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Post by RickW on Feb 3, 2021 1:48:09 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that, Don. I think you said he’d been very ill for a long time. He had severe COPD, didn’t he?
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Post by RickW on Feb 3, 2021 1:44:30 GMT -5
I have found little difference on the cargo between strings, to be honest. I like mediums because they just feel a little more firm with the short scale. I use elixirs because they last. Doug used the cheapest strings he could buy, I think he bought them by the box, Black Diamonds I believe.
The controls in mine are shit. I don’t use the pickup much, if I was, I think I’d replace everything. The controls actually rattle, and have now been damped by a piece of felt.
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Post by RickW on Feb 1, 2021 12:08:38 GMT -5
The only thing I ever knew about Gary Indiana was that song. Incredible what’s happened. So far, Canada has avoided much of that kind of thing in its major cities, mostly because there were never any major industrial centers like that, I’d guess. Resource towns come and go, but they’re a lot smaller than a place like Gary.
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Post by RickW on Jan 30, 2021 11:59:23 GMT -5
My wife used to be in the wine business. They had a representative of a major winery in France in their store to talk to customers. Guy comes in, starts talking to the winery rep about his collection. It was apparently quite something. “I’ve got this, I’ve got that. What do you think I need still?” The reply was, “A corkscrew.”
I’ve had some very nice scotch, up to $300 a bottle. I cannot honestly see how my taste buds could tell the diff with that stuff. I’d certainly be drinking it. If I had 54k to spend. You could buy at least half a dozen spendy custom acoustic guitars for that, and they don’t disappear after you play them.
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Post by RickW on Jan 30, 2021 11:54:54 GMT -5
I think it’s pretty funny. Been lots of good articles. My favourite quote was that it’s not okay for a bunch of reddit users to manipulate the mark, but it’s okay for the hedge funds to do it, which is what they’re doing when they short.
What shorting is, for those who don’t know, is you borrow a stock from a brokerage, then immediately sell it. You hope it goes down in price, because when it’s time to return it, you buy it at the lower price and return it, and keep the difference. But of course, if it goes up in value, you’re screwed. So the Reddit users all got together to buy the stocks the hedge funds were betting against, drove the price up, screwing the hedge funds, who now have to return the stocks at a much higher price.
But, the Reddit group are a bunch of cowboys. There’s a video on CNN of one idiot. He makes about 35k a year in his job. He invested $4,500 in Gamestop, and it’s now worth over a million dollars. But, he says it’s going to go up more, so he’s hanging in there. My brother in law is a wealthy man, and one of his golden rules is don’t get greedy, get out when it’s good. That guy could take his million, pay his capital gains, and set up himself and his family for a long time. When the time comes for everyone to get out, it’s going to drop like a rock.
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Post by RickW on Jan 22, 2021 10:30:24 GMT -5
These are the kind of things that cause people to join/form unions, when people are forced to work ridiculous hours. There is nothing more joyous than working for a management group who “calculates” how hard you can work. It’s rampant in IT, but the pay is generally a lot better, so you get tons of money to eat stress. It’s not healthy long term.
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Post by RickW on Jan 18, 2021 15:31:37 GMT -5
Sounds about right for a Chicagoan. Except that he was from Los Angeles.
A victim of his new environment.
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Post by RickW on Jan 18, 2021 15:27:16 GMT -5
This fellow at O'Hare was arrested in a secure area for impersonating airport security personnel. He had swiped someone's badge and ID. Allegedly. Sounds about right for a Chicagoan.
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Post by RickW on Jan 17, 2021 18:46:30 GMT -5
Can’t say I ever much cared for the sound. I’d say he ruined a lot of things. Let It Be would have been a much better album without the schmaltz.
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Post by RickW on Jan 17, 2021 1:54:28 GMT -5
I saw that too, Evan. Susan and I loved it. Found two albums by him on Spotify, but both with just a standard guitar. Not that inspired in the playing either. I could listen to a whole album of what he did in that video, easily.
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Post by RickW on Jan 16, 2021 16:19:37 GMT -5
It's just a dumb ol' Martin, who cares? Exactly! Except for the 10k part. That just hurts.
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Post by RickW on Jan 16, 2021 14:30:48 GMT -5
I think Marshall might have been the one with the spray paint.
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Post by RickW on Jan 13, 2021 11:09:07 GMT -5
I’ll give you my opinion any time, absolutely free. I may even back it up with some sort of perverse logic.
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Post by RickW on Jan 12, 2021 11:16:32 GMT -5
I do have to say, “Crimson Tide” has got to be the coolest name in sports.
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Post by RickW on Jan 9, 2021 21:30:02 GMT -5
The truth of the matter is that is possible to provide a lot more social services, such as medicine and welfare, and still balance the budget. We did it for several years. It requires people being willing to pay taxes. Ours were not outrageous. Somewhere there is a happy medium between capitalism and socialism. At very least, whatever a politician proposes, they should be putting out a viablle financial plan for who the budget will be balanced, and if they are going to cut taxes, they need to show what will no longer be provided. Neither side of the political spectrum has done much of a job of that.
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Post by RickW on Jan 9, 2021 20:30:22 GMT -5
You could have just said, “give them bread and circuses until the money runs out.”
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Post by RickW on Jan 9, 2021 20:25:40 GMT -5
Some of my favourite Dilberts. I’ve been there, oh yes.
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Post by RickW on Jan 9, 2021 20:16:22 GMT -5
The people behind all the lies, people like Roger Stone, have done a great job at creating a seperate reality for a very large number of people.
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Post by RickW on Jan 8, 2021 15:07:38 GMT -5
I would say that if they can’t get him out before the end, then Biden needs to walk away, and let others deal with it. There’s talk that they could continue impeachment after the 20th, but really, Biden nees to concentrate on many other things, rather than sticking pins in Trump.
As to his support, I’m sure there are lots of people on the right who will walk away from the man. The bad news for the GOP is that he still stands to retain lots of support. Even if he retains 10 percent, and draws off that much from the rest of the party, good luck trying to get anyone elected at all.
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Post by RickW on Jan 6, 2021 20:35:29 GMT -5
It was a saddening day but I was heartened to hear a stream of patriotic Republicans condemn this insurrection. Right now I'm listening to a Trump-supporting representative say he'll continue his objection. As an aside, I haven't watched a TV news broadcast in quite a few years. Today I tuned in and stopped when I found CNN. I was boggled and irritated by the nonstop editorials about what was occurring. I'm not interested in their opinions. I looked for another channel and the first one I found was NBC. At least it doesn't sound like an op-ed page. We don’t even have it any more. I would rush to watch when something was happening, only to find them breathlessly repeating themselves, over, and over, and over, showing the same few clips over, and over.
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