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Lane Denson
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Lane Denson
@LaneDenson
I mostly use Twitter for following retro computing and music news. Maybe some career stuff. My opinions are my own.
เข้าร่วม Ekim 2021
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@StarWarsDaily_ 6. The best Disney SW movie, but thats a low bar to clear. Cool third act, the rst of the movie was thoroughly average
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@CanItduh @BuffaloCompact @shadowbanevader @KristanHawkins Legal definition is a red herring. Just because it’s legal does not make it moral.
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@BuffaloCompact @shadowbanevader @LaneDenson @KristanHawkins Not these three.
Can you name ANY that do? Like even just one or two?
Still waiting

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@bill_in_the_704 @BLABBERMOUTHNET I think both sides are probably pretty insufferable
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@BLABBERMOUTHNET It’s ironic these guys piss and moan about Baz and how they can’t get along with him and how he’s the problem. Meanwhile, they’ve gone through about 5 singers since they kicked Baz out. Maybe Baz isn’t the problem.
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SKID ROW Is 'Pretty Focused In On A Couple Of Guys' In Ongoing Singer Search: 'We're Taking Our Time' blabbermouth.net/news/skid-row-…

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@landofthe80s Watched it with my kid a few months ago. Still a fun flick, but the CGI really dates it.
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@Jeremybtc Why hasn't this been made into a feature film?
I bet it would be a hit.
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For 12 years, every major winner of McDonald's Monopoly was a fraud. The game was rigged by the one man hired to prevent rigging.
> McDonald's Monopoly launched in 1987.
> Peel a game piece off your fries or drink. Match the right properties. Win up to $1 million.
> The promotion was massive. Tens of MILLIONS of game boards distributed in magazines alone.
> McDonald's poured massive marketing behind it.
> By law, McDonald's couldn't run its own contest.
> A third party company called Simon Marketing handled the game pieces.
> The man in charge of security at Simon Marketing was Jerome P. Jacobson.
> Former cop. Everyone called him Uncle Jerry.
> His job was to make sure nobody stole the winning pieces.
> He stole the winning pieces.
> Starting in 1989, Jacobson figured out how to swap the high value game pieces during transit.
> He would duck into an airport bathroom stall, break the tamper proof seal on the case, pocket the winners, and reseal it.
> He got away with it because a supplier accidentally sent him a sheet of the tamper proof seals directly.
> That mistake gave him 12 years.
> At first he gave the pieces to friends and family. His step brother. His nephew. People he trusted.
> Then it grew.
> Jacobson started selling winning pieces to strangers for a cut of the prize.
> His network eventually included mobsters, strip club owners and a members of the Colombo crime family.
> One family connected to Jacobson's network claimed three separate $1 million prizes plus a Dodge Viper.
> Jacobson apparently even anonymously mailed a $1 million winning piece to St. Jude Children's Hospital.
> McDonald's honoured it and paid out the full amount over 20 years.
> The total stolen was over $24 MILLION in cash and prizes across 12 years.
> In 2000, the FBI got an anonymous tip about a man called "Uncle Jerry" rigging the contest.
> They looked at the winner list. Almost every major winner lived within 25 miles of Jacobson's house.
> The FBI convinced McDonald's to run the contest one more time. Wiretapped Jacobson's phone.
> Intercepted the name of the next $1 million winner before he even claimed it.
> Then they posed as a McDonald's film crew and interviewed the fake winner on camera. Let him tell his entire made up story about how he found the piece.
> Three weeks later, Jacobson was arrested in an early morning raid.
> The trial began September 10, 2001. The next day was 9/11.
> One of the biggest corporate fraud cases in fast food history got buried under the biggest news story of the century.
> Over 50 people convicted. Jacobson got 37 months. He was the only one who served more than a year.
> Every time you peeled a game piece off your fries and lost, the fix was already in.
The winning pieces were in Uncle Jerry's pocket before the food hit the tray.
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@pj_chesterfield @Jeremybtc @cfishman Because theft, conspiracy and fraud can never happen under other financial systems?
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@Jeremybtc @cfishman And it’s all about greed. Had he stopped after ‘friends and family’, and been happy with making their lives better, absolutely *no one* ever would have been any the wiser. He’d have completely skated. A vivid (covert) example of capitalism at its purest.
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@Nicks2Cents @Jeremybtc @PeteTredwell That’s just TV in general these days. Most series take a two hour movie plot and try to stretch it over 10 episodes.
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@Jeremybtc @PeteTredwell One of the more compelling docs I’ve seen was about this. Done really well. Except they dragged it out into like six parts and it lost steam and I never finished. Anyone else have this problem with many of the best docs in the last decade?
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@RedRebeccax We were gifted a bunch of DoorDash gift cards when a family member was sick. It’s nice to have a pinch, but way too expensive otherwise. Even if I go to pick up the food myself, I still have to pay a DoorDash surcharge
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@shadowbanevader @KristanHawkins Because one of the choices being murder is never OK.
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@KristanHawkins What’s wrong with standing for women’s right to choose?
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@spumdonor @aronfromm Animating the moment of the crash with his iconic shriek made me feel so wrong for thinking it was hysterical
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@nealvanhalen @ThatEricAlper By the mid to late 90s, you have to admit he was pretty over-exposed
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@Jase147819796 @ThatEricAlper In the public school systems? I bet dollars to donuts that there are VHS players in use today.
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@ThatEricAlper 2010 and VHS doesn't sound right....we were all dvd by then. VHS was long gone, right?
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