Presidential elections by state education

[Gulo Blue]

You could rig shit so that every World Series, Stanley Cup, Super Bowl and NBA Final Series is between a NYC team and Los Angeles team.

I know you never would, for the same reason that you won't go back in time and assassinate Hitler.

But we both know you have the ability.

The only posters to this board who will know this isn't a joke are Vic, MichChamp and byco.

All evidence points to a Spartan having the ability, not me. You still remember the App St horror, right? I do. I'm pretty sure we're on the same timeline.

 

[tinselwolverine]

All evidence points to a Spartan having the ability, not me. You still remember the App St horror, right? I do. I'm pretty sure we're on the same timeline.

Right.

I get it.

Sure.

A Spartan.

Right.

Sure.

I get it.

Nothing to see here, folks...

 

[tinselwolverine]

Right.

I get it.

Sure.

A Spartan.

Right.

Sure.

I get it.

Nothing to see here, folks...

Gulo, throughout eternity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE744P_DSzA

 

[Spartanmack]

That's only because they vote first, so the liberal media covers the Iowa election more than any other and keeps reminding them that's election day.

By the time the election rolls around to California, unless gay marriage or legal pot or some (Kenyan Muslim) black guy is on the ballot running for president, we're gonna be all, like, "meh, fuck it..."

I thought they only voted first in the primaries - and lately they haven't been doing that either as other states have moved to earlier voting to make their primaries more relevant. On election day, aren't their voting hours similar to the rest of the country's?

 

[Spartanmack]

You could rig shit so that every World Series, Stanley Cup, Super Bowl and NBA Final Series is between a NYC team and Los Angeles team.

I know you never would, for the same reason that you won't go back in time and assassinate Hitler.

But we both know you have the ability.

The only posters to this board who will know this isn't a joke are Vic, MichChamp and byco.

Whatever, the only pro sports championship I care about is the Stanley Cup so how about we just rig that one for Detroit and you can do whatever you want w/ the rest.

Gulo, do you really have the ability to go back in time like Tinsel says you do? If so, it's pretty selfish of you to not go back and assassinate Hitler. If you ever change your mind, can you bring your own gun and a camera or is it like Terminator where you have to go through naked and beat up some German kid and take his lederhosen?

Hey, I just thought of something, maybe you can get him while he's on vacation in Austria and you can get that ex-nun chick to make you some clothes out of her boss' curtains...

 

[Gulo Blue]

Whatever, the only pro sports championship I care about is the Stanley Cup so how about we just rig that one for Detroit and you can do whatever you want w/ the rest.

Gulo, do you really have the ability to go back in time like Tinsel says you do? If so, it's pretty selfish of you to not go back and assassinate Hitler. If you ever change your mind, can you bring your own gun and a camera or is it like Terminator where you have to go through naked and beat up some German kid and take his lederhosen?

Hey, I just thought of something, maybe you can get him while he's on vacation in Austria and you can get that ex-nun chick to make you some clothes out of her boss' curtains...

Well, I've always said that I can't, problem is, I'd have to deny it even if I could. So I point to App. St. Why wouldn't I go back and fix that? Or why wouldn't I choose to live in a timeline where Michigan won that game?

...and even though it's impossible, if it was possible through technology, clothes, guns, and cameras could go with you. There's no property of matter that separates people from other stuff that makes time travel possible. It's not life or having been alive. Your clothes are dead organic materials, but so is your hair.

But, you know what...I hadn't thought about supernatural time travel. Maybe Terminator time travel sans clothes would make sense if you needed a soul....errr...the cyborgs probably don't clear that hurdle though. I can't think of a set of rules that allows cyborgs and people through and not clothes. It could be that the power required scales with mass and is so difficult to achieve, it's just easier to go naked, but if that were the case, I'd be sending 98 lb humans and small robots capable of manufacturing components and adding onto themselves after time hopping.

 

[Spartanmack]

Well, I've always said that I can't, problem is, I'd have to deny it even if I could. So I point to App. St. Why wouldn't I go back and fix that? Or why wouldn't I choose to live in a timeline where Michigan won that game?

...and even though it's impossible, if it was possible through technology, clothes, guns, and cameras could go with you. There's no property of matter that separates people from other stuff that makes time travel possible. It's not life or having been alive. Your clothes are dead organic materials, but so is your hair.

But, you know what...I hadn't thought about supernatural time travel. Maybe Terminator time travel sans clothes would make sense if you needed a soul....errr...the cyborgs probably don't clear that hurdle though. I can't think of a set of rules that allows cyborgs and people through and not clothes. It could be that the power required scales with mass and is so difficult to achieve, it's just easier to go naked, but if that were the case, I'd be sending 98 lb humans and small robots capable of manufacturing components and adding onto themselves after time hopping.

Maybe you had $ on App State and in the alternate timeline, App State has the most wins in college football and michigan was the giant killer...

Wait a second, are you saying Kyle Reese made that up that stuff about the cyborg getting through because the mechanical parts were wrapped in living tissue just so he could travel through the portal naked? John Connor's Dad, the guy who who saved civilization and all or at least some of humanity is an exhibitionist perv? Call me a prude, but that kinda ruins it for me. I guess Kindergarten Cop is my new 2nd favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.

Also, why not design modular robots and send them in pieces so they only have to worry about assembly and not manufacturing which would require resources and possibly refining of those resources?

 

[Gulo Blue]

Maybe you had $ on App State...

Wait a second, are you saying Kyle Reese made that up that stuff about the cyborg getting through because the mechanical parts were wrapped in living tissue just so he could travel through the portal naked? John Connor's Dad, the guy who who saved civilization and all or at least some of humanity is an exhibitionist perv? Call me a prude, but that kinda ruins it for me. I guess Kindergarten Cop is my new 2nd favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.

Also, why not design modular robots and send them in pieces so they only have to worry about assembly and not manufacturing which would require resources and possibly refining of those resources?

Yeah. Eyebrows, hair, fingernails, the top layer of your skin...

I don't buy the living tissue thing. And what about liquid metal terminators? That's not living tissue.

Really, I don't think you send back humaniod robots at all. Microdrones. Swarms of microdrones would be better assassins on a lb for lb basis.

 

[Michchamp]

Yeah. Eyebrows, hair, fingernails, the top layer of your skin...

I don't buy the living tissue thing. And what about liquid metal terminators? That's not living tissue.

Really, I don't think you send back humaniod robots at all. Microdrones. Swarms of microdrones would be better assassins on a lb for lb basis.

in that one South Park episode, people came back from the future covered in goo. and they were hairless.

 

[Gulo Blue]

in that one South Park episode, people came back from the future covered in goo. and they were hairless.

South Park guys are pretty smart.

 

[jwlcosu]

0bamacare architect agrees there are lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of stupid voters.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=obamacare+architect&qpvt=Obamacare+Architect&FORM=ASMMVR

Fortunately, most of them vote only in Presidential elections.

 

[TheVictors]

By and large Americans are stupid. and fat and lazy. it's just true.

not the shining city on a hill.

a big fat stupid mcdonalds in the strip mall. that's America now.

 

[Spartanmack]

By and large Americans are stupid. and fat and lazy. it's just true.

not the shining city on a hill.

a big fat stupid mcdonalds in the strip mall. that's America now.

Hey, didn't you once make your living owning snowboard shops in strip malls? They may be a bit more upscale but those ski resort shopping centers at the base of the mountain are just high priced strip malls. Or were your stores in town?

 

[TheVictors]

They were privately owned boutique shops located in the ski villages at Vail (Lionshead). Since then, the stores were acquired by Intrawest (Whistler/Copper Mtn) who then sold to VRI, the publicly traded parent company of Vail Resorts and retail.

The stores are now quite "strip mall" like compared to back then. Corporately owned and branded with product purchased in massive close out deals.


I was just saying that Americans for the most part do need to look in the mirror a bit and drop the notion that we do *everything* better than the rest of the world does. Because we don't any more. And for the record, I have never been a strip mall guy - fortunate to have lived either in smaller cities like TC or A2 or in larger cities/college towns instead of suburbia.

 

[tinselwolverine]

They were privately owned boutique shops located in the ski villages at Vail (Lionshead). Since then, the stores were acquired by Intrawest (Whistler/Copper Mtn) who then sold to VRI, the publicly traded parent company of Vail Resorts and retail.

The stores are now quite "strip mall" like compared to back then. Corporately owned and branded with product purchased in massive close out deals.


I was just saying that Americans for the most part do need to look in the mirror a bit and drop the notion that we do *everything* better than the rest of the world does. Because we don't any more. And for the record, I have never been a strip mall guy - fortunate to have lived either in smaller cities like TC or A2 or in larger cities/college towns instead of suburbia.

I certainly hope those fat lazy bastards who bought those stores from you paid you well for them.

 

[Spartanmack]

They were privately owned boutique shops located in the ski villages at Vail (Lionshead). Since then, the stores were acquired by Intrawest (Whistler/Copper Mtn) who then sold to VRI, the publicly traded parent company of Vail Resorts and retail.

The stores are now quite "strip mall" like compared to back then. Corporately owned and branded with product purchased in massive close out deals.


I was just saying that Americans for the most part do need to look in the mirror a bit and drop the notion that we do *everything* better than the rest of the world does. Because we don't any more. And for the record, I have never been a strip mall guy - fortunate to have lived either in smaller cities like TC or A2 or in larger cities/college towns instead of suburbia.

I was just bustin your chops - but they were always strip malls. Isn't that a big part of how Al Taubman got mega-rich? I'm pretty sure he built a lot of those strip malls (however high end) at ski resorts and places like that.

Apparently, I live in the strip mall capital of the world. There isn't one for several miles from me but most people think once you get past the refineries outside Manhattan, New Jersey is just a continuous string of strip malls - one after the other.

 

[Michchamp]

I hate strip malls.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I was just bustin your chops - but they were always strip malls. Isn't that a big part of how Al Taubman got mega-rich? I'm pretty sure he built a lot of those strip malls (however high end) at ski resorts and places like that.

Apparently, I live in the strip mall capital of the world. There isn't one for several miles from me but most people think once you get past the refineries outside Manhattan, New Jersey is just a continuous string of strip malls - one after the other.

I don't think that "strip malls" and "shopping malls" are commonly understood to mean the same thing. It is my understanding - and it was told to me by my dear departed dad, so could be wrong, but whatever - our own (i.e.; Briarwood Mall, Ann Arbor's own) was Taubman's first mall project.

Anyway, what are commonly called "shopping malls" are enclosed, while "strip malls" are open air.

Your shopping malls are going to be anchored by a Nordstrom's or a Macy's or a Sears, or all of them; your strip malls, if anchored by anything, are going to be anchored by a grocery store of a major grocery chain.

Strip malls are going to have a lot more doughnut shops.

 

[Spartanmack]

I don't think that "strip malls" and "shopping malls" are commonly understood to mean the same thing. It is my understanding - and it was told to me by my dear departed dad, so could be wrong, but whatever - our own (i.e.; Briarwood Mall, Ann Arbor's own) was Taubman's first mall project.

Anyway, what are commonly called "shopping malls" are enclosed, while "strip malls" are open air.

Your shopping malls are going to be anchored by a Nordstrom's or a Macy's or a Sears, or all of them; your strip malls, if anchored by anything, are going to be anchored by a grocery store of a major grocery chain.

Strip malls are going to have a lot more doughnut shops.

I think if they're big enough to have an anchor tenant like a large grocery store or a big box retailer (i.e. Best Buy, Dick's Sporting Goods, etc) with a big parking lot and all that goes along w/ it, they're considered "shopping centers". Strip malls like you say are open air, smaller stores in a row or "strip". At least that's my recollection of how analysts differentiate them from my days trading REIT and retail stocks. Just like malls, some strip malls are upscale like at a ski resort w/ ski shops, an art gallery, jeweler, super expensive t-shirt shop, an apre-ski bar w/ some douchebag playing a guitar and singing Jimmy Buffet songs, etc while strip malls in suburbia will have stuff like a tattoo parlor, 7-11, Chinese takeout, a barber shop, a dry cleaner and a karate dojo.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I think if they're big enough to have an anchor tenant like a large grocery store or a big box retailer (i.e. Best Buy, Dick's Sporting Goods, etc) with a big parking lot and all that goes along w/ it, they're considered "shopping centers". Strip malls like you say are open air, smaller stores in a row or "strip". At least that's my recollection of how analysts differentiate them from my days trading REIT and retail stocks...

Very good.

It's hard to think of The Commons at Calabasas

as a strip mall, or strip center, open air as it may be.

Reminds me, and it's been a while, but I used to like to go there, and get can of Foster's lager at the Ralph's (it's called Kroger in other places) and stroll around the place and drink my can of beer out of a brown paper bag and just celebrate the conceptual decadence of it; haven't actually suggested it to him, but I think it would be fun if my pal Vic would join me in this activity on one of his trips out this way.

We could walk around and chit chat with my neighbors who also hang out there...