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Sports ethics/gaming a system related case study: University of Cincinnati's ultimate frisbee team was scheduled to play in a tournament this past weekend. As it stood last week, they were ranked 14th in the nation and were slated to gain the Ohio Valley Region (covering PA, WV, OH) a second, streng...

I sense a common theme in that list... True enough. Just by sheer odds, the more young people a team has playing, the more points they will score. Doesn't necessarily point to the talent of said players (but is certainly a correlation). True, but I was speaking more of the teams at the top of the l...

Yeah, I didn't even really like using the word "system" because of what you mentioned

A puck possession and dump and chase system don't have to be separate entities. You can be a dump and chase team but still focus on puck possession or vice versa. The main focus of dump in chase in terms of a possession game is getting a good forecheck going and causing turnovers, which lead to offe...

6656 the idea of confession acting as a deterrent to sin makes perfect sense if you are trying to control the behaviors of your people, as organized religion has been wont to do. if you're denying the possibility that this was possible with christianity at some time and place, then i think you're b...

6629 i don't think citing the church's official explanation of confession is exactly hard evidence against tif's case. How so? It's not meant to be public shaming, which tif seems to think it is. I would also argue it's not entirely supposed to be a "deterrent", in the sense that we are all humans ...

I thought (or at least was taught) that the entire point was that the priest was a way to confess through him to God and receive penance and be absolved of the sins. Essentially being a middle man of sorts. I never thought public shaming was the point. More or less. The teaching is that humans are ...

The entire point and purpose of confession is public shaming i stopped reading here. the axe is sharp. well agree to disagree. The deterrent role of confession is that you don't sin because you don't want to have to reveal your transgressions. Easier to not transgress. That's not it at all... Not e...

I sense a common theme in that list...

The PacMan thing is really hard to do in the city of Pittsburgh...

More or less encapsulates how terrible the road system is here.

Let me rephrase:

I don't think other Catholics who are going there for the same thing sit there and think "Look at that idiot praying for forgiveness".

6494 and the penance is often carried out in public where everyone in the church can see the bad Catholics trying to be forgiven for their venal transgressions. Uh, I'm not sure that's correct. People don't really judge anyway, because when confessions are typically given, everyone is there for the...

I love that the 5 looks like Trogdor. Not sure if it was intentional, but it works so well.



EDIT: Then again, it also looks like a snake, because eddysnake. That's cool too.

Just call them Carol

I still want to know what exactly Lovejoy did to deserve that penalty, aside from wearing a Pens jersey

How is Lovejoy the one who ended up with a penalty there?

In case people wonder why Bennett is in the dog house, that shift pretty much encapsulated it. Could have easily moved it to Cole to get it out of the zone, tried to get fancy and carry it himself, turns it over, and it leads to a goal. Keep it simple Beau. EDIT: not saying he's completely at fault ...

How do you miss that hook there? The guy lost his stick in Sutter's equipment for crying out loud.

I'd say they're 1A and 1B

The theory from the broadcast was that they were setup for wet qual and forgot to adjust it, but that seems insane. Yeah, I heard them say that but I'm not exactly buying it, unless it's some mass conspiracy by Red Bull in their fight against Renault to have a bad car and blame it on the engine sup...

So wait, did you guys know about that site before or after I posted it in the F1 thread 2 weeks ago? I think it's a hilarious concept. I agree about Raikkonen. Some drive from him. Appears this year that Ferrari has their **** together. Their car last year was oversteer-y and tail happy, but so far ...

Is Prince Fielder going to be a viable option this year?

Also I despise auto-drafts, but was happily surprised I was given Yoenis Cespedes a full 100 picks after he should have gone in a live draft.

If that hit was meaningless and senseless, so are 90% of other hits. Exceptions like yesterday shouldn't influence anything. That's the sort of thinking that gets us the ridiculous spectacle of no touch icing. Devil's advocate: Bortuzzo game 2 games for his hit to Jagr. At the time, the NHL said it...

I'm lucky if I trim every week and a half. It gets bad over that time, but I don't fully shave my face, because I'll look like I'm 12.