jerryskids

Mostly peaceful.

Thanks for the response. If I have time I'll look for my older posts, but it is an extension of what I said: by definition, introducing major new and untested processes into a system inherently introduces the opportunity for error. Theoretical best case is zero error, which is a unicorn for the changes of this magnitude. On a related note, it drives me nuts when people (on both sides it seems) equate "no cheating" or "accurate" with the counting of votes. In the year of our lord 2020 I'm confident in their ability to count votes, within a small margin of error. The opportunity for cheating introduced by shotgun blasting ballots out is in the veracity of the ballots coming back in, not the count. Regarding Willis, since I don't have her direct number, I'll stick with discussing it on this low-rent FF message board. I will say that she seems smart and has set this case up for victory. Those are good qualities in a DA, but a DA should also have a sense of doing the right thing. While charging Trump under RICO may be legal, I do not feel it is the right thing. Finally, since you and I don't have history, I will say that I'm a conservative who is not a Trump fan and wishes he would go away for, well, practically any other candidate, who would likely easily beat Joe Biden. Biden is clearly in cognitive decline and running him for POTUS again is a disservice to him as a human and us as a country. But we seem destined for this "truth is stranger than fiction" election at this point.

Link? I'd like to read it.

I'm sure the unbiased, centrist MSM will be all over this.

Impressive how you packed so much wrong into a single post.

I hack at guitar, mostly acoustic/chords, but I've played music my entire life so I understand stuff like chord progressions. One thing I wish I did differently was for bar chords, when I started I was lazy and used my pinky instead of my ring finger, I presume because it bent easier. But that limits your ability to hit transition notes or change up the chord with the (should be free) pinky. I don't play as much now, and when I do I just revert to the lazy pinky method.

I am a person of convenience. In fact, that may be my epitaph. When I moved to Phoenix I started on a rotation program that took me to three different facilities in the area - I triangulated the center and looked there for an apartment. When my then girlfriend (now wife) was looking to buy a house, she found the same model as she liked for like $10K less, but it was 30 minutes away. I basically told her she wouldn't see me very much if she chose the far away one. When I started traveling for my job, we moved to a place that is 15 minutes from the airport, even in rush hour. When I park at a sporting event, I don't care how far I need to walk, my only concern is how easy/quick is it to get out and get past traffic. Also I mostly telecommuted since about 2000, when I wasn't traveling to/visiting customers of course.

The problem with contracting for her is that she is the daughter with Type 1 diabetes, so (good) medical benefits are very important for her. She is on our medical for now but obviously that isn't forever. That being said, her job is in the technical design side of fashion, specifically 3D patternmaking. This is the way the industry is heading, and as she says, the older less techie folks can't do it. Once she establishes herself, if she wanted, I'm confident she could put up her own shingle and contract out, working remotely and living wherever she wants. Also that same SW/skill set is used in furniture design and other areas. I imagine the medical benefits could be worked out, but for now it is an unknown because I haven't researched the options. It will be good for her to have options, in case she finds that she hates living in Manhattan.

I had the same initial reaction, although being retired I won't personally benefit from it. My kids would, and maybe my wife. That being said, this girl needs to learn to take ownership of her situation. She needs to look for a new place or a new job; crying about it isn't going to fix it. I compare this girl to my daughter, who just graduated and moved to NYC to start her fashion career. She lined up a roommate before she went and they found a rent controlled place in Manhattan (Washington Heights at the northern tip, but still on the island). If she hadn't been able to do that, she wouldn't have gone. She then found a job in the fashion district which is a 30-40 minute commute on a single train. To your latter point, she was hired as a contractor which seems common in that industry. Apparently a lot of the creative types don't end up being good workers, so companies do the contract thing before offering employment. My daughter is an excellent worker and I'm confident she'll get an employment offer.

Can you expand on Meadows's expertise to determine the 2020 election was the most secure in American history? Since you bolded it and all. You weren't here, but in the past, as a systems engineer, I've shown that introducing an untested mail-in process in a bunch of states is the opposite of "most secure." But perhaps Meadows has more systems experience than I do. Calling the Georgia case a RICO case is a joke, especially since the Biden crime family with the Big Guy at top is the epitome of a RICO case, yet our impartial federal justice system refuses to call it so. And I'm not a Trump fan, I wish he'd go away.

Yeah, the Rangers are the little engine who can, with the help of that $200M payroll. Maybe you can spend another $100M on your bullpen next year and be even more of an underdog.

She is beginning to realize that she needs an alpha male to take care of her. For such a guy she would do anything. And I mean anything.

Wood. She has big pretty eyes, plus she is an emotional wreck so probably easy to get into the sack.

Interesting, as we did get bused to schools through the program. I wonder if any of them were short buses?

That's not what he said. He said states have the right to. Hopefully you can see the difference, but I'm not very confident.

Lots of people have not wanted omnibus spending but it never happens, I guess we'll see how it goes. My prediction is that if they stick with that, nothing goes through, Republicans look bad in the process, and Gaetz gets his "the establishment!" mileage that I personally believe is his end goal. Thanks on the vacations.

I hope it is a win for conservatism, but we'll see. I think MAGA folks have a misguided idea of what authoritarian power a Republican speaker can wield with a narrow house majority, and Dem control of the Senate and Executive branch. His primary role in such a situation is to get unity among the house republicans to overcome guaranteed unity among house democrats, and to use that unity to negotiate acceptable small advances which can get through the Senate and POTUS. McCarthy seemed pretty well suited for that role, except for the handful of petulant children like Gaetz. Now we'll see what the petulant children can accomplish. I don't hold out much hope, because people like Gaetz don't want to actually accomplish anything, they want publicity for their future political ambitions, and screaming "oh noes the establishments$#@!" gets a lot more traction than accomplishing things.

I'm a little older than that - my HS junior year was 1984 and the first time I used a computer (and the first time my school HAD computers). The gifted program was an experiment, where "smart" kids were identified in kindergarten and kept in an isolated group for years. I'd say in general it was a failure on multiple fronts. One, I disagree with the isolation of kids like that. Two, by my senior year, I was the only kid in the group who was still at/near the top of the class. Most of the others were on a college prep course, but they weren't special intellectual talents. So they didn't do a very good job at identification. Now that I think of it though, perhaps a lot of the kids chose not to pursue intellectual excellence, preferring to seem more "normal" socially, because of the problems associated with being isolated when they were younger.

One of the fun things about the DBacks is that they have earned the nickname "Answer Backs." Their ability to come back from deficits has been uncanny, and has been on display throughout the playoffs. Even yesterday they turned a 2-1 deficit into a 4-2 victory.

Yeah, folks are billing it as a chance to beat Dallas. Cowboys still have a huge fanbase here, and Suns inexplicably lost to the Mavs a few years back (and Luca is a whiny biotch), so there is something of a Dallas hatred. Nothing like the LA hatred though, and the DBacks already took care of them.

A little bit, but nothing too bad. I was in a gifted program in grade school, and we were isolated from our classmates until 5th grade, when they started integrating us back in. You can imagine that around that middle school age, a group of nerds is fresh meat for the general populace. I wasn't big but I was average sized and a pretty good athlete so I didn't have it too bad, but this dweeb Drew from our class got picked on, and I let my displeasure known by throwing the bully into a tree. Ends up he had some friends and older brothers who wanted to defend him, and over the next few years I had a few run-ins with that pack. Nothing too bad or violent, and because I was an athlete I was on sports teams with some of them, so it was somewhat half-hearted, and I was able to defend myself. I'm pals with them now, on FB and on when I've returned for HS reunions. Actually now that I think about it, I've been trolling my old friends from HS about the DBacks beating the Phillies (I'm from northeast PA) so some of them might want a piece of me next time they see me.

You want to root for the rich elite like any good Leftie? ETA: I get it, it is a dig on me.

I'm suspicious of Trump being +4 in AZ. We have moved increasingly blue in the past few elections, and 2022 was a blood bath for Trump supporters (Lake lost to a box of rocks, Masters got destroyed). I guess it's possible that some combination of time away from Roe v Wade being overturned, Biden being clearly cognitively impaired, and the general bad state of the economy and world in general, could bump Trump a few points. Guess we'll see.

Cmon man... if you need to pick a team, go with the DBacks who built largely through their system and strategic smaller acquisitions. Their largest salary by 2X, Mad Bum, was released early in the season. Marte has the highest salary on the team at $11M this year.

Wow, are you some sorta Rainman gambling savant?