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  1. They changed to a new system and you couldn’t upload your data until January. There was a glitch in the system that rejected a large portion of those submitted between January and early March - most regarding issues with signatures the system couldn’t recognize and the system was locked until mid-April so you couldn’t make corrections. Many schools still haven’t received the FAFSA from the site so can’t send out their letters to students and the May 1 date most schools want the students to accept is fast approaching….   The form itself wasn’t the issue but we have friends who actually need those financial aid forms to chose where their kid will go because of cost and need for the financial aid. Mine aren’t getting crap beyond their merit scholarships so it really doesn’t matter to me other than having a nice summary before I start writing checks…

  2. 4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Thanks for deleting the posts and protecting the bootlickers from accountability, as you ever do. 

    Where the fuck does it belong then?

     

    Is the deployment of the state troopers onto OUR FUCKING CAMPUS to arrest peacefully protesting students a forever verboten topic?

     

    You are just making it such that the fascists and bootlickers get to dictate the terms of """polite""" conversation, you fucking useful idiot 

    Uh, create a new thread?  (oops, blacklab beat me to it...)

  3. I assume this is for all schools but ours has an option for graduation where you say you aren't submitting a FAFSA form as an alternative.  I don't expect a dime for either of mine but one thing I plan on doing is having both of mine take that $5K government loan (in their names) so they know they have skin in the game (and I'll pay it off when they graduate...).  We also need the FAFSA for a private scholarship that they apply for in August...

  4. Anyone else having "fun" with this FAFSA mess?  We had ours in in January but apparently any of the early ones were flagged as missing signatures and you couldn't actually make the corrections until April 16th.  All corrected now but several of our target schools still haven't got the FAFSA info and May 1 is decision date for most schools...  Argh...

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  5. 6 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    Reminds me of a great doc on Netflix called "Muster Dogs".  It's a challenge-doc for five ranchers to turn Aussie Kelpie pups into champion muster dogs over a year (I think).  Those ranches are so isolated and technology and resources are so scarce, the muster dogs are absolutely critical to many ranchers to help move and control their herds.  

    I really like the sessions where they are making bush fixes on equipment with Uncle Ant. Kinda reminds me of me and my dad fixing stuff - we kinda knew what we wanted to do and they eventually get the task done but it usually takes 3x more time than expected…

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  6. On 4/12/2024 at 10:40 PM, Biff Tannen said:

    The beauty and horror of Top Chef is exactly what yall are talking about. It takes great chefs (for the most part) and puts them in a completely different situation than they have ever had to be in with their talents. Some succeed, some fail. The clock especially, but also the call to creativity is the real challenge. Many chefs, understandably, fail under these circumstances. It doesn’t make them bad chefs. It makes them ill suited for this type of competition. 
     

    I started watching top chef with season 3 when I stared dating my now wife, who grew up watching emerald, Yan Can Cook, and the beginnings of the food network. Before Top Chef, I could have given a fuck about food. I ate frozen pizza and ham and cheese tortillas every night of the week (god damn that still sounds good).

    BUT, she taught me so much and I’m lucky she loves to cook. I can make a mean breakfast sammich and a sous vide steak, but that’s about it. She has shown me how to appreciate good food and Top Chef was a huge vehicle for me. 

    Yea - the Frugal Gourmet show on PBS got me cooking (along with Justin Wilson) and I still have some of his cookbooks.  (But he's been scrubbed from the internet after being accused of being a child molester...)

  7. I came across an interesting Youtube channel of an outback ranch manager in central Western Australia who manages 3500 head on 1 million acres.  Interesting technology where he's setup Wi-Fi across the property at all their watering holes and repeater stations, self-mustering yards, daily repairs and lots of feral animal elimination... 

     

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  8. Anyone heard of this https://www.robinhood.com/creditcard/ 3% cash back with no fees (but they do have a $5/month subscription fee to have an account but you get same perks as any other Visa Signature card)  My be a good option for those who pay off their balance every month (but I like my Chase Sapphire for the miles...)  (Info was sent to be by a buddy who is a Financial advisor but I've never heard of them...)

  9. 1 hour ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Autocorrect. It’s either mmbtu or mcf. Mmcf is entirely too cheap. The metric is per thousand cubic feet - not million. 

    Duh - my brain fart and you are correct that it's a thousand and not a million.  I'm used to thinking reserve numbers and European conversions to BTU's and not daily rates on the units, just the price...

    MCF and MMBTU's..  Close but not the same...

  10. 39 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    $20/MCR is REALLY fucking cheap. 

    Not Art. But a lot of my thinking is shaped by Goehring & Rozencwajg. 

    Anyone here attend the Dallas Fed guy talk today at Haynes Boone’s office?

    Never heard of /MCR...  Natty is currently- just under $2/MMCF (million cubic feet of gas volume) and hasn't been above $10 in forever so I'm not sure if we are talking the same acronyms...  $20/MMCF would be a godsend for the industry...

  11. Sorry my analogy wasn't specific to Poland on the pricing but more the US of the 2 vs $20/MMCF but rather the point is that if the commodity prices go up considerably, there are resources out there that you wouldn't even sniff at today would be attractive at much higher prices. (Poland wells weren't close to economic when I was involved 15 years ago but at some point in the future, even a pig looks attractive when the price is high enough...)

    Rex - are you Art Berman?  He's been screaming that about the shale gas (actually tight gas reservoirs) for years...  :)

  12. And US shale plays are dying out. Barnett and Haynsville plays are in steep decline and Utica is headed that way. Looks like Balkken, EF and Permian have probably reached peak production and will probably start their decline in the next few years… All the best wells have been drilled and even with new technology, you’re spending more to get less per well…

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  13. 1 hour ago, CycleTex87 said:

    There’s a metric butt load of infrastructure and knowledgeable work force (service companies, sand haulers, chemicals, electric power distribution, etc just to name a few) required for the shale production which has all matured in the last 10-15 years in the Permian among others.  Chulas who drive Escalades and husbands work on frac crews say hola. 
     

    Might be hard to replicate that in a place like Algeria or Azerbaijan or someplace.  

     

    That was an expansion one of my points. Several companies tried unconventionals in Poland about 15 years ago and (besides the low TOC of the Devonian and Silurian shales) all the lack of infrastructure (sand, water, pipelines, fracking trucks, etc) made it uneconomic.  Maybe someday if gas is $20/MMCF but probably not in my lifetime…

    As for the other comments about surface rights vs mineral rights, pretty much anything that applies in the US does not apply outside the good, ol’ USA… The government/crown owns the mineral rights and too bad if you own the surface rights - you get paid next to nothing which is one reason they protest so loudly (at least in Europe).

     

     

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  14. On 4/8/2024 at 10:17 AM, lucious leftfoot said:

    Anecdotally, my wife says she's noticed that a couple of moms obviously on it have god awful breath. I'm guessing it's from the food backed up in their stomach.

    I was gonna joke that it was semen breath but then I saw the word "moms" (ergo wives) in the comment...

  15. 1 hour ago, CycleTex87 said:

    I guess my question is re: #3 - How much unconventional (shale) production is there outside of North America?  That technical know how can certainly be done internationally.  Though I’m not a geologist I assume there are comparable shale beds in other prolific fields around the world.  

    Lots possible but also banned in places like Europe.  (Some current plays active in places like Argentina.) Several big issues - need lots of water as well as infrastructure like pipelines to get product out as well as lack of equipment outside the US.  Biggest issue besides "fracking bad" politics is the land ownership.  In most countries, mineral rights are owned by the government and not the land owners.  It's one thing to have a well on your property when you are getting a mailbox check and another when someone wants to put a well in your yard and all the money goes to the government and not you...

    If I recall correctly, SLB geologists estimated Algeria had the best shale play in the world but since they have so much conventional resources still to be developed, unconventionals wouldn't happen for forever.  That and the military risks there...

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  16. Always protest if you can make a case for lower numbers. I had a service once who said “ yes,  your assessment went up 20% but since you have homestead exemption of 10%, we won’t file for you…”. Fired her since that is then agreeing that the value did indeed go up 20% and my 10% increase is in the books for next year (plus the additional increases…) There are some services I got from Surly that will get you a comp report with their values for around 100$/year that you submit as an affidavit and don’t have to appear at the hearing… (you do have to go to tax office to submit the documentation…) I’ve had my values dropped every year from the original assessment by the CAD after protest…

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  17. I have sympathy and empathy for those with mental health issues having dealt with close relatives who have spent years being bipolar (hello Rusk!) and cyberbullying.  But airing them on a public forum isn't the place in my opinion. Take it offline/out of the public domain! I do appreciate/applaud Blacklab reaching out to the gentleman  - as I think most people would do especially if they knew they could have prevented someone from causing physical harm to themselves... 

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