2 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

Only thing I follow is how disgusting, unpleasant and underwhelming China's been 

 

Don't need the Olympics for that.

3 minutes ago, downundermike said:

I feel like Drummond is not an NFL player. He looks like his absolute maximum ceiling is greg ward. 

8 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

I will admit that I am a bit cynical as to when cases might be pursued.  We can’t really see what Stafford could see but it is obvious as the shot pans out that there are a lot of people on the ground. I don’t read lips well enough to tell if he was asking for help.  The short clip can be read a lot of ways.  

The idea of worker’s compensation was kind of socialist in 1912 when it swept across the US.  Back then, an employee had to sue their employer for negligence (and the law pretty much was contributory negligence barred recovery.) Even if they had a good case, the injured employees were obligated to pay for their care and didn’t get paid while they waited for the suit to resolve.  Heck liability insurance really didn’t exist much back then.   Employers, in return for paying for Worker’s Compensation, gained immunity (sometimes limited) from suits by employees.  Since the majority of injuries are self caused (most common by far are lifting back injuries), this was great for employees.  They got their medical covered and some replacement wages while off work. To this day, employers grumble about worker’s compensation premiums (and as we both know, sometimes cheat.)

I really don’t like contributory negligence. (Most insurers don’t but for different reasons than mine.  Less risk, less need for insurance and less premiums.) It really doesn’t fit my idea of fairness.  It seems grossly unfair if you are 1% responsible for the incident and others are 99%  responsible, that you can’t collect in MD, NC and AL. Contribution amongst defendants skews things the other way in those states, especially in AL but both are archaic remnants of contributory negligence laws.  I dislike joint and several for the same reason I dislike contributory negligence.  It is absurd that because you can pay, even though you liability is slim (say 10% or less) that you have to pay for all the damages.  Makes "deep pockets” a target.   I wonder if that is why Remington just paid to settle that suit.  Sandy Hook took place before the state abolished joint and several so sue the shooter and the gun company and the gun company faces 100% of the damages. 

Now CA slants way towards the unfair against defendants, not just with pure comparative.  Hospital bills $100,000, in CA you can claim that even though you health insurer paid $10,000 and the hospital accepted that.  Defendant can’t mention that.  That’s unfair.  Pure comparative seems absurd.  If you are 90% responsible for an incident, it is crazy you can even sue.  I like greater than like PA.  If I am more than 50% responsible, I can’t sue.  That’s fair. 
 

I think your definition of self caused and mine might differ.  A CNA in a nursing home hurting her back trying to flip over a 300 lbs patient by herself might be "self caused" but some might believe understaffing and broken patient lifts might be an issue as well.  The same can be said about manufacturing environments where people lose fingers because they don't want to stop the line.  

Contrib bends everyone's idea of fairness.  Judges let arguments on contrib in civil cases inappropriately all of the time.  It basically can be argued regardless of whether there's actual evidence.  Slip and fall cases and most unsafe premises cases are no goes in NC for that reason.  From a social perspective, we want laws that hold people accountable for themselves.  Laws that are pure comparative or pure contrib do not encourage social responsibility.  Interestingly, we had the possibility of getting rid of contrib in NC for a 51% comparative law but it was coupled with elimination of joint and several liability.  The trial lawyers group was dominated by some big med mal lawyers who did not want to give up joint and several.  So they pushed to kill the bill.  2 years later Med Mal was capped and basically eliminated for ER visits. I am still mad about it.  Now Joint and several can be important but from a policy and greater good standpoint it impacts far less people.  Those med mal Ds could not see past the last case they settled for big money to understand the changing landscape and future issues.  

We have billed vs. paid here and I think the counter point to it is when it's health insurance.  Why should an at fault driver get the benefit of reduced exposure because of the health insurance I pay for?  The margins of reductions are often where the plaintiff actually gets a recovery which is warranted.  The reality of it is that those bills are inflated and who knows the formula used to come up with the billed amount.  

14 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

Do they really need men and women's curling teams? Still haven't watched any Olympics, guess it is still going.

Two different games in how they're played.  The men are much more capable of up-weight shots and getting more action on rocks after contact.  The women's game is more draws and taps, where the men play more hits, run-backs and raise shots.  Both are interesting in their own way.

3 hours ago, greend said:

In Pa you can't put WC on yourself so if she's self employed she's screwed.

Not exactly true.  You have to be paid a salary.  So let’s say you are greend dba greend lumber.   You are a sole proprietor.  You don’t have to carry WC.  But you could chose to and pay greend  a salary, say as president of greend lumber.  Then the renumeration basis for premium for greend would be your salary.  There is a bit more to it than that but you can buy WC if self employed.  I would always LLC any sole proprietorship and pay a salary as it provides some liability protection. 

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

We're back, baby!

 

I also don't understand how the Eagles have 40 to 1 odds but the Patriots with actually a rookie/actually a pro bowl player QB is 20 to 1.

3 team trade just like Daniel Jeremiah predicted. 

22 minutes ago, SB52 said:

There is nothing in the CBA that says contracts can’t be fully guaranteed. The teams are following the rules of the signed contract.

Kirk Cousins’ initial Vikings deal was fully guaranteed.

So are players when they ask for trades or sit out and are penalized for it. 

Just now, Alphagrand said:

Two different games in how they're played.  The men are much more capable of up-weight shots and getting more action on rocks after contact.  The women's game is more draws and taps, where the men play more hits, run-backs and raise shots.  Both are interesting in their own way.

This is where curling hot takes come to die.  Much appreciated.

 

3 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

3 team trade just like Daniel Jeremiah predicted. 

Breaking News

3 hours ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Thank god.  Time to move on.  
 

 

Gold Standard 

4 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

Is Carson Strong as mobile as Philip Rivers, or Tom Brady, or Peyton Manning?  Those guys turned out OK.  He just has to be functionally mobile, meaning agile enough to avoid straight-on pressure.  

The medical evaluations will decide his draft fate.  If his knee is given the green light medically he'll go in the top 2 rounds.  If there are questions, then he'll be a late-round pick.

Potentially, he is not as mobile.  Rivers was relatively mobile coming out.  Peyton had some limited mobility but such a quick trigger, his running speed was a liability compared to his trigger.  Brady could move but his pocket awareness was so good he rarely needed to do so.  Nothing about Strong puts him in the same paragraph as any of those three at this point.  Frankly, I think Coan reads faster than Strong in this draft (not much of an arm, though).  String’s mobility is based on injury.  None of those three were limited by such.

3 hours ago, RLC said:

I'm torn on RD1 guards. They basically have to be healthy Shawn Andrews or Zack Martin to be worth it.

Is Green that level of prospect?

Yep.  

Just now, Bacarty2 said:

Agree, just spot lighted more.

I've learned more about how poopy China is, and how crazy Canada is in the last 2 weeks than my whole life

Trucker thing?  I've been too weary to click on the story.

 

3 hours ago, justrelax said:

No, he is not. 

Well Shawn wasn’t Shawn at Arkansas.  Frankly, I would have used Nelson in that comparison post.  

34 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

Do they really need men and women's curling teams? Still haven't watched any Olympics, guess it is still going.

Yes.   Men's and women's curling is very different stylistically.   And the mixed doubles curling is also an even different game, as that game is only 2 players (less reliance on sweeping), two rocks start each end in play, one in the house, and one as a guard (team with hammer gets the stone in the house), and then there's the power play that allows the team with hammer to place the stone in the house and the guard to the side to try to generate more offense.    And to show the difference in the mens and womens curling, while its not required to have the woman in mixed doubles throw the first and last, and the man throw the middle 3 stones... every one does.  The first throw has to be a draw or tick shot (in other words finesse), but the middle shots are more likely to be the power throws of peels, run backs and doubles/triples to open the house for the final draw to the button at the end to score.   Just a different game entirely, but all 3 are enjoyable to curling fans.

5 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

Well, you gotta go to 13 different media outlets to then figure out exactly whats going on. 

But as a "normal" American, some of the things going on up there should scare the begabeers out of us. 

It should scare us how easy it is to manipulate people to not get a vaccine.  None of this would happen if people just understood math and science.  

3 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Yes.   Men's and women's curling is very different stylistically.   And the mixed doubles curling is also an even different game, as that game is only 2 players (less reliance on sweeping), two rocks start each end in play, one in the house, and one as a guard (team with hammer gets the stone in the house), and then there's the power play that allows the team with hammer to place the stone in the house and the guard to the side to try to generate more offense.    And to show the difference in the mens and womens curling, while its not required to have the woman in mixed doubles throw the first and last, and the man throw the middle 3 stones... every one does.  The first throw has to be a draw or tick shot (in other words finesse), but the middle shots are more likely to be the power throws of peels, run backs and doubles/triples to open the house for the final draw to the button at the end to score.   Just a different game entirely, but all 3 are enjoyable to curling fans.

3 hours ago, SB52 said:

I’m all for athletes making every penny they deserve, but this "list of teams”nonsense has to stop.

They need to write more penalties into the next CBA’s for not honoring a signed contract. (That being said, if there is a no-trade clause in the player contract, then that’s different).

Signed contract includes a no trade clause.

13 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

Well, you gotta go to 13 different media outlets to then figure out exactly whats going on. 

But as a "normal" American, some of the things going on up there should scare the begabeers out of us. 

I'll be sure to go to my news outlet of choice to get an interpretation that corresponds with my worldview.  Can't wait... 

11 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Yep.  

 

7 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Well Shawn wasn’t Shawn at Arkansas.  Frankly, I would have used Nelson in that comparison post.  

Shawn played tackle at Arkansas, which is something of a different animal. As a guard, though, he was the most powerful run blocker I can recall. Well, along with Larry Allen.

I like the mention of Nelson. He’s comparable to Martin and both are closer to Green than is Andrews.

The day Andrews and Allen first stepped on the pro field they were the best linemen on their respective teams. I don’t see Green being at quite that level. In fact, if we were to draft him, he would be the worst of our five theoretical starters.

Let’s just bring back Foles and be done with it. 

3 minutes ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Let’s just bring back Foles and be done with it. 

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I think Smith is the top run blocker this draft , needs work pass pro though , I think he is a OG in the NFL , some think he plays tackle  , I can see that too , he has the run blocking figured out