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  1. Any chance someone with a better grasp of this conflict add some color commentary to this. As an American, I'm not sure if there is a 'good guy' or 'bad guy' in this conflict. I get they really don't like each other going back a long time, and that one is predominantly Christian and the other predominately Muslim. I know Armenian is an allied with Russia and is part of CSTO, but supposedly the protests a few days ago were against the pro-Russians government? Azerbaijan has been supposedly leaning pro-western, and is not an ally of Iran. Talking-heads online describe the American-Armenian lobby as very strong? Is this right? why? I scanned the Wikipedia page for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and it feels like the same shit as the Balkans. System of a Down are Armenian, so that's cool, but so are the Kardashians, and that's very not cool.
  2. I flew to Vegas in July and that's about the outer edge of where I can handle discount airlines. For shorter flights, I'm more concerned with the flight times lining up for me. On the Vegas trip I ended up with Spirit going there and Frontier coming home... Both those airlines change an extra fee for a carry on, which when purchased ahead of time online, was an additional $57 for Spirit and $72 for Frontier....just for a standard overhead carry on. Anything longer than that and I really try and stay away from discount airlines.
  3. Seems like our win may not have been quite as impressive as everyone once thought. It only really matters if it goes to the CFP committee and they start looking at our quality wins... beating a 10-1 Bama looks way better then beating a 6-6 Bama. On the other hand, if we just run the table and win the Big-12 it doesn't matter.
  4. There are two type of guys here on Surly: The ones who would pull the pin and throw a sound grenade if they had one and liars
  5. I'm not saying you should use https://v2.sportsurge.net/home2/ but you should bookmark it.
  6. Real grass would look so much better at DKR. No more of those stupid rubber pellet clouds. Maybe I'm the only one who those bug.
  7. I'm pretty sure in this very thread there were discussions a year ago about Starlink not being enabled for all of Ukraine. My memory is old and is not as reliable as it once was, but I seem to recall Ukraine calling Elon out publicly to try and get Starlink enabled in new areas. I don't have the time or energy to dig through 273 pages, and the site's search feature isn't granular enough. Someone posted a Starlink connection log showing an outage during the drydock yesterday. If Starlink was ACTIVE and the turned OFF for the drone attack a year ago, can we get the same type log showing before and after? That would be a lot better than this "He turned it off" vs "It was never on" he-said / she-said crap. Either it was enabled before the drone attack or it wasn't . Some smart person should be able to conclusively show that.
  8. Honestly, until he started to talk, I really wasn't sure if it was Will or Chad.
  9. Not sure what makes you think that, because things are trending toward OSU/WSU being in charge of everything. Unless the Pac-12 lawyers pull some overlooked by-law or legal rabbit out of their hat, the arguments used to get the temporary restraining order are probably going to win the day. The by-laws are short and clear, and the Pac-12 just followed those by-laws and kicked CU off the board a month ago. At this point, with what we know, I'd expect OSU and WSU to be ruled to be the only valid members of the board. If/when that happens, they get to make the rules and they get to decide what happens to all the Pac-12 assets.
  10. Nothing on google... Dude, I don't think you get points in the death pool if you help things along.
  11. The OSU/WSU request for temporary restraining order is set for a hearing today. https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/news/uploads/sites/2797/Complaint1.pdf To my non-lawyer eyes, that seems pretty cut and dry, and seems like OSU/WSU should get the restraining order. But of course law is messy. Any thoughts from folks who know what they're talking about?
  12. I hate this shit, 1 win doesnt mean anything even against Bama, win a title then you can say we're back Are you watching the game? Texas is not getting some lucky bounces to be where they are, and it doesn't look like they are playing over their head. Texas looks big, fast, and is straight up beating Bama. Texas hasn't looked like this since Mack Brown.
  13. After the Georgia bowl game, I incorrectly thought Texas was back; I was wrong. Now, Texas is back. No more losing to Kansas. No more bad losses. The Big-12 needs to fear Texas again.
  14. I guess the refs haven't gotten that deep into the rule book yet.
  15. The Big-12 Cellar Dweller beat the Big-10 Cellar Dweller. Hurray? I guess?
  16. Oh, yeah, now that you explain it to me it seems clear. Sometimes I not English so good.
  17. What is CAA? The only CAA I find in a quick google is Coastal Athletic Association...That doesn't seem to be it. Did they mean NCAA? If so, does that rule apply to Texas?
  18. Saban is 25-2 against former assistants with an average margin of victory of almost 24 points. Bama 38 Texas 17
  19. Some people can make incredible music while under the influence (see Santana at Woodstock), and some people can't. There's no way that band could have normally been as bad as they were that night, so I assume they were on some bad trip. Anyway you cut it, they sounded like a novice high school garage band.
  20. I saw REM in 1989 and NRBQ, who had been around a while but whom I'd never heard of, opened for them. Far and away the worst opening act I've ever seen. I think it was the end of the tour, so maybe they were burnt out, or stoned, or drunk, or all of the above, but from a musical point of view, it was like they had never played together as a group before. Luckily, REM put on a good show and the bad taste from the opening act was long forgotten. Until now.
  21. While it's true that our game is a #4 vs #11 matchup, virtually everyone outside of Austin expects Bama to win it. The Neb v CU game, on the other hand, is much more interesting to speculate about.
  22. 0xdeadbeef

    Getting old sucks

    Damn you old age. Damn you to hell. I'm in my late 50s, and I work hard to stay in shape. I ran a challenging half marathon in July; I lift 3 times a week; I get on the road bike at least once a week. But what I don't normally do is sprint. I went to the park to help my son work on some football technique. Specifically route running and getting faster off the line of scrimmage. The third time I ran a slant I felt my hamstring tear. I lasted all of 3 plays before my leg blew up. I should have known better; and now it's hard to even walk. A typical movie trope is an evil-old person sucking the life-force from a young person; I now identify with the old people.
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