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Try reading just the Grand Inquisitor chapter and see what you think.

There are almost constant rule changes around the tackle laws, the breakdown and de-powering the scrum to reduce the amount of potential head trauma, but the professional era it's like an arms race. Even padding and head-gear, players seem to hit with even more force. And, like the article says, a lot of the concussions happen during the training sessions which is way more than the average amateur player would experience. It's still relatively soon to see the longer-term effects; the early batch of professionals from the mid/late 90s will soon be entering their 60s and I expect there will be more research papers..

I've not heard it before. I was an Application"s" DBA for several years, but this was specifically for Oracle's ERP suite of business applications. The role mixed straight DBA responsibilities with middleware and business administration.

It's the 4 engines which gives airlines A380/747 fuel cost problems. Both fulfil relatively niche markets and are gradually being displaced by the more-efficient and flexible twin-engine A350/787 types. We're just starting to see the secondary market for A380s now which is a good indicator for its long term commercial viability.

Same. Very interesting reading events as described in the theguardian.com and then its foxnews.com equivalent.

Holidays are a lot more relaxing and refreshing without the constant thought you're wasting money. Although, this does take a while to sink in.

The US ExIm bank also provides billions in either direct loans or loan guarantees to foreign companies; this keeps the export market artificially high and effectively subsidises non-US operators and lessors too.

This is implemented over Ku-band by Row44...

http://new.row44.com/faq/

Define funny

I'm flying to SF the next day for Startup School.. could be all HN'd out by the end of the weekend..anyone else going?

Something I've wondered, presumably for several hundred years, Ptolemy's observations could be thought of as the standard model, and consistently day after day, year after year, the sun rose in the east and set in the west to 5 or 6 sigma etc.. that it could be said was proof he was correct. Ptolemy is often spoken in the pejorative, but for so long until the man from Krakow came along, how could you prove otherwise? Does this situation apply today and that a future "Copernicus" will turn the Higgs Boson on its head? Genuinely interested how a consistent set of findings which correspond to predictions, can really be said to prove a discovery?

Do your accounts, chase invoices, quarterly returns etc.. pay her a salary reduces corp. tax liability and enfranchises her into your startup.. it's working out for us both.. so far

I remember the "Wow!", when I discovered the AUTO command!

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - Dostoyevsky.

"Patrick founded Auctomatic and joined Y Combinator as a Winter 2007 company. Its path would not last long. At the age of 19 and ten months after incorporating, the company was bought by Live Current Media for $5MM where Patrick became the Director of Product Engineering in 2008"

Never realised Larry Wall was a Young Ones fan.

Thanks for the notice, will watch that tonight.

Sounds like an example of mediocre journalism picking up on well worn themes: brilliant outcast genius, untimely death and potential riches lost, extrapolated and simplified.

As an aside, and I don't know if this will be covered in the programme, there was an interesting report on Radio 4 some time ago about the treatment Alan Turing went through to "cure" his homosexuality. Whilst I had previously thought this only to be barbaric acts by small minded people, the report suggested some of the medics genuinely thought that this science could actually change him and be a force for good.

Doesn't really change much, but it altered my views...slightly.

I watched that sketch with my wife and in-laws when I first started working from home... I think my silence was deafening

I started on the training for the 2008 race, however after 2 sessions, the Global Challenge business folded due to lack of a headline sponsor (it had previously been BT).

In your training manual the first page has the perfect quote.. "There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. "

I'm not into cheesy inspirational posters, but this is the only one on my wall.

"I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted” - George Best

...funny, I kept on thinking of the line in WarGames when WOPR says the only way to win is not to play.

I went on a rugby tour there from UK around the time of the last foot 'n mouth outbreak... australian immigration were very concerned of the mud on our team's rugby boots so they cleaned all 26 pairs! I'd never played with such spotless (and disinfected) boots!

I think it's called a "Berliner"....

My dad was involved in the network architecture of ATMs/cashpoints for UK banks in the 80s.. not sure if this ever happened, but there was an urban myth of some early installations where one ATM was distributing 200 pounds no matter what was punched in on the keypad. No-one informed the local bank, but the next day there was just this huge queue of people checking out this new cashpoint thingy...

...an infinite loop, so no chance of answering correctly - C.

Agreed. This chap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Eady needs sorting also...

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two Impostors just the same" - Kipling.

Interesting post, thanks. However if, like me, you'd never heard that phrase before - http://detavio.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/did-you-move-the-nee...

Slight aside, but thanks for posting that link. I was confused at your "let alone house of commons" bit as I never realised a bill could be started from either house..

http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage_bill/index.h...