DCSaints_fan

Question now is how low will it go? I say it bottoms out around 18k

I wouldn't necessarily say that ... Pete Carroll didn't start sustaining success in the NFL until his third try

Thanks for the advice. Good news is he only does it when I'm there (so far), and I think I figured out how to get him to stop. At first I tried confronting him, tugging on his collar, trying to pull it out (yay, human wants to play tug of war!) etc. with no luck. But then what I did was get up and go to the kitchen, and he seems to give up. He does have a tendency to follow me wherever I go.

Yeah I don’t have a crate at the moment but will get one pronto... actually the big problem I’m having now is he is going after my couch cushions. He grabs left off the couch, then rips into them and pulls the stiffing out. He does that shake thing frequently. Oddly enough, only when I’m home. I thought it might have been a day /nilght lthing, but I just went out to do an errand and he left them alone.

Just picked up this guy at the shelter yesterday ...besides a shredding incident and barking at me once when I tried to get him out from under the bed, he’s been great. My only concern is how well he’s going to fare when I’m gone for work ... I slept on the couch last night where he was sleeping right next to me ... so perhaps that will help a bit with seperation anxiety ... he’s also got some medicine to help with that

I'm not sure I understand - you think Richardson leaked these stories about himself in order to force himself to sell the team?

I've got to stick up for my Saints - they were pretty good in late 80s - early 90s. From '87 to '92, they never finished below .500, winning 12-3, 10-6, 9-7, 8-8, 11-5, 12-4. They may have not had a great QB but defense was pretty darn good - in 1992(I think, or may have been '91) all four of their linebackers made the Pro Bowl. Yes they sucked once got to the playoffs but I was referring to regular season. The Rams also weren't bad in that era, and the Falcons had some good seasons early 90s. I think NFC Central was much worse in that era, outside of the Bears.

Yes - though also by name companies like AT&T and Verizon, as well. They already had the easements, so they could lay copper/fiber or whatever much easier than anyone else. Cable TV companies being the only other legit players at the time. As you mentioned, you would need a huge amount of money to startup an ISP - Google managed it but only in a few large metro areas https://fiber.google.com/newcities/ Getting all those easements is really, really hard/expensive, and in some cases probably impossible as tshile mentioned with exclusivity agreements On top of which, ISPs have been trying to shutdown municipal broadband/WiFi http://beta.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-cable-municipal-broadband-20160812-snap-story.html The more I think about it, the more the internet is more like a road network. Imagine all the roads were privately owned, by say The Road Company. and you would pay some amount per month to be able to drive, like an EZ pass. You pay the same amount no matter where you going. Perhaps there would be a fast lane that some would pay a little more for, but still they wouldn't pay depending on where they went or what they did. But now say let's say some successful business chain like Five Guys pops up, that causes traffic to spike. The Road Company sees this and gets greedy and says "Hey, why don't we start our own hamburger joint, after all our customers are using our roads to get to Five Guys and Five Guys is getting all this money". So The Road Company startsup their own chain (or more like, buy one out, let's say McDonalds), and then decide to charge an additional toll if you exit at Five Guys, but there would be no charge for McDonalds. Or perhaps they do something shady like do some "construction" on the Five Guys exits which throttles traffic, while the McDonald's exit is well maintained and clear. Without net neutrality rules, The Road Company will be allowed to do that. You might come along and say - well the solution is simple, if the consumers' experience with The Road Company is poor, surely the market will fix it and some investor(s) will come along and start up their own competitor to provide better service. The problem is there are substantial capital and legal barriers to entry for building your own road network, such that no one has made a serious attempt in decades, when cars were first being built and the challenges were substantially less.

I hate they get to play a division that has been mostly ass for the last 20 years, with the brief exception when the Jets had that elite defense. And not a legit franchise QB outside of Tom Brady in that whole division, since Marino retired. Must be nice when you're pretty much guaranteed to win 6 games a year.

So I'm guessing the deadline for being on the ballot is past, so if Luther Strange wanted to mount an independent campaign, it would have be as write-in ?

I agree, it crossed the line of credulity (one its greatest strengths) in season 4, but still wanted to see it wrapped up.

Dang. Spacey was a great actor. Now every single thing he touched has turned to sheet.

England is the Washington Caps/Nats of the soccer world.

Maybe if he had said something like "the only one who's had a worse week in the news than the Giants was Harvey Weinstein", he wouldn't have had to apologize.

I was thinking of getting a dog soon. The two main problems I have are 1) I live in a an apartment (they do allow dogs, with breed restrictions) 2) I live alone and work full time, so a puppy is probably out, though since I'm only 10 minutes away coming back on my lunch break would be possible but we are talking about leaving the dog alone for 4-5 hours minimum each day, which I've heard is way too long for younger puppies. Also while I would have no problem walking the dog 1-2 times every day (morning/evening), I'm not really energetic enough that I could go on 3 mile runs. However there is a grassy area nearby where I see people all the time with dogs off leash, so if it was a dog that like to play fetch or something that would be doable.

I don't really see the need to rifles with semi auto capability to be available to the public. Its too easy modifable to near full auto with the bump stock. For hunting bolt action or single shot should be sufficient.

I think his fight is going to be disappointing because neither of these guys has anything to fight for. They're both getting huge paydays and have nothing really to prove.

We could make bigger bombs - Castle Bravo all the way back in 1954 was ~15 MT - but its much more effective to have many, smaller warheads that one big one. After a certain yield point a nuke isn't going to leave anything living/functional/standing, so its a question of how big do you make the kill area. Due to the inverse square law, the destructive potential of a cluster of smaller warheads is much more effective than one big one.

I don't see the point of a soft Brexit - you still have to follow the EU's laws and regulations, but now you don't get to vote on them ?

Tunnels are really expensive. There's no way building a tunnel all the way from NY to DC is going to be cost effective

Why the worry? Did you have any alcohol, tobacco, or firearms on you?

I know this is a bit late, but I never knew Ned Flanders played for the Lakers

Just saw it. Without revealing too much, my basic review is a "meh". Alot of recycled plot devices/themes from previous installments, without really adding anything unique to the series. I would have rather waited for the $4 instant video rental, than shelling out the $14 in the theaters.

Did the Socialist party actually win any constituencies or is that just dirt on my screen?

Hasn't posted since January, but apparently he's still lurking as it said he visited a few hours ago