Saturday, November 30, 2013

Nom nom nom


HECKLING RUSSIA’S J. EDGAR HOOVER

HECKLING RUSSIA’S J. EDGAR HOOVER

Friday, November 29, 2013

Black Friday 2013: Puerto Rico Walmart Stampede

Black Friday 2013: Puerto Rico Walmart Stampede

Black Friday 2013 Fights & Madness Mix!!! ARRESTS

Black Friday 2013 Fights & Madness Mix!!! ARRESTS

DC Cheap Gas

DC Cheap Gas

Why do Africans pay the most to send money home?

Why do Africans pay the most to send money home?

The African continent has over 30 million people in the diaspora. Of all the world’s regions, however, Africa’s predominant migration is the most intraregional. The fluid migration within Western Africa, for instance, is partly due to the region’s status as a geopolitical and economic unit, but also to a common history, culture and ethnicity among many groupings. There is also significant international migration to former European colonial powers such as France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Netherlands and Italy, among other countries. Remittances Remittance flows to and within Africa approach US$40 billion. Countries in Northern Africa (for example, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt) are the major receivers in the continent. Eastern African countries depend heavily on these flows, with Somalia standing out as particularly remittance dependent. For the entire region, annual average remittances per migrant reach almost US$1,200 and on a country-by-country average represent 5 per cent of GDP and 27 per cent of exports.

The African continent has over 30 million people in the diaspora. Of all the world’s regions, however, Africa’s predominant migration is the most intraregional. The fluid migration within Western Africa, for instance, is partly due to the region’s status as a geopolitical and economic unit, but also to a common history, culture and ethnicity among many groupings. There is also significant international migration to former European colonial powers such as France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Netherlands and Italy, among other countries. Remittances Remittance flows to and within Africa approach US$40 billion. Countries in Northern Africa (for example, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt) are the major receivers in the continent. Eastern African countries depend heavily on these flows, with Somalia standing out as particularly remittance dependent. For the entire region, annual average remittances per migrant reach almost US$1,200 and on a country-by-country average represent 5 per cent of GDP and 27 per cent of exports.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Abraham Lincoln

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln 

Bitcoin: Experts clash over the crypto-currency

Bitcoin: Experts clash over the crypto-currency

Demolition Man: why does Fab's CEO keep building big companies that suddenly implode?

Demolition Man: why does Fab's CEO keep building big companies that suddenly implode?

Bitcoin, you have a China problem

Bitcoin, you have a China problem

Today, many wealthy Chinese who want to invest in international assets or send their children to school abroad are turning to bitcoin to move money across borders with greater freedom. The same can be said of Chinese looking for a hedge against the artificially stable yuan, which is widely considered to be overvalued. Should China eventually decide to float its currency, much of its purchasing power could evaporate overnight. Therefore, Chinese bitcoin adoption is less a vote of confidence in an alternative digital currency and more a vote of no confidence in the yuan, as evidenced by the premium – often as much as 20 percent – that Chinese must pay to purchase bitcoin with yuan.
In each of these drivers lays a potential land mine. Should Beijing change its currency policies, bitcoin’s value could also suffer. The rest of the world better take note.
The Chinese bitcoin market is also expanding rapidly on an unstable foundation of unspoken federal approval. This runs counter to prior history. China previously passed legislation outlawing the use of virtual currency in the “real” economy and used these laws in 2009 to curb the explosion of Tencent-backed QQ, an in-game currency that was crossing over into physical commerce.
This time around, while the government has not explicitly targeted or endorsed bitcoin, a combination of state actions seems to reflect at least tacit approval. The first was a May 2013 bitcoin documentary that aired on the state-owned broadcaster, CCTV2. Subsequently, the network aired a segment in late October on the world’s first bitcoin ATM launching in Vancouver. Following both events, bitcoin wallet downloads and trading activity spiked in China. Similarly, the decision by Baidu-owned firewall service Jiasule to begin accepting bitcoins implies a measure of governmental approval.
Days before this latest broadcast, People’s Bank of China Deputy Governor Yi Gang offered a similarly lukewarm endorsement of bitcoin while speaking at an economic forum. In his remarks, made in Chinese, he said that Beijing would not recognize bitcoin as an official medium of exchange anytime soon, but people were free to participate in the market. For many, this alleviated fears of a response similar to that taken with QQ, the in-game currency it banned.
BTC China founder and CEO Bobby Lee told Coindesk at the time: “The fact he made any comment at all is significant. It means, in the near term anyway, China’s central bank won’t give bitcoin any official legal status. But the key point here is ‘near-term.’ Given his position, of course his statements need to be conservative. Anything else would be too much of an official statement.”
While Gang’s remarks may represent the strongest governmental endorsement of bitcoin, they’re anything but conclusive. As such, they’re subject to change at any time without notice. If the world has learned anything over the last half century, it’s that modern China can be a manic and unforgiving patriarch, making rapid and unilateral policy decisions that often fly in the face of logic or the perceived greater good. It would be foolish to assume we can predict its future actions around bitcoin.
There are reasons why China may ultimately act in favor or bitcoin. Given the above described explosion of bitcoin activity within its borders, China controls a large portion of the global bitcoin market and infrastructure, including exchanges, mining nodes, and assets. Should this trend continue, and should bitcoin emerge as a sustainable and meaningful piece of the global economy, Beijing could view this as an opportunity to grab power and influence. This is a fact that many US bitcoin enthusiasts and influencers have raised in recent congressional hearings, urging lawmakers to relax regulations and allow the US to regain its influence in the bitcoin market.

Cedarhurst Holocaust survivor, rescuer meet after decades

Cedarhurst Holocaust survivor, rescuer meet after decades

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


Any scarce portable object can become a currency if everyone agrees on it. Even seashells have been used.

Any scarce portable object can become a currency if everyone agrees on it. Even seashells have been used. -David Sacks COO Paypal


Document Security Systems continues run, company confirms Apple patent suit

Document Security Systems continues run, company confirms Apple patent suit

VIP airport lounges are crowded and expensive. Instead, a foldable private head box...SKETCH

VIP airport lounges are crowded and expensive. Instead, a foldable private head box...SKETCH

Document Security Systems Files Patent Litigation Against Apple

Document Security Systems Files Patent Litigation Against Apple
DSS started the monetization campaign last night, November 26, 2013, by filing a patent lawsuit against Apple, Inc (AAPL) in East Texas. The lawsuit asserts the Bluetooth patents 6,128,290 and 5,699,357 both titled "Personal Data Network". The alleged infringing products include iMac computers, iPod product line, iPhone product line, and iPad product line. DSS is further asking for an injunction, damages, and a reasonable royalty.
This new lawsuit presents a potential sizeable revenue opportunity as the infringing products have generated tens of billions of dollars, which DSS will ask for a piece of. I expect this case to draw significant interest in the future by both the media and investors as more information develops.
Shares have rebounded off recent lows and I expect further share appreciation as the new Apple case continues to develop and as the February 2014 Markman hearing nears.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Why are all hot girls Crazy

Why are all hot girls Crazy

Craigslist women allegedly rob Cambridge man at knifepoint

Craigslist women allegedly rob Cambridge man at knifepoint

5 Ways You Attract Great People When You Like Yourself More

5 Ways You Attract Great People When You Like Yourself More

Zionist Leader’s Skepticism on Truman Administration Vindicated by New Documents

Zionist Leader’s Skepticism on Truman Administration Vindicated by New Documents

Chiang Mai & Mae Hong Son Provinces


Mae Hong Son


Once You Use Bitcoin You Can’t Go ‘Back’ — And That’s Its Fatal Flaw

Once You Use Bitcoin You Can’t Go ‘Back’ — And That’s Its Fatal Flaw

Banks rely on the reversibility feature every day to stop fraudulent activities. Bitcoin robbery casesaren’t just rising because of interest in the currency — the most recent is a European bitcoin payment processor losing $1M after a DDoS attack — they’re rising because robbing a bank online involves much less friction than doing so in person.

  • To steal a million dollars hidden under mattresses, a thief needs to break into thousands of homes.
  • To steal a million dollars from a typical business’s bank account, thieves need to transfer it to a network of roughly 100 money mules.
  • Each mule must then withdraw less than $10,000 from their account within a short period of time, take the cash to Western Union, and wire the money to the thieves. (This is why those running the mules can claim up to 40-50 percent of the take!)
To steal a million dollars worth of bitcoins stored by a business, however, a thief only needs the private key. Likewise, to steal $1000 worth of bitcoins each from 1000 people, the thief only needs to have his or her bot software running on enough victims with enough bitcoins to automate the process.
This means bitcoins should never be “stored” on an internet-connected device. That includes our computers and our smartphones. (And have you heard the one about the guy who keeps his key on his finger?) Let’s pause for a moment to reflect on that: What sort of online currency requires using offline computers and objects for all storage?
Now, it is theoretically true that stolen coins could be blocked. If a portion of the network blocks stolen bitcoins today, then the same mechanism could block bitcoins that passed through black markets or offshore exchanges (such as BTC-e) that don’t implement anti-money-laundering protections. Yet the bitcoin community strongly resists the idea of blacklists, because it eliminates fungibility — the notion that all bitcoins are identical — which is essential for a currency. If every dollar used in a drug deal couldn’t be used again, would dollars work as currency? Especially if, sometime after acceptance, a dollar becomes void and blacklisted after the fact because of its previous involvement in a crime?

Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic

Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic

Noam Chomsky slaps down 9/11 truther: People spend an hour on the Internet and think they know physics

Noam Chomsky slaps down 9/11 truther: People spend an hour on the Internet and think they know physics

Broseph


Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. William Penn

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
William Penn 

Shenzhen


Render Unto Caesar, but Who Backs the Bitcoin?

Render Unto Caesar, but Who Backs the Bitcoin?

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one’s self. - Publilius Syrus

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one’s self.
- Publilius Syrus

Pai2


Monday, November 25, 2013

Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night

Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night

Ali G - Terrorism


Pai Thailand


Ali-G...Interviews About Making Bussines


Borat - Dating Service Skit


Borat Slave


Borat: Deleted Scenes


Borat


But there are no deathbed confessions by anyone who might have been involved. The closest Mr. Stone comes to one is a rambling recording left behind by Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, who said he was a “benchwarmer” in an anti-J.F.K. conspiracy codenamed Big Event. But neither Mr. Hunt nor anyone else admits being involved in the plot.

But there are no deathbed confessions by anyone who might have been involved. The closest Mr. Stone comes to one is a rambling recording left behind by Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, who said he was a “benchwarmer” in an anti-J.F.K. conspiracy codenamed Big Event. But neither Mr. Hunt nor anyone else admits being involved in the plot. 

The best physical evidence Mr. Stone offers linking L.B.J. to the assassination is an alleged fingerprint found on a cardboard box by Oswald’s sniper’s nest on the book depository’s sixth floor. Mr. Stone and other conspiracy theorists say the print belonged to Malcolm Wallace, who Mr. Stone alleges was a Johnson hit man. But conspiracy critics note that, according to the Warren Commission, all of the fingerprints found on the boxes in the sniper’s nest belonged to cops or investigators; only a palm print, not a fingerprint, is unaccounted for.

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” -Winston Churchhill

Obama confronts heckler at immigration reform rally

Obama confronts heckler at immigration reform rally

A little girl donates some coins to a street musician and gets the best surprise in return. Well, that's certainly money well spent. Read more at: http://www.amazingoasis.org/2013/11/best-coin-ever-spent.html


Yale Lockdown Lifted; Police Doubting Accuracy Of Initial Gunman Report

Yale Lockdown Lifted; Police Doubting Accuracy Of Initial Gunman Report

Nigerian Retailers Building Their Own Amazon in Africa

Nigerian Retailers Building Their Own Amazon in Africa

Backlash by the Bay: Tech Riches Alter a City

Backlash by the Bay: Tech Riches Alter a City

The author, a start-up founder named Peter Shih, listed 10 things he hated about San Francisco. Homeless people, for example. And the “constantly PMSing” weather. And “girls who are obviously 4s and behave like they’re 9s.”
The backlash was immediate. Fliers appeared on telephone poles calling Mr. Shih a “woman hatin’ nerd toucher.” CheapAir offered him a free ticket back to New York. Readers responded that what they hated about San Francisco were “entitled” technology workers like him.
Mr. Shih, who said he received death threats after the post, deleted it and apologized.
But a nerve had been struck. As the center of the technology industry has moved north from Silicon Valley to San Francisco and the largess from tech companies has flowed into the city — Twitter’s stock offering unleashed an estimated 1,600 new millionaires — income disparities have widened sharply, housing prices have soared and orange construction cranes dot the skyline. The tech workers have, rightly or wrongly, received the blame.
Resentment simmers, at the fleets of Google buses that ferry workers to the company’s headquarters in Mountain View and back; the code jockeys who crowd elite coffeehouses, heads buried in their laptops; and the sleek black Uber cars that whisk hipsters from bar to bar. Late last month, two tech millionaires opened the Battery, an invitation-only, $2,400-a-year club in an old factory in the financial district, cars lining up for valet parking.
For critics, such sights are symbols of a city in danger of losing its diversity — one that artists, families and middle-class workers can no longer afford. On the day of Twitter’s public offering this month, 150 demonstrators protested outside the company with signs reading “People not profit” and “We’re the public, what are you offering?”

Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend on This San Diego High Schooler?

Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend on This San Diego High Schooler?

They all hailed from seemingly random cities: Fairmont, Danville, Trenton. Never a state. Never a country. Never a joke.
Oh, and none of them had actually tweeted anything. 
* * *
Perhaps you have guessed what happened by now. These "people" were not people at all, but automatically generated accounts created by somebody with a bit of programming knowledge.
The thousands of new followers that Olivia got were spambots emanating from the same source. 

Now, if you are reading this story on the Internet, you have probably encountered spambots, or at least the spam that such bots generate. 
Generally speaking, the bots tend to follow really popular accounts. And they tend not to come in swarms of thousands but one or two at a time, maybe a few dozen at most. 
So the mystery remained: why was a San Diego high schooler suddenly a spambot magnet? 
I began to search through Olivia's followers looking for patterns.
The first thing I noticed: Olivia wasn't part of every bot in the swarm's follow list, but she was predominant. No other account that I could find had been targeted so often, not even Lebron James. 
There is an underground economy in fake-account creation, as Newt Gingrich discovered when his campaign was accused of buying Twitter followers. What people are buying, of course, is not real people, but robot-generated accounts created to make it look like people are more famous than they are.
This kind of bot normally just picks accounts from Twitter's suggested user list, the Lebron Jameses and ESPNs. But perhaps someone had tried to up its sophistication by including something some regular users. Or maybe there was some sort of bug in its "Who should I follow?" code. 
Other kinds of bots decide to follow people based on what they tweet, but looking at just a few examples, it was clear that there was no content connection between Olivia and the other people these bots were following. 
The second thing I noticed: the spambots were following a lot of golf caddies.  I couldn't explain that one immediately, but keep it in mind.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

The victims of Syria's war finding care in Israel

The victims of Syria's war finding care in Israel

A Bitcoin Puzzle: Heads, It’s Excitement. Tails, It’s Anxiety.

A Bitcoin Puzzle: Heads, It’s Excitement. Tails, It’s Anxiety.

The S.E.C., for its part, has been warning investors of the danger of “potential investment scams” involving bitcoin and other virtual currencies. In one case, it has charged Trendon T. Shavers, a Texas man, with running a bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme with the promise of vast riches.
“Con men read the headlines like everyone else,” said Lori Schock, director of the S.E.C.’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy. “Bitcoins sound sexy and new, but at the end of the day, if they’re making claims about limitless wealth from unregistered investments it comes down to an old-fashioned Ponzi scheme.”
The agency is also studying a legitimate bitcoin proposal by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the technology investors best known for their involvement with Facebook, to open anexchange-traded fund, or E.T.F., that tracks the bitcoin market. If the E.T.F. is ever approved, a fund based on a volatile virtual currency is hardly likely to be a safe, core holding for buy-and-hold investors.
In the meantime, the virtual currency’s soaring value has inspired tales like this one: Kristoffer Koch, 29, of Oslo, told the BBC last month that he bought $22 worth of the currency while doing technical research on it four years ago. He promptly forgot about it. When he unlocked his long dormant account recently, it was worth $850,000.
Even with all of its problems, the eventual creation of a reliable, decentralized, peer-shared, computer-based currency remains the holy grail in some circles. Back in 1999, Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate who remains the guiding light of many libertarians, predicted its eventual arrival. He saw the Internet as a congenial environment for innovators. Markets would flourish in cyberspace, freeing people from what he considered the stifling grasp of a paternalistic and inefficient government. But one ingredient was missing, he said. He called it “a reliable e-cash.”

Zuckerberg YCombinator Advice


Photos That Will Make Your Stomach Drop

Photos That Will Make Your Stomach Drop

No matter how slow you go you are still lapping everybody on the couch.


“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” ― Bertrand Russell

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”


― Bertrand Russell

Bo Jackson ESPN


Hershel Walker Running


Herschel Walker: I Do 3,500 Sit Ups. 1,500 Push Ups Every Day


Herschel


Big tech scrambles for Israeli firms

Big tech scrambles for Israeli firms

14 more officers indicted in Baltimore jail corruption case

14 more officers indicted in Baltimore jail corruption case

Snow and rain storms hit Nevada

Snow and rain storms hit Nevada

Ferrari auction sale $14.3 million NYC

Ferrari auction sale $14.3 million NYC

Epic Pistons Dance


Ctera

Ctera

American Muay Thai


Muay Thai Champions Burma


Most Brutal Muay Thai Fight Ever Thailand Round 4

Most Brutal Muay Thai Fight Ever Thailand Round 4

Friday, November 22, 2013

Hero Pakistani doc who helped get bin Laden hit with dubious murder charge

Hero Pakistani doc who helped get bin Laden hit with dubious murder charge

Friend zone


Stanley Druckenmiller on Strategy, Shorting IBM

Stanley Druckenmiller on Strategy, Shorting IBM

In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act (brazen violations)

In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act 

The videos show, among other things, cops stopping citizens, questioning them, aggressively searching them and arresting them for trespassing when they have permission to be on the premises; officers conducting searches of Saleh’s business without search warrants or permission; using what appears to be excessive force on subjects who are clearly not resisting arrest and filing inaccurate police reports in connection with the arrests.
“There is just no justifying this kind of behavior,’’ said Chuck Drago, a former police officer and consultant on police policy and the use of force. “Nobody can justify overstepping the constitution to fight crime.”
Repeated phone messages and emails to Miami Gardens Police Chief Matthew Boyd and City Manager Cameron Benson asking for comment on this story were not returned.
Boyd did release a statement, saying that the department is committed to serving and protecting the citizens and businesses in the city.
But Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Florida, said that’s exactly what Boyd is NOT doing.
“Where is the police chief in all this? In a police department in a city this size, this kind of behavior could not escape his attention. Doesn’t the City Commission know that they are exposing the city to either massive liability for civil rights violations? Either that, or they are going to wake up one day and find the U.S. Department of Justice has taken over its police department.’’
Saleh and his attorney, Steve Lopez, are preparing to file a federal civil rights lawsuit, contending that the police department has routinely, under the direction of the city’s top leaders, directed its officers to conduct racial profiling, illegal stops and searches and other activities to cover up illegal misconduct.
CITY’S STRUGGLES
Miami Gardens, incorporated 10 years ago, has struggled with gang violence, drug crime and shooting sprees that have claimed the lives of many innocent people. Just this year, a 12-year-old girl was killed in a hail of bullets and a retired minister and her grandson were slain in an execution-style murder.
While overall crime has declined in recent years, murders have more than doubled, according to state crime figures. Residents haven’t sat idly. For years they have demanded change. They’ve led anti-violence crusades, crime-fighting rallies and town-hall meetings to draw attention to the city’s crime problem.
With a population of 109,000 people, Miami Gardens is the third largest city in Miami -Dade. Its population is predominantly black. Its citizens have voiced their distrust of the police department over the years on a number of fronts, noting that officers — many of them white and Hispanic — seldom leave their patrol cars except to make an arrest.
In the past, Boyd and other top commanders have insisted that in order to quell violence they need the community to cooperate and help them root out criminals.
“The real problem here,’’ Drago said, “is the police department does not have a relationship with its community — black or white. When they make these kinds of stops for minor offenses, it only re-enforces the mistrust.’’
Saleh, whose store is tucked between a public park and working-class neighborhoods, contends that Miami Gardens police officers have repeatedly used racial slurs to refer to his customers and treat most of them like they are hardened criminals.
“Police line them up and tell them to put their hands against the wall. I started asking myself ‘Is this normal?’ I just kept thinking police can’t do this,’’ Saleh said.
Last year, Saleh, armed with a cache of videos, filed an internal affairs complaint about the arrests at his store. From that point, he said, police officers became even more aggressive.
One evening, shortly after he had complained a second time, a squadron of six uniformed Miami Gardens police officers marched into the store, he says. They lined up, shoulder to shoulder, their arms crossed in front of them, blocking two grocery aisles.
“Can I help you?” Saleh recalls asking. It was an entire police detail, known as the department’s Rapid Action Deployment (RAD) squad, whom he had come to know from their frequent arrest sweeps. One went to use the restroom, and five of them stood silently for a full 10 minutes. Then they all marched out.
Boyd, who is black, said earlier this year that headlines of killings and shootings in Miami Gardens overshadow the gains his department has made since the city established its police department in 2007.
“Rest assured that our department is fully committed to complying with the laws that govern us,’’ Boyd said in his written statement emailed to the Herald Wednesday. He added that he was also committed to “exceeding the expectations of those that rely on us, and providing the best possible service to the residents of this great City.’’
‘LIKE FAMILY’
For 17 years, Saleh has owned 207 Quickstop. Saleh has come to know his customers by their first names, and even by their nicknames. He has watched some of them grow from toddlers into young men. He feels for them when loved ones die, and has celebrated with them when their babies were born.
“To me, these people are like family,’’ said Saleh, a native of Venezuela who is of Palestinian descent.
About three years ago, Saleh said police asked him to participate in what they called a “zero-tolerance” program to reduce crime. He gladly signed up, not realizing at the time how much it would impact his business and customers. Under the program, Miami Gardens police are given broad powers to stop and arrest people who appear to be loitering or trespassing at the participating business.
The idea behind the program is based on the “broken window theory,’’ a concept that has been employed by police around the country. The theory holds that a community that rids itself of petty crime, such as shoplifting, vandalism and trespassing, can eradicate more serious crime because criminals won’t have anywhere to hide.
Drago said the idea does work — but only if a police department has built a good relationship with its residents.
“There’s a lot of groundwork that has to be laid with the community before you start sweeping,’’ he said.
Almost immediately after Saleh put the “zero-tolerance” sign in his window, he regretted it.
Miami Gardens police officers, he said, began stopping his patrons regularly, citing them for minor infractions such as trespassing, or having an open container of alcohol. The officers, he said, would then pat them down or stick their hands in citizens’ pockets. But what bothered Saleh the most was the emboldened behavior of the officers who came into his store unannounced, searched his store without his permission and then hauled his employees away in the middle of their shifts. He finally told them he no longer wanted to participate in the program and removed the sign.
The officers, however, continued their surveillance of his store over his objections. The officers even put the sign back on his store against his wishes, he said.
One video, recorded on June 26, 2012, shows Sampson, clearly stocking coolers, being interrupted by MGPD Sgt. William Dunaske, who orders him to put his hands behind his back, and then handcuffs him, leads him out of the store and takes him to jail for trespassing.




Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/v-fullstory/3769823/in-miami-gardens-store-video-catches.html#storylink=cpy

Watch 2 Dudes Bring A Trolley Full Of People To Rousing Applause

Watch 2 Dudes Bring A Trolley Full Of People To Rousing Applause

Xinhua Insight: Bitcoin rollercoaster hits China, challenging supervision

Xinhua Insight: Bitcoin rollercoaster hits China, challenging supervision

Bitcoin investors in China might have passed the most restless two nights of their lives as the virtual currency price rose from a little over 3,000 yuan (492.3 U.S. dollars) to nearly 7,000 and dropped back to 3,500 yuan from Tuesday to Wednesday on the country's biggest trading platform.
High investment risks have begun to concern them, despite huge returns.
Bitcoin, a form of digital e-money stored in a virtual wallet, bypasses banks, allows users to remain anonymous and came to the Chinese public eye in April this year, when movie star Jet Li's One Foundation received a donation of several hundred Bitcoin to help quake-stricken Sichuan.
The "currency" has been heating up ever since, especially when China Central Television reported on the evening news of October 28 that Canada has set up the first Bitcoin ATM machine. Investors went even crazier when the country's largest Bitcoin trading platform, BTC China, received an investment of 5 million U.S. dollars on Monday.
The platform's daily volume of business has exceeded 10,000 Bitcoin, or over 200 million yuan now.
While some applaud creativity and the revolutionary character of the "crypto-money," many consider it a new kind of investment. Only a few noticed the high risks behind the Bitcoin craze and drew back, as industry researchers and insiders, economists and sociologists looked on.
CURRENCY, DERIVATIVE OR BUBBLE?
"Bitcoin is hardly a revolutionary product," said Zhang Yuewen, associate researcher at the Institute of Finance and Banking, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Zhang said in essence, Bitcoin trading is no more than privately manufactured money circulating on the internet.
"Some communities issue vouchers for residents to use as a means of payment within the community, and the community for Bitcoin is the worldwide web," said Zhang.
Some economists share Zhang's opinion, thinking it is all too early to define Bitcoin as a new currency.

Ultimate reason public transport is needed

Ultimate reason public transport is needed

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Armoire


Africa's Next Boom #video

Africa's Next Boom #video

Google billionaires jet-setting to exotic spots and taxpayers appear to pay part of bill

Google billionaires jet-setting to exotic spots and taxpayers appear to pay part of bill

Google's top execs are using the company's private fleet of jets to fly to some of the world's most exotic vacation spots -- and taxpayers appear to be footing part of the bill.
When they aren't grounded at NASA's Moffett Field, the search engine's jets guzzle government fuel to carry Google's billionaire bosses to Tahiti, Hawaii and a host of private Caribbean beaches, according to a detailed analysis reviewed by FoxNews.com. 
Google - and the government - say the free parking and discounted fuel are justified because of the scientific research the company does with the space agency. But the data shows trips may be more about surf than science, said Drew Johnson, a fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom.
“It appears that Google’s jets perform very little actual scientific research (unless calculating the circumference of Mai Tai umbrellas on the beaches of Babelthuap somehow qualifies),” Johnson wrote.
Google execs Larry Page and Sergey Brin own five airplanes that range from sleek Gulfstreams to giant Boeing 757s and even a Dassault fighter jet. Operated by a private holding company called H211, the fleet flies out of a hangar in Silicon Valley's Moffett Field, a government-owned and -operated facility.

Thai Etiquette


“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough” ― Oprah Winfrey

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough” 
― Oprah Winfrey

Chiang Mai


Bill Gates orders Ballmer's execution as 'South Park' console wars escalate


Bill Gates orders Ballmer's execution as 'South Park' console wars escalate

Euro-Area Manufacturing Expands for a Fifth Month Led by Germany

Euro-Area Manufacturing Expands for a Fifth Month Led by Germany

Germany, Europe’s largest economy, drove the euro-area expansion in November, with Markit’s manufacturing gauge rising to a 29-month high of 52.5 and the services index at 54.5, the highest in nine months, according to a separate report today.

Disregard common sense. ‘Common sense’ is what the culture we live in regards as ‘normal’

Disregard common sense. ‘Common sense’ is what the culture we live in regards as ‘normal’. If inventors like Da Vinci or Edison had stayed with a ‘common sense’ mindset, our life would be very different because their inventions changed the world. In an interview Thomas Edison said about energy:
“Some day some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing up sunshine as energy. I’ll do the trick myself if some one else doesn’t get at it.”
I bet you that Edison’s fellow citizen’s thought he was crazy. “Turn sunlight into energy – how absurd!” they would have said because his idea didn’t fit with the common sense of the time.

Google unveils prepaid debit card

Google unveils prepaid debit card

 Google Inc will offer a prepaid debit card that will allow consumers to purchase goods at stores and to withdraw cash from ATM machines, the Internet company said on Wednesday.
The card, which is only available in the United States, lets consumers access the funds stored in their Google Wallet accounts. Google Wallet is a smartphone app and online payment service that lets consumers buy goods and transfer money to each other.
The new Wallet card will be accepted at "millions of locations" that accept MasterCard and at ATM machines, Google said in a post on its official blog on Wednesday. Google said the card is free and that the company will not charge cardholders any monthly or annual fees.
The card could help advance Google's efforts to play a bigger role in commerce and provide the company with valuable information about consumer shopping habits, though it appears to be less ambitious than the full-fledged credit card once rumored to be in the works.

Plans for a Google consumer credit card were shelved when the head of Google's Wallet and payments group, Osama Bedier, left the company in May, according to a report at the time in the technology blog AllThingsD.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Three GIFs That Capture How Terrible The Knicks Are At Defense

Three GIFs That Capture How Terrible The Knicks Are At Defense

Goldman Sees Significant Losses for Iron Ore, Gold in 2014

Goldman Sees Significant Losses for Iron Ore, Gold in 2014

Iron ore, gold, soybeans and copper will probably drop at least 15 percent next year as commodities face increased downside risks even as economic growth in the U.S. accelerates, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
The risks are strongest for iron ore, and follow increases in supplies, analysts including Jeffrey Currie wrote in a report yesterday that identified the New York-based bank’s top 10 market themes for the coming year. Price pressures will mostly become visible later in 2014, the analysts wrote, forecasting that bullion, copper and soybeans will decline to the lowest levels since 2010.
Commodities as tracked by the Standard & Poor’s GSCI Index lost 5.1 percent this year, led by declines in corn, as supplies surged, and precious metals, on expectations the Federal Reserve will taper stimulus. Goldman described the forecast losses for iron ore, gold, soybeans and copper as significant, and said that they could help weaken currencies in producing countries, including the Australian dollar and South African rand.
“Last year, we pointed to the ongoing shift in our commodity views, ultimately towards downside price risk,” the analysts including Currie wrote. “The impact of supply responses to the period of extraordinary price pressure continues to flow through the system.”

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Gold, which was at $1,246.50 an ounce on the Comex at 12:38 p.m. in Singapore, will drop $1,050 at the end of next year, Goldman said in the report, restating an earlier forecast. Currie said last month that gold is a “slam dunk” sell for next year as the U.S. economy extends its recovery.

Bitcoin 'Could Go' To $1 Million

Bitcoin 'Could Go' To $1 Million

Why Bitcoin and gold are at the mercy of the Fed: Strategist

Why Bitcoin and gold are at the mercy of the Fed: Strategist

This is what Tesla and Bitcoin really have in common: Strategist

This is what Tesla and Bitcoin really have in common: Strategist

Life is too short to live the same day twice.


Angry Fish Tank Guy

Angry Fish Tank Guy

Overworked Americans Leave Half Billion Vacation Days Unused

Overworked Americans Leave Half Billion Vacation Days Unused

Dryhootch: A Milwaukee Coffeeshop Where Vets Help Vets Survive—At Home

Dryhootch: A Milwaukee Coffeeshop Where Vets Help Vets Survive—At Home

Swiss Rage Against CEO Pay Provokes Vote on Salary Limits

Swiss Rage Against CEO Pay Provokes Vote on Salary Limits

Chok Dee Guesthouse Chiang Mai

Chok Dee Guesthouse Chiang Mai

Monday, November 18, 2013

Calif. man says Google Maps image shows slain son

Calif. man says Google Maps image shows slain son

 A San Francisco Bay Area man wants Google Maps to remove an aerial image that shows the body of his 14-year-old son, who was shot and killed in 2009.
Jose Barrera told KTVU-TV over the weekend that he became aware of the image of his son Kevin earlier in the week. He said he wants Google Inc. to take down the image out of respect for his son, but it wasn't clear whether he had asked Google directly to take it down.
"When I see this image, that's still like that happened yesterday," Barrera told the news station Sunday. "And that brings me back to a lot of memories."
The image shows what appears to be a body on the ground near a rail line with several other people, presumably investigators, and what looks like a police car nearby. It was visible on Google's website Monday.
Kevin's body was found on a path near railroad tracks that separate North Richmond from San Pablo on Aug. 15, 2009. His slaying remains unsolved.
Police believe Kevin was killed in the same spot the night before his body was found, said Richmond police Sgt. Nicole Abetkov. They have not established a motive for the slaying or identified any suspects.

Chuck Palahniuk once said, “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

Chuck Palahniuk once said, “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. —Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering.  It is also full of overcoming.
—Helen Keller

Siavosh Derakhti, a young Muslim, defends Jews and others targeted by hate crimes

Siavosh Derakhti, a young Muslim, defends Jews and others targeted by hate crimes

Derakhti, a 22-year-old who was born in Sweden, is the son of Iranian immigrants. He says he hopes to travel to the United States one day to share his story – and the story of his hometown of Malmö, a dynamic and diverse city of some 300,000 in southern Sweden.
"Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia are huge problems in Malmö," Derakhti says. "I can't accept that Jews are leaving my hometown [because of anti-Semitism]. I told the [US] president [who was in Sweden on an official visit] that I would never give up the fight for equal rights for all people."
Malmö has gained an unfortunate reputation in recent years (some say unfairly) for being hostile to minority groups, especially Jews. Jews have lived in Malmö – Sweden's third largest city after Stockholm and Gothenburg – since the mid-19th century.
Reports of hate crimes have been on the rise. Residents of African descent also have been singled out for abuse, including a man from Gambia who, along with his 18-month-old son, was recently assaulted in an incident classified as a hate crime by police.
The Jewish community center has been fire-bombed, and its cemetery desecrated. Swastikas have been scrawled on the doors of Jewish homes. And the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights organization, has issued a travel advisory for Malmö, citing repeated verbal and physical attacks against Jews.
In a report released late last year, the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance said that it views "with particular concern" the situation in Malmö, where individuals wearing visible symbols of their religion, it said, are regularly attacked, and Jewish children suffer "anti-Semitic bullying" at school.
Some observers, such as Willy Silberstein, president of the Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism, blame the situation on certain politically motivated elements of the city's growing Muslim population, which now numbers about 75,000, or about one-quarter of the city's total population.
"Many Jews," Mr. Silberstein said in testimony before a subcommittee of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this year, "have left Malmö simply because they are afraid and ashamed to live in a city which treats Jews like this" – even though, he said, "a large portion" of the Muslim immigrants in Sweden are not anti-Semitic.