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Cracked Ass

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  1. Alberta went big for dark blue.
  2. This is cool, I'm always yay science when there's a breakthrough. One more fact, one more discovery on the heap of real things, rather than a bunch of religious drivel. I'm not super amazed at the substitution of arsenic for phosphorus. I did some highschool science projects involving substitution of elements within compounds and getting similar reaction results for reactions involving the new compound. Also, this doesn't counteract anything you learned in school. These are carbon based life forms that use arsenic rather than phosphorus - not arsenic-BASED life forms.
  3. What would pics prove in the photoshop age? Conspiracy theorists who don't want to be swayed will yell "photoshop" no matter how good the pic looks. I bet we killed him, glad he's dead, cycles of violence will continue, etc.
  4. You guys are a riot. Beginners. Especially whoever compared the metals runup to the dot-com bubble. The precious metals will always be worth something, that's why they're precious. It is an investment subject to risk like any other, but there's no total loss when you hold metals unless they get stolen or the world ends. Not true for stocks, which can become truly worthless. However, there's no need to hold the physical metal to make money on the market moves. You can trade futures contracts with as little as 5-10% margin. That means you can control 100 oz of gold for 5-10% of its actual value, but if the price goes up and you sell, you collect the full difference on the 100 oz. If the price goes down, you can lose your shirt in a day; but that's where options and stop orders come in. Which brings us to Commodity Futures Trading 101, something it will take me way too long to teach on this site, but if you're really interested in making money in metals markets, you have a head for charts and graphs and numbers, and you have $2000 with which to open an option buyer's account, you can participate. You should google "futures trading" in conjunction with key words such as "course", "instruction", and/or "Larry Williams" if you want to learn. There is a lot to know but you def do not need to be a pro or be rich or have a license to be involved in these and other futures markets. (It does help to already be rich, but that applies to almost everything.)
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    Syria

    The sooner people stop calling anyplace "holy land" the sooner we'll have peace love & harmony. I remain pessimistic. If you want to meet God or some high-ranking aliens or whoever is over there in the 5th dimension smoke some DMT and check out the fringe of the real deal and quit relying on quaint fables. Off topic I know. It's cool that the general public seems to be revolting in the Middle East. The people nervous about the outcome just don't want to see extremists hungry for caliphate supplant the existing dictators, who are not lovely human beings but at least are not trying to take over the world.
  6. Hey FR8HOUND I found those BAR blue flats. They've been restamped GAMX (General American de Mexico) and are getting withered in the Mexican sun. Don't have time to link pix but check RRarchives rolling stock photos for the GAMX fleet under boxes.
  7. He painted it with the door in the open position. Then they closed the door. Seen the same shit on both ends of a Gigster wholecar. (The door slides around the corner BEHIND the ladder; the ladder attaches only at the top and bottom.)
  8. Goodies! Mber, Oiler, Heat/Maple, that Drift & friends autorack among others.
  9. You're sitting on a moving paint? What color?
  10. Oakland has it own steez when it comes to trains vs. walls. The term "yard" there was first used to designate the spots by the tracks where everyone would hit the walls. Freights only got attention later.
  11. Wow, Solid Gold over Railbox. That's gonna be some sick beef
  12. Nace is nice. Hard to believe 10 years R.I.P.
  13. Graffiti is not dead. Bad graffiti writers have not ruined the 'scene'. They merely constitute the wackest facet of the 'scene'. The internet is another facet, for good, bad, or ugly. Actual graffiti keeps getting done by competent practitioners. We can listen to whatever fucking music we want. I put up all kinds of quotes next to my freights, some of which are from whatever song was stuck in my head at the time. They range from punk to hiphop to r&b to metal. Deal.
  14. My first thought was I'd outline that Curve if I caught it in a good spot. But maybe I'm not worthy.
  15. Herby 1975. Anybody who was born by then?
  16. If you never knew, they're probably doing it right.
  17. How long can you last in this frozen water burial?
  18. Weird, this thread is 3 years old, yet the problem described just started happening again, across all Rusto lines. Call or write Rusto and vent. If they don't hear from a LOT of angry customers, they will keep the new shitty valve system. If they keep the shitty new valves, there are fats and thins available from Trout Art Supply (google em) that work well. I still want the old system back though.
  19. Wake up, you never looked so glum tell me how will we know they can't hear us coming It's easy for me, I got a head start running away...
  20. Long as you're not tossin elephant salad.
  21. Zut alors. Hardhands c'est mort. Pardon my French.
  22. I think, for those saying "that one was done by more than one person", not the point, ONE NAME all the way across the car, and the taller the better.
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