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IF YOU BELIEVE

If you believed they put a man on the moon

Man on the moon

If you believe there’s nothing up his sleeve

Then nothing is cool

REM – Man on the Moon

The REM song Man on the Moon, released in 1992, is a haunting melancholy tune, with Andy Kaufmann and his life and death as the focal point. For me, the lyrics always bring me back to the simpler time of my youth, when our antenna TV could get about eight channels, we had one rotary phone, one old used station wagon, lived in a row home, and a family of five could be raised on a truck driver’s income, with a stay-at-home mom.

It’s the references to the Game of Life, Risk, Monopoly, Twister, checkers, and chess, which invoke what we did for fun when we weren’t out riding bikes, playing stick-ball, roller hockey, or touch football in the streets. Were bad things going on in the world? Sure. The Vietnam War, Watergate, gasoline shortages and rationing, stagflation, and a myriad of other damaging challenges confronted the country, just as they always have throughout history.

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A Digital Noose ‘Round Every Corner

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

Graduation season.  Parties, commencements, speeches and lots and lots of photos.  Recently, I loaded all of the pictures onto a PC and saved them into a folder, digitally labeled and timestamped, for posterity.  The next day, I noticed a message from Microsoft.  It said:  “Click here to see the photo album we created for you!”  I clicked and saw the very same photos I had loaded just hours before.  However, I never requested for my personal memories to be shared, let alone arranged into an album organized by the company whose operating system runs my computer.  Evidently, somewhere a while back, a box must have been checked, or unchecked, thus surrendering my right to privacy.

Every day I receive e-mail requests from Linkedin.com, Facebook and other networking websites to follow, like, or join, with people I am actually acquainted with in the real world.  The messages ask me if I “know” them as I see their photos and information along with the opportunity to electronically consummate with them, should I so choose.


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Stucky QOTD: Monopoly

After some 85 years, Hasbro retired the thimble token from their lineup. They said it’s to make the game more modern.  I say it’s because of this fictional (but, true) conversation millions of times across this great country;

Boomer Dad:  “Millennial Mary, let’s play Monopoly.”

Millennial Mary:  “OK, Dad!  Hey, what’s this piece called?”

BD:  “Oh, that’s called a thimble.”

MM:  “Whatever.“

BD: “You look puzzled. Do you know what a thimble is used for?”

MM: “Nope!”

BD: “You ignorant slut!”

And, thusly, the game ended before it even started.

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Below are the original 8 pieces  (some say there were only six).

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Q1:  Which piece best represents your persona, or function, here on TBP, and why?

Q2: (Optional)  Which piece would best represent your life?  (You may make up any piece you want.)

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Q1: — I would be the wheelbarrow.  I fling a lot of shit ’round these parts, and that shit needs to be disposed of regularly.

Q2: — Seeing how I am being repeatedly being fucked in the ass trying to sell my house …. I’m going with this one;

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Monopoly Goes Cashless — The Coming New World Totalitarian Order

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

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Well, Monopoly is going cashless. It looks like the game company sees the writing on the wall and are preparing the kids for the new world order — a cashless society.


CITIGROUP IS ATTEMPTING TO CREATE ‘CITICOIN’ TO KEEP UP WITH BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

Time again to make fun of the big banks like you made fun of that kid in school whose mom bought them corduroy pants. So, in the latest Bitcoin news the “Too Big To Fail” banks are trying to adopt Bitcoin anything to attract customers because they’ve gotten some bad PR in the past. Except they’re also “Too Big To Evolve” with new technology. The only thing corporate banks are good at creating is technological redundancies considering crypto-currencies are special because they are the only form of money specifically created for the internet. Companies that are focused on internet commerce can see a bright future with Bitcoin but the dinosaurs should probably take a seat on the bench and wait for the asteroid.

 

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Guest Post By Alexandre Beaudry

A few months ago Goldman Sachs jumped into the Bitcoin market by investing in the Bitcoin startup Circle that is creating a dual currency wallet for users to seamlessly transition their Bitcoins into fiat currencies. This was a game changing move from a traditional bank but it has left other big players to fend for themselves as the bank industry adapts to crypto-currencies and new technology.

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