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Libertarian - yes more accurate take.

It's also because hundreds of millions of girls and boys all over the world play it on every driveway and corner park and elementary school with nothing but a hoop and an oversize soccer ball. Speaking of which, Soccer is the only other sport worldwide that probably beats the level of youth participation of basketball.

Avila hunting. Can he flush out bats and gloves? The Springtime awaits

well certainly what happened is prima facie evidence that someone was negligent so that is a given. Negligence will always exist on some kind of distribution. But to take that question back to the original premise: How much Is the negligence rate among the professionals driven by attitudes in the wider society vs the quality of the institutional procedure enforcement? I suppose you can take the argument back a level and the it's the latter that is driven by external attitudes but that's another somewhat different case to make.

LOL - I have no idea if Fields will make it in the end but I remember being chastised before the draft for suggesting OSU QBs were a risk as everything at OSU was different today. I guess we'll see.

maybe - but I still wouldn't buy a tee shirt.

both sides are missing the obvious way to peace - hard cap and % of revenues. The players won't trust the owners to work on % of revenues but I think they are dumb not to- because once you do, the hard cap can follow and now it's no big deal because the total salary payout is already fixed. Even if the owners fudge around the edges on the revenue numbers the union always has a hard number and %increases will still accrue to it for total salary to be paid and that is what matters.

exactly. But then again, even in this reading you see his cowardice. He wanted the mob to put him back in power with every fiber of his being, but he still wanted it done without his handprints on it because he was too scared of being caught in failure if it didn't work. And of course the very fact that he was too much a coward to either call off *or* lead his people insured that like everything else he touches, it would just turn into one big F-U.

Agreed - the difference in the undergrad experience is not what is offered by the curriculum or faculty (which at any of the big research institutions is seldom deeply engaged with undergraduate ed anyway) - the difference is in the student body and the intellectual peer challenge and social networking/social capital is it possible build from that (if a student is so inclined), and then secondarily the amount of leverage the undergraduate degree will give you getting into the graduate program of your choice if graduate study is the objective. That is sort of the myth of it. It's the great students that make the great schools, not the schools that make the students. It's sort of chicken and egg. Once a school has a good reputation, it is relatively easy to maintain it because you will get you choice of the best students and they will keep your institution strong. That is why the schools understand the importance of the ratings even if they don't like them.

Yeah - but then again the pixelated monkey won't cost $500/mo to board.

I don't follow, who else do you have in mind as making the decisions?

I get what you are saying and to a level I don't disagree - esp for the actors who are coming in and out of these situations with each gig. But I would hope it applies less to the professionals - like assistant directors and armorers for whom it's primary to their responsibilities even if the object is in ways 'under-appreciated' in the larger society. Just to give you an example of what I mean, when I worked in process plants, you have to take a whole different attitude toward hoses. Hoses of course are literally the most 'garden variety' of tools and we don't give them a thought. But in a process plant any given hose might have something hot/dangerous/toxic/pressurized in it so you have to maintain a hard focus on handling them at all times, even though -yeah, it's just a hose. For a set armorer, he knows the weapons his is managing are going to be discharged and that alone should demand his constant vigilance.

really. Are there studio people using prop shop weapons to go the the firing range on off days or what?

that sounds like what I have. I have a second wireless router configured in WAP (wireless access point) mode hardwired to the primary router/gateway. They operate on the same SSID. The second is just there to push a better signal into the end bedroom and the deck. The other one covers everything else pretty well.

that's something because from hearing him interviewed over the years I'd guess that philosophically his sentiments would be conservative.

Reporting tonight to the effect that the scene they were shooting was supposed to be the camera looking down the barrel of the gun - ergo the gun was supposed to be aimed at the camera. Sounding less like there is anything there from the Baldwin angle with the focus shifting to the assistant director. set shooting2 set shooting

Yeah - it's ridiculous the knots people will tie themselves in to deny the obvious. All Trump had to do was go on camera and tell them to go home, he refused to make the effort. How obvious can complicity be? It doesn't even matter to argue they might not have listened to him, his lack of effort alone stands as the irrefutable fact convicting him. In fact a man with any kind of courage would have gone to the Capitol and told them to stand down. But Trump is coward even in the face of his own supporters.

He could have done better, but that was a pretty soft goal, all Nede has to do there is keep his stick down. He made some good enough saves later though.

If this was a Western and the gun was a revolver it would not have taken long to make the check, but he obviously must not have. There are always multiple points at which things like this can be averted and they all have to have failed.

Baldwin has certainly worked guns on sets before, though some many years ago (Red October, Phantom) but I'd hardly consider him an action movie actor anymore.

talk about no respect: "We know you can't defend this play twice in a row...."

Officials have decided the Lion's are not supposed to win this.

Lions probably have until the Rams score their 1st TD to enjoy this.

OK - now take the points.