NotActuallyALonghorn

80k base pay is closer to 110-120k or more with overtime. 115k base pay is more like 150k or more with overtime.

Pic!

I should be able to neg myself.

At least Jones has to go for two without Nabors.

I like how they show a blatant hold on Parsons in slow motion and don't even comment on it.

Did they shoot themselves?

Labor is a resource just like anything else. Why should one entity be able to hold a monopoly over it? The end results are the same, or at least similar enough that they should be similarly regulated.

OK, here's the full excerpt. Earlier in the chapter, he crawls through a cave looking for a bear. Bear was there, complete with suckling cubs.

From the book Wild Sports in the Far West by Friedrich Gerstäcker, circa 1840 or so. He was a German who came to America to seek adventure, travelling across the country on foot and steam boat. The account is from his diaries that he sent home to his mother, who had them published, which made him quite famous. It is available to read in public domain, and I recommend reading it if you are at all interested in the early history of the Arklatex are where he spent much of his time. Edit: the whole passage didn't quote right. I'm on mobile right now. Will try to fix it, but it is about crawling through a cave to go after a wounded mountain lion.

It's stuff like this that reinforces my belief that unions should be subject to the same anti-trust legislation that the companies who employ the workers are.

Nice PI.

I guess KC can tackle a reciever before he has a chance to catch it?

Nah, Argentina. They already have a certain tolerance for nazis.

How old is the son? Say six or less for maximum impressiveness. Although 70 would be pretty impressive too.

Wrong half the time= -50%. -50%+ -50% = -100% . My math is unassailable.

And remember, because of the adversarial nature of there profession, lawyers are wrong about 50% of the time.

Don't they run on diesel?

Should have put bollards next to the track.

The math doesn't show that. That's like saying a correctly guessed coin flip on the first try means there is a 100% success rate. More than likely there are hundreds of similarly situated valves out there that have never been hit. So you have to factor those in as well when calculating the odds. Then you have to look at the cost of a pipeline company putting in the bollards, not the cost of the local 7-11. To be qualified to bid on something like that, a contractor has to carry the necessary insurance and meet a bunch of qualifications that kinda seem like a good old boy system. The cost of them is probably four times the cost of what it would be for a typical retail type company. So you figure there are a hundred of these similarly situated valves. One gets hit in 20 years. That's a once every two thousand year occurrence. Not a one in 20. So that $4000 dollars per valve expense is closer to $16000. Multiplied by 100 valves it's $1.6 million. And before this week, it was statistically one of those things where the odds were so low it was considered pretty much non-existant.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this hasn't been done. How many years ahead of current technology is our military when it comes to black projects? Discretely putting things into space would be much easier with multiple launches if we are talking something big.

This is the way to go.

You can 3D print a super safety.

I would be planning on using it sober. But also drunk.

Probably closer to $50,000 than $500 given how those qualified contractors do things.

Finally finished Discovery tonight. I'm pretty sure the writers sat around in a room to decide how to end the show in the most annoying way possible.