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  1. Re:Ammonia & Bleach on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 1

    We used to clean the showers and bathrooms with bleach/ ammonia in the army while wearing our gas masks. Our brown tshirts all faded to orange as well.

    Made too much one time and evacuated the whole wing of the barracks, but hey, it got the scum off the walls:)

  2. Re:whois nudebook.com on Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire · · Score: 5, Funny

    dear god, I hope so!

  3. Re:The Goal? on Peru To Be First To Put Windows On OLPC Laptop · · Score: 2

    Um, business happened and was accomplished in Peru. Bribery was involved. That's how business works down there. It's who you you know, and who you pay under the table.

    Not much different than here in the US really, but we hide it because of the anti-bribery laws. They also apply to US companies doing business in other countries, and foreign companies doing business in the US, but it's a lot harder to track in the foreign countries. Companies just need to be sneakier about the accounting, or worry about whistle blowers.

    Getting kind of off track here but yeah, bribery happened - if this went through *without* bribes? now *that* would be a story.

  4. Re:I don't think real-time feed == real-time marke on Google to Offer Real-Time Stock Quotes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    hate to reply to my own post - after digging through 570,000 ads for ticker software (what the hell?) I find that I was misinformed.

    The NYSE has "breakers" in place that close the markets after certain percentage drops so that auto-trading won't continue the downward spiral.

    external link to definition of "Rule 80b"

  5. I don't think real-time feed == real-time market on Google to Offer Real-Time Stock Quotes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought the whole point of the delay was so that we don't reproduce the crash that happened in what? '87? Which was exacerbated by real time software being triggered to sell in a downward spiral after the stock market had dropped a certain amount.

    I need to confirm that, but is that only the rule for NYSE, or US exchanges as a whole?