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The salary cap is very specifically serves to enrich owners, in all major leagues. It does achieve the commissioners' state goal of parity, but the owners have never been worth more, and even in small markets team are more profitable than ever before. Players deservedly want their piece of the pie, but the cap requires that it be a zero sum game. Granted, this is one of those 144-character takes and the issue has more nuance than this, but owner wealth is outpacing player wealth. I don't give a shit about "paid too much to play a game." They should be paid what the market is making available, and the players aren't getting their proportionate share, even with contracts like Wilsons.

oh I completely agree. I'd like to see some of this stuff put into a contract, but even that has it's own, very obvious pitfalls.

I'm really surprised that more players don't try the Brady plan, deferring more money (or taking less overall) after promises that the team will spend to flesh out the team around you. Raw salary pales in comparison to advertising/branding opportunities for people that win Super Bowls, esp QBs. Taking a knife to the organizations hamstrings with your own contract isn't helpful. To be clear, I'm 100pct in favor of "get yours." The owners are getting WEALTHY off of this guy (and all of his teammates). I'm not saying you should take less out of the goodness of your heart. But winning pays more than losing.

Unintended consequences, that's honestly a great reminder. That area definitely carries a lot of water during storms, so my scorched earth idea is probably not a good one :). However, glycosophate is some bad stuff. Even in the 2% forumulations that regular RoundUp comes in. Any ideas for a weed killer that won't cause my grandchildren to have three eyes?

The guy that I work with here in Austin is $150/hr. Worth every fucking penny tho.

I love all of these people ... but this just doesn't work.

Most questions on this thread are about how to make things grow. Allow me to be a contrarian :). I've got a stretch of my yard between my house and a big limestone vein (we're on a hillside lot). I've turned the stretch into a river rock xeriscape, and it won't ever grow anything on purpose. I can say that confidently because I'm not pulling that river rock out anytime ever, and I need the walkway access so it won't ever have shrubs/bushes. Thus ... I want to keep the area weed-free. I want to literally salt the earth. My current plan is to buy bulk salt from Costo (or maybe pool salt), and just sprinkle it down like the worlds best anti-fertilizer. Any other thoughts from the master gardeners on the thread?

My wife bought a pair of seats for the last three seasons, so we could have Hamilton tickets.

Houston, I assume from your avater? (boooo ...)

Poulter is just so punchable.

This one seems to me to be the easiest of all of them to fix. "If the caddie is standing behind the player during any part of a players pre-shot routine, add two shots." Fuck it's not hard. You can both stand behind the ball and talk about line, target/aim points, wind, whatthefuckever. But if you're behind them while golf is being played, penalty. Clarify in decisions or in an addendum that intent is what matters here- don't want players doing stupid shit like grabbing a new club, then going back to the old club just to "reset" the penalty clock. The goal here is that the golfer should golf. So when the act of golfing a ball is starting, only one person should be participating. Admittedly, that means that ALL of the penalties called so far would still be penalties, but at least the rule is clear.

Do some research on the NVMe drives >1TB. There are sector-size issues that prevent you from encrypting windows in some scenarios. I don't know much about it since I'm on regular SSDs, but I saw a report the other day. May not matter to you in the end but forewarned is forearmed.

I bought the Noctua L9x65 due to it's reputation for true silence, and then never put it on because the stock cooler with the Ryzen does a DAMN fine job. I ran a bunch of benchmarking/burn in testing, and the GPU fan is way louder under load than the CPU fan. I know you're using onboard graphics, but I think you'll be more than happy with the stock fan. If not, let me know and you can buy my Noctua cheap, since my lazy ass forgot to return it to newegg in time.

Isn't Silver Surfer effectively the "one true god" in the Marvel Universe?

I"ve never heard that song before, hulla. And now I"m thinking about my daughter and the world she's growing up into, and how she looks tired but she sure as fuck doesn't look scared. Fuck you for making me tear up in the middle of the day, and thank you for posting this.

Wow. I missed the first trailer, and reading the thread I couldn't believe it would be THAT bad. I really liked FC and DOFP, and the writing and cast seemed to play off each other well. Surely that would be enough to sustain DP. Was I ever wrong. Lord that trailer looks horrible. And here's my ultimate issue with basically everything since Apocalypse ... Jean is the Omega. She is more powerful than all of the other mutants put together. She literally just "decided to wake up" and took care of Apocalypse in the last movie like she was taking a morning stretch. So the only possible way this works as a movie is for it to be HEAVILY character driven, and it MUST be a redemption story (because if jean grey decides to end the universe, well, bye). And that trailer showed a few tears and some tripe about family ... and a whole lot of people trying to fucking FIGHT her. jesus fuck.

Auto-play videos with sound can suck my ass.

I'm with GP on his criticisms of SHaka, but I have no idea why you keep using Barnes as a counter example, except to think that you like the attention it inevitably generates. That video of Barnes presser was peak coachspeak. "The guys have really become a team. Can't talk about final four, look at our schedule. I don't have to say anything in the huddle, our guys will say it for me. We've got Kentucky twice and Mizzouri and others, they're all really good blah. blah. blah."

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no thanks.

It's true, though.

Doing some experimenting with my gear. My jpx900s are on DGS400 (130g+) shafts. I bought a set of 120g Tour Issue DGs, and am having just the 8i swapped out. My old bones just can't move it as fast as I used to, so hoping this helps me find a few yards. Going to experiment with a Titleist driver, so getting my TourAd-Di6s fitted with the TS2 adapter. And putting the AD-Di 85Hy shaft into the new Titlelist hybrid I bought a few weeks back from the demo rack at Forest Creek. Throwing lots of good money after bad, I fear :).

I know I still haven't recovered. One eyebrow will always be slightly smaller than the other after getting my face too close to the mason jar.

Yeah, but at least I look like the reasonable one, which is rare :). You got any more of that family moonshine?

Not arbitrarily. I'm believing the science that says CTE is in the family of influences that include Alzheimers and dementia, in that physical changes to portions of the brain are highly correlated with behavioral changes. You know, from doctors and stuff. I'm also not sure what the "100%" is supposed to imply, because I"m not waving my hand and absolving Nobis (or Seau, or others) of their behavior, I'm just acknowledging that there are a set of inputs involved in their decision making beyond just "self control." There's an analogy here to alcoholism, bi-polar disorder, ADHD, etc - they're still all making choices (to drive, to fidget, etc) but science has proven that there are other inputs in their brains that make their decision making more difficult, and there are treatments for those situations that vastly improve their quality of life. In the case of CTE, that treatment is "maybe don't play football ..." which is something we have to seriously consider as rational adults. Very honestly, I can't see your angle here. What are you actually arguing? That the game is safe? That the data doesn't show that repeated head injuries cause behavioral changes? (forget "CTE" as a target ... people with multiple concussions very consistently report changes in mood, behavior, emotional regulation, and more than just football. Soccer players are apparently VERY affected).