Recruiting Forum Off Topic Thread III

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By the way, I lost track. What ever happened to that muslim terrorist that killed all those soldiers at Fort Hood? Can't recall his name.
 
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bignewt said:
All the more reason to deal in fear mongering as much as possible.
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More viewers doesn't mean jack if ad rates are plumetting...unless, of course, a bunch of your ads are based on fear - such as gold commercials... Typical big business that fuels media revenues is not loving this rn and cutting back.
 
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Devo182 said:
More viewers doesn't mean jack if ad rates are plumetting...unless, of course, a bunch of your ads are based on fear - such as gold commercials... Typical big business that fuels media revenues is not loving this rn and cutting back.
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Yep that was my point.

Any business that depends mainly on advertising (newspapers, TV, Facebook, Google, etc) have been taking it in the nads. On the other hand, grocery stores, drug stores, Amazon, Netflix and companies that produce everyday necessities have been flourishing.

For you guys trying to play the market .. look at sonic restaurants. Every time I have passed my local Sonic, they are packed with cars.
 
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Devo182 said:
More viewers doesn't mean jack if ad rates are plumetting...unless, of course, a bunch of your ads are based on fear - such as gold commercials... Typical big business that fuels media revenues is not loving this rn and cutting back.
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Ratings books come out after the fact usually quarterly and that is what ad buys are based off of.
 
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Devo182 said:
So you just didn't like my explanation? Ok. Maybe the statement isn't the extreme "bloodbath" statement you thought it was. It's cool.

Peace
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I just didn't think your 'explanation' was an actual explanation of your original statement ("we're a shoot first culture that glories guns"), but was rather a shift away from your original statement ("well, compared to elsewhere"), without ever really offering an explanation of the original statement.

As...I...had...already..stated.

But as you say, that's cool. We both know where each other stand on the issue, so neither of us are going to be changing our positions based on what the other says.
 
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smokeyz1 said:
Yep that was my point.

Any business that depends mainly on advertising (newspapers, TV, Facebook, Google, etc) have been taking it in the nads. On the other hand, grocery stores, drug stores, Amazon, Netflix and companies that produce everyday necessities have been flourishing.

For you guys trying to play the market .. look at sonic restaurants. Every time I have passed my local Sonic, they are packed with cars.
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Always best to make financial decisions based on a Sonic in Bumfizzle, SC.
 
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Kentucky gov is the usual disingenuous politician that does not know when to keep his mouth shut

KY
Total tests - 32,319
Positives - 2960
Deaths - 148
Population - 4.6 M

TN
Total tests - 97,908
Positives - 7070
Deaths - 148
Population - 6.8 M

Many more tests as a percentage of population, much less positives as a percentage of total tests, (which are three times more than his state), with an equal number of deaths. As usual Tennessee is kicking Kentucky's azz.
 
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jackcrevol said:
Sonics are franchised, via SD Holdings.

Anything else?
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Is that the extent of your research capabilities? Maybe YOU should just sit on the sidelines.

EDIT: I did a little research for you. SONC is no longer a publicly traded stock. They were recently bought by Inspire Brands which also owns Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings. and a few other restaurants. Inspire Brands is owned by a private equity firm so we can no longer trade it.

If SONIC was still trading as (SONC) you should have compared the chart to the rest of the restaurant industry since the shut down began. If SONC had been trading with or below the rest of the industry then you would have more research to do to figure out if it looks like they may exceed same store sales even during the down turn. Then if you decide to buy, wait for the Market to come back down as it has rebounded way more than it should right now.
 
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How do yall feel about these TrackingPoint smart rifles? 15k for a rifle that can aim for you at 3/4ths of mile. If they've developed something like that its probably a matter of time until there's a homebrew community.
 
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WBO said:
Yeah but where's your support for that position. And no one seems to be addressing the part of the 2nd Amendment I pointed out "A well-regulated militia . . .". It doesn't say any militia, it says "well-regulated" so what does that mean? Everyone that responds is ignoring my basic question. You're trying to act like the precursor statement doesn't exist, but it does, it's part of the text. I just wonder what it means.

You're not going to find much about this issue in the Federalist Papers. One of the reasons being that James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay wrote the Federalists Papers before the Bill of Rights was even passed. But besides that, Madison's main argument (see Federalists Paper 46) was that the standing military should be less than 50,000 men, that's why militias, tied to the states versus the federal government, were so important to the anti-federalists. Madison envisioned 500,000 man strong (in total) state militias versus a very small federal military. I'm afraid the boat has sailed on that one. Hamilton in Federalist Paper 29 talks about what the militias should look like and why they are preferable to a standing federal army. (interestingly enough, one of his arguments was that the nation was too small to dedicate so much of its workforce to full-time military pursuits.)

So it seems to be a lot less about every man should have a gun than it is against a large standing federal army and the basis of power such an army would give the large central government. Like I said, that boat has sailed in the modern world. Imagine what those guys would think if they could see one of today's supercarriers. Or even just a single Abrams tank flying through the Virginia countryside at 30 mph.

By the way, you've got to be kidding when you say that's how you would defeat a tyrannical government. Any home grown militia would be swept aside in minutes if the federal government deployed against it, even with a unit of the National Guard much less a front-line military unit.
Not to mention the cost of trying to outfit your little band of rebels with comparable weaponry.

Go to gunbroker.com some time and see how much a Class 3 fully automatic weapon goes for. (If I ever hit the lottery I'm going to get a couple of Class 3's, it's been many years since I was on a firing range with a fully automatic weapon.) About the only guys that can afford those prices in mass are the drug cartels, of course their black market prices are probably quite a bit lower.
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It allows for a "state defense force." It is it's own entity. It can not be federally governed. State ran, and Tennessee have an active defense force.

It is not the national guard by the way that is governed by the feds.

If you are part of any branch of the federal reserved armed forces you cant be a part of it.
 
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