Iculus

27 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Do any of the places you live in have the Czech breakfast food kolache/klobasniky? They are actually delicious unlike most dried out lame-o donuts.

I'm not super fond of the fruit ones, but I love the sausage and jalapeno varieties 

1 minute ago, sblfilms said:

Silly us to have actually read the article and note that your point had nothing to do with the issue at hand 

 

 

Why take issue with admission requirements? In our local school district, we have public schools that have admission requirements. I don’t know why you think this is a problem.

Because I've never heard of such a thing. We have specialized charter schools (art, stem etc.) that require students to maintain a certain GPA, but they don't blanket deny anyone from attending. Also, most of the time religious schools have ridiculous "moral" guidelines. Those are fine if they remain private, but I have zero interest in paying taxes to a school that refuses to take students with 2 moms.

2 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Silly me, that makes it all okay.

 

Private schools shouldn't get government funding. That's what it boils down to.

Yep. If they want to ditch admission requirements, tuition, and adopt their district's conduct policies then fine. If not, then keep charging your students 11k/year and make up the difference with whatever weirdos donate to specific schools. 

2 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

The scholarship program explicitly denied parents the use of the scholarship funds to help attend a religiously affiliated school. They could only use the funds for a secular private school.

In the article Kavanaugh mentions protestant and Jewish schools, but give me a break. The "they will not replace us" crowd will find a way. 

If a school wants public money then it needs to completely remove admission requirements, not charge tuition, and not expell young people for wearing rainbow shirts in birthday pictures. 

11 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

My knee-jerk reaction is to be outraged. But, if the schools meet standards that any other school would have to meet to get public funding then I can't get too upset.

Sure, but what about non-christian private schools? Are the Christian schools going to stop charging tuition? I'm not super concerned with the religious aspect of this. I'm assuming that if you send your kid there, then you know what your getting into. But this, along with charter schools/school choice is only going to further water down public school funding.

3 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I think MLB is underestimating fan's reactions to this cheating.

They're hoping it will just go away, and I'm not sure it will.

Do a majority of fans care, or even know that this happened, though? I'm probably an outlier, but I couldn't possibly give less of a shit about this, or steroids for that matter. The game would probably be more interesting if they just let every team/player do whatever the hell they wanted.

2 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Cases of new viral respiratory illness rise sharply in China

 

'You could literally go around the Earth' before symptoms start: Screening for new coronavirus

 

 

My wife has worked with BlueDot in the passed. They accidentally shared classified information with the team, which they then had to self report. Bunch of wankers...

There are now some rumblings that this may not be new. Apparently China opened the most sophisticated disease lab in the region last year. So there is a possibility that they just recently gained the ability to detect it. We shall see I suppose. Also the first recorded case was 12/3, but China didn't release a statement until 12/31. Oops!

4 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

You can get a virus from Mexican beer now?

The common cold is a motherfucker!

1 minute ago, mclumber1 said:

 

I live in Vegas with a lot of international travelers coming in and out of town.  

An official CDC statement says that strippers and alchohol are the best prophylactics. 

1 minute ago, legend said:

Not sure I wanted to read about this. I'm going to a large conference in February  

Well, since we are supposed to be optimistic, it may be easier to find a place to park.

1 minute ago, stepee said:

 

I’m going to think bigger and hope that the one reported US case WAS Trump.

The Rs would just "Weekend at Bernie's" his ass because no one gives a shit anymore. Fox news would just play old rally footage on Hannity every night, and his mouth breathing supporters would go on believing all is well.

So, this could be a thing. There were 74 confirmed cases in China yesterday, and 300+ today. There are also either suspected or confirmed cases in South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, and Japan. (Sorry @Rodimus) It's new so the mortality rate is undetermined, but if it's anything like SARS there will certainly be some casualties. 

On top of that, Ebola has been mercing folks in the DRC for almost two years. What a time to be alive...

45 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

CDC about to announce that the first US case has been identified.

 

@Iculus

Yeah, I may have quietly sat in on that conference call this morning. I was kicked out right after I heard that. (My wife is a contractor who works from home for the most part) Their morning calls are usually rather bland "what are you guys working on" type calls. They obviously have more important things to discuss at the moment. As soon as shit got real she made me leave lol

That's the most country/metal thing ever.

49 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

If you limit that to not touching Chinese people then you should still be safe.

 

EDIT - How dangerous is this? I've seen that there are three deaths...but that could be in the same range as the common flu depending on the specifics of the victims and how many people have contracted it.

I can ask my wife, but she's been at the CDC for 3 years and this is the first time that they've deployed anyone.

Edit - anyone from her team (DGMQ)

Hudson Hawk

3 hours ago, Jason said:

lolwut

"the millionaire, and his wife"

2 hours ago, SFLUFAN said:

Three US airports are screening arriving passengers for the virus.

My wife's team is training the screeners. They already have several members deployed. 

2 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Matthew Lillard is still killing in the 2010s. He's the official voice of Shaggy in every movie since 2010.

Zoinks!!

1 hour ago, Reputator said:

This was the final straw that made me look up Billie Eilish and see what all the fuss is about.

 

 

Her and her brother are actually.....pretty freakin talented. Like damn! Good choice for Bond I'd say.

They are remarkable. Especially when you consider that Billie just turned 18. 

1 hour ago, Bloodporne said:

My ex loved this stupid movie and I've seen it minimum of ten times and I seriously hate it haha...

 

That stupid über-edgy white kid who looks like the singer of Blind Melon is the most 90's person ever and has the most punchable face. That being said, I don't know one 90's boy who didn't watch this due to the fact of Jolie wearing that white outfit alone.

I always confuse him, Matthew Lillard, with Ethan Embry for some reason (who was in Empire Records lol). They aren't very similar, but I smoked a bunch of pot during their peak so....

Her current catalog is perfectly congruent with passed Bond title songs. Neat pick!

2 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I would really not like the precedent it would set for Michael Bloomberg to win as he's basically buying his own ads and influence and the like. The current PAC system is only slightly less shitty than that.

 

But if he wins the nomination I'm voting for him.

Same. I can't imagine someone that I would be less enthusiastic about, but my mailbox would make a better POTUS than Trump. 

6 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

The constitution gives virtually no structure to impeachment. Besides SCOTUS ruling one way or another, there really isn’t any argument for or against the constitutionality of what Pelosi or McConnell are doing.

Yep. I'm surprised that McConnell isn't just ignoring it all together. 

Closet Land '91 - Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman are the cast (literally, it's just them). I saw this on tv shortly after release. I was probably 15 or 16 at the time, and it really stuck with me. I was reminded of it and figured I'd give it a rewatch. I can't objectively rate it, as most of my thoughts on the film are firmly rooted in nostalgia, but it still screwed with my head.