and my biggest weather problem is keeping my coffee warm.

You know how a lot of people rag on the preppers who keep plenty of supplies & their own generating kit & stuff for end of of times. Guess who has power & food that isn't going to go off. Prepping isn't just for alien invasion scenarios.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/06/25/is-price-stability-immoral/
"You might never think about central bankers quite the same way again, and indeed you could start thinking that they judge themselves according to how assiduously they service the interests of the rich and well-employed."
In reference to this: http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/3359.html
"It is fairly obvious, then, that restraining prices in the face of a supply shock effects a transfer from debtors, taxpayers, and marginal workers to creditors and secure workers. A policy of price restraint is a form of insurance for creditors and secure workers, who are absolved of the risk that the purchasing power of their nominal assets will suffer an unforeseen decay. It is financed with a guarantee written by debtors, taxpayers, and marginal workers, who are put at risk by the policy."

I worked at a place that used Banyan Vines as the network OS.

You could logon to any computer on the network, it delivered your environment with all software & privileges as if you were at your desk and allowed you to manage your print jobs intelligently - eg delayed print to set a print run off after you left for the night or cancel a job from another computer (eg one closer to the printer) AND YOU COULD MOVE THE PRINT JOB TO ANOTHER FUCKING PRINTER IF IT WAS THE SAME TYPE OF PRINTER EG PS. WTF can this not be done today?

I really should try KDE properly. Desktop running xfce and is ok but butt ugly and there is something I don't like but can't quite put my finger on what it is.

Ubuntu 12.03 Gnome classic - just uploaded 2 photos to G+. Nautilus mounted the camera and shows mounted filesystem. Can copy photo to desktop. But Seamonkey can't see filesystem of mounted camera. I don't care whose problem it is it shouldn't happen.

Kissinger & Israel
http://www.voltairenet.org/Did-Former-Secretary-of-State
Oil & debt

He uses some typically Linus strong language and is forthright in his opinion on F17 (I think it was) about what is wrong with Gnome3 and the extensions setup. Even though he thinks it was cool and could work.

Looked at the imdb ref and it isn't.

And in jokes the write themselves
https://www.google.com/search?q=jenna+jameson+accident&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=seamonkey-a

Get gmail address, send password reset request to gmail and get user to supply reset code sent to cellphone?
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27863/

Sorry maybe my point wasn't clear.

If the US of Goldman Sachs & JPMorgan are heavily exposed to Quebec - which bank has a large exposure to CDS - you don't think Washington will all Canada and ask for help?

"if, say, Illinois went bankrupt"
From a previous life, I am aware of the sensitivity of these issues, wherein the organisation I was working for (The Autralian federal Treasury) refused to have a person present at a loan agreement signing for a state, incase it implied even a hint of support for the loan.

"The feds aren't obliged to make good on the debt"
Who is holding Q's debt? Canadian banks? Might be cheaper to pay than bail them out. If it is US banks holding it, expect some strong arming.

It's going to suck for the rest of Canada if/when the Feds decide that we won't allow Quebec to default. Some good could of it, come in and sack the lot, but I doubt it.

I don't think the USA wants a failed state on it's doorstep. And will your feds do what Washington wants?

As I said elsewhere caring about fartbook requires me to move to #giveafuckistan

Canadian politics: http://digitatia.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-blogging-my-social-strategy.html
This came thru one of my twitter lists. Is he crazy (almost said loon but of course he is), serious, likely to get anywhere?

http://rt.com/usa/news/henry-kissinger-tsa-agents-311/

"Secretary of State Kissinger was at LaGuardia Airport outside of New York City on Friday when freelance reporter Matthew Cole spotted him receiving a very personal pat-down from agents employed by the US Transportation and Security Administration. "