Comments on: more disgust, with the spaceflight participant http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant A permanent record for what's interesting today - this is my live journal Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:35:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: lotso http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant/comment-page-1#comment-129826 lotso Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:54:43 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant#comment-129826 @byte: Well, if I'm the dude off to space, I'm sure not to complain. (right?) But since it's part of my money funding him and I'm already up to my neck in like (incremented) road toll bills, (incremented) petrol bills and the subsequent rise in the overall cost of living. ( I mean face it, I've always maintained that our cost of living is way higher than that of the USA for the amount of money that we earn and the amount of money we have to spent just to obtain the same items. take a look at the big mac index http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9448015) Malaysia's currency, is 50% undervalued, compared to 20% undervalued for Singapore and Australia. That's the reason why each time I go to singapore I tell my significant other that everything is 50% cheaper compared to Malaysia. (based on 1 to 1 $ amount) Our economy sucks and the government likes to still pump in money to fund these sort of non-beneficial activities. BAH! @byte: Well, if I’m the dude off to space, I’m sure not to complain. (right?) But since it’s part of my money funding him and I’m already up to my neck in like (incremented) road toll bills, (incremented) petrol bills and the subsequent rise in the overall cost of living. ( I mean face it, I’ve always maintained that our cost of living is way higher than that of the USA for the amount of money that we earn and the amount of money we have to spent just to obtain the same items. take a look at the big mac index http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9448015)

Malaysia’s currency, is 50% undervalued, compared to 20% undervalued for Singapore and Australia. That’s the reason why each time I go to singapore I tell my significant other that everything is 50% cheaper compared to Malaysia. (based on 1 to 1 $ amount)

Our economy sucks and the government likes to still pump in money to fund these sort of non-beneficial activities.

BAH!

]]> By: byte http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant/comment-page-1#comment-129817 byte Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:11:37 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant#comment-129817 @lotso: whats annoying is that its tax payer money for a tourist mission. its like asking the government to pay for your vacation! and the public cheering that it happens. seems like its debauchery thru & thru this wouldn't stand if it happened in australia. or even the usa i'm sure. its just plain, utter, ridiculous. @lotso: whats annoying is that its tax payer money for a tourist mission. its like asking the government to pay for your vacation! and the public cheering that it happens. seems like its debauchery thru & thru

this wouldn’t stand if it happened in australia. or even the usa i’m sure. its just plain, utter, ridiculous.

]]> By: byte http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant/comment-page-1#comment-129816 byte Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:02:38 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant#comment-129816 @leon: i'll refrain from comments on ramadhan, since i myself have no idea what its all about, beyond what i (and the rest of the public) already know... Yeah, I saw his talk at a linux.conf.au iirc, it was most interesting. I don't remember most of it now, since I'm not that large a space buff, but it was an interesting talk. @leon: i’ll refrain from comments on ramadhan, since i myself have no idea what its all about, beyond what i (and the rest of the public) already know…

Yeah, I saw his talk at a linux.conf.au iirc, it was most interesting. I don’t remember most of it now, since I’m not that large a space buff, but it was an interesting talk.

]]> By: Leon Brooks http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant/comment-page-1#comment-129815 Leon Brooks Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:53:10 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant#comment-129815 Ramadhan: facing Mecca would be more straightforward than using a dodgy compass inside a steel-framed train carriage, anyway. Also, a simplistic view says he was closer to Allah in orbit than en terra. Shuttleworth: he was actually useful. If you get a chance to sit through his space station talk, grab it with both hands & grip hard. (-: see if you can record the bit about the parachutes releasing from the Soyuz :-) Ramadhan: facing Mecca would be more straightforward than using a dodgy compass inside a steel-framed train carriage, anyway. Also, a simplistic view says he was closer to Allah in orbit than en terra.

Shuttleworth: he was actually useful. If you get a chance to sit through his space station talk, grab it with both hands & grip hard. (-: see if you can record the bit about the parachutes releasing from the Soyuz :-)

]]> By: lotso http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant/comment-page-1#comment-129811 lotso Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:27:55 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/10/12/more-disgust-with-the-spaceflight-participant#comment-129811 I fully agree. This is the tax payer's money at work eh? And all this while, they still agree to hand out increment in toll rates. If you ask me LDP is the worst of all the roads cos it only taxes those at the 2 ends of the Toll and everyone in between gets a free ride. I fully agree. This is the tax payer’s money at work eh? And all this while, they still agree to hand out increment in toll rates.

If you ask me LDP is the worst of all the roads cos it only taxes those at the 2 ends of the Toll and everyone in between gets a free ride.

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