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BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Phanatic posted:

There are well over 1000 Long EZs out there, it's generally regarded as a safe and forgiving plane to fly.What killed Denver was (as fatal accidents usually are), a combination of several factors:

1. The guy who built this particular plane stuck the fuel gauge and the fuel tank selector switch behind the pilot. So the pilot can't see the gauge himself, without waving a mirror around in the cockpit. Also, he can't turn the switch without contorting around and reaching behind himself. And when he does this, his foot pushes against one of the rudder pedals.
2. He'd been told the plane was low on fuel but for whatever reason he didn't bother fueling.
3. While he was an experienced pilot with 2700 hours and ratings for a wide variety of planes including multi-engine, seaplanes, gliders, and Learjets, this was a very new aircraft for him and he only had a couple of check flights in it.

And if you think that looks cool (and I agree):

https://www.google.com/search?q=rut...iw=1353&bih=878


There are definitely personality types for whom purchasing a small plane isn't so much BWM as it is an overly-elaborate suicide plan. But I don't think Denver was one of those. Incidentally, his father was a supersonic nuclear bomber pilot who set several world speed records in a B-5B.

He also had his pilots license pulled after his two DWIs.

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BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:

Denver or his dad?

Denver, but his dad wouldn't surprise me.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Youth Decay posted:

loving Visa is setting up a pyramid scheme now.


Goddamn that's dumb.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Cacafuego posted:

E: the gently caress is a hunbot

Looks like a MLM spammer, not sure why they're called hunbots.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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wilderthanmild posted:

How much could a "Full-time" Lyft or Uber driver even make? I've never heard anything to suggest it should ever be more than something you do as a side hustle.

Fake almost edit: He's planning on doing some kind of rental thing for this? JFC how would you ever make money on that?

You wouldn't. Lyft and Uber are trying to slowly phase out human drivers for self-driving cars so rates are sinking like a rock.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:

Is "butt chugging" a thing that I learned from the forums?

edit: it doesn't seem to be on the SAclopedia and I'm surely not putting that into Google at work.

I remember it from a thread a few years back. Some dumb high school kids were trying to drink vodka by shooting it up their asses so they wouldn't pop on a breathalyzer.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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What if you bought half a cow for a wedding reception? Think of the savings!

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Hoodwinker posted:

There's a reason the obituaries are in the business section of the newspaper.

Funeral homes have a sweet deal going as well.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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22 Eargesplitten posted:

Man, I should have screenshotted the facebook status of a junior high friend who posted a video about how you don't have to pay taxes. He said that no taxation without representation (is that even part of our law? DC has no representation) means you can choose to represent yourself and tell the IRS you owe $0.

TBF he probably doesn't make enough money for the IRS to bother coming after him, unless he and his girlfriend are still selling weed, get arrested, and that gets tacked on top.

But the IRS didn't print the tax return with 11-point Helvetica, THAT MEANS ITS NOT ENFORCEABLE!

BigDave fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jan 22, 2018

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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n8r posted:

I'm not sure how things compare nationwide, but around here assisted living places that are 'private pay' range from about $4-6k per month. They can definitely give you ballpark numbers based upon care needs. I've delt with a mother in law in declining health, it's a rough deal.

Here in Minnesota, a middle-of-the-road assisted care facility will run you about $8k, a 'good' home is double that.

After you see a family member go through living in one of those places, assisted suicide begins to make sense. :sigh:

BigDave fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Jan 24, 2018

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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n8r posted:

That sounds... really high. You sure about that?

When I google Minneapolis assisted living prices I got average prices of $3500

Bill for my mom's last 30 day stay at Hillcrest in Wayzata, $8k.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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FrozenVent posted:

I rarely check my pay stubs because fuuuuuck logging into adp, that stupid piece of poo poo software.

At least you have software.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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White Chocolate posted:

SACoins! When is the ICO?

Yesterday. Zuckerberg is ponying up $500 million.

It's disrupting the disruption market!

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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crazypeltast52 posted:

They would make two loans, one on the manufactured component and one on the sute built component, for twice the fees!

And three separate insurance policy's. One for the house mortgage, one for the car loan and one in case both loans defaulted.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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canyoneer posted:

It's a hellscape of a nation.

Wife's uncle in ZA had all the windows smashed on his car and had some stuff stolen out of it, including a coat. It was walking distance from the police station, and they never came to investigate. So he walks in to make a report, and the officer at the front desk is wearing the coat that was just stolen out of his car. He chose not to make a report.

I understand that District 9, absent the aliens, is basically a documentary.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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So the Dow Jones took a dump, dropped 665 points. S&P 500 dropped 59.

Getting spooked and fireselling your 401k balance on Monday: BWM.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Moneyball posted:

I was just being an unhelpful rear end in a top hat.

My experience is banks being more thirsty for new customers than willing to turn them away. When I was a young idiot, I let a Bank of America account go in to the negative due to a bunch of overdraw fees hitting over a weekend. Like four separate instances of $33. I said gently caress that and let whatever happens happen, and opened up a Suntrust account with no problem.

Have you gone in to banks in person and tried to sign up? I can't imagine being turned away unless what your family did was catastrophically bad. And once you get a debit card, how many sites are going to be blacklisted? I haven't bought a porn subscription since like the first day I turned 18, but no problems then, and no problems with any other purchases for the last 15 years or so.

Meh, it depends. US Bank blacklisted me for about 5 years because I over-drafted on their not a payday loan program. I owed about $300+ and 19 year old self told them to go screw.

Banks used to be real trigger happy with something called ChexSystem, it's like Experian for checking accounts, but with fewer data breaches.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Wow, Clickhole is doing a better satire job then The Onion.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Panfilo posted:

Wouldn't insurance cover something like a home invasion/robbery situation?

Yeah, and homeowners insurance is usually required on a mortgage.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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ryde posted:

Silverbugs tend to believe that silver is undervalued compared to gold.

Don't they believe this because of the Silver Thursday debacle?

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Switchback posted:



This breakfast just cost my in-laws $45 + $8 service fee and coffee isn’t even included.

Marriott or Hilton?

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Enfys posted:

I wouldn't trust any cheese that requires that kind of spin

Speaking of Australia, I hadn't heard of AfterPay before but it sounds like something full of BWM potential for impulse shoppers. You pay nothing at participating retailers for whatever you're "buying" and then pay fortnightly installments to Afterpay instead. There's no interest but there are late fees, and there's no credit check when people sign up. This is another area where the law isn't quite keeping up with technology as models like this are currently unregulated. By not charging interest they can avoid a lot of the consumer credit protection laws while also complicating your position with the retailer if you have a dispute.

I suppose in theory it's not the worst thing (and far less predatory than payday loans) if you're responsible enough to be able to make all your payments on time, but...




:jerkbag:

Jesus, what a pretentious rear end in a top hat.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Kerosene, meet bonfire.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Moneyball posted:

So this is an ad



I mean, they're not wrong.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Tipps posted:

Wait til they remove fiduciary restrictions from lawyers, and estate lawyers start secretly writing themselves into their clients wills overnight, charging 100% contingency fees, etc. :allears:

We're not lawyers, just salesmen selling legal products! :capitalism:

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

hailthefish posted:

IDGI.

"Completely normal applicant sends completely normal resume to literal entry-level job opening in their field, THE TEMERITY!!!!"?

Comm majors get a lot of poo poo for having a worthless degree.

https://youtu.be/_4OuAAM4v_Y
I'm majoring in Communication Studies. :(

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Xenocides posted:

You can always look down on the political science majors.

PoliSci majors: "I'm gonna be a lawyer, then run for the Senate!" :downs:

Sure you are pal, sure you are.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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totalnewbie posted:

Side note: what's an actually good score for LSAT?

180 is the highest you can get, so 170-ish is upper tier.

Median score is 150, so that would be a equivalent of a 18 on the ACT, or 900 on the SAT.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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:sever:, and how does a DUI cost 25K? Unless he hit another car or something.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Splicer posted:

This post contains roughly as many horses as it does people who are not going to jail.

Employer’s bank removed all payroll history. Still no tax forms sent out.

Hello, IRS, State Revenue, and Dept of Labor? I'd like to report a case of massive employee misclassification and tax fraud.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

Is the Tesla the successful modern counterpart of the DeLorean?

Musk getting set up by the FBI in a coke deal would be pretty loving hilarious.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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22 Eargesplitten posted:

Let’s be honest, South Dakota does sound like the best option out of those three. Probably windy as hell and cold, but better than Wisconsin or Alabama for the living environment.

Do you need to pass the bar again for each state you practice in? I know nothing about being a lawyer.

South Dakota doesn't have very much going for it. Aside from corporations having headquarters there as a tax dodge, and finance companies issuing credit cards from there because South Dakota doesn't have a limit on consumer interest rates.

It's the Deleware of the upper midwest.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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22 Eargesplitten posted:

Yes, but it’s got to be less unpleasant than Alabama, and not as dead economy alcoholism-filled as Wisconsin.

Better then Alabama, yes.

Better then Wisconsin? Coin toss, depending on where you live.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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sleepy gary posted:

Is all the poop and piss about some sort of misplaced revenge, or mental illness?

I'm guessing a combination of both.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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NNNEEERRRDDDSSS

https://www.doversaddlery.com/credit-card-info-page/a/401/
It's a credit card, but for horses.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Sirotan posted:

Some BWM just knocked on my front door, a college kid looking for a host family. Says he just flew in from Louisiana this morning and had nowhere to stay tonight. A bit of Internet sleuthing tells me he's probably gotten himself roped into a lovely MLM called Southwestern. From some girl's AMA it sounds like a miserable way to spend a summer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/h51my/iama_former_bookgirl_who_sold_books_doortodoor/


It's much worse then that. Most of these companies are virtually untraceable, and a lot of them are technically human traffickers.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jul/16/people-trafficking-door-to-door-sales-us-abuse-exploitation-polaris-report

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/trapped-into-selling-magazines-door-to-door/388601/

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country
Remember Theranos? The Sillicon Valley disrupting unicorn insert additional buzzword here startup?

Guess who just pled guilty to fraud charges?

quote:

Company founder Elizabeth Holmes, widely hailed as Silicon Valley’s first female billionaire startup founder, agreed to a settlement with federal regulators that strips her of voting control of Theranos, bans her from being an officer or director of any public company for 10 years and requires her to pay a $500,000 penalty.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-charges-theranos-and-founder-elizabeth-holmes-with-fraud-1521045648?mod=trending_now_3

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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22 Eargesplitten posted:

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Anyone who wants to open a restaurant should be forced to watch an all day marathon of Kitchen Nightmares from the time they get up to the time they fall asleep. After that 75% would probably change their minds, and the rest are either prepared or at least can’t say they weren’t warned. There’s so many where the owners mention cashing out their retirement to try to keep the restaurant running.

Don't mine gold, sell the shovels to gold miners.

If I win the lottery, I'm starting a kitchen appliance and supply company.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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Guest2553 posted:

Yes it is. I got you fam.

I re-read it every year or so to chase that high.

As good as that was (and gently caress it was good), there was a goon story about how he tries to take over a restaurant and runs into a bunch of family problems, including embezzling. I don't remember his name, only that (1) it was a BBQ restaurant and (2) he had taken community college culinary art classes.

I also want to say it was in Ohio, even though it was a Cajun menu.

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BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

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GamingHyena posted:

His next thought is "maybe I'll flip homes in the Bay area."

Because after you lose all of your money at blackjack, its time to upgrade to the high roller section.

Does San Francisco even have any houses left to flip? I thought they were all owned by mysterious LLC's that were connected to Chinese and Russian money laundering.

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