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Hellraiser97

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  1. Not sure if they're new but first time I've seen them and far less than the gilette ones I do not like OU
  2. Well trip was a success. Thanks for all the ideas. Wife and kids were there Sunday to Wednesday without me. Wife went to a cubs game with our friends we were visiting, said it was awesome. They went to the children's museum too I believe. Once I was there, we went to Millennium Park, just kid of walked around and enjoyed the nice weather, spent a day at the Museum of Science and Industry, kids really loved that, spent a morning at the Lincoln Park Zoo and the afternoon at one of the beaches nearby. Overall pretty fun.
  3. What is the academy series about? I'm looking for a new Scifi series to start I do not like OU
  4. That doesn't really answer the question of why they declined the directly review it.
  5. Why did SCOTUS deny this? I remember this being brought up on the old site. If I remember right looked like a lot of indications he didn't do it. Yet another reason not to stick your dick where it don't belong I do not like OU
  6. That got me laid in Ios I do not like OU
  7. Looking to upgrade my stereo in my F-150 and was thinking of getting something with Android Auto. Looks like Pioneer is still the leader, but there are some other options. Anyone have one of these and have an opinion?
  8. Had my formal Monday but not really. It had already been rescheduled twice. Went to sign in and they told me to sign in for an informal too as there was no line for it. Even though I did the online informal I rejected the offer, they still had me do the informal. Guy was real nice. We discussed the comps they used vs. The comps I wanted. He ended up adding in all but 1 of my comps (he couldn't find one in the system) and then dropped the two highest from theirs. Went groun them trying for a $20k increase to about $8k. While thing only took about 20 minutes. I do not like OU
  9. About tree fitty I do not like OU
  10. If they were requiring nylon bags to be sold you might have a point. Besides overtime would probably just throw those away too I do not like OU
  11. And an inordinate amount of the reusable bags are ending up in land fills long before their time and take a heel of a lot longer to break down. If trash managment was the main issue they just would have switched to something biodegradable I do not like OU
  12. We have one Coscto one like that plus a smaller HEB one. They are excellent. I usually put the frozen/cold stuff in them while I shop to keep them cold. That said, I'm not bringing in the Costco one when I just need one or two things, and I'm not sticking a cooked rotisserie chicken in them either.
  13. I've found quite a few of them on the greenbelt I walk my dog on, but that's about it. I do think people are being more responsible in disposing of them, but again, the net effect is not positive from what I have read.
  14. Doesn't this go back to catalog sales? You were only required to collect sales tax in the state or states that you had s physical presence. The rest was on the consumer I do not like OU
  15. If I get unlazy, I'll dig it up the article I read about it, but essentially it goes like this: 1) You have to use those 'reusable' bags like you buy at HEB something like 250 times before the environmental impact of them is a net positive over the disposable ones. It's like the Christmas tree real vs fake debate. You need to use the fake one for 30 years before you're helping the environment. People just aren't doing that. You run to HEB and forget your bags or leave them in the car. You tear them or just get them nasty and toss them out, well before the break even number. I bet we've purchased 50 of them in the three years we've lived here, maybe more. 2) Instances of salmonella poisoning have increased significantly. They technically can still give you the disposable ones for meat, but a lot of people use the reusable ones, or put the disposable one inside it. 3) There was a much better solution that was completely ignored. There's a plastic made from vegetable oil. They use it at the AT&T conference center for the disposable drinking cups. Once wet, it fully dissolves in something like 72 hours. They can and do make disposable bags out of it., though they are more expensive of course than the traditional ones. If they had mandated using bags made from that for any disposable bags, points 1 & 2 are irrelevant, but that would have made too much fucking sense and didn't read as well with groups like the 'Campaign for the Environment.'
  16. The net effect of the ban has been negative so in good to see it. Come back with something that makes sense I do not like OU
  17. So let me get this straight. Someone steals my shit, I catch them in the act. Previously, I'd call the cops and they'd get arrested. Now, the cops can't do shit. Well, looks like we'll have a lot more castle doctrine cases in the future.
  18. I never said anyone was being altruistic. The point is that right now, the ONLY thing we can do in many cases is tear down a <1500 sq ft home and build a 2400-3500 sq ft home in its place or a duplex/condo with ~2000/1000. That house being torn down is barely livable, but we can't replace it with 3-4 <1500 sq ft homes, even if there is enough land to do so. Very rarely are you seeing a house torn down that doesn't have major structural issues with it, and when you do (like one I recently demoed), while the house might be ok, due to it being built over a build line or something stupid like that, and that getting a variance is damn near impossible, there's no opportunity to do ANYTHING to the home to make it more appealing, etc. To give you how asinine our current code is, I have a project near Shoalmont. The house is a 900 sq ft 1948 piece of crap that wasn't built particularly well in the first place. After 70 years of minimal maintenance, nearly pier is rotted out, there's severe mold and the roof is shot. The lot it is on is 11000 sq ft. It's deep, but still has about 60' of frontage. In any normal city, you could put 3-4 housing units on this, with each one in the 1500 sq ft or so range. That's three additional households not commuting down Mopac and I-35. And while they obviously wouldn't be priced at $100k each, they'd probably all fall in the $350-500k range. Instead, we're building a 3000 sq ft home on it that will sell for $1.3M. I'm much rather build four units like I described above, but I can't because minimum lot size is 5750 sq ft, which means I can't split the lot legally into to and even if minimum lot size was not an issue (and most major cities that have minimum lot sizes are in the 3500 sq ft range), we also have minimum 50' fronts on lots (again most major cities have much smaller if they have it), and if that wasn't an issue, it's zoned SF-2, so I can't even put a duplex/condo on it, I can literally ONLY build a single family residence, and at $385k for the lot, it would be impossible to build something any smaller than about 2500 sq ft and actually make a profit. Our existing code is specifically designed to prevent affordable housing. Don't let anyone tell you any different. It all goes back to the 1929 plan that segregated the city and pushed all the blacks to the east side.
  19. Developers are out to make money. And it's a lot less risky to sell three $350k houses on a lot than 1 $1m house. Restricting development just increases prices and this taxes. Has zero top do with developers. Most of us would love to see lower property taxes as it makes up a good chunk of carry costs. On affordability, it's something most of us would like to see, would support initiatives that actually allow for it and would work with in programs that promote it, but the current zoning makes it economically impossible to build anything even remotely affordable to any but the top quartile of income earners in the urban core. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk
  20. My brother is looking for a new tenant for his garage apartment, starting August 15th. http://cartymedia.com/duval/ Built in 2014 Large 12x12 bedroom and 12'x12' livingroom Huge walk in closet (5'x8') 9' ceilings Full kitchen including range, fridge, dishwasher, disposal and microwave Washer, dryer in unit Central Heat and Air Private entrance No smoking; No pets Water/Trash/Gas (water heater only) paid by landlord 1 Block to Hyde Park restaurants, coffee shops and grocery 1 Block to Shipe Park, pool, basketball court and tennis courts 1 Block to #7 bus stop 3 blocks to IF (Intramural Field) UT Bus Street Parking only For more information contact: Chris Carty 512-947-4246 cecarty31@yahoo.com
  21. Goiod article on the affordability crisis (which CodeNEXT was supposed to help with): https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2018/06/14/as-home-prices-soar-realtors-warn-of-crisis.html TLDR: Median income up 17.5% over 5 years while median home prices are up 42.5%
  22. We're going to be there July 22nd to 28.
  23. Nothing quite like a nice side of aggy misery to go with my morning coffee.
  24. Thanks for all the great suggestions. Going to go through them with the wife this weekend.
  25. My dad worshiped this guy. Said he was literally the only person on Earth he was envious of. RIP
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