imagine the pope suddenly telling all Catholics that there is no God
:-)
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Monday 16 February 2015
black swan due but might never come
Sunday 15 February 2015
Thursday 12 February 2015
Wednesday 4 February 2015
Monday 2 February 2015
Richard Dawkins readings from fans
He's an insufferable bastard at times
but other times he's adorable
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ps his best book is Ancestor's Tale - awesomely inspiring evolution text accessible to all
Sunday 1 February 2015
I keep forgetting to learn from this, again
Maybe i'll remember it's here and eventually get around to some practice
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Greeks fuck over the Germans, again
Just about the funniest economics lesson you'll ever see
though something like this, or this will be the sort of attack management tactics taken by the evil aliens that are taking over the world
you know the aliens from their remote bolt-holes in far off places where they think they might survive if discovered for what they are
they look just like people but they lack anything resembling a heart - just brains and balls and, err, lots and lots of really nasty weapons
in fact there are now dinner table discussions about how biologically sensible it would be to wipe out whole populations of as distantly related people as practical so that your descendants can be as Genghis Khan's - and fill the voids created. So to speak.
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Monday 12 January 2015
Friday 12 December 2014
Israel complains to Thailand about Nazi representations
How incredibly ironic - Thai minister meets Israeli ambassador after Hitler gaffe in official film
It's Monty Python on Viagra and Ice
Israel - openly apartheid state and well known for war crimes and crimes against humanity, a country of people who have wrenched every shred of sympathy for the suffering of their ancestors from the western world, interminably
gets on Thailand's back for artistic investigation of Nazi symbolism
sheesh
I hear there's moves afoot to make Israel formally the Jewish home nation - excluding all others on the basis of some shady confusion between race, religion and Randian American pop-culture
What an insidious group of people - what gall to insist to anyone that holocaust education be mandatory in schools. Shouldn't the mandatory education be about the murderously biblical approach to the Palestinian people?
evil
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Sunday 9 November 2014
The price of Marijuana in Thailand.
Did some simple calculations form the news item below.
They got 614 kilograms in 648 (supposedly kilo) sticks of compressed marijuana they valued at 9 million Baht.
so B9,000,000 / 648 = B13,888.89 per 0.95 kg stick which presumably go to a dealer network
assuming that dealers are selling in units of money eg B1000, B500, and say B200
let's say that you bought B1000 worth from a dealer
anything less than 72 grams (2.539 ounces) is profit
let's say that you only get half an ounce for that so the dealer makes 2 ounces in profit I (another 4 B1000 sales)
the dealer would potentially make up to 55K Baht if all his deals were for 1000 but i would not be surprised if they sell in smaller sizes in which case there would be more profit
that's, say, $2000 profit per stick
sounds like so very little to risk your freedom for - so nobody is really making big money out of it
except whoever gets the B9 million ($275,000)
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ps, very rough yes and lots of assumptions but something to start with
pps
Another news report here suggests that the 1 kg sticks are worth more like 8,000 baht - so down line dealers are making even less than i calculated above. Either that or my street price calculations are not very good. If anyone out there actually knows how much the street price is (and for what weight) i'd be interested to know.
Marijuana worth B9m seized
Police on Saturday seized 614 kilogrammes of marijuana with a street value of more than 9 million baht and arrested a 34-year-old man in Chumphon.
Officers manning a checkpoint on Phetkasem Road in Pathiu district of the southern province made the discovery when they stoped a suspicious-looking pickup truck at about 11.30 am on Saturday. They found 648 bricks of marijuana wrapped in black plastic bags inside fertiliser sacks in the rear of the pickup, Manager Onlinereported.
The marijuana originally came from Laos and was smuggled across the Mekong River in Nong Khai province, police said. The seized drugs were worth more than 9 million baht.
Driver Somchai Ketsri, 34, a native of Phichit province, confessed his involvement in the operation, the officers added.
Police said Mr Somchai told them that he had been hired by a man identified only as Bank, the son of a bottled drinking water producer in Nakhon Pathom, for 50,000 baht to deliver the drugs to a dealer in Songkhla. Mr Bank paid him 30,000 baht in advance and the rest was to be paid after the drugs were delivered.
Two other men, identified only as Somkhid and Bao, travelled ahead of Mr Somchai in another pickup. Their job was to alert him if they spotted any police checkpoints.
Police said the arrest of the suspect followed information from a police informant that a drug smuggling gang was about to smuggle marijuana from the Northeast into the South. The drugs were believed to be destined for tourist destinations in southern provinces.
Police are now hunting for other members of the gang.
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