-Sometimes the smallest of joys are the greatest…
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“To Infinity and beyond!”, NASA’s prototype for their next spacesuit.
(via New NASA Spacesuit Looks like Buzz Lightyear’s | Z-1 Prototype Photos | Space.com)
Fatwa against Christmas
This should keep the shock jocks in Sydney going for awhile.
The Fataw, or ruling, states that Muslims shouldn’t have anything to do with xmas. It also states that Christmas consists of “falsehoods that a Muslim should avoid … and therefore, a Muslim is neither allowed to celebrate the Christmas Day nor is he allowed to congratulate them”.
Which are pretty strong words coming from a guy that believes that it’s possible to ride a flying horse into heaven.
Teachers deserve a better response than that given by the NRA.
Guns won’t save them. Laws will. A lesson for Australia to the USA.
It’s December 22nd in Australia
And we are still here!
Hope your day goes as well.
Wishing all a very happy and safe holiday season.
Cheers,
Paul
UBS AG, Switzerland’s biggest bank, fired its head of credit-default swaps index trading, David Gallers, last week, with no plan to fill the position, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Instead, the bank replaced Gallers with computer algorithms that trade using mathematical models, said the people, who asked not to be identified because moves are private.
Can someone explain exactly why derivatives traders were getting paid $2MM/annually before their techniques were automated?
Business: Washington Post Business Page, Business News
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Simple question! Who wrote the algorithms?
Obvious answer! The people they just turfed out!
So the situation is better?
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Thank You!
Congrats to the US of A for electing Obama as President for a second term.
We had a family dinner tonight to celebrate the occasion here in Oz.
When my 15 year old Australian daughter gave me reasons why everybody should be proud of some of the new female additions to the the American Senate, I felt like I’ve done something right. So should America.
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