Stacy Summary: h/t @namarama for the first article . . . notice the guy turned his tin cans into gold; when I was a little girl, my best friend, Maureen, and I would make so much money during our summers just collecting tin cans . . . I should have stuck with it . . . !
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@Namarama. hahaha you were a shit the other day. what a difference a day makes,
We had a bum flute player in Utrecht that drove everybody nuts playing the same tunes every day, but he made so much money doing that..
I have a friend that moved up from being more or less a wasted without a penny to being someone with a good job and more than 30.000 Euro savings. He just can bring himself to spend it. Must be fear..
@Stacy
Apparently, you’re still doing it with little bags of sugar!
@ronron:
LOL.
lmao Danny. And reading The Telegraph too.
@ ME, Yes probably the lasting side-effect from the trauma of poverty.
A interesting analysis of the Irish experience of the boom years – by Fintan o Toole
He is very socially liberal and I do not share all of his politics but he is one of the most incisive and well researched journalists on this small island and is always worth a listen
Scroll down somewhat and look to the right video boxes
http://www.progressive-economy.ie/
also note the enormous private debt in both Spain and Ireland – this is a on a much bigger scale the the Greek fiasco and will kill these sovereigns very quickly if the state insures these dead banks
http://www.progressive-economy.ie/…/irelands-private-debt-is-it-time-to.html
I am listening to RTE radio and some young dumb fianna fail backbencher – he is talking about haircuts and the like ……….impossible he says
Some other little cretin is saying we should not play “fast and loose” with bank bondholders
God help us and save us
Finally the Irish times journalist o Regan says “at least we have a plan”
Dumb and Dumber
Haha. A message flashes up on a screen saying you’ve won millions and suddenly she believes she is entitled to it.
That’s that gambling psychosis that Max has been talking about.
This may or may not be related :
Academic Paper in China Sets Off Alarms in U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/world/asia/21grid.html
[...]
When reached by telephone, Mr. Wang said he and his professor had indeed published “Cascade-Based Attack Vulnerability on the U.S. Power Grid” in an international journal called Safety Science last spring. But Mr. Wang said he had simply been trying to find ways to enhance the stability of power grids by exploring potential vulnerabilities.
“We usually say ‘attack’ so you can see what would happen,” he said. “My emphasis is on how you can protect this. My goal is to find a solution to make the network safer and better protected.” And independent American scientists who read his paper said it was true: Mr. Wang’s work was a conventional technical exercise that in no way could be used to take down a power grid.
[...]
Mr. Wang said in the interview that he chose the United States grid for his study basically because it was the easiest way to go. China does not publish data on power grids, he said. The United States does and had had several major blackouts; and, as he reads English, it was the only country he could find with accessible, useful data. He said that he was an “emergency events management” expert and that he was “mainly studying when a point in a network becomes ineffective.”
“I chose the electricity system because the grid can best represent how power currents flow through a network,” he said. “I just wanted to do theoretical research.”
The paper notes the vulnerability of different types of computer networks to “intentional” attacks. The authors suggest that certain types of attacks may generate a domino-style cascading collapse of an entire network. “It is expected that our findings will be helpful for real-life networks to protect the key nodes selected effectively and avoid cascading-failure-induced disasters,” the authors wrote.
Mr. Wang’s paper cites the network science research of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, a physicist at Northeastern University. Dr. Barabasi has written widely on the potential vulnerability of networks to so-called engineered attacks.
“I am not well vested in conspiracy theories,” Dr. Barabasi said in an interview, “but this is a rather mainstream topic that is done for a wide range of networks, and, even in the area of power transmission, is not limited to the U.S. system — there are similar studies for power grids all over the world.”
@Stacy
Re: Tin can Curt
This is further proof that eccentric(?) people make better investors.
Poor casino hopeful. Back to the gulag you slave !
The house always wins! even if it says you won
The guy that collected scrap metal -> financial genius -> guess the theory of braindamaged investors still hold up, maybe i should start storing clean water… as hedge against the sugarbags… @stacy then you would’ve at least knew what it was like to be a millionaire and pretty recession proof job? not sure about employment/numbers for this sector.. Either way not seeing a future for humanity doing this kind of stuff, although recycling can be great.
it clearly was a software issue as $250k was the maximum jackpot for that slot machine. if they fork out that amount, thats still equivalent to 20 years wages for this woman. the laws gonna side with the casino on this one. she should demand the 250k cos its likely the true ‘jackpot’ that triggered the $42m message in the first place is a fairly low sum
damn software glitch…i wonder if it actually gave her a cash-out receipt with the millions on it?? the article just said flashed a message…sketchy reporting…i think maybe someone is giving the newspapers too much credit for tin can curt’s success…can’t wait for the day when my “heirs” are counting the loose change in my pockets…that was horrible…
well fair enough for the casino , if the listed highest jackpot on the game is $251,000,it cant be expected to pay out $42.9 million for a software error .