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they're replacing the bulbs with the original led's

you're absolutely right: they're not equal. 7/210 with a player opt-out after three years is a much better proposition for the team Uhhhh no lol i was just blustering for the most part, but i do think the downside of the opt out is being way overstated in part because it totally ignores the upside, which is also has the potential to be significant

you're absolutely right: they're not equal. 7/210 with a player opt-out after three years is a much better proposition for the team

maybe you're just using cost in a way that i'm not catching on to but, assuming we're operating on standard definitions of cost and price, no, a player opt out in an all-things-being-equal scenario doesn't cost a team more than a deal without one. i just don't see any solid reasoning behind the notion that there is some additional risk or penalty incurred by the team for including a player opt out in the deal and your equation is incorrect, at least in the absolute way you define it; a is not greater than b every time. if i can take advantage of the next three years of david price and he does so well that seeking a positive market correction is the consequence of him delivering spectacular value to my team over those seasons, then I'm absolutely giddy because i still get to keep him if i want! all i need to do is pay the new market value. but if i don't want, then he's some other sucker's problem as his age curve attacks net net: with the opt out i'm no worse off than the alternative in years 4-7, but i'm also potentially way better off than the alternative should he opt out and take his future stink elsewhere

The issue isn't whether you are "happy" to let him opt-out after the three years. The issue is whether that scenario is *good enough* to balance out the downside of being stuck with him if he isn't. ok so i was open to the idea that maybe i was missing something but no this is just idiotic. the seven years is th.. i mean *is the incentive*, not the opt out. the player gets protection from the market, and the team GETS THE PLAYER. in any suboptimal scenario, you're saddled with the years of salary, and no realistic alternative allows you to escape from that while still also getting the player in the near term

i think it was the distilled water but who's to say. all swell that ends swell

That's ... just *so* wrong. why?

chrome comes in four versions, in order of stability: 1) canary 2) dev 3) beta 4) stable if chrome was like a book, canary would be the rough draft.. if rough drafts had chapters and sometimes even characters that don't make it into the next draft. some people should read rough drafts so they can explore each of those chapters and characters to their fullest and tell the author what works and what doesn't you are not one of those people

that should have been your first step. why are you using chrome canary? It's supposed to work better on macs than regular chrome Regardless, I tried Firefox last night and it wouldn't connect to NSBB at all Works fine on my phone, bum it my laptop is struggling (but just with NSBB, not anywhere else) no. developer chrome for mac is not supposed to work better than regular chrome for mac. in the circumstance that it is true, it's marginal and only for very small time frames you should at least try to find other boards run on phpbb as a control. there are many. you should also test running incognito and whatever the firefox version of that is as well. i don't think the browser is your issue though

The equation has changed. Yes, lots of people will watch a good Cubs team, but other teams will dwarf their revenues based on timing of deals. The Cubs will be better off than the also rans, but that has always been the case. They aren't climbing the ladder to elite revenue status without the help of grossly overvalued cable contracts. just because other clubs have capitalized on better timing doesn't mean the equation has changed. a captive audience will be valuable whether the dollars come from direct subscriptions or advertising subsidies but anyway, that doesn't really matter. the point is that the cubs can and hopefully will do significantly better in five years than what they do today because they can package their games together. i'm not sure what you find so objectionable about that statement

that should have been your first step. why are you using chrome canary?

i think you're highly discounting the boon that controlling a majority of their broadcasts will be for the cubs. as tt said, the cubs don't need a dodgers deal to make out like bandits in a few years. lots of people tune into competitive cubs teams, and those people buy things. this equation isn't going to change

that looks like the new student union at whatever urban university

I'm aware, and I don't give a [expletive]. He invented Graphics Interchange Format...hard G on graphics, btw. That doesn't somehow give him license on the pronunciation of the acronym...especially when the whole argument in this thread is that we shouldn't be pronouncing them as words at all anyway. nato. pronounced nay-toe. stands for north atlantic treaty organization, not north ate-lantic treaty organization. nasa. pronounced nah-suh. stands for national aeronautics and space administration, not national aeronautics and space uh-dministration. cern. pronounced surn. stands for conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire, not sonseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire. hopefully you get my point here if you invent something, you get to name it pretty much always. to say otherwise is ridiculous. he named it gif, pronounced jif. that's its' name also i never argued that tech acronyms shouldn't be pronounced as words as a rule. in fact, i pointed out that it depends on what it is and the context what an astoundingly horrible argument. if only we were to live in some grey, phantasmagoric soviet nightmare where jif peanut butter doesn't exist, we would then have license to pronounce .gif with a hard g? k

file extensions are said like words whenever possible, but only insomuch as it's practical; .jpeg .gif .doc .mov .ini, et. al.

woah woah, slow down there, poindexter you just have to clean out the insides with distilled water. don't use tap, that stuff's nasty

like a place where you store weapons? insomuch as derwood using the internet is a weapon of some sort

you need to clear your cache or some [expletive] brah

this is even funnier when you imagine banedon saying this with hard g's

Still don't get why people don't just say the letters in GIF like every other 3 letter acronym (USA, GOP, NBA, LED, POW, etc). There's other computer/internet related acronyms that are that way too...*shrug* LOL RAM ROM DOS FAQ GUI pronounced with each letter individually or as a word? because there's definitely differences in how those are handled; "lol' is always said "l-o-l" but ram is just ram. dos can be dos when referring to the operating system, but it's d-o-s when referring to a denial of service attack. gui is pronounced "gooey". faq is f-a-q. gif is pronounced jif unless you learned about the file format because of memes or don't have the awareness to realize that making the noise "gif" with your mouth sounds like an involuntary body function and not a word that is being used to communicate something All of the ones I listed, while not always, are frequently pronounced as words...including lol and faq, as have been discussed earlier in the thread. And Gif should be pronounced with a hard G unless you say the word "gift" as "jift". yeah but i'm not going to defer to blatant wrongness simply because it came earlier in the chronological timeline. a handful of rubes debasing themselves by saying FACK out loud and devoid of irony doesn't make it valid usage, regardless of the frequency comparing .gif to gift is a false equivalency. you're assuming some sort of universality of pronunciation that just doesn't exist. and as ssr pointed out, there are clear examples that directly contradict this, even if there is some convention that would dictate otherwise. lastly, the actual guy who invented gif's has weighed in on its pronunciation and has consistently and repeatedly confirmed that it's a soft g. this isn't a matter of interpretation; it's pronounced "jif"

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@jersey check this [expletive] out ^

If there is someone you want to see a particular post You mean, like, if you wanted to forward a post to somebody to make sure they saw it? Why? Can't you just pm them? that's extra steps you grumpy old fool get with it

Still don't get why people don't just say the letters in GIF like every other 3 letter acronym (USA, GOP, NBA, LED, POW, etc). There's other computer/internet related acronyms that are that way too...*shrug* LOL RAM ROM DOS FAQ GUI pronounced with each letter individually or as a word? because there's definitely differences in how those are handled; "lol' is always said "l-o-l" but ram is just ram. dos can be dos when referring to the operating system, but it's d-o-s when referring to a denial of service attack. gui is pronounced "gooey". faq is f-a-q. gif is pronounced jif unless you learned about the file format because of memes or don't have the awareness to realize that making the noise "gif" with your mouth sounds like an involuntary body function and not a word that is being used to communicate something

i understand it to be not so much a dissipation as it is an absorption of mass. it is one of the ways that balance is brought to the dongiverse