Fogbow

Sam Bankman-Fried waived extradition challenges, and is now stateside awaiting his formal arraignment. Also, in a wonder of timing, prosecutors announced the guilty pleas of two former FTX/Alameda employees - Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang - for a myriad of fraud and conspiracy charges. The two had ...

ohhh look - the eight year old had reactivated his twit account! Untrue. Elon Musk, private owner of Twitter, re-activated Trump’s Twitter account. But Trump himself is not using it - the last account activity is his January 8, 2021, statement that he was not going to the inauguration on January 20...

Block chain is the perfect secret/money transfer vehicle. No one understands it (present company excepted). Not perfect, not secret. Obfuscated, yes, but not really any more than your old-fashioned numbered Swiss bank accounts. Every bit of data on a blockchain is there forever (or for as long as a...

Twitter has had the beehive-NFT thing going for a while now. It was a fad for five minutes several months back when people were bragging about their vastly overpriced cartoon ape pictures, and looking for some way to advertise to people how special they were because they had an overpriced cartoon ap...

Just saw a clip of Rep. Sherman 0n MTP, who said something that floored me - because it is etymologically true, and also very apt: “Cryptocurrency means hidden currency.” And that is true - “crypto” is from the Greek “kryptos,” which means “hidden.” The context was Sherman’s belief that the correct ...

Interesting take on crypto from actor Ben McKenzie (“The O.C.”), who has a book on crypto coming out next year.

So, does he think that he is going to get $99 for EACH so-called trading card? I don't even understand how they are called trading cards, except that they are relatively small images. Trump doesn’t think like a sophisticated businessman with a rational customer base. Trump thinks like PT Barnum wit...

Din’t Trump - while collecting a federal paycheck - spend just about every day calling CNN and NBC and The NY Times and the Washington Post “fake news”?

Is the fine per occurrence and also retroactive? Because it’s possible we could completely recover all of Trump’s presidential salary in fines.

Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:26 pm
No sneaky subliminal suggestions, no space alien tech.

The other rules will come to me, further on down the road.

No Vaseline or gauze on the camera lens.

"Limited edition" jpegs? Jpegs are one of the easiest file types to copy. Why spend $100. Get fifty of your MAGA friends to kick in $2 each and then make 49 copies. Limited Edition Jpeg is an oxymoron. But the exact same thing is also true of NFTs. For a while, the biggest running gag on ...

How many of his supporters are even in the trade for cryptocurrentcies, a requirement to purchase and trade NFTs? How many of his supporters, especially the elderly are computer fluent with the web? I don’t even think these are NFTs. Just “limited edition” jpegs. I am choosing to look at this as th...

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:54 pm Time to auction off his pistol collection (at least those the TSA had returned)

Also, his cars. He keeps getting into trouble for driving them.

Such a hollow man. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn demands Electoral College-like systems in the states because GOP Senate candidates keep losing since they can't win over "the majority of the population": "We cannot defeat the population centers without the Electoral College." https://bit.ly/3BxgOak Tha...

Yeah, I've never understood where the bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency) "ore" that they are mining is supposed to be. […] So, as someone who knows a little about computers, it always seemed to me that the "mining" of cryptocurrencies really meant "we went through a very...

Notes from Foggy’s primary care physician: Patient acknowledged a certain amount of confusion about his exact date of birth. Patient also cannot articulate his basic means of survival and support. Recommend a pint of blood for testing, and a follow-up with Dr. Whatshername in geriatric psychiatry. —...

The ''textbook'' definition of money is 'that which you can use to pay your taxes". Because all commerce in a controlled environment where you can be compelled to give what you recived payment for, boils down to taxation. You can be slightly more upbeat by also including “that which the issuin...

What will Schumer do about her committee assignments? In the article, she says she expects to keep them. Apparently she has talked to Schumer about this. NBC is reporting that Sinema will continue to caucus with Dems. That implies she would keep her seniority and committee asssignments. She would j...

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:36 pm I heard/read recently that he's the first republican in his family. I wonder where that came from?

I think I probably mentioned that on this forum. It’s from his Wikipedia article.

As for why he became a Republican - it probably had to do with him coming of age in the 80s.

The judge was kind enough to give Donofrio the gentlest of verbal warnings. Donofrio would be wise to take that for the gift it is, and just shut up and move on.

Donofrio, of course, is not wise.

THE NERVE!

Someone just asked me if I won the departmental Ugly Sweater Contest.

I’m wearing my beautiful holiday sweater today! Its feelings are just a little hurt right now.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:02 pm Can we convince folks to bring trashbags of stale food to his den home in TX?

No no no no no. I am occasionally downwind of him.

This is Texas, where the prevailing wind direction is always “yes.”

Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible ...

I think the legal term here is “Fumbling a Hail Mary pass in the wrong end zone.”

At this point, the Cochise case is more than dead. It’s been cremated, the urn has been buried six feet deep in a concrete vault, and a nest of Blue Northerns summers next to the gravestone.

Gregg wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:03 pm
???

All dead? Age in that picture?

Not sure what it means.

I’m pretty sure that is their age at the time of the picture - the debut of “Cheers.”

And unless I missed some news, only Colasanto (Coach, the older bartender) has died. And he died pretty early in the show’s run.