Day: September 14, 2011

News

The Vickers Report on the future of British Banks.

The UK’s Independent Commission on Banking has proposed a dichotomy of British banking into retail and investment banking sectors with a separation between the two in order to avoid situations in which the retail side of the bank is made illiquid by the investment side of the bank thus leading to bailouts and ‘too big […]

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Science & Technology

The Successor to the Saturn V is coming…by 2017.

I thought we had mastered rocket technology a long time ago? I’m sure the latest iteration will use computer technology and other advanced systems that are impossible for use on the old Saturn V but damn if it isn’t going to take forever and a day to get back into space. What amazes me the […]

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News

The Perils of Internet Dissociation.

A story out of the UK today details a horrible case of internet bullying/ trolling on the part of one Sean Duffy, aged 25, who would intentionally inflict emotional distress on grieving families by posting YouTube videos, comments, and photoshopped pictures onto deceased childrens’ Facebook pages, tribute web sites etc. to harass and taunt friends […]

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