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Posts posted by Eastwood
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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Wait, wouldn't the HBCU pilots fall into the "major airline pilots" range rather than the average SAT score from the HBCU category... you know, forget it. Fuck it all.
Something, something, separate but equal… or something.
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He misses that one throw in our game and Texas would be playing Michigan.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
Only if you didn’t advise your client about the potential, but remote, risk, and let them make a business decision.
Good contract review isn’t hard: 1) these terms are really important, let’s get them right, or be willing to walk away; 2) these terms are somewhat important, let’s negotiate on them and maybe use them for some horse-trading (maybe you give on a couple of them, in exchange for a price break); and 3) these terms carry some remote risk (yes, this term provides that if every EU country is conquered by Tanzania in a war, the contract is terminated…I think there’s a pretty low risk of that happening, so you need to make the business decision of whether you can live with that risk), so decide if you can live with that risk. Note that the overall value of the contract has some bearing on the amount of risk to be tolerated.
Generally, if you spend a shitload of time haggling over category 3, you’re either a dumb client or a bad lawyer (spoiler: there are plenty of both out there).
Oh, and writing in plain English isn’t hard. But a lot of lawyers who are addicted to using forms that have been used and re-used for 20 years have a hard time with it. I’ve written good contracts on one yellow legal pad page on the hood of my truck. You will do x, and in consideration, I will do y, by z date. Yes, sometimes it’s specialized enough where you need lots of defined terms…so use your definitions section to make the meaning plain and clear. That’s what it’s there for.
Back to the topic: the SCOTUS will fuck this up 5-4 or 6-3, it’s just a question of how they’ll fuck it up.YMMV by which industry you are working in. For my industry, there is usually an imbalance of power in negotiations between my side and the opposing side for prime assets. "Just walk away from the table" isn't an option because I'm trying to secure rights that several other parties are competing over. It becomes a Game Theory exercise of who will pay the price to entry and who will eat the bad contract. Sometimes the price is so high and the terms so bad that nobody will accept (and that bar keeps getting lower and lower, setting precedents that make my job even harder). Sometimes the only way forward is to endure 6 months of haggling over the minutia, including a specific word being used here or there. Therefore, it becomes my job to find a way to make the language as acceptable as possible without running them off and I find myself going back and forth with opposing counsel over what should be obvious language. If I don't, there are two primary negative outcomes: 1. I hold firm and a competitor eats the bad contract. Bad for me from an optics standpoint, even if the competitor falls flat on their face. 2. I eat the bad contract and the liability bomb goes off in the future. Bad for me, bad for the company.
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55 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Ironically that’s why I like negotiating with lawyers on the other side- they get so wound around the axle about language that’s only disputed in catastrophic situations that they inadvertently wind up reopening commercial terms with real value.
Because in the event that those catastrophic situations happen, guess who catches the blame for there being "ambiguity" in the document?
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Ricky Perry, a Texas A&M grad, was Governor of Texas when the Qatar-A&M relationship began. Perry would then go on to head the Department of Energy, which has oversight of our nuclear arsenal. Conspiracy theorists should be going hog wild over this.
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22 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
The Hawking bit:
1) entirely untrue.
2) really fucking funny.
I mean, REALLY funny. Makes you wish it was true.
That is some old school Mad Magazine, late 80’s-early 90’s SNL style comedy.
Hilarious.
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Man, I haven’t seen a judgement call that vindicated since the Georgia/FSU bowl game.
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Bummed? Sure. Disappointed? You bet. But we just got straight up beat by a QB who had an all-time performance. No one position group went out and absolutely shit the bed, the players looked like they wanted to be there, I wasn’t absolutely gobsmacked by the lack of performance like I have been in the past with previous head coaches. The team never rolled over.
Sometimes teams just get beat. They didn’t play their best, but they definitely didn’t play their worst. And Washington, outside of Penix and the receivers, didn’t play a complete game, either.
Tip of the cap to Washington, blow off some steam, hit the recruiting trail, and back at it in the spring. Excited for next year.
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Just now, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:
Exactly. Last time we lost a heartbreaker like this we wandered the desert for 15 years. Let’s hope this time is different.
These chances don’t happen often.
That was because the head coach panicked and completely shifted his offensive strategy away from the spread to the power offense that he just watched curb stomp his team after recruiting the #1 spread QB in the nation who hadn’t taken a snap under center since junior high.
No, I’m totally over that. It was years ago…
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Oh, Jonathan Brooks, what could have been.
What a season. Let’s run it back.
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Game of inches all night. Proud of this team.
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His fingers never left the ball.
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Move your ass! Where is the urgency?
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That’s gonna be game. Helluva season.
And Penix is a helluva QB with a helluva story. I hope he wins the whole thing.
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Two people can't report. They went up as a group of 3 to try to create confusion in the Dallas D. 70 claims he didn't say anything, so I bet the ref just picked the guy and declared him as the eligible receiver. Not the right way to handle it, but the Lions should also be aware of the rules.
None of this is on Dallas, btw. I always get a kick out of other teams screwing something up, getting called on it, and it is always somehow Dallas's fault.
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KSA will flood the market like they did in ‘14-15, drive down prices just long enough for most of us to get laid off while a bunch of DUCs are on standby and the remaining skeleton land crews furiously try to extend leases, and then everything will go back to normal in less than a year.
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Boycotting the bowl would be some loser mentality bullshit. If you thought you deserved to be in the playoff, then go prove it. Force the AP and Coaches Polls to throw a couple of 1st place votes to create some controversy. Get yourself into the Preseason Top 5 next year so you’re best positioned to make the expanded playoff, even with a couple of losses.
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2 hours ago, Balcones said:
Can any math wizards make sense of the rankings below? If there are 40,581 total accounts, wouldn't the top 10% be account 4,058 and lower?
https://texassports.com/sports/2021/2/22/loyalty-points.aspx?id=931
Football Season Ticket Holders Loyalty Points Rankings as of 11/7/2023
Range Rank Out of All Accounts With Points Rank Out of FB STH Point Range 1-10% 3-1,796 1-1,627 953,399-2,297.06 11-20% 1,797-3,597 1,628-3,254 2,296.5-1,086.9 21-30% 3,598-5,420 3,255-4,881 1,086.66-620.7 31-40% 5,421-7,304 4,882-6,508 620.5-345 41-50% 7,305-9,213 6,509-8,136 345-209.55 51-60% 9,214-11,237 8,137-9,763 209.8-140.5 61-70% 11,238-13,259 9,764-11,390 140-69 71-80% 13,260-15,458 11,391-13,017 68.75-33 81-90% 15,459-17,793 13,018-14,644 33-15 91-100% 17,795-40,581 14,645-16,272 15-1 I’m assuming that the Rank #1 at 953,399 is either the Jamail Estate or the McCombs Estate. Surprised at the back half of those point ranges, though.
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1 hour ago, gatormarc said:
Nowhere near as hilarious as the Texas to the SEC version. But, I appreciate the effort.
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In on a group ticket buy, if we can get our hands on a batch.
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Helmets behind Kirk were Michigan, Washington, Texas, Bama. ESPN subliminal messaging.
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6 hours ago, NoName said:
Shout-out to this comment, though...
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1 minute ago, JesusSweatDuck said:
12:15 ET
Probably closer to 1 EST. It starts at noon, but they will have their dog and pony show to milk the ad dollars.
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Bill Ackman
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Yeah, was this before or after one of the best metal guitar solos of all time?