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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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grumbler

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 20, 2024, 10:19:15 AM
Quote from: grumbler on May 19, 2024, 09:53:19 AMI ran this through my gibberish-to-English translator and it still came out as gibberish.

Then either you do not posses a gibberish to English translator or what I posted was not gibberish.

I note that you snipped out the part of my post that showed yours to be gibberish.  :lol:
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Admiral Yi

Quote from: grumbler on May 20, 2024, 05:14:47 PMI note that you snipped out the part of my post that showed yours to be gibberish.  :lol:

I snipped out the part where you requested an explanation because I had no interest in providing you an explanation.  I left in the part where you asserted it was gibberish and claimed to prove that it was gibberish.

Tonitrus


grumbler

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 20, 2024, 05:26:39 PMI snipped out the part where you requested an explanation because I had no interest in providing you an explanation.  I left in the part where you asserted it was gibberish and claimed to prove that it was gibberish.

Translation: your gibberish-to English translator worked no better than mine, so you decided to pretend that it was your choice to leave it gibberish.  :lol:
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Admiral Yi

Quote from: grumbler on May 20, 2024, 10:00:36 PMTranslation: your gibberish-to English translator worked no better than mine, so you decided to pretend that it was your choice to leave it gibberish.  :lol:

Your theory, not being susceptible to proof or disproof, does not interest me.

Habbaku

I understood Yi's post and meaning just fine, unsurprisingly. Do I speak: authentic frontier gibberish?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

grumbler

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Quote from: Habbaku on May 21, 2024, 11:29:57 AMI understood Yi's post and meaning just fine, unsurprisingly. Do I speak: authentic frontier gibberish?

Excellent.  You can be my gibberish-to-English translator then.  What is the "waste of resources?"  What is the "very rich country?"  In what way were the Mercury astronauts "PR eye candy?"

The post immediately before his was talking about the Soviet Union and the Soviet space program, but Yi's post makes no sense in that context.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

DGuller

Wasn't it 50-50?  The first sentence was neutral, the second sentence was about USSR, the third sentence was about USA.

PDH

I like the cut of that man's gibberish.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Syt

The Austrian Industrialists Association has lamented (again) that people in Austria are unwilling to work overtime/long hours.

Pierer, the CEO of KTM said that employees in China cost him 40k in adminstrativon and 28k in salaries. In Austria, he says the same guys cost him 90k and 58k respectively. Meanwhile the Chinese workers record 3146 working hours, their Austrian colleagues only 1580 hours.

3146 hours/year would be 8.6 hours per day. If you work 365 days without vacation, weekends, etc. Google fu says e.g. in 2022 China had 249 working days. If we use that as a basis, his Chinese guys work 12.6 hours per day.

I guess if the price/value proposition is so lopsided he should completely relocate to China instead of whining. :P
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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Tamas

I am debating with myself if I should go to the Bruce Springsteen concert in Wembley in July. At one hand it's likely my last chance to see him live (I haven't). On the other hand, on recent concert footage on Youtube, he and the band look so old. :(

Sheilbh

I have never heard of anyone who likes Springsteen regretting going to one of his concerts for what that's worth.
Let's bomb Russia!

Josquius

Get the cheap tickets then it's not like you'll see him anyway?  :P

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grumbler

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Josquius

So I don't need a new keyboard and I've no idea if this is even any good but man is it a thing of beauty.


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