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FAT is also a hard disk format for you techies out there.

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I guess they are now exFAT

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Lee had more luck than skill...

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Napoleon Bonaparte“I’d rather have lucky generals than good ones.”

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She's got great handlers

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Is that code word for knockers?

It would have to be Jesse Myles.

Mr. Orwell probably had this figured out in 1949.

"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."

or this guy

shite, I miss the Roy Firestone interviews, and while we are at it Australian rules football. Those little ref in their white sport coats doing that little pointing thing. Good times. Didn't Texaco or Getty Oil own part of ESPN at one time?

They would never play that song today.

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didnt they scare auburn or florida or someone

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Georgia, Texas A&M and beat Kansas or Kansas St. Can't remember what one.

The Swedish Empire was well known to be a-hole in the 30 years war and when invading poland

The Deluge in Poland-Lithuania (1655–1660)Mass Destruction: Swedish forces burned down hundreds of villages, towns, and royal castles across Poland.Economic Plundering: Armies systematically stole valuable artwork, library collections, state archives, and gold, much of which was shipped back to Sweden.High Death Toll: Through warfare, famine, and plagues brought by the marching armies, Poland lost an estimated one-third of its total population—a devastation proportionalized worse than World War II


Campaigns in Central Europe (Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648)Ruthless Extortion: Under kings like Gustavus Adolphus, Swedish armies forced conquered German towns to pay massive ransom money (kontributions) under the threat of total destruction.Living off the Land: Troops survived by stripping local farms bare of food and livestock, leaving entire regions to starve.Religious and Structural Ruin: Hundreds of communities were leveled, churches desecrated, and local infrastructure smashed to maintain Sweden's war machine.

I just read somewhere that his prediction about ad revenue for AI is 90% off. I wonder if that has anything to do with this. Got to keep the hype train running. Those data centers cost money. Don't want investors to jump off the hype train.

Here is what I heard.

The Revenue GapOpenAI's Target: Projected $2.5 billion in ad revenue for 2026, scaling to $100 billion annually by 2030.Market Reality: eMarketer estimates the entire U.S. chatbot advertising market across all major players (including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google) will generate under $1 billion in 2026 and cap out at just $5.41 billion by 2030.The Discrepancy: OpenAI's single-company projection for 2030 is roughly 20 times larger than the external market ceiling estimated for the entire chatbot advertising space.

Yahoo