Gahh... it's much more appetizing to think of them with feathers...
Gahh... it's much more appetizing to think of them with feathers...
souen
Active Member
Agreed. Maybe because I'm used to seeing live birds with feathers, so they seem healthier to me that way.
Today I shared this on my Facebook as a joke. I even added *DO NOT ANSWER TRUTHFULLY* to the title.
Three fucking people answered truthfully.
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greenhunter2Today I shared this on my Facebook as a joke. I even added *DO NOT ANSWER TRUTHFULLY* to the title.
Three fucking people answered truthfully.
Ladies. You can all call me xXxGreenHunter2xXx. I will be taking phone numbers and emails now for your proposal of intercourse.
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I found that a lot more entertaining than I should have.
I was watching excerpts from We Feed the World and the part where JZ says, "Last year, 52% of the gross world product, that means all the wealth produced in the world in a year, was controlled by 500 global corporations" reminded me of a study for PLoS One done by complex systems theorists in Zurich:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html
Not that I have the will or the means to do so, but I was thinking it would be amusing if a similar study were done re: the web hosting market.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html
Not that I have the will or the means to do so, but I was thinking it would be amusing if a similar study were done re: the web hosting market.
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
... and the scary list to @HN-Matt's post above
Code:
The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies
1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc
21. Morgan Stanley
22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
23. Northern Trust Corporation
24. Société Générale
25. Bank of America Corporation
26. Lloyds TSB Group plc
27. Invesco plc
28. Allianz SE 29. TIAA
30. Old Mutual Public Limited Company
31. Aviva plc
32. Schroders plc
33. Dodge & Cox
34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc*
35. Sun Life Financial Inc
36. Standard Life plc
37. CNCE
38. Nomura Holdings Inc
39. The Depository Trust Company
40. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
41. ING Groep NV
42. Brandes Investment Partners LP
43. Unicredito Italiano SPA
44. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan
45. Vereniging Aegon
46. BNP Paribas
47. Affiliated Managers Group Inc
48. Resona Holdings Inc
49. Capital Group International Inc
50. China Petrochemical Group CompanyImaginary projects: a satire of LowEndTalk called lowendtalk.io or [your favourite domain extension]. The forum would require no active participation. It would be programmed to grab and reproduce threads from lowendtalk.com. Each thread would be parsed and those with content in favour of ColoCrossing set to auto-sink.
(I was thinking of )
(I was thinking of )
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
There is lowendtalk.me which someone made - appears to just be a front end proxy for LET.
Probably could do a bit of interesting with parsing things since lots of the site are already parsed.
Colocrossing content set to autosink would be an interesting view of the site.
DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
Tuesday night reading material:
full report (74 pages): https://www.eff.org/files/2015/06/18/who_has_your_back_2015_protecting_your_data_from_government_requests_20150618.pdf
summary: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015
full report (74 pages): https://www.eff.org/files/2015/06/18/who_has_your_back_2015_protecting_your_data_from_government_requests_20150618.pdf
In a couple days here, if you guys smell something kinda fruity, maybe a little skunky while you're at your desks next week, fear not, it's just marijuana decriminalization happening here in Oregon. Might get a little smokey on the freeways on the 1st.
Kind of a funny story about that... On my wedding day, at the reception, I had my jacket off, and my best man slipped a single joint in the left coat pocket and didn't tell me about it. I found it the next day when I was going for my cigarettes. I had to stay somewhat close to Portland at the time, so we spent a week at a VERY expensive hotel downtown, right on the esplanade.
Day three comes around, and I'm sore as hell from all the walking, talking, socializing, uncomfortable shoes ...the wedding night, let's be real... Anyhow, it was a beautiful day, and well, I decided, what the heck, it's there, my back's killing me. I took it down to the waterfront, picked out a nice quiet spot near the river, took a look around, and lit up. Kicked my back up to a big tree, and just watched the boats pass by, not hurting anyone. Turned around to put it out, and a bicycle cop was parked right behind me, waiting. What could I even say? All I could do was smile coyly, and choke out "Um...I didn't do it?" The cop... he couldn't hold it in anymore, and just started laughing. So I told him the truth.
"Alright, let me see your room key and the wedding ring."
I stuck my left hand out somewhat crooked, kissy-kissy like, and he lost it again.
"You're .... on your honeymoon?"
"Please....be gentile."
"Learned your lesson? You're gonna keep that stuff inside right?"
"One time deal. Practical joke from my best man."
"Alright man, congrats, but if I smell it when I roll back here later, I can't cut you another break. I'll have to write you up for it."
"Won't need to. I'm off to watch Mr. Ed."
He held another laugh under his breath and rode away. I watched the boats for a while, and went back to my wife.
What? Are my containers of lesser quality because of a single day three years ago? Mhmm.
Peace.
Kind of a funny story about that... On my wedding day, at the reception, I had my jacket off, and my best man slipped a single joint in the left coat pocket and didn't tell me about it. I found it the next day when I was going for my cigarettes. I had to stay somewhat close to Portland at the time, so we spent a week at a VERY expensive hotel downtown, right on the esplanade.
Day three comes around, and I'm sore as hell from all the walking, talking, socializing, uncomfortable shoes ...the wedding night, let's be real... Anyhow, it was a beautiful day, and well, I decided, what the heck, it's there, my back's killing me. I took it down to the waterfront, picked out a nice quiet spot near the river, took a look around, and lit up. Kicked my back up to a big tree, and just watched the boats pass by, not hurting anyone. Turned around to put it out, and a bicycle cop was parked right behind me, waiting. What could I even say? All I could do was smile coyly, and choke out "Um...I didn't do it?" The cop... he couldn't hold it in anymore, and just started laughing. So I told him the truth.
"Alright, let me see your room key and the wedding ring."
I stuck my left hand out somewhat crooked, kissy-kissy like, and he lost it again.
"You're .... on your honeymoon?"
"Please....be gentile."
"Learned your lesson? You're gonna keep that stuff inside right?"
"One time deal. Practical joke from my best man."
"Alright man, congrats, but if I smell it when I roll back here later, I can't cut you another break. I'll have to write you up for it."
"Won't need to. I'm off to watch Mr. Ed."
He held another laugh under his breath and rode away. I watched the boats for a while, and went back to my wife.
What? Are my containers of lesser quality because of a single day three years ago? Mhmm.
Peace.
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Man lucky lucky thing.In a couple days here, if you guys smell something kinda fruity, maybe a little skunky while you're at your desks next week, fear not, it's just marijuana decriminalization happening here in Oregon. Might get a little smokey on the freeways on the 1st.
Kind of a funny story about that... On my wedding day, at the reception, I had my jacket off, and my best man slipped a single joint in the left coat pocket and didn't tell me about it. I found it the next day when I was going for my cigarettes. I had to stay somewhat close to Portland at the time, so we spent a week at a VERY expensive hotel downtown, right on the esplanade.
Day three comes around, and I'm sore as hell from all the walking, talking, socializing, uncomfortable shoes ...the wedding night, let's be real... Anyhow, it was a beautiful day, and well, I decided, what the heck, it's there, my back's killing me. I took it down to the waterfront, picked out a nice quiet spot near the river, took a look around, and lit up. Kicked my back up to a big tree, and just watched the boats pass by, not hurting anyone. Turned around to put it out, and a bicycle cop was parked right behind me, waiting. What could I even say? All I could do was smile coyly, and choke out "Um...I didn't do it?" The cop... he couldn't hold it in anymore, and just started laughing. So I told him the truth.
"Alright, let me see your room key and the wedding ring."
I stuck my left hand out somewhat crooked, kissy-kissy like, and he lost it again.
"You're .... on your honeymoon?"
"Please....be gentile."
"Learned your lesson? You're gonna keep that stuff inside right?"
"One time deal. Practical joke from my best man."
"Alright man, congrats, but if I smell it when I roll back here later, I can't cut you another break. I'll have to write you up for it."
"Won't need to. I'm off to watch Mr. Ed."
He held another laugh under his breath and rode away. I watched the boats for a while, and went back to my wife.
What? Are my containers of lesser quality because of a single day three years ago? Mhmm.
Peace.
GIANT_CRAB
New Member
Went for Walkabout@SG today. Pretty cool learning experience and met some awesome folks too.
I've also gotten an AWS $50 credit coupon - sign up here (not sure if you guys in the USA can use it, just try)
If you're interested, do read more about my adventure: https://woohuiren.me/blog/walkaboutsg/
I've also gotten an AWS $50 credit coupon - sign up here (not sure if you guys in the USA can use it, just try
)If you're interested, do read more about my adventure: https://woohuiren.me/blog/walkaboutsg/
People here aren't really worried about it much. Jails are full of meth-heads and real criminals, so giving me a ticket over a half-smoked joint would just make extra work for him anyway. Portlanders tend to think of it akin to having a drink or two at the end of the day. For me, it was kind of like "okay, married now, added responsibilities, and have talked about kids, have it and call it good", etc. But hey, at least those who smoke it now might not have to worry as much about the paranoia part. Other than a couple times in high school, that about did it for my rebellious stage.
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