself said he acted worse.
Frankly, I would prefer all abusive players get slammed. Always wanted Brat McEnroe to earn a forfeit. And if they had, Serena should be, too. But it is hard to argue that Serena was not treated the same as the men who acted the same.
@BShark Arf, arf, arf!!!
Please, everyone, acknowledge my amazing prescience: I predicted a 3 TD win. The FG is just icing on the cake.
Thank you, thank you, thank you...
Of course, claiming expertise on this is about like counting a dog's barks for predicting the weather!
@stoptheflop A little known guy named Cole had a big coming out party in the 2008 tournament, too....
Did everyone see the USA TODAY story about the Bartlesville man burning down his house trying to burn his Nikes inside? There were all types of radio and TV web sites picking it up and reprinting the USA Today byline. I saw those but was suspicious when I searched and found nobody else nationally was reporting it, so I went to the original story and saw immediately that it was an oddly-named site: usatoday-go.com. It was debunked immediately as a hoax by the Bartlesville media. The poor Bartlesville sheriff is spending undue amounts of time responding to inquiries.
The "fake news" site, when I looked this morning, has a banner saying that "This account has been suspended."
Fortunately, in this case they didn't use the names of real residents. People's lives have gotten totally upended from their names appearing in hoaxes like this!
@mayjay Here is another example of how "totals" don't reflect net financial change:
I have a blackjack game on my computer (not a real gambling app, just a game). Last night, starting with $5,000, I played 58 hands, increasing my bets when I got ahead, before a few "all or nothing" bets broke me. The stats at the end showed total winnings of $363,465, but the highest I ever got was 32 grand. My net loss from the beginning was $5,000. My net loss from my highest was $32,000. My total losses probably equaled my winnings plus my initial 5, for $368K. If you wanted to know how much money the "house" and I together accounted for in some fashion during the session, it would be either the 363K plus the 368K (731K), or double that if you were looking at 4 separate ledgers. Over a million out of a net transaction of 5 grand.
@kjayhawks I am guessing a 3 TD victory margin for KU, shocking the nation and catapaulting KU to an actual road game victory (first this decade!!!) and maybe more in later weeks.
I wonder if the higher numbers come from adjustments being made in several departments of DOD, and represent just the cumulative amount, not the net.
Say, if, for example, Army Aviation has a budgeted item of 6 million for a new helicopter electronics weapon software upgrades. The money perhaps should have been budgeted to Army Technological Services, so they transfer the money. Ledger shows 6 mil going to AA, another entry shows 6 mil deleted from AA, and the ledger for ATS shows influx of 6 million. Altogether, 18 million is appearing somewhere of which only 6 million is budgeted money actually spent and 12 million is adjustments. If there were transfers of funds numerous other times for accounting purposes, the same money could look like many multiples.
Good accounting practices would prevent this from being reported in net reports, but these are apparently just totals of ledger entries with no indication whether they were cross-checked.
@JayHawkFanToo I assume that is a room with an indoor pool.
@JayHawkFanToo Do you have any sense of humor?
@DoubleDD Very nice article, and well researched. Yes, millions died under Stalin. I was taught about this by every history teacher I ever had in both high school and college.
And with this submission, you obviously have won the argument: Stalin, who died in 1953, killed millions of Soviets, and therefore China became Communist during Carter's presidency 25 years later.
I live in utter humbled defeat.
@BShark Your post was number 1111. I think mine is 10000.
@jaybate-1.0 And Deep Space is real. I saw the Ferengi making all types of scams up there. Odo and Jax couldn't do a thing, and they drove Sisko right out of space.
@jaybate-1.0 Can't do 2001 again. No one listens to waltz music in movies anymore.
@jaybate-1.0 There have been a number of sci-fi stories in that vein. One, as I recall (alas, no names ot titles come to mind--lots of modern pulp reading has flooded my memory banks), if not more, was about some private space-mining company getting an exclusive drilling contract that unexpectedly discovered liquid water in an asteroid (this was before the discovery you highlighted). The company used the power of having the only extra-Terran water (i.e., not requiring boosting out of Earth gravity) to leverage itself into a massive superpower controlling virtually all interplanetary travel and, eventually, interstellar travel and control of newly discovered alien technology.
Most sci-fi, of course, just assumes we will harness ridiculous amounts of energy from Scotty's dilithium crystals, or whatnot, and from there processing H and O into water in space would be easy.
@Woodrow Actually, the argument that "Kap is not worth the headache" is logically a concession that his protest, or at least the notoriety with it, is the reason for him not being signed. Call it a tradeoff: where unique talent exceeds backlash expected from notoriety, sign him; where notoriety is higher, don't sign him. If others at that talent level are all signed, then his protest is the difference.
I don't think this necessarily supports his collusion (oh, dear: that word again!) claim in arbitration, however. The supply of middle echelon quarterbacks means that is entirely possible to me that NFL teams signing backup QBs this year independently decided to avoid a radioactive Kap after considering the massive amounts of info, press, social media, ratings, and of course ticket sales.
@KUSTEVE I just remember their alternate use, when filled with water, as a pendulum set to swing into the face of someone opening their Oliver Hall door....
@DoubleDD Well, then saying China became Communist under Carter must have been written by someone else who didn't read it because it clearly states China was Communist-controlled by 1949. Of course, by your theory the USSR wasn't commie until 1933 (recognized by FDR), and Cuba avoided the Communist label until Obama established formal relations. Forget those inconvenient 1918-33, 1949-79, and 1959-2015 years.
If you were not so freaking stubborn, you could say that you meant Carter cut ties with Taiwan, or talk about when China's seat at the UN and the Security Council went to the Red Chinese. Those are different events from China becoming Communist, which appears to be a "fact" known only to you. Indeed, I literally cannot find one source besides your assertion to support your claim.
@approxinfinity Sorry, I was referring to presidential candidates. McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, Hillary--a whole slew of stiff "I know better than you" candidates that cost the Dems the chance to name Sup Ct justices. (Carter won, but Ford was a sitting duck after pardoning Nixon, and although Ford was in fact a pretty decent guy, he appeared really dumb.) Obama was a unique exception, as was Bill Clinton, but both of them managed to lose Congress to the Repubs with short-sighted policies (causing Garland to be the ultimate casualty of a power play that was belated revenge for the abysmal treatment Bork received).
My point is if you can't win elections and instead rely on court rulings for 5 decades to make policy, you will ultimately be unhappy for decades thereafter.
@Woodrow Risking your career and subjecting yourself to death threats--those are sacrifices regardless of how much money you previously made.
It does not say deprivation.
@KUSTEVE I don't know if your comment is to me or not, but I do want to go on record as abhoring Nike's labor policies. I have never bought a Nike product and never will. I suspect that the money to Kap, however, will largely likely go to many of the causes he has funded with, I believe, millions of dollars. So, while it might be paid to him by a sweat shop, that money might have gone to someone whose only goal would be to buy a yacht, fancy cars, or another 18 room mansion in Palm Springs.
@DoubleDD You didn't even read your own article, did you? Just thought the link told the story? I give up.
@approxinfinity Just another legacy of the Dem's practice of nominating historically unpopular candidates just because they are viewed as ideologically pure in some fashion or to some vested branch of the party.
Dems routinely lop off anyone who looks threatening to the ideological purists. God forbid anyone ever made compromises with the other side, or had realized issues are complex. They have done it since the 60's. The Repubs are doing much the same now, but their efforts may not be as suicidal because the Internet's self-reinforcing-bias effect has created a means to keep the narratives churning along.
@DoubleDD You didn't respond to what I wrote. The history is there. Do you think China would not be Communist if Carter had not made that diplomacy decision?
@JayHawkFanToo Interesting, but not plausible. Essentially, the article states that China will subsidize Nike and Levi Strauss and others to take political stances domestically that undermine Trump and thereby his trade sanctions.
The contractual arrangements are interesting. But the author simply notes that the companies are adopting a couple of marketing policies that might not appeal to some Americans (ignoring the possible growth with other Americans).
The rest is merely conjecture.
@DoubleDD Let's see how your logic must go. So if we hadn't recognized the government in mainland China in 1979, it would not be Communist? Taiwan would rule all those people but for Carter? Remember, the process of opening up relations started under the crook who made his career by Commie baiting in the 1940's, Tricky Dick Nixon--gasp, a Republican! Recognizing China was merely accepting the inevitable, and attempting to cash in on a potential billion person market. The country was going to be Communist regardless of our diplomatic relationship. Redefine responsibility if you wish, but it don't make it so.