Metal Man

This is a great topic. The Fermi Paradox can really be debated or discussed endlessly. For me it is hard to believe that traversing the galaxy is prohibitive based on our science seeing that what we understand about science on a universal scale has to equate to handful of sand on a ten mile beach. The idea that we wouldn't want contact because it would mean annihilation is a scary thought but based on our history when one civilization meets another it usually ends badly for one of them. That could work the other way too where first contact would be avoided because there would be no way to predict how our civilization would respond. Personally I believe that some knowledge probably does exist in our world for someone but on a large scale our development is probably too insignificant for the majority of extra terrestrial life to take any interest in us.

I'm not sure why the show thought they needed to veer so drastically in this.... All that time spent trying to redeem Jaime, which I believe has been what Martin has been working at through the books, is completely ruined by this. Also kind of ruins Cersai a bit by taking her down a peg from her position of power over everyone. I can't really see any good reason to stray from the source material in this.

My sister had a student in her class last year named Kal-El.... ...which I guess is actually kind of cool depending on who you ask and if they are comic book fans.

Honestly, who doesn't?

Just as a quick side note after browsing through this thread... 1. I'm not sure why everyone thinks viewing is so much better on the Canadian side. The US side is definitely a hole in every other possible way but I think the view is very debatable. You can get right next to the american and horseshoe falls on the US side and there are a lot of different views available on goat island that make for great photos. I'd take the US side just for viewing over Canada every time. 2. Where does all of this Niagara Falls being one of the 7 wonders talk originate from? I definitely remember always hearing that as a kid growing up in the Buffalo area but after doing some googling yesterday I can't find any 7 Wonders list with Niagara Falls on it.

No pigs? IIRC that was one of the main catalysts for Tyrion to start verbally sparring. And it definitely does raise the question about one of those characters down the road.

I was talking with a friend about this last week. 17 different options ordered exactly would be 17! if I remember my stats correctly. That comes out to over 300 trillion different combinations. You could trim some of those combinations off taking into account where the bye can't be and odd combos like 8 home games followed by 8 away games and factoring in some of the supposed leaked info... but it would still be significantly harder than winning the mega millions or power ball.

True, that one unfortunately touches on a hot button subject that is never translated well. I was more talking about the "guaranteeing wins" aspect of the other tweets but fair point that the third was an entirely different animal.

I saw BillsMafia retweet this just a few minutes before this thread popped up. The media always likes to take anything like this from an athlete and spin it all up into something major but I didn't think much of it. To me it seemed like he was just saying he is looking forward to going up against them and I'd rather have a player saying I can't wait to beat you guys than to say I can't wait for you guys to beat the hell out of us like you usually do.

This is the kind of scenario that has me the most concerned. LA seems unlikely but I can see some big money guys thinking this would be a good idea and that it would retain most of the fans. I for one would be done with the Bills and most likely the league. If it takes Trump to keep the Bills playing 8 games a year somewhere in Erie county I'll sign up for that.

It's hard for me to answer definitively seeing I can't really watch it without the prior knowledge I already have. I think with any translation though you are always going to miss something because there is no way you can accurately put to screen the glimpse into the inner working of a character's mind that you get while reading the books. I would say based on the show's immense popularity that they are doing a good job in translation though even if it isn't 100% spot on. I'm not that far in the show yet but now I'm interested now to see what twist the show put on it.

Book 5 is out, it is 6 we're waiting on. In any case rumor has it that Martin has shared the general direction the story is to follow post book 5 and his basic vision for the ending so in the event the show catches up to the books before he is finished writing the show creators could end it. The timing isn't as bad as you're thinking because some of the seasons run more than 1 book. Like right now season 4 is actually the second half of the third book and I think that will happen a couple of more times for sure but with Martin's writing pace it still seems likely the show will eventually catch up before the last book is out and if they do allow the show to pass the writings it would be horrible imho. I have watched some of the show... it is pretty good but not great comparably. For the people who have read the books and know all of all the moving pieces and undercurrents that the show simply can't cover it would be a travesty for the climactic finish to be revealed (spoiled) without all of the details it will surely have on the written page.

I always thought this was the case but the Carrier Dome is on the Syracuse campus and I have purchased many a beer there for football and basketball games. Not sure how they are exempt.

I agree that it was a fantastic ride but overall it was a little unsatisfying at the end for me. They eluded from the start that there would be one big answer that pulled it all together and I guess it just got too big to find a workable solution to every mystery. My personal theory is that originally the island was supposed to be purgatory and everyone was dead from the very start but seeing how just about everyone guessed that after the first season, and the because writers vehemently denied this, creative was forced to come up with something else that never really worked.

Agreed. If Duke wins tomorrow night SU is locked in the second seed. Hopefully that happens then they can rest Grant the whole game and after everyone else gets a bit of a warm up let the walk-ons get their time in.

The main issue with non sellouts is bad publicity for the area and the NFL. The main chunk of the money is already made regardless. The reality is the Bills have the 12th largest stadium in the league in one of the smaller markets but the blacked out games still usually draw well over 60k. If we had a stadium around 65k or less capacity like the bottom 9 teams in the league the sellout thing would never be an issue.

It is going to be a pretty exciting day for you if the Bills finally get moved to another city. The thousands of opinions you've posted about how crappy the fans are around here for not correctly supporting the team will finally be validated.

That was pretty funny. I don't have an xbone yet but I'm not sure I will be talking to it for things I can do with a button push when I finally do.

A couple of my friends sold their twp Duke tickets for 1000$ total. They sit one over from the student section. Seems insane to me someone would pay that much. I get the excitement for a new big ACC opponent but they will be playing them plenty of more times at the dome. I talked myself out of seasons for a similar reason. Just seemed a waste for all of those non-conference games in November and December that were mostly laughers. And for the bigger conference games tickets are occasionally floating around so I end up going to some of them anyway. For this Saturday I was able to get two tickets for only 15$ from friends of friends. They are decent too, 311. If not for that I'd be just as happy at home or a local watering hole with some junk food. Definitely my plan for the Duke game. It is going to be chaos up on the hill.

I've been in the area almost 10 years now. When I first moved from Buffalo I was in the "sarah" crowd. Eventually some friends corrected me on it and I then trained myself to be in the "seer" group so that I didn't sound like a tourist. Everyone getting out to the big UNC game this Saturday? I lucked into a couple just last night.

Thought this was worth sharing for any SU and Sabres fans who might not have seen it: Tyler Ennis and Tyler Ennis http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2013/12/tyler_ennis_syracuse_basketbal.html

I didn't notice that anyone else mentioned this but it is probably worth noting that at the start of this season a handful of the Bills players were tweeting out videos of them doing this "surprise dunk on each other thing" in the locker room. IIRC there was even one of Fred Jackson dunking on Coach Marrone. In any case it is more than likely where these guys came up with the idea.

If Miami wins out and the Ravens win out not only could the Bills cost the Pats* the division but they could knock them out of the play-offs all together. I know, it's likely just a dream but it would make for an awesome season ending despite everything that has happened this year. http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/machine

I'm mostly with the consensus in I definitely would not be a Bills fan. I can't imagine ever caring about another team nearly as much so I'm pretty certain I would be done with the NFL all together. What scares me is what if the Bills remain in Buffalo as a home base but start sharing the games with Toronto 50/50? They'd kind of still be staying but really not.... No idea how long I could sustain being a fan with that.

I don't think this is the way it works. If the team that wins the toss doesn't score at all the game becomes sudden death. The only real difference from the old rule is that if the team who wins the toss kicks a field goal the other team gets one possession to try and beat or match it.