Comcast to Sell Literally, Admittedly Failing Network MSNBC and Oprah's Grifter Network

A week ago, news came that Comcast was considering spinning off these valueless, money-losing properties.

Comcast said it was considering spinning off its cable networks that include CNBC and MSNBC into a separate company, as the media industry grapples with a decline in traditional TV viewership due to cord-cutting by consumers shifting to streaming.
The potential spin-off would exclude the NBC broadcast network and the Peacock streaming service. The company, however, is interested in seeking a partner for Peacock to help grow that business, Comcast president Mike Cavanagh said on Thursday.

So they want to partly sell off Peacock. They want someone to take a share of the losses.

"We chose not to participate in the M&A process around Paramount in the earlier part of this year. But we would consider partnerships in streaming," Cavanagh added.
Shares of Comcast were nearly 3% higher in early trading as the company also reported better-than-expected revenue for the third quarter on the back of box office hits and an Olympics-driven surge in ad sales.
Declining profitability in cable TV has been pushing media companies to explore options for their legacy businesses, even as they struggle to stem losses at their streaming services.

Now comes word that Comcast is officially putting these loser properties up for sale.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
NEW: Comcast reportedly set to sell left-wing network MSNBC

I'm not sure if he's just repeating the already-reported news of a potential sale, or if he's saying he has word that MSNBC will be sold.

MSNBC's ratings have crashed since the election they claimed was in the bag for Kamala Harris. Their audience can't be happy they were lied to throughout the campaign.

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Proof the atomization of Corporate Media is upon us
MSNBC ratings have precipitously cratered since Trump's sweeping victory on Election Day:
Morning Joe -- down 39.6%
Joy Reid's Reidout -- down 54.6%
Andrea Mitchell -- down 39.7%
Ari Melber -- down 49.6%
All-in w Chris Hayes -- down 47.2%
Alex Wagner Tonight- down 53.6%
Lawrence O'Donnell -- down 60.6%
Stephanie Ruhle -- down 67%
On Election Night, 25% of cable networks' usual viewers chose not to watch-- instead tuning into independent creators' record-breaking streams like ours.
Trump isn't even in office yet is already defeating the fake news.
The Golden Age of media.

I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros or, say, a joint partnership between Soros and a cadre of other communist billionaires. The networks do not make money, they just make leftwing narratives. They have no economic value.

Oh -- Time magazine is on the chopping block, too.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:31 PM

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1 Howdy ace!

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:31 PM (BSDFI)

2 Afternoon

Posted by: Ann at November 12, 2024 12:31 PM (4neFu)

3 Afternoon, ace!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 12, 2024 12:32 PM (kgE5c)

4 NOOD duties performed

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:32 PM (BSDFI)

5 The only surprising thing is that it took this long.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 12, 2024 12:32 PM (N1DT3)

6 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 12:32 PM (AYz4A)

7 I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros or, say, a joint partnership between Soros and a cadre of other communist billionaires. The networks do not make money, they just make leftwing narratives. They have no economic value.

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Brands, even broken, diseased brands, have some value.

A revamped MSNBC could be valuable to somebody.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

8 That's a shame.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:33 PM (z/jjr)

9 Elon could get a bargain

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 12:33 PM (AYz4A)

10 Elon Musk should buy it and create a neutral news platform.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 12:33 PM (XV/Pl)

11 Selling a Joy Reid can't be easy.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:33 PM (z/jjr)

12 Brands, even broken, diseased brands, have some value.

A revamped MSNBC could be valuable to somebody.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

Wanna go in halfsies on Air America?

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:34 PM (BSDFI)

13 CMCSA down 0.25% on the news.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:34 PM (Q8V7a)

14 You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 12:34 PM (aD39U)

15 Top 17?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at November 12, 2024 12:34 PM (pgwxJ)

16 If you're not going to learn to code, have a bake sale.

Posted by: t-bird at November 12, 2024 12:34 PM (Fr3vV)

17 I'll take "Worthless Shit" for $400 Alex

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:34 PM (FZYNt)

18 "Selling a Joy Reid can't be easy.
Posted by: garrett"
**********
That's hilarious!

Posted by: Cosda at November 12, 2024 12:35 PM (6rDqw)

19 Selling a Joy Reid can't be easy.
Posted by: garrett

How much do you have to pay someone to take "The View"?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 12:35 PM (SUJ+x)

20 11 Selling a Joy Reid can't be easy.
Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:33 PM (z/jjr)

Sounds like a sl@ve @uction

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:35 PM (FZYNt)

21 I heard Oprah has a million bucks.

Posted by: Roy at November 12, 2024 12:35 PM (z+ik4)

22 Freed from her corporate masters, Joy Reid can go back to blogging about how evil gay people are soon, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

23 I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros or, say, a joint partnership between Soros and a cadre of other communist billionaires.

Musk can buy them with the change in his couch.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 12:35 PM (aD39U)

24 "FOR SALE: Money-Losing Property. Financial Reports Available. Inquire Within"

Posted by: t-bird at November 12, 2024 12:35 PM (Fr3vV)

25 Major Nielsen ratings plunge at MSNBC since Trump won. Just one example, Wednesday 10/30 vs Friday 11/8:

Morning Joe 1st hour – down 39.6%
Morning Joe 2d hour – down 36.9%
Andrea Mitchell – down 39.7%
Ari Melber – down 49.6%
Joy Reid’s Reidout – down 54.6%
All-in w Chris Hayes – down 47.2%
Alex Wagner Tonight- down 53.6%
Lawrence O’Donnell – down 60.6%
Stephanie Ruhle – down 67%

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 12:35 PM (a3Q+t)

26 They may _want_ to sell MSNBC, but that would require that someone else actually _want_ to _buy_ it, right?

Why would anyone want that?

Posted by: Lyford at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (gb+vr)

27 Jack Posobec on Bannon half jokingly said he wants to buy MSNBC, but Joe and Mika have to stay.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (dEYSD)

28 Why doesn't Elon buy them up? He's made like $100 billion in the last week, they'd sell these for pocket change.

Imagine MS-NBC becomes like OAN or NewsMax.

Posted by: Leupold at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (4pwAx)

29 I'd buy that for a dollar.

And then turn it into the Gorilla Channel.

Posted by: brak at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (NGHTx)

30 11 Selling a Joy Reid can't be easy.

If a conservative were to buy it, one assumes the corporate and on-air "talent" offices would look like an abattoir. I

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (xCA6C)

31 Time is still publishing?

I thought that overegged panty liner sold for a dollar in 2009.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (ksjMr)

32 They told me Trump would impose censorship but I didn't believe them.

MSNBC ratings have collapsed since Trump's landslide victory

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (L/fGl)

33 Heard Chris Plante recently refer to her as Orcah.

Posted by: ShainS -- In Trump's America, Garbage Throws Out YOU! at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (i8Zf/)

34 If MSNBC is sold where will all the angry and uncomfortable to watch ladies go?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (AdHga)

35 Maybe Rachel Maddow and new free agent Chris Wallace can team up and...ok I got nothing.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (PiwSw)

36 25 Major Nielsen ratings plunge at MSNBC since Trump won. Just one example, Wednesday 10/30 vs Friday 11/8:

Morning Joe 1st hour – down 39.6%
Morning Joe 2d hour – down 36.9%
Andrea Mitchell – down 39.7%
Ari Melber – down 49.6%
Joy Reid’s Reidout – down 54.6%
All-in w Chris Hayes – down 47.2%
Alex Wagner Tonight- down 53.6%
Lawrence O’Donnell – down 60.6%
Stephanie Ruhle – down 67%
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 12:35 PM (a3Q+t)

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Being the opposition to the party in power usually invigorates ratings and subscriptions. "Everything's wrong and it's the party in power's fault."

But, gaslighting about Trump for nearly a decade followed by miserable failure probably has the effect of just numbing people and making them want to tune out, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

37 "Almond" Joy Reid -- sometimes you feel like a nut, most times you don't.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (a3Q+t)

38 Average age of MSDNC watcher is now 70. Fox is 69 and CNN's remaining audience member is 68.

The era of cable news appears ending as its audience is aging out.

Broadcast news is not far behind either.
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What will replace it is probably narrowcasting.

I get a bunch of news and opinion channels if I want it via Roku including OANN and Bannon's show via streaming.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (ctrM5)

39 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

NEW: Comcast reportedly set to sell left-wing network MSNBC

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I wouldn't even buy that for $1.

Posted by: ShainS -- In Trump's America, Garbage Throws Out YOU! at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (i8Zf/)

40 MSNBC should be bought by Dr. Evil, for One Million Dollars!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (VNX3d)

41 MessNBC and CNN will experience same audience loss as in 2016 after Trump win

Posted by: kallisto at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (2P7dc)

42 #learntoworkthegloryholes

Posted by: Roy at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (z+ik4)

43 I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros or, say, a joint partnership between Soros and a cadre of other communist billionaires.

Musk can buy them with the change in his couch.

I'm sure he's considering it. He wanted X to be an everything app, and he's making good progress. Adding a cable channel would help.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (xCA6C)

44 You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 12:34 PM (aD39U)

I'm not even sure that would do it.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (ksjMr)

45 afternoon, everybody!

Posted by: ace at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

46 31 Time is still publishing?

I thought that overegged panty liner sold for a dollar in 2009.
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The only place you see them is in Dentist offices. What are the Dentists up to?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (AdHga)

47 Newsweek was sold for $1.00

One should invest in assets, not liabilities.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (+H2BX)

48 I got a dollar...is that enough?

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (SSBCb)

49 37 Ha!

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (Q8V7a)

50 7 I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros or, say, a joint partnership between Soros and a cadre of other communist billionaires. The networks do not make money, they just make leftwing narratives. They have no economic value.

=======

Brands, even broken, diseased brands, have some value.

A revamped MSNBC could be valuable to somebody.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

I agree. Amazon supposedly killed real-life books, but it turned out that people like to hang out in bookstores. Barnes & Noble was a beneficiary of that - they were supposed to be DOA, and they're not.

I've never wanted a conservative media outlet. I'd simply like one that has, as their operating statement, "I don't trust anybody." If an outlet did that, I'd watch all day long - I might even buy a TV to do it.

If Elon wants to make X.com the everything portal to the internet, he might do worse than to pick up MSNBC for pennies on the dollar.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (yESeA)

51 afternoon, everybody!
Posted by: ace at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

Up at the crack of noon.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (aD39U)

52 Well, if Lawrence O'Donnell gets let go, at least the hammering will stop.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (PiwSw)

53 When cometh the lamentations of the women?

Posted by: Conan the Vengeful at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (fs1hN)

54 Newsweek sold for a dollar. I'm thinking MSNSDAP maybe two bits.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (L/fGl)

55 Hey I’ve got an idea!
Why don’t we crowdsource the purchase of MessNBC??

Posted by: kallisto at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (2P7dc)

56 "The networks do not make money, they just make leftwing narratives. They have no economic value."

Even $1 is too much to pay. They probably carry a lot of legacy costs ... and negotiated ridiculous salaries for a few years in advance?

Posted by: illiniwek at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (Cus5s)

57 Musk should buy it, hold Joy Reid and Maddow to their contracts, and broadcast their shows over calliope music and clowns throwing pies at one another in the background.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (K4KCe)

58 Do you know who else's price is back to one dollar?

Posted by: Kamala Dollar Store Harris at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (ksjMr)

59 45 Yo Ace!

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (Q8V7a)

60 Funny as it would be to do something positive with any of the properties, buying them merely rewards combat for owning them. Better to keep the millstone on their neck for eternity.

Posted by: Bensdad00 at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (F/35S)

61 Cable news is dead.

The median age of an msnbc viewer is 70 years. Fox and CNN is 68. They have maybe 10 more years left before 1/2 their viewers are literally dead.

Ratings across cable news was down 25%
On election night vs 2020. This so the Super Bowl for them and they lost 1/4 of their audience.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (o8qE9)

62 afternoon, everybody!

Posted by: ace

Afternoon *tips chapeau*

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (xCA6C)

63 Joy Reid's Reidout -- down 54.6%

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Black racists hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- In Trump's America, Garbage Throws Out YOU! at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (i8Zf/)

64 I saw this news item; they WANT to sell it. Their problem; it is literally worthless today. It is losing massive amounts of money and now that the election is over, its audience is shrinking rapidly with no hope of a turnaround. I wouldn’t pay a Dollar for it.

On the other hand, it would be fun if Elon bought it and made Tucker Carlson the new head of programing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (wyMQY)

65 >>>I'm sure he's considering it. He wanted X to be an everything app, and he's making good progress. Adding a cable channel would help.

NAH

it's nothing but liabilities and contracts with people he wouldn't want to keep on but would be required to pay out. The brand has anti-value. It's a joke even on the left.

If he had any thoughts like this he would just create his own cable channel from scratch.

Posted by: ace at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (KRtlO)

66 I'm sure he's considering it. He wanted X to be an everything app, and he's making good progress. Adding a cable channel would help.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (xCA6C)

Great minds think alike, Archimedes.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (yESeA)

67
Weren't Time and AOL merged? How times change.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (EsZUh)

68 MSNBC cannot course correct even if it wanted to. Their left wing brand is already cemented. If they tried to deviate from that, the bottom would fall out of their ratings.

Same reason CNN and WaPo can't change, they would lose more of their existing audience than they would gain by changing.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (V6W16)

69 This story makes me happy, or happier, thank you for posting it.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (9tq9V)

70 @36

>>But, gaslighting about Trump for nearly a decade followed by miserable failure probably has the effect of just numbing people and making them want to tune out, I guess.

FOX News's rating dipped substantially after the 2020 election too.

So, let's see where MSNBC's rating are after January 20th.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (XV/Pl)

71 >> afternoon, everybody!

Still morning, here...

And a Good Morning to you, Sir.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (z/jjr)

72 After we buy it we can all take turns hosting Morning Joe

We’ll have Joe and Mika tied to a chair behind us with their mouths taped shut

And both wearing dunce caps, or maybe clown wigs

Posted by: kallisto at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (2P7dc)

73 Hey I’ve got an idea!
Why don’t we crowdsource the purchase of MessNBC??
Posted by: kallisto at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (2P7dc)
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If they want more than $5, it's not worth it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (tT6L1)

74 NewsMax is TrumpTV.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (aD39U)

75 afternoon, everybody!
Posted by: ace at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

Norm!!

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (ksjMr)

76 This reminds me, Seinfeld. Kramer digs the Merv Griffin desk and backdrops out of the dirty garbage.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (PxJue)

77 Based on the post election ratings crash for MSNBC it would seem that Chris Wallace's vision quest to become the next Joe Rogan wasn't due to him voluntarily agreeing to leave CNN. Hopefully this MSNBC implosion is just the beginning.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (vO42M)

78 Trump = ratings

those Libtard shows will do fine with their base

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (FZYNt)

79 Elon needs to buy them and do a reverse Iowahawk:

1. Buy a disrespected, discredited institution
2. Kill & clean it and make it great again
3. Pat it on the head now that it, like Pinocchio, grew up and became a real boy, and let it out into the world while demanding respect

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (Eng1Z)

80 >>>Up at the crack of noon.

I'm still rocking this old, dying computer because HP says they don't have the parts to fix my new-ish computer. Have a heart.

Posted by: ace at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (KRtlO)

81 "Elon Musk should buy it and create a neutral news platform.
Posted by: Thomas Bender"

He should at least express interest just to watch leftist heads explode.

Posted by: Ripley at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (GUOwU)

82 The MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (a3Q+t)

83
lulz:

Gay magazine for hollywood celeries Variety:

"Stop Blaming 'Celery Endorsements' for Kalama Harris' Loss: We Need To Hear From Artists Now More Than Ever"

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (0wJJo)

84 Someone on X suggested Elon buy MSNBC for a song and give it to Alex Jones. Haha.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (th/4a)

85 "The networks do not make money, they just make leftwing narratives. They have no economic value."

Even $1 is too much to pay. They probably carry a lot of legacy costs ... and negotiated ridiculous salaries for a few years in advance?

I think Comcast is dreaming that someone will pay them a lot for this property. Nobody NEEDS it. I'm sure all the current stable of "talent" would be immediately fired, so legacy costs should be minimal.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (xCA6C)

86 I'd buy that for a dollar.

And then turn it into the Gorilla Channel.
Posted by: brak

MAGA Channel.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (SUJ+x)

87 Someone just needs to turn MSNBC into something akin to Naked News. This would increase their revenue and, assuming they don't replace the online "talent", can act as a penance for their viewers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (ExV1e)

88 Being the opposition to the party in power usually invigorates ratings and subscriptions. "Everything's wrong and it's the party in power's fault."

But, gaslighting about Trump for nearly a decade followed by miserable failure probably has the effect of just numbing people and making them want to tune out, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Normal people have an aversion to constant negativity. That is why doom/concern trolls show up here and elsewhere spreading their tales of fear, uncertaintly, and doubt.

It was easy to see those kind of trolls even back in Usenet days and in techworld, you still see people frozen in the AMD/Intel world as fanbois spreading fud while RISC design chips like from ARM are threatening to replace both.

Waiting for the pivot where both AMD/Intel fanbois turn their united fire to the upstart newcomer chips being sold like the Snapdragon.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

89 27 Jack Posobec on Bannon half jokingly said he wants to buy MSNBC, but Joe and Mika have to stay.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs
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That would be fun if you add a split screen with someone commenting and laughing as Joe and Mika go through their shenanigans.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (fs1hN)

90 The only thing that gets my goat is leftards get to benefit from the country getting better again.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (ksjMr)

91 I'll take "Worthless Shit" for $400 Alex
Posted by: Rick in SK

Sold!
Now please make sure you make payroll.
~Comcast

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (9eHkC)

92 82 The MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (a3Q+t)

Who no longer supports the MSNBC platform.

Posted by: Roy at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (z+ik4)

93 80 >>>Up at the crack of noon.

I'm still rocking this old, dying computer because HP says they don't have the parts to fix my new-ish computer. Have a heart.
Posted by: ace at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (KRtlO)

Tell that to Sefton.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (yESeA)

94 Yesterday I watched a clip at The Federalist in which Mollie made the case that the "right wing media empire" is bullshit. So far, so good. But commie Marie Barf claimed that X is also suppressing leftwing comments. At least in the clip included, Mollie didn't push back. Someone needs to.

In general, we need a lot more pushing back on their lies. Vance does some. We need to point out that "their truth" is just what some pol or bureaucrat or fellow journoliar says to support them. That's, at best, minimal evidence.

I wish someone would flat out tell them to their faces that the "proof" that 2020 was not stolen is all BS. None of the cases was actually given a thorough hearing. I understand that during the campaign that would be a needless diversion. But the campaign is over. Now, aside from the war in DC, the destruction of the establishment media is just as important.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (1bNHn)

95 Second look at crowdsourcing the Ace News Network?

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (z/jjr)

96 I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros or, say, a joint partnership between Soros and a cadre of other communist billionaires.
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Oh, I can. Just gaze to the north and see what happened there. Eventually, there is going to be a Democrat president, Democrat House, and Democrat Senate. The new buyer of the Legacy Media will be the US Government. They've been playing with the idea for a while, but never had the right atmosphere to go "full retard". However, they are no longer concerned with optics, perceived fairness, or laws in general.

It's coming.

Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (dIske)

97 The only reason to buy it is for the contracts of the 'talent'

Make them read white house press releases for two hours a day, and if they get uppity and sarcastic have them do it the next day in a clown wig. Continue to adjust wardrobe until compliance is achieved

Posted by: Bensdad00 at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (F/35S)

98
"Celery"? What did I miss?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (EsZUh)

99 Puppet Show and MSNBC

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (Vyll1)

100 I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros or, say, a joint partnership between Soros

We're right here, dude.

Posted by: The CCP at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM (IG4Id)

101 Maybe Trump Media could bid on the studios alone ... not sure what DJT has going on that front at the moment.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM (Cus5s)

102
Who reads Variety?
Who reads Rolling Stone?

Who is their audience?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM (0wJJo)

103 Why are men so damn stupid?

https://is.gd/1pG3ja

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM (L/fGl)

104 A revamped MSNBC could be valuable to somebody.

But if they don't continue to issue Deep State propaganda, which made them unprofitable, Comcast won't include them in their cable packages.

Posted by: t-bird at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM (DKHqY)

105 7 I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros or, say, a joint partnership between Soros and a cadre of other communist billionaires. The networks do not make money, they just make leftwing narratives. They have no economic value.

=======

Brands, even broken, diseased brands, have some value.

A revamped MSNBC could be valuable to somebody.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:32 PM (GBKbO)
_____
It certainly would be funny if one of ours took over MSNBC.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM (1bNHn)

106 Last I saw Blago was EXTREMELY CONCERNED that pro-life was going to frighten away voters.

Considering we heard it 50 times I wonder why he hasn't shown up to post in depth about his relief that it never came to pass.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (ksjMr)

107 70 FOX News's rating dipped substantially after the 2020 election too.

So, let's see where MSNBC's rating are after January 20th.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (XV/Pl)

========

Calling AZ early wasn't great for them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

108 95 Second look at crowdsourcing the Ace News Network?
Posted by: garrett

ANN

love the sound of that

Ewoks rejoice!

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (FZYNt)

109 >>Who reads Rolling Stone?

This question actually got me hired at Rolling Stone back in 1995. Not even a joke.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (z/jjr)

110 79 Elon needs to buy them and do a reverse Iowahawk:

1. Buy a disrespected, discredited institution
2. Kill & clean it and make it great again
3. Pat it on the head now that it, like Pinocchio, grew up and became a real boy, and let it out into the world while demanding respect

We get insights like this for free here. When was that last time that happened on MSNBC from their "professional journalists"? Has it EVER happened?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (xCA6C)

111 >>> Musk can buy them with the change in his couch.

I read that the stock market has gone up so much since Trump won, that Elon has made back the equivalent of the money he spent buying Twitter! So he has speculation money to play with again.

I'd laugh if his Trump victory money is used to buy them.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (Eng1Z)

112 TV advertising is a house of cards. The conventional wisdom, peddled by campaign strategists, of needing to spend millions on it to win elections just got blown out of the water by Trump. He went on the podcasts his son recommended and did targeted online advertising. (Harris blanketed YouTube as well, to the point of annoyance.) As far as I know, Trump never bought an ad to run during the national evening news. Stick a fork in it, TV advertising is done.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs a nap at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (dtlDP)

113
Turn it into the Gorilla channel? Any channel with Joy Reid IS the gorilla channel.

Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (j4U/Z)

114 I'd say Elon should buy it but why?

It apparently cost a million dollars to produce Oprah's townhall for Kamala.

I guarantee Tucker and Joe Rogan don't have that kind of cost for their productions and they get millions of more views.

Letting guests, and anchors zoom their content into the studio because of COVID was the death blow to high cost studio production.

The audience is more interested in the content now than the production values.

Posted by: Just Lily at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (U8QKV)

115 What is a broadcast license worth these days?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (WXNFJ)

116 80 >>>Up at the crack of noon.

I'm still rocking this old, dying computer because HP says they don't have the parts to fix my new-ish computer. Have a heart.
Posted by: ace at November 12, 2024 12:40 PM (KRtlO)

I heard the Thuggees had lots of hearts, if Indiana Jones is to be believed. The Aztecs did too.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (SSBCb)

117 There is an infinite amount of political analysis online. There’s nothing special about a talking head on MS-NBC or fox that 1000 other people are saying somewhere.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (o8qE9)

118 >> Why are men so damn stupid?

Science says it is Titties.

Titties make us stupid.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (z/jjr)

119
Brands, even broken, diseased brands, have some value.

A revamped MSNBC could be valuable to somebody.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

_________

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream Network

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2024 12:44 PM (EsZUh)

120 98
"Celery"? What did I miss?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (EsZUh)

Pimento Cheese! Makes a great appetizer!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, who can't wait for the Food Thread at November 12, 2024 12:44 PM (PiwSw)

121 Afternoon Ace. The furnishings and machinery in the studios and control booths have some value , but not much else . Watching the media companies be sold back and forth by billionaires , Redstone, Ellison etc really looks just like egos at work. The propaganda ministries are losing their power as other news sources grow, and with it their value

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 12:44 PM (b2/S2)

122 The only thing that gets my goat is leftards get to benefit from the country getting better again.
Posted by: ...

Prisoners don't benefit. IYKWIM.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 12:44 PM (SUJ+x)

123 Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
BREAKING: CNN to fire stars, hundreds of staff, as the network's ratings continue to tank.

Piling on...

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

124 Science says it is Titties.

Titties make us stupid.
Posted by: garrett

You had me at tit

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:44 PM (FZYNt)

125 They just need to rehire Olbermann.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 12:44 PM (L/fGl)

126 Apropos of nothing, wasn't Christopher Ruddy (the owner of NewsMax) a regular on conspiracy radio? I'm thinking that guy that broadcast from a hotel lobby down in Florida. Back when simulcasting on shortwave and AM was a thing.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 12:44 PM (aD39U)

127 Sunny Hostin: Cluck cluck cluck.
Ana Navarro: Cluck cluck cluck. Squawk!
Joy Behar: Cluck cluck squawk squawk!
Whoopi Goldberg: Squawk squawk squawk!
Ana Navarro: Squawk squawk SQUAWK!
Whoopi Goldberg: SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK!
Joy Behar: SQUAWK! SQUAWK!! SQUAWK!!!

Posted by: Now on The View at November 12, 2024 12:45 PM (qUkBO)

128 We already have AI to produce bad code. What will these poor unfortunates do?

Posted by: DaveA at November 12, 2024 12:45 PM (FhXTo)

129 We need to ban as many commie sources of "information" as humanly possible. Make it illegal for them to broadcast or publish. Make life as hard on them as they do on normal everyday people. Take away their bs "press" credentials.

Oh no nevermind let's play fair and see where that goes.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 12:45 PM (ksjMr)

130 Why are men so damn stupid?

Science says it is Titties.

Titties make us stupid.
Posted by: garrett

Men have two heads.
But only enough blood to run one at a time.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 12:45 PM (SUJ+x)

131 >>Sunny Hostin: Cluck cluck cluck.
Ana Navarro: Cluck cluck cluck. Squawk!
Joy Behar: Cluck cluck squawk squawk!
Whoopi Goldberg: Squawk squawk squawk!
Ana Navarro: Squawk squawk SQUAWK!
Whoopi Goldberg: SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK!
Joy Behar: SQUAWK! SQUAWK!! SQUAWK!!!

lol

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:45 PM (z/jjr)

132 Network channels are dying off because the people who use those services are dying off.

Shoot, I grew up on network entertainment and gave it up several years ago.

Heck, my wife and I recently caught a movie on a cable channel and the number of commercials made the show pretty much unwatchable.

Studio equipment for a decent streaming channel is relatively cheap. Billion dollar studios are losing out to 20K worth of equipment in a garage.

People have choices, these days, unlike the era I grew up in.,

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 12:45 PM (tT6L1)

133 I found 57 cents and a slightly used Tic Tac under my couch cushions that I can pony up, but you'll need to give me 32 cents change back.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (k9OZB)

134 The MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

This cockup came about when Microsoft was trying to come up with an internet portal to compete with AOL and Yahoo. Microsoft, during the Balmer years, sold its interest in 2005. This sale is arguably his greatest achievement.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (vO42M)

135 45 afternoon, everybody!
Posted by: ace at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

Afternoon, Mr. Ace.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (VnUSN)

136 I'm still rocking this old, dying computer because HP says they don't have the parts to fix my new-ish computer. Have a heart.
Posted by: ace

If you have a Microcenter near you or if you are careful about sellers, Amazon, you can normally pickup up a refurbished model of the same computer you have (or even a upgraded version of it) for not a lot of money if is a couple of years old.

That can serve as a bridge to later buying a new one as there are some really interesting designs out there like Lunar Lake that have all day batteries more or less. For power users, the newer AMD Ryzen gamer rigs look quite nice.

I would however, do a full backup to something whether thumbdrive, cloud, or portable ssd/harddrive.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (ctrM5)

137 >>>Oprah's Grifter Network

Headline says Oprah, but then she isn't mentioned after that. Which network is Oprah connected to?

Something to do with Discovery Health Channel, which was rebranded to OWN, which is named after her and she has an interest in? But I don't think that's connected to Comcast.

Posted by: No Name Today at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (vlXMQ)

138 BREAKING: CNN to fire stars,

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

LMFAO

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (ksjMr)

139 Why are men so damn stupid?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM

Two competing brains, only enough blood for one at a time.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (a3Q+t)

140 @106—

Have Blago and ARlene Battishill ever been seen in the same room together?

Posted by: kallisto at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (2P7dc)

141
Did Ace include Chris Wallace's ridiculous pipedream in this post?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (308YD)

142 I tried, for about 15 minutes, to watch the election returns and just cut them off cuz you could'nt get any idea how things were going. It was as if they were reporting nonsense to avoid reporting real news. Fuck these guys.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (AdHga)

143 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)

144 But how will Rachel Maddow make a cow's salary?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

145 57 Musk should buy it, hold Joy Reid and Maddow
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 12, 2024 12:38 PM (K4KCe)

Ewww, he might get some of it on him.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (VnUSN)

146 95 Second look at crowdsourcing the Ace News Network?
Posted by: garrett

Right! This is a brilliant idea. 😃. I will empty all the various change locations. It’s our shot at being megamillionaires. Our line up is ready to go - we have pure news, commentary, infotainment sections, Gainz hour, rebuild anything and everything with AOP, cooking with CBD, literary hour, art and culture, how could we fail?

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (p4NUW)

147 "Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
BREAKING: CNN to fire stars, hundreds of staff, as the network's ratings continue to tank. "

You might even say "the walls are closing in on CNN"

Posted by: Ripley at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (GUOwU)

148 >>> And then turn it into the Gorilla Channel.
Posted by: brak

Gorilla AND Moo Deng channel!

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (Eng1Z)

149 Sunny Hostin: Cluck cluck cluck.
Ana Navarro: Cluck cluck cluck. Squawk!
Joy Behar: Cluck cluck squawk squawk!
Whoopi Goldberg: Squawk squawk squawk!
Ana Navarro: Squawk squawk SQUAWK!
Whoopi Goldberg: SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK!
Joy Behar: SQUAWK! SQUAWK!! SQUAWK!!!
Posted by: Now on The View at November 12, 2024 12:45 PM (qUkBO)

That could be funny, if they were all in chicken suits. Now, if every tenth or twentieth squawk, they dropped an egg, it would be funnier to watch. Not listen, just watch.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (VNX3d)

150 I could see Qatar or some jihadi type purchasing it.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (1Lb2S)

151 134 The MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

This cockup came about when Microsoft was trying to come up with an internet portal to compete with AOL and Yahoo. Microsoft, during the Balmer years, sold its interest in 2005. This sale is arguably his greatest achievement.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
======
It was also about Microsoft getting blindsided by DC politics in the 90's because they had not kissed the ring of the DC powerbrokers. They were an early practitioner of buying their own media outlet to keep the DC wolves in check. Ditto for Bezos, Carlos Slim, and now Elon.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

152
Rolling Stone@RollingStone
Donald Trump has surrounded himself with an odious group of political figures as he plots how to enact his agenda during his second term in office.
Here are 12 of the most reprehensible MAGA loyalists riding Trump’s coattails.

https://is.gd/FLQaDm
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 12:30 PM (L/fGl)

"Reprehensible"?
What? Not one a confirmed pedo makes them "reprehensible".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (/lPRQ)

153 98
"Celery"? What did I miss

The edit button, obviously

Posted by: Bensdad00 at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (F/35S)

154 105 7 I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros or, say, a joint partnership between Soros and a cadre of other communist billionaires. The networks do not make money, they just make leftwing narratives. They have no economic value.

=======

Brands, even broken, diseased brands, have some value.

A revamped MSNBC could be valuable to somebody.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:32 PM (GBKbO)
_____
It certainly would be funny if one of ours took over MSNBC.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM (1bNHn)

Ewok grooming, shelving tips, hobo hunting...

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (SSBCb)

155 Hi Ace
I know I haven't been around much. will try and do better.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (t/2Uw)

156 We already have AI to produce bad code. What will these poor unfortunates do?
Posted by: DaveA

Peddle the bicycles to power the AI servers. Duh. Have you f'ing not seen an episode of Gilligan's Island???

Posted by: The CCP at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (IG4Id)

157 150 I could see Qatar or some jihadi type purchasing it.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee

so stay the status quo?

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (FZYNt)

158 Anderson Cooper makes $20M a year. Why?
Seriously what does CNN think he provides for that much money?

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (o8qE9)

159 Waiting for the pivot where both AMD/Intel fanbois turn their united fire to the upstart newcomer chips being sold like the Snapdragon.
Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

Bah! The Motorola 68000 puts them all to shame!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (K4KCe)

160 150 I could see Qatar or some jihadi type purchasing it.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee
========
Al Jazerra NBC has a nice ring.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

161 127 Sunny Hostin: Cluck cluck cluck.
Ana Navarro: Cluck cluck cluck. Squawk!
Joy Behar: Cluck cluck squawk squawk!
Whoopi Goldberg: Squawk squawk squawk!
Ana Navarro: Squawk squawk SQUAWK!
Whoopi Goldberg: SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK!
Joy Behar: SQUAWK! SQUAWK!! SQUAWK!!!

I laughed harder at that than I should have.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (xCA6C)

162

MicrosoftNBC.

Posted by: E Buzz at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (/FOT2)

163 I wonder if Elon could buy it, and flip it right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (+u0WJ)

164 I'd buy that for a dollar.

And then turn it into the Gorilla Channel.
Posted by: brak

--

Kan we haz skedul?

Posted by: The monkeys at your window at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (Uc8km)

165 Seriously what does CNN think he provides for that much money?
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald

Those dicks don't suck themselves

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (FZYNt)

166 142 The giant touchscreen graphics clarify nothing.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (Q8V7a)

167 >>> 103 Why are men so damn stupid?
https://is.gd/1pG3ja
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM (L/fGl)

She's looking at it all wrong! Their collective knowledge is a gift. Grab a friend who loves literature and the arts, and another friend who knows sports, and they will clean up at every pub trivia night.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (Eng1Z)

168 Second look at crowdsourcing the Ace News Network?
Posted by: garrett

Right! This is a brilliant idea. 😃. I will empty all the various change locations. It’s our shot at being megamillionaires. Our line up is ready to go - we have pure news, commentary, infotainment sections, Gainz hour, rebuild anything and everything with AOP, cooking with CBD, literary hour, art and culture, how could we fail?

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (p4NUW)

------------------

I've heard ads that NewsMax is going to have an IPO.

Let's do this, Ace!

Posted by: ShainS -- In Trump's America, Garbage Throws Out YOU! at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (lDFBN)

169 158 Anderson Cooper makes $20M a year. Why?
Seriously what does CNN think he provides for that much money?
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (o8qE9)

========

He's just a poor boy from a poor family.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

170 "This is AOSBC"

- kind of has a nice ring to it.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (w9Wax)

171 Oh, I can. Just gaze to the north and see what happened there. Eventually, there is going to be a Democrat president, Democrat House, and Democrat Senate. The new buyer of the Legacy Media will be the US Government. They've been playing with the idea for a while, but never had the right atmosphere to go "full retard". However, they are no longer concerned with optics, perceived fairness, or laws in general.

It's coming.
Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM (dIske)

If they don't get back in for 12 years or so, it'll be way too late, won't it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (wyMQY)

172 115 What is a broadcast license worth these days?
Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (WXNFJ)

Hopefully we find out soon. After the big 3 get their shit put on the auction block after the trials.

Posted by: Reforger at November 12, 2024 12:50 PM (xcIvR)

173 Right! This is a brilliant idea. 😃. I will empty all the various change locations. It’s our shot at being megamillionaires. Our line up is ready to go - we have pure news, commentary, infotainment sections, Gainz hour, rebuild anything and everything with AOP, cooking with CBD, literary hour, art and culture, how could we fail?
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (p4NUW)

I still think at the very least we need a podcast network.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:50 PM (CIS44)

174 I can get behind the idea of Elon buying the channel which runs the view.

Be funny to watch the harridans of the view accept pay cuts while singing the praises of Elon.

Normally, humiliation isn't my kink, but, I could make an exception.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 12:50 PM (tT6L1)

175 Bah! The Motorola 68000 puts them all to shame!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
=======
It did actually back in the day. That was a fine chip and like RISC chips today are restoring competitiveness to Apple computers, the 68000 did that for Apple versus the Intel x86 types.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:50 PM (ctrM5)

176 Even though cable news is dead, it's not like twitter was some big money maker for Elon. I'm sure he lost money on it.

It's about controlling information, not profits.

Traditional media still effects things. I've been hearing for several decades they don't matter, but they sadly do for older people.

Posted by: Leupold at November 12, 2024 12:50 PM (4pwAx)

177 Who reads Rolling Stone?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 12:42 PM (0wJJo)

You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/KuvfIePDbgY

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:50 PM (BSDFI)

178 Everyone knew the election was over and Trump won. Yet for hours, networks were still playing the “too close to call” game to keep viewers tuned in.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:50 PM (o8qE9)

179 Anderson Cooper makes $20M a year. Why?
Seriously what does CNN think he provides for that much money?
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (o8qE9)

========

He's just a poor boy from a poor family.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

That Vanderbilt cash just doesn't go far in this economy.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:50 PM (CIS44)

180 I'm still rocking this old, dying computer because HP says they don't have the parts to fix my new-ish computer. Have a heart.
Posted by: ace

*Whispers Mac*

Because mainly, Ace, when you buy us the TV station, it’s what I know how to use and I have one heck of an audiovisual system in the studio so we can stream from there.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (p4NUW)

181 Musk is getting close to being worth a third of a trillion dollars....mind boggling.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (DJ7uY)

182 146 95 Second look at crowdsourcing the Ace News Network?
Posted by: garrett

Right! This is a brilliant idea. 😃. I will empty all the various change locations. It’s our shot at being megamillionaires. Our line up is ready to go - we have pure news, commentary, infotainment sections, Gainz hour, rebuild anything and everything with AOP, cooking with CBD, literary hour, art and culture, how could we fail?
Posted by: Piper

The Ginger vs. Mary Ann hour

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (FZYNt)

183 109 >>Who reads Rolling Stone?

This question actually got me hired at Rolling Stone back in 1995. Not even a joke.
Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:43 PM (z/jjr)

cool

Posted by: m at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (VnUSN)

184 Speaking of worthless properties...

FX's "Alien: Earth" TVseries has a lame trailer out.

Apparently, it involves a plain Jane Girlboss and some Alien fodder soldiers hunting an Alien in the forest.

The problem here is the same problem with the direction Jurassic Park movies have taken. Dinos or aliens in the wild on Earth are easy kills with automatic weapons and bazookas.

Anyone ever thought that the Alien is a great weapon in a space ship, ie. acid blood melting open an access to the vacuum of space, etc. But, on land, well it's not much more dangerous than a tiger.

I predict....failure.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (eDfFs)

185 Only tangential, but worth noting...

Remember when we used to see striking pictures from space of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic? They're gone now. Nowhere. Things must be great in Haiti now.

Posted by: creeper at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (M6moH)

186 Rolling Stone@RollingStone
Donald Trump has surrounded himself with an odious group of political figures as he plots how to enact his agenda during his second term in office.
Here are 12 of the most reprehensible MAGA loyalists riding Trump’s coattails.

https://is.gd/FLQaDm
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 12:30 PM (L/fGl)

This is how you get EVEN MOAR TRUMP.

Keep it up, dipshits. You'll be done before you know it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)

187 What's up with AoSHQ and dying computers.

AoSHQ procurement department, "Ace, we can get such a deal on AchPee computers from Wish.com"

Ace "HP's?"

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (vO42M)

188 I wonder if Elon could buy it, and flip it right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (+u0WJ)

---------------

1. Buy it for one dollar.
2. Sell it to China for one digital yuan.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!

Posted by: ShainS -- In Trump's America, Garbage Throws Out YOU! at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (aiD7a)

189
On the other hand, it would be fun if Elon bought it and made Tucker Carlson the new head of programing.
Posted by: Tom Servo

In the beginning days of MSNBC Tucker had a show.
So did Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (63Dwl)

190 "Rolling Stone@RollingStone
Donald Trump has surrounded himself with an odious group of political figures as he plots how to enact his agenda during his second term in office.
Here are 12 of the most reprehensible MAGA loyalists riding Trump’s coattails.

https://is.gd/FLQaDm
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks"

Unfortunately for Rolling Stones their audience will not read past the headlines and first two sentences and will never know who those 12 people are.

Posted by: Ripley at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (GUOwU)

191 175 I loved the 68000. Very orthogonal architecture and instruction set.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (Q8V7a)

192 The audience is more interested in the content now than the production values.
Posted by: Just Lily
=
Modern cameras and electronics plus relying on amateurs with cell phone video allow one to do with a staff of one techie what used to take a bunch of folks at broadcast news stations.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (ctrM5)

193 Comcast is about as evil an organization as can be, imo, having had the corporation crap on so many residential 'customers' over the years.

Oh, and let me not forget TD Bank, too.

Haven't both had some DOJ oversight issues?

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you... at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (NFX2v)

194 The woman who got fired from FEMA just chucked her superiors and under the bus. There's video of her at Twitchy being interviewed by I believe Roland Martin and she said it was part of "de-escalation" . Screw you Mayorkas

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (b2/S2)

195 What's up with AoSHQ and dying computers.

AoSHQ procurement department, "Ace, we can get such a deal on AchPee computers from Wish.com"

Ace "HP's?"
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (vO42M)

I'd have bet a lot of money he was using a Compaq Presario

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (BSDFI)

196 >>cool

It was the funniest interview I have ever been to.

I got to insult every one of the Department Heads over a fantastic lunch and then got job offers from all of them.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (z/jjr)

197 173 I still think at the very least we need a podcast network.
Posted by: BruceWayne at

To the Batmobile! Grab SheHobbit, and meet me at the studio for episode 1!

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (p4NUW)

198 Anderson Cooper makes $20M a year. Why?
Seriously what does CNN think he provides for that much money?
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (o8qE9)

Safety for their female staff.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

199 Rolling Stone@RollingStone
Donald Trump has surrounded himself with an odious group of political figures as he plots how to enact his agenda during his second term in office.
Here are 12 of the most reprehensible MAGA loyalists riding Trump’s coattails.

https://is.gd/FLQaDm
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 12:30 PM (L/fGl)
-------------

Voting is over with. No need to continue making a case for President Trump.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (tT6L1)

200 182 146 95 Second look at crowdsourcing the Ace News Network?
Posted by: garrett

Right! This is a brilliant idea. 😃. I will empty all the various change locations. It’s our shot at being megamillionaires. Our line up is ready to go - we have pure news, commentary, infotainment sections, Gainz hour, rebuild anything and everything with AOP, cooking with CBD, literary hour, art and culture, how could we fail?
Posted by: Piper

The Ginger vs. Mary Ann hour
Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (FZYNt)

Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (yESeA)

201 Everyone knew the election was over and Trump won. Yet for hours, networks were still playing the “too close to call” game to keep viewers tuned in.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald

I could just look at their faces and know.
But they lied until the last moment possible. Election was over around 9pm EST and everyone knew it.

Even the Exit polls were leaked in a way that made it look winnable for Kamala

Had the scenario been flipped, race would have been called several hours earlier.

Posted by: Leupold at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (4pwAx)

202 The leftists will just have to spend more money on sets! That $100k that Kumswala blew on the set for Call Her Daddy was obviously not enough. Should have been $250k minimum.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

203 What's up with AoSHQ and dying computers.

AoSHQ procurement department, "Ace, we can get such a deal on AchPee computers from Wish.com"

Ace: Are these the same guys from whom you bought those pagers?

FIFY

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (xCA6C)

204 Waiting for the pivot where both AMD/Intel fanbois turn their united fire to the upstart newcomer chips being sold like the Snapdragon.
Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:41 PM

===

Bah! The Motorola 68000 puts them all to shame!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM

Begun the Bigendian/Littlendian Wars have.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (a3Q+t)

205 Hmm, I wonder what it would take for Comcast or anyone to declare bankruptcy for MSNBC etc to get out of paying the commiecrats to spew lies. Mind I don't wonder enough to try to research it, but seems like that would be a logical move unless some lefty billionaire buys it to have their own mouthpiece.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (zYCTH)

206 I'd have bet a lot of money he was using a Compaq Presario
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (BSDFI)

And here I thought he was rocking a Commodore 64.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (CIS44)

207 But how will Rachel Maddow make a cow's salary?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

Note on Maddow's annual eval:

https://youtu.be/8d8h1lbzoHY

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (ExV1e)

208 Anderson Cooper makes $20M a year. Why?
Seriously what does CNN think he provides for that much money?
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (o8qE9)

Safety for their female staff.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

True dat.

Posted by: Matt Lauer at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (nTu5M)

209 >>> 158 Anderson Cooper makes $20M a year. Why?
Seriously what does CNN think he provides for that much money? Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (o8qE9)

He did go do actual journalism overseas for a while. Also gives them cover from the gay mafia, and gives them that Vanderbilt older money elite cred.

I don't think he's stupid, but I do think it's hard to outrun your genes. And the Vanderbilt crazy genes are a beast.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (Eng1Z)

210 Madcow makes $40,000 a day peddling fearmongering deranged conspiracies

Her latest is that Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes

Because she’s a fucking hack coward piece of shit she won’t come right out and say it, but instead simply heavily implies that’s how Trump won

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (b+2gD)

211 Silly me. I just wanted to Acesource buying the fully functional Batmobiles for sale. Think each was only about 3 million.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (t/2Uw)

212 Post-election Ratings Crash Proves ‘Walls are Closing In’ on MSNBC and CNN

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (RHGPo)

213 The woman who got fired from FEMA just chucked her superiors and under the bus. There's video of her at Twitchy being interviewed by I believe Roland Martin and she said it was part of "de-escalation" . Screw you Mayorkas
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I miss Laugh In.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (SUJ+x)

214 NBC is a brand. MSNBC is not.

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (V13WU)

215 Elon Musk should buy it and create a neutral news platform.

I think he's out to bury cable TV. He's running an end-around with Starlink.

Posted by: t-bird at November 12, 2024 12:55 PM (33Cgj)

216 This is me, playing the worlds smallest violin for MSNBC.

Posted by: Same Old Same Old at November 12, 2024 12:55 PM (Ua9Fu)

217 To the Batmobile! Grab SheHobbit, and meet me at the studio for episode 1!
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (p4NUW)

Hellz ya! Just need to dig that 3M$ out of the couch cushions!

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:55 PM (CIS44)

218 If he had any thoughts like this he would just create his own cable channel from scratch.

Posted by: ace at November 12, 2024 12:39 PM (KRtlO)
++++

The trick to starting up a new channel is getting a spot in the channel lineup of the cable companies. By buying an existing channel, you get the spot that they had.

Posted by: No Name Today at November 12, 2024 12:55 PM (vlXMQ)

219 210 Madcow makes $40,000 a day peddling fearmongering deranged conspiracies

Her latest is that Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes

Because she’s a fucking hack coward piece of shit she won’t come right out and say it, but instead simply heavily implies that’s how Trump won
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (b+2gD)

========

Voting machines took a break from being hacked in 2020, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

220 On Election Night, 25% of cable networks' usual viewers chose not to watch-- instead tuning into independent creators' record-breaking streams like ours.
---
Don't forget that Musk is working on a way to allow streamers to monetize on X.

Which will kill YouTube as the #1 complaint of streamers is the contortions they have to go through to avoid censorship and copyright strikes.

Web 3.0; interactive content where both the creator and the consumer get paid.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 12, 2024 12:55 PM (wkmJg)

221 MS in MSNBC is there because of Microsoft. Maybe Bill gates will buy it.

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 12:55 PM (V13WU)

222 >>And here I thought he was rocking a Commodore 64.

Pretty sure Ace made his own computer using and old handheld Tiger Electronics Tecmo Bowl, a used CD Player and his Mom's Vibrator.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (z/jjr)

223
Priapism is real, and it's spectacular.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (NMT5x)

224 Madcow makes $40,000 a day peddling fearmongering deranged conspiracies

$14.6 million a year? Why???

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (SUJ+x)

225 I just bought my kid an HP laptop for $300. Computers are like TVs now, practically free. It’s not worth repairing broken ones.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (o8qE9)

226 Anderson Cooper makes $20M a year. Why?
Seriously what does CNN think he provides for that much money?
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024

========
He's just a poor boy from a poor family.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024

***
Was Cooper friends, or "friends," with Freddie Mercury?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (J2vNu)

227 Her latest is that Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes

Because she’s a fucking hack coward piece of shit she won’t come right out and say it, but instead simply heavily implies that’s how Trump won
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (b+2gD)

Would be funny if he did. Especially since they're not supposed to be connected to the internet 90 days prior to an election.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

228
Pimento Cheese! Makes a great appetizer!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, who can't wait for the Food Thread

*drums fingers irritably*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (EsZUh)

229 I still think at the very least we need a podcast network.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:50 PM (CIS44)

We could have recorded the discussion at the most recent MoMe After Dark post-game. There were quite a few, um, INTERESTING topics we hit on.

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (BSDFI)

230 I loved the 68000. Very orthogonal architecture and instruction set.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM

The world would be very different if IBM had chosen the 68000 instead of the 8088.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (a3Q+t)

231 I'm sure the RNC & Team Orange are way ahead of me on this, but...

it's shocking that Harris & her PAC affiliates outspent Trump and his affiliated PACs by appx 2.5x, according to multiple reports.

That can't be sustained if MAGA wins are to continue.

Because of Trump's announced appointments so far (plus Vance's promotion), there are going to be two Special Elections for Senate and at least 2 in the House (Waltz & Stefanik). Plus, there may be others.

All of these will be low turnout affairs, & there's a lot of room for DEM upsets.

Posted by: mnw at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (NLIak)

232 I'm still rocking this old, dying computer because HP says they don't have the parts to fix my new-ish computer. Have a heart.
Posted by: ace

*Whispers Mac*
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (p4NUW)

How long has JJ been without his Mac?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

233 >>Safety for their female staff.

As long as they never sit directly on the toilet seat.

Posted by: Dr. Fauci at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (z/jjr)

234 I would however, do a full backup to something whether thumbdrive, cloud, or portable ssd/harddrive.
Posted by: whig

A backup is a really good idea.
I'm sure I can find a couple of floppy disks hidden around here and donate to help out.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (9eHkC)

235 Her latest is that Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes

To the most secure election machines in the world which are not in any way connected to the internet? Do tell us more, Rachel...

Posted by: t-bird at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (33Cgj)

236 If Anderson Cooper makes $20m and is fired he's going to have to work a lot of OT at the glory hole to make ends meet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (b2/S2)

237 227 Would be funny if he did. Especially since they're not supposed to be connected to the internet 90 days prior to an election.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

=========

Admin passwords are also supposed to be secret and not available on a spreadsheet on a secretary of state's public website, but Colorado did it anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

238 Time Magazine could just change their name to Tim Magazine, and could just be about Tim and his various adventures and thoughts on things.

You know.

Man of the Year: Tim.

Swimsuit Issue featuring exclusively Tim.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (ksjMr)

239 168
I've heard ads that NewsMax is going to have an IPO.

Let's do this, Ace

Yes - I have looked at it and am trying to get J to invest. I don’t meet the criteria. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (p4NUW)

240 ***MSNBC ratings have precipitously cratered since Trump's sweeping victory on Election Day:***
---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPCJgclG3Us

Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (ggv1C)

241 "Her latest is that Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes"

Little does she know that Elon actually Starlink-Beamed that fantasy straight into her brain! He's a diabolical sonuvabitch.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (Q8V7a)

242
We could have recorded the discussion at the most recent MoMe After Dark post-game. There were quite a few, um, INTERESTING topics we hit on.
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (BSDFI)

"What do they need a cup for?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

243 231 Because of Trump's announced appointments so far (plus Vance's promotion), there are going to be two Special Elections for Senate and at least 2 in the House (Waltz & Stefanik). Plus, there may be others.

All of these will be low turnout affairs, & there's a lot of room for DEM upsets.
Posted by: mnw at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (NLIak)

=======

Both Senate seats should be appointed until the next scheduled regular election (OH and FL).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

244
Also gives them cover from the gay mafia, and gives them that Vanderbilt older money elite cred.

I didn't think there was any Vanderbilt money left.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2024 12:58 PM (EsZUh)

245 If MSNBC is sold where will all the angry and uncomfortable to watch ladies go?

Posted by: Pudinhead

They can don their xxxl Handmaiden's costume and hope some soiboi with a micro-peepee will ravish them in their no no square.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 12, 2024 12:58 PM (MsrgL)

246 191 175 I loved the 68000. Very orthogonal architecture and instruction set.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:52 PM (Q8V7a)

My favorite opcode:
Enforcement of In-order Execution of IO: EIEIO.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 12:58 PM (SSBCb)

247 Elon Musk should buy it and create a neutral news platform.

I think he's out to bury cable TV. He's running an end-around with Starlink.
Posted by: t-bird

E-Tube Channel on Starlink.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 12:58 PM (SUJ+x)

248 Anderson Cooper makes $20M a year. Why?
Seriously what does CNN think he provides for that much money?
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (o8qE9)

He’s a handsome, vapid actor paid to read lines.

The MSM’s primary task is to lend credibility to the status quo by “pinning” alternative media and thereby defining the scope of the Overton window. You can see that all the time, even on this site. When’s the last time you sat and watched CNN?

Probably not for a long time. Yet I see clips from CNN and MSNBC nearly everyday on right-wing media sites, X, etc. Those sites or X users are using the clips to demonstrate bias and stupidity in the mainstream media, but it also has the effect of shaping narratives in the alternative media. Thesis/antithesis.

I’d still contend that most of CNN’s views and influence come from people hate-watching clips of its buffoonish hosts and deranged guests.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 12, 2024 12:58 PM (K4KCe)

249
btw, let's not forget Dennis Quaid's outspoken support for the president.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 12:58 PM (fVU5Y)

250 Your daily Atlantic headlines:

What Did the Democrats Do Wrong?
By Jerusalem Demsas
Inflation, moderation, and candidate effects.

The Democrats’ Senate Nightmare Is Only Beginning
By Daniel Block
If the party doesn’t figure out how to compete in more states, perpetual GOP dominance is all but assured.

Trump Signals That He’s Serious About Mass Deportation
By David A. Graham
These are not the staff picks of someone who doesn’t mean what he says.

More cope and seethe please!

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 12:58 PM (Eng1Z)

251 Well, to be fair, it isn't a lie if you believe it, is it?

So MSNBC is not a network full of liars, but one full of drooling idiots, right? That should improve the price, right? Oh, wait...

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at November 12, 2024 12:58 PM (gfztU)

252 I miss Laugh In.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (SUJ+x)

Sock it to me!

Posted by: Kuntala at November 12, 2024 12:59 PM (ksjMr)

253
Admin passwords are also supposed to be secret and not available on a spreadsheet on a secretary of state's public website, but Colorado did it anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

Colorado has Venezuelan gangs taking over entire areas and smells like weed, so ENJOY!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

254 There is Nothing But Crap then there is More Same Nothing But Crap

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 12:59 PM (RHGPo)

255 187 What's up with AoSHQ and dying computers.

AoSHQ procurement department, "Ace, we can get such a deal on AchPee computers from Wish.com"

Ace "HP's?"
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
=====
I refrain much from commenting but basically laptops are disposable computers. Want one that lasts, build your own desktop which is easier than ever now.

Even watercooling nowadays and nominal overclocking is tame enough for normies to do.

Re built desktops,
I have had ONE motherboard fail in about twenty years of building a new one about every two to three years. One CPU failed but the motherboard was okay.

I haven't had a power supply fail since I had the OEM power supply die on an HP desktop tower way back in 1998. Had exactly one refurb (via Microcenter) DVD-RW drive fail.

No hard drive failures.

If one wants to do it, building your own is easier than ever and you control what goes in it and spending a few more bucks for a good power supply, name brand and warrantied memory, mid grade motherboards, and decent name brand components such as ssd/harddrives/blurays, etc.
give you a computer than can easily last a decade of use.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:59 PM (ctrM5)

256 Priapism is real, and it's spectacular.
Posted by: haffhowershower

Don't take it so hard.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2024 12:59 PM (WXNFJ)

257 Her latest is that Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes"

Eh is this any more stupid than some of the stuff out side said in 2020? Remember the gunfight in Germany over Dominion servers?

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 12, 2024 12:59 PM (o8qE9)

258 The Meat Smuggling Nudist Black Narcissists society is willing to make an offer.

Posted by: Big Mike at November 12, 2024 12:59 PM (Ybyk2)

259 We could have recorded the discussion at the most recent MoMe After Dark post-game. There were quite a few, um, INTERESTING topics we hit on.
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (BSDFI)

That would def have to have the "Listener Discretion Advised" label.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:59 PM (CIS44)

260 I'm sure I can find a couple of floppy disks hidden around here and donate to help out.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM

Hopefully the more luxurious 8 1/2" ones.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (a3Q+t)

261 147 "Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
BREAKING: CNN to fire stars, hundreds of staff, as the network's ratings continue to tank. "

You might even say "the walls are closing in on CNN"
Posted by: Ripley at November 12, 2024 12:47 PM (GUOwU)

Out of a cannon?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (OA79/)

262 We tried to jail and kill and bankrupt him and now we're worried that he's "dangerous"!

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (ksjMr)

263 We could have recorded the discussion at the most recent MoMe After Dark post-game. There were quite a few, um, INTERESTING topics we hit on.
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (BSDFI)

"What do they need a cup for?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

LMFAO!!!!

Also "how exactly do you know that you can't [blank] your own...???"

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (BSDFI)

264 btw, let's not forget Dennis Quaid's outspoken support for the president.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 12:58 PM (fVU5Y)

While Randy Quaid was heard screaming "RUM!!!! RUM till we PUKE!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

265 Only tangential, but worth noting...

Remember when we used to see striking pictures from space of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic? They're gone now. Nowhere. Things must be great in Haiti now.
Posted by: creeper

Haiti painted their dirt green.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (/lPRQ)

266 The ‘Walls are Closing In’ on MSNBC and CNN

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (RHGPo)

267 Colorado has Venezuelan gangs taking over entire areas and smells like weed, so ENJOY!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

Only a handful of areas. NBD.
-Martha Raddatz

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (CIS44)

268 The only place you see them is in Dentist offices. What are the Dentists up to?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (AdHga)

Not even that for me. At my kid's ortho office, all they have is one of those freebie tourist magazines for the next county over. That's all I get, considering that I've already paid for half of that bastard's Lambo?

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (NMT5x)

269 232 How long has JJ been without his Mac?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 12, 2024 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

I didn’t realize his was a Mac, I could have sent him a loaner - also getting ready to replace one of my desk tops and could loan out the old one, too.

J.J - reach out for real. Ben Had has all my contact information.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (p4NUW)

270 "Her latest is that Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes"

That would mean that 2020 ballot machines were hooked ip yo the internet because we were told it was impossible.

Can we finally get an audit on the vote totals from 2020?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 01:00 PM (SUJ+x)

271 And here I thought he was rocking a Commodore 64.
Posted by: BruceWayne
________

Intellivision keyboard plugin.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (Dm8we)

272
Kid Rock for Secretary Of Interior?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (fVU5Y)

273 Elon already bought a neutral news source.
It was once called twitter...
X
Now the biggest news source in the world.
Those other outfits don't do "news" which is why they are dying.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (MeG8a)

274 btw, let's not forget Dennis Quaid's outspoken support for the president.
Posted by: Soothsayer

And John Voight, Angelina Jolie spawn notwithstanding. He was at Mar-a-Lago and election night.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (vO42M)

275
The Ginger vs. Mary Ann hour
Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024
*
Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024

***
The Book Thread: No Need to Read It, We'll Tell You What It Says!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (J2vNu)

276 Kid Rock for Secretary Of Interior?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (fVU5Y)

He did cave on Bud Light.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

277 MSNBC wasn't too bad back when Soledad OBrien was younger/cuter

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (RHGPo)

278 Some profit taking in the markets today.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (aD39U)

279 How much lower would those ratings be if gyms, airports and other public spaces didn’t put those channels on by default?

Posted by: James Felix at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM (SgbMZ)

280 Elon should buy MSNBC for a dollar and turn it into the Gorilla Network

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (Vh9CX)

281 Kid Rock for Secretary Of Interior?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Department of Education soon to be School of Rock.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (vO42M)

282 *
Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024

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At Long Last: The Return of "Who Dis?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (J2vNu)

283
This network idea of yours has merit.

I offer to run the entertainment division and listen to interesting pitch meetings for shows starring up and coming starlets Joe Mannix could forward to me.

I'd work for less than scale, just to piss the union off.

Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (j4U/Z)

284 You know, if the trulls of The View just skipped dessert one day, they could buy it themselves.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (1bNHn)

285 Sell them to WHO.

Who would be willing to buy this money-losing crap?

Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (setIA)

286 230 You're thinking of the 6800, also an orthogonal machine. In 6800 assembler, there was always one obvious way to code a program, unlike, e.g., the Z80, where I'd waste hours trying to figure out the cleverest way to allocate the arcane register set and nonorthogonal instruction set to the problem.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (Q8V7a)

287 "Jodenjacht" -- Dutch for "Jew Hunt" -- is now THE trendy buzzword of the year among Europe's Muslim population, as "Jew Hunts" (i.e. attempted pogroms) break out all over Europe in the wake of the Amsterdam jodenjacht a few days ago:

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/ police-jew-hunt-belgium-copycat-attacks-cfhvnktzb

Police foil ‘Jew hunt’ in Belgium amid fears of copycat attacks

"Suspects were planning a copycat “Jew hunt” in Antwerp after last week’s attacks on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam, police said.

There were calls on social media for a “jodenjacht”, or “Jew hunt”, using the same language as the attackers who co-ordinated violence in the Dutch capital using messaging apps.

Fears of copycat attacks are growing as the term “jodenjacht” becomes established on social media apps such as Telegram or Snapchat as street slang used by young people mainly of Arab origin.

...In Berlin, a Jewish football team was put under police protection after a group armed with sticks and knives chased team members, shouting “free Palestine” and “f***ing Jews”."

Posted by: zombie at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (pMi6S)

288 Legacy media failed us. They failed spectacularly. The only surviving media outlets will be right wing media, and they do not need MSNBC.

no More "Morning Joe" for me as he tried yesterday to lay the blame on the VP's loss on Black men who voted blue at the same rate as in 2020. we know it was white, working class voters, and the surprising red shift by Latino men.

I had enough of Morning Joe and Mica screaming at me and quit. It's NPR for me now and maybe Rachel and Lawrence if I'm up that late.

I might go back after all the post-mordem conversations. Something told me not to watch even on election night. I'm glad I didn't.

I am not a fan of train wrecks. The carnage is here will not watch the new January 6 or Ibautation. Wen MAGA pain starts I will come back

a large portion will come back to the viewership in a couple months, but right now, there's just no desire to watch constant Trump coverage while the election loss is still so fresh.

I dumped MSNBC after election night. They were part of the problem and I was duped. I’m tuning out everything except DU and some podcasts!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (JCZqz)

289 Little does she know that Elon actually Starlink-Beamed that fantasy straight into her brain! He's a diabolical sonuvabitch.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (Q8V7a)

There's a reason the other election deniers wear tin foil hats, Rachel!

And they use red string to connect the news items pinned to the wall! It's not magnetic so they can't mess with the the lines with magnetic rays from space.

Posted by: Just Lily at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (U8QKV)

290 263. Also "how exactly do you know that you can't [blank] your own...???"
Posted by: Doof at November

I don’t want to know. I like being sweet and innocent. We should probably all wear pants when on camera, too. Just saying.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (p4NUW)

291 I'm sure I can find a couple of floppy disks hidden around here and donate to help out.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM

Hopefully the more luxurious 8 1/2" ones.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I have a couple of 5&1/2" discs atwerk.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (SUJ+x)

292 204 Waiting for the pivot where both AMD/Intel fanbois turn their united fire to the upstart newcomer chips being sold like the Snapdragon.
Posted by: whig
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One AI company has thirteen acres of NVDA chips and NVDA is contracting with INTC's foundry to make their wafers. Also INTC has contracts with Amazon and USG. They aren't going anywhere.
As far as big players are concerned AMD is new kid on the block and has not been long term (important) consistent.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (ggv1C)

293 AP - Chris Wallace is leaving CNN. He says he wants to see what the new media environment has to offer

Chris Wallace says he’s leaving CNN after three years and, at age 77, is eager to see what a transformed media environment has to offer.
“When I look at the media landscape right now, the people who are going independent, whether it’s podcasting or streaming, that seems to be where the action is,” he said Tuesday.
Wallace said having control over what he does is more appealing to him at this stage of his career. Don’t expect big changes in his brand — he’ll likely stick with interviews and political analysis, and not favor one political side over another — and he said he’s already heard some expressions of interest.
Retirement’s not in the blood. His father worked well into his late 80s at “60 Minutes.” Besides, Chris Wallace said, “nobody in my family wants me to retire.”

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (9aVck)

294 At Long Last: The Return of "Who Dis?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (J2vNu)

*pours one out for Oregon Muse*

Someone needs to regularly post photos of Melania's dresses in his honor

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (BSDFI)

295 When I was a kid I thought "Random" was a town in New York
I mean, the contestants were drawn at Random

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (RHGPo)

296 288 I dumped MSNBC after election night. They were part of the problem and I was duped. I’m tuning out everything except DU and some podcasts!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (JCZqz)

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But we're the ones in a bubble.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

297
I don’t want to know. I like being sweet and innocent. We should probably all wear pants when on camera, too. Just saying.
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (p4NUW)

Narrator voice: "This is known as 'putting up a front.'"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

298 Bah! The Motorola 68000 puts them all to shame!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 12, 2024 12:48 PM (K4KCe)

That bad boy was my favorite chip back in the day. Actually got reasonably adapt at assembly language on it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (/HDaX)

299 MSNBC wasn't too bad back when Soledad OBrien was younger/cuter
Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024

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Leftism takes a toll, don't it

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (J2vNu)

300 Voting machines took a break from being hacked in 2020, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

Diebold voting machines are going to steal the election for Chimpy McHitler!

Posted by: I Miss 2004 at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (K4KCe)

301 Second look at crowdsourcing the Ace News Network?
Posted by: garrett

Follow the wisdom of Andrew Breitbart and just read the comments on air. Act it out by having one host play the part of whatever commenter is being replied to the most and the other hosts chime in with the best replies.

Posted by: pookysgirl has IDEAS at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (dtlDP)

302 The gay rabbi on CNN who barked at the black guy that he "wasn't going to sit here and let you say transphobic things" turns out to have been correct. When he and everyone else gets let go he won't have to sit there

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (b2/S2)

303 Heck, you can even put together your own laptops nowadays.

https://frame.work/

https://pine64.org/

Pretty cool concept, and you can even avoid the Microsoft tax if you like. Pine even has a Linux phone, if you're interested.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (VNX3d)

304 285 Sell them to WHO.

Who would be willing to buy this money-losing crap?
Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (setIA)

We are! Are you not paying attention? 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (p4NUW)

305 I don’t want to know. I like being sweet and innocent. We should probably all wear pants when on camera, too. Just saying.
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (p4NUW)

What if I'm behind a desk?

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (CIS44)

306 Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes"

the Left creating its own Q anon fantasies is amusing

Posted by: brak at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (NGHTx)

307 If he had any thoughts like this he would just create his own cable channel from scratch.

Posted by: ace

The guy is going to Mars and, in case we forgot, is trying to create brain chips. What the fuck would he do with a 'cable' channel?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (IG4Id)

308 I don’t want to know. I like being sweet and innocent. We should probably all wear pants when on camera, too. Just saying.
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (p4NUW)

Wow, you were right when you said you were boring!

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (BSDFI)

309 27 Jack Posobec on Bannon half jokingly said he wants to buy MSNBC, but Joe and Mika have to stay.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at November 12, 2024 12:36 PM (dEYSD)

———

Have them dress up in clown costumes and make them dance a jig every 15 minutes before a commercial break. They can say whatever they want.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (Vh9CX)

310 I dumped MSNBC after election night. They were part of the problem and I was duped. I’m tuning out everything except DU and some podcasts!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (JCZqz)
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That's it! Laser beam focus on crazy! That's the ticket for a better you!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:05 PM (tT6L1)

311 Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (yESeA)

The Gun Show with our genial host, Weasel!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2024 01:05 PM (4qP90)

312 I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (yESeA)

And it's spin off . . . Same As In Town.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (CIS44)

313 206 I'd have bet a lot of money he was using a Compaq Presario
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (BSDFI)

And here I thought he was rocking a Commodore 64.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (CIS44)

Sinclair ZX80

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (VGRuw)

314
What's that song that SOUNDS LIKE it goes 'pretty little love song?'

It's country-rock. 70's.

pretty little lo-ove song....

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (fVU5Y)

315 The Book Thread: No Need to Read It, We'll Tell You What It Says!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM

Intelligent TVs can be used to enforce the wearing of pants.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (a3Q+t)

316 310 I dumped MSNBC after election night. They were part of the problem and I was duped. I’m tuning out everything except DU and some podcasts!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (JCZqz)
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That's it! Laser beam focus on crazy! That's the ticket for a better you!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:05 PM (tT6L1)

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Remember, the proof positive for them that the NYT is right wing is because they didn't carry the Trump-Epstein connection last month...which was a regurgitated and debunked story from 8 years ago so thin that the lawsuit it stems from was dropped the second Trump won in 2016.

Also, the NYT didn't talk about the dangers of Project 2025 enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

317 306 Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes"

the Left creating its own Q anon fantasies is amusing
Posted by: brak at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (NGHTx)

Probably should go back to in person voting with paper ballots...just to be sure.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (exHjb)

318 I don’t want to know. I like being sweet and innocent. We should probably all wear pants when on camera, too. Just saying.
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (p4NUW)
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Did you negotiate contracts with some pretty hardened people back in the day?

yeah, not buying sweet and innocent, at all.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (tT6L1)

319 I gave up on Rolling Stone in the early 1970s. The fact that it still exists is a miracle.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (AdHga)

320 Posted by: zombie at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (pMi6S)

So Harry... want to revise your claim regarding it all being a bit of misunderstood soccer fun? That the Jews in question actually started?

Can't blame you for believing the media who have only been wrong in the same direction six billion times in a row. Then again maybe it's still all lies and there is no Jew Hunt.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (ksjMr)

321 The Ginger vs. Mary Ann hour
Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (FZYNt)

Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris

The most popular show will be:
The Moose Outside

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (w9Wax)

322 Congresscritter Primlla Jayapal reneges on her support for ending the Senate filibuster. An announcement that surprised no sentient being.

Posted by: mrp at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (rj6Yv)

323 206 I'd have bet a lot of money he was using a Compaq Presario
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (BSDFI)

And here I thought he was rocking a Commodore 64.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (CIS44)

Sinclair ZX80
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (VGRuw)

Naw man. It's GOTTA be the Commodore Amiga going by the intense graphics displayed on this web page.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

324 Voting machines took a break from being hacked in 2020, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

Brian in New Orleans runs a tight ship!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (4qP90)

325 MSNBC pretty much got off the ground with Trans World Airlines Flight 800
On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747-100 serving the flight exploded into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (RHGPo)

326 Rolling Stone went downhill right around the time garrett got involved.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (ksjMr)

327 308 Wow, you were right when you said you were boring!
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024

I keep telling y'all this! But we need ad revenue, so pants it is. And shirts!

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:08 PM (p4NUW)

328 What's that song that SOUNDS LIKE it goes 'pretty little love song?'

It's country-rock. 70's.

pretty little lo-ove song....
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (fVU5Y)

Do you mean "Heard it in a Love Song" by Marshall Tucker?

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:08 PM (BSDFI)

329 I vote that AoSHQ not purchase MSNBC, because I have a jihad against television. Kill your TVs.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 01:08 PM (Q8V7a)

330 cable will slowly wither away until eventually the only advertisers they will be able to get will be stand up bathtubs, reverse mortgages, and rascal scooters, and then one day it will go the way of Blockbuster video and hardly anyone will notice

Posted by: brak at November 12, 2024 01:08 PM (NGHTx)

331 306 Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes"

the Left creating its own Q anon fantasies is amusing
Posted by: brak

We're not crazy, you're crazy! They're beaming fraudulent votes from space directly into the machines!!! (Wraps top of voting machines in tin-foil)

Posted by: Blue Metro Area Voting Commissioners at November 12, 2024 01:08 PM (JCZqz)

332
I keep telling y'all this! But we need ad revenue, so pants it is. And shirts!
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:08 PM (p4NUW)

Well that settles it, I'll just appear behind an avatar.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (CIS44)

333 I gave up on Rolling Stone in the early 1970s. The fact that it still exists is a miracle.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 12, 2024 01:07 PM (AdHga)

Most media is money laundering fronts for liberal billionaires.

They're money goes a long way toward brainwashing society into the leftist way of dying a miserable, horrible death.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

334 293 AP - Chris Wallace is leaving CNN. He says he wants to see what the new media environment has to offer
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Typical grifter, not looking to see what he has to offer the new media environment.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (ggv1C)

335 Thanks, Itinerant Alley Butcher. Hadn't considered painting the entire country. That's terrible. Off with their heads!

Posted by: creeper at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (M6moH)

336 The Book Thread: No Need to Read It, We'll Tell You What It Says!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:01 PM

Intelligent TVs can be used to enforce the wearing of pants.

The Ace News Network where every on air "talent" will be required to wear ass less chaps.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (ig8VZ)

337 PLEASE tell me the AOS TV network will not feature Masturbatin' Pete

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (BSDFI)

338 "On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747-100 serving the flight exploded into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York ..."

... after being hit by a SAM accidentally(?) launched from US naval assets in the area,

FIFY

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (Q8V7a)

339 LOL!

maybe Musk will buy it and flip it from fascist to freedom, like X

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (gY0JQ)

340 Chris Wallace is retiring to spend more time with his podcasts.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (ksjMr)

341
>>>Do you mean "Heard it in a Love Song" by Marshall Tucker?
Posted by: Doof

I like my version better.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (fVU5Y)

342 How industries die.
Ignore your customers.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (+i8dn)

343 #LearnToCode💻
CNN 'will ax top stars in layoffs that'll see hundreds fired' https://mol.im/a/14073063

The rumblings, first reported by Puck News, come as high-paid personalities like Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer were reportedly recently denied raises.
The two already boast salaries of $7million and $3million, while stars like Anderson Cooper take home an annual $20million.
Kaitlan Collins and Erin Burnett also command huge earnings - $3million and $6million respectively.
Insiders told Puck the new round of firings will likely see on-air talent like them affected, as the network's new CEO looks to free up finances amid waning ratings.
In the next few months, I’m told, CNN will implement another round of layoffs that will impact hundreds of employees across the organization,' reporter Dylan Byers wrote Friday, referencing CNN's recent 100-person layoff seen over the summer.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (9aVck)

344 Besides, Chris Wallace said, “nobody in my family wants me to retire.”
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (9aVck)

Yes, dear, stay at that office thingy as much as you can.

Posted by: Mrs. Chris Wallace at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (Aqu9a)

345 If they don't get back in for 12 years or so, it'll be way too late, won't it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2024 12:49 PM (wyMQY)
__________________________

It all comes down to "how strong is our First Amendment". If you want an idea of the strategy of those looking to totally control information, just look to the Common Law ruled UK. They set up special police brigades to arrest those saying things on Social Media with which they disagree. Teenagers are being arrested for posting song lyrics to honor dead friends.

So, if you think the Legacy Media will be gone in 12 years, there's the little detail of a government willing to revive and prop them up while stemming the influence of any alternatives by abusing the law. These people are persistent and never stop regardless of the law, optics or common sense.

Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (dIske)

346 334 293 AP - Chris Wallace is leaving CNN. He says he wants to see what the new media environment has to offer
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Typical grifter, not looking to see what he has to offer the new media environment.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (ggv1C)

What's ironic is that Wallace was crowing about Tucker not being on cable anymore.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (yESeA)

347 AoSHQ After Dark: Tales from the Horse Trailer.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (a3Q+t)

348 Do you mean "Heard it in a Love Song" by Marshall Tucker?
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:08 PM (BSDFI)

Can't be wrong.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (aD39U)

349 306 Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes"

the Left creating its own Q anon fantasies is amusing
Posted by: brak
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This calls for a full federal investigation of voter fraud across the nation.

Posted by: WisRich at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (G0vdT)

350 Little does she know that Elon actually Starlink-Beamed that fantasy straight into her brain! He's a diabolical sonuvabitch.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (Q8V7a)

LOL! Elon should make that claim, just to troll her.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (4qP90)

351 318 Did you negotiate contracts with some pretty hardened people back in the day?

yeah, not buying sweet and innocent, at all.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

My favorite is still in jail, I think. Wonder where he hid his money….

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (p4NUW)

352 311 Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (yESeA)

The Gun Show with our genial host, Weasel!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2024 01:05 PM (4qP90)

What time is the Mannix Babe Hour?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (LxER7)

353 PLEASE tell me the AOS TV network will not feature Masturbatin' Pete
Posted by: Doof

Wait until you see the talking sandwich.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (IG4Id)

354 If he had any thoughts like this he would just create his own cable channel from scratch.

Posted by: ace

The guy is going to Mars and, in case we forgot, is trying to create brain chips. What the fuck would he do with a 'cable' channel?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Like Kindle. Subscription service. Have books and subjects beamed to the brain.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (SUJ+x)

355 Heh. Learn to coal bitches. Oh, that's right these bitches can't do shit.

Mika's to old for OnlyFans. Good luck.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (TN5A0)

356 Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes"

Maybe the voting machines need to wear tin foil hats.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (ig8VZ)

357 >>>Do you mean "Heard it in a Love Song" by Marshall Tucker?
Posted by: Doof

I like my version better.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (fVU5Y)

Cain't be wrong.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (Aqu9a)

358 Do you mean "Heard it in a Love Song" by Marshall Tucker?
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:08 PM (BSDFI)

Can't be wrong.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (aD39U)

Well played!

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (BSDFI)

359 Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024

***
At Long Last: The Return of "Who Dis?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (J2vNu)

... and Dress Porn!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (VNX3d)

360 Selling a Joy Reid can't be easy.
Posted by: garrett
.....

The new owners would want them to actually work.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (v0R5T)

361 These properties will all grow in ratings with Trump in office so whoever can buy them now at a reasonably low cost should do well with them until 2028 at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (Hh1ER)

362 343 #LearnToCode💻
CNN 'will ax top stars in layoffs that'll see hundreds fired' https://mol.im/a/14073063

It WILL be interesting to see who they deem as a 'top star.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

363
Naw man. It's GOTTA be the Commodore Amiga going by the intense graphics displayed on this web page.
Posted by: Sponge

Original IBM PC using edlin as far as I can tell.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (9eHkC)

364 Ace needs to start a podcast or at least guest on the Ruthless Podcast.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (9aVck)

365 What time is the Mannix Babe Hour?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 12, 2024 01:10 PM (LxER7)

Featuring TJM.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (CIS44)

366 Do we have any money in the Cruise Ship account?

Posted by: Reforger at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (xcIvR)

367 Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024

***
At Long Last: The Return of "Who Dis?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (J2vNu)

... and Dress Porn!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (VNX3d)
-----------
And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (z0QHk)

368 364 Ace needs to start a podcast or at least guest on the Ruthless Podcast.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (9aVck)

=======

He did one years ago.

He hated every second of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

369 Elon Musk beamed coding instructions from Starlink satellites to ballot machines to erase Harris votes and pad Trump votes"

the Left creating its own Q anon fantasies is amusing
Posted by: brak at November 12, 2024 01:04 PM (NGHTx)

Probably should go back to in person voting with paper ballots...just to be sure.

That's just what Big Parchment wants you to do.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (xCA6C)

370 I'd have bet a lot of money he was using a Compaq Presario
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (BSDFI)

And here I thought he was rocking a Commodore 64.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (CIS44)

Sinclair ZX80
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (VGRuw)

Naw man. It's GOTTA be the Commodore Amiga going by the intense graphics displayed on this web page.
Posted by: Sponge

Wang 2200

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (w9Wax)

371 Besides, Chris Wallace said, “nobody in my family wants me to retire.”
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

Yes, dear, stay at that office thingy as much as you can.
Posted by: Mrs. Chris

Agreed.
Posted by: Paolo

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (SUJ+x)

372 324 Voting machines took a break from being hacked in 2020, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
---

See, Arizona and PA.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (ggv1C)

373 A backup is a really good idea.
I'm sure I can find a couple of floppy disks hidden around here and donate to help out.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
=====
I still have a USB floppy drive along with some in computer cases to be decommissioned.

I always liked AOL and their floppy disk mailers as their floppies, when erased, were actually of good quality for reuse.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (ctrM5)

374 I keep telling y'all this! But we need ad revenue, so pants it is. And shirts!
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:08 PM

Stay in your lane, lady. Shirts are my ballywick!

Posted by: zombie Paul Anka at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (a3Q+t)

375 Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (yESeA)

This Old Shelf From IKEA Hour

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (ig8VZ)

376 What's that song that SOUNDS LIKE it goes 'pretty little love song?'

It's country-rock. 70's.

pretty little lo-ove song....
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (fVU5Y)

Ten feet tall..

Posted by: Misheard Lyrics at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (aD39U)

377
Mika's to old for OnlyFans. Good luck.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (TN5A0)

I would watch Erin Burnett, as long as she didn't talk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)

378 None of Chris Wallace's family wants him to retire? Of course not his wife is home getting railed by the pool boy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 01:13 PM (b2/S2)

379 No love for me?

Posted by: Exidy Sorcerer at November 12, 2024 01:13 PM (a3Q+t)

380 They went full commie rdtard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:13 PM (mfUOU)

381 Do we have any money in the Cruise Ship account?
Posted by: Reforger at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (xcIvR)

Back when I was a kid, I had to do a programming assignment with graphics and sound. I worked up a cruise ship crossing the screen with The Love Boat theme, then watching a torpedo launch and sink it.

Ah, to be young and crazy again.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 01:13 PM (VNX3d)

382 >>> And John Voight, Angelina Jolie spawn notwithstanding. He was at Mar-a-Lago and election night.

To be fair to her, it sounds like he was a hugely absentee dad and she was raised mostly by her mom. (Which explains her daddy issues and the Billy Bob marriage, it's almost textbook.) Just because someone is conservative doesn't make them a saint.

He's expressed sadness at seeing how her life went, and I think wished to get to meet his grandkids, but he didn't build or earn the kind of relationship with her where she feels obligated to pass off the kids to him just because he spawned her. Which I get.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 01:13 PM (Eng1Z)

383 You know a lot of years have passed when folks don't remember the most common floppy disk sizes:

3.5"
5.25"
8"

I remember doing some nifty FORTRAN programming on 8" disks on a PDP11.

Overlays for the win!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:13 PM (/HDaX)

384 314
What's that song that SOUNDS LIKE it goes 'pretty little love song?'

It's country-rock. 70's.

pretty little lo-ove song....
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (fVU5Y)

Paaul McCartney & Wings, Silly Love Songs

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (VGRuw)

385 The Ginger vs. Mary Ann hour
Posted by: Rick in SK at November 12, 2024 12:51 PM (FZYNt)

Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris

The most popular show will be:
The Moose Outside
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks
......

The Moron Dating Game

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

386 At some point the Dem/Commie/politburo decided that losing big would be to the better long term advantage.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (ggv1C)

387 I guess they will take it lying down. More ways than one.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (ytSiK)

388 It seems that peak MSNBC occurred when Chris Mathews orgasmed on air: "I felt this thrill going up my leg."

Though there is a case to be that occurred during the entire Keith Olbermann period.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (vO42M)

389 Liberal tears are awfully, awfully potent.

My schadenboner has been raging for SEVEN SOLID DAYS!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (wtvvX)

390 Besides, Chris Wallace said, “nobody in my family wants me to retire.”
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

Yes, dear, stay at that office thingy as much as you can.
Posted by: Mrs. Chris

Who?

Posted by: Chris's Kids at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

391 I always liked AOL and their floppy disk mailers as their floppies, when erased, were actually of good quality for reuse.
Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM

The labels could be a b*tch to get off sometimes, though.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (a3Q+t)

392 I'd have bet a lot of money he was using a Compaq Presario
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (BSDFI)

And here I thought he was rocking a Commodore 64.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (CIS44)

Sinclair ZX80
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (VGRuw)

Naw man. It's GOTTA be the Commodore Amiga going by the intense graphics displayed on this web page.
Posted by: Sponge

Wang 2200
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (w9Wax)
-----------

Magnavox 386SX-16

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (tT6L1)

393 I'd have bet a lot of money he was using a Compaq Presario
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (BSDFI)

And here I thought he was rocking a Commodore 64.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (CIS44)

Sinclair ZX80
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (VGRuw)

Naw man. It's GOTTA be the Commodore Amiga going by the intense graphics displayed on this web page.
Posted by: Sponge

Wang 2200
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (w9Wax)

Atari 1200XL

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (/HDaX)

394 350 Little does she know that Elon actually Starlink-Beamed that fantasy straight into her brain! He's a diabolical sonuvabitch.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 12:57 PM (Q8V7a)

_____________________________

Have you guys even seen Starlink? It's pretty freakin awsome. It looks like a line of tracer rounds shooting across the low sky. Very visible with the naked eye if you are in the right place.

Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (dIske)

395 And software updates. When are the perp walks?

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (QSrLX)

396 324 Voting machines took a break from being hacked in 2020, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
=======
Take a look at the 3AM roll for Dems in Wisconsin. Still was not enough. I suspect the same in MI and PA are there if you look.

Then there is the curious case of 20k plus accepted absentee ballots disappearing from their count only in Washoe and Clark counties in NV election night.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (ctrM5)

397
>>>Paaul McCartney & Wings, Silly Love Songs
Posted by: Bacon Jeff

What's wrong with that?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (qlEMs)

398 Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (yESeA)

This Old Shelf From IKEA Hour
Posted by: Mallamutt

The Moron Advice Mart.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (SUJ+x)

399 The AoS style guide used to refer to Erin Burnett as "pie eating machine" . I scrolled past CNN the other evening and she doesn't look as fat. Still an idiot though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (b2/S2)

400 I remember doing some nifty FORTRAN programming on 8" disks on a PDP11.

Overlays for the win!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:13 PM (/HDaX)
------------
Closing the gate on those drives sounded like a guillotine falling.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (z0QHk)

401 cable will slowly wither away until eventually the only advertisers they will be able to get will be stand up bathtubs, reverse mortgages, and rascal scooters, and then one day it will go the way of Blockbuster video and hardly anyone will notice

*cough*

Posted by: Toenail Fungus and Nose Hair remedies at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (xCA6C)

402 What?!

Voter fraud from space?!

Cool!

Posted by: Freds Revenge 'I was killed too you know' at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (dXALN)

403 Though there is a case to be that occurred during the entire Keith Olbermann period.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Keith Olbermann has periods? Makes sense, I guess.

Posted by: Bulg at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (v6JzV)

404 I enjoyed Chris Mathews covering the election from a Boston pub. He got so snockered. His red face was like a harvest moon on the rise.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (aD39U)

405 397
>>>Paaul McCartney & Wings, Silly Love Songs
Posted by: Bacon Jeff

What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (qlEMs)

I'd like to know.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (yESeA)

406 The Ace News Network where every on air "talent" will be required to wear ass less chaps.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (ig8VZ)

All chaps are assless. That’s what makes them chaps.

Pants, however, are merely assed chaps.

Posted by: Diebold Voting Machine at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (K4KCe)

407 Pretty much all of the streaming services look to be a bad bet. Amazon has the rest of the monopoly to float theirs. Netflix creates so much shit that the occasional gem lifts all boats.

But Paramount plus or Peacock? I can buy dvds/blurays of OG ST.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (mfUOU)

408 *looks at penny jar*

*looks at headline*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (mzM2O)

409 They may _want_ to sell MSNBC, but that would require that someone else actually _want_ to _buy_ it, right?

Why would anyone want that?

Isn't propping up shitty communist media outlets nobody likes pretty much Laureen Powell Jobs' entire existence since her husband died?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (2ocoG)

410 I'm kinda surprised they aren't trying to ride this out, hoping that MSNBC will do better once it switches over to 24/7 anti-Trump hysteria. That seemed to keep some media alive the last time he was president.

Posted by: The Orange Man Cometh at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (TdYBy)

411 Closing the gate on those drives sounded like a guillotine falling.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (z0QHk)

Folks down the hallway could hear you doing that.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (/HDaX)

412 The labels could be a b*tch to get off sometimes, though.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
=======
Red sharpy and mark on them. Never tried to take the labels off. Actual floppy labels included with new floppy disks wouldn't adhere with a damn.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (ctrM5)

413 337 PLEASE tell me the AOS TV network will not feature Masturbatin' Pete
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (BSDFI)

Cooking with Cannibal Bob

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (eb5mD)

414 314
What's that song that SOUNDS LIKE it goes 'pretty little love song?'

It's country-rock. 70's.

pretty little lo-ove song....
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (fVU5Y)

Heard It in a Love Song, by The Marshall Tucker Band

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (wtvvX)

415 368 He did one years ago.

He hated every second of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM

This time will be different. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (p4NUW)

416 CNN 'will ax top stars in layoffs that'll see hundreds fired' https://mol.im/a/14073063

That would be the right move for MSNBC too, but... these companies are utterly shot through with stupid zealots.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (Hh1ER)

417 I'm beginning to think being completely out of touch with reality is not a good look for a journalist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (L/fGl)

418 Comcast stock peaked June 1 2021 at price of $60.68.
Now trading at about $44 today.
Goodbye and good riddance.

Posted by: Lars at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (kJH1Z)

419 Tim Poole says ad rates are skyrocketing for podcasters.

Hint hint, Ace.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (mzM2O)

420 Seriously, if Elon bought MSNBC, he'd put into the on-air "talents" contracts that they become NeuraLink test subjects.

It would be funny to see them slapping themselves on-air when someone clicks a button on their website.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (VNX3d)

421
Magnavox 386SX-16
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (tT6L1)

I had a Magnavox in College. My dad worked for them at the time. Even had a 2400 baud modem and could dial up BBS's. I was popular after the 3 hours it took to download a BMP of a naked chick.

Posted by: Chris's Kids at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

422 Why aren't we getting Paul to come and tell us about how MSNBC is actually in great shape and that corporations are actually totes awesome?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

423 Isn't propping up shitty communist media outlets nobody likes pretty much Laureen Powell Jobs' entire existence since her husband died?
Posted by: Ian S.
=======
She may want protection from prosecution as she was a friend with Ghislaine Maxwell btw.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (ctrM5)

424 This time will be different. 😂
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (p4NUW)

Cause he wont need to be on-air talent. we got that covered in spades.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (CIS44)

425 STRIKE ONE!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

426 Paaul McCartney & Wings, Silly Love Songs
Posted by: Bacon Jeff

What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (qlEMs)

I'd like to know.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (yESeA)
----------
'cause here I go
Agaaaaaaain

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (z0QHk)

427 I'm still groggy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

428 Not keeping up with the times or noticing what was going on I bought a couple of cases of soon to be useless 3.5". Thought I really got a deal.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (ggv1C)

429 Our special two hour long episode of 'Boobs: A Love Story."

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (mfUOU)

430 Peak 3.5" floppy: MS Office on 26 disks.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (tT6L1)

431 I'd have bet a lot of money he was using a Compaq Presario
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (BSDFI)

And here I thought he was rocking a Commodore 64.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 12:54 PM (CIS44)

Sinclair ZX80
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 01:06 PM (VGRuw)

Naw man. It's GOTTA be the Commodore Amiga going by the intense graphics displayed on this web page.
Posted by: Sponge

Wang 2200
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM (w9Wax)

Atari 1200XL
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:14 PM (/HDaX)

Speaking of forgetting, the 1040ST...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (/HDaX)

432 "I remember doing some nifty FORTRAN programming on 8" disks on a PDP11."

Punch cards on Univac 1108. I also wrote a couple quickanddirties for a Philco Transac 2000, keyed in through front panel buttons.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (Q8V7a)

433 Rita Cosby is on NewsMax on the weekends.

She finally coughed up whatever she had in her throat.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (aD39U)

434 Posted by: Misheard Lyrics

Least extreme misheard lyrics:

I'v always thought for my whole life that the original '60s version of the Speed Racer theme song went, in the exciting part near the end,

"He's often flying as he guns the car around the track
He's jamming down the pedal like he's never coming back..."

.. and I learned only yesterday that I've been wring my whole life, and that it's really,

"He's off and flying as he guns the car around the track
He's jamming down the pedal like he's never coming back..."

I'm so embarrassed!

Posted by: zombie at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (pMi6S)

435 He did one years ago.

He hated every second of it.

The final episode where he and Kurt Schlichter were spitballing what would happen if Trump won (this was 2016) was really funny.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (2ocoG)

436 398 Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (yESeA)

This Old Shelf From IKEA Hour
Posted by: Mallamutt

The Moron Advice Mart.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (SUJ+x)

TALES FROM THE BARREL

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (wtvvX)

437 I remember doing some nifty FORTRAN programming on 8" disks on a PDP11.

Overlays for the win!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

You probably loved it when then moved you to RPG III.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (9eHkC)

438 413 337 PLEASE tell me the AOS TV network will not feature Masturbatin' Pete
Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:09 PM (BSDFI)

Cooking with Cannibal Bob
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (eb5mD)

Deep Limericks by Seamus Muldoon.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (yESeA)

439 cable will slowly wither away until eventually the only advertisers they will be able to get will be stand up bathtubs, reverse mortgages, and rascal scooters, and then one day it will go the way of Blockbuster video and hardly anyone will notice

*cough*
Posted by: Toenail Fungus and Nose Hair remedies at November 12, 2024 01:15 PM (xCA6C)

Don’t forget me!

Posted by: Alzheimer's drugs at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (K4KCe)

440 I've been told Ace has a face for radio and a voice for printed word.

He's in his element right here, on this 90's technology website.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

441 Pretty much all of the streaming services look to be a bad bet. Amazon has the rest of the monopoly to float theirs. Netflix creates so much shit that the occasional gem lifts all boats.

Yeah as best I can work out, Netflix is the only streaming service that actually earns money. Disney+ had a positive quarter but that's because they have EPSN and its NFL contracts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (Hh1ER)

442 I don’t want to know. I like being sweet and innocent. We should probably all wear pants when on camera, too. Just saying.
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM (p4NUW)

What if I'm behind a desk?
Posted by: BruceWayne

Then Piper would not be required to wear pants.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2024 01:19 PM (/lPRQ)

443 Holland always was considered an open society, and they were proud of taking in the Jews after the Spanish expulsion. They profited quite a bit from it economically also.

I would find it very entertaining if Geert Wilders managed to get an accord for self defense with Israel out of this.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2024 01:19 PM (D7oie)

444 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

.. there is always a mention of anger/fight

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:19 PM (RHGPo)

445 422 Why aren't we getting Paul to come and tell us about how MSNBC is actually in great shape and that corporations are actually totes awesome?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=========
To him, MSNBC is corporate right wing media. I used to hear that around the leftists--CNN and MSNBC were considered middle of the road if a bit tame.

The go getters liked documentaries and mags like the Nation for the "real" take on what was going on.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 01:19 PM (ctrM5)

446 295 When I was a kid I thought "Random" was a town in New York
I mean, the contestants were drawn at Random
Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:03 PM

--

I thought the Padres played in a city called Hapless.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 12, 2024 01:19 PM (wzAuc)

447 The podcast was good, even if Gabe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:19 PM (mfUOU)

448 440 I've been told Ace has a face for radio and a voice for printed word.

He's in his element right here, on this 90's technology website.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (Zz0t1

With today's AI software, Ace can make his voice sound like Michael Caine.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 12, 2024 01:19 PM (mzM2O)

449 You probably loved it when then moved you to RPG III.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (9eHkC)

I'm still grinding my teeth over JCL at the university IBM mainframe.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (/HDaX)

450 First! With Sponge.

A show about nothing. And it's not even funny.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

451 424
Cause he wont need to be on-air talent. we got that covered in spades.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Groan.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (p4NUW)

452
I'll be sorry to see them go. That's where I'm getting my entertainment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (T3es0)

453 420 Seriously, if Elon bought MSNBC, he'd put into the on-air "talents" contracts that they become NeuraLink test subjects.

It would be funny to see them slapping themselves on-air when someone clicks a button on their website.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
-------------

Let Shep Smith be the first.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (ggv1C)

454 Pelosi didn't like what Sanders said, and she let it be known when she appeared on the New York Times podcast "The Interview" on Saturday: "With all due respect, and I have a great deal of respect for him, for what he stands for, but I don't respect him saying that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class families. That's where we are."

She went on to tout the whole tired "Joe Biden's policies have been great; Trump only helps the rich" narrative — that I'm assuming most people don't actually buy, given the election results — as proof.

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (RHGPo)

455 The beauty of Alzheimers drugs is you can sell them over and over to the same people.

Posted by: Ron Popeil, Jr. at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (NXYp1)

456 You notice Ace hasn’t chimed in. It’s because he is pondering the possibilities.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (p4NUW)

457 I've been told Ace has a face for radio and a voice for printed word.
He's in his element right here, on this 90's technology website.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

You should listen to his old Podcast. He is quite a story teller, and very entertaining.
I think it was the last one where he was talking about Art Bell's show and how he would get a listener to commit to the subject. Now that was a fun episode.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (D7oie)

458 For car lovers:

Naked Auto Man

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (w9Wax)

459 Peak 3.5" floppy: MS Office on 26 disks.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:18 PM (tT6L1)

Windows 95 beta came on 52, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

460 Presdent Obama shoulds due somethings about this !!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (G3151)

461 @334

>>Typical grifter, not looking to see what he has to offer the new media environment.

The only thing more inexplicable than the continued career of Chris Wallace is Conan O'Brian's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (XV/Pl)

462 The beauty of Alzheimers drugs is you can sell them over and over to the same people.
Posted by: Ron Popeil, Jr. at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (NXYp1)

Haha Yessssss!

Posted by: Ed McMahon at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (aD39U)

463 I would find it very entertaining if Geert Wilders managed to get an accord for self defense with Israel out of this.

I was kind of surprised that the "Jew hunting" was in the Netherlands given Wilders' election. I assume he's doing something about it? The media hasn't really said.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (2ocoG)

464 ‘Walls are Closing In’ on MSNBC and CNN

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

465 Why aren't we getting Paul to come and tell us about how MSNBC is actually in great shape and that corporations are actually totes awesome?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Please don't say his name 3 times!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 01:22 PM (9eHkC)

466 I think ace always saw it as performative. It was greatly entertaining, but I think a source of anxiety.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:22 PM (mfUOU)

467 ACE did a speech at CPAC many moons ago, he has a fine voice if a bit nervous and unpolished.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 01:22 PM (Hh1ER)

468 First! With Sponge.

A show about nothing. And it's not even funny.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

Dance Fever 2.0 with me and SpongeBro!

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:22 PM (BSDFI)

469
Any Trumpybear commercials yet?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:22 PM (qlEMs)

470 Peak 3.5" floppy: MS Office on 26 disks.

Windows 95 and one of the early NTs came on more than that.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:22 PM (2ocoG)

471 ACE did a speech at CPAC many moons ago, he has a fine voice if a bit nervous and unpolished.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 01:22 PM (Hh1ER)

Soon.

Posted by: An Israeli Tank Stuck in a Field at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (aD39U)

472 Our special two hour long episode of 'Boobs: A Love Story."
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (mfUOU)

That's hardly long enough to give full, rounded coverage to such a majestic topic.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (Aqu9a)

473 ‘Walls are Closing In’ on MSNBC and CNN
Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

Bombshell!

Beginning of the end!!!

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (BSDFI)

474 ‘Walls are Closing In’ on MSNBC and CNN
Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

The termites have successfully attacked the framing?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (VNX3d)

475
Fantasy: I win the lottery, buy MSNBC, and tell the hosts and producers they can keep their jobs and go on with their shows IF ------

they subject themselves to a public, on-air Truth and Reconciliation process in which they review all the lies they've told over the last, say, 5 years (more for more egregious lies) and account for these failures of journalism. Bias, ignorance, sloppiness, whatever -- they've got to come clean and correct the record.

And then the can keep their jobs at their current rates of pay for a year. After that, we renegotiate based on ratings.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (T3es0)

476 I volunteer to head up the AOS HQ Network's variety show.

Posted by: Bulg at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (v6JzV)

477 I remember mailing out patches to field offices on floppies. I'd always send two identical copies, because the read failure rate was so high. People never cleaned their drives. Some of them I actually shipped new drives to, so they could read the damn floppies.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (Q8V7a)

478 Longbows vs. Crossbows
Hot Iron: What Doesn't It Fix?
I'll Buy That for Twenty Dollars!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (yESeA)

This Old Shelf From IKEA Hour
Posted by: Mallamutt

The Phil Swift Show

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (v0R5T)

479 During the Festivus season, the AOS Network could feature And Another Thing!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (L/fGl)

480 An Ace of Spades, Kurt Schlichter collaboration podcast could be fairly popular and profitable.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (9aVck)

481 Content is king.

Also

Content is cancer.

Choose wisely

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (Icxar)

482 Windows 95 beta came on 52, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)
------------

My favorite tool for a few years was the Win 98 boot disk. It would load drivers so I could get into systems which had gacked. I saved some spread sheets for my step mother that way.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (tT6L1)

483 3.5 were always kind of bland. 5 and a quarter always was satisfying when you slid them into the drive. They just felt better. Hard to explain.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (mfUOU)

484 First! With Sponge.

A show about nothing. And it's not even funny.
Posted by: Sponge

Seinfeld already beat you to it.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (SUJ+x)

485 The only thing more inexplicable than the continued career of Chris Wallace is Conan O'Brian's.

Conan's definitely an acquired taste, and he worked best when interacting with Norm Macdonald (PBUH). But I far prefer him to any of the current crop of late night propagandists.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (2ocoG)

486 419 Tim Poole says ad rates are skyrocketing for podcasters.

Hint hint, Ace.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (mzM2O)

=================

Yeah, but just like his posts, we won't listen to it. We'll bypass it and go straight to the comments.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (NMT5x)

487 3.5 were always kind of bland. 5 and a quarter always was satisfying when you slid them into the drive. They just felt better. Hard to explain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (mfUOU)

TWSS

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (CIS44)

488 My favorite tool for a few years was the Win 98 boot disk. It would load drivers so I could get into systems which had gacked. I saved some spread sheets for my step mother that way.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (tT6L1)

Yeah, buddy. With the PS hack tools, you could do just about anything.

Before those were marked as a virus, anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

489 "Trolling with Raimondo", Thursdays at 9.

Posted by: Guy Caballero at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (N30d6)

490 It would be funny to see them slapping themselves on-air when someone clicks a button on their website.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

"Punch the Fag" ran for a while in '76 'till Chuck Barris got bored with it.

Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (j4U/Z)

491 >>> 368 He did one years ago.He hated every second of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:12 PM This time will be different. 😂
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:16 PM (p4NUW)

You find the right producer and possibly co-hosts, they do the grunt work I'm sure Ace hated! And then he can get a computer and shelf sponsor.

(Seriously, I'm following a lot of interior design influencers right now. The thousands of dollars thrown at them for their home remodels, for marble counters and new cabinets, is obscene. He's have a shelf sponsor in two seconds.)

Honestly, I just want him to do a sometimes Youtube podcast so he can go on OTHER PEOPLE's SHOWS and share his wisdom there. They do ALL the work, and if you become a regular on their show, you get paid Ace! You can hide behind an Ewok personae like Little Platoon and Mauler do and no one cares.

He and Midnight's Edge ranting on Hollywood, or he and Critical Drinker on the same podcast, is the stuff of dreams for me. Get his big handsome brain out into the podcast space where it deserves to be heard.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (Eng1Z)

492 Ace Of Spades On Fox News

https://refer.is/gbk75g4q

Posted by: An Israeli Tank Stuck in a Field at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (aD39U)

493 450 First! With Sponge.

A show about nothing. And it's not even funny.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

I'd tune in!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (wtvvX)

494 That's hardly long enough to give full, rounded coverage to such a majestic topic.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2024 01:23 PM (Aqu9a)

I envision a daily show, but this would be a two hour special for valentimes day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (mfUOU)

495 418 Comcast stock peaked June 1 2021 at price of $60.68.
Now trading at about $44 today.
Goodbye and good riddance.
Posted by: Lars

Like ATT, Comcast cable is tethered to physical lines that cost more than cellular wifi to maintain.

But compression tweaks let them wring more and more information from that wire to where bandwidth costs to Comcast or ATT are really low.

Comcast still offers some tv content simply to get more people in the door now to sell wired internet services or its wireless phones via bundling.

I think ATT has now jettisoned all content business and is just a carrier now.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (ctrM5)

496 Most number of floppy disks used by a commercial product: https://tinyurl.com/mrsnxmav

Posted by: Alzheimer's drugs at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (K4KCe)

497 462 The beauty of Alzheimers drugs is you can sell them over and over to the same people.
Posted by: Ron Popeil, Jr. at November 12, 2024 01:20 PM

--

(side eye)

Posted by: Diabetes patient at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (wzAuc)

498 Windows 95 and one of the early NTs came on more than that.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:22 PM (2ocoG)
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I never had to do that. I do remember creating a boot disk so I could load NT 4.0 from a CD.

Good golly, does that take me back.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (tT6L1)

499 In the longer term, a source of heartburn was the fact that 5.25" floppies were actually more durable than the 3.5's.

I've had more than a few old 3.5" disks become unreadable from age. Never the 5.25's.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (/HDaX)

500 He and Midnight's Edge ranting on Hollywood, or he and Critical Drinker on the same podcast, is the stuff of dreams for me. Get his big handsome brain out into the podcast space where it deserves to be heard.

I'd have settled for him appearing on Cut Jib Newsletter with Sefton and CBD, but that hasn't happened either.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (2ocoG)

501 3.5 were always kind of bland. 5 and a quarter always was satisfying when you slid them into the drive. They just felt better. Hard to explain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (mfUOU)

TWSS
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (CIS44)

Talk about a hanging curveball

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (BSDFI)

502 3.5 were always kind of bland. 5 and a quarter always was satisfying when you slid them into the drive. They just felt better. Hard to explain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (mfUOU)

But, the metal protective cover on the 3.5 and the 'kachink' noise it made when inserting it in the drive was powerful.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

503 491 You find the right producer and possibly co-hosts, they do the grunt work I'm sure Ace hated! And then he can get a computer and shelf sponsor.

(Seriously, I'm following a lot of interior design influencers right now. The thousands of dollars thrown at them for their home remodels, for marble counters and new cabinets, is obscene. He's have a shelf sponsor in two seconds.)

Honestly, I just want him to do a sometimes Youtube podcast so he can go on OTHER PEOPLE's SHOWS and share his wisdom there. They do ALL the work, and if you become a regular on their show, you get paid Ace! You can hide behind an Ewok personae like Little Platoon and Mauler do and no one cares.

He and Midnight's Edge ranting on Hollywood, or he and Critical Drinker on the same podcast, is the stuff of dreams for me. Get his big handsome brain out into the podcast space where it deserves to be heard.
Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (Eng1Z)

========

I remember him describing how he had to psyche himself up just to talk. I think it was the talking part that he hated most.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

504 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

-
You know you're in trouble when Bernie Sanders is the sane one in your party.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (L/fGl)

505 I bought my first box of 8" floppies at Radio Shack. Then I had to take them back, because they were hard-sectored instead of soft-sectored.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (Q8V7a)

506 @485

>>But I far prefer him to any of the current crop of late night propagandists.

I mean, sure, yes, but his podcast is simply him interviewing the same guests he would interview on his show.

And the only real interest is too see if you can detect any trace of the gigantic boobs of his chick sidekick under the oversized clothing she wears to hide said gigantic boobs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 01:27 PM (XV/Pl)

507 500 I'd have settled for him appearing on Cut Jib Newsletter with Sefton and CBD, but that hasn't happened either.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (2ocoG)

=======

CBD and Sefton apparently don't want to talk about 80 year old movies no one remembers, so I'm out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

508 The Moron Advice Mart.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024

***
That'd be pretty short.

"Slap a hot iron to it."

(We could do this in Laugh-in/Hee-Haw fashion, and have lots of quick blackout sketches and drop-ins.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:27 PM (J2vNu)

509 504 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

-
You know you're in trouble when Bernie Sanders is the sane one in your party.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (L/fGl)

========

"All that shit is fucked."
-the outer extent of usefulness of a communist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

510 the network nightly news broadcasts still get combined 20-30M viewers a night, and I imagine anyone willing to watch that garbage is easily brainwashed into voting D

same goes for the network morning shows

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 12, 2024 01:28 PM (V6W16)

511 @BernieSanders

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

You want to get rid of the deodorant selection I have available to me.

You can f*ck right off, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

512 Everyone knew the election was over and Trump won. Yet for hours, networks were still playing the “too close to call” game to keep viewers tuned in.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald
I've made this comment before. I was amused to see none other than Donna Brazile on ABC's panel discussion in the wee hours, as they struggled to stretch things out.

I was hoping that Brazile would repeat, in substance, the comment she made after Obamacare went into effect, "I just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer.”and her health insurance cost went up, '

In fact, she fell back on the meme, 'Harris just didn't have enough time to convey her persona'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2024 01:28 PM (XeU6L)

513 483 3.5 were always kind of bland. 5 and a quarter always was satisfying when you slid them into the drive. They just felt better. Hard to explain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:24 PM (mfUOU)

Bernoulli box for the win!

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 01:28 PM (VGRuw)

514 Ace Of Spades On Fox News

https://refer.is/gbk75g4q
Posted by: An Israeli Tank Stuck in a Field at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (aD39U)

That's Judd Nelson!

Fight me!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:28 PM (/HDaX)

515 CBD and Sefton apparently don't want to talk about 80 year old movies no one remembers, so I'm out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

I listened to the Hollywood in Toto you appeared on, very enjoyable.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:28 PM (CIS44)

516 Who'd ever need an 8" floppy?

Sounds like some kind of circus freak!*

*joking aside, dad had the huge pics for installing software on medical scanning equipment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (mfUOU)

517 Ace needs to start a podcast or at least guest on the Ruthless Podcast.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at November 12, 2024 01:11 PM (9aVck)

--------------

The Cruelness Podcast.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (tJd93)

518 362 343 #LearnToCode💻
CNN 'will ax top stars in layoffs that'll see hundreds fired' https://mol.im/a/14073063

found some good info in that link

in 2016, CNN was getting 13.3 million viewers per night.

In 2024, CNN is getting 800,000 viewers per night. And now that the election is over, that number is dropping badly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (wyMQY)

519 Bernie is right in his diagnosis, but his only treatment recommendation is MOAR COMMUNISM!!!

Stop, Bernie. You're killing the patient.

Posted by: Wally at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (NXYp1)

520 "I've had more than a few old 3.5" disks become unreadable from age."

DVD-RWs. Can't read hardly any of them anymore. Lost some archives. It sucks.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (Q8V7a)

521 However, Marn’i Washington on Tuesday said it is NOT and isolated incident and FEMA workers were instructed to skip over Trump houses in the Carolinas, too!

Washington also said that FEMA is lying about what happened in Florida as being an “isolated incident” and using her as a scapegoat.

“Demand those incidents reports,” Marn’i Washington said as she explained the orders came down from the leadership.

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (RHGPo)

522 515 CBD and Sefton apparently don't want to talk about 80 year old movies no one remembers, so I'm out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

I listened to the Hollywood in Toto you appeared on, very enjoyable.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:28 PM (CIS44)

======

Well, Toto sometimes likes to talk about 80 year old movies no one remembers, so I'm more of a natural fit there.

I should reach out to him to appear again...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

523 That's Judd Nelson!

Fight me!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:28 PM (/HDaX)

A commenter likened Ace to a mumbling hairy gourd in that appearance.

Posted by: An Israeli Tank Stuck in a Field at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (aD39U)

524 I remember when I got my first AOL disk in the mail I thought I'd better hang onto this. Don't know if I can get another one.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (L/fGl)

525 Ace’s podcast was the best. I still miss it.

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at November 12, 2024 01:29 PM (+aEJM)

526 I always loved the sound a 5-1/4" floppy made when it spun up in the B: drive. How I miss my pirated copy of hearts with Leisure Suit Larry!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 12, 2024 01:30 PM (wtvvX)

527 My favorite tool for a few years was the Win 98 boot disk. It would load drivers so I could get into systems which had gacked. I saved some spread sheets for my step mother that way.
Posted by: blake

Still some DOS disk boot loaders around out there. Easy enough nowadays though to do a live USB or a live DVD of a linux distro. I used to have a Knoppix DVD around for doing repair work to boot files on Windows or Linux systems.

Now, I just use one of my distro files in the rare event I can't boot something usually due to dual booting and Microsoft screwing up it stupid security certificates expiration dates.

Every two or so years or so, the certificates expire and secure boot/tpm will bork Grub.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 01:30 PM (ctrM5)

528 Comcast is getting its ass kicked by companies like Quantum right now. They charge too much and provide not great service.

I am still amused by how the save icon on pretty much everything is a 3½ floppy. you can get a mockup of one now with a USB tab on it heh

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 01:30 PM (Hh1ER)

529 I was kind of surprised that the "Jew hunting" was in the Netherlands given Wilders' election. I assume he's doing something about it? The media hasn't really said.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:21 PM (2ocoG)

Wilders is just the head of the main party, the coallition forced him to have someone else as premier, and it is now the ex-head of their intelligence agency.

The Dutch cops were so valiant beating down covid protesters and farmers, I wonder what the problem is today.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2024 01:30 PM (D7oie)

530 And the only real interest is too see if you can detect any trace of the gigantic boobs of his chick sidekick under the oversized clothing she wears to hide said gigantic boobs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

What's her name? Can't do an image search without a name.

Posted by: Bulg at November 12, 2024 01:30 PM (v6JzV)

531 Ace Of Spades On Fox News

https://refer.is/gbk75g4q
Posted by: An Israeli Tank Stuck in a Field at November 12, 2024 01:25 PM (aD39U)

The Woodrow Wilson glasses make that interview.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

532 "Punch the Fag" ran for a while in '76 'till Chuck Barris got bored with it.
Posted by: Auspex at November
_____________

I recall playing "smear the queer" as a kid.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 12, 2024 01:30 PM (Dm8we)

533 You know you're in trouble when Bernie Sanders is the sane one in your party.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (L/fGl)

Yeah but his solutions are socialism for all (miniature communist flags for everybody).

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 12, 2024 01:31 PM (pZ0Mr)

534
This has all the excitement of a 1930's MGM Mickey Rooney- Judy Garland production.

"Hey! I know! We'll put on a show at the old barn and sell tickets! Judy can chew a bunch of pills and go crazy while I play stinky finger with the show girls! We'll make a bundle!"

Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 01:31 PM (j4U/Z)

535 Elon on the prowl re:purchasing MSLSD?
……would appear so as just reported on X:
https://x.com/MattWallace888

Posted by: Voter theater. at November 12, 2024 01:31 PM (acuhO)

536 Who'd ever need an 8" floppy?

Sounds like some kind of circus freak!*

ember 12, 2024 01:29 PM (mfUOU)

*laughs*

Posted by: Zombie John Holmes at November 12, 2024 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

537 @522

>>Well, Toto sometimes likes to talk about 80 year old movies no one remembers, so I'm more of a natural fit there.

With the exception of a few films, not really a fan of silent films.

Way too melodramatic and playing to the cheep seats get tiring after a while.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 01:31 PM (XV/Pl)

538 MSNBC has some value - fire all the onscreen talent and writers and sell the rest to Newsmax.

Posted by: El Mariachi at November 12, 2024 01:31 PM (nLFEI)

539 Nobody here spilled a deck of punch cards before?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2024 01:32 PM (/lPRQ)

540 Notice that the flash of the blog on FNC shows that it hasn't changed in a decade.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 12, 2024 01:32 PM (aD39U)

541 Re unreadable 3.5" and Dvd media: I feel your pain.

Many of my beloved and pirated Beta VCR tapes no longer play. The tape media has melded together.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2024 01:32 PM (Aqu9a)

542 537 With the exception of a few films, not really a fan of silent films.

Way too melodramatic and playing to the cheep seats get tiring after a while.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 01:31 PM (XV/Pl)

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Check out Wings, if you haven't.

Very modern in feel while still being Old School Hollywood in construction. Just, you know, silent.

Also, 80 years is the 1940s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

543 539 I had columns 1 thru 6 sequence numbered! Take THAT, gravity!

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 01:33 PM (Q8V7a)

544 I remember him describing how he had to psyche himself up just to talk. I think it was the talking part that he hated most.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

We have a solution for every problem and a problem for every solution. This can all be resolved. For the record, I am very adept at talking. I can talk A LOT. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 01:33 PM (p4NUW)

545 Comcast is getting its ass kicked by companies like Quantum right now. They charge too much and provide not great service.

I noticed Comcast abruptly announced after the election that they're teaming up with Starlink. Presumably to get on Elon (and thus Trump)'s good side, because I didn't really understand the benefit otherwise.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:34 PM (2ocoG)

546 "I've had more than a few old 3.5" disks become unreadable from age."

DVD-RWs. Can't read hardly any of them anymore. Lost some archives. It sucks.

.. I looked into what the Library of Congress uses and it was interesting. They claimed CD/DVDs were only safe to retain data for 1 year. I don't remember them talking about floppies.
They apparently use Linear Tape-Open (LTO).

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 01:34 PM (RHGPo)

547 Ace Of Spades On Fox News

https://refer.is/gbk75g4q

some say the tank is still stuck in the mud, others say it's stuck in our hearts

Posted by: brak at November 12, 2024 01:34 PM (NGHTx)

548 NOOD Chris Wallace

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 01:34 PM (CIS44)

549 I was looking forward to Conclave. I have three of three of Anthony Tucci's books. However, I saw that Comcast owned the production company, so I am will not be seeing that movie until it is free on Amazon.

Posted by: wferrin at November 12, 2024 01:34 PM (V51t5)

550 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

551 Ace could do the neighbor behind the fence routine like Tool Time. Or sit in a giant chair facing backwards like Charlie's Angels.

The he could do voice overs and we could take turns being Ace.

Every day he could be a different size gender, species, whatever. But the same voice. Heck the voice could be AI and he could type up its cruel script.

Posted by: Just Lily at November 12, 2024 01:34 PM (U8QKV)

552 Then there's all the stuff I archived/compressed with archiving software that no longer exists nor runs.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at November 12, 2024 01:34 PM (Q8V7a)

553 Wings is a great movie. There were some truly magnificent silents, not just comedies like The General but nobody has yet made a horror movie as frightening and moody as Nosferatu. They were really getting great at the medium when sound was introduced. I still love Singing in the Rain's portrayal of experiments with sound in movies and their miserable trials.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 01:34 PM (Hh1ER)

554 With the exception of a few films, not really a fan of silent films.

Way too melodramatic and playing to the cheep seats get tiring after a while.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Yeah, I hate how that Buster Keaton guy was always over-emoting.

Posted by: Bulg at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (v6JzV)

555

Nooooodd

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (qlEMs)

556 Ace on a hike in the woods.

https://is.gd/KHtBjO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (L/fGl)

557 I remember him describing how he had to psyche himself up just to talk. I think it was the talking part that he hated most.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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With today's AI extensions, Ace could generate a computer voice to do his talking for him along with an Avatar.

Even consumer grade video editors now have closed captioning, auto text reading and substituting talking avatars for people images.

I've played around with the avatar gimmicks when I had to do a bunch of conferencing and teaching online a couple of years ago and it has only gotten slicker and easier to use in the interim.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (ctrM5)

558 MSNBC could be turned around. They would get more viewers is they just showed videos of mentally ill white women melting down on Twitter. Oh wait, that's the current business model.

Posted by: Roberto at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (1LMOS)

559 Also, 80 years is the 1940s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Next year will be 50 years since 1975.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (SUJ+x)

560 Ace Of Spades On Fox News

https://refer.is/gbk75g4q

Man, that was 18 years ago. I remember the day it happened, all the theads were recounting when Fox kept bumping him in favor of showing an IDF tank stuck in a mud puddle.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (2ocoG)

561 422 Why aren't we getting Paul to come and tell us about how MSNBC is actually in great shape and that corporations are actually totes awesome?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

I want that fuq Brian in New Orleans front and center...

Posted by: browndog sniffing about at November 12, 2024 01:36 PM (TTAGa)

562 504 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

-
You know you're in trouble when Bernie Sanders is the sane one in your party.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 12, 2024 01:26 PM (L/fGl)

It's funny because my sister is a Bernie-Bot. She didn't have a single thing to say the entire campaign/election and I think she just sat it out.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 12, 2024 01:36 PM (LxER7)

563 Nobody here spilled a deck of punch cards before?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2024 01:32 PM (/lPRQ)
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No, but the thought gave me the willies.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 12, 2024 01:36 PM (z0QHk)

564 I miss the Drift Compatible podcast, but it felt like their lives made the scheduling extremely difficult. Wishing good things for Brent and Alex, and if they ever fire it up again I'll be one of the first to listen.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 01:36 PM (Eng1Z)

565 What's her name? Can't do an image search without a name.
Posted by: Bulg at November 12, 2024 01:30 PM (v6JzV)

Some internet detective work says the only possible answer is Talin Sona Movsesian.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:37 PM (/HDaX)

566
I can't think of any other potential buyers other than George Soros

Elon could buy it by picking lint out of the stuff he finds in the crack of his sofa cushions. Which would get him a tax write-off plus the fun of turning MSNBC into the Right Wing Death Beast Channel.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 12, 2024 01:37 PM (y9nCu)

567 564 I miss the Drift Compatible podcast, but it felt like their lives made the scheduling extremely difficult. Wishing good things for Brent and Alex, and if they ever fire it up again I'll be one of the first to listen.
Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 01:36 PM (Eng1Z)

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AtC podcasting partner died, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

568 DVD-RWs. Can't read hardly any of them anymore. Lost some archives. It sucks.

If you want permanent backups, you need to keep transferring to the latest and greatest medium. ...which we will do for a fee.

Posted by: Industry at November 12, 2024 01:37 PM (Fr3vV)

569 539 Nobody here spilled a deck of punch cards before?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2024 01:32 PM (/lPRQ)
Holepunch use to be a rate in Navy, the badge was a data card.

Posted by: Eromero at November 12, 2024 01:38 PM (LHPAg)

570 I offer to run the entertainment division and listen to interesting pitch meetings for shows starring up and coming starlets Joe Mannix could forward to me.

I'd work for less than scale, just to piss the union off.
Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 01:02 PM (j4U/Z)

He could gather his cadre of Mannix Girls and call it Time For the Posse. It would be erudite discussions with the girls dancing in the background.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 12, 2024 01:39 PM (g8Ew8)

571 Next year will be 50 years since 1975.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (SUJ+x)

Reaches for hemlock...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 12, 2024 01:39 PM (/HDaX)

572 AtC podcasting partner died, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

BCochran died? He was awfully young.

Posted by: Emmie at November 12, 2024 01:40 PM (Sf2cq)

573 I have a friend who is something of a healthophobic. During the times when some Ricin letters had made the rounds, he took to microwaving his mail, 'Just in case'.

Then, there was the day that the mail contained an AOL disk. Smoke and flames.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2024 01:40 PM (XeU6L)

574 Ace Of Spades On Fox News

https://refer.is/gbk75g4q

Man, that was 18 years ago. I remember the day it happened, all the theads were recounting when Fox kept bumping him in favor of showing an IDF tank stuck in a mud puddle.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (2ocoG)

Fame is fickle.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 12, 2024 01:41 PM (g8Ew8)

575 BCochran died? He was awfully young.
Posted by: Emmie
----------

WHAT?! B.C. passed away?

Genuine good guy, we exchanged some emails. He once bailed me out of Camp Banhammer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2024 01:42 PM (XeU6L)

576 AtC podcasting partner died, if I remember correctly.

No, Brent became a social studies teacher and his district is aware he's not a communist but they wanted him to keep a lower profile. (Also he's got papers to grade and stuff).

Plus when they made tmi3rd a regular that became 3 peoples' jobs to schedule around.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:42 PM (2ocoG)

577 @542

>> Also, 80 years is the 1940s.

Time has not progressed for me much beyond 1984.

Please forgive my absent mindedness.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 01:43 PM (DfBXH)

578 AtC podcasting partner died, if I remember correctly.

No, Brent became a social studies teacher and his district is aware he's not a communist but they wanted him to keep a lower profile. (Also he's got papers to grade and stuff).
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Whoof. A relief to hear.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2024 01:44 PM (XeU6L)

579 196 >>cool

It was the funniest interview I have ever been to.

I got to insult every one of the Department Heads over a fantastic lunch and then got job offers from all of them.
Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 12:53 PM (z/jjr)

Ha!

Posted by: m at November 12, 2024 01:45 PM (VnUSN)

580 555 Nooooodd
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (qlEMs)

Posted by: m at November 12, 2024 01:47 PM (VnUSN)

581 https://refer.is/gbk75g4q

Man, that was 18 years ago. I remember the day it happened, all the theads were recounting when Fox kept bumping him in favor of showing an IDF tank stuck in a mud puddle.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 12, 2024 01:35 PM (2ocoG)

Fame is fickle.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 12, 2024 01:41 PM (g8Ew

It would be funny if Ace is bald now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2024 01:48 PM (wyMQY)

582 Musk should but MSNBC, do a one night special encore presentation of The Apprentice starring our man, DJT, and have Trump tell Maddow "Your Fired" on live TV!

Posted by: Cat at November 12, 2024 01:58 PM (6724l)

583 With the exception of a few films, not really a fan of silent films.

Way too melodramatic and playing to the cheep seats get tiring after a while.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12,

***
Me too, but an eighty-year-old movie now would be from 1944.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 01:58 PM (J2vNu)

584 38
I get a bunch of news and opinion channels if I want it via Roku including OANN and Bannon's show via streaming.

Posted by: whig at November 12, 2024 12:37 PM (ctrM5)
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Let's stay with News.
This is stuff like Etna is erupting again; some nasty terrorist action in Kenya; Jim Smith's progress on his round the world in a canoe; new shrew species found in Borneo; etc.
Who is actually going to be onsite to collect that info; who will they send that info to; how will the 'news' become disseminated across the landscape?
People with blogs don't have the resources to send out paid reporters all over the world. So have local free-lancers do that job. So they become your reporters as soon as you pay them. So we are back to the old model of large news networks with the resources to do that 'real news' collating. Then they will also editorialize and distort.

Posted by: Ciampino Network News at November 12, 2024 02:02 PM (i0xsb)

585 >>> No, Brent became a social studies teacher and his district is aware he's not a communist but they wanted him to keep a lower profile. (Also he's got papers to grade and stuff).

Hearing he might have died just about gave me a heart attack!! Glad he's ok. We need good anti-woke teachers, glad he's in the trenches fighting the good fight and teaching gen alpha to be secretly based.

When he breaks out of teaching jail again, hope he returns to podcasting.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 02:06 PM (Eng1Z)

586 They should just rebrand CNN to CNN 8 "the Ocho"
"It it's almost news, we've got it here."

Posted by: Forks n stuff at November 12, 2024 02:20 PM (KgAh+)

587 Ahhh! Ahhh! Fake News is imploding! Ahhh!

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588 XBC baby!

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589 A-Mess-NBC the Lying Peacock News Americans are catching on their News is Fake

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