Scott Dolan

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Hurt feelings is a personal foul, Matthew. Perhaps you never received that memo. Isn't it just pathetic what Goodell has turned this league into? And BTW, when you say the games have become unwatchable due to the penalties, I actually couldn't agree more. Remember the uproar over the flags in the preseason? Goodell sent one of his lackeys out to calm the fears. Welp. Here we are. Same bullshit, different season...

Didn't think that the refs could be worst than last year, but I was wrong on that count. The games are becoming unwatchable with all the flags. In the 36+ years I've followed the game, it would have never occurred to me that I might one day be defending the refs. But, their job is likely the least desirable officiating job in professional sports. The NFL rules are as fluid as any in all sports, and at all levels. And they have to constantly attempt to interpret and enforce them. May as well be trying to hold water in their hands. Not giving them a complete pass, mind you. Just trying to empathize with them considering how increasingly difficult that fucking idiot Goodell and his band of merry sycophants make their jobs.

How Philip K. Dickian of him! Seriously, that's a pretty cool prediction. One that can be viewed with 20/20 hindsight as "DUH!", but that's the beauty of 20/20 hindsight, right? One question. One thought. Question: If a company goes under, how have you lost your music collection? In the digital format we have the option to build so much redundancy into it, it's actually absurd. You can have a physical copy, a digital copy on your computer, a copy of that on an external hard drive, AND a copy of that in the Cloud! Imagine creating a comparable redundancy in the analog age! Thought: If you cannot "access the Cloud" for whatever reason, one would have to assume you aren't at home. Right? Because if you were, you'd simply slap on your record/CD/digital file via your computer. But, if you're away from home and can't access it, well, that's just like being away from home in the analog age. Is it not? A thousand pardons, brother. I'm not trying to give you a hard time, and I dug what you posted. I'm still just having a hard time seeing the downside.

Depending on when that book was published, he was either prescient or late to the party. http://nfltoaster.com

They are not talking about economics, but about personal preferences. No need to argue about that. I would have agreed too, except that I'm not an Apple guy and have never owned an "i"-product. "Recurring charges. Constant revenue." Unless I took the wrong class in school, that is indeed economics. Can only echo what MG posted. It is one of the clunkier pieces of software I've ever used. And it seemingly gets worse with every new release and update. Very frustrating.

I have to agree with Impossible on this one. Agree with him all you want, but it's really this simple: "According to an earnings report earlier this year, Apple's iPod Classic sales in the final quarter of 2013 had dropped 52 per cent year-on-year. Apple also lost 55 per cent in revenue on all models of the music player, compared to the previous year, and the iPod makes up less than 2 per cent of the company's overall income." The End http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2750990/RIP-iPod-Apple-silently-kills-Classic-digital-music-player-removing-online-store.html As the market goes, so goes the product. It's not some nefarious scheme by Apple. It's basic economics.

I already understood when MG explained it earlier. But, the fact that the people you describe are such a niche market explains the exact reason Apple discontinued it.

C'mon, brother. You're going down a rather silly road here. Yeah, if you didn't use Cloud storage or stream via Spotify, you'd have neither internet or a data plan. Seriously? You're manufacturing outrage.

The best things in life are few. https://www.apple.com/icloud/ And I'm not just referring to iCloud. Spotify and other subscriptions require recurring monthly payment, along with constant data transfer courtesy of megaton telecom. But yay for progress. Spotify is also free if you don't mind the commercial breaks and lower streaming bitrate. At the end of the day if you want something better than the free service offered, then you have to pay. I'm not sure why that is so outrageous.

What do you mean by recurring costs? ICloud is free.

But it hasn't. They just have it the ability to make and receive calls and now call it an iPhone.

The Classic is 13 y.o. I'd call that a pretty nice run.

OK, if it wasn't Porter (and I think I p was correct), it had to be the Bill Cole bio. That's the only other one I find in my library that could have led to my "assumption"(?) Or, perhaps I simply misread something somewhere. Look, I certainly would never disparage John Coltrane. For christ's sake, I named my son after him! I apologize if I recalled any of this correctly.

Not sure. Porter, maybe? I think I still have it, I'll have to check.

It was in a Coltrane biography where I read that he was still drinking wine up to his death. Can't recall which one it was.

Agreed, xybert! With a Wi-Fi connection, the iPod Touch is like having a miniature computer in your hands. Even without it the Touch is pretty astonishing.

Absolutely spot on, Paul. And Coltrane was still drinking wine pretty heavily at the time of his death.

Watch the replay. He didn't need to be touched. He came down on it in a terribly awkward way.

From what little I know of it it's a highly stable application. It's also proprietary, which makes it a far safer bet than third party software. But no big deal. Simply make a restore point real quick before installing. If you have any problems afterwards, then go back to that point and be done with it.

Yikes! Yeah, that was pretty grievous on my part...

My final word on this, Larry. I knew an athlete of his size and strength could have killed her with one blow from the very beginning. I do not care about the how and why, nor any other motivating factors. I am only concerned with the act and consequence. The lobby video told me all I needed to know. The elevator video reduced us to voyeurs. It's violence porn, and I refuse to intellectualize it. So, I appreciate your elaboration, as always, but we will simply have to agree to disagree.

I'd love to be rid of our land line, but the wife won't here of it. And since our phone and internet come from the same company we wouldn't save any money if we shut the phone off. (they're bundled)

Fine, Larry. Then clarify this for me. Let's say Rice slapped his girlfriend, she hit her head which knocked her out, then he dragged her out of the elevator and just stood there with no regard for her. Conversely, he punched her and knocked her out. Showed the same disregard for her in the elevator that we saw after he dragged her out of the elevator. How do you view those acts differently, and how would you have punished them differently?

...is somewhat contradictory to: You seem to be manufacturing unnecessary angst here. If you don't want to be interrupted on your walk, then switch your phone to silent and enjoy your Pandora or Live 365 programming. If you get a call while you're out, you'll have a message telling you so when you get back home and pull the phone out of your pocket. I realize you have to make such pronouncements to prove you're not a big phone guy. Hey, I get it. My wife and I were probably the last two people on the planet to get cell phones. And the only reason we did it was because we were moving half way across the country driving our own cars and she has zero sense of direction. And after stepping up to a smart phone, I realize the extreme versatility that is built into them. Comparing listening to music on one to pissing in your swimming pool is a bit silly. Because, no, a swimming pool most certainly does not have the same functionality as a toilet. Smart phone, OTOH, were indeed designed to also be music players.