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  1. Yeah, but that wouldn't be the standard for damages in a more normal contract scenario. They lost his services, but they also no longer needed to pay him. The legit measure of damages would be the "cost to cover," the cost to replace him. Of course, their ability to replace him is circumscribed by the spring portal window. But if they had to pay more for a replacement, that would be the normal measure of damages. I think what you'd have to do to make that enforceable is some somewhat arbitrary $5-10k/month of contract to cover the fact that a) he may be irreplaceable, both from a talent and an "at all" standpoint and b) that any replacement obtained in the portal is likely to command a premium of that 5-10k.
  2. They portaled in a lot of players, something like 48 the last two years. Very few five stars, if any. Here's a depth chart showing transfers in yellow. Most of the offense, not that much of the defense. https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/depth-chart/indiana/90728
  3. You could actually #bothsides that pretty well. The astonishing part, though, is how often people seem unwilling to hold republicans to account.
  4. At some point, these clowns and many of their sycophants start to believe that more money is the only way of "keeping score." It certainly is one very practical way of keeping score, but conflating it with actual excellence, or even goodness, is a huge mistake.
  5. I have read some recent criticism of the "Bush plan." It's not so much that centering research in academia is wrong, and the private sector can do it better, but it did seem to relieve the private sector of some compunction to spend on R&D and made it easier for corporations to be Friedman fiduciaries, that is, short-term thinkers.
  6. As has been noted for years, precursors to CR on the Longhorn internets have had a conservative bias until Trump. That kind of belies the notion that UT is some liberal indoctrination center. And the same is true of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. who've pumped out plenty of conservative and even reactionary types.
  7. At least it's not Greco-Roman. Or flat Greek. NTTAWWT.
  8. Yeah, I was wondering if there was something like that going on, but wasn't going to touch it with a 10-foot pole.
  9. So, wifey likes the murder shows and had on one of those streaming channels that's non-stop Datelines. And this guy came up. https://www.oxygen.com/murder-for-hire/crime-time/woman-suicide-arrested-hire-hitman While all of these stories are pretty fuckin nutty, this one was extra. Anyway, this guy's a UT grad, around 2000, probably a ZBT or Sammy. Anyone know him? Or the vet chick?
  10. Cancellation petition here. https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92090266&pty=CAN&eno=1 The test for abandonment is straightforward: did the Trademark owner stop using without intent to resume use? Under the Trademark Act, non-use for three consecutive years creates a presumption of abandonment. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1127 According to the petition, Elmo announced discontinuation in July 2023. In the best of cases, abandonment is proving a negative. Therefore the 3-year presumption is invaluable to shift the burden to the alleged owner to prove use or intent to resume. And yeah, Elmo is highly likely to come up with some kind of BS use that will be called "token." Not sure why this outfit didn't wait until July 2026, or thereafter, to file.
  11. My parents had two of those monstrosities. A main one in the den and Dad had a monaural tube Magnavox that had a giant klipschorn type speaker. That latter one really sounded good.
  12. Interesting. I think he was pretty popular among the players the first time around.
  13. Thankfully, 8-tracks were just a bit before my time. I never had one of these. I did, however, acquire a few 8-track tapes at a neighbor's garage sale. Led Zeppelin 1 and IV and Iron Butterfly In A Gadda Da Vida, baby. The only place I could play them was in our 73 Fleetwood.
  14. Despite its name, Lawfare actually has very few lawyers and at least half of its content is security related. It and justsecurity are complementary reading.
  15. And because it’s Trump, the “economic” message very quickly became the old, ugly standby: if you’re struggling, blame immigrants, Black Democrats, and whoever Fox had on blast in the A-block for Frau Ingraham’s White Power Hour last night. (“Immigrants are taking 100% of jobs!” “Shitholes!”) Lulz.
  16. And the "CR cabal" makes plenty of money, we're just not interested in cornholing everyone to get it.
  17. This may actually be true in some sense, but the motherfucker sure didn't run on it. And, if we're going to have austerity, I sure as fuck want a more coherent economic policy in place while we suffer. Preferably one that gives corporate America a nice case of hemhorroids.
  18. Gonna put this here, although it could go a number of places. A look at the "National Security Strategy." https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--why-did-the-white-house-write-this-national-security-strategy Note here that the document is not defining “border security” as an important element of U.S. security or as one of the most significant elements of it. It is defining it as the single primary element of American security. * * * I am willing to entertain the notion that the last several administrations may have underestimated the American people’s desire for a secure border. But to put the issue of border security as the top objective in one’s national security strategy is a kind of a nativist madness that is more about cultural—and let’s be honest, racial—anxiety about immigration than it is about any tangible security threat. To call border security the primary element of national security, after all, you have to believe that controlling and limiting migration is more important to American security than, say, maintaining a functional and effective nuclear deterrence; having a military capable of protecting American interests at home and abroad, and stopping or deterring Russian and Chinese predations on allies. You have to believe it’s more important than having a coherent approach to protecting American critical infrastructure and cybersecurity and more important than stopping major terrorist operations. Note that in this paragraph, the security concern is not any worry about activity that might attend uncontrolled migration—the terrorism, drugs, espionage, and human trafficking are almost after-thoughts in the paragraph. The threat is the migration itself. And the stakes? They are total. “A border controlled by the will of the American people as implemented by their government is fundamental to the survival of the United States as a sovereign republic,” the document warns darkly.
  19. Juliann Faucette's Dad is a minor NFL celeb. Very minor.
  20. It's kind of interesting how the daughters of pro athletes are achieving prominence along with their post-career Dads. I suppose this is a naturally occurring phenomenon, but it seems more prominent in volleyball than WBB, for instance. Or softball. Or is it that I just don't pay quite as much attention?
  21. Yeah, so even though being actual Christians probably doesn't hold much appeal to high school teens, and politics certainly doesn't, these kinds of organizations can attract members by other means, basically "cool kids" or "hot chicks" or just "joiners." Of course, in our time, there weren't these social media incels, either. Then again, how many of them really join anything, except social media mobs?
  22. Guess you have no real clue what a bunch of loonies and fruitballs back the GOP and at one level or another are actual thought leaders. Fuentes, Candy Owens, Loomer, Curtis Yarvin, Thiel, Elmo and the Paypal Autistic Retard Mafia (NTTAWT), MTG.
  23. Fellowship of Christian Athletes. I was in it for a while, it was nothing in terms of religious indoctrination, just a sorta-Christian, sorta athletic thing. Hanging out and signaling virtue, not much else. Perhaps some other "chapters" were more militant. That is my question.
  24. And that's when the screenplays started really closely following the books, followed by Green Mile, even lifting dialog straight from the book. The Mist went a little awry. A massive improvement in King-based film. And yes, Red was paroled in the novella and decided to join Andy in Mexico, but the story didn't include him getting there.
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