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  1. 6 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Update:

    Arrived after a 30 minute drive to go roughly 10 miles due to construction where we then waited from 10:50 to 12:00 in line to get our cafeteria food. I've never seen a worse spectacle of humanity.

     

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    After seeing that line for Luby's, I would've taken my chances at the IHOP in the background. Shit, maybe the Valero has some burritos or something...

     

     

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  2. 8 hours ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

     


    with my dad now...the Huntsman/Motiva facility on Pure Atlantic makes ethylene glycol and propylene glycol, and ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, and ethylonolymanine. the crude facility on the river has been dismantled for years.

     

    those epoxides love to go boom

     

  3. The insane thing about LHOP was you could never be sure if you were going to get a lightweight country story about Pa building a chair or Ma's apple pie winning the fair, or an episode where a woman and a baby go up in flames on camera, or an episode where a clown rapes children complete with POV shots from inside the clown mask. I mean talk about a wide range in tone.

     

     

     

  4. I'm not a lawyer (as will immediately become apparent) and I'm also not well-informed about the current criteria that apply when a sentence of death is being considered. However, in the finest American tradition, this will not stop me from proposing my own ridiculous solution to these kinds of cases. When the prosecution is seeking the death penalty, the guilty/not guilty determination should be modified so that the jury either finds the defendant A) Not guilty; B) Guilty, based on the current "beyond reasonable doubt" threshold;  or C) Superguilty.  "Superguilty", as defined by me, means that the evidence is so clear and incontrovertible that virtually no doubt remains that the accused committed the crime. In the sentencing phase, the death penalty could be applied only for a "Superguilty" conviction.

    (This is a hypothetical kind of concept and I'm not making any claims about whether Reed is guilty or "superguilty" based on my terminology.)

     

     

     

     

  5. On 11/3/2019 at 11:56 AM, ChiTownDoc said:

    I don't follow the NFL that closely but Houston has to be the most confusing fucking team in the league.  Every time I think they're gonna go in the shitter they go on like this.  And when I feel they're finally a contender, they fall apart right on cue.  

    TLDR: WTF bro?

    For me, it seems like there is a Schrödinger's Cat effect going on with the Texans. As long as I ignore them, they do well -- but as soon as I start to follow them, they shit the bed in spectacular and amusing ways.

     

  6. 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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  7. 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?

     

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

     

     

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