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  1. 15 points
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  3. I got no knowledge of the actual stop. No idea what his specific facts are. But yeah, 38.04 is your citation: https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-38-04.html Follow along with me as we realize: (a). The lights and cop car behind you are a good indicator that this is a peace officer attempting to detain you. (b). Hey! It's a Class A misdemeanor (still a pretty serious charge), EXCEPT: 1. It's a State Jail Felony if: 1a. You've done this before OR 1b. You do it in a vehicle or watercraft I'm gonna assume he wasn't in a boat at the time. I only mention all of this in case there's impressionable youths (yout's?) amongst us. It's always a felony to run from the cops in a car - even once for fun. It gets worse if you've done it before, somebody gets hurt when you do it, or (for some reason), you try to pop the cops' tires whilst doing it. Pull over, keep your hands in plain sight, be polite, have your license and insurance current and where you can find them, and politely decline all requests for searches. If the worst is gonna happen, give your lawyer something to work with by not legitimizing everything by being a jackass. Oh yeah. Taking contraband into a secure facility or destroying evidence are two other sneaky felonies. If you're being arrested, own up to the baggie in your pants, and:
    14 points
  4. Hey @Ojo Rojo you didn't log out and your wife is posting shit on here making you look like a bitch
    13 points
  5. He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he needs. Jalon’s got friends in every town and village from here to Sherman, he speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again.
    13 points
  6. You are right. The problem isn’t that Elon’s Twitter is going to allow free speech. It’s that the American public is largely dumb as fuck, short on time and long on misinformed opinions. Twitter just allows someone to project information. You still have to have an audience that information resonates with enough to subscribe/follow/like. What smart people need to realize is that that their facts, data and supporting evidence don’t matter. Everything they have learned pre-social media about debating ideas is wrong. The most well researched and crafted dissertation has no chance against a two sentence tweet authored in simple terms to appeal to simple people. And for every such dissertation that is not read by anyone but a select few academics, there are millions of social media posts that have already shaped public opinion one way or the other. Smart people’s intelligence works against them in this arena. It is the age of the information zerg. Proofing, fact checking, being reasonably certain you are correct before projecting — these instincts are wrong. It’s why someone like Trump, an idiot whose stupidity is only exceeded by a narcissistic belief in himself, can be incredibly effective shaping public opinion and controlling the conversation. He isn’t burdened with the need to validate anything in his own mind. It just pops into his head and he projects it out there with more confidence than those with much more rigorously self-vetted opinions. Tl;dr: tl;dr
    13 points
  7. 12 points
  8. Finished that book I referenced above. I now don't hate the schools as I did in my initial impression. A few tidbits Elite schools are in a no win situation. For example at Harvard, they accept 1,700 freshman in a year. 8,500 applicants have a perfect high school GPA with all AP, IB, and Honors courses. 4500 have a perfect math SAT. 2500 have a perfect language SAT. There's no formula for how those applicants are weeded down. Elite schools don't give a shit about Mary Sue having a dozen extracurricular activities because it shows no focus. A candidate that can demonstrate leadership on their application in 1-2 extracurriculars is rated way higher. On that note, "show up and be a member" clubs don't mean shit and detract from your application. Extracurriculars that look good require a time and work commitment. Elite schools don't give merit aid. Period. They know you'll pay full price for the name and unless you fit a narrow socio-economic definition, you're going to. Every high school provides universities with their own brochure. It lists where former students have been accepted, student demographics, academic performance, list of all available courses, etc. Applicants aren't judged just by what classes they took but what classes they didn't take. You want to to pre-med but you didn't take half of the science classes available? That's a big negative against your application. All universities track the IP address hits to each page on their website. When a student finally enters their contact info on an online form they can now match your surfing history to your name. This data is valuable to judge how engaged you are with the university, which majors you are most interested in, and to determine how likely you are to enroll if you are offered a spot. Universities can be divided into Buyers and Sellers. Applicants are the Have Nots. Buyers are schools in the Top 50. They don't have to do shit to get the best applicants other than to exist. Their name and reputation has everyone willing to throw them money. Merit aid is limited or nonexistent. Largely their undergraduate teaching is lacking compared to the schools ranked 51-150 since they're focused on graduate education and research to maintain that top 50 ranking. Sellers are that next tier of the 50-150 ranked schools. These schools usually have many majors that rank as high or higher as as the top 50 schools but don't have that overall reputation or research activities. These are schools that are actively looking to improve their ranking. To do this, they have to poach students that would normally go to a top 50 school. They do this by having more engaging undergraduate teaching, proactively recruiting students, and offer way more merit aid than higher ranked schools. The overall applicant count at these schools is a fraction of those that apply at the top 50 so it's not competitive. There's also little difference between the two sets of schools. An example given was Virginia (seller) and Virginia Tech (buyer). Their overall rankings are very far apart but the incoming student SAT score is less than 100 points different and beginning and mid career salaries are identical. The 50-150 is the sweet spot for most applicants and where you should focus your effort.
    12 points
  9. This is a difficult topic, as almost all of my family is equally embarrassing. As I have mentioned in other threads, my mother's side of the family is a complete trainwreck. My maternal Grandmother had 4 children, whom she decided to name Sherry, Jerry, Garry, and Larry. My maternal Grandfather died at a young age from chronic alcoholism. There are too many grandkids and great grandkids to count, but they are all equally fucked up in their own right. 3 People in this family have managed to get a college degree, me, my son, and my daughter. The rest of the lot still reside in various parts of Ellis County, so beware when you travel through that area. Sherry - the oldest of the lot is a total Bible thumper with 3 children. She and her husband own the compound where several family members towed their homes to live. She has a set of 350lb female twins and an openly gay son who she disowned when he came out as an 18 year old at the family Thanksgiving dinner. Jerry - My mother...married 7 times, but single and lived with her mother and Garry for the last 15 years of her life. Over the years, she managed to talk me out of over $100K in loans, which I never saw a penny of. The last of the money was given to her before Christmas in 2007, so she could buy presents for my kids. My son got a book and a backpack, my daughter got a JC Penney's dress, and my mother bought herself a $400 digital camera to record the whole event. The irony of the camera purchase is that she did not own a computer to download the pics. Garry - The real gem of the group, a raging Redneck and Bigot. He has never held a steady job, and lived with his mother for over 30 years of his adult life. When his mother passed away, it took Garry a whole 3 weeks to fall asleep while smoking and burn the beloved trailer house down. He now lives on the compound, in a travel trailer that he affectionately refers to as the "Pussy Palace." Garry is an alcoholic, and a pot head. He inherited the above mentioned trailer when his mother died. After the fire, he was given a little over $30K in insurance money (this was a really nice place. LOL) He spent most of the money on pot and budweiser, but managed to save enough to purchase a used 24' travel trailer as his dream dwelling. His son spent 14 years in the state prison, for manufacturing and selling meth. My brother was one of his main customers. Larry - Looks like Bozo, but with black hair. Worthless as the rest of the family, but somehow thinks he is above them. He has been on disability for about 20 years, though none of know exactly why. I will try and come back later and post a few Uncle Garry stories.
    12 points
  10. Susan Collins should eat shit.
    11 points
  11. Haven't seen any credit for the art but it is Banksy homage if not Banksy.
    11 points
  12. I see @RGBIII drivin' around in a lambo I'm going to have to rethink my BurntEnds contributions...
    11 points
  13. Gary P going to walk into Sark’s office and explain that at TCU players got course credit for this type of behavior
    11 points
  14. This is pretty interesting. As some of y'all know, my Twitter feed has 90,000 followers. Everyday I get an average of 110-140 new followers. At any given time I can look at the list of most recent followers. Usually, if I mouse over the profile of each new follower, I'll have a wide diversity. Some will have had their twitter accounts for 10 years, some six, some two or whatever. They will also have a wide disparity in followers, of course. Since the announcement that Musk is buying Twitter, I've been flooded with new followers and most of them are bots. This first shot shows my most recent followers. Many of them are bots. How do I know? They all got their accounts this month, they are all following between 10-75 accounts (right now), and they have not tweeted at all (or maybe just one tweet). Example: MrFisherman, Marcie Crow, Nicole Naumann, and probably luis garcia are bots. If you look at the second, third and fourth photos, you'll see the accounts that MrFisherman, Marcie Crow, and Nicole Naumann --- who all just got twitter accounts ---- are following. I am at the top, naturally, because I just got the message that these accounts are following me. But check out the rest of the folks these accounts are following: Lauren Boebert, Chuck Woolery, Dinesh D'Souza, Donald Trump Jr. etc.. There is absolutely no question that these are bots. My guess is that they're being planted and either won't tweet at all or will be used to retweet Boebert, Woolery etc... What's interesting is that I don't see any move by the Democrats/liberals to counter this. I'm not seeing legions of new followers that, when I check who they are following, I see AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden etc... That's why I think it's interesting that Elon says he's going to defeat bots. It will be great if he manages to do it. Again, the first image shows my most recent followers. The next three show who some of my new followers are following. Between them, neither MrFisherman, Marcie or Nicole have a single tweet and all three got their twitter accounts yesterday (I'm guessing).
    10 points
  15. Everything you need to know about Nebraska can be explained by the TMobile 5g coverage map
    8 points
  16. Random session on Brushy Creek with the kiddo. She had a blast and the fish were generous.
    8 points
  17. It's much more difficult than that I think. We found that out the hard way. From when Sadaam fled Kuwait after the first Gulf War's wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires The burning wells needed to be extinguished as, without active efforts, Kuwait would lose billions of dollars in oil revenues. It was predicted by experts that the fires would burn for between two and five years before losing pressure and going out on their own.[25] The companies responsible for extinguishing the fires initially were Bechtel, Red Adair Company (now sold to Global Industries of Louisiana), Boots and Coots, and Wild Well Control. Safety Boss was the fourth company to arrive but ended up extinguishing and capping the most wells of any other company: 180 of the 600. Other companies including Cudd Well/Pressure Control, Neal Adams Firefighters, and Kuwait Wild Well Killers were also contracted.[26] According to Larry H. Flak, a petroleum engineer for Boots and Coots International Well Control, 90% of all the 1991 fires in Kuwait were put out with nothing but sea water, sprayed from powerful hoses at the base of the fire.[27] The extinguishing water was supplied to the arid desert region by re-purposing the oil pipelines that prior to the arson attack had pumped oil from the wells to the Arabian Gulf. The pipeline had been mildly damaged but, once repaired, its flow was reversed to pump Arabian gulf seawater to the burning oil wells.[28] The extinguishing rate was approximately 1 every 7–10 days at the start of efforts but then with experience gained and the removal of the mine fields that surrounded the burning wells, the rate increased to 2 or more per day.[25] For stubborn oil well fires, the use of a gas turbine to blast a large volume of water at high velocity at the fire proved popular with firefighters in Kuwait and was brought to the region by Hungarians equipped with MiG-21 engines mounted originally on a T-34 (later replaced with T-55) tank, called Big wind.[29][30][31] It extinguished 9 fires in 43 days. In fighting a fire at a directly vertical spewing wellhead, high explosives, such as dynamite were used to create a blast wave that pushes the burning fuel and local atmospheric oxygen away from the well. (This is a similar principle to blowing out a candle.) The flame is removed and the fuel can continue to spill out without igniting. Generally, explosives were placed within 55 gallon drums, the explosives surrounded by fire retardant chemicals, and then the drums are wrapped with insulating material with a horizontal crane being used to bring the drum as close to the burning area as possible.[27] The firefighting teams titled their occupation as "Operation Desert Hell" after Operation Desert Storm.[32]
    8 points
  18. Other than Ford and Overshown being our two starting linebackers, you make a great point.
    8 points
  19. This is the second instance in a little over a years time that he has been cited for trying to bring a gun through airport security checkpoints? Just fucking put him on a no-fly list and let the dumb motherfucker take a Greyhound to whatever GQP circle jerk he needs to get to.
    8 points
  20. Then he’d be “behind the lamb”
    8 points
  21. She looks about as real as his future NFL prospects.
    8 points
  22. Want to know why so many officers are dying? Rob Lee: "I'm a little wary about drawing too many strong conclusions from this war so far because there is a lot we don't know. I think the level of intelligence sharing by the US to support Ukrainian targeting probably doesn't have a precedent in military history."
    7 points
  23. Probably been discussed already, but no wonder teachers are leaving. Are we going to start having 20-30 parents telling the teacher how and what to teach each of their children now? So the parents are going to be the boss over teachers? This is all a coordinated effort by the GOP to get states to pull money from public schools and give to parents so they can send their children to private Christian schools. They’ve been working on this for 30+ years. The GOP blame the Dems for taking over our country, I’m afraid it’s the other way around. And the Reps are winning.
    7 points
  24. So his daily routine will be the same as before.
    7 points
  25. I loved the scene where Huell asks Saul what the hell’s he doing.
    7 points
  26. ".... 3 years of eligibility left TO FURTHER my success on & off the football field..."
    7 points
  27. Buck, I'm most certainly not a denier. I have a degree in physics, and a masters in evolutionary ecology. I am currently employed as a staff field biologist for a four year university that is not UT. My job is primarily assisting professors and post-docs with their research, much of which is directly related to the effects of climate change. I know the science pretty well, I think. Reading the shit regarding climate change that is posted in this thread enrages me. I don't post in this thread very much for that reason. When I do, its generally to mock deniers or express that rage, which is exactly what those two posts you refer to were doing. Maybe my sarcasm was a little hard to pick up on, mea culpa. But yeah, again, I'm not a denier.
    7 points
  28. I guess some of those kids hadn't been through the necessary training to first get down when you hear gunfire. Clearly, this is a problem with America's educational system that has turned those players into gender-confused initiates to pedorasty exploitation with no intimate familiarity with the requirement that we all carry guns to shoot bad guys. Solution to public education problem revealed by the tape: School vouchers, no discussion of anything other than binary gender/heterosexual aspects of life, urban combat training for children, guns all over the schools so good guys can shoot bad guys just like in the movies. We should also pay teachers less for their failure to prepare their students for life in the country that is the envy of the world in every way. We should also empower parents to sue teachers and schools for any perceived failure in straying from party dogma. America is lit!
    7 points
  29. Ah, America's other pastime.
    7 points
  30. @RGBIII @SydneyCarton @closetojumping @immamac out here doing the lords work! lol
    7 points
  31. Better yet, make it her ring tone.
    7 points
  32. If you want to have no sex and possibly no bed for a few weeks/months, record the washer/dryer buzzer on your phone and walk up and play it back to her every few minutes.
    7 points
  33. My daughter is in a grungy/punky all-girl band here in Austin, and the two guitarists play a Les Paul and a Strat. I'm not sure of the provenance -- years, Gibson/Epi, etc., but they can play and don't seem at all turned off by a classic shape of either. Oh, they got asked to open for Bikini Kill, so that's cool.
    6 points
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