https://www.wcl.org.uk/docs/LinkAnnualWildlifeCrimeReportApril18.pdf
WILDLIFE CRIME IN 2016
A report on the scale of wildlife crime in England and Wales
here
Month: June 2018
On How Women Get Power
DID YOU KNOW
When there is money to be made there were guilds and apprenticeships when men got the job.
The secretary to the company’s President was basically undergoing on-the-job training to take over the Presidency in his absence or in the event of his departure. One of the major efforts of the first wave of feminism was the founding of demanding secretarial schools so that women might be allowed entry into these hallowed career paths.
When a job doesn’t make good money anymore, they are no longer valued so women get to have those jobs.
In 1950’s men views CS and coding as some sort for secretary job equivalent to some kind of typewriter job hence: a computer job!
Computer, Meet Computer — The Women Computers of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
When CS became a popular, well paid and respected field, the whole impression changed about it and men started to exclude women.
Equal Opportunity
In Bitcoin land, block rewards are the least-tainted kind of coins.
A Bitcoin mining farm in China
In goes dirty money, to buy mining hardware in bulk.
Out comes fresh, never-transacted-with Bitcoin block rewards.
It is fairly hard for authorities to trace the wash.
We’re not talking about buying a couple of miner machines here, but financing a whole warehouse filled with them.
Anecdotally, I have a friend who briefly worked at a company which exclusively makes software for financial institutions. Their product was a web app that only worked in a version of Internet Explorer so old, it didn’t support Ajax. Asynchronous requests were made by changing the src attribute of a 1px <iframe>. This was in 2015.
more
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17399150
Donald Trump needs to know this is not how this works.
Donald J. Trump on Twitter:
“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents…”