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The whole superteam thing is a bit hard to put your finger on Was Kobe + Pau Gasol + Dwight Howard a superteam? I remember alot of people thinking so at the time. How about Blake Griffin + DeAndre Jordan + Chris Paul? Westbrook + Durant + Harden ?

Hard cap + no max on a contract. A superstar might take a slight paycut to join/stay on a championship team, but if other teams are offer him 2x that, probably he bolts.

NBA players for the most part earn their paychecks. MLB players on the other hand *cough* Chris Davis *cough*

Say goodbye to Roe

If you had to live outdoors year round, wouldn't you want to be where the temperature never drops below freezing and rarely gets above 90 even in the middle of summer ?

I don't think its the location its several of the bigger names/countries missing out: No Italy, no Netherlands, no USA, and no real "group of death" except maybe France/Australia/Denmark makes for predictable outcomes and a dull group stage. Only real interesting outcome has been Iceland drawing Argentina.

Even if he did, a pitcher only plays in 1/5 of his teams games. Not sure how you can compare to a player who plays in every one if his teams game

Only counting his tenure in D.C., no. Otherwise, it would obviously be Jordan. Scherzer would have to win 4 more CYAs to match Ovechkin's Richard total (7), and its possible Ovechkin isn't done winning those :-) And he's never won an MVP, though admittedly pretty much impossible for a pitcher to do so.

I'd think the same odds as one of Durant, Curry or Thompson getting hurt, and Cleveland staying healthy. Possibly the Warriors could do it even without Thompson or Curry.

Update: I tried this smoker last Friday. It has 6 grates and easily fits 12 racks of baby backs, which I made for a little after work happy hour. It eats charcoal like a beast and the built in thermometer is worthless (even after calibrating), but if you want to smoke ribs (or anything else I guess) in quantity, on the cheap, I don't know of a better way.

Just ordered this cheapie cabinet smoker from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Dyna-Glo-DGO1890BDC-D-Vertical-Offset-Charcoal/dp/B010759GGQ/ref=sr_ph_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526075629&sr=sr-1&keywords=dyna+glo+smoker+wide Looks like it could fit maybe 8-10 racks of baby backs. Gonna try it out next week, after sealing it up with silicon and the high temp gasket. I actually wanted to go with a "real" cabinet smoker, like the ones you can get here https://www.bigpoppasmokers.com/grills-smokers/cabinet-smokers but those are pricey (like $2000), and take 8 weeks to build and I don't have that much patience.

Yeah but he has to start serving, I think.

Yeah I caught season 1 of Bosch a while back. Its a decent show, but a little cliche. He's basically House as a police detective.

"We won't be in the EU, but we'll just abide by EU rules. Except now we won't have a vote on any of those rules."

Yeah, I think you're spot on. Its not that GRRM is lazy or anything. Its just that he just doesn't know how to end things. He's like a relief pitcher in baseball who has a really good breaking ball or maybe unconventional delivery. But the second time through the lineup, batters aren't fooled and he starts sucking. As it is, the fourth and fifth books of the series, were incredibly weak compared to Books 1-3, though there were a few great parts in there (like the Cersei ownage at the end of Book 4), there were also alot of tangents that went nowhere and didn't really advance the story.

Ok, well how about Cavendish's calculation of the gravitational constant? Or Milliken's calculation of the charge of the electron? Should those experiments have been rejected from journals because they were just measuring something?

Would you consider Eratosthenes' calculation of the circumference of the Earth c. 250 B.C. as "doing science" ? If not, then why not?

Was a cradle Catholic, but at 22 had the big "aha" atheist moment. I sort of relapsed around 30, but that only lasted a few months. @Bang pretty much summed up what I feel - its really hard to reconcile what happens in the world, with the concept of god that cares about humanity. I admits its possible that a higher being exists, but there isn't much evidence for one and it cannot be anything like what the Abrahamic god has been described as. And this may be a selfish viewpoint, but particulary with what has (and has not) happened in my life. Seeing so many of my peers seem to lead normal, happy, prosperous lives, despite being being nearly devoid of any sense of morality or humility in their youth and some even now, was really the nailed the coffin for me as far as religion goes. I'll admit I don't have the worst life and wasn't exactly a saint, but frequently I feel like the odd man out. Some of it does have to do with choices I made/didn't make, but I think alot of it is just bad luck.

Jeez, all this time I thought that was a Soft Cell original ...

That was my exact reaction. It doesn't grab you, in fact I think it deliberately confuses you, like why the main character was brought back after so long a time, why was it so important he was an Envoy or who the heck they are, or why the heck they keep showing that woman hitting the water, but by about episode 4 it really picks up, and the latter episodes are really great.

I'm pretty sure they said it should have been handled by the ATF, so no "new" legisitation should have been needed, because since 1986 you cannot sell a fully automatic weapon that was manufactured after 1986. Of course with no pressure on the ATF to actually enforce this, the NRA could just throw their hands up and say "its up to them".

There's no reason to believe there's anything significant in the crypts of Winterfell. Jon is pretty much the TPTWP/Azor Azai/Last Hero/Messiah/whatever. Or perhaps some combination of Jon/Dany. It may be never explained why magic/dragons/WW returned to the world. Tolkien never really explained why Sauron all of a sudden started growing powerful again (perhaps the finding of the ring by Bilbo? But never actually confirmed I believe).

The last thing I expected anyone to say when comparing the weather in California and Florida is that in rains too much in California :-) Did you happen to live during an El Nino year? Even then, the summers are always dry (May through September, you'll be lucky to see even a dusting) and and I'm not sure rainfall totals even during an El Nino even would beat Florida's average. As it is, Davis CA averages 19.7" of rainfall vs per year vs. 47.4" for Gainesville: https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/davis/california/united-states/usca0284 Interestingly enough, it does seem that the highs in the summers are slightly higher in Davis (93 in July vs 90 for Gainsville according to above site). But the lows are also much lower (56 in July in Davis vs. 71 for Gainesville) It cools off rapidly here when the sun goes down, because the heat in Calfornia is dry, vs. Southeast/East coast (My reference points are Houston, TX and NoVa) being oppressively humid. Here I don't even notice it until it gets 90+, and even then, it doesn't "hit" you like the east coast/southeast heat. I suppose the weather in Florida is better if you really cannot tolerate it being below about 60 for very long year round, don't mind humid/muggy summers, or can't stand going 5+ months with no rain.

Is anyone able to actually groom their own dogs? I'm finding this nearly impossible with mine. He keeps moving away from the scissors