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Huckleberry

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  1. 2 minutes ago, GotThatFire said:

    For me, had he left before all the Dallas to Austin stuff he started putting out there, I'd have thought nothing of it.

    YES! EXACTLY!

    If he had left after not doing a good job for his first employer then I would admire him more!

    I mean the fact that in exchange for making some money he actually did a great job and increased the desirability of what his employer was selling and increased their brand value in a short time on the job makes me HATE HIS GUTS. How dare he do a good job? What an asshole.

    That's why when looking for new employees I scour the ends of the earth looking for people who were shitty at their last job. That's what you want to see in an employee.

    p.s. I think I figured out Giles's username.

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  2. On 7/13/2019 at 2:14 PM, F250 said:

    I don't think they gave up any runs in the district tournament either. I'm curious how many quality pitchers they have on the roster.

    They gave up some runs in the district tournament. 1 to Westbury and 6 to Bellaire. Still obviously impressive, they've given up 7 total runs in 8 tournament games.

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  3. Actually kind of okay with the fact my DVR fucked up this morning. Another Hamilton win with Mercedes alone at the front and the safety car miraculously helping Hamilton. Boring as shit, plus I can watch the Verstappen madness in highlight length clips. The rest of the info and numbers can be digested after the fact.

  4. Based on practice and qualifying the only hope is Leclerc if you don't want a Hamilton win. Leclerc consistently put in the fastest times on the mediums. Bottas can pull a fast lap out of his ass sometimes but I don't see him beating Hamilton in a full race at Silverstone.

    Maybe enough laps will be on medium tires to give Leclerc a shot.

  5. 2 minutes ago, NowThis said:

    as soon as i posted, i knew some ultra clever retort about voting age would come to pass. 

    So as soon as you posted you realized how dumb it was to act like human beings who consume government services but aren't allowed to vote shouldn't be counted as part of the population? You know an edit button exists, right?

    2 minutes ago, NowThis said:

    well there should be. Even in the constitution, the un-taxed natives are excluded. 

    *waiting for NowThis to figure out that untaxed Native Americans weren't consuming government services but were considered sovereign when the Constitution was written and were made citizens in 1924*

    2 minutes ago, NowThis said:

    So, count all 50 million who walked across the border yesterday, all foreign students, and all tourists. Hell, even count ISIS sleeper cells then. This is fun, but i'm checking the NBA board now. laterz. 

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  6. 31 minutes ago, NowThis said:

    idiot, it's up to interpretation as is everything in the constitution you idiot. 

    No, it's not.

    "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."

    Please elaborate on your interpretation of the bold portion of that text that leads you to believe non-citizens shouldn't be counted. The text even supplies quite directly the only exception to the count.

    You're a complete and total moron.

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  7. Well I stand corrected. Went to read Rule 2.00 and it says "area over home plate." If it's interpreted literally that means the strike zone is a plate shaped prism from the height of the hollow below the kneecap to the midpoint between the batter's waist and the top of his shoulders. This rule seems to always be interpreted as the front edge of the plate, though, at least in my experience.

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  8. 15 hours ago, NowThis said:

    a census always undercounts people . Aside from allocation of resources, the game both sides are playing is the EV.  Granted, TX and CA probably cancel each other out but we still have FL and NY. It's marginal, the effect on the POTUS election but still there.  In principle though, since the Census does affect POTUS and HoR, it should only be for citizens.  Other agencies can count the people for food banks and other government efforts, but the Census should be sacred. 

    "In principle"?

    The Constitution is the principle, you numbskull. IT SAYS COUNT ALL WHOLE PERSONS.

    Arguing that amputees shouldn't be counted is literally a more logical argument than saying immigrants and non-citizens shouldn't be counted. 

    THAT'S WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS YOU DOLT.

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  9. 48 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    OK, I'll buy that, although there is still some human variability at play.  It's gotta be way better than what we have now, for sure.

    A more fundamental question to which I should know the answer:  is the strike zone a plane referenced to a part of the plate, or is it a 3D volume with some extent along the Z axis?  In either case, would a strike be called just as long as any part of the ball clipped any part of the strike zone?

    It's a 2D rectangle, but the ball is 3D and so long as any part of it touches any part of that 2D rectangle then it's a strike. The strike zone rectangle is fixed in the Z axis (with the coordinate system I used above) at the front edge of the plate.

    For all practical purposes the ball is almost always moving fast enough that it may as well be a 2D circle. I suppose an exaggerated eephus pitch might be moving in the necessary arc to clip the strike zone with the back of the ball but not the front or midplane. 

    But your question is pretty good as for what the computer looks at. I'm betting the computer looks at the moment that the midplane (full diameter circle) of the ball meets the plane containing the strike zone.

  10. 15 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    How would an automated strike zone account for a batter's stance prior to the pitch?  Would it just be generated off compiled video evidence? 

    It seems obvious that the pitcher has to deal with what he sees.  If a batter crouches more or less than his "data" suggests is nominal, then the pitcher is working off flawed information.  He doesn't get to see the top and the bottom of the computerized strike zone -- what he sees is shifted from there, and perhaps even compressed or stretched.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it, and maybe my concern is in the noise, but to me it seems like the technology for pulling this off could be ahead of the reality of doing so.

    Seems like that tech wouldn't take long to develop. There would be one strike zone tech official at the game and he'd have a screen that shows the players from the centerfield camera. On his touch screen the horizontal Xmin and Xmax are fixed vertical lines on the corners of the plate but he can adjust the Ymin and Ymax horizontal lines by touch and lock it in when the player takes his stance.

    This certainly isn't possible at most levels, but no reason the majors couldn't have it at 16 parks per night.

  11. That is your opinion and needs to be taken to the Supreme Court as illegal immigrants and asylum seekers didn’t exists at the time. Agree to disagree. 
     

    IRS Admits It Encourages Illegals To Steal Social Security Numbers For Taxes

    This time, he was talking about illegal immigrants, and about the IRS turning a blind eye. Or maybe worse. The IRS actually wantsillegal immigrants to illegally use Social Security numbers, he suggested. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made the surprising statement in response to a question from Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., at a Senate Finance Committee meeting. The question was a touchy one. Gee, is the IRS collaborating with taxpayers who file tax returns using fraudulent information? It wasn’t put exactly that way. According to Senator Coats:
    What we learned is that … the IRS continues to process tax returns with false W-2 information and issue refunds as if they were routine tax returns, and say that’s not really our job. We also learned the IRS ignores notifications from the Social Security Administration that a name does not match a Social Security number, and you use your own system to determine whether a number is valid.”
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2016/04/13/irs-admits-it-encourages-illegals-to-steal-social-security-numbers-for-taxes/#423653784c04
    Is it your position that immigrants aren't people? That's the only way to get around the text of the 14th Amendment. Or does plain text only matter sometimes?
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  12. 11 minutes ago, American Swindle said:

    I'm cool with it, it lowered taxes.  I think I got like an extra 1200$ this year back (from 300$ last year.) The problem is the government never cuts expenses, it just grows and grows and has zero incentive to ever LIMIT itself so that's why it's projected to raise the national debt.  So there you go.  

     

     

    You understand that lowering revenue will raise a budget deficit, and therefore total debt, even if spending remains static, right?

    Spending needs to be addressed. But this answer was a complete dodge.

  13. You're strengthening the analogy, not weakening it. Players in all sports try to draw calls and exaggerate their motions not just when the call shouldn't be made in their favor, but also when it should be made in their favor.

    If it's a ball it should be called a ball, and if it's a strike it should be called a strike. The art of framing only exists because umpires are inconsistent and miss calls. If every call was always correctly made it would never have even existed.

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