War Room Lounge v72: Nope

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Shoemaker said:
Heheh I once made a pro-conservative thread and one of the first replies was some jabroni accusing me of taking the liberal stance - even though I pretty clearly took the conservative side. Luckily some other jabronis came along and corrected that first jabroni.

I've been accused of being both as though the names themselves are suppose to be some kind of insult. Then again, someone once told me "go make some shoes" and they thought that was a pretty good insult, so we aren't exactly knocking on wits door around here.
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Sounds like someone trying to make a Stalin reference.
 
Trotsky said:
"As I didn't think would happen, Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve have allowed the Dollar to get so weak, but not relative to any other currencies, that our manufacturers are being positively affected. Fed Rate too low. They are their own best friends, they have many clues. Splendid!"

That?
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9.5/10. Well done. <mma4>
 
The vast majority of start ups in the tech industry goal is to cash out via acquisitions. It's why we see a ton niech back end development take precedence over end to end solutions
 
Shoemaker said:
That's being so generous that I think you wrapped back around to maximum-cynicism.
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"When I grow up I want to be the nastiest piece of work to have ever lived"
"Well, you see son.... there's a little boy in Austria and he wants to be the nastiest piece of work"
 
Gregolian said:

"When I grow up I want to be the nastiest piece of work to have ever lived"
"Well, you see son.... there's a little boy in Austria and he wants to be the nastiest piece of work"
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I've had this discussion with myself many a' time. "So do I make the shoes today, or do I murder 20 million people?"
 
Shoemaker said:
I've had this discussion with myself many a' time. "So do I make the shoes today, or do I murder 20 million people?"
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By god, you did it.



It's been done.





Someone actually watched one of Greg's YouTube videos



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ALL HAIL KING SHOEMAKER
ALL HAIL KING SHOEMAKER
 
A while ago I mentioned that my mom's dog had a litter of 10 puppies. I'm happy to say that they are all still healthy, happy, and getting ready to go to their forever homes.
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Higus said:
A while ago I mentioned that my mom's dog had a litter of 10 puppies. I'm happy to say that they are all still healthy, happy, and getting ready to go to their forever homes.
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Goddamn they're cute. I like that one in the lower right. The ones that are the "loners" in litters always have unique personalities.
 
Trotsky said:
By god, you did it.



It's been done.





Someone actually watched one of Greg's YouTube videos



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ALL HAIL KING SHOEMAKER
ALL HAIL KING SHOEMAKER
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I was made King of Sherdog and all I got were the last kings hand-me-downs.
 
Trotsky said:
Zuckerberg is more in the right than Warren is from what I can tell. Warren has been really reckless and un-exacting when talking about these antitrust issues, and she clearly singled out Facebook for the political waves it would cause, not because it was uniquely in need of breaking up. In reality, I haven't seen a compelling argument, let alone one by Warren, that Facebook needs to broken up and along what lines it might be so divided since almost all of its assets are adjacent to its central social media product.

Meanwhile, for other non-social media media conglomerates, division seems more readily practicable. Amazon and Google have both sprawled well outside their initial wheelhouse: Amazon has horizontally integrated in many areas and Google is pretty much everywhere in tech.

Cory Booker got a lot of flack for his "non-answer" on whether he would seek to break up Facebook, but his answer was correct: that all of these cases need to be handled pursuant to a consistent formula. If Warren (or Trump) wants to go after one on the basis of its notoriety, then Zuckerberg absolutely should sue.

@Jack V Savage @Gandhi What are your thoughts? I'm sure you two are somewhat knowledgeable on antitrust policy, but IDK who here knows shit about tech. Maybe @Madmick
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I wouldn't say that I'm all that knowledgeable about antitrust policy, but I agree with you.
 
Trotsky said:
Zuckerberg is more in the right than Warren is from what I can tell. Warren has been really reckless and un-exacting when talking about these antitrust issues, and she clearly singled out Facebook for the political waves it would cause, not because it was uniquely in need of breaking up. In reality, I haven't seen a compelling argument, let alone one by Warren, that Facebook needs to broken up and along what lines it might be so divided since almost all of its assets are adjacent to its central social media product.

Meanwhile, for other non-social media media conglomerates, division seems more readily practicable. Amazon and Google have both sprawled well outside their initial wheelhouse: Amazon has horizontally integrated in many areas and Google is pretty much everywhere in tech.

Cory Booker got a lot of flack for his "non-answer" on whether he would seek to break up Facebook, but his answer was correct: that all of these cases need to be handled pursuant to a consistent formula. If Warren (or Trump) wants to go after one on the basis of its notoriety, then Zuckerberg absolutely should sue.

@Jack V Savage @Gandhi What are your thoughts? I'm sure you two are somewhat knowledgeable on antitrust policy, but IDK who here knows shit about tech. Maybe @Madmick
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Warren seems wrong here, and in addition to her being wrong on a few other things lately (Mike Brown, fracking), she's kind of fucking up a lot. Facebook should be under scrutiny for how they handle data, which may include some criminal actions and certainly some major fraud (they just settled for 5 billion over Cambridge Analytical). Maybe they had antitrust practices that were missed during their latest mergers? There is at least one investigation going on.

Amazon is the turbo obvious antitrust case. Holy fuck @ the stuff they get away with.
 
Fawlty said:
Warren seems wrong here, and in addition to her being wrong on a few other things lately (Mike Brown, fracking), she's kind of fucking up a lot.
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Agree with this, too. She's taken a big hit for me. But she's still better than most of the other candidates (and much, much better than Trump).
 
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This Warren bad mouthing better tone down 27 notches in here asap!
 
Jack V Savage said:
Agree with this, too. She's taken a big hit from me. But she's still better than most of the other candidates (and much, much better than Trump).
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Woo woo. Welcome on to the Bernie Gurney, Brooey Deschanel!

The living quarters are modest and the common areas are crowded, but horsepower is unmatched.
 
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