I just watched Ex Machina. It's a good attempt at a philosophical AI flick, instead of the usual robots vs humans theme.

I tried to catch them on several occasions in order to photograph them for the benefit of this fine forum. Rumors that I was wanting to save them in case I got an infestation of Zenos are, as far as he knows, entirely unfounded.

Why do they cut this prior to showing him serving her with papers to maintain the theme?

Record fines for currency market fix (BBC Article)

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32817114


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Five of the world's largest banks are to pay fines totalling $5.7bn (£3.6bn) for charges including manipulating the foreign exchange market.

Four of the banks - JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup and RBS - have agreed to plead guilty to US criminal charges.

The fifth, UBS, will plead guilty to rigging benchmark interest rates.

Barclays was fined the most, $2.4bn, as it did not join other banks in November to settle investigations by UK, US and Swiss regulators.

Barclays is also sacking eight employees involved in the scheme.

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that "almost every day" for five years from 2007, currency traders used a private electronic chat room to manipulate exchange rates.

Their actions harmed "countless consumers, investors and institutions around the world", she said.....................

Separately, the Federal Reserve fined a sixth bank, Bank of America, $205m over foreign exchange-rigging. All the other banks were fined by both the Department of Justice and the Federal Reserve.......................

....The fines break a number of records. The criminal fines of more than $2.5bn are the largest set of anti-trust fines obtained by the Department of Justice.

The £284m fine imposed on Barclays by Britain's Financial Conduct Authority was a record by the regulator.

Meanwhile, the $925m fine imposed on Citigroup by the Department of Justice was the biggest penalty for breaking the Sherman Act, which covers competition law.


......Royal Bank of Scotland will pay fines totalling $669m (£430m) - $395m to the Department of Justice and $274m to the Federal Reserve - to resolve the investigations.

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What harm?

Anyway, I laughed through the whole article and got and even better bellyful of fun out the fines that went to: The Deviant U.S. Dept. of Justice, The Demented Feds, and some Yahoo UK authority. What are those F*tards going to do with the money? Certainly not put it to any good use I'm thinking. Just when people start having fun some high-horse juggernaut of strutting self-righteous yahoos clog up the system.

By the way, I think some game theory comes into play here - associated with risk scenarios etc. But I could be wrong.

As another aside, it was wonderful to see the Bank of Scotland and Barclays getting along together so well. Those UK'ers are a solid bunch. But they overreached, like so many do, and the bulges in their pants where detected. Too bad, but its an old, old, old story.

Spring cleaning is good therapy, I know that much. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

I like reading quotations and have numerous books on this subject. The latest I got at a used book store titled, with no sense of brevity; Respectfully Quoted, A Dictionary of Quotations: The essential reference guide for writers and speechmakers.

I felt compelled to share three quotes that were bundled all close together under the bizarre heading of Oratory. One is about Churchill. One is about Adlai Stevenson, and one is about me, oddly enough.

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One woman who managed to corner him [Churchill], the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:

“Doesn’t it thrill you, Mr. Churchill, to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?”

“It is quite flattering,” Mr. Churchill replied, “but whenever I fell this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big.”

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Note: Adlai Stevenson served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.


Middle-aged clubwoman, with a flutter in her voice: “Oh, Mr. Stevenson, your speech was superfluous”
“Thank you, madam. I’ve been thinking of having it published posthumously.”
“Oh, won’t that be nice. The sooner the better”, chirped the Clubwoman.

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The last is the best:

Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, say what one would, could argue it untrue. -Plutarch, from Plutarch’s Lives

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I hope this short lesson has enlighten your evening and added to your humility. It certainly added to mine.

Also, ran for President twice, losing to Eisenhower both in 1952 and 1956.

At the UN during the Cuban Missile Crisis




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We had an earthquake today. Channel 13 played it up like the end of times (4.8 up by Caliente)

I did feel it at Sam's Town, but thought I was having DT's.

I experienced it, but didn't notice it. I was a bit further into the sticks than Sam's at the time.

Not interestingly, but relevantly, I did play a part in a production of The Princess and the Pea when I was much much younger.

One of those water sports porn videos?


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Is too soon to start drunk posting summer time utoobs and memes? For all the seasonal posters we can also do some winter content for those backwards people.

I was Puss in Puss in (Hoe) Boots as well.

Didn't get to play Bottom in Midsummer Night's (Wet) Dream unfortunately. I did get to play the part of P(h)uck though.

No because the Chelsea Flower Show has commenced.

Look it up in Debrett's. A Royal occasion.

Holy Sh*t - That video clip just boggled my mind. And the Queen Mother had flowers growing out of her head.

Ghastly. The people I mean. The flowers were cool.

Yes, her milliner should've been shot.

I got to have a decently long conversation with a four hot women from England in the wee hours today about what circumcised penises look like.

Only those of the aristocracy or the upper classes would know what a "milliner" referred to. Though I could guess well enough, us working class stiffs of the lower orders don't know such highfalutin words.

I do recall my dad giving us the low down on haberdasher, but he was remise and obviously sexist in not filling us younger ones in about the all important milliner. Perhaps it slipped his mind because he was always adjusting his black bow tie at the dinner table. The dinner table was the place where my father pontificated on the everything's that mattered in our little world. Like filling us in as to what is a drawing room or parlor.

Only "look like"? No juice tidbits on the all important what do they feel like and taste like, etc.

Were you able to show them an example? Or a counter example. Or not.

I'm thinking of buying a banjo and learning to play.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English

Very cool video of a GoPro on a sparrow:

http://www.clickhole.com/video/we-pu...o-sparrow-2248

John Nash, RIP

news-views-gossip/john-nash-dead-1534603/

John Nash and wife killed by a taxi driver on the New Jersey Turnpike:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...dies/27879515/

From the info it seems that they were not wearing seatbelts. They were ejected from the vehicle.

Anyway: Chance/luck, that hounding vicissitude of life, wrecks havoc on anyone at anytime. I once wrote that to a friend of mine.