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Dbeasy

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  1. Geez do we really have six more days of this crap until Simmons picks?
  2. One item that hasn’t been discussed much is how Fox and ESPN have allowed their partners to concentrate their power into fewer, more powerful conferences. This will give the Big 10 and SEC even more negotiating power down the line. For a long time, the poaching of schools didn’t happen because the two networks didn’t want that consolidation to happen. But when steamers like Apple step into the market, it forced both Fox and ESPN to go scramble to get the premium assets before the other got them. They panicked Fox, CBS and ESPN tried to rein in pay using the PAC 12 as the test. But they failed to give the Pac 12 a deal better than Apple, so that the conference wouldn’t implode. Maybe the math just didn’t work. This will still hurt them long term. It looks like they had no choice. They had to scramble.
  3. Went to an off strip casino resort last week. It was pretty smoky. It’s been five years since I visited the strip. Are the main strip casinos pretty smoky too? I don’t remember that the last time I was there.
  4. Finally saw it and liked it a lot. The style of the movie really stuck with me afterwards. I have partial hearing loss and could hear the dialogue reasonably well, but I like to be able to fully follow every scene and all of the dialogue/plot, and it was difficult to follow sometimes. I really want to see it again at home, maybe with subtitles. Oh and I had to piss ten minutes into the movie and ended up holding it for the 3 hours and ten minutes. Didn’t realize it was that long. Ouch.
  5. It’s what people who have committed horrific crimes say when they finally get charged.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Are there exit fees for Big 12 members going forward?
  17. 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
  18. 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.
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
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