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mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete you know, there are numerous religions longer lasting than the catholic church
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mircea_popescu: usa tobaccomuch more productive. i guess bans help indeed.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it bolsters it : intl only pm does substantially equally well as the us-only pm
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah it doesn't substantially alter the argument
mircea_popescu: The trademark is a subsidiary of and owned by Conair Corporation which acquired the brand following Cuisinart's bankruptcy in 1989.
mircea_popescu: they don't really make the cuisinarts in the us anymore do they
mircea_popescu: but i can't readily think of anything which'd be improved by being made in the us.
mircea_popescu: then there was a war and a number of unfortunate choices... and by today people may want japanese stuff,
mircea_popescu: it was like... people actually came an extra distance with oxen fucking carts just because of that cool.
mircea_popescu: my grandfather was a mayor, and a bunch of other things, but the one true source of public respect was that he owned and operated an american mill
mircea_popescu: it's what happens when places go to shit. everything goes down.
mircea_popescu: and making sense. and making money. and generally everything.
mircea_popescu: so there you have it : smoking is down and the industry makes a degree of magnitude more than social media.
mircea_popescu: BTI is probably a better example. ~5 per share in the 80s, 100+ per share now.
mircea_popescu: much better profit margin, too. twice as good, in fact.
mircea_popescu: about 7x as big as facebook, to put it in terms readily digestible by the online crowd
mircea_popescu: PM was trading ~50 a share in 2008 and is trading ~90 a share now
mircea_popescu: people seem to have taken the smoking kills adds the same way
mircea_popescu: i would guess this'd be because a gun is pretty much the coolest toy adults can afford.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in an extremely rare case a shot could ricochet of a rib or something, but srsly nao.
mircea_popescu: i just can't conceive how that'd happen. maybe if the round was hand filled with dust ?
mircea_popescu: a .45 round will go through an engine block, let alone some bloke
mircea_popescu: even taking a more historically accurate 200 km/h which is what i did...
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves double the chain with kevlar, he can shoot you till he gets bored.
mircea_popescu: nothing quite like the shit exploding in the cop's hands
mircea_popescu: also, tasers are stupid easy to counteract. no idea why anyone thinks they're effective or anything.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves people volunteer for women in heels to walk all over their ballsack.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what sort of reverse midas effect this is, but it's uncanny
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform journos must seriously be going to a special retardation school.
mircea_popescu: "The two went through a contentious divorce in 1999 but remained friends, business partners and housemates sharing the $3.7 million, six bedroom, eight bathroom home."
mircea_popescu: why do you want to play anything other than your character anyway ? because inept game design introduced artificial barriers perhaps ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves alternatively, don't allow a second character at all.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves will be a good skill ot have, get btc off smg too
mircea_popescu: imo the only games worth playing anymore are btc games, if well done.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves im pretty sure you'll be hooked once it's playable.