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  1. 6 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    The people that feel safe and don’t mind at all being potential superspreaders are beginning to piss me off. 
    Is a little common sense and respect for fellow humans too much to ask?

    I'm definitely a superspreader.  When I'm sick, I pop and advil and head out to work or whatever....  Exposure to my wife for extended periods is fatal.

  2. 1 hour ago, Somnio said:

    I mean it certainly appears to be the case.  It is shocking to realize. 

    Even if you believe in small, limited government I would think coordinating a plan to deal with a global pandemic would fall under the federal government's duties.

    It used to be the Churches in coordination with Christian doctors.  Hence the names.... Presby, St. Enter name here, Baylor Scott....., Methodist...  FDR took over in the 30's.  This is when hospitals got expensive.  Used to be charity work.  In other words, free.  Well, medicaid is still technically free, the people just don't pay.

  3. 11 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    People blowing this off now, trying to downplay it, are going to be doing so when it hits 10,000 a day, and starts impacting their lives directly.  

    Yep, but there is NOTHING that can be done at this point.  Our society is too open and our government is a cluster fuck.  It's every person for him/herself.  Time to carry on as usual but make sure to not miss any interest payments, tax payments, jury duty, traffic fines, permit fees, toll fees/fines etc.... or you will be punished without mercy.  The punishment/enforcement wing of our government runs like a well oiled/timed 67 Chevy.

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  4. Our government is utterly incompetent.  I am sure there are legal and hiring laws that must be satisfied before the new test kit assemblers can go live.  At this point it would be best to act like none of this is happening because the panic and .gov incompetence is going to be 100x worse than this just being a bad flu season that dragged on til summer.  I fear the panic and gov incompetence more than the virus.

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  5. 8 minutes ago, NoctambulantBrobdingnagian said:

    The big12 is the one in a position of power.  Why would they give that up and join a sinking conference.  This makes absolutely no since.  why throw a lifeline to bottom dwellers in another conference?  The big12's 1st&2nd tier rights makes 8 million more per school compared to the pac12's 1st&2nd&3rd tier.  This is freaking laughable.  Again, why would anyone in the big12 do this?

    If any of these schools are brought on board, we need to be dictating the terms.....  Fuck Stanford and all their arrogance.  Who's laughing now?

     

    For the record, I think we would be better off as daddy of an sec west and bama as daddy of an sec east.  It would be fun pimping our old whores.

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  6. 19 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    Disagree.  You have 4 top ten markets between Texas and California.  Add Phoenix, Denver, Seattle, etc.  Both leagues suck now, but if they win, things could change.

    I have doubts...  I don't think this is cyclical anymore.  It's financial.

  7. 1 hour ago, ButtFumble said:

    the only way that will matter (to the Big 12, PAC 12 or any combo/alliance of the two) is if there is some type of revenue sharing based on subscriber numbers.....I don't think Disney/ESPN will go for that, but who knows

    the other way that some alliance/combo or just scheduling agreement will make a difference for the Big 12 (and probably more so the lesser earning PAC 12) is if some company that is not ESPN and probably not Fox decides they want to go hard core into college sports and they are excited by the prospect of a conference or a pair of conferences that offer coast to coast programming and the ability to fill most of a network most of the year

    right now ESPN probably has enough content to put 4 football games a day in 5+ networks that would be football from 10am Eastern to 2am Eastern or 7am Pacific to 11pm Pacific and again probably on 5+ networks

    Fox probably has enough for 3 games a day on 2 networks if not a bit more plus both have other content like Baseball, NFL, Swamp Buggy Racing and other shit they want to show

    it just makes no sense at this point that they could offer meaningful money to buy more content to place on networks to compete with their own content and networks

    the end result is that CBS or NBC or someone else (Sinclair) decides they want to get back into college sports and they see a package of programming that offers some coast to coast viewership

    at this point I am not sure any of that is going to happen CBS and NBC are run like shit (compared to media companies that are all run like shit so that means really shitty) and Sinclair seems to have no clue why they massively over paid for a bunch of regional stations with "who knows" content plus Sinclair does not have full national coverage over the air and probably does not have the content leverage to force themselves on the lower levels of cable/sat and who knows if they can get streaming set up (though plenty of readily available partners are out there that could do it in a few months, but media companies seem to be ignorant of this fact)

    so unless Sinclair can find a way to partner with other station owners in markets they are not over the air and get their package of product in the over the air channels for the top level content they are probably not a bidder and lack the leverage to force cable carriage (mandatory carriage of over the air channels and all of that)

    and CBS and NBC seem firmly stuck at being shitty especially in sports

    plus can the Big 12 afford to piss off Fox and ESPN while they wait to see if the PAC 12 (that has their full content available a year earlier) can work a deal or get their heads out of their ass and come together with the Big 12 to make something happen

    ESPN (and probably Fox) if they want the Big 12 content will almost surely be pushing for negotiations with the Big 12 at the same time as the PAC 12 even with the year difference and there is a chance they will try and play them off against each other just like last time.....I suppose the Big 10 being a year earlier than that will give a clue as to who might  be bidding and if the numbers just go up and up or if there is only ESPN and Fox again and the numbers stagnate....or do the numbers go up and ESPN and Fox then say "have all we need" and that is that

    I suppose how the SEC SEC SEC game of the week and CCG that is up the same time as the PAC 12 will give another hint....is ESPN all in as the SEC SEC SEC/ACc Acc acc network and a little bit of Big 10 or are they still in for the PAC 12 and then Big 12

    if they are in big for the SEC SEC SEC game of the week and CCG and they tell the PAC 12 "so sorry here is chump change" well the Big 12 better be ready to move as far as adding members or forming an ADVANTAGEOUS (for the Big 12) agreement with the PAC 12 (that will be in panic) and the Big 12 better be ready to stand firm to ESPN as well otherwise standing up with some or all of the PAC 12 and then having no fall back plan means low money and being fucked

    that probably includes UT playing hard ball with the LHN and accepting a high (though probably not full) buyout under the allowed current contract and tossing their content all in with the new deal.....or I suppose Ut could ride it out and make sure the new deal includes additional compensation (most likely for all) when that content comes available

    Fox and ESPN will go all in on the East Coast league.  Big 12 and Pac are going to be left out in the cold.  The best of these leagues need to be moving now.  Let's hope Bowlsby and CDC are not currently sitting on their hands.

  8. 18 minutes ago, ButtFumble said:

     

    I have said it before the Big 12 needs to go to 7 conference games with 2 divisions of 5.

    Texas, Tech, Baylor, ISU, WVU

    OU, OkState, TCU, KSU, KU

    Each team plays everyone in their division then you have a fixed cross over game (the teams above and below each other in the pairings) and then play two other teams from each division home and home then swap. The above alignment preserves pretty much all the major rivalries in the conference and it is a very balanced conference in terms of division strength very a long period of time.

    I had said in the past the Big 12 could SCHEDULE agree with BYU (no money no membership NOTHING) to play half the conference home and home every two years. But in this case with the PAC 12 the Big 12 could have a scheduling agreement for the 8th game with 10 of the 12 PAC 12 teams and from there find 4 other OOC games. The PAC 12 could go to 8 conference games, have the OOC with the Big 12 and then 3 other conference games. It has been proven with maths that 9 conference games fucks the PAC 12 in a meaningful way and the same is true for the Big 12 and probably to a larger degree with the Big 12 because of fewer teams and the idiotic full round robin. Playing fewer conference games is how you gain overall conference strength and playing more conference games is how you eat yourself to shit and become non-competitive. The Big 12 with 7 conference games and an 8 game annually with a PAC 12 school could easily still fill 4 OOC games and it gives the members of the conference the ability to schedule for NEEDS be it the need to try and make the playoffs or the need for wins until the program improves and they can dream about a playoff bid.

     

    it will be hard at this point

    ESPN placed a value of the current PAC12n at zero dollars and zero cents. They offered the PAC 12 NOTHING to take over the network and then try and cram it with all their other shit and share some profits after expenses and the PAC 12 said no. The PAC 12 probably could have done slightly better with that model because ESPN surely would have slashed expenses and cut most of the staff and overhead, but ESPN would be wanting to take most of the profit for doing that and supplying their own existing infrastructure. The main issue for ESPN with this is the PAC 12 has fucked up and already PROVEN that no one wants their third tier content. People try and say "well it doesn't get carriage" which is true, but when the PAC 12 implored people to call their cable MSOs and demand the network I think 4 people called their cable MSO and demanded to get the network and 4,000 called their cable MSO and thanked them for not cramming that shit on their bill and told them to stick to their guns. So as of now it is a risk for ESPN to try and take that shit over and cram it because it is the first time that we have absolute proof that subscribers just do not want that shit. While I have said at some point cable MSOs will push back (technically they did with the PAC12n, but only to the PAC 12) now that they are starring Disney+ in the face they realize that Disney finally has gotten their shit together for the end around to traditional cable. So at some point traditional cable has to push back on cramming of shit channels to get the few that people want and that has happened a little both with the Big 10 network that was downgraded off of lower cable tiers in many areas and taken off of "in market rates" in others. We will have to see how the ACCn performs as well (it is said to have more subs at this point than the SEC SEC SEC network), but that was the starting one and the real push will be what you can get the full numbers up to not some meaningless metric of comparison to the first of it's kind.

    Then some will say "well the PAC 12 can just bundle that content and sell it like normal next time since they own it all". Yes, but it has already been proven by the MARKET to not be worth shit. A shit sandwich is a shit sandwich no matter the name. More importantly back to the cable network model the whole reason the SEC SEC SEC network and the ACC network exist is so that ESPN can take all of the content that they HAVE WAY WAY WAY too much of and are obligated to carry and instead of finding a place for it on their current networks they can offer a "profit sharing model" AFTER EXPENSES to conferences. So from the stand point of ESPN as long as they make a dollar a year off of the ACCn or SEC SEC SEC network they are money ahead because they have covered 100% of the cost of carrying content they are obligated to show and they have moved that content off of their main channels (where they do not pass expenses on to any partnership) and they have freed that space up on those main networks for more profitable content. So with the PAC 12 3rd tier content it is worth less than nothing to ESPN unless they can get it into a "conference network" sharing arrangement that covers 100% of the cost of showing that content before any profits are given to the conference. And that gets us back to the above where the PAC 12 made the massive mistake of taking their content to market and letting the market tell them their content was worth nothing to anyone.  And that means there is a risk of that network not covering expenses (even lower ones with ESPN) and making a profit. Now to be realistic the network does cover their cost even with larry BiG SpEnDa scott running the show and spending dolla dolla bills all over the place. So ESPN could make "a profit", but equally what I said about ESPN needing to make a dollar a year to be better off with conference networks and moving that content they are OBLIGATED to carry over tot hose conference networks is of course exaggerated as well. They really need to make some good money to make it worth the long term effort, but in the case of those networks and that content they were already dumb enough to bid on it and agree to carry it and show it (somewhere) so making the conference networks was a way to correct a mistake when ESPN was in the "just buy all the content you can who cares if we have nowhere to show it" mode. Those days are over just like the days of easily cramming conference networks are over so that means the PAC 12 3rd tier is worth next to nothing to pretty much everyone.

     

    periods and capital letters and commas and shit for you Imisswallypryor

     

    Yep, no one cares about any school's olympic sport prowess.  It's all about football and to a much lesser extent basketball.  There are a few decent PAC football programs but the majority need to give up sport all together.  Go east Texas to the land of bag men and hotties.

  9. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    Ha. The jokes on you, sir. I've been prepping for this moment for most of my adult life. I have a bunch of little kids, so I'm pretty, prettay sure that I'm immune. Beyond that, one of my brothers is a doctor and has already loaded me up on various needs for when the apocalypse comes. Beyond beyond that, as a Surly 1%er, naturally I own a medical treatment company and we stocked all the way the fuck up on zinc, vitamin c, a bunch of other medical shit, and 3 months of inventory worth of lactated ringers. The hype around this thing is going to be a boon. Also also also, we've immediately started ratcheting up pricing in order to profiteer all over the face of this thing. You're welcome.

    So no, I won't be running to the ER for a swab. I'm going to be packing my little petri dishes masked as children into as many airports, planes, and crowded places as I can for the next 3 months, hoping that we get lucky and they brush-up next to you and sneeze all over the fucking place. I bet you have multiple doctors on speed dial that you pester daily, so it shouldn't be anything new, I guess. 

    Nice, need investors?

  10. 34 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Gosh damn do I enjoy your posts. Where have you been? Listen, when you’re not running amok on this thread with one batshit crazy take after another, it limits the contagion that some of these other Kevin Trudeau-fellating goobers can drum up. So, glad you’re back. Now let’s really dig in here as we conjure ways in which at least 100 million people are about to die. 

     

    Maybe you and your cocksucking hero deniro can catch it and give us a reference but I have a feeling you'll be running to the ER for a swab.

  11. Isn't there constantly some sort of construction going in that area?  What a bunch of sissies.  Some dude was prolly using a nail gun.  Not that some snowflakes have ever been around a nail gun but still no excuse.

  12. 2 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    for people just scanning the thread who went tl/dr on this post:

    This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average - everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.

    Yep, been practicing the art of non booger picking.  Get some saline solution or better yet, wash hands often as well as face with hot water and blow nose at this time to clear any unwanted boogers.  Stay hydrated.  Think Tom Herman nervously drinking water while fielding softball questions.

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  13. No way to stop this now.  This has to be the perfect plan by goverments/tptb to rid themselves of the burden of older people on the government tit.  I firmly point my finger at the Chi Coms.  They are going to get reamed after all this makes it's way through the population.  Now is the time to stay calm, continue with our responsibilities, know how to reduce the risks of getting infected, have the correct supplies in case we or family get infected, and educate older individuals who are family/friends.  I wouldn't count on the government or hospitals for help.

  14. 13 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Cold past couple days here in SA. But I noticed that it’s supposed to be in the 70s all next week. My lifetime of experience in south texas tells me we shouldn’t see a day with a high lower than 65 degrees here until November. Obviously nothing will stop the spread or eradicate this virus, but the heat should slow it down just a little, which will help the hospitals. 
     

    I’ve always said I’ll never understand why people voluntarily live in cold climates. Sunny as fuck with 100 degree temps doesn’t sound too bad anymore, does it?

    I hear ya.  I've got some scarred ass skin from my days as a youth working in the Texas sun.  If the heat slows it down, good.  I never thought I would be welcoming a Texas summer, unless I were in a classroom dreaming about girls and beer at the lake.

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