Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Balog on June 29, 2009, 06:15:58 PM
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http://www.propertyroom.com/
Just read about this today, as the local PD starts using them. Apparently instead of holding their own auctions, police depts are sending it to this place that auctions it online and splits the proceeds with the PD. Interesting concept; anyone heard of this?
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Should I even bother to ask if there are any firearms or knives?
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Doesn't appear to be. I would imagine the PD would still sell those at local auction, if they ever did in the first place.
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Propertyroom.com is pretty popular with another forum I visit. Never bought anything myself but have read alot of good feedback.
To me, the savings on cost don't justify buying anything electrical from there since it's potentially used and abused.
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Seems like it may be a good place to get a vehicle.
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Sweet, I can restock my 'gift box'.
I keep a lockbox handy with prewrapped gifts (coded for reference), blank cards, pens, et al. When, not if, I forget an important date or event, I can say I didn't forget, I merely hid the gift...
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That is the awesomest idea ever, Rev. I am going to steal it.
When/ if I ever get a job.
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This is so tempting if I didn't live on the other side of the country: http://www.propertyroom.com/ItemDetails.aspx?l=6762476
Awesome deals on mountain bikes too.
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That is the awesomest idea ever, Rev. I am going to steal it.
When/ if I ever get a job.
No. It is the second most awesomest idea. I shall betray a deep, dark secret. Normally it is reserved only for those that have mastered the dark arts of crypto. But you have an honest face, so I shall trust you with it. Guard it with your life. ;)
The most awesomest idea is to optimized quasi-random operand conditioning. What is that? Either madness or genius. You can do it on paper or automate it. The point is to give a random gift. Completely without reason. Ah, but you have to use pseudorandomness for the full effect. No more often than 16 days and no less than every 36 days.
If one was so inclined (and lazy), you could generate a set of random numbers between 0 and 20, add 16. Then plug it into a reminder service or calendar software. When you get a reminder, you give a random gift.
For accurate randomness of gifts, I recommend categorizing them. Use another random numbers seed to select the category. And another random number seed to select the item from the category.
Now atmospheric noise is the NSA gold standard recommended source of randomness, but you can find your own random number generator. Just make sure it's really random, or you're using poor cryptological techniques and that'd make a crypto analysist sad.
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Good, good... =D
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Because we needed another means to highlight the unconstitutional seizure of property. The old ways weren't sexy enough.
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Should I even bother to ask if there are any firearms or knives?
No....but I did find this.....
http://www.propertyroom.com/ItemDetails.aspx?l=6759900 (http://www.propertyroom.com/ItemDetails.aspx?l=6759900)
You could probably turn a tidy profit at the next gun show or local gunsmith...
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Because we needed another means to highlight the unconstitutional seizure of property. The old ways weren't sexy enough.
Some is most likely the result of bad seizures. But some is most likely legitimate.
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Wish I had money in teh bank. Totally need a 360 controller.
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That is the awesomest idea ever, Rev. I am going to steal it.
We've been doing it for a while. Stock up when there's a clearance somewhere or a great deal at Woot, then give as needed.
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Because we needed another means to highlight the unconstitutional seizure of property. The old ways weren't sexy enough.
Gotta remind the Folk who's in charge or they might start getting dangerous ideas.