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Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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Also, she apparently considered Wisconsin and USC. USC is close to home and apparently the new coach is her club coach, but is untested at the NCAA level. Both Wisconsin and Corn have fielded better-rounded, better--passing and -defending teams than Texas has in recent history. I guess Penn State was too far away. Not sure why she didn't check out Minnesota, as it arguably qualifies, too (but you could make an argument that Minnesota over-emphasizes backcourt and setter play, to the detriment of pin-hitters like her).
The fact that she chose Nebraska tells me that it was a coach-driven choice. But I dunno shit, that's just a guess.
And we will be playing Nebraska, in all likelihood, in the early fall.
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8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
There are probably 100s of millions of standard capacity 30rd magazines in circulation. Shit, I got enough to last me and all my children and their childrens lifetimes in the closet 20ft from where I sit. And you can print these things on your desktop. Magazine capacity limits aren't a real solution unless you want to turn millions of Americans into felons overnight. Improving the background check system and its inputs, requiring background checks on all transfers, and starting to address the real societal mental health issues at play are where we should focus efforts.
True enough, but it's less drastic and less of a problem than confiscating an entire class of weapons.
I see Australia bought back about 650,000 guns in their most recent gun-banning effort. There are more guns than that in Texas alone.
Also, ironic note, England now has a knife violence problem. London's murder rate exceeds that of NYC. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/london-murder-rate-higher-new-york-city-first-time-surging-knife-gun-crime/
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Is heavy salting and rinsing still approved technique? I note that guy didn't rinse, nor did he salt as heavily as I tend to for that stage.
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Here's my thinking on the semi-auto, center-fire, >5 round mag ban or restriction argument. Fully auto weapons are effectively banned, that's the status quo, so that level of firepower is off the table.
The thing that makes "assault rifles," however defined, effective at mass shootings is firepower, which is a combination of semi-automatic firing rate and magazine capacity. There are totally legit semi-auto shotguns, hunting rifles and rimfire rifles (the majority of rimfire rifles sold are semi-auto). This wouldn't affect those. People who have a preference for AR-style rifles or even AK's can still have them, just not with a >5 round magazine.
There would be a "confiscation" problem only with >5 round mags, not with an entire class of weapons. It will still be a problem, but a more manageable one.
The "dangerous" level of firepower would be curtailed. Also, a lot of "yahoo-ism" on youtube etc. that makes "black guns" attractive to less-than-law-abiding owners.
Will this solve or even reduce the mass shooting problem? I don't know. Maybe they'll switch to semi-auto pistols. Maybe Marlin 60s and Ruger 10/22s. Maybe shotguns. Maybe lever-action rifles. Study of it will yield some insight on a variety of issues presented by "gun control" more broadly.
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1 hour ago, RoundRobin said:
Wright? Right...
Yer bloody well right.
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Also, scrimmage tomorrow vs. eaTme @ 8 on LHN. Decent chance to preview the new front row I guess.
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22 minutes ago, BERT said:
Was she not happy here?? Seems odd
She started out as a six-rotation player, meaning not coming off after her serve and playing the back row. She was such a player in high school and club. Elliott started taking her out of the six rotation as the season progressed and competition intensified (her back row play did need some work). Best guess is that she was unhappy with that and did not see herself developing into a top-level six-rotation player at Texas/under Elliott, which is not an irrational thought at all.
Without even looking at the schedule, we are virtually certain to encounter Nebraska before she leaves. Wonder how that will be?
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HIbbeler dong. 1-0 Texas.
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29 minutes ago, DaysOff said:
But she's home sick
Yeesh. Most likely spin is better coaching for her back row game. Probably the only explanation.
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On 3/27/2018 at 7:31 PM, Chewy's Hairy Horn said:
This hits close to home. My first Knife as a Cub Scout. Still makes it into my pocket knife rotation.
I went straight to the full-on Scout knife. Bigger! Moar blades! But I now own an old Cub Scout knife and it's probably gotten more carry time than the full-size Scout did. Great little design.
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17 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:
Our system seems to be set up for retribution instead of justice. I don't know how we get to the point where both sides seek justice or maybe there shouldn't be sides. I don't know shit.
Very true from a sentencing perspective. For a while there, there was concern about "uniformity" of sentences, particularly in the federal system. But little thought seems to have ever been given to the "rationality" of sentencing, i.e. what are we trying to accomplish here and why and does this sentence actually do anything to accomplish it?
But that is a legislative problem, not so much a problem with the prosecution.
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Dirty ol bastard. Although I think ODB is more appropriate. Or OFN.
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18 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Seems kind of odd, because a classic exception to FOIA requests is information pertaining to an ongoing criminal investigation.
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The service I am referring to is entirely domestic. And the delay is with DHL. Similar with the other "smart posts." They go on some sort of slow boat or hand carry from Wooster, OH or wherever to a relatively nearby "distribution center," whereupon they are received by USPS and delivered within a day.
It was originally called DHL Global Mail, but according to DHL and their tracking site, it is now "Ecommerce." All the vendors seem to send tracking notices that still say Global Mail, which is a misnomer because these are domestic sellers.
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1 hour ago, DanRydell said:
Because DAs get elected by being tough on crime and ADAs get advanced by being winners.
Yes, this.
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7 hours ago, Lobwedgephil said:
Lol, lawyers don't start out idealistic, they go to law school thinking about the money.
While there is a great deal of truth to this, there is also usually at least a latent bit of idealism. They're going to do great things! Be intellectually challenged! Play 3-D chess with other brilliant lawyers!
And, of course, it has been 25 or more years since you could go to law school and count on money when you got out. Now it's probably 75-25 against making over 100K coming out. For the last 10 years, it has been delusional/idealistic for the average law student to even assume having a job.
And those who go to law school aiming for public service/DA careers either did not have money in mind or were delusional/idealistic.
I'm not making this shit up, this is why there is a huge dissatisfaction with legal careers and a substance abuse rate double the rest of the population. The NC Bar and UNC have done some very in-depth studies on these issues.
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I'm a bit of a contrarian in that I have had uniformly good service from USPS and will choose first class delivery whenever available. Considering its low cost, I get less agitated if it is a day late, but it rarely is.
Whenever I order something from Amazon or someone else and get a tracking notice that it's DHL Global Mail, I groan.
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So I have noticed shipping services like DHL Global Mail/Ecommerce and various "Smartpost" services used by online vendors. Apparently, they are specially "tailored" for "ecommerce" vendors, and the implication is that they are super cheap or otherwise easy for vendors to use.
They are slow as fuck.
They use the mail (USPS) for "last mile" and are actually timely once the package hits the USPS, but may take a week or more to get to USPS.
Because they are slow as fuck, they must be cheap as hell or somehow really easy to use.
Can anyone explain how these work? Are these the type of things where private business is getting balls deep in USPS?
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Kindly elaborate on this butter basting thing?
What's the latest and greatest on the "reverse sear?"
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Common username with another poster who is older. Leave it at that.
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Serious answer. To one degree or another, lawyers start out fairly idealistic. The practice of law, with harsh realities of tedium and business or dealing with human nature (depending on civil vs. criminal, to some extent) or both, frequently dashes that idealism to pieces, turning an idealist into a cynic. A couple of things then happen, often both. One is that it just becomes about winning. Another is that one deludes oneself into believing one does "God's work" or some other form of (self) righteousness. That can be a toxic and dangerous combo.
Add in the fact that everyone you deal with is some form of law enforcement or the enemy (librul defense lawyer turds) and you get an echo chamber.
It becomes very difficult, personally and institutionally, to admit error. It takes more character than a lot of people possess.
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I remember the shitshow surrounding that poster and that he passed away not too terribly long after.
I seem to recall that someone came and posted of his death without connecting the dots.
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3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:
Thanks.
What types of interference would be off limits? Could I set up a mister that sprays deer urine across the doorway so nobody would cross the threshold? (Only half kidding. At some point it just has to be within the business' rights to seek some kind of relief. Hell, I'm offended that Academy sells A&M gear, but I'm not going to try to stop them.)
Well, the problem here really is the nature of the relations interfered with. It isn't a contractual relationship it is at best a prospective customer relationship. In Texas, the classic tortious interference is inducing a party to breach their contract with another party. As mentioned, it could also be a contract not-yet-entered, but sure to be, but for the interference See, e.g., Pennzoil v. Texaco. And if the interference is privileged by being protected by the 1st Amendment (this is Canada, aint no such thing), then even if a sure contract were breached as a result, then tortious interference wouldn't lie.
As SKJ said, this situation isn't really addressed by tortious interference.
Probably the most apt traditional tort would be the protestors creating a private nuisance that interferes with the restaurant's business.
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29 minutes ago, SmokeyBear1861 said:
Can you post statistics on this?
I would counter with
http://www.fathers.com/statistics-and-research/the-consequences-of-fatherlessness/
...as soon as you abandon traditional culture that got civilization this far (marriage) you return to chaos.
That is an ENTIRELY different argument.
And brisket and I agree far more often than we disagree. Like 95-5. I think he may be a tad unhinged about the state of affair represented by Trumpworld, but I can't say definitively that he's wrong.
The Robert Mueller Investigation
in Cloak Room
Posted
I would guess that this more means that Mueller would not have the temerity to attempt to indict any sitting President rather than Trump committed no criminal (or impeachable) offense.
Also, re VanDerZwaan:
Douglas Berman, professor of law and recognized authority on sentencing.