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gyroprotagonist

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  1. yeeesh. this sounds like a tough one. you have a black-out drunk girl and a sober-enough to drive guy who maybe were dating a little at the time. the only things i will say are - no matter if you think a victim is a gold digger or attention horse or whatever, it takes guts to come forward immediately after or 3 years after. you are going to get randos slutshaming you till the cows come home and lots of unwanted notoriety. - does black out (or not remembering) mean unable to consent? I have had friends fill me in on the missing pieces of a night before and the shit i was (alleged) to have done astounded me, but i did not have a memory of. unless the guy admits he got busy with her while she was unconscious, this is going to be tough to prove.
  2. nah, i was basically this guy. i dealt with IBM (lol) Compaq (lol) Gateway (lol) HP and the like plus motherboard mfgs for the processor and north/south bridge lines. sorta the VOC back to the fab. was riffed as well in 2002. good times
  3. I bet they either have to keep it operational or at least operational-ready for set amount of time. I used to work at a place that got subbed gov contracts for IC packaging and they are still using chips that were the backbone for stuff like paveway missile systems but we were converting from milspec hermetically sealed ceramic to cheaper commercial plastic packages. That company essentially bought one of the Raytheon lines because they did not want the expense of keeping it running. Another time they took over mfg from another sub that Motorola used for a gov contract. Even though we set up the mfg on our own machines, we had to take in all these older machines that the process was originally set up on 'just in case'. "Russians Uncle Sam dont take a dump, son, without a plan" indeed. there are actually businesses where it's their job to store backup wafers/packages for military/ITAR chips hermetically sealed up 'just in case'. The gov contracts for ITAR stuff usually have very long (20 years) keep-ready clauses where mfgs are supposed to maintain the line/capability to mfg if needed. It would be interesting to see it would ever come to "fuck your pentium, bro; we need 500,000 camera ICs for our soldier's HUDs made pronto"
  4. JIT works until it doesn't I think the bigger development will be how governments start to view these fabs as 'strategic assets' I went on a sales call to the NSA when i worked at AMD. They used to have their own fab to make their own CPUs but could not keep up with the pace of innovation due to the sheer cost of installing new tech to keep shrinking the transistor size. I know places like Northrup Grumman have their own fabs, but it's usually to make much simpler/older IC. Some Tom Clancy stuff for sure, but say China gobbles up Taiwan and we are basically at war with them. I could see where the US gov would 'ask' Intel/TI fabs to make certain silicon the gov/army needed like Ford built B-24s during ww2. It would get even more complicated with multi-national fabs from Samsung/TSCM etc.. that are on US soil. Fun stuff to think about.
  5. ah yes, the popular Durian fruit flavor
  6. lol, finally an expert has weighed in. Look, i am 1/2 vaxxed and am ready to not have to wear one in any scenario and I am sure my kids are ready to not wear one at school. it still just astounds me that people can say masks don't make a difference. Does a cloth mask 110% stop a virus particle from existing the moment it is expelled from your cakehole? No. Does it limit how far the particles from your breath travel? Yes. mission accomplished, mask. thank you for your service. couple that with not packing in places like sardines and it's a moderately effective tool to slow the spread of this airborne virus. In this time of give up, i agree with people that even requiring them at the Rangers game was stupid. No one who bought a ticket to that game thought well I would be worried about spreading the virus sans mask, but I and everyone else will totally be safe since we are all wearing masks. Still i am optimistic about getting deaths down to zero in the near future and let's get everyone vaxxed first before bemoaning about variants and potential variants.
  7. had not seen that yet. I am fairly ambivalent about it. I honestly don't think that a passport will really incentivize someone, who otherwise would not get a vax, to get a vax. The biggest loss here is feeding the antivax crowd more red meat. I am guessing the EO was specific to C19 otherwise we will be having measles outbreak in schools next fall.
  8. yeah, the 0.2% are going to have to realize that eventually the 99.8% will want to eat them and that pitting the rest of America vs the bottom 10% is not working anymore. Then some of that wealth needs to be converted into circus bread and UBI or everything burns. Maybe a new form of actuary will calculate, to the penny, the minimum amount of wealth that needs to be sacrificed to avoid getting eaten by the poor (job creation!) I think the young will adapt but there will be a huge swath of people who fought tooth and nail to get rid of societal safety nets (while they had good jobs) that get caught up in having their livelihood eliminated and suddenly need it. Or maybe a tailor-made virus that only affects people below a certain credit score will pop up. who know what new and exciting adventure awaits us.
  9. yeah, that's the big takeaway here. States could have a mask mandate and it the citizens could be defying it left and right and still show an increase. opposite is true with a no-mandate state where maybe the major cities are still mostly following masking and the cases could continue down as more and more folks are vaxxed.
  10. it is tax season. any complaints coming from H&R Block?
  11. well, when i said interesting I really meant a combo of SKYNET + Maximum Overdrive where people are getting killed from BT enabled dildos. At least Stoops will be the first one to go.
  12. it's been bad this week for sure
  13. did you look at CVS? They have no city residency as far as I know. I live in Dallas and got jabbed in Lubbock and set up 2nd shot back in the DFW area.
  14. yeah, way back in the day i used to work for AMD and contract fabs for the high end chips was sorta in it's infancy as TSMC was starting to ramp up big time. But the CPU for computers were taking ~14+ weeks for a lot to go through the fab. Now you had lots starting every week, but any big process improvement took 4 months to bear fruit. So switching over a line from say an auto industry chip to a phone IC takes a long time from start to finish. Also, you are going to see devices at the low end get squeezed in favor of higher priced ones. When the same LCD screen or camera can be put on a $99 phone or $499 phone, it's going to go to the higher priced phone where more margin is made. CPUs also will trend to the higher end. AMD used to 'downbin' a CPUs speed to fill higher demand for lower priced computers, but i doubt that's happening now. It will be interesting to see what happens when all this new capacity comes online in 2-3 years. Hell i saw a commercial where a freaking plug in air freshener was touting a PCB controlled deployment mechanism.
  15. so Gibson sitting at 135.0 and the team at 10 we looking good for a record breaking season. early season stats are fun
  16. should have told her that it's every 5 kids that people get a free drink. sooo close.
  17. is this not the exact same thing as taking a knee? Abbott is bailing on chance to sing the nat anthem and throw out the first pitch because of a difference of opinion.
  18. what's the worst team ERA in baseball history? just curious, no reason.
  19. We would have the whole planet scouted already if they had managed to load this bad boy on the rocket. Plus Marvin Martian would be running scared
  20. the shortage is real and it's spectacular. I read the biggest cause was that, on top of the disruptions that the initial C19 caused in all the mfg sectors, automakers dropped demand and canceled orders in anticipation of much lower demand. When that lowered demand did not fully materialize, they scrambled to re-place those orders and then some. Plus the boom that WFH has caused to all things with screens. Then add on the multiple stimulus packages in the last year and you get a lot of people wanting stuff that depend on these chips. i work on the planning side in the cell phone industry and it's notgreatBob.gif as far as supply on basic components goes.
  21. The plot thickens. Apparently I applied to the commonwealth of Virginia for unemployment benefits but the letter sent to me, sadly, denied my eligibility as I am gainfully employed in Dallas during the time period in question. I guess I should not have given my ssn to that nice Russian fellow in exchange for a free copy of Russia Today. Seemed legit.
  22. he was totally lip-syncing to Danke Schoen
  23. hmmm. quick google shows that the ones sent by the Treasury were Visa Debit. Mine is a Mastercard debit. may just try it at the pump next time i fill up and hope it does not ask for a PIN
  24. i think you are on to something. maybe something like a homeless snowpiercer train that never stops? you could probably score some Biden-bucks with infrastructure stimulus as well.
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