Traders Joking

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• Better a small dollar than a big thank you.
• Better dinner without an appetite than an appetite without dinner.
• Don’t drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
• I drive too fast to worry about cholesterol.
• Best alibi — be a victim.
• A pedestrian is always right. While he is alive.
• Any car will last you a life-time. If you are hasty enough.
• Better a belly from beer than a hump from hard work.
• A bald patch is a glade trampled by thoughts.
• It is difficult to crawl with your head proudly held high.
• It’s a shame when other people have your dreams come true!
• The lottery is the most accurate measure of the number of optimists.
• A courteous man will not criticize a woman who carries a railroad tie awkwardly.
• The highest degree of embarrassment? Exchanged glances in a keyhole.
• Everything goes well, but past me.
• Let them laugh at you, rather than cry.
• While you measure seven times, others will already make a cut.
• It is not enough to find your place in life, you have to be there first.
• If a person knows what he wants, then he either knows too much or wants too little.
• And then he took a knife and shot himself dead.
• Thinking is too difficult, so most people judge.
• The more I look in the mirror, the more I believe in Darwin.
• Of two evils, I choose the one I haven’t tried before.
• Do not run from a sniper, you’ll die tired.
• You came — thanks; you left — many thanks.
• All great men are long dead, and I am feeling so-so.
• Never exaggerate the stupidity of your enemies and the loyalty of your friends.
• To save a drowning man, it is not enough to lend a hand; it is necessary for him to offer his hand in return.
• What a pity that you are leaving at long last.
• An idea came into his head and now it is desperately trying to find his brain.
• I am infinitely respectful of the terrible choices of my people.
• Some have both hemispheres protected by a skull, others by pants.
• For illusions of grandeur one doesn’t need grandeur; illusions are quite enough.
• Good always wins over evil. Hence, the winner is always good.
• Only on your birthday do you discover how many useless things there are in the world.
• You can recognize a decent man by how difficult it is for him to be nasty.
• Everything in this world is relative. For example, the length of one minute depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on.
• In the form I filled in before the surgery there was this question: Whom should we call in case of an emergency? I wrote: A more qualified surgeon.

The Sayings of Mikhail Zhvanetsky

Ministers of Defence of Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and Germany.

Photo made by Minister of Defence of Netherlands (Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert - 3rd from the left)

Live from Geneva 2014 - Edag Genesis concept car

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A Google Programmer 'Blew Off' A $500,000 Salary At A Startup — Because He's Already Making $3 Million Every Year

Thanks to all its money, Google is a big winner in the war for talent in Silicon Valley. The latest evidence is a story we just heard from the founder of a large, successful enterprise startup.

This founder told us that his startup tried to poach a "programmer" currently working at Google.

The startup made the programmer what it thought was a big offer: a $500,000 salary.
"He blew us off," said the founder.

The programmer told the startup thanks for the offer, but Google was currently paying him $3 million per year in cash and restricted stock units.
(Restricted stock units, or "RSUs," are as good as stock in that the programmer won't have to buy them to get them.)

A compensation of $3 million per year, or even $500,000 per year, is well above the Silicon Valley average for an engineer. Recruiter Scott Purcell says the software engineers he's placing typically make a base salary of $165,000.

The average base salary for a Google engineer is $128,000.

But there are outliers besides our $3 million engineer. Twitter's senior vice president of engineer, Christopher Fry, earned $10.3 million last year.

Google has an industry-wide reputation for getting — and keeping — the people it wants.

It's pretty impressive, for example, that Google was able to remove Andy Rubin from the top of Android and still manage to keep him inside the company, working on robots.

This is a credit to CEO Larry Page. He's made Google into a place where really bright people get to work on extremely ambitious, large-scale problems. Before he took over Google as CEO in 2011, the company was losing a lot of people to startups like Facebook and Twitter. Now, not so much.

It is also a credit to the power of money, which Google has a lot of.
Update: On Twitter, ex-Googler Hunter Walk (now a VC) warns other startups: "The *worst* way to recruit from Google is with money. For anyone really good, Google will outbid you. So you're left with the ones they don't want to retain."

New Chartwell cat Jock VI moves to Churchill's old home




A rescue kitten has taken up residence at Sir Winston Churchill's former home to honour a request made by the wartime leader.

Churchill asked that there always be a cat with four white paws and a white bib residing at Chartwell in Kent.

The former prime minister was given a marmalade cat by one of his private secretaries, Sir John "Jock" Colville, for his 88th birthday in 1962.

The cat, named Jock, attended many cabinet meetings.

It was rumoured that meals would not start until the pet was at the table.

The National Trust, which was left the property by Churchill's family in 1966, has always honoured the request.

This month, it welcomed seven-month-old Jock VI after Jock V left when its owner, the former house and collections manager at the property, departed for the Scottish countryside.

The kitten, or Malley as he was previously known, was rescued by Croydon Animal Samaritans before being adopted by Chartwell's house and collections manager, Katherine Barnett.

Trust officials say he takes afternoon naps, eats tuna and lounges on Persian rugs at the house.

"It's a modern-day rags-to-riches story," Ms Barnett said.

"Jock VI has had a difficult start to his life but, as the saying goes, a cat will always land on its feet.

"He's a very caring, loving cat and I think our visitors will get lots of enjoyment from seeing him around the property for many years to come."

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The Penguin Foundation/Australia
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Newly Found Megalithic Ruins In Russia Contain The Largest Blocks Of Stone Ever Discovered

An incredible discovery that was recently made in Russia threatens to shatter conventional theories about the history of the planet. On Mount Shoria in southern Siberia, researchers have found an absolutely massive wall of granite stones. Some of these gigantic granite stones are estimated to weigh more than 3,000 tons, and as you will see below, many of them were cut “with flat surfaces, right angles, and sharp corners”. Nothing of this magnitude has ever been discovered before. The largest stone found at the megalithic ruins at Baalbek, Lebanon is less than 1,500 tons. So how in the world did someone cut 3,000 ton granite stones with extreme precision, transport them up the side of a mountain and stack them 40 meters high? According to the commonly accepted version of history, it would be impossible for ancient humans with very limited technology to accomplish such a thing. Could it be possible that there is much more to the history of this planet than we are being taught? For years, historians and archaeologists have absolutely marveled at the incredibly huge stones found at Baalbek. But some of these stones in Russia are reportedly more than twice the size. Needless to say, a lot of people are getting very excited about this discovery. The following comes from a Mysterious Universe article…