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  1. Oh yeah. Just, in any circumstance, those are unusual guns.
  2. Yes. The pain was virtually identical to the gallstones. The sphincter (say what?) is one of the mechanisms that controls release of bile into the digestive tract and it "spasms," closes, and you get the same bile backup that you get from gallstones and the same pain. This was 10, nearly 15 years ago and it seems like a less obscure problem and solution now. And yeah, for a year or more prior to the situation becoming acute, wifey had sort of non-specific abdominal pain, particularly after certain meals, but not "reliably," so sometimes happened sometimes not. When it started becoming acute, it basically put her on the floor. By that time, she had several largish and medium gallstones and a bunch of gallstone sludge in her bile duct.
  3. Wife had something similar in that gallbladder "colic" persisted after removal. The answer for her was sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. The test and "cure" is an ERCP, which is a pretty specialized scoping of the bile duct. A lot of GI docs were reluctant to perform the procedure because it is delicate, requires skill, and can cause pancreatitis all by itself. We/I found a doc at Baylor (Scott White Dallas) that specializes in them, had no fear, scheduled her for the procedure and she was "fixed" in 12 hours.
  4. So, those are apparently shotguns? Looks like a straight-pull bolt action with an extended tube magazine and a very long barrel? Wild.
  5. I didn't have a specific interest in any one thing, but had always been taking things apart, was pretty interested in cars and engines and trains and ships and all kinds of machines. By the end of undergrad, my curiosity had mostly been satisfied and advanced topics like acoustics were starting to elude my intuition and become purely creatures of math, so I couldn't generate much interest in a graduate degree. And I was also beginning to question how I would use this accumulated knowledge to synthesize designs rather than understand how and why things worked. That anxiety was probably overwrought, but it did mesh nicely with doing patents.
  6. Says a person whose fame is entirely due to the internet, and refusing to acknowledge that regardless of parenting or upbringing, racist, divisive and violent messaging from the ostensible leader of the free world is a bit more serious than "just one person."
  7. Yeah, calm and palatable isn't what MAGA wants. And I think the rationals recognize it for what it is.
  8. https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/en_bigbook_chapt1.pdf
  9. The alleged lie is that she stated it would be a "secondary home." https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/read-full-letitia-james-indictment-charges/ But, that doesn't have some plain meaning, rather it has what seem to be FNMA conditions attached to it. And those conditions changed right before she signed. https://selling-guide.fanniemae.com/sel/b2-1.1-01/occupancy-types One of the key factors seems to be whether it becomes or is a rental property, but that's ok too under certain circumstances. In any event, the definition is not so clear that it can be said that she intended to deceive at the time she signed it.
  10. Well, in one sense, having it "man to man" is less humiliating than giving them "the box" and having them escorted off the premises. On the other, it seems pretty unorthodox.
  11. Not to mention they all bring their SoCIAliSm with them. They're ruining our Kultur.
  12. Brown guys like Ahmed are RuINinG oUr CuLTuRE
  13. Yeah, I'm not saying UM wasn't looking the other way, seems like they probably were. But even if they weren't, I haven't seen anything that would make it easy to terminate him until she fessed up. The fact that no witnesses came forward maybe says something about the Department in and of itself. I find it hard to believe there weren't witnesses that could corroborate and flesh out the suspicions.
  14. Yeah, as noted up thread, I discovered that oakum is still pretty commonly available for use for sealing wooden joints of various types and there is a variant known as "white oakum" for sealing plumbing joints that would seem to be a predecessor to caulk.
  15. Well, he does raise sort of an interesting point. The law rightly presumes or assumes that consent is lacking in employer/employee sexual relationships (and in other situations where the power dynamics disfavor one party). This is because consent often is lacking, or at least compromised, but further that we want to penalize and deter such relationships. But that is a bit of a legal fiction that is indulged so we don't get lost in the details of every such relationship and whether there was or wasn't consent. In the absolute sense, though, both parties retain some agency, depending on the particular relationship and parties involved.
  16. Well, the kind of evidence I am referring to is documentary evidence (texts, photos, email) and witness testimony (I saw em). As long as they kept their comms off school systems (email, etc.) the University and their lawyers would have no way of legally obtaining for example cell phone records. I think there have been statements that Moore did not "cooperate" with the investigation, which would seem to mean didn't cough up his cell phone or personal PC. It would seem likely that UM also provided cell phones and service to at least Moore if not her and other staffers and it seems they would retain rights to do deep dives on those, but personal or "burner" phones and accounts would have to be voluntarily provided. There's no burden of proof for something like this until somebody sues. But the above wouldn't satisfy a criminal burden if there was any it's about 50/50 on a civil case, depending on what kind of credible excuses Moore could offer for the more objective evidence. But taking seriously adverse employment action based on evidence like the above would be somewhat dangerous for the institution and invite a civil case.
  17. Here's a question I don't know the answer to. Petit jurors are instructed to avoid media relating to their cases and are often sequestered to avoid that and other external influences. Grand jurors sit for longer periods than most petit jurors, and are charged with evaluating numerous cases, not just one. Therefore, it would be difficult and impractical to make any attempt to isolate them from media. So, I don't think they are, at all. But I don't know for sure. As we have discussed In other context, details of criminal investigations before indictment are usually kept pretty quiet and a grand jury drops out of most cases post-indictment. So, in a general case, media exposure isn't that big a deal. But it would surely seem that the media coverage of the first indictments and attendant shenanigans would make it very difficult to secure an indictment in any of these cases unless you were able somehow to assemble a purely pro-Trump grand jury.
  18. If true, this is all circumstantial evidence that seems ironclad in hindsight. Even setting aside UM's motives, if there's no more concrete evidence than the above, it's hard to justify firing based on this.
  19. I think at one point you challenged me on that notion and it's just like . . . my opinion, man. But yeah, I thought your interest in audio reproduction and acoustics was that thing for you.
  20. 2 OL is probably even more surprising.
  21. I think he's had some serious adverse health news. He's never posted anything like this. I think all this stupid decorating, the ballroom thing, and now the golf courses (and of course the fifa noble prize) is him beoming obsessed with his legacy.
  22. Regardless, Bovino out there making definitive statements when he is a complete meathead (and adjudicated liar).
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