There is something in investing known as the "Bigger Idiot Theory". It states that an investment is good as long as there is a bigger idiot who will pay more for it.
It appears that BitCoin investors don't have any bigger idiots left. They win the prize.
I think hockey without hitting will appeal to a lot of fans who enjoy a game that will require finesse and skill.
Correct. As a former Chicagoan, I went to a lot of Blackhawks games. Early in the Toews/Kane era, you could already see that they were transitioning away from needing an enforcer. Yes, they had Dustin Byfuglien for a while but when he left they didn't replace him. They certainly didn't have a designated thug the way teams like Boston had with Lucic. It was just fast skating, precise and flashy puck-handling and a lot of scoring. No need to drop the gloves when you're blasting past opponents like they were standing in sand.
Billions of dollars are at stake with the NFL. You think that is just going to evaporate?
Boxing was the biggest sport in the world at one time. At all levels from CYO to Golden Gloves to amateur to pros. At all weight classes. In our lifetime. Now they struggle to find enough boxers to fill a card, and it's just a footnote. Yes, it can all evaporate. Pop Warner and high school programs are already hurting in most of the US because kids don't want to play football or their parents won't let them. Maybe it will become a regional sport, like NASCAR, but the end is just over the horizon for football as a national sport.
I love football, but it's on its way out. I don't think there is a way to save it.
The CTEs don't kill you (unless you count the suicides), but they will turn you into a drooling wreck like Jim McMahon.
The main thing that's been keeping the NFL afloat is gambling, and thanks to the much higher incidence of injury, the gamblers are finally starting to abandon it for more interesting games, like basketball, baseball, hockey. As a veteran fantasy football player, I can tell you that practically all of the skill has been taken out of it, making it much less fun. This year, I lost my stud, #1pick running back, David Johnson very early in the season, and I only made the playoffs because the other good players also lost their best picks as the season wore on.
And football continues to be a game of exploitation. Parents are putting their kids in football programs in the same numbers any more (except in the South, where brain damage is less noticeable) and I expect football to go the way of boxing. Another fine sport that just got to be too depressing to enjoy.
That is a far fucking cry from what is meant by "social justice" in this context.
You're using the 4chan definition of social justice. Alt-right jackoffs are the only ones that use that definition. That should have been made clear earlier in this discussion and we could have all saved some time.
Oh, which one of his stories was about diving people into groups according to identity politics
I see the confusion now. You're operating with a definition of social justice that is only shared by other right-wing jackoffs. That's not going to equip you for a discussion with the world more broadly, lgw. It only equips you for a discussion on 4chan.
So I guess the 'Alt-Right' have been around since the 1800s then? Given that Marry Shelly wrong that novel in 1818... in England.
Yes, in the early 1800s UK, the alt-right were known as "Pittites" and were a faction of the Tory party, the same way the alt-right in the US today is a faction of the Republican Party. The Pittites were opposed to the abolition of slavery and were generally racist, pro-big business and pro-religion. As one would expect.
The Golden Age of SF was much more about proposing all sorts of ways man might live in the future, including many that were the author's idea of utopia, but the point was people were happy in the setting, outside of whatever the drama of the book was.
That reading of the "Golden Age" of sci-fi is as wrong as it is pedestrian. My guess is that's because you haven't read that much sci-fi, golden age or not. The novels were most certainly not about how "everyone was happy".
Also, not everything with which you disagree is "trolling".
Isn't there a version of Altered Carbon coming out on Netflix tomorrow? That could be good. I like Richard K. Morgan.
I don't know what part he plays, but James Purefoy is in the series, and he's really good. He plays Hap Collins in the AMC series based on the Hap & Leonard novels of the great Texas gothic author Joe R. Lansdale (Bad Chili, Mucho Mojo, etc). If you missed that series you should try to go back and watch it. And you should definitely read anything by Joe R. Lansdale.
Let's have something inspiring - what SF used to be!
Science fiction started as social justice literature. The very first science fiction novel, Frankenstein, was all about how small-minded members of the alt-right attacked someone who was misunderstood for looking and acting different.
All I'm awaiting is a new sci-fi movie that isn't about 'social justice' or otherwise forcing leftist ideologies on the audience.
Then I'm not sure science fiction is what you're looking for.
Science fiction has always leaned toward social justice, and to a great extent, leftist ideology. There are some counter-examples, but overall, the arc of science fiction bends toward justice.
The rest of the states will be bailing california out. California has never bailed anyone out.
That's just not true. California bails out all but 13 other states, every year. It's what's known as a "donor" state because we pay more in taxes to the federal government than we receive in federal spending. By contrast, South Carolina receives almost $8 from the federal government for every $1 it sends to them in taxes. California receives less than $1.
We need to draw a line somewhere and say it's not reasonable to judge workplace behavior decades ago by the standards of the current era.
No. It was skeevy then and it's skeevy now. Men who sexually harassed women in the '70s knew what they were doing was wrong, but they also knew there was a lot less the women could do to fight back. They made a choice.
Ask a woman who was in the workplace in the 1970s whether she didn't mind sexual harassment back then "because it was '70s". In the "court of public opinion", it's not up to the perpetrators to decide when the statute of limitations has run out. It's up to the victims.
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I'm glad you're not my accountant.
There is something in investing known as the "Bigger Idiot Theory". It states that an investment is good as long as there is a bigger idiot who will pay more for it.
It appears that BitCoin investors don't have any bigger idiots left. They win the prize.
Have you ever been to the US?
^^Slashdot math^^
Correct. As a former Chicagoan, I went to a lot of Blackhawks games. Early in the Toews/Kane era, you could already see that they were transitioning away from needing an enforcer. Yes, they had Dustin Byfuglien for a while but when he left they didn't replace him. They certainly didn't have a designated thug the way teams like Boston had with Lucic. It was just fast skating, precise and flashy puck-handling and a lot of scoring. No need to drop the gloves when you're blasting past opponents like they were standing in sand.
Boxing was the biggest sport in the world at one time. At all levels from CYO to Golden Gloves to amateur to pros. At all weight classes. In our lifetime. Now they struggle to find enough boxers to fill a card, and it's just a footnote. Yes, it can all evaporate. Pop Warner and high school programs are already hurting in most of the US because kids don't want to play football or their parents won't let them. Maybe it will become a regional sport, like NASCAR, but the end is just over the horizon for football as a national sport.
I love football, but it's on its way out. I don't think there is a way to save it.
The CTEs don't kill you (unless you count the suicides), but they will turn you into a drooling wreck like Jim McMahon.
The main thing that's been keeping the NFL afloat is gambling, and thanks to the much higher incidence of injury, the gamblers are finally starting to abandon it for more interesting games, like basketball, baseball, hockey. As a veteran fantasy football player, I can tell you that practically all of the skill has been taken out of it, making it much less fun. This year, I lost my stud, #1pick running back, David Johnson very early in the season, and I only made the playoffs because the other good players also lost their best picks as the season wore on.
And football continues to be a game of exploitation. Parents are putting their kids in football programs in the same numbers any more (except in the South, where brain damage is less noticeable) and I expect football to go the way of boxing. Another fine sport that just got to be too depressing to enjoy.
You're using the 4chan definition of social justice. Alt-right jackoffs are the only ones that use that definition. That should have been made clear earlier in this discussion and we could have all saved some time.
I see the confusion now. You're operating with a definition of social justice that is only shared by other right-wing jackoffs. That's not going to equip you for a discussion with the world more broadly, lgw. It only equips you for a discussion on 4chan.
Yes, in the early 1800s UK, the alt-right were known as "Pittites" and were a faction of the Tory party, the same way the alt-right in the US today is a faction of the Republican Party. The Pittites were opposed to the abolition of slavery and were generally racist, pro-big business and pro-religion. As one would expect.
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Ah, I see the problem. I was talking about sci-fi.
And, practically every single one of Philip K. Dick's stories has social justice themes.
Every single one of those novels you mention had social justice themes. Every single one. You haven't read any of them, have you?
Even the ones that personally held conservative beliefs rarely did so in their fiction.
That reading of the "Golden Age" of sci-fi is as wrong as it is pedestrian. My guess is that's because you haven't read that much sci-fi, golden age or not. The novels were most certainly not about how "everyone was happy".
Also, not everything with which you disagree is "trolling".
Isn't there a version of Altered Carbon coming out on Netflix tomorrow? That could be good. I like Richard K. Morgan.
I don't know what part he plays, but James Purefoy is in the series, and he's really good. He plays Hap Collins in the AMC series based on the Hap & Leonard novels of the great Texas gothic author Joe R. Lansdale (Bad Chili, Mucho Mojo, etc). If you missed that series you should try to go back and watch it. And you should definitely read anything by Joe R. Lansdale.
Science fiction started as social justice literature. The very first science fiction novel, Frankenstein, was all about how small-minded members of the alt-right attacked someone who was misunderstood for looking and acting different.
Then I'm not sure science fiction is what you're looking for.
Science fiction has always leaned toward social justice, and to a great extent, leftist ideology. There are some counter-examples, but overall, the arc of science fiction bends toward justice.
That's just not true. California bails out all but 13 other states, every year. It's what's known as a "donor" state because we pay more in taxes to the federal government than we receive in federal spending. By contrast, South Carolina receives almost $8 from the federal government for every $1 it sends to them in taxes. California receives less than $1.
https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...
It is still unclear whether the eagle was trying to attack Trump or have sex with his hair.
Boy, you took a little bit of a leap from "let's not give this guy an honor" to, "let's destroy all the work he ever did".
I saw something earlier today about a "GOP train wreck". Is this connected to that story, or does it just refer to the Republicans more generally?
No. It was skeevy then and it's skeevy now. Men who sexually harassed women in the '70s knew what they were doing was wrong, but they also knew there was a lot less the women could do to fight back. They made a choice.
Ask a woman who was in the workplace in the 1970s whether she didn't mind sexual harassment back then "because it was '70s". In the "court of public opinion", it's not up to the perpetrators to decide when the statute of limitations has run out. It's up to the victims.
Sounds like karma is catching up with Nolan Bushnell.
Not getting an award is not the same thing as being stricken "from history".
Taking down a monument dedicated to your glorification is not the same thing as being stricken "from history".
History doesn't change. All that changes is that someone dishonorable doesn't get honored.
According to my neighbor, who is a zoologist, the fox says, "hatee hatee hatee ho".
Now I'm wondering if he was pulling my leg.