Auto parts are a (partial) substitute good for new cars. If new cars become less affordable, people are more likely to get their car fixed up, because even if the prices of both new cars and new parts increase by the same percentage, the absolute difference in dollar cost will be larger.

Can’t pull the trigger if there is no trigger.

It’s a proof of concept. Many open source sites operate at scale, but unlike large multinational corporations are either unwilling and/or unable to quietly pay someone to find out who attacked them and return the favor.

“This met all of my needs until now, but because there’s something fancier available, I need to feel bad about it now!”

Ultimately I see it as an argument that the system is well and truly fucked and needs to be changed either way: it doesn’t serve the players, and it doesn’t actually serve the vast majority of schools involved in it. People talk about football and basketball helping a school’s brand awareness, but I’m not convinced…

Pros: you can actually understand as much of what’s going as most adults, being able to masturbate

Cons: most adults still don’t care about what you think, having to masturbate

Counter-counter-point: the glib statement “language changes” is an abdication of responsibility a) for mutually coherent communication, and b) to future generations of language users that will need to be able to express themselves effectively instead of like, whatever, man.

I understand transfer price accounting, opportunity cost and university budgets well enough, thank you- and scholarships are only a small fraction of the athletic budget (<10%).

http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/projects/ncaa/subsidy-gap

The M14, the standard infantry service rifle between 1959 and 1964 (and if I recall, variants are still in use for select purposes), was a semi-automatic .308 calibre rifle with detachable magazine, the same as your dad’s. But tell us more about how it’s totally not a people-murdering weapon.

I think a lot of the NBA’s administrative and executive manpower come from NCAA schools, and are not inclined to screw over their alma maters just because. I think overall the NBA also profits from the NCAA’s existence, at least in terms of helping to separate out the chaff before they get signed to big professional…

Can we stop having people repeat this bullshit every time it comes out? Only about 25 schools in America have a revenue-neutral or revenue-positive football team (out of 252 Division I football programs); that’s only 10% of schools where the football team isn’t actively sucking money away from the university’s general…

Bravo.

I don’t know about Canada, but the Japanese model, while less harsh than the Russian one, still puts a lot of pressure and expectations on kids from a very young age.

People who like different things from me are weird and dumb!

Any one stroke, yes. You can’t switch back and forth, though.

The NCAA knows that payoffs to players on the DL are prevalent, and a crackdown can only cause of one (or both) of two things to happen: top HS players all go to Europe or China for a year to play pro ball to meet their NBA eligibility requirements, or top schools threatened with revenue-killing sanctions abandon the…

Serious question, though: At what point does the unwillingness of the press to risk losing access mean they can no longer justify their existence? If they’re just going to ask softball questions no one actually cares about, why bother being a part of the White House Press Corps? Why have a White House Press Corps in…

What are the odds she’s resigning now as a pretext to make sure nothing else she did comes to light?

None of this is really the IOC’s fault, as much as it is the international federations that decide what events have competitions in each discipline, but the rampant sexism in the upper echelons of the IOC doesn’t help.