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Check out this cool Frontline documentary about investing from the year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1kn95761wg plus ça change and all that
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Hail Satan! Did you know the Church of Satan has a $250 membership fee, while The Satanic Temple has free membership?! Edit: "just Any Rand with ceremony and philosophy added." 
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Nofeed posted:Check out this cool Frontline documentary about investing from the year Haha I remember kinda-sorta wanting an IOmega zip drive way back when, but it seemed way to expensive for what it was even before CD-Rs were common. Also I can smell the cocaine coming off that dude in the opening clips. Makes me wanna re-read 'devil take the hindmost' 
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Feb 17, 2021 21:02
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That's Jim Cramer, he's just as much of a clown now. That video's a great find.
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Guest2553 posted:Haha I remember kinda-sorta wanting an IOmega zip drive way back when, but it seemed way to expensive for what it was even before CD-Rs were common. I remember Zip drives being pretty common and not all that expensive
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Fame Douglas posted:I remember Zip drives being pretty common and not all that expensive Yeah, they were pretty cheap and super useful if you were, as I was at at the time, an on-site tech. I used to carry 2 of them because of the whole click of death thing. They were horribly cheaply built. The expensive ones were the Jaz drives. Those would break if you looked at them funny, so forget putting one in your tool bag.
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Feb 18, 2021 00:05
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BigHead posted:Hail Satan! Brewery near me held a Black Mass with the Satanic Temple of Houston as a launch for their cult ($666 for $3 beers for life, bad with money on their part). Catholic Church weirdos are out every other weekend across the street protesting. Hail satan.
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Motronic posted:Yeah, they were pretty cheap and super useful if you were, as I was at at the time, an on-site tech. I used to carry 2 of them because of the whole click of death thing. They were horribly cheaply built. I had an internal Jaz drive in a PowerMac 9600. It ate the one Jaz disk I had, so I replaced it with an internal SyQuest 270 drive I got from God only knows where.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I had an internal Jaz drive in a PowerMac 9600. It ate the one Jaz disk I had Good for you because, like the zip drives, a click of death drive will destroy all other disks it touches! And, a click of death'd disk has a good shot as destroying any drive you put it in too. Those were fun times. Plugging that POS into a parallel port, slamming a boot floppy and running guest.exe just so you could get the Compaq microchannel config tools running because you were installing a lovely new token ring card..........
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Micro Channel, wow. Haven't heard that name in a long time.
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Fame Douglas posted:Micro Channel, wow. Haven't heard that name in a long time. It was better than playing games with jumpers to find a free IRQ and at least TWO ranges of base IO addresses for loving token ring cards. But not by much. Yes, I was a front line tech in the mid 90s, but in rural eastern NC which was still IBM-land so I dealt with some poo poo. Token ring was the easiest of the weird stuff. I was mostly dealing with AS400s or larger and trying to make the lovely PCs of the time interface with them. Yay SNA server!
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Nofeed posted:Check out this cool Frontline documentary about investing from the year Jim Cramer talking about how there wouldn’t be communism because rich people make lots of money on the market is very on point for him. That man does not see anything outside the world of finance. Also hilarious to see him just yelling numbers around on what to buy. I’m sure all of that is based on extensive research on the companies he’s buying like a rational investor.
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Nofeed posted:Check out this cool Frontline documentary about investing from the year If we're comparing overheated markets in 1997 to now, remember that markets continued to run up for another 3 years after this documentary. You gonna go chicken and pull your money out now and lose years of gains? No one knows when the next crash is coming, just that another one is coming, blah blah blah.
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I legit lost $130,000 in dogecoin today. Let's just say that dropbox closed the account that had my wallet backups in it.  but that's what I deserve for being a disorganized loser back in 2014.
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Fuzzyjello posted:I legit lost $130,000 in dogecoin today. Let's just say that dropbox closed the account that had my wallet backups in it. Lol
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Fuzzyjello posted:I legit lost $130,000 in dogecoin today. Let's just say that dropbox closed the account that had my wallet backups in it.  please tell me this is a reddit C/P
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Fuzzyjello posted:I legit lost $130,000 in dogecoin today. Let's just say that dropbox closed the account that had my wallet backups in it. Rest in piss
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Fuzzyjello posted:I legit lost $130,000 in dogecoin today. Let's just say that dropbox closed the account that had my wallet backups in it. The currency of the future everyone
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ranbo das posted:The currency of the future everyone I prefer bitcoin, the one where you might be rich but good luck ever cashing out.
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i had to move $50 worth of bitcoin today and I didn't bother looking at the transaction fee because I just wanted to get the hell out of there and so I had to do it a second time because it cost $20. $40 all up to the miners, well done burning those fuels chaps, you earned it.
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Some co-workers were talking about it in a meeting today and they kept pronouncing dogecoin like "doujh" in the Venetian style and I thought it sounded wrong but then realized I had never in my life heard that spoken aloud until today. Gonna post a jif of a Shiba Inu now
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canyoneer posted:Some co-workers were talking about it in a meeting today and they kept pronouncing dogecoin like "doujh" in the Venetian style and I thought it sounded wrong but then realized I had never in my life heard that spoken aloud until today. ...is there another way to pronounce doge?
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I’ve heard soft-g “doujh”, hard-g “dou-G”, “dog”, and “doggie”.
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Origin of doge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSgRzCAtXA&t=23s
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Someone at work started talking to me about "dog coin" this week. Apparently it was created by Elon Musk. Didn't know that.
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I pronounce the anime with a hard EYE'M at the end
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yall are giving me PTSD from when I worked @ iomega tech support back when I was 18. It was both GWM and BWM. I was a highschooler making like 10-11 an hour, but also I was a highschooler and instead of putting money in savings I was blowing it on useless poo poo.
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tater_salad posted:yall are giving me PTSD from when I worked @ iomega tech support back when I was 18. It was both GWM and BWM. I was a highschooler making like 10-11 an hour, but also I was a highschooler and instead of putting money in savings I was blowing it on useless poo poo. Dude, I feel bad for kids these days because when I was 18 in the early aughts I could sign up at a temp agency and get a $15hour job with ease. $500 a week with no expenses beyond gas money, what a dream life
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tater_salad posted:yall are giving me PTSD from when I worked @ iomega tech support back when I was 18. It was both GWM and BWM. I was a highschooler making like 10-11 an hour, but also I was a highschooler and instead of putting money in savings I was blowing it on useless poo poo. What percentage of calls were about failing zipdisks?
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potee posted:What percentage of calls were about failing zipdisks? I'd say in a week or so when I was working 30 hours a week I'd probably get 1-2 click of deaths, it was a problem 100%, but nowhere near the amount of drives that everyoen makes it out to be. Sometimes it was assholes that thought any issue a zip drive had would be a free replacement. click of death drives would be replaced for free at any point, I think we also replaced all disks for no charge either Generally it was troubleshooting parallels port issues (UGHHHH) and people with lovely USB controllers (Sony VAIO looking at you), and folks with lovely computers who couldn't' keep up with a 4x CD drive. The worst was people calling with loving tape drives, or iomega SCSI controllers with the jazz drives (Remember IRQ's and IRQ conflicts) I could do the basic troubleshooting in probably 10 mins. Reboot comptuer, check bios for working port(s)/ proper settings, boot from that into safemode, and remove the 25 extra USB / PPT controllers, reboot let the port drivers install and install the iomega drivers again. reboot and usually it worked. I was sad that eventually my company lost the contract for support and iomega moved it to India, I was moved to sony support, which SUuuucked, there was no brainpower at all. It was mostly, unplug, replug, nope broken, it'll be $xxx to fix and take 8 weeks, sure you can buy a new one for less but you see your tivo lifetime subscription is tied to the device, I can't guarantee TIVO will transfer it. Some of my memorable calls: "How good is the password encryption? Like can the cops get into it.. I'm not storing kiddy porn on it but I do have all my e-mails with a cops wife I"m seeing on there" "I'm not good at measurin, do I use the side of the rule that goes to 12 or 30?" - trying to walk someone through Avery label printer software for CD burner (we didn't officially support but it was a slow day) Drive was DOA from store: "Hear me out now, I know that like my car tires are good conductors, but is it possible that because I was driving and had a window open during a lightning storm that could have shorted the power supply?" tater_salad fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Can someone hook me up with that article/those images where the 'struggling single mom on 500k/yr' and the 'poor doctor couple making 800K+' might have to pay more taxes or something and look all forlorn? It's driving me mad I can't find it Edit: hail satan FlerpNerpin fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Spiffness posted:Can someone hook me up with that article/those images where the 'struggling single mom on 500k/yr' and the 'poor doctor couple making 800K+' might have to pay more taxes or something and look all forlorn? It's driving me mad I can't find it The original is from a (paywalled) WSJ article, "How much will your taxes jump?", and is about as tonedeaf as you'd imagine a WSJ article like that to be.  The artist was Tim Foley, who has convenient higher-res versions on his website for you.
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Awesome. Thank you (both)!
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Yond Cassius posted:The original is from a (paywalled) WSJ article, "How much will your taxes jump?", and is about as tonedeaf as you'd imagine a WSJ article like that to be. Hail Satan.
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That is so amazing, every time I see it it seems like a parody. I just can't understand how something like that gets by both a writer and an editor, two jobs which definitely aren't making $230k or $260k.
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Yond Cassius posted:The original is from a (paywalled) WSJ article, "How much will your taxes jump?", and is about as tonedeaf as you'd imagine a WSJ article like that to be. these really speak to me. Imagine making 650k and only being able to come up with 70k in deductions. Wouldnt that indicate you are saving up a shitload of money and are in no financial peril whatsoever? Maybe they are boat collectors or something else insane Fauxtool fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Fauxtool posted:these really speak to me.
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Thanatosian posted:There are a bunch of tax deductions/incentives for yacht purchases, no way they're boat people with deductions that low. even a crippling gambling addiction lets you write off losses. What are these imaginary people even doing, fifa lootboxes?
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