The value of the ruble isn't the only thing that is vanishing in Russia. A Moscow hedge fund chief executive has disappeared, along with all the money in the firm's accounts.
That's according to a stunning feature in The Wall Street Journal. Kim Karapetyan, 29, the youthful founder of Blackfield Capital CJSC, has disappeared, much to the dismay of his staff, which didn't know until a group of men charged into the firm's plush offices.
From The Journal:
The firm’s employees didn’t know anything was amiss until mid-October, when three men charged into Blackfield’s offices in an upscale complex along the Moscow River in central Moscow, said people who were there.
The men, who didn't identify themselves, said they were looking for Blackfield's 29-year-old founder, Kim Karapetyan, according to the people who were there.
But Mr. Karapetyan wasn't in the office that day or the next, when senior executives explained to the staff of about 50 that there was no longer any money to pay their salaries, said one former senior executive and ex-employees. The executives disclosed that all the money in the company accounts — some $20 million, including investor cash — was also missing, they said. It couldn't be determined whether investors were from Russia or other countries.
"Our CEO just disappeared," said Sergey Grebenkin, one of the firm's software developers, in an interview.
No attempts to contact or find Karapetyan were successful, and he is still MIA. The company's website brags that its "systematic investment process helps avoid human-factor, cognitive-biases, and emotional-trading errors," but the CEO running away with all your money seems like a fairly big human error.
Why does anyone have to be classified, by the government, as a provider, under title, yada yada?
Poles, conduits, rights-of-way should belong to the local authority, managed and maintained by the lowest bidding contractor. Anyone or any company then has the right to use, for any commercial or non-commercial purpose, said infrastructure to run their cable or fiber, upon payment of a reasonable fee to cover the upkeep.
I am not a fan of eminent domain, but if the incumbent says "We installed these poles, they belong to us" then they should be bought out.
If a company like Sony is this vulnerable to script kiddies, I want to know about it. Just imagine what professionals could do? The Lizard Squad has done us a favor.
"A group of British researchers have analyzed data from the Darwin Awards and found that men are more likely to engage in life-threatening risky behaviour than women."
The term "idiotic" is used a lot in the quoted article, but it is a genetic fact that males are more willing to take a chance. The outcome is a gender gap. Women should stop their shrill haranguing, get their hands dirty and be more "idiotic".
The only free market is how much the fucking lobbyists pay to buy laws. Because that avoids public scrutiny.
People complain about the Citizens United and the lobbying of congress and government agencies. But the problem is not too much money in government. The problem is too much government involvement in money.
The FCC should not even have the power to consider this application, nevermind the power to grant it. If that were the case, all the lobbyists would shrivel up and die.
"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
I have long wished that Google, Microsoft or even (gasp) the US Government would blanket the airspace worldwide with balloons/drones/satellites connected in an internet mesh. Then airdrop a 100 million tablets and solar chargers to third-world peasants and oppressed everywhere. Plenty of fat in the US military budget to pay for it. Imagine if a Cuban or North Korean suddenly had unfettered access to the world.
This would be a great blow against the domination of the powerful. Oh, oops, nevermind.
Fox News consists of trolls who are watched by an audience of wild-eyed jingoists and xenophobes.
It is necessary for the channel to exist and to be carried by Dish, so that we may know and hopefully understand what is going on with these people. If we cut ourselves off there can be no hope of reconciliation. Apropos example: Cuba.
I also encourage Fox News fans to watch MSNBC (which I find equally infuriating).
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
In Reimann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.
I'll grant thee random access to my heart, Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove, And in bound partition never part.
For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel, Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler, Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers, Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?
Cancel me not--for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.
Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine! The product of our scalars is defined! Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind Cuts capers like a happy haversine.
I see the eigenvalue in thine eye, I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh. Bernoulli would have been content to die, Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 \phi!
Your argument hinges on the meaning of "invasion", which is where we shall have to agree to disagree.
With respect to liberties, I am not a states-righter, in that if the federal government does not have to power to limit freedoms, neither do the states, or anyone else. On the other hand, if a state grants a freedom, the feds cannot take it away (marijuana).
Invasion is entry of a group bent on non-democratic overthrow of the government - not applicable here.
14th Amendment does not address border control, so I don't know why you cite it? Citizens may vote, and therefore change the government democratically. The Constitution grants the power to confer citizenship, but not to restrict entry, except for invasion, supra.
My Tea Party representative voted against the bill, although I cannot be sure why. In the past he has supported civil forfeiture. I made a point of writing him a thank you note to balance my previous rap on the knuckles. My thank you noted my assumption that his vote was in support of Amash.
For infringing DMCA, wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse, circumvention and dissemination of DRM, racketeering, leading to losses of [pinkie] One Billion Dollars [/pinkie] to Keurig.
Stand by for completely over-the-top reaction from the Establishment.
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The value of the ruble isn't the only thing that is vanishing in Russia. A Moscow hedge fund chief executive has disappeared, along with all the money in the firm's accounts.
That's according to a stunning feature in The Wall Street Journal. Kim Karapetyan, 29, the youthful founder of Blackfield Capital CJSC, has disappeared, much to the dismay of his staff, which didn't know until a group of men charged into the firm's plush offices.
From The Journal:
The firm’s employees didn’t know anything was amiss until mid-October, when three men charged into Blackfield’s offices in an upscale complex along the Moscow River in central Moscow, said people who were there.
The men, who didn't identify themselves, said they were looking for Blackfield's 29-year-old founder, Kim Karapetyan, according to the people who were there.
But Mr. Karapetyan wasn't in the office that day or the next, when senior executives explained to the staff of about 50 that there was no longer any money to pay their salaries, said one former senior executive and ex-employees. The executives disclosed that all the money in the company accounts — some $20 million, including investor cash — was also missing, they said. It couldn't be determined whether investors were from Russia or other countries.
"Our CEO just disappeared," said Sergey Grebenkin, one of the firm's software developers, in an interview.
No attempts to contact or find Karapetyan were successful, and he is still MIA. The company's website brags that its "systematic investment process helps avoid human-factor, cognitive-biases, and emotional-trading errors," but the CEO running away with all your money seems like a fairly big human error.
Why does anyone have to be classified, by the government, as a provider, under title, yada yada?
Poles, conduits, rights-of-way should belong to the local authority, managed and maintained by the lowest bidding contractor. Anyone or any company then has the right to use, for any commercial or non-commercial purpose, said infrastructure to run their cable or fiber, upon payment of a reasonable fee to cover the upkeep.
I am not a fan of eminent domain, but if the incumbent says "We installed these poles, they belong to us" then they should be bought out.
If a company like Sony is this vulnerable to script kiddies, I want to know about it. Just imagine what professionals could do? The Lizard Squad has done us a favor.
Amen! {I was being facetious in my post above]
Thank you for restoring my faith.
You have:
1. Showed that discrimination is not cool.
2. That disobedience is sometimes appropriate.
These are most valuable lessons,
I look forward to the day when there is gender parity among teaching staff at all public schools.
I have probably heard a hundred different times how eliminating a program that is only 1% of the budget will not fix the debt problem.
"A group of British researchers have analyzed data from the Darwin Awards and found that men are more likely to engage in life-threatening risky behaviour than women."
The term "idiotic" is used a lot in the quoted article, but it is a genetic fact that males are more willing to take a chance. The outcome is a gender gap. Women should stop their shrill haranguing, get their hands dirty and be more "idiotic".
The only free market is how much the fucking lobbyists pay to buy laws. Because that avoids public scrutiny.
People complain about the Citizens United and the lobbying of congress and government agencies. But the problem is not too much money in government. The problem is too much government involvement in money.
The FCC should not even have the power to consider this application, nevermind the power to grant it. If that were the case, all the lobbyists would shrivel up and die.
I think Frederic Tudor had Henry Plantagenet iced.
Reminder that SCOTUS has just ruled that law enforcement's ignorance of the law is a valid excuse.
"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
I have long wished that Google, Microsoft or even (gasp) the US Government would blanket the airspace worldwide with balloons/drones/satellites connected in an internet mesh. Then airdrop a 100 million tablets and solar chargers to third-world peasants and oppressed everywhere. Plenty of fat in the US military budget to pay for it. Imagine if a Cuban or North Korean suddenly had unfettered access to the world.
This would be a great blow against the domination of the powerful. Oh, oops, nevermind.
Get busy with the Fidel version before they have the capability to retaliate - Sony, stat!
Fox News consists of trolls who are watched by an audience of wild-eyed jingoists and xenophobes.
It is necessary for the channel to exist and to be carried by Dish, so that we may know and hopefully understand what is going on with these people. If we cut ourselves off there can be no hope of reconciliation. Apropos example: Cuba.
I also encourage Fox News fans to watch MSNBC (which I find equally infuriating).
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
In Reimann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.
I'll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love;
And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove,
And in bound partition never part.
For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?
Cancel me not--for what then shall remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.
Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
The product of our scalars is defined!
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
Cuts capers like a happy haversine.
I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 \phi!
Your argument hinges on the meaning of "invasion", which is where we shall have to agree to disagree.
With respect to liberties, I am not a states-righter, in that if the federal government does not have to power to limit freedoms, neither do the states, or anyone else. On the other hand, if a state grants a freedom, the feds cannot take it away (marijuana).
Invasion is entry of a group bent on non-democratic overthrow of the government - not applicable here.
14th Amendment does not address border control, so I don't know why you cite it? Citizens may vote, and therefore change the government democratically. The Constitution grants the power to confer citizenship, but not to restrict entry, except for invasion, supra.
Anything not forbidden to the Federal Government by the Constitution is allowed, assuming the appropriate laws are passed
You have this backwards. Everything is forbidden to the Federal Government, except that explicitly granted by the Constitution.
But our rights are endowed by our Creator, and apply to everyone, not just American citizens.
Please quote the part of the Constitution that is relevant here.
Because nowhere in the Constitution does the government have the authority to decide who is worthy to live here, and who is not.
My Tea Party representative voted against the bill, although I cannot be sure why. In the past he has supported civil forfeiture. I made a point of writing him a thank you note to balance my previous rap on the knuckles. My thank you noted my assumption that his vote was in support of Amash.
OTOH, my state's only Democrat voted yea.
If you do not declare this unconstitutional, immediately and unambiguously, then you have failed The People.
Your credibility is already hanging by a hair.
For infringing DMCA, wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse, circumvention and dissemination of DRM, racketeering, leading to losses of [pinkie] One Billion Dollars [/pinkie] to Keurig.
Stand by for completely over-the-top reaction from the Establishment.
"Cost" is not the same thing as "Price". We should bear this in mind any time the government is involved - power, oil, health care, internet...