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Paper_jam

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  1. I heartily endorse Shoxthemonkey's post above. I miss the creativity, ingenuity, and variety that used to be a part of racing. Now everything is regulated and handicapped and homogenized to the nth degree. Some of it is economics, some of it is safety, some of it is to keep sponsors onboard, and some is the natural progression of engineering and optimizing a car towards a specific goal.

    But I still want more 6-wheel F1 cars, turbine cars, and maybe even full-electric someday, all competing in the same field.

     

     

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  2. COTA obviously must have done geological studies of the soil at the site, so the characteristics of that black clay can't have been a surprise. Was the subsurface soil stabilization and  track construction and engineering done properly, or did they skimp on it like SH130 did?

    Why didn't they pick a site somewhere west of I-35, where there is actually bedrock?

     

  3. I guess the roads are the scariest place to be today:

    (From KXAN's website)

    Multiple crashes along I-35 in between U.S. Highway 183 and Rundberg Lane are causing major traffic congestion on Thursday.

    According to APD, there is one crash in the 8800 block of I-35 southbound, where all southbound lanes are closed.

    Austin police and medics are also reporting to a multiple-vehicle collision in the 8700 block of north I-35 northbound, in addition to a secondary multiple-vehicle collision in the southbound lanes.

    According to APD, there are a total of seven fire trucks and five ambulances on the scene.

    Drivers are advised to expect delays and seek alternate routes.

  4. I want Star Trek transporter pads at all major retailers, employers, schools, and government institutions. (Seriously how close is that technology to reality? I mean we already have cell phones that are better than Trek communicators and data pads.)

    There is the drawback that (IMHO) the transporter kills the original "you" and just creates a clone with your memories at the destination point.

     

     

  5. 1 hour ago, dcar00 said:

    so #5 is playing zone and the deep guy decides he's going to make sure he's there to stop the out route in case the other 2 guys miss the tackle.  christ on a cracker that is an unreal picture.

    I've seen better defense being played on those old vibrating football games where the players just move in random directions

  6. It's been several years since I got off my ass and actually went to a game at DKR. I picked up a couple of cheap tickets for the Kansas game off Stubhub--Section 127. High up on the east side. I notice the tickets are marked Gate 31. Looking at a stadium map, Gate 31 doesn't seem to be particularly close to Sec. 127. And, isn't Gate 31 for student tickets? Do I actually have to use the gate marked on the ticket?

    Thanks...

     

  7. Getting dominated in all phases of the game by the worst team in the NFL. This is my 1993-Oilers-Bills game, except it's Dallas. Close the franchise, burn down AT&T Field, and turn the site into something useful like a landfill or public park.

     

     

     

  8. I'd like to also request that when a parking lot has aisles that are designed and marked to be used in one direction, please don't drive the wrong way down them. (And if you do go the wrong way, please don't act like I'm the asshole when I'm going the "correct" way and we meet head-on.)

     

     

     

     

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  9. Do you think you want city stuff or nature stuff? Honolulu has your museums, shopping, dining, fancy hotels, close to Pearl Harbor if history is your thing. But it's pretty urban and crowded. While Oahu certainly has beaches and some nature stuff, f you want to Get Away From It All and see natural beauty, other islands would probably be better for that. 

     

     

  10. 3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    that area does not have the road infrastructure to support any large facility there.  only 2 ways in and out and each only has one lane each way.  

    Austin isn't known for proactively developing infrastructure (especially transportation) to prepare for growth. We like to build splashy big projects and then act surprised when it's a clusterfuck.

     

     

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  11. On 9/30/2019 at 2:07 PM, sushihorn said:

    Kendall is only a moderate running threat and can't hurt a defense much if they account for him.

    I'm flashing back to some games where we got completely gashed by mobile quarterbacks (that nobody considered to be mobile quarterbacks until they played us). 

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