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  1. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Strange tack to me to try and say that a media outlet doing something for a political candidate that is against their own business interests is SOP.  Paying for stories, whether to run them or bury them, may be SOP.  But certainly not knowingly to your own detriment. 
     

    The idea that if some part of something is SOP then it all must be…doesn’t pass muster.   I would love to see an FDA inspector’s face when someone says that to them (not me or someone at my place of employment). 

    We all know your bacon doesn’t pass muster

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    “The statement that Cindric put out is a bold-faced lie, and everyone knows that,” said one team owner, who was granted anonymity in order to speak freely on the subject. “For teams to read that, it’s, ‘Are you kidding me?’

    “This is bad, because it’s bad for all of us,” one team representative said. “But that statement? That’s telling everybody, ‘You’re a bunch of idiots.’”

    A lot of people probably aren’t aware that Roger also owns Ilmor Engineering, which actually makes the Chevy-branded Indycar engine. 

    https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2024/04/26/indycar-reacts-to-team-penskes-rules-violations/73463528007/

     

  3. 2 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    My legislation would require a non-compete to include a severance package that covers the time until it expires since the employer is blocking your right to work.  Either let me work elsewhere or pay me not to work. Your choice.

    Paying money to extend a non-compete is actually illegal in Texas. The scope of the noncompete has to align with the business interest to be protected, so varying scope that based on the size of the payment gives lie to the interest to be protected and makes the non-compete a naked restraint on trade.

     

    Of course, every contract is a restraint on trade in a sense. 

  4. 37 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    One thing it does do that's actually maybe nice for the lawdog is this.  Under Texas law, at least, a covenant must be confined to a reasonable geographic area, which usually means the cities, or county, or region where the employee actually worked.  And that almost always means a less-than-statewide, much less nationwide, territory.

    For most major corporations, that is entirely unsatisfactory.  They think if a former employee can damage them, it can be from anywhere, at least in the US.  And that is at least theoretically true.

    So, whoever is tasked with drafting such a covenant is often forced into drafting one with an overbroad territory to satisfy management, with everyone knowing that it's likely unenforceable.  And that just doesn't feel good if it isn't unethical.

    So, maybe this will take most of that off the table.

    iirc some of the Delaware chancellors have started refusing to blue pencil unenforceably broad noncompetes drafted by sophisticated counsel, on grounds that courts shouldn’t be cleaning up messes created by lawyers who know better.

     

    geographic restrictions get weird when remote work is factored in. 

  5. 13 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

    Eating the trash is a reference to playing up old disagreements, not the actual trash service, but glad to hear Houston is getting better. It’s old, it’s forgotten about, people are being petty. Calling him a Republican is the dumbest thing this board does beside waste space about DC statehood.

    have you visited the recruiting board?

  6. On 4/19/2024 at 11:35 AM, Catpfish said:

    At the same time, unbelievable amounts of water are being just flat wasted by lack of system maintenance.  It's estimated that the City of Austin lost 6.9 BILLION gallons (roughly 21,175 acre feet) of potable water to leaks in 2022.  I'm sure that number is increasing year over year as the system ages.  Found a source from the LCRA that City of Austin and Austin Energy water pumped from the Colorado River plus other water rights was 185,548 acre feet in 2022.  If those numbers are close, you are looking at over 10% loss.  I freely admit that I really don't know shit about fuck except I know Austin loses a lot to leaks.

    I'm sure it's the same for cities everywhere and I understand that you'll never be leak-free, but at some point, this issue has to be addressed.  I think very few people know/care about the extent of waste from this area alone.

    this is a problem that is driven by the way we chose to build cities in the US after WW2.  pretty much everywhere the replacement cost of public infrastructure is greater than the value of the private property it supports.  its inherently unsustainable. 

    interview on texas standard

    https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/4/1/heres-the-real-reason-houston-is-going-broke

     

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  7. 30 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    I had no knowledge of this woman. She's what they were going for when they produced the aborted prototype, Experiment Boebert.

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    Bombastic as Trump? Check

    Hostile to truth? Check

    Ruthless? Check

    Beautiful? Holy shit, check.

    Poised on camera? check

    Embraces all stands of the GOP criminal organization? Abso-fucking-lutely.

    Disarming smile ala Reagan? Check

    I think I love her, but she's evil. I'm sure she'll make a great president.

    luna is at the top of my hate fuck and then give her @tx 3 putt's number

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  8. 50 minutes ago, texas08 said:

    Exactly, if Lawrence is serious…you need a massive second driver upgrade.

    And Alonso isn’t dumb, he wasn’t gonna extend if he didn’t feel like Aston is ready to go off reallllly soon.

    Alonso has a great record of predicting how good a team will be in the future

     

     

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