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I just want to point out that earlier on this page, Jeffrey of Yospos revealed himself to be a talmudic scholar. He contains multitudes y'all. E: gently caress. Hot Dog Day #91 fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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The gematria of ישפש unlocks the secret of everlasting prosperity
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Aug 19, 2016 13:20
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Kids absolutely makes sense to get on that soon if she wants to have kids, however it doesn't sound like she's with the right person to have them with (or in a great position herself to have them, but that's another can of worms...) As far as the house, if you want to have one it's a very powerful pull when you see other people your age getting homes and the praise they get heaped upon them and all the attention given to their new home by family members and friends. Not saying it's not BWM, I just understand the allure. It falls into being a corollary of the advertising/capitalist society we live in.
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Aug 19, 2016 14:07
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Boon posted:Someone please sanity check and challenge me here. My parent's are not financially savvy and hosed up their retirement a bit and since then I've been advising (my undergrad was in Finance but I became a Naval Officer... and got out and now heading back for an MBA).
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Aug 19, 2016 15:34
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Yeah that's why I'm going to reject their offer on retirement funds (possibly take an annuity). I'll probably help them into a Vanguard targeted date retirement fund.
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Aug 19, 2016 16:12
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the littlest prince posted:Holy poo poo. Dr. Dude and Terminator 2 Pinball is definitely BMW. Should have invested in a good game like Pinbot, The Machine, or Black Knight.
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Aug 19, 2016 18:46
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After seeing an NBA Jam derail in SAS the other day, I've decided that once I buy a house my first BWM move(besides buying the house  ) will be to buy an original NBA Jam machine. Much better than those lovely pinball machines IMO.
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Aug 19, 2016 18:53
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DEMAG posted:Dr. Dude and Terminator 2 Pinball is definitely BMW. Addams Family Pinball or GTFO. 
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Aug 19, 2016 19:05
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DrBouvenstein posted:Addams Family Pinball or GTFO. Super Mario imo, though I've only seen the machine in one arcade and it broke and died and isn't there anymore so 
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Aug 19, 2016 19:08
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DrBouvenstein posted:Addams Family Pinball or GTFO. This, Medieval Madness, Twilight Zone, Arabian Nights or a select few others I can not remember.
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Aug 19, 2016 19:08
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Nail Rat posted:After seeing an NBA Jam derail in SAS the other day, I've decided that once I buy a house my first BWM move(besides buying the house Boom shakalaka. And the TMNT and Simpsons games are GWM and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
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Aug 19, 2016 19:09
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Ugh. My Aunt is into (several) MLM groups, but one of them in particular, is Scentsy; It's some kind of candle / air freshener that is literally sold at Wal-Mart for less than 1/4 the price. The 4x price increase probably all goes to the distributor. She has been in deep with this company for years and now she has gotten my mom and her coworkers into it. They apparently formed a Scentsy group at her work months ago and they all sell to each other. They all have access to the same supply, so it makes no sense at all. But my mom is now convinced that "it all evens out" because she buys 4 packages from the distributor, buys 4 packages from my Aunt and her coworkers, and sells 8 packages to the same group. I told her to look at what they are all actually spending, because they are all artificially giving extra money to the distributor for no reason on top of the already 4x price increase (and arguable 100% loss of money by buying a Scentsy). They are all convinced that it is not actually costing them money because the same amount of candle packs are exchanging hands. I can't tell if all of them are in denial or just not keeping track of the costs at all.
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Aug 19, 2016 19:25
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That's pervasive at my work, as is ThirtyOne bags. Somewhat related: maybe I'm a snob but when I have a kid, I'm not going to be pushing my kids' fundraisers on coworkers and family. I'd rather just give the school/girl scouts/whatever the money and be done with it.
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Aug 19, 2016 19:39
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If my kid wants to hit the bricks power to 'em but I'm not doing the legwork on their behalf.
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Nail Rat posted:After seeing an NBA Jam derail in SAS the other day, I've decided that once I buy a house my first BWM move(besides buying the house Simpsons 4 player arcade game is going in my BWM cave next to the kegorator. Or at least a 4 player MAME machine so it can also play the 4 player TMNT games. Moneyball posted:Boom shakalaka.
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Aug 19, 2016 20:36
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Lets not forget the X-men arcade game.
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Aug 19, 2016 20:48
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Where's the six player X-Men cabinet going? edit: well poo poo
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Aug 19, 2016 20:48
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I'll be BWM when I buy a Killer Queen cabinet for $10,000 one day It's the most phenomenal game. 5v5, and big as hell. The rules also crack me up: Win by one of three routes: 1. Military victory - defeat the enemy queen 3 times 2. Economic victory - harvest sufficient honey 3. Bring the snail home
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Aug 19, 2016 21:14
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Moneyball posted:Boom shakalaka.
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Aug 19, 2016 23:12
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Dik Hz posted:The TMNT game was awesome. I think it's one of those things you'd get sick of if you owned one, though.
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Aug 19, 2016 23:22
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Playing games like that on mame is pretty bad actually. The fun was mostly from the trying to make your quarter last part and it's not even particularly fair about it. With unlimited lives its just sorta mashing a button. I've tried to go back and play simpsons, tmnt, etc and it's really not good. This is why pinball is infinitely better.
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Aug 19, 2016 23:23
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monster on a stick posted:Vancouver just put the squeeze on their housing bubble by adding a 15% real estate tax on We've been getting the inflow of capital the whole time. It's taken a while to investigate and find out where it's all coming from. A few of us have been discussing the 15% tax/stamp duty in Vancouver. The one thing that will hold back the NZ Government is that most people think they're getting rich by just owning a house, they are, of course, retarded so the Government would lose the next election if the tax came in. There's a real gently caress you got mine attitude in NZ at the moment. Half the population seems to have turned into arseholes with the greed effect kicking in.
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Aug 19, 2016 23:39
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VendaGoat posted:This is why pinball is infinitely better. Jeffrey of YOSPOS fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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Aug 19, 2016 23:40
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Agreed - plenty of arcade games still hold up. Fighting games, games with competitive high score lists, games that are viable to beat on one quarter by getting better(shmups are my goto), games you can't progress with money alone, etc. Gradius 
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Aug 20, 2016 00:04
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Agreed - plenty of arcade games still hold up. Fighting games, games with competitive high score lists, games that are viable to beat on one quarter by getting better(shmups are my goto), games you can't progress with money alone, etc.  
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Aug 20, 2016 00:09
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I'll be BWM when I buy a Killer Queen cabinet for $10,000 one day I played this at Ground Kontrol in Portland. It was really fun. Especially because two guys on our team wouldn't let anyone else play as a queen or soldier and kept telling us we had to harvest honey. They got really pissed when I won for our team 2 times in a row with the snail having never played the game before.
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Aug 20, 2016 03:25
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Apo123 posted:While maybe not as detailed and personal as the stories in here, you can read the legal results of DoD security clearance denial appeals online. http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/, just look for the cases involving Guideline F or Financial Considerations. I'm slowly working my way through this thread (only like 500 more pages to go!!), and this was posted way the hell back near the beginning. There's still tons of gold in that link. Like this guy. Feds posted:While the Judge's characterization of Applicant as a 'foolish victim' may not be short of the mark, it does nothing to ameliorate concerns that Applicant's poor judgment is an ongoing feature of his life, one not checked by lessons painfully learned at the hands of swindlers. Viewing the evidence as a whole, the Judge's decision fails to consider important aspects of the case and runs contrary to the weight of the record evidence. Favorable decision reversed. CASE NO: 14-05803.a1 What's that, "poor judgment", you say? quote:Applicant entered into an agreement with a company whereby the company would use Applicant’s credit to buy houses and pay him a percentage of the transaction. Twenty to thirty credit cards were opened in Applicant’s name, and the company charged about $200,000 on them. Although they made payments for a while, the company “disappeared” in 2008.  In the conclusions the judge is basically, "even if he were somehow able to pay off that debt, he's such an idiot for doing this in the first place that we doubt he should be trusted with national secrets."
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Aug 20, 2016 03:50
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He might even be fine with national secrets, people compartmentalize in weird ways. But he's too dumb not to fall prey to another money scam, and that kind of debt is a non-starter.
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Aug 20, 2016 04:15
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NancyPants posted:He might even be fine with national secrets, people compartmentalize in weird ways. But he's too dumb not to fall prey to another money scam, and that kind of debt is a non-starter. Quote your sources.
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Aug 20, 2016 04:24
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Known Lecher posted:Words. Dear lord. I've been lurking in this thread for a long time now, but that is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of.
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Aug 20, 2016 05:31
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NancyPants posted:He might even be fine with national secrets, people compartmentalize in weird ways. But he's too dumb not to fall prey to another money scam, and that kind of debt is a non-starter. People lose their security clearances for financial issues because the financial stress makes them vulnerable to be leveraged.
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Aug 20, 2016 05:34
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Known Lecher posted:I'm slowly working my way through this thread (only like 500 more pages to go!!), and this was posted way the hell back near the beginning. There's still tons of gold in that link. From one of the footnotes: quote:“[Applicant] thought he had listed all or most of the credit cards and judgments on his application, although he inserted phony loan/account numbers because he did not know the appropriate loan/account numbers.” 
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Aug 20, 2016 05:38
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Boon posted:People lose their security clearances for financial issues because the financial stress makes them vulnerable to be leveraged. That's true most of the time but if you read the full thing it's clear that in this case the debt itself isn't the actual problem and the judge just (rightly) thinks this guy is too incredibly naive and stupid to be trusted with national secrets.
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Aug 20, 2016 05:39
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Ckwiesr posted:Dear lord. I've been lurking in this thread for a long time now, but that is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of.
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Aug 20, 2016 05:56
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Those is someone with good taste.
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Aug 20, 2016 09:47
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:That's true most of the time but if you read the full thing it's clear that in this case the debt itself isn't the actual problem and the judge just (rightly) thinks this guy is too incredibly naive and stupid to be trusted with national secrets. The amazing thing to me is that this was a "Favorable decision reversed", meaning that this guy appealed his initial denial to an administrative judge, who actually signed off on giving this moron a security clearance. Luckily, it's not like the traditional court system in that the DoD lawyers (aka the prosecution) were allowed to go "wait, what the hell?!?" and appeal that decision as well, resulting his eventual (and final) denial.
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Aug 20, 2016 10:55
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My cousin's husband just started a kickstarter for his company's 3rd product. (they work in baby products, the first two are sold at major retailers and are in the top 100 at Amazon) They live in a house with a car elevator that lifts a bunch of late model Audis. I'm assuming this is BWM cause if you're living this loving rich and need crowdfunding you're either doing something wrong and are hard up for capital or you just seriously don't give a gently caress about offloading risk via crowdfunding.
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Aug 20, 2016 11:51
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Bastard Tetris posted:My cousin's husband just started a kickstarter for his company's 3rd product. (they work in baby products, the first two are sold at major retailers and are in the top 100 at Amazon) They live in a house with a car elevator that lifts a bunch of late model Audis. I'm assuming this is BWM cause if you're living this loving rich and need crowdfunding you're either doing something wrong and are hard up for capital or you just seriously don't give a gently caress about offloading risk via crowdfunding. Sounds like they have a built in customer base and are using Kickstarter for publicity around a new product launch.
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Aug 20, 2016 12:14
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Either way it's crass as hell to hit up the family for it, guess who's getting clowned at thanksgiving.
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Cloks posted:Sounds like they have a built in customer base and are using Kickstarter for publicity around a new product launch. Crass as hell yes, but I doubt BWM.
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