Some Christianist dingbat declared today a day of prayer for the world's economy. And look what their followers were doing on Wall Street:


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First, it should be clear that the $700bn bailout plan is already a failure. That's because it contains no provisions to actually fix what's wrong. The problem is not a crisis of liquidity, for which a great wad of government cash is a reasonable fix, but a crisis of confidence. Major US banks have been running at reserve ratios of 3%-5% and they ( Read more... )

Some things speak for themselves:

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aoibhill and GP just arrived this afternoon. And we have internet. And the rest of our stuff is being delivered Monday. We have arrived!

The bailout plans that have been coming out of DC are bags of flaming dogshit left at the door of not only all of us, but of our children and grandchildren as well. They all do nothing but reward the cretins and con men who engineered this mess with enormous lakes of taxpayer's cash in exchange for meaningless paper and toothless alleged oversight ( Read more... )

...and puts a torpedo in the Wall Street bailout deal. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the paragraph below.

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Going to look at a house for rent advertised on Craigslist is much like signing up to be publicly rickrolled. The probability that either the house or the landlord (usually both) will be sketchy, not as advertised, or otherwise deranged, is damn near unity. The only sketchier part of Craigslist is casual encounters. Agent = totally worthwhile.

I am in a room with lumiere and a dozen other geeks and an ultrasound machine hooked up to a Skype connection to another hacker lab in NYC. I would explain, but it just wouldn't make any more sense and quite possibly a good deal less.