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“Overall,” Morvokin said, “it happens something like this. A person takes out a loan. With this loan, he rents an office, buys a Cherokee jeep, and eight crates of ‘Smirnovskaya’. When the ‘Smirnovskaya’ runs out, it turns out that the jeep is wrecked, the office is vomit-stained, and the loan needs to be repaid. Then a second loan is taken out – three times larger than the first. It is used to repay the first loan, buy a Grand Cherokee, and sixteen crates of ‘Absolut’. When the ‘Absolut’…

“I get it,” Tatarsky interrupted. “And what happens in the end?”

“Two scenarios. If the bank that the person owes is a gangster one, then at some point they kill him. Since there are no other banks, this is usually what happens. If, on the other hand, the person himself is a gangster, then the last loan is transferred to the State Bank, and the person declares bankruptcy. Bailiffs come to his office, list empty bottles and a vomit-stained fax, and after some time, he starts all over again.

However, the State Bank has its own gangsters now, so the situation is a bit more complicated, but overall the picture hasn’t seriously changed.”

http://knigger.com/texts.php?bid=4669&page=7

How can this be? Three different rips (flac) of Pink Floyd WYWH on three different players (Hifiman, Cowon D2 & Cowon Z9) won’t play. Everything else by Pink Floyd works perfectly. Do they all use the same flac library? I’m about to convert them to ape. But why don’t three different rips made by three different people work? How can this be explained?

Currently participating in an American presale. I noticed how money is denoted here. 8.5MM means 8500000. There’s “K” for thousands, but the internet also suggests the use of M (which explains the double M). Formerly, it was quite common to use M for thousands: $60,000 could be written as $60M. https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand-for

Blog update about hybris. We are expanding our circle of authors, today – an article about wishlists in Hybris. Oddly enough, they are not included “out of the box”. They are there just for show, seemingly to earn extra points in tenders. But in reality, there is nothing there. Only a table created with that name. Maybe they will add it in future versions. Meanwhile, I’m sharing our developments – our Wishlist module.

https://hybrismart.com/2017/08/18/wishlist-add-on-for-hybris/

Masha continues to master YouTube: she has prepared the second edition of abdominal exercises:) she does them every week by herself, sometimes with Liza and Nadya)

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=wPvZwJNLJ5M&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DltffuKFyG7s%26feature%3Dshare

See a Wrangler – can’t look away. But this one is doing something unbelievable

Here in the States, I’m dealing with a company’s ERP class software, written in Basic, developed in 1970. At least a thousand people use this software. My friends tell me that, first, this is a common thing; second, there are specific companies that specialize in supporting anything old; third, there are special products that emulate terminal operation in response to user actions in a pleasant graphical interface. That is, you move a slider, and somewhere it simulates pressing keys on a keyboard.

An interesting experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Business_Basic

Friends, I am planning to buy an old Sony STR-DE945 receiver, cheap, for 30 bucks. Maybe, I’ll upgrade it someday. I plan to connect two Yamaha NS-70T speakers (70-140W, 6 Ohm) and a ProSub 800 subwoofer to it. I’m still “green” in the field of sound. The speakers and subwoofer were found independently, I haven’t bought the receiver yet. Are there any risks that all this together won’t work?

Timofey Shikolenkov, do you happen to know?

By the way, now sole proprietors (IP) need to set up an online cash register and issue a receipt even when receiving payments from individuals through a bank (meaning really someone went all the way to something like “Sberbank” and paid something to your IP business account). If the receipt is not issued at the moment the funds are credited to the account, this is also a violation and subject to a fine.

It’s amusing that this can be done sneakily by sending just three rubles. Such a trick would be a nasty surprise for the IP owner. There’s no good way out of it, only the “hope for the best” option, since registering an online cash register at the moment money is received is already too late, and in 99% of cases it’s pointless anyway.

“The Ministry of Finance and the Federal Tax Service have decided: cash registers must be used in non-cash transactions with individuals. Previously, the positions of these agencies differed on this issue, but now everything is clear: an online cash register must be used even when a citizen makes a payment via bank transfer (including through a bank). Now any such payment (in your favor) requires issuing a cash register receipt. Failure to comply with this directive will result in fines. Confirmation: Letter from the Russian Federal Tax Service No. ED–3–20/4592@ dated 07.06.2017”

Read Andrey Movchan, it’s very interestingly presented on currency control.

Friends, is there anyone here from the management of the RBC hosting center? I want to hand over some money, but the support service seems like robots who need neither money nor clients. Tomorrow, I plan to switch if I don’t find a solution. Briefly, as I see it: presumably, the Hosting Center won’t allow payments with American cards or a U.S. Paypal account due to anti-fraud settings. The Hosting Center does accept cards not through pp (Paypal), and in both cases, they refer me to PP. It’s because the call center girl follows a script.

In this case, I see the mistake not so much in the refusal to accept American cards, but in the inability of the support staff to provide a clear answer. I just remember that I managed to make a payment last August, and there was a solution. Either it was removed (then just say so), or they are unaware of it (then kindly reply and refer to the second-line support).