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Both things are entirely harmless, or at least, no more harmful than any other public address we've had. Ugh. That said, I agree with OGS here, that we do our own share of feeding here in the US. But it's nowhere near as bad as what you'll find in the Muslim world, especially in the far less educated and less technologically advanced parts.

Hmm... SMU struggles to win against a I-AA team, and thinks its an okay idea to celebrate the comeback win they probably weren't supposed to need. UNT goes to win against a team they're expected to lose by blowout to or win narrowly against. Then they win in what would've been a blowout save a penalty and classy playcalling to kneel the ball. Yeah, I think UNT has better odds.

DeLoach's defense, at its best, plays to disrupt the QB, clog up holes, and swarm to the ball. That's what I saw on Thursday. Page didn't have many opportunities to look any of his passes in, the run stopping was there when it needed to be, and we had a good number of near-INTs and blocked passes. I hope we see more of that ferocity of play next week because really, our defense looked like it'd gone insane on Ball State.

Watch out, this makes too much sense.

Went to Abbey Inn on the square. Not a huge crowd of fans (didn't expect it) but there was a good group there. Mind you, I was there more for the game and because Abbey Inn has some grade-A chow and a killer brew selection.

This is a great performance. I can't say enough how glad I am to see not only a win, but a complete win with a classy kneeling of the ball to make it look better. I haven't seen a win this good since the best parts of the Dickey era. Great job, Mean Green!

Yup. Don't wanna mess with it, especially as an athlete, and even more so as one with merchandising deals. Also, this'll probably be locked.

Guess that settles that, then.

Could they at least attempt to not drop the "North Texas" logo on top of Cam's field position? They're supposed to be professionals. How about they not make a high school computers class mistake like that and stop making our school look stupid? Okay, honesty-time. The stuff that our athletic department does, as far as design goes, looks piss-poor. Like, it's the kind of stuff that I'd get failed out of my design classes for doing. Part of being a big-time program is looking like it, and all this "LETS MAKE ALL OUR CRAP GLOW GREEN", bad and rather careless work like what's shown in that gameday image, the entirety of the website...it's all terrible. Here's a hint: the UNT athletic font isn't suitable for writing anything more than the school's name and nickname. Don't use it to write out detailed information. God, the stuff that the department puts out looks like something done for a high school, not a legitimate Div-I school. Everything, all of it. The commercials, the print work, the website, all of the promotional materials, it's all crap. I wouldn't advise a client to run crap like this much less want my loved alma mater to do so.

What the hell kind of wank-off question is that?

I wouldn't. That beer sucks. I'll just paint Franconia Green and Mackeson's XXX white and call it a day.

Love the new content and functionality. I'm very so/so on the look.

Only a few. Once you get to three dozen, then you might spend a day in jail. Not prison, just jail.

Item by item: .gif - Just don't use this filetype. Ever. It still works, but it's anything from optimal. While you can still get good color depth, it's not as deep as what you can get from a .jpg or .png. .jpg - These are pretty good. You can get incredible image quality at the right resolutions and still get good quality at lower ones. .png - These are great for the web. You can use them for print, but the great thing about png files is that they support transparency in just about every web browser without any additional code. That is, unless you use IE7 or IE6, and if you do, you need to get the hell off the internet or get a browser that works, like Firefox or Google Chrome. .eps - This is actually more effective for vector work than anything else. It will still handle raster-based images nicely, but it'll do it and take up a ton of memory. Use a .jpg when possible or a .tif if need be. .pdf - This isn't really an image filetype so much. You can still get good image quality out of this, but it's based upon two factors: the quality at which the images in the file are saved, and the quality at which the pdf was set. For example, I can set images in a pdf file at 300dpi, but when I'm sending a pdf out to proof or feedback, I'm going to set downscaling for images to 72dpi or so to make sure the filesize stays small. If you're going to use a pdf in another file (say a print collateral piece), you'll want that pdf to be set to high resolution otherwise it could muddy up when printed.

I'd kinda hoped it would stay gone, or at least without it becoming a pseudo-politics forum again.

I like how that sort of person takes credit for their team like they actually played the game. Ugh.

Actually, I'd say that as a whole, and taken at a glance, the Dickey era was one of the worst. I'm sure the real topper was the drop into IAA, though.

It's one of the things covered in the health care reform bill - educating people about better overall care for themselves and getting them into a doctor's office early, when the fix is only a few hundred and not when they have to go to the ER when the sickness or injury becomes life-threatening. I think there's more consideration for free clinics as well, as it's better to spend the money on free, preventative care as opposed to dealing with a massive hospital case that'll never be paid off by the patient. It's not the best solution (which is really impossible anyways) but it's better than nothing. It's also one of the programs that don't need to be cut. There are a myriad of other portions of the reform pack that need to be cut, though. Oh, EE: One of your sources is a post from a forum...which is from a post from another forum/non-news entity. Very trustworthy source. The other one basically says "this program is offered to a patient and is optional and not mandatory." Great work, kid.

This: And this: http://www.gomeangreen.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47767

The Tesla's more like a high-price prototype in my mind, but it does say "hey, electric cars aren't just limited to crap performance". And don't forget, your Camaro is an all-out muscle car that balances the poor combustion qualities of gasoline by simply burning a lot of it at one time. Mind you, I don't have a problem with Camaros, depending on the model year. Don't ask me what I think of most Mustangs, though. The Tesla is a start point for other car manufacturers - I think that it's motor/battery design is being used by other manufacturers since Tesla was partially government funded, if I remember right. Toyota's Prius is a dinosaur by comparison to the Tesla and the Dodge EV (which is strikingly similar to the Tesla), and the Volt is a good start for the general consumer's electric car. And yeah, the Tesla is out of my range. Funny enough, it does outperform its "cousin" in the Lotus Elise and Lotus Evora. As for electric cars, I think they're a stepping stone too. On the horizon is the Honda FCX Clarity, which is Hydrogen->Electric. The range is pretty good (288mi electric). On the really distant horizon is the CitroenGT, which is supposed to be powered by hydrogen cells that power it to something like 700HP or so. And to the point about government placement in it, I would say it depends on how the project is handled. If it's handled like the progression from the AR15 to the M16 (let's not chrome some of the valuable workings of a weapon that operates with direct impingement, yeah), it's going to be awful. If it's handled like the YF17/YF16 projects, then the results will be awesome. Really, the key point is that there's a good, healthy competition involved. If it's private companies that have huge disparities in funding and other resources, we're going to be stuck with one product that will probably be disappointing. If the resources are close, then the competition will probably be better and the results better as well.

I agree - I graduated just before the housing crash got really dangerous and start to ripple effect through economy with the credit crisis. There are fewer jobs out there, but there's an increase in hiring, even in Dallas. For those of us not tied to the area, it may be time to look outside of the state or at least DFW.

I'll say that the drills might be an eyesore, but that's as far as my objection goes. It's better that the gas be used when drilled instead of burned off like I've seen done in other places. I do agree though, I think that the Denton City Council has more than a few alumni from the State School. As for 288 - that thing was such a gaggleclusterhump. It took TxDOT to build the High-5 in less time than it took whomever was in charge of 288 9 years to fix it. That's like taking 6 months to build a Bugatti Veyron vs taking 3 years to make a Kia.

That pizza better be made by someone from the Food Network's TV lineup, in person.

Ethanol does in fact, suck. Even if it had an equivalent cost to produce as gasoline (say, when produced via switchgrass), it doesn't provide the same combustion characteristics, so your vehicle is basically carrying dead weight. I'm in favor of algae-based oils...that's basically what our oil is composed of anyways, we're just speeding up the process, producing it domestically, and doing it in a carbon-neutral fashion. I'm gonna bet it's going to be cheaper in the long run because there won't be long distance transport issues.

Fixed. The 0-60mph in 3.9sec, perfect torque curve, 244mi range, 248HP Tesla Roadster would like a word with you. And just for reference, the 2009 Nissan GT-R can go 0-60 in 3.9sec, and the 2010 Shelby GT500 takes 4.3sec to go 0-60. The engineering data from the Tesla will be adopted into more consumer-grade cars and made more affordable. The Tesla is really a great foundation for electric cars.