JaiDee Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 So Don Sterling has been deemed mentally incompetent by 2 neurologists.... first reflex is that is is some sort of legal angle for him to wriggle out of trouble, but then they go & sell the team for $2 billion when all the pundits put its value around $500 mil. How crazy can he be? My buddy Doug from Baltimore had a theory about this one, that it was all a manufactured affair filled with racist comments, etc, to get people talking about the team in order to make them more valuable! Which other team have people talked MORE about this past month?? Hell, the GOOD time in LA isn't even worth 2 billion.....nor are the Cowboys, the Patriots, or even the Yankees. Ballmer got jacked, it will take 15 or 20 years for that team to be worth 2 billion. Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 I figure Ballmer doesn't care too much if the team loses money. He wants to build a team that wins championships. Furthermore, probably only a handful of cities appeal to him. And the timing is right. He seems to be in the the uber competitive Jerry Jones/Steinbrenner mold. For the NBA it solves a big problem, getting rid of Sterling, in a way such that everybody's happy. If I was super rich, what better toy to buy than a sports franchise! Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Just a reminder why it's NEVER a good idea to get into one of those crappy little minivans you see buzzing around the roads in southeast Asia http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/731001-12-die-in-van-truck-crash-in-chaiyaphum-province/?utm_source=newsletter-20140602-1424&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news ''It was suspected that the van driver might be asleep.'' Quote Link to comment
xyzzy Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 I figure Ballmer doesn't care too much if the team loses money. He wants to build a team that wins championships. Furthermore, probably only a handful of cities appeal to him. And the timing is right. He seems to be in the the uber competitive Jerry Jones/Steinbrenner mold. For the NBA it solves a big problem, getting rid of Sterling, in a way such that everybody's happy. If I was super rich, what better toy to buy than a sports franchise! Ballmer was out bid for the Sacramento Kings a few years ago. He made sure not to lose this time. Although it's hard to imagine $1.5B wouldn't be a winning bit. Rumors are there were a couple of bids in the low $1B+ range. Ballmer, who worked at Microsoft for over 30 years in Washington state, planned to move the Kings to Seattle to replace the departed SuperSonics (now the Oklahoma City Thunder). It would seem hard to justify moving a $2B team to small market Seattle. Especially considering there is another NBA team in Portland, OR only about 175 miles away. But Ballmer is no stranger to throwing cash around. He blew lots of cash on his huge yacht (Google it). Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Methinks Ballmer is in a pissing match with his ex-MS buddy Paul Allen. He of the Seahawks and the Blazers. And of the bigger- than -Ballmer's yacht. Not gonna happen, Ballmer. Guys like that need their toys, Allen seems to spend more money on his shit than a lot of countries have for their GDP. That asshole from Oracle too, Larry Ellison. Ballmer wants to get up into the big leagues with these guys, and where Steve Jobs once was, but he'll never reach that stratosphere. The only one who's modest about about being that rich is the richest of them all, Bill Gates. Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2014/06/02/sale-of-los-angeles-clippers-for-2-billion-illustrates-the-multiple-madness-of-ballmer/ ''But based on a multiple of revenue, the price being paid for the Clippers is way, way above any team transaction. Ballmer is paying over 15 times revenue for the Clippers'' Quote Link to comment
Hefe Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 So much $$$$ sloshing around some circles for utter nonsense & I just want a wee bit of the drippings & that would tide me over. The Irish call whiskey spilled "the Angels' Share", I just need an angel's share of currency to ease my troubled mind. Perhaps some of you guys who have made $ on the www could share some ideas on how I might start, I know the days of profit from porn may be over or numbered... perhaps a porn site in Arabic or Urdu? 1 Quote Link to comment
Hefe Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 ... & by the by this week's Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" on CNN is about Thailand, mostly around Chiang Mai, & has a nifty small segment re., boys night out drinking & ending up in a ladyboy bar. Pretty entertaining. 1 Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted June 4, 2014 Author Share Posted June 4, 2014 I am not familiar with Anthony or his show for that matter but usually I get the impression when a guy in a travel show touches on the subject of ladyboys it's to imply they are doing something risqué which to all the guys here is just a normal night out. Quote Link to comment
Patrick Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 http://eater.com/archives/2014/06/02/parts-unknown-thailand.php Anthony is not really your atypical travel or food doco guy. I couldn't find any vision of the Thailan episode, but thisi bunch of one liners will give you an idea. Quote Link to comment
Torurot Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Honest even handed Larry E stacks the deck with some absurd rule changes on the "Americas Cup". Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 So much $$, I know the days of profit from porn may be over or numbered... perhaps a porn site in Arabic or Urdu? Or perhaps virtual sex , virtual tactile sex or ultra real sex dolls. Some scientists claim that artificial intelligence is being used to create the nextgen sex dolls and tactile sexual stimulation devices in places like South Korea and the future of this may even have a bearing on AI. In the weekly New Scientist there was a good article on this before xmas and these guys know what they are talking about Im keeping my eye on this thats for sure..im in the Electronics Industry and im sure this area will grow pretty big at some point I doubt if these things will on sale at Wall Mart and big premium will be paid when it comes on stream , or maybe im behind the curve and some of this stuff is already out there Im glad you reminded me Hefe.. ill have to take another look 1 Quote Link to comment
Torurot Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Ha, as you have mentioned it US bloke raises $250k to build robo-masturbation device 'Outpouring of support' for Autoblow 2 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/03/indiegogo_campaign/ By Lester Haines, 3 Jun 2014 Quote Link to comment
Torurot Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Are We Driven By Compassion or Sensationalism? From https://medium.com/noodle-doodles/are-we-driven-by-compassion-or-sensationalism-6afd99e752c7 Quote Link to comment
Torurot Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Rip Rik Mayall 1958-2014 Young ones, Black Adder and others. Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English comedian, writer and actor. A GREAT British comedian. Notable works and roles Rick in The Young Ones Richie Richard in Bottom The Comic Strip Presents... Alan B'stard in The New Statesman Richie Twat in Guest House Paradiso Richie Rich in Filthy, Rich and Catflap Richard Dangerous in The Dangerous Brothers Quote Link to comment
duke007 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Very sad to hear about his passing yesterday, very talented and very very funny guy imho R.I.P Rik Quote Link to comment
Torurot Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Beware the "teerorists" American Scientists Recreate Deadly Spanish Flu Virus June 12th, 2014 Via: Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/american-scientists-controversially-recreate-deadly-spanish-flu-virus-9529707.html The extinct influenza virus that caused the worst flu pandemic in history has been recreated from fragments of avian flu found in wild ducks in a controversial experiment to show how easy it would be for the deadly flu strain to reemerge today. Scientists said the study involved infecting laboratory ferrets with close copies of the 1918 virus – which was responsible for the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million people – to see how easy it can be transmitted in the best animal model of the human disease. But other researchers have denounced the research as foolhardy and dangerous. Critics said that any benefits of the attempts to recreate 1918-like flu viruses from existing avian flu strains do not justify the catastrophic risks if such a genetically engineered virus were to escape either deliberately or accidentally from the laboratory and cause a deadly influenza pandemic. Quote Link to comment
Lefty Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Just a reminder why it's NEVER a good idea to get into one of those crappy little minivans you see buzzing around the roads in southeast Asia http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/731001-12-die-in-van-truck-crash-in-chaiyaphum-province/?utm_source=newsletter-20140602-1424&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news ''It was suspected that the van driver might be asleep.'' If you ram the back of a parked tractor trailer, at highway speed, it does not matter the kind of passenger vehicle you are riding in. The results are gonna be ugly. You are as equally unsafe in the back seat of any typical taxi you may hire to drive you from Swampy to Pattaya at 1 in the morning. JMO. Quote Link to comment
Lefty Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 So much $$$$ sloshing around some circles for utter nonsense & I just want a wee bit of the drippings & that would tide me over. The Irish call whiskey spilled "the Angels' Share", I just need an angel's share of currency to ease my troubled mind. Perhaps some of you guys who have made $ on the www could share some ideas on how I might start, I know the days of profit from porn may be over or numbered... perhaps a porn site in Arabic or Urdu? If that be the case, it does not explain why some of the adult movie studios seem to be putting out movies at breakneck pace. Quote Link to comment
Torurot Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 RIP Casey Kasem Casey Kasem’s Secret Legacy: How He Used Scooby-Doo To Advance His Values By Judd Legum on June 15, 2014 http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/06/15/3449222/casey-kasem-scooby-doo-vegetarianism/ Kasem knew that Shaggy would be his lasting legacy. 1 Quote Link to comment
Torurot Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 In case you need to know Date & Time of Solstices & Equinoxes in 2014 http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com Equinoxes: March 20 2014 16:57 GMT September 23 2014 02:29 GMT Solstices: June 21 2014 10:51 GMT December 21 2014 23:03 GMT 2 Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 Gonna miss the longest day of the year by a few days. Love when dayling stretches up to almost 11 pm. Quote Link to comment
Torurot Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 "The reason these coalitions are so easily achieved is that the distinctions between the parties are insignificant. My friend went to a posh “do” in the country where David Cameron, a man whose face resembles a little painted egg, was in attendance. Also present were members of the opposition and former prime minister Tony Blair. Whatever party they claim to represent in the day, at night they show their true colours and all go to the same party." Quote Link to comment
Torurot Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 MPAA, meet the Streisand effect: Picture ass. slaps Reddit with takedown Would-be pirates flock to r/FullLengthFilms http://www.reddit.com/r/FullLengthFilms http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-targets-reddit-movie-piracy-140624/ Quote Link to comment
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