Oh well that’s good to know. I’m glad you guys have that kind of comradery.

Are potlucks normal for work parties? Can’t say I’ve ever seen it.

Point being there is still a firewall in place with a default deny. Nothing fundamentally has changed.

I actually appreciate your diagram because it makes it easy to see. The firewall will not route packets you haven’t expressly opened in both scenarios.

Yep.

Too many people learned ipv4 and not actual networking.

“This evidence is detrimental to my argument so I’m going to ignore it.”

And that just means we Americans get what we deserve.

It’s a civic duty. The only people to blame are ourselves.

Heaven forbid you tell people they have a civic duty no matter who is on the ballot.

We’re not smart enough to do that. People will vote once and think that’s good enough. Then a bunch will sit in their ass and let Republicans win again. Rinse, repeat.

Yep. All it ever is is excuses.

According to progressive wisdom he should be able to win elsewhere but even in blue Minneapolis the same kind of progressive lost.

It’s not a silver bullet and the person replying above you that it takes all kinds is entirely right. I like mamdani but there’s not a shot in hell he’d win my city.

But hey, I’m sure more purity tests will help progressives as always.

I love how it papers over the fact the Republicans in Congress have abdicated all duty and made their own leader a king.

Also, I would hazard that heritage action is some bullshit foreign account? Maybe Nigeria?

I mean, they are beholden to the ACC schedule given aligning during covid. No one would’ve known that most of those teams are quite poor nowadays.

And it is what it is. We’ll agree to disagree. I think Alabama is not at all a playoff team and ND is but it’s water under the bridge now. The snub was just the cherry on top and Alabama did NOTHING to jump ND as their wins were all factored in and they were behind the Irish up til Auburn.

And also big disagree on the SEC being top and bottom above the rest. They get a lot of favoritism in their rankings and it shows. Teams that are ranked high in the SEC had trouble with Arkansas and such who the Irish utterly dismantled for example. And if we talk cupcakes, ND is one of the few programs that doesn’t schedule FCS. Talk about cupcakes. But I guess we can’t all play “the mighty Citadel” or powerhouse Mercer.

Can only play who is in front of you and the schedules are set years in advance. That and there is clear and obvious SEC bias in the rankings which distorts everything anyway.

Alabama had what, Mizzou? How is that better than Navy who finished 9-2 and ahead in the rankings. LSU wasn’t ranked at all. TN not ranked at all and somehow were ranked still near the end even with a terrible schedule. Nearly lost to many of those too- Auburn, LSU, South Carolina…

ND- stronger strength of record- https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi

I give them Vandy and GA of course.

But in any case the point remains- what did they do in the final weeks to justify jumping ahead of ND? ND was ranked higher and demolished Stanford so much that they had starters resting in the 2nd half (like most of their last games) and Alabama needed every bit of luck to squeak by Auburn with an interim head coach but…that was a “great win” that “totally justified jumping the Irish”?

That’s baloney, pure and simple.

I guess I just disagree wholeheartedly. We did ourselves no favors so I’d be fine with a more deserving team but Alabama is simply not that and is coasting on name alone.

At this point let computers do the playoffs because the “eye test” clearly favored the Irish going into the final rankings if they had at all watched Alabama play.

Edit- a snippet from reddit from someone with a GA flair. I think it says it well though the “infantile” is not what I see- FSU should’ve opted out a few years ago as well from a clear BS process.

If I had the final say in it all, I’d leave the playoff exactly the way it is, except swap Alabama for ND

The end and long of it is Bama lost 3 games and ND lost 2. Notre Dame’s 2 losses came by a combined 4 points, and both to teams who made the playoffs. 2 of Alabama’s 3 losses were to a 5-7 team, and a blowout to close out the year. Alabama also struggled and had to find ways to beat Mizzou, South Carolina, and Auburn, 2 of which aren’t going bowling either. You can make fun of ND’s schedule all you want, but they absolutely took care of business against inferior competition.

Do I feel a little sorry for ND for getting hosed by the playoff committee, when they clearly deserved the spot over Alabama? A little. What we’re all making fun of them for is their near infantile reaction to it all.

Yeah the CCGs just don’t work with the playoffs. Playoffs are so big now, conferences so big, and bowls no longer tied to CCGs (ie. Rose Bowl, etc.)

For me the solution which will never be reached is to go back to sane conferences. But hell, colleges are selling out to private equity now on top of their fat contracts with conferences so we’re going even faster in the wrong direction.

Ml. You could’ve stopped when you saw their name.

CCGs are dead- people just don’t know it yet. Supposedly they don’t count against you but we see it’s true for some teams (BYU) and not for others (Alabama.)

In the end the entire issue is the bloated conferences which is only going to end in a super league of Big 10+ SEC + ND. And that’ll make it all even worse than it is already.

I’ll just have to disagree. I would have zero issue with the Irish being out if there were teams more deserving and they didn’t pump us up for ratings then pull the rug.

But IMHO Alabama notably and perhaps even OK should be behind ND. No issue with Miami going above us but it is a farce how they did it. Alabama not dropping at all while BYU was bounced is all you need to know about how corrupt it is and how it’s simply an invitational.

Alabama never should’ve been above the Irish and especially after squeaking by a poor Auburn team with an interim head coach. Then they definitely shouldn’t have stayed idle in the rankings after getting pummeled by GA. If BYU was playing to play in then why the hell was Alabama not?

All a farce.

Now of course we could’ve made things easier for ourselves by winning one of two but we still only lost by 4 points total to those two teams. Certainly didn’t get rocked by 14 by the likes of FSU.

Had no idea this was him. Explains the decision to back away from calyxos and do this then.

Great stuff.

They’re agreeing with you. Fact is the Democrats weren’t given power to stop this.

Perhaps those so inclined might show up to both primaries and the general elections next year.

Same as the c2. Wasn’t supported for us bands.

That and no headphone jack here which is a bummer. Honestly I’d like sailfish or the old furios phone but the latter didn’t work with tmo MMS at the time.