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Pugwash

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  1. Pugwash
    If you're one short, I've got a pal over on RWI looking for this sort of thing.
  2. Pugwash
    I have webspace.
  3. Pugwash
    POP server? No need, you could put in an email address and tracking number. The problem is that EMS would blacklist the IP address.
  4. Pugwash
    Welcome back! It's a shame the only night you had free in Paris was the only night I had a friend's leaving do, but them's the breaks. Now you've got months of forum messages to go through, I'll not keep you any longer. ps. Posted this for when you have the time:
  5. Pugwash
    It's either that or sitting at home twiddling my thumbs waiting for Mrs Pugwash to get back.
  6. Pugwash
    Seriously, that's all it takes? I'll knock you up an RSS generator tonight if it'll honestly impress you. In shell-script.
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    I can tell. It's spelled 'cron'. Here's what mine generated: http://pugwash.cat5.org/ems/ (this was actually for a comedy tracking post over on RWI that was ruined by Silix delivering in 7 days flat)
  8. Pugwash
    They're not. We just don't see the mountains and mountains of crap that doesn't even get to our dealers. You know that we're a tiny, tiny portion of the replica market?
  9. Pugwash
    To clarify my position. Maria took orders for watches and he got some bloke or some blokes to put them together and he wasn't in charge of a factory or anything. Does that sound more accurate? If not, feel free to explain.
  10. Pugwash
    Does this count as clicking? $ crontab -l # 0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/`whoami`/bin/ems.sh $ cat bin/ems.sh #!/usr/local/bin/bash source .bashrc curl -sc /tmp/cookies.txt http://www.ems.com.cn/english-main.jsp | \ tr ">" "\n" | \ grep \<input | \ grep ch | \ sed 's/^.*value="\([0-9]*\)".*$/curl -sb \/tmp\/cookies.txt -d "reqCode=browseBASEE\&checknum=\1\&mailNum=EA739785105CN" http:\/\/www.ems.com.cn\/qcgzOutQueryAction.do/' | \ sh | \ sed 's/<head>/<head><base href="http:\/\/www.ems.com.cn\/">/' > \ /home/`whoami`/sites/pugwash.cat5.org/ems/0-ems.html cp /home/`whoami`/sites/pugwash.cat5.org/ems/0-ems.html /home/`whoami`/sites/pugwash.cat5.org/ems/ems-`date "+%m%d%y-%H%M"`.html For the non-geeks, that connects to EMS every 15 minutes, gets a session cookie, posts the cookie and my EMS number, outputs the resulting page and archives a copy with the date and time. Clicking is for lus3rz. Shell Fr0 Teh W1n! Oh, damn, you're joking. Yeah, mine is also a joke, honest.
  11. Pugwash
    I like how the original poster of this question hasn't even returned to the site since he posed this question. We're all shouting into the wind.
  12. Pugwash
    ... and there was me thinking he organised the composition of replicas from parts.
  13. Pugwash
    No. MBW is Maria's Best Watch, a German replica maker in Thailand. Honestly, it's too much to explain in a sentence here. I advise the search facility on this board if you really need more info.
  14. Pugwash
    A smart dealer would give By-Tor and me a free identical watch at the same time. It never happens though. I'll repost what I said on RWI about this review: This is why we look forward to By-Tor reviews. Great pics, educational text and a visible passion for the subject. Keep 'em coming.
  15. Pugwash
    Hands down, no contest, silver-dial.
  16. Pugwash
    We're still awaiting pictures. I'm hoping my finances get sorted before the pics arrive to get back on this one.
  17. Pugwash
    The Polex flaw is an obvious deliberate one, I'll give you that. It's also got a good reason for existing as it takes 3 seconds with an engraver to make it say Rolex, but also doesn't make the case a trademark/copyright infringement. ... and yes, western logic isn't going to explain anything here.
  18. Pugwash
    That's just the photo. Still, it looks like an interesting effect.
  19. Pugwash
    It was Goldfinger and it was a 16mm NATO.
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  21. Pugwash
    I don't believe for a minute they cost anywhere near two grand. You can put whatever RRP you like on a sold-out watch. I'd say it cost well under a grand, but no-one's confirming that either way.
  22. Pugwash
    Damn, there's the first. Ok, I'll not bother explaining why your camera analogy is way off, but just let's assume it is. Next: Why would a replica manufacturer make a crappy case, retool and do it again? Imagine if you will that there are a huge number of replica manufacturers and that one of them releases a Planet Ocean. Then, another factory sees that success and decides to take a bit of it. They decide to make it better so that the distributor, the real power player, chooses them over the older factory. This is the second gen. Now, a third factory sees how the first two factories made a killing off the Planet Ocean, but decides to make one even better so that the other two can't keep churning out the lower quality watches, forcing them to retool to compete. Then, the first two come back in the game and make 4th and 5th gen, competing for the distributor's eye. Does that seem remotely feasible? Arguments against would have to include a mafia-like godfather of replicas who controls all the factories and forces them to make incrementally less crappy models each time. This is so unfeasible a theory that we have to go with Occam and say it's not the case. Cynicism is a great quality, but not when it introduces fantastical theories.
  23. Pugwash
    Yeah, but not even suicide bombers believe that crap.
  24. Pugwash

    Bentley Gt

    Pugwash replied to a topic in The Breitling Area

    So I'm not People now? Thanks.
  25. Pugwash
    Don't ... damn, too late. Now every conspiracy theorist will come out of the woodwork with their pet theories about how it's to sell us the same watch over and over. Or how they have to introduce errors to keep the heat off. The fact of the matter is that they do make 100% perfect reps sometimes. Like the TAG Heuer Link, for instance. What stops them from making a 100% perfect replica? It's hard. Look at the amount of variation in the Rolex dials before they brought everything in house. Even afterwards, there's so much variation the gens get called reps even on here. They make them as accurate as they can and they sell all they can make. What incentive do they have to go that extra distance?
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