I have seen a woman at an MTG tournament. Really. It was awesome. She was, from what I could see of her play, a decently skilled mid to upper level player. (Not a total random scrub like me). She was also young and very pretty, with long blond hair and a sweetly voluptuous figure. She wore a push-up bra and a super low cut top. All the nerd boys were drooling and ogling her cleavage so hard she kicked their buts right up to the semi-finals. At the semis she lost in 2 to the guy who ended up winning the tournament. He was smart enough to see through her female version of the "Jedi mind trick" and wouldn't have noticed if she had two heads.

You are exactly right.

There was a sad story on the radio the other day. A nice lady with a PHD in Art History was living in her car because she was broke and unemployed.

What struck me was how very _betrayed_ she felt. Here she had studied hard, gotten good grades, and had achieved the highest academic degree possible and yet the job she expected wasn't forthcoming. All her life she was told "you need a degree to get a good job" and she somehow interpreted that to mean that if she got a degree she would get a job. Her whole attitude was that she was all but promised a job, and that it was the university's fault that this job wasn't there, and that she should have been told by the university that there were no jobs in her chosen field "before they took her money".

She wanted to work as a museum curator, cataloging and managing the museums art collection. When asked how many such jobs existed, she was taken aback, as if she had never thought about it and then said maybe 10 or 20 in the entire province.

There is a tiny "Island" of America called Point Roberts at the extreme NW corner of Washington State. The Canadians who live right along that border are forever fighting with their cell providers to take off roaming charges because the phone will often pick up the AT&T cell tower on the US side instead of the Telus (or whatever) tower on the Canadian side. The carriers seem quite helpless to fix the problem; some people I know there have to get roaming charges taken off every month.

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"both have other official "significant others"

Blackmail is such an ugly word. But it could work in this situation.

Around here we call it the Swooshstika.

I got very lucky, I went to my doctor within a few hours of the pox appearing, and he had me on antivirals about 5 minutes later. Stopped it in its tracks.

and Guitars. http://www.allmusic.com/album/...

The same virus that cause chicken pox in kids will lurk in your body for decades and can come back and give you Shingles. For seniors it can cause nerve damage and crippling pain, even blindness if you are very unlucky. Chicken Pox may not seem like a big deal, but trust me you do not want Shingles.

This is what narcissistic psychopaths do; they blame other people for their own problems. Girls don't want to go out with me. It's clearly their problem, nothing to do with me, so I will kill them all.

Just to be clear, we are talking about a $5 million limit to a liability insurance policy. It doesn't cost $5 million. I pay about $250 a year to raise my minimum $200k liability to $3 mil. Apparently I'm a bit above the local average, most people here have about $2mil coverage. If I had more personal assets, and I lived in a more litigious place I would probably go for the max $5 mil .

Algol W!

He went in and did as much damage as he could, in a sort of drive your semi through the front door kind of way, failed to cover his tracks, got caught, confessed, and is doing 4 years hard time. Better that he walked away with his head held high and never looked back.

He should have followed best practices:

1. Be patient. Wait. Wait at least a year. In that time they will have let any number of people go, and you won't be the go-to suspect.

2. Plan ahead. Make sure there are a few well concealed back doors into their systems. A few ex-employees who didn't have their accounts deleted, maybe a vendor login. Write down the details, don't email them to yourself.

3. When you are officially fired, step away from your computer. Insist that someone disable all your accounts and access privileges. Have witnesses.

4. When it's time to strike, don't use your home computer and don't use your laptop at the closest starbucks. Bounce everything through TOR and a couple of VPNs. Don't short the stock first. Excessive paranoia is the key.

5. Lay your groundwork carefully. Make sure ALL the backups are corrupted first. Plan your logic bomb so it deletes all traces of itself. Your attack payload should ideally wipe every server and every workstation like you hit them with DBAN.

6. Trigger your logic bomb, log out, and never ever ever log back in again.

You are the only person on earth who comes to a till with the correct change. I have had to stand in line behind any number of cash using undiagnosed Alzheimer's sufferers as they try to count out $3.97 in nickels dimes and quarters and take 5 minutes to complete their purchase.

Chip and pin with RFID ftw. The total comes up on the PIN pad. I tap my card on the pad. It spits out a receipt and I move on. Total time 15 seconds. Worst case, I actually have to slide my card into the reader, hit ok a few times and enter the PIN. Total time 30 seconds.

So, how much permethrin would I need to not use to avoid accidentally killing my neighbours cat?