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He became a character actor mostly. He's been a major character in some TV series (The Killing, which also has Elias Koteas)

Viggo -- has a TON of stuff that he is in. Before LoTR it's mostly character work, but he is a super-badass in Eastern Promises. Orlando Bloom -- really? isn't he in a half-dozen Pirates of the Caribbean movies? (along with being the face of a bunch of rom-coms) Rick Moranis -- his story is much sadder than just wanting more family time -- I had read that he stepped back from acting because his wife was very sick and died, and he needed to take care of his family.

Watch The Thing, Escape from NY, and Big Trouble in Little China

As a kid in the 80's, I thought he was like the softer version of a much tougher-looking Kurt Russel

Interesting topic. There was a good article about Michael Biehn a couple years back that gives his arc a little more context. And both Bruce Campbell and Elias Koteas have fairly fleshed out careers as working actors.

Well, I guess part of my view on this is that the kid was connecting products with people that were willing to pay "market price", versus the products just going on a first-come-first-served basis. But to your point - all capitalism is a manifestation of greed. It's the nature of the system. That said -- if the numbers are to be believed, the kid's profit margin was quite low, so him earning $100k for his effort in the marketplace isn't particularly "greedy".

Everyone is entitled to their opinion on this, of course -- but what breach in ethics has occurred when you earn the arbitrage between retail price and a higher market price on a nonessential item? I don't think it is difficult, at all, to say that for NONESSENTIAL items, and more specifically LEISURE items, that there is nothing unethical about this.

If it isn't a safety concern (someone "profiteering" by cutting corners on safety-critical items) or a life necessity (food, housing, medicine, fuel) -- I don't think there is much of an ethics-based argument against arbitrage on non-essential leisure/entertainment items. As a buyer, sure, it doesn't feel good to pay higher prices. But this is really just connecting the products with buyers that "want it the most" and are willing to pay for it -- at the seller's risk that they get stuck with merchandise they may not even be able to sell at regular retail prices.

That's a thin margin ($100k profit on $1.7M revenue). Good for him that it worked out and he didn't get burned.

I have an ancient Vizio back in my laundry room that keeps on trucking. But I seem to recall "back in the day" that Vizio were refurb/rebadged Sony, but now they definitely make their own TVs, so I'm not sure the quality of "new Vizio" necessarily matches the original TVs.

I picked up the TCL 65" 6-series recently and have been happy with it so far. (room is too bright for OLEDs, so I was happy to just save the cost difference)

My condolences. I am sorry for your loss.

Yeah, there are plenty of situations where I would be willing to sell puts and just collect the premium rather than use the cash to buy the stock outright at the time.

Nice. I have yet to get around to turning on options trading with Schwab, but it has been tempting.

Interviewing multiple people at once like that for a technical role seems incredibly tacky.

Pure "meme energy" that was noticed tail end of last week. A couple of the heavy-hitters on WSB were all-in, in the 7-figure range at that point, and with AMC "peaking" at the time, the masses were primed to follow. Supposedly there is some gamma squeeze potential, of some flavor, but who really knows whether that even matters on the meme/crowd gambles anymore.

Same, at a very slightly lower average.

Any of you guys hang in there on CLOV?

They were dealing with the same censorship rules that led to He-Man fighting like a pro-wrestler rather than actually ever using his sword.

Rewatching some of these with my kids, Thundercats definitely ranks higher than I originally remembered, and original He-Man quite a bit lower. That said, I'm excited for the new animated series of MOTU from Kevin Smith.

You're missing The Real Ghostbusters and Captain N

Saw some chatter around this with a few of the bigger "YOLO" players, so I'm tagging along for a small gamble on this one, as well.

Is that definitive? Everything i see suggests that "wash sale rules MAY not apply".

1. It's not about whether you're American -- this is a major global issue. While the issue has come and gone in coverage and prominence in the West, this has been a MAJOR "cold war" with enormous geopolitical stakes. 2. I thought it went without saying that I was also implying coverage by online "print" news sources.

Taiwan / China issues get pretty regular news coverage over the years -- pretty much every new presidential cycle in the USA is another "will they / won't they" about directly acknowledging Taiwan, for instance. And pretty much any news story about Chinese military or political expansion will touch on it, at some level. In terms of "medium" -- pretty much every major print and radio news source covers it to some extent. In terms of "direct impact on you personally" -- there is a fork in the road where either (1) Taiwan gets internationally recognized as a separate country, despite China's protestation, ultimately signaling a peak and decline in Chinese power or (2) China takes over Taiwan and the USA backs them up, militarily, quite possibly leading to WW3 or(3) China takes over Taiwan and the USA does nothing, ultimately signaling the peak and decline in USA power. One of those 3 things eventually happens and affects all of us.