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December 31, 2007
Forum Tidbits for New Year's Eve
Congrats to Titanium Warrior, who has a son!, ... JMCochran says Hello!, ... TheMoMan found this on a fellow Hams website, ... and Snaggy loves this Super cool Wii hack!
Posted by Snaggy at 12:58 AM
December 28, 2007
Kattalogen!
It's Friday, 2007 is almost gone, so what better way to spend the day than look at maswan's Cats page! It's a collection of over 3700 of the world's funniest cat pictures. I guarantee you, even if you hate cats, you're going to laugh at something here. (Select the - + ∞ controls for more or less thumbnails)
Posted by Snaggy at 09:22 AM
December 27, 2007
Forum Tidbits... still stuffed on leftovers.
Snaggy wonders Whatcha get?, ... Steen is Just Blowing off Steam, ... TheMoMan shakes his head over the Benazir Bhutto assassination, ... and MacManKrisK asks about Cassette Tape Equalization.
And in SuperFan Clubhouse Tidbits: Snaggy says Thank you SuperFans!
Posted by Snaggy at 08:56 AM
December 24, 2007
Forum Tidbits for Christmas Eve
Metasquares dugg the Wii comic, ... geekgoddess seeks Opinions, if you please, ... Mac D is Back from Basic and has a MacBook question, ... stevenback7 looks for a Website menu bar script, ... and Snaggy forwards MAGNET VS PC.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:07 AM
December 21, 2007
Take a break from shopping with Friday's Forum Tidbits!
Grummash likes a Mac on a stick, ... Snaggy notices the Lakota indians claim independence from the USA, ... nerdwithnofriends seeks Good beginner's calc books?, ... Thorned0Fortress is entering The US Air Force, ... and spungo nails The problem with Facebook.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:07 AM
December 19, 2007
Wednesday's Forum Tidbits!
sydneygirl has a New addition to the family , ... CrawGator has a friend, ... Steen bites off Herpetophobia, ... Snaggy says One drink per person, please and discovers The Galactically Hot Women of Star Trek TOS.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:00 AM
December 16, 2007
Forum Tidbits to launch your week!
skylar was really scared, ... spungo ponders your Fave Bjork Vid, ... Aditu asks about Holiday Songs you hate, ... Snaggy finds a Terminator pig and is drooling over maswan's freshly baked goods (warning: PASTRY PORN).
And in SuperFan Clubhouse Tidbits: pixel_pusher01 asks What about an Apple TV?
Posted by Snaggy at 09:16 PM
December 14, 2007
Tidbits for your Fantastic Friday.
hal9000 presents Murphy's Laws of Computing and seeks advice in Observation, ... Stereo asks herself Will I go to Melbourne?, ... CoffeeSmack brews up Mac Pro OEM HDDs: The Return, ... Shredder565 wonders if there are Double Sata connectors?, ... Snaggy finds a Judge rules USA fails Canada's Safe Country definition , ... and Steen just figured he'd start another flame war.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:41 AM
December 12, 2007
Tidbits for Wednesday!
MMKK says it's time for Christmas Music Time, ... stevenback7 rants about Canada and Music?, ... Stibbons stabs at Murdering sex offenders?, ... and erynthenerd inks Addicted? I know I am!
Posted by Snaggy at 12:09 AM
December 10, 2007
The Geekiest Hobby - Radar Notes, by RonDesVous
Collecting tends to be a geeky thing. Jocks never seem to be collectors. No one snaps a towel and announces that they received their 1902 MS 66 dime in the mail from a recent e-bay win and are gleeful about it. Nor do they describe the blow by blow sniping action of how they got the winning bid in (their loss).
My favourite area is coin collecting. It has much to offer the geek. You must be skilled at the bookish arts. There are books coin mintages, coin varieties (you know when the mint screws up and makes a mistake on a coin) and coin grading. The hobby has its own lingo. It also passes the acid test of geeky hobbies: at a coin convention the ratio of men to women is 100 to 3. In fact the only women there are the ones looking to use the phone, or are dutiful wives and girlfriends dragged there against their will (or as part of a complex tit-for-tat involving attendance at some fashion show, movie marathon of the "chick" variety).
One upside is that you can do it for fun and profit!!$!! Take one of my favorite areas within coin collecting is collecting radar notes for example. A radar note is a note that is the same read frontwards or backwards like this: 1234321 just like the word "radar". In Canada one note in 1000 is a radar because Canadian banknotes have 7 digits. In the case of US banknotes one note in 10,000 is a radar note because US notes have 8 digits.
The profit potential is huge. When I started looking for radar notes I found one in the first two weeks. It was a juicy two digit radar. This means it was comprised of only two different numbers: 7222227 (in this case 7s and 2s). I got it from a bank machine and it was well used/circulated. I put it on e-bay and it sold for $30. If it were uncirculated or lightly used it may have sold for $50-$80.
It is easy to get hooked after a nice score like that. I have built my collection up nicely over the last 5 years. In that time my older notes have trippled in value.
So while you jocks talk about sports, the big game etc some geek will be making money checking his change. Also a word of caution to the jocks out there: while you are absorbed with watching sports on TV or in the bar with the other jocks ... guess who is chatting up your girlfriends BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!
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December 09, 2007
Forum Tidbits to start off your week.
nashoon wonders Can this laptop handle WoW?, ... Ashitaka asks about that chick from Free Rainer, ... Steen shares an Advertisement, ... and Snaggy announces We survived snowboarding.
Posted by Snaggy at 08:24 PM
December 07, 2007
Friday is even better with some Forum Tidbits!
Colonel Panic's peeked over "Peak Oil", ... Words fail Callipygous, ... hal9000 picks up a 2005 BMW X3 3.0I Sport with a Six Speed Manual, ... garlicguy squeezes out Silence is Golden?, ... Shredder565 has a few Back up questions, ... and Steen writes Western Digital joins the dark side.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:12 AM
December 05, 2007
Your mid-week (titillating) Tidbits
No butts about it, BA is the living end in the Whats Your Favorite thread, ... Steen opens a Christmas Card Clearing House, ... erynthenerd goes Ummmmm.. Double-you. Tee. Eff, predicts My corner of the world is coming to an end, ... and thinks Maybe now the popularity of tramp stamps will start to decline.
Posted by Snaggy at 12:06 AM
December 03, 2007
Is Communism Really Dead? by Ron DesVous
A buddy of mine and I were discussing how things look bleak for global communism: billionaires in Russia, stock exchanges in China and the two of us left wingers getting banking jobs in '90's. Was Karl Marx wrong? Or does Russia's and China's move to capitalism prove that he was right? After all he did say that communism would never start in Russia because it was so under-industrialised.
Maybe it's timing. Capitalism (where society's goods are distributed according to your ownership of capital) is only 250 years old; whereas, feudalism (the distribution of goods according to your relationship to the King) lasted 1400 years. We could have another thousand years of capitalism!
The big question is whether there is still an inherent contradiction in capitalism. Do the people who own the factories and businesses want to reduce labour costs by replacing labour with machines or cheaper labour? If so, will they eventually reduce labour to the point where there are not enough people with jobs to sustain the mass market and the system? '
Marx says 'yes': enter socialism. He said that someday people would take over the means of producing goods ' the machines, factories and call centers--rather than have them sit idle while everyone is starving and out of work. Once the means of producing things are owned in common, the goods will be divided according to each person's work. We will all have government jobs! Marx thought that eventually things will be divided according to each person's need. Most people find this hard to believe. Communists say that this is because people have been corrupted by a system that rewards greed and self interest. Arguably as we move into a system based on co-operation our inherent good nature will come out. Slackers and greedy bosses are a function of capitalism.
How does Marx's theory match with current events? Manufacturing moved from Europe and North America to Japan, then to South East Asia, and now to China and India. North America and Europe moved to the service industry. Now call centers and customer service divisions are opening up in India where they can speak English (sort of). Eventually the quest for cheap labour could industrialize every global region. Once every global region has been industrialised machines and automation could grind down labour costs. Could it get to the point where there will not be enough people with jobs to sustain the mass market and the system as a whole?
My buddy and I figured that we will hang in with our capitalist clients and switch to socialism in the last minute. The switch from private ownership to state ownership at the hands of starving masses could get ugly. You want to be on the winning side when it happens. Until then we will keep our banking jobs. In this way whether Marx is currently right, right one thousand years from now, or not right at all... we will be covered. Until then: yeah capitalism !!!!
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December 02, 2007
Tidbits to blast off your week!
Snaggy bids R.I.P. Evel Knievel, and loves The Spotnicks!, ... sydneygirl describes An Aussie Xmas, ... The Famous Druid offers One for Steens collection, ... Luke Skywalker is Building a computer, ... Shredder565 bought something expensive, ... and JamesDublin asks Wanna Trade?
Posted by Snaggy at 09:08 PM
"Original Apple", 16"x 20" original painting by Nitrozac
Click here for more details and to bid on painting.
Auction is over... Thank you bidders!
Posted by Nitrozac at 09:57 AM