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I just wanted to clarify it. And I said: Geographically it is almost Swiss  .
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Marco Alessandro Bertschi wrote: Another one has smashed a redlight down[^] in Zurich.
And the light still works. Wow. Last time I saw a red light get hit here in the states, the light and the pole disintegrated. The bus then hit a large 15' thick cement pillar and.... baboom. (no one died, the driver was thrown out by the first impact, and the bus had been off duty.) the crash was caused by sabotaged brakes. The perpetrator and his buddies were caught easily enough because they wrote and bragged about what he did on the main guys blog. With pictures and a video. 
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: And the light still works. Wow.
AFAIK the bus hit the light with the side while avoiding a crash with a pedestrian... It is not like the bus had hit the light with the front and without breaking  .
Brisingr Aerowing wrote: the crash was caused by sabotaged brakes. The perpetrator and his buddies were caught easily enough because they wrote and bragged about what he did on the main guys blog. With pictures and a video.
These are some idiots who might have desrved to get shot by the cops 
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And the irony of it all is that these guys were the super-brilliant-and-top-of-the-class people at the college there. They also were seniors about to graduate with degrees in Computer Science, Biology, (Quantum and Nuclear) Physics, etc.
One dumb move can ruin the whole game, can't it?
One really, really, really, really dumb one.
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Salvation Army Office to close[^]
Poking around the Chronicle (the Tynside-wide paper) it was interesting to see the gap between reality and eulogy this[^]. The person in question owned the "Jazz Cafe" and doubtless he had many followers. He used to constantly leaflet the Newcastle University students as they walked into town but, if you were a local, it was near impossible to get into the club. Unless you were very obviously middle class and preferably looked what he presumably considered bohemian (this was all parodied from time to time in Viz). This lead to the odd circumstance of my uni friends (who wouldn't be interested) receiving flyers for entry as they walked past, but he wouldn't give one to me (who would be depending what was on). Lesson number one of Jazz club: You can never get in to Jazz Club.
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This is actually from yesterday[^], but it deserves an outing just to fully appreciate Fabricunt's wig.
I'm happy for him that he was forced to socialise with a nice class of person, no plebs at all.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Looks like a mate's dad; he was a tory winker too.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Clickety[^] The link goes to Yahoo only because the local article, which Yahoo links to, is broken or was taken down.
Mariemont is the neighborhood/town immediately adjacent to the one where I live.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Remove her driving licence! If she is so distracted when driving that she doesn't notice that a 38 mile journey takes two days she shouldn't be on the road!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Or just leave her in Croatia
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Story quote: at 11.20am his silver Vauxhall Astra estate was spotted on a police automatic recognition camera in Dartford, Kent
That is more disturbing than the old man who apparently gets confused driving. 
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This is a symptom of a wider problem, though: people believe their satnav without even thinking about whether there might be a mistake. At least with a map you have to interpret it yourself and so if things are going weird you will notice.
There's a nice sign at the A46 interchange with the Gunthorpe road (A6197 I think), where the junction has been recently greatly remodelled because they're upgrading the A46. It says something like 'NEW ROAD LAYOUT: Do not rely on satnav'. I think it's bad that people need that reminder.
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We have a site that is down a narrowish road and near the River Severn.
At the entrance to this road from the main road is this sign[^].
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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This woman has some serious problems...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Story quote: Despite crossing five borders and seeing multiple-language traffic signs, she did not stop to question her sat-nav until two days later when she realised that she may not be in Belgium any more.
It appears that she has not been in Belgium for a while. 
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Brilliant excuse for what she was actually doing (seeing her honey on the side).
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Back in October a Hedge fund started buying shares in my Company to a stage that they have got 23% of the shares now. Effectively with $100 million in the bank and a very undervalued stock price, we were very attractive to them.
To combat this we have employed a poison pill approach as well as a one-off $2 per share pay-off in order to unload some of the excess cash to make us less attractive and also in the hope that they would take this windfall and 'do one'.
According to El Reg[^] and an e-mail from my CEO today this has failed and the Hedge Fund has written an open letter criticising the Boards insistence to move into the cloud market and wants to put 3 of it's own Directors on the board.
Word is that the Hedge Fund will just rape us, and then Liquidate us. And with it get reported in El Reg amongst other places I am worried now. Has anybody else had experience of these funds? Should I get out now?
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23% is not a majority, so they should need considerable support to do anything really drastic - the existing board should be able to weather the storm even with shareholder appointed directors, unless it has a massive psychosis to start with.
It may be that they do have good ideas which could help the company (I doubt it, the letter implies they want dividends and other short-term gains rather than the long term survival of the company)
I wouldn't jump ship - if enough of the good people quit then the companies survival becomes less likely rather than more - but I would keep my eyes and ears open, particularly if I enjoyed working where I am.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I do not think they have any real clout until they hit 30%, at which point I believe they need to notify an intent to takeover / buyout or not.
If they are not happy with the way the business is being run, they can always sell their stock holding and move onto someone else whose business model and direction meets with their expectations.
Sit tight at the moment I would say.
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Maybe you should start buying stock and try to get in on the raping and pillaging yourself.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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Wish I had the money to do so. A guy I work with bought a load when they were less than a dollar a share a few years back they now regularly sit at around $12-$14 and he's always rubbing it in how much money they've made him.
That price is seriously undervalued too, as the market doesn't fully understand what we do (it thinks we're a drive manufacturer, we're a 'storage solution provider').
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