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  1. Tillis fancies himself quite the IP wonk. He is far and away the most active legislator on patent issues. I imagine he harbors some notion that federal preemption of AI regulation is worthwhile. And probably sees AI as a patent and copyright issue, mostly.
  2. The money shot: Gabbard, Patel, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were always the unholy trinity of utterly unqualified nominees, people put up for their jobs primarily because Trump and his advisers knew that they would be completely pliant and obsequious, that nominating them would horrify official Washington, and that Senate Republicans would have to bend their collective knee by confirming them. But while Gabbard is thumbing through emails and posts, and Patel is examining heart rhythms to see who’s been rolling their eyes at him, America is in peril. Real spies are out there trying to steal America’s secrets; real terrorists, foreign and domestic, are plotting the deaths of American citizens. Kidnappers, gang members, organized-crime rings—they’re all out there waiting to be caught. But first, Tulsi Gabbard has to find out who doesn’t like the tariffs, and Kash Patel has to find out who snickered at him in the hallway. Priorities, after all. An addendum: Gabbard proposes a "full-spectrum" search of all 18 agencies' communications to ferret out "disloyalty." Spooks getting spooked indeed.
  3. Except for the part where he's Canadian. They're not letting non-Canadians in.
  4. Of course, the question remains, how much worse will be any of their successors. At least Bondi is nominally qualified.
  5. They all seem to be money pits.
  6. For whatever reason, I think these camps are a lot more expensive, even inflation adjusted, than they were 20-30 years ago and the waitlists are far more insane. La Junta recommends you apply at age 2. Haha I got a letter from a friend of mine at La Junta on camp stationery at about age 12 or 13. On the return address where "Camp La Junta" was printed, he added "sux dix."
  7. Catastrophy.
  8. Well, the election that propelled LBJ was between two Democrats.
  9. Is he really polling badly here? In Texas? I have heard Ronny Jackson say that, but he's delulu. I wonder if it isn't a timing thing, file get it out of the way before the primary, get some extra goodies.
  10. No one really knows. It was well-known by the time of impeachment that he had been carrying on with this Olson woman, and had been since his Nate Paul connections were revealed. Paul was raided by the FBI in 2019 and rumors swirled about their connection. The shit hit the fan with the whistleblower lawsuit in late 20 or early 21, where it was alleged that one of the ties between Paxton and Paul was that Paul hired Olson in his Austin office to bring her closer to Paxton. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/11/ken-paxton-whistleblowers-texas-bribe/ Why ol Ang decided enough was enough is anyone's guess.
  11. I guess to be fair, we have to admit that people that come to commissioner's court meetings and rant on things of general interest are complete political perverts. Not necessarily representative of the people of Kerr County.
  12. Seems like that was LaJunta. Pretty substantial cabins, too. And quite distant from the river, relatively speaking. I wonder if that footage is some other buildings.
  13. Well, hardly any of them have that many years of actual experience with the river and the property.
  14. Well, illegal searches aren't a jury issue, so no not in front of the jury he wasn't. Probably something more like flung a bag of dope out the window, which the cops recovered, and he alleged it wasn't his dope and couldn't have been.
  15. Well, there is the problem of bias. In the late 70s we (the US) considered creating a specialized patent court. One of the debates was whether it should be a trial court with technically trained or at least sensitive judges. The alternative was what we got, an appeals court with technically trained or sensitive judges. The main difference being that trial courts find facts and appellate courts do not, broadly speaking. One reason we chose the appeals court rather than the trial court is fear of judicial bias creeping in. And the purpose of the court was not to implement some vague improvement in the outcome of patent cases, but rather to make the patent law more uniform nationwide and to have it "administered" by those more sensitive to its broader purposes. As a general proposition, we don't like fact finders that are too familiar with the subject matter.
  16. Unlike some of the camps, Mystic has been under the ownership of one family for nearly its entire 100 year existence. So, I guess 60-70 years of actual observation of the floods and the property in question breeds a degree of complacency or arrogance.
  17. Speedtrucker is, I believe, an AUSA, so yeah we were referring to federal prosecutions.
  18. There are photos of what apparently are some of those cabins, if not those in particular with high water marks at 6-8 feet. Seems like leaving the cabin, if that's what happened, might have been a mistake.
  19. I am a prototype Aussie meathead dipshit. Romper Stomper. Animal Kingdom.
  20. Yeah, I dunno. I mean, like a lake house, being close to the water is kinda part and parcel of the whole deal. Seems like a calculated risk. I think there's definitely an acknowledgement of the possibilty of property damage, but loss of life is unfathomable. From one of the graphics, though, the Mystic cabins in question were fewer than 100 yards from the water. Some of the La Junta stories talk about 300 yards from the water. Then again, my cabin at Longhorn was probably 50-100 feet from the water's edge, and many are actually ON the water, but it is pointed out that Inks is a pretty low flood risk and probably not a flowing flood. Sidenote, I participated in Texas camp culture as did a lot of my peers, then and now. I don't think of myself or my peers as extremely privileged in the sense of the Hunts. And, I don't think of summer camp as some huge indulgence. But it costs, and it costs something that a whole lot of folks can't or shouldn't afford. Like many/most of us here, we're upper 5-10% of American society, we're pretty damned privileged if not extremely so.
  21. Shoulda taken the tube.
  22. Also, a US Senator advising a locality to keep money to keep it out of the hands of other localities with "suspect values." That is so beyond fucked up.
  23. Kerr County Commisioner's meetings. Linked several times above.
  24. Online resources that have been available to anyone with a functioning brain for decades. Absolutely catering to morons. It's brilliant.
  25. Texas Monthly has some great coverage of this and has brought back some articles from the past on flooding and Hill Country camp culture.
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