DADT dead?

Military recruiters told they can accept openly gay applicants - CNN.com: "Washington (CNN) -- The Pentagon has advised recruiting commands that they can accept openly gay and lesbian recruit candidates, given the recent federal court decision that bars the military from expelling openly gay service members, according to a Pentagon spokeswoman.
The guidance from the Personnel and Readiness office was sent to recruiting commands on Friday, according to spokeswoman Cynthia Smith."

Nice House

Telegraph:

The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, has moved into his new home in Mumbai which is 27 storeys high and worth £630m.

It's the goverment's fault Bank of America issued shitty MBS?

I wondered how long it would take to get to this...

I was listening to Bloomberg's coverage of PIMCO and the NY Fed asking for their money back from B of A and some talking head came up with the brilliant theory that this was to some extent the government's fault for mandating some of Bank of America's asset buys.

Even if the government held a gun to the banksters heads how the hell would it be their fault if what everyone knew was a shitpile turned out to be a shitpile?

The complete lack of responsibility from the financial sector is remarkable

Balloon Juice Comment of the day

Balloon Juice

Sucking wealthy cock is hardly necessary for civil debate. Not stringing said rich bastards up from a lamp-post with their own intestines, however, is necessary for civil debate.
We are being civil. Don’t fucking push it.

The Conway Rorschach | Talking Points Memo

The Conway Rorschach | Talking Points Memo

I have a real problem with all the prissy condemnations coming from liberal commentators about Conway's ad on Rand Paul's youthful playing with contempt for Christianity. People are acting as if it is some kind of political sin to point out to ordinary Kentucky voters the kind of stuff about Paul's extremist libertarian views that everyone in the punditry already knows. This does not amount to saying that Christian belief is a 'requirement for public office' as one site huffs. It is a matter of letting regular voters who themselves care deeply about Christian belief know that Paul is basically playing them. No different really than letting folks who care about Social Security and Medicare know that Paul is playing them,
One reason that Dems do not seem to be able to play hardball -- in a viciously hardball political world -- is that Dems often lack conviction or the will to be eloquently honest (for example, on taxes). But an equal problem is that when someone does play hardball, the rest of the prissy liberal Mugwumps tut-tut them about it.

I say, go for it, Jack Conway. Does anyone doubt that Paul and his supporters would have used similar publicly documented material against Conway (or even less material)?

You don't bring a knife to a gunfight ...

Excel and High performance computing

From Microsoft Technet

Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2 integrates with Microsoft® Excel® 2010 to help run workbooks and user-defined functions (UDFs) faster by offloading calculations to the cluster. If a workbook contains independent units of calculation, multiple compute nodes can perform the calculations simultaneously. Parallel computation can significantly reduce workbook calculation time and make calculations across larger data sets more feasible. Many complex and long-running workbooks run iteratively—that is, they perform a single calculation many times over different sets of input data. These workbooks might contain complex Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) functions or calculation intensive XLL add-ins. This type of workbook is suitable for cluster acceleration.

Speaking as someone that spends his working days trying to make the world safe from Excel misuse, this is just fucking wrong.

Fart Silencer - yes really

Fart Silencer: As Weird As You Imagine It To Be! � Bit Rebels

As odd and uncomfortable as this subject might seem, it’s just one of those topics that is too hilarious not to cover. Before I continue, just know this device is as odd as you imagine, and it goes exactly where you might guess it would go. So, now that we have that cleared up, we can move on to the more technical aspect of the whole thing. As you might think, it’s a device to keep your wind from making you the center of attention whenever you have eaten beans or cabbage for dinner.

Or as it would be called around these parts, the silence of the ducks