A big US bank is likely to collapse within months as the global financial crisis worsens, a former IMF chief economist warns.

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At least six suicide bombers are killed when they try to attack a Nato military base in south-eastern Afghanistan, officials say.

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It’s official - NVIDIA has extremely poor closed source drivers that do not work properly on Linux systems. The KDE 4 issue is a widely known problem amongst Linux users. I created the thread to raise awareness of those who were left in the dark after purchasing expensive, high end NVIDIA cards that do not work properly on Linux.

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Authorities say DNA from a body found earlier this month off Brazil’s coast matches that of a priest who disappeared while flying over the Atlantic attached to hundreds of brightly colored balloons.

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Police in Michigan have arrested a man who they say tried to steal posters and other items related to the new Batman movie from a cinema lobby while dressed up as the Joker.

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In a twist of destiny, John Mayer—the guy who writes to Apple Support saying “Hey guys, John Mayer here” and actually gets replies back—had to turn into tech support guy after his dad called saying “Hey, John Mayer’s dad here.” The musician tried to guide his father through Mac OS X in order to find his Entourage icon with no success…

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A job applicant posted the questionnaire in full on Ubuntu forums asking for “help from the experts” for his job interview, expecting them to do the work for him. Someone tipped off the hiring manager, and the guy responded! Great thread, worth a read.

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If the Internet could speak with one voice, it would probably groan “oh, not again!” That’s because every raving success story about Internet startups is tempered by dozens more that crashed and burned in a sea of wasted money, bad ideas, or unfulfilled hype. As venture capitalist Paul Graham writes, most of these failures are never written about.

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Officer: Part of anti-Obama e-mail was wrong - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times

You know what happened here?  Dumbass here thought he’d start something.  “Obama’s over here, and he doesn’t support the troops.  He’d rather have photo ops.  He’s not paying attention to us.  He’s an asshole.  Don’t vote for him, tell everyone you know how he treated us over here. MAKE SURE YOU TELL EVERYONE, K?”

Captain, did you send that on your army.mil account? Did you send that using Army resources?  Or, do you have someone in your family that doesn’t like you very much?

Are you naturally six bags of dipshit, or did it take years to get to that level of fuckery?

Captain, much respect for being over there for us, but you’re a lying sack of monkey crap.  If that’s the kind of judgment you display daily in your personal life, I shudder to think what your judgment capacity is in your current working environment.  You need to be sent home from Iraq, and discharged for Being Really Stupid.

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The New York Times refused to run an op-ed piece by John McCain in rebuttal to Obama’s earlier piece.

It would seem to me that fairness dictates that McCain’s op-ed be printed. However, what constitutes “equal-time”? in this case? Doesn’t Drudge have more readers than the NYT?

I think there would have been less people interested in McCain’s piece if they had just run the story.

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