I pay $1500/month in insurance. If medicinal marijuana was legalized, I'd be able to be completely off of my medication, specifically my anti-brain seizure medication, the side-effects from which can go suck a bag of barbed dicks. I also wouldn't have to still see a doctor to adjust that medication, because my body constantly adjusts to it, and if I have a brain seizure I die. Something to think about before voting "no" on recreational or medicinal marijuana.
Never mind. This is what I get for listening to Crazy without checking it out. Everyone in this house had their auto insurance go up and he told me Crazy 2 called his insurance company and was told it was because the new rec dope law. A quick google search told me it's because the state raised our minimum coverage for whatever reason. Whatever. I'm still pissed off that I'm paying nearly $100 a month for liability only. 55 years old, no tickets, no accidents and I'm having to pay out these stupid rates because people in this town can't drive for shit.
I speak regularly with a local high school teacher here. He was telling me his school is turning into the Middle East. Threats, increased tensions and just overall deteriorating conditions. A few days ago we had a student shoot another student, off campus, minority students, so it barely got reported on. It's getting easier and easier to talk my wife into buying a boat and home schooling in the Bahamas. Which suits the shit out of me.
A fourth package bombing just happened in Austin. As a quick reference point, compare it to the UNABOMBER stuff. Box delivered unexpectedly to a house from an unknown sender. Victim openes it, bomb goes off.
One thing to remember about that video is he's using the proposal drawings from 3 years ago (along with everybody else). He does preface that they aren't the as-builts, and he doesn't know what the actual design calls for so bear that in mind. One thing he keeps talking about is the PT rod failure. The eng-tips guys do a really good job of looking at it. http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=436595 According to those proposal drawings the PT rods in the member (#11) that failed and lead to the collapse wasn't supposed to be tensioned once the bridge was placed on the pier. They're not really sure why the contractor was tensioning that rod, as that member is under a compression load, and by adding tension to that rod it's an additive force until the rod snapped and the bridge failed. It'll be interesting to see what the NTSB report says in a couple of months. From what I can tell is that the bridge was designed and built really close to the material design limits, and one or more failures in the structure pushed the materials too far and down it came. That and obvious miscommunication between the teams (engineering, construction, and management).
For sure... not trying to say, "case solved, pack it in and go home boys"... he just does an interesting "follow your nose" and see where it leads you and make some wild ass guesses based on what little information has come to light. I know it has introduced me to some basic concepts of bridge design that I had no clue existed, and part of the "fun" is in comparing the initial guesswork with the actual, legit post-mortem. More than anything, what information has come to light just shows how wrong almost all of the MSM reporting has been... most of them don't even realize it was a bridge that was still being constructed. One thing I enjoy about AVE is that he knows a lot, but he's also pretty quick to listen to where he's wrong and learn new things. he doesn't have an ego around that kind of stuff.
Interesting thread(s), for sure. The biggest takeaway I had was that it wasn't really a cable stay bridge... those cables were basically aesthetic, and not cables at all... but were hollow pipes. It will be interesting to see what the NTSB comes out with.
you have to multiply that by the number of outstanding shares. 1 share of facebook \= 1 share of apple.
So the 4th bomb in Austin that went off, was apparently triggered by a trip wire. By two dudes on bikes. Like they were just biking along and all the sudden the world exploded. Great, now we got exploding boxes and damn IEDs. People are crazy.
And, now my packages are going to be delayed. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...austin-explodes-at-fedex-hub-near-san-antonio Seriously, though, wtf. This seems more like a demented prankster than a manifesto guy.
This is getting kind of freaky. I have a lot of friends and coworkers out there. And I don’t even know if Houston is going to be next.
And smart. Not just some guy who looked up homemade bombs on youtube. Thus far he's hand-delivered some some bombs, we know of at least one that he tried to send via FedEx, and we know of at least one that was set off via trip wire. Dude is either bored as fuck all, or has some serious explosives training.