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On Heels of Bailout, Citi Raises Rates on Millions of Cardholders | Consumerist - http://consumerist.com/5103303...
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"...massive amounts of money continue to flow to large financial institutions in an effort to stimulate economic activity, but by all appearances the money is not flowing into the broader economy. Quite the contrary; as the Fed lowers rates and adds record amounts of loaned cash to bank balance sheets, big banks are actually increasing consumers’ cost of borrowing and reducing their lines of credit. Witness Citibank's recent adverse actions against cardholders..."
- Anthony Citrano
We can only hope that the legislation is passed quickly and applies retrospectively. The greed and short-sightedness of this is sickening. People are going to be pushed over the limit in more than one way. Truly disgusting.
- WorldofHiglet
agreed, gregory. WoH: I'm hoping for the same, just for fairness' sake. i think banks have the basic right to change rates and lending agreements, but doing so on existing balances seems immoral (and as you see in the story, Citi Cards' CEO seems to agree.)
- Anthony Citrano
I've got (or, had) a Citi card with an obscene credit limit on it; I called them just a couple of days ago and cancelled it. Screw 'em. I don't even keep a balance on the card, but I don't wish to be affiliated with them or do business with them anymore, either.
- abacab
(and yeah, it was the Alwaleed video/interview that was the catalyst. If he can't take the bulk of the hit before *I* have to, he can go screw himself...and his entire stable of horses, too.)
- abacab
@abacab: You know, as I've been covering this issue, one of the things that I've found most interesting is how few people found that interview to be as surreal/troubling as I did.
- Anthony Citrano
I fully expected to hear a lot more negative from that interview myself. It was definitely surreal, and absolutely troubling.
- abacab
bankers are not interested in helping people
- .LAG liked that
Even before the current economic events, I've always maintained that banks, along with insurance companies, are simply legalized licensed bandits.
- Ian May
tap, tap, is this thing on? ;)
- Anthony Citrano
And unfortunately, they are raising rates and lowering credit limits on those who can least afford the hit, many who have with poor credit ratings as a result of being unemployed for extended periods of time.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Wow, just realized this post was from Dec 6!
- Jeff P. Henderson
yes Jeff with all the fresh talk of the consequences - fresh taxpayer-funded profits, and all the big banks following suit, I took the liberty of boasting of my prescience
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Unfortunately it's now July and nothing has really changed since December to protect customers from unscrupulous credit card companies. I wonder how many people have lost their home or have filed for bankruptcy because their CC interest is now so high they can't afford to pay the minimum payment?
- Jeff P. Henderson
I've always maintained that banks are greedy shitheads. Have to use them of course but as little as possible, and I don't trust any of them.
- Ian May
Do you trust the cloud?
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I mean like really, really, really trust it - enough to keep all your stuff there INSTEAD of on your own computer?
- Sarah Perez
For some things. Not yet for enterprise (GMail aside of course :)
- Charlie Anzman
Not at all.
- Yuval Atzmon
i trust cloudcontacts :-P
- Allen Stern
Only the kind you get to through a magic green pipe.
- Shawn Farner
@Allen LOL, nice plug
- Sarah Perez
no way - i dont even trust my own computer enough to just keep stuff there (learned that one the hard way)
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Perhaps I should ask - what sort of things do you trust to the cloud 100%? Your docs? (Google Docs?) Your photos? (flickr, facebook....?) Your contacts (Gmail?)
- Sarah Perez
I trust my own computer(s) more, my (encrypted) backups are in the cloud. (Smartest place for them, IMO)
- Anthony Citrano
I don't trust my own computer at all. Hard drives fail. Houses burn. Earthquakes shake rattle and roll. Most IT departments are far more organized and careful than I am and cloud providers have some very could IT departments.
- Todd Hoff
no, i don't trust it. I'll use it if there's a known backup. Evernote works as I know there's a backup on 2 of my laptops, as well as the cloud (though I do worry sometimes that some bug will wipe the cloud "version", and then without me knowing will wipe my local "version". gulp)
- William Stewart
In theory, yes. In practice, no, not yet. The biggest problem is the gatekeepers. Most things today aren't really in the cloud so much as they are a copy on a single companies' servers. The day when facebook can delete an account and they can't delete the account assets then maybe we can start thinking about trust.
- Todd McKinney
maybe i would trust the cloud (with a double-backup-cloud-solution maybe?) but i don't trust the internet providers too much.. i mean, whenever my net is dow, i can't have *any* of my files? naah...would be another thing with programs, but not all the files
- Le Big Z
Definitely not, especially w/ external hard drives multiple terabytes large & portable USBs at affordable prices, I don't see the rationale in a pay per month service.
- sofarsoShawn
For processing and storage, not for security.
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I guess I don't trust "single point of failure" no matter if it's my HDD or the cloud.
- Sarah Perez
I'm with todd. I would prefer not to trust it all to one building (my house). I also would not prefer to trust it all to the cloud. What will Google kill next? Docs? Pics? Mail? How about what happened to Pownce? I had XDrive years ago, too. When I got a new phone from Sprint, they DELETED my picture mail account, and they failed to restore my pics from backup, so I learned that the cloud can fail me. I'm trying to keep my data on multiple services and home PCs, so that one failure doesn't mean total fail.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
@sofarsoshawn - and where do you store these external drives?
- Anthony Citrano
Sarah - It's not failure I'm concerned about. It's privacy and security in the enterprise. Anything can happen once someone else has the keys ... now or ten years from now.
- Charlie Anzman
I trust the cloud _less_ than I do anything else, especially if Google is somehow involved. But that's more due to privacy concerns than anything else.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Yes.
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
That's a different cloud Mona :)
- Charlie Anzman
Maybe, who said 'Trust, but verify'?
- Greg Guitarbuster
We shouldn't have illusions here. All your network communication transits backbone networks that have taps on them. Your ISP has access to all your traffic. Are you sure MS and Apple don't have back doors installed? Are you sure your computer doesn't have a root kit installed that's watching your every key stroke and sending back to a bot master? There was a story recently where some guy was living in these people's attic and they never suspected. That could be a lot of us.
- Todd Hoff
Only for things that I'd have no problem with being public. I won't be storing my passwords on a remote server anytime soon.
- Victor Ganata
Is this a blue pill, red pill sort of question cuz I don't get it. The cloud??
- ♥patricia♥
Not yet.
- Bob Gannon
Actually, I back everything up so Im not worried about trusting storage - local, external, or cloud.
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Eventually the true cloud will be multiple interacting clouds (instead of equating one service or hosting provider with THE cloud). When we get there, I think there will be more trust because the competing interconnected services will keep each other in check. We're a long way from there yet, but I think it will happen.
- mikepk
Ask former Mediamax users if they trust the cloud -- Mediamax (now Nirvanix) managed to lose a great deal of data for its paying customers. I was one of them. Lesson: always make multiple backups of important data, both locally and in the cloud. Redundancy is the watchword.
- Sean McBride
@citrano sorry never saw that ?, they're just small entirely portable hooked up to your main system through a USB. They're about the size of a medium sized novel you can store them anywhere as such....
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- sofarsoShawn
Business idea/opportunity: automatically manage multiple/redundant backups for customers among cloud services.
- Sean McBride
not yet.
- Sebastian Küpers
Trying to.
- Bryan R. Adams
I had better say yes or my data will disappear...
- Edward Craddock
In soviet russia, the cloud trusts you.
- mikepk
Yes, working on getting more of my stuff off my HD and into the cloud
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
worth a read - http://ascii.textfiles.com/archive...
- Jonathan Greene
As much as I trust anything else.
- Alex Scoble
keep backups on your own drives, always...always! and backup those too
- Adam Singer
@greene the article shares my sentiments re: the cloud, aside from hosting photos I wouldn't store anything in it
- sofarsoShawn
The cloud is to awesome not to trust.
- Kyle
I trust 2 storage clouds a lot more than 1 local hard drive; FAIL is everywhere. to paraphrase: "Trust in Allah, but SYNC your Camel"
- dave mcclure
Genie -- if you are really security savvy, every statement you just made in that public comment should be misleading and false. :)
- Sean McBride
@mikepk I like that idea. For now, though, I wish there were more ways to cross-post data (like photos and files) to free online services. Like something that uploaded to gDocs and SkyDrive, for example. Anyone know of anything like that?
- Sarah Perez
from fftogo
Cloud backups are the only ones I really trust - so I guess I would say yes. What I don't like is "having" to have internet to access them - that is when I get a little panicky.
- Tony
LOLing @genie&sean
- sofarsoShawn
i sure trust my backups on amazon's jungle disk service, and i sure trust flickr. as for contacts and other personal info on fb or gmail, i have less trust. i will have 100% trust when any cloud service i use provides me with very clear and defined control over my stuff, as in how i can export without loosing anything, or knowing i cannot be shut off arbitrarily for example.
- Pascal Bouvier
as A backup, yes--for some things; as the ONLY backup? No, and for private data, no, at least not yet.
- Steve Lowe
@Sarah Perez I've been wondering that same thing. A customizable cross poster would be a very handy time saver. I trust the cloud as a copy like the others.
- Boo
Thus far. I haven't got burned really bad yet...though I'm usually cautious to throw all my data into a platform without any weight behind it.
- Brian Bufalo
So far so good with Office Live and Small Business but I also use Outlook Connector with Desktop Office so I can move items if I want, but nice having Outlook always in synch with 3 computers
- MedicalQuack
Yes.. but no.. but yes! It would need to be a sync with a device at home. It would make sense for the providers of the cloud to brand HDD or even NAS with there service. So that it gives me the ability to "sync" that I wanted to keep accessible.
- Jez Arnold
i trust cloud as much as I trust my own computer : only 50% each ;-)
- Jacopo Gio
Absolutely.
- Håkan Dahlström
@sofarsoshawn my point was, if you're backing up to an external drive that you're keeping on your desk, or even in your house, your data is not protected against a *lot* of possibilities. that's why I back up to "the cloud"...
- Anthony Citrano
yes
- Baard @ Pixum
No, although I trust Google enough with my e-mail. I wouldn't bank on any service lasting more than a few years before the host/parent either goes bust, or discontinues the service, for what it's worth. (See Google Notebook, I Want Sandy and Pownce)
- Tyson Key
Yeah, actually. The cloud has been more reliable than my hardware often is.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I do, but as time marches on I'm starting to feel like it won't matter if I trust the cloud. I'm not going to have any other choice but to use it so, whether or not I trust it will be irrelevant. That's a little frustrating.
- Michael Fidler
I trust it more than my own storage. I guess both would be ideal - the cloud for offsite back-up.
- jjprojects
There's always a nagging feeling of "What happens if Yahoo! gets bought out/goes under, and Flickr vanishes?" or "What if MP3tunes.com gets struck down by the RIAA and takes the supposed "back-ups" of music collections belonging to people with them?"
- Tyson Key
Yep
- Rich
Trust No One. ;) I use the cloud as a useful place to store/access stuff, but I like to have a backup. I'm more reliant on the cloud now I have an iPhone, and more willing to store stuff online with providers who have been around a while, but there's always the danger (in these troubled times ;), that companies disappear and your data goes with them.
- Surferbill
in short - yes. but there are always exceptions. The Google cloud totally because I think they make too much money to be untrustworthy (opposite to most people I am sure).
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Dont know if I trust it. But my "wish" for it to be safe is bigger than my fear that its un-safe...or maybe I'm just naive and lazy
- Peter Efland
I work representing an online desktop model and this is an often subject around in order to get ppl to try the service. What I often honestly recommend and do it myself is, to everybody think about Cloud Computing as an extra option other than only the traditional ones. It came a long way for all of us and it's been truly useful. Still, I don't think we should treat it as a replacement for all data. I'm sure it's just gonna get more reliable, it's a matter of time.
- May
It's no longer going to be a firewall it's going to be an umbrella :)
- Joe Dawson
Much less today, after 3 days of Google's FeedBurner returning 404 on my feed. And before, with Flickr randomly marking my photostream as unsafe. The cloud is great and is the way to go - but we need data portability, and a solid backup strategy that you can rely on if you care about such things. Companies go away, strategies change, priorities shift and the economy defines new rules - you need to take that into account. What is free today can return 404 tomorrow.
- Yaniv Golan
No. The cloud is inherently untrustworthy because the data flows out of your network and into someone elses. You can of course encrypt that traffic, but you still have the issue of trust of the other side.
- alphaxion
I barely trust hard-drives to retain my data, so no. And that's not even going into the privacy concerns.
- Daniel Bruce
Not me. Murphy lives in the sky.
- Phil Boiarski
I trust the cloud more than my own hardware; companies like Google can afford more redundancy than I can, so I feel safer trusting them.
- Apollo L
Absolutely yes! I trust Flickr, YouTube, Google and Diigo/delicious more than any of my own storage bins let alone DVDs
- Gaby K. Slezák
No, a local backup is always a good idea.It's not the cloud I don't trust, it is the companies I use to get to the internet (e.g., Time Warner Cable).
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I find it hard to trust what is free - for example diigo (which I like a lot) keeps a cached local copy of a page, but it doesnt do it of all pages, and it doesnt keep them - so a site that has disappeared might not have a local copy. No guarantees, no SLA - so I cant trust. Same thing with google - they can lose or remove data or services anytime, and youtube removes things as routine.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I trust the cloud enough in terms of privacy concerns. The key is to deal with reputable companies. That all said I keep copies of everything I use on the cloud on a local backup.
- Rob Cairns
I use it to build redundancy into my backup system. I back up locally and to the cloud.
- Dave Gambrill
I use S3 for backup and I have additional copies on google docs. i don't use google docs for my main document manipulation.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
The 3-backup set method/regime: 1. external hard drive (local) 2. online backup service 1 (automatic) 3. online backup service 2 (automatic)
- Sean McBride
@sean I'd recommend 1. external HDD on site. 2. a couple of external HDD's/Tape offsite in a secure storage swapped at the end of every week 3. online backup. The most important thing that people totally ignore is data ownership - make sure you have access to your data. RAID array external caddies are cheap enough now that you shouldn't rely on the cloud as your main active storage or backup. And for those who don't trust their own HDDs, why would you trust another company?
- alphaxion
Online backup companies like Carbonite, Mozy and Amazon S3 are entirely focused on backup -- I trust them more than I trust myself, especially if I distribute the risk of data loss among at least two of them. I doubt that two of these companies would mess up simultaneously. The best part: set and forget, and restore to any computer anywhere.
- Sean McBride
I'd still put preference on data you can physically get your hands onto - people totally under estimate the worth of data ownership until the fit hits the shan. Personally, I keep all my data on constantly rotating groups of HDD's - as in I'll buy a bunch of hdd's and copy the data over to them. It means I have a copy of the old data and an ever increasing pool of HDD's to recover from or put to use elsewhere in my home network.
- alphaxion
I Love the Cloud...just use trusted sources who aren't going to disappear anytime soon. And follow the same Backup rules you would on any computer.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
alphaxion -- a key issue for individuals (as opposed to companies and organizations) is that they are too lazy to maintain a consistent backup plan. If your backups are being made automatically in the background in real time, without any effort on your part, to at least two reliable online backup services, you are more likely to be able to retrieve your data when trouble strikes.
- Sean McBride
Only if it's Google's cloud.
- Jordi Soler
I do "trust" the cloud. Keeping in mind I multiple back-up my data on separate HDD's in different locations. At work, we go the route of a 2 week back-up rotation.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Only if it's not a rain cloud. /me ducks ;)
- Tyson Key
I think the notion of Trust can be viewed along 2 different angles: 1/ RELIABILITY (not to lose my data, enough up-time), 2/ PRIVACY (my data not accessible by anyone in transit or on server, even system administrator). On RELIABILITY, getting there although for critical data, I would still have a backup somewhere else. On PRIVACY, would say no. What guarantee do cloud providers offer on sole accessibility to the data by the data owner? And how for data in transit? Unclear at best.
- Florent Buiron
Sarah - What about this for a question? http://is.gd/hsck Would really like some feedback
- David Ing
@citrano yeah I was later thinking about ie "acts of God" so to speak, seriously, and I agree, w/ those in mind the cloud becomes more agreeable
- sofarsoShawn
Deep in Debt, and Now Deep in Worry - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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"Do not act like typical Americans. Do not fail to save. Do not get yourself in debt up to your eyeballs. Work and take pride and honor from your work. Learn a useful skill that Americans really need, like law or plumbing or medicine or nursing."
- Nadine Schaeffer
Good advice, but hard to take him seriously after that dishonest, intentionally confusing movie he put out, Expelled.
- Blake Caldwell
Just watched Memento for first time since it came out. Forgot how good it was.
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I feel like I've commented on this tweet before but I just can't remember.
- Thomas Hawk
*laughs* nice one.
- Shawn C. Reed
How do you know it's the first time? been at the indian ink?
- helen
I hear there's a remix out on the interwebs where someone put the movie back together in order. I'm sure it's boring on its own, but would be an interesting follow-up watch.
- Blake Caldwell
Always check your children's homework
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(Mommy works at Home Depot, she was selling a shovel)
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
i busted out laughing when I first saw this
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Holy crap, man. 101% LOL
- Akiva Moskovitz
ROTFL
- Parth Awasthi
too funny.
- Jasmin Smith
Oh...my...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
NOW why was Shey google-image searching strippers? hmmm
- Caroline
lol umm...
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
OMG!!!!!!!! that's tooo funny
- Susan Beebe
OMG this is horrible! LOL
- Adriana
)))
- Mehdi saberioon
Hahaha :D
- Joe Dawson
That is hysterical!
- Aaron Schaub
bling bling!
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
submit it to the Failblog... ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
Wow. That's wrong on many levels. And hilarious. Very hilarious.
- Give 'Em DBizness
holy crap. farking hilarious.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Looks more like a hammer...
- Tyson Key
OMG.. I'm putting it on my Facebook.
- Cyndy
i havent laughed like this in a long time - took me a minute to get it haha thanks
- Allen Stern
Shey, if you put it on Flickr or your blog or something, we can link back to it and spread the word....
- Bora Zivkovic
I don't get .......ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! LOL!
- Mike Lewis
you guys are retard i have seen this image 50 times on the internet somewhere....TIRED OF U PEOPLE GOING NUTS OVER SHIT THAT IS SOO BLATANTLY OLD it makes u look inexperienced
- Caroline
Holy crap, who pissed in Caroline's corn flakes this morning?
- Peter Ghosh
Caroline, on behalf of all of FriendFeed, I humbly offer our sincerest apologies for not consulting with you first to get permission to post something that you may have seen but others may have not.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I’m deliberately un-liking this and then re-liking it just to bring it to the top and spite Caroline.
- Guillermo Esteves
submitted to reddit! http://www.reddit.com/r...
- Joshua Hatfield
Makes sense to me :)
- Charlie Anzman
LOL@Guillermo !
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I've seen it before. Ive even posted it before ( to stumbleupon ), But that's ok. It's still funny as shit. I'd much rather look inexperienced than come off like I have that "shovel" she's selling shoved up my ass.....sideways.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Apparently, this is the note from the mom to the teacher: Dear Mrs. Jones, I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer. I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over...
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- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I have never seen this and it's funny! There used to be a strip club in my town and the cafeteria workers at the school say a student used to pay for lunch with a lot of wrinkly $1 bills.
- mandyvan
New blog post: One Bag - Traveling light http://drrobevans.com/2008... - http://drrobevans.com/2008...
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I'm in UR Bed - http://skitch.com/duncanr...
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marginally SFW.
- Duncan Riley
from Bookmarklet
HAAAAAaaaaaaahahahhahahahaa!!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
ROFLMAO
- Steven Hodson
DUNCAN WTF LOL
- Mona Nomura
Cat - "What? A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."
- Will Higgins™
Mona: my thoughts exactly...
- Jay
xkcd - A Webcomic - Alternate Currency - http://xkcd.com/512/
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Funny pictures = the future of currency?
- Alex Scoble
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Washington Post: 20,000 More U.S. Troops To Be Deployed For “Domestic Security” - http://www.prisonplanet.com/washing...
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"The Washington Post today reports on plans to station 20,000 more U.S. troops inside America for purposes of “domestic security” from September 2011, an expansion of Northcom’s militarization of the country in preparation for potential civil unrest following a total economic collapse or a mass terror attack."
- Sean McBride
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Sean, we may disagree on many things, but I do see Martial Law in America!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
We cannot blame everything on Bush and Co. The Extreme Right does not work without Extreme Left. One gives Life to the other!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
V - that's a plausible scenario. The ultra-wealthy may be panicking over the prospect of a financial collapse and societal breakdown which could lead to conditions like those which provoked the French and Russian Revolutions. They may intend to use the U.S. military as their private army to keep the angry masses beaten down and supine, while they hide behind their barricaded palaces. Under those conditions, what they would have most to fear is a revolt from within the military itself.
- Sean McBride
Igor - it is generally true historically that extremists on polar opposites of the political spectrum often merge in their affection for totalitarian police states. They view them as instruments for the destruction of their political opponents.
- Sean McBride
I doubt it can be avoided due to Geopolitics. The best we can do is contain collateral damage! When the ship is sinking, you can only save a few! The rats in desperation jump overboard. I hope you getting the analogy!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Considering that America is breeding ground (or having chapters of originally English or German counterparts) for extremist movements, some of whom claim mantle of animal rights groups (ALF,ARM, HRS,HSA), environmental preservation (ELF), far right and white suprematists (WAR, KKK), United American Freedom Foundation, McVeigh-s, etc. this increased need to stem domestic violence is not surprising. ..
- Hayk H.
There is very little domestic political violence in the United States. They seem to be anticipating and planning for something that hasn't yet occurred.
- Sean McBride
It is all about choices, domestic war, or war abroad. Not that I support either or!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Invisible Safety Googles - http://skitch.com/duncanr...
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Pedigree: Beware of the dog - http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/2008...
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@Chris: I've taken a bit of a holiday on looking, though I still have my ear to the ground. I'll probably begin looking (in the East Bay) in earnest again in February. Some downward pressure right now ($20K-$30K decreases) but I suspect I'll see more in 2009. SF still looks stuck. [edit] Responding to deleted comment asking about house buying and real estate in Bay Area.
- AJ Kohn
I am 30 today!!!
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congrats!
- slsrx
Happy birthday, Ana!
- James D Kirk
Happy birthday :)
- Eren Emre Kanal
~~~HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANA!!!~~~
- Susan Beebe
Happy Birthday Ana!
- Uncle CW™
Happy Birthday :)
- Y.Emre GÜZER
Happy Happy, Joy Joy - Ana!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Happy Birthday.
- j1m
happy birthday :)
- bob
Happy birthday
- Alejandro
happy birthday too
- Eric Reboisson
from twhirl
happy birthday
- Svein Håvard Djupvik
happy anniversary of your birth
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
happy 30th birthday. have a fab day
- ♥ Stephiepooos ♥
Many Happy returns
- Ian May
Happy Birthday, Ana!
- Kol Tregaskes
Happy Birthday!
- Holger Eilhard
happy birthday
- RAPatton
Happy Birthday
- Tyson Key
Happy Birthday
- Lu Tao
Happy Day :)
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Happy birthday, Ana!
- Sally Church
Happy B-day. Wow, another November baby--like myself. <<--I turned 31 on Thanksgiving
- Terence
Happy Birthday!
- Benjamin Golub
Happy b day.. have a good one :)
- embee
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! what are you doing today to celebrate???
- Colide81 (James)
Happy Birthday!
- Flavio
Happy Birthday!
- Mustafa K. Isik
Happy Birthday!
- Jack Lhasa
Have a very Happy Birthday!!!
- Paul
Congrats! I turn 30 this next year.
- Tony
Happy Birthday!!!
- David Cook
Happy happy joy joy!
- Keith Pelczarski
Yay!
- Ron Bailey
happy birth day!
- arnet
Happy Birthday!
- Syed F Ahmad
Happy Birthday Ana! I hope you enjoy the bubble lady.
- Clare Dibble
Happy Birthday!
- Igor Poltavskiy
(BELATED) HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANA!!!!!!. what did you do for your birthday?
- goutham
Happy Birthday!
- Tyson Key
Happy Birthday!
- Ermin
Happy Bday! Hope you did something fun and memorable.
- LonelyBob
Watching The Liverbirds on Paramount Comedy 2. It's amazing how long scenes were in 70s sitcoms. Very 'theatrical' in style.
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Hit me again Bartender, I had a bad, bad day - http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008...
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Arrested Mumbai gunmen 'of British descent' - http://www.independent.co.uk/news...
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"Two gunmen arrested after the Mumbai massacre were of British descent, the country's chief minister said today. UK authorities played down reports that the terrorists included Britons as violence in the city continued for a third day. But Indian Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh claims two British-born Pakistanis were among eight gunmen arrested by Indian authorities, according to Associated Press reports. Indian authorities said Mumbai would soon be back under their full control but confirmed the number of foreigners known to be killed in the attacks had risen to eight. At least 143 people - including a wealthy British businessman - were left dead in the wave of terror that swept India's financial capital."
- RAPatton
"Retired teachers Diane and Michael Murphy, who live near Hexham, Northumberland, were on holiday in India and had only been in Mumbai for one day when the terrorists struck. A group calling itself Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the attacks. But experts said they had never heard of the organisation and suggested that the radical Students Islamic Movement of India...
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- RAPatton
If this is true, I sincerely hope they are tried in India, and not anywhere in Europe, including the UK.
- Ian May
all this seems way to sophisticated for some splinter Pakistani based or Kashmir related extremist group...well funded and international really reeks of one group....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Robert is braving the hordes at Easton Town Center that are pillaging the boutiques in search of the one deal that will bring peace, happiness and a jolt of seratonin.
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seratonin
- RAPatton
I just logged into my citi/smithbarney account for the first time in months. It has a new flash based interface, and shows me as having 38x the assets that I actually have. Nice :)
Casey, Marcos Marado, Jess Lee and 5 other people liked this
take the money and run
- johnpiercy
Unfortunately I when I try to actually sell the extra shares, it says there aren't any available :(. The graph looks really impressive though.
- Paul Buchheit
tease...
- Zee.
its not nice , that they are teasing you then paul ....
- johnpiercy
from twhirl
pretty sure the bailout wasn't supposed to work like that :-D
- Karim
Maybe they are showing you the entire equity of Citigroup?
- Ranjit Mathoda
Hmm.. looks like someone at Citi went overboard tweaking the books this weekend in time for Monday's Fed seizure. :)
- Aviv
North Carolina - 1950
Morton Fox, Richard pancakhaus Walker, Joe Dawson and 28 other people liked this
When I was a kid you could still see the segregated water fountains at the Courthouse in Vicksburg, MS. This was in the 70s not too long after integration. The lettering on the signs had been removed, but the signs were still there and you could make out what it said. I remember asking my mom what "colored" meant.
- Chrimmus Tad
Soooo wrong!!! augh!!!!!!!!!! racist pigs!
- Susan Beebe
My birth certificate has my race listed as Negro. Born in San Diego in '73. I can't imagine what my parents life must've been like, and they were both born in Memphis in the late '30s.
- Derrick
Yea, I bet your parents went thru living hell; hopefully, you haven't
- Susan Beebe
OMG..
- Varun Mahajan
Yeah, I remember seeing remnants of the signage for bathrooms as well. These images are shocking, but even more shocking is realizing it happened within the lifetimes of our grandparents, parents (and even some of us old fogeys). It seems like another lifetime ago, but it is a concrete reminder that major, fundamental change CAN happen within our present experience when we work together.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Glad to see how far we've come in the past 30 years. Makes me feel better about humankind.
- Thomas Hawk
There were still duplicate bathrooms and water fountains at my county courthouse as of the early 90s. One set was inside, another set was accessed outside along the side of the courthouse. The outside still had signholders, sans the signs.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Always lived above the Mason-Dixon line and do not remember any segregation signs! Our family had a business on the Boardwalk in AC from 1930's-1960's and their restaurant was never segregated. Curious if the remnants are more from the south states? My mother would have killed me if ever hearing me use a racial slur such as 'colored', we had to refer to any person of color as Negro.
- Janet
My dad took a trip to New Orleans in the 70's and told me he saw this exact same thing. The 70's for crying out loud!
- David Cook
Glad I grew up in California, far away from this sh*t!
- Susan Beebe
My Dad has lived in a relatively small town in Georgia for 30+ years and I would go back there every summer to spend time with him...well I can remember vividly sometime in the 80's, I started going to a Recreation center but it was made VERY CLEAR that I should go to the "White Rec" because even though I'm Hispanic, my friends were mostly white and it would "be best if I wasn't seen at the 'Black Rec center.'" So nothing official and no signs but still the understanding that there was a separation...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I think it's getting better there, if for no other reason than the town has been swamped by Hispanic workers that came in the 90's to work in the Carpet Mills and a lot of the anger is directed at them, but that's not to say that everyone in the south is racist but even to this day, some are still reliving and teaching the hate from the past....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I also grew up in California. I was reminded this weekend that inter-racial marriages were illegal in Georgia in 1967.
- Russellreno
The Racism that exists in the South (especially the Deep South) today is different from that of our parents' generation. The idea of excluding blacks from water fountains, restaurants, etc seems very foreign to most white folks down there, but there's still a strong dislike for what they think of as "the bad black folks," which generally means the poorest and what the whites think of as most stereotypical. Most Mississippian whites don't have any problems having friendships with blacks.
- Chrimmus Tad
It's a tremendously huge step forward, but there's still a long way to go. Mississippi is different from many places in the South because there aren't many places whites can go where there aren't any blacks. Being forced to live in close proximity to one another actually made the time during and after integration a lot easier to deal with for everyone. It didn't hurt in my hometown that when the schools were integrated the football team went on to several years of football championships.
- Chrimmus Tad
yeah you say that Tad, but there is still some parts of the south that I would not be caught dead in...one of the summers I was down there, one of my dad's friends took me to Alabama to go fishing...we pull up to a gas station at night and while he's filling up his tank, out of the blue, the guy YELLS "DUCK DOWN!" So I did. Why? There was a pickup truck flying 2 huge rebel flags filled with drunk guys that had pulled up. You do the math as to why he told me to do duck down...I'll never forget that...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
whoa, that's terrible L4S ...sad
- Susan Beebe
I have some family in Atlanta, cousins who grew up in California and migrated back to the South and it's a weird thing for me to see. For the most part, there are black people and white people...I saw few little other races. And even in the early 2000's, there's still this slight, barely palatable sense of (racial?) tension between folks.
- Derrick
L4S - I woulda been scared too. They wouldn't have beat me up for not being white, but for being nerdy. A group of drunk rednecks once tried to trap three of my friends (2 guys and a girl, all white) late at night on a country highway. They managed to force them to pull over by boxing them in with other cars and trucks and it was only after my friend who was driving decided that he was just going to smash up his car and/or kill someone that they managed to get away. That had nothing to do with racism...
- Chrimmus Tad
Generally a car full of intoxicated young males is bad news ANYWHERE.
- Chrimmus Tad
yeah....straight out of a movie...I remember that I popped my head back up to see them pull away and I SHIT YOU NOT, there was a bumper sticker that said "KLAN OR DIE"....i mean we were 20 miles from the nearest town on the edge of a lake on the GA - Alabama border at a gas station a little after midnight......nothing stopping them from doing whatever they wanted and we're "missing"...crazy shit.
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Yeah - that's super bad news.
- Chrimmus Tad
@derrick: ATL's immigrants live in the suburbs and exurbs. southern gwinnett county and parts of northern dekalb county are heavily mexican, vietnamese, thai and korean. after all chamblee's (mostly racist) nickname is "chambodia"
- tiffany
Ironically, the first person I heard call it Chambodia was the (Chinese) CEO of the company I worked for...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
yeah, tina, the first time i heard the *other* meaning of MARTA (Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta) was from a fellow black person. doesn't make it any less wrong.
- tiffany
@tiffany, I've heard the freeway loop around Atlanta called "The Beltway around the Congo"...it's weird how some of that shit just kind of rolls off the tongue for some STILL down there...but I truly believe that as the new generations start taking over...things will get better...maybe that's silly on my part but I HOPE it's true.....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
yep. and the norcross-tucker area is "little mexico" despite the presence of a quite a few el salvadorans and colombians and the all-indian shopping mecca known as Global Mall. it's a bit weird. metro ATL is much, much more diverse than people realize, but much of that diversity doesn't live inside of I-285 -- though, if my neighbors and the church up the street are any indication -- that's changing.
- tiffany
tiffany - i remember getting lost trying to find my cousin's house off Buford Hwy and turning onto a street where EVERYTHING was in Korean, including a branch of the Korean Times, a national newspaper.
- Derrick
yes d: buford hwy is a special kind of crazy -- in a good way. a mix of koreans, vietnamese, mexican, and el salvadoran folks with a couple of chinese and japanese folks thrown in... judging by the restaurants at least. i think there's even a nigerian grocer along there somewhere. but i think most african immigrants live in clarkston, decatur, east point and college park.
- tiffany
what's weird about the south is that cities like atlanta, miami, and charlotte are fairly progressive, to the point where they're considered "east coast" instead of "southern" by, say, folks in mississippi. and then you have the rest of the south where race and class are mostly the same and black people, in particular, "know their place." lived for a year in aiken, sc and going into some of the shops downtown with my brown-skinned mama was a weird experience.
- tiffany
we got quite a few stares. no hostility, but a lot of quizzical looks. now maybe it was because my mother was *obviously* not from aiken. still, it was odd. not quite sure how the race dynamic is changing though as more latinos and asians and asian(-americans) move in to aiken.
- tiffany
I'm wondering if it was a combination of race AND small-town sensibilities, T. Like you said, they knew that you weren't locals in Aiken. I agree with you re: progressive cities. I've talked to some gays from small southern towns who couldn't wait to leave their old places behind for Atlanta, etc. Still, this image hits me in a visceral way, even though it's over 50 years old.
- Derrick
Switzerland may go bankrupt - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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whoa!
- Susan Beebe
I'm neutral on this issue.
- Louis Gray
rofl
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
All the swiss bank money? A lot of politicians will go bankrupt.whoa
- Varun Mahajan
was just there... who would have thought. Soon cows will run the country.
- Jim Goldstein
It will be the new Renaissance http://allday.ru/uploads...
- Igor Poltavskiy
Folks are tightly wound, there. They'll be ticked, all right!
- Phil Boiarski
Secret high tech employed to prevent presidential assassination - http://dvice.com/archive...
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"Barack Obama has received more assassination threats than any president-elect in U.S. history. While Obama's Secret Service protection has obviously been flawless thus far, according to some speculative reports, any would-be assailants might be in for some major pain or instant discovery, thanks to some outlandish technology. This must mean that new tank-like presidential limo is just the beginning of the presidential shield of protection.
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
The methods and gadgets used by the Secret Service are highly classified, but writers and researchers are speculating that one of the secret devices could be a rifle-sized weapon using the military's "active denial system" that beams sound waves directly into an assassin's skull. That's gotta hurt, at least disabling the killer long enough for agents to quickly move the president out of...
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- Cee Bee
terahertz scanners are no match for my flux capacitor!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from fftogo
Dude, frickin lasers
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Wow. I wonder if they're even bringing the real Obama out. Maybe there's a dupe.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I look forward to our first twin President.
- abacab
I have full confidence in the Secret Service's ability to protect President-elect Obama and his family. They're definitely going to need it. Sadly there are a lot of folks out there who would like to see him go down.
- Give 'Em DBizness
If they're all about protecting the President, then why do they wear such dark shades?
- Jackye Chan
it's like in poker --- so others won't see what you're up to or about to do. plus maybe they have x ray vision enabled in those sunglasses already
- Cee Bee
my step-father was very pissed W didn't receive any attempts on his life.
- Janet
It's just a special force field that manifests itself due to his firm belief in socialism as a way of life. Lenin had a similar force field--it's what kept his body fresh in that glass case for so long in Red Square.
- thepete
What Would Lloyd Say? - http://www.lloydgarver.com/
William Stewart liked this
"The political cartoon that has probably affected me the most in my life was the Bill Mauldin drawing after the Kennedy assassination. As you can see, it shows the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln memorial, with his face in his hands, obviously crying. In response to Barack Obama winning the Presidency, maybe an appropriate cartoon today would show Lincoln crying once again, but this time they would be tears of joy or amazement."
- Hayk H.
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Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Ditch Your Old E-mail Addresses - Wired How-To Wiki - http://howto.wired.com/wiki...
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"Back in the 1990s, you were an early adopter. You got yourself an Aol.com address or a Hotmail address. Or, you were issued an e-mail address when you signed up for your residential internet access, which you handed out to everyone as a badge of honor. "
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
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"You can't give it up because thousands of your close personal friends only know you as ClassOf92@aol.com or ILoveNKOTB@hotmail.com." AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
Obama to be transported in GMC Topkick "Cadillac" - AutoblogGreen - http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008...
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There's no doubt that the President of the United States needs a safe vehicle to be transported in. Various assassination attempts prove that case rather easily. President-in-waiting Barack Obama will be getting a brand-new armored "car" that will look like a Cadillac, but will really be based on the positively gigantic medium-duty GMC Topkick chassis. Nobody is quite sure what kind of armament the First Car will be equipped with, but let's just assume that there is plenty, including up to five inches of glass and ceramic ballistics materials. That should make this one heavy vehicle. In fact, a couple of heavy vehicles, as General Motors is likely building multiples so that decoys can be used. With all that weight to move around, we'd expect GM to use a version of its diesel engine (running perhaps on biodiesel? No?) and Allison transmission from its line of heavy-duty trucks. Alternatively, Obama could make a green splash by using GM's 2-Mode hybrid system. Just a thought.
- grant fox
from Bookmarklet
I am now only slightly addicted to checking out my Wakoopa Usage to see I'm being tracked "correctly". http://wakoopa.com/louisgr...
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Thanks for the heads up on Wakoopa - looks like it uses CPU usage and gives a rather more accurate picture than other desktop apps I've used in the past
- William Stewart
"Linux Tracker coming soon": isn't this always the way. Boo. Back to RescueTime.
- abacab
I'm not addicted to it, but certainly find it an interesting read: http://wakoopa.com/koltreg...
- Kol Tregaskes
are you?
- Zee.
Zee, who?
- Kol Tregaskes
from NoiseRiver
LG Thank goodness you don't flood it in here. ;) Though one of THE best Wakoopa entries I've ever seen was: "Notepad" haha!
- Mona Nomura
Just signed up, based on your Tweet, Louis :)
- Mark Douglass
What would you do right now, if you were senator McCain?
Mike Reynolds, jcunwired, Alex Scoble and 4 other people liked this
Endorse Obama. It's the all-in, maverick thing to do.
- Paul Buchheit
lol
- William Stewart
He'd get my vote :)
- Paul Buchheit
Setup the party the best I can
- anna sauce
Not living in America, is Obama *that* certain now ?
- William Stewart
Yup.. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ puts the chances of an Obama victory at 96%. If McCain is really the maverick he claims to be, I think he should not go down without a last-ditch effort. Though it is not clear what exactly he ought to do at this late hour...
- Bindu Reddy
Nothing is certain. Polls are likely to be off and there's still a lot that can happen in the next week.
- Paul Buchheit
A week is a long time in politics. Precisely what, if anything, could change the way things are at the moment - I don't know.
- Roberto Bonini
If only the election was decided by media commentators, Obama would have a landslide. Unfortunately the unwashed masses have a vote - 1 man 1 vote to be precise.
- William Stewart
The right thing for him to do would be to go to the close Senate race states and try to pump those up to help the party. He can't win the presidency. He might also try to make Sarah Palin look as good as possible in preparation for 2012. But he'll undoubtedly just keep name calling instead and ruin his reputation with people like me who once respected him.
- Stephen Foskett
drop Palin.
- Neha Narula
I'd start telling my campaigners that there are lots of historical examples when people told the pollsters one thing but did another once they got into the voting booth.
- Adewale Oshineye
Lee Harvey Oswald.
- Private Sanjeev
If he wants what's best for his party he will not position Palin as the new face of the party, but rather someone like Romney or even try to find a younger, more intellectual conservative. You'll see a lot of McCain's top advisers and staff tearing Palin to shreds Nov. 5th.
- Jason Carreira
Fake a terrorist threat. Distract people from the economy and make them worry about terrorism/national security, which is something McCain seems more qualified to deal with than Obama, given his military background.
- Jess Lee
The connection between this and McCain (or the RNC) could never be proven, of course, but McCain's campaign would benefit if Palin was assassinated by an American-born, black muslim suicide bomber.
- Tudor Bosman
Re: me "endorse Obama" idea http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Paul Buchheit
throw the ball into the end zone as the clock runs out and hope someone on your team catches it...and if someone does catch the ball look up at the scoreboard to see that you're still down by 7.
- peter
Um... "Lee Harvey Oswald?" WTF does that mean?
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Take a nice nap.
- Mistletoe Glen
Go hunting with Dick Cheney.
- jcunwired
If I were McCain, I'd be preparing a graceful concession speech, admitting it is time for the Republican party to reinvent itself.
- Mike Reynolds
just got an email that my MBP has been shipped and is on the way - hoping it'll come Wednesday
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