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Maybe somebody downvoted it because Blackish isn't on cable

"this"

1. People who say "This.  So much this."

1a. The inevitable person who responds to this post with "This. So much this."  (Will this keep them at bay?)

2. People on their phones while driving.  Nearly got run over in a crosswalk this morning by a guy tapping on his phone.  He then prompty raced up to a green light and stopped at it.

3. People who comment "logged in just to upvote"

4. People who post threads that contain no information or are merely an "interesting tweet"

5. The inability to click ">>" on the MGoBoard sidebar and have it work anywhere near properly on a variety of devices and browsers

6. People who complain about "concern trolling."  I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist.

7. Football buzzwords like "explosive," "real physical football player who loves to play the game," and the ubiquitous "you talk about..." in commentary

No, but

The name does come from the Arabic.  Wikipedia:

"The word algebra comes from the Arabic الجبر (al-jabr "restoration") from the title of the book Ilm al-jabr wa'l-muḳābala by al-Khwarizmi."

OK then

OK then.

Not all that complicated

Not all that complicated, at least relative to the IRS norm.

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc421.html

The tuition and related expenses part is not taxable.  Anything beyond is.

This basically creates a system where it would be (at least nearly) equivalent for you to 1) not have a tuition waiver, but receive stipend+(amount of tuition) as your salary, but then claim the tuition and fees as a deduction off your taxable income, and 2) receive the stipend, and a non-taxable tuition waiver.  In both cases, the value of the stipend is the total taxable income.

He's actually not

It says, and I quote, "They will host the Big Ten championship"

Softball not hosting Big Ten Championship

Big Ten Championship is in Columbus.  They are not hosting, but they are the #1 seed.

(No subject)

I think it's more like 20

I think it's more like 20 years.  I went there 10 years ago and people were saying then that there had been an effort for 10 years.

Are you sure?

I think Keegan-Michael Key is the funnier one, by a landslide.

Just so we're clear, Key is the taller, bald one, right?

Wow

Looks like you are right.  There are not that many billionaires (500-1000 I think) so it shocks me that anybody can have an income of $1 billion in a single year.

Delete unsubscribe

You should delete the unsubscribe part.  Otherwise any person's accidental click will unsubscribe you, original poster, from further updates.

I don't believe you

Can you please name one individual person who has made a taxable income of $1 billion in one single year?

He would still need to file

In Michigan, write in votes don't count, they just get tossed, unless the candidate being written in filed a declaration of intent to receive write in votes:

http://www.lwvmi.org/voting/FAQ/writeInCandidates.html

"HOW CAN I VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHOSE NAME IS NOT ON THE BALLOT (A"WRITE-IN CANDIDATE)?

If you want to write in the name of someone who is not on the ballot and have your vote count, you may do so in the space provided on your ballot. Write-in votes will be counted only if that person has filed a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate as required by law. See one exception below."

"HOW CAN I BECOM A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE?

You must file a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate with the filing official for the office you seek on or before 4 p.m. on the second Friday immediately before the election."

It's Fort McHenry

It's Fort McHenry

I think

I think his post is right and yours is wrong.  But who can determine the moment at which you never hear something again?

LSU and Stanford

LSU and Stanford

Ridiculous flag?

The Maryland flag is great.

Tom Brady

If Tom Brady had a career ending injury while in college, and he was thought to be of low NFL potential, he would not have received a large payout. He would not have had the chance to prove doubters wrong.

Think of Australia

Australia. A whole continent and all you ever see is a rock and an opera house.

Not Just A Schooner


Such thrilling games!

This team has been in some nailbiters in the last two weekends, and these went the right way!

WatchESPN will have it

Pretty sure no subscription required on the replays.  I was watching SDSU/UM replay without subscription earlier.  You might have to wait a couple hours though.

It's

-esque

I think the ladies can be proud

Took on two good B1G teams, and went 5-3 over 8 days, during finals time.  Now they can rest until Friday when they take on Wisconsin.

Chant

I definitely can't give you the whole chant, but at one point, I think they say "we want some more, we want some more"

Agreed

Seemed like all our contact was right to a player. It's just that way sometimes.

I don't know

I can only tell you what's happened since.

No similarity

I like how at the end it says, any similarity to the movie Speed is purely coincidental.  Right.

I also see what you're saying

And I respect that the pre-game meal may have been born out of a need to immortalize the original house party.

Subs

I thought the subs came later that night, at the Beilein house celebration party, so probably after the posbang and before the GIFs

Bears

I think there's a lot of Bears but nobody has guessed that yet.

What event?

Do you know what event was happening that day?

Yes

Goodyear blimp style!  Straight up and straight down is cool, but how far away can you go N/S/E/W?  If a building gets in the way, do you lose communication?  (Aside from the obvious point that it might be hard to control if you don't see it)

Right

So the strategy (win, every week) is true in each and every week.  So it's not dependent on rankings in any particular week.

Sad

Why did it take so many posts for somebody to make this obvious point?  And why have you not been posbanged to 10000?

Probit/logit

While your point is true, the more obvious point to make is that the average past error does not mean that future games will necessarily be determined by the average past error in either direction, but could also be larger or smaller in either direction.  In other words, a past error of 9.8 points doesn't mean we either lose by 0.8 or win by 18.8.  It could be anything.

But I think you knew that.

More generally, a lot of people learn statistics and regression models and then wade around in minutiae over the third decimal point of the standard error, when there may be something much larger going on that obscures the esoteric point entirely.

I think

I think it would be awesome if Michigan wins their next game and/or MSU and Wisconsin both lose, and this was still updated.  For completeness.

Still not seeing it

You originally said: "Rankings in basketball only matter if you're #1, in the top 25, or on the bubble."

Why can I not equally convincingly say "Rankings in football only matter if you're #1/#2 for MNC, in the top 14/16 for BCS, or ranked higher than the team you're tied with for a conference championship"?

In football?

How do they matter every week in football? Your best move is to win all your games, and then you'll probably be in the top 2 and get to play for the MNC. I don't see how they matter for much, or anything, before the last week. What you should be doing in every week up to the last week is winning against your only scheduled opponent.

Plus

Plus, one softball win already today!

What a monster day!

So proud of the teams! Go blue!

WON THE GAME!

GO BLUE! B1G CHAMPS!

Correlation...

Correlation... or causation?

Trevon Logan

Actually has a Michigan connection and is a pretty good guy.

Friday victories

Pulling for the win in softball (x2), track, swimming, water polo, baseball, lacrosse, tennis, hockey, and gymnastics.  Go blue!

Businessweek is great

I highly recommend it to those who have never read it or haven't read it since the Bloomberg takeover.  IMO it's the best current events weekly.  In economics and business coverage, it easily beats The Economist, which is far too formulaic and really more of a political magazine.

It seems to me that nearly all the magazine content is available free online, but if you subscribe, you do get the weekly audio coverage, which is pretty entertaining.

Illinois State

I don't see it in your original summary, but the first game was against Illinois State.

S&P

Strength and positioning? Steak and potatoes? Sit down and pee?

It's none of those, but it is explained here:
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaa

Makes me wonder

How do you know?