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gr80 that is an excellent question!

YEAH!

LOL @ tom in a suit

untucked polo, chinos, doc martens, jeans on friday or sometimes just jeans whenever. my project manager who is a big black frat boy has been known to show up on fridays all clubbed up with the oversize rugby shirt and fashion jeans and matching shoes for the shirt and all that stuff.

several coworkers do stick to shirts and ties most of the time but that's because they have to interact on a regular basis with other poor schlubs who consistently dress for church at work.

also the jean jacket and fingerless gloves are pretty much permanent accessories because the HVAC in the room where I work is FREEZING. Other colleagues use fleece pullovers and a couple of the women use shawls but yeah that part kind of sucks

hey tom, the chiefs trading allen: smart or boneheaded?

the chiefs are rebuilding and the vikes want to be in the playoffs yesterday, so it makes sense for everyone involved. however I fully expect the chiefs to never actually get a whole lot better and the vikings to fall flat on their face because 1. herm lol 2. the nfc never makes any sense.

i think the vikings could be dangerous with a quarterback.

and a scheme

nah, playing in the nfc central ought to be enough.

also the jean jacket and fingerless gold lame gloves are pretty much permanent accessories because the HVAC in the room where I work is FREEZING hell yeah i'm the shit

hahahahaha

ysi? jan hammer jeff beck track from yr muxtape plz

Tombot-

How many Military Balls have you attended?
What is your opinion of Military Balls/ how would you sum up the Military Ball experience?
Any memorable stories that took place at a Military Ball?

-gr8080 (working an MP Ball tonite)

so?

tombot,

am i a jackass?

also

what is the best self-help book you've ever read?

do you ever get embarrassed when you jizz all over your shit? like computer security threads or gundam threads or military threads? or whatever "your shit" is?

i just put up like 50 posts on that "africentric school" thread and i feel sorta dumb.

your posts in that thread were really good!

ysi? jan hammer jeff beck track from yr muxtape plz

-- jhøshea, Saturday, May 3, 2008 10:25 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

Tom, what is that smallish used bookstore on the southwestish (?) side of Dupont Circle? They had a good film section 18 months ago.

second story books

thanks TOM

AND ANTIQUES

haha, thx

will tor actually protect me from the evil corporations that expect to be paid for their work?

not really, websense et al. have all got the tools to detect tor usage, it's fairly trivial. We can't see where you're going but we can see that you're using tor, savvy? and in most cases tor is assumed to be associated with "somebody doing something they're not supposed to," period.

you can always give it a shot. I don't know who you work for, they might not care (for example, most of the government doesn't)

ah I meant at home for bit torrent stuff and those scary emails the movie/music industry is using saying they spotted your ip address and will be notifying your service provider.

Stop breaking the law.

and talking about it on the internet.

hate u guys.

watch it, i have ban power.

the law is there to be broken otherwise they would call it the law - duh - didnt they teach you this in homeland security school

that's the dumbest shit I've heard in a minute

if you don't know if tor is effective, are you going to be smart enough to get your torrent client to use it?

btw, working at a company where you're under discovery rules all the time sucks

u r the dumbest shit ive heard in a minute law man

I am gonna guess Tombot is not so keen on the NSZ.

The Neighborhood Safety Zone initiative has been developed to help increase security for those who live in high-crime areas around the city and to help residents reclaim their communities. The program will authorize the Metropolitan Police Department to set up public safety checks to help safeguard community members and create safer neighborhoods in the District by increasing police presence aimed at deterring crime.

The safety zones will be established only upon request by a District Commander where there is evidence to support the existence of neighborhood violent crime, such as intelligence, violent crime data, police reports and feedback and concerns from the affected community.

Potential Neighborhood Safety Zones must be approved by the Chief of Police, and will be in effect for a maximum of 10 days. Public safety checks will be established along the main thoroughfares of the established neighborhoods. Anyone driving into a designated area may be asked to show valid identification with a home address in that neighborhood, or to provide an explanation for entering the NSZ, such as attending church, a doctor’s appointment or visiting friends or relatives. Pedestrians will not be subject to the public safety checks.

“The Neighborhood Safety Zones is just another tool MPD will employ to stop crime before it happens. The Neighborhood Safety Zone initiative will help residents terrorized by violent crime to take back their neighborhoods,” said Chief Lanier.

Initiatives such as the Neighborhood Safety Zones have been accepted by federal courts as a legitimate law enforcement practice in keeping with the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. The constitutionality of the NSZ initiative has been reviewed by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General.

The NSZ will be launched next week in the Trinidad area.

i am guessing you are wrong

extra points for the führerlicious acronym.

Police Chief Cathy Lanier and Mayor Adrian M. Fenty today announced new measures to fight a rash of shootings in Ward 5, saying officers will be stationed in designated neighborhoods and stopping all vehicles attempting to enter. Anyone with no legitimate reason to enter, authorities said, will be turned away. A list of what the officers will be looking for will be posted on the city's Web site today, Lanier said. The so-called "Neighborhood Safety Zones" will be in effect from 5 to 10 days and the searches will not apply to pedestrians.

The move comes after 8 people were shot and killed over the weekend in one of the most violent stretches in years. So far, 22 people have been killed in Ward 5 this year, compared to 21 in all of 2007, Fenty said.

"We need to use a lot more extreme tactics," Lanier said. The checkpoints won't be up "24 hours, but they will be brought up consistently."

dear senor tomboto,

RFI: Dedicated SMS Devices & Services

sincerely,
elmo

Tom, what is your opinion on the topic of this poll?

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/poll/index.html?poll_id=5698&ana=e_du

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dan m, I don't mind. Fenty is a good dude, I trust the man.

JW, is that a question?

We are not the first generation to be faced with the challenges that
flow from global governance of financial markets. There has been broad
agreement over the need for international collective action since the
protectionist “antisocial” policies of individual countries, nearly eighty years
ago, served only to deepen the crisis of the Great Depression. What has
changed, however, is the nature of the crises themselves – the damage
they cause increasingly extends far beyond the boundaries of the countries
in which they originate. Two recent episodes illustrate this burgeoning
“financial contagion”: first, in the rapid spread of the financial crisis through
S.E. Asia in the 90’s, and secondly, in the current sub-prime crisis, which
originated in the board rooms of Wall Street but whose effects have been
felt across the globe. It was with this in mind that Nobel Laureate, Professor
Joseph Stiglitz, delivered his talk, entitled “Meeting the Challenges of Global
Governance in the 21st Century: Financial Markets”.
His analysis was appealing in its elegance and apparent simplicity. National
externalities and public goods generate market failure on a domestic scale
and necessitate collective action at a national level. By the same logic, his
argument runs, the existence of global externalities and public goods (of the

sort recently caused by haphazard and unrestrained financial market activity) generates global market
failure and necessitates action on an international level.
On a national scale, domestic market failures are easily dealt with - the government actively intervenes
with specific policies developed to correct individual inefficiencies. Yet, on the international stage,
where the correction of any global inefficiency is beyond the remit of a specific government, there are
few institutions suitably positioned to act on behalf of global collective interest. Stiglitz posits that the
World Bank and the IMF, the two institutions we might expect to provide the necessary leadership in
global crisis situations, fail to do so, largely because they are motivated by special interests, shaped by
undemocratic principles, and preoccupied with inappropriate macroeconomic targets. The status quo of
effective banking self-regulation needs to change, but the means to do so are absent. Thus we need
“a new regulatory framework… both within countries and internationally”.
At a domestic level, Stiglitz believes that “Financial Product Safety Commissions” could work to ensure
that banks offer financial products which are designed to manage risk rather than create it. The ethos
of such Commissions would be simple: financial crises have profound social, as well as economic,
implications. In addition, “Financial System Oversight Commissions” could maintain a watchful eye on
the overall financial situation, in addition to the more atomised scrutiny of individual component parts
of the financial system.
But, of course, since financial crises generate global externalities, domestic reform alone is not
enough. The lack of an international institution truly representative of global collective interests is a
problem that needs to be addressed. Stiglitz’s suggestion that the UN ought to occupy this role drew
criticism from a particular member of the audience. She made the reasonable observation that it is
difficult to see how Stiglitz’s scheme would actually work in practice, given the UN’s reputation as a
talking-shop with little real clout. The infamous late UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello once said of
the UN “that it is an instrument, a frame, an engine… as dynamic, as conciliatory, as innovative, as
successful as governments wish it, allow it, make it be”. Is it realistic, we must ask, to imagine that
the governments that attend the UN will be any less impartial to the same special interests which
impede the proper working of the IMF and World Bank? In the light of this, it seems that the solutions
to transnational problems must come, to a great extent, from individual nations themselves, and
governments, each with their unique portfolio of hindrances, obstacles, and challenges, must look
inwards, rather than outwards, for the answers to their questions.
Daniel Susskind
balliol college

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ok

I just liked the pretty slides

hey you never answered my military ball question.

(it was a real question.)

have you ever been at a talk with slides like these?

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