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06-20-15, 05:57 PM
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That is at the professional level. I'm not so sure it helps at the younger level. The only juniors anyone believes are doping are the Kazaks, and they are not really all that fast. Maybe drugs work best at mid 20s when the hormones slow down. Giving drugs to kids just does not seem to be a good long term solution even if it were allowed as the body tends to shut down production of what it already has a lot of.
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06-20-15, 06:41 PM
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At that time - several - a few dads up here used to live in Co Springs. That is not the case for anyone now.
I'm not even clear on what Chris did/did not do. He is not involved in USAC.
Where is the beef from? is a bigger question now. UCI has gone totally nuts on doping while all other sorts of cheating are left untouched. I think the kids are clean. There is little alignment with the rules and what is done.
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06-20-15, 06:57 PM
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I'm living in the past. They are worse off for it.
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06-20-15, 07:08 PM
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You said talent trumps all else. You didn't reference specifically that talent trumps all else as regards juniors exclusively. Lance disproved that whole thing.
06-20-15, 07:32 PM
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True. The context given in my post was the likely next junior world champion. Lance didn't do that much till post junior, so I don't know he proved anything.
I really don't know about drugs and juniors. I think they don't help. I had a kid on my football team in 70's that would do speed and run real fast and wasn't that good - just crazy. I'd take talent over all else. I'd take talent and no drugs over no talent and drugs. Talent and drugs - well - it was a junior context.
I really don't know about drugs and juniors. I think they don't help. I had a kid on my football team in 70's that would do speed and run real fast and wasn't that good - just crazy. I'd take talent over all else. I'd take talent and no drugs over no talent and drugs. Talent and drugs - well - it was a junior context.
06-20-15, 07:41 PM
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Counterproductive to what?
Maybe technology will save the day and we will create new ways to harness renewable energy, that will allow us to continue our current profligate energy usage. That would be great.
Or, like oil apologists say, maybe technology will save the day and we will find cheaper ways to exploit nonrenewable energy sources, which would suck because then climate change will kill us faster.
Or, maybe we will make lots of progress but there's just no amount of technology that will be able to provide huge amounts of cheap energy, and we will have to massively change our consumption habits, not just in household gestures, but in huge realigning ways like how and where we produce food and goods. That's the outcome I'm expecting, and my worry is that hoping technology will solve the supply problem just lets us kick the usage problem further down the road.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be trying to find better ways to make energy, I'm just saying we shouldn't bet our civilization that we will succeed. We need to change how we use energy, and the longer we wait, the more disruptive the change will be.
Anyway, I'll stop before this turns into either politics or religion. Though, speaking of which, this is actually a really interesting and thoughtful read:
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06-20-15, 08:55 PM
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Stanford and especially housing is all about "sustainability" but our retail outlets all still sell bottled water. Annoys me greatly.
06-21-15, 07:16 AM
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Hmmmm. I cut cable but have not replaced it with anything. Taking a look. 1 time hardware purchase ?
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But for a 1 time cost, same as a monthly cable bill, I guess you come out ahead pretty quickly.
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06-21-15, 07:47 AM
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I don't know. Considering roku is the leader in the industry, followed by others like apple TV, Amazon Fire, and Google…I reckon they've already dotted I's and crossed T's.
It's not like these things are new.
It's not like these things are new.
06-21-15, 07:49 AM
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it doesn't matter though. oil is not going to last. sooner or later, someone's going to figure out how to efficiently store energy, and bring renewables to the forefront of the energy market. electric vehicles are making a come back, and will be dominating the roads when they improve the batteries. people are going to figure out how to make plastics and rubber from plants, and grow those plants in artificial greenhouses 12 mo/yr. in 50 years, oil will be close to obsolete, just like wood and coal.
You rail against Texas because they produce oil...what about railing against the consumers of oil...is selling something that people want so bad? (And, for Pete's sake, there are plenty of other reasons to rail against Texas...please, Texas, try and secede just one more time...) How much oil have you consumed today, and how much "renewable" energy have you consumed today? Why?
Better energy storage? What could possibly be better storage than free, 10,000 feet under ground? I mean, you poke a whole in the earth, and free energy bubbles up...and it's transportable, easily usable, plentiful, and ubiquitous...
How do you know that renewables will ever be more economic than oil, which is, by some comparisons, cheaper than water? ($3/gallon at the pump; how much is a gallon at Whole Wallet?)
And electric vehicles? Soon, our dumps will be filled with short-lifetime lead-acid batteries....or even worse, lithium-ion batteries..
PS - I'm not pro-oil; I'm just pro-rational.
06-21-15, 08:03 AM
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I told my 18 year old daughter I cancelled cable, and she said "I'm devastated" as she rolled her eyes, and went back to surfing on her laptop.
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Incorrect.
But wait..might this be true for drilling an oil well?
Incorrect. I fear the problem might actually be straightforward economics.
The world is waiting for something better. Why don't you go invent it. Cold fusion, anybody?
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06-21-15, 08:29 AM
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The Roku is just the appliance. Most of the content worth watching comes from services you purchase, and they take care of the royalties. This isn't Napster Video. My youngest has one and uses it with Netflix. The captions take up too much real estate on their Macbook screen, so they use it to plug into any TV anywhere there is ethernet or wifi available. Their college doesn't allow streaming over wifi, so they used ethernet.
We still have cable and (gasp) a landline via cable.
We still have cable and (gasp) a landline via cable.
06-21-15, 10:04 AM
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Cut the cord in 2010, used an Xbox 360 for Netflix and espn3, which at the time had a ton of stuff, particularly soccer. Unfortunately they lost a lot of that content in the past few years. Nowadays we primarily use Apple TV (Xbox has somehow become slow and clunky in comparison) and I use my in-laws cable login to get access to stuff.
Was hoping to be treated to some new gear for Father's Day, didn't happen lol
Was hoping to be treated to some new gear for Father's Day, didn't happen lol
06-21-15, 12:13 PM
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we did this last year, and are using google chrome cast. we have never missed cable. One of my kids didn't even notice we'd cut it for several weeks. We use putlocker for free movies and you tube for a lot of stuff too. we cut the land line at the same time and ended up saving $120 a month on all that stuff!
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06-21-15, 01:46 PM
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I have this itch from this guy who I just can't really take seriously, whose only statements of any substance are focusing on government subsidies over the growth of the solar industry, and pretending it takes no effort to extract something from 10000 ft underground and distill it, and sell it at a marginal return... I don't know whether I should be sad or sorry.