Life insurance viatical settlements: Funds that bet on people dying
nytimes.com2 pointsby hexagonal0 comments
[Wired's rebuttal is] kinda annoying. Ryan Singel, old white guy, repeats
Quinn Norton’s gender (female) five separate times (she is a girl)
because Sogohian, dirt-poor terrorism suspect, is apparently the
chairman of the Patriarchy.[1] Hey, you know who else has white male
privilege, Ryan? Editors at old-media print magazines. The first meaning: if you’ve conceived something in your
mind, decide to do it, and are willing to put in the work
– nothing can stop you.
Pfft. What if I conceive to build a perpetual motion machine, or conceive to disprove Special Relativity? A Data Grid is an architecture or set of services that enable individuals
or groups of users the ability to access, modify and transfer extremely
large amounts of geographically distributed data for research
purposes.[1] Data grids make this possible through a host of middleware
applications and services that pull together data and resources from
multiple administrative domains and then present it to users upon request.
Uh oh.
http://www.astrobio.net/interview/625/interview-with-bill-ny...
(Hopefully this massive browser-crushing 10,000x5,904 jpeg will shut up the endless legion of idiots who complained about "sub-iphone" picture quality.)