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I’ve typed and deleted and retyped 4-5 responses. https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/excessive-force-closings-19405000.php a friend of mine is tried this case. Damages portion was last week. No matter how egregious the behavior - there is very little chance for a verdict/award/settlement that will truly compensate the wronged party or deter the morons. brisket’s desire to have them pay damages out of pensions is fantastic. But a pipe dream. I’d settle for requiring these licensed professionals to have a professional liability type insurance policy with huge limits. If you are clean and no complaints - premiums are reasonable. If you aren’t premiums will be so high you are priced out of the profession. In either event - there is a chance at appropriate compensation for people “made an example of.”

I graduated in 2006 and still pay for the fucking things. If I had known better I'd have done a few things differently on the loan origination front and on the payback front. But being a young married guy with new baby - i was taking all the money they would give to make sure I the wife kiddo had some comfort. One day soon I'd like to slow down a bit. 50-60 hours a week isn't fun when 20-30 of it isn't billable/collectible (running the firm). Need to get more cases where an associate can help, meaningfully. Insurance defense cases are ripe for associate help. Huge construction defect cases on the Plaintiff side - not so much.

Needed more water in the stadium. Twice waiting in line for 20-30 minutes only to learn it was Ultra or Ultra my 14 yo daughter doesn’t drink ultra. hilariously- when the scoreboard said no more alcohol sales after 3rd - she laughed and said “no beer? What will they sell? Empty cups?”

Cotton candy bacon - meh Bourbon bacon - good burnt end Mac n cheese- really good fried frito pie - meh fried strawberry with chocolate and powder sugar - really good not enough water in the stadium - really really really shitty

Blue line flag on the back of his GMC to be accurate.

great info - you are right, according to the fancy DART website (orange to green)

would every kid need the app, or can a dad have separate day passes and handle it for them?

Great - thank you. I will download the app now. Any other suggestions? I've always just parked down by the fair, but with kids in tow, I thought the tram might make more sense.

Traveling up with the kids on Friday. Plan to try and Dart tram to the fair. The tram picks up near 635 and 75 according to my analysis. Is there a reason to NOT do this? If this is a decent idea, can someone tell me any nuances about riding the tram (ticketing/passes/frequency/schedule) that a south Texas might want to know in advance?

If anyone wants to email the good sheriff of Hall County - tom.heck@co.hall.tx.us. I did reach out by phone, but they did not answer. (806) 259-2151

100% this. I decided to go ahead and wake up when the thing went off. Shortly thereafter went to google and started typing in blue alert s when google autofilled the rest of story for me. Clearly I wasn't alone in that search Then I googled Hall County because I didn't know where the fuck it was. Amarillo? I am in South Texas. Is the dude on a plane? Want me to meet him at the airport? Next google - ios blue alert not - which autofilled for me how to turn off blue alert notifications Problem is - its really an all or nothing for the big ones. There isn't a "blue alert" toggle. So, for me, it is nothing. No alerts at all. Thanks a lot Hall County

Have no fear - the legislature already approved of the theft and will, no doubt, make sure that the law is on the side of the O&G business and NOT on the side of the consumer. The facts in the article are pretty detailed and damning. It would seem that this could be proven pretty easy if they really do have the data.

Hmmmmmm - wanna go park and watch a high school football game and not get shot - stay out of San Antonio. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/09/29/woman-shot-at-dub-farris-athletic-complex-files-lawsuit-against-northside-isd-two-district-officers/

Troph - you are in the same place we are in as a concept. Professionally, I can't lose the data. I've been trying to cobble together a solution to do what others here are talking about with 2-3 iterations of "back ups" for redundancy in the event of fire/failure/ransom. My problem is the process to do that and IMMA has excellent ideas on how to deal with this based on my preliminary communications with him. Looking to flesh it out some more and hopefully pull the trigger to make my life easier.

we are an all mac environment. We have about 4TB of data - 2TB of which are "fresh". We use dropbox for business after running into a lot of issues with sharefile "syncing" via onedrive app on mac. Dropbox has been very good to us from a usability standpoint. Once a month we back up our fresh files to backblaze. This is a true back up and not a sync/merge. We have been using multcloud website to do this and it works, sort of. In the old days you could have an external HD be the location of your data for dropbox and it was easy enough to deal with it. These days, the local storage must be internal. none of our macbook pros have 2 or 4TB of internal storage (duh). I am looking for a way to set up something that is simpler, easier, scheduled/recurring that will allow me to do one full back up ever so many weeks and syncs/merges every two weeks to account for new files in between back ups. I was thinking about regularly downloading to an external SSD a full copy of each subfolder (by year) of our files that are fresh and then moving them to backblaze manually. That might work. However it is 100% manual and there is a file size limit on the GUI for backblaze that forces me to use third party solutions. I went down a rabbit hole today of rclone, b2, syberduc, blah blah blah. I am relatively tech savvy, but I am a lawyer with no IT training. Just a guy who hunts and self studies enough to get the job done when possible. I think I am beyond my element in trying to figure out the best way to do it. Yes - we have an "IT Provider" - but they aren't really all that helpful at thinking about things outside of the box, like this. Happy to pay for someone's time, buy beers, whatever.

The thing is, once you watch a couple of games, and are toggling back and forth, it becomes super easy. At least on a firestick for me Hold the center button down and it will go back to your last channel immediately. Like previous channel did in the old days. Hit the down part of the circle and you get last channels to switch from (if your game of choice was two channels ago, or three) Or you can quad box and watch four games at one time. I still had cable up until about 2 years ago. I have my channel numbers still memorized. I hated the YTTV usability/remote for about a month. Now, its not even on my mind until I hear people bitch about not having numbers.

That is a fucked up story. Factually and as written. Do professionals not proof anything these days?

wow! Proof is in the pudding! And then you have this https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202406255931/fda-again-rejects-abbvie-parkinsons-drugpump-combo-update

We don't necessarily need/want a new domain name. The old man has name recognition and we like his name being around. The firm name is changing to reflect our ownership - but the website name/address i am indifferent on. Our biggest concerns and what started this analysis: - we no longer want to advertise via findlaw. The cost isn't huge, but the inquiries we get from there create far more burden than they are worth. - findlaw is our website host. If we slow our spend on advertising with them does that affect our website rankings in searches for things like "construction lawyer" "defect lawyer" etc. We advertise in those spaces (among others) with findlaw. - If we can safely stop advertising and safely stop paying exorbitant fees for our website, we would like to do that. Safely means - not taking a profound hit on the search engines. Truth is - we would probably gladly pay to keep hosting with findlaw and simply stop "Advertising" if it means that we can keep our search ranks and cutback on worthless intakes. Its not a money thing as it relates to the web (though I hate overpaying for anything) - it is a money thing when I think about what I spend each year for someone to process 20-30 intakes a week for cases we RARELY take that only show up because of the link to findlaw advertising.

no. Smith Law Firm will change to Smith, Purcell and Lewis. If one of the legal service providers is hosting/providing our website and we are paying them for the website, along with some advertising through other "related" websites (Findlaw) - any chance that changing the website host and name will ruin us? Old man at the firm is gravely concerned about it. I am less so as 90% of the people we actually end up representing come to us via referrals and word of mouth, not web searches. If it will be an issue, we are likely to change the name and keep the website provider and move in slow stages.

My small law firm is planning to make some changes. Name, website provider, and a few others. The old man at the firm has been around a long time and has a good bit of google love. We show up well in searches we care about. We are concerned about our changes and how they might affect where we land in google searches. Anyone here an expert in this space that can talk me through the risks of our changes and, if necessary, help us with migration to a new "host" and google?

Not my lane. I have generally followed you JJ and appreciate many of your takes. Your perspective often makes me ponder in ways that are beneficial. Frequently I agree with your overall theme, sometimes I do not. You don't give a shit what I think, I understand. I do not understand your position here. Are you spending more on your daily activities, daily needs than you used to? Are your increases (if any) consistent with BLS data? I am spending more. I am not living a lifestyle that is materially different than I used to. I have had new expenses (new driver, needs car, needs insurance, needs gas). Excluding new expenses, my costs to live have increased considerably. When I look at my monthly HEB budget for the family I am up 35-40% since 2020 and I now no longer drink $100 worth of alcohol a week (down to about $40 a month). I eat far less beef than I used to (fajitas are now rare, as is steak). Call it inflation? Maybe. Call it price gouging? Not sure how considering HEB has almost no margins on grocery items. Call it "more expensive than it used to be" - absolutely. At least from my chair.

thats the point. Say what is true - verifiably - only. Period.

careful representing stuff. If you say anything other than - didn't flood during the following named events: A, B, C, D - your realtor/lawyer needs to have their professional liability insurance all paid up, and you better have an umbrella policy to defend you individually.

Does anyone use reelgood? Thoughts?