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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. Who TF programs the computers? Who creates the rules the magical "non-biased" algorithm follows? Spoiler: Humans. All you're doing is putting a computer facade on human judgement. We still get regular postings of at least six different BCS-era computer models who all produce different outputs based on what the humans who built them told them to weigh. And to make it even worse, most of those models are "secret" with regard to their rules and weightings, so they are even less transparent than the committee. At least the committee sends out their talking head to spew some b.s. on TV, the computer model doesn't even have to do that, it's just "welp, that's what the model produced!" Put this in place now and you can immediately CTRL+F "committee is biased" with "computer model is biased" and all you've done is change the words, not the outcome one iota.
  2. The company I was working with put me up at a place called the Leela Palace. I think it was literally an old palace...several acres of compound ringed by 30 foot stone walls. Every day I was picked up by a driver to take me across town to the client. Just like you said, as soon as you pulled out of the compound and drove a quarter mile, there was a square city block of burning trash. That thing was on fire the entire week I was there, just smoldering. 😳
  3. It's a big FUCK NO to being in a conference with Baylor, Houston, TCU, and Tech again, no thank you!
  4. 100%. Specifically in China and India. I was in Hong Kong about 12 years ago, and was in a very nice hotel on the 87th floor, I had a great view of the city. Right across from me were workers building an even taller high rise, and they had bamboo scaffolding going all the way to the top. I asked some of the team I was consulting with: "that looks dangerous, is that stable, do the lashings break and have people ever fallen?" and their response was shocking to me. They said: "Oh yeah, all the time. Every week a couple of the workers fall to their deaths, but it's no big deal. We just get a few more (Chinese) mainlanders, they're lined up to come to Hong Kong." When I consulted in India, I was in an all-day meeting in a conference room. They had a guy dedicated to holding the door to the meeting room open. That was his job. All day, the whole day, holding the door open, to a meeting room mind you not like the doorman at the front of the building or anything. I asked about it later and the manager joked it was cheaper than buying a doorstop. I think about these experiences often and how thankful I am to be born and live in the U.S. We bitch and moan about stuff here but we have it so, so, so much better than 99.99999% of the world. They'd feel rich on 2% of our income.
  5. I already hated Notre Dame, but this year is icing on that cake. Fuck ND, why are we playing them in out years? If we lose, we are fucked from the CFP. If they lose to us, it's a "good loss to a quality team" and the committee justifies it by them beating Navy and Stanford by 40.
  6. Yeah but Ohio State beat the #1 team in the country*! *On week 1 based on pre-season rankings
  7. mid for Texas standards. I realize your comment wasn't directed at this, but also top quintile isn't enough to be top 10 and make the playoffs, either, the topic of this thread.
  8. Fine but this makes the 2nd time in 3 years that Sark is playing an injured WR over several highly recruited and demonstrably productive other WRs (e.g. Livingstone got limited looks at Georgia while Wingo was watching half of his targets go through his hands). Same with Worthy, only we had fewer options then. And we can't say it's because of Wingo's other attributes like blocking, because he is poor at that. No reason we couldn't run out Mosley, Moore, and Livingstone and if we need a 4th and 5th we have a deep bench. Sark's stubbornness hits again. Sarkenness.
  9. The opt outs and transfers if we are not in the CFP...will we have enough to play in a bowl game
  10. Seeing Kirby’s fat fucking grin again and again and again and again as he turbofucks Texas into eternity really sucks.
  11. I can’t take this pain anymore. See you in the next life.
  12. Aggies are locked for the playoffs. They don’t need the game against us so we ain’t spoiling shit
  13. Fuck Draymond, get shit on Bitch
  14. Jfc. Thank you I keep forgetting that is an option
  15. Is the game not on TV tonight? I don’t see it on FanDuel either
  16. I wonder how those advanced stats would shift if you took just the past 3-4 weeks and removed the stinkers earlier in the season when Arch was misfiring.
  17. Username checks out. Welcome to the fam.
  18. Minimum security is no picnic. The key here is kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch.
  19. I really like this Waters III guy
  20. God I love beating the Rockets! Also im fucked up on old fashioned #3, carry on! GSG!
  21. Beautiful. But is the logo not centered? I can't unsee that.
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