you seemed to have accomplished a lot in this thread lol :thumbup:
John Brumback's "Bank Pool Secrets of a World Champion"
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you seemed to have accomplished a lot in this thread lol :thumbup:
Jack Nicklaus, Golf My Way $48.48
Tom Watson, Lessons of a Lifetime" $49.99
There was an entire page of tennis dvds for $29.99 each
Another entire page on bowling, $30 each
A page of baseball dvds, for teaching young people, $39.99 to $69.99
Another page of football dvds, again for teaching young people, $37.99 each.
Let's Google snooker. Oh look, here's a 10 disc set for 199.50 (can't do the symbol for pounds on the phone). There's a smaller set, 29.28. Ah, here's one for 19.95, but that's just volume 1. Volume 2 is another 19.95....
People are buying this stuff. Obviously, they find some value, else there would be no demand, and folks would stop making these products.
TheThaiger
Banned
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Actually, I do a lot of work in my local poolhall - all for free. I give a tonne back to the game. From organising comps, to taking the mentally and physically disabled for a game, to paying the light for the unemployed. From changing customers' tips for free - and often providing the tips themselves, gratis - to cleaning the equipment and tarting the place up. I encourage players to join the leagues, and am in the process of starting coaching for kids. I buy and sell cues, often at a loss. I often give equipment away for free.
I give back to the game. Do you?
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Wasn't it you not long ago that was inquiring about tip tools? If so, you must have gotten very good at hand tipping in short order.
Anyway, theres companies in Canada that pay farmers good money for liquid manure. This post is pure cash.
Isn't Tart a word to describe a lady of ill repute or at least an easy catch?
So, if you Tart the place up, does that mean you're pimping out of the pool hall?
The Legend of Henry Ford and the Mechanical Engineer
Tim:
I have hanging on my home-office wall the following plaque, issue # 121 of 500, which was made for the core members of my network engineering consulting company that I worked for more than a decade ago. It is one of my most prized plaques (even more so than my performance/award plaques), because it speaks to the underlying truth and purpose behind my job -- to provide extended knowledge, a guiding light, where there was previously darkness. The story and moral told here speaks to a higher purpose than your "giving back" point.
Read on, and let me know what you think:
The meaning of this should not be lost on you. Knowledge is power. It is [most often] not free. And by "free" I mean not just monetary costs -- it could also be time spent learning the information, time spent helping others resolve problems, etc.
Whenever I impart my consulting abilities at a customer site, even though my hourly rates are not cheap by any means, I'm *always* asked back for future engagements. Doesn't this speak in a landslide against your notion that "information should be free or extremely small cost, otherwise noone will buy it"?
I would say it does, without a doubt.
-Sean
Tim:
I have hanging on my home-office wall the following plaque, issue # 121 of 500, which was made for the core members of my network engineering consulting company that I worked for more than a decade ago. It is one of my most prized plaques (even more so than my performance/award plaques), because it speaks to the underlying truth and purpose behind my job -- to provide extended knowledge, a guiding light, where there was previously darkness. The story and moral told here speaks to a higher purpose than your "giving back" point.
Read on, and let me know what you think:
Henry's production line had come to a grinding halt. The in-house engineers were baffled -- unable to solve the problem. Meanwhile, Henry was aware each hour of downtime cost him dearly.
It soon became apparent he had no choice but to bring in outside help. And so a call went out to one of the country's leading mechanical engineers. Upon arrival, he walked from one end of the line to the other... stopping to listen every twenty feet or so.
He walked back to a point midway along the line. Focusing his attention on a metal plate, he withdrew from his pocket a piece of chalk with which he chalked an "X"... with a flourish.
Turning to Henry he remarked, "remove that plate and you'll find a broken gear assembly." Just what it turned out to be.
Henry thanked the outsider profusely, saying, "send me your bill, it's one I'll be glad to pay." Which is what the outsider did -- in the ammount of $500.00.
Henry was outraged and demanded an itemized invoice -- or he wouldn't pay. Several days later an envelope was delivered to Henry.
It contained a statement which read:
Chalk for chalkmark ..................................................$000.25
Knowing where to place chalkmark ..................................... $499.75
Total ................................................................$500.00
Seeing the truth of the matter and realizing this individual was not to be trifled with, Henry paid the invoice.
The moral of the story? When it comes to making new technology work, it's what you know that counts.
121/500
It soon became apparent he had no choice but to bring in outside help. And so a call went out to one of the country's leading mechanical engineers. Upon arrival, he walked from one end of the line to the other... stopping to listen every twenty feet or so.
He walked back to a point midway along the line. Focusing his attention on a metal plate, he withdrew from his pocket a piece of chalk with which he chalked an "X"... with a flourish.
Turning to Henry he remarked, "remove that plate and you'll find a broken gear assembly." Just what it turned out to be.
Henry thanked the outsider profusely, saying, "send me your bill, it's one I'll be glad to pay." Which is what the outsider did -- in the ammount of $500.00.
Henry was outraged and demanded an itemized invoice -- or he wouldn't pay. Several days later an envelope was delivered to Henry.
It contained a statement which read:
Chalk for chalkmark ..................................................$000.25
Knowing where to place chalkmark ..................................... $499.75
Total ................................................................$500.00
Seeing the truth of the matter and realizing this individual was not to be trifled with, Henry paid the invoice.
The moral of the story? When it comes to making new technology work, it's what you know that counts.
121/500
The meaning of this should not be lost on you. Knowledge is power. It is [most often] not free. And by "free" I mean not just monetary costs -- it could also be time spent learning the information, time spent helping others resolve problems, etc.
Whenever I impart my consulting abilities at a customer site, even though my hourly rates are not cheap by any means, I'm *always* asked back for future engagements. Doesn't this speak in a landslide against your notion that "information should be free or extremely small cost, otherwise noone will buy it"?
I would say it does, without a doubt.
-Sean
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Finally!!!!
justadub:
You won't be sorry. John is like that mechanical engineer I described a couple posts above, except he shows *you* how to know where to place the chalkmark. That's invaluable information, no matter how you slice it.
On a side note, I was sorry to see Tim banned. Not so much that I agreed with his stance (I'm sure I don't have to reinforce the fact that I didn't), but more because he expressed his opinion the only way he knew how. I'm not sure if he disrespected anyone in past threads (like I mentioned previously, I tried to stay out of aiming system threads), but in this one, I can't recall where he outright and pointedly disrespected people. But it must've been the continuing stream of complaints that finally did him in. Anyway, I'm not a mod here, so my opinion on this is moot.
Get John's DVD, and you'll see what Lou's review is all about!
-Sean
Maybe we should ban everyone who says things we don't like.
Thaiger is an annoying little pissant at times, but I can't see where he broke any rules in this thread, and I can't say the same for some of the other participants...
$80 for a VHS and you're not outraged? Pool has always been bananas then.No one in the snooker world spends a penny on any of this stuff, and they do alright.
And I very much disagree with your statement that information gets shared freely - it simply does not. The crux of the matter is this; people LIKE high prices, because they THINK it'll give THEM competitive advantage. Producers play on this, whether they;re knocking out DVDs, cues or cases. I have no objection to high prices for cues and cases, but to have a premium imposed on content is deplorable. It is nothing more than opportunism, with the strong dominating the weak.
Thank god Tim Berners-Lee had the foresight to make the internet unrestricted and free for all users. Had he implemented the fuzzy logic of you lot, there would be a handful of billionaires using it to keep us all in our place - and you'd be lining up to congratulate them on their good fortune.
Protectionism is soo twentieth century, John.
For your information....Al Gore invented the internet!
If this guy is a true Socialist, what is he doing playing a competitive sport. Snooker requires that one person win, while the other person loses, thus making them unequal. A true socialist mindset would be against any form of inequality, including competitive sport. When one person wins when gambling at pool, or in a sanctioned tournament he puts a greater divide between the classes thus promoting capitalism and hurting the socialist cause. Thus TheThaiger shouldn't even be playing this capitalist propagandized sport in the first place, nevertheless arguing about it.
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Has me scratching my head as well..... maybe Justnum can be voted off the island next.... Of course just surmising may get ya a nasty PM.......
He was trolling. He wasn't debating--- if you said black, he said white intentionally. Good riddance, troll.
Agreed. There comes a point when it's too much. He makes his comments and they are refuted with solid evidence and he still keeps coming.
That said I hope that John was able to get a few more DVD sales out of this.