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  1. One of the biggest mistakes of the current era is to assume someone that has a lot of money is smart or in any other way a person worthy of admiration. It is especially easy these days for the unworthy to amass wealth.
  2. In case you needed any further evidence that Dave Portnoy is a fucking dumbass.
  3. Well, to take an action like firing, you need evidence. Witnesses, a cum-stained dress, something. If no one fesses up and no one is talking, there's not a lot to go on.
  4. Yeah about the same except the voluntary/mandatory part. I went to the whitest HS in Texas. We had "club periods" on Wednesdays for an hour every other week. FCA was one of those clubs and I think they also had meetings in the mornings sometimes before classes started. Was at the very most a lame Bible study for jocks and wannabe jocks. Young Life wasn't even that. Met entirely out of school, but had a representative from the local PCUSA church that was popular at the time that would come around lunch and bs with kids in the cafeteria. Really overall non-entities in school life.
  5. Yeah, making a complete martyr out of a political operative was quite alarming.
  6. Well, Longhorn fans aside, particularly the internet ones, college sports have always been heavy on "feels," and anointing special players that in the grand scheme aren't that special, see, e.g. Gaskamp Award. NIL and related concepts are making everything 100% transactional, so there's not going to be many "feels" going forward.
  7. It's pretty fucking crazy. Not sure how this didn't make it on the board in general, much less that the guy was a UT grad right spang in our demographic.
  8. Good Girls Don't is the best song on the album anyway. Also, it was fucking 1979.
  9. He is tired of your shit.
  10. At this rate, on a gurney before the 2028 election seems more and more likely. Maybe in a straightjacket.
  11. Normal "Pentagon lawyers" didn't ask that question, not after everything they've been through with Gitmo. That was Trump's D-team of 3rd and 4th year lawyers from Liberty and Regent U law schools. Even the State Department was like:
  12. So, it sounds like they had some smoke, that is, a rumor, and the promotion of his assistant. But everyone denied it and they couldn't find any corroboration or proof. It's not clear to me if the Plan B thing kicked off the investigation or was the tip that sealed it. Although it is suspicious, it doesn't seem to corroborate anything. Sounds like something else cracked, maybe the gal herself.
  13. Yeah, but that wouldn't be the standard for damages in a more normal contract scenario. They lost his services, but they also no longer needed to pay him. The legit measure of damages would be the "cost to cover," the cost to replace him. Of course, their ability to replace him is circumscribed by the spring portal window. But if they had to pay more for a replacement, that would be the normal measure of damages. I think what you'd have to do to make that enforceable is some somewhat arbitrary $5-10k/month of contract to cover the fact that a) he may be irreplaceable, both from a talent and an "at all" standpoint and b) that any replacement obtained in the portal is likely to command a premium of that 5-10k.
  14. They portaled in a lot of players, something like 48 the last two years. Very few five stars, if any. Here's a depth chart showing transfers in yellow. Most of the offense, not that much of the defense. https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/depth-chart/indiana/90728
  15. You could actually #bothsides that pretty well. The astonishing part, though, is how often people seem unwilling to hold republicans to account.
  16. At some point, these clowns and many of their sycophants start to believe that more money is the only way of "keeping score." It certainly is one very practical way of keeping score, but conflating it with actual excellence, or even goodness, is a huge mistake.
  17. I have read some recent criticism of the "Bush plan." It's not so much that centering research in academia is wrong, and the private sector can do it better, but it did seem to relieve the private sector of some compunction to spend on R&D and made it easier for corporations to be Friedman fiduciaries, that is, short-term thinkers.
  18. As has been noted for years, precursors to CR on the Longhorn internets have had a conservative bias until Trump. That kind of belies the notion that UT is some liberal indoctrination center. And the same is true of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. who've pumped out plenty of conservative and even reactionary types.
  19. At least it's not Greco-Roman. Or flat Greek. NTTAWWT.
  20. Yeah, I was wondering if there was something like that going on, but wasn't going to touch it with a 10-foot pole.
  21. So, wifey likes the murder shows and had on one of those streaming channels that's non-stop Datelines. And this guy came up. https://www.oxygen.com/murder-for-hire/crime-time/woman-suicide-arrested-hire-hitman While all of these stories are pretty fuckin nutty, this one was extra. Anyway, this guy's a UT grad, around 2000, probably a ZBT or Sammy. Anyone know him? Or the vet chick?
  22. Cancellation petition here. https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92090266&pty=CAN&eno=1 The test for abandonment is straightforward: did the Trademark owner stop using without intent to resume use? Under the Trademark Act, non-use for three consecutive years creates a presumption of abandonment. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1127 According to the petition, Elmo announced discontinuation in July 2023. In the best of cases, abandonment is proving a negative. Therefore the 3-year presumption is invaluable to shift the burden to the alleged owner to prove use or intent to resume. And yeah, Elmo is highly likely to come up with some kind of BS use that will be called "token." Not sure why this outfit didn't wait until July 2026, or thereafter, to file.
  23. My parents had two of those monstrosities. A main one in the den and Dad had a monaural tube Magnavox that had a giant klipschorn type speaker. That latter one really sounded good.
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