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| Topic | RIP GameStop |
| SK8T3R215 06/19/18 11:33:01 AM #17 | LastTomorrow posted... Does this mean gamestop will go out of business? No it means they will become a private company. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Remember when aluminum drink cans didn't have "wide mouth" openings? |
| SK8T3R215 06/17/18 7:54:19 PM #6 | YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... I literally have no idea what you're talking about old man UUA --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Was Adam wrong to eat the forbidden fruit offered by Eve? |
| SK8T3R215 06/17/18 1:26:13 AM #17 | Eve living a life of memes ruins a man's life. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Here we go again. Stars blame sexism on Ocean's 8 lukewarm reviews |
| SK8T3R215 06/16/18 11:53:28 AM #59 | Meme movie for women living a life of memes. No wonder it's terrible. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Pepsi revenue is loads higher than CocaCola |
| SK8T3R215 06/15/18 3:26:28 PM #46 | Pepsi does not own Taco Bell, KFC or Pizza Hut. They're owned by Yum Brands which Pepsi spun off in the 90s. They sell Pepsi there through a lifetime agreement to supply their brands. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Say what you will about Trump, but he gets things done. |
| SK8T3R215 06/14/18 10:08:41 AM #7 | wackyteen posted... Obama dragged the economy back from the brink of Bush era You mean the Federal Reserve. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Hoth killed a board and now he's killing CE |
| SK8T3R215 06/14/18 12:51:50 AM #10 | theone1331 posted... The only thing I see is a bunch of people whining about a place I don't know or care about. P much --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | holy fuck someones trying to break into my house while I'm in here |
| SK8T3R215 06/14/18 12:40:27 AM #13 | Yeah Reg! --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | High School Ceman, here's the most important accurate advice you will ever get |
| SK8T3R215 06/14/18 12:39:19 AM #2 | Tldr: don't take life advice from some guy on a dying video game website --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Benefits of being a Democrat? |
| SK8T3R215 06/14/18 12:20:32 AM #12 | Get to virch --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | regarding ICE and all that, is America heading for its own holocaust? |
| SK8T3R215 06/13/18 3:49:50 PM #96 | BJ-blazkowics posted... @Anarchy_Juiblex posted...BJ-blazkowics posted...and they have to stay in dog kennels My uncle who works at that former Wal-Mart says that isn't true. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Federal Reserve raises rates, signals 4 raises in 2018 |
| SK8T3R215 06/13/18 2:42:08 PM #8 | Perascamin posted... Is this an interest rate on paying back money or for money sitting safely in a bank? Its the rate banks lend to each other at but influences those rates. Usually affects debt rates first and savings rates later on. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Federal Reserve raises rates, signals 4 raises in 2018 |
| SK8T3R215 06/13/18 2:40:39 PM #7 | shockthemonkey posted... Cant let unemployment shrink too much, then workers might be able to demand better wages Um it's already at historically low levels leaving rates low will overheat the economy and cause a massive crash later on. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Federal Reserve raises rates, signals 4 raises in 2018 |
| SK8T3R215 06/13/18 2:32:41 PM #1 | Fed Raises Rates and Signals Faster Pace in Coming Years https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-raises-rates-and-signals-faster-pace-in-coming-years-1528912910 WASHINGTONThe Federal Reserve said it will raise interest rates by another quarter-percentage point and signaled it could lift them at a slightly faster pace this year to keep a strengthening economy on an even keel. The latest increase, the second this year, will bring the benchmark federal-funds rate to a range between 1.75% and 2%. Officials penciled in a total of four rate increases for this year, up from a projection of three increases at their March meeting. The committee expects that further gradual increases in the target range for the federal-funds rate will be consistent with sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the committees symmetric 2% objective over the medium term, the Feds rate setting committee said in its postmeeting statement. Eight of 15 officials now expect at least four rate increases will be needed this year, up from seven in March and four in December. Most officials expect the Fed would need to raise rates at least three more times next year and at least once more in 2020, leaving rates in a range between 3.25% and 3.5% by the end of 2020, the same end point officials projected in March. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | I'm watching Price is Right for the first time in years. |
| SK8T3R215 06/13/18 1:42:39 PM #9 | Plinko sucks when they drop from the ends instead of the middle because they have DDIQ's. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | regarding ICE and all that, is America heading for its own holocaust? |
| SK8T3R215 06/13/18 12:18:08 PM #43 | Romes187 posted... i can't tell if this board has stupid people on it, or if they're just young and don't know any better Combination of both. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Morgan Freeman is not a rapist? |
| SK8T3R215 06/13/18 8:38:22 AM #6 | He said "I wish I was there" during an interview and the woman said he was referring to being inside her womb and not a comment about something another actor said. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Why was the 1950s when America was last great? |
| SK8T3R215 06/13/18 12:05:26 AM #19 | Because nostalgia glasses looking back at it. People in this board will be doing that about the 2010s when they're old. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Can my boss sue the dispatchers from 911? |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 11:43:16 PM #41 | That's a P good crank --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | U.S. Judge Approves AT&T's $85 Billion Merger With Time Warner |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 10:31:11 PM #29 | dave_is_slick posted... SK8T3R215 posted...Also AT&T and Time Warner had an expert who performed an analysis about the pricing change from the merger: They had a third-party economic expert, Dennis Carltonan economist from the University of Chicagos Booth School of Business and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJs Antitrust Division perform an analysis. He does not work for AT&T. He used data from other vertical integrations and showed the pricing changes from them. He used to work for the plaintiffs if anything. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | U.S. Judge Approves AT&T's $85 Billion Merger With Time Warner |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 10:24:24 PM #25 | TLDR: Challenging the merger in the first place was fairly unprecedented and the DoJ had an uphill battle to climb and did not argue their case well at all. Historically these types of mergers haven't been harmful to consumers and this was basically a giant waste of federal resources. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | U.S. Judge Approves AT&T's $85 Billion Merger With Time Warner |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 10:23:02 PM #24 | Also AT&T and Time Warner had an expert who performed an analysis about the pricing change from the merger: Page 101: Defendants, by contrast, did seek to analyze the available pricing data resulting from prior instances of vertical integration. Although they initially had trouble obtaining some of the relevant pricing data from the Government or third-partiesthey were eventually able to obtain the data after seeking relief from this Court. Defendants lead economic expert, Professor Dennis Carlton, then analyzed that third-party pricing data, among other proprietary and public-source data in his possession to test whether it is true that content prices are higher on a network when its sold by someone whos vertically integrated. The government's witness was basically terrible in presenting his argument for the pricing changes: First, I will explain why the evidence is insufficient to support Professor Shapiros conclusion that this Nash bargaining theory will accurately predict an increase of Turners postmerger bargaining leverage in affiliate fee negotiations with distributors. Second, I will examine Professor Shapiros economic bargaining model, concluding that the evidence is also insufficient to support the input values upon which he relied to generate his predictions of harm. Page 114-115: The Court accepts Professor Shapiros (and the Governments) argument that, generally, a firm with multiple divisions will act to maximize profits across them.That profit-maximization premise is not inconsistent, however, with the witness testimony that the identity of a programmers owner has not affected affiliate negotiations in real-world instances of vertical integration. Rather, as those witnesses indicated, vertically integrated corporations have previously determined that the best way to increase company wide profits is for the programming and distribution components to separately maximize their respective revenues. Page 131: The last piece of evidence upon which Professor Shapiro based his long-term subscriber loss rate is an internet survey. The internet survey wasconducted by another of the Governments testifying experts, Professor John Hauser, who heads the marketing department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The survey generated a long-term Turner blackout subscriber loss percentage of 12% and a 30-day Turner blackout subscriber loss percentage of a whopping 8.2%Although once at the forefront of the Governments presentation. Professor Hausers survey now finds itself in the background, with even Professor Shapiro minimizing his reliance on it. Professor Shapiro however had good reason to unhitch his analysis from Professor Hausers internet survey wagon: cross-examination and real world evidence alike revealed that the survey was inherently unreliable and produced inflated results! Page 149: After hearing Professor Shapiros bargaining model described in open Court I wondered on the record whether its complexity made it seem like a Rube Goldberg contraption. Professor Carlton agreed at the trial that that was a fair description. But in fairness to Mr. Goldberg, at least his contraptions would normally move a pea from one side of a room to another. By contrast, the evidence at trial showed that Professor Shapiros model lacks both reliability and factual credibility, and thus fails to generate probative predictions of future harm associated with the Governments increased-leverage theory. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | U.S. Judge Approves AT&T's $85 Billion Merger With Time Warner |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 10:20:03 PM #23 | GreatEvilEmpire posted... What a mess. This deal should have never gone through. Anarchy_Juiblex posted... Yeah I gotta say, anytime $85b changes hands in the U.S, we all have an interest in what's going down. I say this as a huge proponent of the basics of capitalism. Well the DoJ tried to argue that and he said: Page 1: According to the government, consumers nationwide will be harmed by increased prices for access to Turner networks, notwithstanding the Governments concession that this vertical merger would result in hundreds of millions of dollars in annual cost savings to AT&Ts customers and notwithstanding the fact thatno competitor will be eliminated by the merger proposed vertical integration. Page 4: Ultimately, I conclude that the Government has failed to meet its burden to establish that the proposed transaction is likely to lessen competition. Page 38: The Governments own expert predicts that, due to a standard benefit of vertical integration, AT&Ts DirecTV and Uverse customers will pay a total of about $350 million less per year for their video distribution services. Page 58: Given all of the competing considerations at play, the analysis of vertical mergers has been described as much more complex than the analysis of horizontal mergers. Things are made more difficult still by the lack of modern judicial precedent involving vertical merger challengesa dearth of authority that is unsurprising, considering that the Antitrust Division apparently has not tried a vertical merger case to decision in four decades! He went into detail about the government's argument also: Page 68: The Governments primary theory of harm to competition focuses on the challenged mergers integration of Turners important video contentcontent that includes, among other things, the networks CNN, TNT, and TBSwith AT&Ts video distributors, U-verse and DirecTV. Specifically, the Government contends that, should the challenged merger proceed, Turners relationship with AT&T will enable Turner to extract greater prices from AT&Ts rival distributors for its must-have content than it could without the merger. The Government argues that distributors would then pass on those price increases to their subscribers, resulting in an increase of hundreds of millions of dollars in annual consumer payments. Page 75-76: Based on the evidence, I agree with defendants that Turners content is not literally must have in the sense that distributors cannot effectively compete without it. The evidence showed that distributors have successfully operated, and continue to operate, without the Turner networks or similar programmingI therefore give little credit to blanket statements by third-party competitor witnesses indicating that the entire viability of [their] video model could depend on whether they offer Turner programming. Page 99: For the reasons discussed above, the Court is not convinced that the real-world objective evidence offered by the government provides sufficient support for its increased-bargaining leverage claim. That conclusion is further bolstered by evidence relating to three prior instances of vertical integration in the video programming and distribution industry.[Witness and expert testimony] both provide significant, real-world evidence indicating that, contrary to the Governments increased-leverage theory, these prior instances of vertical integration did not affect affiliate fee negotiations or content prices. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | U.S. Judge Approves AT&T's $85 Billion Merger With Time Warner |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 5:38:22 PM #17 | spudger posted... Trumps America The DoJ was challenging the merger lol Medussa posted... NeuralLaxative posted...My buddy who ones a fuckton of Disney stock was sent a charter today to approve merger of fox and Disney #herewego Comcast hasn't made its formal offer yet but they will now that this deal was approved. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Trump came out of the Summit looking like a total loser and Kim got what he want |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 2:04:22 PM #3 | yikes --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Harvard Business Review: 'gay men now earn MORE money than straight men.' |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 10:43:50 AM #9 | Straight men are the most oppressed group in America. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | "I trust Kim to get rid of his nukes with no way for us to verify that |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 10:15:31 AM #85 | Genocet_10-325 posted... I'm a socialist. yikes --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | I think I have some ear wax in my ear. |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 8:34:20 AM #5 | You're supposed to have ear wax in your ears hth --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | I will never grow tired of these Mario 64 'no button presses' challenges |
| SK8T3R215 06/12/18 12:48:15 AM #10 | Imagine spending your life doing this lmfao --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Trump to leave summit early after meeting with Kim |
| SK8T3R215 06/11/18 2:09:37 PM #10 | Well Kim was scheduled to leave 5 hours after the meeting started and Trump was leaving the next morning from what I read last week. So the fact Trump is now leaving earlier doesn't really change anything. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | What to do about this fucked up situation with my roommate and our neighbor? |
| SK8T3R215 06/11/18 2:05:56 PM #22 | Lol stop trying to live his life if he wants to answer the door for her and deal with her let him. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | GOP kicking people off of the voter roles if they don't vote. |
| SK8T3R215 06/11/18 11:40:39 AM #2 | cjsdowg posted... And don't give me shit about oh will send a letter to. They know good and well people don't read those things Lolololol --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Why should Kim Jong Un trust Trump? |
| SK8T3R215 06/11/18 12:29:42 AM #5 | Kim is scheduled to leave like 5 hours after the meeting begins. He's just gonna use this to get photos and there won't be a deal for a while, if ever. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Would you consider 3600 a month |
| SK8T3R215 06/10/18 11:55:29 PM #22 | RebelElite791 posted... Pretty good unless you live in like SF or NYC Muffinz0rz posted... assuming that's after tax and you're a single person living pretty much anywhere but NY or SF, then yeah it's a good amount Lol that's plenty to live on in NYC --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | I dont understand coupons in America. |
| SK8T3R215 06/10/18 3:14:35 PM #25 | KILBOTz posted... Pillowpantz posted...KILBOTz posted...TheVipaGTS posted...I understand finding loopholes and getting stuff for free because of coupons not being worded correctly but what i don't get are those cases I see on Extreme Couponing where the person is like "I got 50 bottles of ketchup for free AND they had to pay me $20!"....How the fuck is the store going to pay you for using coupons? Why would they need a policy they are going to get the coupon amount back from the manufacturer. There was just a sale in the store during that time available to all shoppers. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Man accidentally threw away $79 million worth of Bitcoin |
| SK8T3R215 06/09/18 11:25:21 PM #28 | MI4 REAL posted... 1337toothbrush posted...MI4 REAL posted...1337toothbrush posted...Except with traditional digital money, it's backed by a bank. There are ways to recover your money there. Get help. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Two transgender athletes place 1st and 2nd in Connecticut girls state champ |
| SK8T3R215 06/09/18 11:24:05 PM #180 | Pretty inspiring to see people with mental illnesses breaking records. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Rebecca Black, the most HATED GIRL in 2011 when she was 14 is BACK! Is She Hot?? |
| SK8T3R215 06/08/18 11:13:44 PM #24 | At least she isn't fat anymore. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | McDonald's: People order more from kiosks, giant rollout ahead |
| SK8T3R215 06/08/18 9:27:21 AM #2 | Get fucked no skill cashiers lmfao --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Piece of shit officers who tackled and beat the shit out of woman on the beach |
| SK8T3R215 06/06/18 11:35:00 AM #44 | In NJ it looks like she is required to ID herself and did not then refused the lawful order and assaulted a cop and resisted arrest after than which led to them punching her to get her in cuffs. This really seems like fair, next to me. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Piece of shit officers who tackled and beat the shit out of woman on the beach |
| SK8T3R215 06/06/18 11:24:58 AM #42 | Isn't she required to identify herself and can be detained until she is identified? If that's true then she walks away from being detained before hitting the officer which led to them using force. I mean on LivePD being detained is usually what happens when waiting to ID people. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Piece of shit officers who tackled and beat the shit out of woman on the beach |
| SK8T3R215 06/06/18 10:59:11 AM #19 | Cj_WlLL_VVlN posted... The girl says the bottle is sealed and belongs to my aunt and the cop decides to cuff her for not sharing her name. P sure failure to identify is a legitimate reason to detain someone until they can identify them. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | Piece of shit officers who tackled and beat the shit out of woman on the beach |
| SK8T3R215 06/06/18 10:44:44 AM #7 | Fair, next. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | I never understood why the NBA has such late start times |
| SK8T3R215 06/06/18 12:18:37 AM #3 | You really can't understand why when one of the teams in the finals in on the West Coast? --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | So why are Voter ID Laws bad again? |
| SK8T3R215 06/05/18 1:37:30 PM #68 | ChainedRedone posted... muchdran posted...Ids are valid for 8 years or something. How do you do anything without one? UUA --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | NYC Officials propose birth certificates with 'X' gender category |
| SK8T3R215 06/04/18 11:49:51 PM #4 | De Blasio is trash --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | NYC Officials propose birth certificates with 'X' gender category |
| SK8T3R215 06/04/18 11:21:12 PM #1 | http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/06/04/third-gender-on-nyc-birth-certificates/ Lmfao --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
| Topic | The NBA is doomed... |
| SK8T3R215 06/03/18 10:32:57 PM #5 | Warriors nearly lost to the Rockets and were very fortunate CP3 got hurt. --- New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Yankees. |
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