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  1. mothershipconnection
    I think what is going on is that MLB is threatening to pull the franchise from the current ownership, which would kill the value of the Rangers for any auction. MLB could then potentially re-issue the franchise to whatever owners group they want, including putting in the same location. There's no way they let DFW go without a team, so this is the only thing I could see happening. Next, they need to require the new owners to put a roof on the stadium so locals will actually go to the games.
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    Buy a Haynes/Chilton manual for your car. They'll help you with plenty of repairs. DO NOT take your car to Midas, or most places that run specials on pads and rotor turning, as they're scammers who'll tell you that you need a ton of unnecessary repairs.
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    The McCarthy/Andrew Wakefield nonsense has had very damaging effects on public health, as it has not only prevented children from getting life-preserving vaccines, but will seriously damage the credibility of the next group who finds a real link between something common and a dangerous side-effect. Those idiots cried wolf when there wasn't even a Dachshund to be found.
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    it's threads like these that make me appreciate living in AZ more and more. Yeah, we have to bear temperatures resembling those on planet Mercury, but at least I'm not full of itchy red welts! The great thing about north Texas is that we get the pleasure of both. I was so sweaty mowing the lawn today that I had to reassure myself that I had not peed my pants, maybe the DEET running into my eyes clouded my thinking.
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    Uncharted 2 is awesome. It's the first game I bought on the release date in a long time, and was happy with my allocation of $60. The multiplayer is really only good if you have a friend to play co-op with. If you match with strangers, they just care about points and it sucks the "co-op" right out of it. I played with my friend and his brother, and it was a lot of fun under those conditions. Recently, I got Bioshock 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and Arkham Asylum for $18 each off gamefly. Bioshock 2 was pretty good, Assassin's Creed 2 is awesome, and I hope to get to Batman in a few weeks. I'm as excited for Fallout: New Vegas as the average female freshman was for the new Twilight.
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    Earl "The Goat" Manigault would be my answer/guess That was who I thought of when I got interested in that question, and Lloyd Daniels as well.
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    Mandarin or Japanese a long shot. I'm afraid I would find the eastern languages a little more difficult to learn and would lose interest. For me, Spanish was easier than Japanese, plus you can already read it. I knew how illiterate people feel when I was in Japan and had no idea what 90% of signs said. Japanese is pretty nice and logical, though, without so many weird conditional rules that we have. In most parts of the country, you'll have the most opportunities to hear and practice Spanish, which is very important. Were it not for the lady friend, I never even would've attempted Japanese, as there'd be no use for it, which means no real practice, which means no retention.
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    That's actually a cool hypothetical question. I like "who's the greatest (in a given sport) to have had his career derailed by injury, and how great would he have been without getting hurt?" also, "who's the greatest athlete who never played due to personal problems, incarceration, or just not getting a shot and how great would he have been without those problems?".
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    I've moved across the country for my last two jobs, and always put my current address on my vita. They both did phone interviews before flying me in for a face-to-face. My being out of state was not an issue at all. If you're looking at professional jobs, you should have no problem. Now, if you're looking for an unskilled part-time, hold-you-over-for-now job, being far away may hurt you because there will be a bunch of locals that are probably qualified.
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    "The King of Wishful Thinking" - Go West
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    isn't there insurance for the cost of rescues? If there isn't there should be. The problem would be making sure it's globally accepted and paid by everyone. If it could work, it'd make much more sense for those taking the risk to be insured than citizens of other countries having to pay for them.
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    I disagree with the movies available for streaming on Netflix, they keep adding titles every day and its now my preferred way to watch movies. I rarely watch the discs I rent, and instead stream them whenever possible. Selection is good, but how's your picture quality? Maybe this is a function of internet speed, but my quality is never even up to that of a standard DVD. Thus, I pretty much just use it for documentaries and things where visuals are not of great importance.
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    I have no advice for you once you're there, but will tell you that S.F. is a fantastic baseball destination. I've been to PacBell a couple of times and it's probably my favorite stadium.
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    Fielder and Weeks' first career homers vs. Minnesota. Ryan Braun's first career homer in San Diego. Cecil Fielder jacking one into the parking lot at County Stadium. Gorman Thomas hitting on my mom during an autograph signing event in Eau Claire.
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    Goes to show you once again that some people who've made a lot of money (McCourt) are still gullible idiots. Also, Soviet "scientists" were often a bunch of hacks (e.g., Lysenkoism and banning genetics by labeling it "bourgeois" fakery) whose main job was to make it look like the Soviets were smart by making claims nobody could replicate, often because they wouldn't disclose methods, which is obviously not how science works.
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    Briggs, you're making an awful lot of inferences from "a good hitter did the right thing in an important situation". I'd care more about the probability that he gets hits, hits for power, and still does the same thing in close and late situations than what I think he's thinking.
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    I, for one, would be honored to be a Ham Fighter.
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    Word on the street here is that they have their eyes on Pierzynski.
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    but next I think I'll try to read some Daniel Dennete Dennet, too, goes a bit beyond his facts with accounts of human behavior. Read Skinner's About Behaviorism first, as he had data and facts rather than introspection.
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    I got 11, but guessed right a few times and missed ones I felt stupid for when I re-watched.
  21. mothershipconnection
    Have you tried zamzar.com? It's free online file conversion.
  22. mothershipconnection
    Also, if your unit's old, it may be a good time to replace it. I had a new, more efficient one popped in for $600 last summer and now I don't ever have to worry about it again because I'm gonna move later this year. Plus I save maybe 5 or so bucks a month on gas.
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    The End of Faith - Sam Harris. Starts out strong, but fades. Fixates on over generalizations in attempting to make points that could be explained better. Starts strong but fades into crap. We'll leave the rest to the politics forum, but Harris needed to stick with his main topic, as he has the pseudo-scientific understanding of human behavior characteristic of pop psych readers. It really chaps my buns when members of the "skeptical movement" embrace the same clunky unfalsifiable accounts of human behavior you'd expect from an Oprah enthusiast.
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    I doubt it has anything to do with getting sick. It certainly doesn't create viruses. Perhaps it could dry mucosa, which may elevate your chances of a sinus infection or some other "cold-like" symptoms (sore throat, etc).
  25. mothershipconnection
    Actually, I understood his point- even though he did a horrific job of explaining it. His point was that even a small market team can sign a big contract. And used Mauer as an example. If he could have made it that clear from the beginning, maybe they could have had a reasonable discussion about it. It makes a lot of sense if phrased right, but he phrased it as poorly as a native English speaker could possibly muster. He framed the whole argument as "big and small market". Like Peavey notes, that's a quantifiable thing, and isn't real debatable. What he really meant to say was "low revenue teams often whine and complain about how they're absolutely crippled by the situation, and use it as an excuse for a pitiful payroll, but 2 years later will sign a guy to a mega deal. Teams with decent revenue streams can't claim poverty simply because they aren't the Yankees. Either you're crippled by your lack of revenue, or you're actually able to compete with 26/30 teams for free agents, just not the top spenders".
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