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The Brain

#58035
September 20, 2016, 03:54:33 PM
sexiss
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

garbon

#58036
September 20, 2016, 04:18:57 PM
Oh the French.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

alfred russel

#58037
September 20, 2016, 05:10:23 PM
Quote from: Iormlund on September 20, 2016, 01:23:55 PM
That reminds me of something. I was recently sent a file on a machine another plant of the company wanted to "sell" us. Its value was listed as over half a million. It's a 12 year old machine and its technology is obsolete. Nobody in his right mind would acquire it. The only reason we will is because it's intra-company, so corporate will force us to eat that shit.

Seems typical. Lots of times companies have policies that intercompany pricing is just whatever it has been recorded at so you don't end up negotiating with yourself.

The problem is related to what you mention. The test for impairment is at a very high level, so sometimes signficant assets that are overvalued vs. their market value can stay that way. I've seen cases where a major asset is idled, but because the value it is recorded for is less than the market value, another part of the company that needs the asset will just go purchase it from a third party, with the idled asset remaining out of use. 
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

Razgovory

#58038
September 20, 2016, 06:15:54 PM
I just learned what Seedy's new job is.

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I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Brain

#58039
September 21, 2016, 01:03:16 AM
How can they advertise so openly?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

CountDeMoney

#58040
September 21, 2016, 06:48:19 AM
Fair trade babies.

DGuller

#58041
September 21, 2016, 07:19:42 AM

FunkMonk

#58042
September 21, 2016, 11:56:53 AM
 :lol:
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

MadImmortalMan

#58043
September 21, 2016, 01:38:12 PM
Is the way Janet Yellen talks some kind of weird accent, or does she have a speech impediment?
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Barrister

#58044
September 21, 2016, 01:39:10 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 21, 2016, 01:38:12 PM
Is the way Janet Yellen talks some kind of weird accent, or does she have a speech impediment?

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Janet-Yellen-have-a-strange-accent
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

derspiess

#58045
September 21, 2016, 01:53:54 PM
Sounds like a fairly common egghead academic way of speaking.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

CountDeMoney

#58046
September 21, 2016, 02:08:52 PM
Quote from: derspiess on September 21, 2016, 01:53:54 PM
Sounds like a fairly common egghead academic way of speaking.

An educated Jew. Like Karl Marx himself.

Good catch, derweiß.

Admiral Yi

#58047
September 21, 2016, 02:14:37 PM
Janet reminds me a bit of the little tiny brother in Mad Max.

derspiess

#58048
September 21, 2016, 02:30:04 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 21, 2016, 02:08:52 PM
Quote from: derspiess on September 21, 2016, 01:53:54 PM
Sounds like a fairly common egghead academic way of speaking.

An educated Jew. Like Karl Marx himself.

Good catch, derweiß.

:lol:
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Syt

#58049
September 21, 2016, 03:16:26 PM
Kids covering Maiden's Number of the Beast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP0JFPZT0x4

For an amateur cover those vocals are pretty impressive. :o Also, the drummer :D


I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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