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eSJayDee

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  1. The only rationale I can think of (except that Tucker can't play up to normal standard due to his back) is that they're very high on Preston and that they're only keeping 9 OLs, so they instead opted for guys that could play outside, too.

    Personally, from what I've seen, I wouldn't have been surprised to see Tucker starting instead of Anderson w/in a few weeks.

  2. 1) How do you feed 24,000 people in a space that small 3 times a day?

    Well, during a game, they're used to feeding 70k, so I don't think that'll be a problem.

     

    2) How do you prevent these people from becoming stir crazy and doing someting stupid? (rioting?)

    I certainly wouldn't want to be 'confined' like that for a month or more. I would assume they're not 'confined' per se (i.e. not quarantined(sp?)) and are free to leave. Problem is, they don't have any place to go or anything to do. Stir crazy is certainly an issue, but I wouldn't think that's the situation would promote riotous activity.

    3) How the hell do you let these people shower? If you have 24,000 people in an enclosed space, and they aren't showering on a regular basis, that has health concern written all over it.

    Good question of which I can only speculate. 1st, they don't need to shower once a day like most of us have the luxury of doing. However, since they are not French (although N.O. does have a large %age of French speaking people, doesn't it :blink: ) it is reasonable to try to have accomodations for them to shower once or twice a week. Much like there's porto-potties, it's reasonable to assume they could set up adequate, make-shift facilities.

    For math, assume they need to have 49,000 total showers a week, or 7000/day.

    Allowing for 4 showers/hour/stall, that equates to 1750 'shower units'. That's attainable w/ perhaps 100 stalls. Is that unreasonable capacity? (I'm assuming that fits w/in the municipalities capabilities although it might cause a temporarily strain.)

  3. Based on my math background, that statement is untrue. Apart from the initial requirement to get everyone's avg tank to 3/4, usage & therefore subsequent demand would be the same.

    ALso, assuming many/most people are like me, they/I typically fill up their tanks when they're almost empty. (That's why you have the 'miles b4 fuel runs' out function.) So this would mean that on avg, tanks are slightly over 1/2 full.

  4. I'm sorta of the mind of HopsGuy, but I don't know how practical/feasible that is.

    As others have mentioned, there's plenty of places on the net if you want to look at pics of hot women (or probably even pandas, if you're into that kinda stuff).

    Personally, I think much of what makes this a close communtity is the OT/LAMP stuff.

    Provided it doesn't get out of hand, I think it adds to the experience.

    I don't know specifically about everyone's surfing habits, but it seems that a significant %age of our posters are here on & off all day during Eastern time 'work hours'. I think what I propose is like is to have everything go on the main board, then after 3 or 4 hours get migrated to the appropriate subforum. I'm assuming that would need to be done 'manually'. Is that too much of a burden on our moderators?

    BTW, let me take this opportunity to thank you & the others that help maintain this board for giving me (& us) this venue to enjoy.

  5. OMFG!

     

    Just went to Stewart's near my house, $3.599 for premium! Just put $20 in (it's my 'toy' car, so I don't drive it much), which only got the tank to 1/4 full (based on the gauge).

    That's about enough to get me home & back to the store once the price comes down.

  6. And the good news is that Parrish wasn't PUP'd so they expect him back before game 6, and again it will probably be game 4.

     

    I don't think Parrish would be eligible for PUP regardless of when he might be available.

    I believe you only qualify if you were hurt from a non-football activity. (I guess the OTAs when Everett was hurt don't count either; or maybe 'cuz he wasn'ts igned at the time.)

  7. Uh, no. Unless you are perversely co-opting "F" to mean Kinetic Energy. "F" generally stands for Force which = m(dv/dt) for a moving object.

     

    Ahh, thanks for the correction. It's amazing how edifying a google search (along w/ a little guidance) can be. Apparently better than that semester of Physics I managed to sleep through many years ago. :D

  8. I would fear Spikes or Milloy more than a little guy like Winfield.

     

    F=mv^2

     

    Velocity is more important than mass.

    It's slightly more complicated w/ respect to football contact. Where & how you hit someone definitely plays a big roll. The ability to generate speed in that small area and split second just b4 contact. Skill of course plays an important roll.

    I personally wouldn't want to have Winfield hit me & I've got probably 20 pounds on him.

  9. Is it possible that the signal/pic quality is so poor that your TV &/or VCR is 'blanking it out'? Try hooking up your DTV receiver to your VCR in some other fahion (RG6 vs. composite, etc.) If you're looping the signal through your TV, go direct; or vice-versa.

    Using a different VCR &/or different cables will help you diagnose the problem.

    Good luck.

  10. My preference would be for it to go the opposite way & actually reduce roster size.

    I realize that how teams currently play, most of the 53 man roster is utilized, but I personally would like to go back to the 'olden days' when you knew who was going to be on the field (Having players go both ways :blush: is taking things too far).

    Right now, you often have RBs & TEs line wide as WRs. LBs play DE; S play LB, etc.

    If every team was restricted to smaller roster limits, I don't think it would adversely effect the quality of play on the field. It would make it easier on us fans having to know fewer players.

    I'm pondering how a change of this nature would impact the goal of maintaining league parity.

  11. You bring up a good point w/ respect to HIPAA which I wasn't at all familiar w/.

    However, in the past, teams have been required to disclose injury info & have been fined for not doing so. W/ respect to disclosing this info, since all teams are required to abide by the same rules, no overall benefit is derived.

    From a passionate fan's perspective, one certainly would like to have this info disclosed.

    It would be nice if someone (of authority) would confirm that our new policy of vagueness is required to remain in compliance w/ these new regs. (I don't follow other teams closely enough to know if they're doing a similar thing.)

  12. I didn't read the article but I will add that if a plane depressurrized at high altitude, due to lack of oxygen, you get pretty stupid (& uncoordinated) very quickly. Under these conditions, it would be possible to freeze to death (as it does get cold up there).

     

    Reminds me of a Payne Stewart joke -

     

    He was great under pressure, but not too good w/o :)

  13. Put yourself in the shoes of the suspect for a moment.

    Okay, none of us know MJ personally but let's just say based on what we see in the media (which is our only basis for opinion) that we perceive him as 'weird'. We don't know that he's a child molestor.

    As far as I'm concerned and from what I can see, this worked the way it was supposed to. It's a far greater injustice to let a guilty person go free than to convict an innocent person.

    Okay, so most people thought he was 'probably guilty'. Apparently, either the DA et al didn't adequately do their job in proving that he did do it, or he might actually be innocent.

  14. Isn't it a case of simple supply & demand?

    Regardless of what limits the supply side, be it raw materials or pruduction capability, if the ability to produce a product at a given price level doesn't meet demand for it at that price, prices will rise.

    Since I can only assume that creating more capacity in refinering capability is a costly endeavor, and we won't create this capacity until it's economically justified, this situation will likely continue until something changes.

  15. From my perspective the D age situation revolves not only ...

    I am not worried about the age issue in any untoward way.

     

    Well, after reading most of your response all I can say is "wow". What occurred to me is that you just wrote in excess of 2500 words in less than 2 hours (Probably substantially less. I'm just basing that on the time stamps of our posts.) for a 'hobby'. Back in school that was like a 2 week assignment!

    Please don't get me wrong, I enjoy your posts so keep it up. But... that's a lot.

  16. I was thinking last night that we might have some reason for concern about the fact that we have more major contributors on Dee more likely to decline than we have that are likely to improve.

    Granted, I don't think we'll totally fall apart, but sometimes for individual players, that decline is pretty quick and sharp.

    Of our starters, I think we have 3 players who would be more prone to improve based on age & playing experience (Kelsay, Edwards, & McGee). I'd categorize Schobel in his prime. Then we have Adams, 3 LBs, & 2 S all on the wrong side of 30 & w/ significant playing time under their belt.

    Considering this and the fact that they set the bar so high last year, I think we're more likely to see a decline (but hopefully not much) than an improvement. On the plus side, they'll have another year of the system under their belt (TV might do better w/ more experience at his new pos) & are returning largely unchanged personnel wise.

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