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TwiceHorn

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  1. 12 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    I've known what "rattlesnakes" look like my whole damned life. Killed plenty of 'em in my day. Know which ones are not rattlers, too, and leave 'em alone, because that's just good garden management.  Here's a "rattlesnake":

    western-diamondback-rattlesnake-showing-

     

    Only... now... I go to a nature center, and see one of THESE motherfuckers, and suddenly, I'm all like, "What the fuck?" That does NOT look like what I know a rattlesnake to look like.

    Crotalus-horridus-10.28.02-SRS-SC-coiled

     

    I've never been afraid of snakes, my whole life. That's suddenly changed, because I no longer know which ones are which.

    You are in NC right?  Well, I believe that's a timber rattler and that's about the only rattler you'll encounter up there instead of the multitudes of different, but generally diamondbacked, rattlers here.  Also, the rattle might tip you off.

    The variation in copperheads and similarity to harmless snek is more problematic.

  2. For the record, some people draw a distinction between "trade secrets" and "confidential information," with confidential information being less important somehow, perhaps non-technical  I have never seen the point, at least in Texas, at least when it was a Restatement state, in drawing any distinction.  I'm not convinced UTSA changed anything, either.

    When I say "trade secrets," I mean anything maintained in sufficient secrecy that it derives value from it and is protectable as a result.  So, any damn thing:  any formula, pattern, device or compilation of information which is used in one's business . . . .

  3. On 10/10/2019 at 2:57 PM, Okie State said:

    The 84 month loan and low interest rates have allowed the prices to skyrocket out of control.

    And what's absurd about that, is, a whole hell of a lot of people don't pay the damn things off.  They roll the balance into another note. 

    For a brief period I did some consumer bankruptcy stuff and the car note idiocy was astonishing.

  4. I'm from Dallas.  I live in Dallas.  I have wasted much effort engaging in debates and fights over Dallas versus Houston for 30 someodd years.  Mostly in fun.

    Houston is not a shithole.

    For the first time in my life, though, I am questioning my definition or understanding of the term "shithole."  Some on this thread are using it as "asshole," anus, rectum, ringmeat, or turdcutter.  I have always considered it a hole full of feces, a place where people have shat.

  5. On 10/10/2019 at 6:57 AM, troph said:

    I’m just saying you don’t need a non-compete to establish a claim for misappropriation of confidential information (or trade secrets). Maybe there isn’t a claim but the existence of a faulty non-compete or none at all isn’t determinative.

     

    Got it.  Low-level unlikely to have trade secrets, which I think was kind of the root of common calling anyway.

  6. Well, the cold front hit last night with some rain, so the trails are down.  Hope they dry out enough for a pre-OU ride tomorrow.

    Between that, work, and a cell phone that went wonky this week (Lord what a time-suck that was),  only two rides this week.

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    Edited by TwiceHorn

    So there seems to be an off chance that Asurion fixes my S8 for free.  Worst case, it's 115.

    Looks like they're going for around 200 on swappa, so I am going to send it in and see what happens.

    I don't see any point in keeping it and I don't trust it anymore.

    The G7 is missing some things, stupid things that I never used (pulse sensor), and wireless charging, but I'm pretty impressed with it as a 200 phone and a way to get off the leasing/insurance/thousand-dollar-phone merry-go-round.  And I feel free to change carriers if needed.

    The one curious thing about it, is it has no LEDs on the front face. Not sure I gaf about that, but it's weird.

    The only thing I can't quite figure is whether to buy "insurance" for this G7.  It's like 33 bucks for damage/repair replacement or 50 to include loss/theft.

  8. 6 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Maybe supplement the movies they've seen now with the books the movies are based upon.  Give some measure of context to the trials and tribulations these young men had to endure.  Read them together if needed.  The visceral aspects of these movies is intentional to give some measure of perspective of what really happened - that's the message.  

    I think this is a good idea.  As the child of a WWII vet, I was a war/military junkie from a young age.  But my parents put it in a perspective for me, and most of my exposure was through reading.

    Of course the really explicit violence in film just didn't exist in the 70s and 80s.  However, the diorama at Gettysburg was pretty explicit and I had come to understand some of the nature of civil war battlefield injuries by the age of 10 or 11.

    I think you're ok.  Better that they saw it with you than on their own.

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    Edited by TwiceHorn

    Hmm.  I agree from an observational standpoint that it's better than last year, but would still say it's a problem.  And agree that Peterson is problematic.  Eggleston seems to embody an acceptable risk/reward ratio, without looking at her stats.  

    Also, we seem to fuck up serves at the most inopportune times.

    Some comparison numbers.

    Hollann Hans 43 errors, 20 aces. 2.15

    Kate Formico 22 errors, 12 aces.  1.66 (Furd overall 54 aces, 103 errors. 1.91 ).

    Minnesota spreads it around, 65 errors, 45 aces. 1.44

    Nebraska 108 errors, 50 aces. 2.16

    Texas 139 errors, 58 aces.  2.4

    We are, overall, a more aggressive serving team, apparently, than the above.  But we still have a bad ratio and give away a lot of points.

    Shit, I didn't finish reading your post so I didn't see the cumulative and comparative numbers.

     

  10. 19 hours ago, G650 said:

     

    It's not really an agree/disagree situation, it's just a fact. Engines were 100k items before, transmissions about the same. Now they are 300k plus at least. Tires were 15k items, now 50k. Alternators, compressors, etc..The list is basically endless.

    People have very selective memories when thinking about old vehicles. It was the 80's before some semblance of longevity arrived via Toyota and Volvo, and the mid 00's before it really became modern in terms of lifespan. Even as late the 90's and early 00's all of our Chevy 1500s had two or three motors and transmissions over their lives. I wasn't exaggerating the amount of transmissions we've bought. Crate 350's too.

     

    Dunno? I was looking at people arguing the merits of the Toyota philosophy mainly.

    Good post.  But you also revealed that the trannies you were buying were overdrive and lockup variants of the TH350/400, 4L80s and such, which I agree are sorta pieces of shit.  Or at least mortal equipment.

    I psychologically get nervous when a car gets close to 100k, even though I know that's NBD anymore.

  11. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yep -- growing up in SW Houston, knew plenty of super-Texan jewish families.  And it's not an affectation -- a lot of their families have been in Texas longer than some parts of mine.  A metric shit ton came through Galveston in the early 1900s.

    I have been told by a guy that went around lecturing on "everything you wanted to know about Jews but were afraid to ask" that many Jewish immigrants headed for New York, and later New Orleans, were diverted to Galveston by Jews already in NY and NO to increase their opportunities and to "de-concentrate" Jews in NY and NO so they suffered less of the fate of Irish and Italian immigrants.

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    Edited by TwiceHorn

    One of the oddities of UT.  Despite all the Illinois and New York and California plates surrounding the Sammy and ZBT houses, there were a number of Jews that were more Texan (been here longer by a pretty far shot than most) than any gentile you cared to name.

    And some of em were pretty "country" too.

    I remember one bunch of guys had a buck mounted above their fireplace, complete with prayer shawl.

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