The imagery was supposed to be live streamed to the internet, for one thing.
I'm still a little torn on this issue. On one hand, I'm not sure that I am comfortable with Al Gore gazing at my butt while I am lounging outside naked in my backyard.
On the other hand, it seems that Al Gore's satellite would give me the opportunity to moon entire planet . . . !
I'd like to have the chip implanted in my dick. I have a tiny little mind, and am easily amused by puerile shenanigans . . . so whipping out my dick and waving it around to open doors and pay for stuff . . . priceless!
MasterCard, Visa and American Express, please take note of this post! This is the "Innovative Cloud of Internet of Things," that everyone is talking about!
If I am up against any big varmint that walks the face of this planet, I'd choose a Heckler & Koch MP7. Whatever is on the wrong side of the barrel of that . . . doesn't need to be concerned aboutf its retirement fund.
However, you need to be trained and experienced in using the weapon. Otherwise, when you are trying to plink a burglar in your house, you will end up hitting instead:
Your wife.
Your kids.
Your dog.
Any members of the Bush family that are considering to run for President of the US.
Hillary Clinton's granddaughter.
. . . and Barack Obama, as "The Beaver" . . .
It's a frighteningly effective weapon, and cops in the US are probably happy that drug gang folks have not discovered it yet.
Oh, and it has all the three things that the scientist Jared Diamond wrote about in in his book about what makes a successful civilization: Guns, Germans and Steel
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find:
- One forty-five caliber automatic
- Two boxes of ammunition
- Four days' concentrated emergency rations
- One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine,
vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
- One miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible
- One hundred dollars in rubles
- One hundred dollars in gold
- Nine packs of chewing gum
- One issue of prophylactics
- Three lipsticks
- Three pair of nylon stockings.
Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
Actually, the ancient Greeks recommended "everything . . . in moderation". Which seems to be sound advice here, instead of jogging yourself to death. Is anyone here old enough to remember who Jim Fixx was?
At any rate, the modern Greeks seem to have forgotten to remember that old advice, with regards to debt.
If the measure passes the House of Lords and gets licensed by the fertility regulator
To anyone who has seen the film "The Missouri Breaks"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... . . . the term "regulator" has a special meaning.
I am seriously considering adding that title to my email footer . . . "Certified Fertility Regulator" . . . although, that is NOT what you may think at first . . . watch the movie!
I hope that in ten years, when my children are telling me about how cool IBM is, I'll be able to say that there was a time it looked like they were doomed before they turned it around however painfully.
IBM almost cratered in the early 90's, before being rescued by an outsider CEO with a vision for the company . . . Lou Gerstner.
This ain't gonna happen with Ginni Rometty at the helm. She's just an Apparatchik. She has no vision.
If IBM's Board of Directors were doing their job, they would fire her, and not 100,000 employees.
Something is definitely wrong here. And with his experience he should have known better.
Well . . . this shows something very insightful about "certifications" in general. They can guarantee that someone should know better . . . but a certification cannot guarantee that someone will not do something stupid.
I see a lot of folks recently who put "Certified ScrumMaster" in their email footers. What that really guarantees . . . is debatable.
. I'm sure that there are chemicals available which are excellent at fire fighting but also highly toxic and that those chemicals aren't used because of their lethality.
Since my town has started using Agent Orange to fight fires . . . we have drastically reduced the costs of the firefighters' pension fund.
Fighting fires is a real shitty job . . . you get exposed to all sorts of nasty toxic fumes . . . and you might even have flaming rafters collapse on you.
When I was a kid, being a fireman was one of those "what do you want to be when you grow up?" careers. But now, I really can't understand why those folks do it. I guess it might have something to do with conquering nature ("fire"), and saving people's lives and property . . . anything that the community has built up.
I'd give a fortune to go back in time, and have a chat with cavemen firefighters . . . just to see what motivated them.
Although, all I would probably hear would be, "Ugh!"
No . . . yours is hanging out . . . wildly. Call me up when you go to High School and get accepted at MIT and Princeton. Insider tip: They look at the "character" of the applicant.
1- They aren't legal loopholes. A law previously passed by Congress that gives the POTUS authority to act is NOT a legal loophole.
The law says that people who are in the US illegally . . . are well, illegal. Obama is refusing to enforce the laws of the country. He could tell the FBI not to prosecute car jacking or rape, as well.
2- He isn't flooding the country with illegal immigrants.
Then why are shelters for illegal immigrants bursting to the rafters? Obama is pandering to Hispanic/Latino voters. There was a nice article about this in The Economist, but that is above your reading level.
3- He is the POTUS. He IS the head diplomat of the country. HE SETS FOREIGN POLICY.
When the US was formed, one thing that the founding fathers explicitly wanted to avoid, was creating a "kingdom" . . . a dictatorship. That is why the US government is divided into three branches, with a system of "checks and balances," to avoid a tyrant like King George III of England.
Yes, the POTUS is the boss . . . but he is expected to respect the other branches of government.
Obama is starting to look like Idi Amin.
Mr. Obama, please get your lips away from the crack pipe!"
4- What you said about taxes is a blatant lie. The taxes proposed are wholly on the upper classes and business.
Obama's upper classes and business are people who make more than $250,000 a year. For a pair of IT people working in California, that's about what they need, to afford the house and the kids. That's middle class.
Rich folks don't pay any taxes. They can afford expensive tax lawyers who can prove that they earn nothing.
Obama has, in Hollywood jargon, "jumped the shark".
As he provocatively noted in the State of the Union Address . . . he does not have to face any re-election. He has found legal loopholes, which allow him to do whatever he wants, and totally ignore Congress or the Supreme Court. He can open the borders to the US to floods of illegal immigrants, change foreign policy against nations that have threatened the US with nuclear missiles and call for violence against domestic police forces.
And now he will be implementing a tax plan to "help the middle class" . . . by taxing the middle class more. Rich folks don't pay any taxes. They can afford expensive tax lawyers. A lot of families with two working parents will be surprised to learn that they are "wealthy" under Obama's new rules.
I recently watched documentary in German television about infamous dictators Josef Stalin, Muammar Gaddafi and Idi Amin.
It was quite frightening that I thought that Obama would fit in quite well with this crew . . .
Actually, I travel a lot in Europe, and take a lot of taxis. I have only had very positive experiences with taxi drivers . . . because I treat them with respect.
Taxi drivers are the eyes and ears of a city . . . the NSA should drop all this online monitoring crap, and just put some taxi drivers on the payroll. They know everything. I was joking with one in Brussels, and asked him if he knew the address of the mistress of the Prime Minister. He answered, "Which one of his mistresses?"
Which is why this scares me a wee bit, when I hear that Über or whoever is harvesting data on passengers. And who will have access to that data . . . I think you know who.
Anyway, I have recently been in Delft, Holland, Paris, France, not Hilton, Nice, France, Birmingham, Southampton, UK, Brussels, Belgium, Zürich, Switzerland, Böblingen, Germany, Stuttgart, Germany, Darmstadt, Germany . . .
And where-ever you are . . . there you go. There is a taxi driver who will take you to where ever you need to go . . . if you treat him or her with respect!
Well, Slashdot could lead the way . . . just look at this Web Design . . . it can't appeal to female folks! Now, if all the text was in pink, and had "Oh, Ponies!" plastered all over it, we could get more females interested in IT!
Um, but didn't have that on Slashdot already a few years ago . . . around April 1st . . . ?
Yes . . . avoid bottlenecks . . . but do you really know what they are . . . ?
Is the workload I/O bound? Are multiple processors hanging in spin locks? Can you detect lock contention on your system? How about local cache invalidation on memory addresses, because all the processors want to update the same memory address. Can you split this global address into several local per-processor addresses? Re-align variables so they are not in the same cache line . . . ?
You really need to know your enemy, if you want to fight him effectively.
Rule number one about computer performance . . . know your workload!
AS one country after another on the periphery of the euro zone had to swallow painful reforms and fiscal austerity as the price for their bail-outs between 2010 and 2013, the surprise was that by and large they accepted the medicine without a large-scale populist revolt. But Sunday’s result in the Greek election marks a turning-point because Syriza, the radical-left party that has prevailed at the polls, campaigned on casting aside austerity, backtracking on the reforms and renegotiating the vast debt that Greece owes its European creditors. These policies are unacceptable to the euro-zone countries, especially Germany, that have lent Greece so much money. The outcome of the election could also have wider implications. Why does the Greek result matter?
A clash is impending because the Greeks see their recent history in a very different light from that of the Germans and other Europeans who have bailed them out. From the perspective of Northern creditor nations, Greece was the architect of its own misfortune by mismanaging its public finances on a staggering scale. It has been lent an astonishing amount of money in not just one but two bail-outs, amounting to €246 billion ($275 billion), worth more than the country’s entire economic output. From a Greek perspective, however, the country has suffered a calamitous decline in GDP, which at its low in late 2013 was 27% down on its pre-crisis peak. Harsh spending cuts and tax rises have been imposed again and again as conditions for further economic support. Greeks feel that they have lost control of their country, which is now instead being directed by the hated troika: the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank.
Syriza won on Sunday because Alexis Tsipras, the party's leader, offered a message of hope to a country still in despair, even though the economy is now recovering. But the difficulty with his plan for Greece is that it requires other Europeans to finance it—or to countenance a reversal of reforms they regard as vital for Greece to cope with euro-zone membership. If Mr Tsipras makes good on promises of higher spending and lower taxes then Greece will fail to meet its objective of running a big primary budget surplus (ie, before interest payments), which would make it far harder to get its debt down from 175% of GDP. And if he reverses reforms such as the ones that have brought down wages, then Greece will head back towards the uncompetitive economic mess that, along with budgetary mismanagement, got it into trouble in the first place.
In the negotiations that will now occur between Mr Tsipras and Greece’s creditors, Germany will give little ground. Angela Merkel, too, must pay attention to domestic opinion, which would be hostile to any concessions. The German chancellor also has to reckon with the wider impact of any deal that appeared to reward Syriza in emboldening populist revolts in other countries in the euro area, notably in Spain. For any country to leave the euro will be destabilising because it would break the supposed irrevocability of membership. But if Mr Tsipras were to get his way then the euro area would become a club where borrowers rather than lenders called the shots, which would be unsustainable. That is why Mr Tsipras will, before long, face a difficult choice between backing down on his demands—or presiding over a ruinous Greek exit.
With their economy in its current state, the usual leftist option of borrowing and spending their way out of it may be very limited..
Who in their right mind would lend to the Greeks? The way it is looking now, the German taxpayers will be paying for it . . . and they are not enthusiastically pleased about it, to say the least.
Having Greece and Germany share a common currency was a shit-brained idea. In one hour, German workers shove off a couple of Porsches and Mercedes of their production line. In one hour, Greek workers roll a few dolmades and stuff a few gigantes in a can.
And yes, I worked with some guys from Greece on a European Research project. Guys from the Athens Technology Center (ATC) and the National Technology University of Athens (NTUA). They took a month to do what student from the UK, USA or Germany could do in an afternoon.
I have the feeling that Varoufakis is just going to be another flak in the "Blame the EU" for problems of our own making choir.
Well, if you don't like the EU, Greece, don't let the door hit you on your ass on the way out.
I'm not well versed in Aesop's Fables . . . is there one about biting the hand that feeds you . . . ?
Actually, you can't blame this one on the NSA. Their mission is to observe and alert. In the case of the Boston Marathon Bomber, the Russian FSB (the follow on for the KGB) told the US authorities that these brothers were Islamic terrorists. And the FBI did nothing about it.
Who's in charge of the FBI? Oh, Eric Holder. Well, that figures.
What's on second.
Ida know . . . third base.
This call for vigilantism looks seriously dubious to me . . .
Think of it - the environment is only 30' in height top to bottom, the bottom is subjected to continuous bombardment by gravel and rocks so nothing can live on the bottom, and anything that is slow (low-energy) gets stoned out of existence, and it's -2C.
No sunlight, sulpher, or thermal vents to add energy to the ecosystem, hundreds of miles from the open sea
So, in other words, Slashdotters would call this "Mom's Basement" . . .
Slashdot Mirror
The imagery was supposed to be live streamed to the internet, for one thing.
I'm still a little torn on this issue. On one hand, I'm not sure that I am comfortable with Al Gore gazing at my butt while I am lounging outside naked in my backyard.
On the other hand, it seems that Al Gore's satellite would give me the opportunity to moon entire planet . . . !
I'd like to have the chip implanted in my dick. I have a tiny little mind, and am easily amused by puerile shenanigans . . . so whipping out my dick and waving it around to open doors and pay for stuff . . . priceless!
MasterCard, Visa and American Express, please take note of this post! This is the "Innovative Cloud of Internet of Things," that everyone is talking about!
Call me an old geezer, but I definitely have problems with neutrons from another brane taking a leak on my lawn . . .
With all these Braines, shouldn't there be a lot of zombies chasing them around?
And what are the physics of Zombie Neutron interaction?
This might be a question for Buckaroo Banzai, beyond the the eighth dimension . . .
If I am up against any big varmint that walks the face of this planet, I'd choose a Heckler & Koch MP7. Whatever is on the wrong side of the barrel of that . . . doesn't need to be concerned aboutf its retirement fund.
However, you need to be trained and experienced in using the weapon. Otherwise, when you are trying to plink a burglar in your house, you will end up hitting instead:
Your wife.
Your kids.
Your dog.
Any members of the Bush family that are considering to run for President of the US.
Hillary Clinton's granddaughter.
. . . and Barack Obama, as "The Beaver" . . .
It's a frighteningly effective weapon, and cops in the US are probably happy that drug gang folks have not discovered it yet.
Oh, and it has all the three things that the scientist Jared Diamond wrote about in in his book about what makes a successful civilization: Guns, Germans and Steel
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find:
- One forty-five caliber automatic
- Two boxes of ammunition
- Four days' concentrated emergency rations
- One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
- One miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible
- One hundred dollars in rubles
- One hundred dollars in gold
- Nine packs of chewing gum
- One issue of prophylactics
- Three lipsticks
- Three pair of nylon stockings.
Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
Yep! 12 oz. curls are most effective!
Actually, the ancient Greeks recommended "everything . . . in moderation". Which seems to be sound advice here, instead of jogging yourself to death. Is anyone here old enough to remember who Jim Fixx was?
At any rate, the modern Greeks seem to have forgotten to remember that old advice, with regards to debt.
The world never ceases to amuse me.
If the measure passes the House of Lords and gets licensed by the fertility regulator
To anyone who has seen the film "The Missouri Breaks" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... . . . the term "regulator" has a special meaning.
I am seriously considering adding that title to my email footer . . . "Certified Fertility Regulator" . . . although, that is NOT what you may think at first . . . watch the movie!
I hope that in ten years, when my children are telling me about how cool IBM is, I'll be able to say that there was a time it looked like they were doomed before they turned it around however painfully.
IBM almost cratered in the early 90's, before being rescued by an outsider CEO with a vision for the company . . . Lou Gerstner.
This ain't gonna happen with Ginni Rometty at the helm. She's just an Apparatchik. She has no vision.
If IBM's Board of Directors were doing their job, they would fire her, and not 100,000 employees.
Something is definitely wrong here. And with his experience he should have known better.
Well . . . this shows something very insightful about "certifications" in general. They can guarantee that someone should know better . . . but a certification cannot guarantee that someone will not do something stupid.
I see a lot of folks recently who put "Certified ScrumMaster" in their email footers. What that really guarantees . . . is debatable.
Actually, we should greet H1-Bs with open arms . . . if they were for executive management positions.
There is no problem with regular IBM employees.
They are just extremely poorly managed.
That is IBM's problem.
Don't they have a Board of Directors, or something like that . . . ?
. I'm sure that there are chemicals available which are excellent at fire fighting but also highly toxic and that those chemicals aren't used because of their lethality.
Since my town has started using Agent Orange to fight fires . . . we have drastically reduced the costs of the firefighters' pension fund.
Fighting fires is a real shitty job . . . you get exposed to all sorts of nasty toxic fumes . . . and you might even have flaming rafters collapse on you.
When I was a kid, being a fireman was one of those "what do you want to be when you grow up?" careers. But now, I really can't understand why those folks do it. I guess it might have something to do with conquering nature ("fire"), and saving people's lives and property . . . anything that the community has built up.
I'd give a fortune to go back in time, and have a chat with cavemen firefighters . . . just to see what motivated them.
Although, all I would probably hear would be, "Ugh!"
Your idiocy is showing.
No . . . yours is hanging out . . . wildly. Call me up when you go to High School and get accepted at MIT and Princeton. Insider tip: They look at the "character" of the applicant.
1- They aren't legal loopholes. A law previously passed by Congress that gives the POTUS authority to act is NOT a legal loophole.
The law says that people who are in the US illegally . . . are well, illegal. Obama is refusing to enforce the laws of the country. He could tell the FBI not to prosecute car jacking or rape, as well.
2- He isn't flooding the country with illegal immigrants.
Then why are shelters for illegal immigrants bursting to the rafters? Obama is pandering to Hispanic/Latino voters. There was a nice article about this in The Economist, but that is above your reading level.
3- He is the POTUS. He IS the head diplomat of the country. HE SETS FOREIGN POLICY.
When the US was formed, one thing that the founding fathers explicitly wanted to avoid, was creating a "kingdom" . . . a dictatorship. That is why the US government is divided into three branches, with a system of "checks and balances," to avoid a tyrant like King George III of England.
Yes, the POTUS is the boss . . . but he is expected to respect the other branches of government.
Obama is starting to look like Idi Amin.
Mr. Obama, please get your lips away from the crack pipe!"
4- What you said about taxes is a blatant lie. The taxes proposed are wholly on the upper classes and business.
Obama's upper classes and business are people who make more than $250,000 a year. For a pair of IT people working in California, that's about what they need, to afford the house and the kids. That's middle class.
Rich folks don't pay any taxes. They can afford expensive tax lawyers who can prove that they earn nothing.
you aren't the dumbest one here.
No, you are . . . number 6 :-)
Obama has, in Hollywood jargon, "jumped the shark".
As he provocatively noted in the State of the Union Address . . . he does not have to face any re-election. He has found legal loopholes, which allow him to do whatever he wants, and totally ignore Congress or the Supreme Court. He can open the borders to the US to floods of illegal immigrants, change foreign policy against nations that have threatened the US with nuclear missiles and call for violence against domestic police forces.
And now he will be implementing a tax plan to "help the middle class" . . . by taxing the middle class more. Rich folks don't pay any taxes. They can afford expensive tax lawyers. A lot of families with two working parents will be surprised to learn that they are "wealthy" under Obama's new rules.
I recently watched documentary in German television about infamous dictators Josef Stalin, Muammar Gaddafi and Idi Amin.
It was quite frightening that I thought that Obama would fit in quite well with this crew . . .
Actually, I travel a lot in Europe, and take a lot of taxis. I have only had very positive experiences with taxi drivers . . . because I treat them with respect.
Taxi drivers are the eyes and ears of a city . . . the NSA should drop all this online monitoring crap, and just put some taxi drivers on the payroll. They know everything. I was joking with one in Brussels, and asked him if he knew the address of the mistress of the Prime Minister. He answered, "Which one of his mistresses?"
Which is why this scares me a wee bit, when I hear that Über or whoever is harvesting data on passengers. And who will have access to that data . . . I think you know who.
Anyway, I have recently been in Delft, Holland, Paris, France, not Hilton, Nice, France, Birmingham, Southampton, UK, Brussels, Belgium, Zürich, Switzerland, Böblingen, Germany, Stuttgart, Germany, Darmstadt, Germany . . .
And where-ever you are . . . there you go. There is a taxi driver who will take you to where ever you need to go . . . if you treat him or her with respect!
Well, Slashdot could lead the way . . . just look at this Web Design . . . it can't appeal to female folks! Now, if all the text was in pink, and had "Oh, Ponies!" plastered all over it, we could get more females interested in IT!
Um, but didn't have that on Slashdot already a few years ago . . . around April 1st . . . ?
Yes . . . avoid bottlenecks . . . but do you really know what they are . . . ?
Is the workload I/O bound? Are multiple processors hanging in spin locks? Can you detect lock contention on your system? How about local cache invalidation on memory addresses, because all the processors want to update the same memory address. Can you split this global address into several local per-processor addresses? Re-align variables so they are not in the same cache line . . . ?
You really need to know your enemy, if you want to fight him effectively.
Rule number one about computer performance . . . know your workload!
If you want to read up on this stuff, google on "ibm patent multiple run queues" . . . they have done a lot of work in this area.
Maybe the miracle "Cool Brick" can also perform "Cold Fusion" . . . then you'd have your heat.
Also, maybe we should try to 3D print a cure for Ebola? Anything 3D printed seems to have magical properties.
how desperate for a story has /. become
Well, maybe the explanation is here: "Brain Injuries and the NFL" http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-th...
Typical German bullshit.
. . . so the factory German manager visits a factory in Greece. He asks, "How many people work here . . . ?"
The Greek factory manager answers, "Oh, about 60%".
German working week is 35 hours and Greek working week is 40 hours.
"Don't tell me how much you are working . . . tell me how much you get done."
Here's a better link to an article from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/blogs...
AS one country after another on the periphery of the euro zone had to swallow painful reforms and fiscal austerity as the price for their bail-outs between 2010 and 2013, the surprise was that by and large they accepted the medicine without a large-scale populist revolt. But Sunday’s result in the Greek election marks a turning-point because Syriza, the radical-left party that has prevailed at the polls, campaigned on casting aside austerity, backtracking on the reforms and renegotiating the vast debt that Greece owes its European creditors. These policies are unacceptable to the euro-zone countries, especially Germany, that have lent Greece so much money. The outcome of the election could also have wider implications. Why does the Greek result matter?
A clash is impending because the Greeks see their recent history in a very different light from that of the Germans and other Europeans who have bailed them out. From the perspective of Northern creditor nations, Greece was the architect of its own misfortune by mismanaging its public finances on a staggering scale. It has been lent an astonishing amount of money in not just one but two bail-outs, amounting to €246 billion ($275 billion), worth more than the country’s entire economic output. From a Greek perspective, however, the country has suffered a calamitous decline in GDP, which at its low in late 2013 was 27% down on its pre-crisis peak. Harsh spending cuts and tax rises have been imposed again and again as conditions for further economic support. Greeks feel that they have lost control of their country, which is now instead being directed by the hated troika: the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank.
Syriza won on Sunday because Alexis Tsipras, the party's leader, offered a message of hope to a country still in despair, even though the economy is now recovering. But the difficulty with his plan for Greece is that it requires other Europeans to finance it—or to countenance a reversal of reforms they regard as vital for Greece to cope with euro-zone membership. If Mr Tsipras makes good on promises of higher spending and lower taxes then Greece will fail to meet its objective of running a big primary budget surplus (ie, before interest payments), which would make it far harder to get its debt down from 175% of GDP. And if he reverses reforms such as the ones that have brought down wages, then Greece will head back towards the uncompetitive economic mess that, along with budgetary mismanagement, got it into trouble in the first place.
In the negotiations that will now occur between Mr Tsipras and Greece’s creditors, Germany will give little ground. Angela Merkel, too, must pay attention to domestic opinion, which would be hostile to any concessions. The German chancellor also has to reckon with the wider impact of any deal that appeared to reward Syriza in emboldening populist revolts in other countries in the euro area, notably in Spain. For any country to leave the euro will be destabilising because it would break the supposed irrevocability of membership. But if Mr Tsipras were to get his way then the euro area would become a club where borrowers rather than lenders called the shots, which would be unsustainable. That is why Mr Tsipras will, before long, face a difficult choice between backing down on his demands—or presiding over a ruinous Greek exit.
With their economy in its current state, the usual leftist option of borrowing and spending their way out of it may be very limited. .
Who in their right mind would lend to the Greeks? The way it is looking now, the German taxpayers will be paying for it . . . and they are not enthusiastically pleased about it, to say the least.
Having Greece and Germany share a common currency was a shit-brained idea. In one hour, German workers shove off a couple of Porsches and Mercedes of their production line. In one hour, Greek workers roll a few dolmades and stuff a few gigantes in a can.
And yes, I worked with some guys from Greece on a European Research project. Guys from the Athens Technology Center (ATC) and the National Technology University of Athens (NTUA). They took a month to do what student from the UK, USA or Germany could do in an afternoon.
I have the feeling that Varoufakis is just going to be another flak in the "Blame the EU" for problems of our own making choir.
Well, if you don't like the EU, Greece, don't let the door hit you on your ass on the way out.
I'm not well versed in Aesop's Fables . . . is there one about biting the hand that feeds you . . . ?
Actually, you can't blame this one on the NSA. Their mission is to observe and alert. In the case of the Boston Marathon Bomber, the Russian FSB (the follow on for the KGB) told the US authorities that these brothers were Islamic terrorists. And the FBI did nothing about it.
Who's in charge of the FBI? Oh, Eric Holder. Well, that figures.
What's on second.
Ida know . . . third base.
This call for vigilantism looks seriously dubious to me . . .
Think of it - the environment is only 30' in height top to bottom, the bottom is subjected to continuous bombardment by gravel and rocks so nothing can live on the bottom, and anything that is slow (low-energy) gets stoned out of existence, and it's -2C.
No sunlight, sulpher, or thermal vents to add energy to the ecosystem, hundreds of miles from the open sea
So, in other words, Slashdotters would call this "Mom's Basement" . . .