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And so, on a pleasantly chilly morning, I struggled back into the office, preparing to do all those things which I can do in the office but I can't do at home. Quite a long list, in fact.
I see that South-Western trains has floated the idea of reducing the number of toilets to one on trains where the journey time is scheduled for 40 minutes or less. I immediately assumed that this was part of a plan to install mini-Starbucks on the trains in the sports were the toilets used to be, but, apparently not. It's part of an effort to jam more passengers into the space available. I'm sure there are various historical precedents that South Western trains could study on methods by which more passengers could be jammed into the existing space. Removal of seats strikes me as an obvious ploy. Perhaps one set of doors would also help. Cattle trucks, perhaps, although preferably not those ones with "express to Buchenwald" on the front. If the Nazis had modern technology, do you think they would have had that annoying computerised woman's voice saying "We are now stopping at ... Buchenwald... This is the last stop."
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The old means of news dissemination are dying and authoritarian regimes can do nothing to stop it. Digital video on camera phones and blogs are the the new samizdat. The official media made no mention of the attacks on Egyptian women as Ramadan came to an end. What was effectively mob rape, a product of strict Egyptian morality and an economy that stops young men marrying, was revealed only through the wonders of mobile phones, YouTube and bloggers.
This is great stuff, anarchist news dissemination might put me out of a job, but it's a darned sight better than the agenda-controlled system that we have at the moment. Even in Britain there are various attitudes held by a wide swathe of people that the established press (and politicians) like to pretend doesn't exist. As soon as the peasants learn how to blog and use YouTube, perhaps things will change here as well.
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I casually managed to piss away nigh on $300 in 90 minutes of $2-$4 and $3-$6 yesterday, burning a good deal of last month's hard-earned bonus. The normal kind of shit. Raise with AQs under the gun and get cold-called by a loose-passive player on my left. This leads the flock and I get five callers in all (including one of the blinds). Flop comes AQ3 rainbow and I start rubbing my hands with glee, only to walk into a pair of threes held by a player who only came in because there had been a couple of cold callers of my raise before him, thus giving him value.
Completely ignoring my own advice, I went for a grand gesture and hit the $5-$10 tables, which appeared to me to have a few soft players present. Managed to win back $120 in a frenzy of aggressive play (about $500 in swings in 40 minutes) which, if I had been facing myself, would have had me frightened.
I'm in a $5-$10 mood again, although I don't really know why. One reason is that it's no longer the biggest ring game in town. $8-$16 and $15-$30 games are now appearing on Full Tilt, and the professionals are obviously migrating there. A second reason is that there are so many weak-tights at the lower levels that the whole thing is absolutely no fun at all. The game is beatable, but the techniques required are automatic and usually involved folding rather than reraising, because so few of these players are ever "at it".
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I see that South-Western trains has floated the idea of reducing the number of toilets to one on trains where the journey time is scheduled for 40 minutes or less. I immediately assumed that this was part of a plan to install mini-Starbucks on the trains in the sports were the toilets used to be, but, apparently not. It's part of an effort to jam more passengers into the space available. I'm sure there are various historical precedents that South Western trains could study on methods by which more passengers could be jammed into the existing space. Removal of seats strikes me as an obvious ploy. Perhaps one set of doors would also help. Cattle trucks, perhaps, although preferably not those ones with "express to Buchenwald" on the front. If the Nazis had modern technology, do you think they would have had that annoying computerised woman's voice saying "We are now stopping at ... Buchenwald... This is the last stop."
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The old means of news dissemination are dying and authoritarian regimes can do nothing to stop it. Digital video on camera phones and blogs are the the new samizdat. The official media made no mention of the attacks on Egyptian women as Ramadan came to an end. What was effectively mob rape, a product of strict Egyptian morality and an economy that stops young men marrying, was revealed only through the wonders of mobile phones, YouTube and bloggers.
This is great stuff, anarchist news dissemination might put me out of a job, but it's a darned sight better than the agenda-controlled system that we have at the moment. Even in Britain there are various attitudes held by a wide swathe of people that the established press (and politicians) like to pretend doesn't exist. As soon as the peasants learn how to blog and use YouTube, perhaps things will change here as well.
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I casually managed to piss away nigh on $300 in 90 minutes of $2-$4 and $3-$6 yesterday, burning a good deal of last month's hard-earned bonus. The normal kind of shit. Raise with AQs under the gun and get cold-called by a loose-passive player on my left. This leads the flock and I get five callers in all (including one of the blinds). Flop comes AQ3 rainbow and I start rubbing my hands with glee, only to walk into a pair of threes held by a player who only came in because there had been a couple of cold callers of my raise before him, thus giving him value.
Completely ignoring my own advice, I went for a grand gesture and hit the $5-$10 tables, which appeared to me to have a few soft players present. Managed to win back $120 in a frenzy of aggressive play (about $500 in swings in 40 minutes) which, if I had been facing myself, would have had me frightened.
I'm in a $5-$10 mood again, although I don't really know why. One reason is that it's no longer the biggest ring game in town. $8-$16 and $15-$30 games are now appearing on Full Tilt, and the professionals are obviously migrating there. A second reason is that there are so many weak-tights at the lower levels that the whole thing is absolutely no fun at all. The game is beatable, but the techniques required are automatic and usually involved folding rather than reraising, because so few of these players are ever "at it".
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