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  1. Big Audio Dynamite had some very fun samples.
  2. Register a copyright in it now, before you start circulating it. copyright.gov Then your looney copyright infringement case when someone comes out with something similar will be a tad stronger and possibly more appealing to attorneys.
  3. In one post I mentioned RVers separately because they tend to be on a property owned and maintained by someone else who has rules and so forth and thus, in my opinion, some responsibility to warn campers if not evacuate the campground entirely. But yeah that's getting closer to play stupid games win stupid prizes.
  4. As I have said repeatedly, I am quite sure the DOJ under Trump and Biden, when relatively normal, investigated the rest of the Epstein cabal and found no indictable offenses after Epstein and Maxwell. Everything else was performative nonsense. And Trump wanting to release rumor bait until he came to understand that the rumors would be about him as much as anyone.
  5. Maybe someone should stomp on Ella's foot. (kidding, or am I?).
  6. Well, you could knock the number down by about 27 and I think there'd be a bit less outrage. But if campers and people with "river houses" choose to ignore sirens, that does become a bit less of a public problem, as opposed to warnings they may or may not have gotten or camp directors/supervisors (including RV camps and such) ignored "for them."
  7. I heard on NPR a discussion of disaster prevention efforts and funding with someone from a "right-leaning" group. There was agreement that it was "expensive" and funding was hard to find. NPR said that several times, that Kerr County couldn't find the funding. I put expensive in quotes because I think one of the numbers was 970k and that's not objectively expensive for a government project. This was a "national" show, so maybe they're not that plugged in. But I think it's been established that Kerr County had the funding on two separate occasions, but declined to use it because of librul derangement syndrome.
  8. I think it's more an unfortunate coincidence than anything, but it seems a lot of the deaths were associated with exiting the cabins as the water receded, voluntarily or otherwise. So, staying in the cabins might not have been quite as insane as it sounds. Still insane compared to going to higher ground, which apparently was readily available.
  9. Yeah, sirens give me the willies. One problem in Dallas, though, I can hear em from miles away where I'm not gonna be affected. And they've started doing em for severe thunderstorms and not just tornados.
  10. Ever notice all those Chinese sellers on Amazon with weird-ass names? Well the Amazon Brand Registry is encouraging them. You have to have a registered or applied-for US Trademark Registration to put yourself on the Brand Registry. Heretofore, I thought that was only an issue of removing counterfeit/infringing products from Amazon. But, listing in the Brand Registry also helps search positioning. This I did not know. So those little Chinese and other sellers are flooding the USPTO with trademark applications so they can get on the Brand Registry. https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2025/july/how-amazon-is-changing-the-us-trademark-system.html There was a rash of Chinese bogus filings during Covid that may or may not have related to this (it appears that it did as this article is lagging the phenomenon pretty significantly). It's easier to register a complete nonsense word than something that more resembles what we think of as a trademark. Fuckin Amazon.
  11. After an event of this magnitude, those responsible for public safety (and private safety) need to get assed to either turn off the other alerts on their phone or pay enough attention to sort the trivial from the serious.
  12. Yeah those of us with the luxury of living in places where only White Rock Creek and low water crossings flood can ignore flash flood warnings. People in the Hill Country just can't, especially if they're in loco parentis for 600 kids.
  13. One of the main reasons that was proposed (and passed in a bond election that Ross Perot Jr. rigged with JWP and Kathy Neal) was to increase the value of land around there, held by people named Stemmons and so on. It was a horrible idea and ungodly expensive and couldn't get done for the bond budget.
  14. Make the sonofabitch deny it. The reason the Biden DOJ didn't do anything with it is there was nothing indictable in it. The only way they were going to make part of it public was through a criminal trial.
  15. You know who is usually a "bipartisan commission" of "no politicians"? The United States Department of Justice, that's who. Until a certain someone turned it into his personal revenge law firm.
  16. Prosecution by Trump's DOJ? Are you fucking kidding? Great move by Kanna to put them on the spot.
  17. As I have pointed out, responsible governments don't just release dirt on their enemies. If they can indict and convict them, they try.
  18. Because allies don't get prosecuted by this administration, especially when they're IN the administration. If Trumpco thought for a second they could pull together some half-ass indictment against Bill Clinton or another Dem on this without the evidence blowing up in his/their face, they'd have done so on day one.
  19. Definitely a weird grandstand. Another total debasement to the orange god.
  20. Assuming the files are criminal in nature, ie evidence seized using search warrants, pursuant to grand jury subpoena and other criminal processes, they would be in the sole control of the DOJ. HoR ain't got nothin to do with it unless they somehow obtained copies, which a norm-following DOJ would resist for the same reason it doesn't make such files publicly available. So, unnecessary grandstanding by House Rules Committee.
  21. Well, tariffs haven't really been in effect, either. It's gon get worse.
  22. Dumb old fuck doesn't know what arrested or indicted means, anyway. Worth pointing out that he was initially arrested, federally deferred, and convicted in Florida between 2005-2008, during the Shrub administration.
  23. I'm a criminal law hacker, so I always have to look at the statute. C seems to have provisions for all three. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/924 Although I am unopposed to the idea of an enhancement for firearms, I think the results of 924 are pretty draconian. Oh, and I thought you were a lawdog.
  24. I've enjoyed him (Kebbell, not your lil bro) often since Rock N Rolla.
  25. Leave it to the Brits to say it concisely and cuttingly: The combination of small government ideology and climate crisis denial has distorted the politics of the state to the extent that basic decisions that might bolster climate resilience are shunted aside. The impact is seen at all levels, from the state capital in Austin down to local neighborhoods.
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