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My apologies.
I was unaware that this is an accountancy forum, where percentages couldn't be rough or approximated.
They actually bought 43.26%.
Please forgive me for casually stating that as "half", in a forum for people that don't give a toss for that kind of detail.
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But your implication was that an American company took control of Alibaba (by buying a controlling interest) and caused them to do unethical things. Seemed rather questionable given your history and lack of a source. When I smell BS I dig around to confirm or deny. When even the basic information is wrong its easier to debunk the whole ridiculous premise.
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Sadly, as you've experienced, I know whereof I speak.
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Well, since you're so heavily into googling to take part in discussions in a Lounge, why don't you google a bit more, to find out which branch of the company was pulled up for the scam?
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Sorry pal. If you want to accuse somebody of something... do it.
If you want to be taken seriously... I suggest you back up the accusation with a source.
Otherwise you're just another troll.
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Jesus, Mike, why do you always do this?
You know that stress kills, don't you? And that devs show a tendency to die younger than those in many other professions because they force themselves to feel stress, when dealing with other people?
Lookit, we're in a place called "The Lounge"; it's a place for casual conversations, so stop trying to force your hastily-arrived-at decisions as if they were the word of God.
What you have to realise is that nobody -- nobody at alibaba, nobody at yahoo, and, in fact, nobody in the entire world -- gives a flying finagle about opinions expressed here, so all your frenetic googling to find "evidence", and all your demands for "evidence", are less pointless than a grain of sand (I know you're not a troll, but you have to admit that that is very trollish behaviour).
Here's a tip: If you decide to disagree with something someone says, in here, just say "That's bollocks, that is", because, in this context, that is a far better attitude than what you tend to do.
Chill the **** out, and just interact normally with the other kids (in a context-sensitive way). You'll live longer and happier.
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Woah! You got this all wrong. I'm not stressed about you, your posts, or Alibaba. Couldn't give a sh*t. 
If you remember this started when you made a spurious claim about some anonymous company. I merely asked which company. Your refusal to answer is what sent me searching. That's not stress (or trolling), its curiosity.
No worries though... I'll just assume everything you post is bollocks from here on. 
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Mike Mullikin wrote: If you remember this started when you made a spurious claim about some anonymous company. I merely asked which company. Your refusal to answer
And still you're looking to phrase things that make it look like your (googled) opinion was absolutely right -- even though no-one but you and I are even looking at this thread, now, and we both watched every step of it (just like I watched every step of yahoo's play for, and success with, becoming the dominant partner for alibaba in the US).
Mike Mullikin wrote: I'll just assume everything you post is bollocks from here on
I think you'll find that the terms you're looking for are "conversing" and "having a laugh" -- but, for God's sake, don't go "google researching" it; I think we've had enough of that, for one year.
Conversing/having a laugh is what people do, you know. You should try it. It'll be good for your blood pressure.
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Whatever... 
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The fantasies you evoke go to prove my point.
Or are you, for some reason, ashamed of being referred to as a Sinophile (extreme or otherwise)?
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Cleverer than your normal responses, but still inadequate.
But at least you're learning. That's something.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Because China is where they are all made.
True, but it takes me 2 months to get a product when I order it directly, if it ever comes at all.
Markup isn't all that bad considering. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's the same product, whether you pay the mark-up or not.
Plus, you're likely to get old stock, with all the problems inherent in that, because you're getting it from someone who bought a hundred a year ago.
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1: Put it on a servo moters to automatically point with laser
2: when it reads at laser the warm cat, point it again
3: cat has all day exercise
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Ingenius! I must implement this immediately.
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I've had a similar one for a couple of years, and they are damn handy - I thought the fridge was acting up and a couple of quick points over a whole day confirmed the temp control had basically given up any pretense of consistency! So I could get a new one before it became a more serious problem.
I use it for cooking, baking, checking if I'm going to have to scrape the car, and just about everything else (except for internal bodily temperatures). Useful.
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OriginalGriff wrote: checking if I'm going to have to scrape the car
Wait! Can you point it out the window at the car and get the temp of the car from inside the house?
Surely you can't. but that would be so cool. 
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No, it's about 200m away, and not visible from the house. But I can point out at the greenhouse about 10m or so away and read that. Works out about the same.
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Did you miss the first word?
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I wanted 200m away so bad I was blinded.
Okay, at least I get 10m, right?
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Yeah, but...
The laser shows the centre of a "cone" of monitoring, so it's accurate at short distances but "averages" temperatures over longer ones. The laser doesn't have anything took do with the actual temperature monitoring, it just provides a visual indicator of the target.
So at a foot you can get a circle of an inch of so, but at 10m? The circle will be quite wide.
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As the specs point out, and admirably don't try to hide, there's a 16:1 ratio of distance:measure-spot.
I don't know it's actual operations, but the lasers are only for targeting. It's almost certainly measuring IR emissions from the target area. The columnating optics just aren't the greatest. If you did have your 200m reach (in a sense you do if it is IR radiance) then the spot size would be 12.5m - a bit bigger than your car (I think?) and you'd be averaging in a mass amount of background emissions. The note that it "averages" is just a nice way of spinning of that it's not a pinpoint measurement. For my windows, I stood close.
They also give a little chart about emissivity for various materials. That would take into account the black-body characteristics of the materials. My version just said it's not accurate on certain types of materials. Remember: it's IR not visible light that it's measuring. Your view of the color (glass) and it's perspective will only occasional coincide.
Since you're rolling in cash, you could get an IR imaging system so you can get a 2D view of an area. Particular good for knowing if your woman's 'really in the mood'.
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You can get out and start pointing it cars that drive by and see if they slow down.
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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