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Dbeasy

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  1. The long debate in this thread on streaming issues is not surprising to me. I have some investments in steaming and it is the Wild West. At home, I have Apple+, Roku, Netflix, Netflix DVDs, Disney, Max, Prime, multiple smart TV’s, Fire sticks, a Fire TV, Google sticks, and U-Verse. The entire landscape is going to blow up soon because live sports is at the heart of the value equation. Every streaming service will angle for live sports deals, just like networks did for many years. That means the Apple offer is just the beginning. Prime and others are next. Expect steaming to win a lot of these deals. As far as the technology goes, it sounded like the entire thread was inhabited by 95 year old grandmothers. The steaming of live sports over any of these steaming services is a piece of cake, even for bars, etc.
  2. Which view of the world seems dumber: ”Mankind has learned stunning new rules of physics in just the last few hundred years. Given that, I wouldn’t want to bet that there aren't things about physics that we don’t yet fully understand that could make alien space travel to earth possible.” Or, the views from some of the posters here: “It’s all impossible. We know everything there is to know about physics. There is nothing left to learn. Therefore alien travel to our planet is impossible.” Seriously you guys sound ridiculous.
  3. All of these posts were complete bullshit. Refusing to acknowledge that the laws of physics have changed in the last 100 years is the definition of a flat earther you dipshits.
  4. I really don’t understand how anyone can be so definitive in their viewpoint that aliens haven’t visited us because of “physics”. It’s such a narrow perspective. Up until recently (in earth terms) “physics” experts didn’t know about quantum mechanics and all of the “new” rules of physics. As others have said, the rules of physics have been evolving over our short existence on this planet. I see no reason why man/woman kind won’t discover new rules. Do any of you skeptics believe in angels? You better not or your talking out your ass.
  5. I also like the pimco closed end bond funds, like pDI, pdo, Pty, etc. it’s a good way to play high yield bonds, because index funds like from vanguard don’t do as well. With junk you need to be selective and actively manage. For preferred stocks I like pffa. It’s a way to get higher yield without individual security risk. There’s also pff but it’s a passive index. For preferreds I believe active management is important. For more plain vanilla investing, VYM and VYMI are nice higher dividend etfs from vanguard. None of this is investment advice, just my opinion.
  6. To follow on to other posts, you just need to start working on the idea and turning it into reality with others. No VC or angel will give you a dime until you’ve got something to show, unless you’ve had successful exits with them in the past. Forget a pitch deck. It’s too early. Go get customers.
  7. If I recall wasn’t LSU a little slow out of the box with recruiting last year then ramped pretty well? I thought it was because Kelly was new, but maybe he takes it a little slower than LSU in the past.
  8. The best thing about the PAC problems and USC’s defection is that little bitch boy Lincoln Riley’s plan to run away from competition in the SEC partially backfired, with him now having to face OSU, Michigan and Penn St every year.
  9. We flew down and had a driver going back to minimize car time. We didn’t crash and die going down to Manuel Antonio, although we took off from a dirt runway outside of Arenal, with a buzzard sitting at the end of the runway, so that was a positive. Although three weeks later that same plane did crash and kill some people. So, my recommendation is a bit iffy.
  10. Ok, I get it. This is why I’m so confused. He worked for USAF, NGA and NRO. I have a hard time believing that someone who worked for NRO and got an audience with Congress is a loon. NRO is a serious organization. Look I’m highly skeptical of the claims, but I don’t understand how so many can be so definitive in their rejection of it.
  11. Are there exit fees for Big 12 members going forward?
  12. How can I learn to test and replace a capacitor myself? I have a five year old unit and the A/C people who came out for a standard yearly checkup said the capacitor reading was low, indicating it’s going to go pretty soon. I felt like they were full of shit so I want to learn how to do basic repairs myself if I can. And I have no idea how to discharge a capacitor, to give you a sense as to my knowledge starting point
  13. So what? This guy seems to be a respected, legitimate resource that was in a position to capture leaks from within these programs. And, he appears at this time to have no personal agenda. This story should be all over the news, imo, unless I’m missing something.
  14. So I’m very behind on this topic, but I guess there was this guy Grusch that testified before Congress basically saying we’ve got ufo’s and non human remains. Why isn’t there more discussion on this?
  15. I wonder if the Big 10 is concerned about bringing in Oregon because they have a multibillionaire who can single-handedly fund all the NIL Oregon needs, even though so far he hasn’t. Everyone wants teams that can produce revenue, but letting that billionaire into your club could be a bit risky.
  16. Good grief is there not one homer who doesn’t defend their program to the death despite mountains of evidence their program is as corrupt as they come? You would think at some point they would realize what morons they sound like.
  17. Ya I mis-worded it. They don’t care about Pac10 as a conference, but they care about continuing to make money off of football of west coast schools. They don’t want those schools to drop eyeballs. So they are probably trying to merge acc and Pac 10 or some other plan that’s already on place. I agree completely with the earlier poster who said the Big 10 is waiting on acc instability so they can pick up their top targets.
  18. I was shocked at all of the ads aids on the site when I wasn’t logged in, so this is an outstanding potential strategy that would probably expand viewership a lot.
  19. Conference realignment seems chaotic and unpredictable. However, I believe the entire plan has been etched out by Fox and ESPN and been slowly rolled out to optimize the financials results and force certain schools to accept their fate. It always comes back to the fact that each school has a certain dollar value to the networks, and those schools will join the conference that gives them the most money. As the top earners have made their moves, with the networks’ blessings, then the next set of value schools are next up. However none of them moved yet. So the networks went ahead and reinitiated instability by allowing the Colorado B12 move. They don’t want a failed Pac 10, so they are helping to now destabilize the ACC. I don’t know what the ultimate alignment looks like, but I’m pretty confident espn and fox already know where everyone lands and who is getting shafted. And who gets shafted are those with the least dollar value.
  20. Well now that Colorado’s back, it’s obviously that Oklahoma and Texas will renounce their SeC invitations and stay with the Big 12
  21. Ooh this is interesting. How do you find/participate in these? I could see myself doing that.
  22. Car dealers are the worst scum on the planet. I despise them all and actively root for their death. To help protect myself from their bullshit, I: 1. Pay cash for all cars. 2. Have a backup plan for poor trade in quotes. 3. Never negotiate in person, always via email. 4. Always negotiate with 4-7 dealers simultaneously. 5. Know every feature and package available on the vehicle to sniff out apples vs oranges quotes. 6. Never talk payments, only out the door price. 7. Pay close attention to any supposed “mistakes” or miscommunications while negotiating. Anyone who isn’t completely upfront and honest gets tossed. I end up buying cars from the same two or three dealers that have integrity and stay away from the others who are pieces of shit.
  23. One guy in particular I remember founded a company based upon vapor ware and promptly sold it to Nortel for $4B, netting himself $300m. I visited the company a few months before the purchase, and the manufacturing line was literally nothing but dirt. They had not even produced a real product yet. And of course they never did. This guy was a blowhard with a big bag of nothing. RIP Nortel, you morons. And Cisco bought my friend’s startup that had no product and he netted $5m for about 18 months of “work”. Good, smart guy though.
  24. When the internet/telecom bubble hit in 1998-2000, I saw some of the dumbest people on the planet score $100m personal exits. AI is starting to look a little bubbly, but it probably will take 4/5 years to burst.
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