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[DogDaysIrish]

I have always tried to go with Sonys product when I can afford it, just me... But I was recently told that a lot of the big names use all the same stuff now anyway, we have a couple 50 inch TVs (one Vizio and one Samsung) and a 70 inch Sony smart TV that is really great... happy with all three so, I guess I've learned that most of the name brands are just fine.

I agree... I think this would look fantastic on the mantle.

 

[BobD]

Depending on how much space you have, I would recommend a 50"-51". If you have the room and the TV won't look out of place go a little bigger.

As far as brands, go into HH Greg, Best Buy or WalMart and just compare. Pick what you like, not by the name. I would make sure it has USB, bluetooth, HDMI, wireless, etc.

I just got a Samsung 51" plasma that I love. Just finished putting it up above the mantel.

I agree with this. Buy the picture and features you like the best, not a brand.

 

[NDBoiler]

Depending on how much space you have, I would recommend a 50"-51". If you have the room and the TV won't look out of place go a little bigger.

As far as brands, go into HH Greg, Best Buy or WalMart and just compare. Pick what you like, not by the name. I would make sure it has USB, bluetooth, HDMI, wireless, etc.

I just got a Samsung 51" plasma that I love. Just finished putting it up above the mantel.

To add to this, when I purchased my last TV I looked it up online and found the cheapest price for it I could find, printed it off and took it to Best Buy and they matched it. Saved me some good $$.

 

[Irish#1]

I have always tried to go with Sonys product when I can afford it, just me... But I was recently told that a lot of the big names use all the same stuff now anyway, we have a couple 50 inch TVs (one Vizio and one Samsung) and a 70 inch Sony smart TV that is really great... happy with all three so, I guess I've learned that most of the name brands are just fine.

I also have a 65" Sony as well. Still great products, Sony products used to be heads and shoulders above everyone else, but not anymore. I don't know if others have caught up or Sony has taken a little step back. Just not worth the price difference to me.

I still say buy what you like, not the name on the unit. If you're worried about the name on the unit, buy the warranty. It's the only warranty I usually buy and it paid off for me with a JVC I had. That's how I ended up with the Sony.

 

[IrishLion]

Thanks for the info guys. I'm gonna head out this evening and try to do some bargaining.

 

[ACamp1900]

I'll say this too... it amazes me how cheap some of these TVs are now... whenever I go into best Buy they have some TV on sale for some obscenely cheap price when compared to just a couple years ago... much more affordable.

 

[Grahambo]

All sorts of hell no.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Scientist releases this horrifying picture of a puppy-sized spider he found in the rainforest <a href="http://t.co/j2qGyRCzT7">http://t.co/j2qGyRCzT7</a> <a href="http://t.co/jj9QVWqgEc">pic.twitter.com/jj9QVWqgEc</a></p>— New York Post (@nypost) <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/524586367456919552">October 21, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[ACamp1900]

Have never watched Two n a Half Men but think its so cool that Jon Cryer is dressing as Duckie for their Hoalloween Ep... Duckie is easily my fav John Hughes character...

 

[PLACforever]

Taylor Swift photobombed a family photo shoot while she was out on a run in Nashville. | Taylor Swift | Happy Place

 

[irishtrain]

Surprised no one has brought up the Mayock/Flutie job swap. I have a feeling about it but will keep it to myself until more light is shed.

 

[Huntr]

Surprised no one has brought up the Mayock/Flutie job swap. I have a feeling about it but will keep it to myself until more light is shed.

There's a thread on it.

 

[irishtrain]

There's a thread on it.

Curious to know why-they never had a conscious before about how the game was called. Something has changed or maybe somebody was given an ultimatum.

 

[Guest]

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The great thing about the Matrix trilogy is that beyond the first movie, nobody understood the series. The first movie told of the prison, the second and third explained how to get out of it (philosophically speaking). But most people don't want out of the prison, they would rather live in it.

The series was brilliant but most don't get it. And by the way the story has been told a thousand times in many different languages. The Matrix was simply a contemporary take on an age-old story.

Here is a good take on the series by Mark Passio. Of course 98% won't bother to review this. I am looking at the 2% with an open mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKEwr0iNA0

The Matrix trilogy touches on much of what is encompassed by Christian writings and also delves into some complex philosophical concepts of good versus evil. Part of the reason many don't like it is because it requires thinking and requires an understanding of history beyond what is told in our textbooks, for which people cannot identify because they don't bother to explore history for themselves and only have an establishment understanding of it.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

SBNation's Spencer Hall just published an article title "THE PRESIDENTS ASSIGNED TO THEIR PROPER SCHOOLS". Some highlights:

Thomas Jefferson. Bought Louisiana, had zero scruples, drank hard, and invented the disgraceful sex scandal. LSU

Andrew Jackson. Completely insane. Noted for exaggerated sense of hurt feelings versus imagined, fantastical notion of honor. Played weak schedule versus outnumbered opponents. Didn't graduate high school. Wildly successful and generally reviled. FLORIDA STATE

Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps our greatest President, savior of the Union, and dead. NOTRE DAME

Grover Cleveland. Big, unremarkably remarkable, forceful, and suffered horrendous defeat before reclaiming the title out of sheer will and tenacity. Once wrote: "sensible and responsible women do not want to vote" in an article in Ladies Home Journal, which is really the most Michigan Mansplaining thing to do ever. MICHIGAN

William McKinley. Was goaded into war by the press, wound up being shot by an unemployed anarchist. THE NCAA.

Woodrow Wilson. Made up nonsensical garbage conferences to serve his own needs. TEXAS

Richard Nixon. A vacated title, you say? USC

George H.W. Bush. Turned a relatively minor political family into a dynasty only to watch some idiot who'd been stashed in Texas turn it into a disgraceful joke. FLORIDA

All things considered, I'll happily take Lincoln here.

 

[Old Man Mike]

... in a backhanded way this is a compliment, and shows that we are, in fact, relevant and not dead.

 

[NDBoiler]

SBNation's Spencer Hall just published an article title "THE PRESIDENTS ASSIGNED TO THEIR PROPER SCHOOLS". Some highlights:



All things considered, I'll happily take Lincoln here.

Wonder who would be Warren G. Harding? Penn State?

 

[ACamp1900]

History's Mysteries was perhaps the single greatest show in T.V. History ( if I may)... Too bad History Channel dropped great shows like that for a bunch of cookie cutter 'reality shows'

 

[Grahambo]

Developer curses at man on subway, meets him again in job interview - CNET

Just be kind to one another. Life is not complicated.

The London subway isn't the most elegant of places.

It reeks of malodor. It's dripping with secondary moisture. And then there's the difficulty of shoving far too many people into a confined space and hoping that, in some very British way, they'll all get on.

One man got on the subway train last Monday morning and wasn't in the mood for politeness or pleasantries. As another man stood in his way, he shoved him and, so that there was no doubt as to his intent, told him to "F*** off."

This is morning talk for "Oh, do please get out of the way."

Perhaps the curser thought nothing more of it. He went about his day. He even had a job interview later in the afternoon.

He walked in and, within seconds, began to curse himself. For his interviewer turned out to be the very man he'd cursed at on the subway. Being a Python developer, and therefore a man of some rational bent, he might have attempted to work out the chances of such a serendipitous event.

However, as Matt Buckland told the BBC: "It was totally awkward."

Buckland, you see, was the interviewer. He's the head of talent and recruiting for Forward Partners. This is a VC company that offers money to fledgling entities. You'd imagine he might have been tempted, in this job interview, to reciprocate the developer's morning greeting.

Instead, he admitted to the BBC: "I approached it by asking him if he'd had a good commute that morning. We laughed it off and in a very British way I somehow ended up apologizing."

The story emerged before millions of eyes, because Buckland garlanded his Twitter feed with it. His now-classic post read: "Karma - the guy who pushed past me on the tube and then suggested I go F myself just arrived for his interview...with me..."

The developer didn't get the job because he wasn't, according to Buckland, quite right for it. Might his predilection for ill temper have contributed to him not being right for it? Buckland didn't say. The job, though, is still available.

One way of preparing for this particular developer interview is surely to ride the London subway all day long, trying to be nice to everyone you meet.

I don't suggest, though, too deep a belief in karma. We all remember the rare times when karma seems to bring a delicious justice to an unfair world.

But look around and you'll find a remarkably large number of notably unpleasant people in positions of great power.

 

[Corry]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Inmates seize control of part of Texas prison <a href="http://t.co/lVLo5MxGBL">http://t.co/lVLo5MxGBL</a></p>— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/569303080778522626">February 22, 2015</a></blockquote>
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How is this possible?

 

[dshans]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Inmates seize control of part of Texas prison <a href="http://t.co/lVLo5MxGBL">http://t.co/lVLo5MxGBL</a></p>— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/569303080778522626">February 22, 2015</a></blockquote>
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How is this possible?

The event or the clearly clairvoyant dateline?

 

[BGIF]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Inmates seize control of part of Texas prison <a href="http://t.co/lVLo5MxGBL">http://t.co/lVLo5MxGBL</a></p>— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/569303080778522626">February 22, 2015</a></blockquote>
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How is this possible?

There aren't any cells. They got out of their "rubbery" domes and into the yard. These are supposed to be "low -level" detainees who are most illegals awaiting disposition.

Interesting that the low-level detainees rendered a $65+ million facility "uninhabitable". Does that constitute a crime?

The facility comprises ten large, 13,000 square foot, windowless domed structures constructed from a firm, rubbery, Kevlar fabric. These serve as housing units for the detainees. The tents are completely windowless with the lights kept on 24 hours a day. There are no partitions separating the showers, toilets, sinks and eating areas.[10]

There are several other buildings, with the whole compound surrounded by chain link fence and razor-type Concertina wire.

Willacy Detention Center

 

[Bogtrotter07]

There aren't any cells. They got out of their "rubbery" domes and into the yard. These are supposed to be "low -level" detainees who are most illegals awaiting disposition.

Interesting that the low-level detainees rendered a $65+ million facility "uninhabitable". Does that constitute a crime?





Willacy Detention Center

Funny it is happening in Texas.

In the '80's I had an attorney that was part of a well respected firm in Toledo. Small, with a very good reputation, they did a lot of good work, despite one of the principles devoting himself to other legal areas. Vince Nathan was then "Special Master" of Texas Prisons, having been appointed by a Federal Judge, as a result of a number of civil rights and other law suits. He did a yeoman's job cleaning things up.

I had the privilege of seeing pictures. At that time, Texas prisons could not provide basic shelter for 65 to 70 percent of their charged inmates. Many prisoners had a pot in a tent in freezing temperatures at night and nearly triple digit temperatures daily. Some had footwear. The pot had to do double and triple duty. There was a pot shortage. There was also a blanket and uniform shortage. There wasn't a dysentery or cholera shortage. Nor was there a drug shortage, stabbing, rape, etc.

I aways found it ironic that a state that prided itself and its number of efficient and speedy executions couldn't house its prisoners any better than a third world country that didn't try.

I guess the French were right, "The more things change, the more they remain the same!"

 

[Grahambo]

If anybody has been following this story..it gets stranger...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>RT <a href="https://twitter.com/InsidetheNCAA">@InsidetheNCAA</a> The NCAA did not declare Silas Nacita ineligible and Baylor has not requested a waiver for him.</p>— Pat Forde (@YahooForde) <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooForde/status/570667186127314944">February 25, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Irish#1]

If anybody has been following this story..it gets stranger...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>RT <a href="https://twitter.com/InsidetheNCAA">@InsidetheNCAA</a> The NCAA did not declare Silas Nacita ineligible and Baylor has not requested a waiver for him.</p>— Pat Forde (@YahooForde) <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooForde/status/570667186127314944">February 25, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Just read a couple of the articles. Me thinks this kid is a little off kilter.

 

[Black Irish]

The fortune cookies from my local Chinese take out place have the fortune on the front, and then an English word on the back with the Chinese translation and how to pronounce it. The word on my most recent cookie is "Disease." Someone at the fortune cookie company is feeling a bit morbid.

 

[dshans]

Many years ago I cracked open a fortune cookie after a meal at a Chinese restaurant in Miami.

The little slip of paper was blank.

Disconcerting.

 

[Black Irish]

Many years ago I cracked open a fortune cookie after a meal at a Chinese restaurant in Miami.

The little slip of paper was blank.

Disconcerting.

I had that experience as well. I felt a bit uneasy for the rest of the day..

 

[Corry]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Jeremy Lin -- Foot Race With Homeless Guy ... Wins <a href="http://t.co/UQ3aWb4tbT">http://t.co/UQ3aWb4tbT</a></p>— TMZ Sports (@TMZ_Sports) <a href="https://twitter.com/TMZ_Sports/status/572553742815395841">March 3, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[PLACforever]

Anyone have a clue as to how much $$$ it would cost to have a Jeep Cherokee painted?
No dents or scratches, just completely new paint.

 

[Irish Insanity]

Anyone have a clue as to how much $$$ it would cost to have a Jeep Cherokee painted?
No dents or scratches, just completely new paint.

A good paint job is a few grand. But it all depends upon how much you want done. Just a spray over, or inside the trunk, engine bay, and doors.