[RedSpawn]

https://www.yahoo.co...-164017772.html

What????!!!!!

[blackshoe]

 mike777, on 2017-August-16, 22:46, said:

Off topic but watching Austin Powers,,,,goofy but funny

fwiw where the heck is Elizabeth Hurley?

Somewhere in England, I would imagine.

[Zelandakh]

 blackshoe, on 2017-August-23, 20:14, said:

Somewhere in England, I would imagine.

Incorrect as it happens - from 2 days ago...

[blackshoe]

 Zelandakh, on 2017-August-24, 00:59, said:

Incorrect as it happens - from 2 days ago...

I grant you that's probably not England, but the article does say she's on vacation.

[Aberlour10]

There are unconfirmed rumors that PepsiCo Inc is going to decorate their cans with Bermuda Bowl

[RedSpawn]

https://www.nytimes....an.html?mcubz=1
https://www.bloomber...-auto-insurance



What the hell? Can we talk about the white elephant in the room?

How in the world can 1,000,000+ fake accounts be opened at a mega-bank and no senior management member be held to SERIOUSLY ACCOUNT for the lack of internal controls at a financial institution where massive identity theft occurred?

Either senior management is responsible for the effective operation of internal controls at the enterprise of their employ or they aren't. There is no "contextualizing" the criminal nature of this breach of customer trust and culpability that senior management has in this matter.

[mike777]

3.5 million fake accounts so far and counting btw

[Al_U_Card]

Plausible deniability....it's spreading!

Banks, like other organizations that are used to getting their way, do pretty much what they want...

[jjbrr]

[y66]

Comment about Matiz Gallego sardines by someone named chardino on Amazon:

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And of course it is important to remind everyone that these noble fish have a long shelf life. Buy lots of them now and use them to barter for gasoline, ammunition, water filters , propane, and whatever else you may need during the apocalypse/zombie invasion/economic collapse. But chances are you will just keep them for yourself.

[Winstonm]

How many realize that World War Z was a prequel to the documentary?

[y66]

From 20 Wines for Under $20: Weeknight Pleasures for Relaxed Evenings by Eric Asimov:

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The requirements for weeknight cooking are easy to understand, but weeknight wine? It’s a bit more conceptual.

The last thing anyone wants after a long day of work is to put in another few hours over a cutting board and stove. But where is the labor in opening a bottle? It is the wine inside that matters.

Weeknight wines ought to be undemanding, like easygoing comedies rather than Ingmar Bergman films. They need not require rapt attention, but they should be delicious and refreshing. And if you do choose to focus on them, you should be rewarded with something of interest, a touch of nuance or complexity that would repay the gift of your attention.

Did I mention price? They should be relatively inexpensive and great values, which are not necessarily the same thing. You can find plenty of innocuous wines for $10. Most will be sound but boring — paint-by-numbers facsimiles of more interesting bottles. They are cheap, but where is the value?

In the range of $15 to $20, however, the level of interest and excitement rises exponentially over $10 wines. These 20 bottles I’ve selected, all under $20, are great weeknight wines, easygoing and friendly. And if you wish to engage with them, they will be worth your while.

[jjbrr]

jesus christ. "easygoing and friendly" wines?

[RedSpawn]

http://www.investope...-credit-freeze/

At least Equifax is offering free credit freezes for its own debacle. Our Congress needs to have a pow-wow and create some regulations that treats the almagamation of our credit and personal data as a national security matter requiring stringent and vigorous internal controls. For this much credit fraud exposure to exist as a result of professional negligence with respect to a business enterprise's network security is unacceptable by 1st world standards!

[RedSpawn]

http://www.ajc.com/n...WFQE3w7JjcdnO/.

There is a new form of municipal prostitution in America and Amazon's public campaign to have "thirsty" cities give away or sell land to Amazon at "bargain basement" prices to facilitate the construction of its new 2nd headquarters is an all-time low.

Now some of the oldest state governments and newest municipalities are wearing fishnet pantyhose, shiny new leather mini-skirts, and red lipstick to woo Amazon.

Just a sad state of affairs. . . .

[y66]

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Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author known for his spare prose style and his subversion of literary genres, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Mr. Ishiguro, 62, is best known for his novels “The Remains of the Day,” about a butler serving an English lord in the years leading up to World War II, and “Never Let Me Go,” a melancholy dystopian love story set in a British boarding school.

In a statement, he expressed astonishment and gratitude for the honor: “It comes at a time when the world is uncertain about its values, its leadership and its safety. I just hope that my receiving this huge honor will, even in a small way, encourage the forces for good will and peace at this time.”

[y66]

Tyler Cowen on Richard Thaler

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from Thaler’s book on the making of behavioral economics:

…my thesis advisor, Sherwin Rosen, gave the following as an assessment of my career as a graduate student: “We did not expect much of him.”

[kenberg]

 y66, on 2017-October-10, 03:28, said:

Tyler Cowen on Richard Thaler

This has drastically increased the amount of stuff I should read. He links to many articles.

I suspect I would serious like Thaler. I am going to at least give some of his stuff a try.

[shyams]

A thread question:

Did the title always end as "Thread Thread"?

This thread been in existence for so long, but it's only recently that I realised that the title has two "Thread"s!

[Winstonm]

 shyams, on 2017-October-10, 23:31, said:

A thread question:

Did the title always end as "Thread Thread"?

This thread been in existence for so long, but it's only recently that I realised that the title has two "Thread"s!

Yes and yes.