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    Image of Jory Jory
    05/26/09

    In reply to Judgement Day: The Fast and Spurious Google Street View Car Finally Arrives In New York
    This car was parked on my block in Hell's Kitchen a couple months back. Didn't realize it was a big deal.
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    Image of Fishnets and Cigarettes Fishnets and Cigarettes
    05/24/09

    In reply to Judgement Day: The Fast and Spurious Google Street View Car Finally Arrives In New York
    Is Brooklyn not New York?? I saw the damned thing months ago on Atlantic Avenue. it's not exactly discreet
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    05/24/09

    In reply to Judgement Day: The Fast and Spurious Google Street View Car Finally Arrives In New York
    "Sightings are most frequent among those who make their living or spend their days on the street. Among those reporting it have been bike messengers, cabdrivers, panhandlers, FedEx workers and doormen." What, no hookers?
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    05/24/09

    In reply to Judgement Day: The Fast and Spurious Google Street View Car Finally Arrives In New York
    You can do something about your listing if you are Sir Paul McCartney.
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    Image of marvel girl marvel girl
    05/24/09

    In reply to Judgement Day: The Fast and Spurious Google Street View Car Finally Arrives In New York
    Ugh, I once saw the Cash Cab dropping off a mother and son who had just won like $1000. I begged them to pick me up, but they refused. They were "going to lunch." Assholes...
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    05/24/09

    @marvel girl: That is so very sad. I would love to be on Cash Cab too. I knew a couple who were on it - lucky assholes.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    05/24/09

    In reply to Judgement Day: The Fast and Spurious Google Street View Car Finally Arrives In New York
    Just look at that unwieldy monstrosity strapped to that car. Jeremy Bentham would be so proud.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    05/24/09

    @BookishLookish: Panoptoconmobile? Might need someting catchier.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    05/24/09

    @BookishLookish:


    Down the street from us is a convenience store where day laborers gather in the morning, to wait for work. As the economy worsens they are drinking more, earlier. Robberies started to become a daily occurrence so someone towed in a giant box with an array of cameras on top. 360 degrees, daylight and infrared. Supposedly the video goes both to a security company and to the police department, and from what they're saying, crime has dropped off completely around that corner.


    In the same vein, I saw a small black hummer a few days ago parked at a shopping center. It had an infrared camera mounted near the rearview mirror and big roof container with two more cameras pointed forward. What is *that* all about?

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    05/24/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: That is TV Eye by the Stooges, my brothah, play it loud!
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    Image of flossy flossy
    05/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: Panopticar, duh!
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    05/24/09

    In reply to Judgement Day: The Fast and Spurious Google Street View Car Finally Arrives In New York
    A reporter for The New York Times spotted the car last Tuesday at a stoplight on West 15th Street near the West Side Highway and asked to ride along. The driver declined.


    He should just hopped onto the car's roof and hung on for dear life.

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    Image of Almostbanned Almostbanned
    05/24/09

    @Aaron Altman: Reporters just don't have any balls these days.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    05/24/09

    @Almostbanned: I was just going to say, the NYT reporters are not rad enough to hitch a skateboard up to the back and be stealthy.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    05/24/09

    @BookishLookish: @Almostbanned: "James Barron, you crazy sonvuagun, you'll do ANYTHING for a great Metro story."
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    Image of stopokaygo stopokaygo
    05/24/09

    @Aaron Altman: Why do they get to spy on us but we don't get to spy on them? No fairsies!
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    05/24/09

    @stopokaygo: Hah! I wonder what the NYCLU has to say about this. (I know, I know, Google isn't the government. BUT IT IS BIG BROTHER.)
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    05/24/09

    @Aaron Altman: Isn't there a spare Sulzberger around these days who could do roof or skateboard duty?
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    05/24/09

    In reply to Judgement Day: The Fast and Spurious Google Street View Car Finally Arrives In New York
    That damned car should play the Mister Softee jingle, too.
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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    05/24/09

    @Aaron Altman: Crowds of children chasing the Google camera-car would be a neat picture.
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    Image of LelandDarnsies LelandDarnsies
    05/14/09

    In reply to Peter Thiel's Richer Than You, But Not as Rich as He'd Like You to Think
    There's a great chance that this analysis is totally wrong. Peter probably has a chunk of money is his fund through a General Partner account. That's what would receive the 20% performance fee (if they have positive investment returns). Many times, that money just stays in the Fund.
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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    05/14/09

    @LelandDarnsies: Wrong on two accounts. Clarium takes a 25 percent performance fee, not 20 percent. And Clarium had a disastrous year last year, which means it made essentially no money. Thiel has earned fees in the past, when his fund was much smaller.
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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    05/14/09

    In reply to Peter Thiel's Richer Than You, But Not as Rich as He'd Like You to Think
    I'd be shocked if you're right.


    1.) 2006 is a faraway time. Most hedgies have seen the wisdom in putting less of their money where their mouth is. I would be very surprised if Mr. Thiel has retained this approach.


    2.) As you disclosed, liquid net worth. Other, harder-to-value assets like the Facebook stake likely pepper his portfolio. I'd be shocked if that was Mr. Thiel's only venture, after all!


    The presence of that statement document doesn't make such a blindered analysis credible. You can get the pitchbook and the marketing materials pretty easily, even from the most cloistered of funds. Hell, the only reason you aren't bombarded with them is because of marketing and disclosure laws that identify you, Mr. Thomas, as neither an Accredited Investor nor a Qualified Purchaser.

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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    05/14/09

    @ADismalScience: According to my sources at Clarium, he still keeps his assets at the firm. He no longer runs his personal finances through Clarium, however -- that's how his employees caught him making a donation to NumbersUSA, the anti-immigration lobbying outfit.
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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    05/14/09

    @Owen Thomas:


    Color me shocked. Foolish and vain, though I suppose it fits the profile.

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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    05/14/09

    In reply to Peter Thiel's Richer Than You, But Not as Rich as He'd Like You to Think
    I love that this analysis exploits the psychology of a libertarian crackpot to shame him for not being a billionaire.
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    04/21/09

    In reply to Ten Lamentations of a TARP Wife
    I'm learning to fly so far below the radar that I have perpetually skinned knees.


    I've never heard it called "flying under the radar" before.

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    Image of SpicyMeatball SpicyMeatball
    04/21/09

    In reply to Ten Lamentations of a TARP Wife
    Has anyone pointed out that this is basically a list of "it is so crappy having to hide how lavishly we still live because my husband's company was rescued by the government and we don't want anyone to know how their tax dollars are being spent?"
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    04/21/09

    In reply to Ten Lamentations of a TARP Wife
    The next time she's eating fried bologna, tuna from the can, and washing it down with red Kool Aid, I'll then feel some pity. Wait. No I won't 'cause that'll mean she and hubby pissed away more money than they have any right to have! So instead I'll point and scoff and maybe buy an out-of-season Prada handbag from her so she can buy a hot plate with which she can forage a divine meal of Spaghetti-O's and white bread to celebrate.


    Pffftttt!

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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    04/21/09

    In reply to Ten Lamentations of a TARP Wife
    This next to the Tina Fey post proves that it's okay to be rich as long as you seem cool. Just, you know, don't get rich by doing something icky like banking.
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