Chilly

I don't think my comment has anything to do with how "male" or "female" I am.

I don't think my comment has anything to do with how "heavy" or "light" I am.

I don't think a kindle vs book discussion has anything to do with how "easy" or "hard" life is.

to-may-to, to-mah-to

Both Dean & EIL know that GG said "he went overboard", right?

Freaking Anheuiser-Busch marketing.

Not one by itself, but we don't know a whole lot about the combined effects of a large number of electronic devices being on, over time, emitting RF signals and the affect on airplane controls.

It's true. Most casinos do accept other casinos chips, but not the big ones. In any event, I was in Vegas when this happened. Talked to the Pit Boss at the Flamingo about it. She told me that all the big denomination chips are tracked and he doesn't have a shot in hell of cashing those in. They know exactly which chips were stolen and are waiting for someone to try to cash them. He can probably cash in all of the small denomination chips over time, they won't know which ones those are, but it's a lot work for not that much money.

Do you mean the iPhone & iPad being pretty close to the same thing? Other than that I don't see it twice.

Why not get a galaxy tab and stick w/one platform? That way purchases from the android market carry over and what not.

I've done some reading on this a year or so ago when it came up as a topic of interest. There's a couple different reasons for the different rules: 1.) The under 10,000 feet rule: This one seems to be related to electronic devices giving out RF signals. There are some anecdotal stories floating around for various airlines that old electronic devices interfered with airplane gauges. There's also been some research done by NASA with various devices and their affect on airplane landings. Overall, it seems like there's the possibility that if a large number of devices giving off RF signals could interfere with older, less shielded airplane electronics needed for takeoff and landing, but it's hard to find hard proof of anything. It seems like it shouldn't really affect new airplanes with better shielded equipment, but everyone seems to air on the side of caution, and agrees that it's better to keep the rule instead of getting rid of it. The old "better safe than sorry" line of thinking. I don't really have a problem with it. This specific rule is regulated by the FAA. Like I said, there is some evidence that it could interfere. NASA lets pilots report problems on board aircraft anonymously, and keeps a big database of flight issues. There have been around 50 instances where PEDs were involved (or at least the crew thought it was the reason). They're generally all related to having instruments being off, and then getting corrected when the crew found & had people turn off PEDs. It seems like it would be easy to do a study with this (turn on a bunch of PEDs, see if it messes up the controls during takeoff and landing), so I'm not sure why there isn't any conclusive evidence one way or the other. 2.) The "no cell phones" rule: This rule is an FCC rule, not an FAA rule. This one has to do with the way cell phones connect to cell towers. Cell phones talk to the closest tower over a channel specific to that individual cell phone. The same channel on another tower will be used for a different cell phone. When planes are up in the air, there will be times when multiple cell towers are equidistant to the phone, and the phone will connect to all of them over the same channel. This can cause interference with current calls on the ground, and start to fill up channels on cell towers (150+ people on a plane, all connected to 5 different cell towers at the same time, for example). Pretty soon Airlines might have the option of installing a microcell ont he plane, which mobile phones on the plane would connect to, allowing cell use while avoiding the multiple tower problem.

Seriously? I'm sure Nix gave his opinion on Edwards as a DC, but Chan's the hiring manager and should have final say. With the Lions, at least, they pretty much publicly stated they were looking for Best at the start of the draft. He was the back that they felt best fit their system.

Math? Did you not get that? Read it again?

That's what the math says to do.

5 yes. And you're making the assumption that all linebackers will be focusing on stopping the run. On any given play, some LBs will drop into coverage, some may be blitzing away from the runner, etc.

Someone had to start Coca Cola!

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Poz can't cover, though, which means he's NOT a good MLB for a tampa-2 style 4-3.

Are you saying Mexicans aren't wealthy?

That seems as petty as the PA announcer complaint. Damn him for being proud of his first 1,000 yard season, and wanting to let his friends/family know about it! Seriously though, everyone needs recognition for a job well done with their hard work, and people need it from different places. If he wants that recognition from his facebook fans, so be it. He deserves it. He's put in hard work, tried hard, and achieved something that no one did on the Bills last year. There's no reason why he shouldn't be allowed to celebrate that.

I find the argument that the NFL did this because they are pansies or because they don't want teams playing in the snow ridiculous. The mayor said early Sunday morning he was declaring a state of emergency at 2PM due to the storm. This would have effectively shut down the city, and they were anticipating major road closures and problems. The NFL's only real choice at this point was to delay the game. Stadiums take a lot of time to prep, and workers would have been arriving right around that time, not to mention some tailgaters starting to arrive as well.

Right, because moving a Sunday Night game to Tuesday Night will do wonders for television ratings.

Why? Does that one game invalidate the rest of the season?

You have a problem with the PA announcer congratulating a player on a season's worth of work based on the score of only one of those 15 games?