u/dougmc

Even somehow getting to a repair station wouldn't fix this -- it fixes your hull, but not your systems.

(That said, your hull could certainly benefit from some fixing too, but it's not the biggest problem at the moment.)

This run is done, unless you have a repair bomb hiding in the hold.

A claim like this should include a news article.

So ... here you go.

No -- wasn't my department, I just saw the discussion in the team chat, where people were posting pictures of pallets in their driveway with one small box on them.

My laptop came sans pallet -- I was almost disappointed.

It's clearly Trogdor, off to burninate the peasants!

At a previous employer, everybody was to get new laptops because the old laptops didn't have fingerprint readers (which we never did ever actually use, I might add), and a pallet of laptops arrived at the main office ... fine.

But then the remote workers started reporting having a pallet left in front of their house with one laptop box on it, just lying in their driveway or front yard. Many such cases.

Huh.

A few people were kind of excited about some free wood, but mostly they were just wondering "what am I going to do with this?"

And then a few days later, a different company showed up at all those houses and was demanding their pallets back. Not all were still available.

It is unconstitutional

I don't believe this to be true. In fact, I don't even think there's a law against it.

There is 31 U.S. Code § 5114 - Engraving and printing currency and security documents --

Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities.

... but that only covers portraits, not signatures. (And if it did cover signatures, the current (and hopefully alive at the time of issuance) US Treasurer couldn't have their signature there either.)

All that said, yes, it certainly looks bad, and no sane president would want to do this.

Again, you asked the wrong person.

I made no judgement of UT in my comments, I just pointed out that this is a likely outcome.

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And now that you've blocked me, I'll add my response here:

There are two options here:

1. UT sells the property (or some of it) in the next few years
2. UT does not sell the property
   

For #1, any buyer is almost guaranteed to buy the property with the intent of turning a profit, and even if it's turned into a big apartment building, that's still a commercial property.

If it's #2, then I'm wrong, but given all the problems Dobie has always had and how hard it would be to fix it up and convert into classrooms or administrative space, #1 seems more likely. This is indeed speculation, but it's not wild speculation. Now, UT might demolish it itself -- that's certainly a possibility, but I suspect UT would rather let somebody else do it.

Perhaps you should ask the person who said that why they said it rather than me?

I'm just saying that "repurposed into a commercial building for more profit" is a very likely outcome of this. UT wouldn't be doing the repurposing or profiting itself, but nobody said they would be.

Again, anybody who buys real-estate from UT is likely to do so with the goal of "making more profit".

The only exceptions are going to be other government agencies, charities, etc.

You're assuming that "for more profit" means that it's UT that has to profit -- it does not.

Given all the issues that Dobie has, I don't expect UT to actually fix them, but this move certainly suggests that something is about to happen -- and the most likely plan here seems to be to sell it to a developer, and whatever the developer plans to do with it (be it fix it, demolish it, etc.) -- it's going to be about profit.

In any event, the UT system sells real estate all the time -- needs change, decisions get revisited, etc.

The UT system isn't supposed to be buying and selling real-estate with the purpose of making a profit, but any buyers they find probably will be.

It may not be finalized, but "repurposed into a commercial building for more profit" is pretty much what always happens, so it's a solid bet this time too.

Yes, and more to what the OP is seeking:

A lot (most?) of what the YBP needs is people to fix bikes, which is somewhat technical/problem solving -- and yet is quite accessible, and they will teach you.

/r/theyknew

(The article authors knew what they were doing when they made that title.)

He can.

He just chooses to lie instead ... which should be worse.

harness the power of super artificial intelligence ...

So, she wants to embrace the new mandated name, but isn't ready to fully commit ...

Of course it is: Texas is inclusive for all the religions: Baptists, Protestants, Lutherans, Methodists, Judaism, Mormonism, etc.

They'll even tolerate the Catholics ... to a degree, anyways!

/s

(Or, put another way: "We've got both kinds of music here -- Country AND Western!")

If the government is claiming sovereign immunity then that's likely to be the first issue to overcome.

And based on what I can find online, like this,, it sounds like the government has been claiming soverign immunity but the courts have accepted that claim for part of the issue and rejected it for another part.

So it seems that they've moved on nd now they are indeed arguing about the value, though I don't think the usual "You can just get another one at the pet store for $200, so it's worth $200" argument is quite as persuasive as it would be for a typical pet. (For a beloved pet, that's exactly how the courts generally value it, though I'm not sure if this is the case in all states.)

They do have a few dozen "ready to go" bikes at any given time. They'll be used bikes, but they've been tuned up and cleaned up and tested by the staff.

It's not guaranteed that they'll have something that's right for you, but the odds are good and the prices generally are too.

They're open for sales Wednesday through Saturday, 12-6.

No, those labels assigned to people definitely can change.

For example, even Musk became "bad" to them for a while those two were feuding. They made up and Musk came back into grace, but there was definitely a period where he was "bad".

Hell, even Epstein was "good" until they decided it was time to discard him -- and then he wasn't.

Considering the implications of this comment was a hell of a way to start my morning ... thanks for that!

There are no songs with lyrics f—k the fire department.

Well, there is one.

Novelty songs aside, there are a few cases where people are definitely going "fuck the fire department", for example, but it's definitely not like it is with the police -- 99+% of the time, the fire department is a force for good.

M*A*S*H theme intensifies!

(Joke aside, I do have to point out the flaw in my joke: the Huey hadn't even been invented yet, and the helicopter seen in MASH is a Bell 47D-1, but the sound isn't that far off, so ... close enough.)

Well, if Hinojosa did win, she'd have line item veto power over any such legislation -- though if they made it random (especially if it was randomized by the machine itself rather than globally), she might not veto it.

... because it should be random. Having one party be first probably gives them a small but significant edge, never mind any additional issues with touchscreen calibration or viewing angles. The Republicans generally won't give up such advantages, but the Democrats might.

Alas, this is a "when they go low, we go high" thing (which is very much a mixed bag), but it is what it is.

Personally, I'd call that less an "ulterior motive" (though there might still be one) and instead call it a "rigged contest" -- rigged so nobody can win.

Clearly, they don't trust things enough to avoid the proxy (which filters out larger exploit attempts) and have actual php code to execute, so they're not really proving anything here.

You know, if somebody had sufficient access to the voting machine to compromise them in such a way that it would switch votes in front of you, keep in mind that it would be so much more effective to just let you think you voted D but instead silently change the vote to R and never tell you.

Now, in Texas the paper ballot has your votes recorded in textual and machine-readable formats, and it could make the textual format say D and the barcode format say R -- but that should show up in a properly conducted audit -- so it would be far better to just make both say R and assume that the voter will never even check and complain.

All the problems they're reporting could be attributed to mundane touchscreen calibration problems. Do Texas voting machines randomize the order of the candidates? If so, touchscreen problems should generally even out, but if not it could be a significant bias towards one party or the other.

(All that said, if touchscreen issues are more likely to push votes towards one specific direction, I could totally see the party in power making sure their candidates are always in that direction. Or, more fairly, make sure the order is always randomized.)

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Nope, not randomized, not unless it's a recent change.

I imagine that somebody has carefully studied this issue, looked at typical voting machines, looked at the instructions for their installation and how they're actually installed in practice (in particular, at the angle of the screen to the average user and how (if?) they're calibrated) and worked out the effects of calibration issues on actual voting, and abusing such knowledge and maybe adjusting the instructions to take advantage of it could probably result in a small but non-negligible (think like 0.1%) difference in the results. (Note that this is just a possibility -- if somebody did try to take advantage of this, we'd never be able to prove or disprove it.)