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mircea_popescu: pre-tsa a dollar was worth a dollar, and an airship capable of
taking a few hundred people across
the atlantic was worth a coupla hundred million dollars.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 21:41:35; pete_dushenski: "New 777-200ERs sold for $170 million 10 years ago. Factory-fresh versions list for $277.3 million before
the discounts
that are customary in
the industry."
mircea_popescu: what
the everloving fuck are
they smoking over in
the socialist republic of cambridge
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not since quantcast ate one
too many leaded paint chips
BingoBoingo: Also Know as Qntra
tries clickbait even
though we stopped counting clicks
mircea_popescu: was mostly curious if she
translated on
the sly some previous ru
text
BingoBoingo: There is a rabbit hole, or mebbe gravity well
to fall into
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:45:23; pete_dushenski: based on alf's repeated references
to gsm as 'toy crypto', i don't
think he maintains any delusions about cell phone security
BingoBoingo thinks
there is a difference between dam and "superweapon". Sure F-35 gets
to be boondogle. Drones? Get delivered.
pete_dushenski: for usg
to
think
that way for death star would be like han solo, in
the middle of a fire fight, sitting down
to pen a phd
thesis on whether or not he should pull
the laser
trigger
pete_dushenski: politicians don't
think in
terms of delivery,
they
think in
terms of re-election and passing-the-buck
BingoBoingo: Mebbe USG priced it with plans
to actually
take delivery, hence bezzle markup?
pete_dushenski: which'd be
the strict inverse of sop for mega-projects a la death star
BingoBoingo: "But
the White House got its figures from
this website which admits, after much public scrutiny
that followed getting picked up by
the White House,
to have gotten
the math wrong by a factor of one hundred! We’re looking at much more like $8.1 quadrillion."
punkman: "I am currently retired, simply stocking perishable groceries overnight
two or
three nights per week
to make writing possible." << is
that how retired works?
BingoBoingo: "Not only does Big Mamma spend
twice as much money as
the next closest customer, but her dollar is an impulsive dollar, which nets
the grocer four
times
the profit of—the Korean or Hebrew dollar, for instance, and
twice
the profit as
the Anglo or Hispanic dollar."
BingoBoingo: Murican Poverty: "Big Mamma is your ideal customer. Yes, she might eat an entire rotisserie chicken while her children devour a box of snacks. But not only will I look
the other way, I’m willing
to pay some retarded white guy $10 an hour
to clean up her mess. She is
the cash bomb. No customer, not Bill Gates or
the Dyke Queen of West Germany spends as much money on retail food as Big Mamma.
This is not calculated as a percentage
☟︎ pete_dushenski: based on alf's repeated references
to gsm as 'toy crypto', i don't
think he maintains any delusions about cell phone security
☟︎ ascii_field: meanwhile, 'socket no message in first 60 seconds, 0 1' between
two boxes which i control
☟︎ pete_dushenski: " Argentina's peso plunged more
than 26.5 percent on
Thursday, after
the country's new government floated
the currency as part of a slew of free-market reforms aimed at revitalizing
the stagnant economy."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "South Korea has one of
the highest suicide rates in
the world, and workers often report feeling stressed. So in order
to make people appreciate life, some companies are making employees
take part in
their own pretend funerals." << jenius !
BingoBoingo: China can't afford
to have vegetables floated in.
They gotta have rice and clenbuterol pork
pete_dushenski: though neither is likely
to fill every single samsung container ship, i grant.
pete_dushenski: adlai: because
treaded vehicles are slow and
thirsty, which, i guess container ships probably are
too, at least compared
to floating pallet.
BingoBoingo: It's not like 2nd Korea makes anything
the Chicoms need other
than more samsung boats
to deliver Huawei and plasicrap
BingoBoingo: Well, if
the container ships are empty why would you burn fuel in all
those motors capable of carrying loads instead of slowly floating
them down on a pallet with one motor burning fuel
adlai: fwiw
treaded vehicles (military or otherwise) routinely get
trucked
to
the scene
☟︎ pete_dushenski: next you're going
to show me 777s strapped
to
the back of
the spruce goose as it's delivered from oregon
to dubai.
pete_dushenski: a naive observer would
think
that container boats would, y'know,
travel under
their own power between
the factory and its first loading dock
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I mean how else does Samsung get container boats from 2nd Korea
to Shenzen?
pete_dushenski: "Government spending accounts for 40% of
Tibet’s GDP, while 10-15% is
the more usual level for other provinces. In a cyclical sense
this is beneficial, as
Tibet is hardly feeling
the current slowdown at all: it reported 9.8% real GDP growth for
the first
three quarters of 2015. But
the reason
they’re not feeling
the slowdown is
that
they didn’t have a real economy
to begin with. It’s a bunch of civil servants
ascii_field: tibet - originally a
theocratic hellhole
that makes medival catholicism look
tolerant and economically +ev - is
today a usg-maintained 'antichina'
☟︎ ascii_field doesn't spend much
time in d.c. city limits proper
pete_dushenski: i can see hong kong being 'landlocked' but unless dc is surrounded by mountain ranges
that i don't know about, i'm not sure i see it either
BingoBoingo: Can on still swim potomac like early presidents, or do
they absorb
too many rads doing so
ascii_field: 'Because we live in a landlocked
territory, District residents’ interest is piqued by any mention of a beach...' << holy fuck, did someone pull up
the drain cork on
the potomac river or what
assbot: The Encyclopedia of D.C. 2015: from pandas
to pot
to
the pope, and everything in between - Washington City Paper ... (
http://bit.ly/1IXd0jq )
trinque blows down his end of
the
tube, hears a nice
tone
pete_dushenski: might
take a while
to show up,
the intertubes are full of netflix
BingoBoingo: Scooty, because it's a "mobility" scooter, puff because of
the scents
BingoBoingo: ascii_field:
THose
things circus freaks ride around Walmart
BingoBoingo: Or maybe CONDO for COck aNd DOg mongler. I dunno how
the FBI names
these people
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Of course
that fraud doesn't rise
to Qntra levels until it issues an Altcoin
to buy a scooty puff, or it can get a nickname like COD (short for cock and dog) mongler.
pete_dushenski: trinque: pretty sure you were right.
tweaks made. we'll see how
the next one goes :)
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Scammer got her actual "size" crowdsourced
thanks
to known size of laptop lid.
That circus freak is basically
the GAW miners of people incapable of reaching
their genitals
https://archive.is/BUeIH trinque: probably due
to some setting inside your blogotron
trinque: pete_dushenski: re:
title being doubled, it's
that way in
the
title
tag of your feed.
pete_dushenski: but seriously, all
that '^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet' shit breaks
the url.
pete_dushenski wonders if he'll run into mr. bitbetchamp aka
thenewdeal down in mehico
pete_dushenski: i was just comparing flights from edmonton
to
two different destinations for
this winter, seattle and cancun, and found
that flights were $500 per person regardless !
pete_dushenski: you want
to
talk about razor-thin margins ? forget amazon,
try air
travel.
pete_dushenski: and here i was
thinking
that new cars were a raw deal...
pete_dushenski: "New 777-200ERs sold for $170 million 10 years ago. Factory-fresh versions list for $277.3 million before
the discounts
that are customary in
the industry."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Boeing Co. fell after Delta Air Lines Inc. revealed it is purchasing a used 777 jetliner for $7.7 million, reviving concerns
that plunging values for some wide-body models signal
that
the market is glutted."
BingoBoingo: punkman: Haven't paid
that much attention, but he's
the one who
tried
to extort cazalla