So...How's it going?

[CitsejaMkraDehT]

No disruption, in fact welcome.
Number of "views" is immaterial, only those who post add relevance to the discussion. Any input is appreciated.
Let others look. Even if they are bots, I'm sure they enjoy the comedy.

I only ask because I saw a strikingly high number of visitors compared to the activity on this forum. Common sense to me would dictate that it is likely bots or web crawlers scraping data. I was hoping maybe we could see more automags, minimags, RTs, Emags, Xmags, Tac-Ones being posted for mag of the month but I'm guessing that's not likely.

I don't really have anything to add to the discussion that was/is on-going since in society it seems we've entered a stage in which middle ground doesn't exist.

[Pyrate Jim]

It's always been this way on the forum. I came on and there were 793 visitors ~ 5 users and 788 "guests" (or bots).
The only reason this thread is over 500 posts is because it's interesting and funny. Folks just have more to say about their own opinions than they do about paintball.
After all, paintball is the middle ground. The one place we ignore all our differences and just play to have fun.

I also would like to see more paintball threads, I've tried and they end up buried in the archive. That's more up to users like yourself.
At least when I start a "controversial" thread, it garners a lot more attention to the entire forum.
Just my little way of saying "Thank You" to AO.

[Pyrate Jim]

Wanna talk scary?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/glassing-with-permission-only-next-generation-binocular-will-make-users-pay-to-view-private-land/ar-BB1kTqmL?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=54f5e2672bc247528269f6e02885980f&ei=13

From the article:

The PLOP is expected to retail for $699. Annual ClearView subscriptions run $99 and users must buy a separate subscription for each state. Next of Gen is expected to incorporate ClearView in spotting scopes, cameras, and even eyeglasses in future product launches.

Eyeglasses? So if you're driving with these glasses on, will they blank out or distort unless you pay?
Only an AI could come up with something so ridiculous, and Humans marketing this trying to make money off it are even more so.

[Nobody]

Wanna talk scary?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/glassing-with-permission-only-next-generation-binocular-will-make-users-pay-to-view-private-land/ar-BB1kTqmL?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=54f5e2672bc247528269f6e02885980f&ei=13

From the article:


Eyeglasses? So if you're driving with these glasses on, will they blank out or distort unless you pay?
Only an AI could come up with something so ridiculous, and Humans marketing this trying to make money off it are even more so.

Did you read the article at all? It is talking about binoculars and viewing landscapes and outdoor ranges. The creators are trying to monetize what we can see, with these digital binoculars. Meaning that hunters who are looking for game on or near protected lands would be blocked out, which also extends to private land.

Nothing in the article says anything about eyeglasses or the like. Hell, it is even in the header of the article.

The real question is, who gets the money? Do private citizens have to pay, does the company reimburse the people?

The simple solution is picking up a cheap(which I will assume is about 75% of all other binoculars on the market) pair and not even worrying about it. I am all in favor of capitalism, but it is a stretch to see someone try to become the middle man on a free activity.

[Beemer]

Did you read the article at all? It is talking about binoculars and viewing landscapes and outdoor ranges.

Nothing in the article says anything about eyeglasses or the like.

Did YOU read the article at ALL?????? If you had you would have seen this. Oh wait I forgot about your compression level. sp on purpose

Next of Gen is expected to incorporate ClearView in spotting scopes, cameras, and even eyeglasses in future product launches.

[Nobody]

Did YOU read the article at ALL?????? If you had you would have seen this. Oh wait I forgot about your compression level. sp on purpose

If you wish to compare reading comprehension Beemer, then why don't you read the rules of this forum...

[Pyrate Jim]

Way to go, Pinocchio! He said compression, not comprehension. You should be aware of the difference.
Just like in the rules. You consistently insist that this thread is against the rules, yet you're one of the prime agitators thereby perpetuating the offense.
Let's look at the top three rules;

• No cussing. Activating the filter[******] is the same as swearing If you see you did please edit and fix it.
• No racial, religious, or sexually inflammatory language
• Avoid topics containing religious, racial, or political discussion

First two say "NO" and the third says "Avoid". See the use of different words? They actually say different things with distinctive meanings.
Not too difficult a concept to understand. Well, for most of us.

[Pyrate Jim]

Uninstructed? Uncommitted?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/more-than-40k-uninstructed-ballots-cast-in-wisconsin-dem-primary-in-protest-of-biden-s-gaza-response/ar-BB1kYXkK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=17a0e0ba6ccf4c41979d16efdf8e5671&ei=52

Between Michigan and Wisconsin, Biden has reportedly lost 13 Electors to what is basically a "None of the Above" campaign.
Something not seen in the republican primary.

[Pyrate Jim]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-campaign-raises-over-90-million-in-march-187-million-in-q1-2024/ar-BB1laA3n?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=125b3ebdd92f40d3b13aa1f21e083ebb&ei=19

From the article;

In March alone, when Biden clinched the Democratic Party's nomination, the campaign raised more than $90 million, up from over $53 million the previous month. The team also reported $192 million in cash on hand, which it said was the highest total amassed by any Democratic candidate in history at this point in the cycle.

I guess buying 81 million votes isn't cheap.

[Nobody]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...1e083ebb&ei=19

From the article;


I guess buying 81 million votes isn't cheap.

Lol, I see what you did there. You're saying that a politician is buying votes. In a way, they all do. By making pledges and setting policy, a politician is buying votes. The distinction from this to say, the old republican Tammany hall days, where the GOP literally said, vote early, vote often and paid people to vote for them is, they can legally do that.

But I think you are just missing the simple fact that more people just don't like trump. They don't like his policies, if there are any past enriching himself, they don't like his loose cannon actions to everything and the general notion that we, the United States of America do not want an autocrat, a Fascist dictator to ruin this country try.

So if you want to support a twice empeached, failed president who has 91 indictments, who is facing criminal charges, who owes at least half a billion in payouts, and is facing possible jail time. Go ahead, be my guest.

[Pyrate Jim]

Lol, I see what you did there. You're saying that a politician is buying votes. In a way, they all do. By making pledges and setting policy, a politician is buying votes. The distinction from this to say, the old republican Tammany hall days, where the GOP literally said, vote early, vote often and paid people to vote for them is, they can legally do that.

But I think you are just missing the simple fact that more people just like trump. They don't like his policies, if there are any past enriching himself, they don't like his loose cannon actions to everything and the general notion that we, the United States of America do not want an autocrat, a Fascist dictator to ruin this country try.

So if you want to support a twice empeached, failed president who has 91 indictments, who is facing criminal charges, who owes at least half a billion in payouts, and is facing possible jail time. Go ahead, be my guest.

Thank you, I think I might.
Like you just said, "I think you are just missing the simple fact that more people just like trump."

[going_home]

Is it time for you to go outside and stare at the sun ?

[Pyrate Jim]

The eclipse?
Just about the half-way point here. Nothing fancy this far East, maybe 10% coverage. Likely less.
Not like the news coverage treating it as if it were some amazing "once in a lifetime" phenomena.

[Pyrate Jim]

Since I'm currently bored and feeling a bit ornery~
Let me start with this.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/biden-administration-announces-plan-to-transfer-student-debt-for-tens-of-millions-of-americans-onto-taxpayers/ar-BB1lhpWb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=de46afa6716f4415bc087f0abbf8ea41&ei=19

I pay my debts; I don't need to be forced to pay others debts through taxes. And it gets worse.
This article brings skin color into it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/president-joe-biden-unveils-new-plans-that-could-eradicate-debt-for-over-30m-borrowers/ar-BB1lhuTo?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=99705af4747d4bef87a4ea1a1eb4a583&ei=18

Even though SCOTUS has ruled that this is unconsitutional, Biden actually brags that he can ignore that and do it anyway.
And then complain that the Supreme Court slow walks Trump prosecution. I wonder why?
And it gets worse. Besides pissing off the Supreme Court, Biden's admin has decided to do the same with the Catholic Church.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-responds-after-pope-francis-condemns-gender-theory-affirms-biden-s-support-for-trans-community/ar-BB1lht7y?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=de46afa6716f4415bc087f0abbf8ea41&ei=119

Coming out a week after Bidens Easter debacle with "Oyster Bunnies"; How does the Pope condemning gender theory somehow affirm support for Biden and his trans agenda? Seem like polar opposites to me. That's the Democrats for you.
Biden has flouted the will of the American people, the U.S. Supreme Court and now the Holy Catholic Church.
I will say this for Joe Biden, the man has no boundaries. Almost 50 years of plagiarism, lies and ineffective performance all on the public dime, and still trying to corrupt people into believing that HE is the one that can fix it all. Give me a break.

[Nobody]

Since I'm currently bored and feeling a bit ornery~
Let me start with this.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/biden-administration-announces-plan-to-transfer-student-debt-for-tens-of-millions-of-americans-onto-taxpayers/ar-BB1lhpWb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=de46afa6716f4415bc087f0abbf8ea41&ei=19

I pay my debts; I don't need to be forced to pay others debts through taxes. And it gets worse.

This is funny. When you went to school, you could buy a house, go full time to college and do that with a run of the mill job and pay all your debt. Now, things have changed, if you haven't noticed. The homes you can afford are nowhere near the places you work and the hope that getting a degree to get the job that would pay you better, does not have enough to pay back your debts and actually live off of. So this is a non-starter, as you do pay the debts of other people. It's called taxes.

This article brings skin color into it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...1eb4a583&ei=18

Now let's just forget that there is a well established double standard of people of colour and the systematic racism that is still going strong. As much as classism keeps the poor down, systematic racism keeps the other people down. So they can't afford homes, education, jobs to lift them out of the gutter.

But you missed the point. This isn't about debt, it's called buying ballots. Instead of handing people money for their vote, it is the opposite, in that you remove their debt so they will vote for you.

Even though SCOTUS has ruled that this is unconsitutional, Biden actually brags that he can ignore that and do it anyway.
And then complain that the Supreme Court slow walks Trump prosecution. I wonder why?

Cause if trump is not guilty, wouldn't you want this done and over with? But in reality, the same can be said for the GOP's attempt to restrict and alter elections, through illegal gerrymandering, voter restriction laws and the normal everyday republican bullying. So it is okay to keep at voter fraud even though SCOTUS said no, am I correct?

And it gets worse. Besides pissing off the Supreme Court, Biden's admin has decided to do the same with the Catholic Church.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-responds-after-pope-francis-condemns-gender-theory-affirms-biden-s-support-for-trans-community/ar-BB1lht7y?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=de46afa6716f4415bc087f0abbf8ea41&ei=119

Coming out a week after Bidens Easter debacle with "Oyster Bunnies"; How does the Pope condemning gender theory somehow affirm support for Biden and his trans agenda? Seem like polar opposites to me. That's the Democrats for you.

Easter debacle? More like the right can't read a calendar. And the simple fact that having the church eve recognize trans people is a huge step. So while they can believe what or how they want, the trans people in the US can have more recognition and their rights affirmed.

Biden has flouted the will of the American people, the U.S. Supreme Court and now the Holy Catholic Church.
I will say this for Joe Biden, the man has no boundaries. Almost 50 years of plagiarism, lies and ineffective performance all on the public dime, and still trying to corrupt people into believing that HE is the one that can fix it all. Give me a break.

I like that he has no boundaries. He is a centrist, but has brought in a more progressive platform. I like that he has done more in his 4 years than the last 3 republican presidents combined. I like that you disparage him with the party line, yet cannot stop him and anything he has done, flies in the face of your narrative. You set such a low bar for him because of your presidential pick that all Biden can do is fail upwards.