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the need to do the deal is simple. The sad truth is Ford probably doesn't know anything more valuable about car building to the Chinese than what we are getting from them. There just isn't much at risk on our side.

That's the beauty of a licensing deal though - once you are off the ground, you say good-bye and just send the royalty checks. It's the best way there is to import technology. I like seeing the the role reversal here since licensing US tech was a big part of how the Chinese built their manufacturing base. IMO - the biggest risk is the heat gets to where the Chinese pull out of the deal. The US needs this manufacturing capability.

tigers have so many arms that need long looks in ST there aren't going to be enough quality innings to go around.

It's not even useful to propagate the 'we're negotiating with a crazy man' paradigm because at this point in his long history, everyone already knows it a game and that Trump folds like a cheap suit under any real pressure.

When do all his fans start to figure out that all this crap is a window into just how unserious he is about addressing any of the country's actual problems? Even written off as fun and games, one could accept it except that that is all there ever is, or will be.

absolutely. Mize will probably get more slack because of the power arm, but if Manning shows up throwing 93 he's a goner.

While I don't see why any of this would have an impact on a licensing agreement, if it did it would be a terrible mistake. The US needs Li(Fe)PO4 technology and production capability on shore. Once you are doing step one under license you can invent step II yourself and now it's domestic tech. Li(Fe)PO4 is going to especially useful for fixed site applications like home storage for solar arrays where you care less that its weight performance is not quite as good. It's far more stable/safer than having LiION inside your house and will run to more recharge cycles.

they never sign anyone. 😉

yup - wait until Canada invites China to open a Naval base in Vancouver.

He's is sort of the glue that held it all together out there. It's funny that after 120 yr of baseball, nobody really knows how to structure the workload a guy you like to use 100-110 innings.

I think it's one of those things that is just a bad choice of paradigm. I think it may feel more strange just because they aren't defining separate segments for the designers and the fabs. The oil biz might be an example of a more 'refined' approach that would better apply here; e.g., gasoline refiners and oil drilling/exploration are considered separate segments even if some majors span both, etc. So you have the analogy of some players 'upstream', some 'downstream' and some in both ends. Presenting 'semiconductor' as a single segment the way they do sort of implies a TSMC is competing with and 'losing' to NVidia when that isn't the case at all.

I think our posters try not to get caught by and repost troll jobs, but we all get suckered in once in a while. You just acknowledge it and move on. When it happens I don't care if the 'opposition' take a victory lap as long both winners and losers maintain a little class. The personal stuff is never needed.

and as much as Hinch will protest it can't happen, if they don't sign more startingpitching, I'll wager Holton's openings will start creeping to 3+ innings....

Correct, and as long as LH batters have deeper platoon splits than RHB, and they almost always do, it's too easy to shut down rallies by LH heavy teams with LH relievers.

Porter-Cable router?

Right! Seriously, given the level or enthusiasm she generated among the party faithful, whether anyone could have defeated her had there been a primary seems doubtful. You have the fact of that enthusiasm on one side and the fact that her 2020 campaign didn't lift off very well standing in opposition to one another.

Interesting - Still, one piece of meta work needs to be taken with a grain of salt (another substance which by the way you can find conflicting study evidence about! 😱) For me the missing piece in the story is what kind of dose rates it require to see 1ppm in a person's urine compared to what an average American receives.

I'm still scratching my head over Torres.

Anzalone available to go against Hockenson was definitely a plus. Lions have had pretty terrible injury luck but they caught a break on the timing there.

In Darnolds defense, Collingsworth made an excellent point that O'Connell/Phillips weren't doing Darnold any favors by continuing to call a lot of long slow developing routes when his O-Line couldn't give him time to throw them. I would guess they were so focused on the chance of beating Detroit's depleted secondary deep that they refused to adjust the game plan.

so years and years ago, I read 'Up From Liberalism" by WF Buckley (agree with him or not he was a great talent) and I remember he made a big deal in the very 1st chapter about Eleanor Roosevelt's supposed intellectual inconsistency when asked (after the war) about whether she would have shaken Hilter's hand. Her intellectual 'rigor' was not sufficient for him and thus neither was liberalism's. Now TBF, ER was nutty enough that no liberal should have felt the need to take responsibility for her anyway (finding inconsistency there was about like shooting fish in a barrel), but the larger point that Buckley and his ilk miss is that in real life 'intellectual rigor' must always founder on the immediate demands of humanity, which is why all rigorous ideological systems, whether left or right, ultimately fail when faced with the necessities of real life.

Worse than that really. It's not fear of the person, it's fear of admitting the person's humanity, because once you do that, the whole edifice of your ideology is at risk.

Sheila be puttin' the heat on brother Bill to pony up! 😳

Collingsworth was really pushing Goff's physical courage to keep standing in and making the throw he knew would be there knowing he was going to be hit. It's maybe the most 'intangible' of all a QB's intangibles. Every great QB has to have it. The ability to block that hit out of your mind and complete your process is a heck of a talent.

I don't follow MB. if the Lions pick 1st, I think they still pick Hutch, so the Jags take Martin and it nets out the same. Or do you just mean Campbell was building a winning culture and the Jags weren't?