Under construction, now and forever! Never stop constructing, E Rocc!  ;-)

 

ha! I should have known this was a damn hoax!!

 

That $72M 'whiz kid' made the whole thing up

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/that-dollar72m-whiz-kid-made-the-whole-thing-up/ar-BBgS3Rx?ocid=mailsignout

ha! I should have known this was a damn hoax!!

 

That $72M 'whiz kid' made the whole thing up

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/that-dollar72m-whiz-kid-made-the-whole-thing-up/ar-BBgS3Rx?ocid=mailsignout

 

Yeah that's ridiculous.  There are quite a number of people out there who have doubled their money this year, but nothing I'm aware of has gone 10X in the past 1-2 years, and even if it did, he would have needed $7.2 million to begin with. 

 

"nothing I'm aware of has gone 10X in the past 1-2 years"

 

Anyone who invested in bitcoin two years ago could have gotten a return of 100x or so.

"nothing I'm aware of has gone 10X in the past 1-2 years"

 

Anyone who invested in bitcoin two years ago could have gotten a return of 100x or so.

 

Sorry I forgot about that.  Bitcoin originally sold 1 for $1 US dollar and maxed out in 2013 at over $1,000, so a dizzying return.  However you'd be hard pressed to find someone who got in on that first day who also sold at those insane heights.  Most people who sold at $1,000 probably bought in at $200-500.  And most people who bought it at $1 probably sold it at $5. There are a few cases of people who forgot they even bought it and so realized those huge returns.   

 

I watched a recent talk by Iggy Pop where he claims that he bought Apple stock in 1992 and that's why he's been able to enjoy a decent life without relying on the music business for income.  How many shares he bought I don't know, but according to this article the value of a share has gone up 4000% since 1992:  http://www.businessinsider.com/had-you-invested-in-apple-stock-instead-2013-5

One thing I've noticed about UrbaOhio is that Cincy forum posters are mostly MIA on the weekends and holidays...

One thing I've noticed about UrbaOhio is that Cincy forum posters are mostly MIA on the weekends and holidays...

 

So, it seems, are a lot of us up here.  I say "seems" because I usually am.

Why does walking up or down a non functioning escalator mKe you feel so dizzy?

Why does walking up or down a non functioning escalator mKe you feel so dizzy?

 

I have experienced this.  I think that subconsciously we expect the escalator to start running at any moment. 

Why does walking up or down a non functioning escalator mKe you feel so dizzy?

 

I have experienced this.  I think that subconsciously we expect the escalator to start running at any moment. 

 

There is actually a term for this.

 

I'm at construction sights all the time where we have escalator installed but not running yet, and the combination of this with the simple fact that the steps at the bottom and top are all at different heights as they flatten out makes them very disorienting. It's the reason they're often closed and roped off when broken, and not just "temporarily stairs" per Mitch Hedberg.

Why does walking up or down a non functioning escalator mKe you feel so dizzy?

 

I have experienced this.  I think that subconsciously we expect the escalator to start running at any moment. 

 

I walk on them while they are running whenever possible so I really haven't run into this.

Happy New Year!

 

omg jesus was spotted in the aurora in iceland!

 

 

 

Looks more like Mr Clean to me

Or a horn-helmeted Viking making a call-to-arms charge with a sword in his left hand. :)

Making post number four so I can post photos, because ColDayMan said come here and post photos. So here I am.

 

Hi UrbanOhio.

Independent.ie @Independent_ie

Man dies at internet cafe after playing online games for three days: http://indo.ie/HzRMw

beware the boston yeti is now in his element and on loose during the blizzard!

 

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/boston-yeti-loose-blizzard-article-1.2093252

 

shocking taipei plane crash video:

 

http://nypost.com/2015/02/03/taiwanese-plane-with-53-passengers-crashes-in-taipei-river/

Totally random observation.  In Rocky IV, when Rocky goes on that run in Russia, all the way up the mountain....... could they at least have given him a bottle of water to take on the run?

I think it's a bad idea for professional sports facilities to provide wifi throughout the premises. I can understand doing in certain designated areas like the pro shop or for box seats.

 

1) Do we really need more people playing Farmville at games?

2) It's an expense that, at the rate of cell data advancement, seems like a short-lived, under-appreciated improvement that might cost significantly more than is valued.

I think it's a bad idea for professional sports facilities to provide wifi throughout the premises. I can understand doing in certain designated areas like the pro shop or for box seats.

 

1) Do we really need more people playing Farmville at games?

2) It's an expense that, at the rate of cell data advancement, seems like a short-lived, under-appreciated improvement that might cost significantly more than is valued.

 

The second being the key point.

 

Personally, I could give a damn if people are messing with their phones anywhere, as long as it's quietly.  What's the harm (except...perhaps... in a place where the audience area is dark)?

Few things to keep in mind with this.

 

1) Not everyone at games is that interested in the game itself. Whenever I go to sporting events I'm not overly attentive to what's going on and during lulls I'll use my phone for various other things.

 

2) I know very few people with more than minimum data plans and that requires you using wifi to work if you use your phone a lot. If I'm somewhere for an extended period of time I'll look for open networks to use instead of data. And I know I'm not alone in this. Regardless of how good internet gets through cell service, wifi is still useful in this regard.

 

3) Another problem is that utilizing internet through cell service is often draining for your battery whereas wifi is generally less so. If you're going to be away from an outlet all day and your phone has a less than ideal battery (I'm speaking from experience here) it's nice having wifi.

^ tangently re #1 -- i highly recommend going to a dayton dragons baseball game. there is often so much entertainment, especially between innings, you have no chance to get bored or to play on the phone. it's quite an experience and unexpected for a baseball game.

That's the kind of sporting event I enjoy. I find baseball and basketball mildly exciting and enjoy a game here or there. But sitting in the same spot for hours with long lulls really toys with my attention span. Random bits of entertainment definitely help keep my mind in it though haha.

I think it's a bad idea for professional sports facilities to provide wifi throughout the premises. I can understand doing in certain designated areas like the pro shop or for box seats.

 

1) Do we really need more people playing Farmville at games?

2) It's an expense that, at the rate of cell data advancement, seems like a short-lived, under-appreciated improvement that might cost significantly more than is valued.

 

Without wifi, when you have that many people in such close proximity, you can jam the cell networks.  I've had trouble texting people inside stadiums and forget about sending a picture message.  Also, at football games, I need the ability to easily check my fantasy football teams!

I think it's a bad idea for professional sports facilities to provide wifi throughout the premises. I can understand doing in certain designated areas like the pro shop or for box seats.

 

1) Do we really need more people playing Farmville at games?

2) It's an expense that, at the rate of cell data advancement, seems like a short-lived, under-appreciated improvement that might cost significantly more than is valued.

 

Without wifi, when you have that many people in such close proximity, you can jam the cell networks.  I've had trouble texting people inside stadiums and forget about sending a picture message.  Also, at football games, I need the ability to easily check my fantasy football teams!

 

That last part in particular.  Hell if I go to a baseball game I am doing that too.

I think it's a bad idea for professional sports facilities to provide wifi throughout the premises. I can understand doing in certain designated areas like the pro shop or for box seats.

 

1) Do we really need more people playing Farmville at games?

2) It's an expense that, at the rate of cell data advancement, seems like a short-lived, under-appreciated improvement that might cost significantly more than is valued.

 

Without wifi, when you have that many people in such close proximity, you can jam the cell networks.  I've had trouble texting people inside stadiums and forget about sending a picture message.  Also, at football games, I need the ability to easily check my fantasy football teams!

 

It doesn't help that the ballpark itself is sending stuff to people's phones or telling them to go to this or that website. I noticed this all the way back in 2008.

WiFi will help the digital systems that the NHL and MLB especially have been implementing over the years. Ticketing, concessions, customized information delivery (stats, directions, special offers). It all works better with a WiFi backbone. They'll also get even better customer data.

WiFi will help the digital systems that the NHL and MLB especially have been implementing over the years. Ticketing, concessions, customized information delivery (stats, directions, special offers). It all works better with a WiFi backbone. They'll also get even better customer data.

 

That's the real reason most places go to the trouble of offering free wifi. Look up how Nordstrom uses the data - anything you can find online has usually already been surpassed by even more tracking and analysis. They not only track how long and how often people visit their stores, but where they go within the store, how much time they spend in each department, etc. Free Aps are the other big piece of technology that companies use to make you the product. Even if you don't connect to wireless, so long as your phone is actively searching for wireless (if you can go to your wifi settings and see a list of networks, it is) it is traceable anywhere wifi is offered. I'm sure teams love having data on tens of thousands of people.

speaking of sports, 25 yrs ago tonight in tokyo!

 

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001924601

 

 

 

WiFi will help the digital systems that the NHL and MLB especially have been implementing over the years. Ticketing, concessions, customized information delivery (stats, directions, special offers). It all works better with a WiFi backbone. They'll also get even better customer data.

 

That's the real reason most places go to the trouble of offering free wifi. Look up how Nordstrom uses the data - anything you can find online has usually already been surpassed by even more tracking and analysis. They not only track how long and how often people visit their stores, but where they go within the store, how much time they spend in each department, etc. Free Aps are the other big piece of technology that companies use to make you the product. Even if you don't connect to wireless, so long as your phone is actively searching for wireless (if you can go to your wifi settings and see a list of networks, it is) it is traceable anywhere wifi is offered. I'm sure teams love having data on tens of thousands of people.

 

I hate the Kroger Plus card and rarely use it.  But I always make sure to use it whenever work sends me to the grocery for...8 cans of pineapples or something else random that we run out of.  I love being a wild statistical outlier in Dunhumby's tracking.

 

 

Yeah, screw those discounts! Screw them being able to stock the stores I shop at more properly! Stick it to the man! Don't want no corporation tracking how many cans of soup I buy!

 

What logical reason do you have for "hating" the Kroger Plus Card?

ALL rewards cards are ways for companies to keep your money by raising prices. Then in order to get your money back you have to use your points on things they tell you to spend it on. If you don't redeem the points they keep your money.

Except he's going to Kroger already. He's just spending the un-discounted prices on things Kroger cards get discounts on and not even having the option for rewards.

 

If he went to some other grocery store that doesn't have a rewards card as a way of protesting, then sure. But that doesn't sound like the case. Therefore, illogical.

ALL rewards cards are ways for companies to keep your money by raising prices. Then in order to get your money back you have to use your points on things they tell you to spend it on. If you don't redeem the points they keep your money.

 

I despise those cards as well because what they do is charge you high end prices without high end service, unless you let them track what you buy.  I was actually disappointed to see Heinen's add them, though they don't abuse it.

 

The Pittsburgh store abuses it massively.  Now they won't let you use the self-checkouts if you don't have one.  That's all well and good if you hate those too, except sometimes that's all they open.

 

It also doesn't take paranoia, or even too much imagination, to see the Feds legislating access to their databases and hectoring people about "unhealthy" food choices.

Please tell me you aren't serious?

 

The fact that anyone is actually concerned about that as a possibility is more what I'm concerned about.

 

You claim it doesn't take paranoia? That's precisely what it takes. Paranoia.

 

When did this country become so incessantly paranoid about EVERYTHING? It's really unfortunate.

Please tell me you aren't serious?

 

The fact that anyone is actually concerned about that as a possibility is more what I'm concerned about.

 

You claim it doesn't take paranoia? That's precisely what it takes. Paranoia.

 

When did this country become so incessantly paranoid about EVERYTHING? It's really unfortunate.

 

When both corporations and the government became so incessant about knowing as much as they can about everyone.  Individually.

It's a paranoid delusion if you believe something like grocery store card data is going to be used against you by the government. It just is.

It's a paranoid delusion if you believe something like grocery store card data is going to be used against you by the government. It just is.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2697391/First-lady-Healthy-food-place-lunchrooms.html

That's not even close to being what you suggested. That's along the lines of the nutrition info on food. It's a suggestion of what is a healthy quantity of certain items but you can choose to completely disregard it.

 

If the shopping cart actually had some say in what you bought and was tied to YOU specifically (which those would not be) then that would be a different story. If the shopping cart closed and wouldn't allow you to add pop tarts because it's deemed unhealthy, you'd have a point. But it doesn't. If you weren't allowed to purchase certain items because they went over the "healthy" quantity suggested by the cart, I'd agree with you. But that wouldn't happen. If someone at the checkout line analyzed what you were buying and removed items that didn't fit into the cart's suggested diet, things would be getting out of hand. But that isn't what this is going to do.

 

My point still stands.

If one was being investigated for a crime, it’d be very easy for police to subpoena Kroger’s records and have a list of everything you’ve ever bought from them. Credit card data is the first thing most investigations go for, but that’s limited to X dollars were spent at Y location. You bought rope 3 years ago, trash bags last week, and some bleach and sponges? Clearly you killed someone and cleaned up the evidence.

 

Whether it’s the government using it against you, or a private company building a database on you in order to directly market to you, it’s not an ideal situation for an individual.

 

This all reminds me, has anyone watched the series Black Mirror? It’s on Netflix. It takes what seem like absurd paranoid delusions about technology, the future, government, marketing, etc. and makes them seem very plausible. Skip the first episode if you do watch the series.

 

If one was being investigated for a crime, it’d be very easy for police to subpoena Kroger’s records and have a list of everything you’ve ever bought from them. Credit card data is the first thing most investigations go for, but that’s limited to X dollars were spent at Y location. You bought rope 3 years ago, trash bags last week, and some bleach and sponges? Clearly you killed someone and cleaned up the evidence.

 

Whether it’s the government using it against you, or a private company building a database on you in order to directly market to you, it’s not an ideal situation for an individual.

 

This all reminds me, has anyone watched the series Black Mirror? It’s on Netflix. It takes what seem like absurd paranoid delusions about technology, the future, government, marketing, etc. and makes them seem very plausible. Skip the first episode if you do watch the series.

 

 

nobody is forcing you to fill out that Kroger card with the correct info. Also you can get with a group of friends and rotate cards between each other.

And you can, you know, use willpower and free will to NOT buy something just because it's being advertised to you.

If one was being investigated for a crime, it’d be very easy for police to subpoena Kroger’s records and have a list of everything you’ve ever bought from them. Credit card data is the first thing most investigations go for, but that’s limited to X dollars were spent at Y location. You bought rope 3 years ago, trash bags last week, and some bleach and sponges? Clearly you killed someone and cleaned up the evidence.

 

Whether it’s the government using it against you, or a private company building a database on you in order to directly market to you, it’s not an ideal situation for an individual.

 

This all reminds me, has anyone watched the series Black Mirror? It’s on Netflix. It takes what seem like absurd paranoid delusions about technology, the future, government, marketing, etc. and makes them seem very plausible. Skip the first episode if you do watch the series.

 

 

Also what's kind of crazy is that Dunhumby might have access to your Kemba credit union accounts, if you do any banking with Kemba:

https://www.kemba.com/about-kemba/history/membership/

 

So they're able to build a shopping behavior database that includes a snapshot of your personal finances.  That's information well above the scope of anything any typical consumer behavior analysis has. 

 

And don't think for a second that the workers at Dunhumby don't casually look up the shopping behavior of people they know.  A girl who works there told me last year that they do a prank award for whichever Dunhumby employees buy the most condoms. 

 

 

 

 

I always assumed Kemba operated as a separate entity from Kroger. Maybe they do, but the fact that they require a Kroger Plus card for new Kemba accounts does not instill confidence...

If one was being investigated for a crime, it’d be very easy for police to subpoena Kroger’s records and have a list of everything you’ve ever bought from them. Credit card data is the first thing most investigations go for, but that’s limited to X dollars were spent at Y location. You bought rope 3 years ago, trash bags last week, and some bleach and sponges? Clearly you killed someone and cleaned up the evidence.

 

Whether it’s the government using it against you, or a private company building a database on you in order to directly market to you, it’s not an ideal situation for an individual.

 

This all reminds me, has anyone watched the series Black Mirror? It’s on Netflix. It takes what seem like absurd paranoid delusions about technology, the future, government, marketing, etc. and makes them seem very plausible. Skip the first episode if you do watch the series.

 

 

Also what's kind of crazy is that Dunhumby might have access to your Kemba credit union accounts, if you do any banking with Kemba:

https://www.kemba.com/about-kemba/history/membership/

 

So they're able to build a shopping behavior database that includes a snapshot of your personal finances.  That's information well above the scope of anything any typical consumer behavior analysis has. 

 

And don't think for a second that the workers at Dunhumby don't casually look up the shopping behavior of people they know.  A girl who works there told me last year that they do a prank award for whichever Dunhumby employees buy the most condoms. 

 

It would be a paranoid delusion to think such casual abuses happen. 

 

Sort of like no one knew about Charlie Sheen's bad habits years before they broke publically,  because of credit card records.  Or some things about david modell that haven't officially been made public yet.

 

Government and large corporations will collect as much information as they can get away with, and they share.

Today marks the 73rd anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which FDR signed for the forced evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants to concentration camps across the US.

Not really concentration camps using the accepted use of that term.

 

Also the 70th anniversary of Iwo Jima.

^ Internment Camps.