Some of what i work with is sterling. Ebay is replete with sterling findings that are obvious fakes, and it has been for years with absolutely nothing done. First page example:
These earwires will weigh 2.5dwt per 10 pair. 100 pair will weigh 25dwt, which is 1.37 oz. That's 1.27 oz of silver, with a melt value of $20.85. BUT, you can have it made into earwires for a low low price of $8.99 AND free shipping.
These here have a melt value of $5.58 @.34dwt. These you can have for a low low price of $1.68, with FREE SHIPPING from Hong Kong. (it would cost me $2.66 to mail this across the street)
Same as the one right above, just a different company.. and they're going to charge you a whopping $2.15 (for that $5.58 melt value silver) BUT, they're still going to give you free shipping from China.
This one here is one from Hong Kong, same as the last two, but for $1.89 (remember that's $5.58 melt value of silver there). The difference is: this is a SPONSORED add.
I'm not even going to bother with this one. This one is selling some of these things at about 1/4 the melt value (the ones i checked).
Fuck it, i'm tired of doing the math. The bad news.... i was less than 1/3rd of the way down the FIRST page in the search.... and some of those i skipped over are certainly fake crap as well, i just don't have the weight for those types of earwires. Now, it doesn't matter if you complain, because ebay does NOTHING. These sales have been going on for at least a decade.
You have to be pretty stupid to think a company is going to take silver, form it into findings, and then sell it for 1/4 of the value of the silver that they could get ANYWHERE in the fucking world.
Reading all these comments.... maybe your level of activity when on facebook leads to different results. I admit while i was on it i only posted one time, and pretty much nothing else other than read a few things. If you're a lot more active, maybe skynet.. er.... facebook notices more, and tries harder to keep you around. That wouldn't be a normal setting type thing though.
Isn't there a setting where you can get update emails to those things? Cause, turning it off might be a way to stop those emails. Just saying.
I had a facebook account for like 2 weeks to keep up with a specific event. Deleted the account afterwards, and i haven't had an email from them since.
When has the private sector done anything without the need for profit above and beyond what it would cost the government to do?
They privatized several aspects of medicare/medicaid back in the 90's. The argument by republicans was that private companies would do much more, and more efficiently, than government could. Within 3 years the private companies needed subsidies, then more subsidies.. BIG subsidies... of course, they also had to cut the benefits while getting these bigger subsidies. So they were doing much less, while costing taxpayers more.
Now, i'm sorry if you weren't alive and/or thinking back then... but i was. It was as much bullshit as Reagan's trickle down voodoo bullshit economics. Private companies NEED profit, the government doesn't. Insurance companies pay around 30% of their money on operations (including profit)... Medicare about 5%; and while you may hate the US government, Medicare does a damn good job at what it does. What we need to do is prosecute all the fraud committed by private companies taking advantage of medicare/medicaid/the_US_taxpayer in the most severe way possible.
Yeh... anyone who still uses the argument "the sun don't shine 24/7" is woefully behind the times. I suggest you try reading something, and try catch up on the last decade or so. CanadianManFan below this post has some other good points.
Sounds like some fascist anti-freemarket politicians demanding private companies suck military dick even harder. Worship of the military is a bad thing.
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Hanford is a mess, but it also highlights the biggest problem with nuclear... the waste. Most of it is low level stuff that can't be used for fuel. I'd certainly rather have the government run it, but here again, it'd require competent people in office to do that... not the anti-science, anti-intellectuals that have been put in there now. When things are private, there's the need for profit, and given the general level of greed in private corporations, cutting corners is a bottom line booster.
Funny how you don't understand that cost of operations are the same whether it's publicly or privately owned, but if it's privately owned you have this little additional thing called PROFIT needed. Honestly though, i'm not talking about allowing a private company to run it with subsidies... i'm talking actually government owned. Then all we'd need are people in the government who give a shit about this country as opposed to the worthless pieces of shit now who are only in there for the power and money.
I would be fine with 100% of the nuclear power costs being subsidized... but you realize, that means they'd be owned by the government. That means no private company making a penny off them, and that translates to cheaper electricity.
But, it's not a single choice.... nuclear OR carbon dioxide. Wind, solar, geothermal, wave.... all of those things provide the same "no CO2" benefit, and none of the "radioactive contamination for 10,000 years" downside. Additionally, solar can be applied small scale, like solar panels on rooftops, which is an immense benefit as you don't have to invest billions just to get a single site up and running.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/so... read the Carbon Debt section to see why your "nuclear has a smaller footprint than any other" is wrong. The first generations of solar panels, for example, are made using energy from conventional power generation (whether it's coal or natural gas in that area), BUT, as those solar panels get put into use, the origin source for the energy to make the next batch changes... it no longer comes exclusively from coal or natural gas. And that process accelerates.
Showing concern that the first of something is going to be more expensive than the 100th, or 1000th (whether in actual dollars, or in this case a carbon debt) really is only an argument for never, ever, doing a damn thing to innovate anything.
Not really. A ball projectile is going through a target with minimal damage compared to an HP. Amount of powder is a factor sure, but not near as much as the type of bullet... larger calibers tend to have more powder (for the standard loads), but again, bullet type is where it's at. Vid: at about 3:30 they do a sad ballistics test where you can see the same caliber, different bullet types (i have discovered it is harder than hell to find actual good ballistics tests with gel for basic standard rounds).
The basics is, round nose punch holes through things (wasting all the energy left after leaving the body), hp's stop in things (releasing all energy)... obviously depending on the caliber. An HP 45-70 is still going to over penetrate a human by 10+ feet, but on the low end, an HP 9mm won't over penetrate, while a round nose will (for standard rounds).
In real life, unless you're one of those dudes getting shot in the head or perfectly in the heart, you're probably going to make it if you can get medical attention. According to one doctor who has a little experience with these things, as long as your heart is still beating once they wheel you into the hospital, there is a 95 percent chance of survival.
A.22 to the head at close range can also fail to penetrate the skull, and simply cause a minor concussion; it's less about what caliber, and more about the type of round.
Manufacturing costs have declined simply through better technologies. The big difference is, the production methods now are capable of making much larger (and nicer, and more natural looking) diamonds than they used to.
It'd certainly be easy to add flawing to the process, and it certainly may have already happened (from De Beers new position, i'd say it has... this shift is fairly seismic), but natural diamonds are not all that scarce. De Beers has made them that way through market share of mine ownership, and stockpiling. The whole idea diamonds are "scarce" is simply a marketing ploy.
You're right, i'm sorry... sorry you're such a fucking moron to think that 1860's republicans are even remotely similar to the fascist pieces of shit republicans like you. I'm also sorry you have no fucking clue about the mass migration of conservatives in the early 60's from the democrats to the GOP to be with all the rest of the racist cunts. Nixon even ended up with a strategy based on that, yah know....oh wait, you're too fucking stupid to know... sorry.
The problem is, the GOP has become a fascist cult that is so far right even Mussolini would be shocked at it.... and it's anti-intellectualism is on full display in people like you.
ProTip: Instead of supporting their own candidate, neo-nazis supported Trump... and the KKK supported him as well. Tell me again how well the nazi's and the KKK liked blacks, or jews, or pretty much ANYONE with a slightly darker skin tone? Quit being such a fucking idiot... you're embarrassing yourself.
Somewhere along the way, some of the boomers got it in their head that while they garnered and enjoyed vast benefits and rights by living in this country, they didn't have to live up to the most basic responsibilities that this country asked of them. They turned and started siphoning off everything that every other generation had invested for them, ignoring the fact that there were more generations to come. We see the culmination of that in the self serving, greedy politicians they've elected who are doing everything they can to destroy what's left of the federal government, and this country, purely out of their own greed.
It was not conservatives that put US citizens of Japanese and German descent into camps and confiscated all their property without any crimes committed and without due process. It was not conservatives who were the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow. It was not conservatives who fought equal rights acts. It was not conservatives who kept a former high KKK leader in the US Senate until 2010.
It was both conservatives and progressives that interned Japanese and Germans. It WAS conservatives who were the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow.... Lincoln was a progressive (hell, by todays standards, Reagan was a progressive... raising taxes 11 times, giving immigrants legal status to be here; and even Nixon would be somewhat progressive... you know, that whole EPA thing.). It was conservatives in both the GOP and DNC that fought civil rights, which is why all the dixicrats changed to being full fledged racists pos republicans. It was conservatives who voted in the current fascists we have now who are systematically destroying the future of this country.
You complain that the poster you're replying to doesn't know history? Seriously... you don't have a fucking clue. If history was your ass, you wouldn't be able to find it with both hands and a flashlight.
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Some of what i work with is sterling. Ebay is replete with sterling findings that are obvious fakes, and it has been for years with absolutely nothing done. First page example:
.34dwt. These you can have for a low low price of $1.68, with FREE SHIPPING from Hong Kong. (it would cost me $2.66 to mail this across the street)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sterl...
These earwires will weigh 2.5dwt per 10 pair. 100 pair will weigh 25dwt, which is 1.37 oz. That's 1.27 oz of silver, with a melt value of $20.85. BUT, you can have it made into earwires for a low low price of $8.99 AND free shipping.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/50PCs...
These here have a melt value of $5.58 @
https://www.ebay.com/itm/925-S...
Same as the one right above, just a different company.. and they're going to charge you a whopping $2.15 (for that $5.58 melt value silver) BUT, they're still going to give you free shipping from China.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/50PCS...
This one here is one from Hong Kong, same as the last two, but for $1.89 (remember that's $5.58 melt value of silver there). The difference is: this is a SPONSORED add.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/925-S...
I'm not even going to bother with this one. This one is selling some of these things at about 1/4 the melt value (the ones i checked).
Fuck it, i'm tired of doing the math. The bad news.... i was less than 1/3rd of the way down the FIRST page in the search.... and some of those i skipped over are certainly fake crap as well, i just don't have the weight for those types of earwires. Now, it doesn't matter if you complain, because ebay does NOTHING. These sales have been going on for at least a decade.
You have to be pretty stupid to think a company is going to take silver, form it into findings, and then sell it for 1/4 of the value of the silver that they could get ANYWHERE in the fucking world.
Ebay normally doesn't give a rats fuck about fake crap.
The games based in Westworld though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They better hope their lawsuit doesn't end in a draw.
Reading all these comments.... maybe your level of activity when on facebook leads to different results. I admit while i was on it i only posted one time, and pretty much nothing else other than read a few things. If you're a lot more active, maybe skynet.. er.... facebook notices more, and tries harder to keep you around. That wouldn't be a normal setting type thing though.
Isn't there a setting where you can get update emails to those things? Cause, turning it off might be a way to stop those emails. Just saying.
I had a facebook account for like 2 weeks to keep up with a specific event. Deleted the account afterwards, and i haven't had an email from them since.
When has the private sector done anything without the need for profit above and beyond what it would cost the government to do?
They privatized several aspects of medicare/medicaid back in the 90's. The argument by republicans was that private companies would do much more, and more efficiently, than government could. Within 3 years the private companies needed subsidies, then more subsidies.. BIG subsidies... of course, they also had to cut the benefits while getting these bigger subsidies. So they were doing much less, while costing taxpayers more.
Now, i'm sorry if you weren't alive and/or thinking back then... but i was. It was as much bullshit as Reagan's trickle down voodoo bullshit economics. Private companies NEED profit, the government doesn't. Insurance companies pay around 30% of their money on operations (including profit)... Medicare about 5%; and while you may hate the US government, Medicare does a damn good job at what it does. What we need to do is prosecute all the fraud committed by private companies taking advantage of medicare/medicaid/the_US_taxpayer in the most severe way possible.
Yeh... anyone who still uses the argument "the sun don't shine 24/7" is woefully behind the times. I suggest you try reading something, and try catch up on the last decade or so. CanadianManFan below this post has some other good points.
https://www.scientificamerican...
What we've really determined is: Psychological Science isn't.
Sounds like some fascist anti-freemarket politicians demanding private companies suck military dick even harder. Worship of the military is a bad thing.
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I didn't know Seth MacFarlane could develop so many shows all at once.
Gmail Proves That Some People Hate Smart Suggestions
Gmail also proves that Gmail can't make smart suggestions. I like Gmail, but it routinely labels complete shit mail that i send to trash immediately without even opening as "important," and that's stuff after the spam filter weeds out the even more shit mail.
Hanford is a mess, but it also highlights the biggest problem with nuclear... the waste. Most of it is low level stuff that can't be used for fuel. I'd certainly rather have the government run it, but here again, it'd require competent people in office to do that... not the anti-science, anti-intellectuals that have been put in there now. When things are private, there's the need for profit, and given the general level of greed in private corporations, cutting corners is a bottom line booster.
Funny how you don't understand that cost of operations are the same whether it's publicly or privately owned, but if it's privately owned you have this little additional thing called PROFIT needed. Honestly though, i'm not talking about allowing a private company to run it with subsidies... i'm talking actually government owned. Then all we'd need are people in the government who give a shit about this country as opposed to the worthless pieces of shit now who are only in there for the power and money.
I would be fine with 100% of the nuclear power costs being subsidized... but you realize, that means they'd be owned by the government. That means no private company making a penny off them, and that translates to cheaper electricity.
But, it's not a single choice.... nuclear OR carbon dioxide. Wind, solar, geothermal, wave.... all of those things provide the same "no CO2" benefit, and none of the "radioactive contamination for 10,000 years" downside. Additionally, solar can be applied small scale, like solar panels on rooftops, which is an immense benefit as you don't have to invest billions just to get a single site up and running.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/so... read the Carbon Debt section to see why your "nuclear has a smaller footprint than any other" is wrong. The first generations of solar panels, for example, are made using energy from conventional power generation (whether it's coal or natural gas in that area), BUT, as those solar panels get put into use, the origin source for the energy to make the next batch changes... it no longer comes exclusively from coal or natural gas. And that process accelerates.
Showing concern that the first of something is going to be more expensive than the 100th, or 1000th (whether in actual dollars, or in this case a carbon debt) really is only an argument for never, ever, doing a damn thing to innovate anything.
Not really. A ball projectile is going through a target with minimal damage compared to an HP. Amount of powder is a factor sure, but not near as much as the type of bullet... larger calibers tend to have more powder (for the standard loads), but again, bullet type is where it's at. Vid: at about 3:30 they do a sad ballistics test where you can see the same caliber, different bullet types (i have discovered it is harder than hell to find actual good ballistics tests with gel for basic standard rounds).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The basics is, round nose punch holes through things (wasting all the energy left after leaving the body), hp's stop in things (releasing all energy)... obviously depending on the caliber. An HP 45-70 is still going to over penetrate a human by 10+ feet, but on the low end, an HP 9mm won't over penetrate, while a round nose will (for standard rounds).
http://www.cracked.com/article...
In real life, unless you're one of those dudes getting shot in the head or perfectly in the heart, you're probably going to make it if you can get medical attention. According to one doctor who has a little experience with these things, as long as your heart is still beating once they wheel you into the hospital, there is a 95 percent chance of survival.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/0...
.22 to the head at close range can also fail to penetrate the skull, and simply cause a minor concussion; it's less about what caliber, and more about the type of round.
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I'm speculating that the operational costs of the program are the prohibiting factor. In other words, it costs too much just to keep it running.
I speculate it's something else entirely. https://planetaryprotection.na...
As a side note http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3519...
Manufacturing costs have declined simply through better technologies. The big difference is, the production methods now are capable of making much larger (and nicer, and more natural looking) diamonds than they used to.
It'd certainly be easy to add flawing to the process, and it certainly may have already happened (from De Beers new position, i'd say it has... this shift is fairly seismic), but natural diamonds are not all that scarce. De Beers has made them that way through market share of mine ownership, and stockpiling. The whole idea diamonds are "scarce" is simply a marketing ploy.
You're right, i'm sorry... sorry you're such a fucking moron to think that 1860's republicans are even remotely similar to the fascist pieces of shit republicans like you. I'm also sorry you have no fucking clue about the mass migration of conservatives in the early 60's from the democrats to the GOP to be with all the rest of the racist cunts. Nixon even ended up with a strategy based on that, yah know....oh wait, you're too fucking stupid to know... sorry.
The problem is, the GOP has become a fascist cult that is so far right even Mussolini would be shocked at it.... and it's anti-intellectualism is on full display in people like you.
ProTip: Instead of supporting their own candidate, neo-nazis supported Trump... and the KKK supported him as well. Tell me again how well the nazi's and the KKK liked blacks, or jews, or pretty much ANYONE with a slightly darker skin tone? Quit being such a fucking idiot... you're embarrassing yourself.
...and fascist motherfuckers like you fall in that 100 million.
Yes.
Somewhere along the way, some of the boomers got it in their head that while they garnered and enjoyed vast benefits and rights by living in this country, they didn't have to live up to the most basic responsibilities that this country asked of them. They turned and started siphoning off everything that every other generation had invested for them, ignoring the fact that there were more generations to come. We see the culmination of that in the self serving, greedy politicians they've elected who are doing everything they can to destroy what's left of the federal government, and this country, purely out of their own greed.
It was not conservatives that put US citizens of Japanese and German descent into camps and confiscated all their property without any crimes committed and without due process. It was not conservatives who were the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow. It was not conservatives who fought equal rights acts. It was not conservatives who kept a former high KKK leader in the US Senate until 2010.
It was both conservatives and progressives that interned Japanese and Germans. It WAS conservatives who were the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow.... Lincoln was a progressive (hell, by todays standards, Reagan was a progressive... raising taxes 11 times, giving immigrants legal status to be here; and even Nixon would be somewhat progressive... you know, that whole EPA thing.). It was conservatives in both the GOP and DNC that fought civil rights, which is why all the dixicrats changed to being full fledged racists pos republicans. It was conservatives who voted in the current fascists we have now who are systematically destroying the future of this country.
You complain that the poster you're replying to doesn't know history? Seriously... you don't have a fucking clue. If history was your ass, you wouldn't be able to find it with both hands and a flashlight.