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re: So Warren Buffet sees no future in bitcoin...
Posted on 5/9/13 at 8:59 am to AngryBeavers
Posted on 5/9/13 at 8:59 am to AngryBeavers
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What if Wiki is Warren Buffet?
Pardon me sir but I've met Warren Buffet, and Wiki is no Warren Buffet.
Posted on 5/9/13 at 9:09 am to Broke
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Wiki is no Warren Buffet.
Wiki is not even a Chinese buffet.....
:rimshot:
Posted on 5/9/13 at 9:10 am to Broke
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Pardon me sir but I've met Warren Buffet
haven't met Warren, but I have met Charlie Munger. He's Warren with an attitude
Posted on 5/9/13 at 9:11 am to LSURussian
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Wiki is not even a Chinese buffet
I would say he's more of a Mongolian buffet. You get filled up with worthless filler and afterwards all you really want to do is take a shite to cleanse yourself.
Posted on 5/9/13 at 9:17 am to Broke
quote:I've worked in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, the capital.
I would say he's more of a Mongolian buffet
Their food is actually pretty good once you get past the whole "it's horse meat" stigma.....
Posted on 5/9/13 at 9:23 am to LSURussian
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Their food is actually pretty good once you get past the whole "it's horse meat" stigma.....
Spent 2 days in the Azores on my way to Pisa. Horse isn't bad. Stringy.
Posted on 5/9/13 at 9:33 am to Broke
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Horse isn't bad.
Fermented horse milk is though. I was "forced" into drinking some, called kumis, at a wedding in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Imagine drinking a cup of buttermilk with the texture of a milkshake with three shots of vodka mixed in. It was all I could do not to gag. Of course, everyone was watching me to see my reaction as I drank to their "good fortune" toast to the bride and groom.
That wedding was on Saturday, September 8, 2001. We know what happened 3 days later.
Posted on 5/9/13 at 9:54 am to Broke
Islam is the predominant religion is Kazakhstan. My Kazakh co-workers were aghast at what happened on 9/11. They kept coming up to me and apologizing for what their fellow muslims did. It got to be embarrassing.
Side story: With the 11 hour time difference between NY and Almaty, the 9/11 event happened in the evening, Almaty time. I was in my apartment watching it happen on satellite TV.
About an hour after the towers were hit, I got a call from the U.S. embassy telling me not to go to work the next day and to stay in my apartment and not open the door for any reason or anyone.
I tried to stay in but at about 4 PM the next day I couldn't stand it anymore. I decided to walk to the American embassy about a mile from my apartment just to see if anything was going on there.
About a quarter of a mile from the embassy I noticed all these Russian made tanks and Kazakh soldiers with AK 47's surrounding the embassy. I thought, "I'm f*cked! The muslims are laying seize to our embassy!" I turned around and went to my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant in Almaty and ate a late lunch figuring it might be my last good meal for a while.
Of course, it was the opposite. The president of Kazakhstan had ordered the military to protect the U.S. embassy "at all costs." When I went to work the next morning I was asked if I wanted a security guard to accompany me for the rest of my stay there. I declined.
Side story: With the 11 hour time difference between NY and Almaty, the 9/11 event happened in the evening, Almaty time. I was in my apartment watching it happen on satellite TV.
About an hour after the towers were hit, I got a call from the U.S. embassy telling me not to go to work the next day and to stay in my apartment and not open the door for any reason or anyone.
I tried to stay in but at about 4 PM the next day I couldn't stand it anymore. I decided to walk to the American embassy about a mile from my apartment just to see if anything was going on there.
About a quarter of a mile from the embassy I noticed all these Russian made tanks and Kazakh soldiers with AK 47's surrounding the embassy. I thought, "I'm f*cked! The muslims are laying seize to our embassy!" I turned around and went to my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant in Almaty and ate a late lunch figuring it might be my last good meal for a while.
Of course, it was the opposite. The president of Kazakhstan had ordered the military to protect the U.S. embassy "at all costs." When I went to work the next morning I was asked if I wanted a security guard to accompany me for the rest of my stay there. I declined.
Posted on 5/9/13 at 10:02 am to LSURussian
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The president of Kazakhstan had ordered the military to protect the U.S. embassy "at all costs."
Posted on 5/9/13 at 10:03 am to LSURussian
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LSURussian
CSB
No, really cool story...
Posted on 5/9/13 at 10:06 am to LSURussian
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When I went to work the next morning I was asked if I wanted a security guard to accompany me for the rest of my stay there. I declined
You idiot. Never decline your own secret service staff.
Posted on 5/9/13 at 10:22 am to LSURussian
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Islam is the predominant religion is Kazakhstan. My Kazakh co-workers were aghast at what happened on 9/11. They kept coming up to me and apologizing for what their fellow muslims did. It got to be embarrassing.
Side story: With the 11 hour time difference between NY and Almaty, the 9/11 event happened in the evening, Almaty time. I was in my apartment watching it happen on satellite TV.
About an hour after the towers were hit, I got a call from the U.S. embassy telling me not to go to work the next day and to stay in my apartment and not open the door for any reason or anyone.
I tried to stay in but at about 4 PM the next day I couldn't stand it anymore. I decided to walk to the American embassy about a mile from my apartment just to see if anything was going on there.
About a quarter of a mile from the embassy I noticed all these Russian made tanks and Kazakh soldiers with AK 47's surrounding the embassy. I thought, "I'm f*cked! The muslims are laying seize to our embassy!" I turned around and went to my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant in Almaty and ate a late lunch figuring it might be my last good meal for a while.
Of course, it was the opposite. The president of Kazakhstan had ordered the military to protect the U.S. embassy "at all costs." When I went to work the next morning I was asked if I wanted a security guard to accompany me for the rest of my stay there. I declined.
were any dinosaurs walked that day?
Posted on 5/9/13 at 10:31 am to LSURussian
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Of course, it was the opposite. The president of Kazakhstan had ordered the military to protect the U.S. embassy "at all costs."
They wanted to keep that aide money flowing.
Posted on 5/9/13 at 10:47 am to Broke
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When I went to work the next morning I was asked if I wanted a security guard to accompany me for the rest of my stay there. I declined
You idiot. Never decline your own secret service staff.
I figured having two Kazakhs carrying AK 47's following me everywhere I went would draw more attention to me than if I just tried to "blend" in.
There are enough ethnic Russians in Almaty that if I dressed down, smelled like body odor and never smiled, I might be mistaken for a Russian and nobody would mess with me. It worked.
"We now return you to your regularly scheduled bitcoin thread."
Posted on 5/14/13 at 10:59 am to League Champs
If it were a real threat, they wouldn't acknowledge it anyway...it would demolish alot of their positions in the markets around the world.
No doubt they are watching to see if anything comes of it to hedge their bets
No doubt they are watching to see if anything comes of it to hedge their bets
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:19 am to the LSUSaint
Why would anyone be threatened by a commodity with a total market value of approximately $1.2billion? That is just plain silly.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:25 am to Poodlebrain
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Why would anyone be threatened by a commodity with a total market value of approximately $1.2billion? That is just plain silly.
Because they have vision, something most of you bitcoin haters lack.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:25 am to Poodlebrain
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Why would anyone be threatened by a commodity with a total market value of approximately $1.2billion? That is just plain silly.
present value, yes
potential future value -- that's another issue.
Even if Warren were considering bitcoin, he wouldn't publicly volunteer that information in any event
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:26 am to WikiTiger
Your personal attacks reveal you don't have anything of substance to write about bitcoin.
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