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bike tory posted:Popped up on my fb Ben and Jerries actually practices their activism in their stores and politics. its not really a "look at this brand trying to be woke and fellow kidsing" when the founders have been activists for progressive causes since before they made the company.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:No one who makes the procurement decisions cares about effectiveness. This is also the case with all rich person purchases and luxury products. Luxury cars don't work. Today's luxury cars have paintjobs that a self-taught enthusiast could beat easily. And I assume it used to be worse in the past. No one cares about quality. Conspicuous consumption, my dude. I bet you knew this, but in case anybody that doesn't know is interested, there's much written on the subject.
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Jun 3, 2019 13:33
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Dawncloack posted:Conspicuous consumption, my dude. I bet you knew this, but in case anybody that doesn't know is interested, there's much written on the subject. I can't wait until this is illegal. It'll be fantastic!
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Jun 3, 2019 13:38
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More likely we'll get another "cash for clunkers" program, but this time for phones or something.
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Lambert posted:More likely we'll get another "cash for clunkers" program, but this time for phones or something. cash for huawei phones except you dont get any money for them, you just have to surrender them uncompensated for national security concerns
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Jun 3, 2019 14:35
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Taintrunner posted:I always wanted to pen a reboot of Batman where it’s a poor black science nerd whose parents are killed by private police and the Joker is a white real estate developer who gets off to gentrification. I always wanted to reboot it where the Joker is a black man in “white face” and leads an OWS style attack on Batman because Batman is literally the military industrial complex and people would stop doing crimes if Batman just gave up his money and fixed the wealth inequality in the city but he can’t so he keeps punching criminals and calls himself the hero.
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Jun 3, 2019 14:40
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Tashilicious posted:Ben and Jerries actually practices their activism in their stores and politics. its not really a "look at this brand trying to be woke and fellow kidsing" when the founders have been activists for progressive causes since before they made the company. Isn't that company owned by nestle now or something?
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Jun 3, 2019 14:42
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Larry Parrish posted:predators are really only good terror weapons though. turns out a thermal camera at high altitude and maybe some backscatter cell phone signals is pretty difficult to actually identify anyone in particular with. but you know, the real goal is accomplished when whatever building the supposed target is in gets hit with a Hellfire and kills 20 bystanders with the fire and shrapnel. anyway those kinds of killbots would be incredibly useless in the US for a lot of reasons, but a big one is that they're fairly easy to jam and people own a lot of high power radios around here Remember when they didn't even bother to encrypt the video feed from them and some scrappy little talibans cobbled together a receiver that could pick up and display whatever the drone was looking at? 
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Jun 3, 2019 14:48
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Weatherman posted:Isn't that company owned by nestle now or something? quote:Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc, trading and commonly known as Ben & Jerry's, is an American company that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet. It was founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, and sold in 2000 to British-Dutch conglomerate Unilever. Today it operates globally as a fully owned subsidiary of Unilever. All brands are bastards
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Jun 3, 2019 14:49
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quote:In July 2015, the company separated its food spreads business,[71] including its Flora and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! brands, into a standalone entity named Unilever Baking, Cooking and Spreading.[72] The separation was first announced in December 2014 and was made in response to declining worldwide sales in that product category.[73] Ahh yes, the three human things that humans do to prepare food: baking, cooking, and spreading
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Jun 3, 2019 14:53
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It's always fun to read the wikipedia articles on corporations like this because the beginning is always like "ol' Mr. Uni Lever started selling down-home remedies to the common cold out of his wagon" and then within a few paragraphs it turns into "In 2001 Unilever acquired [competitor]. In 2002 Unilever acquired [competitor]. In 2003 Unilever acquired [company] to enter the [thing] market. In 2004 Unilever acquired [competitor] via a hostile takeover bid." Like you can usually tell the exact moment they stopped being a company that made things and started being an investment vehicle that buys other companies, and it's usually in the 80's or 90's. Thanks Reagan!
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Better are the ones that used to be public service companies owned by state/local governments who were kicked onto the stock market. "Iron Valley Power and Gas was funded by the residents of Hogtown, Bealesborough, and Clemsville in 1931 in order to provide electricity for the local homes and businesses .... Iron Valley P&G changed its name to GLEMEX CORP and is listed on the S&P 500 as one of the most important vertically consolidated energy concerns in the entire western us"
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Larry Parrish posted:predators are really only good terror weapons though. turns out a thermal camera at high altitude and maybe some backscatter cell phone signals is pretty difficult to actually identify anyone in particular with. but you know, the real goal is accomplished when whatever building the supposed target is in gets hit with a Hellfire and kills 20 bystanders with the fire and shrapnel. anyway those kinds of killbots would be incredibly useless in the US for a lot of reasons, but a big one is that they're fairly easy to jam and people own a lot of high power radios around here they have the same jammers
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Larry Parrish posted:predators are really only good terror weapons though. turns out a thermal camera at high altitude and maybe some backscatter cell phone signals is pretty difficult to actually identify anyone in particular with. but you know, the real goal is accomplished when whatever building the supposed target is in gets hit with a Hellfire and kills 20 bystanders with the fire and shrapnel. anyway those kinds of killbots would be incredibly useless in the US for a lot of reasons, but a big one is that they're fairly easy to jam and people own a lot of high power radios around here I'm imaging a team of sweaty amateur radio nerds bringing out old ham radios and taking down skynet now, thanks It would make for a great movie, someone get danny divito T-man has issued a correction as of 16:07 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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I still like that Bechtel was some Fresno scraper outfit until the new deal helped transform them into a massive Beltway bandit hell contractor
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hobbesmaster posted:they have the same jammers an airborne platform just cant put out that kind of juice unless it's one of the signals platforms like an AWACS or one of the SIGINT versions. any strong ground station is always going to win that fight. and it's not like you can jam a jamming signal; youd still be jamming your remote platform either way
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hobbesmaster posted:they have the same jammers "OH NO THEY JAMMED MY JAMMING SIGNAL BECAUSE EVE ONLINE IS A REAL GAME WHAT DOOOOO" That's not how radios work fam.
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Jun 3, 2019 17:31
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mycomancy posted:"OH NO THEY JAMMED MY JAMMING SIGNAL BECAUSE EVE ONLINE IS A REAL GAME WHAT DOOOOO" https://youtu.be/mK0q7d3pLH0
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mycomancy posted:"OH NO THEY JAMMED MY JAMMING SIGNAL BECAUSE EVE ONLINE IS A REAL GAME WHAT DOOOOO" There actually are countermeasures for jamming but it's less "jam the jammer" and more "avoid the jammer using clever tricks". There's also always radiation-seeking missiles if that doesn't work.
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I loved using HARMs in the old flight sim game I used to play
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the military doesn't exactly have a great blue on blue record with HARMs lol
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quote:During the Gulf War, the HARM was involved in a friendly fire incident when the pilot of an F-4G Wild Weasel escorting a B-52 bomber mistook the latter's tail gun radar for an Iraqi AAA site. (This was after the tail gunner of the B-52 had targeted the F-4G, mistaking it for an Iraqi MiG.) The F-4 pilot launched the missile and then saw that the target was the B-52, which was hit. It survived with shrapnel damage to the tail and no casualties. The B-52 was subsequently renamed In HARM's Way. quote:"Magnum" is spoken over the radio to announce the launch of an AGM-88.[6] During the Gulf War, if an aircraft was illuminated by enemy radar a bogus "Magnum" call on the radio was often enough to convince the operators to power down.[7] This technique would also be employed in Serbia during air operations in 1999. this is almost as good as CIWS stories
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Larry Parrish posted:any strong ground station is always going to win that fight. lol, bullshit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile *edit* beaten! Larry Parrish posted:the military doesn't exactly have a great blue on blue record with HARMs lol Or anything really.
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lancemantis posted:this is almost as good as CIWS stories Always remember what H.A.R.M. stands for
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Maybe because I'm selfish and like to imagine myself rich and am frustrated that I wouldn't be able to get good stuff because it does not exist. if you want good fabric, go to a tailor or dressmaker and tell them what good fabric you want and get something made from it. you don’t have to shop off the rack at a mall, future-rich-you.
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Tashilicious posted:Ben and Jerries actually practices their activism in their stores and politics. its not really a "look at this brand trying to be woke and fellow kidsing" when the founders have been activists for progressive causes since before they made the company. That sounds pretty capitalism.txt at least, if not .png e:fb, so have some content:  yes this is an ad for baby life insurance Coolness Averted has issued a correction as of 22:03 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Subjunctive posted:if you want good fabric, go to a tailor or dressmaker and tell them what good fabric you want and get something made from it. you don’t have to shop off the rack at a mall, future-rich-you. This is good advice, when I am future rich I shall commission a fine five-piece suit for traveling abroad.
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Coolness Averted posted:the activist founders sold the company to unilever almost twenty years ago and no longer hold any management roles or power at the company, except as half associated mascots Invest in your dead child today!
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I've been told this is real
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Away all Goats posted:I've been told this is real ...what is it?
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mycomancy posted:...what is it? I suspect they may be hosed. They have no new ideas, their sales have been going down, and because of stock buybacks, they no longer have the massive cash reserves they used to.
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Thanatosian posted:It's an Apple monitor stand. And it is, apparently, real. I thought they were going to use their cash to turn into a bank to support Apple Pay Lol if they are just burning cash
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apple doesnt need to make new products or have new ideas. the newest iphones are twice the price of the ones from a few years ago and they absolutely dont cost as much more to make so thats mostly pure profit. they take 30% or 15% of every sale on the iphone/ipad app store which is an insane margin for doing basically nothing but operating a toll booth.
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Shear Modulus posted:apple doesnt need to make new products or have new ideas. the newest iphones are twice the price of the ones from a few years ago and they absolutely dont cost as much more to make so thats mostly pure profit. they take 30% or 15% of every sale on the iphone/ipad app store which is an insane margin for doing basically nothing but operating a toll booth. The app revenue on that may be coming down, as they're appealing a court case re: their monopoly status. People haven't been buying the new phones in the same numbers, and they can't just sit on their laurels on their current revenue stream and expect their stock price to keep going up.
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https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/03/apple-pro-display-xdr-stand-costs-extra-999/quote:Apple's press release: plus the potential antitrust lol. Bring on the downfall of apple.
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its never going to happen but Donald Trump being the second coming of the Trustbuster would be pretty funny ityool2019
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Thanatosian posted:they can't just sit on their laurels on their current revenue stream and expect their stock price to keep going up. Actually I think they can do that just fine and it'll work out for them somehow.
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