Some please help Weatherfood: "The new season of Top Gear aired last night and the BBC is pulling them off YouTube quickly. Please help me...can anyone find the link to the show? Torrent may help...but I'm an idoit and can't seem to get it to work." -jm
Mr. Markowitz doesn't excuse the financial engineers who bundled complex mortgage-based and other securities. They violated the first principle of his portfolio theory. "Diversifying sufficiently among uncorrelated risks can reduce portfolio risk toward zero," he says in an interview. "But financial engineers should know that's not true of a portfolio of correlated risks."
AIG began selling credit-default swaps around 1998. Mr Gorton's work "helped convince Cassano that these things were only gold, that if anybody paid you to take on these risks, it was free money" because AIG would never have to make payments to cover actual defaults, according to the former senior executive at the unit. However, Mr Gorton's work didn't address the potential write-downs or collateral payments to trading partners.
If Kerry (or Bush) has just a slight edge, so that each of your fellow voters has a 51 percent likelihood of voting for him, then your chance of casting the tiebreaker is about one in 10 to the 1,046th power—approximately the same chance you have of winning the Powerball jackpot 128 times in a row.
Actually, while I'm sure the math is valid, part of the incentive of voting is the uncertainty of the probability of your fellow state residents to vote for either candidate. But for most states, it is not likely to be close.
In an ironic twist, I had to wait in a voting line for half an hour with Jeremy in Nevada Friday. -decker
Congratulations to all the bigots out there.Wed Nov 5 2008
You may have had to eat a shit sandwich with the top of the ticket, but man, when it comes to getting even with them homos, you really pulled through.
On the plus side, Michigan got medical pot, Washington got physician-assisted suicide, and all the scraping bans or restrictions were defeated. -hendred, the accidental red shirt wearer
From bw: Top Gear S12E02. I know they head to the US to go a couple rounds with the CTS-V....IBM isn't getting much out of me this afternoon. Catch it before the BBC pulls it down.
Or get the full episode in better quality from the torrent. -hendred
“That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice,” he says. “They fucked people. They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.”
The pee drinker explains his work disincentives. He totally neglects the $3 million+ exemption that obama would allow for the estate tax. I let it slide the first time, but he brought it up again. -hendred
*King of Douche Bags - his douche baggery goes to 11
Remember this old poll regarding investing in the gov't bailout fund (now called TARP)? Moot point. The Treasury has instead decided to focus on direct investment. Not sure if this is an improvement. On one hand, it seems shareholders (which include mgmt) will get it in the butt as they should, but I don't like the idea of the gov't owning a large part of the financial sector. -jm
Linked below are three excellent video explanations of the current crises. The presenter, complete with a natty Irish accent, uses pictures and small words. Safe for CFA.
The bishop's letter, which was also to be read at Masses Saturday night, said the church will be launching initiatives in the weeks and months ahead to preserve and support marriage as it is currently defined.
"The laws of physics say that a body in motion stays in motion. So if you have two objects meet in the air, the smaller object is going to fall much harder," O'Neal said. "I've never been the type of player to take anybody out, so I obviously went to the ball. The little guy ran into a brick wall."
Of course, "We didn't have the heart to tellhim it was C squared".
As if this is a surprise to anyone Tue Nov 18 2008
Negotiations for Montreal F1 have failed. No F1 in North America next year. First a Top Gear Ep that sucked ass except for Mika Hakkinen and now this... What's the world coming to? -hendred
Focus on the Family laying off 202 workers. Did anyone realize they had 1,100 employees to begin with? Now how will families be focused on? The world is surely going to hell. -hendred
I told him he should find a better vending machine for his jewelry," Mischler recalled, adding that the comment angered the heckler, who himself had earlier performed an Eminem song. Mischler said he was concerned about reports claiming that he did a mocking version of "Holy Diver." "I genuinely love Ronnie James Dio," he said.
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.
Soft fabrics, bright colors, and sweet smells? Rarely initiate confrontation? Of course, there are multiple story submitters here, making the analysis difficult, I'm sure. And one focus is entertainment, so I guess some of it makes sense.
I recently took another Myers-Briggs test at work and scored an INTJ (the exact opposite of the DTS assessment), same as the pee-drinker's blog. -decker
Apparently the Pontiac G8 GXP is awesome. The review's a bit fanboy-ish, but that's pretty cool if it's even close to as good as he says it is. For $40K. Or $15K and an envelope in 15 days. -hendred
Think E39 M5, but with a Corvette engine and better steering.
Update The guys over Autoblog just uh, unleashed their emotions on it. They love it too. Guess today's the embargo end date.
There's a couple tougher questions and some border on trivia, but you should have to try to get below 50.
In each of the following areas, for example, officeholders do more poorly than non-officeholders:
* Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits establishing an official religion for the U.S.
* Thirty percent do not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
* Twenty-seven percent cannot name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
* Forty-three percent do not know what the Electoral College does. One in five thinks it either “trains those aspiring for higher political office” or “was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates.”
* Fifty-four percent do not know the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Thirty-nine percent think that power belongs to the president, and 10% think it belongs to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
* Only 32% can properly define the free enterprise system, and only 41% can identify business profit as “revenue minus expenses.”
This Certainly Seems Nerdy Enough...Mon Nov 24 2008
But it's in the New York Times magazine, so how nerdy can it really be? It's about the $1M Netflix prize, and recommendation systems generally. Apparently, Napoleon Dynamite is a thorn in the side of Netflix prize competitors. -decker
From Bob: Fury about the POS which is the Blackberry Storm has led me to switch from Verizon to AT&T and the iPhone. I know a number of the clubhouse members have these, and am looking for app recommendations. Dont think this conversation ahs been had yet, but I could be wrong there. Currently I have Shazaam and Bloomberg, am looking for a sports scores one, and god knows what else. I probably need a cowbell and lightsaber at some point, I know those are both available...
From Pdiddy: Only from the city that produced Srishawn Johnson or the Boot or the Snatch will they think to not only sign one but two Indian baseball players. To make things even better, they have never played baseball in their lives. What a country. God Bless Amrika.
This week's Top Gear torrent. The only part of this that sucked was the star in the reasonably priced car. Other than that - awesome. Bugatti Veyron on a Stig lap FTW. -hendred
From Final Gear:
-James “Captain Slow” May, in his first supercar review, drives the Pagani Zonda F Roadster and compares it to the Bugatti Veyron on the track
-The guys race on a single tank of gas from Switzerland to Blackpool in order to turn on the annual Blackpool Illuminations
-The Stig takes the Bugatti Veyron and the Pagani Zonda F Roadster around the track. Will either beat the lap record?
Whiskey Militia is all snowboard gear today. And it's been really good stuff so far. (Current Mark XIII jacket excluded) The alerts are usually right on top of it, so download one of them. -hendred
