2017.11.22 Too Illegit to Quit
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” - Douglas Adams
News
Adani protests http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-22/anti-adani-protesters-ambush-lnp-leader-tim-nicholls-townsville/9179412
Ratko Mladic: UN judges find ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ guilty of war crimes, genocide http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-22/ratoko-mladic-found-guilty-of-genocide/9181354
Not-a-RIP
Hedy Lamarr - born 9 Nov, 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
CompuServe https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down
Memento Mori http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/memento-mori-remember-that-you-are-man.html
In Search of the Warrior Spirit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58394-202-4
Argie subs
Russian oligarchs spending Thanksgiving with 45
Tillerson won’t condemn child soldiers (use of) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/state-department-employees-split-with-tillerson-on-child-soldiers-list/2017/11/21/ea906b8b-6d72-4e88-bb57-197a38baf164_story.html
Why aren’t we in the streets over Manus? Cost of living? Riot cops for grannies?
Last time at Lorengau http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/bad-blood-promo/7346396
Ruthenium-106 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russian-radiation-leak-everything-you-need-to-know
Sport
The World Game
Cheers Ange, best of luck mate
Faarkup final
#notasport https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/how-to-get-rich-playing-video-games-online >”The broadcast never resumed; later, Vigneault’s body was found in his Virginia Beach home. Many of his peers speculated that he had suffered a heart attack from too many marathon streams. Months later, it emerged that he’d died of an overdose of the opioid fentanyl. Yet the speculation had not been implausible; several broadcasters, including one of Dariani’s clients, have suffered heart attacks while streaming….”
