http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/frankli ... -1.2760311

Details expected later today.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

... and the "banality of evil."  Note particularly the lines near the end of the article, 

Quote:"It is apparent Milgram assuaged participants' concerns by making them believe in a noxious ideology -- namely, that it is acceptable to do otherwise unconscionable things in the cause of science."

how employers who had received federal stimulus money gouged workers and taxpayers
Here is one part of the series...

Quote:At one low-income housing project in North
Carolina, two-thirds of the workers hired to pour concrete, paint,
shingle roofs and hang drywall were treated as independent contractors.
Here’s what would have needed to happen with these 100 workers to pass
the federal tests:

• Each worker could come and go as he pleased, setting his own hours and schedule.
• Each
  worker owned and used his own tools and supplies and had enough of a
  line of credit with vendors to buy the necessary materials, such as HVAC
  equipment and siding.
• Each worker tackled the work as he saw fit, not heeding direction and correction from superiors.
• Each
  worker secured enough compensation to allow him to earn a living and
  cover the overhead that a self-employed person must handle.

All 100 of these workers earned from $7.25 to $20 an hour
Read
more here:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/static/featu ... rylink=cpy

Just got an email from Kromm.  They're interested, but the scale of GURPS products these days is much smaller than back in the 90s, particularly PDFs.  For technical reasons (limits in their PDF software) as well as economic ones, they want smaller works.  48-51 pages was the number mentioned.  Kromm's already gone through the outline and offered advice on streamlining it to act as an "update" to the original IST rather than a stand-alone supplement.
More on this as I review and think on the rather large email I got.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

"The Order of the Rose: A Duelist Opera takes a moment to look in on what one of the Black Rose Duelists has been up to in the new side story,..."
http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/ ... round.html
-Z, Post-reader at Medium
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

In Ireland, we have a sport called Hurling.
Not to put a fine point on it, but it's basically two teams of fifteen men, each man armed with a heavy ash stick, whalloping a ball made of hard, solid leather around a pitch for 70 minutes. And they started wearing helmets in the last few years. It's been reasonably popular in Ireland for a while.

And recently, it's been exported to the UK by Sky.

The response of the English, is quite amusing. Especially the image of Wayne Rooney.....


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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

Something to look forward this fall
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

See - THIS is a perfect example of why I can never take the Huffington Post seriously as a "News" Site. 
When even Keith Olbermann thinks you're insane... 
Wait - let me put the proper emphasis on that... 
When even KEITH OLBERMANN thinks that Huffpo's choice of a random NFL Linebacker (who killed a man during a DUI 5 years ago and is a 9-11 Truther WACK JOB...) for the position of "Fellow", covering National Security, is absolutely "The Onion" level life-imitating art BATSHIT INSANE. 
And he happens to be RIGHT. 
You're DOING IT WRONG.

Something I threw together for a Guardians of The Galaxy themed game - No nudity, but features sixties pinup space-cheesecake and dubious alien devices so NSFW

The last thread hit 300 posts and is now closed.  I am inaugurating the new thread with this image:

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.