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  1. https://www.statesman.com/news/20181119/hazing-preceded-car-crash-that-killed-ut-student-family-says

    And to the surprise of exactly no one, hazing was involved

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    The family of a University of Texas student who died from injuries in a car crash while returning from an off-campus event says it has learned that hazing took place at the event.

    The allegations involve the Texas Cowboys, a spirit group that held an initiation retreat in September, according to an article in the Daily Texan, UT’s student newspaper. The Cowboys fire “Smokey the Cannon” at football games.

    Nicholas Cumberland, 20, died about a month after the crash that happened the morning of Sept. 30. The vehicle rolled over after the driver fell asleep, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety crash report obtained by the American-Statesman.

    “Why was our son and a group of new Cowboy pledges permitted to depart on a 2½-hour drive from a ranch back to Austin around 4 a.m. in the morning with zero sleep after a full day of initiation activities?” the Cumberland family said in a statement provided to the Daily Texan. “Following some inquiries, we were saddened to learn of specific alleged hazing activities at the Cowboy offsite event. We were under the naïve impression that hazing was long dead at Texas.”

     

    “In the aftermath of the accident, our priority has been the welfare of all of the students involved,” said UT spokesman J.B. Bird. “We very recently received information on allegations of hazing. The university takes all accusations of hazing seriously and investigates them as warranted. We are evaluating how to proceed with the information we have at this time.”

    In 1995, 19-year-old UT student Gabe Higgins drowned in the Colorado River after drinking during an initiation rite with the Texas Cowboys. The university disbanded the group for five years after the incident.

     

  2. I cannot make heads or tails of the tiebreaker rules in the event that either OU or WV lose next week then win the following week. Obviously it's highly unlikely OU loses to Kansas but I'd say it's reasonable that OSU could take down WV but WV still rallies to beat OU.

     

    http://www.big12sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10410&ATCLID=1546006

     

    Assuming we all win next week, and we beat Kansas, it seems that if OU beats WV, they rematch the next week, if WV wins, they gave us.

     

    I do not like OU

     

     

     

     

  3. I had a Commodore 64 and a 128 back in the day.
    My wife still has one of those all-in-one iMacs  I think it is purple,  I cant get her to let it go.
     
    I have an old Motorola Star-Tac cell phone.  It doesn't take any space though. 
    Star-tac had the best sound quality of any mobile phone I've ever had.

    I do not like OU

  4. Thanks smokebomb, that explains a lot.  One last question.  So a wildcard would cover ousux.hr97.com or hr97.com/ousux, but it would not cover ousux.com, where ousux.com is an addon domain?  (That's the right terminology, correct?  Where all the files for ousux.com are at hr97.com/ousux)

  5. I get the basic concept of the SSL, and now it seems the search engines are punishing sites without them.  I never worried about them before because we don't sell anything online or take any information outside of basic contact form stuff, but seems like now I need to.  So googled SSL and tried to read up on the various types and its fucking confusing.  So basically, here's what I got:

    1) Shared hosting plan at HostGator. 

    2) 1 primary domain that I don't do shit with and a couple subdomains that will be running wordpress sites and be used by addon domains. In case I didn't put that right, I have a bunch of setups like hr97.com/ousuxshit and another domain ousuxshit.com that runs off it.  On each of these is a basic contact form, one actually is a plug-in from a cloud service I use for project management.

    Ideally, I'd like all the sites to have the little lock icon and such so people get that warm and fuzzy and fucking chrome stops saying 'Not secure'.  

    Educate me please!

     

  6. Austin Neighborhood Council represents the actual people that live in Austin neighborhoods.   Zoning changes typically have to get the approval of the local Neighborhood Association.  
    Developers control the sock puppets FRIENDS OF AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOODS:
    https://forum.atxfriends.org/
    FAN represents developers efforts to maximize density and help cram condos on 60’ wide home lots which were previously single family houses.  
    FAN pushes the density agenda for financial gain while opposing actual residents that back ANC.  
    What a load of shit. ANC sets it's open times for gets to be on board. They intentionally exclude anyone that is pro density, development, whatever. Plenty of stories of people on the east side wanting a voice but not being allowed to participate even though they've loved there for years.

    FAN shares a lot of common ground with developers but is hardly run by them. The only reason FAN even exists is because of the bullshit rules of ANC

    I do not like OU

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  7. 1 hour ago, RoundRobin said:

    That  fucking link awkwardly asked me to pay to read the article!

    Protip:  Google the title of the article, the returned link will take you to a page that doesn't make you sign in to read it.

     

    I find the way they usually ask far more annoying than the tip:
    "It's just going to ask you a couple questions...."

  8. Since I’m too lazy to look it up (and will likely run into a bunch of propaganda anyway) can anyone here in the know summarize the ANC power structure’s major beef with Code Next? Were high rises and condos going up in Tarrytown? Too many Section 8 housing units were gonna be allowed in Brykerwoods? Was the old race track gonna be re-built in Hyde Park? Curious minds want to now. 
    Everyone agrees traffic sucks and we need to do something. Old money Austin freaked out that duplexes or triplexes might be built in their neighborhoods where you currently can't. You know, gotta keep the poors out. Otherwise neighborhood character might suffer.

    East Austin freaked out because a bunch of shitty 'community advocates' told them they'd all be forced to sell to developers who would build mixed use building filled with nothing but liquor stores.

    These are the same types of people that proposed and implemwnted the garage placement ordinance so in half the neighborhoods it's damn near impossible to build a two car garage now. They're insane.

    I do not like OU

  9. In Austin under the 10-1 system, you vote for only 2 of the 11 city council members, your district rep and the mayor.  Any six council members, voting the same way, can pass something.  It is possible for the city council to vote for something that both your rep and your mayor voted against, and you have no way to counter that at the ballot box.  They can and do make decisions in the middle of the night at the end of all-day city council meetings.
    If you are a special interest group or stand to benefit financially from something the city council passes, you can lobby or donate to six of the council members, get them on your side, and get something passed that benefits you or your group.  This benefit to you may be at odds with what the majority of voters would choose, if given a vote.
    Prop J was created as a response to CodeNEXT.  Citizens petitioned the city council to require a review period and a city-wide vote prior to adopting CodeNEXT, as a check on the power of city council. The city council had two choices: adopt the ordinance proposed by the petition, or put the proposed ordinance up to a vote.  Instead, a majority of the city council, mostly those in favor of CodeNEXT, decided to ignore the petition.  The petitioners sued the city and won the right to put the ordinance on the ballot.
    If you vote in favor of Prop J, you are voting to have the protection of the ordinance.  You are giving power to the voters by giving them a waiting period to review any major changes to the land development code proposed by the city staff and the city council, and the power to vote for or against the changes.  You are helping to ensure that the majority of the voters in the city are aligned with the decisions created by staff and council.
    If you vote against Prop J, you are voting to not have the ordinance.  You are giving power to city council and city staff by not requiring that their plans align with the wishes of the majority of the voters and not requiring periods for citizen review proposed by the ordinance.  You are OK with the decisions of city council and staff possibly being at odds with the wishes of the majority of the voters.  If you are aligned with a special interest group or business that may benefit from the majority decision, you can lobby behind the scenes knowing that plans created will not have to face the voters.
    I support Prop J because I want the people proposing major land use changes to know that they do eventually answer to the voters.  I think it is important for the city council, the city staff and the citizens to be aligned on major revisions to our land development code.  After meeting with CodeNEXT city staff members, I do not trust them to learn about neighborhoods or listen to city residents without the Prop J protections.
    Changing the land use code is a big decision, affecting almost everyone.  I want the city council and staff to know that they can plan and propose, but ultimately they need voter support to pass.
     
     
    That's a lot of text to be completely wrong. prop J won't protect you or anyone else at all. State law trumps it and state law says that while you can vote to have or not have zoning, you can't out the actual code to a vote.

    I do not like OU

  10. I doubt it's going to be an issue. Memphis is terrible and UCF barely got past them.  They'll stumble somewhere along the way.  And if they don't make it?  Too bad.  I don't see it as bad for the sport.  In fact, it would be a hell of a lot better if we DID split FBS into two divisions IMO.  There's no need for 120 'major' college teams.  We have plenty of upsets and excitement when the 'also rans' in the P5 step up once in a while.  Hell, maybe we'd see it more often if you didn't have teams from the G5 taking talent away from those teams.

    And if it comes down to us or them?  Fuck 'em!  We're Texas.

     

    And anyone wringing their hands over how this 'delegitimizes' the CFP or college football in general, take a look at your history.  There were plenty of years where some non-power conference team went undefeated and never got a shot at #1.  The only difference now is that you can see those teams on TV and SportsCenter.  

  11. If you’re taking advice, you need to read to the Lord of Chaos, I think it’s book 5 and take a break.  It’s a better stopping point if you decide to not continue with the series and imo is the best of the early books.
     
    but yes, it’s highly formulaic, they do a better job toward then end of the series but I almost quit after book 8 iirc, but I’m glad I slogged through to the end (Sanderson’s final books made it all worth it).
     
    from this link I found about the show, lines up with what I remember...
    http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/wheels-of-time/276731/the-wheel-of-time-tv-series-what-can-we-expect
    The first two books are eventful and propulsive, the third is a drag that barely features Rand Al Thor at all, the fourth, fifth and sixth boast some of the best storytelling of the series then after that things slow to a crawl until the tenth book is quite literally made up of characters reacting to the climax of the ninth while having three-page baths. After that the final four books are essentially all payoff to a very, very long set up.
    Yeah the last few books by Jordon drag, but it's worth getting through them for the ones Sanderson wrote. I only finished them last year and I'm already considering rereading them again. I haven't read New Spring, but since the two books after it never happened, not sure it's worth it

    I do not like OU

  12. On 10/2/2018 at 10:19 PM, Chewbacca said:
    On 10/2/2018 at 10:04 PM, atomheartbevo said:
    Now would be a good time for Amazon to work out a deal for the Wheel of Time books to be on Kindle Unlimited, or at least cheaper than $10 a pop.  If they were readily available (and I know, I can go out and pirate them) for my Kindle as a part of KU, or at leas something cheaper than $10 apiece, I. might be tempted to read the rest.  I go to my Kindle more and more.

    No shit. I was going to but all of them, but they wanted something like $120. So I'm paying 10 each.

    I listened to them on audio.  On Audible it was something like $400 for the whole series.  Umm.  No.  Not going to happen.  You couldn't even use your credits to get them each month because they were about $35 a piece.  Fuck that ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG

     

    Just started the 3rd book in the academy series.  Ended up really liking the second book, liking the third too, but I can see it getting a bit formulaic.  Probably take a break after this for a while.

  13. If the neighborhood associations are for Prop J, then I’m probably gonna vote against it.
    This is such a fucking waste too. They KNOW that the law is clear that while you can vote for or against HAVING zoning, you can't out the actually zoning regulations a vote. Passing Prop J guarantees exactly one that thing: There will be a lawsuit that will cost the city millions of dollars and drag on for years.

    It will be a lawsuit from the NIMBY crowd when they don't put the new code on the ballot or it will be a lawsuit from someone else for putting it on , but it will be a lawsuit that will waste a shit ton of time and money to learn something that is already established law.

    I do not like OU

  14. Finished Engines of God a couple weeks ago. Really enjoyed it. Thanks to the others that recommended it. Onto the second book, Deep Six. Liking it a lot now but wasn't sure at first. Part of that is that I'm listening to the books and they switched narrators!

    I do not like OU

  15. 9 hours ago, GabrielsHorn said:

    How in the world are Michigan State or TAMU ranked? 

    Early rankings are an integral part of the recipe of aggy misery.  Don't fuck this up.  You could kill someone.

  16. 9 hours ago, swraith said:

    Have you thought about having your daughter skip an elementary grade if she needs the academic acceleration?

    I don’t see gifted and talented as being all that important until middle school.

    For reference I went through a magnet school program 25 years ago starting with 6th grade. With AP courses I started my freshman year at UT with like 3 credit hours short of being a sophomore. Still took me longer than normal to graduate.

    Skipping a grade seems not to be really an option at our school.  Hell, we tried to have her in 1st last year since she'd done Kindergarten already, but they just weren't having it.

    I've been told there is a lot of research surrounding GT and early (pre-middle) education and that, sort of like with languages, the earlier you start the better.  That's not me, just many of the 'experts' we've consulted.

     

    8 hours ago, Helobious said:

    Tell her to not worry about school or grades and to just focus on being hot when she's older. It'll get her much further in life. 

    She's got my genes.  Obviously looks won't be a problem.  I just need to make sure she's smart enough to keep her men inline.

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