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Posts posted by Nice Guy Eddie
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19 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:
On the surface 15k vs 500k seems to make the Loughlin crime much worse, but to me cheating on the SAT is heinous than bribing whoever at a private university. That's ignoring the charity/tax angle though.
Agree with this. The SAT/ACT set themselves up as an objective method to measure knowledge. None of us would be naive to say that no one ever cheats on it, but this incident showed how someone could systemically cheat the system from arranging long test sessions all the way to someone else taking the test. If this system can be rigged, schools should make noise that they're going to stop accepting the scores. Â
Bribing individual schools or administrators is a crime as well, but I feel that is a one off problem.Â
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I've been reading some about how mobile payments in China has grown so that many don't carry wallets or cash or credit/debit cards. Effectively everything is transacted using their phone and a qr code from the vendor. Even street vendors , musicians and even beggars have qr codes so that small payments or tips can be handled with your app. The main app seems to be WeChat which sounds like a combo of text, social media and Venmo/Paypal.
From some quick google searches, I've seen ranges that China has perhaps as high as $40T annually being spent in mobile payments. US is lagging and perhaps not even reaching $1T annually.
I find that my friends in their 40s/50s as very wary of paying for things with their phone. There is a fear of tying an app to your bank acct. I understand that concern but I believe you're still protected from fraud or theft. And if necessary, open up multiple bank accounts to offset the risk. One acct for mobile payments with limited amounts, and another for larger payments like car or mortgage.
Personally I use the following mobile payments: Venmo with work colleagues (all younger), Starbucks app for coffee, and recently switched to Apple Wallet to withdraw cash from my Chase checking.
What else are people using?
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1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:
Just what sentient human doesn't understand that paying someone to take their kids ACT/ SATÂ is wrong, and more than likely illegal.
Were the Full House mom and her husband also accused of paying someone to take or change the SAT test? Or did they just indirectly bribe the school?
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I wonder if the odd nature of the current WH lends itself to change how the front-running opponent should operate?
Should Biden have a press secretary that has daily briefings on how they see current issues and how they differ from Trump? Basically run as a shadow WH.  If Biden can somehow get the national media or national attention on those briefings, it builds credibility and shows how you would lead. These press conferences would basically be the daily "top 10 Trump admin screwups."Â
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If they ask Texans whether they want Daylight or Standard year 'round, the average Texan will have no clue which is which. Probably a 50/50 chance someone will vote what they want. The ballot is going to have to spell out which one is summer and which one winter.
I see mistakes in business invites all the time. Today some very smart people discussed, over email, meeting times next week as CST when it should be CDT. no, I'm not that guy that calls them out about it.
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13 hours ago, 4th&Five said:
The first family pays for the food. That’s why he does it. He’s a cheap asshole.Â
Slight correction,  the first family reimburses the govt for the all food purchased for their use.  Do we really think trump’s accounts are up to date? Is the WH going to stop providing food to the first family because trump doesn’t pay?
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The $2m Warmbier payment has now fallen on Tillerson, and perhaps Trump ok'ed it as well. Seems like we need to get Tillerson in front of Congress to find out the whole story.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/politics/joseph-yun-warmbier-north-korea/index.html
I don't see Tillerson as the type to make this decision without his boss' approval.
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I thought the point of this thread was to avoid the nuttiness of the other one. Â
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18 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:
I must have missed the Hugh Grant interview.
And once again today, Howard put out the, “Don”t you have to fall in love with your co-star” line, this time to Charlize Theron.
She couldn’t have disagreed more vehemently.
Did he ask her how she remembered all of those lines?Â
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1 hour ago, Planet Houston said:
Have people just forgotten what happened in the midterm elections?Â
The results in the house elections nationwide, as well as results like the majority (albeit a tiny margin) of Tarrant fucking County voting for Beto tells me that Trump’s support has dwindled a lot.Â
While not a perfect barometer, I believe that if you took the 2018 House votes and transferred them to a vote for Trump vs a Dem, the Dem would have won the electoral college 296-242. Trump won in 2016 304-227. Â
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1 hour ago, YChang said:
Wow, not even a half hearted attempt to overcome that?
It's not like call center agents are true believers. They're either paid by the hour so they could care less, or they are paid by the donation. In either way, they learn to quickly move onto the next # to call.
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Tyrion is not a good war-time consigliere. More in times of peace.
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They both seemed very beaten up, but I don't think one of them would die offscreen.  However I don't have hope they both survive the last episodes.
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2 minutes ago, naija said:
but are we sure that is what the audience wants? the uncertainty of who lived vs died has always been one of the biggest draws of the show if not the biggest. sure, someone always got pissed because some character bought it, but  I don't think the "audience" suddenly started demanding everyone lived.
depends on what you mean by audience: fans of the books (10%) or the show (90%)
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You have to guess that the NRA doesn't want much of their internal workings being subjected to public scrutiny. As an example, apparently Oliver North was paid via an outside firm that billed the NRA for their services. Publicly it looks like North works for free as the NRA President while his real salary was indirectly coming from the NRA pocketbooks. You have to wonder how many other sweetheart deals are out there.
Many donors don't like it when they see their hard earned dollars going into the pockets of others. It can kill non-profiles or significantly hurt them. Wounded Warriors took a huge hit when it came out their leaders had excess spending on themselves and fired employees for speaking up about it. Wounded Warriors was smart to fire everyone involved. NRA donors want to see their money going to supporting the 2A or promoting safe gun usage. Not buying LaPierre a jet or mansion.
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1 minute ago, SimonBolivar said:
That was a lot of fun last night and some of the most heart pounding tv I've ever seen, but it still feels like Michael Bay taking over halfway through Schindler's List to me...oh what could have been fat man.
GRRM would have, and presumably will kill off more main characters in a battle like last night. D&D are more about giving the audience what they want: mainly the heroes surviving.
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21 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:
Yeah I'm having a very hard time believing that many old white people are going to flip, especially if Bernie or Warren gets the nomination.
This is how I see it too. I get that many Rs don't like Trump. They're disgusted by his behavior and they may even say and think today they won't vote for him. but when it's Biden/Warren/Harris/Bernie/Beto on the ballot representing the Godforsaken Socialists, they will hold their nose and vote Trump. Â
Biden probably represents the best hope the Dems want to convert or keep the old white seniors from voting Trump.
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44 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
I’m still trying to figure out the whole Bran angle and here’s my take:
According to the show the army of the dead were created by the Children of the Forest to fight off the men (the First Men and later the Andals) that were killing all the trees and children. Â
However, this act of desperation turned out to be the Children of the Forest creating Frankenstein’s monster because the dead would kill everything living.  The children, the men, and the trees were all enemies of the dead. Â
The men and children worked together to contain the dead by building the Wall but it didn’t last. Â
Bran represented the memory of men, the children, and the trees.  If he was destroyed, then darkness could not be stopped because history is what shapes Westerosi civilization.  All would be lost. Â
I hear ya but not a big fan of this explanation. It sets Bran up as an existential threat to the NK when a more better story is that Bran somehow (perhaps unknown to him) represented a physical threat. As in Bran somehow warging into all of the dead army at once. But the story/tv show doesn't go in that direction so we have to accept their reasoning.
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I'm sure there are dozens of small details that haven't been fully discussed but I found it interesting that the Starks were fully separated again during battle as if they always work better apart. The exception being Theon and Bran, but Theon isn't really a Stark and as Bran has told us, he isn't Bran Stark.
Other thoughts:
- Arya ended up being saved and surrounded by people that were on her list to kill. Hound, Beric, Red Woman
- I thought Arya had handled the valyrian dagger to Sansa but obviously it was a dragonglass dagger that we saw in the murder/suicide scene later
- speaking of which, that dagger has played a big part of this story
- Was Gendry shown often? Maybe he was and I thought he was Random soldier #4.
- While many characters have been redeemed, Davos was going to have none of that with Melisandre. She seemed to agree.
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Of all of the Bosch fighting or shooting scenes, the part that makes me the most anxious is when they show how his house is held up on the hillside with a few support beams. Â
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Brienne, jamie and pod were amazing short distance fighters for what looked to be hours.Â
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5 minutes ago, kevwun said:
There were 2 dragons in a shot in the preview for next week and a close up of a greenish dragon, so pretty sure Jon's is still alive. Darkness was to make it more ominous and to save money on special effects. They couldn't have done a fight like that in daylight.
Darkness also gave it a feel as the viewer was as blind as many of those fighting.
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8 minutes ago, XYZ said:
What they did last night is not in the same galaxy as Chris Webber calling timeout.
You’re right, from a game play perspective the Spurs were worse than Webber.  They just gave up a game, a series and an entire season by not performing basic basketball strategy. Aldridge and the other players on the court threw the season away for some unknown reason.
Obviously the national title game has more at stake than a round 1 series. However It doesn’t matter if a horrible sequence is during game 1 of the season or game 7 of the Finals, it deserves to get called out.
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I don’t believe it’s impossible the NK doesn’t participate in the winterfell battle but unlikely. Â
Mass College Admission Cheating Scandal
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As @JimmyHoffa says above I think Lori and husband just paid school thru the fixer. Others rigged the SAT/ACT in the following ways: