On this day - 08-26-2015 - on 1977 ...

The Language Police was became a force of idiocy in Quebec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois_de_la_langue_fran%C3%A7aise

Sigh - one of those days.

Too much eating at dinner.

No wonder I've become so much heavier in recent days.

Indeed - let 'em have it Bernie!

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/08/bernie-lets-wall-street-journal-have-it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGv2SPB8pNU

If I lost 8.5 Trillion USD, what kind of trouble would be in?

Evidently nothing if I work for the Pentagon -

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part2
http://theantimedia.org/the-pentagon-doesnt-know-what-it-spent-8-5-trillion-dollars-on/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/19/1413372/-The-Biggest-Scandal-in-US-History-That-We-re-Still-Not-Talking-About?detail=email#

This NY Times article got one thing wrong.

They are 'Amorons'.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0

What a way to grind employees into the ground -

A Running Competition

In 2013, Elizabeth Willet, a former Army captain who served in Iraq, joined Amazon to manage housewares vendors and was thrilled to find that a large company could feel so energetic and entrepreneurial. After she had a child, she arranged with her boss to be in the office from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, pick up her baby and often return to her laptop later. Her boss assured her things were going well, but her colleagues, who did not see how early she arrived, sent him negative feedback accusing her of leaving too soon.

“I can’t stand here and defend you if your peers are saying you’re not doing your work,” she says he told her. She left the company after a little more than a year.

Ms. Willet’s co-workers strafed her through the Anytime Feedback Tool, the widget in the company directory that allows employees to send praise or criticism about colleagues to management. (While bosses know who sends the comments, their identities are not typically shared with the subjects of the remarks.) Because team members are ranked, and those at the bottom eliminated every year, it is in everyone’s interest to outperform everyone else.

Cool!

“We discovered the tile using using a computer to exhaustively search through a large but finite set of possibilities,” said Casey. “We were of course very excited and a bit surprised to find the new type of pentagon.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/aug/10/attack-on-the-pentagon-results-in-discovery-of-new-mathematical-tile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_tiling

Old Chester? A palomino? They're beautiful! Ye-esssss! They're gorgeous!

http://www.dreamhorse.com/ad/1959196.html


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