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Comment Re:Leader quotation bingo (Score 0) 264

Banning guns to reduce violent crime is really like banning a specific drug to reduce drug crimes. People move to other drugs, and the criminal activity continues. Meanwhile, similar to how banning guns actually makes the old and disabled more vulnerable to attack, banning specific substances stimulates the creation of new ones that are often more dangerous than the ones they replaced (e.g. crack, methamphetamines, "bath salts").

Comment Re:LED lighting (Score 2) 243

Obviously, he meant equivalent lumens to a 60W incandescent.

Fortunately, LED manufacturers seem to be more honest about these ratings. With CFLs, besides their other problems the manufacturers were calling 600 lumen bulbs "60W equivalent". Maybe a 130V rough service soft white that's blackened by a year of use!

Comment Re: Make SATs optional (Score 1) 389

You act like 160K miles is elite. I have an Olds Alero, and it has 154K on it. I replaced the front wheel bearings, window regulators (EVERY car manufacturer puts the same window hardware in coupes as they do in sedans and it ALWAYS fails because of the heavier glass), and windshield gaskets. Not perfect, but from what I've heard the reliability of German marques in the last 10 years is not what it once was.

Comment Re:Could they get any more special treatment? (Score 1) 242

Correct. And for a nonprofit PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION like the NFL, does it matter? They are not a charity, so they don't receive donations. But people understandably DO get upset when the CEO of the United Way makes over a million dollars a year and a bunch of middle managers make $200,000. They're donating money they worked for, and paid taxes on, only to have a large chunk of it be spent on payroll instead of helping people.

Comment Re:Live by the sword, die by the sword (Score 1) 242

The non-profit status is a different issue. This is about their anti-trust exemption.

I don't care about their nonprofit status. Why? Because they don't make any profit. All NFL profits are disbursed to the teams, who pay taxes on them. That's pretty straightforward, and it's exactly how other professional nonprofits work.

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