ThuperThumpin

You really want to upgrade? Ditch the sound bar and start bulding a component sound system. Sound bars have come a long way and and ive been impressed by some of the higher end ones that cost over $1000.00. I have a Denon in my bedroom that is great for a small space but it cant beat separates. I say get a dolbly atmos reciever and a nice pair of speakers and add to it every year or as your budget allows. After a while you will have a system that can last you many many years. My 5.1 set up is over twenty years old. Ive done some maintenance on the foam around the woofers and replaced the reciever but that's it and it still sounds great.

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at what cost though? if an iranian drone costs 2000 and can be put together by a teenager in 2 hours with parts from amazon and we shoot it down with a 3 million dollar missile that takes a month to build we are losing.

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I was addressing ballistic missiles. That why I said missiles. :lol: As far as the drones we've been taking them out with a mixed bag of high and relatively low cost tech. Its still a point of leverage for Iran, as is there ballistic missile stock pile but we are slowly putting more pressure on that leverage. We should've had our shite together as far as anti drone tech long before starting this war. If you are looking for an argument from me that the US is in a great position right now, you wont get one. Just pointing out some movement in our and our regional partners ability to mitigate some of the threat.

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What about his supersonic tunnels?

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The Hyperloop?....he just published the white paper on that dumbass idea . 3rd parties raised the money to chase his concept. His Boring Company was only partial involved in some of the early planning. Building hundreds of miles of pressurized steel tubing required to maintain a near-vacuum proved economically unfeasible...no shite sherlock :lol:

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Doesn't it take a really long time to get a new plane approved ?

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The leader in this space right now is is a company called Boom Technology. They hope to have full scale model test fights by 2028 but major airlines (United and American) are already lined up with purchase agreements. Its actually further along as far as possible commercial flights than I thought. "Soon" is relative but possibly in the next 5-10 years we could see a return to commercial super sonic flight.

From Polygon
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The class action lawsuit filed by 14 individuals and three businesses accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of conspiring to fix prices and supply of DDR3 and DDR4 RAM, resulting in higher costs. “This lawsuit seeks to recover for—and stop—concerted anticompetitive behavior by three oligopolists in the market for dynamic random access memory, more commonly called DRAM,” the opening line of the suit reads.

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The lawsuit points out that between 1998 and 2002, these same three companies, Samsung, Hynix (the predecessor of SK Hynix), and Micron, took part in a criminal conspiracy to fix the prices of DRAM sold to major American computer companies. After the Department of Justice prosecuted the case, Samsung pleaded guilty and paid a $300 million fine, Hynix pleaded guilty and paid $185 million, and Micron avoided a fine by reporting the conspiracy and cooperating. As a result, several Samsung executives went to prison. The trio of companies was also investigated by the Chinese government during a RAM price spike between 2016 and 2018.

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In a related story that gives further insight into the current RAM issues...

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Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’
If that sounds a lot like a cartel, well, you wouldn't be the first person to point that out

Mark at University Car Care. His place looks like a dump but he does good work at fair price.

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15yr old kid living in Southdowns apparently went outside around 10pm to meet some guys n front of his house to buy weed

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Is there any evidence he was buying weed or is that just a guess and the thread has now run that as the official story?

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think we are too late into the console life cycle for GTA6 to drive demand anymore.

Mostly because anyone that excited for GTA6 almost certainly HAS a current gen console already I would think.

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In 2013 GTA 5 did help move 7th gen console sales ..even with the 8th gen only a couple months away from launching. But they bundled those 7th gen consoles with GTA 5 and good sales on the consoles. Now, with prices increasing like they are who knows. I bet it still drives some sales .

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his classic case fafo. I don't think this is assault if the guy felt threatened. If somebody says the rape and kills your family that's a threat.

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If I was on a jury I may not vote to convict the pastor but beating this guy up didnt neutralize the threat. If they neighbors are truly a threat and not just mouthing off, it just made the situation worse. This dipshit was probably trying to bait the pastor into doing something so he could get a payday.....and unfortunately he may succeed.

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makes me think he hopefully learned a lesson.

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Hopefully..or he is just looking for a pay day.....and not violent revenge. Sounds like the local police have allowed this situation to somewhat fester due to Spell's antics during Covid or whatever other small town bullshite was going down between him and other locals and the police.