In my opinion dropping your star player isn't necessarily good management. Obviously, he'll get the praise because he has the balls to do it. However, good management would be changing Ronaldo's attitude. Ferguson knew the type of player Ronaldo was, and he has always had a attitude issue, or perhaps some would say arrogant? That's not exactly a criticism, since most players at that level believe in themselves quite a lot it does come across as arrogant.

I'd like to think it's a current tactical change due to him obviously negatively effecting the team. However, United have improved, but they still aren't a team that will be challenging for anything soon. The problem is more than Ronaldo.

I'm not only predicting a Oliveria win, but I'm hoping for one. I've found Makachev a little boring at times, and I don't know I'm just not a massive fan of him. I think he gets hyped up due to the people around him, instead of because of his ability. Don't get me wrong, a great fighter. I just don't think he'll ever be a great, which at the moment he's being portrayed as.

I find him a more boring version of Chimaev. Obviously, not as controversial as him at the moment, but hyped up until he goes against real opposition which will ask questions, which I do believe this fight will, a bit like the Burns fight with Chimaev.

I'm hoping Charles can get a submission win, after out pointing him on the feet.

Well, that's probably the worst weekend I've had in terms of predicitons. I tried to be fancy, and predict the unpredictable hoping to make up some points, and well that ended very badly. I don't think I'll employ that technique going forward .

Also, Liverpool are still bad. Man City are still great, and Haaland keeps scoring for fun. I'm starting to feel a little more grateful the World Cup will be coming up in a few months, because Liverpool need a real sort out. Trent who I've been a supporter of before in times of criticism, has been absolutely woeful, and it's not just his positioning, but the lack of desire to defend.

Anyway, I'll continue to be hopeful Liverpool pick their form up. It's only a matter of time...right? Also, I was completely wrong about Haaland. I knew he was good, but I thought he'd have injury issues as he has had them before, for lengthy periods like Aguero. Well, it turns out he only needs ten games a season to actually win the golden boot so.

We've all done it. I imagine most of us have multiple emails that have been lost with time. The good news is from a marketing stand point, most data that's a couple of months old isn't very useful for advertisers so they won't link you up that way. If your emails do have your personal information you've just got to hope that your password was unique, and wasn't used anywhere else. Since, even if you have the strongest password in the world in terms of it being random, if you use it multiple places, and one of those places gets compromised. You could potentially be compromised since that opens up a window of possibilities in terms of attack surface.

Although, you'd be surprised how many websites actually store your personal information, and credentials in plain text.

It's an additional attack surface that could be avoided by just remembering or writing down your password, and storing it in a safe place. That way, is almost entirely secure. Whereas, a secret question could potentially be guess or brute forced. For example, if the forum ever was compromised again (hopefully it won't be) then the hash could potentially be targetted, and if it's not secure enough it could potentially be compromised. If you make your secret question too complicated, then you're probably just as likely to forget it as your password you've set.

That's great you've learned that lesson, obviously not so great that you had to learn it the hard way. Hopefully you didn't lose too much. Anyway, I think your priority should be cleaning up that computer of yours. If it was due to malicious programs on your laptop, everything that you do on that computer will be compromised. Therefore, get to the root of the problem now, and do what you must.

The way you go about it will depend on your threat level. You could potentially just do a disk wipe or you could go the full blown method of a new hardware/SSD, update the BIOS, and install a freshly made installation of your operating system, which has been verified via gnupgp.

I'm guessing it's because Chelsea are going through a rough patch, whereas Crystal Palace have been on a decent run, not always getting the results they want, but have looked decent. Palace are also a good defensive team that has some quick players for the counter attack. So, with Chelsea struggling at the moment, especially on the goal scoring front, they could potentially get counter attacked a lot due to having most of the possession.

I'd probably fancy Chelsea at those odds though. It's only a matter of time before they find their form again. They've got too much quality to be playing this poor all season. The Liverpool odds on the other hand I'm a little surprised by, especially when you compare it to the Chelsea odds. One could say, that Liverpool have performed worse than Chelsea, since we've actually been pretty bad against lesser opposition than they have. Liverpool are hovering around the 1.30 mark right now.

What are you looking for in the face off's exactly? I've tried to figure out this voodoo that some people seem to do when it comes to the weigh ins, and face off's, but I've not cracked the code yet. I've equally seen someone confident in the face off knocked the guy out, as well as the one that's just keeping to themselves. I mean, most of them like to put a show on, and live up to the cameras.

Whereas the weigh ins, only if they're looking completely off do I make notes, otherwise I tend to think being the heavier fighter, i.e missing weight gives you the advantage rather than not.

Yeah, I think we call them pop up banks or something like that over here. Banks like Monzo, and Starling have started to take over really. Those are solely online, and with an app that has to be downloaded onto your phone, which isn't the best of ideas in my opinion. Call me old fashion, but anything that you access online, and has a decent amount of wealth in it, is a terrible idea.

That's why Bitcoin is so popular. You have the option to manage it however you'd like. Whereas when the older fashioned banks catch on to these new banks, they'll likely move to an entirely online platform too. The digital money era is pretty much on us now.

Resignation or redundancy? I'm not sure if India has the latter, but I know over here there's plenty of redundancies being made now. Although, even then that figure is rather large, which makes me think this is just scare mongering rather than anything with substance. Especially since it's apparently resignation, and therefore the employee is planning on doing it themselves, even though there's going to be a huge global recession. I'm not buying it.

Well, I actually think the figures have been plucked out of thin air, rather than being exaggerated. Those are some huge numbers, and there's absolutely no way I'm believing that 86% of employees are planning to resign. I'm wondering how the data was first collected, and whether it was fairly collected or if they went to the poorer, and most overworked area, and conducted this research.

Honestly, it's not just the US dollar. While the governments of the world might be less likely to adopt or continue the dollar, people in general are getting sick, and tired of fiat currencies, and how inflation basically just rains down on them every couple of years.

Yeah, there's definitely a tad bit of bias in there . Although, the US dollar has been a staple in the last couple of decades really. It does seem to becoming a little less used in other countries around the world, but having said that it's still used in places like Asia quite a lot. I know when I've visited, they actually prefer US dollars to the local currency, probably because they used to get a decent exchange rate. Not sure if that's still the case now though.

Probably at the best time. Bitcoin was created in reaction to a recession, and the bank bail outs. Now, to kick us up a gear we needed a compounding recession to get people thinking about alternatives, especially since it wasn't all that long ago.

Who knows, maybe this was part of the plan, knowing we'd have recession after recession, and therefore people would get sick of it eventually, and look for alternatives. Now, Bitcoin is looking pretty lucrative, because the mentality of people will be no matter how hard they work, recession after recession hits, and therefore they don't gain in the long run. Whereas, Bitcoin has literally times'd it value several times over in consecutive years.

I'd say it's only a matter of time. It's whether or not governments become more hostile to Bitcoin as a result, which I expect they will.

Unless you plan on using a website for a long time, just use a temporary email address, and then this eliminates any issues that could come from that. Ideally, you wouldn't be using the same password anyway, and therefore that wouldn't be compromised. Obviously, data that you give that website could potentially be compromised, and therefore associated with your email address, which an attacker could leverage or potentially gain more information to carry out a more sophisticated attack. So, there's definitely could reason to use different emails if you do use multiple websites.

Personally, I hardly sign up to anything these days. Kind of sick of every website requiring you to give your data over by signing up.

Predictions/bets for Bellator:

A.J McKee
Aaron Pico
Weber Almeida
Sumiko Inaba
Richard Palencia
Lance Gibson Jr
Keoni Diggs
Bobby Seronio

Not the entire card, but these are likely the one's I'll be mixing in with an accumulator, i.e with UFC fights since my bookie as a bonus currently for accumulators on MMA. I'm quite confident about those picks, but at the end of the day I'm usually at least let down by one huge favourite on Bellator nights, and every single one of these is the favourite going into the fights.

I made the mistake of checking it to the pound, and was like that's not so bad. Then, the realisation kicked in that both have gone down quite some bit. I'd say it's only a matter of time before the rest of the currencies follow. No doubt, each government will be putting preventive measures in to stabilise it at the moment, but ultimately whatever measures they implement we'll be paying for it down the line.

Then we'll get a housing crash, and basically we'll start seeing people defaulting on their mortgages, and potentially banks ceasing trading or getting bailed out once again. Bitcoin to me should see positive growth during this time, and it might actually help us get out of this rut. Although, it's hard to predict since we'll also be feeling the effects of lesser buying power, I guess it's a question of what's more powerful. Decreased buying power as a result of the recession or people losing faith in banks, and fiat in general.

There's tons of mini little communities in the forum which sort of recycle merit quite often (for a lack of a better term). This is usually because they're regulars within either a certain section (think local sections) or part of a ongoing thread like the Wall Observer thread. Development, and Technical discussion also has a certain type of demographic, and due to its technical nature it doesn't get a lot of new users, compared to other sections.

The Collectibles section is another mini community which seem to be pretty tightly knitted. I quite like that we have these sort of sub sections of the community though.

Things like this, maybe not as extreme as this is why KYC is required. Not only is it to provide you with better offers, via marketing. It's also to do background checks, and therefore affordability checks. Since, I imagine gambling websites get burnt with fraudulent deposits a lot.

I'm assuming they contacted the authorities, and to be honest I think it's safe to say letting the child stay with you, instead of allowing the mother to take it back after trying to put it up for collateral is probably the safest approach, since clearly she isn't a good mother.

I'm not sure I fully believe this story though, I just can't fathom of something like this happens.

Definitely fancying that Spurs line up more than Arsenal though. Even though, I'd say that Arsenal are the better team if you look at both teams overall. As far as I'm aware both teams haven't really been the best at keeping clean sheets so both teams to score is probably a decent bet to make. Also, worth noting for your predictions in the pool.

I'm thinking of going for a draw personally, maybe a high scoring one at that.

What's the state of fossil fuels in the US? Have you guys seen much of an impact from the Russian , and Ukrainian war? I imagine you haven't seen as dramatic as I do believe you generate a lot of your fossil fuels, apart from maybe oil? As pointed out above by pooya87.

The UK for example, have significantly seen the effects. We're paying around 1.80-1.90 for one litre of diesel, while some states in the US are paying something like 4/5 dollars per GALLON. The difference being we heavily relied on imports which have been effected by the war. 

You can compare it to the empires of old. They basically took over land, stole from the local resources, until either they exhausted it at that time or were so big they couldn't handle internal conflict, since they were constantly at war they needed to tax the people or steal (what ever you prefer to call it) to be able to keep that war effort going.

Similarly, the USA has basically attacked several nations, and have basically stuck their nose in every single conflict in the world, and looked to make it a benefit for them, which if you look at tactically, in the short term was a good idea. However, as you rightly point out, they're now struggling because they've started to push a lot the countries that were previously friendly away from them.

I hate to say it, but I can't see anything, but war in the long term. America likes to get what they want, and they've shown multiple times they don't care at what expense that might be. I think part of their downfall now, and in the medium term is that people have become aware of how much damage they actually did by invading the middle east, and surrounding countries. So, the locals aren't actually that friendly towards American troops despite the position they might be in.

America literally tries to do what other countries try to do in economic crisis. They try to hold on to keep the economy afloat in the short term, knowing full well that in the long term inflation will increase, and those that aren't in the top 5-10% feel the crunch. However, the news usually just covers the stories of companies losing money, rather than the individual households.

It's why I partly hate pensions. It seems like a way of taxing you, because the retirement age continues to go up, and inflation literally makes your pension worth much less than it was when you were putting it in, especially if you've been doing it your whole life, and at 65 you decide to retire.

I'm probably going to regret this statement, but; I can't see how we don't directly benefit from this. People will lose all confidence in banks, and the government because this is now having a compounding effect, and in a short amount of time. So, it's not like the people have forgotten about the last recession, hell some might even still be feeling the effects of it. We've seen signs of a recession even right after surviving it, and some actually do argue that we never really leave a recession, the government just implements temporary solutions to keep their values as high as possible. However, that usually leads to more inflation down the line.

That's the whole meaning behind the statement of the "rich get richer, and the poor get poorer" - Percy Bysshe Shelley.