Saffire

Just sayin'.

Doves should write a song about this.

Yes, because there's not enough football on TV already. :rolleyes: Second, to all the people who claim football is an "endurance" sport: I suppose you're right. It requires a lot of stamina just to be able to stand up for 30 minutes at a time when you weigh as much as these guys do. ;) And I still don't get the emotional attachment to teams. Like I said, I can understand liking a PLAYER, and wishing him well, but not a team. The other funny thing about football (and the same could be said for baseball, probably to a greater degree) is the insane amount of statistics fans of the sport imbibe. Looking at the history of a team is almost like researching the performance of a mutual fund. EDIT: Ok here's the other major problem I have with the sport. It is irrational to continue playing after you've been injured, and it sends a bad message to kids who play. At the point when you are sacrificing your well-being just to prove a point, you're being indisputably stupid. Celebrating stupidity is not something you should teach your kids. And the whole bit about football being a thing where fathers and sons can bond - that's overrated. More often than not I've heard stories where sons are forced into football by their dads even though they're not interested.

Yeah internal and external. And if you don't enjoy watching burly men running around in tights then you must be queer! Also, have you ever listened to the commentary during a football game? It's hilariously vapid. I swear the control room cranks up the ambient noise of the crowd to drown out John Madden's voice sometimes.

Are you kidding me? My portfolio is down ~$7,400,000,000. Now it's only worth a little over $8,800,000,000. How much did you lose? Probably 60k or something like that, you sniveling pipsqueak.

Sorry, StrawberrySwinger, I didn't mean to be rude! I pretend to hate anybody who goes against Andy Roddick ;) And I'm sorry to see Federer cry. Nadal was a good sport about it, though. He said, "Sorry for today. I know how you're feeling right now. It's really tough. But remember you are a great champion, you are one of the best in history and you're going to improve the 14 of Sampras." EDIT: I'm so excited to see Verdasco getting better... I hope he keeps improving, because he would make a great addition to the top 4 players in the world.

MC_Squared, don't be so presumptuous! It requires thousands of dollars worth of NutriSystem and twinkies to get a body like that! ;) Football has a cherished place in American society, and I think that's unfortunate. It teaches children to get heavily emotionally invested in teams that are representational of certain geographic areas. That's practically priming the mind to accept appeals to authority and hate people who aren't born in the same area you were.

It's strange to me that people have allegiances to sports teams. I can understand liking individual athletes but other than that, it's totally foreign. And American football in general is utterly boring. It's the pro version of "red light green light" because they're always stopping you from playing for longer than 30 seconds. Of course, it's not really a game of endurance.

That's really disappointing. I was looking forward to riding on one of these new Virgin Airlines planes one day! Hopefully they'll fix the food/TV situation. Having high-speed internet while you're in the air is an awesome way to pass the time, though... Coldplaying FTW.

We should all take pictures of ourselves inside our local Targets. It could be a collage of Target love, and then maybe the marketing department at Target headquarters would see it and use it in their ads... and we'd each make a million dollars. Just a thought.

lol no you don't.

Agoraphobia. Lot's of people have it, to one degree or another. I don't like crowds either.

Only the most serious subject of all: death! They charged the net too soon :( Can we change the subject now, this is making me verklempt.

Hey don't talk about Tennis like it's a game! I lost two friends to tennis. :tear:

I hope Federer doesn't break anything, with the possible exception of his ankle. ;)

This one will blow your mind... Australians... really? You elected this guy? http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/01/30/1232818725574.html Don't you hate it when capitalism cannibalizes itself? :laugh3:

I LOVE Target. I probably go there more than any other store. Sure, the prices are a little higher than Wal-Mart, but you've got a better selection of stuff. I get a lot of my clothes there. Target even has a distinctive smell... And I always seem to bump into somebody I know there.

I took a class on the EU and my professor told us about the horrible reputation Polish plumbers have there. Apparently they consider them "invaders" sort of like Americans think of Mexicans. So one political party will try to gather all the racists' votes and the other party will create government programs to "help" the ethnic group so they can grab those votes.

That's why I mentioned a "bittorrent"-style matrix of computers that check the entire system each time a transaction is made. No one computer could trick all the others.

I'm sad about that double fault finish. Poor Verdasco! But what an incredible match... he's really gotten MUCH better.

Chuck, I've had some thoughts recently about the issue with Austrian economics and the reliance on some element of fixed supply as a standard of value for currency... The point about gold becoming worth progressively more with time (and in conjunction with the growth of a population) has me thinking of alternatives to physical things as money. We're used to thinking of anything digital as being imaginary (after all, you can copy data over and over in the digital world). But I think it's possible that one day we could create a currency (or credit system) that is digital, but has the characteristics of an un-copyable element like gold. The key would be to make each unit of credit have a serial number - this way, you could track where the credits are and who owns them. As long as there is a system whereby computers can self-regulate and detect artificial injections of credit, you could theoretically maintain a global economy without inflation. The software necessary to oversee credit serial numbers might be similar to what we see today with bittorrent... these are just speculative thoughts.

lol @ that website - "You're either a contrarian or a victim!" There are plenty of traders who thoughtlessly follow trends and end up making millions because of it. Bernard Baruch is famous for saying that the secret to making money is to "Buy too late and sell too soon". I like Chile but I'd have to research those other countries... the tendency is to move toward socialism.

I understand tennis. I'm just bored with watching Federer. He doesn't really have a "style" like other players do. I might as well watch Pong. Although I do enjoy seeing him get frustrated. For me, tennis is about the human element - something you don't often see from Federer, who was undoubtedly a straight-A student. Plus he looks like his mother dressed him to go on the court, "Now honey, I want you to finish up this match before 1:00 and when you get back there's a ham & cheese sandwich waiting for you next to your algebra textbook. Also, don't forget to study your vocabulary."

Hey thanks Nick, I watched it. "Murray Rothbard FTW" hahah :D I'm glad this downturn is being so well-documented and observed by Austrians. The fact these books are being published now will allow people in the future to see the predictive abilities and logical consistency of Austrian thought in direct comparison to people like Paul Krugman and Volcker. This is going to be a recession for the history books, and if we get the word out it will be very instructive for future generations who are faced with similar scenarios.

Federer is a bore. You might as well be playing against a Nazi computer. Anyway, I can't wait to see the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (Nadal) beat him again in the final. :D