The Communication Cube

[T.T.]

Hehe, Car alternators make very nice motors

 

[Klumpen]

This current music bundle on Groupees is quite good:

http://groupees.com/celtic

BTW: Groupees started giving GoG keys with their two Microids Adventure Bundles, hopefully there's more to come.

 

[Klumpen]

I hate my country:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-23/german-gold-stays-in-new-york-in-rebuff-to-euro-doubters.html

after politics shifted in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition, the government has concluded that stashing half its bullion abroad is prudent after all.

“The Americans are taking good care of our gold,” Norbert Barthle, the budget spokesman for Merkel’s Christian Democratic bloc in parliament, said in an interview. “Objectively, there’s absolutely no reason for mistrust.”

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/7/9_Game_Over_-_Its_All_A_Farce,_The_Fed_&_German_Gold_Is_Gone.html

But in reality the gold has been sold into the market.  That gold winds up in places like Beijing.  But before it gets to Beijing it frequently goes through Hong Kong.  And when it goes to Hong Kong, it goes to our refiner, the same people we use.  And by the way, Eric, we may own some of the gold that Germany thinks that they own.  But Germany will never see that gold because it’s safely stored in my account (and) for our investors at the Hong Kong International Airport.

Regarding that gold, which could have had the symbol of the Bundesbank on it when it arrived in Hong Kong, a leading refiner, one of the biggest in the world that deals with the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), certified that, ‘Yes, we’ve got gold available that we can deliver.  We’ve melted it down, we’ve tested it.  It may have had the Bundesbank symbol on it when it arrived, but now it’s melted down .9999 (fine) gold.’ 

That’s how it works in practice.  So the Fed gold, that Americans think is theirs, is gone.  The gold that the Germans have been told they will get back in 7 years, they’ll never get back because it doesn’t exist anymore (at the Fed).  I own it.  The People’s Bank of China owns it.  The Reserve Bank of India owns it.  The central bank of Russia owns it.  But the people of Germany (and America) don’t own it.”

Eric King:  “So they (the refiner) have admitted then that the Bundesbank gold, they get those bars in and they just melt them down?”

Kaye:  “What they’ve done is confirmed that everything I’ve told you is correct.  They get gold (bars) from all over the place, including major central banks, including the symbol of the central bank on them, and they melt them down.”

Eric King:  “But they’ve confirmed the Western central bank gold is where it comes from in many cases?”

Kaye:  “Reading between the lines, and you don’t have to read too much between the lines, it’s all a farce.  The gold is gone.  It’s been hypothecated and rehypothecated.  It’s gone.  Not only do the Fed and the U.S. Treasury not own 8,000+ tons, they probably own nothing.”

 

[Null]

Have a customs charge to pay on a parcel, £11.45 to be precise, this includes a £8 handling fee. :mellow:

 

[Granitehead]

Actually wanted to go to an antinational peace demonstration today, but I'm now packing for my vacation instead. I hope they have a lot of people without me too.


The hunger+thirst strike against the army Wednesday and Thursday was successful in a way, I'm now considered "twice unqualified" (for psychological reasons I guess, because just not wanting to is not an accepted reason and I'm physically okay) for the army and don't need to work for them. I guess the biggest reason they did this is that I threatened to come to the recruit school and do a longer hunger strike (while following their orders to the best of my ability, of course, so everything very legal).

 

[T.T.]

So in wandering wikipedia today, it seems like a making a maglev from a linear induction motor shouldn't be too hard for a hobbyist.

 

[Null]

Unreleased Duke Nukem game discovered in Library of Congress archives.

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/08/dukes-legacy-video-game-source-disc-preservation-at-the-library-of-congress/

 

[Klumpen]

Unreleased Duke Nukem game discovered in Library of Congress archives.

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/08/dukes-legacy-video-game-source-disc-preservation-at-the-library-of-congress/

Interesting read.

Why exyctly didn't they contact the developers instead of going through the code and filtering stuff out of it?

 

[slaeshjag]

Based purely on a choice I made a couple days ago, that seemed unimportant, I just avoided having a 10 kg welded steel KVM switch flung at my head. I guess that's a sign.

 

[Null]

Man in court for pretending to be a ghost in Portsmouth cemetery.


http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/man-in-court-for-pretending-to-be-a-ghost-in-portsmouth-cemetery-1-6224059

 

[Klumpen]

Based purely on a choice I made a couple days ago, that seemed unimportant, I just avoided having a 10 kg welded steel KVM switch flung at my head. I guess that's a sign.

oO Did you quit your job at a building site?

 

[slaeshjag]

Nah, I placed all that junk on an identical shelf besides where I was sitting, instead of the one in front of where I was sitting.

 

[Nintendo]

 

[Null]

How time flies.

 

[Nintendo]

Lurkio is the best!!

 

[Null]

^ Thanks, you're not so bad yourself , I wonder where I'll be/what I'll be doing in another 7 years.

 

[Klumpen]

I just made my first "chili sin carne" (=vegan), didn't use any recipe and it's tasting awesome.

Problem is: I've made way too much.

 

[Nintendo]

You're vegan?

^ Thanks, you're not so bad yourself , I wonder where I'll be/what I'll be doing in another 7 years.

Thanks.

I think we'll (both of us) still be posting away on these forum boards in the year 2021.

 

[elwing]

looks like even Microsoft does some fun stuffs:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/

 

[Nintendo]

Hyperlapse? A Microsoft coined new word?


Looks smooth!