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I have us at 8-4.

Although I thought we'd only win 2 games this last season, so what do I know.

1 hour ago, knapplc said:

I won't eat store-bought Italian sausage anymore, after figuring out how easy it is to make your own. I'm about to go make some right now for pizza tonight.

Do you have a recipe/process that you like? 

1 minute ago, Undone said:

Please stop being so reasonable.

As something of an expert on beating topics to death on this board, I do have moments of being reasonable. 

I've gotten into woodworking and have started to become a snob on where I buy wood and the quality of the cutting surface that cut/form the wood including the blades and the sandpaper.

TL;DR Who gives a s#!t? They're gone.

How do any of the past QB's that aren't on the team anymore have anything to do with the hiring of Glenn Thomas? Whatever happened and whoever we should or shouldn't have kept at QB doesn't matter for how the Glenn Thomas hire shakes out. Let's focus on who we have available at QB.

Maybe move the stock bets to another thread? You'll probably get more views/comments outside the P&R forum.

10 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Toyota Tundra 1794 edition

That is an OLD truck

9 hours ago, ZRod said:

Meh... There's was a little more violence, and a lot more bloodshed, but the appeasement is through and through.

Remember there were years of violent talk before the violence began in earnest. And we're seeing a lot of the same from MAGA.

2 hours ago, ZRod said:

You're literally talking out your a$$. The quality numbers are plane and simple the number of issues reported by the customer. That's it. There's no weighting and no bias. I see the data every year as part of my job.

I've already explained this to you several times. By all means, produce the survey questions and how they're combined into the ranking to prove me wrong.

2 hours ago, ZRod said:

 

It's pretty obvious there's no fudging the data.

No, it's actually not. That's the entire point.

2 hours ago, ZRod said:

 

Not sure why you're so distrustful.

Common sense and experience

4 hours ago, commando said:

my snowblower was to short for the plow drift left at the end of my driveway.   the throw chute was covered when i pushed into that drift.    

In the past when this has happened to me, I used a snow shovel to knock down the drift, snowplow the knocked down snow, repeat.

4 hours ago, ZRod said:

 The only bias would be customers having problems with their vehicles or not liking certain aspects of it. There is no weighting or tweaking, it's problems reported per thousand. The people are selected at random, it's a standardized survey form, and there needs to be at least (I think) 100 surveys return to evaluate the product.

There are tons of ways to bias surveys. One example is question dilution where you ask a lot of questions in a category if you know/suspect one of them will get low marks and the other questions will do better. Another is question elimination where you drop a question from the final results if you don't like the responses. Another is question modification where you ask the question in several ways and then use the one that performs they way you want in the final survey. Another is weighting the impact of the questions when combining them to create the ranking. Etc., etc.

And you just have to trust JD Power that the people are selected randomly, which given the lack of transparency and invested interest in the results is pretty naive.

4 hours ago, ZRod said:

It's not some pay to play or pay to win scheme. The OEMs only pay to see the data, and if they win an award they pay to be able to "display" the award in their adds.

So what happens if JD Power ranks a company highly that doesn't pay to market the award - like Tesla? JD Power loses money they would have gotten. That's the most obvious conflict of interest. There's also the indirect one where they don't want to piss off the OEMs paying for their data. If you don't think conflicts of interests affect business decisions and therefore work product, I don't know what to tell you. Believe what you want.

4 hours ago, ZRod said:

So, as a consumer who doesn't have access to the data I understand why you might be skeptical; but as someone who works in the industry and sees a detailed breakdown of the results each year it's not just some pay for play scheme. It's real data with legitimate customer complaints and problems. Everything from factory defects to designs that the customer doesn't like (inside and out).

 

Almost every known OEM sold in the US participates. There is no favoritism as American OEMs are routinely blasted by customers when they're bad, and everyone uses the data ad benchmarking to show where they need to focus their efforts going forward.

None of that makes the JD Power rankings any more believable or unbiased. Their surveys can both be useful for improving your product while also having biased rankings based on the surveys. Never trust any ranking where the people making the list have a vested interest in the result. JD Power isn't going to lose money when they can tweak the questions, the weighting, the included survey takers, etc to make more money.

3 hours ago, Scarlet said:

Oh no, not Bill O'Reilly.  

 

 

Strong I can't believe the leopards are my face energy.

27 minutes ago, ZRod said:

The the Ospreys undergrounded again? Or is this old stock reels?

AFAIK it's been operational for about a decade.

2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I didn't get this one, I got the EGO and love it.  I don't need to worry about a gas engine starting and it's relatively quiet while using.

Same. Although one of my two EGO batteries died this winter after just under 3 years of use. The other battery is still working fine and I love the snowblower otherwise.

Just now, ZRod said:

Even the worst manufacturers still build good cars on their assembly lines, they just build more turds than the other guys. JD Powers is the industry standard, so not really nonsense. Every OEM in the US referencs it for how they are performing and what needs to improve. To finish dead last is f#&%ing awful. Usually you find Jaguar and Range Rover towards the bottom and your Asian OEMs closer to the top for a reason.

JD Power makes its money from the same companies they are rating. There's a not too surprising correlation between the brands that pay them and the top brands on their lists. Plus the awards are based on customer surveys, so how JD Power defines "quality" and the way they ask the questions has a huge influence on what the results look like. I searched around a bit and couldn't find the questions for the Initial Quality Survey, which makes it very hard to judge the value of the questions even before considering the segment of people surveyed.

13 minutes ago, knapplc said:

I genuinely don't understand what is happening with announcing Saban's replacement. Alabama is one of the top two or three jobs in the country, right? Maybe the top job?

I don't think that's true. Saban was one of the top two or three head coaches of all time, maybe the top. But Alabama isn't a better place to go for a HC than the other roughly 25 top programs. In the modern era of college football, the NIL collective(s) are arguably more important than the schools themselves.

Just now, BigRedBuster said:

It's not.  But, if they are supported by Iran, it's a mistake to think that Iran wouldn't be drawn into this against us.

I mean, that's something Iran has to decide. Iran could decide to get involved regardless of what we do. But not responding to attacks on international shipping lanes because a country might get involved is a dangerous way to decide policy.

1 minute ago, BigRedBuster said:

They are hitting targets supported by Iran.

That's the speculation, but those targets are in Yemen. Or did I miss something in the reporting that it's actually Iranian military being hit at those sites?

Just now, commando said:

the houthis are not a country.  they are rebels in yemen.  they are not the country of yemen.

I know that, but the US is hitting targets in Yemen, which is not Iran.

16 minutes ago, Decked said:

Yeah but this time it’s different because my guy has an R or D in front. Every political base ever. 

It's literally different countries.

18 hours ago, ZRod said:

Because them stupid librards EVs are failing!!! 

 

 

The issue isn't EVs, it's that Hertz is still run by idiots and the majority of their EV fleet are Teslas. Tesla is also run by an idiot. Their cars are notoriously expensive to maintain and repair because papa Elon hasn't figured out how to make spair parts for service like a real OEM, and he will only let Tesla certified shops work on the vehicles.

Agreed. Tesla's lack of third-party shops doing repairs is a giant issue.

As for Hertz, it's also simply that rental cars are regularly turned over. Hertz is just selling off cars it bought a few years ago. It's interesting that they aren't buying more EV's to replace the ones they are selling but not really much of an indicator of anything.

18 hours ago, ZRod said:

Also, Tesla quality is notoriously bad. They pulled out of the JD Powers survey a year or 2 ago because they were going to be dead last in initial quality.

I see this sentiment on the internet a lot, and as an owner of a Tesla I have to push back on it. I have a 2021 Model Y and it's just as high quality as the Honda and Toyota vehicles I've owned. Maybe I just got lucky, but IMO the Tesla quality issues seem overblown. And JD Powers is nonsense and no one should bother with it.

19 minutes ago, Husker in WI said:

 

Every school has a team (or at least a person) stealing signals, just not ones filming practices/games.

No, teams have a guy or two watching the sidelines during the game. I'm talking about a dedicated team working on it year-round. Since hacking into computer systems is actually illegal, they'll need to think outside the box: pay players on other teams to give them the signals, playbook, etc.

7 hours ago, jaws said:

 

Moral of the story. Don't cooperate with the NCAA.

 

Congrats on your first title since 1948. 

Every school needs to be hiring a team to start stealing signals, filming practices, etc. If the NCAA doesn't care about the integrity of the rules or the game, then neither should anyone else.

I still don't understand why there's a signing day at all. Let players and teams sign when they want.