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AeroHorn

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  1. our rushers are not raising their hands to swat the pass
  2. their QB is moving well in pocket. Instead of blitzing, play with 8 looking at QB.
  3. we are not getting to the QB, though it seems to be the plan
  4. lost an opportunity for 3 and out.
  5. Elephants are clearly no. 1. No other animal combines the majesty, strength, social life, care for each other, intelligence, usefulness to humans (from fighting wars to logging forests), etc. I remember when I was a kid in India, there was a knock on the door. When I opened it, imagine my surprise when the trunk of an elephant slithered in. I had to place money at the tip, which it gracefully folded and passed it on the rider on top. Begging with style, and quite a bit of intimidation.
  6. I would prefer the tradition of patsy as the first game, as was insisted by Mack. Even a relatively low P5 is apparently too much for us as the first game.
  7. for a few years last decade, it was Texas ball too.
  8. Let's grab Mary's, um, land! https://cfb.stakked.io Nicely done website tracking team conquests after each week for the last 10+ seasons. You can even change the plotting variable from imperialism to top 25, etc. and restrict teams to only P5 or particular conference. 2018 is not up yet.
  9. Heart of America grows staples, not vegetables. I am used to having a choice of 100s of salad items at home, all fresh vegetables and fruits (SF bay area), and can eat a different salad every day. It is a shock when visiting midwest. Even when staying at nice hotels, the house salad is usually a block of lettuce with sprinkling of corn and cheese.
  10. Good discussion the last couple of pages that dilute the Trump stink a bit. BT, though correct, is coming across as the woman who occupied the tree for couple of years to stop them being cut down. Deforestation is bad, but being up on a tree by yourself, even with your other soulmates passing food to you on a rope, is very isolationist at best, and futile most of the time. However many wrongs that may have happened in the past, one cannot plan the next steps guided by them. In fact, you take the lessons learned, and try your best to plan for the best future outcome regardless of history. This may make sense at an abstract level, but very hard to practice. See Israel-Palestine issue as a classic example of history building up on history of wrongs because no one is ready to let go of the past.
  11. Yes, being a TSMC is very different than being an Intel. One is a services company and the other is a product company. Being a service provider means you are necessarily market following and at least one level below the product company in the food chain, which it is reflected in margins, brand, product roadmaps, business dealings, etc. Intel providing foundry services automatically means they have accepted defeat. Intel's mistake is not due to integrating design with manufacturing, but sticking with x86, or more correctly, not developing new alternatives with enough enthusiasm. Their only other serious product different from x86 that I recall is Itanium (XScale doesn't count). It also shows how monumentally difficult changing philosophies is when even Intel with near monopoly power over their customers could not ram through a new product (x86-64 won). nVidia may be a one trick pony too, but they were visionary enough to see beyond polygon pushing and have been beating the "GPU is a better multi-thread processor than CPU" drum for many years. They worked with scientific community and developed parallel computing solutions from workstations to supercomputers. So, they were in the right place at the right time to take advantage of the current machine learning and crypto mining craze. AMD is the small and sometimes abused sibling of Intel, where Intel will take the whole dining table and leave scrapes. Very hard to compete and develop when you are starving. Credit to them (despite couple of dumb leadership phases) for hanging on. Coming back to Intel, they are seriously in trouble. They are the apex predator and hence need the whole jungle to do well to thrive, otherwise they become just another component provider. But that is what is happening with new ecosystems that are vertically integrated. Apple/Samsung don't need them, they need Apple/Samsung. Google/Amazon/Facebook will/are making their own chips. Microsoft has rediscovered their identity as software first company with hardware as enabler of software development. If they feel like they need a Surface-like product line for chips to do selective AI/ML stuff, they will do it. They have already done many chips for Xbox, Hololens, etc. That leaves only system aggregators (HP/Dell/Lenovo) and tier II (HTC, Huawei, etc.). So this means only Xeon servers are real money-makers, and how this market will be with big guys bringing chip design in will be interesting to watch. So, Intel desperately needs a hit. They are investing heavily in ML/AI and have acquired many companies. Can they come up with a solution when the big vertical guys have far more ammunition (algorithms, customer data from photos to shopping history, etc.) to develop better systems? The same question largely applies to Qualcomm too. I think this is what is driving Broadcom to swallow giants whole to somehow become big enough to survive.
  12. We can remain as pacifists and effect change. Thankfully, the situation hasn't deteriorated to that extent. We have to force these discussion outside of CNN/Fox and into each home and cubicle. American politicians are the most spineless and gutless beings. They are the flotsam that requires a wave to go anywhere. We have to be the wave.
  13. Yep. The last real movement, at least to the lowered American standards, was the one against banks after the loan debacle (Occupy Wall Street). Before that was protests against the 2003 Iraq war? We are a very docile people. People riot if you take away one vacation day in other countries, and we willingly turn any and all cheeks.
  14. Of course. The real (cultural) wall is along the Red River.
  15. Yep. Instead of dividing California, they should aggregate less populated states. 1. Californiwai (2) 2. Washiregonidaka (4) 3. Nevarizotahado (4) 4. Montadakoming (4) 5. Minnenbowakanouri (5) 6. Oklarkamissalana (5) 7. Texasico (2) 8. Flocarolitennegiarico (5+1) 9. Wisillindikenohigan (6) 10. Virgimaryania (4) 11. Yorkerseyware (3) 13. Massahamainerhodicutont (6) We get back to 13 states with Puerto Rico accounted for.
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