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The chain conversations were also kind of pricey. The only ones I ever saw were made by EBR...so not sure if those can still be had. Not sure if there were other companies making them.

Most private employers have rules about conduct. 1st amendment rights have nothing to do with those rules even though many people incorrectly interpret them that way. Your employer can fire you for things you say or do at work. They can also fire you for things you post on social media outside of work hours. They key to the 1st Amendment is "Congress shall make no law." Trump saying sonuvabiches should be fired, or employers actually firing you for things you say or do is in no way threatening 1st Amendment rights. 1st Amendment - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

So much has changed since these protests began. They have been wildly successful, assuming the goal is to irritate the people that support the NFL by watching games and buying merchandise. I am very curious to see what happens to NFL TV ratings for the rest of the season. I suspect the opinions of the league and team owners will rise and/or fall with those TV ratings. While they may care about some other things, the league is mainly about $$$.

No. What people say at their jobs is not a free speech issue. I'm sorry if you've misinterpreted the 1st amendment.

Perhaps you should read this. This isn't really a free speech issue. We all.can get fired for things we say and do at work.... http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/27/politics/first-amendment-explainer-trnd/index.html

No you don't.

I think Steven A Smith is mostly an idiot, but he nailed this one.

The vast majority of these players aren't protesting anything. They are just being trendy. Kneeling is the new planking, or Tebow-ing.

The best thing Trump has done was keep the Clinton cartel out of the White House.

I think Francis is a nice man, but a bad Catholic. While the Catholic church was due for reform, you can't just rewrite dogma without undermining the entire religion. It's very hard to argue that an eternal, all knowing god changed his mind because people's social opinions changes & some of the church's rules became unpopular

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While some do, this is not a requirement or custom. §171. Conduct during playing During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should render the military salute at the first note of the anthem and retain this position until the last note. When the flag is not displayed, those present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed there.

This doesn't surprise me. http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/25/world/pope-heresy/index.html

NFL ratings were down last year (partly because of these protests). They are already down further this year. My guess is they will drop even more this year. Even though the players have the right to protest, I think it's in poor taste and the only effect of this protest so far has been to piss off their own fans. Seriously, what are these protests supposed to do anyway? I support the fans right change the channel and ignore these whiny, privileged, millionaires who think life isn't fair.

Avoid the headache. It's not a bad bike, actually it's a pretty good bike. The motor is stout, the handling is good but, support sucked even when Buell/EBR was still around...it's worse now. 09s have a fatal flaw in the charging system that will fail at some point. There are (were) charging fixes, but none of them were cheap. Parts availability is an issue. For example, they are belt drive, and the belts aren't still being manufactured.

Certainly CBR & VFR brakes a better than SV brakes. The CBR & VFR have a very nice combined ABS system that will stop the bike in the minimum possible distance for the given conditions. If ABS engaged on either wheel, the system seamlessly engages the other brake and you just stop. I'm not able to out brake it. The SV ABS was not linked. When ABS engaged all it did was reduce braking force (by quite a bit). It took much longer to stop. I could EASILY outbrake that shitty sytsem. I sold that POS after owning it for around 500 miles.

I had a 2008 SV650 with ABS that was absolutely dangerous. The wheel wouldn't lock, but it basically disengaged the brake. It took forever to stop, it was scary. The linked C-ABS on had on my CBR and currently have on my VFR12 is light years ahead of that shitty Suzuki system. I can try to lock up both tires on dry pavement, or wet, or gravel, and it just stops without even a wiggle. The new R1, BWM, Aprilia, etc systems are even better.

Signature line gold right there. Sorry to hear that you crashed

I don't claim to know fuck all about racing, but I do know technology. This is pretty much the same argument every time new technology comes along. There's no way launch control, or wheelie control, or traction control, or even a quick shifter can do better than a skilled, experienced racer. Until they do. Ask Josh Hayes.

Right, the track is a magical land of mystery where the rules of physics are completely different. Lean angle ABS on a street bike is pretty amazing. If you let a race team develop that or had a MotoGP team link it to GPS with a braking profile specific to each braking point on each turn for specific conditions...I'm sorry but no human could match that. I think the downside would be that the racing would not be as exciting to watch.

Don't be so sure. I seriously doubt anyone on this board could out brake the excellent C-ABS on my 2010 CBR600RR and that was a couple generations behind this http://www.motorcycle.com/safety/mo-tested-cornering-abs.html "...my mind half melted at the amount of braking force that could be applied to a leaned-over front tire before it lost grip and tucked,”

Right, because no one ever tucks the front.

MotoGp doesn't have abs because it against the rules, at least it was last I looked into it.