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December LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of December?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

5 8.20%

John Kelly

3 4.92%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

2 3.28%

Rex Tillerson

25 40.98%

Jared Kushner

17 27.87%

Hope Hicks

1 1.64%

Gary Cohn

3 4.92%

Ryan Zinke

0 0%

Rod Rosenstein

5 8.20%

Write-in

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12-06-2017 , 03:43 PM

#201

spidercrab

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

Brag: after wondering why the BFI bitcoin thread says I've posted in it, I discovered that 2011 goofyballer apparently mined at least 0.05 BTC (currently ~$650)
Beat: 2017 goofyballer has the hard drives from that machine (and no other desktop hardware capable of using them) sitting in a closet. Is there some series of cables/adapters that will let me hook up a SATA hard drive to, say, my laptop's USB?

Like this?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IKAQ538

I have it and it works.

12-06-2017 , 03:49 PM

#202

goofyballer

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Thanks!

12-06-2017 , 03:58 PM

#203

Trolly McTrollson

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This Bitcoin shizz is getting buck wild aorn.

12-06-2017 , 04:00 PM

#204

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Originally Posted by Paul McSwizzle

I am obsessed with AI rn and reading everything I can find about it.

I had Thanksgiving with a friend of a friend as I am in a new state and don't have any family here. Anyways, the guy is extremely wealthy and was interested in my talk re AI and asked me about opportunities for investment. Any thoughts on what I should tell him?

Well, you could invest in Google, but I don't think it's much of a bargain.

Investing in AI is like investing in car companies in 1910. Lotta players but who knows how things will shake out. Would be better to get like four 18 y/o geniuses under contract and secure the rights to their work.

Imagin if we recruited smart kids in a manner similar to baseball players.

12-06-2017 , 04:03 PM

#205

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I've transacted maybe 10 bitcoin over time for poker deposits but hadn't checked my wallet in a few years. I checked the other day and had like 0.001 bitcoin. Thought I might have had a full one.

12-06-2017 , 04:11 PM

#206

simplicitus

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Not so fast.

Does your estate in the middle of a large city burning down due to fires caused by anomalous weather conditions have an effect similar to that of conservatives who have their kid come out as gay, but for global warming?

Last edited by simplicitus; 12-06-2017 at 04:16 PM.

12-06-2017 , 04:25 PM

#207

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dude has a parking lot in front of his house

12-06-2017 , 04:31 PM

#208

simplicitus

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dude has a parking lot in front of his house

I think it's a small winery (in the middle of LA) and a secondary residence. The land alone is worth plenty, and it's probably mainly used a tax shelter (money losing winery on blue chip land).

12-06-2017 , 04:37 PM

#209

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I don't think pic is his house, or a winery.

12-06-2017 , 04:37 PM

#210

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I was headed past there this morning, but went back home because the freeway was closed.

12-06-2017 , 04:38 PM

#211

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I hate these people so ****ing much:

Quote:

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said Wednesday that congressional Republicans will aim next year to reduce spending on both federal health care and anti-poverty programs, citing the need to reduce America's deficit.

12-06-2017 , 04:38 PM

#212

Louis Cyphre

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

No, estates can be replaced.Connections to global warming can be denied.

12-06-2017 , 04:41 PM

#213

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Originally Posted by zikzak

I don't think pic is his house, or a winery.

Yeah, I think it's the Leo Baeck Temple.

12-06-2017 , 04:42 PM

#214

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Confirmed not Murdoch's house.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0864.../data=!3m1!1e3

The building by the highway is a Jewish temple. Murdoch's vineyard appears to be behind that burning hill.

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12-06-2017 , 04:45 PM

#215

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The area up above that building used to have about 20 homes.

12-06-2017 , 04:47 PM

#216

simplicitus

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Originally Posted by zikzak

I don't think pic is his house, or a winery.

Think you're right. It's off the freeway a bit.

Last edited by simplicitus; 12-06-2017 at 04:59 PM.

12-06-2017 , 04:50 PM

#217

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I'd like to take this opportunity to tell all the dumb, rich Californians who build their homes right up to the edge of parched forests and scrub brush that non-combustible construction is a thing, and it isn't much more expensive than the kindling they all seem to insist on using.

12-06-2017 , 04:57 PM

#218

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DEFEND LIBERTY

12-06-2017 , 05:02 PM

#219

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Originally Posted by spidercrab

I hate these people so ****ing much:

Are Medicare et al subject to the filibuster or did we just go ahead and do away with all that nonsense?

12-06-2017 , 05:04 PM

#220

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Originally Posted by zikzak

Some of this is a legacy issue. There are still hillside areas with homes more than 40 years old and still even wood shake roofs in some of those areas. Places that have burned and rebuilt like Laguna or the Oakland Hills have been rebuilt to different standards.

12-06-2017 , 05:06 PM

#221

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Defend Liberty and pay yourself $300k/yr when you would otherwise be driving an Uber. Sweet deal. Nice to have a right wing nutter justice with a right-wing nutter wife...but we really need to be concerned with an FBI agent who sends texts to his girlfriend saying Trump is an idiot, much like his Secretary of State and his National Security Advisor (the current one, not the one who pled guilty).

We're so far into the land of make believe that something has to give.

12-06-2017 , 05:07 PM

#222

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And I think that land has appreciated so much that you probably did not lose much financially unless you bought in the last year or so. It's a "rebuilding opportunity", likely with a nice insurance payout.

12-06-2017 , 05:11 PM

#223

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Originally Posted by spidercrab

I hate these people so ****ing much:

Shocking (not). Paul Ryan living his wet dream of exterminating poors.

12-06-2017 , 05:13 PM

#224

spidercrab

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I... agree with Ben Shapiro?

12-06-2017 , 05:14 PM

#225

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

From the fires? Personal tragedies of course, but a lot of people in these areas will make a lot of money when the neighborhoods of new even fancier houses are built. The burn areas in the Oakland Hills worked out like that.

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