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Yeah, I found some good HD feeds last night on one of the Phoenix channels. Watched the UFC prelims and the quality was flawless. I took a peek at the TSN feeds too and they were great. If they can stay up, it'll mean cutting the cord and bumping up the internet package.

I asked for a Mai Thai once and they brought me a Pina Colada.

The quality of live sports is my biggest issue with kodi. Everything else about it is fantastic. Any show, including Netflix exclusives, and any movie you could want.

The CRTC said customers can choose to continue with their current service plan & pricing so it would only be more expensive if they want it to be.

If you started watching BB from the very beginning, every episode you'd feel different. Agreed. I wasn't overly impressed with Breaking Bad right off the bat, but I had heard so many people raving about it that I stuck it out & was very happy I did.

Mr. Sulu & Uhura disagree with you.

The books are even more boring. I've tried to read the books twice and never been able to slog through them all, the movies on the other hand I really like because they pick up the pace and cut a lot of the useless fat. As for GoT, the first season was fantastic, after that they got too full of themselves and started ignoring the source material. If you haven't already, do youself a favour and read the books, far far superior to the show, except that fat old George RR Martin is a slacker and won't finish the god damned series already. I read A Game of Thrones when I was 13 for gods sake! That was damned near 20 years ago. I got through the Hobbit & LOTR but if you thought those were hard to get through, try the Silmarilion! I gave up on that one after multiple attempts! LOL you're going to hate the next few seasons of the show then. Since Martin takes so long, they've said starting this season, the books & show will really start to split off from each other. The next book is pretty well done though. I'm hearing maybe mid-October for it's release but who knows with that guy!

The Hobbit actually was written as a children's story so you're getting the intended purpose. LOTR was intended as a sequel but spawned into something much bigger (not unlike GOT which was originally a trilogy & now has a 7 book on the way with at least 1 more planned). I would argue that LOTR isn't fleshed out as well though. Character-wise, absolutely it's not as deep as GOT, but the world & languages that Tolkien created are incredible. As Rich pointed out, Tolkien wrote his stuff about 80 years ago when that genre didn't exist. He had a lot of his writing interrupted by WWII so I'm not suprised people don't find it as consistent as GOT. One major difference for me between the two is that Martin bases a lot of his material on directly on historical events (ex: The Red Wedding is based on The Black Dinner in Scottish history) where Tolkien created more from his mind. I love both series but I weigh them differently because of those factors. They are both in the fantasy genre, but it's like apples & oranges to me. PS - it's not just Dinklage's acting (which is incredible), the Tyrion character is so well written, it's was a favorite character of most people long before the TV show ever aired an episode.

Manitoba Roughriders Rough Riders Our version would be having two teams called the Bombers... and it would tie into TUP's post about the air force theme.

I believe this is the intended purpose of the Quick Care clinics the WRHA has been opening (there are 3 currently). I have no clue how effective they have been though.

If there's one thing we've learned in Winnipeg... it's that media executives always make good CFL executives... Orridge has some work to do in the hair department if he's going to live up to the lofty standards set before him!

I'm pretty sure I read that Derrett said thanks but no thanks when he was approached about the job. Lawless says he's heard Jeffrey Orridge's (excecutive director of CBC sports) name come up but he doesn't know if he's the guy who will end up getting named commish.

This is one area where I thought Gord Steeves had the right idea when he was running for mayor. He was the only candidate who promised to make the focus safety rather than money. Bowman's take on it was that if you got a ticket, you deserved it.

Lets look at the MTS privatization. Has anyone gotten better service since it was privatized? Filmon lied- in the election before he privatatized MTS, he personally promised he would not privatize it, and then he did it. He said that Manitoba could not afford to have a crown corporation help keep up with all the pending technology, but and here is where it gets interesting, the legislation to sell MTS specifically prevented SaskTel from buying MTS, and they were very interested. Same old stories-lying Tories Yes, everyone gets better service. MTS had lousy customer service for awhile and they knew that. They have improved in that area significantly. Its certainly no worse than any "call center" service I've experienced with other comparable businesses including SHAW. If you're referring to the Phone Center stores, they would have gone away regardless and if they didnt, thats a perfect example of why the government couldnt be trusted to effectively run the operation. Im really not sure there is a great argument against the privatization of MTS at this point. I was pretty young during the bulk of the Filmon years and actually grew up very anti-PC (my parents were NDP'ers) but the older I got, the more I couldnt deny his effectiveness as a leader. As a young person in the 90's, Winnipeg sucked big time. Everyone I knew was dying to get out. Losing the Jets was another nail in the coffin. Filmon was the leader we needed at the time we got him. NDP had come in and screwed things up, economy was bad, transfer payments down. PC's governed during bad times, steered us through it and when things turned around, here came the NDP with alot of wonderful ways to spend the money the PC's worked hard to generate. And now history repeats itself except the Selinger government has had pretty good times and loads of money...they are just incompetent. And along will come a PC party to fix things. You pretty well ignored everything Tracker wrote, except the 1st part about service. My biggest beef with the MTS thing was the fact he had just campaigned on not privatizing it. It's not a whole lot different than Selinger raising the PST after saying he wouldn't. Both were needed and the right thing to do (IMO) but lying about it before hand is sure to piss people off. Filmon deserved the critisism and so does Selinger. Another thing that stinks about it, besides the SaskTel thing, is that Filmon became a director with MTS less than 5 years after privatization, so he not only lied about it, he gained quite a bit financially from it.

If you're even a little bit tech savy, run XMBC off a computer that you can hook up to your TV (or buy a box that runs it), install a few select addons and you're set. No need for cable or netflix as anything & everything can be found on there.

I agree, he looks bad ass, he just doesn't look like the Aquaman that I remember as a kid (the orange & green suit). I was never a big Aquaman guy so I missed the 90's comics version they are basing Momoa's look on.

I dunno...it's DC. They aren't exactly very smart when making movies outside of the Batman franchise. Quoted for the truth! To be fair, they do seem to be making some strides in the right direction but they still make some head scratching decisions. I'm still trying to get my head around Khal Drogo/New Conan as Aquaman.

And now the Jets have picked up Jiri Tlusty from Carolina for a 3rd rounder in 2016 & a conditional 6th rounder in 2015.

Winnik has been traded to Pittsburgh.

It wasn't just his arms that looked off, he had some pretty bad back acne going on too. I'm not sure what was worse, Silva's appearance or his performance. Both are a direct result of him no longer being on TRT so I guess it's a tie. It sure was a good night for gamblers and a bad night for bookies! A one dollar bet on the underdogs was worth just under 50k

Cold weather will do that.

Cleveland

GSP is happy with the direction they are going but , like me, wants to hear more specifics. It'll be interesting to see if these changes will be enough to get him back in the cage. From his twitter account:

It sounds like a good start but it's short on details (at least for now until they get their deals in place). I wasn't surprised to to see how little they spent on drug testing over the last 2 years (500k) compared to what they are now committing to pay (several million, but no cap & willing to spend whatever it takes according to Lorenzo). There are a lot of fighters who will either retire or be noticeably less successful in the next little while. The part of about key commissions making things uniform is pretty funny if you've spent any time dealing with them. This enhanced drug testing has created quite a bit of talk about this possibly pushing fighters towards being considered employees rather than independent contractors. Year round testing, "uniforms", health insurance and other things are starting to add up.

Business-wise it makes sense, they want to protect their cash cow's. It's just very hypocritical and something you don't generally see in other professional sports (at least from the league). They want to be seen a a major league sport but sometimes they do very bush league things.