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9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:
Interestingly, when the movie was first mentioned I assumed that in reality both cars would have been old blg block iron with wet lifters that would be floating at 5500 rpm anyway - but my first take was wrong. I looked it up and you could get both the 427 in the Mustang and a 426 Hemi in a hot Chrysler build with a solid valve train so both would have been able to wind it up pretty good!
But you did want the cars to sound different, and the V-12 would not have the same out of phase exhaust timing burble of a V-8 so you'd get a good contrast if that is what they really did.
I don't know if they sound dubbed it or not, and it really doesn't matter. As far as the engines, I don't remember the RPM of the 390, and it would depend on how it was built. I'm guessing that car didn't have a stock engine.
I know iron blocks back in that day got quite a bit more than that. I had a Chevy 350 that could get upwards of 7500 (but built to do so). The 390 was considered a big block back then and they were heavier than the small blocks. I had a Ford 455 in my race car (65 T-bird). Generally, they couldn't get the RPM like the small blocks. Once you got them wound up though...hang on...
There is no substitute for horsepower.
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1968 was the muscle car era. Mcqueen got more credit than he should have for doing the driving stunts, but he was into racing so that probably helped spin that. It was a 390 Ford so it would make plenty of noise (with headers), but you wonder what technology back then they had to record the sound.
At the time it was a neat movie for car guys. The 68 Camaro was my favorite car. So many cool cars back then.
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1 hour ago, Deleterious said:
Here is how I used to make money with the lottery.
A local speakeasy I used to frequent had two lottery machines (Ohio) where you could buy all sorts of tickets, including Keno. Beside the two machines (which could also check for winning tickets by reading the bar code) was a trash can. Or, you might say, the pot of gold.
I would grab a handful of tickets when I was there and scan the ticket (losing ticket) into my Ohio Lottery phone app. Each ticket was 5 points for the most part. You could scan 1200 points a month. I used two phones so I could double up.
Once I got to 10,000 points I would redeem them for a $100 gas card. So about every 4 months I got a hundred bucks in free gas. Some thought I was nuts for diving in the trash but I could care less. Free money is a good thing. 🙂
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37 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:
Maryland wins by 1 with a buzzer beater. B1G with 3 teams in the S16 and two more pending..
That was a good game. I think he traveled.
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I found this interesting.
From Feb 24, 2025;
Berkshire Hathaway’s Cash Pile Swells To A Record $334 Billion - Yahoo Finance
About a half hour ago from Barchart Twitter;
I'm no fan of Buffet, but it makes me wonder why so much in cash - if true.
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Jack Bogle and Vanguard are a quality brokerage, with a solid plan and product for masses of people.
That doesn't mean they are the holy grail. At the end of the day it's all about timing. Sometimes you are lucky enough to be born at the right time and hit the greatest bull market in history - example; starting after the depression until the dot-com bubble blew up in 2000. It took 8 years for the market to recover but the swine bankers blew up the world financial system in 2009. Those scheduled to retire shorty after that got ****ed after the S&P went from 1500 to 666 in March of 2009. And then swine pricks got bailed out to tune of trillions of dollars - thank you very much.
Volatility is where the money is made. Wall Street owns that - they don't care if it goes up or down - they make money both ways.
Welcome to the world of heads they win, tails you lose.
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The ultimate irony of the Troll Tesla™ scam would be if done from work.
What a ****ing world we live in.
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But there are political points to be made. That's more important. That's why we tried to keep this thread separate from all the other stupid horse**** posted elsewhere. Look at that cesspool of slop.
This is the third iteration of this board. At one time it was good place for intelligent conversation, both political and investment (although filtered from the first). How far it has fallen. It has become aisle lunatic and mostly unreadable, which is why hardly anyone posts here anymore. The investment thread in particular had some really good participants - all gone now.
A fish stinks from the head down.
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4 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:
No argument, I'm getting back into the game after a couple decade layoff (Chicago area green fees were just too rich for my blood and time). Now that the weather is changing I need to spend time at the range.
Meanwhile my 13 year old grandson just got a new bowling ball for his birthday. I'm not sure if it's a school thing or what but it's the only sport he seems to enjoy participating in.
People don't realize how good these guys really are. It's off the charts incredible how they can hit a golf ball. Larger and more fit players along with advances in technology has made the game much longer. That matters, but at the same time, what really matters is not ****ing up. You can't **** up. Hitting a little white ball over 300 yards, iron shots into impossible greens, chip, putt (on greens the ball wants to roll of of) - and not **** up? Sammy was right - a 5 is a lot closer to a 15 than a 2. These guys are machines playing the game to the highest level ever achieved.
Then there is bowling. I used to work in a bowing alley. I still follow it to some extent. This sport, unlike golf, has went the other direction. I see videos of people throwing 800 series that wouldn't have averaged 170 30 years ago.
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Drivers are like bowling balls (a mostly dead sport). People spend tons of money on their shovels and not get any better. It's the Indian, not the arrow. I think it was Sam Snead who said "a 5 handicap is a lot closer to a 15 than it is a 2." So true.
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21 hours ago, Deleterious said:
What degree do you guys hit your driver at?
Everyone gives me crap for my 9 degree loft. I bump it to 10 and things go haywire and my dispersion rate really starts to fluctuate. I never hit it off the deck so that isn't a concern.
There is nothing wrong with a 9° driver. Actually, it might help some people. The less loft on the clubface, the easier it is to move the ball right and left (hook or cut). Some/many go with a higher loft to help get a higher trajectory of shot to help distance. A nice draw will do that too. You can always move the ball forward or backward (slightly) in your stance, or vary how high you tee the ball to hit a lower or higher shot. Whatever works seems to be the best way. The tee shot is the most important shot of the hole.
Trees are 90% air until you try to hit a golf ball through one.
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20 hours ago, Tiger337 said:
God job Pfife. It is not easy to please Screwball!
I've hated the IT nazi's since we had computers. I became one. What stuck out most in my mind was the power the IT nazi's had over people, systems, and whatever. In the wrong hands - not good.
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On 2/18/2025 at 10:54 PM, pfife said:
I think you can go to the dir in file explorer then type cmd in the address bar and it will open a cmd prompt in that dir They might not have that way blocked!
I spent 10 minutes to find this post just to follow up on the Nazi IT people and the dos prompt. The cmd command not only worked on the network, but on a school issued laptop. How fricken cool is that???
Thank you, I would buy you a couple of beers if I could. I got the biggest kick out of that.
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I'm seeing this on my news feed. Stock is down about 5% today as I type this.
Quote09:03 AM EST, 02/19/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Silver Lake's response in the third paragraph.)
Intel (INTC) is in talks to sell a majority stake in its programmable chip business, Altera, to buyout firm Silver Lake, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday.
The deal could value Altera at around $9 billion, but the exact size of the stake has yet to be determined, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Silver Lake declined to comment. Intel did not respond to MT Newswires' request for comment.
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QuoteBroadcom and TSMC exploring deals for parts of Intel, according to WSJ (Bubblevision report).
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10 minutes ago, pfife said:
I think you can go to the dir in file explorer then type cmd in the address bar and it will open a cmd prompt in that dir They might not have that way blocked!
SWEET!!!!
Great tip! It worked here at home, let's see how the IT nazi's stack up.
Thank you.
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On 2/13/2025 at 9:30 PM, Screwball said:
I sure wish I would have bought some INTC stock last week. Chart porn incoming...
This is a 1 year INTC chart by day. Been ugly since last March, until last week. Huge gap (red arrow) and then the rocket shot for the last 4 trading days. Depending on how you measure it, up to 27%, around 25% if you use closing price.
On 2/13/2025 at 9:30 PM, Screwball said:
For a pure trader I would let some run, but take some off the table at this point. That gap may fill at 28ish, that would be a 50% rip. Pull the rip cord and thank the market whore for this one and move on.
Let's revisit this little puppy.
The chart above this one was from the 13th, last Thursday, then took a dive Friday. Got 3 days off and went nuts today. Broke into the area with the red arrow. Great trade if you made it. Of course I didn't.
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1 minute ago, pfife said:
I still use dos a lot. Its really fast for a lot of stuff.
It is. Simple example. I create a directory for each of my students so I can store their assignments. If you open file manager (old name, explorer now?), hold down the shift key and right click on the directory, you can open a "command shell" window. Looks just like the original DOS window. Type MKDIR, put in a bunch of names separated by commas and you instantly have that many directories. Easy button defined.
Funny, I can't do this at school. The IT nazi's have that little trick restricted, but have an ocean of other stuff dicked up to the highest degree. Go figger...
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7 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
AI can probably solve it, but I am not so optimistic about AI. AI will only be as good as the people who design the algorithms. Ultimately, I think AI will be designed mostly for profit just like everything else. Whatever the wealthy want is the AI world we are going to get. Somtimes that will be a good thing, other times it won't be.
I'm a lifelong computer guy, worked in IT (and related), and feel very fortunate to ride that train over the years. Put food on the table and a roof over my head. I'm also impressed with the gains in technology. Anyone remember MS-DOS? Look where we are now. Impressive stuff.
But this AI stuff scares the **** out of me.
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2 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
You would think. Any data entry form containing year should always be 4 digits. Once it gets to the programmer, there is generally no way of knowing whether a two-digit year is in the 1900s or 2000's. The problem is when you have a massive database, the data are being entered at different places using different systems. I used to manage a database with substance abuse treatment admissions from about 20 different states. All states had the same variables, but each state had it's own way of formatting variables. Then when you finally get them on the same page, one of the states decides to do it differently the next year.
It would no doubt be a large project, but convert databases by custom code, then consolidate into the new system. We've had time.
Or maybe AI will solve it...
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6 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
It's still a problem in 2025. I still receive a lot of data sets with two-year dates in them and they can create a mess when birthdates and ages are involved.
I'm not a programmer, but it seems to me this kind of stuff, let's call it legacy database type data, someone along the line would have found a way to update the data form so it would no longer be a problem.
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5 hours ago, Tiger337 said:
I doubt it's as high as 12 million people, but this is something I have seen in my work too. I wouldn't assume it's fraud. It could be in some cases, but it is more likely to be erroneous birthdates due to two-digit years. What I mean is if someone has a two-digit birthyear "00", they were probably born in 2000, but might be assumed to have been born in 1900 due to an old algorithm. 0000 or 9999 could also indicate a missing value.
I remember this. There were some freaked out people.
Could be in the history thread.
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Jesus H Christ
Doesn't anyone remember when the wankin ****in bankers blew up the world financial system back in 2008/2009 and NOBODY went to jail? Only to see the same swine pricks who caused the entire mess which cost people billions and lose their homes get bailed out to the tune of Trillions over the next 10-15 years (yes, with a T)?
WTF. Wake the **** up.