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capnamerca

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  1. Brent Clevelen. Played ball in HS with his older brother (WWHS holla), watched him just DESTROY people through his prep career. We had one Alumni game at Westwood when Ryan Langerhans and Kelly Johnson both came back, and Brent was more physically talented than both of them. Brent was stuck behind three established pros in the OF in detroit for a while, and just basically missed his window. Cruel game. He had several cups of coffee in the pros, but couldn't stick. Still a crazy nice kid, crazy nice family - he's back in the centex area coaching.
  2. man. It seems that every single consumer-grade camera includes parts (if not the entire camera assembly) made in china, and every one of them has easily-googleable proof that they're punching holes through firewalls via hard-coded destination IPs and routing traffic to china. Everyone says "don't worry about it, security camera footage isn't all that interesting anyway" but its the principal of the thing. Ugh.
  3. Is Lorex a chinese company? I just bought the Reolink system, but I"ve since found a few reviews where people have said the system 'checks in' with IP addresses in China every now and then. I need to verify that behavior (mine isn't installed yet), but I"d prefer to not add to the Chinese mesh network, if possible. My house wired with Cat5 and Cat6, so this system would work perfectly - https://www.lorextechnology.com/4k-security-camera/hd-nvr-with-super-hd-4mp-security-cameras-/4KHDIP44W-1-p.
  4. That's always what it was. Google is about ad revenue. More people, more sites, more apps, more content on the web = more clicks. Same idea behind the google labs shit like wi-fi delivered through a series of helium balloons. Marketed as a way to get networks in times of disaster (which is 100% a valid use case) ... but more interesting as a way to get service to under--served areas. Don't fixate on the balloons idea, fixate on the "underserved areas" idea.
  5. The salary cap is very specifically serves to enrich owners, in all major leagues. It does achieve the commissioners' state goal of parity, but the owners have never been worth more, and even in small markets team are more profitable than ever before. Players deservedly want their piece of the pie, but the cap requires that it be a zero sum game. Granted, this is one of those 144-character takes and the issue has more nuance than this, but owner wealth is outpacing player wealth. I don't give a shit about "paid too much to play a game." They should be paid what the market is making available, and the players aren't getting their proportionate share, even with contracts like Wilsons.
  6. oh I completely agree. I'd like to see some of this stuff put into a contract, but even that has it's own, very obvious pitfalls.
  7. I'm really surprised that more players don't try the Brady plan, deferring more money (or taking less overall) after promises that the team will spend to flesh out the team around you. Raw salary pales in comparison to advertising/branding opportunities for people that win Super Bowls, esp QBs. Taking a knife to the organizations hamstrings with your own contract isn't helpful. To be clear, I'm 100pct in favor of "get yours." The owners are getting WEALTHY off of this guy (and all of his teammates). I'm not saying you should take less out of the goodness of your heart. But winning pays more than losing.
  8. Unintended consequences, that's honestly a great reminder. That area definitely carries a lot of water during storms, so my scorched earth idea is probably not a good one :). However, glycosophate is some bad stuff. Even in the 2% forumulations that regular RoundUp comes in. Any ideas for a weed killer that won't cause my grandchildren to have three eyes?
  9. The guy that I work with here in Austin is $150/hr. Worth every fucking penny tho.
  10. I love all of these people ... but this just doesn't work.
  11. Most questions on this thread are about how to make things grow. Allow me to be a contrarian :). I've got a stretch of my yard between my house and a big limestone vein (we're on a hillside lot). I've turned the stretch into a river rock xeriscape, and it won't ever grow anything on purpose. I can say that confidently because I'm not pulling that river rock out anytime ever, and I need the walkway access so it won't ever have shrubs/bushes. Thus ... I want to keep the area weed-free. I want to literally salt the earth. My current plan is to buy bulk salt from Costo (or maybe pool salt), and just sprinkle it down like the worlds best anti-fertilizer. Any other thoughts from the master gardeners on the thread?
  12. My wife bought a pair of seats for the last three seasons, so we could have Hamilton tickets.
  13. Houston, I assume from your avater? (boooo ...)
  14. This one seems to me to be the easiest of all of them to fix. "If the caddie is standing behind the player during any part of a players pre-shot routine, add two shots." Fuck it's not hard. You can both stand behind the ball and talk about line, target/aim points, wind, whatthefuckever. But if you're behind them while golf is being played, penalty. Clarify in decisions or in an addendum that intent is what matters here- don't want players doing stupid shit like grabbing a new club, then going back to the old club just to "reset" the penalty clock. The goal here is that the golfer should golf. So when the act of golfing a ball is starting, only one person should be participating. Admittedly, that means that ALL of the penalties called so far would still be penalties, but at least the rule is clear.
  15. Do some research on the NVMe drives >1TB. There are sector-size issues that prevent you from encrypting windows in some scenarios. I don't know much about it since I'm on regular SSDs, but I saw a report the other day. May not matter to you in the end but forewarned is forearmed.
  16. I bought the Noctua L9x65 due to it's reputation for true silence, and then never put it on because the stock cooler with the Ryzen does a DAMN fine job. I ran a bunch of benchmarking/burn in testing, and the GPU fan is way louder under load than the CPU fan. I know you're using onboard graphics, but I think you'll be more than happy with the stock fan. If not, let me know and you can buy my Noctua cheap, since my lazy ass forgot to return it to newegg in time.
  17. Isn't Silver Surfer effectively the "one true god" in the Marvel Universe?
  18. I"ve never heard that song before, hulla. And now I"m thinking about my daughter and the world she's growing up into, and how she looks tired but she sure as fuck doesn't look scared. Fuck you for making me tear up in the middle of the day, and thank you for posting this.
  19. Wow. I missed the first trailer, and reading the thread I couldn't believe it would be THAT bad. I really liked FC and DOFP, and the writing and cast seemed to play off each other well. Surely that would be enough to sustain DP. Was I ever wrong. Lord that trailer looks horrible. And here's my ultimate issue with basically everything since Apocalypse ... Jean is the Omega. She is more powerful than all of the other mutants put together. She literally just "decided to wake up" and took care of Apocalypse in the last movie like she was taking a morning stretch. So the only possible way this works as a movie is for it to be HEAVILY character driven, and it MUST be a redemption story (because if jean grey decides to end the universe, well, bye). And that trailer showed a few tears and some tripe about family ... and a whole lot of people trying to fucking FIGHT her. jesus fuck.
  20. Auto-play videos with sound can suck my ass.
  21. I'm with GP on his criticisms of SHaka, but I have no idea why you keep using Barnes as a counter example, except to think that you like the attention it inevitably generates. That video of Barnes presser was peak coachspeak. "The guys have really become a team. Can't talk about final four, look at our schedule. I don't have to say anything in the huddle, our guys will say it for me. We've got Kentucky twice and Mizzouri and others, they're all really good blah. blah. blah."
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