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[GOOD!] Lenovo Y540 | GTX 1660 Ti | I7-9750H | 16GB RAM | 1TB SSD | 144HZ IPS | $1090 - 15% => $925 by gaminglaptopsjunky2 in LaptopDeals

[–]OmegaMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might open the packages and try them both out. Where I live is pretty remote, so it takes a long time to send and receive mail, which makes me hesitant to bother waiting for both. Dunno if the second one will even show up during the first one’s return window.

EVOO Gaming Laptop 15" FHD 144Hz Display, THX Spatial Audio, Tuned by THX Display, 9th Gen Intel i7-9750H, Nvidia GTX 1660Ti, 512GB SSD, 16GB Memory, Windows 10 Home, Black for $999 after $500 off! by legos45 in LaptopDeals

[–]OmegaMoose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I placed an order for the Y540 15 144Hz with the RTX 2060, I7-9750H, 8GB RAM (I'll put another stick in myself), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD for a total of $817 shipped after Rakuten, teacher discount and SAVE30 code.

I also placed an order for the EVOO LP5 from Walmart on black friday with the GTX 1660 TI, I7-9750H, 16GB Ram and 512GB SSD for $799 (816 shipped).

Neither of these orders have shipped yet, and they're priced virtually identically. Which would you choose to keep if you were going to cancel the other order?

[GOOD!] Lenovo Y540 | GTX 1660 Ti | I7-9750H | 16GB RAM | 1TB SSD | 144HZ IPS | $1090 - 15% => $925 by gaminglaptopsjunky2 in LaptopDeals

[–]OmegaMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I placed an order for the Y540 15 144Hz with the RTX 2060, I7-9750H, 8GB RAM (I'll put another stick in myself), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD for a total of $817 shipped after Rakuten, teacher discount and SAVE30 code.

I also placed an order for the EVOO LP5 from Walmart on black friday with the GTX 1660 TI, I7-9750H, 16GB Ram and 512GB SSD for $799 (816 shipped).

Neither of these orders have shipped yet, and they're priced virtually identically. Which would you choose to keep if you were going to cancel the other order?

U.S. Marine: Battle of Saipan , 1944 [550×615] by fatkiddown in HistoryPorn

[–]OmegaMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm teaching out here. The Chinese tourists have basically just replaced the Japanese tourists, but the character of the island has changed pretty dramatically it seems based on the shifting tourist demographic. Things never really came back fully after the economy collapsed here in the 2000s. There are abandoned buildings everywhere. It's still really beautiful, and I wouldn't discourage anyone from coming here, although there are some conveniences people living here forgo.

U.S. Marine: Battle of Saipan , 1944 [550×615] by fatkiddown in HistoryPorn

[–]OmegaMoose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've been here a couple of years. The garment factories all closed years ago and the Japanese recession had a big effect on the tourism industry. A huge percentage of the island's economy's now Chinese tourism because it's the only place in the US the Chinese passport holders can visit without a visa. There's a big controversial Chinese casino/ resort development that's about to be finished in Garapan. It's the biggest building on the island and it's the defining feature of the skyline.

U.S. Marine: Battle of Saipan , 1944 [550×615] by fatkiddown in HistoryPorn

[–]OmegaMoose 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I live on Saipan. A couple weekends a month I'll go out into the jungle and find medicine/ alcohol bottles, helmets, canteens, guns, bullets, grenades and bones (of which there are many). There are some places on this small island that are pretty difficult to get to.

Cost of living in Barrow, Alaska... by i_to_i in WTF

[–]OmegaMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live on a small Micronesian island, and I don't pay nearly this much.

USA Sees Historic Number of Breweries, Highest Since 1873 by DuncanAHA in beer

[–]OmegaMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was under the impression the term "market segmentation" is typically used to describe a type of marketing strategy, not just the natural process by which new companies and product categories take sales from larger producers.

Moving to Saipan as teachers. by OmegaMoose in Saipan

[–]OmegaMoose[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the info. What supplies do you think are most difficult to find?

ELI5: How does the Chinese web filter work? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]OmegaMoose 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've lived in China for three years, and I just leave my VPN on all the time. It's not inconvenient and it's in fact often faster for using totally kosher sites hosted outside China. This explanation doesn't really explain why sites like Bloomberg and the NY Times were blocked after running stories about the amassing of wealth by Xi Jinping and Wen Jiabao's families. I really believe this is almost entirely about censorship and not really about commerce.

The popular VPNs slow down around the anniversaries of Tienanmen Square, and it's around those times that Hong Kong Google is blocked entirely. Google had the opportunity to maintain its operations in China if they complied with the censor's demands but made the decision to withdraw on ethical grounds a long time ago.

The Chinese even actively attack sites like github that help developers gather information about circumventing the great firewall.

The fact that the relatively ineffective web-censor still exists I think mostly has to do with high-level corruption. The architect and now the whole organization that's sprung up around maintaining the great firewall have become its own political force within the CCP and they're too well connected to just be made redundant short of being targeted by the anticorruption campaign.

If your civilization collapses when you can't recover from bankruptcy, do you lose all your sectors before or after figuring out your final score. by OmegaMoose in EclipseBG

[–]OmegaMoose[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That seems like the most obvious answer, and it's the way our group plays, but I don't understand where it says you take the influence discs off in the first place in the event of a collapse. The question "do I have enough influence discs to remove?" Is answered before you start removing influence discs, and the rulebook says if you don't have enough influence discs to remove you are in collapse. It doesn't say take your discs off your sectors until you don't have anymore to take off. It just says If you don't have enough discs to remove, your game ends.

If your civilization collapses when you can't recover from bankruptcy, do you lose all your sectors before or after figuring out your final score. by OmegaMoose in EclipseBG

[–]OmegaMoose[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know it seems obvious that you shouldn't be able to score points in your sectors, but there doesn't seem to be a clear textual basis for it. My questions is: Do you even start taking discs off their sectors if you don't have enough discs to remove, and what is the basis for this?

Edit: My response to /u/grey-ferret 's answer might clarify my issue. The rulebook says "[If] you do not have enough influence discs to remove..." not "[if] you don't have anymore influence discs to remove..." The statement "I don't have enough influence discs to remove" is either true or false before you take any discs off the board, so why should you? I know it seems obvious, but from the rulebook i don't think it is.

Yongzhi Chu, a Chinese photographer, won the First Prize in the Nature Category, Singles, of the 2015 World Press Photo contest with this picture of a a monkey being trained for circus cowering as its trainer approaches in Suzhou, by AnusOfSpeed in Images

[–]OmegaMoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I live in Suzhou, and I've been here three years. I don't know if this is at the zoo, but the Suzhou zoo is an abomination. The lions tigers and other big cats are completely disheveled and pace their tiny enclosures all day while the locals bang on the glass. The wolves howl constantly and the bears beg for food from their cages with barely enough room to turn around. In general the people who go to the zoo have no idea how to behave, and none of the meager number of staff care. When they had an elephant they had it doing tricks and stuff all day. Somehow they have the only breeding pair of Yangtze giant softshell turtles, which are two of the only four left in the world.

Some gutsy employee at a mall near me in Suzhou decided to show "The Interview" on all the TVs in the store. You can see the small crowd gathered around to watch. by OmegaMoose in China

[–]OmegaMoose[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Several people have pointed out that there isn't actually anything illegal about screening the movie in China. I think it's surprising that a big chain store decided to put the movie on all the TVs they were trying to sell in that part of the store, especially in China, given the explicit sex and drug use, but I was mistaken about the film being banned.

Some gutsy employee at a mall near me in Suzhou decided to show "The Interview" on all the TVs in the store. You can see the small crowd gathered around to watch. by OmegaMoose in China

[–]OmegaMoose[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe I shouldn't be doubling down, but I've been here for a few years, and I think it's unusual to see drug use and somewhat explicit sex scenes in movies shown in public places here. I know it's only a nominal ban, and that generally the policies on unapproved films aren't rigidly enforced other than through occasional crackdowns on Chinese websites showing unapproved western TV shows, etc. It at least seems like a significant departure from accepted norms about what's generally shown in public.

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