Interpol announced today that they have arrested 'Mike', a prolific Nigerian email fraudster. They are keen to hear from victims of this scammer or indeed from victims of any scammer. Please send your name, address and date of birth to fraud@theinterpol.com. Don't forget to tell us the amount you have lost and include your full bank account details so we can process your refund without delay.
Well he turned down a request from Trump to write a sequel and now after 30 years, during which I assume he hasn't been idle, he's written this article for the New Yorker, in which he sets out his reluctance to write the book in the first place (he did it for the money). He knew Trump well and thinks he isn't fit to be president for reasons which include his casual relationship with the truth, short attention span, thin skin and lack of interest in anything which isn't Trump.
Trump's ghostwriter spent 18 months with him and thinks he's a sociopath.
If he were writing âoeThe Art of the Dealâ today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, âoeThe Sociopath.â
If you were thinking about Molesworth's Fotherington-Thomas, that most girly of boys is an unfortunate choice for this discussion. How about Cholmondeley-Warner?
In the UK, double-barrelled names are often associated with old, rich or land-owning families, where they were used to keep a family name alive (not to be confused with shotgun weddings).
This wasn't a mistake in engineering, it was deliberate. I wonder if the "larger catalytic converter" now being retrofitted was part of the reason for the fraud - those things are filled with expensive precious metals.
Stop! Nobody move! I've just dropped the sum total of human knowledge on the floor, so if you can all get down on your hand and knees and help me look for it, this might not mean the end of civilization as we know it.
"Trump would be a disaster for innovation," wrote 145 technology leaders in an open letter
In the UK, Michael Gove, an Oxford graduate, Times journalist, Cabinet minister and leading campaigner to leave the EU, said recently, âoepeople in this country have had enough of expertsâ.
His side of course won (though he personally hasn't, now being out of government) and that is the constituency Trump appeals to, one which no longer trusts rationality and expertise and is often, sad to say, receptive to any old rubbish as long as it's simple, appealing and delivered with conviction.
Who can blame them? They're told each time, "Experts say vote for me and everything will be great", only to find that decades on, they're no better off, their town has become slightly more crappy and their kids can't find jobs.
It's hard to say what Trump himself believes in; so far it looks like Trump and money.
I agree, both Corbyn and May appear to be honest. Cameron, being a PR man by trade, could never master honesty (he had a bit of trouble with competence too).
Theresa May looks like the best of a bad bunch. On the debit side, her authoritarian tendencies have only increased during her time as Home Secretary (it seems to afflict nearly all who hold that post). To her credit, she has taken more notice of actual evidence than some politicians when making decisions and seems to want to be fair.
She'll need all the stubbornness she's noted for to hold to the words of her initial speech, against all the rich and powerful influences gathering at No. 10's door.
I'm unsure what her appointment of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary means; maybe she had to have him inside the tent and has given him a last chance or enough rope. Seems a bit reckless though.
Just like the management and staff of the hospitals, children's homes, charities etc where Savile molested a lot of his victims. Maybe they were all in on the conspiracy.
I agree with you about us not knowing enough about GMOs but my worries stem not so much from eating GM foods so much as from letting these artificially modified genes loose in the environment, where they are free to mutate or be transferred to any other semi-random organism given the right conditions (and I bet we don't know all about what they might be either).
Yes, some of them have been emboldened to come out of the woodwork by the result, which doesn't detract from my argument. I didn't say most Leave voters are racist nor do I believe it but a significant fraction are. It's hard to come to any other conclusion when someone says they're voting Leave because of immigration when their life is hardly affected by immigrants. I'd guess 15-20% of the population believe that the country would be better off without any foreigners; far fewer would say so but a Leave vote was the perfect means to express such views.
It's more understandable for those whose livelihoods have been undercut by immigrants willing to work for less but they are mistaken if they think their lot will get better as a result of Leave. Their anger is directed towards the wrong target (whether that's the EU or foreigners) and those in charge of Leave don't give a toss about their lives anyway.
My evidence has been gained from living in England for several decades. Ask someone if they're a racist and they'll probably deny it, perhaps indignantly, but listen to them talking amongst people they know and you might hear a different story. Most people who hold such views have learnt to hide their racism because it's not publicly acceptable any more but it's still there.
I once saw a film about a woman in some austere religious community who had an affair. It was very slow and dull but it was in Danish or something which meant it had subtitles, so it was much improved by watching it at 8x speed. I might use the same technique if I ever have to watch Lost In Translation again.
It is slightly unfair but mostly true. A lot of the people who voted leave are out-and-out racists. Leave was particularly popular in areas which saw their industries destroyed in the 1980s when Thatcher and the free market tore up the social contract in which the aim of the economy was to provide jobs, homes and pensions for the UK's citizens.
Since then, successive governments have more or less abandoned these areas which are now into their third generation of unemployment and reading the Sun.
This piece about Ebbw Vale in Wales, one of the poorest places in the UK, shows the level of idiocy.
tl;dr Standing outside an area where the EU has subsidised factories, roads, jobs, training. Why did you vote to leave the EU? Immigration. Are there many immigrants round here? No.
The northern Irish vote was more or less split between the Catholic counties who wanted to stay in the EU so the border with their brethren in the Republic of Ireland would stay open and the Protestants who want to stay with England no matter what.
"We ask you to enact sensible reform that balances the interests of creators with the interests of the companies who exploit music for their financial enrichment. It's only then that consumers will truly benefit."
The companies they're talking about are clearly the record companies but I don't understand how giving them more money will benefit consumers.
Slashdot Mirror
Interpol announced today that they have arrested 'Mike', a prolific Nigerian email fraudster. They are keen to hear from victims of this scammer or indeed from victims of any scammer. Please send your name, address and date of birth to fraud@theinterpol.com. Don't forget to tell us the amount you have lost and include your full bank account details so we can process your refund without delay.
Well he turned down a request from Trump to write a sequel and now after 30 years, during which I assume he hasn't been idle, he's written this article for the New Yorker, in which he sets out his reluctance to write the book in the first place (he did it for the money). He knew Trump well and thinks he isn't fit to be president for reasons which include his casual relationship with the truth, short attention span, thin skin and lack of interest in anything which isn't Trump.
I've seen enough of Harrison Ford's films to know that although he was in danger of imminent death, he could have escaped easily without a scratch.
Trump's ghostwriter spent 18 months with him and thinks he's a sociopath.
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
If you were thinking about Molesworth's Fotherington-Thomas, that most girly of boys is an unfortunate choice for this discussion. How about Cholmondeley-Warner?
In the UK, double-barrelled names are often associated with old, rich or land-owning families, where they were used to keep a family name alive (not to be confused with shotgun weddings).
This wasn't a mistake in engineering, it was deliberate. I wonder if the "larger catalytic converter" now being retrofitted was part of the reason for the fraud - those things are filled with expensive precious metals.
All very entertaining (I read the BBC story) but I'm at a loss to see the Slashdot angle.
Stop! Nobody move! I've just dropped the sum total of human knowledge on the floor, so if you can all get down on your hand and knees and help me look for it, this might not mean the end of civilization as we know it.
"Trump would be a disaster for innovation," wrote 145 technology leaders in an open letter
In the UK, Michael Gove, an Oxford graduate, Times journalist, Cabinet minister and leading campaigner to leave the EU, said recently, âoepeople in this country have had enough of expertsâ.
His side of course won (though he personally hasn't, now being out of government) and that is the constituency Trump appeals to, one which no longer trusts rationality and expertise and is often, sad to say, receptive to any old rubbish as long as it's simple, appealing and delivered with conviction.
Who can blame them? They're told each time, "Experts say vote for me and everything will be great", only to find that decades on, they're no better off, their town has become slightly more crappy and their kids can't find jobs.
It's hard to say what Trump himself believes in; so far it looks like Trump and money.
I agree, both Corbyn and May appear to be honest. Cameron, being a PR man by trade, could never master honesty (he had a bit of trouble with competence too).
Theresa May looks like the best of a bad bunch. On the debit side, her authoritarian tendencies have only increased during her time as Home Secretary (it seems to afflict nearly all who hold that post). To her credit, she has taken more notice of actual evidence than some politicians when making decisions and seems to want to be fair.
She'll need all the stubbornness she's noted for to hold to the words of her initial speech, against all the rich and powerful influences gathering at No. 10's door.
I'm unsure what her appointment of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary means; maybe she had to have him inside the tent and has given him a last chance or enough rope. Seems a bit reckless though.
Just like the management and staff of the hospitals, children's homes, charities etc where Savile molested a lot of his victims. Maybe they were all in on the conspiracy.
Yep, neither Monty nor Python was known for being an arsehole.
He hosts a breakfast radio show, I think because it helps to hurry people out of their homes in the morning.
I agree with you about us not knowing enough about GMOs but my worries stem not so much from eating GM foods so much as from letting these artificially modified genes loose in the environment, where they are free to mutate or be transferred to any other semi-random organism given the right conditions (and I bet we don't know all about what they might be either).
Yes, some of them have been emboldened to come out of the woodwork by the result, which doesn't detract from my argument. I didn't say most Leave voters are racist nor do I believe it but a significant fraction are. It's hard to come to any other conclusion when someone says they're voting Leave because of immigration when their life is hardly affected by immigrants. I'd guess 15-20% of the population believe that the country would be better off without any foreigners; far fewer would say so but a Leave vote was the perfect means to express such views.
It's more understandable for those whose livelihoods have been undercut by immigrants willing to work for less but they are mistaken if they think their lot will get better as a result of Leave. Their anger is directed towards the wrong target (whether that's the EU or foreigners) and those in charge of Leave don't give a toss about their lives anyway.
Where's the contradiction?
My evidence has been gained from living in England for several decades. Ask someone if they're a racist and they'll probably deny it, perhaps indignantly, but listen to them talking amongst people they know and you might hear a different story. Most people who hold such views have learnt to hide their racism because it's not publicly acceptable any more but it's still there.
I once saw a film about a woman in some austere religious community who had an affair. It was very slow and dull but it was in Danish or something which meant it had subtitles, so it was much improved by watching it at 8x speed. I might use the same technique if I ever have to watch Lost In Translation again.
It is slightly unfair but mostly true. A lot of the people who voted leave are out-and-out racists. Leave was particularly popular in areas which saw their industries destroyed in the 1980s when Thatcher and the free market tore up the social contract in which the aim of the economy was to provide jobs, homes and pensions for the UK's citizens.
Since then, successive governments have more or less abandoned these areas which are now into their third generation of unemployment and reading the Sun.
This piece about Ebbw Vale in Wales, one of the poorest places in the UK, shows the level of idiocy.
tl;dr
Standing outside an area where the EU has subsidised factories, roads, jobs, training.
Why did you vote to leave the EU?
Immigration.
Are there many immigrants round here?
No.
The northern Irish vote was more or less split between the Catholic counties who wanted to stay in the EU so the border with their brethren in the Republic of Ireland would stay open and the Protestants who want to stay with England no matter what.
Why would I pay $200 a month for 0.000000001 of a degree? That doesn't seem like a good deal.
"We ask you to enact sensible reform that balances the interests of creators with the interests of the companies who exploit music for their financial enrichment. It's only then that consumers will truly benefit."
The companies they're talking about are clearly the record companies but I don't understand how giving them more money will benefit consumers.
I added "or something" to tip the balance.
No 2 is quite worrying. I hope that's been remedied now.
Fedora sensibly close all bugs when a new version is released on the assumption that they're fixed, or something.
It was recently used in quite a serious assault. You could rename the AR-15 the Fluffy Bunny but it would kill just as efficiently.
"DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation), an organisation with huge holdings of Ethereum"
Might want to work on the Decentralised bit.