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It seems you could easily apply all of that to alcohol as well, except I would rather deal with someone who smoked a bowl the night before than drank to excess.

It is funny how much my experience with people who smoke a lot is from the stereotype on here. Lots and lots of smart capable people, who don’t escalate to harder drugs, smoke weed regularly.

You said this:

a facility that the authorities themselves admit they cannot fund.

They said this:

"Our intention is not to recoup the money it cost to build the stadium,"... Carroll said. "It's not practical to say we'll get that money back. (But) the revenue we receive from the stadium will far exceed the cost of operating it." Carroll said extra revenue from stadium operations will go into the district general fund.

That they will not recoup the costs of the stadium, I agreed with you they said that, you don't have to repost it again. I said that you are wrong that they don't believe they can fund the running of the stadium, which is not what they said. They believe they will be able to do that. The 60 million will not be recouped, at least in any timeframe that anyone normally investing would expect it to come back in, but it will provide some non-monetary benefits to the community and those benefits will extend beyond just those on the Football team.

They said the 60 mil is gone and they won’t get it back in cash, again I and they seem to think it will provide some community and cultural benefits for the city, but they will be able to run it with the revenue they make from it. They are even projecting extra money to put into the general fund for the school.

I would guess that Lacrosse and Water Polo were conducted in publicly funded venues as well. Probably not in 60 million dollar venues, but funded by taxpayers as well. Like this one, at their choice as well. It may not be wise, but they were not coerced, and unlike your comparison to Obamacare, there are no constitutional questions about a school district choosing to do this.

How many people have to attend an event to take the quotaton marks off “sports” also, why is that relevant?

I believe most stadiums and arenas are, from a strictly financial standpoint, losers. They can do a lot to bring a community together in various ways. The revitalization in Oklahoma City of the Bricktown area has cost a lot of money, but it has done a lot. Bringing the Thunder to town has also been huge for uniting the entire state. Normally everyone is pretty divided between OSU and OU, but everyone can get behind the Thunder.

Saw a chunk of the live DVD from the Some Girls tour. They weren’t phoning it in for that. You can even see a bit of the punk influence in how they played, much faster than previously.

Also, I think as far as latter career albums go, Voodoo Lounge is pretty underrated.

The Wire did a lot to rip on both sides. In particular seasons 2 and 3 definitely hit on conservative ideals and republican policies.

Although I haven’t seen one way or another, I can’t imagine that the Surface doesn’t have a virtual keyboard when necessary. I don’t think think they will have to have a flat surface whenever they want to use the tablet, but when they need to type out something longer they can find a place to do that.

The cues from the Asus Transformer series seems pretty clear here. It isn’t trying to make you do things one way, but give you as much of an all in one experience as possible. I can see how a Doctor would take to that.

And I said, you are implying that there are only two phones (that I’m aware of at least) can be considered high end. They are the only two to meet your standards. I don’t really think either of those make for a high end phone anyway as they are features but that doesn’t mean the specs are better. A 5+ inch screen can still be crappy. Removable battery and expandable memory aren’t really better or worse in and of themselves.

It seems that Android manufacturers are making a move away from your other two features as well. Neither of the two flagship Android phones out meet your screen size requirement and the One X fails on all 3 fronts. The latest Nexus device fails on screen size and removable storage.

In any case, I don’t think you can extrapolate the requirement of any of those to the public at large. I don’t have small phones, but my GNex is the absolute max I can effectively handle one handed and with so much action at the top left of the screen that is pretty important. I still think the 4.3 inch size is about ideal. I’ve never come close to the 32GB I have of storage either. I’m using about 9GB right now. That includes some sizeable Spotify playlists downloaded.

Really, specs alone are a poor judge. Using a smartphone is a total experience question. Spec porn doesn’t alone improve the experience. My phone is now old news, but I can’t see exchanging it for anything else on the market. Definitely not for a bigger screen or expandable memory.

So the Dell Streak and Samsung Galaxy Note are the only acceptable phones?

Prometheus was scheduled to come out two weeks before and Spiderman a week after. That would also leach a lot of money away.

From a revenue standpoint I think Dark Knight Rises will suffer from not being in 3D. Those extra few dollars on tickets that Avengers will make a big difference over several million people seeing it. I’m personally very happy about DKR not being in 3D. It was shot all in IMAX though, that does make me happy.

Puny god seems to be the most often understood thing. I saw someone say he said “demi god” which I like better, although maybe a big word for The Hulk.

Verizon does have the Galaxy Nexus with a 4.65 inch screen, which while a good deal smaller than the Galaxy Note’s 5.3 inch screen, is pretty big. I love mine thus far. A leaked roadmap for Verizon says they will be releasing an HTC made phone similar to the Galaxy Note.

Verizon does have the Galaxy Nexus with a 4.65 inch screen, which while a good deal smaller than the Galaxy Note’s 5.3 inch screen, is pretty big. I love mine thus far. A leaked roadmap for Verizon says they will be releasing an HTC made phone similar to the Galaxy Note.

I’m doing fine with the Galaxy Nexus as a phone. Fits in my hand just fine. I doubt the iPhone ever goes as big because of the hit to the battery pushing a 720p phone with a 4.6 inch causes. However, a move to a 4 inch screen seems likely.

I’m curious to see if it is the data plan raper that Google Music is. I love having all my music wherever I go, but if I’m not going somewhere with wireless available I run through my 5GB pretty quick.

The Onion’s obituary for Jobs was amazing and depressingly accurate.

“”We haven’t just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we’ve literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his **** together and knew what the hell was going on,” a statement from President Barack Obama read in part, adding that Jobs will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen.”

Photos I take are already automatically loaded to my Google account for free, Google Music streams my music, all upgrades have been OTA.

Apple took the notification center straight from Android. They did improve it in some ways, but the idea was there for a good long while.