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I saw that yesterday. It is humorous to see how poorly they faked the data. Looks like something one of my undergrads would do. If you are going to make up numbers you have to understand 2 major things. 1. the dynamic relationships of the system components and the concept of variation.

These guys are pretty nails on college BB and coaching changes... might be another leg into why Harbaugh was fine with leaving now..

This has been a blast. This is the game format that Warhammer or Starship troopers IP should have done

At this point, how does Wade stay on as special prosecutor with the potential issues of him misusing his IOLTA to hide earned income from his wife in his divorce proceedings, and how that is tied to potential tax evasion? That is a pretty damning accusation from a variety of fronts. If any of that is true he is going to be tied up in all sorts of ethics probes and a liability during the proceedings. To me, that is something that is much more tangible and black and white that may lead to a major delay in all of this instead of the continued grind back and forth about potential conflicts of interest, which now is a coin-flip based on trying to obfuscate something that most likely may have led to a simple admonishment by the court or some set of cursory additional guidelines to guarantee the autonomy of the special prosecutor due to their relationship. The other side is always going to go over everything looking for something to use to their advantage. This is standard procedure for major crime and civil cases now and it shouldn't be a shock to anyone. That is the job. You would be disappointed if your lawyers did not do everything in their power to make sure you did not get found guilty. The expectation is always going to be that the state should appear to be squeaky clean and the defense will look to do everything in its power to make sure that first, the case never makes it to trial, then second, to have the trial once started dismissed for any possible reason (either through legal brilliance or frivolous technicalities) and then third win the case on its merits in the courtroom, and then fourth appeal and drag out any guilty verdict as long as possible. Now there is enough smoke to have people question if the state is squeaky clean or if is there something else going on. It might not be "fair" to put the system or the State on trial beforehand, but that is the world we live in. People want to blame Trump or the judge for entertaining this, but it looks like the first domino in all of this is Wade trying to screw over his now ex-wife in his divorce proceedings. If that is true, he is probably out as a special prosecutor and prepare for all sorts of delays and additional hearings over all of this to eat into the timeline. Welcome to the big leagues.

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The question is really going to be how does it work from your side to be able to interact with the fuckery in chat during the live stream. If it is integrate in the chat platform then it rolls into the viewer interaction aspects of the stream. If it is segmented then it is posts housed here, which is cool, but not if it adds another layer of pain in the ass for you

Live stream quality was good. Need to fix the chat integration with Surly so you dont have to rename yourself. Should be a fun add for Friday mornings

Would have loved for that dumbass to name more names of the bag men of the time...

Do you want to know my theory of everything? How the world is being manipulated around us? What is controlling your daily actions and limiting your greater future?

What does piss me off is that my publication history destroys that but UTA would never hire me. Applied to UTA many times and not even a courtesy conference interview from UTA... Politics in academia are weird... Maybe I need to set up a thread on the nerds board about coming up with a set of Surly led articles, just for the fuck of it..

State and Federal funding has dropped from 40% to less than 10% for most schools and yet the state and fed has mandated a massive bloat in required staff to be viable for the students to receive financial aid. So for your students to have the privilege to get gouged on student loans, they had to double the administrative staff and yet still cut everyone funding... There are virtually no offsets and so instead all of the costs go right to the cost of tuition.

I am somewhat jaded in my viewpoints in this area because I am an Associate Editor of a reputable journal. Also, I do most of my research either in Business or Industrial Engineering journals. When it comes to journals, there are no rules about journals only rules about if the journal counts as "quality" for the tenure process. Is it backed by a major publisher (Elsevier, Emerald, Wiley. etc)? no... Is it backed by a major society (CCSMP, OR Society, etc)? no... Since its title supply chain, is it listed in the ABDC list? no... Is it Cablles listed at all? no.... In this case it would not be considered a viable journal for most business schools in Texas for tenure. So now is it considered a predatory journal or is it just a bullshit journal housed by the university? Looking through it and checking on the various journal ranking groups, it isn't cosidered predatory (ie pay for play) so it is obvious just a small inhouse journal that is used to help push recognition for the college or program. What is funnier to me in their call for papers is this: If you cant get UT right in the boilerplate...

For those that need a simple primer on all of this and why it is a mess regardless the outcome

Here's what to know about the collapse of China's Evergrande property developer https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227554424/evergrande-china-real-estate-economy-property-collapse

This is a long ass time coming. I am curious how much has the Chinese government pumped into Evergrande to keep it propped up this long?

HK court orders China Evergrande to liquidate with debts of $300 bln https://www.reuters.com/business/embattled-china-evergrande-back-court-liquidation-hearing-2024-01-28/

Domino #2

More than anything I am real curious about the language that gets put in Sherrone Moore contract, from both sides... How much leeway does he get regarding the NCAA? How much protection is he given regarding team performance if the NCAA provides sanctions, even if he was on the staff at the time? What does Michigan do regarding any form of NCAA investigations and do they require Moore to gut most of the underlying support staff machine and coaches even tangentially tied to this? So most likely Moore is going to get the job where the DC, supposedly the Strength coach, and most likely many others on the D side of the ball are leaving, most of the support staff with familiarity is going to be gone to CYA for the NCAA, and he is supposed to heave the contacts to rebuild all of that post Harbaugh? While the specter of potential NCAA penalties hanging over their head? This is going to be a train wreck to watch unfold...