Happy New Year You Surly Bastards!
Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
Yeah, as ctj said, it's hard to imagine that a concussed, fuzzy-headed Arch is an improvement. But his failure to date is so bizarre that anything is possible, I suppose.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
One sort of positive here is that the executive lacks the ability to immediately change the copyright law, to "intervene" in AI cases. And, even though this executive loves to assert power he lacks, he would have to do so in courts of law, where thus far, he has been least effective, other than on the shadow docket at SCOTUS. They're going to have a hell of a time getting private-party copyright cases on the shadow docket at SCOTUS.
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Brian Kelly to L$U
I should add that I feel pretty confident that CDC is going to have a very realistic meeting with Sarkisian and point out what a disaster this season is and demand some changes beyond "I'll fix it Chris, trust me."
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Brian Kelly to L$U
Well, there's a big problem here and that is that CDC does not unilaterally control the HFC. He didn't hire Sark, or it wasn't his choice. Conversely, he doesn't control the firing of Sark. For one thing, the purse strings he controls are inadequate to the job. About all he can do is make recommendations, to Sark and to those who do control the hiring and firing of the HFC.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Not sure where to put this. https://prospect.org/2025/10/31/progressive-tech-group-asks-trump-to-block-ai-copyright-cases/ The Chamber of Progress, a self-styled “progressive” industry trade group supported by most of the biggest tech platforms, has urged the Trump administration to intervene in a litany of copyright cases involving artificial intelligence firms, to try to stop authors and publishers from having their work used for training AI models without permission. More of these techbro assholes trying to argue that the law doesn't apply to them because they're so fucking special.
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
Yep, this exacerbates the "what do we do with the morons" problem. And also the training of non-morons. AFAIK, being a scribe is an introduction to medicine for prospective medical students. As is an internship in a law office or engineering firm. Their work isn't essential, but it's not useless either, and is invaluable to the trainee.
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Brian Kelly to L$U
I think the more important thing for Sark is to get assistants, by whatever title, that will help him see and honestly evaluate the talent (and talent needs) and capability of the offense. Something is wrong there. That something could be Sark himself and it's unfixable, but I tend to doubt it.
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Week 9 - Vandy at Texas.
In central Dallas, orienting your antenna according to this or a similar data source yields good results. https://www.antennasdirect.com/transmitter-locator.html For total newbs like Bob, when you're touching your antenna, as to move it around, reception generally improves because you become a large-area antenna yourself. But if you're just moving it around randomly, when you let it go, reception goes to shit. Point it at least in the compass direction of the station's antenna, if not the precise azimuth and it will stay good when you let go of it.
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Week 9 - Vandy at Texas.
One really shouldn't use the term "pocket awareness" and Quinn Ewers in the same paragraph, unless one declares Quinn's to be abysmal. Arch's problem is not pocket awareness. His ability to stay upright in traffic far exceeds Quinn's. It's just that he doesn't make the throws even with the extra time.
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ICE activity/raids
Serious attempts to quantify the "cost" of unlawful immigrants mostly say they don't cost, they add. Let's get one thing clear, undocumented immigrants are disqualified from most all government benefits.
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Trumps War on Everything
And every Trumper to a man jack will tell you that W is a war criminal. For doing exactly this.
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Trumps War on Everything
It actually says "military installations." But that's fine, because he'll make up more bullshit that the Venezuelan military is in cahoots with TdA or some other narco-terrorist organization. And now that he is going to commit undeniable acts of war, what's his plan for the humanitarian problem this is going to cause?
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Suing a large corporation in small claims?
It is what a lawyer would do. But not sure its actually necessary for a small claims deal. Here, you're trying to get Hyundai to come to its senses. And yeah, outside Texas I imagine small claims courts are more similar than different, but this generalized non-advice is for Texas small claims courts.
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Suing a large corporation in small claims?
If you are dealing with a particular corporate entity that you can discover from correspondence, they probably have a registered agent in Texas that you can look for/up here. https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/franchise/account-status/search It's probably Hyundai Motor America. Small claims courts tend to contemplate personal service in the county they sit, by constable. But I think they'll do it by first class mail, CMRR, to in state registered agents, also. They are somewhat likely to settle with you rather than have to hire an attorney to make an appearance and actually defend. But you never really know.
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Texas -- a failed state
“Businesses deserve a level playing field where government contracts are earned by performance and best value — not race or sex quotas,” Hancock wrote. But what about political donors? https://www.citizen.org/news/public-citizen-report-abbott-donors-draw-nearly-1-billion-in-no-bid-state-contracts/
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The Gun Owner’s thread
Hell of a case of barrel droop there. Spring pistons are easy to work on with one exception, uncompressing the spring/getting it out of the air cylinder. The source for info and parts. https://www.jgairguns.biz/27-c-78_247_255/
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Suing a large corporation in small claims?
Sure it is. Your biggest problem, though, is figuring out who to sue and how to serve them.
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The Gun Owner’s thread
Ever been rebuilt? Probably has a leather washer on the piston, and while those are better than they sound, 75 some odd years has to be a record for longevity. Too bad he didn't luck into one of these.
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Trump’s America
He needs that 350B to pay back all the illegal tariffs.
- Brian Kelly to L$U
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Will UT Bend the Knee?
As I have said before, academia is, by its very nature, liberal. And it therefore probably is somewhat a monoculture. And I think one can argue for more "conservative" scholarship without accusing the existing monoculture of being some woke consipiracy of DEI Marxists and trying to destroy it in favor of conservative scholarship. Other than adding a "conservative" scholar, who is truly a scholar and not some kind of demagogue, ostensibly subtracts a liberal scholar. "Best" is always subjective. It's one of those things where MAGAts seize upon a tiny kernel of truth and turn it into some kind of woke conspiracy with the worst possible solution.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
He's a twat.
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Trump’s America
They will, but this particular effort is pretty lame. I'd love to see them put Andy Ogles in charge of the whole thing, though.
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Will UT Bend the Knee?
Supposedly, Inboden hates Trump, or at least is opposed to him. His position at UT is outside of Civitas/Civic Leadership, but rather Strauss/Clements school, which is more traditionally Republican. So, he's definitely a representative of right wing academia, but probably still respects academic freedom. I mean, yeah fuck him, but enemy of my enemy type thing.
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Mad Men
I think liquor choices back then were rather prosaic.