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  1. Posting on the football board as this directly affects watching CFB.  Many of us, particularly older folks (and cheap bastards like me), rely on OTA boardcasts to watch a large numbers of games. Whether that's because boardcast channels aren't available (looking at you Sling) or just looking to cut costs (with the Sling daypass, I've been able to keep my costs this year under $50 total). Stole this from a reddit post in r/cordcutters:

    The FCC has reopened comments (deadline early 2026) on letting stations encrypt primary ATSC 3.0 channels — the exact thing that is already forcing CBS in some markets to fall back to lower-quality 1.0 or BLOCKING recording/playback entirely on HDHomeRun, Plex, Tablo, etc.

    If encryption wins without strong rules, we lose: • The ability to watch/record on the device we choose • Fair-use recording and ad-skipping • Truly free, open over-the-air TV on the public airwaves

    Public comments have stopped this before — they can again.

    Filing takes literally one minute here:

    → https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express

    Proceeding: 16-142 (no space before the number)

    Copy/paste examples (or write your own):

    Shorter version- Proceeding 16-142

    The FCC charter for public broadcast TV provides that those radio frequencies are for the use by the public. ANY encryption at all on those frequencies violates that charter.

    Please ban encryption/DRM on primary ATSC 3.0 channels OR require permanent unencrypted ATSC 1.0 simulcasts.

    Free OTA should stay open to any antenna and any tuner — no paywall on public airwaves.

    Longer version- Proceeding 16-142

    The FCC charter for public broadcast TV provides that those radio frequencies are for the use by the public. ANY encryption at all on those frequencies has been a violation of that charter.

    Any company that considers their content too valuable to broadcast unencrypted should not be granted a license to use the public airwaves.

    Encryption on primary broadcast channels would destroy over-the-air TV for millions who use HDHomeRun, Plex, Tablo, etc.

    I urge the FCC to prohibit redistribution-control descriptors on the main program stream OR make full-quality 1.0 simulcasts permanent for any station that encrypts its 3.0 signal.

    Every single comment submitted to the FCC gets read. Let’s not lose free OTA to DRM.

     

     

     

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  2. 13 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

     

    but then the uk ending slavery in 1834 would have eventually created a divorce war

    Would it?  The UK effectively bought every slave in the empire and didn't pay the debt off for a 150 years.  Had they made the same offer to the US South, would there still have been so much desire to hang onto slavery?

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  3. 13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I do like that they really hammered home a couple of major points that many don't realize:

    1. Washington's army got pretty fucking small as many Americans were not fully committed to this endeavor.
    2. A lot of British would have been fine with the colonies leaving if it stopped the hemorrhaging of money and they still had trade, and a lot of American patriots/rebels would have been fine staying within the empire if things would go back to the way they used to be.

    #2 is an amazing alt-history topic to run down the rabbit hole on - had the Brits backed off, listened to the American grievances, compromised in some manner (yes, they had enormous war debts still left over) and you don't have Washington, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, and all of the other Founding Fathers getting together and building a new nation, what happens?  If American remains a colony (or 13 colonies) into the 19th Century, what does that do with British military engagements and foreign policy into the 19th Century, Napolean, etc. What about the French Revolution?  Just crazy to ponder.

    Some other things I learned in that mini series that I'd also never heard before was that at some point, maybe 1778 or 1779, the british bascially offered the colonials everything they had been asking for prior to the delcaration of independence, and that there was actually a fair amount of support for the colonials in Britain as those people viewed the Colonials as just fighting for the same rights every British citizen should have.

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  4. Finished it book 7 on my drive last week.  My new favorite line from the book:

     

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    Quasar:  I'm going to drink for free all night and wake up in a ditch with 3 new venerial diseases!

     

  5. On 9/29/2025 at 8:09 AM, Hellraiser97 said:

    https://www.amazon.com/Shattering-Peace-Old-Mans-War/dp/0765389193/

     

    New book in John Scalzi's Old Man's War series.  I really loved the first 6, hoping this one holds up.

    Just started this last night after finishing up Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 7 (audiobook).  I'm listening to this, but I may have to switch to reading.  I'm about 20% in, story is interesting and drops in lots of little refreshers, without being a slog, since it's been about a decade since the last book.  However, the narrator is driving me nuts.  She's way too chipper and while her voicing the main character is fine, the way she is voicing all the male charaters is less than optimal.

  6. 20 hours ago, Codaxx said:

    Happy to slam Mack, but this is apples to oranges. OU has been a mess under Venable. OU rarely had a bad offense or team under Stoops. 

    Agreed it's not a one to one comparrison, but no different than saying Mack got shut out while Sark never has.  Sark has never faced teams like Mack did.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    Sark and Mack now both have 3-2 records in a 5 game stretch in the series (2004-2008 for Mack, 2021-2025 for Sark)

    Mack:

    Average score: 25.4-20

    One loss as the higher ranked team (2007)
    One win as the lower ranked team (2008)
    Shut out once (2004)

    Sark:

    Average score: 36.8-19.6

    One loss as the higher ranked team (2023)
    One win as the lower ranked team (2025)
    Never shut out
    3 games with no TDs allowed (2022, 2024, 2025)

    Sark's first 2-game win streak in the series.  Mack had 3 of them himself (1998-99, 2005-06 and 2008-09)

    Mack never had a 3-game win streak 

     

    Mack also never shut out OU, while Sark has.

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  8. 4 minutes ago, Hellraiser97 said:

    This is the one they were talking about ont he TV.  There's a better angle on the replay.  It wasn't overly egregious I guess, but it certainly could have been called.

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    And this one earlier in the play

     

     

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  9. 4 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

    Here's the video.  There are bodies flying around but if anyone sees a block in back, screenshot it.

     

    This is the one they were talking about ont he TV.  There's a better angle on the replay.  It wasn't overly egregious I guess, but it certainly could have been called.

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  10. 14 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Just finished

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    First in a planned trilogy by The Expanse writers. 

    Not as good as The Expanse series, kind of out there. But I'll probably read the entire trilogy when it comes out. 

     

    I'm on the fence on this one.  The story and characters I was 50/50 on.  Some of their writing has always driven me nuts  (the constant "Everything was exactly the same...except it wasn't").  What killed me though, and I had problems with the Expanse as well because of it, is the narrator (I listened to all of these).  I just can't stand the way he enunciates things.  When the next volume comes out, I think I'm going to try to actually read it.

     

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  11. 14 minutes ago, locodos said:

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    You're gonna have to fight us for that!  Well, maybe fight is the wrong verb, but you know what I mean damit

     

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  12. My brother is on Book 7 I believe (Last Audiobook currently available) and he said it's really non-stop action and intense, kind of having trouble listening for more than brief periods.

    I'm on Book 5, just keep loving it!

     

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    Samantha is my current favorite side character.  Holy crap she cracks me up.

     

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  13. 6 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    Does anyone know a person in Austin that could install a TV antenna on the outdoor second story of our house? I have coax run to each room already but the person would I assume tie into the coax line in the attic. I could probably figure it out and do it myself, but I just don't want to mess with it.

    Don't bother with that.  Get one of the rectangle flat ones you stick to the wall.  I have an Airbnb in East Austin and I run three TVs with one of those things.  It can take a bit of adjusting to find the reight spot, but it won't take long.  

  14. On 8/24/2025 at 5:02 PM, dec3169 said:

    Fox One bundle with ESPN Unlimited hits October 2nd I believe.  Fox One is out now but when the bundle happens It will be $39.99 for both.

    https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2025/08/espn-dtc-and-fox-one-to-launch-combined-bundle-offer/

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    The ESPN DTC offering will give fans access to all of ESPN’s linear networks – ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes – in addition to ESPN on ABC, ESPN+, SECN+, and ACCNX, covering 47,000 live events each year, on-demand replays, studio shows, original programming, as well as newly expanded NFL content and more. For more information about ESPN DTC, visit Stream.ESPN.com.

    FOX One will bring all of FOX’s leading News, Sports and Entertainment branded content together in one dynamic streaming platform. For the first time, cord-cutters and cord-nevers will have live streaming and on-demand access to the real-time thrills, bold voices, and defining stories across the full portfolio of FOX brands including FOX News Channel, FOX Business, FOX Weather, FOX Sports, FS1, FS2, Big Ten Network, FOX Deportes, FOX Local Stations and the FOX Network as well as the option to bundle FOX Nation and B1G+ within one platform. The latest updates and information about the upcoming FOX One service are available at www.FOXOne.com.

     

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    Starting October 2

    What kind of dumbass shit is this?

  15. Not directly related to the books, but thought y'all might find this amusing.  My teenage daughter is into D&D and so I've told her about these books.  I was just finishing Book 3 and she asked me how it was.  I told her, "it's great, and I have a new favorite insult, fart goblin!"  She responds, "What about mind goblin?"  I say "What's that?" And she responds:  "MIND GOBLIN' DEEZ NUTZ?!?" and breaks out laughing.  Not sure if I should be horrifyed or proud.  Probably both.

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