Omega! And I believe I spent a short time in SoF and/or iMag. It was so long ago.

Wow! It's been a long time. Omega still kicking around?

Martian still around??

Played a lot of Clash with Trainboy. Detmer, Alana, lots of folks. Wonder if they're still playing. Retired from clash about a year ago..

Then he lost in the rematch a year later. 3.5-2.5

Nice to see some familiar names still around!

lol

The point is - incredible resources are being spent, in order to protect Americans from this thing, which is killing Americans at a much lower rate than hundreds of other things, many of which anybody cares about.

I'm sure this video may not do well at a 9/11 memorial, but it would probably do very well at a memorial for the 145,575 people who died in 2013 of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease... a disease which receives less than $100 million in total funding annually.

Crack that whip and get your team on the same page!

Wow. I used to be 19? Don't show me that fluff!

You hit a guy, you expect a hard slide into 2nd. That's baseball, and that's been baseball for decades. You don't expect the 2nd baseman to try and knock him out.

Also, a guy shows you up in the playoffs, you plunk him the 1st at bat of the 1st game back. You don't wait until the last time through the rotation in the final game of the season series.

So fluffing lame. I'm sure vets on the Rangers were hanging their head at that one too.

Don't remember this...
http://atarchive.gotdns.org:8080/...?thread=258586&spec=0

I'm confused about what I might have done to stones to warrant all these GSs :/

sup

Also, we didn't forget about it like LaF did... so, Omega > LaF.

Nope! I started playing this game when I was 10. I had neither an income from which to pay income tax nor disposable income with which to pay sales tax. :)

Nope! I started playing this game when I was 10. I had neither an income from which to pay income tax nor disposable income with which to pay sales tax. :)

Heh, true. But I started watching the Simpsons well after I started playing this game, and I've never been into South Park.

I guess Star Trek TNG and The Toronto Maple Leafs predate this game in terms of things I've actually watched/done.

Let's stop trying to fix this game. Let's accept it for what it is: nostalgic. I've been playing this game for almost 20 years. That right there, to me, is insane. There is literally nothing else in my life aside from my family that has been around for that long. It has been dying for a long, long time, and nothing will stop it. Let's just be happy that it's given us so much over the years, and do our best to enjoy what's left of it before it's all gone.

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28 in Feb... 1988 here. Started playing in 98.

"So what have changed this?"

Gaming.

Most of us started with this game when we were quite young, and continue purely for nostalgia. The game in its current form hasn't been appealing to new players for a decade.

You're suggesting that MLS be considered to be the single top division for both Canada and the US, so that in competitions such as the CONCACAF Champions League there won't be separate "US" and "Canadian" representatives but rather a unified MLS representative? Aside from that, I'm not sure what other effects there would be. Such a system would provide a disadvantage to TFC, the Whitecaps, and the Impact in CONCACAF club competitions. Currently, one of the three is guaranteed to represent Canada in such a competition, and what you're suggesting would end that guarantee.

The MLS is such an anomaly internationally. FIFA deals with countries, not international leagues. Canada has teams. The US has teams. Those teams play in domestic competition to determine each nation's representative(s) in international competition. That's how FIFA works at the club level all over the world. The MLS is not a domestic league, and declaring it as such would hurt Canada on an international level.

jnhknh

You realize that by fluffing about the guy fluffing about the thing you feel is irrelevant kind of destroys your original premise that you "have important things to do." He's discussing an issue that, at the very least, many people around the world are aware of, and can happen elsewhere regardless of whether or not you want to believe that. You're debating his motivation for discussing the issue. Which is a bigger waste of time? Don't participate in a discussion if you don't see the rationale behind it.

She got married. Cheated. Got pregnant. Divorced. Married again (NOT the father). Divorced. Married the father. Divorced. Married the 2nd guy again. Who the fluff is she to be the moral authority on anything? What if a clerk had refused to issue her a license for her 2nd marriage because divorce goes against their religious beliefs? She's a hypocritical moron who needs to have her soapbox promptly removed and destroyed.

Magic number for AL East is 2. Magic number for AL is 5. Go Jays Go!

Assuming he did cheat, the maximum penalty for tampering with equipment, even if it gives a competitive advantage (which it did not), is a fine of $25,000. Forget about whether or not the investigation was impartial or whether or not he did it. Assuming he did do it, the suspension is invalid. He can't hide behind one part of the CBA that says he's the absolute authority on discipline while ignoring another part of the CBA which outlines maximum penalties for infractions.

I thought the greatest quarterback in the NFL will be holding a clipboard and signaling in formations for Kirk Cousins.

LEts go Blue Jays

Checked me PM :)

so this means obamacare is in?

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lol

Aaaww. I felt I made a nice point. I was looking forward to reading mrcuban's response. Can you PM it to me? :)

Just saw Jake from OneHive recommend Bindle. I'll take a look.

Omega! See below.

Let me know what I just signed :P message me in CoC

Meh...

signed.

A friend of mine opened it up, cut a certain wire (it was green), and disabled the scanner. He said it's a pretty simple DIY job. Just look for instructions.

Or do this:

http://www.computerworld.com/...s-brewing-of-any-pod.html

Use the lid from an existing, genuine cup.

I remember what it was like to be large enough to justify four distinct leadership positions...

/envy

No way, I'm winning!

Send me a PM please? :)

As a (Canadian) teacher, I don't know much about common core. What I can tell though from the videos posted and discussions that I've read is that, especially with math, the focus is not on getting the right answer, but rather on understanding the process to get to the answer.

THIS IS SO ASS BACKWARDS

The idea is that not all kids can manage algorithms and rote learning isn't for everyone. That's fine. So accommodate THOSE kids who need the extra support and differentiated strategies to get to the answer. Don't punish the other kids who know the answer but can't explain it in the limited way that the teacher wants. That's ridiculous. It seems like these math lessons are all about giving students different ways to show their learning. Pictures/Numbers/Words etc. But by forcing all kids to do it the same way, isn't that just the exact same problem we had in the beginning?

Lets look at the way fractions are taught in Ontario in grades 6ish. They're introduced as fraction number lines. Multiplying fractions is taught in some ridiculous way that I have never seen before, and no matter how many times I've tried to wrap my head around it, and despite my qualification to teach up to Grade 10 math, I can't figure out how the fluff these people teach multiplying fractions on a number line.

For 3/7 x 2/9 for example, they'll show a number line broken up into 7ths, and colour 3 of those 7th. Then they'll break up each of those 7th into 9s, and colour 2 9s in each of the 3 coloured 7ts. You now have 6 small 63rds coloured. WHAT THE fluff DOES THIS SHOW?!? Don't even get me tarted with dividing because fluff if I know how to even describe an example.

What happened to - multiply across, and, multiply by the reciprocal of the second fraction? Since when was that not good enough? Since when is mental math not good enough? You're just replacing one easy algorithm with an incredibly complicated algorithm. Nothing has improved!

It seems like in the States this type of thing happens all the time, and it's starting to come up here now.

The majority of kids are fine with the standard algorithms. In fact, I guarantee that every single person involved in developing these standards, coming up with these completely ridiculous ways to solve simple questions, and the teachers teaching them, HAVE ALL LEARNED THE STUFF THEY'RE TEACHING WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THIS NONSENSE. It worked for them, it will work for most. Accommodate those that need accommodating, but don't completely flip a system on its ass!

There is way too much focus on understanding "why" before understanding "what" and that's crazy. Get the right answer, and the understanding will develop.

+1

Don't you just love it when somebody with 1/10th your post count starts telling you how the forums should run?

Wouldn't that be Okrahoma? What is Okra anyways? I always see them use it on the food network.

Are tehy from ZAP?

Probably greatest ending to a SB I've ever seen. Almost looked like another circus catch would be needed to beat them.