Roundup: Watch a Cab Driver Run Over Someone in Montreal, Gus Johnson Loves Soccer & a Horrible Crash in a Bike Race
Eva Longoria … Craig Sager talks suits … this winner put a Field of Dreams tattoo on his back … “My Son Went to Heaven, and All I Got Was a No. 1 Best Seller” … people can’t stop talking about the show Girls … well, that’s an interesting bathing suit … the Avengers is already breaking box office records … come on, admit it – you laugh at the outfits this desperate girl wears … “Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft” … it’s all about the F-word … “Homophobic? Maybe you’re gay” …
Gus Johnson loves announcing soccer games. [The Goalkeeper]
Angels fans love them some Snack Bomb Nachos. [OC Register]
Washington Capitals beat the New York Rangers 3-2, but why isn’t Ovechkin playing that much? [Post]
Good read on one of the quiet voices in the Patriots war room – Jason Licht, a former Nebraska Cornhuskers football player. [World-Herald]
Really good profile on Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau. [NYT]
LA Kings take 2-0 lead over St. Louis and now head back to the left coast to finish the series. [LA Daily News]
Justin Morneau is going to have doctors take a look at his surgically-repaired wrist. [Star Trib]
A look back at how the 2009 high school football class fared at the NFL draft. [Bruce Feldman]
I got more out of David Aldridge’s NBA draft nuggets than Chad Ford at ESPN. [NBA.com]
He’s 65 and famous, she’s 19. [Bozeman Magpie]
Where did all of Leon Searcy’s money go? He made a lot in the NFL. [Post Gazette]
Paul Silas has been booted as head coach of the Bobcats. Who wants this job? [Observer]
“An attorney was in the Cobb jail Friday, the very place he is accused of trading drugs and legal services for sexual favors from inmates.” [Marietta Daily Journal]
California man sues BMW for persistent erection. [CBS]
The cab driver from this video (it gets wild at 1:20) has been charged. If you’re wondering what happened to the guy that got run over … watch this video (WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC).
Damn. [via Jimmy Traina]
This guy survived, was booted from the concert, went to the hospital, then tried to get back into the concert. [via Telegraph]
Perhaps the best TV newscast photobomb ever. [via @JimmyTraina]
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May 1st, 2012 at 8:06 AM
That dog is awesome.
I don’t want to watch the Canadian taxi vid – I assume someone is getting crushed?
May 1st, 2012 at 8:09 AM
I’m more interested in the debate about what should – if anything – happen to the taxi driver.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:09 AM
Its Canada day here at TBL with all these Canadian clips…first the taxi driver in MTL, and then the dog on Global. Good stuff.
As for the guy who got run over, apparently he is extremely disfigured (no shit) due to the incident, but still alive. That was brutal…but I think the cab driver was just trying to GTFO and panicked.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:09 AM
Makes sense to me. I’m pretty homophobic.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:09 AM
I hope that cabbie doesn’t get in trouble. It’s too bad he didn’t get more of them
May 1st, 2012 at 8:11 AM
Because Dale Hunter doesn’t trust him when they have a lead. I think Ovie should demand a trade to the Wings. Great game last night between Caps/Rags. Kings/Blues was highly entertaining despite the 3 goal differential. Awesome physical play throughout. TJ Oshie blew up the pancake addict.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:13 AM
if you click the second video (not embedded, linked) you can see for yourself
May 1st, 2012 at 8:15 AM
I told you guys to get out of there! I told you guys to get out of there! I gotta find my Penny!
May 1st, 2012 at 8:17 AM
I’m more interested in the debate about what should – if anything – happen to the taxi driver.
I read the story first to make sure I wasn’t about to watch someone get crushed to death. Back and forth on how I feel, it seems like when he first pulled through he could have left but then turned around to go I’m assuming the direction he wanted to end up going (if he just leaves he can turn around somewhere else to get where he wants). Hard for me to call it a hit-and-run though when people are beating your car and if you do get out 7 people are probably going to beat you to death.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:17 AM
That was awesome!
May 1st, 2012 at 8:19 AM
“Homophobic? Maybe you’re gay” … (or bi)
Kanye.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:19 AM
What a load of crap, I cant believe how people have turned him into the LeBron of the NHL. Dude is awesome, that wrister last night was a rocket. Go Caps.
Space video was great, a tad better than human suffering.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:20 AM
What? No ‘Dark Knight Rises’ trailer, TBL?
/picking nits
//JGL, FTMFW
May 1st, 2012 at 8:20 AM
Do not dick around with moving motor vehicles.
If crazy is behind the wheel you can get killed.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:21 AM
When’s the Ryan Braun post going up?
May 1st, 2012 at 8:21 AM
Eva Longoria
She’s one of the few celebreties I’d like to see dress sluttier and dirtier. I’m assuming she’s a psycho but obviously that is not a concern.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:21 AM
Ha!
May 1st, 2012 at 8:23 AM
From the Feldman article:
I doubt anyone would’ve predicted a few years ago that Florida, the BCS champs in 2009, would not have had a player selected in the first 113 picks or only have two guys taken in the entire draft.
Yep. Win a title and that next wave of guys are a bunch of entitlement babies. Same shit happened with the 2004 tOSU recruits.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Didn’t we talk about this yesterday? Hard to come down hard on the cabbie when a mob is attacking you from all sides.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:25 AM
I want to know why the jackass was kicking and jumping up and down on the taxi. Seems fair to inflict $4,226 of human body damage in exchange for $4,226 of auto body damage.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:25 AM
that second cab driver video is fucked.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:26 AM
Time to die.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Shit I’ll take one. That’s the best trailer yet.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:27 AM
I find his toupee more disgusting.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:32 AM
come on, admit it – you laugh at the outfits this desperate girl wears …
is that a tank top or a dress?
May 1st, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Yeah, I don’t buy that Ovi = Lebron shit either, and of the reasons why is that the playoffs for each sport are totally different animals. You can chop it down to 4 or 5 teams to win it all for the NBA, but hockey is a fucking royal rumble. No one is safe in any round. Plus you need more than 2 great players to win it all in hockey, unlike bball.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:39 AM
OK I almost went #3 on that new Batman trailer.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:39 AM
The answer is yes.
Cab driver had other opportunities to leave before it became a gang up on the driver. Yes he should face criminal charges and yes those assholes should face charges of their own for whatever charges that can bee brought up. Nothing good happens late at night with a bunch of drunk idiots.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:40 AM
I swear this is the 3rd time Ive seen this in a roundup
May 1st, 2012 at 8:41 AM
Jimmy Traina needs to get with it. that’s at least the 3rd time that video has been on here.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:41 AM
It looks fucking fantastic. I was a little lukewarm after the second trailer(although the prequel on MI:4 was astonishing in IMAX) but this one went all grimy and fatalistic on me. Even that plane thing looks great.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Why were those people upse with the cabbie in the first place?
May 1st, 2012 at 8:47 AM
/beats head on desk
May 1st, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Dark Knight Rises…… Sounds like an epic heist movie
May 1st, 2012 at 8:49 AM
Shit I’ll take one. That’s the best trailer yet.
Check 1:33 in the trailer. That ain’t who you think it is.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:49 AM
no mobile site.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:49 AM
Great Leon Searcy article. Here’s where the money went:
2 divorces
3 Kids
Condo in Miami for $865,000. Foreclosed
house in Clermont Fla for $399,900.
house in Baltimore for $870,000 Foreclosed
Bunch of Cars
Owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal and state tax liens.
Need a speaker at the rookie symposium saying wear a condom, do not get married until after you are retired, rent instead of buying until you signed your final contract, buy modestly, find a trusted accountant and listen to them.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:51 AM
eva longoria is incredibly overrated.
/typical disclaimers
May 1st, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Michael Stuart Winner, 45, was arrested around 3 p.m.
Great name for a lawyer although he isn’t a winner here.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Didnt notice that at first but you might be right.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Supposedly he had kicked them out of his cab earlier for being rowdy. Anyone know if this could be self-defence?
May 1st, 2012 at 8:56 AM
people can’t stop talking about the show Girls
about how it’s not good? This chick understands how to portray painful, but not funny. And the joke continues to be on me, as they show the main girl in various states of undress, in very non-flattering poses (although this chick has no good side, or good angles), and when Brian William’s daughter finally rubs one out, all I get is her digging into her pantyhose for two seconds, and a jump cut back to uggo.
P.S. I”m through watching online horror videos. I’m passing on clicking some guy getting run over from multiple angles, and I’m no longer watching people beat people up.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:57 AM
When’s the Ryan Braun post going up?
I laughed.
no mobile site.
Whenever you’re free J-Mac..
May 1st, 2012 at 8:58 AM
I’m passing on clicking some guy getting run over from multiple angles, and I’m no longer watching people beat people up
Is this your resignation letter from the Roundup?
May 1st, 2012 at 8:59 AM
The pilot was full of hipster awful, but the last two eps were much better (minus the ridiculous NY art part and the Lonely Island midget ripping off terrible lines like he’s some player). It’s certainly watchable, even if its a weak closer to what’s becomes a nice two hour block.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Who is it?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:01 AM
All. Of. This. x 1000.
I have absolutely no pity for the fool who pisses away his money.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Pretty sure its JGL. Fits with what the narrative is speculated to be…although I wonder why they’d include that shot in the trailer.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Robin.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Danny Devito. The Penguin is back.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Is this your resignation letter from the Roundup?
at least from this lunch bucket’s fascination with maiming. When CoRM throws up a cat video, I’m totally down for that.
No need for me to click that dog news thing, since my grandmother sent it to me a month ago, it’s been around so long.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:02 AM
I saw the first two episodes of “Girls” over the weekend and while it was entertaining, I can’t really say that I like any of the characters because they all seem to represent some sort of cliche or stereotype.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Fake Batman
May 1st, 2012 at 9:02 AM
but why isn’t Ovechkin playing that much?
Because Dale Hunter is stuck 20 years in the past.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Speaking of not good, did you watch The Killing this week? Really weird fucking scene with Mitch and that homeless girl in the bed.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:03 AM
You guessed it: Frank Stallone.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:03 AM
how can a homeless girl have a bed? like, is it just a bed sitting outside or something?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Htown, I assume you have heard of Hudson Taylor? His non-profit is doing some good stuff.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:04 AM
People still watch this? Did they catch the killer yet?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Speaking of not good, did you watch The Killing this week? Really weird fucking scene with Mitch and that homeless girl in the bed.
That storyline is annoying me and feels like something they invented to string out 45 minutes of a show.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Speaking of not good, did you watch The Killing this week? Really weird fucking scene with Mitch and that homeless girl in the bed.
it wasn’t weird. She thought Mitch wanted to fuck for money, and she ended up taking her payment just the same when she realized that Mitch wanted to absorb her as a replacement.
I read something somewhere about how on regular cops shows, the cops have to be made to be super smart, because the solve crazy homicides in an hour, and the sourpuss and the guy who doesn’t realize he’s white have to be made so dumb, because it needs to take them 26 hours to get to the bottom of this.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:07 AM
That cab driver had multiple opportunities to drive away. Absolutely he should be charged.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:08 AM
When CoRM throws up a cat video, I’m totally down for that.
I hear ya, not the ideal way to start a morning with 2-4 videos of some combination of wrecks/accidents, someone getting sucker punched/robbed, or just videos when it seems like someone should be dead. But I will always watch videos of restaurant fights at 3 am.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Just remembered that I am a week behind on the Killing, so now I know that Mitch and the homeless girl storyline is still going.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:09 AM
People still watch this? Did they catch the killer yet?
yes because no.
And also because a guy who got shot 6 days ago and became paralyzed is already well enough to try and be the mayor again. It’s also only 18 days since he tried and failed to suicide, in the middle of his mayoral campaign.
And he was being framed for murder by the current mayor in a huge, huge conspiracy that goes right to the top and infiltrates every level of state and local government, including but not limited to the sovereign nation of some imaginary Indians, and some guy who smokes cigarrettes while wearing gloves.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:09 AM
They’ve had this for years now. Obviously you can’t fix stupid over a 2 hour seminar.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Just remembered that I am a week behind on the Killing, so now I know that Mitch and the homeless girl storyline is still going.
you want me to spoiler alert this piece of shit show?
SPOILER ALERT, you will waste an hour watching it, if you watch it.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:10 AM
I have absolutely no pity for the fool who pisses away his money.
Back when I used to live/work in NOLA and covered Saints training camp, I had a nice convo with Mike Karney on the subject. I’ll stop and give myself a “/Wilbon’d” and “/humblebrag’d” right now. Anyway, he was talking about how he tells all the rookies and young guys he meets on teams to save their money, be smart, don’t blow it on cars and crap like that. Made me have a greater respect for him off the field.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:10 AM
But we only get to see that clown Herman Edwards say “Don’t press send”
May 1st, 2012 at 9:10 AM
I got this theory, before she robbed Mitch, that this was actually a long lost daughter of Mitch from her whoring around days and that she actually went to this place to look for her. I dont know now though.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:11 AM
wait wait wait wait wait. At 2:03, Batman has a gun?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Then he shook his head as they did exactly the opposite.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Shamefully, I’d never heard of him until you mentioned him. I live in suburbia, with really no gay friends, so I’m often ill-informed.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Are you her agent or some shit like that? Why do you keep linking to posts about her?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:12 AM
that was strange.
i admit, i’ve got this show on in the background now. I’m interested in the conspiracy storyline, but everything else it pretty boring.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:12 AM
And what lame fucking parents name their daughters Terry and Mitch? Those are the names of male truck drivers.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Just a warning, Fox Sports is setting Gus up to ruin future CL and World Cup games.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:15 AM
They should over sperm banking and vasectomies at the rookie symposium and the union should try to that in the medical provisions of the contract.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Carmen San Diego?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:16 AM
USA is now going to pay Russia to ferry people to International Space Station. Anyone else feel bothered by the fact that NASA’s funding got cut so severely?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:16 AM
I got this theory, before she robbed Mitch, that this was actually a long lost daughter of Mitch from her whoring around days and that she actually went to this place to look for her. I dont know now though.
you are way off. this is just a random, and some exposition, drawn out for a very long time
May 1st, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Bain should be bigger IMO
May 1st, 2012 at 9:18 AM
He should be in jail.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Good backstory is here. I follow Athlete Ally on FB so I get occasional updates.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Nah, Lou Nanne
/nods at Minnesota folk
May 1st, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Anyone else feel bothered by the fact that NASA’s funding got cut so severely?
as lon as we’re still sending half a trillion dollars to Uzbeki-beki-beki-stan-stan, I could give a fuck about space stations
May 1st, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Yep, 2018 WC lead announcer will be Gus Johnson with Piers Morgan providing color. Victoria Beckham will be the sideline reporter covering “the glitz and glamour of Russia”.
What a disaster this is shaping up to be. Fox Sports couldn’t have lower expectations from soccer fans even if they tried.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:19 AM
if private space companies weren’t already out pacing federal space agencies in terms of commercial travel into space i’d be really bothered.
then again if we can’t get the politicians to agree on funding for healthcare there’s no way they can agree on space exploration. which is sad on so many levels.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Ok guys, I saw GOT last night, so I’m ready to talk about it now.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:20 AM
They’ll have 8-10 guys drafted next year. UGA might see all 11 starters on defense get drafted while South Carolina will have one of the top RBs in the draft. Same thing with FSU. They will have a shit load of players taken from their defense, and some idiot GM will undoubtedly take EJ Manuel in the first 2 rounds. It’s a bit cyclical.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:22 AM
/Both sides of the coin’d
May 1st, 2012 at 9:22 AM
what’s the stat? we spend half a cent per every tax dollar on the space program? or it’s like 8% of the cost of the wars?
something like that. regardless…SPACE! we should totally do more with it and shit.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Not sure if I entirely agree, but one point I heard this morning is the space program always fueled children’s interest in science, and according to this guy I heard, cuts in NASA funding have a direct correlation to decreased science scores.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:23 AM
/team suburban heauxmeauxphobe
May 1st, 2012 at 9:23 AM
That Thibodeau profile is excellent. Really enjoyed it.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:23 AM
but why isn’t Ovechkin playing that much?
Because Dale Hunter is stuck 20 years in the past
as long as they’re winning, i don’t care.
i’ve always respected Ovi’s game, but think Backstrom and Semin are just as crucial for Caps success.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:24 AM
who the hell is mike karney?
and can someone please describe the graphic vid? i will wait to drop my pants
May 1st, 2012 at 9:25 AM
I hope you’re right. James Cameron (yes, that one) is apparently planning to send some rockets to mine an asteroid.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:25 AM
And why should HTown know this guy? Just because he’s gay?
Oh Hello American Joe, which way to hamburger/hot dog stand!
/Hyena’d
May 1st, 2012 at 9:25 AM
got some travel coming up… any non-fiction book recommendations?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:25 AM
The average shuttle launch costs $450 million. If they just need to get materials up there, fine. Outsource that shit. I’d rather see the savings diverted into science and education funding though.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:25 AM
that and the gov’t used to provide specific funding and grants for education in science and engineering fields around the time NASA was huge, right?
even if we sent people to mars, the moons of jupiter, and set up a wild wild west type colony on the moon most coverage on the news would be about the kardashians, beyonce and jay z and tim tebow.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Wayne: “Kill me”
Bane: “No, your punishment must be more severe!”
Goosebumps. So stoked.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:26 AM
come on, admit it – you laugh at the outfits this desperate girl wears …
TBL is the only person posting this chick anymore. Quite odd the fascination he has with her.
Just a warning, Fox Sports is setting Gus up to ruin future CL and World Cup games.
Fine with me. He is off college hoops.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:27 AM
kaiser – what was the name of the hole-in-the-wall Italian joint you told me about in New Brunswick?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:27 AM
i really hope he names the company Weyland-Yutani Corp.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:28 AM
All of this. The worst part will be listening to idiots say how good he is. “But he’s so exciting!!”
Too late.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:28 AM
I need some help. I am getting ready to get Direct TV, but not sure how I should go about it. Do I go ahead and order it, get the install and stuff all set-up, then call Cox and tell them to get fucked? or do I call Cox and tell them I am switching and wait and see if they offer me a deal (they won’t), then call Direct TV and get it set up?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:28 AM
But one side of the coin almost killed a man and the other didn’t.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:29 AM
illformula, preferences? history, sports, ?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:29 AM
We should leave it alone, the more we do with things, the more we ruin them.
Well, because he is gay AND likes sports.
/it’s gitchy
May 1st, 2012 at 9:29 AM
got some travel coming up… any non-fiction book recommendations?
Last Call. Really good.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:29 AM
I just hate to see funding cut for math and science related industries. Let’s just hope private companies fill in the void.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Sounds like a reach.
I agree that privatizing space travel is a smart thing – the drive toward patents that can turn a profit and all that.
I’d be interested in more ocean-based research.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Some recent releases I assume?
Confidence Men by Ron Suskind
Thinking Fast and Slow by
Moonwalking with Einstein by Josh Foer
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
What It is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
May 1st, 2012 at 9:32 AM
hm. good question… I don’t think i’ve been to any in NB, but let me think about it.
I’ve been to, and recommend: old man rafferty’s, harvest moon, george street ale house, Clydez, the frog and the peach, and stuff yer face (which is stromboli’s and requires at least two doses of alka seltzer for me)
May 1st, 2012 at 9:32 AM
illformula, preferences? history, sports, ?
history over sports, for sure.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:32 AM
I’m currently working on this. heavy, but really good stuff.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:32 AM
I’m always amazed at how little we know about our own planet. Not saying we should cut NASA funding, because I don’t think we should, but I actually like that James Cameron is so into exploring the depths of the oceans.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:32 AM
As for the space thing, you guys would be amazed the number of utterly non space-related discoveries made by NASA in pursuit of other goals. I’d hate to see that disappear.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:32 AM
So, TBL has gone from posting “Courtney Stodden” to “desperate girl,” yet still posts her trashy ass on a regular basis.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Yeah. What explains the decrease in verbal and math skills?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:33 AM
as long as they’re winning, i don’t care.
Fair enough. You may care if Hunter earns a multi-year extension though.
i’ve always respected Ovi’s game, but think Backstrom and Semin are just as crucial for Caps success.
Jay Beagle played more minutes than Backstrom (Caps best player imo), Ovechkin and Semin. Caps winning in spite of Hunter.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:34 AM
And what explains the increase in tattoos like this?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Oh, and ill — add Inferno by Max Hastings to that list. Long read but one of the best single-volume WWII tomes around. The Storm of War is quite good/new if you’re into that sort of thing.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:34 AM
facebook and texting.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Shit happens when you party naked or when you jump up and down on moving vehicles.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:35 AM
So, TBL has gone from posting “Courtney Stodden” to “desperate girl,” yet still posts her trashy ass on a regular basis.
I think even the Daily Mail has quit that scuzzard
May 1st, 2012 at 9:35 AM
got some travel coming up… any non-fiction book recommendations?
Unbroken
Garden of Beasts
1776
The Great Bridge
Devil in the White City
Born to Run
In cold blood
These all were ones I liked in the past couple years.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:36 AM
If I stay closer to Somerville & Piscataway it won’t hurt my feelings. We’re staying in Somerville.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Well said.
TBL is just fighting the good fight I guess.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:38 AM
If you haven’t, check out “Planet Earth: Ocean Deep”. Hell, check out the whole series. Such a great show.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Give them every chance to keep your business. You never know what they can pull out on a given week. We were going to cancel DirecTV and go to U-Verse. Told DTV I was going to cancel, now we’re paying about $30 less a month. If you’re ready to take the conversation to the brink, you can usually get something.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:40 AM
A one-man effort at keeping Lost alive
May 1st, 2012 at 9:40 AM
illformula I’ll defer to a few of the other items on here. I tend to get really into a topic and beat it to death so my range is narrow compared to a few of the more prolific readers here.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Reality TV.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Yeah this … some off the wall stuff like kitchen appliances, clothing and automobile gadgets. Of course, the whole push to lighter weight electronics was heavily influenced.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Dumb ass parents.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:41 AM
x1000 One of the best books I have read
May 1st, 2012 at 9:42 AM
The prequel with Bruce Willis was way better.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Always call your current provider and say you’re thinking of switching, then give the price of the plan you’re switching to (Take $10 off, if you want). Ask if they can beat that. If they can, stay with ‘em if not, tell them you’ll think it over, then immediately call DirectTV and schedule a hook up. The day of the install, call and cancel cable.
This way, you won’t miss any TV.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Because Dale Hunter is stuck in 1988 and trying to set coaching back that far.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:43 AM
there’s definitely a few good places in the area, if you want to get some good Cuban try Martino’s… the chef was on food network’s Chopped. really good food.
Also, if you like some BBQ, get the Grub Hut in Manville. maybe a 15 minute drive from Somerville. It’s BYO, but there’s nice liquor stores on the way.
as far as italian, i can’t really remember any hole in the wall places, but i feel like the name is on the tip of my tongue.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:43 AM
I’m currently working on this. heavy, but really good stuff.
funny, miz. i read 2/3 of that book in college. i’ll pass, thanks.
thanks for the recommendations, i’ll probably grab two of them later today. if they suck, i will let you know.
/joke
May 1st, 2012 at 9:45 AM
It’s a little older, but Manhunt by James Swanson (Slappy, Sammy, Swammy….) is a must-read. If you havent picked that one up yet, ill, make that your first one.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:45 AM
This x1000.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:47 AM
I see someone beat me to that one. Carry on. Go Caps.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:50 AM
I don’t think it’s that simple, actually. Sure, that has something to do with it, but I think diminishing the cuts we’ve made in the science sector as well as in grants to universities and schools has played a large role. But, we’ve prioritized a dip shit series of wars in the Middle East, 11 Air Craft Carriers when 6 would suffice and the farcical war on drugs over educating the masses. Makes perfect sense to those in Washington, though.
/sobs
May 1st, 2012 at 9:54 AM
i’m not one to put defense spending above all else, but i can’t argue against the ability to have well armed fleets in several oceans at once all across the globe.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:54 AM
what we learn from other planets influences what we know about our own.
cutting NASA’s budget is straight up ASININE. we have a limited time on earth, even moreso considering the proliferation of nuclear weapons that are shockingly easy to acquire. we need to do EVERYTHING we can in order to ensure the survival of the human race, something that should inherently trump any sort of political ambition.
considering our military budget is VASTLY larger and rife with budgetary redundancies, and considering the ultimate importance of NASA’s mission, it’s foolish to not support it more, let alone support it less.
if someone offered you a ton of apple stock at the company’s genesis for a dollar, with full knowledge of the incredible fortune you could make before hand, not a single person would not invest. that’s the exact situation NASA is in and yet we’re squeamish because of selfish political interests. it’s really sad.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:56 AM
I beleive 6 would be more than the rest of the world combined, no? China has the second most with 2 if my memory serves me.
Yeah…I think we’re good to go on that end.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Spencer,
I think you missed the part of my comment when I said I don’t think we should cut NASA spending.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:57 AM
If I stay closer to Somerville & Piscataway it won’t hurt my feelings. We’re staying in Somerville.
there’s definitely a few good places in the area, if you want to get some good Cuban try Martino’s… the chef was on food network’s Chopped. really good food.
Somerville is a 100 times nicer than Pissthataway.
Good call on Martino’s, kaiser. Maggiano’s near the Bridgewater Mall is not a bad place for Italian.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:57 AM
thanks for the help. I am so looking forward to telling Cox to stick it up there ass, I am secretly hoping that they don’t offer me a better deal so I can go off on someone.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:58 AM
we have 11 active aircraft carriers. the only reason other countries don’t have more is because they can’t and haven’t, not because they wouldn’t.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:58 AM
we need to do EVERYTHING we can in order to ensure the survival of the human race
Is this leading to moving millions of people into some sort of colony on another planet? It blows my mind to even fathom how that would work and the $ to do that.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:58 AM
i wasn’t responding to you…i was speaking generally. the only line that was in reference to your comment was the first line about other planets’ behavior teaching us more about earth’s.
May 1st, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Well said, Spencer. Also, wouldn’t a major advantage in space also carry multiple possible advantages in any war?
May 1st, 2012 at 9:59 AM
I get nervous that some new discovery is going to lead to someone trying to take the new discovery and turn it into a way of making money and destroy the planet in the process. But hey, fracking isn’t dangerous!
May 1st, 2012 at 9:59 AM
the problem is there’s no middle ground in the argument. you either are for rampant spending or strict austerity. because of that we aren’t talking about what needs funding and the future benefits of it, we’re talking about what needs budget cuts and what the immediate short term gains we get from it.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:00 AM
it’ll have to happen…we probably have less than a billion years of time left while the earth is still habitable and the sun isn’t expanding, and probably only 50,000 more years left of the current warm period due to the earth’s rotational axis…if we don’t start now, when will we?
considering the scope of the issue, 50k years aint much time to figure this shit out.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:01 AM
I think it’s more along the lines of NASA finding solutions to intractable problems like pollution, climate change, population growth, water/food scarcity. Might not necessarily be on another planet. But we need to find ways to preserve and improve our resources or else we’re going to be fucked — roughly, with no lube – in about 25-30 years.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:01 AM
absolutely…hell, it’s hard to have an intercontinental ballistic missile if you can’t figure out how to propel something into orbit.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:01 AM
The best part of the current turn to austerity in Europe is how terrible it’s going. Of course Mittens and Co will never agree to that.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Anyone else feel bothered by the fact that NASA’s funding got cut so severely?
Fuck that, man! Why go up there when we got problems down here??? ‘MERICA!!!! I mean, cause the $850 million NASA gets would TOTALLY solve all our shitty problems!!!
/wanking
If this country is too short-sighted and obtuse to see the benefits of increased space exploration, maybe the Chinese deserve to take the fuck over.
/does not want the Chinese to take the fuck over
//Neil deGrasse Tyson in ’16
May 1st, 2012 at 10:02 AM
YES.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:03 AM
50k years aint much time to figure this shit out.
?! 50k? It’s taken us less than 50 to have the technology we hav today, compared to past. Really think it would take that long? Where are you getting your facts? I thought facts/stats were dead.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:04 AM
that’s a good point, but with the rampant increase in Chinese defense spending in the past 10 years, and the likely increase in chinese defense spending in the next 10 years, we have to stay ahead of the curve.
the size of our navy in the current form is a direct result of learning from history in the past 100 years. we need aircraft carriers to maintain superiority in international waters, having the bare minimum with no room to spare should we lose some to battle (like china’s air craft carrier missle) would be devastating.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:04 AM
“What did you call me?”
May 1st, 2012 at 10:04 AM
Winter is coming…..
May 1st, 2012 at 10:04 AM
That is so wrong.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:04 AM
1.1 billion years til sun starts to grow (great link).
milankovitch cycles explain warm weather period.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:04 AM
And, we may have less time than that. I have doubts that we’d make it all the way until the end of the current warm period- just seems improbable. If we want to survive as a species, I don’t think there’s any doubt that we need to do something eventually.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:04 AM
I laughed at this because I’ve heard this comment almost verbatim by idiots on TV before.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:04 AM
Michael Lewis’ Boomerang takes a hard look at many of the European countries currently slogging through this austerity. Some of the sections are a little dated (Iceland) but the Greece, Ireland, and Germany portions shed a lot of light on how these countries got so bad and why its so damn hard to fix.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Our defense spending = the sum of the next 20 highest countries.
It’s dumb.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:07 AM
china’s defense improvements have been largely overblown…they have one carrier of their own and one refurbished soviet carrier. their stealth technology has been debunked by our stealth experts and while they might be improving, we’re still so far ahead that it’s not necessarily a concern.
china would be foolish to start a conventional war against the US…not sure there’s much to worry about there in the near future.
now a rogue state with no political allies aside from china starting up a nuclear program with easily obtainable enriched uranium from sketchily guarded sites along the russian border? different story.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:07 AM
I’m not sure that we can. I mean, species have died off by the tens of thousands during the planet’s history. Shit, how many have we wiped out in the last 50 years? We like to feel like we’re destined to be the exception but while we have the great minds and willpower lacked by our predecessors, at the end of the day we’re only a bag of cells. It’s not that hard to wipe us out. Disease, climate change, massive drought — they’d all do the trick.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Has anyone else had the thought that maybe we’ve come close to reaching our potential as a species? My college buddies and I would talk about this (more than likely while high) and we always wondered if there was a knowledge meter, if you will, and we had maybe hit 95% of said meter and we’ve almost maxed out what we’re capable of as a species?
food for thought
May 1st, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Did anyone see the Daily Show last night? They had on this kid (he is 20) who wrote a book about his two moms. He seemed like an incredibly intelligent humble kid. I might check out his book.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:09 AM
the thing that blows my mind is that humanity is only around 200k years old and yet, since lets say the 1800′s, we’re almost past the point of no return in terms of the damage we’ve caused.
humanity is either a plague on the earth, a slap in the face to the natural order of the universe that will no doubt be corrected…or we’re the early stages of a species that’ll continually evolve to the point where our version of humanity bears little resemblance to the version facing the apocalypse.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:09 AM
AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAH!!!
May 1st, 2012 at 10:10 AM
i don’t remember the exact figures, but we’ve wiped out 30% of the fish population in the past century or something.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Stuff like this is why I smile to myself when people freak out that the past year was the warmest in the past 30, or something similar.
Weather records only go back 150 years at most, and even that is barely a blip.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Wasn’t this season 6 of 24?
May 1st, 2012 at 10:10 AM
That kid is impressive as all get out, and he’s the perfect counter to the bullshit spewed by those who say you have to have a mom and a dad to have good values. His speech to the Iowa assembly (you can google it) was fantastic.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:10 AM
it’s not a conventional war with the US that is the concern, it’s a Chinese power in the Pacific that can limit the involvement of the US fleet in Asia/Pac affairs.
right now they can’t really do anything, but if they can limit the US influence in those waters it’s trouble.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:11 AM
1.1 billion years til sun starts to grow (great link).
I mean, fascinating link, but its all just speculation from what I can tell.
we’ve almost maxed out what we’re capable of as a species?
While I also find this fascinating, I just can’t believe that, especially within just the last 5 years the improvements in technology we have had
May 1st, 2012 at 10:11 AM
The line in The Matrix about the human race being a virus is so true it’s scary.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:11 AM
it actually sounds like the perfect opportunity for Doc Brown to get fuel for the DeLorian
May 1st, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Well, after your 5th bong rip and first blunt as a 19-year-old, that shit blows your mind to think about.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:12 AM
I tend to agree with this, but at the same time there hasn’t been a species that existed like us on this planet (as far as we know). I like to think that we at least have a significantly higher chance of a lengthier survival than any other species, simply based on our exponentially increasing technologies. If anything can outlive the Earth, I would think we certainly have the best chance. Like you though, I’m just not sure if that chance is very high.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Yeah, kinda. We’re sort of prisoners to our own success. We’ve gotten complacent. Plus, we don’t tend to make evolutionary leaps. All our big jumps have occurred incrementally, standing on the shoulders of those who came before.
I mean, what’s the next great achievement? Cure for cancer? That’s probably the most realistic one on the list. I don’t even know what we’re striving for anymore.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:12 AM
ive paid probably 3x as much in car insurance premiums than ive had claims submitted.
it’s dumb.
/defense = the action of defending from or resisting attack
//the spending’s fine, it’s where the money’s allocated that’s not
///CIA’s budget shoudld be quintupled
////kidding bout that last one
May 1st, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Our defense spending = the sum of the next 20 highest countries.
1. Cut defense spending by one percent.
2. Give that one percent to NASA.
3. ?
4. Go to Mars.
5. PROFIT.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:13 AM
nice. agreed.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:14 AM
evolutionary leaps? i dunno man…im pretty sure we have.
it’s just, you know, HARD TO SEE EVOLUTIONARY LEAPS WHEN YOU ONLY LIVE ON EARTH FOR 80 YEARS…and only have roughly 5,000 years of recorded history.
cmon.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Stuff like this is why I smile to myself when people freak out that the past year was the warmest in the past 30, or something similar.
Me likey this point.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:15 AM
God damn…I loved The West Wing.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:15 AM
agree that we should be invading those countries and planting American flags there.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:15 AM
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
-Charles Holland Duell, US Commissioner of Patents, circa 1900
May 1st, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Well, after your 5th bong rip and first blunt as a 19-year-old, that shit blows your mind to think about
I’ll take your word for it
May 1st, 2012 at 10:16 AM
not really man…we know what happens to stars when they “die” and know that our sun aint gonna be around forever. we know the approximate age of the sun, our earth, the effects proximity to a star has on a planet…
not too many leaps there. and when the sun DOES begin to expand (it will…can’t stop that), there aint no way we can survive that type of environmental change.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:16 AM
No. We’re spending ~5x China with 1/5 the people? That shit is insane.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:17 AM
we’d be great doing that if we didn’t have to foot the bill on rebuilding them.
that’s what really screws us over.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Dude, I don’t even think we’ve hit 15% of our potential. Our minds alone can do so much more than what they currently do.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:17 AM
That stat is fucking mind blowing.
I’d recommend trying it for yourself, actually.
/high fives spencer
May 1st, 2012 at 10:17 AM
It’s really hard to argue that right now, we’re nothing but detrimental to the earth. Sure there are exceptions but overall, we don’t give a fuck about anything but our own wellbeing. Some of that is natural, but it has consequences.
I tend to agree that nature is about to hit us with some course correction. Used to think it would be from some disease. But really, the planet doesn’t need to do anything. We already have too many people. The lack of water alone will do a large chunk of us in. The ensuing wars over resources (water and oil) will eliminate another chunk.
/I’m usually an optimist
May 1st, 2012 at 10:18 AM
For Spence and SG.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:19 AM
dude, they have hot mustard techonolgy…that shit will wreck the sinuses of all our boys in uniform man. debilitating. shit man, and you ever order chinese and they say 45 minutes and next thing you know 10 minutes later, they’re there? THINK OF THEIR SPECIAL OPS MAN. THEY HAVE NINJAS.
i say we pre-emptive strike NOW. and load our bombs with more money.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Pssshhh…Newt will have us chilling on the fucking Moon by the time this happens.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:19 AM
you’re such a defeatist.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:20 AM
technology costs a lot. we aren’t rolling hundreds of lightly armored Sherman tanks and Willy Jeeps off the assembly lines anymore.
now if we can just get more spending to the vets we’d be all set.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:20 AM
We’ve certainly evolved, but there’s no black monolith that triggers a massive leap from nowhere. It’s really, really difficult to jump from A to F. Can’t have a car before the wheel, the combustible engine, oil, etc are discovered.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Not to go all Mad Max on everyone, but clean water is going to be the biggest issue in the next 100 years in my opinion.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:21 AM
we need to do EVERYTHING we can in order to ensure the survival of the human race
why? i mean do you see our extinction in the next couple generations? because after caring about my kids and perhaps their kids, i’ll be dead. it won’t matter to me anymore whether our species survives. what’s your stake in it? why does the universe need our species to survive? dust in the wind baby
May 1st, 2012 at 10:21 AM
me too…and that’s why im so mindblown by all the discoveries in other universes they’ve been finding. we’re in the golden age of the universe, where life is at it’s most abundant and new stars being formed all over. there’s probably a few trillion years worth of energy to sustain stars left, and we’re in the prime of it all.
it’s pretty exciting shit and we haven’t even scratched the surface.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Not really. Just relaying conversations had while in college. More a question than a belief structure.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:21 AM
lol…someone linked that last week. fucking adorable.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Isn’t it more of a self-absorbed thought than anything else? I mean, how could you think that current generations are the pinnacle of human achievement. That’s ridiculous.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:22 AM
not too many leaps there. and when the sun DOES begin to expand (it will…can’t stop that), there aint no way we can survive that type of environmental change.
The Earth will be engulfed by the Sun and burnt. When the Sun recedes to white dwarf status, the Earth will then truly be the “third rock from the sun.”
May 1st, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Too funny. This is exactly what comment 208 was referring to.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:22 AM
why does the universe need our species to survive? i dunno…i tend to think because we’re a fairly awesome species with a ton of upside potential.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:22 AM
But we need to find ways to preserve and improve our resources or else we’re going to be fucked — roughly, with no lube – in about 25-30 years.
this i can agree with
May 1st, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Brita filters, bro.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:23 AM
you’d be surprised, once nano technology is effectively used to wipe out diseases we’ll all be living active lifestyles well into our 120′s.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:23 AM
well…considering that we don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, we kind of ARE the pinnacle of human achievement right now.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:24 AM
I dunno, this internet thing seems like it’s going to stick around for a while.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Shit, I’d say 20-25.
What happens when the Middle East runs out of both water and oil, and tens of millions of angry MFers want to go somewhere else? Same with Africa, 70 percent which has no business even trying to support life.
Someone is going to start a war over water. And it’s a shitty coincidence that most countries already located in the middle of a fucking desert happen to hate us.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:24 AM
agreed.
/tokes jeffrey
//maybe we’re as smart as we’ll ever be
///decides humans should just close up shop and let some new species step in and own Earf
May 1st, 2012 at 10:24 AM
I liken this thought to my father saying he won’t vote for a penny sales tax that would go to the public schools in the country because “my kids aren’t in school anymore.” Excellent long term thinking, pops.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Love the jump to conclusions map you’ve busted out.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:27 AM
i can’t agree with any of this.
a) we have WAY MORE than 20-25 years, save for any man-made disaster
b) africa has no business supporting life? africa’s arguably the most truly natural environment there is…sure there’s political stuff, but it’s fairly pure. africa has no business supporting politics, would be the more accurate assertion.
c) we’ve survived through plagues and natural disasters before…they’ll figure it out.
don’t disagree with this.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:27 AM
But think how much needed to happen before the Internet was created. Computers needed to become commonplace and small. Telecommunications had to undergo major shifts in terms of how data was transferred. Its revolutionary, sure, but its didn’t just appear out of the ether.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:27 AM
I didn’t really bust it out. I always keep it in the corner propped up against one of my filing cabinets. it was in plain sight the whole time.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:27 AM
can’t china fuck us financially if it wanted to? the best thing the countries of the world have going is interdependence
May 1st, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Hilarious! Although it looks like he could use a few more walks and little less vacuuming.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:28 AM
I hear what you’re saying, but I was thinking we were talking about potential. I suppose I used the wrong phrasing for the argument.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:29 AM
the last 5 years the improvements in technology we have had
are you referring to any that have improved life, or just profits?
May 1st, 2012 at 10:29 AM
four hundred years ago, the printing press was invented. if you went back in time with an ipad, they’d burn you at the stake.
now think about how rapidly technology is advancing, simply in the last decade. it’s been only 17 years since microsoft windows 95. SEVENTEEN YEARS…and now we have hand held phones that are more powerful than the computers running that shit.
it didn’t appear out of the ether, but one could argue the internet is a whole new catalyst for a social chemical reaction.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:29 AM
May 1st, 2012 at 10:30 AM
eh. sounds like the kind of problem where you let them fight it out and the winner still has to walk through the dessert searching for water.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:31 AM
The global financial crisis and ensuing recession would disagree with you.
Five people arrested trying to blow up a bridge to Cleveland? Damn those Browns draft picks REALLY don’t want to suit up for the Dawg Pound.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:31 AM
not really.
lol…i got what you were saying, just being my typical cynical self.
i have no doubt the next generations will surpass us both in ability both intellectually and physically. no doubt at all.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:32 AM
SG, you’re letting your jealousy show again!
May 1st, 2012 at 10:32 AM
What he said. In one of life’s bigger ironies, we are too big to fail in regards to China. It’s pretty funny, actually.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:33 AM
1. then we probably have too many people for the planet to sustain
2. humans are only a small, small percentage of life…africa’s hospitiable to a TON of life forms.
3. agreed.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:34 AM
a) lol
b) sigh
c) fuck you
May 1st, 2012 at 10:34 AM
1. Agree 100 percent.
2. True, but I was talking about the human race.
3. Disagreed
May 1st, 2012 at 10:38 AM
i could talk about this topic all day…mindblowing shit.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:39 AM
same here, I love it.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Unless you dare question if we’re at an end of our upward trajectory. Than you’re self-absorbed.
/glares at Chicago
May 1st, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Someone is going to start a war over water. And it’s a shitty coincidence that most countries already located in the middle of a fucking desert happen to hate us.
seems to me all resources should be put into desalinization technology. we seem to have an abundance of salt water just sloshing around
May 1st, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Oh don’t be so fucking sensitive. I didn’t mean to be a dick about it- do you disagree?
/loses another GT-UGA rival game
May 1st, 2012 at 10:43 AM
SEVENTY PERCENT OF FRESH WATER IS ICE…MELT THE POLAR CAPS.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Think is, lots of countries have thought about getting carriers, It’s just the cost to build/buy and maintain is astronomical, which is why you only see the US, UK, France, USSR (Wolverines!), China and Brazil (thinking of buying an old UK carrier, if they haven’t already) with carriers on any sort, and only the US with large carriers.
Carriers used to be a projection of power, but they’re now really just status symbols. Why else would China be building one when they knoow the US and/or South Korea could blow the shit out of it with a few million dollars in missiles. It’s not to “project power” to Taiwan, they can reach that place from land. It’s to float around saying, “I’m rich, bitch.”
/Team Fund NASA
May 1st, 2012 at 10:44 AM
That would solve the rising oceans issue!!
I disagree that it’s self absorbed, yes. It was just a question that we mulled over while getting high before hitting the bars, football games, dinner or class*.
*on rare occasions…save for sophomore year when it was less rare
May 1st, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Excellent long term thinking, pops.
not sure how that story relates at all. my point is not that someone shouldn’t try like hell to fix all problems, perpetuate the species. my question is why does spencer or anyone with their foot on the gas to get it done care about moving earth’s population to other planets?
it’s not happening for hundreds of years, and we aren’t going to be floating around watching future generations after we die. we are organic material ya hurd?
May 1st, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Pretty sure after this year’s ass beating it will be 10 out of 11 for UGA over the Nerds. Poor Lefty and Sportsbroad. They so desperately want Tech to beat UGA…they’ll always have basketba…oh wait. Well, they’ll always have Mathletes.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:45 AM
that would make my house in central NJ beachfront property, and with the jersey shore and the guidos underwater, i’m all for it.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:45 AM
i brought up this quote last week in response to husker and everyone laughing at the CFB illuminati talking logistics in regards to a playoff…”amateurs talk about tactics, professionals talk about logistics.”
an aircraft carrier is entirely about logistics. yes, we could get there without one, but when you see an aircraft carrier loaded with jets sitting in your bay, that threat is a whole lot more tangible.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Just because something doesn’t directly relate to you, doesn’t mean it fails to relate at all.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:47 AM
you know, considering this impending “water shortage”…it’s awfully nice to live next to one of the five largest bodies of fresh water on the continent.
also with you on /team global warming beachfront property.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Read (or watch) Guns, Germs and Steel. Large part (the germs) was about how Africans were fine in Africa, until they were westernized with cities, etc., that forced them to live near water and allowed germs (malaria, etc.) to run rampant through the population.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:47 AM
this.
/sends in application for chairman of death panel
May 1st, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Fair enough- the question itself is an interesting one to mull over. However, I do think that if someone opined that we as a race were at the end of our potential, that would be self-absorbed. I feel pretty strongly that we have a LONG way to go to reach that. And by the time we do, we may have evolved to increase the potential even further.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:48 AM
as chairman of death panel, i deny your application based on you being too much of a sentimental pussbitch.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:48 AM
You guys still taking bong rips in here?
May 1st, 2012 at 10:49 AM
You guys are missing an important question that could really tie this thread together: How does Heaven Is For Real qualify as non-fiction?
May 1st, 2012 at 10:49 AM
life is inherently self-absorbed…otherwise it wouldn’t have survived in the first place. cmon now.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:49 AM
all day, erryday.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:50 AM
uh…did you not see the “is for real” in the title? newsflash…nonfiction is for real, bro.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Bigger bomb in Cleveland — the one that was gonna take out the bridge, or Weeden in the first?
/veal
May 1st, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Hahahaha!
May 1st, 2012 at 10:50 AM
well, if China’s anti aircraft carrier missile is for real, having a missle that can launch from land and hit a target several hundred miles away would make their dinky aircraft carrier all the more powerful in that region if it can’t be challenged by the US fleet.
the unique thing about that Chinese aircraft carrier missile is that it has a reported range that is greater than the range of the best fighter planes on our AC’s.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:50 AM
I laughed. Bravo
May 1st, 2012 at 10:50 AM
/sends in application for chairman of death panel
$ociali$m in action
May 1st, 2012 at 10:51 AM
i’ll believe a chinese report when my shit turns purple and tastes like rainbow sherbet.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:52 AM
All I can do is hope every year. I’ll settle for being highly intelligent (non-humble brag) in the maths and continuing to utilize my very valuable engineering degree to it’s full extent.
/not talking shit by the way, just saying that’s all I can do given the sad state of GT bball and somewhat sad state of GT football
May 1st, 2012 at 10:53 AM
What he said. In one of life’s bigger ironies, we are too big to fail in regards to China. It’s pretty funny, actually.
right, they are dependent on us, thus my comment about interdependence. and i get queefer’s downside point if interdependence. like anything else…it’s complicated
May 1st, 2012 at 10:54 AM
/makes note for future generations of 096′s to take ironic satisfaction in the event a GT grad creates any type of device, be it artificial gravity or a water machine thingee, that husker’s progeny will rely on
May 1st, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Bball will come back strong. Football is what it is until they get a defense. That offense is money (provided teams don’t get two weeks or more to prepare) but their defense is shit and that should never happen. They have access to some quality defensive players where they are and they aren’t capitalizing on it.
I do love…nay…LOVE that UGA has scheduled Ga Southern the week before Tech for the next couple of years. That way they see almost the same offense two weeks in a row. I fucking hate defending Tech’s system, but I’ll admit I love watching it up until someone has to throw the ball.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:55 AM
You can almost be certain that this happens already.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:55 AM
I’d agree if the carrier would get there. like the USS Ronald Reagan facing off across Taiwan with the Chinese Kung Pao, but the realtiy is, in a war, neither would get there. Every so often, the Naval War College will run wargames regarding China and the US. Is a full scale war, carriers aren’t surviving. Basically, the chinese side says “i’m launching my missles at your carrier task force.” Boom, no more carrier. As the military is wont to do, the’ve made rules saying you can’t do that in war games (ask them how that worked out in Iraq – Army War College predicted the insurgency – army brass said, you can’t do that).
May 1st, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Please. My wife is Asian, so more likely my progeny will have the perfect mix of social normalness and GT ingenuity.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:57 AM
lol…and then when the insurgency pops up, the brass nip the counter-insurgency strategies in the bud too. poor mcchrystal.
/he’s an asshole, but he got shit done
May 1st, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Very smart move by UGA. I swore out loud when I saw that they did it. We’re pretty much fucked against you unless we can pass the ball, which seems unlikely. I think I’ll just have to hope a great QB comes along and Paul Johnson starts to expand the offense a bit.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:58 AM
…so what’d you bring to the genetic table?
/veal
May 1st, 2012 at 10:59 AM
Just because something doesn’t directly relate to you, doesn’t mean it fails to relate at all.
i’m not invested deep enough to reply with anything more than ‘you used my comment to make your long term thinking point’
May 1st, 2012 at 10:59 AM
Whiteness, the most important thing there is.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Who do they play after GT? Cause they may be down a DT or 2. Those cut blocks kill knees. 2 weeks in a row could be problematic (of course, they’ll probably just toss GS lineman aside).
May 1st, 2012 at 11:00 AM
I love that story in Blink where the retired Army major gets tasked with playing as the insurgency in a war game against the entire US Army, and he beats the shit out of them using basic old school WWII techniques. They didn’t like that much, so they changed the rules and whooped his ass the second time.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:00 AM
i legitimately laughed out loud.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:01 AM
The ability to drive a car in a straight line?
/cat
May 1st, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Driving ability
/Cap’t obvious’d
May 1st, 2012 at 11:01 AM
UGA’s defense will be a HUGE question mark beginning in 2013 as they are set to lose all 11 starters after this year. Having said that, should Jenkins and Geathers stay healthy, they’ll have one of the most dominant front 7s in football (if not THE most dominant). That will make Tech’s task a difficult one. Of course at the rate they’re going, they won’t have any corners at all, so at least you have that.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Same. Standing O for that one.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:03 AM
to illustrate my objectivity in my decision making as future chairman, I will now assassinate the current chairman.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:03 AM
Clever man, this GodsoftheGridiron.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Hopefully Alabama or LSU*.
*actually, hopefully Ole Miss
May 1st, 2012 at 11:04 AM
if you objective decided, you’d have let me live knowing the impact that’d have. dumbass.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Interesting short journal on weapons systems. Let’s just say they’re not as effective as we think.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:07 AM
here’s another one milk steak.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:07 AM
oh well. too late.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:09 AM
That the one where the GAO basically says cancel the F-35? Cause that’s a boondoogle. Nearly quadruple original esitamtes and won’t be delivered until 2019 at teh earliest.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Money quote:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:13 AM
Yet somewhere in middle town America, some plant makes parts for this thing. And somewhere in south town America, some plant makes parts for this thing. Therefore it will continue to be massive waste of money.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:13 AM
so, we all agree, then with the lack of answer to my question? after three generations or so, it is immaterial to us living now, whether our species survives, right? all i got was my ears boxed for not thinking long term
May 1st, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Yep, defense contractors are smart, they piecemeal production across the country so that lots of politician’s protect the project.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:15 AM
it’s tough to justify the joint strike fighter program any more…i still think it’s worth the investment, but they gotta clean that shit up.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Not unless you’re a congressman from that district. Than it’s easy, because the moment you say, “citizens, we need to build something better, something that the military and this great country can and will use to defend our freedom.” Some dude who wants to be the next junior congressman was middle town America will say, “So and so wants to close this plant and put you on unemployment.”
May 1st, 2012 at 11:17 AM
This. No senator or congressmen wants to be the one who lets the military plant close.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:20 AM
lets be honest here…a single aircraft that does everything you need is ideal if you want to streamline the military. we can all agree on that, right?
and considering how much other countries will spend on our aircraft, we can make some of that investment back down the road.
but cmon…FOUR TIMES YOUR INITIAL BUDGET? fucking get this shit done, skunkworks.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:20 AM
The Jet That Ate The Pentagon
Quick read on the JSF. It’s mostly political at this point…
May 1st, 2012 at 11:22 AM
can we get rid of the blue angels? please?
May 1st, 2012 at 11:22 AM
Isn’t Gates a huge proponent of killing this fighter program?
May 1st, 2012 at 11:23 AM
He’s a proponent of cutting the DOD budget. Not sure where he would cut specifically, though.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:24 AM
he’s a proponent of military fiscal responsibility no matter what…reduction in budget for these things, increasing special operations budget, stopped funding the navy’s new sub program…i like.
May 1st, 2012 at 11:24 AM
DOD wants it killed, but it’s political. And DOD missed out on chances to upgrade the A-10, F-16 and F-15 airframes (all of which perform better than the JSF).