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Do you collect anything weird?
Yes, medical tools. I've got tons of vaginal speculums, and piles of needles I've stolen after stays in hospital. I haven't scored anything like that for a while though, because I've been healthy. I collect thrown-away trash too; little metal objects I find on the highway, flattened bottle caps, and bits of crap that catch my eye as I walk past.
Have you built some kind of Mexican shrine out of your found treasures?
At the moment they're in boxes, waiting for the day when I have my own studio and can incorporate them into my art. I like to paint with acrylic and oils, on big canvases – at least 4ft by 4ft.
That's a midget squared.
Pretty much. I need large canvases to express my emotions, as I often paint when I'm in pain. After my wife Chantal went into hospital with Crohn's disease and we had to cancel my daughter's birthday party, for example, I painted a 4ft by 10ft piece and cried the whole time. Sometimes when I look at my pictures later, I see images of things that didn't happen until afterwards – it's almost like I foresee events through my art. I don't start with an idea of what I want to paint, just a feeling – though it's frequently a pretty damned sexual feeling.
You feel sexual while you're creating something 10ft tall? What, are you wanking up a ladder?
I nail it to a wall.
The canvas, or your penis?
The canvas. I've already done the hammer bit with my cock, and the drill thing, and setting my prick on fire;I got that out of my system when I was younger. These days I focus my pain beyond being a guy who has staples and big spikes rammed in his ass for kicks.
Have you ever seen an odd vagina?
I saw one the other day that looked like it had a bat in it. The opening of the girl's vagina looked like it was made to beam a Bat-Signal into the sky over Gotham City. Fuck knows what kind of superhero would actually turn up if she spread her legs and did that, though.
What superpower would you choose?
Whatever would make me live forever. I'd like to see what would happen to my brain after hundreds of years, and how smart I could get.
Would you like to be cryogenically frozen?
Definitely, if I could afford it. I'd love to wake up in 3,000 years and see what the hell's going down. But I'd only want my head to be transplanted onto someone else's body if it was a woman's. Then I'd take a shower and, because I'd be a man inside, I'd touch my new body to see how it would feel and think, "Wow, maybe I was pushing too hard after all."
Do you fantasise about being a woman?
I always feel robbed that I'm not female. I don't get the chance to nurture a living being inside of me. Alix, I strongly suggest that you procreate as soon as possible. You're wasting the most fertile years of your life. Your only purpose on this earth is to help further humanity. It's not to write articles, then take a piss and eat some cheese for dinner.
Cheese is supposed to give you weird dreams…
I dream about nothingness. When I sleep, my head goes to a place where there's absolutely nothing – past God, past space, past the sun, past black, past me, past you… boom! Can you imagine that?
I think you need to stop eating cheese before bed, Clown.
Actually, I recently dined on a lobster that was still alive on the plate – not because it hadn't been cooked properly, but because that's how I was supposed to eat it. I was totally comfortable with that. I happen to love being the animal at the top of the food chain.
Speaking of animals, if you had to sleep with one, what would you choose?
I've always thought the way turtles mate is awesome, because they're so slow, yet so intense. And koala bears intrigue me because they're really violent; so soft, so cute, but so vicious when they're fucking. I'd like to understand why that is.
Do you believe in aliens?
No, because if you examine evolution, the development of intelligent life has been down to so many tiny chances – I just don't think that'd happen again on another planet. They say that diamonds rain on Neptune, that there are mountains of jewels… the conditions are too different for animals to evolve. Minuscule things, maybe. Micro-organisms – I can believe that. So is there life out there? Hell yeah. But is it likely to show up with laser beams and Lightsabers? Hell no!
What about ghosts?
Man, I'd love to see a ghost. I'm bored with looking at traffic signs, buses, Coca-Cola ads… I'd love to run from T.rexes. I'd love you to say, "Clown, I gotta quit talking right now because raptors are fucking invading the building." It'd be so refreshing if you were just chilling out, having a beer, and bang! Dracula busts in and demands to suck your blood.
If he bit you, then your dream of living forever would come true. Have you ever met a vampire?
There are quite a few around. But I'm not naming any names.
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Americans are split almost down the middle when it comes to choosing between what is most important: saving for their children's college education or for their own retirement.
According to a survey of 3,188 adults responsible for a child's education, 43 percent said saving for college was more important, while another 43 percent said retirement saving should take precedence.
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"The survey results may look like a competition is going on between retirement savings and savings for children's college education," said Keith Brannan, director of the financial security office at Country, but "if people plan well, it's possible to afford both."
The survey showed that young parents between the ages of 18 and 29, and households with annual income lower than $40,000, are more likely to favor college education savings over retirement savings.
The reason for this could be that young parents feel retirement is far off and not as pressing as funding four years of education, said Mary P. Deshong-Kinkelaar, CFP practitioner at Chicago-based Kinkelaar & Associates Co.
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"Parents often take the burden entirely because of guilt or [their children's] sense of entitlement. It's not our children's fault that we haven't saved enough money," Deshong-Kinkelaar said parents tell her.
But the reality is that "retirement comes first since there's no scholarship for retirement" as there is for education, said Brannan.
Brannan recommended evaluating a family's financial situation with a financial advisor, or simply using online tools, such as www.savingforcollege.com and retirement calculators that are available on many financial Web sites, such as www.fidelity.com.
Steve Johnson, managing director of Retirement Solution Advisors LLC. in Chicago, said, "Families may have different priorities as different times. For example, a vacation home might be an obstacle for saving, but the bottom line for them is following through on a savings plan month-to-month."
Deshong-Kinkelaar said many of her clients finally get the urge to save for retirement when they are in their late 30's or early 40's, but then they have to play catch-up.
Establishing healthy savings habits early on not only benefits parents after retirement, but also has a long-term positive impact on children's attitudes toward money, said Deshong-Kinkelaar.
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On November 14, 2011, about 2020 coordinated universal time (1520 local time), a Cessna 150M, Ecuadorian registration HC-BJA, was substantially damaged when it impacted rising terrain in the Girón Alto mountains near Santa Rosa, Ecuador. The Ecuadorian pilot and the pilot-rated passenger were fatally injured. The airplane had taken off about 5 minutes earlier on an instrument flight rules flight plan from Santa Rosa Airport (SERO), Santa Rosa, El Oro, Ecuador, en route to Jose Joaquín de Olmedo Airport (SEGU), Guayaquil, Ecuador. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight conducted under Ecuadorian flight regulations.
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BRIAN KENT, age 54, of Metairie, Louisiana, was charged in a three-count indictment today by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiring to pass and utter counterfeit securities, announced United States Attorney Jim Letten.
According to the indictment, since at least September 2009, KENT has been a part of an international ring of counterfeiters who distribute fake securities and monetary documents, including traveler's checks, cashier's checks, and money orders, to people throughout the United States. In total, it is alleged that KENT himself has received and distributed nearly 8000 of these counterfeit securities since at least September 2009.
According to court documents, KENT was apprehended on August 2, 2010, after he went to pick up a package containing 325 counterfeit postal money orders from the Federal Express office in Kenner, Louisiana. At that time, KENT was also in possession of dozens of counterfeit cashier's checks, traveler's checks, and Money Gram money orders, as well as even more postal money orders. In all, the fake monetary instruments in KENT'S possession on August 2, 2010, totaled almost $750,000.
If convicted of all three counts, KENT faces a mandatory term of imprisonment of twenty (20) years, followed by up to three (3) years of supervised release, and a $750,000 fine.
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"I will tell you the whole story of the murder, everything as it happened, from beginning to end," sad Harun, and felt guilty about already having lied.
'But If I do not lie at the beginning, I have to tell him right away what his brother was, and he's still holding the flail…'
"Why I took it upon myself to investigate this matter is, I am sure, of no concern to you," he continued. "All you must know is that I was up writing late on the evening of your brother's murder, and I heard the splash which was made by his body being dumped in the well. That means we can fix the exact time of the murder. After that time, a castle guard told me, nobody entered or left the castle through the gate, which led me to to the conclusion that the murderer could not have come from within the castle."
"I would never have thought of that…" Karl whispered. "How clever!"
"No. Dumb. Impossibly dumb, because wrong."
"Which I unfortunately did not know back then. A few days later, I went and looked at your brother's body in the chapel. The wound he died from, I heard from a reliable source, is a sword wound, one which only could have been inflicted by such a noble weapon. Thinking as I was back then that the murderer could not have come from the castle, my conclusion was therefore that the murderer must be someone from the village who owns a sword."
"But nobody does."
Harun waved his hand, impatiently. "I know I know I know! Did I not say I knew I was wrong? I am simply explaining what steps I took."
"Uh.. all right then. Go on."
"That is exactly what we will have to do."
"Go." Harun got up, facing the still standing peasant across the table. "Do you want to see how your brother was murdered? I can show you. But you must come with me."
Karl looked back at the other room, into which the children had disappeared. Harun knew what he was thinking about. There were raiders about, after all.
"It will not be a long journey," he said. "You will be back soon enough, and Sir Christian's guards are positioned around the village."
Still, Karl seemed to waver. Finally, however, he nodded. "All right. And may you burn in hell if you're just trying to fool me."
Harun smiled. "Am I not going to do that anyway? Come. Night is falling and I have no wish to be abroad unduly long in this freezing cold."
The two of them left the house with Harun leading the way. Night was indeed falling now. Only a faint red glow on the horizon yet told of a light in the world stronger than the glimmer of stars. It was ample to find their way through the deserted village, though. Up ahead, the shadow of Sevenport Castle loomed.
"We're going to the castle?" Karl asked.
"Where else did you think? That is where your brother died."
No further conversation ensued until they had reached the well before the gates, which were firmly closed by now. Karl stepped up to the hollow, rugged round, staring down into the darkness. When he succeeded in tearing himself away from the abyss, he found that Harun had not stopped beside him. In fact the scribe had passed the well without giving it a second glance. He was striding along the edge of the moat, as if with some definite end in mind. Now he turned, and saw Karl standing alone, back at the well.
"Come on," he called. "What are you waiting for?"
The peasant followed, confused and frightened.
For a minute or two they walked along the moat, until Harun suddenly stopped and pointed to the ground.
"There. Do you see?"
Karl bent forward.
"Not really. It's dark, you know."
"Not that dark. Look closer."
If Karl knelt down and almost pressed his nose against the ground, he could as a matter of fact make out faint traces in the muddy ground.
"Looks like something's been dragged along, here."
"Dragged from where?"
The peasant followed the marks.
"From the moat. The tracks lead into the water. And…hey, here's something else."
"A round hole in the ground, is it not?"
"Aye. Who would go about digging holes into the ground here? And what for?"
"Can you not guess what for?"
"I'm damned if I can! Can't you just speak plainly? All this is making me feel queer."
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Teacher denies pupil sex claims
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A married religious studies teacher accused of having sex with a teenage pupil today insisted the illicit affair "did not happen".
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Prison teacher jailed over drugs
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Actress Linda Henry to stand trial
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12:48pm Thursday 27th November 2014
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Republican held in McConville probe
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Ex-Rangers owner detained in Mexico
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Boris leading Far East trade visit
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Weight-loss op 'part of treatment'
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Women 'smuggle terror cash abroad'
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Drug mule's father in video warning
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ID theft charge for terror suspect
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Labour to aid poor water customers
12:04am Thursday 27th November 2014
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12:03am Thursday 27th November 2014
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12:16am Thursday 27th November 2014
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UK employee killed in Kabul attack
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Parties in devolution package clash
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Gang jailed for teens sex abuse
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PM vows to curb EU migrant benefits
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Dedicating his entire career to fighting this trend, John's work records the story of a people who came to Canada to escape the oppression and suppression of the kings and moneychangers of European society and ended up building a new life that was transformed by the land itself and the aboriginal people who lived on it and who so easily accepted them.
Many of John's paintings have sold over the years to visiting collectors from Europe who's grandparents and great grandparents actually built some of the subjects he paints. Old log homes and barns, country churches, line shacks, and whole settlements that have now become ghost towns, each hand built in the styles and techniques of old Europe, tell a compelling story that begs to be remembered. Since his first one-person show at Lambs Art Gallery in Calgary, Alberta in 1966 John has told this story consistently in his own original style and in so doing has produced and sold more than 1,200 paintings.
Artist's Statement
"All across Canada I see beautiful old barns and ranch houses off in one corner of a field just sitting there, slowly disappearing back into the land. I also notice beautiful old homes in cities I visit and even whole settlements, now ghost towns, that are suffering the same fate. These need to be honoured. Honouring them shows respect for an age we came from, that nurtured us, and made us what we are today. They will soon be gone and forgotten. I dedicate my work to their remembrance."
"All across Canada I see beautiful old barns and ranch houses off in one corner of a field just sitting there, slowly disappearing back into the land. I also notice beautiful old homes in cities I visit and even whole settlements, now ghost towns, that are suffering the same fate. These need to be honoured. Honouring them shows respect for an age we came from, that nurtured us, and made us what we are today. They will soon be gone and forgotten. I dedicate my work to their remembrance."
We are proud to offer signed and numbered Limited edition Giclées on paper and canvas of a few of the paintings John has produced over his career.
A private and gifted artist, John's style is traditional, free-flowing and earthy. His strong use of earth colours is what sets his work apart in both his paintings and photography. There is nothing quite like it in contemporary Canadian art today.
John has had many one-person shows in venues ranging from commercial galleries to museums, Expo 86, the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede and the National Art Centre to name a few and his work has appeared in many magazines and books over the years.
In addition to a long career as a professional artist and gallery painter John is also a journeyman prepress specialist and photographer.
The Mountain Man, or fur trapper, roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s. Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, Jim Clyman and Edward Rose are names that, to this day, are still associated with this tough, romantic era in history. The Mountain Man, very much a loner, seems to radiate the individuality and spirit of the early visitors to the Canadian West and the Canada West Collection. The Sentinel is a wonderful example of the minimalist period in John's career when he limited his palette to only three earthy colours.
"the Official Portfolio of Limited Edition Prints for Expo 86"
This collection received the endorsement of Expo 86, the Government of British Columbia and General Motors of Canada and was presented to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales by the Honourable Claude Richmond, Minister of Tourism, on behalf of Expo 86 and the Government of British Columbia. It was featured in many shows across Canada including the Expo 86 site, the McLaughlin Museum in Oshawa and the National Art Centre in Ottawa among others.
"The History of Transportation chronicles the early history of man's attempts to move about this land called Canada, from the first visit of the Vikings in their ship, the Karv, in AD 900, to the first mercy flight in Canadian aviation history in 1930. It conveys the romance, mystery and dedication of man's constant commitment to master the great distances of his world as a personal activity, a social service and an industry." Claude Richmond, Minister of Tourism.
After painting more than 1200 paintings I yearned for something new. Not that I wanted to stop painting, I just wanted a new challenge. Then, after losing part of my sight to macular degeneration I was forced to make a decision because I could no longer paint. I've alwys loved night photography so I started photographing the streets of Vancouver at night, then flowers at night. Now, after reversing macular degeneration and making plans to paint again, I've decided to do both. I've always done photography as reference for paintings. Now I'm doing it as art.
It has been said that the beauty of old Europe knows no equal. This ongoing collection proves that to be incorrect. Even before the camera Vincent knew: "It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly colored than the day."
Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism and commercial photography. It is as much a creative process as is painting and sculpture. Limited edition photography is now accepted as an art form worldwide.
I hope to continue this collection by visiting as many cities and towns as I can beginning in Western Canada and continuing on to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Many will close up when it gets dark, perhaps for protection, perhaps just for a rest. But I've seen several that stay open for an hour or so after it gets completely dark, some even longer. Flowers at Night are some of those. You just have to be there at the right time I guess.
Some flowers even remain in bloom all night, and disappear as soon as the first rays of sun hit them. Evening Primrose is indigenous to North America. Moom Flowers, Night Gladiolus, various Lilies to name a few. Some Catus can also be found blooming at night. The night truly is a magic time for a photographer and you just never know when you might see one of those little fairies some people I know talk about.


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D'Arcy Corrigan as Parker brother
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Frame Johnson used to be a peace officer and travels out west with his three friends and arrive in Tombstone , where there is no law. Instead the town has been taken over the ruthless Northrup brothers. The town Council tries to convince Johnson to become Marshal since Johnson has done well in his previous job. He hesitates at first, but takes the job when he sees the murders taking place by the three Northrup brothers. A shoot-out begins between Johnson and his three friends and the brothers. Both sides lose a member, but they continue to fight.


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In a debate on May 27 with Maine Public Broadcasting Mayor Paul LePage supported off shore drilling along Maine's pristine coastline. At that time, the BP disaster had been gushing oil for 37 days, causing extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats and decimating the region's fishing and tourism industries.
LePage also wants to site a Nuclear Power plant in Brunswick and Loring. "In 20 years I would like to see a nuclear power plant in Loring, and one in Brunswick," he stated in an interview on the "Aroostook Watchmen" http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss52956.xml). In the same in talk show LePage's called to close the Department of Energy and the Department of Environmental Protection saying global warming is a hoax.
With so much clean energy available through technologies developed in Maine, using the state's sustainable natural resources of wind, waves and wood reverting to nuclear would ruin Maine's progress in the Green energy economy. According to Habib Dagher of UMaine the state has the equivalent of 149 nuclear power plants of energy in offshore wind, alone. And the plan, which is underway to build the floating wind turbines, will employ thousands of Mainers.
Maine has always been a leader in environmental legislation at the state and federal levels. Sen. Ed Muskie's Clean Water and Air Act continue to set a standard.
LePage wants to roll back progress in environmental protection. In a Sea Coast online interview he said that on, "day two" of his administration; he would tackle the Department of Environmental Protection regulations that "serve no purpose except to cost businesses money."
"Oil riches in Maine are a classic 'pipe dream,' we need to question the judgment of a candidate who promises us such fools gold," said Representative Jon Hinck Chair of the House Energy committee and a former project director at the National Resources Council of Maine. "Paul LePage wants to gut environmental protection; perhaps he wants the Gulf of Maine to be more like today's Gulf of Mexico? Perhaps there should be more mercury and PCBs in trout and bass we catch in Maine? Or maybe we should stop collecting and recycling electronic waste and return to burying toxic products in the town dump?"


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Flame gets suicide command
The controllers of the Flame malware have apparently reacted to the publicity surrounding the attack by sending a self-destruct command. According to Symantec, some command-and-control machines have sent a command designed to wipe Flame from compromised computers. The command, which Symantec has dubbed "urgent suicide", was …
Is anybody else reminded of Steve Jackson Games' "Hacker"?
You could spend an action "cleaning" up a system, removing everybody else who had compromised it.
(now, if only SJG would do a Hacker: Designer's Edition Kickstarter, after the success of the Ogre: Designer's Edition Kickstarter).
There are days I wish somebody would write a Warhol Worm that would infect every already infected botnet zombie out there, then "kill" them by overwriting the hard disk: the old "Nuke the entire site from orbit" approach to cleansing the Internet.
Re: Hacker
Maybe this is the prelude to killing the Internet?
A little feasibility test.....
Re: Hacker
Couldn't they just type "Google" into Google to kill the Internet?
Re: Hacker
I thought you just had to ask the internet a vaguely difficult and insoluble question and wait for it to explode. I saw Captain Kirk do it once, so it must be true.
Re: Hacker
Yhe Internet? I thought by the twenty-second century they had replaced the Internet with a big mainframe with blinkenlights on an asteroid somewhere in deep space. It's progress, Jim, but not as we know it.
'After deletion, the module overwrites the disk with random characters.'
Richard, I'm assuming that means just the sectors previously occupied by the Flame code? Otherwise it's a bit of overkill, is it not?
Flame, what else?
Re: Huh?
And the virus authors would care for why...?
Re: And the virus authors would care for why...?
Because they are State actors and don't want their enemies to know WHICH systems were compromised. Duh!
So, what are the IP addresses of the C&C servers?
That's pretty thorough
Defo smacks of professional/industrial coding.
A tip for next time
Maybe not publicise it so well.
As soon, all you will have left is an anecdote about some malware that no longer exists.
Re: A tip for next time
What is this "smallpox" of which you speak?
Re: What is this "smallpox" of which you speak?
See: Twelve Monkeys
Why? Because now that everybody treats smallpox as if it is extinct it is the perfect weapon with which to unleash unlimited terror.
Why new suicide module?
> Symantec says Flame had originally shipped with a suicide module,
> and they don't know why a new suicide module was used.
Because the original one was compromised. Had been discovered. Could have been disabled.
(The icon is for Symantec's benefit.)
Re: Why new suicide module?
Yeah, except that we learn from TFA that the new module was rolled out BEFORE it was discovered.
Re: Why new suicide module?
No, we learn that it was rolled out before it was allegedly discovered. If the State Actor saw warnings of it being discovered in one of their security notifications lists, that info goes directly to the black ops team so they can clean up their mess.
Of course, no malware author would ever fiddle with a creation date or timestamp before releasing something, would they?
I suppose this is the sort of thing you would do
If you wanted to bury the story before anyone could accurately count the infections and trace it back to your government.
Re: I suppose this is the sort of thing you would do
Nah. The NY Slimes will confirm it were The Big 0 wot done it within a few weeks, so no need to trace it. It might cover a compromised system or maybe protect an agent who was used to deploy it, but the agent's chances are at best 50:50 given the current Administration record anyway.
but did it work?
So has anyone re-drawn that pretty red map?
honey swat key...
That is really friendly of them to tidy up afterwards.
So in other words...
So, the Flame authors write a far better Uninstall routine than does Symantec for their horrid NIS.
Worse than that, the Flame authors can write software that goes about its secretive business without hardly anyone even noticing, as compares to Symantec software that constantly gets in the way and generally makes a complete nuisance of itself.
Flame authors: +2
Symantec: -1,000,000 for being so useless
JeffyPooh, Amen brother!
Ŷ Symantec software= designed by north Korean military cyber warriors to cause endless damage to civilian and US military assets.
There is only one test to join the elite of the united states airforce cyber command and that is be able to uninstall NIS cleanly from a windows millennium edition pc. No ones managed it yet.
Consistently Worse than any malware for 14 years.
I can uninstall NIS easily
Format and start over. Preferably with QNX
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[ca-tf] Certification Proposal
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After completing aerial application, the pilot entered a right base turn to final approach for landing at a private dirt airstrip. During the turn, a witness observed the 'the left wing' go down and 'also the nose.' The airplane crashed in a left wing low (descending) attitude. The pilot/mechanic had performed maintenance on the aircraft and had certified on March 1, 1995, that the 'aircraft has been inspected in accordance with an annual inspection and was determined to be in an airworthy condition.' Postaccident examination revealed that the empennage flight controls exhibited severe corrosion. The left elevator bellcrank assembly elevator horn was found separated from the control rod elevator torque tube. The left stabilizer strut lower attachment was separated where the tube of the strut was welded to the 'U' shaped attachment bracket. Examination of the 'U' bracket only revealed corroded remnants of the forward bracket and no evidence of the edge welds that joined the bracket pieces together. Fracture surfaces on the elevator horn were consistent with overstress separation. Manufacturing specifications required a 0.080 inch steel sheet for the elevator horn. Over the majority of the horn and near the control rod attachment fracture, the thickness was as low as 0.059 inches.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
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Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece assumes the presidency of the European Union Wednesday, starting 2014 with a promise by the government to pull the country out of a six-year recession, keep a balanced budget, and effectively end a financial crisis that rattled the euro.
"In 2014, Greece will return to the markets and start to become a normal country again," Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said in a televised New Year's address. "After six unending, painful years, 2014 will herald the prospect of growth ... What's important is that we've avoided the worst."
But have they?
With most of the 240 billion euros ($330 billion) in bailout loans already paid out, Greece still has an unsustainably high national debt, faces the threat of renewed political instability, and has more than one-in-four jobless and steadily sliding into poverty.
Greeks greeted the New Year after many spent hours lining up in tax offices to pay austerity levies on time. And heavy smog has returned to the country's capital after decades this winter as households left with no heating throw scrap wood and garbage onto the fireplace to try to keep warm.
Here's a look at some of Greece's most pressing problems:
Greece's financial tailspin wiped out nearly a quarter of its economy and roughly a million jobs. From 7.2 percent before the recession in 2008, unemployment exploded, reaching 27 percent in the third quarter of 2013, giving Greece the worst job rating among the 34 advanced economies in the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
More than 70 percent of the unemployed have been out of work for more than a year, leaving most to rely on charity after losing monthly benefit payments and health insurance.
"It's inconceivable that someone with the misfortune of having no work cannot have proper access to state health care," said George Patoulis, head of the Athens Medical Association.
Worst affected, he said, are those with chronic illnesses, unemployed parents seeking vaccinations for their newborn children, and patients in need of expensive drugs including cancer treatment.
"We estimate that about 2 million people are without health insurance, out of a total of nearly 8 million who require insurance ... and the problem looks set to continue in 2014," Patoulis said. "It's like planting dynamite under a country's public health."
Pro-bailout governments have tried to stimulate employment by slashing the minimum wage and axing long-standing labor rights and market protection rules -- liberalizing everything from truck licenses to permits for neighborhood bakeries.
But unemployment numbers continued to get worse, and critics argue the system remains bogged down in excessive bureaucracy.
Unemployed barber Spyros Priftis has been trying to open his own hair salon for nearly three years at a holiday resort on his native island of Corfu, with rules still unclear on the status of his hairdressing diploma obtained from a private college.
"It takes you five years to open up a barber shop in Greece: Two years for a diploma, two years for an apprenticeship, and one year to get your papers sorted out," the 37-year-old said.
"Five years! What am I, a heart surgeon? I just want to open a barber shop."
In desperation, Priftis began writing dozens of letters of complaint and faxing them to Greek authorities, as well as European Union finance commissioner Olli Rehn and International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Largarde.
Some of his letters got an answer. And the usually stern EU-IMF negotiators even promised to take up his case with the government during their inspections in Athens. He's still waiting for news.
Greece is being run by its third pro-bailout government in two years, as unpopular austerity measures wear out public support for the parties backing them. Conservative Prime Minister Samaras heads the current coalition government and has seen his support in the 300-seat parliament dwindle in the past 18 months from 179 lawmakers to 153.
Samaras recently fell behind in the polls to the left-wing Syriza party that wants to radically renegotiate or even tear up bailout deals, arguing they have failed to deliver recovery and are socially catastrophic.
Syriza has vowed to try to topple the government at twin elections in May for local government and the European Parliament.
"In (2014) we will leave behind the decadent political establishment that left the country bankrupt, an establishment of graft and corruption," said Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras, who turns 40 this year. Surveys strongly suggest the two main parties both lack the support to govern outright.