Gantry,
we sh0ould have a forum for serious threads and the anything forum for our drunken babble. Nightwolf brings up a good point in trying to seperate the good from the drunken.
I fully support a Dee-Nee Discussion forum
I dunno, I think one forum is enough. But the Anything Goes forum has kinda devlolved into a bit of a cesspool lately though. For the most part though I don't mind it but the latest antics of this Barry Dingle character have definitely gone over the edge....
What do others think? Two forums or a bit more policing on Anything Goes?
Police
Depends. Personally, I enjoy cesspools, and judging by the recent popularity of dee-nee it seems that is the consensus. However, it would be nice for people like Nightwulf who don't want to deal with it to have a separate forum.
I love Dee-Nee. The Dee-Nee Anything Goes forum is like my personal Cheers. Don't change a thing.
Police it more. Anything Goes has never been a serious forum, but it was always a lot of fun. Where else could a thread about Taco Bell menu items thrive as it does here?
Recently though it's just fucking stupid. Almost every thread is yet another spin on "I'm drunk, watch me type nonsense" or "College sex story no. 3827" or "Political argument that goes on forever and hi, no one's yet learned that writing page-long posts filled with things you copied and pasted from other sites neither makes you look smart nor makes readers likely to side with your beliefs, especially when you insult them with playground trash talk."
Maybe it's just me, but anyone who's been around long enough has probably noticed the same.
Nightwulf
The eyes have it.
Has there ever been a serious topic on Dee-Nee?
GDavis, valid point. Not on anything goes, and it depends if you consider RBI Topics serious.
I have had THE worst shits lately.
That's some serious shit.
No shit?
Do you smell bacon officer?
anything (pronoun): Any object, occurrence, or matter whatever.
I believe Serious and Bullshit and Gross and Childish and Farts fall into this category.
Quote from: fknmclane on 09/06/04, 12:27:38 PM
Police
On 9/2/04 mclane was quoted as saying 'this is great stuff' in referring to the postings and it took him an hour to read em all.
You sound like john kerry.
I had notecards as well...
haha...
on another note, this forum gets no attention.
Maybe we should talk about the news in this section.
Oil prices set a new record above $50...
Quote from: BDawk on 10/05/04, 08:30:02 AM
Maybe we should talk about the news in this section.
Oil prices set a new record above $50...
They're going to 60 before they go back to 40. Mark it dude.
i don't know much about this, so i am basically just quoting someone else... but if they hit 60 and stay there for a while, the economy will be fuct
The economy ain't so hot at $50
I have a question for all:
Is the economy really that bad, or is it just being judged against the high water mark of the late 90's/year 2000?
I'm not impressed with it.
The stock market hasn't done shit this year (generally because of flat corporate profits), unemployment is average-at best, and interest rates--after three years of insane drops --interest rates are only moving up slowly.
The one thing that people thought they could count on--housing--possibly is headed to the crapper. (just yesterday news came out that Las Vegas housing prices dropped significantly--possibly leading other markets to follow. At least that's what wall street thinks)
Oil, being at the price it is, is like an additional tax on everything we buy.
It's like when President promised us "a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage and two dogs in every bathtub"
does anyone else question the profits of the late 90s/early 2000? I mean, it seemed like when everyone smelled corruption, profits dropped. Is it possible that those profits were bogus numbers? I have no idea, which is why I ask.
What hurt them is they started to see some profits.
With a PE of N/A nobody thinks anything about it. When the PE turns to 600--that looks like shit--people sell.
ShitPaw, I think you have a point - part of the late 90's boom was a mirage caused by falsified profits. Enron was one of the most important companies of that time period, and they never made anything but paper profits (even most of those were lies), which do jack squat for the economy.
Most of the Tech Companies stocks went up despite the fact they had no profits. They really didn't falsify much if anything. The companies were bullshit, but not frauds.
Quotedoes anyone else question the profits of the late 90s/early 2000? I mean, it seemed like when everyone smelled corruption, profits dropped. Is it possible that those profits were bogus numbers? I have no idea, which is why I ask
This is why the economy died so quickly. It was an economy born on smoke and mirrors, and speculation. Here's what I've noticed. I work for a start up tech company, and we are doing very well. The seed money that was held onto so tightly in 2001-2003 seems to be ticking back up (nothing near late 90's volume, thank god). I have noticed that there are jobs in a lot of places that are being lost/cut. That's bad, but I always look to see where jobs are growing, too. It seems to me that we are in the middle of an economy shift, almost like what happened in the 70's. I think the economy gets reborn every 20 years or so, and there are new "booms" and "busts". I deal with 50-100 people a day, and everyone I talk to seems to believe that the worst is over. If you look at historic stats, it seems like we are in a "normal" mode right now. I wonder what the next big boom will be? I think biotech is primed. It's been growing exponentially, but all our parents are getting old and will necessitate new forms of treatment, medicine, fake robot/monkey arms or whatever. The stock market is like gambling. For instance, the stock market was asskicking in the late 90's, but that was again due to speculation and smoke and mirrors. I prefer a slow growth in the market because it shows that people are actually investigating the true value of a company and what they produce. That said, I think it's in pretty decent shape and everyone just remembers the carefree days. Just thinking out loud...
i definitely am against those impulse buys... happy to see people benefit from them, but i think more people lose money that way.
I'm not to keen on economic matters, but one growing trend seems to be smaller companies getting bigger and becoming way tom capatalistic in attempts to garner a better bottom line. This seems to result in the workers taking hits being losing overtime in favor of "comp" time, and other loss of benefits/pay. The company may look better because its making more money, but this comes at the expense of the employees. I have seen this first hand with mym mothers work and it really upsets me.
Quote from: malnuboy on 10/06/04, 04:57:34 PM
I'm not to keen on economic matters, but one growing trend seems to be smaller companies getting bigger and becoming way tom capatalistic in attempts to garner a better bottom line. This seems to result in the workers taking hits being losing overtime in favor of "comp" time, and other loss of benefits/pay. The company may look better because its making more money, but this comes at the expense of the employees. I have seen this first hand with mym mothers work and it really upsets me.
it's all about making the stockholders happy...shit on the employees if you must. It sucks.