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NFL Off-Season |OT3| Josh Freeman is fat and eats too much food. Fat. Fatty. Fatfat.
- Thread starter cuevas. PhD.
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Uh no thanks.
I don't need to endure the stench of Walmart to know that I am better than most people.
Do you need to wear a Tom Brady jersey to know that that team is the work of the devil? I certainly don't!
Ben is all about slumming with the poors and fatties dude. Just because my qb is into doing fat sorority chicks in a dirty bar bathroom doesn't mean I am! Ben and Tebow are better human beings than most of us and operate on a higher level of humanity.
I am totally elitist. I use a Macbook Pro for God's sake! That is all you need to know about me.
And it has been so long I can't even relate to cuevas' failed sexcapades at home. I shouldn't say that. I am pretty sure we and the wife will be trying to sneak some in in a few more years. Ugh that sounds horrible.
Stopped producing content worth my few bucks.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
And it has been so long I can't even relate to cuevas' failed sexcapades at home. I shouldn't say that. I am pretty sure we and the wife will be trying to sneak some in in a few more years. Ugh that sounds horrible.
Poor guy! I understand where your anger comes from.
I was talking about having to be worried about the people around you when having sex.
Poor guy! I understand where your anger comes from.
I don't even remember what that was like and it sounds fucking horrible.
Though at the same time don't they have locks where cuevas lives? Sounds like he wanted to get caught...
After 1 Week In New York Tim Tebow Already A Gay, Homeless Crack Addict
http://www.theonion.com/video/mets-questionable-for-opening-day,27787/
And after Week 1 a starting QB in New York
edit: Guess there are already comparisons of AC3 on WiiU
http://www.abload.de/img/assassinscreediiivergpacka.png
That's a giant png so I'm just linking it
I am going to vote for Obama, but I hate the whole system and at times feel like not voting.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Schefter said:
GRRROOOOOONNNKKKKK ALLLLL OVVAAAH MA FAAAAAAAHHCCCEEEEE!
You thought it was bad before?
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission changed everything.
ActStriker
Member
Whooooo
Who doesn't like a hard conservative Johnson?
TheLegendary
Member
Oh man. NFL GAF has already survived race, gender, religion, etc discussions. Why not politics as well? The final frontier.
TheDrizzlerJ11
Member
Glad to hear Gronk's getting paid that much. That defense is gonna have a fun time getting better.
He'll be great subbing in at LB.
Bill needs a new DE. He is gonna convert Gronk for no reason.
Wait, is he actually running for president? I never knew there were more than two candidates in the official race.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
You'll probably find more balance of opposing sides for both religion and party affiliation here than you would in most of the OT.
The OT is like 95% Atheist/Liberal.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not....
OT is not a fan of white hard conservative Johnsons. They can't handle his throbbing love of freedom.
Nope, just don't know the system and I just looked him up on German wiki, where it said he's in the race.
Edit: From Ocho's Twitter:
Obama and Johnson (or Huntsman) would have served well to shape the natural discourse towards the problems that matter.
Like the fact that social security was never designed to be paid back to a majority of Americans. When it was first signed into law, the only beneficiaries were the feeble and those that needed it. It was literally social insurance. The beneficiary age was actually past average life expectancy*.
Obama and Mitt will just fall into far right based nonsense that a majority of sane Americans have moved on from.
*I realize this is a complete nonstarter in this country, and that's why it fucking sucks.
Like the fact that social security was never designed to be paid back to a majority of Americans. When it was first signed into law, the only beneficiaries were the feeble and those that needed it. It was literally social insurance. The beneficiary age was actually past average life expectancy*.
Obama and Mitt will just fall into far right based nonsense that a majority of sane Americans have moved on from.
*I realize this is a complete nonstarter in this country, and that's why it fucking sucks.
There are tons of candidates that enter the Presidential race. Some Examples are: The Green Party, The Constitution Party, and the Libertarian Party. Sadly none have the backing of the two major american parties and some states make it a real pain to get on the ballot as an independent as you need to suit a certain amount of signatures and/or other things. The 1992 US Presidential was the last time there was a big 3rd candidate. There was this one person in my district who was running for everything from President to local town council.
2016 should be interesting as current NYC Mayor and Independent Michael Bloomberg will most likely try and run for office.
Thanks, makes sense.
So third parties do exist here, but they can't make a dent because (a) we have a winner take all system and (b) money.
(a) Winner Take All means that (in all but two states), the winner of the popular vote, regardless of margin, gets all the electoral votes from that state. So, say, a third party candidate could make a dent by taking 15% of votes in 20 or so states, it wouldn't mean diddly because he'd get 0 electoral college votes.
(b) You need to money to run a successful campaign, and third party candidates get no matching funds from the federal level unless they get to the magical. You get up to $250 per personal donation matched from the government as a Presidential candidate. As a third party candidate, you must demonstrate at least 5% of the popular vote from the previous election to gain that benefit.
Johnson actually qualified for the benefit this year due to some strange rules.
Anyways, this isn't to say I would have voted for Johnson outright. I just would've been more amenable to both ends. I can't picture myself voting for Romney at this point between his refusal to distance himself from birthers, his myopic perspective of healthcare despite his actions in Mass., his track record in Mass., the fact that he's staffing up with W loyalists, amongst others.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Also, because we don't have a parliamentary system, there's no possibility of a third party like a Libertarian party being given serious credence because they would siphon votes from the Republican party and they couldn't just form a bloc later on and still maintain control. Instead, a third party just makes it more likely that the opposition takes control of the house and senate.
Third parties also have a detrimental effect on presidential elections. A lot of Democrats blame Nader for ruining Gore's chance back in 2000 and I recall similar things being said about Perot by Republicans in 1992 and 1996 though people claim that Perot's base was split 50/50.
Social Security is fucked, but no one does anything to correct it or change anything. It is also a little worrying that anyone under 40 might be contributing to something that funds older assholes who didn't contribute enough and get to live off of us when we will probably get jack shit.
The problem with politics is that Repubs and Democrats are kind of like console fanboys in that each of them is a little divorced from reality and all they care about is the platform they support. Neither one of the parties does anything to really address any of the real problems we have in this country or work together to solve them (and most of the problems are not that hard to solve, it is just politically we lack the will to do so).
I think many Americans would agree if there was an independent candidate that had the finical backing to not be out spent people would take him over many of the options that are presented to us. But with recent decisions in our court system saying that corporations are people and money is speech there are very few people who have the money or the origination to pull of such a feat. It also hurts that so many social conservatives love the Republican party and so many others are scared of the Republican party.
I think Ez would agree that with Presidential elections it's not who you like, its who you dislike the most.
Thanks, I got a reply through email that they would pass my resume through to the hiring manager for the position. The application process is automated and rejects according to a filter they have set up. From now on if I know it is automated, I'll just cram whatever buzzwords in to get by the filter. Shitty way to do things imo.
Fixed.
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Giantbomb will get back to 2-3 premium videos after e3, calm down.
^ Then maybe I will re-up after e3. I doubt it. I've kind of grown to hate Ryan and Patrick and I despise all the gamespot people aside from Varanini.
Nope, I always vote my principles. I haven't been able to vote for a big two candidate in the Presidential since 2000.
As far as ballot access, Gary Johnson will be on the ballot in all 50 states.
I think Bloomberg is going to officially run as a Fascist though, right?
Nope, I always vote my principles. I haven't been able to vote for a big two candidate in the Presidential since 2000.
As far as ballot access, Gary Johnson will be on the ballot in all 50 states.
I think Bloomberg is going to officially run as a Fascist though, right?
These problems are incredibly difficult to solve. That's precisely the problem.
Health care for example (informed from close friends that do health care consulting for hospital networks and insurers): You have three major stakeholders in reality: the patient (you and me), the insurer (insurance companies), and the provider (hospitals).
The initial problem is that health care is the one "product" where costs are completely apocryphal to the us. When you go visit your doctor, you (and honestly, neither does the doctor) don't have any idea what the cost of your procedure is going to be. All you know about is your co-pay. It is the doctor's responsibility to provide the best care possible - the burden of cost is not something he or she weighs (nor should they). Meanwhile, the hospital's interest is to maximize profit. This simple fact is a huge disconnect that there's no easy solution to. All hospitals have done since the 80s is consolidate further and further to where you're dealing with one or two hospital "networks" in each state - effectively unionizing as a provider. This establishes greater bargaining power, and they can bully insurers all they want to on prices. That's a huge reason why costs have been ballooning from 2003 to now.
Another fucked up fact to realize is that hospitals run CBAs on different services rendered and make staffing decisions based on that. As a profit-making enterprise, they are fully entitled to do that, but I think you can make a pretty compelling argument that it's in the negative interest of public good. You know that huge deficit of primary care providers that we're zeroing in on? Why do you think that is? Perhaps because neurologists and endocrinologists perform procedures that generate far more revenue for the hospital? Absolutely.
Insurers are, of course, screwed into higher costs - leading to higher premiums. They can only react to providers because, when it comes down to it, people are going to side with the hospitals over insurance companies.
Now, how do you solve this as a state or even federal government? How do you effectively change the course of the health care market as a profit-based industry?
The most infuriating thing I heard was an executive at a Louisville-based hospital network say that he could put out all their smaller (read: mostly independent, Catholic church run hospitals) out of business in three years.
Yeah, that's really great. Let's eliminate competition and further dwindle people's options to find doctors.
You really don't see how greedy we've become as a society until you see a revenue sheet of specific patient types.
Most elections is like a Superbowl between the Patriots and the Saints. No matter who wins we all get fucked over in the end.
That is actually not a good example because no one would ever root for the Pats.
Who are two teams that it would be impossible to choose between and would get a 50/50 split everytime? Maybe Seahawks/Falcons?
Their quality has gone down and its clear that they no longer have any of the resources to maintain the quality bar they had during the Happy Hour days. Not to mention the fact that that was supposed to help build up 5 websites instead of basically 1 today. If they did like Leo Laporte and have tipping that would be fine but when they think Flipcam videos counts as quality content there is something wrong.
But I'm sure you look at the possible candidates and place values on certain issues. Whither it be health care because you are ill or veteran benefits because you were enlisted you value certain issues more than others. With the political situation that this nation as it is unless you have substantial financial backing or time the easiest way to influence where the country goes is voting against where you want it to go. I find it hard to believe that you agree with everything no matter how much you like Johnson's white hot conservative frothiness.
I'm not sure you know who Gary Johnson is?
I'm running out of phallic jokes.
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Happy hour was lame as hell after a while - they even realized this and cut comic vine from it. The best piece of content (Drews trip) they've ever put out was done at the new offices. They are just getting settled down
Didn't Drew do that pretty much all on his own outside of the office?
Giant Bomb is garbage but don't worry, they'll be absorbed by the end of the year.
Johnson's close to a Rockefeller Republican. He's no insane Rand Paul.
I disagree with his stated IR policies. It's nice to think that we can be non-interventionist, but, in a G0 world, the United States needs to maintain its claim as global hegemony when it comes to security. I think people conflate the idea of being a hawk and wanting to bomb Iran.
Afghanistan was initially soundly run. It's really depressing to hear how that operation went so smoothly and to learn how Iraq was a complete and total clusterfuck at every level from Langley to the Pentagon to the White House. And then, of course, we lost our advantage in Afghanistan in 6 months.
I disagree with his stated IR policies. It's nice to think that we can be non-interventionist, but, in a G0 world, the United States needs to maintain its claim as global hegemony when it comes to security. I think people conflate the idea of being a hawk and wanting to bomb Iran.
Afghanistan was initially soundly run. It's really depressing to hear how that operation went so smoothly and to learn how Iraq was a complete and total clusterfuck at every level from Langley to the Pentagon to the White House. And then, of course, we lost our advantage in Afghanistan in 6 months.
This is actually my real concern with America. I hate to over compliment our Hitler loving German GAFfers, but their CEOs would never think of trying to get a $30m salary from their company. Or go state to state pitting them against each other over tax breaks for new production facilities. They would consider it immoral and obscene.
Same with their rank and file workforce. They may be heavily unionized, but their primary function isn't to minimize actual work time, maximize every possible benefit and salary, and shield all workers from the consequence of basic incompetence.
For whatever reason, Americans view their government and employers as piggy banks and shun all personal responsibility. I've always understood the ez idea of just making the piggy bank smaller to solve the problem of people reaching in it, but it seems like we should be better than that
cuevas. PhD.
Member
They are still growing but okay.
TheLegendary
Member
They just moved to a new company like a month ago and they had to rebuy all of their equipment and stuff right?
Not that that justifies it if you feel you're not getting your money's worth (I paid too), but I'd imagine they're just getting their bearings back. If there wasnt Giant Bomb, I wouldnt view any video game websites at all besides neogaf anyway. The general content that they provide justifies the subscription for me anyway since Im on that site all the time. Maybe you dont get as much stuff as you used to, but oh well.
Try four months ago. That dog no longer hunts.
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