You're missing the point. A casino may not be able to pay all the bets on the floor on the spot, but it has enough liquidity to be able to pay very quickly if every chip is cashed in (by quickly, in mean within a day or two) since no chip leaves the casino. Also, while I imagine some frequent players may have accounts to put money in at brick and mortar casinos (not sure, I'm not too familiar with them), most players bring in their money and leave with whatever's left of it. Online poker sites, on the other hand, are a cross between a casino and a bank. Even the smallest money players have some money kept in escrow at the casino. I don't know how much money can be on the floor of a (physical) casino at any point in time, but I am certain it is absolutely dwarfed by the amount of money an online casino keeps. This new development will almost certainly cause a run on the accounts of Absolute Poker and Full Tilt, which may very well force them to declare bankruptcy if the accusations in the summary are true. It sucks for the players, but they should have known better: Full-Tilt and Absolute bet have been caught before in a scandal where an insider was able to look at the cards of everyone at a table and gave the information to someone who played against top tournament and money players. First hand account here.

Picture of the upcoming iphone 5.

You forgot to mention that he was fired the day after he got a pension for disability from the state.

That might be a good definition if we were discussing a painting made by throwing paint at a canvas or the picture of an unmade bed, but in this case it is not. I think I'll go for the interpretation you disagreed with rather than your completely inane one.

I'll have to write a longer post if such a topic comes up again... The issue I have is that the Debian testing nvidia package won't install on my computer because of problems with some dependencies. I'd rather use an open source driver, because it would make it easier to update the software on my computer, but the nouveau driver, which is open source but pretty recent, makes the fan spin like there was no tomorrow. The drivers produced by nvidia are fine, it's just a small issue with their packaging on Debian which has caused me some troubles recently. By the way, nvclock doesn't work with nouveau, or at least it didn't a few months ago.

Thanks for the link, this wayback machine looks very useful. However, I am using testing, not unstable.

Thanks for your help, but I am pretty sure the package is broken in my case. I have been following the instructions at http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers, and this is not the first time that graphics support breaks on my computer, so I have dealt with this issue before. I have uninstalled all the nvidia packages and reinstalled them, and some of them complain of missing dependencies... I would show you the console output, but I am away from my main desktop right now. The problem, however, looks suspiciously like the one described here: http://osdir.com/ml/general/2011-07/msg07726.html. As I said in another post, I prefer to use packaged stuff from my distribution (Debian) than to compile the driver from nvidia on my own or use another driver than makes the GPU fan go crazy, so I will just wait it out.

I am not blaming nvidia for my woes, I am just saying that if an open source driver for ATI or nvidia comes out that is competitive with the proprietary one, which has power management that actually works, I will switch because I just don't want to go through the hassle of compiling the nvidia release, switching to another distro packaged driver which does not work so well or wait it out on Windows. All the video cards I have ever bought were from nvidia, and the fact that they have a good reputation on Linux is one of the reasons (and also, I don't change my graphics card too often). I was not trying to trash nvidia in my post, and I hope it was not interpreted that way.

Replying to myself... I should have read the article first. Power management is still not too good. Geez, I don't play Crysis on Linux, I don't mind too much if the video acceleration is not on par with the proprietary driver, but I can't stand my video card SCREAMING AT ME ALL DAY LONG. Oh well, I guess I'll have to stick to the proprietary drivers for now.

The nvidia-glx package has been broken for a week or two in Debian wheezy, and the nouveau driver makes my GPU fan spin as if I was trying to calculate a trillion decimals for pi. Result: I am booting Windows XP right now. Guess who's going to be buying ATI next time he replaces his computer?

Your complaint does not make much sense to me. Check the websites openmedia.ca and saveournet.ca. I don't see much criticism of conservatives on either websites, and Michael Geist's article does not even contain the word "conservatives". As for wanting the CRTC scrapped, again, neither website I have mentioned nor Michael Geist appears to have spoken in favor of that. In fact, Michael Geist speaks of having stronger enforcement of the guidelines crafted by the CRTC, hardly a call to disband it. As for your point on people getting upset because the conservatives wanted to change the mandate of the CRTC, I can't remember it, and I've been following this issue to some extent.

As far as I am concerned, you already said too much. Your post does not even remotely address the question asked. Please read the summary next time. As for the original poster: sorry, I don't know any such tool for Linux. ZFS has already been mentioned. Maybe you could compile Geli on Linux?

Virtually nobody recycles styrofoam, which makes it pretty much the same is if it could not be recycled. The reason is that it takes a huge amount of space for its weight so it is expensive to carry. I agree that styrofoam keeps your food warmer, but it is not greener than wax paper.

Warren Buffet said the U.S. dollar would be, five to ten years from now, worth less, NOT worthless, "if the country keeps sending more money abroad than it brings in". Big difference.