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Screw rivalries, my priority is to make Crono do as well as possible, regardless of anything else.

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Lavos sucks. I'd guess Crono/Lavos still beats Frog/Magus though, because Crono would break 50% pretty easily in a 3-way with Frog and Magus.

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Crono/Magus is the strongest pairing Crono could get; ergo, it's the one I wanted him to get.

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13 + 6 tournament wins.

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I dunno if college is a good investment for the median person though. If you just give an 18-yr-old 200k instead of college, I imagine a lot of people would take the 200k. And if they made decent investments with that and lived frugally, they could conceivably live on that the rest of their lives without working.

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MVP Baseball with the comeback in OT! That was the first step on the way to 19 or however many wins it'll take for it to win the tourney!

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It is pretty crazy that US universities are pretty expensive. I go to UBC (ranked between 30-40 in the world) and my undergraduate will probably end up costing 40k. From what I heard a similarily ranked school for a US citizen would cost twice as much.

US universities are the best in the world in research. They have a large majority of all Nobel Prizes in the past few decades. The tuition goes to fund research, which produces prestige for the school, which makes its graduates more employable. People will pay a lot for prestige. If you don't want that, you generally can go to state schools for a lot less.

Also, most people don't actually pay sticker price. A lot of that money collected from rich and upper middle class students goes to financial aid for poorer students. Then there are also merit scholarships.

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College tuitions are probably going to continue to rise as education becomes more and more essential to good employment in this country. Manufacturing jobs are going away to other countries and never coming back.

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But he never voted! World of Warcraft is not in this match, so he never submitted a valid vote!

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Since the Supreme Court has kindly informed us that corporations are people*, why shouldn't they be able to run for president?

So, who would you vote for: Michelle Bachmann or Goldman Sachs?

*It's not necessary to discuss how this ruling does not actually make corporations eligible for the presidency; let's just assume they can run for the purposes of this topic.

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MVP Baseball 2005

For great justice.

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This was not frivolous. If you applied the same percentage mischarge to all of Wal-Mart's sales, it amounts to 50% of their annual profits. 8 billion dollars a year. 2 cents on an item on which the store's profit margin was 2 cents? That's a lot.

And as she had already sued several times before this for the same thing, Wal-Mart's excuse that it was an accident is flimsy. After losing several lawsuits and paying damages each time, the store should have been well aware this was happening. It probably was an accident nonetheless, but Wal-Mart should try as hard as it can to avoid this kind of accident.

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Private quality assurance like that is good as long as it's fully optional and not binding on consumers. For example, if Pepsi decided they didn't want to associate with the American Beverage Association anymore, they could still sell their drinks and people would still buy them.

Actually, even this kind of regulation is potentially bad for consumers, because smaller soda companies (say, Jones Soda) would have a much harder time ignoring the regulatory organization. If Pepsi or Coke does it, people won't think there's anything wrong with the soda, but if Jones Soda did it, people would likely be cautious and not buy it. On the other hand, it helps smaller companies to have consumers trust their products in the first place, so it could also be a good thing.

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IMO the top 1% and the Tea Party should retaliate by lobbying Congress to put in fully regressive tax rates:

80% on the first 10k of income
70% from 10k to 20k
60% from 20k to 40k
50% from 40k to 80k
40% from 80k to 160k
30% from 160k to 320k
20% from 320k to 1M
10% from 1M to 10M
5% from 10M to 100M
1% from 100M to 1B
No tax above 1B
No capital gains tax

Then the Republicans in the Senate can threaten to filibuster everything unless this is passed. They can use this tax plan as leverage to force the Democrats to acquiese to more limited goals.

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Half a percent is what Nader got! 3% would have swung the popular vote to Kerry from Bush. 6% would have swung the popular vote to McCain from Obama.

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Well, that depends on whether you accepted the first buyer's offer or not. If you didn't accept yet, do whatever you like. If you did, the item is already sold.

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If you already agreed to sell to the first buyer, you have a legally binding contract with him and he could theoretically sue you for the value of the item.

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the country is run mostly by former KGB members and the mafia.

Sounds like a lot of regulation to me! And not really surprising given Russia's longstanding history of a central planned economy going back to 1917.

As for accounting regulations, those aren't regulations so much as saying you can't commit fraud. And you shouldn't be able to commit fraud, a free market system must have laws.

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And if I'm going shopping, how much do I care that Wal-Mart is "evil."? Probably not as much as the time and money I'll save by shopping there. I mean, there are companies I genuinely think are evil and will avoid, even paying a high premium for a competitor. For example, Goldman Sachs. But most people clearly don't think Wal-Mart is that evil, since they continue to shop there. And for Goldman, most of their clientele either don't think they are evil or don't care, too.

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Why would Wal-Mart be struggling? They offer lots of products to consumers at cheap prices in the same place. It saves consumers time and money. Why shouldn't consumers choose to shop there?

Big business will not police itself. The free market will do so to the extent that the people want to. And if the people don't want to, why on earth are we forcing it on them?

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To answer the original question: maybe because they don't think the free market is ever a problem? It's perfectly reasonable to believe that the free market is, in fact, always right. Just because it's obvious that the other extreme is wrong doesn't mean all extremes are wrong.

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The vast majority of regulations are bad. I'd include private regulations in there, because it has the same effect: to increase the barrier to entry and stifle competition. This helps large corporations and hurts consumers.

Private reviews or ratings agencies are good though (like Metacritic and what S&P/Moody's would be if they did their job properly).

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Billy Beane deserves a world series win for those 2000-2003 teams.

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And those Oakland teams won a lot of games to never make it to the ALCS. 4 consecutive 3-2 losses to teams that won fewer games in the regular season in the ALDS.

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2000: A's (91) and Mariners (91)
2001: Mariners (116) and A's (102)
2002: A's (103) and Angels (99)
2003: A's (96)

The Angels might have taken the west from 2004 on.

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How did Chrono Trigger lose more than 0.01 in the RPI for winning 80-20?

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IMO, conference play is pretty boring, at least with the conferences we have. 25 weeks would put us only 5 weeks away from the postseason instead of 10 weeks.

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FFVII wins, awesome!

Unfortunately this means I'm going to have to capitulate on my rankings and put RE4 at #2. And.....I'm not sure what I'll put in #3 either.

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Hmm......

96, 98, 99, 00, 04, 07, 09. 7 out of 16 since the Wild Card era started. Expected wins with evenly matched divisions would be 1/6*16 = 2.67. Not sure if that is statistically significant.

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Well, in my opinion, the best way to get more attention for the contest is to allow commentary on matches in progress. Imagine how dull sports or contest matches would be if we couldn't talk about them while they were in progress.

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People do read the discussion topic. It's not hard to gloss over LMS's posts without reading them, and Tsunami actually posts interesting stuff. If you don't think so, it's just as easy to skip over his posts too.

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Just like the joke AL Central Division right?

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Aang can do area of effect attacks. Also, he'll be flying around and could take care of each pokemon in turn (using the element that counters them in many cases) if he wanted to. Don't see any of their attacks getting past his shield.

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Yes, he has a spherical 4-elemental shield that is beyond these pokemon's power. He has the power to rip a peninsula off a continent and send it miles out to sea to be an island.

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Whoa, more good matches!

Legend of Legaia (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference)
#10 Super Mario World (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference)
#11 Final Fantasy VII (Fanservice Conference)
Suikoden III (Fanservice Conference)
Starcraft (Fanservice Conference)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials & Tribulations (Fanservice Conference)
Psychonauts (Fanservice Conference)
Wild ARMs (Fanservice Conference)
Super Smash Bros. (Smash Trigger Conference)
#1 Chrono Trigger (Smash Trigger Conference)
Star Ocean: The Second Story (Smash Trigger Conference)
Halo: Combat Evolved (Smash Trigger Conference)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (Smash Trigger Conference)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Smash Trigger Conference)

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He can just block all the attacks. Even if he couldn't or wouldn't normally, he definitely could in the Avatar State.

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Aang

It may be 6 on 1 but Aang completely outclasses his opponents here.

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The 2009 team won 103 games. It wasn't surprising that they won the WS (even if MWC's view of their odds was way too high). As for clutch hitting.......that's a problem for most teams that aren't the 96-00 Yankees.

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This Yankees team was #2 in the majors in runs scored. They know how to score runs.

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