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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 |
bonerici
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4:07p |
secret masters of the universe accidentally admit they control everything
Sergey Aleynikov, was arrested July 3, charged in a criminal complaint with stealing the trading software.
At a court appearance U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti said the theft poses a risk to U.S. markets:
“The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.”
So goldman-sachs accidentally admits that it uses their top secret black box trading programs to manipulate the market. This is a pretty big blunder by them, because now everyone is left wondering, how exactly goldman-sachs skims from and manipulates the market? If there is a possibility to cheat the market, nobody believes goldman-sachs would refrain from abusing this power. So, is it front trading, where you get to see the quote of your competitors ahead of time (in microseconds) and you execute your trade before they do? We want to know what is in your little black box, Goldman-Sachs. |
| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 |
platytog
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5:13p |
ugliest chick at the gym was wearing a shirt that said "come back when you're hot". i was floored. Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
bonerici
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1:32p |
why did jacob steal esau's blessing and what did god think about it?
So I despise that part of animes where you can be as stupid as you want, in fact being stupid is good because it shows your good heart. Which reminds me of the tale of isaac and his two sons jacob and esau in the bible.
22Before Rebekah gave birth, she knew she was going to have twins, because she could feel them inside her, fighting each other. She thought, "Why is this happening to me?" Finally, she asked the LORD why her twins were fighting, 23and he told her: "Your two sons will become two separate nations. [f] The younger of the two will be stronger, and the older son will be his servant." 28Esau would take the meat of wild animals to his father Isaac, and so Isaac loved him more, but Jacob was his mother's favorite son.
29One day, Jacob was cooking some stew, when Esau came home hungry 30and said, "I'm starving to death! Give me some of that red stew right now!" That's how Esau got the name "Edom." [i] 31Jacob replied, "Sell me your rights as the first-born son." [j] 32"I'm about to die," Esau answered. "What good will those rights do me?"
33But Jacob said, "Promise me your birthrights, here and now!" And that's what Esau did. 34Jacob then gave Esau some bread and some of the bean stew, and when Esau had finished eating and drinking, he just got up and left, showing how little he thought of his rights as the first-born.
1After Isaac had become old and almost blind, he called in his first-born son Esau, who asked him, "Father, what can I do for you?"
2Isaac replied, "I am old and might die at any time. 3So take your bow and arrows, then go out in the fields, and kill a wild animal. 4Cook some of that tasty food that I love so much and bring it to me. I want to eat it once more and give you my blessing before I die."
[Rebbecca heard this and schemed]
14So Jacob brought the meat to his mother, and she cooked the tasty food that his father liked. 15Then she took Esau's best clothes and put them on Jacob. 16She also covered the smooth part of his hands and neck with goatskins 17and gave him some bread and the tasty food she had cooked.
18Jacob went to his father and said, "Father, here I am."
"Which one of my sons are you?" his father asked.
19Jacob replied, "I am Esau, your first-born, and I have done what you told me. Please sit up and eat the meat I have brought. Then you can give me your blessing."
20Isaac asked, "My son, how did you find an animal so quickly?"
"The LORD your God was kind to me," Jacob answered.
21"My son," Isaac said, "come closer, where I can touch you and find out if you really are Esau." 22Jacob went closer. His father touched him and said, "You sound like Jacob, but your hands feel hairy like Esau's." 23And so Isaac blessed Jacob, thinking he was Esau.
24Isaac asked, "Are you really my son Esau?"
"Yes, I am," Jacob answered.
25So Isaac told him, "Serve me the wild meat, and I can give you my blessing."
Jacob gave him some meat, and he ate it. He also gave him some wine, and he drank it. 26Then Isaac said, "Son, come over here and kiss me." 27While Jacob was kissing him, Isaac caught the smell of his clothes and said:
"The smell of my son is like a field the LORD has blessed. 28God will bless you, my son, with dew from heaven and with fertile fields, rich with grain and grapes. 29Nations will be your servants and bow down to you. You will rule over your brothers, and they will kneel at your feet. Anyone who curses you will be cursed; anyone who blesses you will be blessed."
30Right after Isaac had given Jacob his blessing and Jacob had gone, Esau came back from hunting. 31He cooked the tasty food, brought it to his father, and said, "Father, please sit up and eat the meat I have brought you, so you can give me your blessing."
32"Who are you?" Isaac asked.
"I am Esau, your first-born son."
33Isaac started trembling and said, "Then who brought me some wild meat right before you came in? I ate it and gave him a blessing that cannot be taken back."
34Esau cried loudly and begged, "Father, give me a blessing too!"
35Isaac answered, "Your brother tricked me and stole your blessing."
41Esau hated his brother Jacob because he had stolen the blessing that was supposed to be his. So he said to himself, "Just as soon as my father dies, I'll kill Jacob."
6Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and had warned him not to marry any of the Canaanite women. He also learned that Jacob had been sent to find a wife in northern Syria [b] 7and that he had obeyed his father and mother. 8Esau already had several wives, but he realized at last how much his father hated the Canaanite women.
[Jacob runs off and years later comes back to meet Esau]
4Jacob told them to say to Esau, "Master, I am your servant! I have lived with Laban all this time, 5and now I own cattle, donkeys, and sheep, as well as many slaves. Master, I am sending these messengers in the hope that you will be kind to me."
6When the messengers returned, they told Jacob, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is heading this way with four hundred men."
7Jacob was so frightened that he divided his people, sheep, cattle, and camels into two groups. 8He thought, "If Esau attacks one group, perhaps the other can escape."
1Later that day Jacob met Esau coming with his four hundred men. So Jacob had his children walk with their mothers. 2The two servant women, Zilpah and Bilhah, together with their children went first, followed by Leah and her children, then by Rachel and Joseph. 3Jacob himself walked in front of them all, bowing to the ground seven times as he came near his brother.
4But Esau ran toward Jacob and hugged and kissed him. Then the two brothers started crying.
So what are the lessons here? If you read christian bible studies there is a real problem here. Because Jacob lied he cheated, and stole from Esau, definitely sins, and he got away with everything. So to the christians this is a story of forgiveness, which means that even though Jacob did so many bad things, Esau forgave Jacob which shows god's forgiveness. Which is totally out of line with the real intent of the story. Clearly the star is Jacob, god blesses him, and wants him to be the future king of israel. If you read jewish studies of this story, they rationalize it by saying that basically god works in mysterious ways. Isaac wanted to do god's will and figured that meant giving his blessings to the oldest, even though Jacob was clearly a more capable leader. So in order for god to work his will, he tricked Isaac through Jacob. Also, Esau didn't deserve the birthright because he married foreign women. I think all this is a lot of rationalization. Here is what I think the lesson of this story is: Either Jacob or Esau was going to be the future leader of the nation of Israel. Now on one hand you have Esau illiterate, impulsive hunter, and on the other you have literate, clever, self controlled Jacob. Look at at all the ways that Jacob displays how he plans, he tricks Esau out of his birthright, yes, but he also is clever enough to play out by himself all the possibilities if Esau wants to kill him after they reunite. Now it's true that when Isaac is first tricked by Jacob, all of it is done by Rebbecca, but you have to remember that Jacob is his mother's son. All of the cleverness that Rebbecca displays has been passed down to Jacob. And all of the stupidity that Isaac has was passed down to Esau. Isaac is like Esau. Isaac is too dumb to realize that god's will is that Jacob should lead the nation of Israel even though Jacob is the younger. So while Rebbecca did trick her own husband, all the cleverness in the story is assumed to be passed down to Jacob also. Now as to the rationalization that god wanted Jacob to be the father of Israel because Esau married foreign wives, well Esau did realize at last that this was a problem. So you see, it's not that Esau married foreign wives, but that he was so stupid he didn't understand it was a problem. Now if you look through the entire bible as a whole, you'll see many many times Israel forgets what the point of god is, they worship pagan symbols and gold calves at the drop of a hat. And again and again, the only way they can be brought back to a monotheistic god is because their religion is written down. Today that is why the jewish faith survives as it does when many other faiths of that time are long dead. They are the people of the book. Even Muhammad realized the power of being the people of the book, so when he prophesied he always made sure to explain that he was not making shit up, instead he was reading from the holy book of god (even though Muhammad was illiterate) because there is great power in writing, and that is the power to carry through time words exactly. With a mere oral tradition you get the telephone game. Also, in the struggle to conquer Israel after deuteronomy, clever war leaders would be needed, not just faith in god and brute strength. Jacob must have known the power of intelligence, the power to read to write, to think to scheme, and he must have known he was better suited to lead Israel, and he even risked the curse of his father to obtain this power. His brother was stupid and impulsive, so Jacob schemed and stole the power. The lesson here is that god hates warlike impulsive morons as leaders for his chosen people so much that he would rather have a liar, thief and a cheat than that impulsive illiterate moron Esau in charge of his people. It's true that what Jacob did was evil, but in this case the ends justified the means. It's a very troubling lesson, that sometimes you have to do evil in order to do good, and that's why this lesson is so often mis-represented in bible teachings. It's a terrible lesson for children to learn that sometimes leaders have to lie and scheme. So they don't teach it, the two lessons above are taught, that either it's a lesson of Esau's forgiveness or that god has this big mysterious plan in the works. Especially since the central lessons of Jesus are all about the weak, the humble, the stupid, here this lesson of Isaac, Jacob and Esau is all about how the elite, the clever, could and should take advantage of the stupid impulsive morons who would lead their own nations into disaster, and cheat them out of their birthrights, because to the clever go the spoils. Like I said it's a troubling lesson, but I think it's the best interpretation, and a favorite story in the bible, just because how the story rewards brains and guile over brawn and impulsiveness. |
austerity
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12:55p |
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 |
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[ messy_hair ]
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4:32p |
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[ vanderwat_iris ]
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4:16p |
Two request
I'm looking for A*Teens - Under the Sea (remix version) Asia Whitaker - Next to You Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Here's some leftovers: Kate Rusby – Falling hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/xkjyvy Sammy Kershaw – Love of My Life hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/9vbnjt |
platytog
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10:07a |
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| Monday, July 6th, 2009 |
platytog
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9:46p |
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platytog
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6:36p |
just because
i dont call you out
doesnt mean i dont know Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
trendytoothemax
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6:09p |
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bonerici
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4:35p |
what I learned from anime heros
Smart people are invariably evil. The single best way to turn from a good guy into a bad guy is to plot and scheme in order to obtain something you want. The way you get something you want is to want it real bad, then it will happen. Suppose you want super powers. Just want it really bad and then a mecha will fall on you and you'll suddenly have super powers. Girls love stubborn guys. Once you make up your mind, never change it. Because changing your mind is the sign of weakness. Be strong, and always do the same thing over and over again. Then the girls will all fall into your lap. If there is something you want, don't try a new approach. Remember like I said before scheming and thinking and intelligently plotting your life out only leads you into great evil. But if the thing you want is hard to get you might have to yell to get it. Start low with a yell, then have the yell go higher and higher until it goes "YEAAAAAAAOAH" and then you'll get what you want by trying super super hard. If you try hard enough you will change color. Sometimes your hair will get extra spikey if you try super super hard. It's like when you are sitting on the can and you are trying to poop out a log, and you are so constipated that nothing happens, but if you just push hard enough, there it goes, kerplop! My face only turns red from all the pushing on the can, but I learned that maybe I'm not pushing hard enough. If you push hard enough your whole body will turn gold, or sometimes matte black, and your sword (or mecha, or body) will increase to a monstrous size. Everyone has a super power. So if someone says to you, "Why are you hiding your superpower?" Don't answer back, "What do you mean, I have no super power." Yes you do, just start pushing hard, and grunt grunt grunt until you start changing color and you turn gold. Your super power is always the most special and most super powered up, even though it makes absolutely no sense for the stupidest person in the world to be given this power. No matter what happens, you will be forgiven. Kill a few people, grab the boss's daughter's tittie, steal the forbidden scrolls, it's all good, you'll get a slap on the wrist that's all, because everyone knows someone as stupid as you are must be working for the forces of justice and good. There is no better way to solve problems than getting really really angry. If something pisses you off get angry, that helps your super power make you turn gold, makes your sword longer and helps you grunt hard. The best way to grunt is to use lots and lots of "K" sounds. Like, "KEK!!! kek kek KEK KEK!" that's how to grunt good. My superpower has never turned on no matter how much I grunt, I'm thinking maybe that's because I grunt like a pig instead of like an anime hero. |
platytog
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4:25p |
listening to the doors
trying to run
but im notgetting anywhere Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
platytog
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10:08a |
hey sugar
whatchu doin round here
makin time makin time
always makin time hey sugar
do you listen anymore?
whatever day is best for you
nope, when you talk
its all a dull roar hey sugar
do you love me still?
no miss, just stringing you along
til i get my fill Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
platytog
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2:19a |
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platytog
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2:18a |
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| Saturday, July 4th, 2009 |
platytog
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10:27p |
hares
fucking like rabbits by the stairs
trying to catch them unawares
noone really knows she cares Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
platytog
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4:18p |
im not so sure
this was a good decision
i that was my
mistake to make Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
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[ totallystumped ]
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10:24a |
Hey hey hey, my friend is after Therapy by All Time Low, but she has specifically requested that it be uploaded to Mediafire. Help her out? Thanks in advance C: |
| Friday, July 3rd, 2009 |
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[ lovemedemented ]
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4:25p |
Does anyone have Words of Love In Broadcast Code by The Projects? Thankss :) Current Mood:  contentCurrent Music: Indie, Electronic |
platytog
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4:35p |
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platytog
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2:29p |
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platytog
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1:13p |
bed
i put the sheets on the bed today
step back and look at it
it feels very odd being this way Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
platytog
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1:13p |
bed
i put the sheets on the bed today
step back and look at it
it feels very odd being this way Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
platytog
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12:36a |
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 |
platytog
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12:39p |
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