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Oops... FBOMB
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2017-27th
2017-3rd round
2018-first round
in exchange for this years 10th overall.
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Chiefs will take Watson.
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from 27th to 10th is a big move... we better get a couple number ones and number twos for this.
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Lattimer or Hooker for sure.
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Looks like we will need to fine another Williams.
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they killed a rabbit...
He was healthy before the flight, according to the rabbit's breeder.Suuuuuurrrrre he was. Wonder how big the insurance policy on that rabbit's life was.
Did the breeder resemble this guy?
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7.62 NATO at 200 yards with a decent optic wouldn't be a difficult shot for an experienced marksman. Recall there have been background nuggets that Mike had military experience.
I am a trained marksman. In a prone position at 100 yards using a match rifle and matching match ammo with a .22LR would be a challenge to hit a shoe but definitely doable.
Double that distance using a stock rifle and stock ammo you are nuts. Even with match grade ammo and rifle to hit an object that small taking into account wind and elevation changes is very difficult.
Also, I thought his shooting the rifle into the air and not seeing any recoil was just awful to watch. Just the concussion of the round going off would kick up dust around him.
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Hawaii in May
USA Shooting National Championship (Fort Benning GA) in June
Freshman move in at Ohio State in August
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Bigguth Dickuth!
What's so funny about Bigguth Dickuth?
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Well then.
Please tell me you understand the concept of inflation and that it's different from market fluctuations.
No... I understand inflation. Do you understand the laws of supply and demand and how inducing labor price controls on businesses contribute to inflation?
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I agree that it's no silver bullet, but many of 'the costs' we bear today are either inflated or depressed by factors other than their cost of production and I'm assuming would be considered artificial by your definition.
The cost of everything going up in time is an inevitability. Raising the hourly minimum is simply a brute force way of ensuring wages increase somewhat concurrently.
That is absolutely not true. The price of gas was once $4 per gallon. Now its just above $2. Its all about supply and demand and the cost of producing the product.
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It's true about some business and their margins. I'm a small business owner myself, and we pay about 10-15% above prevailing wage on average. It's not quite the killer you're making it out to be, in fact I think our worker retention and overall production speaks to the benefits of raising wages.
Remember that not ALL business hire at the minimum pay scale. It wouldn't increase the cost of living across the board, only in certain areas.
It artificially increases the costs. The costs of everything in turn will go up over time. It doesn't work.
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A higher minimum wage doesn't automatically mean everything else rises in price accordingly as to make the wage increase redundant. In the short term, it's a good growth stimulator as people are taking home more in paychecks and their spending power is increased. Some business will increase their prices to adjust for the added labor expense, but not nearly enough to nullify the wage increase completely as has been posited here.
Businesses often operate an a razor thin margin in order to stay competitive. What you will get is layoffs, fewer hours for remaining employees and increased prices. And im some cases businesses will just leave or close for good.
Federal minimum wage is a small business killer.
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I had it when I was a kid. Made a sandwich out of it.... thinly sliced with some mustard. Very good.
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Lets say you increase wages for the lowest earning employees from $10 to $15.
Lets look at a Mcdonalds restaurant:
Now, the team leaders who were making $14 per hour are making less... to even that out they need to increase them to $18 per hour. Now the shift supervisor earning $16 per hour are making less... they need to increase their wages to $20 per hour. Then the Assistant manager making $18 per hour are underpaid... they need to be increased to $22 per hour. The Manager who was making $20 per hour needs to be increased to $24.
So if there are 12 employes earning minimum, 4 team leaders, 3 supervisors, and one assistant and 1 manager before the rate increase the 40 hour workweek payroll was 10,480. After the increase the payroll is now 15,920.
McDonalds will have to cut expenses or increase prices.
The same theory is applied to every single business model. As prices are inevitably increased so are living expenses like food, utilities and rent.
Increasing the minimum wage without thought to the true cost and skill required to perform a job is idiotic.
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Thus is a very strange metric and incredibly short-sighted post. I will explain in further detail when I have more time.
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couples are happily married with a piece of ass daughter, all gays are flamboyant dramatic retards, old man marry young immigrants to get some and that network television is funny
I only watch the show for this...
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Dance Moms.
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If Tom Brady were drafted in 1984, in a different era, where QB's weren't coddled, there is no way in hell that Brady would be in the shape, 16-17 years into his career that he is today. His body would have broken down at least some and he wouldn't be the player he is right now.
Joe Montana was 4-0 in Super Bowls and won 4 in 9 years. If he wasn't injured in the 1990 NFC Championship game against the 49ers, he probably would have been 5-0 with 5 in 10 years.
I know people were in a hurry to anoint Brady after the last Super Bowl, but if you take a step back and really look at the thing, there are QB's who have been just as impressive if not more with respect to their era. What would Dan Marino's career have looked like if he was drafted into the NFL in the year 2000?
Tom Brady is definitely one of the greatest QB's of all-time and the best of his era, but as far as I am concerned what Montana did in the era he played in was more impressive.
Looking back at the drafting of quarterbacks before and after 2000 where Brady was taken... how many are still starters the league:
1999: NAME POS SCHOOL ROUND PK(OVR) TEAM Tim Couch QB Kentucky 1 1(1) Cleveland Donovan McNabb QB Syracuse 1 2(2) Philadelphia Akili Smith QB Oregon 1 3(3) Cincinnati Daunte Culpepper QB UCF 1 11(11) Minnesota Cade McNown QB UCLA 1 12(12) Chicago Shaun King QB Tulane 2 19(50) Tampa Bay Brock Huard QB Washington 3 16(77) Seattle Joe Germaine QB Ohio State 4 6(101) Los Angeles Aaron Brooks QB Virginia 4 36(131) Green Bay Kevin Daft QB UC Davis 5 18(151) Tennessee 2000: NAME POS SCHOOL ROUND PK(OVR) TEAM Chad Pennington QB Marshall 1 18(18) NY Jets Giovanni Carmazzi QB Hofstra 3 3(65) San Francisco Chris Redman QB Louisville 3 13(75) Baltimore Tee Martin QB Tennessee 5 34(163) Pittsburgh Marc Bulger QB West Virginia 6 2(168) New Orleans Spergon Wynn QB Texas State University 6 17(183) Cleveland Tom Brady QB Michigan 6 33(199) New England 2001: NAME POS SCHOOL ROUND PK(OVR) TEAM Michael Vick QB Virginia Tech 1 1(1) Atlanta Drew Brees QB Purdue 2 1(32) Los Angeles Quincy Carter QB Georgia 2 22(53) Dallas Marques Tuiasosopo QB Washington 2 28(59) Oakland Chris Weinke QB Florida State 4 11(106) Carolina Sage Rosenfels QB Iowa State 4 14(109) Washington Jesse Palmer QB Florida 4 30(125) NY Giants Mike McMahon QB Rutgers 5 18(149) Detroit A.J. Feeley QB Oregon 5 24(155) Philadelphia Josh Booty QB LSU 6 9(172) Seattle
Other than Brees there are none.
So to say that his longevity is because of the rules about quarterbacks is false.
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Good way to get shot by a concealed carry permit holder.
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White guilt?