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Re: Not-So-Great Finds
« Reply #450 on: Thu, 06 January 2022, 11:05:59 »
Painters always say that the quality of a paint job starts with the prep job. Was the surface cleaned and prepped as well as possible?
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But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head.
For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions.
Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain. --George Orwell, 1984

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Re: Not-So-Great Finds
« Reply #451 on: Sun, 25 June 2023, 01:47:22 »
HyperX Alloy Elite 2 – "just" $9,999.90





Yes, at that price, they must've sold out quickly.  :)
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Re: Not-So-Great Finds
« Reply #452 on: Sun, 25 June 2023, 09:36:12 »
Maybe a way to move money that is otherwise not possible?  Google search shows that the limit on price for one item on Amazon is 10k. 🤷‍♂️
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Re: Not-So-Great Finds
« Reply #453 on: Thu, 29 June 2023, 11:16:56 »
Quote from: pixelpusher on Sun, 25 June 2023, 09:36:12
Maybe a way to move money that is otherwise not possible?  Google search shows that the limit on price for one item on Amazon is 10k. 🤷‍♂️

Most likely is that the item is sold out, but they don't want to remove from listing or say it's sold out so the jack up the price so much to the point where no reasonable person will buy it until they get some in stock and reduce the price. you do see on some online companies stores but rarely on amazon.
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cherry blacks - unlubed - filmed and springswapped with tx 55g mediums - alu Plate | pretty happy with this, the blacks were cherry picked so they weren't that scratchy to begin with, but currently breaking them in, may lube them with a dry lube like ro59 or ptfe powder.
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Have an extra $1.896 million lying around?
« Reply #454 on: Fri, 29 November 2024, 20:02:50 »


Original 1982 IBM Model F 61 key “Kishsaver” PART# 6019284 SCARCE MUSEUM HISTORY

Available now on eBay for a mere $1,896,192.40! Buy a six-pack and save!
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