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  1. 8 hours ago, Sniper said:

    If electric vehicles really grab a foothold, they're going to have to go look for additional revenue, since they'll lose it from gas/diesel.

    It looks like they’re grabbing that foothold and I bet the lost revenue will be made up in increased taxes, tolls, etc. I’ll assume to be dead by then so I’ll escape ownership. 


  2. 1 minute ago, Sniper said:

    It looks like Ford and GM aren't worried:

    • Wall Street analysts are all talking about the dramatic styling of Tesla’s Cybertruck.
    • “Tesla’s Cybertruck looks weird … like, really weird,” a Bernstein analyst says.
    • Credit Suisse says companies like Ford and General Motors “can breathe a sigh of relief.”
    • “We were still surprised how futuristic he went with this one and believe it may shatter his dreams,” Cowen says.

    Yet skeptical Tesla analysts don’t expect Cybertruck will be a serious competitor in the pickup market, with Credit Suisse saying that companies like Ford and General Motors “can breathe a sigh of relief.” Cowen analyst Jeffrey Osborne said that “Tesla appears to have rushed its launch of the Cybertruck.”

    “Musk has been enthusiastic about his Blade Runner inspired design for months, but we were still surprised how futuristic he went with this one and believe it may shatter his dreams,” Osborne said.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/22/wall-street-on-teslas-new-pickup-cybertruck-looks-weird.html

     

    I don't blame them.  He'll get a couple of Yuppies to by one, but it'll never play in the heartland.  


  3. 11 minutes ago, Sniper said:

    Tesla unveils it's Cybertruck... and it didn't go so well....

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    Hey Elon, nice job on those bulletproof windows, that would hold up to a 9mm round... except they broke when a metal ball was thrown at them...  :mutley:

    Also, hey Elon, who did you get to design this disaster? Some 3rd grader looking to copy a DeLorean?

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    I wonder if Darren has his order in yet for one????

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/tesla-cybertruck-unveiled.html

    Can you picture this with a plow on it?

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  4. Oh Welllll....I guess then they should have shot more cops.  

    I've been wronged by cops and authorities and I've been righted by the same.  There are crooked cops, honest cops, lazy cops, hard working cops, etc but for what it's worth coming from one little piss-ant individual like me, I will always support them and have their backs until proven otherwise.

    30 minutes ago, JackDaWack said:

    is this really any different than a home invasion? 

    After the home owner took the first shot and saw they were cops?  I believe so.  

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  5. The only thing that points to the cops not operating in the communities best interest are tin foil hats.  One can safely assume there will be a through investigation in search of the truth.   I'm saying I feel  it's wrong, boarding immoral, to first assume the cops were in the wrong.  

    That being said, I'd bet the chances of that couple waking up that morning and feeling they were going to sell more harmful drugs and shoot anyone trying to stop them are better than those cops woke up saying "let's all get together and find a suburban couple and their dog to shoot today".


  6. In a situation like this I really don't care about the petty details.  The point, to me, is cops were hurt trying to take down scumbags and the scumbags are dead.  My heart goes out to the shot cops and cudos to the same for removing two scumbags from society.  And extra cudos to the Officer who's been shot before and stayed on the job to serve and protect rather than take the disability route.  


  7. 101.5 says this:

    Schools in two southern Ocean County towns were placed on lockdown because police were searching for a gunman who was in a shootout with police.

    Read More: Armed man on tricycle puts Tuckerton area schools on lockdown | https://nj1015.com/armed-man-on-tricycle-puts-tuckerton-area-schools-on-lockdown/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

     

    The other article said this from Parch said this:

    David Frew, 41, was arrested Wednesday morning, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Frew, who was convicted of child pornography charges in 2008, is accused of using an online messaging service in June 2017 to talk to the child.

    Authorities allege that at Frew's request, the child sent Frew the sexually explicit images and engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

    And that’s what I based his dangerous  perversion on.

     


  8. 4 minutes ago, AlDente67 said:

    I am a contract IT guy by trade,  so I tend to supplement in the off weeks between gigs.  One of which was at a bigbox overnight crew running lift trucks and whatnot.  Anyway, the crew was around 8 people.  6 of which were ex-Amazonians (as the HR fops call themselves).  All of them told the same story...work like a dog for 10 hours...get treated like a rat for 10 hours...etc etc.  But after 1 year, you get 1 share of stock!   yay!  Calling Robin Leach...  I'd love to see Bezos do a single shift.

     

     

     

    If you investigate Amazon working conditions in other countries where they don't have the labor laws as we have here it reads like a slave camp. To include people getting carried out after collapsing and sometimes dead from exhaustion.  No bathroom breaks to the point in England the workers were peeing in trash cans near their work areas.  Bezos sucks and should give all his money to CNJFO.   

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  9. 1 minute ago, AlDente67 said:

    The 30-day retention rate must be close to zero.

    Amazon work their people like dogs.  They barely have a 180 retention rate.  Also Amazon is up to 17.25hr as the signs say near me.  Apparently in creasing the minimum wage doesn't make a better worker or create a better work ethic.  Who wudda thunk it?   

    1 minute ago, AlDente67 said:

    I admit it, I had a catalog back in the late 70's with the Bra section.  You know you did too.     :)

     

    And to this day they swear they weren't real models!  I looked hard and I couldn't tell!


  10. 8 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    Sears offers less options and less  convenience and cannot compete with Amazon and other specialty and online venues and of course Walmart.   It's products are at a cheaper Walmart-engineered quality, but not Walmart's pricing   There is nothing about it that is like the old department store model.   The irony is that its roots started as catalog ordered and then the large mall department stores emerged and now it has gone the way of the dodo.   It offers nothing better than the other options which can beat it on price, options, convenience, or customer service.     JC Penny and others are also moving in this direction.   The biggest problem is that Amazon doesn't have any real competition and its run by elitist liberals.   Target represents the largely false "upscale" option for the newer generation of Walmart shoppers.   Sears model, now, is more like an odd lot Marshall's type model and doesn't have the name recognition it did with the older generations being replaced.   

    The irony is Sears started out as catalog sales.  When they did they revolutionized retailing.  In 1906 catalog sales was what the internet and Amazon is today.  And it had the same impact on Mom & Pop stores as Amazon does on the brick and mortars today.  Over the years Sears grew from catalog to stores to strip malls to megamalls to sudden death.  They're getting dusted the same way they crushed the Mom & Pop stores.  And the face of retailing changed rapidly on them by Amazon as they rapidly changed the face of retailing in their days.  Now Amazon is dabbling in brick and mortars.   What goes around comes around.   

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  11. 11 minutes ago, AlDente67 said:

    So our dishwasher electronic panel died a sudden death, and we decided to just get a new one.  SO I hop online and look around the typical retail sites and find the perfect model for our needs at sears.com for a great sale price.  The others had not yet announced their current sales, so sears beat them all by $200 on the exact same model.  So I place the order for in-store pickup (I can pick it up and drive it home for much less than forking over $99 for home delivery).

    Confirmation email states availability of on or before Nov 2 (I placed the order on Oct 19).  Ok, well I guess we will suffer for a bit, lol.  On Nov 5th, I call to inquire if it has arrived and the rude ass at the store transfers me to the "manager" which is a phone that nobody ever picks up.  From his gruff tone, I assumed that only a manager could handle those complex interwebs orders, and someone in authority needs to be involved.  In this case a dead phone in a closet.  I actually put it on speaker and let it ring 40 times before ending the call, just to see if someone got annoyed enough to actually pick up the call.  So I go back on the site and open a chat.  Person was very nice and apologized but the unit was in "high demand".  Awesome, I must have picked a good one to be that popular.  To make up for it, he gave me a free 3 year warranty, and promised the thing would arrive within 2 days.  Ok fine.  That came and went, so again I chat...sorry, we can have it by the 9th and we will give you free in-home delivery.  Ok, getting annoyed, but whatever...

    Meanwhile my online billing now shows 3 dishwashers at ever-increasing prices (plus a $99 delivery fee).  I now call and am told they will credit back the difference later (what? When is later?).  The 9th came and went so now I am pissed.  I call again and get hung up on promptly.  I call right back and get the same guy who hangs up immediately.  So I call a third time and get some girl overseas who takes the brunt of my frustration as I instruct her to cancel everything completely and email a confirmation (which, of course, never comes).

    I hop online to the big Blue store down the street and place the same order, now at the same sales price.  It is ready an hour later.  I go pick it up and go home.  Pretty easy.  Meanwhile, I get a call from sears yesterday (!) saying my unit will be arriving soon if I want to come and get it...  at the store 20 miles away.  Unreal.

    Sears - almost a month

    Blue bigbox - 1 hour

    Hmmm...

    The funny thing is that we realized we actually could live just fine washing a few dishes in the sink each day.  Dinner for 15 over the holidays might be an exception, but otherwise the earth still turns.

    This is not the first horror story I've heard about Sears.  They carry other peoples businesses on their site and don't sell their own stuff anymore.  It's a shame what they've become.


  12. 4 minutes ago, Sniper said:

    It's usually worthwhile to spend a few more dollars on something that gets regular use, to avoid these hassles...

    I have a wife that breaks a lot of things... I have a tough time finding replacements made out of Titanium...  :mosking:

    So what are you saying? You don't have balls of steel?

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