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Post by RedsandRoyals on Oct 17, 2014 11:47:06 GMT -5
After we evacuate the human population using proper quarantine protocols, of course. Once you figure out what those are, be sure to let the CDC know, since they're apparently a bit hazy on the subject.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 17, 2014 12:44:43 GMT -5
After we evacuate the human population using proper quarantine protocols, of course. I would say "no" to that, as it's their damn derp that is causing Ebola to be a problem in the first place...
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Post by Walrus on Oct 17, 2014 13:31:49 GMT -5
Today I'm pulling an all nighter before starting work at 5 am. Society has ruined me!
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Post by cheminhaler on Oct 17, 2014 16:03:36 GMT -5
Thanks, Rook.
Did anyone see the news coverage of the animal rights protests in Spain over the putting down of the pet of an infected nurse; the dog, Excalibur?
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Oct 17, 2014 16:22:07 GMT -5
Today, I taped a car's face back on.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 17, 2014 16:25:33 GMT -5
Hrm, I can't reply to a pic because Trooper just sort of... stuck it in his post instead of img linked it.
Anyway, if you swap the l for r in gorram, sink your voice into the low, tortured range, it becomes Gollum. Precious.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 17, 2014 16:49:14 GMT -5
Hrm, I can't reply to a pic because Trooper just sort of... stuck it in his post instead of img linked it. Anyway, if you swap the l for r in gorram, sink your voice into the low, tortured range, it becomes Gollum. Precious. That would be because it's a meme I generated last night and pasted in with the "add attachment" button, rather than having to fuss with Bucket o' Photo and multiple screens o' navigation (and aggravation) to paste a linky. I just generated one for Sierra Leone using your rules, sorta ("GOLLAM SIELLA REONEANS!") and could do one for Guinea (but there's no fun R to L or L to R transliterations that can be done for it, so why bother?).
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Post by jenburdoo on Oct 17, 2014 20:18:22 GMT -5
Today... ... I received a new digicam. A few test photos of my (thus far, very small) collection of diecast model airplanes... huh. Which I can't show you because my pc is apparently not reading the SD card from the camera. Dang. Edit: Okay, changed the sd card, but now the pictures are too large to attach. Ah, here we go... 1/48 Brewster Buffalo, in NAS Miami colors. Appropriate since I live in Miami... 1/72 Arado 196 and Messerschmitt 262B De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide, in royal livery -- the '30s British equivalent of Air Force One. The 262 and Brewster are lovely complex models. The latter has moveable parts and retractable landing gear, while the former can have the landing gear fitted on or off.
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Post by Julian Sharps on Oct 19, 2014 1:01:48 GMT -5
OK, I have a purely hypothetical question for you lot: Let's assume that you've learned of a tract of land that has concentrations of platinum around .05 parts per million (ten times the typical concentration in Earth's crust), with an estimated total value of around $2,074 trillion, and you want that money. Let us also assume that you deal in bulk precious metals for a living and so know how to sell that much platinum for maximum profit without devaluing everything and crashing the global economy. There's only one thing stopping you from getting all that money, and that's the rightful owners. There is infrastructure for extracting the platinum from the soil already in place, but it is old, slow, and inefficient. Furthermore, the owners of the property refuse to bargain, and there's a group of bandits in the area that periodically raids the settlement for supplies and however much platinum they can carry, and the settlers have essentially accepted it as the cost of doing business.
Assuming that you are unscrupulous, and are pretty sure that you won't get into any legal trouble, how would you try to get your hands on all that platinum?
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Post by Adkenpachi on Oct 19, 2014 1:50:28 GMT -5
Marry the landowners daughter and buy a gun (to kill bandits)
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Oct 19, 2014 2:57:46 GMT -5
Assuming that you are unscrupulous, and are pretty sure that you won't get into any legal trouble, how would you try to get your hands on all that platinum? There are a few ways to go about this. - Pay the bandits to start hitting the platinum mining infrastructure, making it not worth the operational cost of staying put. - Use a middle man to pay the bandits to kill the rightful owners and hope whoever inherits the land is more reasonable (hopefully a bank takes position of it and you buy it from them). Then kill the bandits and the middleman. - Stir up the locals about the bandits, and run for public office on an anti-bandit platform. Work your way up the political ladder until you're in charge of the country. Use eminent domain to seize the land. - Go to the county record's office and replace the survey that maps out the area so it now shows you own a chunk of their property. It's better than nothing. - Declare yourself a sovereign republic and annex the land. If they argue, shout things like "Anschluss!" and "Lebensraum!" at the top of your lungs until they give in. - Wrap them in bureaucratic hell. Bribe local government officials to smack them with every fine, permit requirement, surprise inspection, and code violation in the book. Make it a financial nightmare to stay put. Offer to buy the land up so they don't have to deal with it anymore, and have cash to settle their legal disputes. - Dance fight for the land. Dance fight the bandits. - Frame the owners for a crime against you, preferably something that involves personal trauma and property damage. Sue the daylights out of them and take the land as part of the settlement. - Buy the neighboring property. Kill the bandits and impale their corpses on stakes and plant them on the property line. Build a throne from their skulls facing the other property and sit on it, muttering "Soon, soon" while staring at the owners whenever they go out to get the paper. Buy up the land when they're creeped out enough to move. - Offer to partner with them to improve the mining infastructure and reap better profits for everyone. Drive off the bandits with force or bribes (or hire them as workers if it's a question of there being no jobs). Bonus points for using sleazy business practices to drive off the original owners. - Claim the land is your ancestral homeland and demand that it be returned to you. Plant fake artifacts to support your claim. - Lick everything. They won't want it if you licked it. - Write your name all over the property and the mining equipment. Claim it's yours. It has your name on it, after all. Be sure to use a permanent marker. - Find out if the owners have phobias of any sort of animal, like spiders or snakes. Release hundreds of them on to the property if they do.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 19, 2014 9:24:49 GMT -5
You forgot becoming the Bandit King. They seem to be doing a good job of getting the platinum without the cost of mining it.
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Post by Woz on Oct 19, 2014 9:31:14 GMT -5
Today I finished my first 3d printed Rc tank (well SPG)-
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Post by jenburdoo on Oct 19, 2014 17:40:24 GMT -5
What, the model itself was 3d printed? Not just bits and pieces? Whichever, it looks really good.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 19, 2014 17:50:34 GMT -5
Yesterday I picked up a 1:35 scale early production Sherman kit. Saw "Fury" this afternoon. I am now inspired. Need to find another Sherman kit with the long barreled cannon (M4A3E8 I believe?)...
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Post by Woz on Oct 19, 2014 18:42:42 GMT -5
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 19, 2014 21:23:41 GMT -5
Woz, you should print a mini of you shredding an epic guitar solo to be surfing that tank.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 20, 2014 10:13:29 GMT -5
"Charlie don't surf!"
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 20, 2014 13:18:51 GMT -5
Charlie don't rock-n-roll, either. Sucks to be Charlie.
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Post by cheminhaler on Oct 20, 2014 13:41:00 GMT -5
But Victor Charlie will love you long time.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Oct 20, 2014 17:17:12 GMT -5
OK, I have a purely hypothetical question for you lot: Let's assume that you've learned of a tract of land that has concentrations of platinum around .05 parts per million (ten times the typical concentration in Earth's crust), with an estimated total value of around $2,074 trillion, and you want that money. Let us also assume that you deal in bulk precious metals for a living and so know how to sell that much platinum for maximum profit without devaluing everything and crashing the global economy. There's only one thing stopping you from getting all that money, and that's the rightful owners. There is infrastructure for extracting the platinum from the soil already in place, but it is old, slow, and inefficient. Furthermore, the owners of the property refuse to bargain, and there's a group of bandits in the area that periodically raids the settlement for supplies and however much platinum they can carry, and the settlers have essentially accepted it as the cost of doing business. Assuming that you are unscrupulous, and are pretty sure that you won't get into any legal trouble, how would you try to get your hands on all that platinum? The Rook.
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Post by cheminhaler on Oct 21, 2014 15:00:39 GMT -5
Break the bandits spines and leave them mewling in the cold desert night.
Then the people with the platinum will just give it to you, no questions asked.
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Post by emptyhat on Oct 21, 2014 15:37:53 GMT -5
Break the bandits spines and leave them mewling in the cold desert night. Then the people with the platinum will just give it to you, no questions asked. This is why people compare you to Bane, dude.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 21, 2014 16:19:03 GMT -5
I thought it was because Bane, too, is a chemical inhaler.
Also, Woz's new avatar smashes the faces of the weak.
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Post by emptyhat on Oct 21, 2014 16:36:53 GMT -5
I thought it was because Bane, too, is a chemical inhaler. Also, Woz's new avatar smashes the faces of the weak. It's a lot of things.
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