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This is exactly why for profit insurance is bullsh#t. It's making money from population statistics, yet it's absolutely in the "provider's" benefit to make sure that you don't get coverage for any condition in which they'd lose profit from you. They are there to bet that the pool of people they cover costs less then their premium amounts minus their expenses simply for pooling and offsetting the money you pay in. That's why you've seen huge lawsuits made into movies like "The Rainmaker". Insurance companies aren't there for you, they are there to pool you into a group and charge you above the mean cost of your lifetime health coverage then cut out the upper outliers for their own profit... Just pray you aren't one. It's basically a reverse lottery where they control the payouts. Frankly they could do the same being state run, probably better since they'd have continuous records from the population instead of hit or miss blips from the population trying to not incur a deductable. Plus everyone having to pay into the same pool. Except then we hit the old problem of kickbacks to political friends. Which dives us right back into the heart of the problem, political contributions. That's what pretty much every issue is deflecting attention from. It is the root cause. All insurance is basically just a prepaid loan pool by a bunch of people so that it can statistically cover the cost of unexpected expenses plus executive salaries from that pool and any interest they make on it. (Which they do, anytime you prepay anything you give them more then you receive, do a quick net-present-value search) Yet universal health insurance is evil and socialist. Not to mention completely unAmerican, but we all fund the military in the same way. The whole basis of anti-universal heath care is "I don't want to pay for those unhealthy people" and that's the gist of Insurance too. Yet you do it either way. Through taxes for people that hold off till they get emergency care. It's moronic and totally republican. Someone needs to start the MATH party, to do what makes sense numbers wise, just with enough common sense to not take it into "social" conservative/liberal areas. but if they really wanted to solve these issues they'd be listening to people like Lawrence Lessig (from about 14:50 on) about campaign reform. Then maybe politicians would do the right thing, and explain it to the slow... i.e. republicans that cant wrap their heads around the math the simple fact they won't ever statistically benefit from tax breaks for the 99.5% nor will they ever get there even if they hit the powerball.

Well Ben Nelson, and every other politician a-hole in this country sees even that little bit of political awareness you have as a way to try and steer you towards his side as a candidate like the rest of the "voters" on the lists they buy and target through their ads. Be pissed at him, because he's a twat, but still support the causes you are interested in... Letting these jackasses discourage the general population is the reason we have things like the law that lets them detain American citizens they want to call terrorists indefinitely. It's definitely time for internet activism to start taking it to all of our politicians. We can always BIN, (/dev/null), automatically Trash, or whatever their annoying self aggrandizing propaganda they send us, but they cant ignore us anymore since we are now the key towards them getting another paycheck. Internet users aren't just the nerds they used to ridicule, take for granted, and take pride in not understanding at this point. Which some of them have realized, but they still don't see this as anything but more then an instant post office. They don't realize that views evolve faster then they can flip flop and that even them being annoying can sway that. Nor do they understand that these issues, like SOPA/Protect IP, can be boiled down so even children can understand them and why they suck.

My bunker screening process. Please form an orderly line. okay not the best, but try getting a reservation at dorcia now you stupid bastard.

He was probably a lucky one that got fed outside of the military. It's half funny, because it's a joke, and the other half because it's true that they are short because they are Mal-nourished (look at the clothes our ancestors were wearing 100 years ago). Okay, this won't be politically correct at all, fair warning. My own curiosity has me asking, just how short were the Asian people during my ancestor's ages? We already know they are overall small in stature (basketball players not withstanding) now, but if you've see a historical site for 19th century white people they were all horribly short and yet they thought asians were short too, so maybe that's where this "myth" came into being. Or maybe they were midgets.

Too bad its one of the first rights we restrict every time something scurry happens. Abraham Lincoln trampled on it. That bum. Everyone that's imprisoned someone without evidence has, but ole Abe wouldn't have been the first one that came to mind for me. Think WW2, and 100k+ Japanese. So yeah that law, means absolutely nothing if we can sign sedition acts and blanket the country with propaganda. Actually thank god my German and Czeck parents went to war against, the Germans, on both sides of the family. Still though, those crafty slant-eyes. Good thing we rounded them up rather giving them a chance to fight for their actual country.

I'm going to make a lot of money off hysterical people. unfortunately, but well, long term I'll give you some decent advice in return. Move away from any coast. That's got nothing to do with this year, just with the fact that global warming is actually real.

Okay, That is bold. But that prediction probably belongs in the politics board.

Welcome mikeboss, hopefully it's a close and exciting game! But you USC fans are welcome around regardless of outcome, unless you also root for the badgers, in which case we just ask that you funnel all posts through badgerfan, so half of us here can pretend he's a troll and the other half can have a sense of humor.

I agree, except the asinine thing is, they would have if the official would have ruled it a touchdown. Then it would have been reviewable. Because he didn't and Detroit was out of challenges it wasn't reviewable. So call officially blown by the official, but that's the way it should go in the NFL if you've protested that the officials suck too much already, F - t - N - F - L.

I'll even spot you the second challenged fumble. Just explain to me how that wasn't a touchdown catch. bonus if you explain why on earth anyone rooting for a team game would ever celebrate a call like that? It's the equivalent of the 82 NU vs PSU game catch.

I think a game played in any outdoor location in those conditions, with the rules they have in place, it has a greater chance to be called badly. Elements should affect teams only. My point is the official that called that touchdown catch out of bounds obviously had some tearing at the bottom of his eyes because of the elements. Were those calls not bad? well at least they could go to replay twice and make sure. after that it was, "we'll just have the same blurry eyed zebra's wing it, with nobody checking they were right." Welcome to pro football, where they'll pay these kids millions of dollars for wins and make sure nobody can touch them beyond the ribcage, but the freaking officials can just wing it.

I want one simple thing while watching football, and it has absolutely nothing to do with anything you just said... Scores should count. That's it. It goes for the Lions and the Bears last season too when Johnson caught it in the endzone but didn't "complete the process". The two prime examples I can cite. Argue that that wasn't a touchdown catch, that is the only actual argument there. Other then that it's bullsh#t rules that disqualified a score and homerism. If the NFL is serious about being "pro" then it should get the right calls, no matter how. I trust a camera more they any zebra, I sure as hell trust a camera more then I trust a zebra in flurries and wind while it's sub thirty degrees. Cause I know from sitting out in actual fields in those conditions... that's when eyes water.

The freshman figure out a weight room, especially the 3 freshman running-backs. This bowl game proves a huge motivator either way.

Nebraska should hire Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to produce Nebraska's own soundtrack. (experiment)

Lions are probably about to go one and done to the saints in the playoffs, but this thread isn't about that. It's about "pro" football's replay rules. Suh and his detroit defense got embarrassed today, let me start by saying that. Not to Rodgers but to LSU's QB when Pelini won his NC, Matt Flynn. Good for that dude... and also for everyone that is a Green Bay Homer, Detroit had opportunities to win the game, nobody is disputing that (why should they have too, everyone that says that is a moron... the game should be fair first). But then there is this: After a bad fumble call, that was challenged and reversed. Topped by a bad fumble call that was challenged and not reversed. Detroit is out of challenges for the game. Then we get this, shortly after those two calls, and still in the first half: Sorry I cant find youtube embedable video. 1:15 at this link. http://www.nfl.com/v...kers-highlights This is "pro football." Obvious touchdown just nullified by blind officiating and unable to review because Detroit was out of "challenges." This is the league a ton of people watch? Green Bay is celebrating? I hope they don't change the rules before karma gets them in the ass. But how can anyone watch this "football"? It's absolutely horribly officiated, with pansy rules to protect "franchises" and just pretty much the antithesis of what football should be and proud of that to the point they are changing these rules for the worse all the time. I'd change the name of the thread to NFL, how can you freaking watch that crap? I can't. However, I'm not watching it anymore. Beyond this commercial: It's been a bust as long as I've been alive. (also Aly Landry got hot)

The funny thing is, before they got a hold of the songs at stadiums, things like zombie-nation, sandstorm, etc were cool only to clubbers and online techno people. Ohh and the Alan Parsons Project, while not 100% original is about a million times better then the new techo and seven nation armies ruined by stadium PA's. I'd say you try and please 85k people with music, but I'd be really scared if you did, trying to please majorities we'd end up with crap like Metallica (and not pre-sell-out black album). If you actually did please half a stadium, you'd get canned like the dude that played "take the money and run" for Cam Newton during warmups at Alabama. Since having a sense of humor is offensive. Everyone thinks they've got taste in music. Newsflash, you (we) don't

I wont, I cut it down from slightly above 500k to around 150k to get it to where it is, to go lower I'd have to cut both time and quality. Except it's not 1997 anymore, and although I have a very very small amount of sympathy for people with data-plans on cell providers as far as file size goes, those same people are streaming youtube videos, pandora, etc. Megs of data gone in a blink of an eye. I also lost the psd because I reformatted last weekend, and don't especially feel like reworking it. Funny thing is, I could still get it to work, in 100% full vhs or whatever quality my national championship video was shot in as a signature... without a size limit and on any host I wanted. So my point was it was an arbitrary change to the board software. I didn't mean to rant towards the staff really, it's an IP board decision, it just irked me.

After watching the pre-game coaches press conference I don't quite get the whole "Shut Spurrier up." He sure didn't talk about how his team was going to win against Nebraska. In fact he kept emphasizing "whichever team wins" and even mumbled to him self something like "anything can happen" after an answer to that effect later on. In fact he looked like he was having flashbacks of past bowl games and wouldn't let himself even believe anything was ever going to fall his way. I hope his team takes on his lack of confidence tomorrow. In any case thanks for the well wishes.

it was cut down to 163kb total. I even deleted frames so it'd be the same in IE, Firefox and Chrome, still wouldn't work. Before I gave up on spurrier as an avatar for the bowl game... It's the board software, I read their message-boards. Their whole deal was they didn't want animated gifs on the index of the board because it'd be "too busy" so they disabled them for avatars, and gravatar *might* support them. So... yeah. I don't really care. I won't sign up willingly for web tracking software (again, I was young when myspace came out). Overall it pissed me off just enough to stop messing with it, thankfully for them. Although even typing this out has stirred new-found ire their way.

I'll tell you how... pretty much if you upload a picture that isn't animated to the board as your profile picture you should be fine. and it'll probably resize it for you even if it's a tad big. Actually it's people like me that have 18 years of internet and web-design/programming experience that can't figure it out anymore... because we try to get fancy things animated avatars or something, even trimmed down to like 150KB (1999 style) with our early web style magic that doesn't screw your total bandwidth as much as possible (Because try downloading or uploading a lot of data in one month, you'll find your internet isn't *unlimited* pretty quick). Yet even if images are hosted on our own domains or accounts (cause we are not leeches) we find that doesn't compute with the web2.0 crowd since every piece of data about you is a small price to pay bandwidth wise... I mean who would need paid hosting accounts when you could just collect every bit of information about anyone who EVER visits your site, do facial/image recognition on any picture they use and then sell everything you've ever said or any data you've ever uploaded online or even looked at to marketing firms and governments? Nobody, that's what Facebook proved. That's why IP.board switched it up, it's no longer a self contained messageboard, it's now software that points you to "Gravatar" that is their universal login solution to try and rival "facebook connect." (which also tracks you everywhere that is facebook connect enabled) Only thankfully gravatar won't ever be that big, especially not big enough that Zuckerburg, the giant douche nozzle (and he is, believe the movie, and more) would ever care, except that just means governments and ad agencies get your online info cheaper. So Basically my message is, if you are smart, don't use this Gravatar crap. and if the Board administrators are smart, they'll stop upgrading this bullsh#t message-board software that is pushing us to their user tracking software crap, that would never benefit posters here anyways. That is all. Consider it fair warning about what is going on, online.

No offense but Husker basketball team, doesn't necessarily count, just thank god it wasn't a soccer or a hockey team.

"You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day", which is a damn shame cause I laughed my ass off. I'll get you with a meaningless, yet restricted, +1 tomorrow.

He'll be good, if they can keep the talent level around him. It seems like Sark has been doing a decent enough job recruiting. The D lacks overall team speed, but as long as Price has Seferian-Jenkins, he should be set. Those two are a deadly combo. I 100% agree they are pretty good with their offense. They have to get rid of their DC. He had a month to figure out baylor, he couldn't. He couldn't figure out USC or Oregon either. After Holding Oregon to 34, frankly Baylor should have been a little easier if not held to the same yardage.

Go for the score UW, otherwise you increase mistake chances. I'm telling you. There isn't a way you win this without just going for the win. If you brought a defense maybe that'd be a call that was fine. Washington's DC. he has to go, their offense is clicking, but this is Baylor... and to win a pac12 they have to beat both USC and Oregon. A semi-classic west-coast offense and a spread. Oregon would kill Baylor and they've been playing Oregon every year.

You can't play the wear out their defense game against Baylor, at least not if you don't bring a freaking defense yourself. Sark needs to fire his DC tomorrow.