Gigabyte has released additional details about its new Brix mini computers at Computex, where they are showing off several prototype machines with different specs. Two of the machines they are fairly standard mini PCs, containing Intel Haswell and AMD Kabini processors… … Read More
Vintage Apple-1 Sells for Record $671,400
An Apple-1 computer, made in 1976 and originally priced at $666, sold for a record $671,400 at an auction in Germany. The sale shows the run-up in prices for the vintage machines recently. … Read More
How Vintage Apple Computers Used to Sell
Original Apple-1 computers can now sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars at professional auctions. But the vintage machines have been selling informally for years. The story of the 1997 sale of an Apple-1, now residing at the Computer History Museum, shows how things worked in simpler times. That Apple-1 was a treasured prize for the young entrepreneur who bought it, and the sale was a financial lifeline for a struggling single mother. … Read More
Obama’s Elaborate Drone Shell Game
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Sleeping bag coat for the homeless finds fans in the fashion world
A few years ago, Veronika Scott, now 23, set up a coat manufacturing business in a graffiti-covered building in an old Irish manufacturing neighborhood of Detroit. She had a few sewing machines and a drive to help the homeless. She wanted to make a coat that transforms into a sleeping… ;
Are We The Last Generation of ‘WILD’ Humans?
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Beware the Irresistible Siren Song of the Slots
Progressives catch a lot of crap, and
rightfully so, for a lack of belief or support for personal agency
and responsibility and a tendency to hold “society” responsible for
people’s choices. But paternalism isn’t the only reason for
misplaced blame. Sometimes losing a whole lot of money will do
it.
From
Courthouse News:
A candy wholesaler sued an Ameristar casino for $4 million,
claiming it “enticed and enabled” a worker who embezzled the money
and blew it on slot machines.
Colombo Candy & Tobacco Wholesale Co. dba Colombo
Distribution sued Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs in Douglas County
Court, Tulsa.
It claims its employee, Jane Doe, blew more than $3 million of
the $4 million she embezzled at the Ameristar casino in Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
Courthouse News reports the employee has entered into a
settlement with her employer admitting to the embezzlement and has
a judgment against her for $4 million, which she doesn’t have,
because she blew it all at the casino. So they’re arguing that the
casino induced her to gamble by treating her like a VIP because she
was giving them lots of money and therefore the casino should have
to give the money back.
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