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lavaca posted:Here's a story about Blue C Sushi, a company that is no longer circling the drain (because it went out of business, of course).
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FilthyImp posted:Dang! I think one of these was at the Arclight theatre in Hollywood. They had some weird "cost by plate color" system and it all seemed overpriced. That's actually pretty common at those conveyor belt sushi places. Both the cost and how the pricing works.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Oh wow. I didn't realize satellite TV was going to be gone by Donald Trump Jr's second term in Office. It makes sense, but it feels a little sad at the same time. loving Millennials killing satellite based television. Satellite TV ain't goin nowhere. It's still the most efficient way to mass broadcast tv.
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celewign posted:Satellite TV ain't goin nowhere. It's still the most efficient way to mass broadcast tv. Well, that’s it for direct consumer consumption at least if DirecTV and Dish leave the market. My job has a satellite feed to 2300 locations for video feeds and in a pinch internet. But even that is getting phased out with LTE routers. I can’t recall if I told this story in this thread or the obsolete technology one, but when I worked for AT&T they did a test pilot for satellite dishes on your car. Not an antenna, but a box that went on your roof with an internal rotating dish of some kind so that you could receive live TV into your minivan’s infotainment system. It was the stupidest loving idea that was made obsolete almost immediately by smartphones. Krispy Wafer has a new favorite as of 19:37 on Sep 11, 2019 |
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celewign posted:Satellite TV ain't goin nowhere. It's still the most efficient way to mass broadcast tv. Especially rural areas, where many houses may not be wired for any other option. I lived in one such house, and it was $1000+ to get the house wired. And that's why I'm now trapped in a satellite contract because of cancellation fees, even though I live in a house that can get much better service.
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If I understood the original comment about satellite TV correctly, it referred to the satellites themselves eventually reaching end of life without replacements lined up for launch. On one hand, the commercial put-things-into-orbit options are better today than when their satellites first started going up, but on the other hand you'd have to expect at&t to have some/any foresight to take advantage of that.
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Beachcomber posted:They are currently living on the side of the road in old RVs, moving whenever the cops chase them off. We are all Okies now.
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Krispy Wafer posted:
When I was a kid my dad's car had TV's in the headrests and a giant stick on antenna that covered the entire length of the windshield.
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McPhearson posted:When I was a kid my dad's car had TV's in the headrests and a giant stick on antenna that covered the entire length of the windshield. When I was a kid, our neighbors/friends had one of those big fucker minivans with the TV that I guess you could watch a VHS tape on it??? I don't think it had TV reception and this was before DVDs were a thing. I remember being like 10% jealous and 90% wondering how they all could agree on what movie to put on. Good memories of being like 8 or 9 years old, listening to my Lou Bega cassette tape on my Walkman on a long car drive 
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sweeperbravo posted:When I was a kid, our neighbors/friends had one of those big fucker minivans with the TV that I guess you could watch a VHS tape on it??? Reception sucked rear end. We ended up watching Pretty Woman on the VHS system while the rest of the group finished up their 15th trip on Viper. So weird.
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lavaca posted:Here's a story about Blue C Sushi, a company that is no longer circling the drain (because it went out of business, of course). Honestly all I had to do was get to the part about how it was founded by ex-Infospace and Go2net guys and I understood completely.
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Laterite posted:Honestly all I had to do was get to the part about how it was founded by ex-Infospace and Go2net guys and I understood completely. Exactly.
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Subjunctive posted:Exactly. Can you explain what that means for any of us under 40?
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Boywhiz88 posted:Can you explain what that means for any of us under 40? Techbros make bad decisions a bunch basically.
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Forever Chapter 11
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Sir Lemming posted:Forever Chapter 11 
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https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1172193154243670016 EDIT: After closing, the company is worth $2.5 billion less than it was earlier this morning. Doggles has a new favorite as of 21:54 on Sep 12, 2019 |
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Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1172193154243670016 who?
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SmileDirectClub sounds like a Chinese website you order carcinogenic sex toys from. WAY TO JUMP INTO A SATURATED MARKET, IDIOTS!
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"SmileDirectClub is a teledentistry company" WTF, have I broken into a joke reality
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Apparently they do... Mail-order invisible braces? You send them a 3D mold of your teeth and they have an Orthodontist look at it and they mail back braces. So it's either a clever way to disrupt the comically overpriced and corrupt US medical industry, or its yet another startup scam targeting vulnerable folks who can't afford dental plans.
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YggiDee posted:Apparently they do... Mail-order invisible braces? You send them a 3D mold of your teeth and they have an Orthodontist look at it and they mail back braces. So it's either a clever way to disrupt the comically overpriced and corrupt US medical industry, or its yet another startup scam targeting vulnerable folks who can't afford dental plans. Por qué no los dos?
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Je ne parle pas Espagnol?
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I clearly am in a different demo than most of this forum, I see those commercials all the time. It kind of seems too good to be true, though, I'm guessing it is with the business failing.
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^efb: I think they're very limited in what they can do. It seems like a more professional version of that fad of people using floss and household items to make minor adjustments based on YouTube videos. For whatever that's worth. It's just retainer tech being applied to teeth that don't need braces. There are a few of those companies, and I can't remember if SmileDirect is the one that promises to at least use real orthodontists or not. Apparently some just use nebulously defined "dental specialists." It was a talking point in what was obviously a very effective podcast ad for a company I can't remember. I have no idea how effective they are. The "scam" part is that they're really only for fairly minor adjustments and I think they wind up turning a lot of people away after promising that they can help. They definitely play it up to investors as if they're a serious competitor for braces. My sister's husband wanted to get some and got turned down. Parakeet vs. Phone has a new favorite as of 00:49 on Sep 13, 2019 |
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:^efb: I think they're very limited in what they can do. It seems like a more professional version of that fad of people using floss and household items to make minor adjustments based on YouTube videos. Like... to their teeth? 
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It's essentially mail-order Invisalign. For some teeth, it's great. For others, the work they need is too extensive. Invisalign type braces, for example, can't really pull teeth "down".
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A buddy of mine had a pretty giant gap between his top front teeth and went the smiledirectclub route. Went to an office that scanned his mouth, got some clear retainers, and had it fixed for a few grand less then the orthodontist wanted. I really don't think it's scam or anything, but there is a limit to what Invisaligns can do.
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aaaa where will i get my cheap jeans now Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1172193154243670016 hah i know goons who used to work there, glad they got out while they could
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Ariong posted:Like... to their teeth? Yep, I remember an old report on a circle of amateur dentist and orthodontist videos on Youtube. Most of it was stuff like tying floss around a tooth and tying it to an anchor in the direction you wanted it to go to close a gap. But I'm sure there were a few who pushed it further.
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McPhearson posted:A buddy of mine had a pretty giant gap between his top front teeth and went the smiledirectclub route. Went to an office that scanned his mouth, got some clear retainers, and had it fixed for a few grand less then the orthodontist wanted. I really don't think it's scam or anything, but there is a limit to what Invisaligns can do. I used SDC two years ago to fix teeth that moved over the 10+ years I was an idiot and didn’t wear a retainer. It worked great for me for a little over a grand. I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t have my teeth straightened by a traditional orthodontist previously. I had to have so much prep work done just to have braces when I was a teenager, so idk if it would be effective for anything other than minor corrections.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:hah i know goons who used to work there, glad they got out while they could Did they start to imprison their employees?
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https://twitter.com/THR/status/1172602311744659457 Shuts down tomorrow morning.
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Dear Valued Sucker, FFFFFFUCK YOU FOR WATCHING MOVIES
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I'm more amazed that it stuck around for awhile after the whole thing came crashing down more than a year ago
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MoviePass ruled in its prime and I'm glad I was able to take part in the burning of a huge pile of dipshit venture capitalist cash
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Confirmed, San Diego Frys isn't being stocked either. I only popped in for second because I didn't want to be the weird dude wandering the store taking photos. Despite this there's no good sales or anything, so the place is pretty dead, customer-wise. Iron Prince posted:I kinda mostly remember it as their end caps in the computer parts sections being dressed like like flight decks and pictures of navy planes hung everywhere. It was pretty subtle, for sure. Nothing like having ridiculous scale models of a space station suspended from the ceiling like the one in Houston. Yep, you're right, although it seems like these and the military flags hanging are the only things left.  I think the plane pictures were taken down long ago - there's evidence there used to be something on this wall: 
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Companies that are circling the drain: Rotten Red Rod posted:there's evidence there used to be something on this wall
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