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computer parts posted:http://engineering.tamu.edu/25by25 This is gonna gently caress things up so badly that your degree will retroactively be worth less. Perry's gonna try to do something similar to UT once Powers is ousted
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Perry's gonna be long gone by the time Powers is ousted, if he even ends up leaving.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:21 |
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Yeah, what computer parts is talking about is part of A&M's implementation of the "reforms" Perry and co have been pushing, jacking up number of students served by a ton, quality of education (and giving the school enough money to maintain quality) be damned. A&M's administration was just more amenable than UT's. And don't worry Longhorns, the writing is on the wall for us to join our Aggie brothers on the path now that Powers is out. I'd love to go to Kyle Field someday, but the administrations of both schools have yet to fix The Worst Mistake Ever by not reinstating the Thanksgiving game.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:24 |
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zoux posted:Perry's gonna be long gone by the time Powers is ousted, if he even ends up leaving. Did you not see the discussion upthread? Powers is gone next June. e: Oops double post
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:25 |
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At least rich kids who become lawyers can start up some lovely firm, only to have it bought out and they just keep doing it until they become millionaires before they're 30.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:28 |
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Shear Modulus posted:Did you not see the discussion upthread? Powers is gone next June. There's a reason he wants to stick around past the next legislative session. Powers is the Legislature's guy, they have gone to bat for him multiple times. They impeached a regent basically for loving with Powers. Powers thinks that the Legislature is going to back him up hardcore and he'll get to hang around. Cigarroa and Perry will both be gone by next June, and the real behind-the-scenes reason for all this Powers foofaraw is that it's actually a dickwaving contest between two branches of state government. In fact, dudes being mean to Powers caused Dewhurst to cry on the dais during a brief impromptu speech defending him.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:28 |
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zoux posted:There's a reason he wants to stick around past the next legislative session. Powers is the Legislature's guy, they have gone to bat for him multiple times. They impeached a regent basically for loving with Powers. Powers thinks that the Legislature is going to back him up hardcore and he'll get to hang around. Cigarroa and Perry will both be gone by next June, and the real behind-the-scenes reason for all this Powers foofaraw is that it's actually a dickwaving contest between two branches of state government. Well, I'm unironically somewhat reassured by how confident you seem.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:38 |
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Also a big gently caress you to Time Warner for cutting off SA news to my town.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:42 |
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Nonsense posted:Also a big gently caress you to Time Warner for cutting off SA news to my town. Get another cable provider! You know how long it took TWC to carry the Longhorn Network in Austin? Like a year and a half.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:43 |
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zoux posted:Get another cable provider! To be fair it always seemed to me like the Longhorn Network was a dumb idea, but I didn't follow it that closely. Also Powers himself isn't the best guy in the world, mainly because of the Shared Services stuff he's been trying to push (http://kxan.com/2014/04/24/university-of-texas-shared-service-is-not-outsourcing/). I get why he's doing it, but it's hard to go along with cutting 500 jobs from UT, especially when the kind of people they're cutting were so helpful during my time at UT. But I'm happy to stand up for him against the Regents. Is there any news on the articles of impeachment for Hall?
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:52 |
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Badger of Basra posted:To be fair it always seemed to me like the Longhorn Network was a dumb idea, but I didn't follow it that closely. The House committee is going to have a meeting on August 5th where it is expected they will recommend impeachment.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:56 |
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Man, Democrats couldn't have picked a more boring candidate even if they tried. Wendy Davis is doing bad even among women. At this point, I think Leticia Van Der Putte would have been a better choice to run for Governor.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 21:11 |
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Every candidate, every governor's race has been described as "energizing the party, you gotta give credit to (him/her)!"
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 21:20 |
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Nonsense posted:Every candidate, every governor's race has been described as "energizing the party, you gotta give credit to (him/her)!" Yup, every four years like clockwork "Well, Chris Bell/Bill White/Wendy Davis might have lost, but s/he did better than anybody expected, and that gives the Democrats something to build on going forward!"
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 21:46 |
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Except that is not at all what is happening. If anything, I think people see the writing on the wall. This really isn't about Wendy Davis. It is about Battleground Texas at this point.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:09 |
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Wendy getting the nom was due to the fact that she was the only Texas Democrat that anybody could recognize.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:12 |
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at some Medicare fraud doctor running for senate, and he's not even liberal.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:13 |
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Nonsense posted:at some Medicare fraud doctor running for senate, and he's not even liberal. Did you ever get the email about how we shouldn't vote for Kesha Rogers? I thought it was pretty hilarious.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:19 |
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You shouldn't though, she's nuts.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:20 |
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zoux posted:Wendy getting the nom was due to the fact that she was the only Texas Democrat that anybody could recognize. I didn't recognize her. She can't even get her career history straight.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:26 |
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zoux posted:I went to an exceedingly expensive private liberal arts school and I wish I would've gone to UT instead
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:36 |
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zoux posted:I went to an exceedingly expensive private liberal arts school and I wish I would've gone to UT instead My grades were so bad coming out of High School I didn't even bother applying to UT, St. Edward's across the river accepted me though, and it was pretty great all things considered.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:45 |
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zoux posted:Wendy getting the nom was due to the fact that she was the only Texas Democrat that anybody could recognize. Also, because she was likely to lose an election in 2014 anyway, so why not take a shot at governor. In 2012, every seat in the state Senate was up for election due to the recent redistricting. However, the setup of the Senate is for staggered 4 year terms with half the body up for election every 2 years. With the redistricting, everyone faced re-election, and then at the start of the 2012 term, Senators drew lots to determine if they'd just been elected to a 2 or 4 year term. Davis drew a 2 year term, putting her back up for election in her redrawn district where she was supposed to lose in 2012, only now she'd be facing the midterm electorate. She was likely to lose her seat in 2014 anyway, so why not take a shot at the governor's race instead of losing her state senate race.
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Sardonik posted:My grades were so bad coming out of High School I didn't even bother applying to UT, St. Edward's across the river accepted me though, and it was pretty great all things considered. I got poo poo grades once in university and I transferred into UT with a 2.8.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:47 |
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I went to SU in Georgetown because my grades guaranteed me a scholarship and nobody told me about Williamson County! I'm from Bryan so I didn't want to go to A&M and my high school was loving huge and I wanted to go to a small school.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:48 |
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:I was salutatorian at my high school (public, semi-suburban, mostly Hispanic) and between merit and need-based aid it actually ended up much cheaper for me to go to a higher-ranked (although I suppose you really shouldn't put much weight on rankings ) private university in Massachusetts than UT-Austin. I didn't apply to Rice though, like everyone else I knew. Good god, the amount of behind-her-back complaining among my Asian peers when the black girl who was born in Saudi Arabia and ranked third got in and none of them didn't. Besides, they all wanted to be doctors anyway, so does it really matter which undergrad you go to? There's a certain type of person (and it's not just Asians) who are competitive for the sake of being competitive. I know a girl who got into Columbia University and is by all measures much happier in NYC than in Texas and she still freaked the gently caress out about not qualifying for automatic admission into UT Austin.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:51 |
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I'm not actually a real Texan since I was born in southern California and don't say "y'all" so you'll have to tell me, what's wrong with Southwestern/Williamson county? My high school had over 4000 people and it took me a while to realize this is considered huge Edit: ^ they're all at UT-Austin, St. Edwards, and St. Thomas (at least the people I'm thinking of) and their Facebook posts look happy. I just think they really wanted to go to Rice at the time; I'm Asian and my parents were bugging me to apply to Rice so idk, maybe it's a prestige thing Mecca-Benghazi fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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Sardonik posted:My grades were so bad coming out of High School I didn't even bother applying to UT, St. Edward's across the river accepted me though, and it was pretty great all things considered. You really didn't miss out on much. Depending on your degree and if you ever drank and spoke with any of the brothers.
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:I'm not actually a real Texan since I was born in southern California and don't say "y'all" so you'll have to tell me, what's wrong with Southwestern/Williamson county? Google "John Bradley DA". WillCo is as conservative and its police are as overzealous as Travis county is liberal and lax. And they hate college students.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:55 |
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There is a 3 way fight in Texas democratic politics: 1. The Texas Democratic Party 2. The Texas based campaign groups 3. The National campaign groups Untrained due to the decades of dominance the TDP machine isn't and in that vacuum the three groups bumble like Larry, Curly and Moe. They bicker among top-down and bottom-up strategies along with a varying focus on turning out Hispanics. However, until these power structures are actually aligned the party is treading water.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 23:34 |
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:I was salutatorian at my high school (public, semi-suburban, mostly Hispanic) and between merit and need-based aid it actually ended up much cheaper for me to go to a higher-ranked (although I suppose you really shouldn't put much weight on rankings ) private university in Massachusetts than UT-Austin. I didn't apply to Rice though, like everyone else I knew. Good god, the amount of behind-her-back complaining among my Asian peers when the black girl who was born in Saudi Arabia and ranked third got in and none of them didn't. Besides, they all wanted to be doctors anyway, so does it really matter which undergrad you go to? Was it the Princeton of New England?
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 01:54 |
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I dropped out of high school to pursue a career in punk rock (it didn't pan out lol) and ended up getting into both, but chose A&M because CoL was significantly cheaper in BCS, doubly so since my brother was already here and we shared a place. Admissions is weird sometimes. vv
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 02:14 |
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UT was the only place I applied since I was top 10% and didn't really care about going anywhere else. I think living in Austin cost more than the tuition.
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 02:18 |
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zoux posted:I went to an exceedingly expensive private liberal arts school and I wish I would've gone to UT instead Strange, I went to UT and wish I had gone to a tiny liberal arts school in Vermont or something.
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 02:32 |
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Saw the owner of madam mam's chase a guy down the street for not tipping.
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 02:32 |
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Lote posted:Was it the Princeton of New England?
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 02:59 |
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I saw that dude get hit by the bus during the stupid sword fight in the middle of guadalupe
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 03:00 |
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:I saw that dude get hit by the bus during the stupid sword fight in the middle of guadalupe huh?
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 03:01 |
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ReidRansom posted:huh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8oJDVfvTM he was somehow ok my favorite thing about this video is the shirtless fratboys
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8oJDVfvTM aaaahahaha yesssss
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