August 20th Open Ice

so 76 for luongo and 6 hard fought for, blood in the dressing room for Schneids. For about 17 of those games Luongo and AV won’t speak to each other for days cuz of the arguments…

I pulled a missy then, my bad. Sometimes the most misinformed stuff is easiest to believe is real on the tubes.

Just had a marathon 4 OT game and beat the Hawks on a breakaway backhand to win the cup. The stickhandling and hit detection between players and sticks is way, way better. And the physics for hitting is actually a lot better than I thought it would be. Huge improvement on NHL10 hits.

I’ve won 3 out of 4 games against the hawks, so it’s a Game of the Year contender even as a demo.

…not yet… ;)

In BC, someone earning $10,000,000 pays 43% tax
In NY City, someone earning $10,000,000 pays 47.5% tax

This doesn’t include SIN in Canada or social security in the US.

Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/23uf5fw

Watching some of @mlse’s comments on twitter right now is just making me mad. The guy is coming off like a whinging pissy little tantrum throwing bitch. Not saying he is one, just that he sounds like one. Stop being petty. Take action or don’t, but flying sophomoric insults in twitter gains u zero respect and support in the matter.

Again, all we’re talking about here is failing to acknowledge who did the translating of someone else’s article. Since all PPP did was repost the article in its entirety, albeit in a different language, but not add any new content, I think they’re being dicks for pointing out what the Sun did that was wrong (which it was) when they did something wrong in the first place. I’m sure they make a moderate amount of coin running their site, so they have no sympathy from me.

First, I’m not saying anyone’s in the right or not on the plagiarism bit or the alleged response, I’m saying milking it is wrong. Second, I hate that whole MSM pisses on bloggers for credibility bit. You want credibility? Don’t air your dirty laundry about their response real time on twitter. Don’t sit on your cross moaning poor me while you insult the writer who wronged you and their employer with petty little digs. Cuz, if that’s the example of ‘professional’ for a blogger, I guess I see why the old school guys piss on the bloggers. :)

This whole thing has got me thinking now… Are bloggers and MSM not really the same thing now, just with a different revenue source? Is gilles a worse writer than say, Lambert? Does anyone care? They’re both bad. And doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING: creating controversy to increase readership. Does one get paid more or less than the other? (Side note:I know a blogger who clears 10k a month just thru effective SEO and a lack of fear of annoying his readers with lame ads. 10k a month! Sitting at home writing about cell phones and computer fans. Brilliant.) Have not the bloggers BECOME the MSM? I get more news from blogs than from paper, and i’m not the exeption. There should be synergy between the two forums…bloggers are the op/ed version of the news.

I’m not sure if this is directed at my comment because it’s hard to line up the paragraphs at this point. But for the record, I wasn’t arguing moral equivalency. I think what Fulller/Sun did is morally worse than what you guys did at PPP. I’m just saying that what they did is likely legally kosher, and what you guys did is not. So for separate reasons you both have dirty hands in the big picture — and again, not saying they are equivalent or comparable or anything, just that they are both not kosher.

Which is why my bigger point is that the stink you’re raising over this I don’t have sympathy for, because you’re acting as though you can make up the rules for your own conduct but judge the conduct of others by an external, societal standard. And I have a problem with that.

As I said elsewhere, if you just did a sarcastic response (‘hahaha and you call yourselves professional media’ ) as one tends to expect (and enjoy) from the blogosphere, then I would have been on team PPP on this one. But the agressive I-told-you-so-ness of your reaction, in light of the bigger picture, is something I do not respect.

I think it’s a mixed bag. This wasn’t directed at anyone in general, just trying to make sure we’re all on the same page.

Yeah I know what you mean (see response above… my comment wasn’t directed at you, but about the LTIR relief -based rosterbations in general).

I think I’m just hesitent to try and use the LTIR leeway to hedge our bets that something better will come by. I would like to get Bieksa traded soon.

Just make sure you’re paper and say “Paper covers rock, bitch!”

Fear and Loathing is awesome. Also the reason I don’t stop in Bat Country.

I’m a huge Gilliam fan, so I lean toward the former. You know that was actually Thompson’s red convertible in the movie? I really think they caught the feel of the book, and Depp and del Toro did a fine as the Doctor and his attorney…

Last one of his I read was “Hey, Rube” – solid work.

Well, some is consumed but it isn’t popular especially among the younger generation. My point is moreso that there isn’t as much demand as they’ll have you believe.

I dig their message, but can we agree Paul Watson is sort of a…I dunno, dick?

Now the NZ dude with the Bat Boat that got rammed? He’s hysterical.