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Persecution and prosecution of journalists in the US over the past few years has gone beyond anything in my lifetime, but Obama's a lame duck. Since they're largely administrative (DoJ, admin lapdog) decisions, it's kind of pointless to talk about it except maybe to bring awareness to it and see what 2016 pres. candidates say.
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Yep. About an hour away from feeling the first punch. Then I start deliveries.  There's that ridiculously-named "Invest 91L" blasting (and apparently stuck in) the West side of Grand Bahama and expected to eventually work its way up the East coast, too. |
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Currently in South-central MI (around Jackson). Ready to repack just to live around somewhere with DSL and relevant job opportunities. Need a month to re-locate. Canada's fine, somewhere within ~150mi of Chicago ideal. References and non-redacted resumes on email/PM request (GPG requests OK). Figured there's a reasonable chance of finding employment by posting "everywhere" given the minimal geographical restriction. Process scientistPartially-redacted resume: http://www.scribd.com/doc/232057779/Amy-Brookhouser-Resume?secret_password=0jIwBz6ByHmNajJzAoXaBrief: Most comfortable in organic chemistry and working more with data and equipment than people, though still a team player. Unrelenting focus on efficiency. Experience in Six Sigma (green belt). Had child and was out of labor market for a while, decided it was time to go back a few months ago and's worked with me, but there's really nothing relevant to her skill set around here. Sees self in role of: streamlining processes (SOPs), equipment maintenance, regulatory compliance (EPA, validation), research science, HR for relevant fields, gardening Compensation/conditions expectations: [1] $14/hr, health & dental [2] $17/hr, no benefits [3] deal involving cash payment and/or boarding for three (no pets) negotiable. ~25-40h/wk preferred (no night shifts or shifting shifts). Partial BTC payment OK. If in major city, multiply pay expectations by 1.3. Available: July 29th, 2014 (can be relocated by that time) General laborPartially-redacted resume: PM or email (basically, WYSIWYG - have worked as admin. clerk shuffling papers, on manufacturing line moving hunks of metal, and in transcription project on forum - I take on boat-loads of gigs and side-jobs, though, enough where I can probably list off a couple relevant ones and possibly cobble together a portfolio for whatever's proposed) Brief: Most comfortable with auditing paperwork ("spot the difference"), a "casual" heavy lifting environment, acting as go-between, and with remote CSR or writing jobs. Prefer working alone, fine with regular interfacing and working together with defined and separate roles, but generally averse to "meshing work" with others on team projects. Sees self in role of: remote CSR/SupportDesk, transcriptionist, full-service cashier (cleaning, stocking), general labor (ranches okay, though pouring rennet would be preferred to scraping it) Compensation/conditions expectations: [1] $9/hr, no benefits (benefits not valued unless it involves cheese). 25-40h/wk if on payroll, 25-60h/wk if not. Night shifts, 24/7 on-call, and shifting shifts fine. Full BTC payment preferred. Corporate environment unacceptable. If in major city and work is not remote, multiply pay expectation by 1.3. Available: July 29th, 2014 (can be relocated by that time) |
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It's really tough to do right, it seems. I've never seen a forum implement likes, dislikes, or a reputation system without it turning into a circle-jerk mixed with unnecessary drama. I can't even really think of any way to improve it, though. Tying money in doesn't seem to help... I found a druggo forum where the users were all able to kind of "sub-reply" with comments and a rating of the post, which seemed like a really great idea, but their posts were all unreadable quasi-academic papers and still unproductive given sourcing every argument you make doesn't change reality (it was still a lot of speculation and disagreeing studies), just takes up a damn lot of time and looks like an exclusionary human centipede of ball-sucking.
I'd be worried, especially with hero+ members, that the ball-sucking human centipede would come in the form of all non-optimistic bitcoin news or speculation being hidden. I took a different position before, but now I don't really buy that forum members should have any kind of regulatory power over others. The trust system was a really cool experiment and seems completely reasonable, but I haven't found it beneficial in practice (maybe a poll would help determine whether or not users find it useful?). Spam and the like's dealt with fairly quickly on the forum already using only the pretty basic reporting mechanism. It doesn't fix scamming, but as long as it's clear it doesn't (rather, that it can't), I guess that's acceptable.
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I'm sort of surprised that no one has even proposed a hardfork to recover those coins esp. in light of mtgox somehow losing most of their customer's coins.  ... Huh. Knowing this was accidental, is there any moral obligation to recover lost funds through a hard fork, especially considering the now-victims weren't even the people who "directly" lost it? Like... some guy accidentally drops $1.7M down a near-bottomless pit, and at the bottom of the pit are some kind of human-controlled robot miners who could bring it up with just a bit of fuss - should the controllers order the robots to bring the money up, or should it just sit there for all eternity because - hey, I'm not the idiot who dropped $1.7m down a pit? This is a pretty unique situation... almost like we can "print" away the debt - except the coins were always there, just lost. |
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It'd be very interesting if Rand could tap into the military donation $#s Ron grabbed in '08, if only because there's a better chance the media'd run the story on how big the gap is, especially with national dismay over recent wars and now-unpopular views of competition.  |
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I'm not on there, either. Blockchain.info's client doesn't connect to every single node on Earth, just a very large handful.
I'd guess India's dark because Blockchain.info doesn't have nodes operating around there.
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Great for people who truly hate drivers in the oncoming lane who refuse to turn off their high-beams at night even after flashing them. Err - I mean, great for bringing down small planes. Err - I mean, great for lighting your friends on fire.
Errr - I mean, great for pointing at the ground, far away from living creatures, and looking at while stoned.
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I'd guess you have a savings account, then? Checking and savings are practically the same at credit union here. Checking allows higher interest rate if you use debit card, and obviously allows you to tie a debit card to it. No fees. Have $5 in savings only because it's required to keep the checking account open which I use for auto-pay bills. I don't usually check it, though... I just keep cash at the house from selling BTC and let bills and direct deposits from employer kind of balance each other out or whatever it's doing in there. Keep debit card with me, but in past couple years, have only used it once when a tire went flat on the road and I got talked into buying four like-new tires which don't even fit because I'm a non-confrontational moron.
Use credit cards for 0% intro rates but transfer the balance to a new 0% card after. Idunno how people get so many loans out at once... CreditKarma gives me a "D" on a particular stat for only having 5 accounts open, because obviously I need 20 accounts open to be most creditworthy. Who the Hell could possibly have 20 accounts open at financial institutions?
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Even if it's a net benefit, this has to be one of the most fundamentally stupid judgments out of the SCOTUS since the World Wars. I can't get out of this coverage if I don't want it, but if a corporation claims some Rain Man at the Westboro Baptist Church said one of the hundreds of legally recognized cloud-gods disapproves, they can get out of it. This is pluralism gone full-retard.
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What kind of satisfaction could come from having hundreds of trillions of non-tangible humans "running" at once? It'd be a waste to even try doing anything once that's accomplished. All data they create would be analyzed automatically to figure out which conditions cause what. The only job/hobby left would be tweaking variables, creating pre-made content, watching people suffer, and upgrading hardware. .... Okay, being God would be pretty cool... Maybe a creation myth where everyone comes from the piss oceans, and therefor everyone must live on the coastlines to piss into the piss oceans so life can continue, and if people stop pissing in the oceans, increase birth defect chances until people die out or start pissing in the oceans again.
.... Okay, that'd be really damn cool. Take a Paradox Interactive map and have it made up of "real" humans guided by different gods (actual humans) who speak to the countries' leaders like was done with Dubya. If agnosticism or atheism take hold, just send a few hurricanes or HIV to wipe out the heathens. Oh, I could totally get into that role! Where do I sign up?
Oh, but then some White Knight will give the fake humans bodies in the real world and they'll kill us all, and we probably still wouldn't know how a god-damned bicycle works.
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Did US-backed zealots desalinate the Black Sea?
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The best thing that Obama did siince he was elected is legalization of weed
So let's smoke that weed! Obama care is pretty good for senior who has not reach the retirement age.
Obama has not legalized weed, he just gave guidance to the DEA. You are not a senior until retirement age, hence no retirement, senior citizens discounts or other things they get. What is retirement age in the US anymore? Pensions are a relic, social security's on the way out... I guess the age you can withdraw from 401(k) without penalty or emergency waiver? That's 62, I think? Irrelevant for some people, though. Maybe non-disability Medicare age? |
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You can tell a game sucks if you don't have to restart at least once.  Hopefully, will finish 4.5GB download before next two-years-in-the-making Dwarf Fortress update comes out, otherwise might get sucked back into that.  |
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Internet connection doesn't need speed, but needs to be fairly reliable and low-latency, which I'd guess is a crapshoot if you're rural like me. In my case, I had to go out and buy a 3G/4G cell booster from Wilson Electronics. Has worked surprisingly well, but is fairly expensive. Very interested in hearing about results from this experiment. Could also be useful in converting flank steak to jerky. I've been wanting to pipe the cold from the basement to rest of house. Same sq. ft. as house and ~15*F cooler - generally dryer, too. Having trouble exchanging air with just a fan at the stairs, but don't really want to start drilling holes in the floor just yet (figured I'd try a couple case fans on the end of a couple PVC pipes going through floor of house into basement). |
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interest rates are manipulated to try to keep inflation low
In theory, but not in practice. For the last 25 years, interest rates have been kept low to benefit the wealthy, and the result has been inflation that has destroyed the wealth of the poor and middle class. What inflation??  Just so no question of graph bias for ending where it did, 2009-2014 adj. CPI-U still avg 2.08% annually. Over ten years, would be ~23% inflation, which is pretty reasonable looking at the past. I'm sure I'm not understanding how inflation works after seeing lack of effect on CPI from QE. I always figured CPI was tied to M2 and that CPI growth lagged a bit behind M2, but doesn't seem to be the case or we're on the verge of hyperinflation, but I'm not sure how long I can buy "we're on the verge of hyperinflation" without seeing it. At the grocery store, beef & pork's prohibitively expensive, but it doesn't really translate elsewhere from my unscientific observations. Looks in line with BLS CPI-U numbers. Milk, grain, and soy products are all still reasonably priced. Chicken a bit high, but reasonable. Rice and potatoes still about as cheap as topsoil. Fruits haven't exploded in price, but are somewhat expensive-seeming. Packaged foods and restaurants have become terribly expensive, but "real food" hasn't exploded in price even though rented acreage out for farming here at near-record prices. High prices for pre-made food maybe a result of skyrocketing minimum wages throughout the states, where farms don't necessarily need to pay it. |
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I see your into those kind of games you should get diablo 3,world of warcraft,and fallout they are all open world kind of games diablo is just like world of warcraft but have a different platform,classes,and weapons I play it on my xbox but on pc its amazing!!! Fallout is set in the future when the world has died to an waste land and you have to run around defeating crazy bosses and enemys from robots to lizards. I most likely prefer Fallout New Vegas for the best gaming experience.
Diablo 3 is an utter failure. Anyone who played Diablo 2 knows that. People who play Wow think its the greates thing on earth. Diablo is Diablo and should have nothing to do with Wow. If you haven't tried Path of Exile yet and you liked Diablo 2, you should probably do so. It's basically exactly what Diablo 3 should have been. It was made by a group of hardcore Diablo 2 players. The dev team is amazing and interacts with the community all the time. Best dev team I've ever seen in gaming by far. Oh and it's 100% free to play with no pay to win aspects whatsoever. I just watched some youtube videos of it, Im gonna check it out looks really cool. Is there a Cow Level? J/k No, seriously - is there a cow level? I tried Titan Quest when it came out as a substitute for D3 but was unsatisfied, and D3 was a total disappointment, but never tried Path of Exile. Will give it a shot - thanks for rec. |
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