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  1. Good idea. Small contributions to TI PAC, which is all over the place.
  2. His leadership of the University seemed to be pretty good. The handling of the protests was a big oh shit among the attaboys, though.
  3. It's actually a bit worse than I thought. https://www.smu.edu/aboutsmu/administration/trustees The only identifiably liberal members are basically the UMC members. They're all rich bidnessmen, lots of oil and finance/investments. Rich Templeton of TI is the vice chair and I like him a lot, but don't know how he votes.
  4. Then you know little about the United Methodist Church vs. the Southern Baptist Convention. Methodists, as a general proposition, appreciate education and other liberal values, without interference from the church.
  5. Great, so we're going to be like the Argies. Islas Malvinas, like Fetch and Gulf of America, is not happening.
  6. I have been assured that there will be peace in our time.
  7. Well, the UMC has changed that policy since. And notwithstanding that, the UMC is far left of the aforementioned axis of evil. And there are other reasons for seeking the "divorce." And, we both know damn well that the power that be at SMU are bidness types that are right-leaning. But more in the intelligently right-leaning, to the extent that exists anymore.
  8. Interdasting. This may indicate that he's not exactly happy about being shoved to the right by the BOR. Assuredly, SMU's governance is right-leaning, but probably not completely in the thrall of Abbott-Paxton-Dunn-Wilks axis of evil.
  9. She's a cooze.
  10. Just dropping by to reiterate, because it can't be said enough, FUCK TRUMP.
  11. I think one key component to all "universal healthcare" plans is that employer-sponsored insurance will no longer be a thing. So you'll be paying full-boat, not some percentage of the actual cost. And, like most general-welfare things, property taxes, etc., opting out is probably not going to give you a tax break.
  12. Yeah, I hear that with some frequency, usually missing the intro. The other day, I heard people debating Trump's proposed appointments, and the Trump supporter was basically defending them with "anything but what we've had" and I think that's probably a winner notion for a lot of the American people.
  13. I'm more or less convinced it was an anti-incumbency thing more than anything else, combined with a decent amount of -ism on newer segments of the electorate. The leopards/faces/dildo thread shows that a whole lot of voters knew about zero about Trump. I'm not sure any D candidate could have distanced him or herself sufficiently from the outgoing administration
  14. To be strictly accurate, the Trump administration commenced antitrust litigation against the "big three." Trump is too stupid to understand antitrust, but he wants to hurt big tech and the antitrust laws are what they are, so at least that aspect of the Antitrust Division will seem to carry on as usual.
  15. Weirdly enough, for whatever reason, Clarence has written the majority, if not vast majority of SCOTUS' patent decisions over the last couple of decades. They're not obviously deficient, or biased, and whatever problems there are with them are more reflective of SCOTUS (not referring to their politics, but unfamiliarity with the day-in, day-out of patents), than anything Clarence-specific.
  16. Lotta law dogs all kinds of dysfunctional, including and especially alcoholism. Sorry it happened.
  17. His firm seems strange. No emails. Offices in ABQ, Scottsdale, Plano and Austin. WTF? Also seems to be worker's comp defense. Seems like a shitty way to make a living.
  18. Yep, there's two components to "fiscal responsibility," spending and revenue. It is not responsible to cut revenue while doing nothing about spending.
  19. Yep, even in the 80s, SMUs fanbase and ticket sales were probably a fraction of say, UT's, but as mentioned previously, their alumni network is committed.
  20. Yeah, I don't know shit about fuck, but it does seem that having local-ish businesses willing to lease Ferraris and Lambos and whatnot is a key component to all of this. And that places some of the more ruralish schools in ruralish states at a disadvantage.
  21. It's not really a matter of superseding. The NCAA and its constituent institutions been found liable for an antitrust violation in the form of colluding with rules that prevented athletes from profiting from their own NIL. NIL is but one of the potential revenue sources that the NCAA deprived student athletes of profiting from. It was a convenient one because it was relatively easily tied to individual student athletes. But giving student athletes the right to harvest their own NIL revenue doesn't solve the entire problem, which is that the NCAAs "amateurism" rules prevented athletes from sharing revenue for which they/their labor was undoubtedly responsible. However, unlike NIL, quantifying the athlete's proper share of any such revenue, either on a collective or individual basis, is quite difficult. Thus, we have this proposed settlement, which, apart and aside from any NIL revenue the athletes can generate "on their own," somewhat arbitrarily sets their share of revenue at 22%. And I think part of the settlement is a de facto antitrust exemption: that the amateurism rules have been abolished, there's now a revenue-sharing framework in place, and there will be no further antitrust suits.
  22. TwiceHorn

    3D Printing

    Well, I think the print head follows the use of the filament to make up planar layers. Some of the early solutions/attempt were pretty fubar. One put down a layer of photoreactive polymer with a paper backing, then cut away the paper backing, exposed the photopolymer, and rinsed away the unexposed polymer, rinse, repeat. The UT/Carl Deckard model of using particles seemed promising, as did a bath of photopolymer hardened by a laser. But fairly clearly, neither really went anywhere.
  23. SMU has a fanatical and wealthy fanbase that has historically, and, surprisingly currently (you'd have thought death penalty and subsequent program/fan malaise would have killed that off) very supportive of the school and its sports. Just as in the 70s and 80s, they are going to compete on a monetary basis with just about anyone.
  24. It's not federal statutory law. First, it's a payment from schools to player for past use of NIL and related antitrust violations. Then, as part of the settlement, schools are sharing revenue, up to 22%, with student-athletes. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/24/nx-s1-4978680/house-ncaa-settlement-pay-college-athletes It's not NIL per se.
  25. 10% correlates pretty well with the number of alcoholics in a population.
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