LastPommerFan

Because the second amendment doesn't list narcotics and the drug dealers don't have a huge lobby group on K Street. And you won't see the study because congress has banned the NIH and Justice Dept (in process) from conducting studies on gun violence.

Do you believe that being raised in a world with email, instant messaging, Facebook, and message boards, and the rest of the internet would affect a persons sense of community and self?

Mass shootings = mental health issues. The other 81 people killed by guns that day in this country, not so much.

I'm not sure what your this is. (Too many threads in this thread.)

Ah. I'm not coming across correctly. I am not attempting to claim a moral superiority here. It is all about the connectedness. I do not believe the decision to forfeit more profit in favor of a better community is a result of being morally superior and selfless. It is still self interest, but as a result of that connectedness, we view our selves in a wider lens. Our communities are part of us, so by bettering them, we are bettering ourselves. Solely a result of being raised connected to everyone and everything around us all the time. We are no more "moral" and not less self centered than any previous generation. Simply a different sense of self.

The internet has had an impact on the development of one adult generation thus far, mine. Your lack of appreciation for the magnitude and consequences of this impact is unfortunate. Read the research on the employment, consumption, family and lifestyle habits of Millennials as a group. You'll notice two things: We are profoundly different from our predecessors in all those areas (for better or for worse), Gen X and our parents, The Boomers, can't figure out what to make of us, how to sell us things, or how to keep us on as their employees. That is the magnitude, this generation views things through the lens of near information saturation and ubiquitous connectedness. We are wary of non-transparency in markets. We value community (although not in the same sense as previous gens) as a reflection of our selves. We are better when the people and places around us are better. This is a result of that connectedness. It's a huge difference. I moved back at an extreme personal financial loss.

Yes, I believe that for the new, much more interconnected generation (Thanks Internet!!) that "some portion" is significantly larger than it was for the last 2 self centered generations of builders and leaders Boomers and Gen-X-ers.

It goes a little deeper than that, though. There can be economic incentives to extract resources from an area with no care to the actual state of that area or it's people. On a large scale this is colonialism, but it comes in many forms. Many people from my generation (Millennials), while yes, requiring economic incentive as a threshold item, look for something more as we build our businesses, wanting to add something to the community around us, even at the cost of some portion of our bottom line. Buffalo, Rochester, the Fingerlakes, the Southern Tier, all these areas offer a lot of opportunities for young small business owners like my wife to do exactly that.

Or... he's not talking about the ring!

:beer:

Don't forget the risk that you don't get Ekblad at #3. Then you're stuck with Bennett AND Reinhart.

I just keep it greased. Same Function, less crying.

Just scheduled a grill out for tomorrow with my brother and his family. Beers and burgers and sunshine and children contained in a fenced in yard with no need for ParentalGPS tracking! F'n Fantastic.

Andrew, I think your 10 is related to your 2, which is probably related to your 1. You belong here. You do, the whole board would notice if your input vanished, and most of us would buy you a beer if we ran into you at a bar.

Also: EJ Manuel cannot be a pro bowler if he's injured.

I still use bar soap.

It's not the permanence that worries me. I've been with the same girl since I was 15 (I'm 31), I have no fear of commitment to something. But I can barely sit still for a hair cut, my angle brackets would end up as braces from my squirming.

My wife wants us to get matching ones. She would get: { } and I would get < /> In web development land, style/design code goes in the braces (css), and functional code goes in the angle brackets (html/php/javascript). I am afraid of tattoos.

Your lack of breakfast nuggets displeases Nikita. He also totally has Super Saiyan hair.

Mostly I just wanted to use the phrase "assumes his ultimate form"

If he assumes his ultimate form, he still won't be bobby orr. He's just not that kind of defenseman.

He'll get his 9 in October to show what he can do. Nikita's style, however, doesn't help him. He's not Going to go 2g-3a-5pts, +7 in 9 games to force his place in the lineup.

Bio, your #4 described me exactly. Right up until I tried high end bourbon. That fixed that right there.

Jesus Gretzky Orr, Jr. and five first round picks would have been insufficient return.

Google "Medley Center Rochester". You should get a good cross-section of the screw job he laid on us there.