Posts posted by F250
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1 hour ago, Voldemort86 said:
This is a very good development for the democrats. He was one of the few republicans who could hold onto that district. He had some kind of a Jedi mind trick going with those people out there. It should be a blue district every single time.
He did a pretty good job of walking the fine line of representing his oddly shaped district. Plus having the heavily populated northern wealthy suburbs of San Antonio helped out a lot.
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3 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:
Not Facebook related, but Amazon.
How Amazon plans to implement surveillance capitalism in your home:
https://www.axios.com/amazon-echo-alexa-ring-smart-home-surveillance-15323060-972f-46e5-8aa0-b3506249a7b0.html
I appreciate the irony of Zuboff's book on Surveillance Capitalism having a link to Amazon for those interested in purchasing the book.
I haven't read the book but I recently listened to an Econtalk podcast where she was being interviewed. It was an interesting episode and she did somewhat of a deep dive on the concept of Surveillance Capitalism.
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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:
It only applies to Europe, and the companies involved have plenty of time to adjust, and in fact probably already had plans in the pipeline - they follow this stuff closely, and plan accordingly. In this case, they've had 3 years to prepare for the outcomes.
With that said, most companies find it easier to adjust based on the more stringent requirements
Yeah, GDPR has nudged some American companies with a global presence to apply compliance requirements. I'm a veteran of the last minute scramble for GDPR compliance that occurred a couple of years ago. Fun times.
I am pretty envious of the European privacy laws, there is no conception of a need for privacy protection in the U.S. like there is in Europe. They've been ahead of the curve most of the time while the U.S. treats personal data as a commodity. It's really sad that there is no movement in the U.S. for GDPR like protections.
Shit, I'd like to say that at least we have privacy protection from the government but that isn't true either.
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Interesting ruling, this is bigger than just Facebook, this is going to hit Google's AdSense in the pocket too. CDN's like Akamai will be impacted. Everyone knows about Facebook and Google but most people have no clue about CDN's collecting their information and that shit is everywhere running silently background.
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On 7/27/2019 at 4:20 PM, DaysOff said:
Transfer to her sister. You'd only get the principal payments you put in the account back.
This. My oldest two sons were set up with these plans but my oldest is on an Air Force scholarship and doesn't need it so we ended up transferring it to my youngest son.
On 7/27/2019 at 4:37 PM, Bateshorn said:Fucking A, man. Congrats in one way. Sorry in another. Does Texas Tomorrow not have an option to roll the money over into a traditional 529? I’m cooking up Chile Rellanos, otherwise I’d dig around on the site.
Yes, this is an option.
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5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
Bernie’s a rumpled bed, Beto is always in shirtsleeves and no tie, Mayor Pete never wears a sport coat, Yang never wears a tie, the rest of the men wear the same cookie cutter bullshit uniform. No one says jack nor shit.
Uh, Beto's lack of diversity when it comes to his long sleeve blue shirt with a permanent armpit stain has repeatedly been brought up here. Same with Bernie's terrible style, Buttigieg's casual outfits have elicited multiple jokes, and a day doesn't go by that Donald's lack of tailoring isn't mentioned.
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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:
On a shallow note, she should think about what she wants to look like as president. Cardigans and slacks are fine for her style of public speaking and her image as a person of the people. I don't see that look in the White House.
I've never thought about it until you brought it up but her style is very comforting.
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23 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:
But it does not depend on race, sex, or religion of the batter. Or pitcher.
Catcher, never forget the importance of framing a pitch. A good catcher can turn a ball into a strike and a bad catcher can turn a strike into a ball. Everyone knows this, man. The strike zone is very subjective and yes, the players involved have a big impact on how a pitch is called.
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4 hours ago, TahoeHorn said:
In a baseball game some batters have had more advantages over others. Two people with the same athletic ability don't have the same opportunity to hit the ball. One may have had:
1. A culture (family or community) which introduced him to baseball later in life
2. Inferior coaching
3. Discriminatory treatment by Little League coaches
4. Unsupportive parents
5. Pressure to play other sports or study instead of practicing baseball.
And many more.
But if I'm the umpire I don't care. A strike is a strike and a ball is a ball. I'm not even going to pay attention to who the batter si or who the pitcher is.
If it's a church picnic I'll give 5 year old Susie extra strikes and easy pitches. And I won't cut 14 year old Billy, who plays high school ball, any slack. But in MLB a ball is a ball and a strike is a strike.
You know how I know you don't know jack shit about baseball?
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43 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:
Dubya being a useful idiot to give others cover for their nefarious machinations is another way in which he foreshadowed this presidency. He's a decent human compared to Trump. That's a pretty low hurdle. He's a rich frat boy douchebag who failed upwards his entire life. He mocked a woman on death row. He's the sort of friend who would've hit on your girlfriend when you weren't around.
Karla Faye Tucker, to this day I am disgusted by that execution. She was executed for political gain and nothing more.
Yeah Trump is a greasy turd that smells like a dead goat thats been fermenting in Mangino's ass all summer but Bush was a fucking butcher. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed or maimed because of his political ambitions. Fuck, fuck, fuck that guy.
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42 minutes ago, pepper brooks said:
Good luck. Our select team gets started August 15 with practice, and play our first USSSA tournament in Houston on 8/24. we will probably play 6-8 events in the fall as 12U. Lil' Pepper also plays on a team that will be 13U and while he is a full member of the team (bats in the 3 spot), he's more of a part time/fill in there.
My son would occasionally drop down to 12U from 13U to assist in a big tournament on Sundays. In the beginning it was like playing in turbo mode when he played with 12 year olds but as the season progressed he actually struggled to downshift to the small diamond and modified play. By the late Spring his 13U team was playing in a number of 14U tournaments and the dynamics and speed of a 60/90 field are slightly different than a 50/70 field, enough to be a hindrance.
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On 7/22/2019 at 10:59 PM, Helobious said:
Sucks that Texas West won't be a south Texas team. What HS areas are those Western Hills kids mostly from? Westlake/Lake Travis? I've never heard of that little league at all.
Agreed, I usually pull for those teams. I think this sentiment (regional pride) is what makes the Little League All Stars playoffs superior to the big select baseball national championships. Sure these teams wouldn't beat those select teams made up of mercenaries from kids all over the country but nobody cares about those teams. People like myself or you root for South Texas Little League teams because they are the best Little League team from our region.
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The Iranians are jumping in on the action.
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5 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:
That's a colonial caste system that intentionally uses race and ethnicity to divide the oppressed in order for the ruling class to retain power.
Tantric's point is basically addressing the "ignorance breeds contempt" problem. Familiarity with other groups tends to soften prejudices, especially when blood relations are shared.
Back to your reference of the Spanish colonial caste system, once Mexico became independent the nation united under the Mestizo banner. Sure they could have engaged in ethnic cleansing and what not but took the "let's just mix" approach. As a result Mexico had a black President nearly 200 years before the United States and abolished slavery* without fighting a war. Well, they did fight a war and lose over slavery, Texas Revolution.
Yes, Mexico still has issues but their integration streamlined race relations in a way that the United States could never achieve. The integration is primarily why there wasn't a mass genocide committed by the Mexican government against the indigenous population like the one in the U.S.
*Yes, I am aware that there are those that view integrating and black Presidents as a negative.
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1 hour ago, Mojo Hand said:
Isn't the title based on a previous similar thread about Paul Ryan, who was also a major disappointment? Seems fitting.
Yes it was. I am not sure why people put any hope into a Speaker of the House, the nature of their job is to cater to special interests and the welfare of the Party. An ideologue will never become Speaker, it takes a soulless pragmatist to get the job done.
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Will Hurd throws in the towel
in Cloak Room
No, he just bailed. As previously mentioned, he was probably the only Republican capable of winning the district. The GOP wouldn't primary him. A MAGA type will not succeed in holding the district for the GOP.