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2 minutes ago, Jabbyrwock said:

 

Probably.  Think of wood chips and dust as man claiming his environment.

 

It also makes nice bedding when the wife kicks you out there for tracking wood chips into the living room.

Yes, I've considered the repercussions of my intended actions.  I bought the lathe and then told my wife about it 3 hours before it was delivered. No idea amazon would so damn prompt.  

1 minute ago, Jabbyrwock said:

 

Wear short sleeves.

 

Use goggles.  The amount of chips that can inexplicably get around those safety glasses is ridiculous.

 

 

Is it safe to say that if I do this in my garage without some sort of automatic vacuum setup, i'll sweeping up wood chips for the next 2 years?

Anyone have experience using a wood lathe to make a baseball bat??  Just bought the lathe and ordered a bat blank, got 3 chisels and some measuring calipers. Watched a few videos, those guys make it look pretty easy.  Hopefully I don't cut my arm off.

Any advice, other than don't cut your arm off?

4 hours ago, Jumbo said:

 

Therein lies the rub. 

Yeah, but now they can find each other and reproduce.

On 11/12/2023 at 7:44 PM, Jabbyrwock said:

 

Youre beggin for a rick roll...

I was hoping for an Irish seven toed salute, but i'll take a rick roll...

Anyone have the post game live YouTube link?

Anyone have the link to the post game live show on YouTube?

Anyone have the post game live YouTube link?

12 hours ago, tshile said:

 

but theres important information that must be understood to even begin to get at costs.  Putting a group together to come up with 300-500$ a month is one thing. 
 

and that’s just the basic ****. Who actually owns the content, the domain registration, has a backup that’s in depending of the team… lots of details. 

I have a 1 terabyte external drive at my office that's been sitting in a drawer for 4 years.  So got the team independent backup problem solved.

In all seriousness, I don't see cost being a problem if its reasonable. For example, I bought a 1 year online subscription to the Baltimore Sun a few months ago for like $2.99, just so I could read about the Orioles. I never understood why these online newspapers try to charge like $99/year without any other option. People would gladly pay something dumb like $1,00 per month to be on this site. The only problem then would be who get the excess cash, so buy the domain, then incorporate "extremeskins.com" as a 501(c)(3). Do a one time "voluntary" endowment drive, buy the domain from the team, place the endowment funds in an federally insured money market account at a stable 2,00% interest rate, and continue the $2,99/year subscription fee. Offer a charity tailgate around Thanksgiving to satisfy the charitable purpose obligation in case someone wants to look under the hood.

Edit:  Maybe I could buy like a 10 terabyte drive, but only if I'm given complete control over registration vetting.

19 minutes ago, TK said:

Haha... they won't even authorize posting over there unless you provide your social security number.

So what's the deal with the future of the franchise here? And I'm not talking about the cartoons and TV series, I'm talking about the movies.  And I'm not talking about what Jabba the Hut's secretary did 15 years before ROTJ, I'm talking about main characters.  And I'm not talking about Bru or Uncle Owen, I'm talking about Luke's ancestors.  Is Kylo Ren still alive, didn't catch the last movie.  So Han Solo's kid I assume made a turn to the light side, maybe there's some material to work with there.

16 hours ago, Renegade7 said:

 

I imagine all our profiles are attached to email addresses so we can reset our passwords...

 

I'd like to hear there's a way for a mass no-reply email to all of us and confirmation on how to contribute to a 6 month rainy day fund to buy time for what to do next in that case scenario.

So I think the team owns the domain name, so they can shut it down on a whim, regardless of whether the members put up the money to service it.  Which is why thewarpath.net is place to go.  It will like in that movie The Day after Tomorrow when all of the United States citizens crashed the Mexican border after the huge winter cyclone disaster froze everything north of Texas. 

14 minutes ago, Fergasun said:

I didn't realize all the young, hip, Commanders fans treated people on circa year 2000s message boards with such disdain. 

 

Ok... go have your  reddit ragers and discord dances... this is the hipster hangout.  

 

The oldschool forum platform keeps put the riffyraff.

But the warpath.net had cookies today!! Like they were holding an impromptu real estate open house.  The Sam Howell thread has 669 posts!  
 

But I tried to start a Seahawks look a like thread and the mods were like oh my god you can’t do that it’s not remotely funny.  

I registered an account at the warpath.net.  Sort of like when we traded sweat and young, didn’t really notice much difference. Haha… 

14 minutes ago, Llevron said:

Hes got a few fans LOL 

 

That's a great example of a throw that this team has had difficulty making since Cousins left.  Heinicke would have wiggled out of pressure and run for 8 yards.  Howell flicks his wrist and delivers the ball 40 yard downfield and his receiver in stride, separating him from both defenders.

7 minutes ago, srtman04 said:

If Sam has another 300+ yard game next week,  it's safe to say a trend in highly positive territory is officially developing.   The last QB like that even in this conversation was Kirk Cousins. I'm so happy to have Sam on our team and to think we got him in the 5th round,  could be the greatest steal in the draft since Brady.  Not even joking.  

I think the trend right now is positive. He's had a couple poor games, but for the most part he's exceed expectations.  He made some throws yesterday that we haven't seen here since Cousins, or maybe even Rypien.  And I think he has a stronger (not necessarily better) arm than Kirk, and could be a better quarterback than Rypien. He's clearly more mobile than either of them, my god that run on 3rd and 23 is career highlight reel type stuff.  The interception in the endzone, as bad as it was, just seemed to be a mistake, almost like for some reason he thought the defender was his receiver. I'd like to hear his explanation, but that one doesn't really concern me.

I don't want to get too carried away though. He's still getting pummeled, he still has work to do on getting the ball out.  But EB finally appears to realize that Howell is not Mahomes, so adjustments are being made to make this Howell's offense as much as it is EB's. If we let this play out, the future could be bright.  

10 minutes ago, Silvernon said:

He's replaceable. Weakest link right now. 

Great point guard though

1 hour ago, Chris 44 said:

I hope they change all that going forward because team coverage kinda blows right now.

it’s like Full Metal Jacket.  The coverage doesn’t blow, it sucks. I can’t imagine why an NFL franchise would have only a YouTube radio broadcast and post game show.  That is so second class that it had to be an attempt by Snyder to just **** the fan base on his way out the door. Not to mention that the radio broadcast team is clearly designed to be the worst in the NFL. Anyone who’s heard it understands it

Ok where’s the post game again?  YouTube something?

So there's no thread dedicated specifically to the Montez Sweat and Chase Young trades from Tuesday, i guess someone started one but then got banned maybe.

Here's an interesting question.  In the days leading up to Tuesday, the "rumor" was that the Team would trade either Sweat or Young, and sign the one that was not traded.  Speculation was that the Bears were interested in Chase, and the team wanted at least a 2nd round pick.  Generally, the asking price for Sweat was reportedly slightly lower, and no reports that the Bears were interested. I also think that the general sentiment (in hindsight) was that the team wanted to trade Chase Young.

But suddenly the script flips, and the Bears decide to offer a 2nd rounder for Sweat. The team can't pass that up, pulls the trigger.  The team also assumes at that point that Chase may be untradeable, because the Bears backed off. But later in the day, 49ers surprise them with a 3rd round offer. 

My question(s) is this:

(1) Would the Team have traded Montez Sweat if the Bears had given up a 2nd round pick earlier in the day for Chase Young? 

(2) More specifically...  Did the team decide to trade Montez because (at that moment) the Bears had declined on Chase and the team was unsure they could trade Chase, and they felt they needed to ensure that one of them was traded? 

(3) Said another way...  ultimately, if the Team had the right to self-determination, would they have simply traded Chase Young for a 3rd rounder earlier in the day, not felt the pressure to trade at least one of them, and kept Montez Sweat?

2 hours ago, Riggo#44 said:

 

Reminds me of another “generational” talent that the franchise was unable to reign in.

19 hours ago, PeterMP said:

 

From the perspective of people living in Gaza, I think this would akin to somebody that is British suggest that the civilian population in the US had the duty to "root out" the American revolutionaries so they'd stop being victims of British war crimes and could pursue their right to Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness.  Knowing full well the British had no intention of allowing them to do that (like the Israelis don't really have the intention of allowing a successful and independent government exist in Gaza.)

 

(Also, we don't win the Revolutionary War without the French.  Even if you can find moderates ( @tshile's post taken) in Gaza that are willing to take on Hama, nobody is going to give them weapons to fight Hamas.  You're asking people to get slaughtered for fighting people that many in the area consider to fighting a colonizing/invading power.)

Well, if the talking point abused is that the people of Gaza are being abused by Hamas, which governs the Gaza strip, to the same extent that the Israelis have, then the ideals of the founding fathers ring just as true today for the people of Gaza as they did for the colonists in 1776. Hamas' leader offer no solution other than war and murders.  The leaders of the "Americans revolutionaries" you refer to were the men who developed the first true Constitution. The people of Gaza have the right, or the duty, to rise up against Hamas and put in place a government that will allow them to pursue the ideals of life, liberty, and happiness. Hamas is clearly not doing that, and absent the involvement of Israel, I seriously doubt Hamas would suddenly decide to enact a constitution similar to what the "American revolutionaries" did over 230 years ago. There is simply no parallel between the two,

59 minutes ago, Dan T. said:

Reasonable, intelligent, informed, thoughtful statement at the link.

 

 

 

Thoughts on Israel and Gaza. It’s been 17 days since Hamas launched… | by Barack Obama | Oct, 2023 | Medium

 

 

Very level headed statement.  But it doesn't suggest anything new.  When you have (1) a brutal terrorist attack against men (2) from a group that represents a region packed with civilians, who (regardless of the reason) overwhelmingly hate Israel, (3) the terrorist group hides amongst the civilian population (4) where civilian mobility is limited, and (5) if the terrorist group is not incapacitated, they will surely attack again and this cycle will continue. In addition, there over nearly 200 hostages being held by the terrorist group. So to eliminate Hamas, Israel must decimate the entire Gaza Strip, which would include heavy civilian casualties and the surely the death of most if not all of the hostages currently held by Hamas. That's the price it must pay to eliminate Hamas. Or Israel can do what it has done in the past--- limited incursions, bombings, etc., and the cycle will continue. 

But perhaps those are not the only two options. There is a third option, and its not without precedent. Thomas Jefferson (with assistance from others), once wrote:

[all people are endowed with] certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted  among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the  People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.. . .

. . . when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

At what point in time does the civilian population in Gaza have the duty to rebel, root out Hamas, and institute a form a new government that furthers their right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness?  After all, like any armed force or militia group, Hamas's leadership and it rank and file is predominantly made up of local citizens. Those citizens can turn on the Hamas leadership. Its not as if Iran, Syria, or Turkey are trucking them in.  And if they were being trucked in, all the more reason to throw them out.

So did he play much last week, or is he officially a backup now?  Obviously rooting for the guy, I think they threw him out there to sink or swim. Take a step back, learn some, and come back strong.

Just now, tshile said:

Oh good we’re all missile experts now

 

 

No, but the General is.