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....lybob

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  1. Maybe JW can answer this- If there is a lockout could a bunch of other billionaires swoop in and start signing whatever players they want? you could sign away the top 10-20 QBs to start a new league or just hold them for ransom when the NFL got it's act together.
  2. This shouldn't have an effect on the use of nuclear power which we need more than ever but it should have an effect on the type of nuclear power plants we build. We should be moving to liquid fluoride thorium reactors, they have passive safety inherent to the design. "Safety--LFTRs are designed to take advantage of the physics of the thorium cycle for optimum safety. The fluid in the core is not pressurized, thus eliminating the driving force of radiation release in conventional approaches. The LFTR reactor cannot melt down because of a runaway reaction or other nuclear reactivity accidents (such as at Chernobyl), because any increase in the reactor's operating temperature results in a reduction of reactor power, thus stabilizing the reactor without the need for human intervention. Further, the reactor is designed with a salt plug drain in the bottom of the core vessel. If the fluid gets too hot or for any other reason including power failures, the plug naturally melts, and the fluid dumps into a passively cooled containment vessel where decay heat is removed. This feature prevents any Three Mile Island-type accidents or radiation releases due to accident or sabotage and provides a convenient means to shut down and restart the system quickly and easily."
  3. quit bragging someday you'll meet your match in stupidity.
  4. How about this flight of fantasy - Bill trade down a couple picks but are still able to get Dareus then they use 2a on Martez Wilson and 2b on Dontay Moch 3rd goes for Allen Bailey 1. Dareus DE/NT 2a. Martez Wilson ILB 2b. Dontay Moch OLB 3. Allen Baily DE 4a Derek Newton OT/OG 4b.Joseph Barksdale OT/OG 5. Mark Herzlich LB 6. Mario Fannin, RB 7. Da'Norris Searcy, SS
  5. That's what I was thinking- I remember getting charged NYS sales tax for something I got online because the had a like one outlet in NY and that was 5 or 6 years ago.
  6. Don't worry they save your money for later- you can work direct like Tony Blair or get paid by speech money funneled through institutes or maybe your wife will get a cushy job or they will hire all your children.
  7. Cops work for the city, sheriff deputies work for the county, troopers work for the state if you're going to disparage people who risk their lives at least have the decency to match their Job with the government they're stealing from.
  8. Well since the work I'm taking about is working in group homes with Autistic adults the answer is never- I bet you wouldn't last a day.
  9. Buddy thinks the guy he picked in the second round is good? wow that's shocking hold the presses- call me when he says the Spiller pick was a big #@$%ing mistake but they are going to try to salvage something out of him.
  10. I once accidentally touched a golden retriever with a Slim Jim I was eating and the result bore a remarkable resemblance to Ann Coulter, which has thrown me off beef jerky ever since. So the guy made a $100,000 extra in over time who's fault is that? My dad working on the railroad got time and a half over 40 hours and double time after 60- I was never that lucky, One place I worked had on accidentally or on purpose left all the houses short staffed so eventually when people started there asses kicked on a consistent basis and started quiting, me and a few other people started working hundred hour weeks, it took over six months for them to get the agency back to what passes as normal- I never asked for extra shifts I worked them because the managers were begging us to take them, then later I hear the assistant director is pissed because some of the worker drones are making as much as she is- the point is if that much overtime is going out then someone in management ain't doing their job.
  11. actually our government is a quasi-banking agency.
  12. yeah your mom is waiting for you to move out before she fixes it up into a sex dungeon.
  13. OK lets say the Homeowner was just as much to blame- lets give both sides of this criminal mortgage transaction (homeowner, loan officer) 10 weekends in jail and a $500 fine for every transaction they were involved in, the same for the branch managers, regional managers all the way up to the top. The guys at the top get huge rewards which we are told are justified by the vast assets they skillfully control but apologists for fraud like DC TOM and Magox never want them to face any penalty for their part in fraud.
  14. I think Paea will still have to show his knee is a hundred percent or he's dropping into the 2nd.
  15. Almost every facet of life has been financialized, sports is just an obvious example.
  16. I don't think anyone expected him to be fast but 5.4 is slow for a OT does this drop him out of the second round?
  17. If you really want to make money the place is in the FIRE economy link
  18. could you grab Peterson sure if you're going to get Cullen Jenkins and Marcus Spears in FA, if you can get the right players in FA before the draft then the Bills have such a lack of talent they could really go anywhere in the draft and make sense- but the Bills have to lock up two decent DEs if they seriously want to be able to play defense through 18 games.
  19. exactly most well functioning states you wouldn't mind living in have had mixed economies.
  20. Just because the Tea party started off with a strong Libertarian bent doesn't mean that's where it is now- It's has more then it's share of Christian fundamentalist and the xenophobic- really they want the economics of the 1890s and culture of the 1950s
  21. so many people? the graph shows average family incomes of different percentiles - you do know how to read a graph don't you because those were pretty simple graphs- if you want to contest the information fine but back it up.
  22. Drilling either on shore or off shore would only lower prices if 1. you produced enough oil to produce slack in the world oil supply or 2. the government stepped in and controlled the price and selling point. I'd be shocked if either of those things happened, oil is a global commodity and sells where the price is highest. The United States would collect revenues (royalty fees) (sometimes shockingly little)the company may provide employment and if it's an American oil company they may pay extra taxes (Exxon paid near zero U.S. taxes 2009). The point is while some oil producing countries like Iran or Venezuela subsidizes gas and heating oil others like Great Britain with the North Sea oil never did- being that we are a free market country unless there were riots or a major war I would not expect our government to tell the oil companies to who and at what price they must sell their oil. On the refinery side it's mostly a problem of Nimby- refineries are most useful near water but that's where the most valuable land and wealthiest people hang out - another issue is many of the smaller refineries have been shut down and occasionally you read where the major oil companies won't sell to a smaller player or the bigs using government connections will stop smaller refineries from being built- and lastly there have been times when many refineries have been down for maintenance at the same time driving up gas prices but while many suspect collusion I don't think it's ever been proved.
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