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If you don't mind waiting about 3 hours and watching a full game replay shortly after the game ends, check out the free trial option for NFL+ Premium, described here: https://www.nfl.com/plus/learn-more As discussed in a different thread, some people have had trouble getting the service to work, and I don't know if being in Argentina would further complicate things. I have not been able to get the service to stream the replays to my XBox console even after re-downloading and re-installing the free NFL app from the Microsoft store (which worked fine last year), but I can still stream the replays to my laptop with no problems after logging in at nfl.com (no VPN required, at least for me in the US). The NFL "Digitial Care" customer service absolutely sucks, so if you sign up for the free 7 day trial and then cancel, I would keep careful records of the cancellation request. I vaguely recall reading that the "Game Pass" service (which is what the NFL called it last year), is still available outside the US. I don't know if there is a similar free 7 day trial for "Game Pass" like there is for "NFL+ Premium" in the US. Maybe try googling "NFL Game Pass free trial Argentina" and see what turns up. Good luck!

If the new incentives are scheduled to get paid for performance this year only if it exceeds his actual performance last year, then they are considered "not likely to be earned" incentives that, if earned this year, will count against NEXT year's salary cap. If they don't get earned this year, they won't be paid, and will never count against the salary cap at all. From https://russellstreetreport.com/salarycap/nfl-salary-cap-faqs/ : "How do incentives affect the Salary Cap? Incentives are written into some contracts to pay a player for reaching certain performance criteria. Incentives come in two varieties – Likely To Be Earned (LTBE) and Not Likely To Be Earned (NLTBE) – each of which has different Salary Cap implications. Likely To Be Earned Incentives (LTBE) are incentives based on performance levels that were reached in the prior season. LTBEs count against the Salary Cap in the year they are scheduled. For example, if a RB ran for 1,200 yards last year and he has an incentive that will pay him $100,000 if he runs for 1,000 yards this year, the incentive would be a LTBE Incentive and would count against the Salary Cap this year. On the other hand, if the RB ran for 1,000 yards last year and he has an incentive that will pay him $100,000 if he runs for 1,200 yards this year, then incentive would be Not Likely To Be Earned (NLTBE) and would not count against this year’s Salary Cap. If the player does not earn a LTBE Incentive, then the amount of the incentive ($100K in our example) will be credited against the following year’s Salary Cap and the team would have $100K in additional Cap space in the following year. The opposite happens with NLTBE Incentives. If those are earned, they are charged to the following year’s Salary Cap. In our example, that would mean that the team would have $100K less in Cap space the following year."

Here's an update on this: "Eight years ago, a meteor believed to have been 2 feet long entered Earth's atmosphere at more than 100,000 miles an hour before exploding into tiny, hot fragments and falling into the South Pacific Ocean. Some scientists believe it came from another star system, which would make it the first known interstellar object of its size to impact Earth. Now, professor Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is planning an expedition to retrieve fragments of the meteor from the ocean floor. By analyzing the debris, he is hoping to determine the object's origins — even going so far as to make the extraordinary suggestion that it could be a technological object created by aliens." More at https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1119941103/astronomer-searches-ocean-extraterrestrial-meteor-alien-life-avi-loeb

Responsibility wasn't what got laid bare.

He may wind up being the only punter in NFL history to wind up with an unofficial (since it was preseason) career 82 yard/punt average.

Note to Draconator - - I hope you find your cat. Note to self - - If I ever get a cat, don't name it Chloe.

I had to watch yesterday on my MacBook Air laptop, because the NFL App for XBox was not working. I tried it again just now - - still no joy. I'm cautiously optimistic that they will get it fixed before the regular season starts, because that's what happened last year.

I am not in WNY. I used NFL Game Pass last year to watch the Bills game full replays on my large screen TV connected to my XBox. Replays were available as soon as the game ended, and it's pretty easy to avoid the sports news for a mere 3 hours. Supposedly, I will be able to do that again this year, because the NFL automatically "upgraded" my old NFL GAME Pass subscription (which is no longer offered), to the new NFL+ premium streaming service, all while lowering the annual price from $99 to $79. Sounded good to me, but when I tried to fire up the NFL app on my XBox to watch the Indy preseason game yesterday, I got a screen message informing me that the NFL is working on fixing bugs in the NFL for XBox app and to check back later. FWIW, the NFL app for XBox that I used last year also had issues for the first preseason game or 2, but worked just fine during the regular season. It's supposed to work just fine this year - - but we'll see. From https://www.whattowatch.com/watching-guides/nfl-plus-price-available-games-devices-and-everything-we-know-about-the-streaming-service "NFL Plus Premium provides its subscribers with full and condensed game replays from every NFL game each week (as well as condensed game replays going as far back as 2009). These replays are available to watch on all devices and are ad-free." (emphasis added) The above link has additional details that anyone interested in this topic may want to read.

I have never used this website, and it seems expensive, but if you're out of options . . . https://www.neighbor.com/garages-near-me/california/los-angeles Haven't used this site either, but maybe you can hire somebody to move the car every few days cheaper than you can rent a parking space: https://www.taskrabbit.com/locations/la-oc

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=los+angeles+metro+rail+from+hollywood+to+LAX

https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-weeks-in-the-webb-space-telescope-is-reshaping-astronomy-20220725/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

The team decision about how much of a player's total compensation should be a signing bonus depends on a lot of factors, but from the player's perspective, it would be good to establish residency in a state with low or no income taxes, and get as much of the total compensation as possible in a signing bonus, if the team plays its home games in a high tax state like NY or CA. From http://entertainment-tax-advisors.com/signing-bonus-evaluation/ "Signing bonuses are generally allocated to an athlete’s state of residency, rather than the states in which games and practices are held. As many athletes reside in states with low income tax rates or no income tax rates, proper allocation to a state of residency can reduce overall taxes by hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. For example, an athlete residing in Florida (0 percent income tax rate) but playing for a New York team (8.82 percent income tax rate) would incur unnecessary income taxes of over $1.75 million if a $20 million signing bonus is incorrectly allocated to New York instead of Florida."

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From https://getpocket.com/explore/item/intelligent-life-really-can-t-exist-anywhere-else?utm_source=pocket-newtab "There’s an iconic scene in the 2001 movie Ocean’s Eleven where George Clooney explains the series of escalating improbabilities of his planned crime. After several hugely unlikely outcomes, he says, “Then it’s a piece of cake: just three more guards with Uzis, and the most elaborate vault door conceived by man.” In a way, the unlikely hurdles to the rapid flourishing of complex life on Earth are the same way." Here's the actual Oxford University study described in the above, dumbed-down November 24, 2020 Popular Mechanics article: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2149

Point of order - - don't you have to be drafted to be the "steal of the draft?" - - just sayin'

Looks like 2 years, per details in this article: From https://www.livescience.com/remission-in-small-rectal-cancer-trial : "The trial participants received 500 milligrams of dostarlimab every three weeks for six months. The initial expectation was that, following this treatment, most of the patients would still need to undergo the standard combination of chemotherapy, radiation therapy and potentially surgery. But instead, all 12 patients' cancers completely cleared on dostarlimab alone. Their tumors were undetectable on physical exam, endoscopy, PET and MRI scans. About a year later, none of the patients required further treatment and none of their cancers had grown back, the team wrote in their report. Even now, more than two years later, "no patients have required chemoradiation or surgery, and no cases of progression or recurrence have been noted during follow-up," according to a statement (opens in new tab) from MSK."

Fan opinions about the salary cap are like noses (PG-rated version of the idea) - - everybody has one. The actual salary cap rules are publicly available, because they are part of the union contract between the players union and the league. That union contract runs over 400 pages, and the NFLPA publishes it here: https://nflpaweb.blob.core.windows.net/website/PDFs/CBA/March-15-2020-NFL-NFLPA-Collective-Bargaining-Agreement-Final-Executed-Copy.pdf The financial literacy of most Americans is dismal. I have no reason to think that the financial literacy of the Bills fans who post here is significantly different than that of most Americans. For example, most people have the idiotic idea that they are somehow better off by giving the government an interest-free loan to use their money and then getting a big income tax refund every year, rather than using available options to match income tax withholding to their expected income tax liability. That's pretty dumb. If you want to understand the salary cap, you can read the admittedly complicated rules for yourself at the above link, or you can read the uninformed postings of people who are passionate Bills fans but are typically (with a few exceptions) totally uninformed about what the salary cap rules are and how they work. If enough Bills fans post that the owners are rich guys who can spend whatever they want on player salaries so long as they are rich enough to make sure that the salary checks don't bounce, that must be true, right?

Driving alone for hours and pushed beyond my endurance limits to save a few bucks on a hotel because I was almost to my destination. Woke up when I sideswiped a guard rail. Wound up unhurt but with about $1,000 auto body damage. Could easily have been MUCH worse. Lesson learned.

The author admits his paper has "limitations." Yeah, also known as - - Garbage in, garbage out.

My top 5 acting performances of all time? 1. The Lakers' Vlade Divac flopping to draw an offensive foul pretty much any game he ever played in (lifetime achievement award); 2. The South American soccer team players who grab their face, fall to the ground, roll over in agony a few times, and get carted off on a stretcher, only to bounce back on the field about 2 seconds later (with video review showing they never got touched and started reacting well after the whistle); 3. Stefon Diggs acting like he's gonna run a post route and then breaking it off to the sideline (surprise!); 4. My dog acting like he had absolutely no idea how the stuffing came out of that couch pillow; and 5. An ex-girlfriend a long time ago - - "It's not you, it's me." The acting was so good, and I was so naive at the time, that it took a while to realize she didn't really believe it was her.

Well, maybe not - - the truth is down there: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-u-s-submariners-actually-say-about-detection-of-so-called-unidentified-submerged-objects?utm_source=pocket-newtab

By this logic, the chances that the Bills have 4 guys on their board with 6th round grades are slim, so they will likely drop down to round 7 when that is "dried up." Does that actually sound logical to you?

Thanks for the explanation. I'm not going to try to talk you out of what you believe is coming, or criticize you. Wouldn't it be nice, though, if there was a way to have people stop calling you a conspiracy theorist because of your views and STILL get wealthy? If your vision of the future turns out to be correct, there's actually a way to do that. It sounds like you have some gains from what you've already bought. If I'm right about that, why not sell just enough to match what you originally invested, and put that in the bank? Leave the rest in your existing investments. If the gains on your existing investments turn out to be as spectacular as you expect, you will still wind up being very wealthy. But if there's even a tiny chance that the future does not unfold as you expect, you'll have something to fall back on. And you can explain what you're doing to the people who criticize you, which will likely cause them to cut you some slack even though they don't share your view of the future. Wouldn't that be nice? Besides, you can only drive one Chevelle at a time. At least think about it.

You talk about the "big event" and "what is coming" in pretty vague terms. Why be vague about it? I'd appreciate it if you would explain exactly what you think the "big event" will be that is "coming." Educate me about what you've learned about the forthcoming quantum financial system ("QFS"). Doing that would help your own investments, right? The more people who see the light and invest in the same way you have, the more demand there will be for what you already own, which should make your own investments more valuable and accelerate your path to wealth. So how about it? Don't just leave me clueless about what's coming - - please explain to me specifically what's coming. Thanks.

<<My net worth is pretty low, about $100K, I guess. . . . I expect to have millions of dollars by the end of the year.>> Does this sound reasonable to you? I'm just some random poster on the internet, but if there is anyone in your life whose judgment you respect, you might want to ask them the same question. I hope the "big event" isn't the resurrection of JFK in Dallas: https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qwb3/jfk-qanon-dallas-cult-growing