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City Wants Assessment of Qualcomm Stadium
"The Mountain West conference is a big fat joke...... " Yep. Boise St. may have missed its opportunity. Utah may be next into the PAC-10, as it pairs well with Colorado. BYU will most likely be left out of the mix. SDSU should have dropped football years ago. It sucks the limited resources of the athletic department. Case in point: SDSU has exactly one NCAA championship, 37 years ago, in a sport it has since dropped (Volleyball). Cal State Fullerton has 13 championships and the baseball team is ranked #7 going into the playoffs. The baseball team is looking for its 14th trip to the world series. Despite players like Tony Gwynn and Stephen Strasburg, SDSU is still looking for their first trip. To be fair, SDSU does have two non-NCAA championships in Rugby and womens cheerleading. Go Aztecs!— June 11, 2010 8:08 p.m.
City Wants Assessment of Qualcomm Stadium
"especially concerning basketball" The four 16-team super-conferences that are being put together are strictly being put together for football. The schools are bastardizing the conferences strictly to chase the big football money. Basketball schools like Kansas are in danger of being left behind.— June 11, 2010 7:34 p.m.
City Wants Assessment of Qualcomm Stadium
Reply to #7 - "Remember that the Poinsettia Bowl and Holiday Bowl both play there and bring millions to San Diego also." According to NFL methodology, I am pretty sure the Holiday Bowl contributes a couple hundred million dollars a year to San Diego! BTW: Don, you tried to move far enough away, but they caught up to you. Did you know that you live in PAC-10 country again? Colorado is moving to the PAC-10, to be followed by Oklahoma, Texas and possibly Texas Tech and Texas A&M. I am not sure how that impacts the Holiday bowl, but it definitely makes SDSU even less relevant. They will never be considered for a major conference.— June 11, 2010 5:47 p.m.
City Wants Assessment of Qualcomm Stadium
Response to #5: "The Roman Colosseum outlasted the City of Rome, and might be standing today if it was not dismantled" When traveling in France I visited the coliseum in Nimes. It was built in 1 BC, seats 16,300 and is still in use. There is another nice one nearby in Arles (seating 20,000), and several more good sized ones throughout Italy and France that are still in use. Here is the one in Arles: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3380/3335578441_d7… One of the primary changes that has been made to it over time is the addition of fences and gates to herd the cattle through the proper ticket booths and collection points. Originally it had a very open flow, since the performances were free and they only had to keep the three classes of people separate. What a concept! Free Chargers games, where they would have to survive only on the tens of millions they make a year from parking, concessions, advertising and TV revenue.— June 11, 2010 4:07 p.m.
Paean to Jerry Dominelli
Response to #125: I am sure that Apple has some good people at the top, but as a casual Apple observer I can't name any. Apple has two major problems going forward: 1) They draw top talent largely on the basis of the coolness factor of their product line which is a direct reflection of their very charismatic and very public face of the company, Steve Jobs. When he left the last time and a more faceless corporate structure ran the company, they lost that edge very quickly. 2) They have grown so large that they can longer lure top talent through the incentive that your stock options may make you rich. Years ago Gates was paranoid about Microsoft losing its edge and not being able to attract the top new talent. Tech companies wither very quickly when they stop being the most attractive choice for new graduates. For years now Microsoft has resorted to acquiring top talent through acquisitions rather than hiring. It would be hard to market that approach at Apple since the company has long been sold on the basis of in-house innovation. The truth is that Apple is already falling behind Google in innovation, and is being undercut in many of their most profitable areas. Of course Google is in somewhat of the same boat, as they have grown so big so fast it will be interesting to see whether they can maintain their corporate style. Th advantage Google has is that Brin and Page are 20 years younger than Jobs. In any case, Apple faces a very difficult post-Jobs transition and it will be interesting to see how they go about it and how successfully they can pull it off.— June 9, 2010 9:08 a.m.
Paean to Jerry Dominelli
Response to SurfPuppy619 #113: "I honestly thought Apple was going to go out of business when their stock was $23 a share in the early 90's." AAPL actually hit bottom later in the 90's (on December 1, 1997 it was a split adjusted $3.28. I believe there were two 2:1 splits since then, which would make that $13.12 at the time). 1997 is the year that Jobs regained control of the company as CEO. He had been gone since 1985. After a bit of a rise from the dot-com bubble, it settled back down to the 7's. It was $7.11 (or $28.44 pre-split) as late as 4/1/03. I almost convinced myself to buy some when Jobs first came back (1997) and then again during early 2003 but I never did, which is testament to my investing acumen. I will be very interested to see what happens to Apple when/if Jobs health forces him to step away again, because the company is such a personality cult and the company lost its focus and floundered the last time he stepped away.— June 8, 2010 11:37 a.m.
Fat Cats Still Pouring Money into Proposition D
"Response to post #11: Yes, but by voting against all incumbents, you may have inadvertently voted for downtown establishment lackeys." I used to be in favor of term-limits to get the bums out, but I have changed my mind. I read the argument once that term limits are a bad thing and I have come to agree that term limits have really screwed up the city of San Diego. We used to have crooks and incompetents sure, but at least there was some accountability because they would be around long enough to have to live with their decisions. Now you get a constant stream of first time candidates with little name recognition in the greater community who are put up for election by the well financed special interests to do their specific bidding and who will be gone before we feel the full effects of their decisions. A full 4 years of their 8 year terms (incumbents never lose) are spent solely repaying their backers, since all pretense of serving the public good can be dropped when they are not up for re-election.— June 8, 2010 9:12 a.m.
Paean to Jerry Dominelli
Response to #98: Don, you can translate whole websites as well. It is actually rather amusing to read a Chinese newspaper through a translator and try and guess what the stories are about through the really bad translation. Translators are becoming so easy to use and they cover so many languages, that I foresee in the future people will be less inclined to learn other languages. In a very warped sense the internet then becomes the tower of babble, and without it nobody can talk to each other any more. It also makes people overly reliant on very suspect translations that completely miss any subtlety, so that language will have to be dumbed way down to translate correctly.— June 7, 2010 8:05 a.m.
Paean to Jerry Dominelli
"Nor does feeding paragraphs into a translator and spitting out a foreign language, because the minute you do, someone is going to come along and know you did it" Umm, that WAS the joke. I really don't think anybody was confused for even a moment whether a translator was used. The topic had already gone so far off course as to be incomprehensible, so it seemed natural to take it the rest of the way. Of course I am terribly hurt that nobody responded to my hex dump, since I actually did write that!— June 6, 2010 11:36 p.m.
Paean to Jerry Dominelli
Oops, I posted the wrong (and bad) link Here is the IQ link: http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/Cox300.aspx— June 6, 2010 11:25 p.m.