[HN Gopher] Armored Stealth Boat: How to Smuggle Luxury Cars ___________________________________________________________________ Armored Stealth Boat: How to Smuggle Luxury Cars Author : Bluestein Score : 36 points Date : 2021-03-14 22:03 UTC (56 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.hisutton.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.hisutton.com) | jcun4128 wrote: | What is happening with these images, CDN. | | Amazing concept though the other type of thing being smuggled | seems to have a different approach(nearly 100% submerged). | gruez wrote: | > What is happening with these images, CDN. | | slow server + progressive jpeg? | jcun4128 wrote: | > progressive jpeg | | That's a thing? I didn't know you could do that on purpose | thought it was a side effect of slow internet. | | I've used CSS blurring before/loading different sized images | but I think this is different when reading up on it. | gruez wrote: | >That's a thing? I didn't know you could do that on purpose | thought it was a side effect of slow internet. | | Well if you don't have it enabled, the area that is shown | would be proportional to how much you have loaded (eg. if | you have 50% of the picture downloaded then the top half of | the picture will be shown, but the other half would be | blank/transparent). If you have it enabled, then you might | have the whole picture shown at 5% downloaded, but it will | be super blurry, and as you download more it gets | progressively more detailed. | | I don't think the author/publisher purposely used this as | an effect, it's just an overloaded server and whatever | image editing software he used had progressive jpeg | enabled. | crazysim wrote: | Very slow speeds so here's the archive.org mirror. | | https://web.archive.org/web/20210301050115/http://www.hisutt... | Bluestein wrote: | "The smuggling of cars into china has been a widespread problem | since at least the 1980s, and slowly evolved into an arms race | between the authorities and the smugglers. The ultimate smuggling | boat is known as the Armored Stealth Boat (ASB). You read that | correctly; this may sound too James Bond to be real, but it is." | p1mrx wrote: | The ultimate smuggling boat _that we know about_. | trhway wrote: | what impressive is it looks like a professional design and | construction, not DYI like for example those Columbian drug | smuggling submarines. | 1996 wrote: | There is more manufacturing capability in China! | | But both the submarine and the ASB are marvelous creations of | the human mind to resist the state overreach. | | It makes me wonder which technical marvels we are not seeing, | and how much bigger China economy could be if only we let | innovators freely innovate: selling better submarines to | Columbian cartels maybe could lead to better autonomous | boats? | rootsudo wrote: | Because they serve different purposes. | throwaway888abc wrote: | Great article and all blog, bookmarked | | Some other juice photos | | Narco Submarines Covert Shores Guide - updated | | http://www.hisutton.com/Narco%20Subs%20101.html | sneak wrote: | Smuggling implies that either the country of export doesn't want | it going out, or the country of import doesn't want it coming in. | | I was not aware that you're not allowed to buy a car in europe or | the US and ship it to China. | | What's the background here? I assume you are not? Why is that? | Nasrudith wrote: | China has limits on the importation - in addition to tarrif and | requirements like the undercarriage being cleaned of foreign | soil they have limits on importing foreign cars as one per | person and Chinese residents only. Likely protectionism | motivated - it fits with their other foibles resulting in | things like having iPhones they built smuggled back into their | own country at a marked up price. | ehwhyreally wrote: | Tax is a bitch. | tolbish wrote: | I think you've confused smuggling with trafficking. | rodgerd wrote: | As it says in the fine article, China wants to encourage its | own luxury and performance car making segment by restricting | foreign imports. | ufmace wrote: | I think China has pretty strict limits and taxes on importing | vehicles as a way to support local manufacturers. | gruez wrote: | > Smuggling implies that either the country of export doesn't | want it going out, or the country of import doesn't want it | coming in. | | Not really. You can be smuggling to evade taxes, eg. cigarette | smuggling. | sudosysgen wrote: | It's often because the cars are stolen or to avoid paying | import tax. | AnimalMuppet wrote: | It may be that you are not allowed to buy a car in Europe or | the US and ship it to China _without paying Chinese import | duties on it_. | eptcyka wrote: | I think China was trying to levy something like a a 50% or a | 100% import tax on imported vehicles. | baybal2 wrote: | Yes, luxury imported vehicles are taxed anywhere in between | 200% to 300% ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-14 23:00 UTC)