Computer Battle Royal
2 computer enter, 1 computer come out with positive balance sheet
The collection of computer-automated, high-speed trading technologies and techniques that are typically lumped under the heading of “high-frequency trading” (HFT) have been around for a while, but HFT has recently become heavily identified with the banking giant Goldman Sachs, which dominates some aspects of it [...]
Put Another Quarter in the Jukebox
I know you paid for it already, but you shouldn’t expect to own anything
The strongest divide today between Pirates and *insert big business attempting to sell digital content* is that even if we were to ‘come to our senses’ and stop breaking the law, to get the content we want how we want, the ‘legitimate’ [...]
Consider it a Health Investment
I’m one of the lucky .00001% of employees who get ‘free’ medical care from my job. I don’t pay any monthly or per-paycheck fee it’s just kinda factored in. Normally, and really over the last few years I’ve been here, I’ve never had any problems, the service kinda sucks and there’s co-pays on [...]
AT&T Owns Your Internet
Not that anyone really should ever go there, but this weekend many AT&T customers had problems accessing 4chan.org, the forum like site where kids of all ages post endlessly in one of the worst forum interfaces ever. The problem was that it wouldn’t work because AT&T blocked the website due to what it called [...]
Is a Pimp Just a Sex Banker?
Early this week I watched a debate, on youtube but it was syndicated to NPR at an earlier date in April, it asked “Is paying for sex morally wrong?”.
Both sides had good points, well the against side had really good points and the best the for side could come up with is “OMFG CHILD SLAVERY”. [...]
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
I’ve never seen a time in the history of this country where the republicans are on the people’s side, whither it’s cap and trade, the closing of gitmo, you know this president has an obsession with sending those terrorists into the United States and then health care.
Republicans are on the wrong side of cap and [...]
Outsourcing and Takeovers
Life Inc, I’m really going to miss this book once I read the last page, and it’s soon, but I wanted to talk about the chapter I’m in. Mainly the topic is how corporations outsource everything and don’t create value ourselves anymore.
He was on the Colbert Report, should be video below.
The Colbert Report
Mon – [...]
Gut Decision – Owl City
Holy shit he’s coming to Seattle!! He even has a song about us, that he put on his new album (although to me both versions sound the exact same).
Ocean Eyes is the newest album and he’s going to be at Neumos October 16th and I’d highly suggest buying tickets from their site cause google [...]
Liberty Campaign Not So Fiscally Conservative
In a recent e-mail from The Campaign for Liberty (Ron Paul’s grassroots organization) they phrased health care changes like this.
Universal health care has long been one of the chief tenets of the big government ideology. According to its adherents, not only does everyone have a “right” to health care, Congress has the right to [...]
One Step Closer to Freedom
Burgers are bad for you anyway
Police in the UK stopped a rave before it started thanks to a facebook tip that really paid off. Over a dozen people were speaking to each other while eating burgers until our knights and shining armor stopped this unlawful activity immediately. Rumor had it this rave was [...]
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