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  1. The settlement was reported to the 9th Circuit together with a request to postpone oral argument. It appears that the original case was dismissed as not being covered by ERISA and not federal and that on appeal to the 9th Circuit. Doesn't seem to be any real obvious connection to an immediate downside for Elmo.
  2. Yeah, I figured you might be able to thumbnail vibration analyze the things. But there's a lot going on there beyond the masses of the pistons just slinging around.
  3. Well, depends on definition of "flat." If you mean horizontally opposed or boxer, that is less than perfect, but inline is the most inherently balanced. Looking it up myself, rotating-plane balance on a 3 is off, while reciprocating balance is perfect. Also, the power strokes don't overlap, which is a power-delivery issue I suppose more than a vibratory one. But that also can devolve into a torsional imbalance that's made worse by the length of the inline 6 crank. It appears that a horizontally opposed six would be quite well balanced if the engine used "fork and blade" rods so that each pair of opposing cylinders shared a common centerline, but in reality, most times the rods are paired next to each other, necessitating some longitudinal spacing of the opposing cylinders.
  4. Is a 3-banger as smooth as an inline 6? This seems like something @jimmyjazz could answer on the theoretical basis. ETA: the answer seems to be no.
  5. Yes, that may be where it ends up. But, I do kind of wonder, when push comes to shove, whether these field-grade officers are going to be as loyal as they think.
  6. Although you may ultimately be correct, I'm not sure the national guard really counts as the military in the sense that it is outside the normal chain of command.
  7. UTD got a huge boost early on from TI and TI founders, who wanted a school to work-study TI employees. They offered to do the same for SMU, but SMU declined, seeing itself as a liberal arts and business school. So its beginnings were different from most of the other UT "satellite" schools.
  8. Moreso than last time, he is completely surrounded by yes-men.
  9. It's a perfect microcosm of MAGA. Ostensibly, the upright citizens of those cities would be in arms about their horrific crime rates and begging Trump to send troops and the FBI to "take back their cities." But it's not about crime, it's almost never about crime.
  10. 1700 in 19 states. That's fewer than 100 toy soldiers per state. Impressive!
  11. The company's statement said that under the terms of the deal, the government has agreed to purchase 433.3 million primary shares of Intel common stock at $20.47 per share, equivalent to a 9.9% stake in the company. The government will have no board representation or other "governance or information rights," according to the statement, and the government agreed to vote with the company's board on matters requiring shareholder approval, with limited exceptions. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5509673/trump-says-us-government-will-take-stake-intel I'm not sure what the deal is, really. I guess the gubmint is getting something. But it's not likely Intel's stock price is going to improve anytime soon, and certainly not as a result of domestic manufacturing unless the stock market starts to value something other than short-term earnings. Also, this isn't going to work as any kind of ongoing policy shift. Intel is only doing this because it's in deep shit. Conditioning grants on equity surrenders means no one will take any grants.
  12. Meanwhile. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/21/jh-campbell-coal-power-plant-michigan-trump-administation
  13. One of the better written pieces I've ever seen on ESPN.
  14. That furriner wants your cookie, mate.
  15. Does the transcript get into the quid pro quo for her testimony?
  16. Yeah, like you don't generally release investigation materials, a conventional US government or state doesn't advertise or crow about criminal investigations, other than to announce them, maybe. This government? Maybe not so much, if one is actually ongoing. The target of such an investigation is free to talk/complain about it, although it's usually not in their interest to do so. But people like Schiff and James, and Comey, Clapper, et al., who don't really have much exposure, might well be speaking out about it.
  17. No dammit, it's because they removed the barrel full of darkies that the cracker was minding.
  18. Haha, awesome Judge Berman. Take some performative bullshit designed to place blame on judges -- again -- and throw it back in the fat fuckin turd's face, along with Blondi and fucking guy Patel.
  19. Not sure inheriting a painting company puts you on third. In some cases maybe, but more like safe at first. Democrats do have to own doing very little for the Jameses of the world. Neither have Republicans, though, other than owning the libz. It's Trump's talking point. He thinks it's a bad thing.
  20. He probably is, but getting out from under a performative lege, governor and BOR was a high priority, I'm sure.
  21. Bringing this back to earth, I see that Mazda is making a 3.0 inline six. Those are getting rare these days, even among bimmers. Kind of disappointing numbers, though. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a43975258/2024-mazda-cx-90-inline-six-engine/
  22. Well, Dallas has more murders ytd (113) than DC (101). So does Houston (112 through May).
  23. Further to this, Royce Lamberth, Longhorn of the DC District Court, found that Bolton probably did disclose information in violation of at least his confidentiality agreement, if not classified information per se. In June 2020, five years and two months ago. I don't suppose limitations can be interposed as a defense to a search warrant, but it's going to make an indictment problematic. Rap/ride and all that. Don't have much pity for Bolton, but the tactics are obnoxious as fuck.
  24. Well, let's also remember that Kash Patel can't issue a search warrant unilaterally. It had to be signed off by a federal judge. The District of Maryland only has one Trump appointee, but it's usually Magistrate Judges that sign off on warrants, and one could be a sleeper agent. Possibly more likely is that someone lied to secure the warrant. Ironically, it would seem any charges here would be related to mishandling of classified information. And the statute of limitations on that is five years and Bolton was out of government by 2020 at the latest.
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