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http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/05/30/2115211/do-headphones-help-or-hurt-productivity
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/30/2231246/sergey-brin-demos-google-glasses-prototype
Two of the most glamorous names in global finance are linking up, with the Rothschild banking dynasty agreeing to buy a stake in the Rockefeller group's wealth and asset management business to get a long-sought foothold in the United States, Reuters reported.
Rothschild's London-listed RIT Capital Partners (RCP.L) said on Wednesday, May 30 it was buying the 37 percent stake from French group Societe Generale's (SOGN.PA) private banking arm for an undisclosed sum.
The transatlantic union brings together David Rockefeller, 96, and Jacob Rothschild, 76 - two family patriarchs whose personal relationship spans five decades.
Rockefeller & Co traces its origins back to 1882 when it was founded as one of the world's first family offices by John D. Rockefeller to manage his personal wealth.
Since then it has developed into a wealth advisory group administering assets of $34 billion. The Rothschild banking dynasty began when Mayer Amschel Rothschild started a business in Frankfurt in the late 18th century.
The family has worked on some epochal deals during its history, such as helping finance Britain's war against Napoleon in the 19th century and raising funds for a loan allowing the British government to buy the Suez canal.
RIT and another of the family's companies, Edmond de Rothschild Group, said earlier this year they would form a new joint venture to boost their fund management and investment operations.
SocGen, which has held the stake in the Rockefeller wealth and asset management operation since 2008, appointed a new head of private banking in March, replacing Daniel Truchi with Jean-Francois Mazaud as it moved to overhaul the business.
Banks across the world are shedding non-core assets to reduce their risks and strengthen their capital positions to meet tough regulations aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.
The deal is expected to close by the end of September.
http://panarmenian.net/eng/news/109730/
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/rockefeller-and-rothschild-banking-dynasties-join-forces/
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Man.
So, it's been almost two months since I've been slaving away on this project, working nights and weekends to get it close enough to call done.
Now I'm down to five days (including today which is almost over) until we go to production. Then we have a week to test and work out any major bugs and we're releasing to our customers. Crazy.
My deadline slipped by a week, but I can blame it on the other team because they have a critical component to release before I can do anything.
I should mention, I reached my previous goal of getting it done enough to demo to our customers in L.A. That was so fucking cool. I mean, the fact that I didn't think I could do it, and I did. Nailed
it, even. That's what needs to happen here with this actual release. It's gonna be a big fuckin' deal.
Now I'm just fighting fatigue and burnout. Seriously feeling overworked and underpaid. Thankfully, my dating life has been on the uptick, which has been nice and distracting from the day-in day-out
stress. I've been seeing this gorgeous girl who asked me out through Facebook. I'm so stoked about that, I almost want to buy stock in Facebook. loljk.
Anyway, back to my time crunch. Peace, bitches.
"We probably have no duty to like Beethoven or hate Coca-Cola, but it is at least conceivable that we have a duty to distrust the state."
-- Anthony Burgess
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/06/04/120604fa_fact_burgess
A very real and disturbing new trend has taken off in conflict-ridden Syria, where rogue opposition groups, many of whom are already associated with the al-Qaida terrorist brand, are using Facebook to post the names, phone numbers and residential addresses of pro-Assad government supporters. At the end of these posts, the terrorists then leave a note of encouragement for other opposition members to "go and kill them".
http://www.syrianews.cc/syria-armed-facebook-targeted-killings-679.html
Of course this is criminal.
"Material Support for Terrorism": Under the wording of US statutes, Facebook itself is a guilty party.
The story follows Dusty, a yoga instructor from Colorado, who is on a desperate rescue mission to save her crazy brother Derek, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced Osama bin Laden is still alive, despite having been buried at sea. In Afghanistan, Dusty falls in with a team of NATO special forces on a secret assignment. Turns out Derek is not so crazy after all, and that Osama has returned from his watery grave and is making an army of zombie terrorists. When the group crashes headlong into the growing zombie apocalypse, Dusty and the troops must find and destroy the root of the zombie insurgency before it infests the rest of the world.
Papers Please Dept.:
Elizabeth Moon, author of an extensive corpus of Science Fiction, opines for the BBC: "If I were empress of the Universe I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached -- a barcode if you will; an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals. It would be imprinted on everyone at birth. Point the scanner at someone and there it is.
fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.
