Screwball

40 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

I would bet anyone even considering making a run in 2028 has already placed a claim on a bunch of domains. 

Probably.

The Big Club wouldn't allow us to profit anyway.

The long shot and how to make money from it.

We are about 6-7 weeks away from the mid-terms. Within the next week it will be silly season for the next two years as the Big Club decides who we can vote for in 2028.

The long shot: Thomas Massie. He throws his hat in the ring with the promise to continue the quest against the Epstein criminal enterprise. He promises a position in his administration to Ro Khanna, both of which have shone to have balls of steel when it comes to this subject. That wins in a landslide. Unless they kill them first.

How to make money.

Less than 500 bucks buys you a dozen or more domain names. Buy up a bunch of combinations. You could even go so far as getting bot farms to spam social media on rumors to help drive up the price. 

The pigmen of Wall Street would be proud. 🙂

2 hours ago, oblong said:

I’m not going to worry about Larkin on this. He just won the gold medal. I don’t expect him to react that way in a moment like this. That’s unreasonable. 

Thank you.

From what I watched today, especially with the team bringing out those kids, this was nothing but a class act.

There is too much hate in our world.

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

I wasn't even a hockey fan, but it was still one of the best stories ever.  

Jim Craig's brother was a student in my class several years later.  

That's pretty cool. You never know who you might get in your class.

I didn't realize it was on delay until I read that today.  It looks like both games were, both Russia and Finland.

I was working the counter in the bowling alley the night against Russia. Apparently not many knew the results, including me. We had a 24 lane house and when people came in they said to make sure to keep them up to date on the score. I had a TV at the counter. People were running back to the bar between their turn bowling to watch, and at the counter, what little they could.

I would run a streamer across the scoreboards as the game went on. Finally, I got to put: USA 4, Russia 3 - FINAL. The place went nuts. It was really amazing. 

We had 4 or 5 guys from there who rented a motor home and went to Lake Placid. They couldn't get in the arena, but was there. They said the town went bonkers. That had to be a memory of a lifetime.

46 years to the day the USA Men's Hockey Team wins the Gold Metal. Congrats to them.

The 1980 story has to be one of the best sports stories in history. If you were alive at that time, it was one of those "I remember exactly where I was" kind of things. A truly magical and incredible story.

I thought the movie was really good, and there is a Netflix documentary that is excellent as well.  

With proper video editing software you can already do that, but would take some time. I'm sure AI can do it a bunch faster. I wonder how the copyright stuff works? Are they using existing images from the matrix, or generating their own. If so, do they own the copyright?

9 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Wait, guys were playing something and it got competitive? That’s odd! 🤣

1 hour ago, casimir said:

They got drunk, stood on the table, and tried to defend their end of the board.

The bowling alley had a door that went into the locker room that had probably a hundred lockers people rented to keep their balls. Once done bowling, and a bad night, they would play George Foreman with the door. After about 3 of them, we put up one that was solid wood. Next guy that whacked was done for the year.

It was amazing how serious some people took that stuff. 

Playing a game, add alcohol, what can possibly go wrong? It was quite entertaining.

New Mexico approves comprehensive probe of Epstein’s Zorro Ranch - CBS News

Bravo - let's hope it's all on the up and up.

12 hours ago, oblong said:

Well the President says we need to move on and his AG, under oath, deflects to the stock market. So no, I’m not going to go along with attempts to “both sides” this.  

Both sides...That's funny. That's the point.

Read the names. Hundreds of names from both sides. What did the rest on both sides do? They took their campaign money, passes laws to enrich them, put their names on buildings, and even appoint them to high important positions. They all knew and did nothing, and even went as far as to help cover up what these sick ****s did over the last 20+. And now they all just lie to us and expect us to eat their ****. Both sides. **** them.

I know it's tough when the people you adore and worship turn out to be giant pieces of steaming poo, but this is where we are. People should demand justice, no matter what "side" is in power. They both have failed, and failed miserably, while more people were sexually abused, and who knows what else (it just keeps getting uglier). They didn't care, they let it go on. They need to pay.

I get it, that's a tall order when so many are guilty, and others are afraid to say anything because it could cost them their life. Don't care, where are the handcuffs. Us serfs should demand no less, and it's one thing they should all be able to agree on. 

The first, the last, and everyone in between. Nothing less is acceptable.

3 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

We called it cheese, since it resembled fine parmesan.

That's how I would describe what ours looked like.

Guys would use their last two fingers along side the table as a guide, while holding the puck with their thumb and first finger while throwing it, and even put a tad bit of spin on it. I thought it was fun. Wasn't any good, but fun.

Hahahaha!!!! Great stuff. Looks like the table can be from 9 to 22 ft long. Ours were at least 20.

17 minutes ago, oblong said:

I always thought it was sawdust. 

Yea, it very well might have been. Guys got really competitive with that stuff. Played for money too. Of course they just got done bowling and there was beer.

4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Looks right now that getting Maxwell sent up is more than these folks are going to do about anything. And she could have blown them all out of the water and wouldn't either. And now they've apparently sent her to Club Fed. 

The problem with this whole mess is that there is still way more smoke than fire. They had enough to charge Epstein for a 2nd time, they had enough to give Maxwell 20yrs. The rest is still buried in charges, countercharges and redactions.

Everyone is afraid. If you don't play the game, you have no game - may end up dead if needed.

Not to downplay what all these sick ****s did, but it's also about blackmail, influence, and the continuing punishment of the working people of this country. We are not in the big club. They are, and the beatings will continue until moral improves.

I have no doubt what has been released is only the tip of the iceberg. Not that this is the first scandal in the history of the world, but it might be the best chance we the people have to expose and fix the rot. I don't think history has ever given us a movie more grotesque than this one - and right in our face - this should be easy.

If we had news this would be the lead story on every channel every night until justice is served. Hahahaha! Guess who owns all that.

As much as the people seem to hate each other today, I truly wish and hope this topic is one that may unite them. 

Do you have a son or daughter? This isn't difficult.

The first, the last, and everyone in between. Nothing else is acceptable.

9 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

You are correct. I was referring more to the game played on a long wooden table as opposed to the ground version. 
 

This table looks pretty clean, but the same thing we used to play. Part of the deal was also about the "stuff" you put on the table. I don't remember what it was. They would have like a large salt shaker with small pebble type stuff they would sprinkle on the table. The more "stuff" the faster it was. Kinda like oil and bowling lanes. I don't remember, 25 ft long? It was fun.

Loser buys the next round.

I was right handed but switched because I couldn't hit the floor if I fell off a chair. Didn't see many lefties, but it was inevitable. 18 and over league, this guy was pretty good. I knew he was going to buzz the tower and then feed me his nasty ass curve. He got a bit wild - hit me in the head first pitch - two at bats in a row. Next time up I batted right handed, got a single no less. That was a blind squirrel thing.

That might explain a lot.

This entire streaming war is nuts. What do you buy/subscribe to to watch what you want to see? Between regular TV and all the sports stuff it has become so difficult.

One would think, and I know it doesn't work this way, why can't I just pay for what I watch and nothing else? That would be so simple and easy - but no.

I have YouTube TV, but don't get all the ESPN stuff, like ESPN+ that I want for college basketball, so I buy it separate for $12.00 a month. I got YouTube TV because they carried the NFL Sunday Ticket. I hear Hulu, or maybe Peacock, has ESPN+ and I wouldn't have to pay. But they don't have NFL Sunday ticket.

Then there is the NFLX stuff. They have a bunch of movies, but it seems like when there is one I want to watch, they don't have it. So I have to go elsewhere, and usually end up paying for it. Recent example was Miracle, the movie about the 1980 Olympic hockey team. $3.99. Great!

It's no wonder people are going to alternative devices to screw these people. I'm told you can buy some sort of a box and get everything for $350 bucks. How long that lasts, who knows. Then there is the Firestick thing and hack it. Looky here - free baseball games.

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

fair question. I have no problem with the hammer falling wherever it may on those that covered for any of this in the past.

But action can only take place in the present, and someone is in a position to do something about it now.

If the past were an adequate excuse for the future we'd all still be caves.

That's weak, even for you.

Ghislaine Maxwell was on trial in 2022. None of the perpetrators were charged or named. Biden was president. The lead prosecutor was none other than Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey. They knew and did nothing.

They should rot in hell.

26 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

Started reading that this morning.  Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote it.  I had a good laugh at a tactic practiced then and now, adjusted for technology.

In a section about Jess Livermore, they discuss how Livermore was obsessed with the ticker machines and had one in each room in his house.  The problem was, even on light trading days, the ticker could be up to 15 minutes behind.  So he hired people at each exchange to phone him with up the second stock price updates.

Same thing today, except now they pay millions of dollars to have a server as close as possible to the exchange servers so they get the price a hundredth of a second before their competition.  

A couple of books on these subjects;

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Amazon <- this one is about Jesse Livermore - great read.

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt - Amazon <- this on on high frequency trading by Wall Street written by Michael Lewis of Moneyball - another great read.

The most expensive piece of real estate in NY is the server closest to the exchange. Don't remember the year, but they spent millions of dollars to run a fiber optic cable from The City (London version of Wall Street) to the NYSE to save like 6 milliseconds on trades.

12 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

well, we've got one guy preventing that from happening. Can this stuff be the one thing that sticks to him with his supporters when nothing else has? Who knows, but judging by how long he's kept the lid on it so far, I'm not holding my breath.

Why wasn't something done over the last 20+ years? Look at the names, the pictures, the emails. Over 300 names, and that's probably not all of them. These people all run in the same circles, they know what the hell was going on, and did nothing. Why? Because they are either paid off or blackmailed to STFU and not do anything.

They are all protecting each other. But it's easier to just blame Trump because he's the cause of everything bad in the world. Epstein was first arrested in 2008ish, Maxwell was at Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010. Trump had a TV show that year. Epstein was busted again in 2019 so there's a good 8 or 9 more years of Epstein terror to who knows how many victims, and NOBODY did anything. But it's all Trumps fault.

Pull the other one.

35 minutes ago, pfife said:

Its so emblematic of all the **** thats ****ed now

Epstein was first busted in like 2008. It didn't start then. Over the years, so many knew, and did nothing.

It's bigger than just the horrors of child abuse, but that part should enough to unite every mother and father who has a son or daughter (I'm sure both were abused by these sick ****s) no matter of political leanings.

This country is a ****ed up mess right now, but let's not lose the football.

A good way to start fixing it is the 800 pound gorilla in the room - The Epstein files. There was a poll asking who should be the first two people arrested. Easy; the first, the last and ever other sick **** in between. Nothing else is acceptable.

They are the big club. 

Watching the curling in the Olympics was really cool stuff since forever, and it still is quite entertaining.

We use to bowl at 6:30, get done at 9ish, go in the lounge and play shuffleboard. It was a riot. It is shuffleboard on ice. No fingers. 🙂

I got a kick out of the 1972 guy with the lung dart sticking out of his mouth. I'm guessing there were a few beers not far away.

Speaking of curling, not the Olympics but funny.

A local university had a lunch and learn thing a few days ago, the theme being: Using AI to solve real business problems. It was geared to the small business owner like you might see here in Cornhole.

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They said; These student teams will work directly with participating businesses to support integration efforts, problem-solving, and project development tied to real operational needs.

They probably can't make change. No thanks, I'll run my own business, then once you get hired I will train you. AI not required. We think for ourself.