IcyBlackDeep

I've seen much worse Congratulations man.

I feel like a decent lawyer should be able to cut through this ploy.

I'm a bit of a fan of wheat beers, any hefeweizen is probably a safe bet.

Haikus are easy, but sometimes they don’t make sense refrigerator.

Just be sure to read the fine print if you end up at this. Depends on the plan, but doing this you may have to immediately repay the whole loan if you leave your job.

I bought The Godfather box set many years ago. Still never watched #3.

Silicon Valley Bank kind of specialized in lending to new tech companies. At first they had so much money deposited they didn't know what to do with it, so they invested it in long-term bonds and similar. But now those tech companies aren't doing so great so they started pulling their money out of the bank. In order to have enough cash to pay out, the bank had to sell some of those bonds they were holding, but because interest rates are much higher now than when they bought the bonds they took a big loss selling the bonds. When people found out about that they all panicked that the bank wouldn't have enough cash and tried to pull out their deposits. At which the government stepped in and shut things down. The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) was created during the Great Depression to stop exactly this sort of thing. They guarantee that depositors will get their money back (so no need to panic anyone). Except FDIC insurance only covers $250k and a lot of these companies had way more banked at SVB. So there was a lot of hand-wringing that most American tech startups would get wiped out because they were so heavily concentrated in this one bank. So now the FDIC is basically saying they'll guarantee deposits without any limit. Investors in the bank get nothing though; if you own stock in SVB it's now worthless. There seems to be some differing opinions on whether other banks may fail. The FDIC actions are intended to prevent panic that would cause such a thing, and the FDIC insurance exists to minimize the impact to people with money in any such bank. But it's nerve-wracking to be holding stock in a bank, especially a smaller one, so there's a big sell-off that's hammering stock prices. There were also a couple banks that were heavily tied into crypto that went belly-up, but that's not really related.

Like the Munsters?

Whenever I have to send something to another office I take it down to the guys at the loading dock to have them handle it. They're the pro shippers.

Yeah, accents are still a thing, speech patterns are still a thing, as long as you can differentiate people in some way you can still be biased. I mean on the internet I can't see anyone's physical features, but if they type too many words without vowels and generally disregard proper spelling and grammar, I automatically hate them.

I believe the kids call it "clout." I don't know any blind people, but I still feel confident saying most blind people would enjoy being able to see.

I found out about a local that started up nearby and wanted to go check it out. I reinstalled SFV after not playing it for about 5 years, and I only have like 30% of the characters that are in the game now. I don't really want to learn the game, so I was like "screw it, I'll just play Ryu." I really hope 6 will be good though.

Farmers would dearly love immigration reform, W. Bush almost got there, but not much hope these days.

There's an interview with Haim Saban where he talks about how he ended up owning half of Fox Kids and eventually deciding he should sell his share. Saban: "They told me that they thought my share was worth half a billion, I told them that my share is worth two billion, let's sit down and talk." Interviewer: "Yeah. But half a billion dollars, that's a lot of money, I mean, wow." Saban: "No, two billion is more." And to resolve it he negotiated to sell the entire company to Disney for 5.3 billion. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650524515/power-rangers-haim-saban

I don't know anything about this girl or the situation at all, but it might be my first course of action since I don't speak any Romanian. But I don't really have a plan for what I'd do if I was raped in a foreign country, so . . . who knows.

I don't use anything special for floor mats, but I have a trunk liner from Husky Liners. It's good for that, but it's more plastic than rubber; I don't know that I'd like it as a floor mat if they make those the same way.

I'd rather get another season of Sarah Conner Chronicles.

I hadn't thought about it in a long time, but it turns out Red Meat is still going.

Hell yeah that's on purpose.

It's not that complicated, you just need to take any Android phone, put your own store app on there along with Google Play store, and preload the Twitter app on it. You don't need some new OS. But I don't think people who buy iPhones buy anything other than iPhones.

Also, since no one else posted it:

Yes, but it's probably difficult to get your balls copyrighted. I'm not sure of the legal standards, but I think the core is that copyright covers "creative works." Your best bet may be to creatively embellish your balls, kind of like how Mike Tyson's face tattoo comes up as a copyright problem now and then. Disclaimer: Do not tattoo your balls. In fact, avoid needles anywhere near your balls if you can at all help it.

In the absence of a contract that says otherwise, the creator owns the copyright. Unless the creator was paid to create the work, in which case the person paying them owns the copyright ("work for hire"). The rights Twitter gets are whatever is in their Terms of Service, which I'm not going to read but undoubtedly give them at least the right to display it on their own site. The ball owner does not have any claim of ownership, but in this particular case they could probably go after you under various revenge-porn statutes and the like. Maybe some kind of defamation too. (The trickier bit is if you take a picture of something that is itself copyrighted. Then you've probably made an unauthorized copy. Unless it's fair use. Fair use is a mess.)